Speaker 1: I mean, that's not everybody, welcome to a loft meeting. Man,
Speaker 1: oh man, These are my favorite. These are my favorite episodes,
Speaker 1: Real talk, Real life. Ask anybody to give you a
Speaker 1: little context of why these are my favorite episodes and
Speaker 1: why this has always been my history of loving these episodes,
Speaker 1: these type of episodes. I used to be a much
Speaker 1: music back in the day in Canada, and they had
Speaker 1: a bunch of different shows, and everybody wanted to host
Speaker 1: those shows, and they were really cool, and they would
Speaker 1: have an hour in the middle of the day called
Speaker 1: Video Flow where people would send in emails or they
Speaker 1: would call in and it was all live and ask
Speaker 1: their questions or request of video or be like Becky,
Speaker 1: I love you so much, please don't break up with me.
Speaker 1: Let's play this old lead treg and hopefully she falls
Speaker 1: back in love with me. And I requested to host
Speaker 1: it every single day. It was my favorite thing to
Speaker 1: hear from people, to hear from people that loved our show,
Speaker 1: that wanted to have a voice on it, to have
Speaker 1: their questions answered. And so that's why loft meetings are
Speaker 1: my favorite because it's exact same vibes. If you have
Speaker 1: any questions for us, about the show, about guest stars, anything,
Speaker 1: anything you want to know. Send in your questions. Don't
Speaker 1: take it to Reddit, I mean take it to Reddit
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Speaker 1: mess Around Pod at gmail dot com and we read
Speaker 1: all of them. Send in voice notes or a little video.
Speaker 1: We will play them. I'd like to see your faces,
Speaker 1: hear your voice. These episodes are for you to get
Speaker 1: all these burning New Girl questions out of the way.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cool things with New Girl before we dive
Speaker 1: into our first questions, some of you know, Lamorn and
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Speaker 1: at on ig Okay, let's dive in. Okay, okay, So
Speaker 1: this first email came from Sarah Jay, Hey, Hannah and Lamore,
Speaker 1: and just want to say a huge fan and also
Speaker 1: I remembered that auction Hannah mentioned on the Box episode
Speaker 1: woo whoop. I always wondered who bought the couch for
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars, and honestly, I'm so happy it ended
Speaker 1: up with you. Oh, thank you. I ended up getting
Speaker 1: a chair back of Hannah's ooh and some pieces of mail,
Speaker 1: as well as the valet ticket that Jess wrote. I
Speaker 1: always wondered who got that, and now it hangs proudly
Speaker 1: in a display at my home. Here's some picks. Thanks
Speaker 1: for being the best show out there. Love you both. Ps.
Speaker 1: I also got the apartment number tattooed on me because
Speaker 1: the show always meant so much Sarah. Sarah, you're like
Speaker 1: the super fan. This is like, you're the reason why
Speaker 1: we started this podcast for people who are like die
Speaker 1: hard New Girl fans are gonna put it on our
Speaker 1: body to hang it on the wall. I love that
Speaker 1: that auction was so crazy to see. I remember when
Speaker 1: the show ended, and uh, it was wild because they
Speaker 1: were selling like all our clothes. It's like, who wants
Speaker 1: the pair of like shorts Schmidt war when he was
Speaker 1: like running down the street, fans did I guess it
Speaker 1: was very cool. It was really cool to see that
Speaker 1: it all sold. Awesome though, Thanks Sarah, that's cool, all right,
Speaker 1: next question, here we go. This is from Isabella. All Right, Hi,
Speaker 1: Hannah and Lamar, and I have a very cat cat
Speaker 1: centric question for you both, since I'm also a cat
Speaker 1: lover myself, just like you, Hannah. Good thing you said,
Speaker 1: just like me, Hannah, because as we know, Lamoarn has
Speaker 1: some feline issues. He's some feelings about the feelings. You know,
Speaker 1: I do not. I love cats. But first I just
Speaker 1: like to quickly share how much I appreciate your work
Speaker 1: on New Girl. I was late to the party a
Speaker 1: little over a year after Lockdown. When I started my
Speaker 1: initial watch through the show, I remember going into it
Speaker 1: unsure if it was my cup of tea, but immediately
Speaker 1: halfway into season one, I was hooked. The show quickly
Speaker 1: became a favorite, and I'm currently on my third rewatch,
Speaker 1: this time attempting to hook my dad as well, after
Speaker 1: successfully spreading the viral laughter to everyone else in my family.
Speaker 1: Your work together a New Girl has really become such
Speaker 1: a comfort show to me now and something I instantly
Speaker 1: feel the need to put on when times are stressful
Speaker 1: or life is weighing me down. Being a twenty five
Speaker 1: year old girl still trying to figure out life, like
Speaker 1: all the characters do on the show, really resonates with
Speaker 1: me and helps me feel less alone in the journey
Speaker 1: of adulthood. So thank you both and the rest of
Speaker 1: the cast and crew for fostering that impact all those
Speaker 1: years ago. My question for you guys is insert drum
Speaker 1: roll here. She wrote that already someone I adore to
Speaker 1: just write that. We know Winston is the cat lover
Speaker 1: in the series and Hannah is the cat lover in
Speaker 1: real life. If CC were to be a cat lady herself,
Speaker 1: what type of cat do you think she'd own and
Speaker 1: what do you think she'd name him or her? How
Speaker 1: do you think it would go down with Schmidt and Ruth. Also,
Speaker 1: of either of your cat what type do you feel
Speaker 1: the best represents you? And why I'd be a gray
Speaker 1: man coon. Here's a picture of my frey friend who
Speaker 1: watches New Girl with me most days made Harold the
Speaker 1: Kitty aka Harry aka Harold Houdini. I think of him
Speaker 1: and I think him and Hannah would make great friends
Speaker 1: if they were ever to meet. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: hosting this podcast and continuing the New Girl legacy. Congratulations
Speaker 1: Lamorn on his Emmy. Win can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: you both do next. All the love Isabella, Isabella. That
Speaker 1: is the nicest email. Thank you so much. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: a die hard cat rescuer, but I feel like it's
Speaker 1: in my blood. My mom has a twin brother, my
Speaker 1: uncle Paul, and I have a lot of memories of
Speaker 1: my uncle rescuing all animals. When I say all animals,
Speaker 1: I mean all animals. And he then would classic brother move,
Speaker 1: bring it to my mom's house, sister's house, you'd bring
Speaker 1: it over to our house. So we had all sorts
Speaker 1: of like rescue animals all the time. We had you know,
Speaker 1: dogs and cats and guinea pigs, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: he would always just bring all the animals over. So
Speaker 1: I'm a huge animal lover. What do I think, Cecie?
Speaker 1: What kind of cat do I think she'd own? I
Speaker 1: feel like, who, maybe a Bengal? I love Bengals. They're
Speaker 1: so beautiful and like sleek and super smart, and I
Speaker 1: think that it would I think Schmidt would love it.
Speaker 1: I think Schmidt loves anything that cec loves, So I
Speaker 1: think Schmidt would love it. He'd be down, and of
Speaker 1: course Ruth would be into it because she's awesome. I
Speaker 1: think at Bengal. What would she name the cat? I
Speaker 1: feel like that would be a Schmidt CEC conversation and
Speaker 1: she'd get to pick the cat, and then he would
Speaker 1: get to name it, and she'd be like, fine, I
Speaker 1: don't care as long as I get the cat, and
Speaker 1: he would name it something ridiculous. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that would be. Give any ideas, what would Schmidt name
Speaker 1: their cat? I want to hear from you something great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've had so many cats in my life.
Speaker 1: I'll share their names. I've had Jake, Frank Franklin, Alfie Zeke.
Speaker 1: Zeke was a cutie z e k e. I've written
Speaker 1: about him a bunch on my Instagram because I only
Speaker 1: had him for a few weeks, but he was a
Speaker 1: super super sweet, little impactful little kitty. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but something cool, all right? And what was
Speaker 1: your other question? Off I were a cat, I'd probably
Speaker 1: want to be a little rescue cat. Probably, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, they always have like the like their fun,
Speaker 1: little adaptable personalities and like snuggles kind of like me.
Speaker 1: All right. Next one from Hayley. Okay, here's what she says.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry this isn't a question about the episode.
Speaker 1: I know that would probably be more helpful for your podcast,
Speaker 1: but I just couldn't think of one. I love the honesty,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to thank you guys, because honestly, life
Speaker 1: is just hard sometimes, and when you're in a really
Speaker 1: low place, something unserious and warm hearted can really lift
Speaker 1: your spirits. Don't I want to go into too much detail,
Speaker 1: but amongst other things, I had a still birth this
Speaker 1: year when I was nine months pregnant. The pain of
Speaker 1: losing my baby just before we were supposed to welcome
Speaker 1: him into the world is something I wouldn't wish on
Speaker 1: my worst enemy. Every day since has then required a
Speaker 1: concerted amount of effort just to get out of bed
Speaker 1: and keep going, and your podcast has brought me laughter
Speaker 1: and levity in times when I didn't think anything could. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of the show, but I just wanted
Speaker 1: to take a moment to honor what you guys are
Speaker 1: doing now and say thank you. Keep doing what you're doing,
Speaker 1: Oh fairy, Oh my goodness. Well, first I want to
Speaker 1: say I feel grateful that we could offer any comfort
Speaker 1: or momentary heart distraction while you are trying to cope
Speaker 1: and are dealing with grief. We've had so many people
Speaker 1: reach out over the years since we started making the
Speaker 1: show about dealing with grief, dealing with grief or dealing
Speaker 1: with pain, and how this show has been like a
Speaker 1: salve to them and Lamour and I discussed it all
Speaker 1: the time. I've talked to Zoe about it a bunch
Speaker 1: about how that's one of the greatest things we've heard
Speaker 1: about our show is that when you just can't deal
Speaker 1: with people, and you are feeling overwhelmed and actually just
Speaker 1: can't even handle the level of pain or grief that
Speaker 1: you're feeling and you need a coping mechanism, that our
Speaker 1: show is there. And I feel really grateful, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, to Fox that they I feel like
Speaker 1: we were kind of the last of the dinosaurs. They
Speaker 1: let us make, you know, one hundred plus episodes. I
Speaker 1: feel like that doesn't really happen anymore with network comedies
Speaker 1: or as often. And because of that, I think that's
Speaker 1: not only the comfort of show and what the show
Speaker 1: is about, but it it's it's there's so much of
Speaker 1: it that if you're going through weeks or months of grief,
Speaker 1: there's there's enough. There's enough, Like thread on the spool
Speaker 1: to to you know, support you. I'm really grateful that
Speaker 1: you shared that. Thank you, and we're thinking of you
Speaker 1: and love you and just you know, one day at
Speaker 1: a time, one foot in front of the other and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, turn on, turn on the show. You need us,
Speaker 1: We're always there. Next letter is from Devin. I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure how to reach out to the show, my love,
Speaker 1: so I decided I would try this platform. Oh, I
Speaker 1: appreciate this podcast so much. Since New Girl is over,
Speaker 1: thank you for continuing to bring the comfort the show
Speaker 1: brought so many of us. I wish I could watch
Speaker 1: it all for the first time again. I grew up
Speaker 1: watch Friends and falling asleep to it every single night.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but see a similarity in the way
Speaker 1: New Girl made me feel warm and fuzzy. When I
Speaker 1: found New Girl, I was in an abusive relationship and
Speaker 1: it was my getaway. I would sit up in my
Speaker 1: own world, zoning out to New Girl every single night.
Speaker 1: I never got enough cut. Two years later, I still
Speaker 1: put it on to end my days. I've seen every
Speaker 1: episode probably twenty to thirty times. My wonderful boyfriend just
Speaker 1: walks in and says, really again, my kids are are
Speaker 1: also always saying come on, you've seen it a million times.
Speaker 1: It just brings me. It brings me just as much
Speaker 1: joy now as it did when I was at my lowest.
Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing the best of friend groups to
Speaker 1: our lives. I absolutely love every single episode, but that
Speaker 1: first season was an absolute banger and it never stopped.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for all the warm and fuzzies and
Speaker 1: the laughs that turn to tears. Watch your back because
Speaker 1: we've got your front. Love you guys, Devin. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I am so happy with where your life has landed
Speaker 1: up with a wonderful boyfriend. And it sounds really funny,
Speaker 1: little kids, and yeah, it's really funny. People do say that.
Speaker 1: They say that New Girl is the you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Friends that kind of like iconic fun
Speaker 1: comedy again, a ton of episodes to kind of just
Speaker 1: keep you going, and a really solid friend group that
Speaker 1: feels like it's your friend group. So it's a nice
Speaker 1: little validation of that. Fun fact. Lamurn has never seen Friends.
Speaker 1: Is that crazy? I have this idea, I haven't I
Speaker 1: haven't pitched it to him. Maybe I will that when
Speaker 1: we finally get through all the New Girl episodes. He
Speaker 1: and I should do a Friend's Rewatch episode, a friends
Speaker 1: Rewatch podcast. I'd love to see him watch it. I
Speaker 1: think you'd like it. I think it'd become a diehard fan,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Anybody into that idea, It's
Speaker 1: just me, okay. Our next letter is hello, who was
Speaker 1: the best unlikely duo? Schmidt and Robbie or the classic
Speaker 1: Winston and CC mess around? Thanks for the show, lebau
Speaker 1: cousin o Quasino, I don't know, it's very beautiful sounding
Speaker 1: last name, well, lebou. Let's see who do I think
Speaker 1: was the most the best unlikely duo? I gotta give
Speaker 1: it to Schmidt and Robbie. I love them together so much.
Speaker 1: I love that, like the that they found common ground
Speaker 1: their love for CC. Also, Nelson Franklin is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite human beings. He's so kind, so funny, always
Speaker 1: up for anything, Like he was just always up for anything,
Speaker 1: and we just like had the best sense of humor
Speaker 1: about it all the best to act across from made
Speaker 1: everybody break because he was just he's so ridiculous, like
Speaker 1: how he plays Robbie like you love him so much somehow,
Speaker 1: even though you know with the you know the sitcom formula.
Speaker 1: We know it's Schmitt and CC. You really do root
Speaker 1: for Robbie and I love them together. I love the
Speaker 1: dynamic between Schmitt and Robbie. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 1: Winston CC messer on obviously has legs because here we
Speaker 1: are doing the podcast. But I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: the most unlikely duo. Like I feel like they have
Speaker 1: a bunch of weird little things in common, which is
Speaker 1: why when they saw each other like that, they were like, ooh,
Speaker 1: let's go yeah. Oh Schmitt and Robbie Nelson love Nelson
Speaker 1: all right? Here is Ali from Miami? Could be Ali
Speaker 1: or Ali? Hey Annah. I saw that Abbott Elementary was
Speaker 1: doing a crossover with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: it got me thinking, what popular but tonally different sitcom
Speaker 1: could New Girl match with. We did a crossover episode
Speaker 1: with Brooklyn ninety nine. I don't know if that's really
Speaker 1: totally different, though. I think lam Morn and I talked
Speaker 1: about this once in a Loft meeting and we just
Speaker 1: were cracking up because we're like, you know, like New
Speaker 1: Girl meets Succession or New Girl meets Breaking Bad. It'd
Speaker 1: be so fun to see the new character New Girl
Speaker 1: characters like in a drama, something really serious, because I
Speaker 1: just feel like they're all just like the most unserious people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I would go that route
Speaker 1: would be kind of great. I'm also watching franchise the
Speaker 1: Franchise right now, and that would also be really fun
Speaker 1: to see them all thrown into like a you know,
Speaker 1: big movie world, see how they would cope. All right,
Speaker 1: last one and Jelica Angelica. All right, Hello, I'm a
Speaker 1: huge fan of New Girl and y'all's podcast. I wish
Speaker 1: I could watch New Girl for the first time again
Speaker 1: because the show is so magical. You guys are such
Speaker 1: great friends and great actors. I couldn't even tell you
Speaker 1: guys were acting. I really want to be an actress,
Speaker 1: but I'm scared of people judging me. Can I please
Speaker 1: have some advice on acting? It would be my dream
Speaker 1: come true. If you responded, thank you so much. Have
Speaker 1: a good day, slash night, Angelica. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: Maybe an unpopular take, but guess what, this is life,
Speaker 1: and there are people who aren't, you know, smart enough
Speaker 1: to just read their own book, focus on themselves, measure
Speaker 1: themselves against themselves, and they do jud judge other people,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna judge you whether you're acting or not. Right.
Speaker 1: But in one world you get to be an actor,
Speaker 1: so do that. You know, that's all about them. I
Speaker 1: always feel like when you find somebody doing something like that,
Speaker 1: like make you feel uncomfortable or making you feel like
Speaker 1: you're not good enough, really just learning about them, right,
Speaker 1: And if you look at yourself and go like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm learning and figuring it out and I'm really proud
Speaker 1: of that. You know, audition I did, and oh I
Speaker 1: could work more on this one. That's just you being
Speaker 1: honest with yourself and having growth and having those moments.
Speaker 1: But it's a normal fear, right, because some people are
Speaker 1: just like not great people, and so they make you
Speaker 1: feel it by the way they look at you or
Speaker 1: little comments they might make, But they're just telling you
Speaker 1: about themselves, right, And they're going to be like that
Speaker 1: whether or not you're chasing your dream or not. I
Speaker 1: had that feeling. I definitely had that feeling. There weren't
Speaker 1: a lot of people that looked like me. I was
Speaker 1: worried I'd go out there and fail and everybody would
Speaker 1: be like, I told you so. And it did like delay,
Speaker 1: I feel like me attempting to kind of break into
Speaker 1: this industry. For a while, I was very worried about
Speaker 1: that kind of reaction, and then I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just had had a moment where I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I go one life, so I'm gonna not do things
Speaker 1: with my one life based on what someone who doesn't
Speaker 1: even care for me or love me you might think
Speaker 1: or say. And that was kind of a bit of
Speaker 1: a turning point because they were just going to be
Speaker 1: like that anyway. So Angelica, I just say, go for it.
Speaker 1: Do all the acting classes, make your own content, and
Speaker 1: do what makes you really, really happy. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this really quick story that Liz Merriweather told me when
Speaker 1: she got the opportunity to write a pilot and the
Speaker 1: biggest show on TV was A modern family and so
Speaker 1: you know, you just go like, well, I guess that's
Speaker 1: what they're into, that type of show, Like maybe we
Speaker 1: should do that type of show. And she was set
Speaker 1: down by some very wonderful person in this industry who
Speaker 1: said to her, well, look, the chances are low, right
Speaker 1: of you making a show that's going to be a hit, right,
Speaker 1: And it's gonna take a lot of time even just
Speaker 1: to make that pilot, like, it's gonna take a lot
Speaker 1: of time to do it, so you might as well
Speaker 1: do something that's your story that you love. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, she wasn't married at the time and didn't
Speaker 1: have kids at the time when she was like thinking
Speaker 1: of like, maybe should I do a modern family style show?
Speaker 1: So how would she relate to it? It's not her story.
Speaker 1: So she wrote a story about, you know, a girl
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, trying to get roommates and live
Speaker 1: in la and start her life and where her friends
Speaker 1: or her family and they're trying to figure it out,
Speaker 1: and she's trying to figure it out and they're dating
Speaker 1: and they're in that weird in between where you're not
Speaker 1: like a kid living at home anymore, but you're not
Speaker 1: married and fully adulting. And and that was the New
Speaker 1: Girl pilot. And because it was truthful and truthful to
Speaker 1: her and honest, and she could see the humor in
Speaker 1: her life, but it was heartfelt, you know, it became
Speaker 1: the hit that New Girl is. So I encourage you
Speaker 1: to just kind of tell your truth and tell your story, Angelica.
Speaker 1: You'll do great and forget dehitas. All right, Guys that
Speaker 1: was a loft meeting. Thank you for hanging out with me.
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