Speaker 1: Hey, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi Hi, Hi, roomies,
Speaker 1: we are calling a loft meeting. My favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing to do is to do these loft
Speaker 1: meetings with you. And they don't exist without you. So
Speaker 1: thank you for sending in your emails, your videos, your
Speaker 1: voice nows, your photos, all your weird questions and theories.
Speaker 1: That's what makes these loft meetings happen. Okay, first we
Speaker 1: have an email from Laura. Hi, guys, I adore New Girl,
Speaker 1: my first ever comfort show and the pod that helps
Speaker 1: me get through the day. Well, that's nice writing in
Speaker 1: for the first time. Is I feel super qualified to
Speaker 1: help you with your question about adults dating when they
Speaker 1: work in schools. My name is Laura. I'm from England
Speaker 1: and have worked in a lot of different schools. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, oh, Laura, I feel this. Let meet juicy.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you they are wild. It's worse than
Speaker 1: high school stafford dating each other and sleeping together and
Speaker 1: having affairs everywhere you look. It's a weird phenomenon, but
Speaker 1: one that mostly stays hidden from students. I have been
Speaker 1: saying this, of course. It is. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: teachers are like wonderful and caring and and young, and
Speaker 1: they're put in this you know space where they're meeting
Speaker 1: other young, caring adults. And if they're both single, I
Speaker 1: mean it makes sense that teachers would end up with
Speaker 1: each other. Keep saying this, Okay. I never really got
Speaker 1: into any of that, but did meet my partner when
Speaker 1: we both worked in a school. Our colleague set is
Speaker 1: up and I met the love of my life. We
Speaker 1: have both moved into different jobs, but for a while
Speaker 1: I used to love going to work, even though it
Speaker 1: was a horrendous job. Because of him. We would play
Speaker 1: around in a non obvious way, share lunches, and stay
Speaker 1: late to finish work together. He made every day so
Speaker 1: special and I think it proved our love as I
Speaker 1: would happily spend all day at home and work with him.
Speaker 1: This is so sweet. We thought we were being super
Speaker 1: secret and hid this, but then one day our office
Speaker 1: haed men left a relationship disclosure form on our desks.
Speaker 1: Apparently everyone knew. All we had to do was sign
Speaker 1: a form declaring our relationship, what it was, how long
Speaker 1: it had been going on. I can imagine this part
Speaker 1: is awkward if you break up or don't know what
Speaker 1: you are like coach. Yeah, are we dating? Are we not?
Speaker 1: Are we just hanging out? What's going on? It's a
Speaker 1: lot more common than you think. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of staff who end up marrying each other. I hope
Speaker 1: this help. Thank you for always bringing joy to my day.
Speaker 1: Take care of Laura, Laura. This was very helpful. It
Speaker 1: also was very validating because this is what I think
Speaker 1: is happening in a lot of schools, and I'm okay
Speaker 1: with it. I'm all right with it. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: also only all right with it in this sense that
Speaker 1: these are like true love relationship that don't in anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, cause a teacher to be really upset seeing
Speaker 1: their ex around school where they're also supposed to be
Speaker 1: teaching children. So I can, I guess, get complicated if
Speaker 1: I think it all the way through. But in my
Speaker 1: romantic brain, it just seems lovely, all right. Our next
Speaker 1: email is from Darcy. Hi, Hannah, I know you love
Speaker 1: when cats and babies are named after New New Girl characters.
Speaker 1: What about a bishop? What? I work for a Catholic church.
Speaker 1: My former boss and good friend became a bishop a
Speaker 1: few years ago. I was used to calling him a
Speaker 1: far dave. I assume Friar does it for Friar Dave,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know what to call him with his
Speaker 1: new position. He insists on just Dave now that he's
Speaker 1: not my boss. But I can't do that. Bishop Dave
Speaker 1: feels weird and Bishop she doesn't want to say his
Speaker 1: last name, so it's been redacted. Feels too formal for
Speaker 1: a friend. So my husband suggested Davy the Bitch, and
Speaker 1: it has stuck. He hasn't seen this show, but he
Speaker 1: thought the name was fun. Oh my gosh, Davy the Bisch.
Speaker 1: You gotta watch New Girl. You got to. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of bishes around. It's also a great nickname,
Speaker 1: David the Bisch. What do you do a bishop? It
Speaker 1: feels like Winston would lose his mind if he knew
Speaker 1: that they were bishops now that were inspired by his nickname.
Speaker 1: That would be like a Winston love thing in an instant.
Speaker 1: I love this and I love this suggestion. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you, the power of television shows to
Speaker 1: infiltrate into real life and to change and shift and
Speaker 1: move things in different areas of the world and different workplaces.
Speaker 1: Say that you would never think I would never think
Speaker 1: that New girl would help to generate nicknames in the
Speaker 1: Catholic church. I love this so much. Thank you, Darcy.
Speaker 1: All right, this is from Marita from Brisbane, Australia. Hi,
Speaker 1: Hannah and Lamore, and I was listening to an oldish
Speaker 1: episode of the podcast the other day. By the way,
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that people even go back
Speaker 1: and re listen to the podcast, not just rewatch the show.
Speaker 1: You like her episode so much? Thank you. It's very
Speaker 1: sweet because we work very hard on them. I was
Speaker 1: listening to an oldish episode of the podcast the other
Speaker 1: day and Hannah mentioned that you see so many cats
Speaker 1: named Winston come through, but rarely any CC cats. I
Speaker 1: wanted to introduce to two or three year old baby Cecilia,
Speaker 1: often pronounced Chia and a terrible Italian accent, just like
Speaker 1: Schmidt in episode one. She is sweet, fun, resilient and loyal,
Speaker 1: just like Ceci. Thank you for the show on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I know you hear this a lot, but it truly
Speaker 1: is a lifesaver for some people. Sincerely, Marita, Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 1: There's something about I've talked about this a bunch, which
Speaker 1: is why you guys send it in, But there is
Speaker 1: something about the naming of a baby or a pet
Speaker 1: after the characters of the show, or like from us,
Speaker 1: from actors, like there's Zoe Kats and Hannah Kats and
Speaker 1: you know, you know Lamarne Dogs. It's very sweet. It's
Speaker 1: a really wonderful thing that people have just connected to
Speaker 1: the show so much and loved it, and that we've
Speaker 1: become part of like the extended family, that they name
Speaker 1: a family member after us. I don't think there's like
Speaker 1: a greater honor that anybody could ever give. Anyone's very
Speaker 1: very sweet, so I appreciate that. And there's a picture
Speaker 1: she's like a snowy gray cat. I also love the
Speaker 1: fact that you I think, I think this is what
Speaker 1: you were saying, that you adopted her at three years old,
Speaker 1: or maybe you got her when she was little and
Speaker 1: named her because the show's been around for a while
Speaker 1: named for Cecilia. Then I don't know if it's recent.
Speaker 1: My my brother just adopted a cat that was one
Speaker 1: years old. I always think it's nice when people adopt
Speaker 1: cats that are a little bit older and give them
Speaker 1: a home that's really lovely. I so appreciate you listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast for participating in it. For sending in
Speaker 1: videos and these pictures and telling us your stories. I
Speaker 1: feel wonderful knowing that teachers are falling in love and
Speaker 1: following their hearts. Just don't make it messy. Yeah. Thanks,
Speaker 1: another great Loft meeting you guys. I appreciate it. I
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