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Speaker 1: Now there's gonna be a walk down memory Lane from Glee.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz. So good to see you both.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you. Thanks for having us. You have

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Speaker 1: we've seen what you've been doing. But how did it

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Speaker 1: us all the conversations around each episode. Kevin played Already,

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Speaker 1: So originally we had actually done a podcast called Showman's

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Speaker 1: Um with the Lady Gang Network, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, it felt like we were done with Glee

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