Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and that's what you really miss podcast.
Speaker 2: It is podcast.
Speaker 1: We are in completely opposite time zones. Kevin's about to
Speaker 1: go have an evening out and I'm just getting my
Speaker 1: day started.
Speaker 2: The best part of waking up. Don't finish that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I won't.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is season six, episode nine, child Star, which
Speaker 1: is Fanny Josi Toda Josie Tota. But also, isn't that
Speaker 1: funny because didn't Isn't that what ryansed to call Leah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Hm, I think that's probably yeah, a namesake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Aaron on February twenty seven, fifteen, So we
Speaker 1: were done with the show this point.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we were wrapping it up.
Speaker 2: We had all gone on separate ways.
Speaker 1: Well you were in London.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had still been doing some press and things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you guys did Ellen.
Speaker 1: We did Ellen, you were gone. We also did the
Speaker 1: Family Equality Council, which we'll get to. That was really fun.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what song was number one?
Speaker 2: Kevin Big Shocker Uptown Funk is still number one.
Speaker 1: And also new number one movie though in the show
Speaker 1: in this episode. That's right, new number one movie focus.
Speaker 2: Focus on me?
Speaker 1: Fuckus. I never saw this.
Speaker 2: I didn't either, okay uh and.
Speaker 1: Glee News this Week. On February twenty fourth, the music
Speaker 1: Child Star EP was released. It was six tracks from
Speaker 1: season six Episode nine was released for digital download only.
Speaker 2: Also on February twenty fourth, the Glee Season six rap
Speaker 2: party was held at Elevate Lounge nightclub in La. Did
Speaker 2: you go to that?
Speaker 1: I don't remember going to that.
Speaker 2: I probably didn't wild, I mean, I didn't go.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would have gone to the series finale.
Speaker 2: I feel like you would have.
Speaker 1: They were known not to be the best rap parties.
Speaker 1: We know this, so.
Speaker 2: Which is why Corey threw his own one year right exactly.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that we went to this one.
Speaker 1: But as I had mentioned, on February twenty eighth, Glee
Speaker 1: was honored at the Family Equality Council's Los Angeles Awards dinner.
Speaker 1: It was at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and I think
Speaker 1: Ryan had asked us to go. So Darren Cord, Me, Harry,
Speaker 1: Leah Beca, Alex Dot and Josie were in attendance, and
Speaker 1: we performed Dancing Queen. We performed Don't Stop and then
Speaker 1: Alex performed I Will Survive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys performed yeah.
Speaker 1: And we got ready at the Beverly Hilton. I remember
Speaker 1: back in I getting ready in the hotel together and
Speaker 1: they give us a room and then we performed and
Speaker 1: it was like super fun and we hadn't done that
Speaker 1: in a while where you're like dying, you know, like
Speaker 1: it was really fun. It was fun.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, yeah, interesting, Ryan was there, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like who did the music? Was Chris Pooley there?
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't the Gleave sound people. It was just
Speaker 1: like track and a.
Speaker 2: Mic got it bare bones.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. It was like the family Equality people
Speaker 1: had bike in house. Okay, Yeah, it wasn't like our people.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this episode was directed by Hitchcock.
Speaker 1: No wonder he took to these kids so much. He
Speaker 1: was like writing on the show. He was very much
Speaker 1: a leadership in a leadership position. And then also directing
Speaker 1: Josie's first episode, Phineas's first episode like this was big
Speaker 1: and I get it now, I get it now.
Speaker 2: And Hitchcock has known Phineas's mom for a long time,
Speaker 2: So right, what a small world, very small, very small.
Speaker 2: All right, So we have Josie Toda in this episode,
Speaker 2: Phineas in this episode, and it's all about the new kids.
Speaker 1: This is the actual first time I've ever seen this episode.
Speaker 1: I've not seen a clip from it, so I am
Speaker 1: this was brand new, same and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of top forty pop in this uh in this episode? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lose My Breath performed by.
Speaker 2: Myron Crazy Friday, I'm in Love performed by Spencer in
Speaker 2: the New directions.
Speaker 1: I Want to Break Free perform I Mason.
Speaker 2: And Uptown Funk one of the biggest songs of all
Speaker 2: time and the number one song in the country at
Speaker 2: this time, performed by the New directions.
Speaker 1: Dam break Free that did with Everybody, Mayra Michel and Everybody.
Speaker 2: Cool Kids performed by the New directions.
Speaker 1: Which was very closer.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was very closer, you know, yeah I do.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I know this, okay? Or what's
Speaker 1: the other one we did with the Carousel?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Wendy Stansler directed that episode. Okay. This episode was viewed
Speaker 1: by one point sixty nine million people, the second lowest
Speaker 1: number of viewers in Glee. Her story.
Speaker 2: Yikes, this is the eighth episode where every member of
Speaker 2: the New Direction sings a solo line, the others being
Speaker 2: Pilot Brittany two point zero, Tina and the Sky Katie Gaga.
Speaker 2: End of Towerque Homecoming The hurt Locker Part two.
Speaker 1: This marks the first appearance of Myron and Alistair.
Speaker 2: This is the seventh and final episode of the series
Speaker 2: where all the main characters present in the episode sing,
Speaker 2: the first being Powered Madonna, the second being New New York,
Speaker 2: and the third being Backup Planned, Fourth, Old Dog, New Tricks,
Speaker 2: fifth the untitled richel Berry Project, and the sixth What
Speaker 2: the World Needs Now.
Speaker 1: Coincidentally, Rachel appears in all these episodes.
Speaker 2: This is the first and only episode of the season
Speaker 2: to not feature Darren and Chris my Gosh.
Speaker 1: This is the first episode Blane has been since Get
Speaker 1: This Season three, The Spanish Teacher fifty nine episodes.
Speaker 2: I'll Go Get Your Money Booboo. This is the first
Speaker 2: episode Kurt has been absent since season four Shooting Star
Speaker 2: thirty two episodes ago.
Speaker 1: This is the first episode book Blane and Kurt have
Speaker 1: been absent at the same time in season two Come
Speaker 1: Back eighty one episodes ago.
Speaker 2: This is the first ninth episode of a season to
Speaker 2: not feature Rachel singing a duet. Wow, wowow, all right,
Speaker 2: let's see if this some reason any better. A high strung,
Speaker 2: demanding tween requests that the members of the new directions
Speaker 2: perform at his part mitzvah, the Glee club must band
Speaker 2: together for its first public appearance. Meanwhile, Spencer pushes Roderick
Speaker 2: to lose weight. All right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say, aside from the weight thing, this
Speaker 1: felt very Glee, y'alla season three or.
Speaker 2: Four, Yes, like the overall episode or that story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, the overall episode like
Speaker 1: internal high low stakes, you know, like it just felt
Speaker 1: like quintessential Glee, not at its finest, but at its core.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was the first time that it was like
Speaker 2: weird for me to see other people doing, yes, what
Speaker 2: we've done, and this is the first time like we're
Speaker 2: not a part.
Speaker 1: Of it for sure. I was like very removed, but
Speaker 1: very I don't know how to explain it, but I could.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what.
Speaker 3: You mean, Like it wasn't bad, No, not at all.
Speaker 3: This is strange, so strange, like like not what they're
Speaker 3: doing was strange, like our reaction to no, exactly.
Speaker 1: My feeling my feeling of it, like watching it being like,
Speaker 1: oh I I used to.
Speaker 2: Do that, but like recently, right because we were like,
Speaker 2: you know, four of the last people to score, but.
Speaker 1: We weren't there anymore, and they just kept going. It
Speaker 1: was it's so weird. Okay, let's talk about it. So
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things happening right now. Sue wants
Speaker 1: the superintendent to sign the rack for Principle of the Year,
Speaker 1: but she's now become beholden to the Superintendent's now for
Speaker 1: you Myron for his bar mitzvah en barmitzvah performance quid
Speaker 1: pro quote yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Now Myron shows up.
Speaker 2: Well. Also, Sue doesn't explain any of this to the
Speaker 2: new directions at first, it's just oh, I'll sign that,
Speaker 2: but you need to do this for my nephew, and
Speaker 2: then brings out Myron again without any explanation as to
Speaker 2: like why they have to watch him, Like what what
Speaker 2: does this have to do with us?
Speaker 1: They just do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Lyron performs a show stopping number a.
Speaker 1: Full it's still in rehearsals, but curtain opens. This number
Speaker 1: is insane crazy, I can't believe they threw Josie in
Speaker 1: there like this in such a big way. I mean,
Speaker 1: this episode is massive for Josie and like it is
Speaker 1: so much to do. The numbers are huge, the dancing
Speaker 1: is crazy, the lip sinking, it has to be there.
Speaker 1: And she's thirteen, also.
Speaker 2: Recording a Destiny's Child song.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I know when I did jump and jump in.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to see your reaction when I said
Speaker 1: hands in.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm sweating you as a grown ass adult
Speaker 2: know how hard it is, never mind being thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure, I mean this is this was hard.
Speaker 2: You bring up a good point though, like everything Josie
Speaker 2: had to do was hard. Also like the scenes they
Speaker 2: like Josie command all of those scenes, so yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: vocally yelling at people, also calling one of the dancers
Speaker 2: a bitch.
Speaker 1: I know it was crazy. I mean I get the
Speaker 1: feeling like when Ian said, like we do all that,
Speaker 1: we did all the things that we wanted to do,
Speaker 1: or at least he did. This really felt like that.
Speaker 1: This really emulated that feeling. But it was just so
Speaker 1: I just felt for Josie because I would have been
Speaker 1: hitting my pants and yet so good, I mean.
Speaker 2: Not an ounce of fear in those eyes. So good.
Speaker 1: It was so good, it's so funny, and she's so little,
Speaker 1: so it's just like makes it even more. It just
Speaker 1: hits even better. So Josie then becomes Myron, sorry, Myron
Speaker 1: becomes like bosses everybody around and hires the new directions
Speaker 1: to then perform at his bar mitzvah. And they're all like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: actually they're not. That's actually not true. That's actually not true.
Speaker 1: But Rachel and Will, on the other side of things
Speaker 1: are having this kind of Will is kind of mentoring Rachel, right,
Speaker 1: He's mentoring her and saying like, you got to get
Speaker 1: to know these kids really well, and she's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know them really well because I'm talking too much.
Speaker 2: It's classic Will though, because it's absolutely something Will would
Speaker 2: agree to for no reason, like yeah, they should go
Speaker 2: perform at this bar metza for free, and.
Speaker 1: Yes, well it's like this is an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so she does it. And the lesson this
Speaker 2: week also sectionals is two weeks away.
Speaker 1: I see it in Rachel's face. She's like, we're preparing
Speaker 1: for secuals, like this is we don't have the time
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 2: No Will's back on the track. No preparing for sectionals
Speaker 2: until the night before.
Speaker 1: It's right picking the song out, set list out the
Speaker 1: day before, maybe the morning up.
Speaker 2: And also because Myron fired all of their backup dancers,
Speaker 2: they now have yeah, all the teachers. There's net.
Speaker 1: Which is funny because it's like Rachel, Sam, Will, Uh,
Speaker 1: Sue and Sheldon.
Speaker 2: A wild time, a wild time. But I like that,
Speaker 2: you know, it felt almost like a caafella's getting everybody
Speaker 2: back together.
Speaker 1: Literally was like, was like did I press the wrong
Speaker 1: episode when I looked up and saw that scene happening.
Speaker 1: So Rachel tries to like hype up the environments then,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, this is an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: them performing in front of people and like get them
Speaker 1: to like really band together. And I really I loved that.
Speaker 1: Kitty pointed out. She's like, oh, isn't alumnus and I
Speaker 1: walked through the door.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Totally loved it. She's like, no, this is actually about
Speaker 1: you guys, which is why when none of us were
Speaker 1: actually there, like we were saying before it, it was like, oh, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is the.
Speaker 2: New class because this also would have been what the
Speaker 2: show would be if it kept going, Yes, exactly because
Speaker 2: obviously we would not be there all the time. So weird,
Speaker 2: but also it made me like, see the vision, see
Speaker 2: everything Ian was talking about, how it absolutely could just
Speaker 2: keep going in mine of Degrassi in that way.
Speaker 1: Yes. I saw an interview with Darren when he was
Speaker 1: doing Tony Press and he had mentioned like, this is
Speaker 1: so meaningful to him being a part of something special, No,
Speaker 1: being a part of the inception of something that will
Speaker 1: live on for many many years after him and in
Speaker 1: the in that sense like maybe happy ending create the
Speaker 1: years down the road, regional theaters, kids in schools. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm a part of the creation of that and I
Speaker 1: can't help. But I was like, oh, right, we we
Speaker 1: helped create build and then you know, like just formulate
Speaker 1: that that model for people for Glee that could have
Speaker 1: in theory had we not hit the you know, time button,
Speaker 1: but like or had Glee not been moved to Fridays, uh,
Speaker 1: you know like that that that resonated. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that feels like something that right, we built, we were
Speaker 1: a part of that.
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 1: It did feel weird, though, I'm not gonna lie to
Speaker 1: watch it go on without us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it felt weird, but I didn't like
Speaker 2: there was no part of me I was like, oh
Speaker 2: I wish we were doing that.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't feel that way either. I can't pinpoint
Speaker 1: how I feel about it.
Speaker 2: I can't either, But it was just like that, it's
Speaker 2: weird to see other people doing what, yes, that's right
Speaker 2: doing you were just.
Speaker 1: Doing and not being there but not really wanting to
Speaker 1: be there, but also feeling weird that you're not there.
Speaker 1: It's like, not envy or jealousy either. It's just very
Speaker 1: strange to see.
Speaker 2: Surreal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very surreal. Okay, So in this whole
Speaker 1: thing that's happening with the glee club performing in the
Speaker 1: bar Mitzvah, j Mason, Jane, and Madison are having this
Speaker 1: crazy thing, this storyline, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, basically part of Shoe's suggestion to Rachel in the
Speaker 2: beginning about getting to know these kids better and using
Speaker 2: the bar Mitzvah as an opportunity for that. The lesson
Speaker 2: for the week, she's again pulling a shoe coming up.
Speaker 2: The lesson the day of is making them perform duets
Speaker 2: with each other with music that you know they like
Speaker 2: and perform at the bar Mitzvah.
Speaker 1: So they're pairing up.
Speaker 2: So they're pairing up, and there's this weird I don't
Speaker 2: want to say love triangle because it's not a love triangle,
Speaker 2: I hope not, but no, but there are some really
Speaker 2: good jokes about that.
Speaker 1: It's very funny.
Speaker 2: But Mason clearly likes Jane and is trying to ask
Speaker 2: her out, and then its twin Madison. Good old Laura
Speaker 2: comes up and he's like, no, no, you're not doing
Speaker 2: that right. And Mason doesn't know what to do because
Speaker 2: he basically was raised by his twin sister, we come
Speaker 2: to find out, and so he like has a you know,
Speaker 2: a boys meeting in the locker room as you do,
Speaker 2: which is a really funny scene. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is about the locker room, but the way the
Speaker 2: guys on the show are always written, they're just a
Speaker 2: little dumb, and it's always so funny.
Speaker 1: In locker room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it goes, you know, Mason brings up his
Speaker 2: point what he wants. He wants Roderick to do do
Speaker 2: it with Madison or ask Madison out. So she's distracted
Speaker 2: and he's like no, bah, and then it quickly turns
Speaker 2: into what everybody about Spencer and Roderick, right, and not
Speaker 2: even about Mason, Jane or Madison. It was such a
Speaker 2: good scene.
Speaker 1: It was a really good scene, but what.
Speaker 2: Comes of it is even better, Like you know, finally
Speaker 2: Mason goes off on Madison, breaks that tension and then
Speaker 2: performs brave Frey again.
Speaker 1: Also to them in the cafeteria, that scene where Madison,
Speaker 1: where Laura is going cuckoo banantopeance on Mason and about
Speaker 1: the diarrhea. It's so funny and Laura is just so
Speaker 1: sweet and to see her play this role and so
Speaker 1: cuckoo and like very up in the clouds, it's just
Speaker 1: so funny. Like they're both like them.
Speaker 2: They're both so different from their characters that it's really
Speaker 2: fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really really fun. They're really funny together too, like
Speaker 1: really good chemistry and so yes, so Madison Mason was break.
Speaker 2: Free, which is great.
Speaker 1: I love this number.
Speaker 2: Love this number, just a good old little Freddie Mercury,
Speaker 2: real quick, good luck.
Speaker 1: And I loved that this was the number that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, it took me back to old Glee.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, we are here, we are.
Speaker 1: There's like a love triangle there's some weird sibling rivalry.
Speaker 2: There's like we.
Speaker 1: Were performing on the stage. The production is big, even
Speaker 1: though it shouldn't really be, like you know, it just
Speaker 1: felt like all the good things of Glad.
Speaker 2: And then throwing the looks to the side of the stage.
Speaker 1: Totally roving study camp. It was good. It was really
Speaker 1: really good. I really like this number. But it culminates
Speaker 1: to them Madison talking with Mason. It's really sweet conversation.
Speaker 1: I really like the scene. And again, I really really
Speaker 1: liked I really like the arc of these characters, and
Speaker 1: I'm really growing to like love these characters, these quirky
Speaker 1: little guys, like.
Speaker 2: Like I just want to know more about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like I'm just thinking like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is it. Like it's sad, you know, because they really
Speaker 1: fit in really well, and they're it just like they're
Speaker 1: grounded but elevated. Like it's just it all works. But
Speaker 1: the scene where they are having their little heart's heart
Speaker 1: was really sweet and you could see like, oh, Laura
Speaker 1: and Billy are actors and singers and they can do
Speaker 1: it all, and wow, these kids are really talented.
Speaker 2: And that's the other thing. It's like I think whenever
Speaker 2: we've had new people come on start. Sorry to beat
Speaker 2: a dead horse here, but we've always been in those
Speaker 2: scenes and so, like you said, like sort of setting
Speaker 2: an example and like these kids no one needs us.
Speaker 2: They're fine and better than us. And it's so satisfy
Speaker 2: to watch of like, oh yeah, look at them crushing
Speaker 2: this and like controlling this scene totally totally and like
Speaker 2: coming into this, like we've said with everybody, like a
Speaker 2: hard time to come into a show, and yeah, just
Speaker 2: smashed it.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now the other story with the new kids, God
Speaker 2: was a little more complicated. There's Spencer Roderick and Alistair
Speaker 2: Alistair Alistair. I don't know that every time I meet
Speaker 2: someone with that name, I always feel like I'm pronouncing
Speaker 2: it wrong.
Speaker 1: Potato but data.
Speaker 2: So look, Glee can't get away from the fat jokes.
Speaker 1: We just can't.
Speaker 2: Coming into this podcast, we knew there were going to
Speaker 2: be things that didn't age well, and we even created
Speaker 2: a section for it. And as it's been going and context,
Speaker 2: not as many things are as bad like I thought
Speaker 2: We're going to be bad, Right, there's obviously things that
Speaker 2: don't age well and bad jokes that you know are
Speaker 2: just defensive or for sure, whatever, but when you're watching
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty episodes, there's sort of fewer and
Speaker 2: far farer, more far between than I think we initially projected, right, yeah, yeah, However,
Speaker 2: the fat jokes have almost been like the most constant, offensive,
Speaker 2: unfunny thing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like in Friends with Fat Monica, like
Speaker 1: it's just constant and it doesn't it's the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst. I mean, it's not the worst of the worst,
Speaker 1: but it's the worst of the worst it.
Speaker 2: You know, because it's sustained.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The other one said worst jokes like one off jokes,
Speaker 2: but like this, I don't know why this one is
Speaker 2: sustained so hard. And then you have these people come
Speaker 2: onto the show and like this is all their storyline is.
Speaker 1: Well, it's something, it's always something.
Speaker 2: It though like everything tater tots, and it was like,
Speaker 2: can she get a different storyline totally? And it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Just it was it's a little no no, it is
Speaker 1: strange and it's it's just it feels. It was disappointing
Speaker 1: in the way that like no, Noah is so wildly
Speaker 1: talented with the best voice suddenly.
Speaker 2: And naturally like a good actor.
Speaker 1: Very good, really lovable character, very sweet and charming like,
Speaker 1: and it's got it's overshadowed by this one thing, which you,
Speaker 1: I think is what you were kind of.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like you're immediately like the only storyline you
Speaker 2: can give him is right.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly. It's like it's disappointing. But I will say
Speaker 1: everybody should be represented on television, like everybody, right, because
Speaker 1: like that's the real world, not the Hollywood world. And
Speaker 1: I think it's disappointing because we don't. We're not we
Speaker 1: don't need to be defined by the things that are
Speaker 1: not societal norms, right, or what we're what is considered
Speaker 1: to be attractive, beautiful, normal.
Speaker 2: And no other character on the show is like being
Speaker 2: picked on for their appearance in that way.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean to be fair, Like back in the day,
Speaker 1: it was only Asian jokes.
Speaker 2: Oh, let me fully take that back, Jesus Christy, I
Speaker 2: didn't mean to just erase that.
Speaker 1: No, no, you're not erasing it at all.
Speaker 2: But currently, No, I did.
Speaker 1: Currently, but currently because because Tina did become something more
Speaker 1: like I actually did get more storylines and it wasn't
Speaker 1: about being aged.
Speaker 2: But until then, it was a lot.
Speaker 1: Of very early on. I mean, Takedown was it was everything.
Speaker 1: It was just on the surface, everything that was obvious.
Speaker 1: So for Noah, I feel like it we shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to be defined by that, right because I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: having the representation of Noah, who is not what you
Speaker 1: would normally see at that time in Hollywood on a
Speaker 1: TV show, having one having showcasing his incredible talents is exciting.
Speaker 1: And I was like, finally we're we're you know, like
Speaker 1: and Glee does that in so many other ways that like,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not watching over what Glee has done,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But in this case, for
Speaker 1: for Noah, it was disappointing because I was like, had
Speaker 1: the storyline maybe perhaps brought up his weight and wasn't
Speaker 1: centered around his weight and the fat jokes like, and
Speaker 1: he had responded in a different way. And I guess
Speaker 1: that's what the difference is between twenty you know, two
Speaker 1: thousand and yeah, fifteen. In twenty twenty five, it would
Speaker 1: have been actually more I don't know, acceptable or yeah.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. You have the Spencer character who
Speaker 2: is unabashedly right we keep saying, postmodern gay, unapologetic about it,
Speaker 2: totally we're seeing not the article that right, yes, And
Speaker 2: so it's like, Okay, you have an opportunity here with
Speaker 2: Roderick to like give him something totally totally and not
Speaker 2: just be like a punching bag for somebody else. And
Speaker 2: the only reason Spencer's nice to him is because Rodrick. Yes,
Speaker 2: And like, I think it ends up being like really sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the whole storyline of the rope and then
Speaker 1: him with the rig rope at the end. I was like,
Speaker 1: I want Noah to win. I want Roderick to win.
Speaker 1: I just don't want him to win in this way.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't watch this.
Speaker 2: I had flashbacks to like some Nickelodeon show in the
Speaker 2: nineties where like climbing a rope was like the big
Speaker 2: thing of the episode.
Speaker 1: Probably like a Miley like uh.
Speaker 2: No that before that, like pet and peat Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I think it was Pete and Pete.
Speaker 1: Really, I feel like I know this episode.
Speaker 2: It my god, Jenna, the deep cockles bowels of my
Speaker 2: brain folds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, like it's still there. Yeah, it might be.
Speaker 1: It might be.
Speaker 2: I think it might be that. I think it might
Speaker 2: be too, And like I liked that low stakes of
Speaker 2: like oh, it's the high school. You have to climb
Speaker 2: the rope, but it felt so nineties.
Speaker 1: It did, but it also had to do with his
Speaker 1: weight now with the rope, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't overcoming fears or it wasn't overcoming something.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It's like physical ability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because of his weight. Like it just felt
Speaker 1: like I don't I want no part of this. I
Speaker 1: want no part of this at all.
Speaker 2: It also was weird because Will witnesses Spencer being awful
Speaker 2: to roder and then when he like, he doesn't really
Speaker 2: call him out on it, he just makes them partner together,
Speaker 2: and it's like, bro, like, why are we always rinning
Speaker 2: out this stuff? Slide yeah, nothing else. You don't get
Speaker 2: away with anything else.
Speaker 1: Now, but like and and then even at the end
Speaker 1: when Roderick's like thanking him for like like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: eating better and I'm right, I sometimes I have a
Speaker 1: cheeto or something, I.
Speaker 2: Was like, oh no, no, no, no, no justice for Roderick.
Speaker 1: Justice for Roderick. So all to say, I don't even
Speaker 1: really want to get into that storyline because it's I
Speaker 1: just don't want to give it air.
Speaker 2: I mean, we gave it a lot of air.
Speaker 1: We did give it a lot of air, but in
Speaker 1: the airing our agreemances. Yeah, you know, but I.
Speaker 2: Liked everybody was great.
Speaker 1: Everybody is beautifully yes, and and and Marshall or Spencer
Speaker 1: and uh Alistair Ali Star Alistair a star, We're really cute,
Speaker 1: cute and never stuff And he's on the show. Had
Speaker 1: no idea he was on it. Wemberwin Billy and started
Speaker 1: coming up and you were like, you know, Phinney's was
Speaker 1: on our show, and I was like, boot was he?
Speaker 1: That's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I also, you know, it's like two young straight dudes
Speaker 2: kissing and good for them. It was stigmatized. I know.
Speaker 2: It's not like I don't want to, I know, but
Speaker 2: it was really like they committed and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And Marshall, as horrible as Spencer was during this episode,
Speaker 2: Marshall was so good.
Speaker 1: No, They're really all very good and like good chemistry,
Speaker 1: great performances, believable, like honest, it was really sweet. And
Speaker 1: Michael Hitchcock getting all of that out of these new guys,
Speaker 1: like we're so was very very good.
Speaker 2: I as much as I hated the Roderick storyline, yeah,
Speaker 2: what I liked in this section overall was how Spencer
Speaker 2: is sort of insane, where in one breath he's awful
Speaker 2: to Roderick and saying all these horrible things, and then
Speaker 2: he's also so unabashedly like flirty and like down bad
Speaker 2: for this guy totally and it is so funny.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like oh the Jacqueline hide.
Speaker 2: Yeah in the seconds, yes, and it's like I like
Speaker 2: it walking down the hallway and singing and watching him and.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, also his number so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how bad he is at flirting really great.
Speaker 1: I like that too too because it's like the football
Speaker 1: it's like breaking all the norms of like the football player.
Speaker 1: He's gay, he's he's not, he has no game, like
Speaker 1: I like see.
Speaker 2: That was what was nice too. It's like Roderick was
Speaker 2: actually commenting on how bad his game was, Like Roderick
Speaker 2: has some other character here. There's some other things going.
Speaker 1: On totally totally, and just also Noah being a really
Speaker 1: good like intuitive actor for being so brand new like
Speaker 1: all of them, it's very impressive.
Speaker 2: There's that sweet little scene at the end finally, because
Speaker 2: Spencer's just blowing it with alistair at every turn, and
Speaker 2: then Roderick wings Wingman's him hard and gets Alistair to
Speaker 2: come to the bar mitzvah and watch his performance and
Speaker 2: admits that he was good and really hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's cute. It's cute. They're both really cute.
Speaker 2: And now we got more boys kissing. Non fucks. We
Speaker 2: had a double gay wedding last episode. In this episode,
Speaker 2: we got two new gays kissing. Keep it going, the
Speaker 2: gay agenda is alive and well on Glee. Still keep
Speaker 2: it moving.
Speaker 1: Let's keep keep moving the needle.
Speaker 2: Okay, see, you win some, you lose.
Speaker 1: And you lose them. Also, when at the end when
Speaker 1: Sue reveals that she's like been like a slave to Myron,
Speaker 1: and then Myron is now in school with them in
Speaker 1: the glee club, and that scene where he steps on
Speaker 1: the foot was he did he step on suitan?
Speaker 2: He kicks her shin.
Speaker 1: He kicks her shin. It is so ridiculous and funny
Speaker 1: and like inappropriate, but I loved it.
Speaker 2: I also loved how Will was excited that there was
Speaker 2: another not being freaked out that there was a little
Speaker 2: kid in high school now. He was like, oh no,
Speaker 2: there's another new talented member of the glee club and
Speaker 2: that's great, and Rachel. It's nice having Rachel there because
Speaker 2: she's sort of like the reaction for the audience, like
Speaker 2: that's what we're thinking, because she's like, that doesn't seem right,
Speaker 2: that's weird, Sue. Back in the hurt Locker, back again.
Speaker 1: I was like, did I click over to be down
Speaker 1: there a different episode? Yeah, back in the hurt locker
Speaker 1: locker and spending the last few weeks of her professional
Speaker 1: life fulfilling what is her destiny.
Speaker 2: It's the last few weeks of her professional life because
Speaker 2: she said she's retiring. Also, I don't feel like they
Speaker 2: made a big enough deal about that. But she's back
Speaker 2: in the hurt Locker and she's like, they can bury
Speaker 2: me in here, but like return to her mission to
Speaker 2: once and for all bring everybody down. Yes, yes, she's
Speaker 2: a sad lady.
Speaker 1: So she's about her and we're about to.
Speaker 2: Go, which is fun. I do enjoy that.
Speaker 1: No, I love it.
Speaker 2: It's it's I mean, the greatest hits.
Speaker 1: Also, let's bring it back full circle. You know where
Speaker 1: we started. Let's just take it back to the beginning.
Speaker 2: That's right, Jenna, the very beginning.
Speaker 1: Now, let's creation performances. Where's my wrath?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure, Friday, I am in love. Hey, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to break free A plus Uptown Funk.
Speaker 4: A A minus minus break free.
Speaker 2: Break Free was crazy. It was really crazy, like a
Speaker 2: bee plus yeah, B.
Speaker 1: Plus cool kids, I'm gonna give it a bee. A bee.
Speaker 2: Got a B minus.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, let's do TARTI.
Speaker 2: Takes cringe moments all of Oh, Roderick, Roderick. And yeah
Speaker 2: there were some weird Jewish jokes in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the and then I did like Rachel's like
Speaker 1: true love for the barber, so though exciting.
Speaker 2: That was great. Yeah, Madison also made some weird microaggressive
Speaker 2: comment about Jane's hair. Yeah it felt like a little.
Speaker 5: Racist, Yeah, not a little. Best dance move lose my breath,
Speaker 5: lose my breath. Also, you know there was some good
Speaker 5: dancing in that, the break dancing in Uptown Funk.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, bring out all those dancers.
Speaker 1: Best song, I want to break free, Oh.
Speaker 4: I want to break free down prop I mean the
Speaker 4: the Myron's inhaler, the inhaler, but also the thing Myron
Speaker 4: comes down in like from the ceiling.
Speaker 2: Whatever that contraption is.
Speaker 1: That that was really good. Uh, it's like the reverse toaster.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Performance pot the.
Speaker 1: Best line are we going to saying? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: about to announce another alumnus? Walking through the door really
Speaker 1: hit hard for me. It was like, yeah, good for you, Kitty.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was great. I agree with that one. Okay,
Speaker 2: oh no performance MVP.
Speaker 1: Josie and Billy Yeah, I mean and Marshall okay, all
Speaker 1: of them?
Speaker 2: The New Kids kid? All right, fine, the New Kids Okay?
Speaker 2: Should we found a TikTok? Jenna doctor Doctor? This one
Speaker 2: has six million views? Whoa Glee talk one says they
Speaker 2: were doing tours in eleven Remember when Glee was so
Speaker 2: popular that they even did a tour. Yeah, we did
Speaker 2: a couple tours and it's clips of our tour. Even
Speaker 2: made a movie about it. Yes, we have the Warblers performing.
Speaker 2: I have met so many people here in London that
Speaker 2: were at our shows. Jenna really yes, well, because we
Speaker 2: did two weeks there so so many.
Speaker 1: People the it's also streaming on HBO Max Now and
Speaker 1: it's the extended version so Tina's in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go watch that because that one so good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it. I'm going to show him a
Speaker 1: Matt you should I think she should like it.
Speaker 2: I think she can you film her reaction?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will.
Speaker 2: I will of you please, I want to see that
Speaker 2: really or Facebook?
Speaker 3: Mom?
Speaker 2: Who's that?
Speaker 1: Mommy?
Speaker 2: I just wanted to show her dog days.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll show her dog days and I'll see what
Speaker 1: she says.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are at the Star. We are almost there.
Speaker 2: But next up, very exciting, we have Josie Tode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: talk to her about doing this insane thing when she was.
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