Speaker 1: Ring, ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe?
Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Lamarne. Let's patch in, Hannah.
Speaker 3: God, I forgot what it was like working with you, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start with a little introduction.
Speaker 4: How's that is that?
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 5: She's a writer, producer, and television showrunner. As a screenwriter,
Speaker 5: she's known for creating New Girl, the.
Speaker 2: Rom Corom, You good, Are you good?
Speaker 6: So good?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 5: It takes me like at least only fourteen times to
Speaker 5: read something through, to get it, get it out properly.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys.
Speaker 5: She's a writer, producer, television showrunner, and as a screenwriter,
Speaker 5: she's known for No Strings Attached ABC sitcom Single Parents,
Speaker 5: and Blessed This Mess. And she was nominated for Emmy
Speaker 5: for writing and producing the critically acclaimed Hulu drama The Dropout.
Speaker 5: She's also an accomplished playwright, and guys, she created New Girl.
Speaker 5: Please Welcome, The One, the Only, also the hottest writer
Speaker 5: I know, Liz Merriweather.
Speaker 4: Liza, you obviously don't know many writers I am. I
Speaker 4: would just want to be clear, because this is audio,
Speaker 4: that I am not hot.
Speaker 2: You are very hot. You are very hot, very hop
Speaker 2: what's up. Welcome to Welcome to our show.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to be here. This is amazing and
Speaker 4: I can't believe you guys are doing this.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is how much we love the show
Speaker 6: and love each other that we're all back, still hanging
Speaker 6: out every week.
Speaker 7: That's what you did. That's what you did.
Speaker 4: We missed.
Speaker 2: We miss you, though, Liz, we miss you.
Speaker 4: I miss it.
Speaker 2: So nice to see your face.
Speaker 4: Its nice to be here, like talking to you guys
Speaker 4: about the show, because it's like it was. I don't know,
Speaker 4: I like, it's such a crazy experience of being like
Speaker 4: so close to so many people and then Nick it
Speaker 4: just ending and you're like having to kind of move
Speaker 4: on with your life.
Speaker 2: No, we love we love it, and it's true.
Speaker 5: It's like, I feel like the only thing you can
Speaker 5: kind of compare it to is like going to like
Speaker 5: middle and high school with like the same group of
Speaker 5: people that you get really close to, and all of
Speaker 5: a sudden you graduate and you're like, wait, I don't
Speaker 5: get to see those people every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so strange.
Speaker 4: It's very strange. And I think all of us were, like,
Speaker 4: you know, in our like twenties or early thirties and
Speaker 4: then it's it was just like a real like period
Speaker 4: of time in our lives. You know. I was like, sure, okay,
Speaker 4: all right when I.
Speaker 2: Was only nineteen. So it's kind of yeah, we're babies.
Speaker 2: We're just chill.
Speaker 1: Well, we got you, We got you here, and we're
Speaker 1: we're very excited about it. We've been talking about it
Speaker 1: for a long time. I know fans have been talking
Speaker 1: about it for a long time, you know. And this
Speaker 1: this won't be a traditional interview episode. We're not going
Speaker 1: to interview you. You know, you've answered. I might ask
Speaker 1: you a question here or there, but this won't be
Speaker 1: that typical interview episode of Welcome to Our Show. Instead,
Speaker 1: we're gonna actually, you know, break down an episode with you.
Speaker 1: It's the finale of season one. We're just going to
Speaker 1: talk about it a little bit, maybe share some thoughts
Speaker 1: that we have on this episode, and just go through
Speaker 1: it a little bit and play some games, some weird games,
Speaker 1: which you know which we do. So well, here I'm
Speaker 1: going to start by just giving a little quick recap
Speaker 1: of the episode for folks out there who maybe hadn't
Speaker 1: seen it in a while. So here we go. On
Speaker 1: this week's episode, everyone is in love, but they're too
Speaker 1: afraid to say it, So Jess he grows desperate to
Speaker 1: convince Nick to stay at the loft. That's his move
Speaker 1: out day is slowly, slowly approaching. So some of what
Speaker 1: Jess must what she said must have sunk in with Nick, obviously,
Speaker 1: because he starts to freak out, starts to go a
Speaker 1: little crazy on his way to Caroline's apartment, and he
Speaker 1: ends up driving the guys to the desert. Now, for
Speaker 1: a second, it seems like Nick has calmed down a
Speaker 1: little bit, but when Winston mentions taking him to Caroline's,
Speaker 1: Nick tosses his keys off of a cliff with a
Speaker 1: stupid move. Now, Jess arrives to save the day, obviously,
Speaker 1: but seeing Nick in a hurry to get to Caroline
Speaker 1: causes just to also quote unquote throw her keys into
Speaker 1: the wilderness as well. So stupid move now. Then, Schmidt
Speaker 1: tells Jess he's breaking up with c C because he
Speaker 1: doesn't think that he can make care happy, which he
Speaker 1: probably cannot. Now she begins to view her actions as
Speaker 1: selfish and encourages Nick to follow his heart, which he
Speaker 1: does right back to the loft. Now, let's get back
Speaker 1: to the podcast and let's die right on it. Do
Speaker 1: you remember this guys? Yeah, do you remember all this?
Speaker 1: I remember it.
Speaker 7: Because I guess this was your Yeah, you came up
Speaker 7: with the story for this first hearing.
Speaker 4: Hearing the recap just tells you, like how convolution. I mean,
Speaker 4: there was so many there were so many like holes
Speaker 4: in the story. Like I mean, not to mention like
Speaker 4: where we shot it, you could see cars going by
Speaker 4: and just it's like clearly like they could have gotten
Speaker 4: to civilization. Like also any of like anybody could have
Speaker 4: found anyone's keys, like within an hour, you know, like
Speaker 4: it's not like there's not like they're not like throwing
Speaker 4: them into like the ocean anything. It's it's like one
Speaker 4: of those episodes that's I mean, the finale. It's like
Speaker 4: the first season is so exciting, but we were also
Speaker 4: just all so wiped out. We were so tired, and
Speaker 4: that you could kind of like see that in the
Speaker 4: story breaking. But I still it's still I still love
Speaker 4: it so much, and I have like a really like
Speaker 4: deep love of it because I feel like it was,
Speaker 4: you know, it was just such an accomplishment that first season.
Speaker 4: I just remember being like I can't believe that you know,
Speaker 4: we're doing a finale like at this show.
Speaker 6: Where did that initial idea come from? Like I saw
Speaker 6: that this story was by you, right, you are the
Speaker 6: one who came up with this season finale, And so
Speaker 6: where did that idea come from for Nick to just
Speaker 6: keep driving and end up in the desert.
Speaker 4: First of all, the credits aren't always exactly accurate in
Speaker 4: terms of like who does what, And I don't honestly remember.
Speaker 4: I think it was probably don't. I don't remember like
Speaker 4: who came up with like the specifics of the story.
Speaker 4: I remember being really excited about him having all of
Speaker 4: his stuff from his room and just being able to
Speaker 4: like set up his room in the desert and like that.
Speaker 4: And I really loved the visual of that and just
Speaker 4: kind of like all of you guys like sitting out
Speaker 4: in the in the desert with like his staff and
Speaker 4: you know, like bundled up with his clothes. And I
Speaker 4: also loved the the mixtape and the like music and
Speaker 4: the kind of like that that that those crazy old
Speaker 4: songs and I love that.
Speaker 5: I love that frame of the mixtape is like one
Speaker 5: of my favorite things about this episode is that like
Speaker 5: the mixtape kind of like moves the story along like
Speaker 5: it bookends it and then you know, like it also
Speaker 5: makes like those moments memorable, Like each moment like kind
Speaker 5: of has a song associated with it, and then they're
Speaker 5: like kind of you know, a lot of them are
Speaker 5: from the nineties, and then you know there's obviously the
Speaker 5: ac DC song like at.
Speaker 4: The very end.
Speaker 5: But but it's it's it's it's a fun way to
Speaker 5: kind of like get that like the kind of like
Speaker 5: nice accompaniment to like the emotional arc of the episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I really love that part. I love that
Speaker 4: part of the episode much more than the the details
Speaker 4: of the plot, which are not amazing. But like I
Speaker 4: think it's it's like a really I think classic New
Speaker 4: Girl story in that, like I said, there's like problems
Speaker 4: with the structure, but it and I love that sort
Speaker 4: of not a lot happens, like I think, like what
Speaker 4: the story feels like, it's more of a almost a vibe,
Speaker 4: you know, where you're just like, Okay, it's a bunch
Speaker 4: of people in the desert kind of freaking out about
Speaker 4: moving forward, and so they're just stuck there and there's
Speaker 4: a literal moving van, you know. So it's just like
Speaker 4: I thought that that was a kind of good feeling,
Speaker 4: like yeah, yeah, I really like. The other thing I
Speaker 4: say is like, I know you said in the recap, which,
Speaker 4: like I said, was a difficult to follow, but but
Speaker 4: you were saying in the recap that everyone was in love.
Speaker 4: But I actually think that what was tricky about this
Speaker 4: this episode was that Jess couldn't realize that she was
Speaker 4: wanting Nick to stay because she was in love with him,
Speaker 4: Like that wasn't happening yet, you know. So I think
Speaker 4: there was a little bit of and and Nick couldn't
Speaker 4: also realize that he that it all had to be
Speaker 4: subtexts between them, but they had to kind of make
Speaker 4: these big decisions for some reason or another, you know.
Speaker 1: So, I think that.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say that I was like, I feel
Speaker 4: like you brought me on this podcast to like formally
Speaker 4: apologize to you for your for your story in this episode.
Speaker 5: Where is Winterton at emotionally when he comes up the
Speaker 5: hill with pants, That's what I.
Speaker 1: Want to If you can loved with an animal, he
Speaker 1: probably just spent there.
Speaker 4: We never we definitely never revisited your fear of the
Speaker 4: dark on the show, Like that never resurfaced.
Speaker 2: Did we need to he conquered it.
Speaker 1: That's what happened out there. He conquered it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: One of the best things about the episode, and I
Speaker 6: rewatched it, I realized and it's kind of one of
Speaker 6: those like art blurring into life and vice versa things,
Speaker 6: is that we all were so tired. It was a
Speaker 6: long season and we did it and we were all
Speaker 6: literally in the desert. It was like, I feel like,
Speaker 6: over an hour drive and we had to all be
Speaker 6: there all day.
Speaker 7: It was dusty and hot, and.
Speaker 6: You see moments, you genuinely see moments of Jake instead
Speaker 6: of Nick, like when he's doing breakfast at Tiffany's.
Speaker 7: His character is supposed to be obsessed.
Speaker 6: With that song and he doesn't know the words, and
Speaker 6: it's just Jake being like, I'm just gonna my way
Speaker 6: through it and just commit.
Speaker 7: And that's just Jake. And you see Max when he's
Speaker 7: trying to hold Jake back.
Speaker 5: On the mouth at the end, Yeah, Screenfield, this is
Speaker 5: this isn't the desert.
Speaker 6: You see Max break out of the fight with the
Speaker 6: biggest smile on his face that he was just hugging
Speaker 6: Jake like that, and that's just pure Max. That was
Speaker 6: on a Schmid moment and like it was just nice
Speaker 6: to see like all of these these I don't know,
Speaker 6: parts of ourselves just kind of the show.
Speaker 4: It was like it was the beginning of that, like yes,
Speaker 4: like the fusing of like the character with the actor.
Speaker 4: You know. I feel like by the end of season
Speaker 4: one it was like we I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: know about you guys, but I was like shocked that
Speaker 4: it was that big of a hit and I was
Speaker 4: exhausted and it felt like both exciting and like the
Speaker 4: end of a marathon. Like I just was I was
Speaker 4: at that I was running on feels at that point,
Speaker 4: and I feel like everyone was, and so you know,
Speaker 4: it's like at that that point, I think we were
Speaker 4: all like a little bit giddy too, Like it was
Speaker 4: kind of like, oh my god, this is over. I
Speaker 4: have a break.
Speaker 5: And it's a great like analogy because I don't know
Speaker 5: if anybody has ever been to like the end of
Speaker 5: a marathon, like when you see people running off it
Speaker 5: is insane because people like literally like just start crying, collapse,
Speaker 5: like are are euphoric. There's so many different emotions like
Speaker 5: at the end of like a very very long run,
Speaker 5: Like I did feel like at the end, like we
Speaker 5: had so many emotions. It was very satisfying, it was
Speaker 5: very like exciting to finish it. But we also like
Speaker 5: did twenty four episodes like I'd never done even like
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I'd done like a few episodes
Speaker 5: of TV, but I'd never done anything about movies before this.
Speaker 5: I hadn't done twenty four episodes of Tea is a lot.
Speaker 1: I could tell you for me that this is I
Speaker 1: think it's because of the exhaustion was where I felt
Speaker 1: like this episode definitely helped me as far as character development.
Speaker 1: Prior to this episode, I know I was I I
Speaker 1: talk about all the time how in my head I was.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to keep up with everyone and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who this character was. And this episode,
Speaker 1: probably because of the exhaustion, you know, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of freedom for me to just say a bunch
Speaker 1: of silly shit and I, you know, did it works.
Speaker 1: I thought, man, this is so that's what everyone has
Speaker 1: been doing on this show.
Speaker 2: And don't have a basketball.
Speaker 1: That makes sense to me. It's fine that I got
Speaker 1: small fingers, It's fine. And yeah, so I think that
Speaker 1: that the exhaustion for sure definitely helped me in the
Speaker 1: storyline obviously did silly shit, I'm afraid of the dark,
Speaker 1: and then there were a wolf. I think that type
Speaker 1: of stuff definitely helps prepare you for for the future
Speaker 1: of the of the you know, a seventh season run
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 5: I want to ask a question to everybody. It's like,
Speaker 5: take a survey as anybody spent meaningful time with a
Speaker 5: coyote like before this experience.
Speaker 6: I've seen him down a road and I am not
Speaker 6: nod respectfully and I back away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they run through my neighborhood, but that's about it.
Speaker 5: Did you ever spend meaningful time with the coyote before
Speaker 5: this episode?
Speaker 4: Oh my god. I was just going to say, like
Speaker 4: I remember, like that is what I remember, like so clearly.
Speaker 4: It was like because we were shooting, we were shooting nights,
Speaker 4: but like the night was like we were shooting night
Speaker 4: at the end of the week. I think that because
Speaker 4: we were always scheduled the nights for the end of
Speaker 4: the week, and that that was really when I was
Speaker 4: just like I was living in like a dream stay
Speaker 4: and then I was like I think, was like, what
Speaker 4: are the last things we shot? And there was it
Speaker 4: was just the amount of like everyone like everyone has
Speaker 4: to be still and quiet and like standing up against
Speaker 4: like up against the rock or something. And then like
Speaker 4: this like cage with a coyote came like walk it
Speaker 4: was like walked down like past all of the crew
Speaker 4: members who were like standing quietly, and I was like yeah,
Speaker 4: I was like no comment, but like yeah, I think,
Speaker 4: Like I was like so terrified. It was just like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, what is this coyote gonna do? And
Speaker 4: then like they opened the cage and it's like this
Speaker 4: little guy, it's like this little cute like like coyote
Speaker 4: that looks like really cute and well fed and like
Speaker 4: well taken care of and like this stuff. And then
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, we wrote this whole
Speaker 4: scene where like Nick and Jess are so afraid of
Speaker 4: this coyote that they're frozen for like a really long
Speaker 4: time together like stuck there. And then and then you
Speaker 4: would like cut over to the coyote and it was
Speaker 4: like the cutest and it was like nothing about this
Speaker 4: episode makes any sense, like story one, because it was
Speaker 4: like they obviously would have just like walked away from
Speaker 4: the coyotes, Like what was that, Like what was that
Speaker 4: coyote going to do to them like I was.
Speaker 8: So that was like so sneaky, and I also remember
Speaker 8: it was like I don't remember the details, but like
Speaker 8: we definitely couldn't get we couldn't get the coyote to
Speaker 8: like do anything we needed it to do, and we
Speaker 8: definitely couldn't get the coyote to look scary at all.
Speaker 4: So it was just and we had like we were
Speaker 4: like running out of time and like you know, so
Speaker 4: it's just like putting a camera on this like poor sweet,
Speaker 4: sweet little guy and like like trying to get him
Speaker 4: like do anything that was at all menacing or like
Speaker 4: as if he were wanting to eat anybody. I don't know,
Speaker 4: do you remember this.
Speaker 5: His name was come Manchi, they must come anchi and agree,
Speaker 5: but he was They were like the this was a
Speaker 5: lot of acting, Like there was a lot of acting
Speaker 5: because the coyote was scared of us, Like they were like,
Speaker 5: he's terrified of you. So we like most of our
Speaker 5: side there was like no coyote. Obviously the coyote wasn't
Speaker 5: doing off camera acting for us, but the coyote like
Speaker 5: whenever we were like all in a shot together, we
Speaker 5: basically couldn't move because the coyote would just literally run
Speaker 5: away because coyotes are scared. Coyotes are scared of humans.
Speaker 1: What I like the most about this coyote is that
Speaker 1: he kept hissing. It was like a little.
Speaker 7: Added after that was.
Speaker 6: I know you more, They probably like, could you give
Speaker 6: us some few hisses? We just need it for the episode,
Speaker 6: don't ask my god, I know, I'm so glad.
Speaker 4: You brought that up, Latre, And I like totally forgot
Speaker 4: that we added that because we couldn't because it wasn't scary,
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, Oh my god, totally forgot that.
Speaker 1: You may as well have added more to it still
Speaker 1: wasn't scared.
Speaker 5: But the coyote there was a lot of editing. There
Speaker 5: was a lot of acting. There was a lot of
Speaker 5: editing that had to be done to like really lift
Speaker 5: the coyote up.
Speaker 4: I totally had forgotten the like that we added those hisses,
Speaker 4: And I'm so glad that you brought it up because
Speaker 4: I was like, I like like we told like we
Speaker 4: that was the main issue, was like it was not
Speaker 4: scary at all until we like needed to like put
Speaker 4: little like I don't know, like as if that that
Speaker 4: isn't scary, you're just like, what animal is that? Because
Speaker 4: coyotes don't maybe scary because you're like, is that an
Speaker 4: actually actually a coyote. The other thing I remember, I
Speaker 4: feel like I actually watched the episode on television for
Speaker 4: some reason, which I never really had to. I usually
Speaker 4: would watch the episodes online, but like they on on television,
Speaker 4: they had put it's so I mean, it sounds it's
Speaker 4: like so old, like you actually watch it on television
Speaker 4: when it was airing, but like they put like a
Speaker 4: hashtag meet meep like over hashag. I remember. It's just
Speaker 4: like I was like such a like artiste and I
Speaker 4: was like, they've ruined this scene.
Speaker 1: Meet me.
Speaker 6: One of my favorite things about that scene is that
Speaker 6: Nick is hiding behind Yes, the entire scene like really aggressive,
Speaker 6: holding you, Zoe and and trying to small his body
Speaker 6: behind you.
Speaker 1: He wasn't hiding, He wasn't hiding, He was calm her down.
Speaker 1: He was trying to get her out met me. He
Speaker 1: was trying to protect.
Speaker 7: Her using just as a human shield.
Speaker 1: I would have done.
Speaker 4: Do you guys remember shooting the dancing?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I remember. You know, it's actually funny because
Speaker 5: watching it, I'm like, everybody's got some moves.
Speaker 2: There's some good moves. Did Max to a backflip? He
Speaker 2: looked like he was made out of paper.
Speaker 7: I was like, how did.
Speaker 4: He do that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I did not dance because my character wouldn't do
Speaker 1: that in that moment, because I was all about character
Speaker 1: and I just banged on the wall.
Speaker 6: I was watching the dancing and all I could think was, Wow,
Speaker 6: that looks exhaustingthartic. Maybe just to like go totally insane
Speaker 6: and get to do whatever you want feels good but
Speaker 6: also exhaustic.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like season one was the only time, like
Speaker 4: like Jake just got like more like last and less
Speaker 4: enthusiastic about doing any dance scenes like as the show
Speaker 4: went on and I remember like this this season, he
Speaker 4: like was like up for anything. My question, you can,
Speaker 4: yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: We talked about and then then we'll go to a break.
Speaker 1: But we talked about a little bit about the music.
Speaker 1: A couple questions. The budget must have been so high
Speaker 1: having you know, unless these songs are just super cheap
Speaker 1: the music. I don't think the budget ac dc aw
Speaker 1: bizarre breakfast at Tiffany's.
Speaker 4: No, I mean I know we were like we I
Speaker 4: think because the finale as a whole. Wasn't that expensive?
Speaker 4: You know, like I think it was like okay, we're
Speaker 4: like going to this as there. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: remember the details, thank god, but you know, and I
Speaker 4: can't imagine that that that Commanche the Coyote was that expensive.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, but I also know that we'd
Speaker 4: like saved money for for the finale and that you know,
Speaker 4: at that point, like like we were a big we
Speaker 4: were a big hit, and they were kind of like okay,
Speaker 4: like what do you you know, like do you want
Speaker 4: to I guess like being a big hit was like
Speaker 4: we'll pay for how bizarre?
Speaker 7: So you know you made it when.
Speaker 4: So we had an amazing music supervisor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah we did.
Speaker 4: Yeah we.
Speaker 7: Liz, Yeah, Liz.
Speaker 4: Let's list.
Speaker 6: So when we were talking about creating this podcast, it
Speaker 6: was really like spurred on one because we missed each other,
Speaker 6: but two because we still all get approached I'm sure
Speaker 6: you do all the time by people who have these
Speaker 6: pretty involved questions, usually about the show, and we do
Speaker 6: our best to answer them, but we are not the
Speaker 6: all knowing like you are.
Speaker 7: So we've been asking listeners.
Speaker 4: They're very luckily, I very luckily don't get approached very
Speaker 4: much because nobody knows what I look like, so that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Thank you for taking them.
Speaker 1: They will now because this is going online.
Speaker 6: So we have had people sending in their questions, voice notes,
Speaker 6: emails throughout our season here on welcome to our show,
Speaker 6: and saving them up for you. So, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: couple for you to solve the mysteries a New Girl
Speaker 6: with Here we go.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 4: My name is Lauren and a huge New Girl. As
Speaker 4: I'm sure many of your other listeners are.
Speaker 10: It's definitely a comfort show for me, especially as I
Speaker 10: enter my.
Speaker 4: Twenties and mid twenties.
Speaker 10: But my question pertains to guest stars on the show.
Speaker 10: I've read on a couple places online that there were
Speaker 10: some guest stars that requested to be part of New Girl,
Speaker 10: whether it was for a quick episode or recurring storyline,
Speaker 10: And I'm just wondering if that's true, and if it
Speaker 10: is true, which guest stars were ones that requested to
Speaker 10: be on the show, rather than the crew proactively going
Speaker 10: out and seeking them to be guest stars.
Speaker 4: Thanks well, I think Hannah. I think Hannah, you know
Speaker 4: the answer to this.
Speaker 6: Maybe there was one big one that knocked on your door.
Speaker 6: That's for sure.
Speaker 2: Well, it came to me. It came to me first, guys.
Speaker 5: I got the weirdest email of all time, Like I think,
Speaker 5: I mean, what was it season three that we had
Speaker 5: them on? Like season two? I got this email like hello,
Speaker 5: I am manager for legendary artist Prince. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: this is a somebody is branking me, Like this can't
Speaker 5: be real. And so I called my agent and I
Speaker 5: was like, can you see if this is really Prince's manager?
Speaker 5: And he checked it out and he was like, it
Speaker 5: appears to actually be his manager, at which point I
Speaker 5: was like, okay, it was. It was a ransom note,
Speaker 5: and and they said I have Prince. I'm not letting
Speaker 5: him go until he gets to be on New Girl.
Speaker 4: I like, I like the manager. I like that the
Speaker 4: manager felt the need to put like legendary artists Prince.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh I know who he is as
Speaker 2: opposed to yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh that old guy, yeh Prince.
Speaker 6: Was there anyone else Liz that like came to you
Speaker 6: and said they'd love to be part of the show.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's honestly, I guess after after that one,
Speaker 4: everything else kind of faded away.
Speaker 7: No, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't remember that, but I remember, like, you know,
Speaker 4: I remember people being really excited to hear from us,
Speaker 4: and I don't remember like other people.
Speaker 2: Did Taylor Swift want to be on?
Speaker 5: I feel like Taylor Swift liked the show and that
Speaker 5: she like she learned this show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't remember the details of like I remember
Speaker 4: that she that she said that she watched it. But
Speaker 4: where did we hear that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did that. I was asked to give her an award.
Speaker 5: Okay, it was probably like yeah American. It was like
Speaker 5: one of these big music Billboard awards, maybe in Vegas,
Speaker 5: and they were they had asked me because they said
Speaker 5: she loved New Girl, and so maybe I kind of
Speaker 5: gave that info to casting.
Speaker 1: I remember being at a party, one of those fancy
Speaker 1: I don't know me or something parties. Liz and you
Speaker 1: were there.
Speaker 4: Were you invited to that party or did you know?
Speaker 1: I was working?
Speaker 5: He was working, he was a little side job.
Speaker 1: I was catering the party and I and I remember
Speaker 1: speaking with Tay Diggs at the party, him telling me
Speaker 1: how much he wanted to be on the show. And
Speaker 1: you were there, and I said, well, Liz mary Well
Speaker 1: is right, over there, and then I just remember him
Speaker 1: being on the show. I don't remember if you guys spoke,
Speaker 1: I don't remember what happened to I.
Speaker 4: Feel like if you'd been like Lisbie or there's right
Speaker 4: over there, I would have like hid behind a bush
Speaker 4: or something. I don't know where she went, like she
Speaker 4: was right there. That's crazy. Oh yeah, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 4: I mean. The Taylor Swift thing was like I just
Speaker 4: like I was such a huge fan of hers, like
Speaker 4: obviously because I think her music is on the show
Speaker 4: like multiple times. But like I remember, like I they
Speaker 4: introduced someone introduced me to her on set and I
Speaker 4: just was like hi, and then like kind of like
Speaker 4: walked away because I can't actually speak to you.
Speaker 2: Because I was in charge.
Speaker 5: Somehow I became in charge of like handling people that
Speaker 5: were too famous for everyone else to handle, Like like Prince.
Speaker 5: No one wanted to talk to him, and he was
Speaker 5: like sitting by himself and everyone's like, so we go
Speaker 5: sit next to him. So I was like, Okay, hey, Prince,
Speaker 5: how do you knowing you have a fun you want
Speaker 5: some snacks or something. Same with Taylor, like everyone was
Speaker 5: too scared to talk to her, so I.
Speaker 2: Was like, all right, I sat with.
Speaker 5: Her while she got her makeup done. Got I'm pretty
Speaker 5: sure I like got her some snacks. She was so
Speaker 5: low maintenance and low key. She was like and we
Speaker 5: I remember like Georgie or makeup artist gave her like
Speaker 5: she said, I liked this like lip gloss thing, and
Speaker 5: Georgie let her have it, and she was like, oh
Speaker 5: my god.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: It was so sweet, you know, like it's like she's
Speaker 5: just a normal gal. But yeah, somehow, like I ended
Speaker 5: up spending the periods of time because because everyone else
Speaker 5: was afraid of them, I.
Speaker 4: Think, Zoe, I feel like that's technically like should have
Speaker 4: been my job, but I'm like too awkward. I'm too
Speaker 4: nervous and awkward to like do that. So thank god
Speaker 4: we had you.
Speaker 5: So honestly, that was like my when I was like
Speaker 5: a kid, I was like the friendly kid that would
Speaker 5: be like when the would be a new kid in class,
Speaker 5: they'd be like.
Speaker 2: So we go sit next to them.
Speaker 5: So I'd always be like the person like, Hi, welcome
Speaker 5: to our class. So maybe it maybe I was prepped
Speaker 5: for it, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lamore and we had a handler that was like
Speaker 4: keep Lamar away from.
Speaker 1: I'm just just I never met her. I think I
Speaker 1: think the schedule was actually changed, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden that wasn't and I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And then the next day I come back into everyone
Speaker 1: was like, man, how crazy was Taylor swift Man? That
Speaker 1: was wild? And I was like a couple of questions,
Speaker 1: one who is that? And then two at the time,
Speaker 1: I don't think I knew who she was.
Speaker 4: It is really wild. I mean, I know, we should
Speaker 4: probably do another question, but it's wild. Like the like
Speaker 4: guest stars that became famous, like after the show, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Yeah, Olivia Rodrigo, Like I was like,
Speaker 4: did you guys already talk about that? Like I was
Speaker 4: like I couldn't believe. Yeah, you know, just like some
Speaker 4: of the people.
Speaker 7: I was like, I like, my gosh, yeah.
Speaker 4: Tiffany, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I was on the show. Wait, yes, on the show.
Speaker 2: Don't did I work with her?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I don't think I worked with her.
Speaker 1: Damon and Max I want to say.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's random, incredible.
Speaker 7: Who said that? Like one line?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Randall, yeah, Quinta, yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: Sarah Baker, guys, Sarah Baker she's so funny.
Speaker 2: She was on The Kaminsky Method. She's like one of
Speaker 2: the leads on that show. She's really really funny.
Speaker 5: She played the person with the dog like in one
Speaker 5: of the final episodes.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
Speaker 6: I feel like everyone talks about what was it n
Speaker 6: C I S or whatever, and that you, oh, no
Speaker 6: Law and Order, sorry, that she's in New York. Everyone
Speaker 6: talks about Law and Order in New York and how
Speaker 6: it's like a rite of passage and every actor passes
Speaker 6: through it at some point. I feel like that's the
Speaker 6: conversations I have around New Girl now, which is that
Speaker 6: everybody was at some point on the show, or and
Speaker 6: I'm sure Liz you hear this too, is that they
Speaker 6: were almost.
Speaker 7: On the show. That's why people like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: I loved you a New Girl. I was almost on
Speaker 7: that show. I was almost on the show.
Speaker 6: Or like Law and Order of LA.
Speaker 7: Everybody tested for everyone tested for it. Everyone guest starred
Speaker 7: or almost guest starred.
Speaker 2: They were like this close to playing Winston.
Speaker 1: Everyone, every actor Samuel Jackson close.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot. I never told you Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 4: We tested him. We didn't offer we tested him. Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: that it really was. I really feel like we got
Speaker 4: so lucky. We had so many amazing people and like
Speaker 4: it because the tone is weird, like it's it's not
Speaker 4: I mean it, I think it's less weird now, but
Speaker 4: I remember just being like, we need actors who can
Speaker 4: do a dramatic scene and then also like do the stupidest, silliest,
Speaker 4: goofiest thing that you can imagine I at the same
Speaker 4: time and like we I like we managed to like
Speaker 4: find those people, which was like great. I mean the
Speaker 4: other the funny thing was like also you know this
Speaker 4: the network at that time was just so crazy about
Speaker 4: ratings and like they were always like big guest stars,
Speaker 4: big guest stars because I guess Britney Spears had done
Speaker 4: an episode of How I Met Your Mother and they
Speaker 4: kept using that as an example of like it turned
Speaker 4: it turned the show around, and suddenly everybody was watching
Speaker 4: it because Brittany was on it. It was like, so
Speaker 4: we were like that was I think part of the
Speaker 4: like get Taylor Swift kind of like things. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was, you know, and obviously that's not how TV works,
Speaker 4: and like it's actually about like fans loving loving the
Speaker 4: show and like loving the actual characters. But at the time,
Speaker 4: it was like that was this this big kind of
Speaker 4: edict from the network was like big, get a big
Speaker 4: star to be on it. You know. It's just I
Speaker 4: feel like it's such a like old old idea of
Speaker 4: what television is.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I remember running into Rob Reiner like ohai,
Speaker 5: and I was like, and my mom went to college
Speaker 5: with him and they were they did improv like troop together,
Speaker 5: and and he was like, oh, like he was aware
Speaker 5: of the show, and he was like, oh, they were
Speaker 5: asking me like if maybe I could come and direct
Speaker 5: some and I was like, oh, my god, like that
Speaker 5: would be amazing. But then when like it came up
Speaker 5: that we were looking for, you know, my dad, I
Speaker 5: just feel like, you know, the fact that he like
Speaker 5: just knew of the show and was like aware of it,
Speaker 5: I was, you know, it kind of maybe you know,
Speaker 5: gave us a little bit of an edge to get
Speaker 5: a legend.
Speaker 4: If we had I think like, if he said that
Speaker 4: they approached me about directing it, it was he definitely
Speaker 4: passed because we was because we definitely would have hired
Speaker 4: to direct it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Welcome, great question, by the way, Lauren, Thank you for that.
Speaker 7: All right, next up, we have Paris.
Speaker 9: Hello, Hannah, Lam, morning Zoe. I hope y'all are do
Speaker 9: one good. My name is Paris and I am from Texas.
Speaker 9: I have a fun question to ask all of you guys,
Speaker 9: but a little context. I found out recently that Jennifer
Speaker 9: Aniston ate the exact same salad for lunch on the
Speaker 9: set of Friends pretty much every single time she filmed
Speaker 9: an episode, which is just crazy because that is a
Speaker 9: lot of salads over the years. So I wanted to
Speaker 9: ask you, guys, was there a favorite snack or a
Speaker 9: meal that you ate when you were a filming new girl?
Speaker 9: Did you always have the snacker meal on hand? Was
Speaker 9: it in your trailer? You know?
Speaker 4: Give me little details.
Speaker 7: I would love to know.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 6: I just want to say this just to jump right in. Okay,
Speaker 6: is I remember ordering lunch and then watching just bags
Speaker 6: of delicious food being delivered to video village.
Speaker 7: So what would you eat? Restaurant food?
Speaker 2: The writers had the best?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys had the best food.
Speaker 5: Let's yeah, what were you restaurants were you ordering from?
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to answer this question. I
Speaker 4: think the better question is what did didn't I eat
Speaker 4: while food was like my only like happy place.
Speaker 7: It's just there.
Speaker 4: No, no, no. I was just like so, I was like, so, yeah,
Speaker 4: when you're a writer on a TV show, they the
Speaker 4: studio pays for your lunch, so like there, you know,
Speaker 4: you order to like a local restaurant and they bring
Speaker 4: lunch to you. And so the writer who was on
Speaker 4: set would often like order lunch with the other writers
Speaker 4: as opposed to like eating the lunch on set. And
Speaker 4: I guess apparently that has that created just years of
Speaker 4: resentment from.
Speaker 5: The food that we got was way not You guys
Speaker 5: always ordered from way better places than the like actors
Speaker 5: and crew were offered.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of I hop orders, a lot of.
Speaker 5: I remember being like you guys ordered from where it
Speaker 5: was like some like very fancy. We were right by
Speaker 5: Beverly Hills, so there was like a lot of very
Speaker 5: nice restaurants nearby. I feel like we were mainly like
Speaker 5: ordering like salads from the common food came from My.
Speaker 1: Food came from from Sixth Street downtown.
Speaker 6: But there was a shift around season three or four.
Speaker 6: I think all of a sudden the menus got circulated
Speaker 6: to us and that was a big day. And I
Speaker 6: will say there was a lot of salads, then a
Speaker 6: lot of very delicious salads that started to turn up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I feel like it just becomes like
Speaker 4: I feel like food just becomes like this comfort thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's you know, it's like it's definitely like
Speaker 4: been said before, but it's really there. It's it's really
Speaker 4: exhausting making a network show, and the hours are very long,
Speaker 4: and like, at least you know, as a showrunner, there
Speaker 4: really wasn't a moment when I wasn't supposed to be
Speaker 4: working or like supposed to be in some kind of meeting.
Speaker 2: Or you deserved it.
Speaker 5: Feel you were sleeping on your couch in your office
Speaker 5: many nights. I don't think I've ever met a person
Speaker 5: that works harder than you, Liz True.
Speaker 4: Yeah I used to, but but I guess, like I do,
Speaker 4: I do feel like the food kind of became this
Speaker 4: like I believe that about Jennifer Anderson. I don't know,
Speaker 4: like it just like the food kind of becomes your
Speaker 4: like connection to like some sort of home or like
Speaker 4: routine where you're like, oh, like it's like I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know. That was my feeling was like it
Speaker 4: was my one moment a day to like stop and
Speaker 4: actually like like sit and eat and not work, which
Speaker 4: sounds so depressing. Sorry, but yeah, but I I definitely, like,
Speaker 4: I definitely remember, you know, being really grateful to be
Speaker 4: able to like at least get some like good food
Speaker 4: in the middle of all the like stress and chaos.
Speaker 4: But that I mean, it's it's so interesting like on set,
Speaker 4: because I think there's like there's craft service, so you know,
Speaker 4: like I think everyone like has a favorite thing in
Speaker 4: from craft service that they go, you know, go to
Speaker 4: for those moments.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's everybody's favorite crafty snack?
Speaker 1: Cashows real and those little Snickers salt.
Speaker 6: I remember when you were getting shredded up for something lamar,
Speaker 6: and then you realized that the like pounds of cas
Speaker 6: shows you were eating were maybe not the healthiest because
Speaker 6: you're like, I'm just gonna eat all these nuts and
Speaker 6: you're like, I'm eating nine thousand calories a day.
Speaker 7: I didn't realize the cashoes were doing me.
Speaker 1: Like that, because here's what they don't tell you about cashoes. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're so tiny and they're so delicious, but they packed
Speaker 1: so much fat, you know what I mean, And you think, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a couple of handfuls of a day
Speaker 1: that I should do it. No, But if you're trying to,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to reduce calories, your caloric intake, it's
Speaker 1: not happening.
Speaker 7: The cashersabs are made in the kitchen. Abs are made
Speaker 7: in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 4: Do you tell me that about they do?
Speaker 2: They do tell you. It's like one of these. I've
Speaker 2: got a little chart in the marketing.
Speaker 1: They're so tiny, They're so tiny. The cash is they're
Speaker 1: like this, they're like this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But there's so much fat in there.
Speaker 7: You were so sad, you were like, nuts have betrayed me.
Speaker 2: What's your What was your favorite snack? Hannah? Ooh?
Speaker 7: I think initially.
Speaker 6: I remember rolling up to Crafty and I must have
Speaker 6: eaten ten thousand bags of cheese it that first year.
Speaker 6: But then it shifted into realizing that we could get
Speaker 6: apples and peanut butter. And then I realized that I'm
Speaker 6: just a little kid. When I go to that, all
Speaker 6: I want is apples and peanut butter. That was Martin
Speaker 6: Ellie's apple juice.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't want the apple juice, but I would
Speaker 5: have I like a green apple with like green trill
Speaker 5: peanut butter, and I like just a little bit of
Speaker 5: peanut butter, and you like dip the apples in and
Speaker 5: then you know, it's like kind of filling and sountis fun.
Speaker 1: That's what I discovered. I discovered, you know, I discovered
Speaker 1: apples and cashoe butter.
Speaker 7: Right, you gotta let go the damn nuts.
Speaker 2: You're you're you're a cashew feed know me.
Speaker 1: You know I love nuts. If anybody who knows me,
Speaker 1: that's just been my thing, stop it, Hannah, shut up.
Speaker 7: I said, shut up a mouth and face you and
Speaker 7: those nuts. All right, Liz?
Speaker 4: Did you like how you're like? I like how you're
Speaker 4: like cashoe butter, Like as if that changes the fact
Speaker 4: that they're like butter.
Speaker 1: On an apple. Right, it's on an apple, So I figured.
Speaker 2: Healthy, it's healthy.
Speaker 7: Chemical reaction happened to your belly to make it less pattening.
Speaker 1: I'm not a smart man, Liz.
Speaker 7: What was yours when you would sneak over to Crafty?
Speaker 4: I mean, I I don't know, I like definitely feel
Speaker 4: like I just just eight endless amounts of snacks, so
Speaker 4: I don't even remember, but I like, I I just
Speaker 4: remember like a lot of like coffee and like, you know,
Speaker 4: just like pounding coffee and trying to stay.
Speaker 1: Awake, but we're trying to get a Snicker sponsor. Just
Speaker 1: say Snickers.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love Snickers.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 4: I genuinely loved Snickers.
Speaker 2: I mean, who doesn't I.
Speaker 4: Like to I like to dip some Snickers into some
Speaker 4: Cashi butter. That's my that's my way losing. That's how
Speaker 4: I lose weight. It's just Snickers and butter.
Speaker 6: Thank you secured that one, secured the bag on that
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Sneakers is sponsoring us. I would say, we all agree, right,
Speaker 5: we would all read ads for Snickers was totally fine.
Speaker 5: We didn't even get paid for that.
Speaker 6: And I need to ask you, Liz one question before
Speaker 6: we end this very detailed recap of our season finale.
Speaker 6: Who came up You might not remember, but try who
Speaker 6: came up with this idea to uh put me on
Speaker 6: a rocket with that?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? I mean like was that okay? Like
Speaker 4: like I'm so sorry, I don't know. Like I think
Speaker 4: like the reason that we really went for it was
Speaker 4: because we wanted Schmidt to be We needed something that
Speaker 4: would really like make Schmidt feel insecure. So it was like,
Speaker 4: how do we kind of you know, I don't know
Speaker 4: a lot of those like jokes in the early seasons.
Speaker 4: I think they were like supposed to be making fun
Speaker 4: of of, you know, over sexualized ads, but then but
Speaker 4: then you're like, then you're just like on a rocket, Hannah,
Speaker 4: So like.
Speaker 6: That I'm making an over sexualized scene on TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so it's like, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know if we like our post post post post feminist
Speaker 4: take on that actually came through. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: it was like we needed like we needed to make
Speaker 4: Schmidt feel really insecure. So that was like I don't remember,
Speaker 4: I don't think I came up with it, but I
Speaker 4: maybe I'm like passing the buck off to like somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it looks like a dick, and I'm
Speaker 4: sorry about that.
Speaker 10: You know what.
Speaker 6: I didn't even clock that in the rewatch. I just
Speaker 6: remember being like, what bizarre. There were so many bizarre
Speaker 6: photo shoots that CC had to do, especially in those
Speaker 6: first couple years, that they were a wild experience to do.
Speaker 6: Let's just put it that way. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 6: could you really have to do it? But the good
Speaker 6: thing was because it could have gone another way of
Speaker 6: like trying to make Schmidt jealous, which bid beat to
Speaker 6: have right goggles mac hardbody, like do you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? Do something or be weird. And that's where
Speaker 6: I would say, it's so important to have women who
Speaker 6: create shows and run shows and be at the top,
Speaker 6: because I was never put in a position where it
Speaker 6: felt weird like that.
Speaker 4: And I love that you. I love that you pivoted
Speaker 4: from you had to sit on a rocket to like,
Speaker 4: thank god, we have women in positions.
Speaker 7: I'm taking this couch and I'm getting it down the stairs.
Speaker 4: Take anyway. Thank you, Thank you're saying that. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know if I would do that now,
Speaker 4: but uh, thank for saying that.
Speaker 2: I had a big problem with it.
Speaker 4: In a later season, we probably would have put Lamarn
Speaker 4: on the rocket.
Speaker 6: Yes, probably you did have a more and say he
Speaker 6: has thick thighs and a fat ass the way out
Speaker 6: in the desert.
Speaker 1: I made that up?
Speaker 7: Did you really?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: So hard?
Speaker 4: I definitely don't think we would have put that in
Speaker 4: a script.
Speaker 6: That really made me laugh, And now that I know
Speaker 6: that it's you what, it's going to make me laugh harder.
Speaker 5: My first thing was, no, he doesn't.
Speaker 1: I definitely do something I've always known about myself. I gots.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 4: I like that something that we like didn't talk about
Speaker 4: in the recap that I feel like I have to
Speaker 4: talk about is the like white fang the Schmidt.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's talk about white thing we like.
Speaker 4: I don't. It was something that like came up in
Speaker 4: the writer's room and it was just one of those
Speaker 4: things that like made us laugh like so hard, like
Speaker 4: I don't know, and then I was so worried that
Speaker 4: it wasn't going to translate on set. But then I mean,
Speaker 4: also it's like he's acting like you're a dog. Can
Speaker 4: I tell you something like crazy? But like I don't know.
Speaker 4: It was one of those things on set that just
Speaker 4: made me laugh like through all throughout the process. It
Speaker 4: made me laugh so so so hard. And I don't
Speaker 4: know if it like if it translates like years later,
Speaker 4: but I just like.
Speaker 5: What gave me the most anxiety on set, Like because
Speaker 5: you were saying like you were worried it wasn't going
Speaker 5: to translate. Would you say that like that was like
Speaker 5: a consistent worry or were there certain things that like
Speaker 5: gave you anxiety like for the course of the show.
Speaker 4: I mean as a showrunner, if I was like my
Speaker 4: job was often to like be the the negative Nelly somethime.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: It's just like like things in the writer's room where
Speaker 4: writers were suddenly like laughing so hard, and like I
Speaker 4: kind of have to be the one who's like, wait,
Speaker 4: is that like true to character? Its like true to
Speaker 4: story or like is that something that like we think
Speaker 4: is really funny that it's actually not funny? And I
Speaker 4: just like always had to kind of like make those
Speaker 4: calls and like you know, was definitely wrong sometimes Like
Speaker 4: I don't know, but like it was one of those
Speaker 4: like just like are people to people know what white
Speaker 4: thing is? Like what's like just like like what is
Speaker 4: the sort of you know, are they going to get it? Like?
Speaker 4: Is it too broad? This is like a really emotional
Speaker 4: moment for him? Is it too silly for that moment?
Speaker 4: You know? Just those are the kind of things that
Speaker 4: I was like constantly like trying to h A lot
Speaker 4: of the times it was like how can we make
Speaker 4: sure that the emotion lands but then push it, push
Speaker 4: it to a place of comedy, but not lose the emotion.
Speaker 2: I think that was one.
Speaker 5: That's one thing, like one thing magic superpower you have
Speaker 5: like as a writer is being able to.
Speaker 2: Have an emotional moment play.
Speaker 5: That is very you know, true and sincere, and then
Speaker 5: you'll like kind of undercut any any if it was
Speaker 5: gonna maybe be too sweet, you you always just undercut
Speaker 5: it with like a little joke afterwards. That makes it
Speaker 5: like that balances it out. Like there's always just a
Speaker 5: really great balance of the emotional and the and the
Speaker 5: humor in the show. And I definitely credit your sensibility.
Speaker 5: I think that's like something you do just incredibly well,
Speaker 5: and it so it takes so much skill to do that.
Speaker 4: It does take a lot of skill. I'm very talented.
Speaker 2: I think you are very talented.
Speaker 4: I think you appreciate. That's so sweet to hear. We
Speaker 4: had such amazing writers and obviously like it's you guys
Speaker 4: were improving like so much in it. But I think
Speaker 4: like the like that particular moment I had that I
Speaker 4: just had that worry that I was like, this is
Speaker 4: too crazy. He's like saying he's he's calling after her
Speaker 4: like she's a dog, and like this is the love
Speaker 4: of his life, and like is this too great to Hannah,
Speaker 4: do you remember.
Speaker 7: Here's my memory of it.
Speaker 6: So it was a long, dusty day in the desert,
Speaker 6: and I had a bit to do, but not a
Speaker 6: ton to do, and that white Fang Gil and Get
Speaker 6: scene was the last thing that we shot, and it
Speaker 6: was just Max and I. So I think I honestly
Speaker 6: had gone back to my trailer and we had to
Speaker 6: wait for nightfall, and we did the coyote thing first.
Speaker 6: I was just and I wasn't in any of that.
Speaker 6: So I was sitting in the trailer for hours and
Speaker 6: hours and hours and hours, and I think Jake must
Speaker 6: have not been in something either, And so I remember
Speaker 6: going to sit in his trailer and we were chatting,
Speaker 6: and he had a bottle of Southern Comfort.
Speaker 7: Of course he did, of course he did, and and
Speaker 7: I had a.
Speaker 6: I had a shot, I think, and we were just
Speaker 6: talking and it was just so weird because it was
Speaker 6: it that that night, it was going to be over,
Speaker 6: and it was like a stell. Still felt like a
Speaker 6: total dream that I was somehow on this big American
Speaker 6: network TV show and I was trying to think of
Speaker 6: this white Fang scene, which felt really silly and fun.
Speaker 6: But then he said something really casually kind of like, well,
Speaker 6: you know, I hope to see you in a few
Speaker 6: months and we get to do this again. And I
Speaker 6: went back to my trailer and then I went, oh
Speaker 6: my god, it just hit me for the first time.
Speaker 7: This might be it. This could get canceled and we
Speaker 7: never do it again. Like I don't know.
Speaker 6: It happens all the time to really good shows, and
Speaker 6: you just don't know. And I had to wait another
Speaker 6: hour or two and by myself, and then I came
Speaker 6: out and there was Max, who I think is such
Speaker 6: a phenomenal actor, and he just knows how to ride
Speaker 6: that line of being so real in his hurt but
Speaker 6: while he's saying silly stuff, but he can just do it.
Speaker 6: And it was so late and I was so exhausted,
Speaker 6: and it was hold and out there, and I just
Speaker 6: kept thinking I could get this call saying that you know,
Speaker 6: it's over and it's done, and I started to cry.
Speaker 6: And I remember shooting that scene and it felt so real,
Speaker 6: somebody just being like it's over, like get out of here,
Speaker 6: we don't need you anymore.
Speaker 7: It's done. And that's how I truly genuinely felt in it.
Speaker 7: And I watched it last night, like It.
Speaker 6: Just reminded me of standing there really feeling like the
Speaker 6: depth of somebody ending something with you when you're not
Speaker 6: ready yet. And I don't know it was It's funny
Speaker 6: that you have this anxiety of like was it going
Speaker 6: to land and it wasn't going to have the emotion
Speaker 6: behind it and it was perfect.
Speaker 1: I was going to say watching it, I was I
Speaker 1: was so impressed by how silly the performance was of
Speaker 1: Max and yet you managed to channel Denzel Washington from
Speaker 1: Glory that one two different circumstance, tis for sure, but
Speaker 1: you know, you know we were also in Glory.
Speaker 5: It wasn't an ugly cry. It was a very pretty cry,
Speaker 5: pretty cry, A dental pretty cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, Hannah, like La morn is A is a
Speaker 4: uh joshing you. But I really I think unless you
Speaker 4: were thinking about Dentel Washington, Washington and Glory and.
Speaker 1: I cry all the time, that is an iconic moment
Speaker 1: when Denzel's just standing and he has one tear right
Speaker 1: in that moment, and Hannah does it and the music
Speaker 1: time perfectly, and then she walks up. I said, I
Speaker 1: could never I was.
Speaker 4: Going to say, I was going to say, like, I think, Hannah,
Speaker 4: you in that scene were the reason that like it
Speaker 4: could work, you know what I mean, because it was
Speaker 4: like you gave this you know, it's less obviously like
Speaker 4: less flashy than like Max like screaming, get and stuff,
Speaker 4: but like the like you're like you're grounding, and you
Speaker 4: did that so many times on the show. But like
Speaker 4: your grounding kind of like emotional presence allowed like allowed
Speaker 4: him to kind of like be silly in this way
Speaker 4: that like kept the tone going and kept it real.
Speaker 4: And I really felt that was such a beautiful performance
Speaker 4: in that moment. And like obviously it's like like I said,
Speaker 4: it's not the it's not the actor who gets to
Speaker 4: kind of like do the silliest thing, but it's like
Speaker 4: that it's the balance that makes the comedy work, you know.
Speaker 4: So I just I don't know that was that was
Speaker 4: a great moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 6: I loved it, And it's where I found like a
Speaker 6: real rhythm I feel like with Max two right to
Speaker 6: kind of like you could just like sit in it
Speaker 6: with him, and it set us up for the fact
Speaker 6: that we did get to come back again and again
Speaker 6: and again and again. This has been really fun recapping
Speaker 6: this episode. Maybe when we finished season two, Liz, We're
Speaker 6: gonna bug you again.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: We would.
Speaker 7: We would.
Speaker 5: We would take you out for ice cream, Lisz, We would.
Speaker 5: We would this time. This time, we'd owe you a real,
Speaker 5: real nice sauce, serve.
Speaker 1: A real treat really quick. Did you find the bear?
Speaker 1: Hannah and and and Lo you ever have to ask you?
Speaker 7: Liz?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I have to ask you. So every
Speaker 6: single episode I've been doing, where's the bear?
Speaker 1: Bear? Bear?
Speaker 6: There is this big rumor going around, I know, you know,
Speaker 6: saying that there is a bear intentionally put somehow in
Speaker 6: every single episode, and there are websites dedicated to it
Speaker 6: and Reddit threads, and I have hunted it. I will
Speaker 6: say about like what sixty five percent of the time
Speaker 6: there is some sneaky ass bear there. So you have
Speaker 6: to now address this here on the spot. Tell me,
Speaker 6: am I a fool's errand what's up with the bear?
Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's it's it's never a fool's Errand
Speaker 4: to look for a bear.
Speaker 7: In every You're gonna keep me hunting this show?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I definitely wasn't intentional. I do love I
Speaker 4: do think that bears are like very funny. I think
Speaker 4: it's a very funny word, and I think it like
Speaker 4: I just remember in the pilot damon being like bears
Speaker 4: and like that. Just remember like that was like a
Speaker 4: really funny moment in the pilot. Yeah, I it's it was,
Speaker 4: you know. I hate to disappoint you. It definitely wasn't intentional.
Speaker 4: But if I think that, like like subconsciously, there are
Speaker 4: probably like a million bears in the show, because like
Speaker 4: you know, like when you think something's funny or like
Speaker 4: a funny word, I think you just keep going for it.
Speaker 4: I always thought pants was a funny word. So I
Speaker 4: feel like there's like a lot of like pants, Like.
Speaker 6: Well, don't do that now, season two, I gotta look
Speaker 6: for bears and pants.
Speaker 7: You gotta do that right now.
Speaker 2: You could switch change the course for pants. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say there.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say confidently there are pants in every episode, because.
Speaker 4: I can't believe we never put themar in like bear pants.
Speaker 1: Yes, well pants, you would have seen how harry I
Speaker 1: am and then it would have looked like bear pants.
Speaker 1: For sure. I did not shave Liz. Thank you very much, Thank.
Speaker 2: You so much for please come.
Speaker 7: With us next time.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys, so much. Will you come back to
Speaker 4: doing this, yes, of course, and thank you for my God,
Speaker 4: and like also thank you for thank you for you know,
Speaker 4: obviously all the work you guys did on this show,
Speaker 4: because it's the reason that that anyone is still interested
Speaker 4: in is because of you guys, and I just like,
Speaker 4: thank you so much for.
Speaker 6: Is there.
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