Speaker 1: Talking about you guys. We have a very uh interesting
Speaker 1: episode for you guys today, Landline, directed by I mean
Speaker 1: basically a cast member of New Girl, so deeply embedded
Speaker 1: in the family, mister Trent O'Donnell and written by Rob Roselle.
Speaker 1: You wanna break it down, sure.
Speaker 2: Let's do that now. In this episode, Jess is forced
Speaker 2: to crack down on teacher hookups when she finds out
Speaker 2: that Coach is doing nasty stuff with two of their colleagues.
Speaker 2: But when a charming New British science teacher was brought in,
Speaker 2: her own self control is put to the test. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: after a landline gets installed, Nick becomes the lost receptionist,
Speaker 2: bushing out unsolicited dating and work advice. Let's got to
Speaker 2: bring and we are back, as you said. Directed by
Speaker 2: Tren o'donald, written by Rob Roselle. No episode is called
Speaker 2: landline for obvious reasons. Now it's I am interested and
Speaker 2: you know write it in the comments below. How many folks,
Speaker 2: how many of our listeners had a landline or knew
Speaker 2: what a landline was? You know, because some of them
Speaker 2: are very very young and they are not in the
Speaker 2: age of landlines what soever. I mean some of them
Speaker 2: may have jobs where they work and they have the
Speaker 2: landlord the desk of the phone. That's still that's still
Speaker 2: a landline, but a lot of those still use like
Speaker 2: wireless services. So I am curious to see how many
Speaker 2: of these folks grew up with one. I know some
Speaker 2: of the people are our age, for sure, but a
Speaker 2: lot of the young folks discovering New Girl for the
Speaker 2: first time in recent years, I don't think they had landlines.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. I think it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is what a phone looks like, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's just like that's the shape of it. That's how
Speaker 1: you hold it, Like there's no grip like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You Also, I was thinking because they talk about it
Speaker 1: in the episode when the phone rings and they're like,
Speaker 1: who's that? And I was like, oh, yeah, you never
Speaker 1: knew who was calling and if someone was using the phone,
Speaker 1: no one else can call.
Speaker 2: Right now unless you had caller ID, which was a
Speaker 2: newer day, but.
Speaker 1: That was later. Then caller IDA came in, and then
Speaker 1: call waiting came in where you could hear a beep
Speaker 1: if someone else was trying to call, But those were
Speaker 1: like later inventions. I remember when I moved to La
Speaker 1: I was renting like a floor in a woman's house,
Speaker 1: and she was like, you need to get a landline
Speaker 1: because like the service up here is so bad. If
Speaker 1: you just have a cell phone, you might not be
Speaker 1: able to reach people. And I was like, oh, so
Speaker 1: I had to have like a landline and it cost
Speaker 1: two dollars a month. And I was like, you guys
Speaker 1: know what, you're going out of business.
Speaker 2: Right dollars? Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It was. It was the craziest bill to pay. You're
Speaker 1: also I used it zero times. The cell phone worked
Speaker 1: just fine. I think she was just a little paranoid, like.
Speaker 2: Can I pay off the whole year up front?
Speaker 1: Here's twelve dollars?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, So anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh man. So Jess gets a call from Principal Foster,
Speaker 1: who calls her dog very strange, Jess Belzmasano bitch, and
Speaker 1: they're trying to have this conversation and it's not going
Speaker 1: well because there is no reception. That's happening in the
Speaker 1: loft because of construction, which the building.
Speaker 2: Up well, what happens is when you build, so there's
Speaker 2: a million reasons why construction could do it that maybe
Speaker 2: they they're using one of the polls one of the lines,
Speaker 2: and it reduced the service. Maybe it's a tall building
Speaker 2: that's blocking signal cell signal on that side of the
Speaker 2: on that side of the building.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it could be somewhere, like it's everywhere.
Speaker 1: You're going to get service everywhere now, unless you're out
Speaker 1: in the woods, like it's common for you be shocked.
Speaker 2: You'd be shocked, you know. I remember buying when I
Speaker 2: bought years ago, and I bought a house out deep
Speaker 2: in the valley and I was like, oh, this is great,
Speaker 2: it's perfect, this is perfect. And then I remember I
Speaker 2: had no cell service in that house.
Speaker 1: Get out.
Speaker 2: It's like, what the hell I had to switch? I
Speaker 2: just switched phone carriers.
Speaker 1: Well, man, you were in Tarzana. That was basically like
Speaker 1: the moon at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but AT and T didn't work.
Speaker 1: That's hysterical. So they're all in there, they're all on
Speaker 1: nick sped, leaning out the window. I do remember having
Speaker 1: to lean out a window at my old apartment like
Speaker 1: years so all they're just trying to like get a bar,
Speaker 1: get a bar so that they can have their phone calls.
Speaker 1: And they're like, Nook, we need to get a landline.
Speaker 1: This is important. They'll look at it. Schmid's like, what's
Speaker 1: the rope?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the phone is sitting there, and it's just
Speaker 2: like it's just a thing to them. It's almost like
Speaker 2: which was shocking to me because this was twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: I want to say twenty thirteen when we shot this one.
Speaker 2: It was shocking to twenty fourteen. Maybe it was shocking
Speaker 2: to me just because I was like, these they know
Speaker 2: what a landline is. I was like, why are they
Speaker 2: doing that?
Speaker 1: Like they ages down the network at that point, They're
Speaker 1: like make them look like young ones. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: know what I did. Love the flashback though of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one people talk about a lot. I get.
Speaker 2: I get questions about this a lot, and people send
Speaker 2: me different memes and gifts of this particular moment where
Speaker 2: Winston is smooth talking some ladies into a double date
Speaker 2: tell the girl to cut her fingertails, which I thought
Speaker 2: was really funny because they pitched up our voices in
Speaker 2: that one. So if you know, like every time we
Speaker 2: flashed back to you know, young Nick and young Winston,
Speaker 2: like they pitch up our voices, and their thought was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's interesting. But I've always said, there's a deep voice.
Speaker 1: I will say, some people have a real sexy phone voice.
Speaker 1: Some people just have that voice.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for saying so.
Speaker 1: I remember that. They were always like they were so
Speaker 1: good on the radio.
Speaker 2: Did girls like that?
Speaker 1: If it spoke to you like that way, then yeah.
Speaker 1: There were some people I remember listening to the radio
Speaker 1: and you were just like, we have a crush on
Speaker 1: this person I've never seen, but just their voice is smooth.
Speaker 2: I was like, cheesy as hell. Yes, all right, ladies,
Speaker 2: ooh that does it for me? Like really, I guess
Speaker 2: it's better than hi, ladies, I guess it's better.
Speaker 1: Than that, A little bit better than that. You can
Speaker 1: then just take. But then you're imagining what they look
Speaker 1: like like, what they are like as a person. So
Speaker 1: you're you're extrapolating a lot just from the voice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but if you like, look at David Beckham,
Speaker 2: he's not gonna look like how he sounds high pitch choice,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So if you heard, if
Speaker 2: you heard David Beckham on the radio, you might miss out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could count him out. You're a loss.
Speaker 2: This is your loss, is your loss.
Speaker 1: So then we uh we come back, and Schmid is
Speaker 1: saying he needs to go study for Businessman, not Businessman magazine,
Speaker 1: but businessman this man.
Speaker 2: Yep. It's like jay Z's lying, I'm a I'm not
Speaker 2: a businessman. I'm a business man.
Speaker 1: And when he's busy, and all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: just see like Nick is like upset because he can't
Speaker 1: just hang out and drink all day with his boys
Speaker 1: and he's missing the bonding and knowing what's going on
Speaker 1: in their life and all the hot goss and uh,
Speaker 1: he's home alone.
Speaker 2: And then he's home alone brings Yeah. The school nurse
Speaker 2: calls the landline. Turns out that she's sleeping with Coach
Speaker 2: right now in her office, just the newly appointed VP.
Speaker 2: She makes Coach, she makes Coach and the school nurse
Speaker 2: sign some papers in regard to their relationship.
Speaker 1: Between coach and the nurse. Is so funny. And then
Speaker 1: Zoe at the end is like, it looks like you're
Speaker 1: wearing like something costume from Halloween Town and she's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: buy it.
Speaker 2: It's a media and they're.
Speaker 1: Both so happy about it. Oh man, the greatest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, having a work in a work situation is crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it happens all the time at schools. When
Speaker 2: you're a kid, you never really you always wonder, but
Speaker 2: you never really know if it's going on.
Speaker 1: It's a second place. You get all these young people,
Speaker 1: they're caring their hearts in the right place, all these teachers.
Speaker 1: I'm sure things happen.
Speaker 2: What that's a terrible explanation of why school is a
Speaker 2: great place.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you're a single person at a
Speaker 1: school working and there's other single teachers, I don't know
Speaker 1: why it's like so bad. Why that's so bad to date?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because you're trying to set an example
Speaker 2: for these kids.
Speaker 1: Well I was saying you have to like flaunt it.
Speaker 1: But if you're grown adults after school hours and you
Speaker 1: wanted to date, it seemed terrible to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 1: I guess you got to have a love like where
Speaker 1: you supposed to meet somebody. You want your teacher going
Speaker 1: to the bar after work to try to meet somebody. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the nurse is all confused and she's like, so
Speaker 1: what should we put down for like our relationship status?
Speaker 1: You put like a calamari on my finger, like a ring.
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming girlfriend. And then Rose comes barging in
Speaker 1: and she's like, Ernie, last night was amazingly. She kills it.
Speaker 1: She's so funny. And then the women start fighting because
Speaker 1: Jess has blown up coaches spot.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yes, yeah. It turns out Coach is quite
Speaker 2: he's quite the attraction there at the school.
Speaker 1: I love it when later in the episode he's like,
Speaker 1: I figured out who I am, Like, I figured out
Speaker 1: who I am in the school.
Speaker 2: I'm the guy that everybody I was like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get for you. You you started that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now we are back with Nick, who's alone. He's
Speaker 1: just dudeling just and the phone rings. That's a call
Speaker 1: for Schmidt, and then the phone rings again as a
Speaker 1: call for Winnie, and then all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: got a purpose that connects him to his friends and
Speaker 1: his friend's lives and he's good at it.
Speaker 2: HM, that's right.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Nick asked Winston about Judy in particularly, who is this
Speaker 2: Judy person?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because then Winnie and Schmidt come back and he
Speaker 1: presents them with their alphabetized message messages.
Speaker 2: That's right, which is very strange for Nick, but it
Speaker 2: feels like he did find his purpose in this one.
Speaker 2: Which was like, I'm going to be the secretary.
Speaker 1: The only thing that was shocking about it is that
Speaker 1: he knew the alphabet. That was shocking the only part
Speaker 1: that was shocking that he alphabetized it. I believe he
Speaker 1: took the messages and he would enjoy like hot GOSSP.
Speaker 1: But when he alphabetized it, I was like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: Jess really rubbed off on him in the relationship. That's
Speaker 1: a very just thing to do that.
Speaker 2: Man knows ACB's.
Speaker 1: Andy.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, why didn't you just why are they all?
Speaker 2: Why are they all on different types of How many
Speaker 2: different types of sticky notes do they have?
Speaker 1: But I think it is I just bought little almost
Speaker 1: like recipe cards Q card things, and they usually do
Speaker 1: come in a multicolored path.
Speaker 2: No, this was beyond multicolor. This was like different shapes,
Speaker 2: different sizes. I'm like, he could have just grabbed one
Speaker 2: singular notebook and just wrote it all down on one note,
Speaker 2: but you know, nobody did not do that, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: This is television. Now we're now Judy. You know it's
Speaker 2: a girl that Winston met at the driving range. It's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know you were golfing. He's like, no, I
Speaker 2: just go to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like me.
Speaker 2: You go to driving range to watch?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I wouldn't mind if, like I would go
Speaker 1: with somebody who wanted to golf. I don't like to golf,
Speaker 1: but if they're like, do you want to just hang out? Ship?
Speaker 1: I love watching sports and sporty things. You can bring
Speaker 1: me to anything where people are doing sports are sporty things.
Speaker 1: I mean, golfing is a really fun one to tag
Speaker 1: along because you often get to go on a cart
Speaker 1: and you get to just like drive around. That's kind yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like the driving range is literally just one
Speaker 2: person hitting the ball over and over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you like chat? I've been to the driving
Speaker 1: range of something before and I just like hang out
Speaker 1: and you didn't swing a.
Speaker 2: Club at all.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm a good hang I don't know what to
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you know this about me, But
Speaker 2: I am a sponsored golf pro.
Speaker 1: Arnold.
Speaker 2: Is that you I am?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: It's a golf brand? Is it really Larson's Extreme Golf?
Speaker 2: You know they they they're looking after your boy, now
Speaker 2: after your boy. Yeah, I'm about to. I'm about to.
Speaker 2: I'm straight up, straight up and down.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get to wear the green coat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean, listen, if I keep playing my
Speaker 2: cards right, I might. You know, I might get a
Speaker 2: grand slam in this thing. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 2: when all the majors, You know, I might.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have a you have a very serena vibe
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I might. I'm powerful, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: I was just the other day. I was out there
Speaker 2: hitting some uh, hitting some balls and crushed one of
Speaker 2: the balls so hard and exploded and then injured injured
Speaker 2: the bird. Okay, bird survived, bird survived. Felt if I
Speaker 2: might have felt that way to the bird, but the
Speaker 2: bird survive. I nursed it back to health milk I
Speaker 2: fed at milk from from my person. Sure, and uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's like it's out there thriving right now.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm here for is the representation of
Speaker 1: you being the first male lactating golf pro.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say first. There are others before me that
Speaker 2: paved the way, for sure, but I just learned from
Speaker 2: their lead. You know what I mean. I can't take
Speaker 2: credit for yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't. Yeah no, yeah, When.
Speaker 1: We discussed it. We say it a loud speaking of
Speaker 1: important the Julian Morris is the guest star on the episode. Yes, incredibly,
Speaker 1: just lovely to watch.
Speaker 2: He's great, He's so.
Speaker 1: Great, He's so talented, and you can tell. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: Some people when they're on camera, they just have that thing,
Speaker 1: whatever that magic thing is, and you just believe every
Speaker 1: expression on their face. He just has that thing, and
Speaker 1: he's so lovely anyway. So here is a Jess kind
Speaker 1: of giving it to coach, being like, you can't be
Speaker 1: sleeping with all these people and it's it's wrong and
Speaker 1: you're trouble and there there's all these forms and we
Speaker 1: have to and then Principal Foster introduces her to the
Speaker 1: new British teacher.
Speaker 2: And goes in, you.
Speaker 1: I can't goes in. Me goes in. Jess goes in,
Speaker 1: It goes in, and she can't handle it. And she's
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, very much like in the
Speaker 1: micro episode where she was just like, I know I'm
Speaker 1: not shallow, and in this one she's like, I know
Speaker 1: where the boundaries are in my workplace. She is now
Speaker 1: being tested in the most horrifying way. In last week's episode,
Speaker 1: it was with the absolute worst dude and now it's
Speaker 1: the absolute best dude.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Brian goes in you, Ryan goes
Speaker 2: in you. I love it. First when he's when he's
Speaker 2: introducing him, he's like, and he sounds a little what
Speaker 2: he say, he sounds a little different. He goes, uh,
Speaker 2: go ahead, say something to her, and he's speaking loud
Speaker 2: to him as he's from a different planet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's so amazing thing to me. If someone speaks multiple
Speaker 1: languages and usually the other person can only speak English, right,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, so your country, how and they
Speaker 1: forget to speak English and like say the whole thing,
Speaker 1: Just say like speak country, just like say that, just
Speaker 1: say the whole Why are you speaking like you don't
Speaker 1: speak English?
Speaker 2: English?
Speaker 1: You think when that person speaks like five languages, have languages.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're the slow one, You the slow one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, we're gonna go to break and
Speaker 1: we come back. We're gonna be in the three way call.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, which is so silly.
Speaker 1: It's very silly.
Speaker 2: And son Nick three way calls Winston Schmidt uh and
Speaker 2: he gives them their midday messages, which is so silly.
Speaker 2: I like his rundown of it. Nick called Judy told
Speaker 2: her Winston wasn't feeling her, so he sent. He also
Speaker 2: sent the magazine a picture of Schmidt against his will.
Speaker 2: He just picked a random picture.
Speaker 1: He picked the most recent one on the stone for accuracy.
Speaker 1: He thought that was the best branding move, which is
Speaker 1: just him like yelling at him on the couch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have a very weird looking position. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 2: blurry photo as well. Yeah. And then they you know,
Speaker 2: they hang the phone up, and then Winston. Then Schmid
Speaker 2: calls Winston and I don't know where this came from
Speaker 2: or how this. I remember shooting it, and it's funny
Speaker 2: how they put it together. But it's literally just us
Speaker 2: going and yo, yo you And and then I just
Speaker 2: love when Winstay goes, wait, who's this?
Speaker 1: It's like Schmidt, But haven't you ever done that with
Speaker 1: like a friend? I for sure have done that with
Speaker 1: Wendy on a call where I'm like yo, she's.
Speaker 2: Like yo, yeah back in the day, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yo, And she's like yo, And it's just very weird.
Speaker 1: You just kind of do it because now you're kind
Speaker 1: of both like laughing at your own little weird thing.
Speaker 1: And then finally when you run out of all your
Speaker 1: hay and you're like, als, what you're doing A real
Speaker 1: friendship moment man Robert Zell and Trent letting that moment
Speaker 1: breathe and.
Speaker 2: It worked out.
Speaker 1: Just shut it down.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. The meeting, they're in the teachers meeting about relationships,
Speaker 2: and uh, I.
Speaker 4: Love no, you know, her whole her whole demonstration is
Speaker 4: you know, if you ever get into a situation with someone,
Speaker 4: you have to they if they get close to you
Speaker 4: and you don't feel comfortable, just say, shut it down,
Speaker 4: you know, shut it her up.
Speaker 2: They come back down, shut it down. And Coach is
Speaker 2: obviously trolling here at this point. Yeah, Coach is like
Speaker 2: he because he knows, he knows she feels some type
Speaker 2: of way about Ryan. And and this is also for
Speaker 2: the betterment of everybody else who clearly they want to
Speaker 2: be They want to you know, they're like, what do
Speaker 2: you call a principal foster? Call him hose. He's like,
Speaker 2: they want to they want to do it. So he
Speaker 2: asks for a visual of this.
Speaker 1: I'm a visual learner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so she tries to get close to do it.
Speaker 2: She tries to get close to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, She's like, fine, how much get up here, and
Speaker 1: he's like, no, I get the new guy. And what's
Speaker 1: so sweet about how Julian La portrays this is he
Speaker 1: he always plays everything like in knowledge, so like it's
Speaker 1: not like, oh, I guess I'll go up there and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fine. You see him like already looking
Speaker 1: at Jess being like, I know you don't like I
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, and I don't want to put
Speaker 1: you in that position. And so he kind of goes
Speaker 1: up there and he's just trying to like make this
Speaker 1: painless for her. He's already obviously you know, the attraction
Speaker 1: is mutual, and so he's just trying to like like
Speaker 1: I'm on your team too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then she talks through the example and then
Speaker 1: Coach is like, no, no, I need to, like you
Speaker 1: guys have to act it out. I really have to
Speaker 1: see it. And then he gives her a little massage.
Speaker 1: Mister goes in you oh boy, and she forgets where
Speaker 1: she is and what she's doing.
Speaker 2: Oh well, right before that, right before that, yeah, right
Speaker 2: before that. Back at the loft, Schmid is trying to
Speaker 2: have you re record the voicemail.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this scene.
Speaker 2: And you're just saying it in the most played boring voice.
Speaker 2: He he can't you try to turn on the nations.
Speaker 1: I will say, man, shout out to our writers. They
Speaker 1: really did make me feel good about myself because they
Speaker 1: really did. As opposed to last episode where they called
Speaker 1: you a six and a half, they were really selling
Speaker 1: me as a hard ten every single episode and I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm a hard ten. And it was a
Speaker 1: very sweet moment. And the way there's nothing more that
Speaker 1: I love than someone being like, like like yelling and
Speaker 1: mad because they're so into you, Like I think it's
Speaker 1: so funny. It's a funny, funny thing. And the way
Speaker 1: Max always played it like he was so angry she
Speaker 1: couldn't just say it not sexy. But it's really his
Speaker 1: lens of that everything she does is just the hottest
Speaker 1: thing and he just can't take it.
Speaker 2: My favorite is what he makes a comment later on.
Speaker 2: He goes, when the act we will get there, but
Speaker 2: it's just funny. It's when the voicemail goes out with breaks,
Speaker 2: when he's like, well, you probably because you listen to
Speaker 2: CC's voice a million times, and he goes, yeah, then
Speaker 2: I touch my pen.
Speaker 1: Yeah now again, once again, why are we saying the
Speaker 1: choir parts out loud? It's so funny the freedom these
Speaker 1: friends have in the loft. I was like, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: we didn't need to say it. I also love that
Speaker 1: the CC character just is like so unfazed, like she knows,
Speaker 1: she knows, and she knows he's the guy to say
Speaker 1: it out loud too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, back at the school meeting, coach keeps on
Speaker 2: antagonizing Jess. Yeah, and this demonstration he's trying to see,
Speaker 2: and then it leads to Ryan, like you said earlier,
Speaker 2: rubbing just his shulders because she looks tense, because he goes,
Speaker 2: oh you look tense, and he starts rubbing her shoulders.
Speaker 2: And then when she goes to shut it down, she can't.
Speaker 2: She's actually she's actually like, yeah, it's a little lower, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just like that. And then when she goes to shut
Speaker 2: it down, she actually touches his.
Speaker 1: Yes, she does an accidental bank and she is mortified
Speaker 1: because now she's just touched somebody. This is the whole thing.
Speaker 1: She's now done this, and then she goes to show
Speaker 1: what she was trying to do and then does.
Speaker 2: It again again.
Speaker 1: Literal nightmare if that ever happened to me, I would.
Speaker 2: Move Yeah, Oh are you kidding me? Not back at
Speaker 2: the loft now the answering machine is not working.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Nick was pretty hurt because he was like
Speaker 1: loving his job as being a secretary, loving being there
Speaker 1: for his friends. It gets revealed that he even bought
Speaker 1: himself a secretary and he was like, look, the computer
Speaker 1: is going to take over and all the robots are
Speaker 1: going to take over, and you're gonna miss me. And
Speaker 1: then guess what. The answering machine is on the fritz
Speaker 1: and it's not working. And when he's like, don't say anything, Nick, Yes,
Speaker 1: then we have the beautiful hysterical pen moment that Schmidt
Speaker 1: says about CC that Schmid is the one who broke
Speaker 1: the answering machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then when Nick comes Nick comes in, he
Speaker 2: comes back into the living room and Schmidt asked him
Speaker 2: if the magazine's.
Speaker 1: Called yeah, is check the machine?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Now Nick jokingly tells whence that the
Speaker 2: magazine did call? This is so crazy because this is
Speaker 2: a multiple episodes where Nick is kind of sabotaged just
Speaker 2: with his job.
Speaker 1: It is still employed with Nick around is crazy because
Speaker 1: it feels like he's trying to sabotage that man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like, he's like, they did call, and
Speaker 2: they do want to do the interview with Schmidt today.
Speaker 2: And you know, Schmid had already left. Was he's trying
Speaker 2: to get the damn you know, recorder or the yeah,
Speaker 2: whatever you call it, the answering machine fixed. So he's gone,
Speaker 2: and Winston asked him. He goes, why didn't why did
Speaker 2: he say anything this interview? Man, it's very important to Schmidt.
Speaker 2: And Winston asked Nick, like, hey man, there's something bigger
Speaker 2: going on here, So what's really going on? And he
Speaker 2: says he just you know, he just misses them, you know,
Speaker 2: and then answering the phone makes him feel connected to
Speaker 2: him and Schmidt actually, I mean in Winston actually understands.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a very sweet, like emotionally mature moment between
Speaker 1: both of them.
Speaker 3: M M.
Speaker 1: That felt very shocking. Yeah, oh, in the phone.
Speaker 2: Rings, that's right, it's the magazine. Yeah, and they want
Speaker 2: to do the interview right now. Nick tells Winston that
Speaker 2: he has to do it. He's magical on the phone.
Speaker 2: So Winston grabs the phone. He tells Nick he needs
Speaker 2: a soda and a straw and he also needs to
Speaker 2: get horizontal.
Speaker 1: I will say this as the owner of that cow
Speaker 1: mm hmm. I saw you like get up and with
Speaker 1: your shoes on it, and it didn't shit right with me.
Speaker 1: I got grossed up on my couch.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot more happened on that couch than you.
Speaker 1: Probably I know, I know, but I don't have to
Speaker 1: see it. And it was really weird that in my body.
Speaker 1: The first thing was like, get your shoes off my.
Speaker 2: Couch, Hannah. Can I you know how many times we
Speaker 2: stood on that couch playing true American.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I'm just saying what
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: But when I get it, when I do it, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: he can't stop.
Speaker 1: On it because I know you were raised better, that's all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can, I can. I can guarantee you. When
Speaker 2: the crew was breaking down the set, some crew members
Speaker 2: were sleeping with each other. And I guarantee you they
Speaker 2: slept with each other on that couch.
Speaker 1: Crew members were sleeping with each other. No, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I do think about those because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people did take naps on the couch.
Speaker 1: Like for the billions of years we had that couch.
Speaker 1: And here's what I really do think it does gross
Speaker 1: me about the couch a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's leather, so it bounced off.
Speaker 1: But I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Just squeeze that. You can know if you just push
Speaker 2: the cushion down and the air comes out and it
Speaker 2: smells like ERDs.
Speaker 1: I will say, Man winning on the phone was very
Speaker 1: smooth and actually sells the deal way better than Schmidt
Speaker 1: ever could do, even Schmidt what it stands for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some can have money. I desire thoughtfulness.
Speaker 1: I mean amazing and then watching like Max and Jake
Speaker 1: high five in the background because they're so happy. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. There's been multiple episodes where
Speaker 2: Winston proves himself on the phone, which is hilarious. Certain,
Speaker 2: but when the writers come up with this stuff, it's like,
Speaker 2: it's it's funny. It's very creative. It's very funny to
Speaker 2: get to add that there's this is to get to
Speaker 2: get so much mileage out of oh, this person's good
Speaker 2: on the phone, like that very basic thought, and you
Speaker 2: get multiple episodes of hilarity out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, now we're going to wrap the episode
Speaker 1: up because Jess walks into coaches room. She's a sorry,
Speaker 1: she realizes now that it's sometimes hard to control your feelings.
Speaker 1: And then he apologizes she's repealed the policy. How convenient,
Speaker 1: but she's repealed the policy. And then Ruth pops up
Speaker 1: from under the covers hot under there? Can I tell
Speaker 1: you what I thought was gonna happen? I don't know
Speaker 1: if you thought this was going to happen too, because
Speaker 1: the scene was going on really long for a new
Speaker 1: girl scene. It just seemed like really long. They were
Speaker 1: talking justin coach, and then finally Ruth pops up, and
Speaker 1: then I thought, what was going to happen is you
Speaker 1: were going to see Rose pop up?
Speaker 2: Me too?
Speaker 1: I thought that was going to happen. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, Ernie.
Speaker 2: Missed opportunity. I thought that was going to happen too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, That's what I was like, all right. The next
Speaker 1: day at school, Princeville, Foster says he's tried to corral
Speaker 1: these animals, but teachers are just straight up hoes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And then he tells Jess that, you know,
Speaker 2: the two administrators like themselves could hook up, but he's
Speaker 2: not attracted to her. Only Asians.
Speaker 1: She said the faster again.
Speaker 2: Why oh uh, now you know Schmidt, the bad boy
Speaker 2: of marketing. It's officially out. And then at the end,
Speaker 2: outside you hear a boombox screaming for Winston, which I've
Speaker 2: heard before, screaming for La morn right outside my door.
Speaker 2: I'm to show up a boombox as often and you
Speaker 2: know that's Judy. That is Judy.
Speaker 1: Another ever made a female pick for Winston?
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my gosh. Yeah, let's let's go to a
Speaker 2: quick commercial recor when we come back.
Speaker 3: I just want to I do want to mess around
Speaker 3: a little bit and we I'm back again.
Speaker 2: Uh babe. Yeah, what's the craziest in office secret relationship
Speaker 2: story you've heard or had?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Have you had? Have you dated a co worker?
Speaker 2: I have me too? I have Again?
Speaker 1: Where are you supposed to meet people?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: I know right now, like online dating is like a
Speaker 1: big thing, but like back in the day, it kind
Speaker 1: of wasn't, And so you met people where you met them.
Speaker 1: And of course you're going to meet someone at work
Speaker 1: because often your boss sucks and work can be hard,
Speaker 1: and that's how like you bond and connect and it's
Speaker 1: the person you're spending time with. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: there's like there's this big rule around it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is strange. It is strange, I think just
Speaker 2: because of work productivity of what happens when you don't
Speaker 2: work together anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then they're just going to do it in secret.
Speaker 1: They're not going to not do it to people know
Speaker 1: what I mean to each other.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I mean. Here's what I mean if
Speaker 2: you break up and the issues that it causes at work,
Speaker 2: especially if you work in the same department, Like if
Speaker 2: your two cast mates and you're doing it and you
Speaker 2: break up, you're going to notice that there is some
Speaker 2: sort of weird energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's no rule around that on an acting set,
Speaker 1: and like right, it's like not a traditional workplace, and
Speaker 1: so people do date on sets because it wasn't there.
Speaker 1: Like the craziest story, I don't know it, but I
Speaker 1: just know it's a crazy story with like Dexter. Was
Speaker 1: he like with his wife and his girlfriend and it
Speaker 1: was a whole it is a regulation in Dexter, and
Speaker 1: it got very messy for everybody in the crew. I
Speaker 1: think that's true. I think that was the craziest one
Speaker 1: I ever heard on And there was like multiple articles
Speaker 1: because he had to continue working and the women had
Speaker 1: to continue working there. Yeah, and it was like very challenging.
Speaker 2: I could imagine. Yeah, that's one thing that I don't
Speaker 2: I wouldn't date a as an actor. I wouldn't date
Speaker 2: a coworker in a project that I was working on. Now,
Speaker 2: if it had ended and you guys had a thing,
Speaker 2: then I could see it, you know, if you if
Speaker 2: you pursued it after the fact. But I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I couldn't do it while we were working. It's too
Speaker 2: you never know what scenarios the writers are going to write.
Speaker 2: You never know what scenarios are going to put you in,
Speaker 2: and you never know how your partner's going to react.
Speaker 2: Like if if you're you're a couple, and then they
Speaker 2: constantly have you dating these other women that come on
Speaker 2: the show, yeah, you know, for storyline purposes. You never
Speaker 2: know how people react to that. Every weekend, I'm like
Speaker 2: making out with some different women, Like, you might feel
Speaker 2: some type of way about that, even though we know
Speaker 2: it's pretend. Yeah, and I might feel some type of
Speaker 2: way if every episode she's like doing sex scenes with
Speaker 2: somebody else, that's right, I'm like, that's weird.
Speaker 1: And the acting workplace it is a wild thing, but
Speaker 1: it's also hard, I would assume, because if you're like,
Speaker 1: have real chemistry with somebody and you're both single and like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, stuff can happen. But I had, like write,
Speaker 1: office romance was just like in a normal job. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that exciting.
Speaker 2: In Cyprus, it was very, very chill.
Speaker 1: I think I've actually had several and they were all
Speaker 1: like because again, where else were you going to meet somebody? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there was no like consequence to it. There was
Speaker 1: like boss being like I've heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was no consequence to mine because it wasn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't. We didn't make it a thing, make it crazy,
Speaker 2: right like, it didn't and we were and we were
Speaker 2: in two completely different departments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's normal people say they met at work.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The teaching thing, it does feel weird
Speaker 1: to me. Teachers. I'll say this again, I do want
Speaker 1: to hear if you have met your partner at work,
Speaker 1: was there any consequence to it? Like? It seems so
Speaker 1: strange to me. I'm here for teaching.
Speaker 2: Love that. What's that show with something? Remember? What was
Speaker 2: it called May December? What's that about?
Speaker 1: I don't know you watched these romantic movies. I don't
Speaker 1: watch romantic movies.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch this one yet, but I should. I should.
Speaker 2: I should. Got Corey Michael Smith and he is a
Speaker 2: fantastic actor. I gotta check that out. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know which one you were talking about. I
Speaker 1: read about it. I didn't watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in May December. It's about a teacher about teacher.
Speaker 2: Uh why am I great actresses? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, super famous persons.
Speaker 2: Their names. Yeah, I'm dropping their names for some reason.
Speaker 2: But uh anyway, Yeah, did she put.
Speaker 1: In the chat no May December? Julianne Moore and Charles
Speaker 1: Milton and Natalie Portman. Yeah, just like a murderer's row
Speaker 1: of actors, just like I was gorgeous talented.
Speaker 2: I just know Corey Michael Smith said it because I
Speaker 2: just worked with him on Saturday Night. He's on that movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big movie.
Speaker 2: I remember that so anyway he uh oh yeah yeah
Speaker 2: with Dexter. He they did the woman who played his sister.
Speaker 2: I remember that. But I didn't know he was married
Speaker 2: when he did it.
Speaker 1: There was something I don't know. I got to read
Speaker 1: up on it. I'm so sorry Dexter. People have I
Speaker 1: got that wrong, but I heard that there was some
Speaker 1: real drama put allegations. I know. I'm so sorry, so
Speaker 1: sorry to get back. Okay, So our next question is
Speaker 1: should we go back to landlines? Do you may recording
Speaker 1: your first voicemail?
Speaker 2: I think landlines are cool because you know the surface
Speaker 2: is going to be fine. Yeah, you know, everybody should
Speaker 2: have one because you know when service is an issue,
Speaker 2: like if I'm at home, yeah, I'll call from the
Speaker 2: landline just to make sure we're clear, just to make
Speaker 2: sure we're good to go and locked in. I remember,
Speaker 2: I don't remember it recording my Actually I do, I do,
Speaker 2: but mine was a silly one, and I'm drawing a
Speaker 2: blank on what exactly it was. But it was one
Speaker 2: of those like it was one of those like I'll
Speaker 2: act like we're having a conversation and then go, I'm
Speaker 2: just kidding. Leave a message.
Speaker 1: Everybody did that message where it was like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: went like this, hello, yeah, hey, I'm actually not here man,
Speaker 1: and that person.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, you deep your message like that.
Speaker 1: That was so funny. Yeah, it was fun to leave
Speaker 1: your own voice message. And now you don't even do
Speaker 1: it on your iPhone. It's so funny. Nobody like leaves
Speaker 1: a message really like records one anymore, you just kind
Speaker 1: of like whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I used to do was record a song.
Speaker 2: I used to record a song too. I used to
Speaker 2: have some like music playing and then I would come in.
Speaker 2: Yeah the morning here right now. Yeah you just hear
Speaker 2: like some like jo toicy in the background. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how I used to do it.
Speaker 1: I remember. Here's what I will say about I remember
Speaker 1: my first landline. I used to live in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: and I remember my first landline and I think the
Speaker 1: phone number was like six numbers long, like it was
Speaker 1: like so short and soud because they didn't have like
Speaker 1: a ton of phone and so it was like the
Speaker 1: shortest phone number in the world. And I remember feeling
Speaker 1: really practiced little. I was like seven years old, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I know my phone number, and
Speaker 1: now I respect I'm like, yeah, of course you did.
Speaker 1: It was like literally two numbers.
Speaker 2: I hope you remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you remembered six numbers in a row
Speaker 1: at age six. Yeah, way back in the day. Man,
Speaker 1: here's what I will say. When I lived in the
Speaker 1: hills and I had to get the landline because she
Speaker 1: told me there's no service up in that house, and
Speaker 1: I got the landline. It was annoying because that phone
Speaker 1: would just ring. Spam people get landline numbers, and so
Speaker 1: at night. What the crazy thing was, I'd have to
Speaker 1: unplug the phone phone because you can't just be like
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on silent. That doesn't increase.
Speaker 1: So I have to unplug the phone, and then you
Speaker 1: have to remember to plug in the phone. And I
Speaker 1: was like, this is ridiculous. I need bout two dollars back.
Speaker 2: I know, because it does keep you up. I had
Speaker 2: the same thing recently, because you know, depending on the
Speaker 2: I think it was Spectrum. When you get Spectrum cable service,
Speaker 2: you know, they make you get the whole package of
Speaker 2: the internet phone whatever. It's cheaper if you get the
Speaker 2: phone included. And I get the phone included, and I
Speaker 2: had a little landline phone that just I never used,
Speaker 2: but it would ring all the time.
Speaker 1: Yes, it rings all the time.
Speaker 2: Who's calling it?
Speaker 1: No one has this number except Spectrum.
Speaker 2: The same thing had it unplugged.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's what I'm trying to say. The joke
Speaker 1: of it is you can get the landline, but then
Speaker 1: it's actually somehow more annoying and then you just unplug
Speaker 1: it and now you just got this relic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just want to go to your house.
Speaker 1: They just need that two dollars man.
Speaker 2: Making millions that way for everybody to give you two bucks.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, that was a landline. If you like
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Speaker 1: office romance stories. I want to know and I want
Speaker 1: to know if there's consequences, because that feels crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that there's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: The consequences are high for some people because you lose
Speaker 2: your job, you mess around, sleep with the wrong Let's
Speaker 2: say you're in the mob and that's your job and
Speaker 2: you sleep with the head of the mob's wife. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's all office romance. You lose your you lose your legs.
Speaker 1: For that's it. That's it. Are real consequences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god. All right, anyway, Love you guys
Speaker 2: as always. Hmmm, stay safe out there.
Speaker 1: That was the mess around. In iHeartMedia production, Our.
Speaker 2: Executive producer is Joel Monique. Our senior producer is Abu
Speaker 2: Zafar Bei Wang provided engineering and editing services.
Speaker 1: Additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Shevron.
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