Speaker 1: Hey, roumies, we're calling a loft meeting. You know what
Speaker 1: time it is. It's time for us to hear from you,
Speaker 1: the ones that love New Girl as much as we do.
Speaker 2: You can tell us.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, your conspiracy theories, the loopholes in the show.
Speaker 1: We want to know what you have found out, how
Speaker 1: it's inspired things in your life, derailed relationships, made relationships.
Speaker 2: This is where you can share it.
Speaker 1: And we talk about it. So let's kick things off first.
Speaker 1: We have a voice note from Alana.
Speaker 3: Hi, Hannah, Hyla Morne, if you are here for this
Speaker 3: particular loft meeting, I just wanted to who share that.
Speaker 3: Julie Berkman's older sister is also one of my very
Speaker 3: favorite episodes of New Girl. I loved listening to you
Speaker 3: guys recap it. I think the highlight for me was
Speaker 3: hearing Hannah's confusion about DARE officers and not understanding why
Speaker 3: I was bad that Julie berkmaner, and it brought back
Speaker 3: fond memories for me of my DARE officer. Her name
Speaker 3: was Deputy Deb and I caught her smoking SIGs outside
Speaker 3: behind the gym, and I think she hated us. I
Speaker 3: think she hated her job. I think she definitely did
Speaker 3: not hate drugs, and yeah, I still think about her
Speaker 3: to this day. She was terrifying and I hope she's
Speaker 3: doing good. But yeah, Dare officers are real and they
Speaker 3: will scar you for the rest of your life, I think,
Speaker 3: at least in my exp So thank you for that laugh, Hannah.
Speaker 3: I also just wanted to say that this is the
Speaker 3: episode where I realized that Jess was meant to get giardia,
Speaker 3: because in season three, the Thanksgiving episode, Jess gets giardia
Speaker 3: and she gets Legionnaire's disease whatever that is, from eating
Speaker 3: the dead fish that Nick got. And even though she
Speaker 3: did not get giardia in high school, she was meant
Speaker 3: to get that hideous river disease, I think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Shout out to trAshley Berkman for saving her one time,
Speaker 3: but she could not run. She could not run from
Speaker 3: giardia anyway, Thank you for your wonderful recap. Much love,
Speaker 3: and I can't wait to keep listening.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Alana, I want to have you on
Speaker 1: the show. These are very, very like astute observances. You're right, wow,
Speaker 1: trAshley Berkman did save her, but.
Speaker 2: She was faded. She was faded to get Giardia. Oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 1: It's always things like that where I wonder where I'm like,
Speaker 1: did the writers like know that or did they just
Speaker 1: not even realize they've got a thing for Giardia. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the bear thing, Like did they know
Speaker 1: or is it just something that kind of was just
Speaker 1: living and moving around in there and their.
Speaker 2: And their writer's room brain. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if writers are like aware when they when
Speaker 1: they have things like that happen, because it would be
Speaker 1: kind of cool to be.
Speaker 2: Like, man, there was no run in jest that Giardia
Speaker 2: was gonna get you. Yeah, and trashy Berkman saved her.
Speaker 1: I also did not know so many things about DARE officers,
Speaker 1: but I would like to know everything about Deputy deb
Speaker 1: I love the fact that she clearly loved drugs and
Speaker 1: hated her job. And it's people like that that you
Speaker 1: will never ever forget someone who was so unapologetically themselves
Speaker 1: and so clearly in the wrong career. I remember when
Speaker 1: I moved to LA I did not know how to drive. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was well past the point of when I should
Speaker 1: have known how to drive, but I grew up in
Speaker 1: countries where you weren't driving. I wasn't driving in India
Speaker 1: or Saudi Arabia, so I didn't need that particular skill.
Speaker 1: And then I moved to La and you definitely need
Speaker 1: to know how to drive. So I got a driving instructor.
Speaker 1: Her name was Destiny. I think about her all the time,
Speaker 1: and I love her so much. I loved her then
Speaker 1: and I had a garmin like a like a sat
Speaker 1: NAV in the car so I could be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's put in her destination because Elle is a big
Speaker 1: city with a billion streets, and like, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to drive all over this place. She immediately when she
Speaker 1: got into the car, ripped the sat nav the garment,
Speaker 1: like off of like where it was a fixed to
Speaker 1: on my dad, and threw it in the back.
Speaker 2: Of the car.
Speaker 1: And I was like what And she was like, my
Speaker 1: name is Destiny. She said, you will live in La now.
Speaker 1: You need to know where you were at it all times,
Speaker 1: and not through some computer.
Speaker 2: You're going to learn the streets. And I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I guess she's not wrong.
Speaker 1: And she made us like drive to and from like
Speaker 1: I was shooting at a studio then, and like back
Speaker 1: to my apartment.
Speaker 2: She's like, you need to.
Speaker 1: Know where you are all the time. She also talked
Speaker 1: about how she would buy knockoff Sean John shirts for
Speaker 1: her boyfriend and that he wasn't allowed to complain because
Speaker 1: that boy got a Shan John shirt. I remember her
Speaker 1: saying that to me a lot. She was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite human beings in the world. And she clearly
Speaker 1: was very annoyed by having to be in traffic all
Speaker 1: day long as part of her job. But she was
Speaker 1: a great driving teacher and she definitely left an imprint.
Speaker 1: She also told me something that was the most true
Speaker 1: thing I've ever experienced in LA, where she said the
Speaker 1: only thing you need to be scared of driving in
Speaker 1: La is buses. She said, bus drivers in LA are
Speaker 1: the true gangsters of LA and they will run you
Speaker 1: over and knock your car into next week. You see
Speaker 1: a bus coming, you need to change lanes and like,
Speaker 1: get a whole city block away from that bus.
Speaker 2: They're going to get you. And she was right.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been around a bus in La. There
Speaker 1: are ruthless, They have no patience for you. They will
Speaker 1: move your car for you. So, Deputy deb I feel
Speaker 1: like in destiny that'd be a great show. I listened
Speaker 1: to that podcast should we get them together? Thank you, Alana,
Speaker 1: thank you for leaving that voice note. Thank you for
Speaker 1: that Giardia observance and telling me about your wonderful, terrible
Speaker 1: dear officer.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The next one is from Jennifer Mullens from Texas. She says,
Speaker 1: here's my voice mama for the loft meeting. It's for
Speaker 1: season four, episode six. I know Hannah loves voice memos, yay,
Speaker 1: and Laburn's hates reading anything of her four sentences.
Speaker 2: Thanks Hanna, Lamur, and I love the podcast.
Speaker 3: Keep up.
Speaker 2: Then, thank you Jennifer for listening. It is true. I
Speaker 2: love a voice memo. I love to hear your voices.
Speaker 4: Okay, Hi Hannah, my name is Jennifer and I'm from Texas.
Speaker 2: I love New Girl.
Speaker 4: It always brightens my day and gives me a laugh
Speaker 4: when I need it most. The show has been a
Speaker 4: great stress relief and wait to take some time for myself.
Speaker 4: I love also listening to the podcast and finding out
Speaker 4: the backstories of each episode. Finding the bear in each
Speaker 4: episode has also been fun. In season four, episode six
Speaker 4: was Jake Johnson's dialogue at fourteen minutes forty two seconds
Speaker 4: with the police officer one on one, written out or
Speaker 4: improv This episode has been one of my favorite episodes
Speaker 4: while I've been rewatching the series. Hannah and Lamarn too.
Speaker 4: If you're there, what was your favorite episode to film
Speaker 4: or to rewatch as part of this podcast Keep Bear Hunting?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jennifer. I love the little Texan accent everything.
Speaker 1: How funny would it be if they just let Jake
Speaker 1: improv of all those weird things and he was just
Speaker 1: actually confessing things from his real life.
Speaker 2: That'd be so great.
Speaker 1: I think it was all written. It was all written alts,
Speaker 1: and I think they had a lot of fun coming
Speaker 1: up with them. But I think they're always based in
Speaker 1: some truth. That's what makes them so funny. I think
Speaker 1: that they're based in some truth. Uh yeah, So I
Speaker 1: don't think that he improved any of it, but I
Speaker 1: think there were probably, yeah, a lot that was handed over.
Speaker 2: Thank you for telling me to keep up the bear Hunt.
Speaker 1: I will with help from people like you, And I
Speaker 1: would say this episode the background check episode. I talk
Speaker 1: about it when we did our recap one morning, and
Speaker 1: I it was one of my favorite to shoot. We
Speaker 1: just got to all be there all day. We were
Speaker 1: all on the same storyline. It was silly, it was
Speaker 1: Zany had so much suspension of belief in it. It
Speaker 1: just made for such a fun one to do. Cleo
Speaker 1: King was so phenomenal coming in and she had such
Speaker 1: dry humor because she was sad over her dead bird.
Speaker 2: That was I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was just a really wonderful one. And it was
Speaker 1: also like a feel good one, like Nick gets a
Speaker 1: win by you know, keeping a secret, and Winston gets
Speaker 1: a win because he didn't, you know, get accepted to
Speaker 1: the police academy because of the help of his friends.
Speaker 1: He got accepted because he's like the best cadet, which
Speaker 1: is wonderful. And then you see Schmidt and CC really
Speaker 1: start to come back together, which was always so sweet.
Speaker 2: For the story all of it.
Speaker 1: You got to watch Jess be totally out of her
Speaker 1: mind and be so funny and do so much physical comedy.
Speaker 1: It was such a great, great episode and just one
Speaker 1: of my absolute favorites. Thank you, though, for sending in
Speaker 1: a voice memoir. I really do love hearing your voices.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Oh wait, next one, Oh this is from
Speaker 1: someone named Hannah. You know, growing up, I knew no,
Speaker 1: Hannah's none, and there must have been like a resurgence recently,
Speaker 1: because now I made all sorts of hannahs okay. So
Speaker 1: background Check has to be one of my favorite episodes
Speaker 1: of all time. I could not catch my breath the
Speaker 1: first time I watched it from laughing so hard. Every
Speaker 1: time I've watched it since, it's equally as funny as
Speaker 1: the first time. Who needs credit for the line the
Speaker 1: meth absorbed into my boobskin I cry laughing every time
Speaker 1: I hear it. With all of that being said, I
Speaker 1: also had a thrifting experience just like this, and because
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite episodes I made, it
Speaker 1: made it so much funnier. When I was pregnant with
Speaker 1: my son, I had been thrifting for a dresser for
Speaker 1: his nursery. I finally found went at my local thrift store,
Speaker 1: and the owner wanted two hundred dollars. I was going
Speaker 1: to pass for that price, but when the owner stepped away,
Speaker 1: a girl employee told me she'd sell it to me
Speaker 1: for one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Sold.
Speaker 1: We got it home and he started to clean it
Speaker 1: outside before bringing it in the house. What do I
Speaker 1: find in the bottom drawer? A baggie of blue crystal
Speaker 1: blue rocks meth. I thought my mind was racing. Did
Speaker 1: that girl from the thrift store set me up? Did
Speaker 1: she knowingly sell me meth? My husband saw me freaking
Speaker 1: out on the front lawn. He came over and smelled it.
Speaker 1: It's bath salts, he said, Why was he so calm?
Speaker 1: Of course it was bath salts. I'm familiar with code
Speaker 1: names for drugs. He's like, you like actual bath salts, Hannah,
Speaker 1: And that's how I got this photo, a pregnant me
Speaker 1: holding fragrance bath salts moments after discovery was not actually meth. Phew, Hannah,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Hannah, that's an amazing story. It's basically
Speaker 1: this episode. It's basically this entire episode. The fact that
Speaker 1: you thought it was a baggie and then you automatically,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we've all watched too many crime shows.
Speaker 1: You automatically are like, it's a setup. She got rid
Speaker 1: of this thing for a hundred bucks when she could probably,
Speaker 1: if it was meth, probably sell it for more. But
Speaker 1: it was so funny that they like dump the drugs
Speaker 1: on you. You had to maate a hundred bucks for them.
Speaker 1: And then now you're stuck, and what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And then when your husband's like bath salts.
Speaker 2: Because people were going crazy on bath salts, so that
Speaker 2: was like a thing. It was not good.
Speaker 1: So you were going like, no, I know, it's like
Speaker 1: something terrible and bad, like got it. And your husband's
Speaker 1: like no, like literally, this is like aromatherapy. We can
Speaker 1: run you a bath and this would be good for
Speaker 1: you and little babe, how funny, how totally insane.
Speaker 2: That would have stressed me out so deeply.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest that my husband had been like,
Speaker 1: it's just bath salts, it's no big deal.
Speaker 2: I would be like, how do you know I'm not
Speaker 2: just gonna believe you whatever holding these drugs. I bet
Speaker 2: you that woman. She was so quick to drop the
Speaker 2: price by fifty percent. Something is going on. We love
Speaker 2: a little, you know, a mystery. We love solving cases.
Speaker 1: Women.
Speaker 2: You can't just make it that easy. There's so many
Speaker 2: suspicious things that have happened. Hannah. I love this also.
Speaker 1: It would be exactly what I would do. Hannahs are
Speaker 1: aligned on this, the handahs are aligned, and this picture
Speaker 1: of you is hysterical and very sweet. And now I
Speaker 1: want to know all about your baby and what that
Speaker 1: dresser ended up looking like. I've got so many follow
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