Speaker 1: Injection fellas, Oh, is that the theme song? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just do a romantic Ottoman humping theme song.
Speaker 2: We we could do a refresh on the theme song.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, that's actually not the This is not erotic
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: There's not everything you do is erotical.
Speaker 2: This is true. Thank you, Yes, that is true.
Speaker 1: That is factual. I agree.
Speaker 2: I can't help yourself.
Speaker 3: What do we do any of if it's not erotic?
Speaker 1: Folks, if you're just tuning in and you wonder who
Speaker 1: the hell that person is speaking, it is none other
Speaker 1: than the most beloved TV character of all time, mister
Speaker 1: Max green Field. Max the squinty eyes works. It works,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: I should say, considering what your your title is, lamarn
Speaker 2: for yourself on these these record sessions, we put it
Speaker 2: out Max that you were coming on the podcast and
Speaker 2: ask for questions, and I would say half of the
Speaker 2: questions were how did Max not win an Emmy for Schmid?
Speaker 2: Half the fan questions were that one singular question, Well.
Speaker 3: You know, it feels good to be nominated, and.
Speaker 4: As one more can attest to, you know, winning an
Speaker 4: Emmy is kind of like a loser move, because then
Speaker 4: what do you do from then? You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I won. Good for you. You got an award for acting.
Speaker 4: Congratulations school like in the group. And you're like, I
Speaker 4: didn't win. You're like, that's kind of cooler, right right.
Speaker 4: I think so, although it did not feel great when
Speaker 4: I lost.
Speaker 1: But you know, do you remember what you told me
Speaker 1: I saw you at the night before party.
Speaker 3: I do remember, because.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, listen, I'm telling you, just know
Speaker 4: that if it doesn't go your way, there's about thirty
Speaker 4: seconds where you can't breathe and you go.
Speaker 3: This is humiliating.
Speaker 4: Obviously you didn't experience that.
Speaker 2: Well, you were, You were so prepared to experience it
Speaker 2: that the wind took you so off guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I listened. I took that to heart. I
Speaker 1: knew I wasn't going to win, but I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, just work on your loser face, don't be
Speaker 1: don't be a piece of shit in this moment the
Speaker 1: morn and like be sad and mad about it and
Speaker 1: put just work on your youth. Known you smile and
Speaker 1: all that, and I and I just and I was
Speaker 1: going to do a bit ax so much. If I
Speaker 1: told you this, Max, I was going to do it. No,
Speaker 1: if I lose.
Speaker 2: No, he was, so he has being prepared. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: had something prepared.
Speaker 1: I was going to curse out the camera's and like
Speaker 1: grab it and stuff. I was prepared to do that.
Speaker 1: I was like, just la morn, just you may never
Speaker 1: get nominated again.
Speaker 3: Like for you to grab the camera that was going
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 4: I'm sort of like knocking into whoever was sitting in
Speaker 4: front of you and injuring someone like Diane Weister, Kathy babs.
Speaker 3: Ring behind the hospital.
Speaker 1: Welcome Max, Please please make yourself at home. We want
Speaker 1: to dive into this episode. So in this episode, Nick
Speaker 1: and just break up but decide not to tell anyone
Speaker 1: in fear that they might ruin Winston's day after he
Speaker 1: learns to get accepted into the police academy. Meanwhile, Schmid
Speaker 1: decides to help CC's study for her ged because she's stupid.
Speaker 1: But after everyone secretly finds out about the breakup, minus Winston,
Speaker 1: that's all they can focus on. This leads to a
Speaker 1: honey roast for the Ages. We'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we are back Max. This director, first of all written
Speaker 1: by Berkeley Johnson and Kim rosenstock Uh, two of the
Speaker 1: best writers the director, though even Shida. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: Toshida all right. Directed a hell of an episode.
Speaker 3: Nailed it, nailed it one.
Speaker 1: We start this episode off, we uh. Nick wakes up
Speaker 1: with a note on his hand that reads you and
Speaker 1: Jess broke up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, full Memento style.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Bed got burned. It was not
Speaker 1: a dream. Writing left handed is hard, all those things,
Speaker 1: and there is a makeshift bed on the floor where
Speaker 1: where Jess slept. It goes to grab some clothes out
Speaker 1: of the closet, only to get scared by Jess, who
Speaker 1: was in the closet changing her clothes. Are you like
Speaker 1: me Max when I when I watched this show back,
Speaker 1: Well you probably don't watch it back, but what I
Speaker 1: watch it back just be because we do this recap.
Speaker 1: I get so confused with the breakups and then get
Speaker 1: back together.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what you could have stopped you could have
Speaker 4: stopped with I get so confused.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, do you think you ever in real time?
Speaker 1: Are you always like? Are we breaking up again? Because
Speaker 1: the same happens with Schmidt.
Speaker 2: And CC wisconsinant on again, off again? I mean they
Speaker 2: you know, but that's the.
Speaker 3: Show, right, I never think about it.
Speaker 2: You show what you're told.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I in real time, I'm the exact same way. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, they wrote it, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I feel like they'll piece it together themselves.
Speaker 4: But now I talk this, I've talked about this a
Speaker 4: couple of times with people, you know, so we people
Speaker 4: try to will ask me what's the difference between the
Speaker 4: Neighborhood and New Girl and the Neighborhood because it's a multiicam,
Speaker 4: you know, And it's like you look back at a
Speaker 4: show like Seinfeld, which is a show that I loved,
Speaker 4: which is the same style of show, and.
Speaker 3: You can look back and you go, oh, this was the.
Speaker 4: Souper Nazi episode, or this was the even friends you
Speaker 4: know friends like specifically.
Speaker 3: Was called like the one with the or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: And you really can isolate episodes and.
Speaker 5: With New Girl, because the shooting of that show was
Speaker 5: so wild and spread out, and one episode mixed into
Speaker 5: the next.
Speaker 4: Episode, and well we were supposed to finish on Friday,
Speaker 4: went into like the following Wednesday, and storylines were ongoing
Speaker 4: and ending and coming back up again. It all felt
Speaker 4: like one Like every season just felt like one long
Speaker 4: episode that never ended. You never felt like you were
Speaker 4: you know, where you would shoot the button of an
Speaker 4: episode or the tag of an episode and go, oh,
Speaker 4: we finished the episode because you were then shooting something
Speaker 4: right after it, and you just you never had any
Speaker 4: sort of idea of what a storyline was within an episode.
Speaker 3: It just felt like one long, insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like epic movie age. It didn't necessarily have any ending.
Speaker 4: And so when you talk about like storylines, I was
Speaker 4: always like, I was like, man, I don't I don't
Speaker 4: know where were I lost? You lose the plot after after,
Speaker 4: after some point, and you just are doing bits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was the episode, even the episode before the
Speaker 1: two episodes prior on this podcast, we were there's this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy named Buster who comes into the bar.
Speaker 2: Do you remember this episode I'm just called Fired Up
Speaker 2: where CC a young man comes into the bar. He's
Speaker 2: twenty and they named him Buster after Brett's son, and
Speaker 2: she like wants to date em, even though he's like
Speaker 2: ten years younger and can't even legally be in a
Speaker 2: bar thirteen years?
Speaker 3: Was he cute though?
Speaker 1: Hot? Australian from hearth And when I when I was
Speaker 1: rewatching it, I went wait, Schmidt and sees he broke, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, where are we?
Speaker 2: I was like cheering her on to date the child. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that when I remember, I was like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: What's happening in this episode? That was a weird one
Speaker 2: to watch. And then you put this episode. He's so
Speaker 2: sweet to her and they're like back with their little
Speaker 2: chemistry thing.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you guys felt this, but
Speaker 4: because like you know, we weren't always involved with the
Speaker 4: Nick Jess stuff because they were so isolated, I never
Speaker 4: knew what was happening. Never It's funny, but a director
Speaker 4: would say, you're reacting to this, and I go, oh, okay.
Speaker 2: This episode, I should say we. Our producer picked this
Speaker 2: episode because she's like, oh, this would be a great
Speaker 2: one because it's really sweet between Schmidt and cc. He
Speaker 2: helps her study for her ged it's a fan favorite
Speaker 2: for that couple together, and because Cec is like so
Speaker 2: sweet quiet in it and it is just giving them
Speaker 2: all these looks. She's like, this is the feedback we've got.
Speaker 2: This would be a great episode for Max to do.
Speaker 2: And so I talked to her today and I said
Speaker 2: about this episode, I was what I remember this episode
Speaker 2: the sickest I've ever been in my entire life. I
Speaker 2: was so ill and I remember calling Aeron O'Malley and
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't get out of bed at
Speaker 2: a fever of like one hundred and four or something crazy,
Speaker 2: and they were like, so sorry, but you have to
Speaker 2: come to work, and they brought me into work and
Speaker 2: I had, like, if you watch that episode, I'm barely
Speaker 2: squeaking out words, and I'm just sitting there kind of
Speaker 2: just like looking at you sweetly, but I'm like not
Speaker 2: even there, Like I'm on all of these fever medications,
Speaker 2: just like barely holding it together. And I have these
Speaker 2: pictures of when we were at the Honey Roast and
Speaker 2: I had to sit there and I was sweating with
Speaker 2: this fever and Damon just kept like rubbing my back
Speaker 2: because he could see that I was so sick. So
Speaker 2: all the loving looks from CC to Schmidt in this
Speaker 2: episode is really just me on death's door.
Speaker 4: I actually do. I don't remember you being sick at all.
Speaker 4: I do remember the Honey Roast really well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a weird. We shot it at night.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that. It was like at night? It
Speaker 2: was like it was so weird.
Speaker 4: It was like that and True American, and there was
Speaker 4: one other episode but I can't remember exactly what, like
Speaker 4: how to articulate what was happening.
Speaker 3: We were like in a tent, but.
Speaker 4: The Honey Roast and True American were two things that
Speaker 4: we shot were collectively we all were like.
Speaker 3: What what? What is this?
Speaker 4: And I remember there were there were multiple writers, if
Speaker 4: not maybe even Liz on set, and they were sort
Speaker 4: of just like telling us what to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were trying to make the Honey Roast work.
Speaker 2: They were trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4: It's the same thing with True American, where Jesse Peretz
Speaker 4: would be like, now do this or do that, and
Speaker 4: we'd be like, all right, man, I guess I'm just
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I remember a moment playing with the Honey Roast. Once
Speaker 1: we wrapped on that scene, I remember either talking to
Speaker 1: Liz or somebody going what, like, is this gonna work out?
Speaker 1: And they're like, Yeah, we're gonna, We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna together.
Speaker 4: That's sort of like the craziness and the beauty of
Speaker 4: the show is that we would sit there in those
Speaker 4: type of moments and go, I have no idea, what's
Speaker 4: what's happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would be at.
Speaker 4: The place where they're literally just telling us to say
Speaker 4: things or giving us jokes, and you're like, all right,
Speaker 4: and all of us are losing the mind, and none
Speaker 4: of us are like, you know, in our right mind
Speaker 4: to go to ask any more questions. And then they
Speaker 4: were cut it together and they've become sort of these
Speaker 4: iconic pieces of the show.
Speaker 3: And you go, and much much later go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was wrong. I don't know what we're doing. This
Speaker 3: seemed crazy. It was really really funny.
Speaker 2: It's funny because that's exactly I feel like why the
Speaker 2: Honey Roast worked so well, because we were all feeling
Speaker 2: that you damon and I sitting there being like, what
Speaker 2: is going on? But that is also what was happening
Speaker 2: in the Honey Roast is what the heck is going on?
Speaker 2: And you know, Jake getting to play high and you
Speaker 2: know Zoe getting to play drunk. It was just a
Speaker 2: perfect sloppy, weird, funny mess and they made it work.
Speaker 1: Now let's let's rewind a second. Let's just go back.
Speaker 1: Let's just go back to Nick and just not wanting
Speaker 1: to tell anybody about they didn't.
Speaker 2: Want to hijack the moment because they found out that
Speaker 2: that Lamar, you know that WinCE's got this great.
Speaker 1: Great news. He's in the police Academy, which I think
Speaker 1: is important because as I hate to say it to
Speaker 1: you guys like this, but as varieties sorry has varieties
Speaker 1: top one hundred characters of a century. This was what
Speaker 1: This was the beginning, you know, making him a police
Speaker 1: officer who shouldn't have been a police officer. And I
Speaker 1: think this was the inception of it once he got
Speaker 1: into the police academy, because the rest is Winston is
Speaker 1: the biggest idiot which she could possibly that should not
Speaker 1: be allowed to have a gun. And I I look
Speaker 1: back on stuff like this and I go and I go,
Speaker 1: like in the moment when you're filming it, you're like,
Speaker 1: it might not work. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: this thing is. But the level of adding on ridiculous
Speaker 1: after ridiculous after ridiculous, you look at it after the
Speaker 1: fact that you go like you just like you just said, Max,
Speaker 1: you go, oh yeah, all right, I guess that was wrong.
Speaker 3: It was a smart move.
Speaker 4: It reminded me of like you know Ghostbusters or Stripes,
Speaker 4: where you go, okay, well we got Bill Murray and
Speaker 4: we got Dan, like, what's the thing that, what's the
Speaker 4: thing that we believe them as the least? You're like
Speaker 4: ghost scientists and like members of our armed forces.
Speaker 2: Winnie the Bitsch is a LAPD cop.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Shouldn't. Yeah, shouldn't have never happened in real life. Now,
Speaker 1: Nick and Jess where are we right now? Him?
Speaker 2: They're falling apart. They're falling apart, but they're pretending that
Speaker 2: they can hold it together for one day. She does
Speaker 2: what you do, you call your mom sobbing and Nick
Speaker 2: Miller does what Nick Miller does. He goes in talks
Speaker 2: of Tran.
Speaker 1: That's one of the funniest I've ever seen. A Yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: that's one of the funniest relationships I've ever seen. Like
Speaker 1: if you could think of any like relationships that happened
Speaker 1: in television, Mactual, you watch a lot of TV, You're
Speaker 1: in a lot of TV. The Nick and Tran. The
Speaker 1: man doesn't say a word ever, but it's so funny.
Speaker 1: It's such a funny iconic duo.
Speaker 4: And I feel like Jake didn't Jake sort of request
Speaker 4: that storyline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he loved it so much, genuinely loved it.
Speaker 1: Yes, could you imagine on this show.
Speaker 4: Ralph like showing by the way, We're like, we're all going, oh,
Speaker 4: this is tran and he's a spinky didn't talking about
Speaker 4: what about from his perspective?
Speaker 2: Jake, Look, can I get a line? Put I get
Speaker 2: one line. I've been on this show for so long.
Speaker 4: Could I get you know that guy he's got, he's
Speaker 4: going I got to get into a bathtub with.
Speaker 2: Hold them like a baby.
Speaker 1: Oh man. And this is when we get into the
Speaker 1: honey roast business. You know, Nick goes back Homeie tells
Speaker 1: Winston he needs to dream big. What do you want?
Speaker 1: He says he wants a honey roast? Nobody knows what
Speaker 1: the hell that is?
Speaker 2: Is it, by the way, a thing like I genuinely
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I I've seen. What I have seen is the uh,
Speaker 1: the complimentary rap battles. All they do is say nice ship.
Speaker 2: Is it like for kids or like adults just coplementing
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: It's adults, but they're like a real rat battle. Like
Speaker 1: it's like goons around, but all they're doing is saying
Speaker 1: nice stuff about their opponent.
Speaker 3: It's quite nice.
Speaker 1: It's quite it is quite nice. Where are we handed
Speaker 1: back at the bar this is this right here? Max Is.
Speaker 1: We think about it in real time, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is you know, you know, she's a model, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But upon for the review watching this episode, I'm like,
Speaker 1: man Ceci is stupid.
Speaker 2: What she really did not get her life together?
Speaker 1: They be such an idiot, you're I mean, and those
Speaker 1: knock on people who didn't graduate high school. That's not
Speaker 1: what it's about. It's about you know, I know, if
Speaker 1: they know how.
Speaker 2: To log on, Yes, not having your ged is one
Speaker 2: thing that's fine. Not knowing that Perth is in Australia
Speaker 2: is a different thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh boy, she needs help. Yeah. Do you
Speaker 1: what do you remember about this particular back and forth
Speaker 1: between you guys, because you know, again, you break up,
Speaker 1: you get back together, all the stuff, and now it
Speaker 1: seems like it seems like now you're you're you're helping
Speaker 1: her out a lot on this quest become better. What
Speaker 1: do you remember about the writing of this And it's hard.
Speaker 4: To sort of like, again, I do remember a little
Speaker 4: bit of I guess the C. C. Schmidt arc. It's
Speaker 4: hard to know exactly. I was a little surprised this
Speaker 4: was season three, and then I I got confused, and
Speaker 4: Damon was there. I swore came in season four.
Speaker 3: Nope, I couldn't have been.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was so thrown off and I was
Speaker 4: like the whole episode, I go, wait, no, Damon season four.
Speaker 1: So you don't remember anything?
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean I don't think. I think most
Speaker 2: of us who are on the show, it's only because
Speaker 2: we're rewatching week to week. But I have not watched
Speaker 2: the show since it like when we you know, it aired,
Speaker 2: and so you forget huge chunks of things that have happened. Again,
Speaker 2: I only remember this episode because I've never been that
Speaker 2: ill in my life, and I can see it in
Speaker 2: my eyes there. And I will say I've said this
Speaker 2: many times before, but I said that probably the most
Speaker 2: generous scene partner and friend is you Max. And I
Speaker 2: do know on the day that I probably was like
Speaker 2: very sick and I can't talk of a fever one
Speaker 2: hundred and four, and you would always just be like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I got I got it, I got you. And so
Speaker 2: I can see that dynamic because I can see that
Speaker 2: I'm like sweating and sick and should not have been there,
Speaker 2: and any other job you can call and sick to
Speaker 2: work as an actor that usually doesn't happen, and there's
Speaker 2: a sweetness there. But I think it was also just
Speaker 2: part of our friendship because you're like, this woman should
Speaker 2: be in the hospital.
Speaker 3: But okay, it's a kind it's a kind thing to say.
Speaker 4: You had to deal with me the entire time, which
Speaker 4: is not I mean, as wonderful as a scene partner
Speaker 4: as I am. You know I can be, I can
Speaker 4: be challenging time.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say, especially because you're saying all these
Speaker 1: nice things about Max that he's living in the moments
Speaker 1: when you're sick. When I hurt my son getting off
Speaker 1: that couch, he wasn't very nice to me when I
Speaker 1: had the bubble guts and I had to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. Max wasn't very nice to me. It wasn't
Speaker 1: nice to me at all.
Speaker 4: Well, we were never nice to each other. The boys
Speaker 4: were never nice to each other.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's true. We got no love from each other.
Speaker 1: This fact. In fact, what I do remember the most
Speaker 1: is whenever I'm spiraling doing a bit and saying things
Speaker 1: that could potentially in my career, I just see Max going.
Speaker 2: Poor.
Speaker 1: Max will whisper of really bested up joke to me.
Speaker 1: You know, man, you should really say we.
Speaker 4: Were doing that. Uh the seconds man a live interview,
Speaker 4: which and when Wren was on one, he was just.
Speaker 2: This is when you were just nominated to right for
Speaker 2: the Emmy. You were nominated at that point.
Speaker 4: Lamorn was on one, and you would answer a question
Speaker 4: and then continue answering the question, and you would hear
Speaker 4: people who are you know in the room go oh no,
Speaker 4: And I kept going, guys, it's totally fine, you know what.
Speaker 3: Lamar wanted to just take that again.
Speaker 4: Again, and we get worse and worse, worse, you know what,
Speaker 4: Everything's fine, Lamorn one more time, just like taking in
Speaker 4: the heart.
Speaker 3: It just never got better.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is I know exactly what you're talking about
Speaker 2: because so many people sent me that interview and basically
Speaker 2: we're like, oh my god, like light bulb moment. They
Speaker 2: weren't acting on the show.
Speaker 3: There's some footage on the floor.
Speaker 2: Man, I believe it.
Speaker 4: I believe it, but it is really it is really strange,
Speaker 4: you know, like not knowing I swore Damon came in.
Speaker 4: If you would put a gun to my head and
Speaker 4: said when did Damon come back to the show, I'd
Speaker 4: say season four. I was so shocked, So that would
Speaker 4: have meant that did when did Merret Weaver come in?
Speaker 4: Beginning of season three?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 3: That was the end of two?
Speaker 2: It was two that was like the two was like
Speaker 2: got a bit right? Is somebody right with Mary? Joelle? Tommy?
Speaker 2: Am I right?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 1: It was the end of two, end of two.
Speaker 3: Man, oh man, I'm a I'm a year on this show.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the recovery of Schmidt from that storyline was
Speaker 2: like the everest that this show.
Speaker 3: I felt like it was real tricky.
Speaker 4: We we uh. I really liked what the Right Is done.
Speaker 4: I liked it and I was with it, and I
Speaker 4: guess not not everybody was.
Speaker 3: But but then.
Speaker 4: So they sort of slowed played me back into the
Speaker 4: fold after that relationship I guess didn't play as well
Speaker 4: as we wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was like the dating two people and
Speaker 2: I don't have to choose, I think is what then? Like,
Speaker 2: you know, you were like such a hero on the show,
Speaker 2: and everybody loved Schmidt. It's a pretty unlovable thing and
Speaker 2: that was what they had to kind of like I
Speaker 2: really figure out.
Speaker 4: I really bought into the idea that he was just
Speaker 4: like I loved both of them so much.
Speaker 2: I will say what was hysterical for me is that
Speaker 2: when those episodes were airing, and you know, everybody was
Speaker 2: so in love with the show, and people would stop
Speaker 2: me right and be like, you have to take him.
Speaker 2: And I was like, first of all, I don't write
Speaker 2: this show, so I don't know if you know how
Speaker 2: this works, but like, this is not real, and I
Speaker 2: don't write this show. But none of it was ever
Speaker 2: even people in like the delirious nature of like this
Speaker 2: feels so real to me was like what a piece
Speaker 2: of shit geating on these two characters. It was. They
Speaker 2: loved you so much. I feel like Schmidt just would
Speaker 2: have been forgiven anything. It was amazing to experience people
Speaker 2: like coming up and like stopping me, being like you
Speaker 2: have to make this happen, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: have no control.
Speaker 1: About them anything.
Speaker 4: But I remember, I do vaguely remember it was either
Speaker 4: this scene this episode, or like it might even been
Speaker 4: this episode, but some of the scenes where you were
Speaker 4: at the bar and they have my character come in
Speaker 4: and it was just the two of us and the aftermath
Speaker 4: of that, and I remember being like, man, I gotta
Speaker 4: really be careful with these scenes. Because I can't go
Speaker 4: I don't have the same freedoms I once had, And
Speaker 4: we started the show because I'm working I guess from
Speaker 4: a deficit from what we were trying to like dig
Speaker 4: ourselves out of.
Speaker 1: You know what I compare it to you became Lebron
Speaker 1: in Miami. He became the villain. It was like, how
Speaker 1: does Lebron get back into the good graces of people?
Speaker 3: But you know, you bring up something interesting.
Speaker 4: It was really cool that I think in a sense
Speaker 4: it worked out in a really interesting way because they
Speaker 4: had to sort of figure out what to do.
Speaker 3: With me at that point and how to move forward.
Speaker 4: And at the same time they were like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: we just found Winston, like.
Speaker 3: Like they really tapped into your character.
Speaker 4: And then there was a real shift in that moment
Speaker 4: where it was like, oh man, we can give like all,
Speaker 4: we can give all upun all the fund so that
Speaker 4: we used to give to Schmidt all to like where
Speaker 4: then they found you and like ran with you. And
Speaker 4: it was like that to me is why a show
Speaker 4: really lasts for a long time is because you you
Speaker 4: can when you figure out everybody, you can sort of
Speaker 4: then go nuts and like you can take breaks from
Speaker 4: characters and really like allow other characters to do their
Speaker 4: thing and play big storylines out with them, and it
Speaker 4: was it was interesting how that happened.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I will say in this episode what I
Speaker 2: liked because yes, it was one very sweet and very
Speaker 2: gentle the Schmid's hec stuff. I also was just whispering,
Speaker 2: so it made it seem even more gentle the entire episode.
Speaker 2: But my favorite bit, because I was like, oh, there
Speaker 2: it is. That's the best part always is when at
Speaker 2: the end of the episode Max you come in and
Speaker 2: Schmidt he's like processing the breakup because they find out
Speaker 2: about the breakup at the end, and he's just like,
Speaker 2: I don't care, like you're an idiot, figure our life
Speaker 2: out CC, And I was like, Oh, that's the best.
Speaker 2: That's like why those two characters work is when those
Speaker 2: weird Schmidt moments happen and they kind of let you
Speaker 2: kind of like do your thing that you do so well, those.
Speaker 4: Were the turns on New Girl that I love the
Speaker 4: most where he like comes in because I did watch
Speaker 4: the episode where he would come in and have like
Speaker 4: a really nice I mean, it's just a great piece
Speaker 4: of dialogue where which was not improvised which was something
Speaker 4: like it makes me so angry or something like that
Speaker 4: I care more about your future than you care about
Speaker 4: something like that or your and it was a really
Speaker 4: like it was a nice moment, especially in the recovery
Speaker 4: of everything that we were sort of trying to work
Speaker 4: backwards from.
Speaker 3: And uh.
Speaker 4: And then for you guys to then reveal the Jake
Speaker 4: and Zoe broke up, and.
Speaker 3: For me to turn on you immediately after the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best. Those moments are the best.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's go to a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I know we already talked about this a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I do want to, you know, speak a little
Speaker 1: bit about this honey roast in a little bit more detail,
Speaker 1: and then we can keep the ball rolling. Hey, folks
Speaker 1: will be right back, and we're back. Jake Johnson is
Speaker 1: a piece of ship. So let's let's dive in to
Speaker 1: this honey roast. Huh what do you mean, Max?
Speaker 2: I feel like this is like a honey roast of
Speaker 2: an episode we're doing right here. Very sweet.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite parts about this episode is where
Speaker 1: the honey rolls does start. And I could tell you
Speaker 1: it's all I all I do is say does somebody
Speaker 1: did somebody say Winston? Every time I watch this episode
Speaker 1: or seeing this clip, I get upset with myself because
Speaker 1: when I read something or I visualize something, I start
Speaker 1: to laugh and then it's hard and you've max I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've seen this before when we won't do bits
Speaker 1: and I can't stop laughing at the bit and I
Speaker 1: can never officially get it out properly the way the
Speaker 1: joke was like, if I did the joke properly, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't land so much more. But I'm laughing so much
Speaker 1: that I can't do it.
Speaker 4: I totally get it. And it's such a testament to
Speaker 4: the writing on that show and how good it was.
Speaker 4: Everyone like you would get lines and moments where.
Speaker 1: You go, this is really yeah, then you have to go.
Speaker 4: If I get excited about it or push it too hard,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take away from what's there. I gotta like
Speaker 4: just allow it to happen. But I'm also too excited
Speaker 4: about what's about to happen.
Speaker 1: Yes, And when that door opens, I just remember watching
Speaker 1: is says that somebody somebody say Winston. Every time I
Speaker 1: watch it, I go I had better takes. I just
Speaker 1: remember just one line it's ever going Like I kept
Speaker 1: laughing or adding to it and it wasn't working. I
Speaker 1: was like, just say a freaking line. I finally did it.
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, that was weak, but they used
Speaker 1: it whatever. So so now we're into this honey roast situation.
Speaker 1: You know what I love most about it is that
Speaker 1: on this show, we'll take something very like normal, like
Speaker 1: make the man a throne, and then but what does
Speaker 1: that thrown look like? When Nick makes it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: It's it. They use the personal traits of a character
Speaker 1: to add something to it. Every time I watch this
Speaker 1: or see a meme of it, I look at how
Speaker 1: stupid that the thing looks like, oh yeah, yeah. This
Speaker 1: is also a part of the writing, like they make
Speaker 1: they make this cool shit that people talk about out
Speaker 1: of just simply by saying because if if they were
Speaker 1: just said, Schmid's gonna make it, it would look completely different.
Speaker 1: It'd be leather, it would be you know, metrical, it
Speaker 1: would be clean, all these things. But they're like, no,
Speaker 1: let's Nick makes it and it looks like something you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be sitting on.
Speaker 3: Was Game of Thrones out at the time.
Speaker 1: I believe that's so funny.
Speaker 2: That was the thought I had too. I was like,
Speaker 2: it feels like this the whole thing is inspired by
Speaker 2: a Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: I think so. I could be wrong. I think so it.
Speaker 2: Must have been forever.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a Game of Thrones reference in this.
Speaker 1: But I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Max.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to or have done I feel
Speaker 1: like you have been to this set at least you
Speaker 1: know everybody in this town. I'm not like you did
Speaker 1: a set visit. I do.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of actors that actually went out
Speaker 2: to Spain to like go on set and walk around.
Speaker 3: Want they don't want my kind up. There no time
Speaker 3: for bits on the set of games.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like the the the writing of them doing
Speaker 1: you know, saying nice and cool and cute. I remember
Speaker 1: about that is that I genuinely, even though it was
Speaker 1: confusing and we were in those moments, I genuinely thought
Speaker 1: it was funny. Even though I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know where we are. You know, all the nice stuff,
Speaker 1: all of our reactions to it, I thought that was
Speaker 1: all pretty u pretty damn solid.
Speaker 2: It was so weird because like Jake is, you know,
Speaker 2: playing high, and Zoe is like a drunk cat and
Speaker 2: The whole thing was so all over the place, and
Speaker 2: I just remember we shot really out of sequence, and
Speaker 2: I think it was because I was that's sick, and
Speaker 2: Aaron's like, we got to get out of here. She's
Speaker 2: to go to the hospital. And so they were shooting
Speaker 2: like our reactions and then like that moment at the
Speaker 2: end holding hands, we did that like first we did
Speaker 2: all this stuff like completely out of order. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: felt a very true American ish where you're like, what's
Speaker 2: going on? Why are we doing it like this? Nobody's
Speaker 2: fully like in their character. Really, everybody's playing like weird
Speaker 2: versions of themselves. But man, on a rewatch, it was hysterical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Zoe was dressed up like a cat.
Speaker 2: Like Ferguson, because that's what when he wanted.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but she was dressed up like a cat and
Speaker 4: doing stand up and we were just sitting there going.
Speaker 3: What's happening? And then Warn walked in a tuxedo and
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on drugs
Speaker 3: for real.
Speaker 4: Jake's got his sunglasses on and pretending he's online paint
Speaker 4: heads or something.
Speaker 2: Schmitty's Little Helpers.
Speaker 1: Schmitty's Little helpers now, uh, and then the honey roast
Speaker 1: is postponed to the next day.
Speaker 2: Well it gets it turns, right, it turns because Jess
Speaker 2: gets so pissed she turns into a real roast. And
Speaker 2: then she starts trying to say mean things. Yeah in
Speaker 2: a Jess way.
Speaker 1: Have a big head. Was like, that's it all right,
Speaker 1: cool man, you got me. But yeah, later that night,
Speaker 1: just watching Dirty Dancing in the living room and she's crying.
Speaker 1: And here's honestly, if you just played a scene from
Speaker 1: Dirty Dancing and then you just played a scene from Ghosts,
Speaker 1: I would like.
Speaker 2: Just one ghost.
Speaker 1: It's important. Ghosts, well, Ghosts. You know, it was also
Speaker 1: a great show CBS. But if you played a scene,
Speaker 1: I would be like, I'd lose if Max, you've been
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy if I if you played.
Speaker 2: As I would know the difference between Dirty Dancing and
Speaker 2: ghost this.
Speaker 1: One scene, would you why? Because swazy, it's swayzy, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's romantic, and there's like the same era.
Speaker 1: So the film grain looks the same, you said, confusing
Speaker 1: In my life, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Speaker 3: This is this is right up there.
Speaker 1: What are you there. If it would be go Berg
Speaker 1: in there, then I'd be like, Oh, that's ghost but yeah,
Speaker 1: but didn't. I'd be like, what movie because I get
Speaker 1: the actor place.
Speaker 3: In the camp and the other takes place in New
Speaker 3: York City.
Speaker 1: When is it a camp?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: God, have you.
Speaker 3: The camp?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Dirty? No, I would get dirty dancing and Roadhouse confused?
Speaker 1: Oh for sure?
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, what what this is?
Speaker 1: I would be I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1: Got to announce it like this is a dirty dancing.
Speaker 1: Then I'd be like, I get it. I understand. Also,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of these movies for sure. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. I haven't he brings it man, Yeah
Speaker 1: the greatest. Now, the Roadhouse remake was great. I like
Speaker 1: that movie.
Speaker 3: Greg in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was coolest. Billy Magnus, let's go. We end
Speaker 1: with them both singing hungry eyes, which is a scene
Speaker 1: from Ghost Sta and we are back, Hannah. Let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's mess around a little bit. That's not something weird
Speaker 1: that we do. Maxis, I'm not on.
Speaker 3: Premise, and I'm aware of the premise.
Speaker 2: We uh, we put it out there that you were
Speaker 2: coming on this show, and we got I don't even
Speaker 2: know one hundred to two hundred, and it was insane
Speaker 2: questions just for you. So we uh picked a few
Speaker 2: to ask from the fans. So let's start with Melissa.
Speaker 2: She said, what was the best part of playing Schmidt
Speaker 2: and what was the hardest? You absolutely killed it. You
Speaker 2: had me laughing every single episode even rewatching it. Best
Speaker 2: part of playing Schmid doesn't feel comfortable was a past Melissa,
Speaker 2: He said, pass.
Speaker 4: The most difficult for sure was memorizing uh a lot
Speaker 4: of the dialogue because there's some there were some real chunks,
Speaker 4: and having to do that day of a lot of
Speaker 4: the times was was sometimes challenging, as you guys would witness.
Speaker 2: The one that I still think about to this day
Speaker 2: is when they had you name all of Romney's kids.
Speaker 3: I know that one, by the way.
Speaker 4: I did no research on that, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe he has all those kids, and they
Speaker 4: were like, we just made those names up, and I went,
Speaker 4: you know, I still could have just said anything, I like,
Speaker 4: memorized it in order.
Speaker 3: And did a whole torture.
Speaker 4: But memorizing some of those things was was was challenging.
Speaker 3: Also, you know what, the most the worst part of Plane.
Speaker 3: Schmidt was the choreography I Hannah, you probably remember her name.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the choreographer who came in who choreographed
Speaker 4: the Bollywood dance?
Speaker 2: No, but I should. I would just like to say,
Speaker 2: very quickly, is that I think the original idea, if
Speaker 2: this makes me feel any better, is that I was
Speaker 2: supposed to join in or be part of it. And
Speaker 2: then they saw my skill level, which is somehow worse
Speaker 2: than Jake Johnson's. So they brought me in on a
Speaker 2: Saturday to that rehearsal to watch you guys, and I
Speaker 2: just sat in a chair and they were like, we're done.
Speaker 2: And I'm like.
Speaker 4: It, you filmed that, and you felt you filmed me
Speaker 4: having a temper tantrum. I do have it, and I'm
Speaker 4: really I'm so bad with choreography and they move so fast,
Speaker 4: and there's an expectation that I don't know.
Speaker 3: I always feel like they're looking at me like how
Speaker 3: are you not getting this?
Speaker 4: And and the and the premise of that of that
Speaker 4: dance was that Schmidt was supposed to be very good
Speaker 4: at it, and he had really worked hard on it,
Speaker 4: and I was having a lot of trouble with it,
Speaker 4: and I was very I was very upset.
Speaker 2: Well, you wanted to be great at it, you, I mean,
Speaker 2: it ended up being amazing. If you're comfortable this clip.
Speaker 4: I ran into that to that woman, she was wonderful,
Speaker 4: wonderful choreographer.
Speaker 3: I ran into her.
Speaker 4: Outside of the Aminsen Theater and I was taking my
Speaker 4: kids to see I was saying, my daughter is see
Speaker 4: Evan Hanson with two of her friends. And I ran
Speaker 4: into her and she ran up and she said hi,
Speaker 4: and she couldn't have been like more lovely and excited
Speaker 4: to see me. And I was like, I need to
Speaker 4: take this moment and apologize to you deeply, because I
Speaker 4: was really I was challenged that week and I and
Speaker 4: I and if I took it out on you at all,
Speaker 4: I really sincerely apologize. And she was like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't I don't totally buy it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, she probably saw that your intention underneath it all
Speaker 2: was that you just wanted it, you wanted to be
Speaker 2: great at it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: You weren't frustrated at her.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing people ask all the time, you
Speaker 1: know about the characters on the show, And I've always
Speaker 1: said this, I said, Max Greenfield is one of the
Speaker 1: greatest actors period, because you can't because I'm there in
Speaker 1: real time. I'm looking at the dialogue that he has
Speaker 1: to say, I'm looking at the song and dance that
Speaker 1: he has to do while saying it. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at his level of commitment, even though sometimes it's so
Speaker 1: crazy what he has to say, the lists of things,
Speaker 1: the words that I'm quite sure you had to look
Speaker 1: up or just didn't bother looking up, that you just
Speaker 1: commit it, committed so hard to it. I remember there
Speaker 1: was a tie where you couldn't get a there was
Speaker 1: a specific tongue twister you had to say, and I
Speaker 1: just remember you going. You kept like you kept screwing
Speaker 1: up with a lot of you said to yourself, damn it.
Speaker 3: Max, damn it.
Speaker 2: Max. Happened a lot.
Speaker 3: I just was in tears.
Speaker 1: I was like, my god, I don't want to be him.
Speaker 1: I don't mean right.
Speaker 2: They give him, They give you a different mountain to
Speaker 2: climb than the rest of us. That's true.
Speaker 4: Would Jake would make fun of me when it's happening
Speaker 4: and you go, Max is going brandad again, Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, you do a short circuit. After a certain point,
Speaker 2: when you've said something, it starts to lose its meaning.
Speaker 2: Like anything, it becomes nonsensical.
Speaker 1: You you mentioned your daughter a little bit ago. Has
Speaker 1: has she watched New Girl yet? Will you let her
Speaker 1: watch New Girl?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 4: I find she like tapped into it for a minute.
Speaker 4: She's fifteen, she's a freshman in high school. She tapped
Speaker 4: into it for a minute and was like okay. And
Speaker 4: a lot of those kids like they know about it,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 3: Not their thing.
Speaker 1: It's not like their show, right.
Speaker 4: It isn't until later I find that the kids that
Speaker 4: go crazy where they really or I shouldn't say where
Speaker 4: they really have where it really connects with them is
Speaker 4: when they go to college.
Speaker 1: Yeah m hm.
Speaker 3: And I think it's.
Speaker 4: Because they're living on their own, they have roommates, they're
Speaker 4: in a dorm and it's probably co ed or.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is. And then all of a sudden, there's
Speaker 3: a moment where like they have a.
Speaker 4: Weekend, they're not doing anything or they're hungover. Oh, they
Speaker 4: get stump and they watch the show and they watch
Speaker 4: all one hundred and forty episodes of it and they.
Speaker 3: Go, I'll never be the name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I remember the first time someone said that to me.
Speaker 2: They're like, I just have you watched a new Girl?
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, they're like this weekend and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you watched it in like one city.
Speaker 4: My daughter does club volleyball, and so I'll have to
Speaker 4: drive to all these tournaments, right, And so she has
Speaker 4: her team, and there's other club teams there, and there's
Speaker 4: other ages sometimes there and never you know, it's like
Speaker 4: a bunch of high school kids, and you know, every
Speaker 4: once in a while more so you get like moms
Speaker 4: that'll come up to you and say stuff. But colleges
Speaker 4: have club teams too, And we went to one there
Speaker 4: was like a bunch of colleges teams were there and
Speaker 4: they I think.
Speaker 3: Stopped the tournament and have my luck. They were just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god. And I had to take like a
Speaker 3: thousand pictures that day.
Speaker 4: Like the other parents on the teams were like, does
Speaker 4: this usually happen? And I go, it's the it's if
Speaker 4: the college kids weren't here, it would not have happened.
Speaker 1: That is, do you know what I can I can
Speaker 1: attest to that. That is christ I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: much the like I just thought you know, adult kids
Speaker 1: or adult people in their twenties, maybe mid twenties, early
Speaker 1: thirties were vibe into the show. A buddy of mine
Speaker 1: took me to my first ever UCLA basketball game, and
Speaker 1: you know, they show the people on the screen that
Speaker 1: are there. They showed my boy who was next to me.
Speaker 1: I was sitting with Norman Powell and I was sitting
Speaker 1: with Julia White, UCLA alums, and they showed them on
Speaker 1: the screen. People go crazy and as the cameras moving back,
Speaker 1: they see me and you can hear a murmur in
Speaker 1: the crowd. They go to Jessica Alba, they go to
Speaker 1: somebody else who was there, and the camera guy comes
Speaker 1: back up to me. He has no idea who I am,
Speaker 1: and he goes they want me to put the camera
Speaker 1: on you too, And I was like all right, and
Speaker 1: the people start screaming Winnie the bish. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I never experienced that before in my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's intense.
Speaker 1: That question came from Chessa. By the way, Hannah, you
Speaker 1: got another question, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this one's from Abby. She says,
Speaker 2: where do you still find Schmidt in your day to day?
Speaker 2: How has the character stayed with you past filming the show.
Speaker 2: Any schmidisms that have popped up in your day to day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean always, I think a little bit.
Speaker 4: I find it like whenever i'm doing whenever I have
Speaker 4: to do a bit, or if I have it anytime
Speaker 4: somebody wants me to be funny and you go, okay,
Speaker 4: And you know, we've done now seven seasons in the Neighborhood,
Speaker 4: and we've gone through a couple of showrunners and like
Speaker 4: a lot of different writers on that show, and then
Speaker 4: there's just stuff that you'll get and you'll go, I
Speaker 4: know how to do this. It's the same way I
Speaker 4: did it while I was doing it on A New Girl,
Speaker 4: and you just do it.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a thing right now, an animated show. It's
Speaker 3: not out yet, but the writing is.
Speaker 4: So so good and it's so funny, and it's very quick,
Speaker 4: and I find myself doing a lot of I'm like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess this is just where I go
Speaker 4: when this is like when it's this type of rhythm,
Speaker 4: this type of stuff, and I was like, I can't
Speaker 4: I guess I can't help it.
Speaker 1: Is that the show, your animated show, is that the
Speaker 1: show you ditched my show for the show was supposed
Speaker 1: to be me and you, and then you ditched it,
Speaker 1: and then now you're doing another animated show. No oh
Speaker 1: to me and maxiw supposed to do a show.
Speaker 2: I know you had a personal question list that you
Speaker 2: just like are also reading.
Speaker 1: I was hurt. I was looking forward to it, and
Speaker 1: Max was like, one morning, sorry, bro, you just.
Speaker 2: Trying to have shows with each of these cast members,
Speaker 2: one on one. We got our show doing this, you
Speaker 2: and Max gonna go do a cartoon together.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to work with everybody. Listen, I tell people
Speaker 1: all the time. Max, I'm not sure if you remember
Speaker 1: saying this to me. You said, I think it was
Speaker 1: maybe the finale you said it. No matter what you
Speaker 1: go on to do this this is rare, like this is.
Speaker 1: We got really lucky to be with a cast like this,
Speaker 1: a group of people like this. Everybody's having fun and
Speaker 1: to go this long. You're like, this is rare, so
Speaker 1: don't don't get used to you know, don't get used
Speaker 1: to that. And I took that to heart because and
Speaker 1: I've worked with some pretty good casts and make great
Speaker 1: casts and like a lot of people that I'm still
Speaker 1: in contact with, but nothing has been like this show.
Speaker 1: Where I'm like, oh my god, if I could just
Speaker 1: work with these people again, like that would be I would.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would. I would give ten times
Speaker 1: better performance this because I feel so comfortable with you guys.
Speaker 1: All you do is set me up for stuff and
Speaker 1: all we do is fuck around and do bits, and
Speaker 1: I go, my god, that's my wheelhouse. Get somebody write
Speaker 1: something like this, please.
Speaker 4: I know it because there you've got to find, like
Speaker 4: you you find you go to these new sets and
Speaker 4: you've got to settle in and you're nervous and it's
Speaker 4: a different rhythm and you got to find the rhythm,
Speaker 4: and you've got to find the rhythm of the other
Speaker 4: actors and so oh, and.
Speaker 3: It just there was something. There was also something so
Speaker 3: as intense.
Speaker 4: As that show was, there was such a bonding experience
Speaker 4: that happened because of it. Oh yeah again, Like I
Speaker 4: don't think I remember so much of what we shot
Speaker 4: on that show because at some point we forgot that
Speaker 4: we were shooting a show, right, Like it was so
Speaker 4: secondary to you know, trying to make each other laugh.
Speaker 2: There's a moment I feel like, I think it's in
Speaker 2: this episode where it's Lamourn and Damon are sitting on
Speaker 2: the couch right, and then as Lamour in whatever lines
Speaker 2: you're saying, you keep like tapping damon and you just here, damn,
Speaker 2: go like stop touching me. And then you do it
Speaker 2: again and he goes stop touching me, and then you
Speaker 2: put like your hand on his leg and he's like,
Speaker 2: get off me. And I like, none of that was
Speaker 2: in the script. That was just you guys doing your thing,
Speaker 2: and you realized that touching it bugged him. He wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna stop saying it. And it was in the show.
Speaker 2: It was in the show, and it's so funny.
Speaker 4: That's the thing that I find that was so confusing
Speaker 4: and has probably ruined me as a profession as a professional,
Speaker 4: and that the things that we would do.
Speaker 3: Just to make each other laugh m or deep into
Speaker 3: take you know, eleven.
Speaker 4: Or twelve stuff that you were like, I'm only doing
Speaker 4: this now so we can move on because I know
Speaker 4: we have it and like I need rather than saying hey,
Speaker 4: because you can't say like, hey, we got it, guys,
Speaker 4: so you do something completely insane to let them know
Speaker 4: like Okay, we've lost them, let's move on.
Speaker 2: You know what's so funny, Maxic is that show it's
Speaker 2: so funny. As we talked about this, what Lamarne was
Speaker 2: like a couple episodes ago. There's like a dance. The
Speaker 2: three of you guys are in the bathroom right and
Speaker 2: you could tell you could just if you know the
Speaker 2: show you're watching. And I'm like, oh god, this is
Speaker 2: like take twelve for these guys. And you and Jake
Speaker 2: do like a dumb dance and Lamarn's not doing it,
Speaker 2: and you hear Jake just go, just do the dance, man,
Speaker 2: and then Lea Morn does it, and then that's like,
Speaker 2: then that's the end of the scene. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: that was Jake getting so mad, being like, can we
Speaker 2: just do it? Because that's what they want? And we
Speaker 2: do the thing. We could move on and it was
Speaker 2: so clearly Jake's voice yelling at Lamore and so you
Speaker 2: guys could get out of the scene Justin.
Speaker 4: When Justin came into the neighborhood last week, I think
Speaker 4: on day two we we realized that, oh wow, on
Speaker 4: this set, gosh, the sun is really bright. It's not
Speaker 4: in anything. It's not it's not in an a script,
Speaker 4: no one's written it. We're not we're not outside, we're
Speaker 4: on a soundstage, but you know, gosh amighty, and so
Speaker 4: we're rehearsing because you know, we don't shoot him until
Speaker 4: tape there.
Speaker 3: So in every rehearsal he would come.
Speaker 4: In and we'd be like, oh, hey, man, gosh and.
Speaker 3: The director who would never who?
Speaker 4: By the way, this guy, Victor Gonzales is one of
Speaker 4: my favorite directors, and he's done so many episodes of
Speaker 4: the show and never see him behave like this ever.
Speaker 3: Was Hey, man, are your eyes? Okay? What's what's going
Speaker 3: on now? Man? That's really right up, because what are
Speaker 3: you talking about? I go, are you not seeing that?
Speaker 4: I go, it's really like, you know, because we're playing
Speaker 4: this down by the beach in the hour, just playing
Speaker 4: the sun.
Speaker 3: And he goes, yeah, you should stop that.
Speaker 2: This is why they had to bring on trent o'donald.
Speaker 2: I would just like this. There was only one person
Speaker 2: who would go like, I can hang with this whole
Speaker 2: situation and laugh alongue with the never ending bits.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the last question is coming from Megan. What was
Speaker 1: it like to shift your character from douchebag to neurotic sweetheart?
Speaker 1: How did you make that work so seamlessly? It's such
Speaker 1: an interesting transition and it happens without us fully realizing it,
Speaker 1: maybe because for a while it all hinged on Schmid's
Speaker 1: love for Cci. Thanks to everyone for your amazing work
Speaker 1: that has made me laugh daily for years, Meghan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that was a testament to Hannah.
Speaker 3: I think that's the reason. I mean, Hannah was so
Speaker 3: good on the show, and.
Speaker 4: They established her characters so early and our relationships so early,
Speaker 4: and they were like, only we can get away from this,
Speaker 4: and so I don't think any of us had There
Speaker 4: was no choice. I don't we We spent and two episodes,
Speaker 4: three episodes in you know, like womanizer, douchebag guy, and
Speaker 4: then dump and then by the way, they also realized,
Speaker 4: I don't think this guy gets girls in real life,
Speaker 4: and uh yeah.
Speaker 3: And I just think I think it was all just.
Speaker 4: It was that felt like it really worked early on,
Speaker 4: like a lot of the things that I think they
Speaker 4: did on the show, and they just wrote to it
Speaker 4: and it never stopped working.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, you're just doing your job. And
Speaker 1: guess what, the writers, the editors, they put it together
Speaker 1: to protect you. Yeah, that's what it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you were if you were a douchebag for a
Speaker 1: very very long time. I think I think we would
Speaker 1: have done maybe a season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. That's that fourth episode called C C
Speaker 2: Crashes where they turn and they do a big turn
Speaker 2: for Schmid's character. That's the one where I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: They were brought in a crane for like the hand
Speaker 2: holding moment in the bed, which was like the end
Speaker 2: of that episode, And that to me was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: it was such a huge gift for me because now
Speaker 2: I had something to do when someone to like be
Speaker 2: with on the show, and it gave you know, her
Speaker 2: story and all sorts of stuff, and then it showed
Speaker 2: this full other side that hadn't existed for three episodes
Speaker 2: with Schmidt and then yeah, and then it hit and
Speaker 2: then everybody liked it and they kept writing it for us,
Speaker 2: and it was always so fun and wonderful and weird
Speaker 2: and very different than being with the boys.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I could imagine. I was waiting for love
Speaker 1: scenes with between me and Max. Never happened. I will
Speaker 1: say they played the love scenes between Max and and Jake.
Speaker 1: They did it with Max and Hannah. I need to
Speaker 1: be on the neighborhood, my friend.
Speaker 3: We tried to get you on. You were insulted.
Speaker 1: Can I just say what this asshole did.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, man, I didn't do anything. They
Speaker 4: offered you a job. I didn't think about it. I
Speaker 4: did anything twice about it, and then you got all offended.
Speaker 4: You know, you know how people have gotten on the
Speaker 4: show nobody, nobody a job.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 4: Cedric came down and he goes like this, hey man,
Speaker 4: we we offered them Mourner roll and I go, oh cool.
Speaker 3: He wrote me a call and he goes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you should hit him up. Hit him up. I was like, okay, cool, great,
Speaker 3: that's it. Radio silence.
Speaker 1: No, let me tell you. Let me say, Hannah, never
Speaker 1: tell you the story.
Speaker 2: No. I mean, you've done everyone show, You've done Damon's,
Speaker 2: You've done Ootkarses. I've seen you show up for everybody
Speaker 2: all the time. I did not know this story.
Speaker 1: Well, I got it. I was like I got the
Speaker 1: email from my agents like, oh my god, they want
Speaker 1: you to do an episode of the Neighborhood. I said,
Speaker 1: oh sweet, tell them I'll do it. And I said
Speaker 1: I'm in. I didn't even look at it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll look at it later, but I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1: And then my manager was like, question, did you read it?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I mean, I'm going to, like
Speaker 1: they do a table read, they do all that stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, I know how this works, and he's like,
Speaker 1: just read it. I just remember reading it. And the
Speaker 1: character was a crackhead who they like Chason. I remember
Speaker 1: what that seems like. The house they look up, he's
Speaker 1: on the roof. I said, you, I thought they were
Speaker 1: I knew in that moment. I was like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: fucking with me. And so I remember Max.
Speaker 4: So to Cedric credit, there was a there was like
Speaker 4: a running joke on the show about a guy named
Speaker 4: crackhead Victim.
Speaker 3: For real, And.
Speaker 4: I think when Cedric had more ownership of sort of
Speaker 4: like what the storylines were, he said, I don't want
Speaker 4: to just like make this a punchline anymore.
Speaker 3: I want I want.
Speaker 4: To give this guy a backstory. I want you to
Speaker 4: like know what, like who he is and and who
Speaker 4: this character is. And it was attempt to really like
Speaker 4: humanize what was a joke on the show, and I
Speaker 4: thought they did a pretty good job with it. But
Speaker 4: there was there was one scene where he's running around
Speaker 4: and like.
Speaker 3: Gets super speed and he goes like jumps over a.
Speaker 4: Car and on the roof and stuff, and then and
Speaker 4: then and then the in the rehearsals, I like I
Speaker 4: didn't want to.
Speaker 3: Be the one chasing him or like move too fast.
Speaker 4: I was just like, I remember there's a video of
Speaker 4: me like holding a coffee, going better get back here.
Speaker 3: This is not great, man.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe this video, you know, And I will say
Speaker 1: I will say that's when. That's how the episode it
Speaker 1: gets to the point where you're like, oh, this dude's
Speaker 1: a veteran, you know all this stuff. You know, he's
Speaker 1: really you know, a good, great guy. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: eliminate the jumping over.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. It was it was a crazy crazy
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: Get a video. I didn't get a call from Max
Speaker 1: and it was a video or or a FaceTime from
Speaker 1: Max and Sedgwick go ahead, look, man, we we we
Speaker 1: we respect you as an actor. We just try to
Speaker 1: give you something to like.
Speaker 4: I was like, and he was like, what do you mean, man,
Speaker 4: And I was like, yeah, he's not a Why did
Speaker 4: I give up?
Speaker 3: You offer me a crack head?
Speaker 1: Oh man? But I actually still regret not doing it
Speaker 1: because I thought it would have been fun anyway. It's a
Speaker 1: good time, Max Man.
Speaker 2: This has been like the honey roast of Max Greenfield. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, you could have been anywhere in the world today,
Speaker 1: but you chose to be here with us, my friend,
Speaker 1: so thank you for that.
Speaker 3: I love to be in here.
Speaker 1: You are being an absentee father in this moment just
Speaker 1: for us, and for that we appreciate you.
Speaker 3: My son did papa his head in here because he's
Speaker 3: not feeling too good. He stayed on from school. I
Speaker 3: was in the middle of the story and he looked
Speaker 3: at me and he was like, not.
Speaker 2: Fun, daddy's working. We love you, Max. Thank you for
Speaker 2: coming on the show. The fans clearly love you. There's
Speaker 2: a billion questions for you. So it's so crazy to
Speaker 2: see how this show. It's funny. You were just saying
Speaker 2: with your daughter, saying, she's fourteen, right, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I will never forget meeting you for the first time,
Speaker 2: and she was months old.
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 2: That's how long we've been in each other's lives. That
Speaker 2: is so wild, Like Lily is the marker of the
Speaker 2: beginning wild while that you did all of this with
Speaker 2: an infant also wild. You are amazing by love you.
Speaker 2: We will see you hopefully again soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you folks for listening. I'd be sure to follow
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Speaker 1: to do this show five times in a row, so
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Speaker 1: twenty two Dance.
Speaker 2: That was The mess Around in iHeartMedia Production.
Speaker 1: Our executive producer is Joel Monique. Our senior producer is
Speaker 1: Abu Zafar Bei Wang provided engineering and editing services.
Speaker 2: Additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Shevron.
Speaker 2: Theme song was written and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson.
Speaker 1: Catch you next time. Bye, mhm
Speaker 2: Hm