WEBVTT - Gleeking Fan Takeover 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.439 And That's what You Really Missed with Jenna. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.160 And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.920 Welcome to You and That's what You Really miss podcast. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:18.680 We've got a wonderful fan from Ireland who stayed up 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.840 late to chat with us, Connor. Connor Burke is here. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.960 Connor Burke is also in the arts, is an actor 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:31.280 and playwright and has a podcast, Glee Cat, that he 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.120 started during the pandemic where he was going back and 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.920 watching Glee having thoughtful conversations because he is a thoughtful lad. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.400 And he also co hosts Gleek of the Week with 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:42.720 Andrew a lot. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.440 You can tell he's a really good interviewer. Really, he 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.560 kind of flipped the script on us, which we didn't mind. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.560 But also from Ireland, he's also so good. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:59.960 He's also so, he's got a lot of soul, he's thoughtful, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.600 he's kind. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.600 I love this conversation. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.039 I could have spoken to him for hours. He really 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.880 is the Irish opera. People are saying it, everyone's saying it. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.399 Saying it. Well, here's Connor. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:20.360 Oh hello, hello, hello, hello, Hello. It's so good to 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:21.080 see you both. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.760 Oh my god, thanks for saying up late for us. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.200 Oh this could have been four am. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.960 And let's be real, what time is it there? 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:32.679 It is ten? 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.400 Here is I'm already in bed at that point. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:37.280 This is not late. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:39.760 I don't see ten o'clock. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.839 Guys, I can tell you you were both glowing. Whenever 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.119 I see clips on social media, I'm like that skin 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.919 dot la vibe is it's really hitting filter. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.960 I'm sitting in the window to get as much light exactly. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.880 I feel direct sunlight on my face. You're so kind. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.400 Thank you so much for joining us. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.720 Thank you so much for having me. It has been 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.919 the best crack ever. Listening to this podcast. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.160 I feel like, thank you. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.200 It has just been so beautiful. I have not personally, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.840 I've not watched Glee in a while. Obviously, I've dipped 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.960 in and out, So like, rewatching with you guys is 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.919 such an experience. It's so wonderful and it's it's been 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.320 like the best time, you know, kind of like I 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.200 don't know, both of you kind of taking back the 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.880 narrative and like your experience is so like I feel 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.679 like more people need that, you know what I mean? 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.400 Mm, thank you so appreciate that. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:44.359 I mean, and you sort of started this whole podcast business. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.800 I mean, you are solely responsible. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:49.880 This is all your fault. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:50.400 This is you. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.000 Yeah, I'm like Joe Rogan, who hello. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.440 You invented? 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.720 Basically yeah, basically that's Spotify deal is coming real quick, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.919 I am. Yeah. I set up a podcast called Glee 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.680 Cap in the midst of Lockdown in I believe it 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:13.080 was maybe April or May, and I had previously done 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.600 some like voice work in Ireland and stuff like that, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.120 and I had this microphone sitting in front of me 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.760 and I literally woke up one morning and I was like, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.280 I need to make a podcast about Glee. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:24.560 Like it was. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.000 It was like a rock had just a religious experience. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.720 It was crazy and basically yeah, And by the by 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.839 the next day I had the first episode uploaded and 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.800 for the next however long, there was a different guest 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.360 basically every other week. People were all like Irish British 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.480 theater people, creatives, so fat, people who had never seen Glee, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.320 people who were obsessed with it, and it was a 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.080 different dynamic every week. Then as a result, yeah, and 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.560 it was just it was the thing that kept me 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.400 going through lockdown. I was I didn't go insane. It 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.320 was so much work, but like such a joy. And 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:08.480 now in twenty twenty four, I'm still talking about it, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.160 and I think I will, like if I live into 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.320 my nineties, Like I'm still going to be talking about 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.800 the show like to god, like it's insane. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.560 How did you find the show originally? How did it 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:20.000 come to you? 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:21.480 Glee? 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.040 The thing about Glee was like Glee started in obviously, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.320 it first started in two thousand and nine, and so 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.080 I was fourteen and it ended when I was twenty 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.920 and so I feel like what people often miss from 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.080 like the narrative when they talk about the show is 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.960 that in those years, like you were obviously experiencing like 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.680 crazy things, like you're growing up, you're figuring out who 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.600 you were, You're friends with this person, but then you're 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.120 friends with that person, You're like, what am I doing 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.760 with my life? For me, the one constant in those 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.839 six years was a TV show. And I feel like 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.320 when you see conversations around fandom, you're just like, oh, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.400 they really like this person because they can really sing. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.480 But it's like it's actually more than that. It's kind 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.919 of like what they represent and what the product in 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.400 this case, the TV show represents for you. Right, So yeah, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.280 I mean I was fourteen years old, I was in 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.440 an all boys' school in Ireland. I was like obsessed 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.280 with musical theater, even though I cannot sing or do ance. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.680 That is my boss always loved it. And then of 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.600 course this show comes along and it's like it's Taylor Made. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.320 It's like someone reached into my brainah and was like this, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.400 this is what you need. So there's kind of like 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.120 a deep emotionality to it that I feel like maybe 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.159 a lot of people don't really understand. I know, Like 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.600 that's a question I had for you guys. Do you 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:49.760 guys obviously now living through like this podcast and recopying 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.960 the episode, like do you ever think you will both 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.599 get to a point in your life where you're like, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.400 I understand how big of a deal this is? Or 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.760 do you still struggle to comprehend it even though it's 0:05:58.760 --> 0:05:59.960 been a time since the show. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:06.800 And I feel like I comprehended. I feel like I 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.760 do comprehend it, I think as well as I can. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:14.120 This podcast has absolutely helped, Like talking to people like 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.040 you and learning about those perspectives has sort of filled 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.719 out a bigger picture where I think in terms of 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.680 if I travel anywhere. For example, I was in Houston 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.520 Texas a couple of weeks ago, and was getting recognized 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.760 everywhere I went in La like that doesn't happen very often, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.000 And all those things add up to like a greater 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.680 picture of Oh, this show has been off the air 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.440 for a long time, But I think you just described 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.120 it beautifully because I have this I feel this way 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.719 about certain shows or movies. But when people attach certain 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.400 parts of their life to that show, to that experience, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.880 then that creates sort of the phenomenon of what it was. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.240 Because yes, like we were on cracker Boxes and you're 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.719 on tour, but a real lasting impact exactly how you 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.320 just described can only be felt after time has gone by, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.520 and I think through this experience like we're doing right now, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:17.360 it has created a much deeper understanding of the impact 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.000 it has had, and especially while we were doing it, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.920 was very hard to detect or to feel right sure. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.200 Yeah, I feel like there's another there's a level of 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.040 understanding and comprehension that we can kind of grasp from 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.480 a viewers point of view. It's like Gray's Anatomy. For me, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.440 when that first came out, I felt like it was 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.440 the an Asian character that just played herself, like I 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.640 felt like there were characters I could relate to their 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.280 storylines that I loved, Like there was just a lot 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:53.560 of things about it that I hear echoed in Glee fans. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.960 But like the understanding of like the impact it had 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.160 globally at such a big level, Well, it's still hard 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.640 to understand that, like we were a part of that, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.800 I think. So I'm not sure if we'll ever you know, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:13.000 I think we'll understand it to a point, but yeah. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.480 Absolutely, because I feel like I remember so distinctly when 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.280 I was fourteen or fifteen years old sitting watching Glee 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.560 with my parents, who and obviously I was a gay teenager. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.200 I had known that since I was like a ten 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.560 or eleven, and there was a scene happening on screen 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.400 that was centered around Kurt. I can't remember what it was, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.400 and I remember so distinctly staring at my parents in 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.040 my peripheral vision to try and read the reaction. Yeah, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.800 you know, that was my That was my first introduction. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.520 Like I had no idea what to do in that situation, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.840 like I was a child, and so to see this 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.319 played out on screen was so powerful and it's so 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.080 so beautiful and something that I see a lot like 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.880 on social media around the show. It's I don't see 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.440 like a lot of story like that discussed kind of enough. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.360 I'm I kind of approached Glee from a more emotional standpoint, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.880 and obviously I laugh at all the memes and stuff too, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.480 and all the great stuff that have come out. But yeah, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:18.000 that that's that's like a really important thing. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.920 So yeah, like what a beautiful thing. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.520 What about Damien coming on the show? What would. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.720 Oh my god, I was so glad to get that 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.960 Irish repon. I don't know, I obviously know he was 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.040 on your pod, like yeah, a couple of months or whatever. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.880 I can't remember. Did you guys ask him about that? 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.079 I can't remember what his whole thing is. I think 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.559 he just thinks it's hilarious. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.600 Really yeah, yeah, he took it in stride. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:46.440 Yeah. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.239 I also think it was out of all the places, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.559 like I love that somebody from Ireland and the show. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.560 I know, I loved, we loved him so much. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.839 So yeah, I was such a gorgeous singing voice as well. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.360 I remember there was one there was one season it 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.400 must have been season was obviously season three, and he 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.480 came home to Ireland for Christmas and there is a 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.120 very famous talk show in Ireland called The Late Late Show. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.400 It's like it's actually the longest running talk show in 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.800 the world. And he was honest and it was like 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:27.560 the Beatles, like people were going like you and of 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.360 course you guys obviously don't see it from that perspective, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.840 but people were like, I remember going to the tour 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:33.440 in Dublin. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.120 Oh my god, guys, Oh my gosh. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.080 You go to I went to the very last one. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.600 Okay, that was that was pretty crazy. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.000 Oh my god, you were there. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.400 Our energy was wild. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.240 Is it true what they say about Irish Crewds because 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.480 all these musicians are always like Irish Crewds are brilliant, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.800 But then you always think, oh are they just saying 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.360 that just to appease let's are we good? 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:57.800 Oh yeah, yeah. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.320 Well the thing about that venue was weird. They weren't 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:01.640 allowing people to stand up. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.599 So the first show we did it was an afternoon 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.440 matinee and nobody's standing and we're. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.800 Like, did they hate us, Like what's going on? 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:16.040 And we were did They wouldn't stand never, So we 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.040 had to ask them. We had to ask them to 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.959 allow people to stand because we were like this will 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.160 be a nightmare of show, run of shows if people 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.760 can't stand up and like dance. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.800 But we just started instructing people like we're on stage, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:28.560 what we're going to do. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.000 I remember, Kevin, did you come out? Am I just 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.440 imagining this? Did you comment in a tri color and 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.679 you were singing, ohky boy? Yeah? 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:39.080 I did. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.120 Yes, I'm glad I would erupted somebody. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.240 I remember that, Keaven. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.800 I know, I'm like, I have somebody to verify that 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.640 it wasn't money. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:47.640 You remember that? 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.400 Oh my god, one of the best nights of my life. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.240 My sister and her then boyfriend now husband brought me. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.240 It was the three of us. I think I heard 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.080 you talk about this Jenna recently, Like the crowd was 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.240 It's the most I've credit ever seen at a concert 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.800 to this day. Yeah, Like there was literally like an 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.800 eight year old woman there having the time, Like it 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.440 was amazing. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:09.240 Damn. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:10.880 How did that? 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:11.240 Like? 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:11.560 Did you? 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:11.920 Guys? 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.960 That must have been such a relief for you that 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.680 particular night, because I'm sure you had the best crack ever, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.600 but also you must have been exhausted and been like, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.440 let me go, Like it must have been such a 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.280 weird conflict you know what I mean, it was. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.640 It was one of those things where I think every 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.880 a lot of people were like just very tired, done 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.640 over it, like we I mean that was in July. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:34.839 Was that in July? 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.520 Yeah, we started shooting a year before or maybe it 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.920 was June. I don't know. Like we had been working 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.200 almost for twelve months straight, and so by the time 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.199 we got to Dublin, we had just lost our minds. Yeah, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.960 and so like there were yeah, like you said, there 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.480 was a part of like my dad has always wanted 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.040 to go to Ireland. I could be on stage and 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.040 sing oh Danny Boy with the crowd like the greatest 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.120 experience ever. And then also then everyone just wanted to 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.040 be done. But then during that last last show, I 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.160 remember looking back and like people were just crying because 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.640 it was also are we going to be able to 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.120 ever do this again? Is this ever going to happen? 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.959 So it is a huge conflict of we're grateful, we're tired, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.240 we love each other, we love doing this, all those 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.160 things all at once, and everything came out sort of 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.640 in that last show. And I love that you were 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.160 there to see Yeah, oh. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.760 My god, I amazing, like literally one of the best 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.520 days of my life, like I swear in my life. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.840 But you know what's so interesting when you guys always 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.199 talk about the schedule and stuff like that, even when 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.120 you're filming, the thing with me is and I know 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.000 I will. I have never had this experience. I can 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.400 talk away to like a radiator and have a full 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.400 blown conversation for seven hours, but like, I am an 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.240 introvert and I need time to decompress. So when you 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.240 guys talk about those long hours, I'm just like, it's 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.160 one thing, like the physical exhaustion, But like what I got, like, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.640 was there every time where you could just go away 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.680 into the corner of like the choir room or somewhere 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.160 off set and just be like, I need to lie 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.560 down for twenty minutes, please don't speak. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.720 Oh yeah, that happened more often than not. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.080 Yeah, there were times where like you'd be totally in 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.080 the mix, you'd be laughing, you'd be hanging with everybody, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.760 and like two or three people would be off kind 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.240 of doing their own thing. And then there would be 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.600 times where like I'd go off and kind of sit 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.000 and all the sets are pretty much close in you know, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:31.000 close proximity to each other, so like even shoes. Apartment 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.160 was like a standing set, and so we would go 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.000 and like lay in his bed because there was a 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.280 real bed, so like you'd just go lay there and 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.080 people would be like, just tell me where you're going 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.960 next time, so I know where you are when you 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.280 have to go to set. But yeah, there were definite 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.680 I think everybody had a little bit of that recharge 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.480 button that had to like go away for a second. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.240 And especially in those first three seasons when it was 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:00.080 just so monstrous, we would all just we were like 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.640 professional naptakers. We'd all knock out like so fast and 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.720 for like twenty minutes. It would just be like the 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.360 most important sleep of our day. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.320 Yeah, I would say the first season, so we were 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.120 like hanging out more like we'd be playing games. And 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.120 then as the show started to go on, we're like 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.040 we learned to preserve. Yeah, we need to take some time. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.760 just like sit in silence for a little bit. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:31.720 Yeah. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.800 How has it been doing your podcast? Still? 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.280 It's been a joy. You know. I've had friends of mine, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.320 you know, for example, one of my friends, Lizzie, a 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.320 year or two ago, played Tracy Turnblood in the West 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.840 End production of Hers by the revival of that show, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.000 and she came on and she would talk about how 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.040 like she was like I do musical theater because of Gray. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.280 So there'd be a story like that, or there'd be 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.640 a story about you know, my friend Emma who when 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.160 she was thirteen decided her favorite character on Glee was 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.920 Emma Pill's breathe and decided to run out and die 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.840 her hair ginger. I was like, I believe, yeah, so 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.760 it's been beautiful. And what happened was I recapped the 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.840 first four seasons and I had the time of my life. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.680 And then I went to drama school in London and 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.320 obviously those hours are manic, and so I took a breather. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.880 And then relatively recently, I have been guessing very regularly 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.000 on Gleek of the Week, which we all know, and 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.040 it has just been this. It sounds so strange to 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.160 say it has been such a joy, Like the amount 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.960 of work that Andrew puts into that podcast. Believe it's 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.760 a full time job. On top of his full time job, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.680 you still have these people who are so invest like, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.320 you know, we're getting dms being like I can't believe 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:57.200 you voted that song out like that, and it's been glorious. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.480 And Andrew and I got to interview Lauren Party. Yes, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.520 that was just wonderful for many reasons. Obviously because we 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.879 love her, Yes, Secondly, she just spoke so eloquently about 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.399 her experience and why her life was fundamentally changed by 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.800 the show. And thirdly, like quite frankly, it was an 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.119 emotional experience for Andrew and I, Like, you know, it's 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.280 kind of uncomfortable to say, as I imagine it's uncomfortable 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.960 to hear. But there's a lot of cast members yourselves included, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.400 that mean a lot to us for a variety of reasons. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.800 And so we're kind of sitting there like, oh my god, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.200 like this is more to fine, but it's also kind 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:39.840 of camp, you know, it's fun. But yeah, it's been 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.560 a joy and and the podcast inside of it has 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.240 been great. I's like, I can I can name like 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.200 six clee podcasts, Like, yeah, I have got my own 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.760 theories as to why people are still talking about this show. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.960 Tell us do. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.560 You know what's so funny? Actually? And this is strange, 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.600 Like I was on YouTube maybe a month or two ago, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.479 and they always say that no one knows, like no 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:11.359 one knows you like your homepage on YouTube, and the 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:16.919 recommended video was Glee cast version of Scream, and I 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.919 had not seen it in so long, and I clicked 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.919 on it and I watched it, and I was like okay, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.680 and then I was like, this is just like this 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.920 is just fantastic, Like the fact that that musical performance, right, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.600 a random musical performance knee deep into the middle of 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.399 season three, in an episode with eight or nine musical 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:45.760 performances was filmed, and obviously Havin yourself and Harry are 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.760 amazing in it, but like the cinematography, and like, I 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.360 was like, this is just people are always talking about 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.560 I think Glee. People still talk about Glee because of 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.800 this and this and that. It's like, well, people still 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:00.520 talk about Glee because Glee was so good, like it was. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.680 I don't. I don't think there's ever been anything on 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.360 TV since that comes close with There's been amazing stuff 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.680 that have been highly influenced by it, like the rise 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.720 of movie musicals and stuff like that. Yeah, but I 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.480 don't there's not a there's not been a show that 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.959 kind of incorporates music as well. In my opinion, the talent, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.560 like I think Robert Ulrich and his team if they 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.800 ever won any awards, they deserve every award because, like, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.920 you all just played your part so well, and like 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.720 I'm talking about from like from Leah and Corey all 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.800 the way down to like Josh Sussman, like it was 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.119 in everything, Like you all just played the part so 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.040 like you did the work. Sometimes I was like, how 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.639 do you guys get a script and then read this 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.480 ridiculous scenario and then go from that to like what 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.040 we see on screen? Mm hmmm, because quite often as 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.359 an actor, and I can only speak in my experience, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.320 like quite often it's more difficult to get one or 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.760 two lines of dialogue and like make at work than 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.880 actually have like a juicy scene to like for. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.159 Yeah, totally, those were the hardest. Was like sitting in 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.919 a choir room with twelve fourteen people and you have 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.840 one line that comes in the middle of all that conversation. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.280 You're like, what is that line again? 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.399 Because there's just nothing to connect it too, so you're like, 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.639 don't forget it, or like I just and then and 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.560 then you mess it up and you're like, what's my line? 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.480 You're like the one the actor in the room. When 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.159 you have one line you can. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.800 Yeah, Chris has a full monologue and three weeks yeah, yeah. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.359 Stop, yeah, I always about about mister Shoe. I was 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.720 like I in some ways, I'm like I really really 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:42.439 kind of felt bad for Matthew Morrison because I'm like, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.520 he always had the opening, Hey, we're going to do 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:46.600 yeah so much. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:47.680 Yeah. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.800 Yeah, And like obviously Naya and Uh and Jane Lynch 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.320 with those monologues like that. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.680