Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to You, and That's what you Really miss podcast,
Speaker 1: Season five, Episode nine, It's frenemies. Happy New Year, everybody,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: We made it barely.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I mean we're still we're still ringing on.
Speaker 1: We're still ringing on.
Speaker 2: Who knows what a weird transitional time.
Speaker 1: Truly, I don't know what's to come, but you know
Speaker 1: we're going to be positive because this episode is great.
Speaker 2: Yes, what a way to ring in the new year,
Speaker 2: to be honest for us. Oh my gosh, loved this episode.
Speaker 2: I cannot get over it. The front of Me's air
Speaker 2: date was February twenty fifth, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, wow, crazy, Okay, a bit of a break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was break here, and I think the break
Speaker 2: was needed.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm right.
Speaker 2: It feels like everyone benefited from a break except my hairline.
Speaker 2: My hairline is deeply receding in this.
Speaker 1: It's just all the stress. It's all the stress you
Speaker 1: went through last year.
Speaker 2: It was we came back and like where did she go?
Speaker 2: She is jumping back, but the stress, it feels this
Speaker 2: feels like an older Glee episode.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're a classic Glee episode, music, storyline, tone. It
Speaker 1: was so refreshing to watch and so enjoyable, and obviously
Speaker 1: we had such a good time shooting this as well.
Speaker 1: We have lots of memories from this, so let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. But in the news. Number one song is
Speaker 1: new It's dark Horse by Katie Perry featuring Juicy J.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. This is my least favorite carre
Speaker 1: Katie Perry's on it.
Speaker 2: Ever Yeah, ever, Yeah, I kind of hate this song.
Speaker 2: I don't get it and I think it went diamond like.
Speaker 2: I think it might be her biggest song, right.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this. Yeah, it's wow, absolutely insane. Wow.
Speaker 2: Number one movie is the Lego Movie. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: I want see it.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it either, but I've heard nothing but
Speaker 2: a great thing.
Speaker 1: Great. I love that For them and Glen News this week,
Speaker 1: on February twenty second, members of the cast performed at
Speaker 1: the Young Storytellers Foundation's Biggest Show. This was a foundation
Speaker 1: that Brad supported, and Brad would ask us to get
Speaker 1: involved with sometimes, so different groupings of us were involved
Speaker 1: in different years. This was held at the Willows Community
Speaker 1: School in Culver City, attended by Darren, Diana, Harry Dot,
Speaker 1: Ashley Becka, and Kurt Mega.
Speaker 2: And on February twenty fourth, the cast and crew celebrated
Speaker 2: the final day of filming the Landmark one hundredth episode,
Speaker 2: which is episode twelve, so it's coming.
Speaker 1: Up in a few I remember this day. We all
Speaker 1: did this like these collages of over the seasons and episodes,
Speaker 1: and they had this big cake and they had many
Speaker 1: slashies and it was just like a big to do,
Speaker 1: big to do.
Speaker 2: And Dana was there look at that. It was really
Speaker 2: that was like a very monumental day. But like you
Speaker 2: mentioned before, when you have these celebrations, you can only participate.
Speaker 2: You only get so much time to like enjoy the
Speaker 2: revel rates.
Speaker 1: That was about three minutes. See may it looked like
Speaker 1: we partied all day, but it was literally probably.
Speaker 2: They like put the Russis to take the photo, shakee
Speaker 2: back down of some of the higher ups and then
Speaker 2: get back to work.
Speaker 1: This was directed by Brad Beaker, of course, so I
Speaker 1: didn't see who I had directed it, but we watched
Speaker 1: the whole episode. I couldn't remember, and then I looked
Speaker 1: after him was like, of course it was bad. Beaker,
Speaker 1: bring back are our guy? Bring back the.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just you can feel like the steady
Speaker 2: hands of Brad Baker, can't you like it? Like this
Speaker 2: is sh with confidence, you know exactly what the show is,
Speaker 2: and also still trying to like there were new things
Speaker 2: he was trying. There were a lot of like looking
Speaker 2: into the camera or looking right by the camera povs
Speaker 2: things in this episode that don't tell on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great, it was really really great. I'm
Speaker 1: here for all of it.
Speaker 2: One of the co stars in this episode was the
Speaker 2: salesperson Nick Nordela, who I have known since like my
Speaker 2: sin I was like fifteen or something. Really the same
Speaker 2: manager I think back in the day. Yeah, up in
Speaker 2: Santa Clarita, and like he popped from the episode.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Nick, like what did you know that at
Speaker 3: the time? No, Oh, that's funny. We weren't super close,
Speaker 3: like we hadn't talked to years. And then he's like
Speaker 3: on the show, very.
Speaker 1: Funny, so funny, very very random. Uh. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of songs in this episode, a lot of really songs,
Speaker 1: really really good one, two, three, four, five, six, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's seven. It's not your your classic five excellence.
Speaker 1: But this is quite good.
Speaker 2: So well, that's really good. I will say this. This
Speaker 2: is evenly paced and line up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Whenever I Call You Friend with Kenny Loggins and
Speaker 1: Stevie Nigs performed by Artie and Tina.
Speaker 2: Brave performed by Rachel and Santana.
Speaker 1: Love It My Lovin Never Gonna Get It performer already Tinah.
Speaker 2: Don't Ran on My Parade, the Santana version.
Speaker 1: Oh my Gosh, I Believe in a Thing called Love
Speaker 1: perform by Elliott and Kurt and Every Breath You Take
Speaker 1: performed by Rachel and Santana also Love that one, and
Speaker 1: break Away performer ay Tena already playing in the new direction.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, wow, wow wow, truly what a what a lineup?
Speaker 1: We're saying three songs in this episode?
Speaker 2: Kevin, Yeah, that doesn't happen. I pulled it.
Speaker 1: Darren, I don't. What's ever happened to me in the
Speaker 1: entirety of this.
Speaker 2: No, You and I were like, you know what we
Speaker 2: can do it?
Speaker 1: Darren?
Speaker 2: Does we give us three songs?
Speaker 1: Also funny that Darren's like, I feel like I just
Speaker 1: are in this episode. Blaine's like, I feel like things
Speaker 1: are just handed me to me and we're like, well
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: I will say the undercurrent of some truth in reality
Speaker 2: in this episode through multiple storylines is too good.
Speaker 1: Is very much there? So there's a lot of it, okay.
Speaker 1: So this episode aired after the fall hiatus. Starting with
Speaker 1: this episode, and Glee episodes moved back to Tuesdays at
Speaker 1: eight pm. What does that mean? Because I know the
Speaker 1: time slows meant things to you, Kevin that I didn't
Speaker 1: really fully understand.
Speaker 2: So when we first started, if I remember correctly, we
Speaker 2: started on Tuesdays at nine pm after American Idol, and
Speaker 2: then in season two we became the lead in show,
Speaker 2: We became the big show, so we moved up to
Speaker 2: eight pm. That's when Chord came on. Remember we couldn't
Speaker 2: say certain words now because we were an hour earlier.
Speaker 2: And then I believe we moved to Thursdays or some point, yes,
Speaker 2: and it didn't hit the same And so I think
Speaker 2: this is them trying to be like, the ratings are slipping,
Speaker 2: how do we get it back? Let's go back to Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Got it? Got it?
Speaker 2: The episode contains the show's six hundred musical number, which
Speaker 2: is Whenever I call you friends.
Speaker 1: Hooray. I'm proud of that, me too. This is the
Speaker 1: eighth time two duets are sung by the same people
Speaker 1: in the same episode. The others are thrown down home
Speaker 1: duets rumors. The first time Big Brother and Love Love Love.
Speaker 1: It was really nice to share that with you, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I know truly.
Speaker 2: This is the fourth time Rachel has sung two duets
Speaker 2: with the same person and the same episode. She's used
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's like, I got this. I've sang five
Speaker 1: songs in an episode. Yeah. This is the third time
Speaker 1: Already has sung two duets but the same erson.
Speaker 2: The same episode.
Speaker 1: Wait, was it Puck you and Puk?
Speaker 2: I don't know, A, I don't know. Very strange, Okay.
Speaker 2: This is the second time two different pairs sing two
Speaker 2: duets in one episode, the first being Big Brother.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Tina Parker Baker of Glee's hairstyling department, the
Speaker 1: Head makes a cameo appearance as herself and sodas.
Speaker 2: Kelly Mitchell of the makeup department, looking at beautiful like
Speaker 2: right in the middle of the frame. I was like,
Speaker 2: Kelly is so gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I know, she's stunning. That like perfect complexion, the red
Speaker 1: hair like Whoever, this is sad news. This is the
Speaker 1: last appearance of Figgins in the fifth season. No devastating.
Speaker 1: What we need Morphiggins, I do, I know, but like
Speaker 1: in general, we've needed more Faggins. Agreed. When Rachel and
Speaker 1: Santana are fighting, Rachel mentions the number they did in
Speaker 1: the choir room after graduation, referring to so emotional, when
Speaker 1: in fact it was before graduation. This mistake was fixed
Speaker 1: in the Latin America dub of the show, where Rachel
Speaker 1: doesn't mention cratuation.
Speaker 2: At least somebody was on it. In Extraordinary Merry Christmas,
Speaker 2: Tina says that Artie's rewalk broke the next day. However,
Speaker 2: during the valedictorian speech, Artie says it broke an hour later.
Speaker 2: You know, close enough. I think that's basically the same
Speaker 2: thing in.
Speaker 1: Glee World, agreed, and Sue mentions the both Tina and
Speaker 1: already have perfect attendance. However, Tina was absent in season
Speaker 1: three's The Spanish Teacher, something that was even mentioned in
Speaker 1: On My Way. Well maybe we're talking about a different
Speaker 1: year of perfect attendance.
Speaker 2: Oh so you're saying lady should have had it, should
Speaker 2: have been given valedictorian because he didn't miss a day.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying that that's what I heard. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: well I'm here where you want to Okay, give me
Speaker 1: the the the some sum.
Speaker 2: The sum is Santana auditions and snags the role of
Speaker 2: Rachel's understudy and funny girl, causing a feud between the roommates. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: back in Lima, Tina and Already compete against each other
Speaker 2: to be the class valedictorian.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, where do you want to start? Kevin Tree
Speaker 1: starves and Janna Rachel start child. Let's start child and
Speaker 1: Kurt Let's start trial and Kurt let's build up. I agree, Okay.
Speaker 2: This is also fun. I do enjoy like feud or
Speaker 2: like SmackDown. I like when they pit two people against
Speaker 2: each other. It works really really well in this show totally,
Speaker 2: always has worked totally and it works naturally, And I
Speaker 2: think maybe it's something to do with like high schoo dynamics,
Speaker 2: but it's something that always feels right agreed.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because we started that way, but maybe there's
Speaker 1: this like really good conflict resolution that we is satisfying
Speaker 1: to us or I don't know, but I totally agree.
Speaker 1: I'm here for it, and it's not like it's kind
Speaker 1: of harmless in their in their situation with Starchild and Kurt,
Speaker 1: because Kurt is feeling threatened by Starchild, thinking that he
Speaker 1: wants to take over the for the band and he
Speaker 1: should be scared of Starchild because Starchild is a star.
Speaker 2: But Adam Lambird is like the most talented person on
Speaker 2: the base of the planet.
Speaker 1: It's actually insane. So Blaine's advice is to keep your
Speaker 1: friends closer, and he's closer, so Kurt decides to like
Speaker 1: keep him real close tight, which I always worry about.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why does this person want to get close
Speaker 1: to me? Do they hate me?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sometimes I like question it first, not the whole time,
Speaker 1: but it's like an initial thought that I always have.
Speaker 2: I wonder if I should start considering that. Oh no, no,
Speaker 2: it's just me and my guard. What I really enjoyed
Speaker 2: was watching Chris Colfer play like the the their frenemy's
Speaker 2: story right, because I feel like each one has like
Speaker 2: a different lean and his is trying to be like
Speaker 2: super nice and cults him into like doing things together,
Speaker 2: and I kill him with kindness, but like not be
Speaker 2: obvious about it, and watching Chris do that was very satisfying.
Speaker 2: I could watch and do that all day.
Speaker 1: They also have a great on screen chemistry, like I
Speaker 1: love them together, and not in like a romantic way,
Speaker 1: just in like a very they they they're very different
Speaker 1: but yet similar in some ways, and it's very satisfying.
Speaker 1: I feel I could watch them all very long.
Speaker 2: Kurt doesn't have a lot of gay friendships on this
Speaker 2: show like male friendships, and it is really nice to see.
Speaker 2: And I think there's something too, or maybe he's not
Speaker 2: used to it right, like it's not romantic. Maybe somebody's
Speaker 2: not coming after you for some ulterior motive. Maybe like
Speaker 2: this guy's just nice and like supports you and has
Speaker 2: been supportive in every single episode. It's a very very beginning.
Speaker 2: And I really love how Adam Lambert's playing it because
Speaker 2: star Child the performer is like Sasha fears for Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Right then, and then Elliott Elliott.
Speaker 2: Is just like super nice, soft spoken. Actually how Adam
Speaker 2: sort of is in real life?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't. I haven't like spent a ton
Speaker 1: of time about it, but he comes acrossberry grounded to
Speaker 1: me very and that's what Elliott is like a very
Speaker 1: sound person, and so Curtin Elliott starts to spend some
Speaker 1: time together and we get the joy of the most
Speaker 1: perfect song for the both of them. Honestly, it is
Speaker 1: like if there was a song that was written for
Speaker 1: the two of them, just saying it was I believe,
Speaker 1: I Think all Love.
Speaker 2: I remember sitting in the theater when they were showing
Speaker 2: this to us at lunch. I remember watching this episode
Speaker 2: so clearly, and when this came on, this was one
Speaker 2: of the best things about New York happening. Is like
Speaker 2: the sad part of it was like, yeah, we didn't
Speaker 2: get see everybody in work with everybody all the time. However,
Speaker 2: when a number like this comes along, or this whole
Speaker 2: episode for New York really yeah yeah, and you see
Speaker 2: like what your friends are doing and what the crew
Speaker 2: has done, Like it's you're like, we were cheering because
Speaker 2: it is so good, oh good. And also like seeing
Speaker 2: Chris with like the band, mean, like the guitar players
Speaker 2: and their voices sound so good together. They're so different, yes, and.
Speaker 1: Yet it's like both in their range and it's such
Speaker 1: a great song. And the cover is really good. I
Speaker 1: actually like this cover better than I like the original.
Speaker 1: Dare I say I.
Speaker 2: Support you?
Speaker 1: I mean I love the darkness.
Speaker 2: Okay, I love the darkness.
Speaker 1: I love this song, like, okay, I think I think
Speaker 1: said this song has worn on me a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why the original. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm refreshed by this version. Maybe that's what I mean.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's how I feel about a lot
Speaker 2: of the songs in this episode. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I think they're better, but it is refreshing to
Speaker 2: hear because they're all very well known songs.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's right, and very good covers. So
Speaker 1: Elliott like knows what's the ruse, he knows what's up,
Speaker 1: and he's basically like, I get it, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to take over your fee.
Speaker 2: Didn't it feel like a shock? I feel like yes.
Speaker 2: On Glee, everyone is sort of up to no good,
Speaker 2: Like everyone is really trying to like jockey for position.
Speaker 2: Elliott knows what Kris is doing from the beginning and
Speaker 2: is so confident and secure in himself that he doesn't care.
Speaker 1: That again is also refreshing. I love the storyline. I'm like, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: he's mature. It's great. It's so great. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2: I also think the New York storylines in general, this episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, we started off by saying, this feels like
Speaker 2: an old Glee episode in all the best ways. And
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean just because it's a lot of the
Speaker 2: OG characters. I mean even in New York, who it's
Speaker 2: not in the Halls of McKinley, it still feels like
Speaker 2: old Glee. Yes, totally, even if it's not in the
Speaker 2: same setting. Totally, and this storyline is perfect for that.
Speaker 2: It's very focused. This is very focused. I think focused.
Speaker 2: I like that feeling of like there's it's there's just
Speaker 2: it's very clear when there's like a lot of jumblingly
Speaker 2: a lot of the time, and there's so many things
Speaker 2: to follow. This was the whole episode.
Speaker 1: We had a theme, and the three of them, you know,
Speaker 1: all the characters had this similar kind of front of
Speaker 1: me thing going on, and so it was just like
Speaker 1: easy to watch. You sit back, you just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You're not like panicking the whole time like sometimes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so so Rachel in Santana, Oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: such a good storyline. Rachel invites Santana to a photo
Speaker 1: shoot for New York magazine. Is the right New York
Speaker 1: New York magazine?
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: Or the New Yorker. It's one of those. And and
Speaker 1: she's doing this photo shoot for front of Girl, and
Speaker 1: she's like, why don't you come get pampered? Ca Santana's
Speaker 1: feeling a little like she's kind of behind the curve
Speaker 1: of everybody in New York doing things and accomplishing things.
Speaker 1: And now she's known as the East to Stack girl.
Speaker 1: So is this is? I love their dynamic. I like
Speaker 1: the whole idea that, like Rachel's supporting her at first
Speaker 1: and bringing her along. I don't feel like it's like
Speaker 1: a oh because you're in the background thing. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like it was genuinely a friend thing and we
Speaker 1: get Brave, which I love that number. I love that number.
Speaker 1: I love Sarah obviously. I don't know what it is
Speaker 1: about this number. It's so satisfying? Is it the lines
Speaker 1: and the choreography too when they sound really good? But
Speaker 1: there's something about it that is also reminiscent of what
Speaker 1: we're going to get later in every breath you take.
Speaker 1: It's slightly similar. I don't think that was intentional, but
Speaker 1: I liked it.
Speaker 2: I love this number. I think it works on every
Speaker 2: single level. It's like it's also something we haven't seen.
Speaker 2: We've just do our six hundred number, and this is
Speaker 2: something we have not done yet. They still there's sharp lines,
Speaker 2: it's a different setting. Also, they both are playing their
Speaker 2: own story. It's also a fantasy within it that feels
Speaker 2: real and grounded. And also they still look beautiful and
Speaker 2: it's still campy.
Speaker 1: Like they sound good.
Speaker 2: They so good. And the dynamic of in front of
Speaker 2: the camera and behind the camera working with the storyline
Speaker 2: also is like super impactful. And I think like this
Speaker 2: is exactly where Glee hits it shride, where you're still
Speaker 2: giving visually and audibly like a really wonderful performance, but
Speaker 2: also the story is working within the song.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's driving.
Speaker 2: And this was again another one of those things in
Speaker 2: the screening were like what is So it's also I
Speaker 2: think as a viewer really satisfying this dynamic for two reasons. One,
Speaker 2: you know, like in the earlier seasons, when any members
Speaker 2: of the Glee Club would go up against Rachel because
Speaker 2: she always tried to like dominate the setting, it was
Speaker 2: always sort of like satisfying as a viewer right to
Speaker 2: be like humble her. She obviously is so super talented,
Speaker 2: but like this is an ensemble thing, right, And it's
Speaker 2: one of those moments again. And it's nice also to
Speaker 2: see Santana come from where she's come from to be
Speaker 2: the one who can match Rachel totally going toe to
Speaker 2: toe with her, and I feel like this episode there
Speaker 2: is no distinction because you are literally seeing Santana play
Speaker 2: in Rachel's like sandbox, yes, like doing Funny Girl, doing
Speaker 2: this number. And also they're both just so talented as
Speaker 2: actors and singers that and so beloved as characters, like
Speaker 2: they're both equally as beloved and known and attached to.
Speaker 2: And so you see two people that you're rooting for
Speaker 2: on each on a different level, Like I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: just rooting for them in general. Yeah, Like I don't
Speaker 2: know if one of you is right or wrong. I
Speaker 2: don't know how I feel about it, because you both
Speaker 2: have really good points totally and it feels like really
Speaker 2: real and you're both acting asses off, I.
Speaker 1: Know, and like. And then Rachel is obviously being told
Speaker 1: that they're going to cast an understudy for Funny girlers
Speaker 1: is like, I'm not going to miss a show and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, legally we have to so.
Speaker 2: True to have Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: In some levels of contracts there's there's requirements that you
Speaker 1: have to have an understudy, like Broadway, Yes, you have
Speaker 1: to have understudies.
Speaker 2: I have a question. Yeah, so this whole auditioning for
Speaker 2: an understudy thing looks very TV suspect we don't know
Speaker 2: how theater works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little like a little Chicago y right,
Speaker 1: Like we're auditioning on a stage and we're like we're
Speaker 1: there for the understudy role and like really, I mean
Speaker 1: it should be more generic in a regular room, and
Speaker 1: like it's I don't know, and like the bad singing,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It feels a little bit campy, like.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have singers in there who could not sing.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm director that badly? Yeah probably not. No, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's people who botch auditions who are good,
Speaker 1: and there are people who.
Speaker 3: Wait, can go on, like I mean like an intentional botch.
Speaker 3: Oh no no, no, no, no, okay, I mean like.
Speaker 1: A you're nervous and you're I'm familiar. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we all are. But like, yeah, in general, it's a
Speaker 1: little less. You know, on a big it feels like
Speaker 1: on a big like high stakes, big scale. And I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think you just auditioned and then they
Speaker 1: cast an understudy or somebody that they loved for the
Speaker 1: part that Rachel went up against or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I don't think that they would
Speaker 1: have put brought the star and to cast their understand
Speaker 1: right if it was a chemistry read and they're casting
Speaker 1: the other guy, that's different, which was yeah, we did
Speaker 1: see exactly exactly, but yeah, you don't. You don't see
Speaker 1: that all that often unless they're part of the creative team.
Speaker 1: Santana comes in because she gets wind of it, and
Speaker 1: she comes in and she bursts in doing don't rant
Speaker 1: in my preay through.
Speaker 2: The aisle, like it's such a good reference.
Speaker 1: Now, to be fair, it's she's not funny, No Naya
Speaker 1: put her own spin on it. This is fully Naya.
Speaker 1: I don't think she was even trying to be funny girl.
Speaker 1: She was just trying to show what she can do,
Speaker 1: which she did. I love this version.
Speaker 2: It's so that version is so funny.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It did the job though, because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, this is so good.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, and she's so she sounds so good song
Speaker 1: in her own way, like Leah, obviously this is her song,
Speaker 1: right like this is when she was talking about how
Speaker 1: like when you know, when it's not Barbara's anymore, it's hers,
Speaker 1: it's kind of Leah now, So like I you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But but I appreciate that Santana did
Speaker 1: her own version, not trying to fit into the mold. Also,
Speaker 1: that was the music people being like, let's just go.
Speaker 2: Damn, it's all right, like it is all of it.
Speaker 2: It's just all of it works. They like like Adam
Speaker 2: and Alex and the music people and the writers like
Speaker 2: all of it makes so much sense that Santiano would
Speaker 2: go in there and just like.
Speaker 1: The no, I wouldn't do that either, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, She wouldn't try to be something that she's not.
Speaker 2: She would do the same song. I definitely, absolutely that
Speaker 2: absolutely would and be like I can do this's my version.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All the storylines in this episode work so successfully, and
Speaker 2: it all seems organized and all seems like classic Gleat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I think the self referential stuff that we've always
Speaker 2: done is perfect in this episode because because I don't
Speaker 2: see how it was not intentional that they're going at
Speaker 2: it in this episode in such a specific way when
Speaker 2: there were like rumors out in the world that they
Speaker 2: didn't get along for sure, and you know, she would
Speaker 2: have loved that shit Like Naya and Leat were probably yeah,
Speaker 2: do this, because all those things were always blown out
Speaker 2: of proportion and.
Speaker 1: Not correct exactly.
Speaker 2: So like watching it was also like fan service in
Speaker 2: a way of like, oh, you think they hate each other,
Speaker 2: let's give.
Speaker 1: It to you. Just do it. Yeah, give the people
Speaker 1: what they want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it works because they're also playing into it.
Speaker 2: It's like they're in on the gag of it all totally.
Speaker 1: It was. It was great. And then Santana gets the
Speaker 1: the understudy role.
Speaker 2: Well before we get to that, okay, because that scene
Speaker 2: where they come in and they have their like first
Speaker 2: run in post her auditioning and Santana's like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to move out. It's like, yeah, right, you should, and
Speaker 2: then she gets the call that she's that she's going
Speaker 2: to get it, and like Kurt witnessing this, the fallout
Speaker 2: from this preceding the next scene is genius. Genius genius,
Speaker 2: like I I want to talk to them to be like,
Speaker 2: do you remember how it felt to be shooting this?
Speaker 2: Because watching it feels electric all these it.
Speaker 1: Does it does. It's I think they all know each
Speaker 1: other so well too. M h. It's like when we
Speaker 1: do our stuff, if it's very easy, it's very easy
Speaker 1: to work together. It's very easy to know these characters
Speaker 1: and to know the chemistry and the energy you're going
Speaker 1: to get, and and it's just there's an ease to it.
Speaker 1: And so when the stakes are even higher, there's an
Speaker 1: ease that you get. But then also the steaks on
Speaker 1: top of it, and that's that's the magic. Well.
Speaker 2: And then they're also everyone's played these characters for so
Speaker 2: long that these scenes were written so well that they're
Speaker 2: playing on and using four seasons full of material to
Speaker 2: get to this point, right, So Naya and Chris and
Speaker 2: Leah obviously deeply understand their characters. Yes, And so when
Speaker 2: you're finally given something to use all of that history
Speaker 2: and it all comes out. Because this wouldn't have worked
Speaker 2: with newer characters, with us being out at newer characters,
Speaker 2: it could only be it could only work just deeply
Speaker 2: in the successfully with characters who have been together since
Speaker 2: day one.
Speaker 1: Yes, and also that slam whoa wow wow wow wow
Speaker 1: wow wow wow. It was all really good.
Speaker 2: So then there's the other scene. They come back and
Speaker 2: then they have this whole the argument or they're standing
Speaker 2: on opposite sides of the loft. Rachel tries to get
Speaker 2: Kurt to decide, and he's very much being Switzerland, like
Speaker 2: this is crazy, Like we're friends, we're friends, We're friends.
Speaker 2: Everybody just like, can we get a long We can't.
Speaker 2: And it was like the first time that Santana and
Speaker 2: I use the term win loosely because I don't really
Speaker 2: know if she ultimately if it's winning, but Santana fully
Speaker 2: stands her ground and Rachel concedes and is like I'll
Speaker 2: go then, yeah, yeah yeah. And it was so powerful
Speaker 2: because the magic of Lee and Leah playing Rachel. It's
Speaker 2: like deep understanding of like Rachel is probably deeply insecure.
Speaker 2: They all are to an extent, right, but Rachel's has
Speaker 2: like always been thinly veiled behind her bravado as a
Speaker 2: human being, right, And like the brilliance of watching her
Speaker 2: face when Saint Annah's like okay, yeah, fine go and
Speaker 2: now it hit her she called her bluff and watching
Speaker 2: them do this, I just couldn't get it, Like I
Speaker 2: may have to.
Speaker 1: Go watch this episode again. Red, Yeah, Yes, And Rachel
Speaker 1: says something. She's like, she only wins if I lose.
Speaker 1: I can't be around this negative energy anymore. This is
Speaker 1: my big break. She's poisoning it. That to me is
Speaker 1: like Rachel saying, like, we can't. It's kind of like,
Speaker 1: I see the pot. I see, I see both sides,
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, I see both sides. It's
Speaker 1: very it's very real. It's very real feeling that she's feeling.
Speaker 1: She's feeling jealous, she's feeling stepped on, she's feeling like
Speaker 1: this is her moment in Santana's is blowing it for
Speaker 1: her or taking it away from her in some way.
Speaker 1: And Rachel being the insecure, being so insecure about this,
Speaker 1: like she she can't see that there's room for everybody,
Speaker 1: and so she's choosing to let Santana poison this. She's
Speaker 1: not you know what I mean, give her gives her
Speaker 1: AMMO right, like the victim of it right, And she's
Speaker 1: giving her too much power, I think. But and Santana,
Speaker 1: I don't think is wrong for going in to get
Speaker 1: a role and get a job. But the way they
Speaker 1: play it out, in the dynamic in which they play it,
Speaker 1: and the honesty and the truth behind both of their
Speaker 1: truths is so real that you're like, I am here
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 2: Every breath you take was sort of oh God, like
Speaker 2: a not to be too serious about this, but like
Speaker 2: a revelation because never would I ever think to put
Speaker 2: that song there.
Speaker 1: Totally totally, but it is so good.
Speaker 2: Because it's also like funny, but they're playing it so
Speaker 2: serious that it.
Speaker 1: And the most the melody of it and the hook
Speaker 1: of it is so good that you're like, I'm so
Speaker 1: invested in this. Like it the feeling that that song
Speaker 1: gives you, even though it's like a little funny and
Speaker 1: a little weird, like and a weird choice, like something
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have thought of or predicted, it just is.
Speaker 1: It's actually brilliant. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2: I think they also made each other better.
Speaker 1: Oh totally, it's really good. It's really really good. Rachel
Speaker 1: moves out, she rooms up that photo. My heartbroke tuned.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a great I think this like single
Speaker 2: storyline has been like the most successful storyline in New
Speaker 2: York so far.
Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed.
Speaker 2: It also felt Yeah, it matched. It matched everything like
Speaker 2: it matched their age, the things they've been through, their history,
Speaker 2: also paired with the people who are actually doing it
Speaker 2: like it all just was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Well, Kevin, and then there's Tina and Artie, and Tina
Speaker 1: and Artie are their title valedictorian. Prior to that, we
Speaker 1: see them amicable, all besting, having lunch their Tuesday lunches
Speaker 1: together already is being supportive about, you know, being Tina
Speaker 1: being waitlisted for Brown. You cheer up, you break into song.
Speaker 1: It's our six hundredth number. It's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: numbers we've e were done together. I love doing this
Speaker 1: number with you. This is reminiscent of that scene we'll
Speaker 1: have later where we decide we're going to get married
Speaker 1: if we're not together with anybody by the time we're
Speaker 1: thirtieth Is this that episode? No, No, that's later, But
Speaker 1: it felt like that, and I think that was Brad
Speaker 1: Baker as well. That's fine. Yeah, this was so much fun.
Speaker 1: It was episode was the storyline was so great. I
Speaker 1: loved it. I was thrilled when I read it. It
Speaker 1: felt it also felt like after all the chaos that
Speaker 1: was happening. The storyline was focused. It was and Artie,
Speaker 1: it was you and me. We were running lines like
Speaker 1: all the time for all of this, and like it
Speaker 1: just felt comfortable. It felt like we were back in
Speaker 1: a place where it was like this is safe, this
Speaker 1: is so safe. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And again, like drawing on the history of like all
Speaker 2: of our scenes have that sort of like friendly intimacy
Speaker 2: from the very beginning, but also like they're a little quiet,
Speaker 2: They're really comfortable. It's like the safe space. And it
Speaker 2: was nice that we could sort of like full circle,
Speaker 2: bring that back a bit from the very beginning. I
Speaker 2: love this number. I really it was so much. I
Speaker 2: also like shouted to Brad Beeker that into the camera.
Speaker 2: Stuff was wild, I know, but also like you could
Speaker 2: tell we were having fun. Everybody. Yes, it was nice.
Speaker 2: It felt good. This beautiful arrangement, Like those backgrounds are
Speaker 2: stupid beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love this cover. I just love it. I can
Speaker 1: listen to it all the time. I really do sound great, better.
Speaker 2: Than the original.
Speaker 1: Oh whoa, you're also like throwing down some crazy.
Speaker 2: I think Luke and all those people really came up
Speaker 2: with a beautiful arrangement. And now I've gone back and
Speaker 2: I've listened to the original. I'm like, I missed these.
Speaker 1: And I also feel like this fits our voices very well. Yes,
Speaker 1: some of these songs are a little bit of a stretch,
Speaker 1: like I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, well this one is a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 1: For me, but but I mean totally like yes, our voices,
Speaker 1: Yes it does.
Speaker 2: And doing a seem of Jane, which like in the office,
Speaker 2: can't get enough.
Speaker 1: Also, her sitting behind us on that ball. Is that
Speaker 1: the second scene or the first scene? It's so funny.
Speaker 1: I remember doing that being like we're in Jane's oven.
Speaker 2: I also remember being every other scene I had had
Speaker 2: with her up to that point. You know, Artie is
Speaker 2: scared of her, right, it's Sue, but this was like
Speaker 2: we're almost graduating, we're used to her antics, and it
Speaker 2: was like the first time that we're both not we
Speaker 2: don't care what she says in terms of like intimidation.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, which was also really.
Speaker 2: Fun to like play against her in that way.
Speaker 1: Yes, And it's always just fun Jane. We have to
Speaker 1: do a speech for her an audience or her choice,
Speaker 1: and we're also competing for I guess a solid nationalist
Speaker 1: as well in this like it just adds that on
Speaker 1: top of it.
Speaker 2: Because what Blaine has given up his even though the
Speaker 2: whole last episode or the puppet episode was solely about.
Speaker 1: That and a solo, I can't and then it never
Speaker 1: plays out the way we talk about it anyway already
Speaker 1: and Teina are going to get into it. And that scene,
Speaker 1: those scenes in the hallway where you're rolling down the
Speaker 1: hall and I'm chasing you or I'm in front of
Speaker 1: you and I'm those were really fun. I have some
Speaker 1: photos from those where I'm sitting when when it's your coverage,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting with Andrew Mitchell, our a camera operator on
Speaker 1: the dolly that they're wheeling and moving while you're moving
Speaker 1: and doing these monologues, and I remember we had like
Speaker 1: big paragraphs. We're like, yes, we have line, a lot
Speaker 1: of lines. It moves really fast. We're also like moving
Speaker 1: down a hall and I remember be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this could go really badly. It didn't for some reason.
Speaker 1: We just we did it. We made it work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I remember like sitting on the dolly, like being
Speaker 1: rolled and talking to you at the same time behind
Speaker 1: the camera. I love these scenes.
Speaker 2: Those are so much fun.
Speaker 1: They were really fun to do.
Speaker 2: It's our characters always talk so quickly to one another.
Speaker 1: I think we speed each other up, maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they expect that. So then you're doing
Speaker 2: those hallway scenes and they're like fast, you have to
Speaker 2: make it because the hallway is only so long. So screwed.
Speaker 2: It's all done by a certain time.
Speaker 1: I wrote a speech for you, right, we were really
Speaker 1: mean to each other.
Speaker 2: Well, you pushed me.
Speaker 1: Well, that we have to talk about. That was a
Speaker 1: bridge too far.
Speaker 2: I mean, all of it was like. The cattiness of
Speaker 2: like going back and forth was also so much fun
Speaker 2: because we never got to do that.
Speaker 1: No, it was I think the fall was a bridge
Speaker 1: too far. I don't think it was fully necessary. It
Speaker 1: was genuinely an accident from Tina. That's the way. I
Speaker 1: thought she would never push him like that.
Speaker 2: I fully played it like that, and I think that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got We are pretty catty there. I think everybody did
Speaker 1: in this episode, obviously like Rachel and Santina as well.
Speaker 1: But these spitches, these speeches are you call me McKinley's
Speaker 1: biggest bitch. It's funny, it's very funny.
Speaker 2: You know, nobody read us more than Suit did. When
Speaker 2: she was saying like, oh, he's probably just in the
Speaker 2: background saying like, yeah what Kitty said, it was like, ooh,
Speaker 2: what a read. Yeah, that is exactly what what we do. Oh,
Speaker 2: Kitty's right, that's what it is, Blaine, are you serious?
Speaker 1: But the oh yeah, so we do in Vogue, which
Speaker 1: was really fun too, also very strange looking into a
Speaker 1: camera see a song like that. I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: not quite whenever I call you friend in terms of
Speaker 1: my style and not what we're used to. But I
Speaker 1: thought it was fun. I thought it was really fun.
Speaker 2: To do you sounded great on it.
Speaker 1: It was fast. I remember shooting this really fast.
Speaker 2: Very fast. Yes, yeah, okay, like both of these numbers
Speaker 2: are pretty quick because they're sort of free form rock out,
Speaker 2: just you and me going at.
Speaker 1: It a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, completely different ways. Yes, I forgot
Speaker 2: this number existed.
Speaker 1: Oh you did.
Speaker 2: I completely forgot that we did this, And as an
Speaker 2: in Vogue fan, I I was like, yes, okay, great,
Speaker 2: I get another in Vogue song.
Speaker 1: To do we do these speeches? Well, she pushes arready,
Speaker 1: and we do these speeches. Obviously we're going to nominate
Speaker 1: each other. It's redeeming, it's very sweet, it's very arty.
Speaker 1: Tina Yes seem to Rachel wouldn't be voting for each other,
Speaker 1: but Artie and Tina would end up getting there. I
Speaker 1: love these speeches. I was so emotional on that first part,
Speaker 1: and I remember being like, I'm never going to get
Speaker 1: through this speech and I knew it. Think it's because
Speaker 1: we knew graduation was coming. I was like, the end
Speaker 1: is yeah.
Speaker 2: He was finally hitting yes.
Speaker 1: And You're like, oh, I begged for this for a
Speaker 1: long time. I've wanted out, I've blacked out, I've raged,
Speaker 1: and here I am now like sad, Sad, it's over, Sad,
Speaker 1: It's coming to an end. Sad, We're getting to this
Speaker 1: point where we're talking about avaledictorian for graduation. But I
Speaker 1: thought it was so sweet. And also these lines are
Speaker 1: outrage I guess progressively just crazier. As he strains to
Speaker 1: push his wheelchair up that ram, the ghosts of fallen
Speaker 1: heroes followed close behind. Rosa Parks, Mohammeda Gandhi and Ardie
Speaker 1: Ingrams holds the torch Hi whole time, the Torch of Dignity,
Speaker 1: also calling you a bridge too far. That's where I
Speaker 1: got that from this episode. I was like, is it
Speaker 1: a push too far? Yes? Calling Arnie Abrams an American hero, it's.
Speaker 2: Exacting when I say that Tina took my broken body
Speaker 2: in her arms and taught me how to love. My
Speaker 2: favorite part that was, like, my favorite part of what
Speaker 2: I say is when I call you a patriot. I
Speaker 2: remember reading that.
Speaker 1: It was like, yes, yeah, I think we've read this together.
Speaker 1: You're reading this at the same time when when we
Speaker 1: first read it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and these are like the lines we'd practice these
Speaker 2: monologues because we would shoot them all as one for ourselves,
Speaker 2: and then they edited it together.
Speaker 1: When it went back and forth, yes, it it was
Speaker 1: so sweet, Dot crying and everybody just like, so the
Speaker 1: vote was split. She calls you make a wish, but
Speaker 1: the vote was split.
Speaker 2: Our plan backfired.
Speaker 1: Blaine gets it, and then this scene in the hallway
Speaker 1: when he's like, oh, it sounds like a humble rag,
Speaker 1: but honestly, sometimes I just feel like things get handed
Speaker 1: to me. We're like, really, it's so fun, honey. I
Speaker 1: think it's the funniest one. I just love it. He's
Speaker 1: playing it so well. We're like, really, no, it was very.
Speaker 2: Real because he would be like that in real life.
Speaker 1: Totally, totally, And but then we get to do he
Speaker 1: graciously is doing a trio with us.
Speaker 2: His royal highness has allowed us to grace the stage
Speaker 2: with him. Also, this whole thing about Tina getting waitlisted
Speaker 2: at Brown. Oh yeah, but like you keep talking about, like, oh,
Speaker 2: you need to give the speech she can get into Brown,
Speaker 2: or oh if we do break Breakaway, can we can
Speaker 2: submit it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like is that how that works?
Speaker 1: No, a trio song is not going to get me
Speaker 1: into Brown.
Speaker 2: That's not going to do it. You know what, any
Speaker 2: school should let you in after that song?
Speaker 1: Because well, we get to do Breakaway, and oh I
Speaker 1: love doing this number. I love seeing this song. I
Speaker 1: love this Kevin like two of our favorites whenever I
Speaker 1: call you friend and Breakaway one episode. How do we
Speaker 1: get so lucky?
Speaker 2: I don't know. And honestly, everything about the process of
Speaker 2: Breakaway was a dreamy recording. It was just like wonderful,
Speaker 2: It felt good, It was so satisfying. These harmonies are
Speaker 2: so good. The arrangement was unbelievable, and I just felt like, Also,
Speaker 2: the three of us never do anything together like that.
Speaker 1: No, we don't. That's why it was. I think it
Speaker 1: was so fun. It was like it just it was
Speaker 1: so great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was easy.
Speaker 1: Damn there and sing god flats.
Speaker 2: Also, and then the editing with this seeing Rachel pack
Speaker 2: her bags being so emotional, and then that whole bit
Speaker 2: with her getting the picture, tearing it in half and
Speaker 2: walking out, all while the song is playing.
Speaker 1: Man boy, man, I am just I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 2: No notes for this episode, no notes.
Speaker 1: I get I Oh man, I can watch this one
Speaker 1: again and again. I'm just so happy. Okay, let's grade
Speaker 1: these performances.
Speaker 2: I would love nothing more.
Speaker 1: Please whenever I call you friend A plus, Brave A
Speaker 1: plus plus, my lovin.
Speaker 2: A minus.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, don't read in my parade A plus I
Speaker 1: believe in and think all up, Wait, don't rid my parade?
Speaker 2: Did you also giggle when Yeah? Some of those yeah,
Speaker 2: the options ups theres also the track with it.
Speaker 1: I can't, it's too much.
Speaker 2: I was giggling.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2: Like they were out of their minds. That arrangement is
Speaker 2: so silly.
Speaker 1: You feel like it was like you had to do
Speaker 1: something like that in order to not try to be
Speaker 1: what Leah does with that number at all, because you
Speaker 1: just can't match that in any way, like it's it
Speaker 1: just feels like wrong. But loved it. Yeah, believe in
Speaker 1: a thing called love. Hey, Hey, every breath you take
Speaker 1: a hey half plus.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a minus.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. Well, it's a positive, Kevin, it's positive,
Speaker 1: all right. It's a tea a sideways tetris tea okay,
Speaker 1: Breakaway a plus A plus Okay, that is a really
Speaker 1: solid average. No, it's an excellent average.
Speaker 2: That's excellent. I approve of all of this. I listened
Speaker 2: to Breakaway a lot.
Speaker 1: I do. I don't listen to it enough. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to go listen to Every Breath You Take and
Speaker 1: don't rain on my parade right now and Brave and
Speaker 1: when I call you.
Speaker 2: This episode needs to have its own little EP or
Speaker 2: its little playlist.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm just gonna make a little playlist on my
Speaker 1: Spotify for this.
Speaker 2: Brave is so good. I really enjoyed watching that.
Speaker 1: Really really good. Okay, let's do some tarty tap.
Speaker 2: This happened last time when Sarah we had a Sarah
Speaker 2: Breilla song, didn't it? Love song?
Speaker 1: Love song? You love love song? I think you like
Speaker 1: love song a little bit more than I did, but
Speaker 1: but it's very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Tarty.
Speaker 1: Takes cringe moments. I mean calling you make a wish
Speaker 1: was kind of yeah, kind of cringey.
Speaker 2: The racist woman at the diner calling Santana Mexican.
Speaker 1: That was it, that whole conversation, and like Leah and
Speaker 1: Rachel saying like I've you were just gonna, like, you know,
Speaker 1: go line behinds on her like you know, we we
Speaker 1: addressed it, but it was it was it was cringey.
Speaker 1: It was cringeing for sure. Best dance move, oh man.
Speaker 2: I mean there was not really a lot of choreo.
Speaker 2: I think Chris on a pole.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, he loves the pole. Let's just give
Speaker 1: him that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was waiting for that one.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Kevin, what are you going to say?
Speaker 2: Best saw? I'm going breakaway? Yeah okay, But honestly, there's
Speaker 2: not a wrong choice in this episode.
Speaker 1: It's so true. I mean I would say, you could
Speaker 1: leave out my lovin' yes, and I think that's the weakest,
Speaker 1: and you could leave out maybe every breath you take.
Speaker 1: But it's close. It's close. Yeah, okay, Bess very prop.
Speaker 2: Oh Leah's wig.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, there was a lot. The picture, the ripped
Speaker 1: up picture.
Speaker 2: Oh oh that was good.
Speaker 1: The umbrellas yeah yeah yeah good are lunchboxes? Oh yeah? Okay.
Speaker 1: Best line, oh man, is it a bridge too far
Speaker 1: to call lady as an American hero? I think not
Speaker 1: very good. Not the delivery, just like the line itself.
Speaker 2: You delivered it very well, Jenna, Well.
Speaker 1: Thank you. But also it's just it's really the line.
Speaker 1: But there was the one line that I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the best.
Speaker 2: I would love for things to get physical. I will
Speaker 2: hit you so hard that you won't be able to
Speaker 2: wake up until you're old enough to be funny. Lady.
Speaker 2: That's a good joke.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. MVP. I don't know, I gotta say,
Speaker 1: Leah Nyah, yeah, I do too. It was it was seamless,
Speaker 1: true truly a seamless storyline and performances. I really I
Speaker 1: could watch it all.
Speaker 2: Day and I might. And also the writers, the music producers,
Speaker 2: everyone really just did it. This episode A yaker really
Speaker 2: like special, wow, wow, wow, smash it.
Speaker 1: There's a special episode.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jenna. Shit we found on TikTok this week. This
Speaker 2: was nine one one Yeah, This was nine one one,
Speaker 2: another Ryan Murphy show.
Speaker 1: My dad texted me about that. Really, he said, there's
Speaker 1: a show. He said, there's a Glee reference on nine
Speaker 1: one one, and some of your friends were in Doctor Octopus.
Speaker 1: Is that what the show is?
Speaker 2: Doctor Odyssey.
Speaker 1: I have too many children's songs in my head. Doctor Octopus,
Speaker 1: my doctor. My daughter calls my daughter, Emma calls octopuses
Speaker 1: apple juice. It's like apple juice, octapuse.
Speaker 2: Octopus is hard to say, it is.
Speaker 1: That's where my head's at. Sorry, yes, they're cord being
Speaker 1: in Doctor Odyesty. Okay, wait, but that is crazy because
Speaker 1: it's not just like a one off Glee reference like
Speaker 1: that is a full monologue.
Speaker 2: No, we got a full dramatic monologue reading somebody about
Speaker 2: gay rights and how there's pre Glee people who world
Speaker 2: in post Glee world, and to honor the people who
Speaker 2: came before the Glee world because Glee made it a
Speaker 2: little easier. It's not Ryan Murphy claiming he created gay
Speaker 2: rights the TV shows.
Speaker 1: It's great. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Look we did. There was a lot of educating going
Speaker 2: on in Glee.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, People mad at Ryan Murphy for writing this,
Speaker 1: but really, forgot how much Glee genuinely did do for
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus rights. Hate it or love it, you can't
Speaker 1: deny the Glee had a greater impact than we realize.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of This is a teaching moment, Kevin.
Speaker 2: It is, and I like, you know, when we were
Speaker 2: out in public or still when people come up to us,
Speaker 2: we see the different demographics who watched Glee, and when
Speaker 2: it was on, you would have these people who you
Speaker 2: would never think would ever watch a show like this,
Speaker 2: and they either watch it with their girlfriends or their
Speaker 2: mom or whatever it is, and they're exposed to characters
Speaker 2: that they wouldn't normally ever be exposed to. And in
Speaker 2: that moment that those are teaching moments by seeing different
Speaker 2: people who are unlike themselves. So I love that they
Speaker 2: did that. Ryan Murphy self referential moment.
Speaker 1: Funny.
Speaker 2: You know what, when you build an empire TV empire,
Speaker 2: you can do that.
Speaker 1: You can do that because you're in control. That was
Speaker 1: fun of me as you guys, I'm so honored to
Speaker 1: go on that journey with you because I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not being biased. I know I do that
Speaker 1: a lot with like Tina episodes. Sometimes I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is a great episode.
Speaker 2: Tina has great episodes. Those storylines are always in a
Speaker 2: really good episode.
Speaker 1: When they slap, they slap. This one was really great though,
Speaker 1: and so Steller's all around direction, music performances, like writing.
Speaker 1: It was across the board, really really good. Next week,
Speaker 1: you guys, is the Tria is trio and that is
Speaker 1: the makeout, and that is the makeoup. That's also Kevin.
Speaker 1: This is also hold on Wilson Phillips. There were that
Speaker 1: one with the curtains in a hole, the one Monday,
Speaker 1: Come yes, Kevin, you're in it okay. Also, though I
Speaker 1: had a lot, to be fair, this is a very
Speaker 1: Tina heavy episode as well, So my memories are very
Speaker 1: clear of this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can tell. I mean, if you've been listening
Speaker 2: to this. If we're not in a lot, the memories out.
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