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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey there, fan Ritos and Gleeks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're calling all Full House fans and Glee fans today
because we're doing a pot swap with Jenna Ushkowitz and
Kevin McHale A Ka, Tina and Artie from the Glee
Rewatch podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
And that's what you really missed.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I want to know what Full House and Glee have
in common and what's different.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Keep listening to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
She's a two time Tony Award winning producer. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Oh hi hello.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
It was like I was like reading through all both
of your guys and stuff and I was like, damn, yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You guys get you.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You have street cred.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That is I don't forget. I introduced her. I'm like,
this is my two I'm Tony Award winning friend Jenna.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Right or like she yeah, she doesn't have a first name.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's just too I Like I can't say that about
anyone else I know, Like.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Right, and I'm two time Award to award winning joy.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, Like you know, fine, she could be the modest
one and I'm going to be the obnoxious friend. Like
do you know what she has in her home?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Right?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Look, everyone Joe needs like they're you know, man, they're
like the mother type. That's like, yeah, listen to how
great they.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
She would never ever do it for herself, and that's
why we love her exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well that's probably a good thing. Well, well, oh my gosh,
it's so great to.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
See you guys, hello, helcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
This is very exciting for us, So thank you for
having us.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh yeah, absolutely, our little pot swap is going to
be fun us.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, and Jody and I growing up as child actors,
you know, it's easy for us to feel like acting
was just a hobby that we just continued for thirty years.
But you guys, you guys are have real talent. You
are multi talented. You're the real deal.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And so so.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's not true. Again, trained I'm not.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm impressed.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
We make it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Right and we just can somehow. We're just all faking
it till the end.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Literally broke. I was like, I have spent a whole
life being mediocre at things, and.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You know what, we'll keep going and keep I mean.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Not too hard though, you know what I mean, just
just as long as great. We all host podcasts from
our houses and I'm sure that really.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
That's yeah, yeah, not because we're meeting, because we're just
only because if the option is terror justly, I will
take the path.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
At least resistance.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Absolutely, it's good to see you about our mediocredness and
Jenna's amazingness. You know, twenty minutes we've done.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And mediocrity and just keep moving.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So you guys started recapping Glee, but you guys have fit.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You finished the entire.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Yeah, she's like a week ago.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh it's it's fresh, fresh breakout.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
How do you tell me exactly how you're feeling right now?
Are you happy, sad, satisfied?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It was the show everything that you remembered it to
be better, worse? Did it age well?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Well there's definitely things that didn't age well. But uh yeah,
well try going back to the lady. Yeah, I'll tell
you what we thought of things that you're like, Yeah,
it's it's pretty crazy, but all to say, like the
the experience itself was.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Healing and therapeutic in a.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Lot of ways and really surprising.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
I think both Kevin and I would say our expectations
for the later seasons were definitely, you know, a tad lower,
and we were pleasantly surprised we really enjoyed watching it
and kind of watching it from an outside lens of
like having space.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Away from the show, which I'm sure you guys can
also appreciate.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It, sure, but totally.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Yeah, I think I'm it's bittersweet. I'm glad I don't
have to watch myself anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I think for you guys, like I think i'd imagine
you were like kids, right, so there's a different different Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It is now for sure, but like if you would
have asked, I mean, you guys were you know, it
was a lot more recent. Ye, you guys were doing Glee.
I mean like I was horribly embarrassed by the show
until like maybe ten years ago. Like, yes, I was
grateful that I got to be step and everything, but
(05:06):
I think I didn't get that adult appreciation. And then
going back and watching it now, like you.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Said, with that outside those outside.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Eyes, and you know, when you're watching it with some
distance away from whatever chaos was going on in the
middle of it, you're like, oh, I can appreciate this
now because at the time, I just I.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Was over it. I think for us too, like talking
about the later seasons, it wasn't just like oh, these
storylines get a bit weird, right, but you can't sort
of disconnect the behind the scenes things you're like, you're
saying and so now because it is yeah, ten years
post we're trying our hardest. It is a little easier
(05:46):
to disconnect those things and to just appreciate it for
what it is for forty two minutes, you know, at
a time, and not like, oh, so and so is
having a bad day. Here I was. I didn't get
enough sleep that night, so this number was not great.
Those things you can sort of put behind you. Yes,
and watching it for the first time, almost especially our
last season, like we don't remember any of this happening.
(06:10):
Oh wow, wow, I imagine that you guys have that
like you were children. So like, I'm just very curious that,
like we make fun of ourselves every show about how
bad our memory.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That definitely do.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, I wonder what that is like for you, both.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh, eighties and nineties fashion, the fashion, the hair, we
got mullets.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
We've got mullets everywhere on everyone.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Give me some Peobler's a tire alone. It's something you
can do an entire rewatch podcast just on her fashion.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Truly, truly, there was Yeah, there was a lot happened
awkward teeth eras that was fun. Yeah, and just everyone
you know what I mean, Like we just we make
fun of the show. It's silly, but because we love
it so much. It's that thing where I'm like, I,
when I really love you, I will like tease you
(07:03):
and make fun of you because I know you so
well that I like I can lovingly poke it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean. And it's that's kind
of like what it's been.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I think for us rewatching the show is like we
love it so much and we love everybody on it,
and it's been so fun. But like it's like going
back and making fun of old family movies.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
How can you not like, oh my god, look at
your hair, mom.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You know, I think for us it was like an
important thing for like the listeners and the people who
watch Glee to also recognize of like when things get
talked about publicly, any quote unquote drama or anything like that, Like, guys,
we're a family, Like this isn't that serious. It's serious
to you, Like we can talk, we can talk badly
(07:46):
about the show or make fun of it, but we
love it, Like we're not doing this because we hate
the show. We're not hate watching it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right right, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That would be exhausting. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Oh god, there are a lot of people out there
that like hate watch hate fun.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I'm like, no, it's like, we can make fun of
it because we were there and we have a deep,
deep love and understanding right for what that time was.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Like, that's such an important distinction because we get comments
that people are like, oh, you're on the show that
made you famous.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I was like, no, not not real, but watch the show.
It's silly. Yeah, that's and you're the same thing. It's can't.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I was just saying, like we share kind of Glee
and Full House that can't.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes that you know, yes, definitely, you have.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
To have a certain suspension of disbelief in order to
go along with what you're watching. You know, it's not
it's not based in reality. So it's it's silly, it's funny.
It's meant to be ridiculous, and how could you not
talk about that It's ridiculous in the most lovely, wonderful way,
and that you know, like Lee, it was over the
(08:50):
top and whatever, but like, oh my god, the music
and you guys at your talent, like it was such.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
A unique, incredible show.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
You know, of course we love it, but like ridiculous,
and I think those are also like the things that
make the show, both of these shows something that means
a lot to so many people.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, we're like.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Growing up, we were obsessed with Full House, like that
is like an integral part of our beings. Like I
don't know anybody who didn't watch that show, right, Like.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
So it's still so weird, so weird when people say it,
because I just still.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't know my life. I'm like, really, I know
it was that.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Like you guys all watch you know, people say to us,
now there's a new saying like or not new, but
like people will be like.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You raised me, and I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
God, that's crazy. For years raised me.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I don't know if this happens to you guys, But
like fans will come up and just hug us and
they're like like we're childhood friends from long ago, and
I'm like, oh, yeah, you do feel that kindred spirit
with us.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Even though we don't know you, we've never met before.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I just met Brian Henson, and I am a ridiculous
Muppets fan, Like beyond.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I cried. You guys, I get it. I was like,
you were my childhood and I just respect you. And
I was like, oh, this is that Okay, Now, I know.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
It feels crazy something.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
That you burst into tears when you're so excited to
meet somebody that is such a like horror memory.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I have a story, and I love a good story.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
It ties into this because obviously we had one of
your family members on our show. Indeed, John came on
the show and we're like, oh my god, Jesse's coming
with this.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
People are really weird.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
People go like, you know, we've had like really Gwyneth was.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
An n Kotb's on the show. You get me, Oh yeah,
really weird mecca of like stars of TV stars. You're like, wow,
that's a household name. So they're coming on our show.
He's coming on our show. This is fairly new to like.
He was one of the first.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Like really big guest stars that we got, and so
he didn't I know how how he would be, how
we would be. So we were all kind of like
figuring it out, and he got thrown into the machine
of Glee where you have to sing and you have
to dance and it's really fast and you have to
learn it overnight and be at one hundred percent the
next day. And so he told his story on our
(11:16):
show about how he was so nervous and so scared
and got a rehearsal studio and all this crazy stuff.
But he was the nicest, and I mean by the
nicest obviously, you know, like just down to.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Earth, knocking on our trailer doors.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Like hey guys, do you want to hang out?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, wait a second.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
So John, like, you know, we really took to John.
We loved having him. And when his episode came out
on the show was the first one was Britney and
the Brencecars episode, so came on he was like, hey,
you guys, my friend's going to do a screening of
my episode at his house.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Do you want to come?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
And so Kevin and I he invited me and Kevin
I'm like us, like what.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
But he you know, we had gotten along with him
really well.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So we're like okay, sure.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
So we're I pick up Kevin and we're driving and
he gives us the address and we kind of get
lost and we're going up this hill at Jeff's house
and we get to I was like it's got to.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Be Jeff's house because everyone that pulls up to Jeff's house.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Like, well, yeah. We just kept going and going and
we saw this house in the distance, like oh, what
if that was it?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
And then we get to this gate and I'm like, Kevin,
I don't think this is it.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
He was like, no, Jenna, yes this is.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I was like, we're not used to that syndication money.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Well yeah, and not only that, but Jeff, you know,
he just he's coming out with a book and I
just read it and like he ran wound up running
Lavernon Shirley. After the entire writing team got fired. Penny
Marshall looked at him because they wrote some really inappropriate
jokes in the script that were like very antisemitic.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And she hated.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Oh she fired everyone in the room and then looked
at Jeff and went, you you run it now. He
was like twenty two and like so like he started,
like he has had a really incredible career. He created
hanging with mister Cooper, produced uh oh, the Little White
Mouse Movie, a little yeah, like a ton of stuff. Yeah,
(13:16):
I mean, way and way beyond that. He's you know,
Malcolm and Eddie. He did that show. Yeah, so he's
he it's the full house. Probably got a wing of
that house. I always telling him, I'm like, this is
this room right here, I'm pretty sure is mine?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Even those hallways. I had never been into a house.
I had there's a hotel like this, this is a hallway. Yeah, yeah,
this is one of the biggest houses I've ever been.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's a beautiful home.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
And he's and again, Jeff is the sweetest, loveliest, most
down to earth like, non imposing dude that you know
has been incredibly successful and incredibly generous.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
But yeah, so we're wid did like he comes, He's
very welcoming. We go into the house, we were doing
the we're hanging out where I think he gave us
a meal. Jody, I feel like you were there, and
you were there very briefly, like you had just had
a baby.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Maybe I might have like you were like new, Yeah,
because I think I did. And then I think I
did come, and I because I think I had just
had be my not like just but pretty recently. It
was like twenty ten, Yes it was yeah, yeah, and
so yeah, I had just had my younger daughter. So yeah,
I was not exactly out gallivanting around, but I wanted.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
To go see and support, So yes, I do believe.
I was there very briefly, and.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
We were sitting at the table before like the screening happened, and.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
It was all just very you know, I don't know, crazy,
but I remember sitting there and then texting my brother Lara.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I was like, I just I just had dinner.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
With the dam right, A Golden Retriever walk through the
room coming.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's but best dogs ever. Those dogs have the best.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Like it was like those gates and something like we
got sucked into an alternate universe and we kept looking
at each other like what is going on? And then
like more of you kept showing up, like what not
I was not prepared for and then like, oh god,
this episode could suck and they're here to watch it
and we don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Just not okay, but oh no, we like we travel
in the past. If they're like, we all seriously support
each other.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And yeah, so it was that's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It feels similar to us so like in a lot
of ways.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So I mean when you do a show with people.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Of any length, but especially six seasons, eight seasons and
then fuller whatever, and especially with such incredibly rigorous, insane
hours working singing.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, it's like a bar, It's like a trauma bond.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Like nobody else speaks this particular language and knows this
particular set of personalities and intricacy, and you know, it
is and it's like a family. Like there's some people
that like you guys but heads all the time. There's
some people that like, you're like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
This is my favorite one. Yeah, you know, like and
you just it's a family, I know. Yeah, the dynamic
for sure.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
There's times when you're like, all right, everybody sit down,
if we need.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To have a conversation.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yeah, family talk about you know, and yeah, it's a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I know. Your fans are such diehard fans and they
rank the seasons of Glee. So, now that you're done
rewatching your show, do you have a personal favorite season?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh god, I mean for me, it's changing because I
think coming into the rewatch, there was absolutely a particular order,
and I think it was in the order.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
In which they were like it was one through six.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oka, Yeah, I think that has that's definitely changed.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, Okay, I say one is still my favorite. The
first season. Yeah, this is a hard question for you guys. Yes,
it is amazing because.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We were again, I know we said it, but we
were really pleasantly surprised by four, five, and.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Six, Okay, right, Yeah in it you're like, this sucks
so bad, and then you watch it back and you're like, oh,
I guess if you don't know what's going on, Actually
it's actually.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Don't discount season four.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That was.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I yeah, okay, so season one for Jenna, yeah, he's
money still favorite and Kevin God, he doesn't want to commit.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I can tell you because I want to say season
one because I always have, and I think for nostalgia purposes,
you know, it's fresh. It's the first time we're experiencing
all of this. Yeah, memories are so.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Bright and also like the first season of a show,
you're getting to really know the characters and like you're
getting to do things for the first.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Time that aren't stale that you haven't done.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You're not you know, but that first season, say, season
three was really really surprisingly great.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I know, right, I think season three moved up on
the ranks, right, I think that's okay?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah, what what's the fan consensus? Do they do?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
They agree on one particular season in general, Like for
our fans they love season four. We can't quite figure
out why they love season four for some reason.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
There was there were important things, like very memorable things
that happen in season four, but yeah, overall, as a.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
As a season of episodes, we like, we're like, huhy,
not what I expect? Sam, what do you think? What
do you think?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I feel like it very between the first three seasons, okay,
as the favorites, and those generally end up being in
some no particular order, the top three for people. But
then there's also this contingent of fans who love season six,
which is a shortened season.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It's there's a new cast of like ladies in the
Glee Club that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
A crazy wished were more. Yeah, it's a little unhinged
one of our creators, Yeah, when Ryan Murphy really started
leaning into the Ryan Murphy of it all.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Oh yeah, like guarrails were off.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I think it's like one of our creators Ian had said, like,
it's everything that we wish we could have done if
we didn't have like the pressure cirker of everything else
on us in how big the show had gotten.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I think he this is like the free the free season.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Did you guys know that that was going to be
your last season?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, okay going into it.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I mean that's if he started finding out I think
towards the end of season five. Yeah, couple it was.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, that's great. You never know season to write to
the finale.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's great, that's amazing. Did you guys get two weeks?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
On Full House we had yeah, two weeks, two weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's why it's such as why there's no finale Michelle
falls off a horse and gets amnesia.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
That's just yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
We didn't have time to write.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
It's crazy the two weeks after eight seasons you have
two weeks to have closure because.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
They basically there, you know, there was and we've talked
about it on the show. There was a lot of
back and forth about are we moving to the w
B network which became the CWA or whatever, are we
moving to you know, TBS?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Is this you know what is happening?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
And anyway, it couldn't make up their mind couldn't. Yeah,
they could not make up their minds what they wanted
to do, blah blah blah, and so then like with
the latter. We had the Michelle episode written. We I
think we'd gotten the first one like in the can,
and it was a two parter, and so they shot
that as the second We shot the second part and
(21:04):
then the next The last and final week that we
shot was not the Michelle episode, but it was the
episode with Andrew Keegan on it where I get stood
up I think or whatever. That was the last episode
we filmed. And so if you watch that episode and
watch the last scene, it's me and Bob and you'll
see we did that scene one time because I was losing.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It, because I'd.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Run back in the door and I give him a
hug and I'm like thanks for being the greatest ever.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And that was it. And so I was like, oh
my god, like yeah, like and just rip it and
ring it.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, And that was with no time, rug just completely
pulled out from underneath you.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
We've spent eight years, well eight years of our life,
in eight years.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of our fans life. I think that was for us. Really.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
The thing was like, yeah, we don't there, we don't
get to give up them. But it also left them
hungry for more. And then there was full of house,
so you know, maybe if we would have ended it
too well, they would have been.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Like that, we're good, we know what happened to them.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, speaking of Bob, we should bring this
up because you know, we lost Bob Sagga three years ago.
It still feels very fresh and it's affected how we
watch the show.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You know, it's very emotional.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I know you guys lost many on your shore, Corey, Naya,
Mark and Mark.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So what how has that affected your rewatch of the show?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I mean, Corey was I mean it was during the
show that I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, I think that not to bring the pod.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Down, but hey, let's talk about but in common.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's an unfortunate like club to be a part of.
But like you said, being on a show and in
the first place is a very specific set of circumstances
that we can all you know, agree on and have
shared memories from. And then when you have something like
that that happens and adds an extra layer of like
the closeness of like the protectiveness of all of us.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And again it's a trauma. Bods, you do something painful.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
And and that way, it's so nice to have the ensemble.
It's so nice to be with a crew that you
love and you've worked with for so many years. I
think for us, Jenna and I had started doing another
version of a rewatch podcast previously, and when Nya passed away,
we were like, we can't, we can't do this anymore.
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We just ended the show. We're like like, we don't.
We don't want to think enough is enough?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Like right, well, yes, you're like I can't. Yeah, we're
not watched to address it. I'm not ready to address it.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I can't. And it was hard for me to like
watch even watch Corey, Like when we started that version
of it, that was the first time we'd rewatched any
of it, and up to that point, I had like
I couldn't really listen to the songs he was singing
on and it was just hard. But watching it really
helped get through it. And when this iteration came up
with iHeart, we were like, Okay, if we're going to
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do this, like we had to set some parameters for
ourselves or some goals of like the intention of why
we want to do the show, and that for me
at least helped, like going back into it and having
it be like a celebration of these people and like
they're also talented. So obviously some moments it's hard, especially
with the storylines where the songs are singing it and
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like it's I have like flashback from the pilot and
you're like, oh god. But at the same time, and
I think the overwhelming sense for me was that it
really is a gift that we get to watch this,
and we got so many moments of like how great
they are as people shine through as in their performances
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as characters, and that has been like a really Obviously
it's hard. Some episodes are easier than others, but it
has been another really nice surprise of doing all this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, for sure, it's lovely.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, it's a way to memorialize them and like you said, honor.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Them and I get to be that sort of braggy friend.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You're kidding.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Yeah, so good.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
They're both so good, They're so talented.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
I think it's Yeah, emotionally, I think watching it back
it makes you appreciate we're so deep in.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
The machine. I'll keep calling it the machine because it really.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well sitcom same things.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
You know, you're like, you're just and so I don't
think I really got to appreciate the talent and the
commitment that they gave and so you're like, wow, that's
I just appreciate their talent more in addition to loving
the humans that they were. And you know, in terms
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of the recap, also for the fans to be able
to hear our appreciation and also to feel like they're
a part of the the rewatch, it gives.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Them a new place of like healing.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
And I think for Corey especially like we didn't we
had to mourn all that in the show, like while
we were filming it and move on without him in
the show.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So it was very deferent.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Was like here we're doing live grief and yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Live from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
From Los Angeles, I will tell you, oh God.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
But I was very forgiving in the storylines and in
the characters and where we were the season that he
after he passed and after his character passed, everything after that,
everything was a little bit unhinged a little on.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
There's a lot of uncertainty. There was just a little
bit of like people.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Checking out and you're like, whoa, this is when we.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
All flew off the rails a little bit.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
But we were like, wow, let's give ourselves and everybody
around us the grace that we deserved what we were
going through in hindsight, like we could see that now.
So I think that was also helpful to watch and
be like, you know, we would talk about it before
the rewatching. We would say, wow, there after season three,
it's all questionable to me. That's that's what I felt like,
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I don't know what these seasons will bring and how
we'll review them, but after we're you know, going through
it all in this process has definitely helped us put
feelings to names.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
And and to moments in time.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
So that was really helpful for us and I'm grateful
for it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, there's something like hindsight to go back and be like, oh, actually,
like yeah, it's yeah, what about you guys, what about
you guys with with Bob, Like how has that been rewatching?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Because it's pretty fresh too, right.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, it was first like the when I watched the pilot,
I just sawed. I mean, there's so touching moments with
the violins playing and stepping. Yeah, hit differently, like it
was so much harder because I was like, yeah, a
talent and what a loss to the world totally and
we'll never see him do another show like this, and
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so that that that was hard.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's very dah.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
That was like we talk about that we've gotten to
kind of fall in love with the show and the
Tanners as audience members, you know, because when you're in it,
you're like this, you know, and then you grow up
for twenty years being a you know, teenager.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Like that was ridiculous. I don't want to and you
go back and.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Watch it and you're like, this was actually really sweet
and good, yes, but watching it with Bob, like you know,
I just see I was really close to Bob.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And I was close to.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
His family and his girls, and you know, spend weekends
at his house and like I just I I every
And it's funny when you look at a lot of
the full House pictures, I'm always like next Bob, Like,
you know, even in the Fuller House ones like I
would just kind of naturally gravitate.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And it's definitely not as closer as a cast to
I mean, we were already close, but it's just it's
a reminder that you're not promised tomorrow. So we have
a big group cast chat like a text spread and
so yeah, like John Stamos will randomly text and just
be like I miss Bob. And that's it.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
That's all he'll say, and then we'll chime in and
that's it. Share memories.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
That's all you need.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Sometimes it is just that sweet reminder that everybody's thinking
about him or thinking about each other, and that you're
all thinking about each other, and you.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Know, yeah, it's a safe place to be vulnerable in
that way, because I think grief is such a weird
and individual experience and I think having these people that
we've all been through so much with just once in
a lifetime thing to have that sort of a safety
net of everyone too. We have the exact same thing.
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We have many group texts, but the biggest one.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, there's group text without the it's just the girl.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
But in the big one, there is every now and
every couple of months, someone will be like, just thought
of Naya. They know, love you all and it's and
it's so it's beautiful and it it feels really nice
that everybody feels that open to communicate that with one another.
And I really appreciate that. And hard dynamic.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's in the same here. We all it's
you know, we'll just think about it or I'll be
you know, at an event and I there's a particular event,
the Sclurred Research Foundation that he did every year, and
you know, I've gone every year after he's been he passed,
and I will still see somebody in the corner of
the room and think it's him.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, I went this.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Maybe sounds stupid, but I went to I saw a
Vida on the West End, like it's great, and Rachel's
he goes great. I was watching it and I got
really mad because like what I would do to see
Naya do this?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, yeah, I was right.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, he's so infuriating. I haven't seen something so like
I need her to do like the fact that that
can never happen, Like, yeah, brain can't process that.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So do you think the loss of multiple cast members
is that the reason why there was never a Glee reboot?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Or will there ever be a Glee someday? Is that
a touchy question.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All the time?
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, it feels like, I mean, that's the thing, right,
I asked.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All the time before we actually did one too.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah, well, I think honestly, coming on here, I wanted
to ask you guys about that because we do get
asked about it, and I think for our investigative skills,
you know, there's I think it seems like sometimes there's
more of a desire to have it, and then sometimes
it just sort of goes away and people stop talking
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about it. But publicly people are always asking, and so
I don't know, I don't I don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
I don't know that it's it's necessarily because of our
friends like not being a part of the show that
I don't think there could be an iteration of the
reboot that could exist.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Maybe it is.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Kind of part of it, like it I think, like
you know, the Friends did that beautiful reunion. That's my
dream of like a reunion, right, because that's all really
the fans want to see is like all the friends
getting back together and like all the characters in one place,
like people lose their minds.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
So that would be my dream of a reunion or
a reboot.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
But because we've lost so many loved you know, beloved people,
I don't know that we could do that and it
would feel the same. Yeah, But the reboot itself, like
I I just think it's tough because on one hand,
I don't touch don't touch it, you know, like it
was was good. Yeah, but I am like Kevin, very
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curious about your guys' experience.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Because I think with reboots that it feels like people
are always chasing nostalgia. Yes, and it's really hard to
recreate what that was at that time, Like there's no
way to actually recreate this exact same feeling, right, It's yeah,
you have to update. It has to be different in
some way. And I think with like the format of Glee,
it's about kids in high school, and you can always
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do that.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's I was right, You're like, we don't have.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
To be in it, like you can always do that
sort of format.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
You can always there will always be a leak club
one of you could come back to tease. Yeah, you
know exactly.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, So how did that evolve for you guys, because
if you were always getting asked about it, Like I'm
sure there were rumblings before like this may be happening officially,
but what does that look like?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean for a long time they had tried to
do it, but Warner.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Brothers wouldn't release the rights to it.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Wow, so we could it was kind of dead in
the water. They couldn't do it. We couldn't if couldn't
do anything with it. John you know, was just.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
All he wants we own it. Like during that time
when it wasn't really working out with Warner Brothers, like
did all of you say like you're a it was.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
It wasn't even It was like just a conversation, and
you know, every few years Jeff Franklin would like go
back and ask and you know, be like hey, you
know yeah, and they were like, no, we don't want
to do it, we don't want to bring it back,
we don't want to do anything with it. They were because,
to be fair, had never been off the air once.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It was in syndication. So it was like, oh my god,
why I meant, you know, when I got that it's final,
let's do something else.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And I think I think most people were on board.
But like you said, it depends on life circumstances. Like
when I first heard about it, I had just had
a baby and I was very hormonal and postpartum, and
I was like, no, I don't I don't want to
do this.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
But flash forward, you know, eight years later, I was like, yeah,
I'm ready to do this. Let's go all action.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So but yeah, by the time twenty fourteen or whenever
we started, this came around.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, we were all, we were all. Everybody was on board. Yeah.
Then we just remember selling the show.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
The executives didn't believe that this would be a hit.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
They're like, you've already been there, done that, and we
were like to relive the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I feel like you guys are the only reboot that
has worked like.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Well, we were, to be fair, we were one of
the early ones.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
We were one of the first kind of first reboots.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And you know, right after Girl Meets World of.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Course, do you have like five seasons or something of
full Yeah. Yeah, that's why that's a success, a huge success.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
And it was a huge success Slicks's first original programming
for a family comedy. So we were the first, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Because they had like, I think House of Cards and
Stuff was like their big tenth pole of you know,
original content, but we were they were looking for like
family stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
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