101: The Pilot

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the count of three, all the intro together two three,
Hi everybody, Hi, welcome the best Friend. You know you
should do it, so I think the inaugural episodes should
be uh done by you. Okay, Hi, everybody. Welcome to

(00:23):
the show that we haven't titled yet. I'd like to
introduce you to my friends Little More and Morris and
Hey Simoney. Wait, I didn't say my own name. Who
are you? Though? That will be the big question of
this podcast. Who's that? Who is that? Girl? It's you know,

(00:47):
every once in a while you want to record a
little podcast with your free but then you don't know
what to call that podcast, but you really do. What's it?
What's a gun? I don't know, guy, Please you start
to showcas I really want to come. I don't know, though,

(01:09):
I'm not sure yet. Welcome to our show. That's what
it's called. Welcome to our show. What if they called
it welcome to our show? That sure? Welcome to our show? Sure?
I love you both, but can we please start the show? Welcome, hello, friends,

(01:44):
Welcome to our show. The New Girl rewatched podcast with Zoe,
Hannah and Lamuren. Okay, so we're gonna tell you, guys
why we're here. Why were we here? We wanted to
tell you about a little episode, a little pilot episode
of a show called what's it called again, New New Girl,
New Girl, and to show that we all did together

(02:06):
for seven years, seven seven long seasons, and we're here
to just kick it off and talk about this wonderful experience.
That's right, um, And you're gonna get a lot of that,
uh this season. You know, we're gonna kind of we're
gonna interview folks, We're gonna watch some episodes. I'm currently

(02:27):
watching the pilot episode right now. Uh, Damon's clearly stuffed
his shorts with something. We're going to talk about all that. Um.
So that's that's the kind of stuff you guys can
expect from this particular podcast and us just sharing experiences
from set in normal personal lives. You know, it's a
rewatch podcast. You listen to those before, and if you

(02:48):
have it, this is gonna be different. You know this
is going to be your first favorite one. I do
feel like that is nine of the d M s
I get, which are all these questions and about specific
episodes of things that have happened in the episode why
it happened? People remember stuff I don't remember. Uh So

(03:09):
this is like the space to address all those things
and answer all those things, um and share our hopeful
and like combined with the three of us our memories
that we can answer those questions. Okay, I want to
start with like a preamble. Okay, first of all, I
just want to state that Lamuren is not in the
pilot episode we did. Okay, I'm going to say because
I was the first person involved in the in the

(03:31):
show of anybody, of any of the actors, and I
wanted Lauren in the show. He came an audition for
us early on. I thought he was fantastic, but he
took another job right right before his test, So I
will just say that and and and Damon actually hadn't

(03:53):
been available technically. So anyway, I'm happy that everybody ended
up getting to work on the show altogether. But the
reason Lamourn wasn't in the pilot was his own choosing. Well,
you know, you're making me seem like a movie villain,
you know, No, no, no, I mean, I just mean

(04:13):
we all liked you so much. I just want everybody
to know how much we like I'm gonna put it
out there. I'm gonna put it out there. You know,
you know who didn't like me either, it was someone
in casting or business affairs, because no one made me
an offer. So that's why I had to take the
other show. But the other show, the other show was

(04:34):
an offer, right, But everybody tested for the show pretty
much except for me, but that was only because they yeah,
but yeah, but yeah, So I'll do a quick I'll
do another quick preamble. Yeah, and I'll do another quick
preamble on on that really really quick, just because I'm
sure folks maybe may have heard the story already. But um,

(04:56):
I was a very sought out, sought after actor. The
landscape and TV and film was dying because I wasn't there.
And then I showed up. I'm uh no, I showed I.
I went to do my audition for for New Girl,
multiple auditions, maybe two or three I think, and then
they wanted me to test. They passed once and then

(05:18):
brought me back and so we want him to test.
But another show. One never passed you, and I appreciate that.
But another show, it said, hey, we want to make
you an offer. I don't know why, but it was
what was said to me. And the audition was, hey,
we hear you're testing for New Girl tomorrow. I said,
I am, they go, can we ask you to tank
that audition? And I was like what I was like, Yeah,

(05:40):
make me an offer. If someone makes me an offer,
I'll take the offer. And so when I went to
the test, right before you signed the contract, my phone
rang and my is my agent saying, don't sign it.
You just got an offer. And so they went back
to Fox and said, hey, Lauren's getting this offer, and
can you guys match that offer? And they said no,
he's got a test like everybody else. And so I

(06:01):
had to walk away because I look New Girl and
then I would be showless. Completely. Yeah, we wouldn't want that.
I totally get. I completely understand why, um, why you
took the job and everything, just just saying we liked
you before the pilot there was we had made it
known and I know from all the actors perspective that

(06:22):
we all liked to you know, I can't remember whether
Hannah was cast. Yeah, I know, I'm pretty sure Jake
and Max were cast, and that we were all like,
we like that guy. He's funny. It's true, Okay, but um,
should we talk about like where was everybody in their
lives before like we started the whole New Girl train experience.

(06:46):
I the thing I remember the most about that whole process.
You were like a much music VJ. I was choosing
VJ like way before back. And then I hosted a
show that which just kind of got me to the States.
And then I had done this like YouTube remember that

(07:07):
this like YouTube Read or red Plant or whatever it
was called. So there's that series, UM, and I did
a series on it, and we were shooting in Chile
and I got there. You were in Chile or you
would just come back? Yes, And so I got a
call when I was there and they were like, they
want you to, um, do you like a chemistry read

(07:27):
with Zoe? And it would be the day that I landed.
And I remember the scene night we had to shoot
in Chile was me barefoot, UM, running through a desert,
screaming and crying because somebody stole my baby and they
had to like and it was the craziest things. I'm crying,

(07:48):
I'm covered in dirt and dust and the whole thing,
and they throw me in a van, race me to
the airport. I just make the flight. It's like, however,
many hours of flying Land go straight to Fox. I'm
like trying to get sand out of my hair and
in the bathroom and I'm trying to change quickly so
I don't look like That is Christine a Million, who

(08:13):
is so beautiful, so stunning, effortless and was so sweet
to me. She was like talking to me and like
helping me, and she's like, you're gonna do great. So
he's really sweet. It's going to be wonderful. And I
remember just feeling like the most bedraggled version of myself
and came bedraggled, begled. Word of the day, folks, hear

(08:35):
it again, drink um. And I just remember going in
and I sat down and we just kind of had
like a little bit of chat while they were setting
up the camera before we could do our chemistry test.
And I don't remember what it was. It was something
about food, I think, but you said something, Zoe, and
I said something back and you laughed, and I just

(08:56):
remember I was like, oh, this girl and I are
going to be friends. Like it was the most like
genuine like girl bonding, like you got it, you understood
like kind of where it's coming from. And we laughed
and it was like this really sweet moment. And then
I remember after that chemistry test, I got a call
from Seth who was casting, and he said, Um, she

(09:18):
did a really great They really love her. They're going
to bring her in for like the network studio test.
Just one note. Could she clean herself up a little
bit more? Could you make herself look a little more presentable?
And I was like, yeah, yeah, no, did got it,
got it. I remember you always looking great. I don't
think I ever saw you not look great. First of all,

(09:38):
it's impossible for you to not look right. You always
look right, even when you walk in you know, four start,
that's real, that happened. Oh my gosh, I was I
was doing um commercials at that time, I want to say,
probably to that, I was, yeah, you were like, actually yeah,

(10:02):
I was a VJ on b et UM. I used
to host a few shows, yeah, my first gig. So
I so like you were like a famous commercial actor
at the time, because you had so many commercials on
air that I remember you came into to read And
after that, I was like, is this guy following me?

(10:23):
Because I see him Literally every time I turn on
the TV, there'd be a commercial. It was always the
kind of commercial where you it was like the spotlight
on your You had the funny line and it was
like spotlight on the more. Yeah, that's it was interesting.
I um, I didn't have theatrical agents or management or
anything like that. You know, you have an acting background.

(10:46):
But moving to Los Angeles, I I jumped right into commercials.
That was the That was my route of of figuring
out how to get into television and film. And I
remember h not booking for like a good half a
or a year to a year. I couldn't put one
single commercial. And I had a lot of auditions and
I remember being late to one of them. My car

(11:06):
gotten repoed, so I started taking the bus in the
train from North Hollywood to Santa Monica, which is like
a three hour commute, just just to get there and
go this Snickers tastes great. Thank you, laurent Um. But
I remember being so late and then said hey, it
was a mill of Light commercial. Said hey did you
read did you read the sides? I said yeah, yeah, yes, sure,

(11:27):
I'm like sweating. I didn't read a damn thing. And
I get I got there and I just started improvising.
I just started making stuff out because I figured I
haven't booked yet, so like, well, they're gonna do not
book me again. So I just started making stuff out
because I didn't know the lines and uh. And then
I booked it. I booked it on the spot. But
I had to make sure that every personality well. But

(11:50):
but the thing was, I had to make sure I
didn't want to get I didn't want to just be
a person that was just in a commercial all the time.
I was like, I have to have have to have
dialogue in it, and it has to be a bit humorous.
So I could use that to put a reel together
so I can get auditions for like TV and film.
And then I was at dinner once and night and

(12:11):
I ran into bj Novak and this is post this
is during New Girl And I don't know bj Novak,
but I'm a fan of bj Novak, um writer, producer,
actor on the office. And he comes to me and
he goes, he goes, dude, I saw your TwixT commercial
years ago. I was like, oh, yeah, he goes, you
genuinely made me laugh in a thirty second commercial. He

(12:31):
was like, and I see you with some commercials And
I said, man, that guy is probably gonna get on
TV or something one day. Is like, it's like, because
if you can maybe laughing at thirty second commercial, you
should be able to make somebody laugh in like a
TV show. And that was and that was really that
was really cool. Uh cool to hear. So the commercials
definitely paid off. Yeah, oh for sure, you're you were
like a star. Did you hear about it? Ze? When

(12:54):
did it first come to you? So? I at that
point had done like thirty something movies and I started
working when I was a teenager. It was only because
I was I mean, I lived in l A and um,
and my parents would I wanted to be an actor

(13:16):
since I was a kid, and my parents wouldn't let
me be a child actor. They're like, Nope, not happening.
And my mom made a deal with me. She's like,
you can go and get an agent when you have
your driver's license. So I was like good to go.
As soon as I got my driver's license, I got
an agent and a manager. I was like I'm gone.

(13:38):
So I yeah, I've just been working forever and I
did movies and at the time, like it was like
you either were a movie actor a TV actor. It
was like there wasn't really any crossover there. You might
do like an episode of TV, but it was kind
of like people specialized in one thing or the other.
And um, I hadn't really thought that much about doing TV.

(14:00):
And at the time, I started watching a few comedies
on TV and I was like, you know what, like
this is pretty like this seems like pretty fun thing
to do. Like I was watching a lot of like
Dirty Rock and The Office. I was like, maybe I'd
like to do something like this. And I almost did

(14:20):
an arc on the Office. Actually, I was like all
set to do it. We were just kind of negotiating.
And then I got the script for New Girl. And honestly,
if I hadn't thought in my mind that I was
going to do this ark on the Office, I wouldn't
have even been open to reading a TV like a
TV script because I just I didn't want to lock,
you know, tie myself down. And I was kind of,

(14:41):
um not, I just hadn't even really thought about doing TV.
And and I read the script for New Girl. I
was just I was on a plane and I laughed
out loud and I was like, you know what this is?
Actually no, I was not. I was on a um

(15:07):
I was on a regular plane, being a regular person,
and I laughed out loud and I thought the writing
was so great, and I was like, you know what,
if this were a movie, like all you know, all
these people would be trying to do this, and I'm like,
it's a TV show, So it's actually a great opportunity because, um,
I can play this character for you know, hopefully a

(15:29):
longer period of time and kind of get into the
character deep in a deeper way than if I were, um,
you know, just doing it for two hours and that's it.
So yeah, that's kind of where I was. But then
once I got involved, I jumped in and I really

(15:50):
want to be involved in the casting of the other
people because I knew we'd all be together a lot,
and I wanted to meet everybody and read with everybody
to see, you know, what our chemistry would be. And
so it was It was actually great because I really
loved that process. There were so many great people that
came in, but it was so clear who the people

(16:11):
or I think, don't you think that's something I don't
know if that's it happened to you, But I feel
like I would say, I don't even know seventy of
the people that I meet and chat about New Girl
that are actors really like great, wonderful actors. Their opening
line with me is always like I was almost a
new Girl. I feel like everybody must have come in

(16:34):
for this pilot because a lot of people did. Yeah,
I mean you would know, because I mean I just
I just came in with myself and nobody. But I
definitely so many great people came in, and um, I
mean they were I think like Jake and Max were
cast pretty pretty early on. I remember two other people
came in like we're seriously, you know, like tested for

(16:57):
Nick and then like I think one other person tested
for Schmidt. But the hardest part to cast was that,
I mean, for the pilot was the coach role, because
they kept changing what they wanted it to be. At
first they were like a nerdy guy, No, not a
nerdy guy. Like a hot guy. No, not a hot guy,
this guy. And it really ended up, you know, in

(17:20):
the end, being the writer's kind of adjusting to the
actors that we ended up casting and liking. And it's
far c C. I felt like we we had we
saw great people. But with you, Hannah, it just was
felt like such a natural, like we felt like we
were friends already, and it felt like you got that

(17:42):
like dead pan humor and you weren't playing it dumb,
which a lot of people kind of made this choice
about CC that she was dumb, and I feel like
that just wasn't the right, you know, choice for our show,
And like you're so intelligent and your intelligence really you
do a lot of like brainwork, meaning like you were

(18:04):
doing things prior to New Girls that it was based
on your right from a different world, came from a
different spot. I do remember that. Um yeah, it's very
people like how did you go from working at the
U N to New Girl? And I'm like, it's quite

(18:24):
linear in my mind, Um, I do remember it was.
I did have a moment of like the thin wall
audition anxiety, right because I'm here the other person and right,
and I remember all these girls who I recognize that
we're going into test to do the studio test before me.
I was last, so I had to hear every single person.

(18:48):
And it was that scene where um um from the
pilot where C season in front of the three guys
and then the line is like, please don't make me
laugh at you, please, put your shirt back on simple line.
But I remember every single one of them they were
like mad at him, like really affected by you know

(19:10):
what I mean. And it was like this very like
broad response as opposed to like you were saying like
this dead paned, exhausted response. And I was like, Oh,
that's not how I've been doing it, and they've all
done it, and I feel like I was like, Wow,
that's how I would respond, and so that's how I'm
going to do it. But I don't. I thought, I'm
definitely not booking this role because of all these actors

(19:31):
that have worked way more than me are all making
the same choice, and I've gotten to this point, then
that must be what they want. And then I just
still decided to do it my way. And I'll never
forget because it's stuck with me even after ten years.
And I can't remember what I had for breakfast, y'all.
But I remember after I did that studio chemistry read

(19:52):
and I did that scene, and then I did the
scene where you and I are in the bedroom together Zoe,
where we kind of just like chat about being girlfriends
and going through a bad break up or whatever. Finished it,
they turned the camera off and Kasden turned back and
looked at Catherine Pope, was Merriweather, David Brett, and whoever
else was in the room and just went and that's
how it's done. I never forget it. And I was

(20:16):
just like, I think they're just being nice, so I
don't feel bad when they don't hire me. But I
do remember him seeing those words and they just stuck
with me. Of like, I made that choice and he
really liked it. It had an impact on me. Which
if folks out there, if you remember that that that scene,
I will say this one of the most inappropriate scenes
I've ever seen in television Greenfield, the scene where the

(20:41):
three guys are sitting on the couch, I mean tea
bagging is brought. I was talking about tea bag. Jesus, Yeah,
I know. I watched the pilot last night and I
was like, I don't remember the characters saying he's going
to tea bag. I was like, no, no, Also, like
the clothes coming off. It was well, I'm going to

(21:02):
tell you guys that there were some people who read
for the part of Schmidt. Well, there's one guy who's
very famous came in and read for Schmidt. He wasn't
exactly right for the part, but he it was not
tax it was not This guy came in and he

(21:22):
read and he's very funny. Um, and then he was like,
excuse me, Um, I just I have to prepare for
the next scene, like audition scenes to work, okay, And
he walks out, comes back, his shirts off and he
had poured a bottle of baby oil all over himself.
You know who it is and pre see it, dude,

(21:45):
do the scene fully governed baby oil for no reason?
Like a lot of people took their shirts off in
the audition. Um that that was just what a lot
of people did. I just want to pop out a
few other funny things that upen is that um, somebody
else who kind of wanted the part or well, I
don't know he was. He was kind of big at

(22:06):
the time and not as I don't even I haven't
heard where he is now, but he was kind of
big at the time and he came in with an entourage. Um,
and I wouldn't read and you wouldn't read, which well
he I mean, I think he was expecting like there

(22:27):
there might be an offer kind of situation, Like I
think they thought maybe if you know because he was
pretty big at the time that maybe they would give
him an offer or something, if you know, if we
all vibes with him. But it was weird because he
was like he came in and I was like, Okay,
he's really funny, like this guy, and he's like, I
need to bring my boys in. And then some dudes

(22:49):
just came in and just sat in the back and
like texted the whole time. But it was like not
a it was like not a situation where you bring
just a bunch of strangers in with you. I don't know,
but he had norage. It was funny to me because
it's so interesting to me, like people's approach. Oh yeah,
I used to be a parlot entourage. Yeah somebody it.

(23:15):
Since broke away from that, from that entourage, but to
start my own career. But yeah, you're talking about oh yeah,
and speaking of breaking away, folks, we're going to take
a pause for station identification Olcole. Okay, so should we

(23:41):
get to the pilot? Yeah, so I watched. I got
a chance to um. It had been a long time
since I had watched the Pilot, in particular partly because
I'm not in it, although but I will say this.
I will say this that the pilot episode of New Girl,
and I'm not just saying this because I'm on the show. Uh,
it's one of the best episodes of television and like that.

(24:04):
I've seen the way it was shot, the humor of
the cast, chemistry. When I saw it, I got so
intimidated because when I was auditioning, they said you have
to watch the pilot in order because at the time
they were considering replacing the Damon character, meaning they didn't
know if they were going to use his character going

(24:25):
because he had to leave essentially, and they didn't know
if they were going to do a direct replacement or
add a new character, so we all had to watch
it before he came in. It was so good. I
got so intimidated and freaked out. I knew the show
would go. Prior to it, I didn't know anything about
the show other than Zoe was on it, and I said, well, yeah,
this is gonna go to series, and watching it, I went,
holy shit, I got a lot more work to do,

(24:49):
and so watching it last night had been a while,
Um I was I was genuinely like laughing and smiling
and going, you know, saying to myself some of the
it's that that my character ended up ended up doing
the season three, season four. A lot of that comedic
um energy came from the pilot, from what I saw

(25:10):
of what you guys did, and I it took two seasons,
but I figured out how to blend did thank you
a little more And that's so sweet. I love that
hearing that, Um and you kind of jumped right in
and we're awesome from the get go. I have to say,
like you, I mean, I think it's hard to jump in,
like basically what happened with our pilot. And I'm not

(25:31):
sure if everybody knows this, but damon Wayne Jr. Who's
awesome who UM plays coach. He was on another show
when we shot the pilot, UM and we were in
second position, and they said that his show was likely
going to get canceled, but then his show got picked up.
So when we were picked up two series, we had

(25:55):
to find somebody else to to step in and be
our roommate. And they were debating whether to recast the role,
you know, and just shoot those parts again, or whether
to find like a new character to come in. So
they decided to keep the pilot as is and find

(26:15):
a new actor to play a new character, and guess
who we found Daddy Daddy Daddy nice stories. Though he
was telling nice about you, I'm sorry zaddiady showed. I

(26:38):
don't know what Zaddi is. Everybody is it like a
dad with a beard? Cool? Um? Yeah, so then Zaddi
Zaddy morny so um. And at first they were like,
he's going to be this cool basketball player, and then

(27:02):
and then by the end, I think by the end
of the season one, they started to be like, you know,
I think you should wear bird shirts and like puzzlet weird, yeah, weird.
The character took a turn. I always say the thing
that I like most about playing the character of Winston
was that it wasn't figured out right away, which let

(27:23):
which was allowed me to be in a sketch comedy
while everyone was on a series. I was like, I
didn't have to do a lot of character prep. It
was like, I'm just gonna there's a new trait that
my character has. This episode one, he's good at basketball,
Then the next episode he's really bad at basketball. The
excellent he randomly gives boners because of the blue too.

(27:44):
Remember that the Pogo episodes. Yes, I was like, wait,
what they have small hands where I keep dropping things.
I remember with that Pogo episode saying to zoe I
was like, I feel like when this episode comes out,
that is going to become like a term and like
like the urban dictionary, Like people are gonna and it's
gonna like blow up and they've introduced this thing and

(28:06):
it's gonna like knock into the culture. And I remember
Zoey going like, no, I don't think so, and she
was right and I was very wrong. Really, people still
I still call it a pogo. That's just you, bro,
that's solely you, one person. I was right about. Um.

(28:30):
But yeah, watching this watching this episode, um we I do.
I'm again how awesome it was. All those things. I
think it would have been a very different show if
I was in the pilot, A very different show if
I was in the pilot. And I and I think
it made I think everything comes together the way it's
supposed to come together. You and Damon have very different energies,

(28:52):
so like the stuff that he ended up kind of
playing and the kind of coached up or coach like
like can't be soft, that kind of stuff that is
not You're like, yeah, that's not you, so so I
definitely think, Yeah, I love the way everything panned out,
and I think it was the right and it was

(29:12):
so nice he was in the pilot because then we
got to get you know, got to have him back
a fused seasons later, and we got to have both
Winston and Coach on the show Chocolate Magic Screen Chocolate
Magic Season. You know what's crazy when I watched the

(29:33):
pilot last night, it's kind of echoing what you're saying, Lamaren,
is that The first thought I had when it was
done was because I've done several pilots now and seeing
the development process and the notes process close and personal, um,
and I was like, how did they survive? This pilot

(29:57):
is so good and so strong and super funny, so
many laugh out loud moments and like takes them that
the time and the beats for the emotional stuff and
you really believe it and you care about all of
that stuff, And I'm like, how I think? Jay? I
want to give a lot of credit to Jake Cosden.
I mean, like, look, Liz wrote an amazing script which

(30:21):
she kept working on and working on and did such
an incredible job writing this hilarious script. But I think
in a lot of hands it could have gotten like
over noted. You know, somebody else might not have fought
for the tone um to be the tone that ended
up being, and Jake set that that tone because the

(30:44):
thing was, the jokes were funny on the page. We
didn't need to like play at them, you know, as
actors as much. It was more about playing like the
situational reality and as much as possible, and then you know,
here and there like kind of doing a broader performance.
But generally the aim was always to keep you know,

(31:07):
that threat of reality through you know, the performances. And
I have to say like, and then Jake also kind
of set up a fun, loose environment where you know,
there was room for improvisation. But also we always you know,
we always felt covered, you know, as far as the
script was concerned. So um, I'm gonna I'm gonna give

(31:31):
it up, yeah, because any for that for the pilot
for directing, and he didn't win. And I still think
that is just like folks out there, if you won
that year because they got it wrong. I'm sure they're good.

(31:51):
I'm sure whoeveryone was good. But I'm gonna say I
just I think Jake Cousin is just such a great director,
and we were super super lucky to have him creating
that tone for us and also just like being involved,
you know, in every aspect of the show, um from
the beginning to the end. So the other thing I
noticed and I thought was so smart of them to do,

(32:11):
is that they had hired you Zoie and I counted
last night, and they got you to sing six times
in three minutes. I was the thing. Once they were
I was like, but she's like not supposed to be
a singer. So I was like, but they were like,
don't sing, well okay, and I'm like, okay, later I

(32:35):
got to later later, like you know, like characters kind
of end up like morphing a little bit. Like later
I got to, you know, sing a little bit. But
it was funny because because that, yeah, I mean okay,
I thought I knew so smart. I was like, they
were so smart to go everybody's gonna be like, is
she gonna sing? She gonna sing? And then they got

(32:55):
you to do six That's impressive in a pilot. Like
I had a lot of friends at the time that
would like emphasize things by singing, and I was like, oh,
I get this character because they're like, you know, always
going I'm excited, you know, and I'm like, oh, okay,
it wasn't actually something I would do, but I had

(33:16):
friends that would do that a lot, and so I
was like, okay, I got that. I know. Another thing
that stuck out to me about this, uh the pilot
was how big this damn loft was. That's like, how
it five grand a month? I think I think they
were playing it like a year you know, or one

(33:36):
year ago, ten years ago, whatever it was that we
made it like that. It was in downtown l A
or something, and not as many people lived down there
at that time, Like now, remember how much that street changed,
like in the time we were shooting there. But but
I think they were kind of playing that it was
it was a bit more affordable because at the time

(33:57):
it was kind of you know, but now that's like
ten grand a month that oh yeah, off a cop
A teacher. I don't still don't know what Schmidt does
a model A bartender. You didn't pay rent. You didn't
pay rent. You didn't pay We should have made you
pay rent. You were at our damn spot every day.

(34:20):
I think it was originally supposed to be set in
New York. I remember those conversations. It was going to
be you're right, right, yeah, But I think it was
better that they didn't because so many shows are set
in New York and I don't do a good New
York accent, and you think that you would have had
to do an accent accent. The products there, everyone's from there. Yeah, Steve,

(34:46):
Steve Levitan one for Modern Family. I feel like he's
right choice. That year, like Liz Mary, Liz told me
that she got some advice, which was basically because really
wanted to shoot it in New York because that's where
so many of her experiences that inspired parts of this
pilot and this show had come from. And I feel

(35:07):
like she said that someone who had just said he said,
in l A, it's a lot easier for shooting because
then you can just use real locations. You're there. What's
the story about that guy who? This is a podcast
and Zoe really likes the true crime podcast, so I
think this is appropriate for me to talk about the

(35:29):
guy who would like killed people. And then they made
Dryan Gosling made a movie about it with Ryan. I mean,
I think they did the jinks yeah, yeah, yeah, the
what's his name Durst? Yea, yeah, Robert Durst. So they
were making that All the Good Things. What's it called?
All Good Things? All Good Things? Yeah, with Ryan Gosling.

(35:49):
Apparently that's a very good movie. Yeah, it's awesome. Yes,
Ryan Goslinks. Apparently that guy showed up to the set
while they were filming and would just watch. I was
just watch why they were filming. Yeah, so you know,
he didn't have a camera with him, but if he
had a camera with you know, that was that was

(36:13):
before that was like before the Jinx and everything. That
was like it, I'm just gonna take a little detour,
as I want to do and say that that movie
scared me. That documentary scared me because I was like, well,
you know what scared me. It was like the first
few episodes, I was like, it's just kind of weird,

(36:35):
but I don't think he did it. And then he
totally did, and I was like, I can't believe he
duped me. You know, I just thought it was weird.
You would make a horrible detective. Well, also I've learned
since then. Laur And I was just crazy with that
knife in his hand, just lonely Oh my goodness, we're

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(37:33):
we're going to talk about the pilot now and stop
going on tangents last time. On New Girl episode one
on one, the pilot just decides to surprise her boyfriend
with the strip teas that includes a trench coat, sexy lingerie,
and the name Tiger Boobs. But when she arrives, he's
in bed with another woman. How dare he desperate For
a way out, she finds a Craigslist ad for a

(37:57):
room in a sun soaked big loft, assuming the apartment
would be populated with women, but settles for something different
when she finds instead that three guys, Coach, Nick and
Schmidt lived there. Sixty seven watches of dirty dancing later,
the room, He's decide it's time for Jess to get
over Spencer by getting under someone else. At the bar,

(38:19):
Jess meets Peter and they agree to go on a date.
Of course, Schmidt's jerk friends stands her up, so the
guys show up instead and serenade Jess with an off key,
mostly mumbled rendition of Time of My Life. Jake Casten
was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing
for a Comedy Series for this episode. Now back to

(38:40):
the show, and I tell you one of the specific
things in the pilot that made me laugh, truly laugh
with when Winston came in and oh, never mind, go ahead,
No that's no, not not you ain't working yet. With
the stripper names. I don't know why. Struck me as
so funny. Is what's your stripper name? It it's Rebecca Johnson.

(39:03):
I thought that Joe was so funny, and then to
but just a literal description of the girl. Now face
haven't sexed it up to niece Johnson. It really made
I don't know why, which is very descriptive, because you know,
sometimes if you haven't been to a strip club ever
in my life, but I hear that there are specialty

(39:25):
ship clubs, and if you wanted someone with one kneecap,
you could, you know, if that's your thing. You got
to be descriptive, you know what I'm saying, be specific
to what you want. That really made me laugh. I
don't know there's so many things that were so funny
in that pilot that brings you back, like do you
remember certain things, like like I remember that phone call

(39:47):
where you're in the in the taxi and I'm in
some random room talking to you, and when I shot it,
obviously you weren't. I don't think you were there. You
were getting ready for something else. And so Jake Hasden
was the other side of the phone call, I feel like,
and so he was the one saying Tom and I

(40:11):
was like, this is one of the most surreal experiences
of my entire life. I love that. That's hilarious. Um.
I want to just give an m v P guest actor.
This guy should have his own show. Everybody. His name
is David near Is. Everything that comes out of his

(40:32):
mouth makes me laugh. He plays Benjamin and he improvised
because he was on several episodes this actor improvised moments
that didn't end up in the show that that we
quoted for years afterwards, like as an inside joke. He's

(40:53):
so funny and such a good improviser. Someone give David
near a show, please. Hilarious. I when I say I
think of him on every production that I do based
off of not like I'm making a show and I
want to put him not like that. But what I
mean is when I'm acting in every everything's a camera
around and we're moving in for coverage or going in tighter.

(41:15):
There was something that he used to do all the time,
and then we started doing it. I mean, it felt
like we did it every day on set. We did it,
and I do it all the time, and people look
at me like, what is wrong with this guy that
when you're going in tighter that means the camera wanted.
I'll do it at the same time because we know
what you're talking about. On the count of three, one
to three, t he such a high pitched voice, just tighter.

(41:40):
It's like, okay. Every time he came on, when that
part where he walks up to Shiman and he's like, shimmy,
shitty bang bang, he said something different every single time,
every single take he'd say he had he had a
new thing to say. He's an endless source of amazing

(42:04):
one liners. I remember watching the moment at the bar
with him and Damon where he's he's he's trying to
be cool with Damon and they're talking that Dave was
just looking at it with this the stone face and
he goes, don't talk to me, just that interaction, maybe saying, man,
they should have like their own that too, right there? Please,

(42:26):
I would watch it. So. I mean the thing too
about David Near is he came in actually for a
coach when they wanted they originally wanted coach to be
a nerdy guy, and David Near came in and is
he was wearing he has like curly hair, and he
was wearing his hair kind of like big, like Cramer
kind of ish, and he kind of had glasses and
he was wearing like a track suit kind of thing.

(42:48):
But it was like real. He had a very like
quirky vibe and he then they loved him, and he
didn't end up getting the part of the coach because
they kind of changed the part of around a bunch
of times. But they loved him and they were like, well,
let's give him another part. And they had that part
of this like Schmidt's even dou sheer friend Benjamin, And

(43:10):
I was like, David Near like that kind of the
kind of nerdy guy. Like I was like, I don't know,
how's he going to play that? And then he came
in and he was so good, and I really felt like,
this guy's a consummate actor and he is like he
I just want to watch is he is to me?

(43:30):
And I've always said this about him. He is Daniel
Day Lewis, Watch out Lewis, Watch out Daniel Day. Um,
he's great. Yeah, I know he's He's hilarious and and anyway,
like I he made me laugh a bunch of times

(43:51):
out loud in the pilot, along with like, I mean,
hats off to all the actors. I got to work with, Hannah,
you know, mac Stamen, Jake, everybody was awesome, Lamore and
I missed you, but I got to work with you
on the next episode. But everybody was fantastic and I

(44:11):
so many giggles. But I was like, oh man, David
Near like he you know, he wasn't a series regular,
so um, I just want to give him a shout
out for great, great job. You know what I didn't
remember remember until I rewatched the pilot was how much
you had to cry Zoe. Oh yeah, like like really

(44:32):
cry from beginning to end and like the sobbing over
the bread rolls. And that's like not really an easy
thing to do or to sell when you have to
do it multiple times in only three minute period. I
felt like that, you know, that character is like what's
kind of funny about her? Was like she's like a
total mass at the beginning of that show, and that

(44:54):
that's kind of what is creating a lot a lot
of the drama. And I'm like, he really got to
go for mess, you know, like you can't. You can't
like pretend to go for mass or like half go
for mass, or like you know, go for comedic mass.
You kind of have to go for real mass and
then hope that the situation and the way that it's
cut makes it comedic. Right. So that was like I

(45:17):
was like, Okay, I'm really I'm you know, it's comedic,
but I'm going for like real, real time mess. Yeah.
That's again that scene where you're at the end when
you get stood up on your day, it's like she
is genuinely like I'm sad for her. I was like,
oh my goodness. I also wonder are there things that

(45:39):
you guys shot that didn't make it in because I
know for me, they did a series of photo shoots
that we shot for the show. I think that's where
I initially was going to take the phone call when
you were in the cab, and so they had me
this is not a joke. I have a photo of
this dress up and remember this, Yes, in this crazy

(46:03):
dress that had real feathers. Yes, it looked like this
huge I look like the Ostrich. They put on a
ginormous afro wig, like huge on me, and then they
had said everybody has to be quiet on the set
and they made there was like I don't know, fifty
people on the set and they're like, nobody make a sound.

(46:24):
And then this person walked in with a vulture that
was like I'm talking like huge, this huge, not a
little one, not like a cute little falcon, this ginormous
like prey hunting our falcons. Cute, yeah, real, real talk

(46:45):
this tiny little yeah. Even it was just this ginoe.
And I remember they were like, series is cute, Anthony.
They wanted like they were like, you're gonna do this
call where I'm supposed to be like animated on this call.
But they just said, don't say a word to everyone
else because it will attack you. And they brought this
and it was the most terrifying moment. And I'm dressed

(47:07):
like a bird from the next day the whole thing.
I was like, any yeah, there's a photo. There's a
photo of me in that dress. I don't think because
the click could have, you know, scared this bird off
and made to eat my face or something. I remember
shooting that and I was like, this show is crazy.
I never made the show either, And I was like,

(47:28):
are you kidding me? Risk my life? Oh I'm looking
at this photo. You have an afro on, it's a
huge wig. Oh my god, or some fake photo shoot?
How do you look black? Oh my gosh? And they
brought a real vulture. That's crazy. Talk about how how

(47:49):
do you sign the picture? Is it online? I just
googled Hanna Semon Bird. Yeah, everybody go google Hanna Simone
Bird at Interesting Photos. That was the same shoot though Zoe,
where they came and told me, we're worried that because
you and Zoe have similar hairstyles, i e. Brunettes with

(48:12):
bangs and longish hair, and that could maybe have people
confused over the two of you. So can you go
and right now go straight to the hair and makeup
trailer and cut it into an extreme short bob. And
I was like, uh, I think I remember them coming

(48:32):
to me and going okay, so um, we asked if
Piano would cut her hair and I was like what
what And they're like, are you okay if she has bangs?
And I was like of course, and they're like, well,
they're worried that, you know, like I don't know if
network notes or something like, they're worried that they're going
to mix you guys up because you both have brown

(48:53):
ear and bangs. I was like, what, guys, come on now,
in what world? Were and it's gonna have like a
similar haircut. Doesn't mean that people mix them up. I
mean they're more likely to. If my best friend cutts bangs,
I'll be like, yeah, cute, I'm getting bank. I actually
try to recruit my friends to get bangs. I'm like,
get banks. Just be me friends, Let's get the same,

(49:17):
let's be twins. That's right, that's right. I remember that
moment too, But that was a conversation. I think about
beards on the show. My character had a beard in
the later years of the show, but prior to it,
they didn't want me to have a beard because Jake
had a beard or something like that. It was like,
there can only be one of anything on a TV show.

(49:37):
Otherwise everybody at home will be so confused and not
know who's who or what's what. Oh, I don't know
the difference she has banks. She has banks and the
brown hair. What people used to call me coach all
the time. People used to people used to call me Damon.
I was like one's just like out and about like

(49:57):
in general. Like once they realized they knew of the show,
they knew Damon was on the show, then they knew
I was on the show, and then they would just
it would they would just blend the two. I don't
know why they would do that, but it was always
like Damon, like, uh no, no, don't try again. I'm
a little taller and more handsome than Damon. I am

(50:19):
six three, dam is five tin. Let's start. Let's start
this rumor that l six ft three free up, shredded, ripped, shredded,
not announced. You did do that, though you really did,
Like whatever was a year ago, like before the pandemic,

(50:41):
you went and put in some work. Yeah those photos
are out there for you a few and yeah you
did a photo shoot. Um and I had to just
get my health in order. But that character would have
been bad for New Girl. We only needed one. We
needed Max Greenfield to be in shape doing CrossFit all
the time. Yeah, and then the rest of us guys
could be a bit schluby. That was cool with me.

(51:02):
I think you all looked great. Thank you. Um that
bar so the bar, oh yeah, shooting in that bar
was that? That was That was an actual bar during
that That was the bar. That that bar is called
the Prince and it's a really cool bar. Actually it
was a location in the classic film China Town Um

(51:27):
where they'd done Away and Jack Nicholson have a scene there.
She orders Tom Collins for those who are you on Wikipedia? No,
I remember I watched from and I was watching it
and then I was like, wait, isn't that our bar?
And then she ordered a Tom Collins and I was like,

(51:48):
what's that? And I googled it and then I like
when I got there, and I literally stopped the movie.
I went and made the drink and it is still
to this day one of my favorite drinks. It's still
it's gin lemon juice, sugar incarbonated water. How do you know,
just like Google, he's the one googling right now. Delicious,

(52:13):
It's refreshing, it's good. Um so that bar. Yeah. So
we shot in that bar for the first season. Um
and then and you know, it's it has some years
on it. It was, it was it's a great place
to visit. Um well, it was hard to shoot. Well yeah,
because it's an actual bar, and they were it was

(52:35):
open at night and we shoot during the day, and
it would be like you know how a bar smells,
um and it smelled like a bar um and and
it was and it was not. It was not you know,
set up for shooting over and over and over again
like we were in that set. So they rebuilt a

(52:58):
replica that was a little more shooting friendly on the
Fox lot on stage nineteen, and it looks exactly the same.
There are some difference that they did such an amazing job,
but there were there were some differences that they they
change a few things just to make it more like

(53:18):
so that you could shoot it. Yeah yeah, but but yeah,
I mean it looks absolutely amazing. And now I watched
I'll watch different movies or TV shows and I'll see
that bar and I'm wondering if it's our old set
or if it's the actual I get I get so confused. Yeah,
I think it depends on the budget of the show.

(53:39):
Love that bar, but it definitely smells like yesterday. It
makes you feel a lot. Yeah, makes you wanted Tom Collins.
It makes you feel like you've been there all night.
So in this episode, an interesting thing that I I
go out a lot and I go to I used

(54:01):
to go out a lot. I would say, you go
out a lot where you go right now, the local
swimming the local watering hole, the map. Yeah. I usually
just go to rest stops, you know what I'm saying,
just out an arcade, love stop. Um, I'm the guy
who takes a road trip, gets to the first rest stop,

(54:22):
then turns back around after I'm done, and goes right
back home. Job done, Job done. You just want some
quiz nos exactly? But no, I Um, I noticed this party,
this big party that a lot of the episode was
sending around. Schmidt wanted to go to this wild West party,
very themed party. Um. And prior to that, you had

(54:44):
had a conversation your character at a conversation with Damon's
character about like jeggings and things like that, and then
he goes to the party in jagging. I did that
for one of the auditions. Yeah, So there was a
whole scene that got cut where where there was a
it was like a running gag that somehow was cut
out where he goes we have that scene and then

(55:07):
he goes and buys jorts, which like jeans short jeggings,
short jeggings, and he puts them on. He's like, they're
actually really comfortable, and then he wants to always wear
them and everyone's making fun of him, but he's like
it's like he's he's kind of in touch with his sensitive,

(55:29):
more feminine side by wearing these shorts. Um. But then
it all all that got cutten, all that he was
wearing wearing shorts, and everyone just thinks that's his fashion choice.
No story, that's the that's just as an aside. That's

(55:50):
the thing that as an actor, when you have a
bit that's supposed to explain something like costume wise or otherwise,
and then that bit that all those bits get cut,
you feel so crestfall and that that happened to me
on a movie and um, and it was very sad
for me. What you just want to like tweets some

(56:13):
behind the scenes stuff, by the way, the stuff that
you guys didn't see. If you're wondering about my bad
acting choices. It what you didn't see was well, you
didn't see was this? I didn't direct it, but out
of contract, that's right. We need like a context moment, yeah,
car every episode to be like, can we just explain

(56:35):
what's on the cutting room floor? Yeah, yeah, I know
what I was going to say. What I was gonna
say was that party, that particular massive type of party.
I missed those days, man, I missed going to parties
with a thousand people and uh, and everyone's dressed a
certain way because I don't have My fashion sense is terrible,

(56:56):
Like I'm not a good thing. So I direct. You
have a good fashion sense, wells thanks to like stylists
or ex girlfriends. You like being told what to wear? Yes,
tell me what Hannah, and I will tell you what
to wear. We don't know. We're kind of you. Before
we record our next episode, send me a text of
what I should be wearing the podcast. And you don't

(57:18):
trust you? So have you guys? Have you guys ever
been to a themed party? You guys love a party,
but I don't like a huge That party was too
big for me. I initially my nightmare. Yeah, I have
a party. I'm extroverted, but I'm more like I like
a manageable group that can fit in it. I like
a house party in l A. Everyone has house parties,

(57:40):
you know. I don't want to go to a giant
warehouse that's that's packed. I like to know every like
I like most of the people that I'm going to
walk into like a party with. I don't mind not
knowing people, but I don't want it to be huge.
I like going to a I mean my favorites A
dinner party because I like food. I don't like. I

(58:01):
don't like dinner parties, you know, because why because I'm
forced to? Like what if I cook for you and
invite you to my dinner party? Well like dinner parties
with people that I know? Yeah, great, you know what
I mean. It's it's it's not so formal. It's everyone's
just hanging out. Everyone knows each other. Um, I could
pee with the toilet seat down if I want to,

(58:21):
and it's fine, you know what I mean. Well, because
when I go into public bathrooms, I don't like touching
the thing in my hand to get the lid up,
so sometimes I gotta use my feet. I don't Why
is your pinkies so far up when you're demonstrating how
do you lift a lip's very fancy? It's gross to me,
it's gross, So I don't. I don't want to. That's
why women touch nothing. We are experts of how to

(58:42):
go pee and touch zero things. Oh my god. So
but you know, but I if it's a if, it's
if it's like, hey, lamarn, this group of people who
you don't know or have they're having the dinner party.
Do you want to come? I always have an excuse
of why I can't be there because I just don't.
I don't know why. There's something about can I tell
you what's much? And like a dinner party is who

(59:02):
you get sat next to. That's the thing. If you're
sitting next to someone that's a cool or you know,
or that's then you're gonna have a great time. I
don't know. I've been sometimes sitting next to someone where
I'm like, is this going to be the longest my life?
Do you just switch seats? Then you know? But then

(59:22):
they know you switch, like that person chicken here because
they didn't like me. Is it my breath? Is it
this mole on my forehead? What is it that they
don't like about me, you know what I mean? I
usually I don't know. I feel like I always have
fun at a dinner party. I love the dinner. But

(59:43):
because you're like a good person to sit next to
and you can probably easily conversate with people that are
around you, I feel like, yeah, I feel like if
I for me, like I'm actually quite introverted, that if
I sit at a dinner party and I'm next to
someone I don't know and the conversation just doesn't naturally

(01:00:06):
like easily flow, I think we, the three of us,
might span. We might be the like if a psychologist
we're looking at the show, you might span the spectrum
of extroverted to introverted, right, I think lamour and you're
the most extroverted. I'm in the middle, And Hannah, you're
introverted for sure. You're like you're like if you I
feel like half your posts on Instagram or like if

(01:00:29):
you cancel my plans, I'm so happy and I'm like,
note taken, someone who loves me would do that, they
would know I'd be like, that's so nice. Thank you.
Hannah used to come to set Um with the most
outrageous stories and I'll give you an example of one
of these outrageous Just what a wild night looks like

(01:00:52):
for Hannah. Hannah will come into work and be like, Guys,
let me tell you something. Last night was crazy. Oh ship, Hannah,
what did you do? Let me tell you so me
and my husband. You want to know what we do, Like,
what did you do? We finished about half a bottle
of wine, and we play scrabble till about midnight. Then

(01:01:18):
we went to the sleep. Guys so much rest. That's
an exciting night for Hannah. Well, I wouldn't. I would
say nobody is able to watch more. She would watch
TV all night long. That would be wild night for you.
She'd be like, I watched an entire season of a show.
She's watched an entire season of a show. Come in

(01:01:38):
looking beautiful with one hour of sleep. I turn on
one episode of a show, and if I'm in bed,
I'm asleep. You know what I mean? Like, if I'm
watching a show, it's it needs to be intentional, and
you know, like I can't not fall asleep. That's what
I'm saying. It'll take me four nights to get through
one episode of a show. She's on the season one

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of New Girls still like, oh my god, I watched.
That's why I like comedies because it's like I watched,
you know, it might take two nights because it's like
I get their fifteen minutes and then I you know, yeah,
I have a whole thing that comes. It's like it's
like one part of like a rebellious nature within me
where I go like, Okay, so we came back from work.

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It's ten o'clock at night. I still get to have
the day I want to do. So I'll like from
scratch bacon, entire lasagna, sit there. Then I'll watch an
entire season of a show and it would be four
in the morning, and I'd sleep for an hour and
then I would go back back to work. But for me,
that felt great, like I needed to recharge by myself.
Felt like I got to do the thing I want

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to do, have a crazy night making lasagna and watching
this season of a show. I was gonna say another
Hannah Simone crazy night was finishing a whole thing of
hot Wings. Yes, and drinking beer right not there, but
I could definitely drink a bottle of wine and have
a whole thing. I used to wing win Hot Wing
competitions at college. I could eat the hottest wings. Also,

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Hannah used to come to set and pass out due
to exhaustion, clearing a bottle of wine but one hour
of sleep. Yeah, yeah, I remember those blackouts. I would please,
I would say that I had Hannah's very professional. I
was going to say that anybody looking very professional. I
remember the first season Hannah you had, and maybe we

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can talk. We can expand on this later, but I
remember certain like you, We'll shoot three weeks on, one
week off, three weeks on, one week off. And I
remember Hannah would always she'd be coming back from some
sort of foreign land all the time while I went
on vacation. I go win past past week. Yeah, she's
like a travel blogger. Yeah, I was like that. I

(01:03:54):
was on an island somewhere. I couldn't remember where. We
threw We threw a dark we threw a dart at
the globe. You know how we are. Yeah, I would
like to run away a lot. That's true, that's fun.
I had a lot of flexibility to say that on
the show. I just did learn though that I don't.
It's something I learned about myself, as I don't need
a lot of sleep, which, by the way, you very

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it's an incredible skill that I honed on New Girl
to be like, oh, I can shoot this show on
chairs sleep. That's actually like fine for me. I feel great.
I do not I need sleep, Yeah, I gotta have.
I have insomnia a lot. But um, it's usually like
I wake up super early. So then as long as
that's why I can't get through a show. So but
then I wake up early, I get so much done.

(01:04:37):
You guys. Yeah, it's awesome efficiency in the morning. I
love getting up before what I like going to bed
it for see there's yeah yeah. Um. That second to
last seen in the pilot episode stuck out to me
for an odd reason. Your character Zoe is eating bread. Yeah. Now,

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if you're here, you go to these fancy restaurants and
even some of them not so fancy restaurants, they provide
you with an appetizer of bread, crackers, snacks. If you
go to a bar, they have a thing full of
almonds and cashews and peanuts and stuff, and it's unlimited
as long as you're there. What I used to do,
and the reason why I stuck out to me is
what I used to do, and this is even after

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I started like making a little bit of money working
like getting a job and things like that, I would
go to restaurants and I would ask for water, lemon
and sugar, and I would make my own lemonade free
of charge, as it supposed to pay the dollar fifty
or two dollars it cost to get the lemonade. And
I would do that so often. Yeah, I mean, I

(01:05:46):
think that's a good that's just yeah. But you know
what I used to do when I was um young
and you know, um just starting out. I would go
to a restaurant and just order soup, you know, like
or salad, something like small, and then if they had
like a really good bread basket, bonus, you know, because

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that's like a full meal, you know, that's a full meal.
My hack was always whoever I went to dinner with,
I would whisper to the waiter, like when I would
go to the rest room, I'd be like, it's their birthdays.
Free dessert, always free dessert, you know what. The economy
started struggling though, and they asked for your I d

(01:06:30):
some places they do, oh yeah, and that with Google,
that with Google, like maybe it doesn't happen with you
Hannah for his idea. Is it your birthday again? Years old? Oh,
that's right, it's my unbirthday. Um. Yeah, there was this

(01:06:56):
place that I used to go that had the best
bread and really good butter. I'm just sorry that wasn't
even a good story, but I'm like thinking about it now.
Everybody's on where's that? Oh my god, where's that free bread?
I love that free bread, Especially when you go to
a place and they're like it's called like something bakery,

(01:07:19):
but they like have soup and sound and stuff, and
you're like, oh bakery bad. Um. I know we're talking
about the pilot, but one of the things that people
do love about this show that that that's not introduced
in the pilot. It's introduced later on. Yes, a little
more Morris. So let's talk about me baby. No um um,

(01:07:42):
it's True American, right, and we can we can talk
about that and get into more in depth later in
later episodes of this podcast. But True American really brought
out some of our audience where we started to realize
we have We got a lot of partiers who who
who watched this show and they like gay, they love games,
they love playing games, um, and they want more than

(01:08:04):
anything to play this game. They want to play True
Americans so bad, and we'll again in later episodes, we'll
we'll have some more True American based games. But I
do want to play a game with the folks that
are present today and that game because we're dealing with
the rom com and your character loves watching dirty dancing,
you know, throughout the show. What we're gonna do here

(01:08:26):
is we're going to try to name as many rom
coms as we can. Okay, if that makes sense, right,
If you're out, if you repeat the title, you're out
if it takes you longer than five seconds too. And
this is I'm not I'm not good under pressure. Yeah,
me neither. I don't like like dress. I'm stressed already.

(01:08:49):
It kind of feels like True America. We have a
free bread basket. I know what. You know, what you
thinking of? Why you're thinking the names? Are? We gonna
round robin this so we each have to go. Yeah,
So we're gonna go. Yeah, We're gonna I don't know

(01:09:10):
what your screen looks like right now, but we're just
gonna go. We're gonna go hannah' z e D And
I'll go last, Who's Stalin. Now I'm not going, but
you're gonna take all the good ones, and I'm gonna
be the one left. You're gonna say all the Yeah,
let's start naming things that I shot when I was
in high school. Okay, all right, are you ready? Okay,

(01:09:32):
let's play True American. This week. On True American, we're
playing Barack and Michelle's romantic comedy date Night and Go.
When Harry met Sally, a shop around the Corner Desperadoes,

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the Netflix classic Sleepless and See don't bringing up Baby.
When Harry met Sally already said it said, we gotta
start over. Boy shot to do. That is a shot

(01:10:20):
boy thinks A good round, you guys, good round? We
got Now I think it's over, Hannah. Okay, okay, well
we both got a milky. You know, it's crazy. As
I was saying it. As I was saying that, I
was like, I feel like she just said this. That
is such a boy thing to do. I can't even know.

(01:10:40):
You were very confident when you said it to you,
like when Hart's not even like when Harry met Sally,
there wasn't any question too. It was very confident. Watch
too many cos I don't watch too many round songs?
Why did you suggest this game? Because it was suggested
to me based off of our show. It makes sense
if you was mad, be like let's name is Minnie

(01:11:02):
like John Wick movies. To be honest with you, I
was almost out anyway, So I'm happy to share this
win with Zoe as the co champions. Look, um, I was.
I was actually um naming screwball comedies, which is preamble
to them, which is the one that you said, what

(01:11:24):
was that movie I shot around the Corner bringing up Baby? Shop?
I've never heard of that. Come on classics, say, guys,
watch these movies. They're comedy classics. Um, but they're like
before the rom com was the screwball comedy. It's basically
kind of like a similar same thing, but they called
it screwball. Zoe, this movie came out, so what Jesus, Zoe,

(01:11:53):
it's the foundation of cinema. Bringing a Baby came out
even before Shop around the Corner should have been out first.
I'm allowed to. Nobody said you can't name rom coms
that were made in the is true America. The rules
are loosey goosey. We're all drinking, Heisler Heisler was the

(01:12:17):
fake beer that we drank. Oh my god, Jimmy Stewart,
I guess Jimmy Stewart is what Harry. I can't not
with you? I can't. I got it. Appreciated. We appreciate
your attendance and watching us play this horrible round of
True American. If you have any game suggestions, please let

(01:12:39):
us know in the comments below, like and subscribe. And
nobody said dirty dancing. We've literally just watched the pilot.
That's not a comedy. Is it a comedy? It's not
a comedy. Oh I was getting you know what? Can
I just add that that dirty dancing? Do you guys?
Remember it wasn't dirty dancing? Originally it was something else

(01:12:59):
that I would watch over and over again. Um, but
it was had to be it had to be something
that was in the Fox library. Was that back? That
was that back when the show was called Chicks and Dicks? Yep?
Oh yeah. The original title of the New Girl pilot
was Chicks and Dicks, not that it was going to
seriously be called that, but that was the working title

(01:13:20):
while they decided what the permanent name would be. It
was problematic for the Google oh yeah, because two. Don't
don't do it. It's going to change your whole Oh
never mind. Yeah, the ads that are going to now
start popping up on your computer, I know. Don't don't

(01:13:42):
ruin your algorithm. Yeah, folks, don't do that unless you
want to. You know, you're not going to learn anything
about us that way. If the reason for your tuning
in was that you like New Girl, Google Chicks and Dix.

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But it was weird for a while when I had
said yes to the show, you know, while we were
shooting pilot and before we named it New Girl. Um,
They're like, oh, what are you working on. I'm like,
I'm shooting a pilot. What's it called? Uh, don't worry
about it. What's it called? Chicks and Dix? Oh? Oh yeah,

(01:14:26):
you should go and really emphasized which is a weird
network a network We didn't do anything weird and and
it is the important word in it. Forget the chicks. Forget.
And I just want to say that you never know
what it's going to be like reliving things from your

(01:14:49):
past that have like such a special place. You know,
I'm sitting with your friends that were with you at
the time and talking about it, and this has been
like the loveliest you know, time together talking about it,
laughing about it. It was great to rewatch the pilot.
I am so excited that we're going to get to
do this. I know, it was so it was it

(01:15:12):
was really fun to get to revisit and it's so
fun getting to talk to you guys, I know, and
hearing all the stuff that you guys remember. Um, I'm
excited man that we're doing this at Trulyum. But you'll
hear more, folks, You'll hear more, folks. This won't be
the end of it. We will we will die, That's

(01:15:32):
the whole one off. We will be diving a lot
more into our experiences, the times we had on set,
some inside jokes, inside moments, deleted scenes, music choices and
who knows, maybe Zoe's gonna make a song for probably hey.
And also you know, we're going to make as many

(01:15:53):
of these, you know, so we can pay back for
all this expensive podcast equipment and then um possibly then
so thank you guys for listening to our podcast. We
love you all, love you, or at least some of you. Yeah,
I'm not going to tell you which ones. Who are

(01:16:13):
you know who you are? But we love you. We
will see you next time or here episode two. You're here,
you'll hear shows up morning morning. Yes, these folks and
folks out there as well. Um, if you want to
send in your attire suggestions for all three of us,

(01:16:36):
please let us know what you'd like to see. You
won't be seeing anything. Oh You're going to post photo
of what I'm wearing every time I get a suggestion, okay,
And if you want to send in suggestions, if you
have any questions, Um Sentiment sent him in and who
knows you want to pick you to be a guest
on our show. What's interesting, too, I realize, is with

(01:16:58):
all these crazy d m s that come into at
least my inbox about this show, UM crazy in a
good way, like noticing things that I just never would
have noticed. I do know, like things like the you
know they say there's like a bear. Have you heard
that before? A bear? In every episode? I've heard that.
And it's that interesting rewatching the show because when Damon
sings the dirty Dancing song, he just shouts bear, yeah,

(01:17:24):
and then he shouts bear, and I was like, well,
maybe they're onto something. So I'm gonna keep my eye
on it. Now, yeah, that's not something I was aware of.
I heard that. I heard that, and and looking at
the pilot, I didn't realize. But you can also hear it,
you know what I mean. It's not just a bear
like being seen. It's being heard or talked about or visual,

(01:17:44):
you know what I mean. I know it's interesting to see.
We're gonna find out and we'll do some digging to
find out the why. Yes, that's our true crime part
of it. We're gonna investigate things for you. Yeah, we're
going to investigate. Um, all right, you guys cool, rate
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