May 9, 2022 • 48 mins
Welcome back to our show! This week we're talking the loft's cantankerous landlord (guest star Jeff Kober, "Sons of Anarchy"). Jess inadvertently jeopardizes the guys living situation and the roommates are forced to admit they've made some "unofficial" changes to the apartment. Plus, we've got another fun round of True American! Play along with us. If you'd like to ask us a question, please send us an email to welcometoourshowpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @welcometoourshowpod.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ring ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe?
Oh hello, Lamar, let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. All right,
(00:29):
hello everybody, how are you doing? What are you having? Now?
You have a protein check? Folks if you're just if
you're just tuning in, Um, my chef one second in
your schof made you a smoothie. My chef made me
a smoothie. It is it's your chef, your mom by
the way, No, no, my mom refuses to take on
that role. UM, so I don't respect Yeah, but no,
(00:54):
my my chef made me this smoothie. I'm my chef.
By the way, Guys, when I say I have a chef,
is me thanks to Home Chef? Than Oh? Is that
your Is that the chef you're talking about? Yeah, Home
Chef is my action. That was a long play for UM,
one of our sponsors. I know, I know, I and
I do apologize to Home Chef for not giving them
(01:14):
the credit they deserve. But well, I think everybody's been
on the edge of their seats since last episode, UM,
wondering about your your personal chef? Are they also your chauffeur?
Home Chef to come out with that tab on their
butler home chauffeur. That's right, everything, So your your rolls
Royce drives itself. Yes, yes, but my Rose Royce doors
(01:38):
don't actually open the way traditional Rose Royce doors open
because it's just it's just the old school Bronco. It's
just like not as Royce. Okay, well, well here we are, guys.
We're talking about episode one twelve Landlord. Okay, folks, this
week we're reviewing the episode one twelve. The episode is
(02:01):
one twelve Landlord, Landlord. Now Schmidt. Schmidt wants to do
it with his boss in a nasty way, you guys,
a very disgusting way, but the signals are very blurry
and he's not sure how to initiate. Luckily, Cecy tells
him to just do it already. She puts that battery
in his backpack and sends him on his way. So
Schmidt slides across the car hood in the dramatic fashion
(02:24):
and kisses the hell out of his boss. Wasn't creepy
and aggressive your jam right? It was? It was borderline offensive. Unfortunately,
security thinks the same thing that I'm thinking, and they
think she's being attacked. Meanwhile, the stress of living together
reveals the differences between how Jess and Nick viewed the world.
(02:44):
You see, Jes treats everyone with kindness and expects their
inner kindness to be revealed in turn. Nick y'all know Nick, y'all,
y'all know how Nick gets down. He distrusts everyone, and
he means something something and he matches whatever aggression he
is met with. That's how he sees the world is
he just is so kind. She literally disarms an angry
(03:06):
driver fighting Nick for a parkins five. Now she is
feeling herself, y'all, she is feeling high off our own supply.
Just besides, it's time to ask the landlord to make
her parents around the apartment, despite the boy's existence to
just leave it alone. You see, the boys know the
late Lord and they know exactly what's in store. Let's
(03:27):
meet Remy. Yell, m M, I love this dude. Remy
is the late Lord who lives in the basement and
handcrafts ships. But you don't know what a ship is?
Google it and not about sums up the landlord. You
see his scary demeanor. Can't detern jestice eternal optimism. Unfortunately,
she reveals way too much, and now Remy knows there
(03:50):
are one too many roommates living in four D. The
guys have a plan, but despite Schmitt's incredible accent, I
mean it was sper it failed spectacularly. Just a kindness
theory might be correct, because Remy agrees to let them
stay if they paint over the erotica in Winston's room.
(04:11):
He even agrees to make some repairs. Fun fact that
erotica that was in Winston's room is now in Little
Mourn's garage. Us they're at it every day. But Nick
is on to Remy. You see, he sees the way
he makes excuses touch her and stay in the apartment
that the guide her is a little suspicious. Nick, it's
(04:33):
kind of a detective y. You don't just write about it.
He'd be about it, and he don't like it one bit.
But Remy turns out to be a good listener and
the two commiserate over their recent heartbreak. Perhaps it was
the hug Nick gave him so long, such a gentle embrace,
But after dinner, Remy strips down to his boxers and
(04:54):
initiates it. I can't even say, it's so freaky. Remy
tries to initiate a threesome. Now, both Nick and Jess
feel they were right about Remy and into a game
of sex Chicken. Show her hands. How many of y'all
haven't played sex Chicken? I know, I have no Curiously,
(05:16):
it's only when Remy suggests Nick and Jess kiss that
Jess backs out of the agreement. I didn't see that coming.
In the end, Jess requests that she know when a
Shenanigans is going down so she can be a part
of it. Just have to rely on Nick's fixes from now.
(05:37):
Now let's jump into the show. This episode directly amazing
director Peyton Read, written by Killer Malmo. I love this episode.
It's so weird. When I knew we were doing this episode,
my body instantly just started to cringe. And I haven't
watched it since it aired, but it's like that great uncomfortable,
(06:02):
weird comedy where you're like, it balks it right up
to the line of where I feel comfortable. Yeah, I
mean I think this this episode is is. I like
it states immediately. The cold open is very different from
most cold opens on the show. It doesn't start with
everybody running into the living room. It starts with Jess
and Nick are fighting with someone for a parking spot,
(06:25):
and then the guy pulls out a gun and and
Nick's freaking out, and Jess kind of does, you know,
some gesturing and um gesticulating, and the guy calms down,
puts away his gun and gives them the parking spot.
And so it starts this kind of argument. It's kind
(06:51):
of the first point for Jess in the argument are
people inherently good or are people inherently bad? And so
Jess believes people are inherently good. Nick believes people are
inherently bad. And they're both really hell bent on proving
to each other that each one of them is the
right one. Okay, we better go around the circle right now.
(07:14):
And which do you believe? Oh? I believe people are
inherently good? Little, I think people are born demons. No,
I think people are inherently good. I think they're good.
You know. I think sometimes certain things could be a
learned behavior, you know. Yeah, And people make bad sometimes.
(07:35):
My kids actually say it. They say there are no
bad guys. They're just good guys making bad choices. Right,
that's right, because a lot of bad guys, they they
don't think they're doing they're they're justified in their actions.
They you know, superheroalth circumstances. Yeah, every superhero villain believes
(07:55):
they're doing the right thing. I feel like I believe
everyone is inherent are really good, but I operate um
with the suspicious eye on people like they are inherently bad.
We call it the evil that I'm just like maybe you,
maybe I'll yell and the one um. All right, that's
(08:18):
a good temperature check as we dive into this episode.
And also that cold open as one of my favorite
lines because when the guy puts his gun away and
gives up the parking spot, Uh, Nick Miller says, you
just out crazy the crazy. That's how his reading on
the situation is. It's not like, Wow, you disarmed him
(08:42):
by being like obviously nice. In some way he could
see that. He's just like, you're crazier than a man
with a gun trying to get a parking spot. That's
his point of view. That's what you do is you
act crazy? What somebody if somebody's trying to rob you,
if somebody's attacking you, you act sick. That is a
legit advice that people give you, Like, actually, is it
(09:04):
really old? Like Steve Martin stand up b that that
if you're walking through a bad neighborhood, just like act
crazy like walk crazy like act crazy, and then no
one will mess with you because they'll be like, m
that guy's crazy, they'll mess with him. That's Nick Miller's
read on the situation is Justice goes bonkers and she's like, no,
(09:27):
I'm just something nice and just apologizing for you being rude. Yes,
So in this in this, in this episode, Um Schmidt believes,
I mean everyone. He thinks everyone is out to get him,
the delivery guy. That's the fun I have to decline, Nick, No, sorry, Schmidt,
(09:51):
I have a packet for package for Schmitt. I'm gonna
have to decline. Slams the doer. Okay, yes, I'm sorry,
but I have to do it. Please duck and watch
your foeheads because here comes another useless jem. I'm about
to drop fold your bangs over because this could scar you. Okay.
(10:12):
So in the in this particular storyline, Um you know again,
there's a montage of different people that he's trying to
that he's trying to that he thinks it's floating with him.
There's a woman getting on an elevator. She goes three, Please,
that's the door closes. You know, it was that whole
moment between those two on the elevator. He's another person
he thinks of trying to flirt with him. Funny story
(10:33):
that actress, her name is alex Linn Ward, alex phenomenal actor.
What what was coaching me for all of my auditions
for New Girl? Oh? My god? Coach? In fact, when
I got the call that I got the part, her
and I were both driving away from the lot at
this leaving the audition when I got the phone. It's
(10:57):
so so dope, so dope, and I forgot about it
until I watched the episode and I was like, oh damn,
that's Alex. So shout out to alex Lynn Ward. Is
she um working as an acting coach? So? No, she
actually she was. She's an actor, but she was just
helping me. She's just coaching me because it's super In fact,
she was right out of college and I think that's
(11:18):
why she was ru at the theater school, and that's
why she would coach people because she kind of had
all the basics and old school stuff that you forget down.
And so she just moved to l A. And I'm
talking every it was like it was like a job. Almost.
We would during pilot season would read everything that's awesome,
(11:38):
Yeah that's nice, alex Lynn Ward y'all. Anyway, that was
my useless jem. You can fold your bangs back up,
youthful gem te information. So I sent a little text
au to Josh Malmoth, who wrote this incredible, funny episode,
(11:59):
and said, uh, you have any info um that we
can share with our listeners. And this is what he wrote.
And maybe you guys are familiar with this, but did
you send it to Daniel? Daniel can play it on
the Oh no, no, it's a text. It's a text.
You guys might know about it, but I did not
(12:19):
know about it. So um, he says, well, I don't
know of you guys can talk about it, but here
we go. We're gonna talk about it. What is it?
Controversy the whole Bruce Willis ordeal where his people said
he quote wanted to do the show and to quote
(12:43):
and we waited and waited and never heard anything. And
he says, I'm sure no one ever told him about it.
And I said, wait a second, so he could have
been the landlord and he said yeah, And I go
right next to Nakatomi Tower. That's because we filmed are
(13:03):
the Fox thought was right next to the building that
was in the Die Hard movies. And he said, you
didn't know about this. It was a whole thing that
I remember this now you're telling now that you're saying it.
I remember they were saying that Bruce Willis was going
to maybe play the landlord like like you know, so
he was kind apparently, and then nothing happened. And so
(13:24):
then they just waited and waited and walked it up
as close to the line as they could. And then
Brucey didn't show. That's great because they yes, we moved
our days around. We had to shift the schedule. I remember,
that's right. And so you're saying Prince showed up, but
Bruce didn't, you girl, That's exactly what I said back.
I was like, so Prince showed up, Print showed up,
(13:46):
same thought. This is why we friends, girl, I said,
Bruce shop Taylor. That was Taylor Swift and Prince could
show up for our show, but Bruce Willis couldn't, you know.
But you know what I worked. I actually loved Bruce Willis.
He's so he was lovely to me. I worked with
him on a movie called Rock the kasba Um and
he was so nice. I loved him. He was really
(14:09):
fun to work with. So he probably just like was
it was. It was probably a schedule in conflict or something,
and then that never got back to us because maybe
he never knew and never agreed, And maybe so many
people I think there's so much sometimes so many representatives,
Like when you have a person that's really famous, that
(14:30):
something could get get lost in translation and you could
just something you know I couldn't might not get communicated,
and then you know, Bruce, if you're out there, you
gotta clean it up. We got to know the real story.
We want to know the real story on the podcast. Also,
I will say this though, Jeff Kober, we did get
for Landlord. He was fantastic. It was meant for him. Yeah,
(14:55):
and he he really he really captured it. Because when
I when you Jess first goes down to his office,
you're like, oh, he's he's kind of scary, um uh.
And then the way he worms up feels so genuine,
(15:17):
Like when he starts like warming up and like kind
of let you know, letting you know, opening up to Jess,
it does feel like the creepy guy who all of
a sudden feels comfortable and is so let's talk about that.
Let's let's talk about that. He opens up to you, right,
(15:37):
what's going on in this moment? In this moment, I
think he's he's miss reading Jess's kind He really the
creepy guy or is he just he's I think he's
a loner, so he comes off as creepy and that Jess,
I mean in a way like just being Devil's advocate. Um,
(16:02):
Jess is being kind of manipulative because she wants him
to fix stuff in the apartment, and she's like, in
a way, it's what we talked about in the Jess
and Julia episode, that Julia is perceiving that Jess is
doing certain things to be manipulative, which I think Jess
is genuinely nice, but in this episode she's kind of like, well,
(16:22):
I'm going to be nice to him, but she is
kind of trying to get something from him. She's you know,
and he takes that as you know, he misreads that as, oh,
she's interested in me anytime fix her pipes. Anytime a
woman says, can you come, you know, fix my water cooler?
Which happens all the time. You know, let me tell
(16:45):
you something, let me tell you something. I get ideas,
You get ideas because you can't fix the water cooler, right,
So why is she calling me? You know what I'm saying,
I don't even know what I mean. That's all the
Schmidt's storyline and the Remy storyline are kind of inter twine, right,
just misreading the signs of what's going on and hoping
(17:08):
it is the way you wanted to be, which is
that these are cute women are into you, yes, and
Nick Miller he thinks that they're going to have threesome
with them. M m. That's right. So that's where that's
where this his soul, his this idea that he wants.
(17:31):
He's misreading your signs. He misreads your signs so much.
And you guys are being so catty to each other
to such a degree, and there's such a miscommunication happening
that the three of you end up in some sort
of weird game of threesome chicken. That's what I kept thinking.
(17:53):
That's exactly what it means, threesome chicken. It's a great,
great way to describe it. Three some chicken. Ramey said,
as I've never had a threesome before, let's do this,
and that Jess and Nick are so resolute improving the
other one wrong that they both start playing this game
of threesome chicken where they both start committing yeah and
(18:18):
do a weird dance, so, you know, And I did
find this interesting, you know, Nick, And I'm not sure
if this is an episode out of order type of situation,
but Nick, he kissed you, he tries to, and I
that's where I'm out. Yeah, it becomes really close to
(18:39):
being the first Jess and Nick kiss but technically because
Julia was right before him the episode before. Was he cheating?
That's true, the fact that he would be down for
like a threesome when we just agreed to be exclusive
to another woman. He has a girlfriend. No, again, they're
(18:59):
both so committed did to proving each other wrong? They
can't see any other, you know. Again, I think this
is where New Girl delightfully uses flaws, the character's flaws
to make the stories work. You know. That's baby baby, baby,
baby baby have a threesome, but a little bit baby
(19:24):
flaws difference. There's no obviously he's wrong, he's wrong, obviously,
But I think in this case, that they both are
not thinking about anything other than proving the other one wrong.
Otherwise they wouldn't be Yeah, I feel like he's not
(19:46):
is to play Devil's advocate, but Nick Miller for a second,
I feel like he was never going to cheat because
he thought for sure she's going to say that down, Yeah,
I'm not actually gonna do this, But she does. She
does back down. Yeah, right at the last second. Yeah. Yeah,
And now it's interesting though, I'm gonna say in and
(20:10):
it looks for real, Julia saw that. I think she'd
be like, doesn't matter if you consummated the kissing on
it was not okay. You're talking about a couple of
a couple of things about his aesthetic and dynamic when
trying to set up this threesome. Remy the landlord. When
you guys are sitting down at table, at the table
drinking his moonshine or basement hooch or whatever you would
(20:33):
call it, basement hooch, his shirt, Have you guys noticed
his shirt? Never put him in a versachi Still. I
don't know what that thing was, but when I saw it,
I said, my god, this man looks like a straight
up Miami drug dealer. It was a very interesting choice
(20:54):
for a man who lives in his basement. I said,
where do you get this shirt from? And then when
he god the room, he puts on the music. I mean,
oh my god, what I don't I don't know about
you guys. Uh. I looked up that song and it
was it was called send Me on My Way by
Rusted Root. Yeah. I was gonna say, it's Rusted Root,
(21:17):
which is like a it's kind of like got a
little hippie vibe kind of right. And when I played
it at first, I was like, that's an interesting choice
for a song. But I just kept listening to it.
I was like, that was legit going. I can see this,
I can I can see this. I could see the
song playing in the background of every threesome around America. Yeah,
(21:38):
it's kind of a playful, non sexual sounding song to
start a threesome. It's funny that you have to like
when you put a show together, go he where for
a threesome? What song choice do you want for this threesome?
(22:00):
The way I couldn't really see it was it was
a multi colored long sleeve dress shirt, like a very dressy,
very brave, very gaudy. Yeah, yeah, that's why I said.
I just thought it was like it had some kind
of pattern on it, and I was like, what was
(22:21):
that pattern? Because I either don't remember it because I
watched it late last night and by late I mean
nine o'clock because I'm a mom and I I get
tired early last week in preparation good memory. Um, what
(22:43):
do you guys think? Is Nick the most negative person?
You know? Character? You know? I feel like I I'm
much more Nick leaning than just leaning in this episode.
Like when I watched Remy like tin cup Jess, yeah,
I would be very much the door. Yeah, I'm like
(23:05):
I think myself, he's an optimist who sees the best
in people, and that point, I'd be like, yeah, I'd
be very much not committing to that anymore. I need
six ft back up. You can shout your instruction like
don't come up and like put your body behind I
like my physical space. I think, I think, I think, Um,
(23:28):
I think both of you were misreading the situation. Remy
wasn't just hitting on Jess. He was hitting Nick. And
you're right, You're right what he says. I mean, I
think it's very very clear. It's very very clear. Yeah,
I mean, but that's what I love so much is
the whole time Nick is openly saying I'm gonna fight
(23:48):
for you. I'm gonna fight this man, I'm gonna come
for you. I know what you're trying to do to
my girl here, I got it, and not realizing that
Remy is just finding him more and more attractive when
he's coming to him. To Remy is picking up that
Nick and Jess have some kind of a connection, and
he's like, all right, if that's what we gotta do,
(24:09):
that's what we gotta do. The weirdest part of the
whole thing, and this is where I start my skin
starts the crocs. I get really uncomfortable with things like
this on TV where he was like, well, I'm gonna
let you guys kick it off. No. My, the thing
that sends hills up my spine is when he says, yeah, Nick,
(24:32):
you're too such a good again, Nick, you're too like
a serial killer. I do believe cereal killers are inherently bad.
There you go, that's where you draw the line. You're
(24:54):
I draw the line at you. Cereal killers, that's right,
unless they're a dexter. Because if your death right then
you're like the Robin Hood of Yeah, yeah, you're killing,
you're killing you know, bad people, You're bat You're Batman
through his Batman of serial killing. Um, let's go, by
the way, do you think that movie The Batman stole
it from our show? Because I was like the whole
(25:16):
joke in that Batman you know, like later years from now,
we'll probably be doing that Batman episode. I can't remember
what season it was before Batman. Yeah, Batman Mobile. It's like,
I'm the Batman, and we kept making jokes that he
kept seeing the Batman. And now there's a movie called
The Batman out. I think that's a direct linear thing.
(25:37):
They they say we started it, Matt. Yeah, for all
the fans out there, do your research, Potatoes, do your research,
because we do believe that they stole it from us.
If you guys have a problem with it, like and subscribe, Yeah,
(25:58):
send us a cold heart cat. Speaking of cold hardcash,
let's throw some commercials and we come back. Let's talk
about Schmidt and asking this smooch. Welcome, we are black.
(26:23):
If you're just by the way, I found um a
present you gave me that I hadn't I never drank
the bottle of White Girl Rose that you gave me, Lauren, Um,
I found it in but I'm gonna have to do that. Thanks.
(26:47):
How long ago was that? That was my rap gift?
Oh my god for Beautifinal season. Thank you for that.
I do like Rosette, You're like, I found this this
this is the perfect for you. I think it was
your race. That's great, it's perfect, It's got everything. Okay, Schmidt,
(27:13):
We're gonna talk about Schmidt because I think this is
something that people um struggle with and have talked about
through time. They're asking to kiss right where, you know,
asking permission. This was a long time ago that we
made this show. Sexy, un sexy, the murky. I think
(27:39):
it's murky because obviously consent is incredibly important, but then
you know it as evidence in this episode, that's what
his you know, hook up wanted. Yeah, the clear nonverbal
cues is what this all rides on. Yes, and are
(28:01):
there can there be a clear nonverbal cue other than like,
you know, actual sign language that's like you know, American
sign language or something. I get out of it. I'm
I'm a master at conquering that scenario. Okay, what do
(28:21):
you send your chef in to ask pretty much. Uh,
it's called a chef's kiss. No um. And then if
she says, oh, I wish I was that little hand
gesture seeing your fingertips, and she's like and then she goes,
(28:44):
I wish I was your hand. Right now, I just
do it and blame it on my Italian upbringing is
what we do now. I am to get out of jail.
No I am no. So they explain it, what do
you do? I just don't kiss? Oh what what do
(29:05):
you do? There is no like you know, people have
like first date kisses. I just don't do it. I
just don't do it because the only time that I
know I am ready to make out with someone, it's
to the point where we want to do other things already.
So the kisses just let's get this out of the way.
So you like sitting in the stands and all of
a sudden, you're you're running all the bases exactly. You
(29:29):
play it. It's a long game. It's a long game.
Would you like to go in my bedroom? Would you
like to do? You know how the things you need
permission to do? The kiss is like at that point
you're like, okay, let's just get that part of the way.
But I would say this growing up in Cyprus Um
I watched these Greek guys have the most incredible game
(29:54):
of all time, and the way they did it was
they were such gentlemen, so romantic and such gentlemen all
the time and so sweet, like the last thing they
wanted to do was physical. They were there because they
loved you, your heart, they wanted to get to know you,
and they're all like leaned in and like the soft
(30:17):
whisper of how they spoke when you're telling the story
of your childhood. That these women, I would watch them
because they were just like, at what point is this
man gonna finally kissed me? Like they were just like
dying for it. That they were the ones that would
initiate physically, because these guys were playing this incredible game
(30:38):
of emotional investment and that kind of took out this
question of the guy then kind of pushing the physical
nous and then the girl would be like no, thank you,
or I'm not ready or I don't want that, And
it was the woman that would lead it. That's why
I stay away from Greek men gus you and just
(31:00):
want to kiss him. That I mean the way the
way she's describing it, I'm like, can I tell you
the greatest piece of game I ever saw a guy
running a girl. It was amazing. It was at a
bar and she was talking. He's the bartender, Greek bartender.
She was some tourists from somewhere, and she was sitting
there and talking. He's nervous, who's very handsome bartender. Um,
(31:21):
And she was talking whatever and knocked her drink over, okay,
and he without breaking eye contact or conversation, right, didn't
even acknowledge the drink over, keeps talking, reaches down, there's
like a bucket of ice like under the bar, reaches down,
keeps talking, grabs a couple of cubes of ice, reaches over,
(31:42):
puts them on her hand to kind of, you know,
because it's sticky from the cocktail knocking over, you know,
to kind of like clean her hand, and then hasn't
there's a towel, dries it, keeps talking, doesn't break, just
keeps going. And she's sitting there as this man like
helps clean her like sticky hands and wipes down the bar,
puts her drink up, refills it booms. This woman was
(32:06):
literally running into the bedroom. Great man, I'm about to
drop this gem on you guys. That woman her name
was Hannah Simone. No it was not, it was not.
It was how do you watch their whole interaction? Know,
(32:28):
I worked at the bar. I worked at the bar.
But here was the thing that was amazing. Remember the
first time I watched it, because that woman changed because
she was you know how she was looking at him
because she could have been embarrassed or whatever, but she
was fully seduced. But here's the thing that was crazy.
So the tourists would come and there they're on a
three day holiday. For day holiday, they go back right
and they're like, oh my god, it was amazing stuffers,
(32:50):
I love him so much. Leave next day, you know,
another batch of Swedish tourists show up. Gorgeous women show
up to the bar, run the same game from the
same game every single time. And then I was like, oh,
the ice cube and the towel again. Well, you know
those sweetish shorts were showing up to Cyprus looking for
a Greek bargain. That's also right, that's also they were
(33:14):
like everybody had their flame. Anyway, I'm just saying it
was really interesting that it took out the situation that
Schmidt is in, which is like I want to kiss her?
Should I ask? I want to be respectful. If your
game is tight enough, you can dodge this whole thing. Yeah,
you just have to be a gentleman. You just gotta
(33:36):
be a gentleman, bottom line, be a gentleman. That's right. Um,
So a little tidbit about there's a moment where Remy
comes in. We're rewinding a little bit. Remy comes in
the loft um and he sees, you know, another person
lives there. Um, an extra person is which is against
the rules, against the contract ingrad but turkey, um, he realizes.
(34:01):
So he goes into the closet and he sees this
big mural, this big weird l moment. My god, it
looked like it was like a space sex orgy with
like it's an intergalactic sexual tea party. Yes, that's what
(34:22):
I have that in my house. What I have that
painting and wasn't painted on the wall. There was when
in the closet. Originally it was a big board that
looked like it was a part of the wall, but
then they redid it to make it my entire background,
my entire wall. Yeah, you turn a light office. His
Winston sucks. But the original the O g PS that
(34:45):
was in the closet, I stole that. You stole it
or was given to you, just legit stole it. I
took it. It was the last day of set. There
was a bunch of stuff laying around and I asked
one of the transport guys if he could drive it
over to my house because Butler wasn't working. Chief it
wasn't working at the time. So and where is it
(35:05):
in your house? Now? Yeah, that's that's a good place
for it, as soon as you pull up space but
right there, spaces everywhere. So where is your daughter is
going to grow up with? She's not allowed nothing. She
sees as you drive up into the grass after school.
I guess she gets older action that off. I'm going
(35:29):
to I'm going to on this podcast. Maybe that's something
we'll do. So we'll pick a charity and then I'll yeah,
yeah for sure. Um but going back, going back um
to Schmidt. I will just say something super funny quickly
about what Schmidt does. It's one of my favorite things
(35:50):
in real life when people do because Cecy says, um,
you know, there's nothing less sexy. Then a guy asked
me to kiss you. When people say like statements like that,
when you're like really nothing less sexy and you can
go through a list of like he says the funniest.
I just I feel like he went through so many alts.
(36:11):
I remember sitting there and he had to say some
of the craziest, unsexy, disgusting things in that list, and
I think like four made the show. Um, but that
was like a real taste for me of the level
of alts and how weird and funny and dark our
writers could go. Um. But I also love that in
(36:34):
real life when people kind of go like, really, you're
making this huge statement, sounds a little dramatic, Let's unpack that,
let's walk that road. Um. I love that moment in
this episode. Um. Someone posted the question, how fortunate are
we that this wasn't Nick and Jess's first kiss? Oh yeah,
(36:55):
we are for that. That wouldn't have been very romantic
and jessin nick first kiss. I think that was a
pretty epic episode. Yeah, but you felt their tension, like
the sexual tension in this episode perfectly where you kind
of were like, are they really actually going to do it?
All of us became Remy, we all got creepy with it.
(37:18):
Every well, everyone is in on We're going to get
sit back and watch them get started. I guess that's
maybe really just wanted them to get together, and he
felt like that was the only way he could. What
he's just cupid? What if he's just trying to play cupid?
What if that was What if we do a rewind
(37:39):
and then every time there's a situation between Nick and Jess,
we go down to the basement, we see Remy going, Yes,
my plan worked. That was Remy's plan all along. That
would have been a hell of a finale. Welcome to
(38:07):
all right, guys, Welcome to True American, where the rules
change weekly or actually they didn't really change from last week,
but um, you leave more confused than when you showed up.
This week, we are answering listener letters again because there
(38:28):
were so many great questions last week. That is right,
it's time to open Ben Franklin's letter bag. Birthday buddy, Okay,
this one, This first one is from jelly Bean Jazz.
Birth name, that's someone's name. Don't make fun of it.
Definitely don't laugh. Jelly Bean Jazz wants to know what
(38:50):
are the biggest differences and similarities between your characters and
yourselves in real life. That's a big question, jelly Bean Jess, Okay,
we can do one and one. I would say my
biggest similarity is that I am a true ride or
die friend, like I got you what I want to
be your first called as a matter three in the morning.
(39:12):
If you hate him, I hate him, you like him?
I like him, I got you. The biggest difference this
episode kind of made me look and see is that
Cecie walks in um and I think he calls her
out on it. He's like, you shouldn't you be like
a a you know, some sort of like baker at
table like with James Bond or something. Um dressed to
(39:33):
the nines with the world's tiniest purse like it could
hold like a piece of gup um. And nothing could
be further from the truth. As I sit here in
my sweatpants, in my Unicorn T shirt with my hair
tied up in the topnot someone is a real bad lady,
you know, like you just like you're you're more like
(39:57):
you're not gonna wear like high heels than body condresses
like every day. No thank you, no, no, no, Um,
I got like a hippie heart. That's yeah, you were
like flowing florals. I would say, all right, that's my
biggest similarity. Biggest difference for me, biggest similarity. Ah, it
(40:21):
would probably be how weird he can be. Yeah, I
could be weird at times, you know what I mean,
Not in a creepy way, just weird, just like that's
so surprising to us, you know, just very left of center,
not not you know, I don't walk the beaten path.
I I take the road less traveled by. And that
(40:44):
has made all the difference. And so um the thing
that is different that was a similarity. The thing that
I'd probably say is, um that I vary from Winston. Um.
I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't know. I
don't know. I was just talk. That's that's a big
(41:07):
that's on the nose. I think everybody knows that about me. Um.
I definitely hate cats. I definitely hate cats. I don't
but but I will say it's interesting when you when
you're on the show for so long part of your
real life, you start blending in with the character a
little bit. I definitely have Winston is ums in my life.
Sometimes that I'll find myself doing and I go, oh,
(41:28):
got that from the show, Like I'll say certain things,
and I go, so you said something. I forget which episode,
And I watched an episode of Woke where I'm I'm
saying a line, but I vary it, and it's the
exact same way you delivered. I think it's that's not
even a little bit true. I don't remember where you
(41:51):
said that, and but I know that that's not even
a little bit true. Yeah, I remember that. It's in
one of these first episodes. Yeah, and I remember saying
that when somebody said, Keith Knight, my character place Keith
Knight hate it doesn't support local artists. And that's not
even a little bit true. I just said it very normally.
But I know I didn't make that up. It came
from somewhere, you know. Again, we you know there there
(42:16):
are things that blend in and when you it's like
spending time with friends that you all have like inside
jokes where you all say like the same thing, you know,
and then it ends up kind of everybody ends up
saying the same using the same kind of language that's
funny to each other. I think we all had bits
that would repeat and end up you know, different people
would say them, and then lines that were funny and
(42:38):
made us laugh. I mean definitely end up in your
in the back of your head somewhere sometimes. Um. But
for me, Um, I think I'm optimistic like Jess um,
and that's we are similar like that we do have
some interests that are shared. Um. I you know, I
(42:59):
would say, like a lot of just as close like
especially at the time, you know, it's like my style,
you know, it's always somewhat the same, but then you know,
it's like you have different things that you kind of
go through phases of liking certain types of silhouettes and
things like that. And definitely my own style kind of
got filtered into Jess a lot. But where we're different,
(43:20):
I think I'm a little bit not quite as guileless
as Jess maybe, but there's a lot of me in
in her for sure. And uh yeah, I mean again,
you play a character for seven years, there's going to
be parts of you and the character. Um. Okay, So
this one is from Hayden Um who's wondering what do
(43:43):
the members of the Loft use the money from the
douche bag jar for. That's an interesting question. I don't know.
I don't know if we ever heard that, because there's
some real money in that jar, like as in it
wasn't like there was twenty bucks kind of alluded to
to be in that jar because I mean the story
of the fifty over years, Yeah, a lot of money,
(44:04):
seven point two million dollars. They used it to buy
a Rolls Royce so for a litment. That actually would
have been a fun episode for them to be like,
we're going to use the cash or something. Yeah, that
would have been what I want to say. What did
(44:25):
I just don't remembers opportunity or it happened and we
don't remember. That's true. We're not really sure. So let's
get We'll get back to hayden Um. This one's from
Caitlin Are. This is an interesting question. Are you team
Nick or Sam for Jess? Come on, come on, okay,
(44:47):
I'm team Nick because that's what the show. You know,
part of what the show was was like getting certain
characters together, and it was you know, and Nick and
Jess had to end up together that said, and I
love that, you know, I love the couple. I loved
every minute of you know, working with Jake and and
creating you know that dynamic. But that said, I love
(45:11):
David Walton and I would totally watch that show Sam
and Jess. I would watch that show. I love Dr Sam,
thought it was he was a great character. Um and
he was. He was also like you know, to make that,
you know, to make it all work, he had to
be a formidable opponent for Nick. You know, there had
(45:34):
to be a case for Sam. And so that's why
I do think that you know, it worked that he
was such a good He was good for just too
in a way. You know, what do you guys think?
Team Nick? Right? Miller? Nick Miller gone? I mean Dr
Sam was cool though. I mean I gave him a
(45:56):
birth shirt and give him a birch and I think
that was that was fine. Nick would never wear one
of his bird shirts. That was one of those like
on paper things, right, like on paper. Dr Sam is
like such a perfect fit for Jess on paper for
most people, it was like a perfect fit and this
great guy. And I think that's what was so great
(46:16):
about this show is that so much of who we're
drawn to and who we choose in our life, it's
just heart led. You know. It doesn't always make the
most sense, but you can't deny it. And that's the
Nick Jess thing. They just couldn't deny it meant to
be Wow, look at that lovely. Thank you guys so
(46:39):
much for joining us like and subscribe, please do please,
We love you. Um. Also thanks to Josh Melmoth for
illuminating the Bruce Willis situation and uh, Bruce, if you're
out there, let us know what happens. A great tidbit.
It's a great tidbit. Yeah, I wonder if we could
get Bruce Willis actually send a little voice note why
(47:03):
you didn't want to show up, just like we are
a representative, make a comment justin long is good friends
with Bruce Willis. We'll get him to do it well
good And they did die Hard together. Oh kind of
about that one, right, Live Free or Die Hard? Because
I did an indie called Live Free or Die So
(47:25):
I remember. I always remember the name of that one
because I'm like, oh, I did a movie that was
just one word off from this. Thank you guys for
tuning in. We miss you already, We love you, see
you next week, love you over hear us next week.
(47:48):
You've been listening to Welcome to our show A New
Girl recap podcast. Welcome to Our Show is a production
of I Hurt Radio, hosted by Zoey Deschanel, Lamour and
Morris and Hannah Simone. Our executive producers a while Monique.
Our engineer and editor is Daniel Goodman. The Welcome to
Our Show theme song was written by Zoey Deschanel, performed
and produced by Zoey Deschanel and Pierre de Reader. Follow
(48:09):
us on Instagram and Welcome to Our Show pot. If
you have a question you'd like us to answer, you
can email us at Welcome to Our Show podcast at
gmail dot com. Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and share
far and wide. Thanks for listening. We'll hear you next week.
Ring ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe?
Oh hello, Lamar, let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. All right,
(00:29):
hello everybody, how are you doing? What are you having? Now?
You have a protein check? Folks if you're just if
you're just tuning in, Um, my chef one second in
your schof made you a smoothie. My chef made me
a smoothie. It is it's your chef, your mom by
the way, No, no, my mom refuses to take on
that role. UM, so I don't respect Yeah, but no,
(00:54):
my my chef made me this smoothie. I'm my chef.
By the way, Guys, when I say I have a chef,
is me thanks to Home Chef? Than Oh? Is that
your Is that the chef you're talking about? Yeah, Home
Chef is my action. That was a long play for UM,
one of our sponsors. I know, I know, I and
I do apologize to Home Chef for not giving them
(01:14):
the credit they deserve. But well, I think everybody's been
on the edge of their seats since last episode, UM,
wondering about your your personal chef? Are they also your chauffeur?
Home Chef to come out with that tab on their
butler home chauffeur. That's right, everything, So your your rolls
Royce drives itself. Yes, yes, but my Rose Royce doors
(01:38):
don't actually open the way traditional Rose Royce doors open
because it's just it's just the old school Bronco. It's
just like not as Royce. Okay, well, well here we are, guys.
We're talking about episode one twelve Landlord. Okay, folks, this
week we're reviewing the episode one twelve. The episode is
(02:01):
one twelve Landlord, Landlord. Now Schmidt. Schmidt wants to do
it with his boss in a nasty way, you guys,
a very disgusting way, but the signals are very blurry
and he's not sure how to initiate. Luckily, Cecy tells
him to just do it already. She puts that battery
in his backpack and sends him on his way. So
Schmidt slides across the car hood in the dramatic fashion
(02:24):
and kisses the hell out of his boss. Wasn't creepy
and aggressive your jam right? It was? It was borderline offensive. Unfortunately,
security thinks the same thing that I'm thinking, and they
think she's being attacked. Meanwhile, the stress of living together
reveals the differences between how Jess and Nick viewed the world.
(02:44):
You see, Jes treats everyone with kindness and expects their
inner kindness to be revealed in turn. Nick y'all know Nick, y'all,
y'all know how Nick gets down. He distrusts everyone, and
he means something something and he matches whatever aggression he
is met with. That's how he sees the world is
he just is so kind. She literally disarms an angry
(03:06):
driver fighting Nick for a parkins five. Now she is
feeling herself, y'all, she is feeling high off our own supply.
Just besides, it's time to ask the landlord to make
her parents around the apartment, despite the boy's existence to
just leave it alone. You see, the boys know the
late Lord and they know exactly what's in store. Let's
(03:27):
meet Remy. Yell, m M, I love this dude. Remy
is the late Lord who lives in the basement and
handcrafts ships. But you don't know what a ship is?
Google it and not about sums up the landlord. You
see his scary demeanor. Can't detern jestice eternal optimism. Unfortunately,
she reveals way too much, and now Remy knows there
(03:50):
are one too many roommates living in four D. The
guys have a plan, but despite Schmitt's incredible accent, I
mean it was sper it failed spectacularly. Just a kindness
theory might be correct, because Remy agrees to let them
stay if they paint over the erotica in Winston's room.
(04:11):
He even agrees to make some repairs. Fun fact that
erotica that was in Winston's room is now in Little
Mourn's garage. Us they're at it every day. But Nick
is on to Remy. You see, he sees the way
he makes excuses touch her and stay in the apartment
that the guide her is a little suspicious. Nick, it's
(04:33):
kind of a detective y. You don't just write about it.
He'd be about it, and he don't like it one bit.
But Remy turns out to be a good listener and
the two commiserate over their recent heartbreak. Perhaps it was
the hug Nick gave him so long, such a gentle embrace,
But after dinner, Remy strips down to his boxers and
(04:54):
initiates it. I can't even say, it's so freaky. Remy
tries to initiate a threesome. Now, both Nick and Jess
feel they were right about Remy and into a game
of sex Chicken. Show her hands. How many of y'all
haven't played sex Chicken? I know, I have no Curiously,
(05:16):
it's only when Remy suggests Nick and Jess kiss that
Jess backs out of the agreement. I didn't see that coming.
In the end, Jess requests that she know when a
Shenanigans is going down so she can be a part
of it. Just have to rely on Nick's fixes from now.
(05:37):
Now let's jump into the show. This episode directly amazing
director Peyton Read, written by Killer Malmo. I love this episode.
It's so weird. When I knew we were doing this episode,
my body instantly just started to cringe. And I haven't
watched it since it aired, but it's like that great uncomfortable,
(06:02):
weird comedy where you're like, it balks it right up
to the line of where I feel comfortable. Yeah, I
mean I think this this episode is is. I like
it states immediately. The cold open is very different from
most cold opens on the show. It doesn't start with
everybody running into the living room. It starts with Jess
and Nick are fighting with someone for a parking spot,
(06:25):
and then the guy pulls out a gun and and
Nick's freaking out, and Jess kind of does, you know,
some gesturing and um gesticulating, and the guy calms down,
puts away his gun and gives them the parking spot.
And so it starts this kind of argument. It's kind
(06:51):
of the first point for Jess in the argument are
people inherently good or are people inherently bad? And so
Jess believes people are inherently good. Nick believes people are
inherently bad. And they're both really hell bent on proving
to each other that each one of them is the
right one. Okay, we better go around the circle right now.
(07:14):
And which do you believe? Oh? I believe people are
inherently good? Little, I think people are born demons. No,
I think people are inherently good. I think they're good.
You know. I think sometimes certain things could be a
learned behavior, you know. Yeah, And people make bad sometimes.
(07:35):
My kids actually say it. They say there are no
bad guys. They're just good guys making bad choices. Right,
that's right, because a lot of bad guys, they they
don't think they're doing they're they're justified in their actions.
They you know, superheroalth circumstances. Yeah, every superhero villain believes
(07:55):
they're doing the right thing. I feel like I believe
everyone is inherent are really good, but I operate um
with the suspicious eye on people like they are inherently bad.
We call it the evil that I'm just like maybe you,
maybe I'll yell and the one um. All right, that's
(08:18):
a good temperature check as we dive into this episode.
And also that cold open as one of my favorite
lines because when the guy puts his gun away and
gives up the parking spot, Uh, Nick Miller says, you
just out crazy the crazy. That's how his reading on
the situation is. It's not like, Wow, you disarmed him
(08:42):
by being like obviously nice. In some way he could
see that. He's just like, you're crazier than a man
with a gun trying to get a parking spot. That's
his point of view. That's what you do is you
act crazy? What somebody if somebody's trying to rob you,
if somebody's attacking you, you act sick. That is a
legit advice that people give you, Like, actually, is it
(09:04):
really old? Like Steve Martin stand up b that that
if you're walking through a bad neighborhood, just like act
crazy like walk crazy like act crazy, and then no
one will mess with you because they'll be like, m
that guy's crazy, they'll mess with him. That's Nick Miller's
read on the situation is Justice goes bonkers and she's like, no,
(09:27):
I'm just something nice and just apologizing for you being rude. Yes,
So in this in this, in this episode, Um Schmidt believes,
I mean everyone. He thinks everyone is out to get him,
the delivery guy. That's the fun I have to decline, Nick, No, sorry, Schmidt,
(09:51):
I have a packet for package for Schmitt. I'm gonna
have to decline. Slams the doer. Okay, yes, I'm sorry,
but I have to do it. Please duck and watch
your foeheads because here comes another useless jem. I'm about
to drop fold your bangs over because this could scar you. Okay.
(10:12):
So in the in this particular storyline, Um you know again,
there's a montage of different people that he's trying to
that he's trying to that he thinks it's floating with him.
There's a woman getting on an elevator. She goes three, Please,
that's the door closes. You know, it was that whole
moment between those two on the elevator. He's another person
he thinks of trying to flirt with him. Funny story
(10:33):
that actress, her name is alex Linn Ward, alex phenomenal actor.
What what was coaching me for all of my auditions
for New Girl? Oh? My god? Coach? In fact, when
I got the call that I got the part, her
and I were both driving away from the lot at
this leaving the audition when I got the phone. It's
(10:57):
so so dope, so dope, and I forgot about it
until I watched the episode and I was like, oh damn,
that's Alex. So shout out to alex Lynn Ward. Is
she um working as an acting coach? So? No, she
actually she was. She's an actor, but she was just
helping me. She's just coaching me because it's super In fact,
she was right out of college and I think that's
(11:18):
why she was ru at the theater school, and that's
why she would coach people because she kind of had
all the basics and old school stuff that you forget down.
And so she just moved to l A. And I'm
talking every it was like it was like a job. Almost.
We would during pilot season would read everything that's awesome,
(11:38):
Yeah that's nice, alex Lynn Ward y'all. Anyway, that was
my useless jem. You can fold your bangs back up,
youthful gem te information. So I sent a little text
au to Josh Malmoth, who wrote this incredible, funny episode,
(11:59):
and said, uh, you have any info um that we
can share with our listeners. And this is what he wrote.
And maybe you guys are familiar with this, but did
you send it to Daniel? Daniel can play it on
the Oh no, no, it's a text. It's a text.
You guys might know about it, but I did not
(12:19):
know about it. So um, he says, well, I don't
know of you guys can talk about it, but here
we go. We're gonna talk about it. What is it?
Controversy the whole Bruce Willis ordeal where his people said
he quote wanted to do the show and to quote
(12:43):
and we waited and waited and never heard anything. And
he says, I'm sure no one ever told him about it.
And I said, wait a second, so he could have
been the landlord and he said yeah, And I go
right next to Nakatomi Tower. That's because we filmed are
(13:03):
the Fox thought was right next to the building that
was in the Die Hard movies. And he said, you
didn't know about this. It was a whole thing that
I remember this now you're telling now that you're saying it.
I remember they were saying that Bruce Willis was going
to maybe play the landlord like like you know, so
he was kind apparently, and then nothing happened. And so
(13:24):
then they just waited and waited and walked it up
as close to the line as they could. And then
Brucey didn't show. That's great because they yes, we moved
our days around. We had to shift the schedule. I remember,
that's right. And so you're saying Prince showed up, but
Bruce didn't, you girl, That's exactly what I said back.
I was like, so Prince showed up, Print showed up,
(13:46):
same thought. This is why we friends, girl, I said,
Bruce shop Taylor. That was Taylor Swift and Prince could
show up for our show, but Bruce Willis couldn't, you know.
But you know what I worked. I actually loved Bruce Willis.
He's so he was lovely to me. I worked with
him on a movie called Rock the kasba Um and
he was so nice. I loved him. He was really
(14:09):
fun to work with. So he probably just like was
it was. It was probably a schedule in conflict or something,
and then that never got back to us because maybe
he never knew and never agreed, And maybe so many
people I think there's so much sometimes so many representatives,
Like when you have a person that's really famous, that
(14:30):
something could get get lost in translation and you could
just something you know I couldn't might not get communicated,
and then you know, Bruce, if you're out there, you
gotta clean it up. We got to know the real story.
We want to know the real story on the podcast. Also,
I will say this though, Jeff Kober, we did get
for Landlord. He was fantastic. It was meant for him. Yeah,
(14:55):
and he he really he really captured it. Because when
I when you Jess first goes down to his office,
you're like, oh, he's he's kind of scary, um uh.
And then the way he worms up feels so genuine,
(15:17):
Like when he starts like warming up and like kind
of let you know, letting you know, opening up to Jess,
it does feel like the creepy guy who all of
a sudden feels comfortable and is so let's talk about that.
Let's let's talk about that. He opens up to you, right,
(15:37):
what's going on in this moment? In this moment, I
think he's he's miss reading Jess's kind He really the
creepy guy or is he just he's I think he's
a loner, so he comes off as creepy and that Jess,
I mean in a way like just being Devil's advocate. Um,
(16:02):
Jess is being kind of manipulative because she wants him
to fix stuff in the apartment, and she's like, in
a way, it's what we talked about in the Jess
and Julia episode, that Julia is perceiving that Jess is
doing certain things to be manipulative, which I think Jess
is genuinely nice, but in this episode she's kind of like, well,
(16:22):
I'm going to be nice to him, but she is
kind of trying to get something from him. She's you know,
and he takes that as you know, he misreads that as, oh,
she's interested in me anytime fix her pipes. Anytime a
woman says, can you come, you know, fix my water cooler?
Which happens all the time. You know, let me tell
(16:45):
you something, let me tell you something. I get ideas,
You get ideas because you can't fix the water cooler, right,
So why is she calling me? You know what I'm saying,
I don't even know what I mean. That's all the
Schmidt's storyline and the Remy storyline are kind of inter twine, right,
just misreading the signs of what's going on and hoping
(17:08):
it is the way you wanted to be, which is
that these are cute women are into you, yes, and
Nick Miller he thinks that they're going to have threesome
with them. M m. That's right. So that's where that's
where this his soul, his this idea that he wants.
(17:31):
He's misreading your signs. He misreads your signs so much.
And you guys are being so catty to each other
to such a degree, and there's such a miscommunication happening
that the three of you end up in some sort
of weird game of threesome chicken. That's what I kept thinking.
(17:53):
That's exactly what it means, threesome chicken. It's a great,
great way to describe it. Three some chicken. Ramey said,
as I've never had a threesome before, let's do this,
and that Jess and Nick are so resolute improving the
other one wrong that they both start playing this game
of threesome chicken where they both start committing yeah and
(18:18):
do a weird dance, so, you know, And I did
find this interesting, you know, Nick, And I'm not sure
if this is an episode out of order type of situation,
but Nick, he kissed you, he tries to, and I
that's where I'm out. Yeah, it becomes really close to
(18:39):
being the first Jess and Nick kiss but technically because
Julia was right before him the episode before. Was he cheating?
That's true, the fact that he would be down for
like a threesome when we just agreed to be exclusive
to another woman. He has a girlfriend. No, again, they're
(18:59):
both so committed did to proving each other wrong? They
can't see any other, you know. Again, I think this
is where New Girl delightfully uses flaws, the character's flaws
to make the stories work. You know. That's baby baby, baby,
baby baby have a threesome, but a little bit baby
(19:24):
flaws difference. There's no obviously he's wrong, he's wrong, obviously,
But I think in this case, that they both are
not thinking about anything other than proving the other one wrong.
Otherwise they wouldn't be Yeah, I feel like he's not
(19:46):
is to play Devil's advocate, but Nick Miller for a second,
I feel like he was never going to cheat because
he thought for sure she's going to say that down, Yeah,
I'm not actually gonna do this, But she does. She
does back down. Yeah, right at the last second. Yeah. Yeah,
And now it's interesting though, I'm gonna say in and
(20:10):
it looks for real, Julia saw that. I think she'd
be like, doesn't matter if you consummated the kissing on
it was not okay. You're talking about a couple of
a couple of things about his aesthetic and dynamic when
trying to set up this threesome. Remy the landlord. When
you guys are sitting down at table, at the table
drinking his moonshine or basement hooch or whatever you would
(20:33):
call it, basement hooch, his shirt, Have you guys noticed
his shirt? Never put him in a versachi Still. I
don't know what that thing was, but when I saw it,
I said, my god, this man looks like a straight
up Miami drug dealer. It was a very interesting choice
(20:54):
for a man who lives in his basement. I said,
where do you get this shirt from? And then when
he god the room, he puts on the music. I mean,
oh my god, what I don't I don't know about
you guys. Uh. I looked up that song and it
was it was called send Me on My Way by
Rusted Root. Yeah. I was gonna say, it's Rusted Root,
(21:17):
which is like a it's kind of like got a
little hippie vibe kind of right. And when I played
it at first, I was like, that's an interesting choice
for a song. But I just kept listening to it.
I was like, that was legit going. I can see this,
I can I can see this. I could see the
song playing in the background of every threesome around America. Yeah,
(21:38):
it's kind of a playful, non sexual sounding song to
start a threesome. It's funny that you have to like
when you put a show together, go he where for
a threesome? What song choice do you want for this threesome?
(22:00):
The way I couldn't really see it was it was
a multi colored long sleeve dress shirt, like a very dressy,
very brave, very gaudy. Yeah, yeah, that's why I said.
I just thought it was like it had some kind
of pattern on it, and I was like, what was
(22:21):
that pattern? Because I either don't remember it because I
watched it late last night and by late I mean
nine o'clock because I'm a mom and I I get
tired early last week in preparation good memory. Um, what
(22:43):
do you guys think? Is Nick the most negative person?
You know? Character? You know? I feel like I I'm
much more Nick leaning than just leaning in this episode.
Like when I watched Remy like tin cup Jess, yeah,
I would be very much the door. Yeah, I'm like
(23:05):
I think myself, he's an optimist who sees the best
in people, and that point, I'd be like, yeah, I'd
be very much not committing to that anymore. I need
six ft back up. You can shout your instruction like
don't come up and like put your body behind I
like my physical space. I think, I think, I think, Um,
(23:28):
I think both of you were misreading the situation. Remy
wasn't just hitting on Jess. He was hitting Nick. And
you're right, You're right what he says. I mean, I
think it's very very clear. It's very very clear. Yeah,
I mean, but that's what I love so much is
the whole time Nick is openly saying I'm gonna fight
(23:48):
for you. I'm gonna fight this man, I'm gonna come
for you. I know what you're trying to do to
my girl here, I got it, and not realizing that
Remy is just finding him more and more attractive when
he's coming to him. To Remy is picking up that
Nick and Jess have some kind of a connection, and
he's like, all right, if that's what we gotta do,
(24:09):
that's what we gotta do. The weirdest part of the
whole thing, and this is where I start my skin
starts the crocs. I get really uncomfortable with things like
this on TV where he was like, well, I'm gonna
let you guys kick it off. No. My, the thing
that sends hills up my spine is when he says, yeah, Nick,
(24:32):
you're too such a good again, Nick, you're too like
a serial killer. I do believe cereal killers are inherently bad.
There you go, that's where you draw the line. You're
(24:54):
I draw the line at you. Cereal killers, that's right,
unless they're a dexter. Because if your death right then
you're like the Robin Hood of Yeah, yeah, you're killing,
you're killing you know, bad people, You're bat You're Batman
through his Batman of serial killing. Um, let's go, by
the way, do you think that movie The Batman stole
it from our show? Because I was like the whole
(25:16):
joke in that Batman you know, like later years from now,
we'll probably be doing that Batman episode. I can't remember
what season it was before Batman. Yeah, Batman Mobile. It's like,
I'm the Batman, and we kept making jokes that he
kept seeing the Batman. And now there's a movie called
The Batman out. I think that's a direct linear thing.
(25:37):
They they say we started it, Matt. Yeah, for all
the fans out there, do your research, Potatoes, do your research,
because we do believe that they stole it from us.
If you guys have a problem with it, like and subscribe, Yeah,
(25:58):
send us a cold heart cat. Speaking of cold hardcash,
let's throw some commercials and we come back. Let's talk
about Schmidt and asking this smooch. Welcome, we are black.
(26:23):
If you're just by the way, I found um a
present you gave me that I hadn't I never drank
the bottle of White Girl Rose that you gave me, Lauren, Um,
I found it in but I'm gonna have to do that. Thanks.
(26:47):
How long ago was that? That was my rap gift?
Oh my god for Beautifinal season. Thank you for that.
I do like Rosette, You're like, I found this this
this is the perfect for you. I think it was
your race. That's great, it's perfect, It's got everything. Okay, Schmidt,
(27:13):
We're gonna talk about Schmidt because I think this is
something that people um struggle with and have talked about
through time. They're asking to kiss right where, you know,
asking permission. This was a long time ago that we
made this show. Sexy, un sexy, the murky. I think
(27:39):
it's murky because obviously consent is incredibly important, but then
you know it as evidence in this episode, that's what
his you know, hook up wanted. Yeah, the clear nonverbal
cues is what this all rides on. Yes, and are
(28:01):
there can there be a clear nonverbal cue other than like,
you know, actual sign language that's like you know, American
sign language or something. I get out of it. I'm
I'm a master at conquering that scenario. Okay, what do
(28:21):
you send your chef in to ask pretty much. Uh,
it's called a chef's kiss. No um. And then if
she says, oh, I wish I was that little hand
gesture seeing your fingertips, and she's like and then she goes,
(28:44):
I wish I was your hand. Right now, I just
do it and blame it on my Italian upbringing is
what we do now. I am to get out of jail.
No I am no. So they explain it, what do
you do? I just don't kiss? Oh what what do
(29:05):
you do? There is no like you know, people have
like first date kisses. I just don't do it. I
just don't do it because the only time that I
know I am ready to make out with someone, it's
to the point where we want to do other things already.
So the kisses just let's get this out of the way.
So you like sitting in the stands and all of
a sudden, you're you're running all the bases exactly. You
(29:29):
play it. It's a long game. It's a long game.
Would you like to go in my bedroom? Would you
like to do? You know how the things you need
permission to do? The kiss is like at that point
you're like, okay, let's just get that part of the way.
But I would say this growing up in Cyprus Um
I watched these Greek guys have the most incredible game
(29:54):
of all time, and the way they did it was
they were such gentlemen, so romantic and such gentlemen all
the time and so sweet, like the last thing they
wanted to do was physical. They were there because they
loved you, your heart, they wanted to get to know you,
and they're all like leaned in and like the soft
(30:17):
whisper of how they spoke when you're telling the story
of your childhood. That these women, I would watch them
because they were just like, at what point is this
man gonna finally kissed me? Like they were just like
dying for it. That they were the ones that would
initiate physically, because these guys were playing this incredible game
(30:38):
of emotional investment and that kind of took out this
question of the guy then kind of pushing the physical
nous and then the girl would be like no, thank you,
or I'm not ready or I don't want that, And
it was the woman that would lead it. That's why
I stay away from Greek men gus you and just
(31:00):
want to kiss him. That I mean the way the
way she's describing it, I'm like, can I tell you
the greatest piece of game I ever saw a guy
running a girl. It was amazing. It was at a
bar and she was talking. He's the bartender, Greek bartender.
She was some tourists from somewhere, and she was sitting
there and talking. He's nervous, who's very handsome bartender. Um,
(31:21):
And she was talking whatever and knocked her drink over, okay,
and he without breaking eye contact or conversation, right, didn't
even acknowledge the drink over, keeps talking, reaches down, there's
like a bucket of ice like under the bar, reaches down,
keeps talking, grabs a couple of cubes of ice, reaches over,
(31:42):
puts them on her hand to kind of, you know,
because it's sticky from the cocktail knocking over, you know,
to kind of like clean her hand, and then hasn't
there's a towel, dries it, keeps talking, doesn't break, just
keeps going. And she's sitting there as this man like
helps clean her like sticky hands and wipes down the bar,
puts her drink up, refills it booms. This woman was
(32:06):
literally running into the bedroom. Great man, I'm about to
drop this gem on you guys. That woman her name
was Hannah Simone. No it was not, it was not.
It was how do you watch their whole interaction? Know,
(32:28):
I worked at the bar. I worked at the bar.
But here was the thing that was amazing. Remember the
first time I watched it, because that woman changed because
she was you know how she was looking at him
because she could have been embarrassed or whatever, but she
was fully seduced. But here's the thing that was crazy.
So the tourists would come and there they're on a
three day holiday. For day holiday, they go back right
and they're like, oh my god, it was amazing stuffers,
(32:50):
I love him so much. Leave next day, you know,
another batch of Swedish tourists show up. Gorgeous women show
up to the bar, run the same game from the
same game every single time. And then I was like, oh,
the ice cube and the towel again. Well, you know
those sweetish shorts were showing up to Cyprus looking for
a Greek bargain. That's also right, that's also they were
(33:14):
like everybody had their flame. Anyway, I'm just saying it
was really interesting that it took out the situation that
Schmidt is in, which is like I want to kiss her?
Should I ask? I want to be respectful. If your
game is tight enough, you can dodge this whole thing. Yeah,
you just have to be a gentleman. You just gotta
(33:36):
be a gentleman, bottom line, be a gentleman. That's right. Um,
So a little tidbit about there's a moment where Remy
comes in. We're rewinding a little bit. Remy comes in
the loft um and he sees, you know, another person
lives there. Um, an extra person is which is against
the rules, against the contract ingrad but turkey, um, he realizes.
(34:01):
So he goes into the closet and he sees this
big mural, this big weird l moment. My god, it
looked like it was like a space sex orgy with
like it's an intergalactic sexual tea party. Yes, that's what
(34:22):
I have that in my house. What I have that
painting and wasn't painted on the wall. There was when
in the closet. Originally it was a big board that
looked like it was a part of the wall, but
then they redid it to make it my entire background,
my entire wall. Yeah, you turn a light office. His
Winston sucks. But the original the O g PS that
(34:45):
was in the closet, I stole that. You stole it
or was given to you, just legit stole it. I
took it. It was the last day of set. There
was a bunch of stuff laying around and I asked
one of the transport guys if he could drive it
over to my house because Butler wasn't working. Chief it
wasn't working at the time. So and where is it
(35:05):
in your house? Now? Yeah, that's that's a good place
for it, as soon as you pull up space but
right there, spaces everywhere. So where is your daughter is
going to grow up with? She's not allowed nothing. She
sees as you drive up into the grass after school.
I guess she gets older action that off. I'm going
(35:29):
to I'm going to on this podcast. Maybe that's something
we'll do. So we'll pick a charity and then I'll yeah,
yeah for sure. Um but going back, going back um
to Schmidt. I will just say something super funny quickly
about what Schmidt does. It's one of my favorite things
(35:50):
in real life when people do because Cecy says, um,
you know, there's nothing less sexy. Then a guy asked
me to kiss you. When people say like statements like that,
when you're like really nothing less sexy and you can
go through a list of like he says the funniest.
I just I feel like he went through so many alts.
(36:11):
I remember sitting there and he had to say some
of the craziest, unsexy, disgusting things in that list, and
I think like four made the show. Um, but that
was like a real taste for me of the level
of alts and how weird and funny and dark our
writers could go. Um. But I also love that in
(36:34):
real life when people kind of go like, really, you're
making this huge statement, sounds a little dramatic, Let's unpack that,
let's walk that road. Um. I love that moment in
this episode. Um. Someone posted the question, how fortunate are
we that this wasn't Nick and Jess's first kiss? Oh yeah,
(36:55):
we are for that. That wouldn't have been very romantic
and jessin nick first kiss. I think that was a
pretty epic episode. Yeah, but you felt their tension, like
the sexual tension in this episode perfectly where you kind
of were like, are they really actually going to do it?
All of us became Remy, we all got creepy with it.
(37:18):
Every well, everyone is in on We're going to get
sit back and watch them get started. I guess that's
maybe really just wanted them to get together, and he
felt like that was the only way he could. What
he's just cupid? What if he's just trying to play cupid?
What if that was What if we do a rewind
(37:39):
and then every time there's a situation between Nick and Jess,
we go down to the basement, we see Remy going, Yes,
my plan worked. That was Remy's plan all along. That
would have been a hell of a finale. Welcome to
(38:07):
all right, guys, Welcome to True American, where the rules
change weekly or actually they didn't really change from last week,
but um, you leave more confused than when you showed up.
This week, we are answering listener letters again because there
(38:28):
were so many great questions last week. That is right,
it's time to open Ben Franklin's letter bag. Birthday buddy, Okay,
this one, This first one is from jelly Bean Jazz.
Birth name, that's someone's name. Don't make fun of it.
Definitely don't laugh. Jelly Bean Jazz wants to know what
(38:50):
are the biggest differences and similarities between your characters and
yourselves in real life. That's a big question, jelly Bean Jess, Okay,
we can do one and one. I would say my
biggest similarity is that I am a true ride or
die friend, like I got you what I want to
be your first called as a matter three in the morning.
(39:12):
If you hate him, I hate him, you like him?
I like him, I got you. The biggest difference this
episode kind of made me look and see is that
Cecie walks in um and I think he calls her
out on it. He's like, you shouldn't you be like
a a you know, some sort of like baker at
table like with James Bond or something. Um dressed to
(39:33):
the nines with the world's tiniest purse like it could
hold like a piece of gup um. And nothing could
be further from the truth. As I sit here in
my sweatpants, in my Unicorn T shirt with my hair
tied up in the topnot someone is a real bad lady,
you know, like you just like you're you're more like
(39:57):
you're not gonna wear like high heels than body condresses
like every day. No thank you, no, no, no, Um,
I got like a hippie heart. That's yeah, you were
like flowing florals. I would say, all right, that's my
biggest similarity. Biggest difference for me, biggest similarity. Ah, it
(40:21):
would probably be how weird he can be. Yeah, I
could be weird at times, you know what I mean,
Not in a creepy way, just weird, just like that's
so surprising to us, you know, just very left of center,
not not you know, I don't walk the beaten path.
I I take the road less traveled by. And that
(40:44):
has made all the difference. And so um the thing
that is different that was a similarity. The thing that
I'd probably say is, um that I vary from Winston. Um.
I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't know. I
don't know. I was just talk. That's that's a big
(41:07):
that's on the nose. I think everybody knows that about me. Um.
I definitely hate cats. I definitely hate cats. I don't
but but I will say it's interesting when you when
you're on the show for so long part of your
real life, you start blending in with the character a
little bit. I definitely have Winston is ums in my life.
Sometimes that I'll find myself doing and I go, oh,
(41:28):
got that from the show, Like I'll say certain things,
and I go, so you said something. I forget which episode,
And I watched an episode of Woke where I'm I'm
saying a line, but I vary it, and it's the
exact same way you delivered. I think it's that's not
even a little bit true. I don't remember where you
(41:51):
said that, and but I know that that's not even
a little bit true. Yeah, I remember that. It's in
one of these first episodes. Yeah, and I remember saying
that when somebody said, Keith Knight, my character place Keith
Knight hate it doesn't support local artists. And that's not
even a little bit true. I just said it very normally.
But I know I didn't make that up. It came
from somewhere, you know. Again, we you know there there
(42:16):
are things that blend in and when you it's like
spending time with friends that you all have like inside
jokes where you all say like the same thing, you know,
and then it ends up kind of everybody ends up
saying the same using the same kind of language that's
funny to each other. I think we all had bits
that would repeat and end up you know, different people
would say them, and then lines that were funny and
(42:38):
made us laugh. I mean definitely end up in your
in the back of your head somewhere sometimes. Um. But
for me, Um, I think I'm optimistic like Jess um,
and that's we are similar like that we do have
some interests that are shared. Um. I you know, I
(42:59):
would say, like a lot of just as close like
especially at the time, you know, it's like my style,
you know, it's always somewhat the same, but then you know,
it's like you have different things that you kind of
go through phases of liking certain types of silhouettes and
things like that. And definitely my own style kind of
got filtered into Jess a lot. But where we're different,
(43:20):
I think I'm a little bit not quite as guileless
as Jess maybe, but there's a lot of me in
in her for sure. And uh yeah, I mean again,
you play a character for seven years, there's going to
be parts of you and the character. Um. Okay, So
this one is from Hayden Um who's wondering what do
(43:43):
the members of the Loft use the money from the
douche bag jar for. That's an interesting question. I don't know.
I don't know if we ever heard that, because there's
some real money in that jar, like as in it
wasn't like there was twenty bucks kind of alluded to
to be in that jar because I mean the story
of the fifty over years, Yeah, a lot of money,
(44:04):
seven point two million dollars. They used it to buy
a Rolls Royce so for a litment. That actually would
have been a fun episode for them to be like,
we're going to use the cash or something. Yeah, that
would have been what I want to say. What did
(44:25):
I just don't remembers opportunity or it happened and we
don't remember. That's true. We're not really sure. So let's
get We'll get back to hayden Um. This one's from
Caitlin Are. This is an interesting question. Are you team
Nick or Sam for Jess? Come on, come on, okay,
(44:47):
I'm team Nick because that's what the show. You know,
part of what the show was was like getting certain
characters together, and it was you know, and Nick and
Jess had to end up together that said, and I
love that, you know, I love the couple. I loved
every minute of you know, working with Jake and and
creating you know that dynamic. But that said, I love
(45:11):
David Walton and I would totally watch that show Sam
and Jess. I would watch that show. I love Dr Sam,
thought it was he was a great character. Um and
he was. He was also like you know, to make that,
you know, to make it all work, he had to
be a formidable opponent for Nick. You know, there had
(45:34):
to be a case for Sam. And so that's why
I do think that you know, it worked that he
was such a good He was good for just too
in a way. You know, what do you guys think?
Team Nick? Right? Miller? Nick Miller gone? I mean Dr
Sam was cool though. I mean I gave him a
(45:56):
birth shirt and give him a birch and I think
that was that was fine. Nick would never wear one
of his bird shirts. That was one of those like
on paper things, right, like on paper. Dr Sam is
like such a perfect fit for Jess on paper for
most people, it was like a perfect fit and this
great guy. And I think that's what was so great
(46:16):
about this show is that so much of who we're
drawn to and who we choose in our life, it's
just heart led. You know. It doesn't always make the
most sense, but you can't deny it. And that's the
Nick Jess thing. They just couldn't deny it meant to
be Wow, look at that lovely. Thank you guys so
(46:39):
much for joining us like and subscribe, please do please,
We love you. Um. Also thanks to Josh Melmoth for
illuminating the Bruce Willis situation and uh, Bruce, if you're
out there, let us know what happens. A great tidbit.
It's a great tidbit. Yeah, I wonder if we could
get Bruce Willis actually send a little voice note why
(47:03):
you didn't want to show up, just like we are
a representative, make a comment justin long is good friends
with Bruce Willis. We'll get him to do it well
good And they did die Hard together. Oh kind of
about that one, right, Live Free or Die Hard? Because
I did an indie called Live Free or Die So
(47:25):
I remember. I always remember the name of that one
because I'm like, oh, I did a movie that was
just one word off from this. Thank you guys for
tuning in. We miss you already, We love you, see
you next week, love you over hear us next week.
(47:48):
You've been listening to Welcome to our show A New
Girl recap podcast. Welcome to Our Show is a production
of I Hurt Radio, hosted by Zoey Deschanel, Lamour and
Morris and Hannah Simone. Our executive producers a while Monique.
Our engineer and editor is Daniel Goodman. The Welcome to
Our Show theme song was written by Zoey Deschanel, performed
and produced by Zoey Deschanel and Pierre de Reader. Follow
(48:09):
us on Instagram and Welcome to Our Show pot. If
you have a question you'd like us to answer, you
can email us at Welcome to Our Show podcast at
gmail dot com. Don't forget to rate, subscribe, and share
far and wide. Thanks for listening. We'll hear you next week.
Hosts And Creators
Lamorne Morris
Hannah Simone
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.