A Conversation with Justin Long

Ahead of his first appearance on New Girl, we're joined by Actor, Writer, and Director Justin Long. He recounts his time on the set, his friendship with the hosts, and tells us a bit about his upcoming projects. As always, we take a stroll to the back of Nick's Closet, to unearth Justin's favorite memory of his time on the show. If you'd like to ask us a question, please send an email to [e-mail]. Follow us on Instagram @welcometoourshowpod.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ring, ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe. Oh, hello,
La Mourne. Let's patch in, Hannah. God, I forgot what
it was like working with you. Guys. Say hello, friends,

(00:28):
Welcome to our show. It's the New Girl Rewatch podcast.
I'm Zoe and I'm here with La Mourne. Um Hannah's
taking the day off today. Our guest is Justin Long.
You know him from cult classics like Jeepers, Creepers, Drag
Me to Hell, Dodgeball, and Galaxy Quests. And he's Alvin
and the Alvin and the Chipmunk series. But mainly you
love him most as Paul Genslinger on New Girl. Please

(00:52):
welcome the talented writer, director, producer, and actor Justin Long
to our show. Welcome Austin. Yes, what's that dude? Yes, Zey,
what are you eating? I'm sorry? I was I like
took some pretzels. Are you having grown a lot lentils?

(01:19):
You see that? Like it like that was obviously no lentils.
It's obviously obviously it's snack time. I'm having lentils. You
dum dummy. You don't have preels during lentil time, weirdos.
But two o'clock we have Lentils. Now what is this

(01:41):
bracket set up? You got there? Justin That's a pretty
cool set up. Oh thanks, it's Um the company I
do my podcast with Life is Short, It is Wondering.
They give you, they give you your own booth. No,
I'm then, Uh. I usually do it out of my home,
which is where we did ours Lamorn friend of the show,
Lamar and Morris and thanks. I thought I was a

(02:02):
friend as well. You your episode doesn't come out yet,
it doesn't count. Yeah future friend, um, your friend of mine,
not yet of the show where I'm at at the
Wondering studio. So I've been shooting this thing in Utah, um,
and I just came back to l A to do this.
We have good sending and they gave you they you're

(02:25):
at their office. Is where you have your own boots? Yes,
you're hung up on this on the poster. I this
actually could be anywhere. I suppose you're right. Um, I'm
am in l A. I'm not hung up on the poster.
I'm hung up on the fact that they didn't my
heart didn't give us one. They didn't give us a poster.
Don't we need a boaster? I think he's in there,
So I think we could record at that I Hurt
Studios if we wanted. Yeah, Daniel says yes, yes. Our

(02:48):
engineer says yes, we could record there anytime. We just
don't want to drive there. And we have nice microphones here,
so yeah, you can comfort you. I would love to,
but I sit do my podcast in this raggedy ass
else did I have? It's falling apart on me? Okay, Um,
I know for a fact you have a beautiful home.
Some might call a mansion a mansion, raggedy ass mansion.

(03:14):
It's like a haunted mansion. Okay, this place haunted mansion
built in that, haunted by the ghosts of the men
who made it. Oh my goodness, gracious, justin you look
good man. Oh thanks. You say that like you're surprised. Well, yeah,
because usually you look you know, like, well, no, much

(03:37):
like my mansion. Yeah. Usually you're just like chilling dude.
You usually have a surf room. I'm now you're all
professional and stuff. Well, I I thought i'd dress up
for you guys, because out of respect. That's awesome, man.
I'm excited to be on this show. I'm excited to
talk to all of you. Where I don't see Hannah. Gosh,

(03:58):
Hannah problem with me? No, No, she she she's just take.
I think she's with her kids. Maybe. Yeah, she did
want me to pass along a message to you. What
is it? She said, Please don't let this be any
type of um negative space between the two of you.
But she and her words were and I didn't make

(04:18):
I could, I wouldn't say this Justin, But her words were,
I don't work with him. That's what she said. Oh,
like like like because I'm so hostile, Like, I don't.
I don't want to anger him. You're such an angry guy.
You're an angry guy. I don't. I don't. I'm now
beginning to suspect that maybe she had a different experience
of you, Justin than I did. Yeah, I hope so

(04:40):
because you you have. I mean I I worked with
you a lo and I never had that experience. But well,
I wonder what I did to her. No, No, I
think she was gonna be on. But then she was like,
is it too many people to interview Justin? And then
we were kind of all talking about when this is
probably stuff to cut but we're just like, oh, I

(05:01):
worked with you the most, probably and then a little
more and Hannah didn't work with you as much, So
I'm hoping to have episodes off when she interviews like, Oh,
sometimes we'll interview the people we worked with the most. Oh,
that makes sense, so I shouldn't. I won't take it personally.
Don't take it personally other than she doesn't work with you. Yeah, yeah,
that's pretty personal. Okay, Yeah, of course, thanks for doing that, Zoe.

(05:32):
Do you want we want to dive right in this
and maybe get this intro out later or you want
to oh yeah, oh um, Hi, guys, welcome to Welcome
to our show. And you know what, I will say
this because because a couple of people were asking why
we call it welcome to our show. Well, I'll tell
you it's because every time someone came to our loft department,

(05:53):
I'd say welcome to our home. And now we're saying
welcome to our show. It's a stretch, but we'll take
it right and we start each show by saying that
welcome to. So it's one of the names we could
clear with legal. Also, we had so many of them,
we had a lot we went what were some of

(06:13):
the finalists, Uh, we had justin Long Gas podcast like
that one don't go justin long. I think sorry, I
believe we can't say the word sorry, you can. I
don't know if we can, but I don't say it
very much myself, so they don't know that that's not

(06:35):
that's against my image. So I've just been quoting Hannah. Okay, okay,
that was quote. That was a direct quote, and we
don't I've just been quoting Hannah. I was just quoting
Lamour and quoting Hannah. So right, um, I think we
had what do we have? We had a loft Talk
or Apartment four D. Year No, Apartment four D is
like it's an already established podcast. Who's that? Who's that?

(07:00):
Who's that? What's that podcast? Now? Who's that? Girls? What
was the one I loved? And they were like that's
not going to happen? Do you remember which one that was? Joel? Um?
They were like, well true Americans was one. They thought
that sounded like too much like military. Yeah, reminiscing about

(07:23):
our times in the military. Um. Uh so that didn't Yeah, yeah,
that didn't work. What would do justin to come up
because you're well it's hard to well, no, thanks, Lamar,
it is, but it's I feel you it's hard to
name things, and we had a hard time. You know,
of course we like I like stupid puns and so

(07:44):
life is Short with justin long is what we settled on.
But we had a lot of um, there were a
lot of long puns that we played with, which sounds
very arrogant, but it's just me doing it. I mean,
I mean for you guys, it's like, I guess you
have to have to do something New Girl related and
that's I'm struggling to come up with one. Just show
your show is is very very much so Jeepers creepers

(08:06):
themed yea, that is true, but it's creepers watt. We've
been dissecting it for two and a half years. It's
it is a deep it's deep, so you we need
more time to unpack it. Um Cheepers creepers is it's
crazy Lamarin that it comes up all at the time zone.

(08:29):
Now we're just talking about things that people will come
up to you about and um, and and that is
one that just for for this low budget horror movie,
it truly comes up all the time. It's been twenty
something years. I know of two low budget horror movies
that you've done that will never leave my brain, never,
never leave my mind. Jeepers is one of them. It's

(08:52):
it's the first time I was introduced to you as
an actor, and I thought, my goodness, this guy at
the time, this kid is incredible. And the second time
was Tusk and I if you guys haven't seen Tusk,
don't it is terrified. Great plug, what a great plug. Yes,

(09:13):
do not see it if you haven't. If you have
seen it, don't see it again. Um yeah, that's when
you thought. The first one, you thought, who is this kid?
The second one you thought, what has this kid done
to his career? Man, It's one of the dopest, most
insane movies I've ever seen. And I saw it in
the theaters and I said, think I sent you a
photo of me watching it, going what, yes, you're utally Yeah, Well,

(09:36):
well my mom, you know, she I told her not
to see it. My grandma was alive at the time,
and she she was well into her nineties and they
went together, so like she must have been the oldest
person who have seen that movie. But for the few
of you who don't know, it is a movie about um,
a psychotic older man who turns I play a podcaster.

(09:58):
Actually I played like an obnoxious podcasters such a stretch
and um, he turns me into a walrus. Basically he's fast.
He was like fast. This obsession with walrus is and
it was based on this actual thing that happened. Um.
A guy in England took out a Craigslist type ad
for a roommate. He said the deal was free room

(10:20):
and board, um and and the only stipulation was that
the person would have to dress like a walrus for
like three or four hours during the day. Sounds like
a New Girl episode, to be honest, he does. It's
very quirky, but it but it um it turned out
and he did it as a as a joke, but
he got like over a responses people wanting to do

(10:40):
that thinking it was a good deal. And Kevin Smith
heard about this. They talked about it on his podcast
and uh, he was so taken by the story that
he turned it into this kind of like hammer horror
human body mutilation story and play the man. Well, Mike,
this great actor Michael Parks who has had passed away unfortunately,

(11:03):
but he had a real like cult following and one
of his like Tarantino, loved him and put him in
a bunch of movies and rubbed Rodriguez these like a
tour guys. Um would would cast him a lot, and
Johnny Depp was a big fan, and so Johnny played
a That's why he played the detective in that movie.
So he did it kind of in this. Really, I

(11:25):
haven't seen this movie. I'm not a big horror movie person,
but sounds interesting? Is it too much for me? Probably
begging you? Yeah, you do not, of all people, we
should be talking about this on a New Girl. We
want to get to know you. We want to get
to know so, so welcome to Welcome to our show.

(11:49):
I already said that we have the incomparable crazy talent
to Justin Long here today on Now a k a.
Paul Genslinger. Yes, um, so uh. It was really cool
because you came on our show first season and the
Thanksgiving episode was your first, your first episode, and they

(12:11):
were like, what do you think of Justin Long playing
like your love interest. I was like, oh my god,
that's amazing because I knew you were so talented. But
what was cool about working with you was I saw
how much work you put into everything behind the scenes.
You you write a lot of you write a lot
of jokes like on your own, like a lot of

(12:31):
all lines, and you're always like your mind is always going,
You're always like trying to come up with like the
best version of the scene. And the other thing that
was really like cool to see about you was that
you have an amazing um kind of sense of physical
comedy that was like reminded me of of like a

(12:51):
John Ritter. And there was this stuff that got cut
from that episode, but you did a full on acrobatic
tumble over over a couch, yes, and we were I
was like, oh my god, this is incredible. This guy
is like so funny. Remember when they cut it, I

(13:14):
was so mad. I remember somebody gasping when I did that,
thinking that I had uh and and and the truth
people that you really hurt yourself. I do remember, and
I have actually I have hurt myself in the back.
I have a thing in my elbow. Um, I have
a little bone chip that I can still feel in
every once in a while I hit it the wrong way.

(13:37):
And it's from something that something I should stop doing this.
This should be a lesson. It's something else that got
cut from a movie that wasn't very good that I
really And the truth is I'm not trained as a
stunt person, but I love doing that kind of stuffs
up your elbow. Clearly you're not trained. No, exactly exactly
what I say. I worked with Jim Carreen. He did
that stuff where he'd just be like I'm doing this

(13:58):
and like he's like like I remember him going like okay,
when you hear me say this line, move okay, and
I'm like, like he didn't. He just whispered it to me.
He didn't tell anybody else. He's like just he's well
he It was like I was behind this bar and
he was like, just um, move like move to the right,

(14:19):
to your right and move the glass. And I was
like okay, and I did, and he like full on
did a similar thing to you where he leapt over
a bar uh and did like a full front flip
and surprised everybody because nobody knew he was doing it
except I had an inkland because he kind of warned me,

(14:41):
but I didn't know what he was going to do.
Oh my god, was that yes man? Yes man? Yes man?
Yes um yas persons. Well, that's so. John Ridder was
my favorite. I mean, I've watched I loved Three Company.

(15:04):
I loved him so much. And Jason Ritter's a friend
of mine, and I mean too, I grew up with
him right right. So the craziest thing is that John
Ritter would come and be a room parent in our
kindergarten class. Yes, And I remember this because for some reason,
my parents let me watch Threes Company. I was like

(15:24):
three years old, Like, I don't know why, but it
was I mean, look, I'm glad I did. But it
was not necessarily like for the little miss some of
the nuances, some of the especially with the I just
thought it was funny, you know, it was like he
was funny. He would like you had John Ritter come
to your class as a kid, Yes, I had. I

(15:46):
had Rollo, a street singing clown is a clown who
lived on the street and he would show up at
our school and lunch breaks and sing to us. I
think he sounds cool, but he was a tricky guy.
So so John Ridder would come in and volunteer as
a parent, like, and he would be sitting I remember,

(16:06):
because he was like a tall guy. And Jason was
in my class and he I remember sitting at a
little tiny table and little tiny chairs with the construction
paper and little baby scissors, and I walked in and
I sat down and John Ridder sat next to me,
and I was I knew Three Company was in syndication
and so it was on after school like it was like,

(16:27):
you know, it was like on at three pm or
and I remember being like, what is happening? Like my
mind as well, because I still didn't understand like that
people like, you know, I was like, did he come
out of the tavy? Like what happened? You know? And
am I on the show? Now? He was so nice

(16:47):
and I didn't know what. Yeah, I know, I was
like I didn't know what to say. I didn't know
what to say. I was just like, huh, like it
was very and he was so nice and he was
like sitting on this tiny little chair at this time
cutting out construction paper with us in garden. Cute, Yes
it is. And I'm and I'm imagining his perspective of

(17:08):
like little Zoey like being like awestruck with the big
eyes looking up on it must have been so so nice.
I've heard he was just the sweetest. It makes sense
because Jason is just yeah and also so talented. Oh yeah,
so good you guys, did you live No, we did

(17:31):
mom for my first movie with Larry Casson. Yeah. Um
so yeah, Jason, Jason is fantastic. Justin your career has
brought you to the highest of heights. You've been all
over the world, You've seen a lot of things. Yeah,
it brings you all the way here. It's a new

(17:53):
girl right, so here you are. You're on our show.
You know, people usually have the traditional um audition process
for a show. They go audition, they go get on
the show. But what was yours? Like? How did you
get on this show? Let's just let's start there. How
did it even happen? Well, you know this little more
because I know it. I don't know either. I gave
him a shot. You it was a forecasting couch situation.

(18:17):
You were you claimed to be the casting director. Um,
I gotta call it was this is boring, But I
I got a call from my manager saying there was
this new show and it was just I just knew
that Zoe was on it, and I've always been such
a fan of hers, and um, I thought she was
so talented and sweet and I just wanted to work

(18:37):
with her. It was as simple as that. So all
I knew about it was who was playing Zoe's love interest.
And I was like, yes, man like the movie. Yes, yes, ma'am.
I will say this on the show. You guys have
a very interesting romance. So the love this couple, this
couple is, I mean, in a way was like the

(18:58):
most just like you know, the most like the exact
like the you know, just as exact like counterpart. Yeah,
it was sort of pitched to me that way. I guess, um, yeah,
that it should be. And and and Zoe and I
were just talking about h on my podcast, The would
quirky Um following us both around. Yeah, yeah, you know

(19:23):
what I think it is. It's like unexpected stuff. And
that's what makes me laugh a lot, like when you
when you walked in at the beginning of the part
of this recording session and and I'm like eating pretzels
and then I'm like, what what are you He's like
eating pretzels okay, and I'm like what are you eating?
I was like granola and he's like, no, lintels. Like
that's where those things made me laugh. That's what makes

(19:47):
me laugh. And I think that like that's kind of
like I'm not it's not on purpose, but it's like,
I think the things that come out of your mouth
are unexpected and probably similarly, yes, don't make a thing
out of at moving. I saw you, I saw your face.
He was he got excited. Like. I love that. I

(20:11):
love the way your show explored those moments and allowed
those moments to breathe and a lot of the awkwardness
was created just from the silences and from the moments
in between, and that I always felt like, that's kind
of that's definitely rare now. I mean, I feel like
shows used to indulge in those moments a little bit
more often and more consistently. But I remember one of

(20:33):
my favorite scenes was just um riding in a car
with Jake and uh and I would just point out
kind of mundane things on the roads and associations with
like um, you know, and like oh that I think
that's where my get my copies made. Jake, of course,
is so over it. But I I loved Zoe used
this great word um when when we just talked guileless,

(20:55):
that that Paul that genslingers as guileless, his chest that
he had there's an innocence that is really I loved
playing like I really loved um because I kind of
aspire to be that present and positive and and and
and take people, uh in that kind of way, like
treat people with that kind of positivity and and so

(21:17):
anything any cynicism that that Jake's character had, or any
of any of you guys on the show had, I
would just completely I just wouldn't wouldn't absorb it at all.
Like he's such a in innocent that it just didn't
affect him. I don't think he's dumb. I think he heard.
He also doesn't know why people don't like him, which

(21:38):
is like so sweet to like He's like, it's I know,
it's yeah, and and they should like him because he's
next Well I can also see why. Well. I also
like the dynamic of the odd coupling of somebody like
Jake who would get like annoyed by him. I mean,
who's more like, oh really, that's the way you get

(21:59):
your copies made? Oh no, no, I'm sorry, it's that,
you know. I loved that. So that was such a
funny scene. So a favorite memory of mine working with
you was that we had that crazy hilarious like the
on the page, It was hilarious. The love scene um

(22:20):
where we're like supposed to be like we're like trying
to role play and it's kind of coming out in
an awkward way. And I remember we were rehearsing and
running lines and we just both started doing really weird
voices just like out like just trying them, like just
because we were like just running lines and it was

(22:41):
just weird. Like it was late at night, and we're like,
why don't want to try this one? And then we
were doing we ended up doing the weirdest voices, and
I remember you were doing a Jimmy star Um voice
and then I was doing West voice, and then I
did this other like really weird voice, and then you
laughed and I was like, I'm gonna try because just
long laughed at it. And then and then they were

(23:01):
the weirdest. It was the weirdest choices, but people ended
up really liking them, and I was like, I was
very bolstered by the fact that you were like playing
along so well with all that like just weird, Like
the experimentation of finding those voices like in that scene

(23:24):
is really fun. Yeah, so Ze, I remember that voice
made me laugh so hard that you did. It's like
indelible I can kind of do. Yeah, it was. I
want to hear a re enactment of that scene. I
start from the beginning. Well, I've been I mean, Jimmy
Stewart had been like working up. I think I want

(23:45):
to get a little more comfortable. Yes, oh, but what
you did with that was confection by all it was.
It was Harry Carey kind of. It was very much
so Harry Cary. I don't even know who Harry carry is,

(24:08):
so that is so no no idea who he is.
It sounds was trying to do an old lady. But
that's about you'll buy. Yeah, b was like what happens
if you put the voice in your nose and then
stick it so far up your nose that you can
barely breathe because you know when you're doing something that

(24:30):
like is so ridiculous that and this is an exact
This was definitely a case in point. You have to, like,
you have to commit or your screwed if you don't.
If you don't commit, put commitments, so we were. If
you don't fully commit, yes, so I'm in that. But
then if you go too far, if something like if

(24:51):
something brings you out of it, um, you you immediately
realize how absurd the thing is. And I think that's
what that's what happened when you did that, Young Maya,
because it was like, it's just too much um. And
I hate I hate when when when something is funny,
which that scene was. It was written really funny. You
were being so funny when I'm doing something like that,

(25:14):
I feel so lucky that I I hate. I like
really don't like breaking. I don't like ruining did especially
on a TV show. I don't remember that because you
were so funny. It was so fun that was like
it's on the outtakes. I I broke when you said
it's so funny because I just remember doing that. But

(25:36):
I remember it was like a conspiracy, Like it was
conspiratorial between us that we had like almost made a
pack to make the the weirdest version of that scene.
And and it was really nice because you weren't like
that was a little you know, maybe don't do that boys,
or that was a little too far. It was just
nice to have a scene partner who was like fully

(25:58):
on board with the weirdest choice. Likewise, God, yeah, well
that's what's fun about that again, Like if you don't
that's what it's that's the fun I mean, and that
was so fun in a scene like that. You know
you obviously you're a funny guy and you're bringing your
own i mean, both of you together. That scene was
one of the funniest things that I've seen on the show.

(26:18):
But in real life, Justin on the romantic side, would
you stop school, would you stop? What are you doing?
You're doing? On? No? I'm sorry what I just you know,
if you know, are you an old school romantic kind
of guy where you might play some Joe to see,
you know, do a deep voice is tell her sweet things?
Is this to Justin Long or are you want to

(26:41):
you want to do it too? Yeah? Yeah, man, yeah,
I kind of do this and I do a whole
I'll do the damn justice Justin. That's hot in the morning.
Like let's pretend what Justin stop? So you mentioned mcaulay Culkin.
Remember running into him at Don Hills? Do you remember

(27:02):
Don Hills on Spring and Greenwich. It was this great
in New York great bar where um I was introduced
to like a lot of uh you know, great like
Pulp and uh you know, like James all these like
brit bands. Yeah, and it was just so funny, like

(27:23):
just dancing and cheap beer and hy U students and
but I remember seeing mccullay culkin there and I was
introduced to him and and he was and he was
in character for a party monster oh really, and he
was playing Michael I think his name was Michael. Like
he was very kind of flamboyant and he was being that.

(27:44):
And I never understand that the being like, look, I
have all respect for all processes, but what an arduous
the whole ut. It just seems like so much and
in a way like like like you're like, oh, it's
kind of collaborative, and it kind of can can like
interfere with other people's processes sometimes. So I don't know,

(28:09):
I'm like whatever, like I've thought about it. I'm like,
pass on that for me. I mean I always think
that's the only way I'll get respected as an actor
is if I actually committed to the process, to the
process without taking it home. I mean, like even Merrit
doesn't like go home and you know talking, you know,
like her character, Well that was the odd things they

(28:31):
weren't even shooting. I mean it was like he was
just out. He was he was just and yes, yeah,
he was set an audition. But for my impression of
him was that I had a years ago I had
a meeting with Kevin Spacey. He was making this movie
about What's Darn Yes, and he I used to do

(28:56):
this cabaret act and he'd come and seen it. And
I was like, like they were meeting me about the
part of Sandard TeV and Kate Osword did that part,
and um, yeah she is um and and I I

(29:17):
met him somewhere like um for lunch or something, and
I walk in He's like, hey, hey over here, over here,
and I'm like, oh, well, he talked like Bobby Darren
the entire time. I mean, he's like you know he
and I remember, particularly like, not knowing what was going on,
he goes, I see two swinging cats doing a cabaret

(29:39):
act and I thought, oh yeah, he's like to swinging
jazz cat ladies doing a cabarett And I was like,
oh what, I was like. I was like, I was like,
I had no idea how to react. Like I've definitely
worked with like my share of actors who like do that.
Usually it's like while we're working and I'm like, you know,

(30:02):
I kind of yeah, you're on set, and that's that's fine.
But it was weird meeting somebody for a movie and
he's already in character, and he called me a swinging
jazz cat. So that's wild. The only time you've ever
been called a swinging jazz cat. Did you find yourself
like kind of trying to adopt a similar No, I

(30:22):
was trying to get out of the meeting at that point.
I was like, ket me out of here. This is
I want to be in this movie. I get a
weird feeling about this guy. Was that what made you
say no to the movie? Nobody offered me the movie.
I was not chosen, but it was good because it
was I was not um I think I was. You know,

(30:45):
in your Nightmare, it would have been we wouldn't. I
wouldn't have liked the four months of talking in my
Jazz Daddy. Yeah, it'd be funny if now Kevin Spacey
was like, Wow, that wasn't me that did that. It
was it was Bobby. I was in characters Bobby Darren.
I couldn't shake it. Welcole. I got fired from a

(31:17):
job an animated movie called Tale of Despero, Uh, which
I loved because it was all these great actors, actors
I loved. I got to It was an animated movie,
but they were recording us some I do wonder if
you guys have done this where they like wanted us
to be interacting and wanted to you all together with booms. Yeah, yeah,
or as together as we could be. We had body

(31:39):
mics and stuff and and and they because they wanted
us to feel our interactions, you know, cool. It was
really cool. Um I did that. I did that on
an animated movie. Oh really, yeah, but they did. We
were on a sound stage. Yeah, and we had I
guess we were like we had um levelers and stuff. Yeah,
they let you, they let you, let me go. It

(32:01):
was because they I know, I was playing. I was
playing at a mouse a kid mouse happened, baby mouse. Yeah,
well well here's what happened. Let me say because I
said I love that. Gary Ross was the director, and
I said, um, I was kind of pitching my voice
up a little, like, you know, to play. He was
a younger, and Gary Garry said, uh no, just do

(32:24):
your voice like we just want you. We don't. I
don't want you to pitch it or do a thing
affected at all. And and so I didn't, and I
he They claimed that as they were animating to my voice,
it just sounded too low, too rich. Who knows, I
may have did they Did you get replaced by an
actual kid, James Earl Jones. No, Matthew Broderick replaced me,

(32:50):
which I was like so flattered by. I was like,
I because I loved Matthew broder and I thought where
would we would would be fine. I truly I grew
up watching him, And Um, I was weirdly flattered. I
was like, Okay, if you're gonna lose to somebody, lose
to somebody, really, but who cares? You've done so well?

(33:12):
The irony is a couple. Like A month later, I
got um the Alvin and the Chipmunks job, which Zone
and I were just talking about, and I remember running
into Gary I don't know how much later, and I said, um,
he was like, hey, sorry again about that. I said, well,
I ended up being playing a road in after all
the computers they did they enhanced my voice made me

(33:35):
sound higher. But yeah, it was a bomber. It was
a bomber because it was just such a great cast
and Christopher Lloyd wasn't. It was a good. I worked
with Christopher Lloyd. Well, okay, so refresh my memory. It
was a little tiny movie called Flakes Aaron Stanford and

(33:56):
kier O'Donnell. Yes, shot in New Orleans. Yes, were you
buddies with Kire? Is that right? I love those guys. Yeah.
Oh my god, here and I like here I haven't
seen in so long. But he was such a good friend. Um. Yeah,

(34:16):
he's so so hilarious and talented. Um. But so we
did this movie with Chrisopher Lloyd and I remember we
were rehearsing for it and it was a little movie
and like we didn't have anybody, like any runners or
anything to like go get lunch. And I was like,
I'll go get lunch. So I was like taking everyone's

(34:38):
orders and like burritos or whatever we're getting. I was
getting Chipotle and shout out Chris Lloyd, like in the
most Christopher Lloyd way was like and get some of
those happen And I'm like okay, okay um, and he's

(35:02):
like get some of those Albanio things and I'm like yeah, okay.
He said it like four times. I was like, this
is like the best. I was like I wish I'd
had like camera glasses. Yeah he has. We had the
funniest We had a moment where he was playing like

(35:25):
a mentor of mine and he gives me my character
wants to be a night he um, and he's got
this courage the mouse, Yeah, the mouse that I got
fired from. Uh and he so Christopher gives me a
like a needle that is to be my sword. And
his line was every good night needs a sword. And

(35:45):
he said, uh so he said, every good night he's
a sword. And remember Gary, the director said, that's great, Chris, Uh,
we got that one. Bring it down a little bit
because it's, you know, kind of an intimate moment and
uh so it's it's not so okay, okay, take two
howevery good Night and you're just sure you know, and

(36:07):
kind of the same uh and he he he was like, yeah, yeah,
just really bring it down, like very intimate, almost a whisper,
you know, like it says this moment, okay, okay, every
good night. You know, it was not the level that
he had. Yeah, you were the one who was like,
you're the word. It reminds me of reminds of a

(36:30):
moment that we had. One of my favorite moments actually
on new girl when you wouldn't call me by my name?
Um uh, do you remember that moment you had to
leave the scene. It was one of my favorites because
I was, I was walk us, walk us through what
was happening in the scene. So here's here's here's here's
what I remember from my point of view. The director said,

(36:52):
just walk out of the just come on in and
say hello, And you were like, I think it was
Jake Johnson and I or I think you said hey, Nick,
heyy Winston's and then you added an S to my name,
and each time it was slightly different. What do you
remember from from that? From that, well, it's funny because
I was, I was just talking about this. I remember
being in church when I was a kid and trying

(37:14):
to make my brother's laugh by standing out in like
as subtle a way as possible from the conformity of
like like the singing. For example, like if we were
to like, um, like you know, if we we had
to say, like let us let us pray, I would say,
let us praise, and I would just add like a

(37:36):
an S sound to it, which stands out, which makes
it stand out. Or I try to be like the
last like the first one to rise to stand and
the last one to sit. And I do it with
my friend Craig Geiling, who was on the opposite side
of the church too, and we play like kind of
it would be it was like church chicken to see

(37:56):
who would sit the last, you know. So it's just
the two of us still standing in this whole congregation
people sitting. Um. So that reminded me of that a
little bit. I always found it funny to just get
people's names slightly wrong. Um, your name is Winston, I
think I called you womeny iteration of that will call
me Wimbledon, Wilton, Well Walton. Yeah, justin this is a

(38:21):
part of this is this is a part of your
performance that has possibly gotten me in trouble in my life.
So on New Girl, I had a nickname. I was Porcelain.
I would always gets from the most random things. Well,
you would like, stuff would happen that didn't seem like
an opportunity to get injured, and you write somehow injury yourself,

(38:42):
like getting up from the couch, stuff like that. I
didn't come up with that nickname, you know, I didn't.
Zoe came up. I did not you know that was John.
Zoe would cut sound the magazine like a like a
kidnapper and simulate notes, no, dear pin, trying to keep
it together this episode, No, no, you you did you

(39:07):
did get injured, but I think it was just bad luck. Right, Well,
let me tell you. Let me tell you this part.
I injured myself getting off of a couch. And let
me explain why. There was a moment where a director
once said to do justin leave the scene, just kind
of go quickly, and you would take your time in
such a way that was so funny, and you would
leave and then it was like, can you just go
a little bit faster? And then the next take you

(39:30):
bolted out of the door so fast, like you did
a full sprint and ran out of the door, and
we were in tears. So a director was asking me
to get off of the couch for like this is
maybe a season or two later, and and so I
got up, and Zoe and I were in the scene together,
and he said, okay, well she does this, just get
up and exit the scene. So I got up and said, okay,
let more. Can you do a little bit faster? So

(39:52):
I thought I was moving as fast as I humanly
could that made sense to the scene. So I got
up and I walked out. He goes, I hate to
do this to you, but if you could just move
like just a little bit quicker out of the scene.
I said, okay, great, I said, I'm gonna pull a
justin long. I'm going to push myself off of the
couch and leap over the table. That was my plan.

(40:15):
I was gonna aggressively push myself down. If you know
that couch, the one that we always sat on on
the loft, there's a dead spot in the cushion doesn't
quite have that much cushion in it. It was a
vintage couch when we got it. And as I pushed
myself down, my thumb goes down and I dislocate my
thumb and you can hear it in the You can

(40:37):
hear it in an old edit. It just goes, Oh
my god, is that embarrassing. It was not only embarrassing.
I had to go to the emergency room. Dude, I
had no no I credit you for that. Well, oh,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you were in earned to

(41:00):
hurt yours. I used to do a bit. I'm sure
I did it on your show because I've been doing
it since kindergarten that I got from John Ritter, not personally,
but um, he would do this great thing with the door.
I'm sure he got it from somebody. You know. It
probably goes back to Chaplin or something. But um, you
you stop a door with your foot, I mean you
just time it so that it's it hits your shoe

(41:24):
perfectly right as it's Jason, Jason Ritter taught that to me,
No kidd and yeah, like in high, high school or elementary,
I can't remember, it was probably high. Um. I remember
he would do that and then he was like, oh, yeah,
did he showed me? And then yeah, no, it's a
great it's a great trick. I love that one. Well,

(41:44):
I've been getting mileage from it since kinder Like I remember,
I remember like it was an indelible moment to me,
indelible memory getting a laugh from that. Um. And so
I do it all the time. I would do it
all the time. And I I was doing stuff one
of our sponsor or on the show is bud Light
seltzer Um on our podcast, shout out to bud Light

(42:05):
seltzer Um. And so I was doing like a bit
for Instagram to you know, hitting my running into something
and and the key part of it is that you
have to be wearing staring, protective footwear because that's what
you're hitting. That's really what you're getting is and um,
I was I was with. I was also trying to

(42:26):
impress my girl. I was trying to make her laugh
because she had never seen me do that. And it's
like a sure fire lacks. I go to like ace
in the hole and I was wearing crocs and yeah,
and so I hit it. So I hit my foot
so hard because I really like over committed to the
biase I'm trying to impress her, trying to be funny

(42:46):
for this thing on Instagram. And immediately I knew. You
know that, you know when you get hurt trying to
do something funny like little more like your couch thing,
and you quickly have to do the calculation. You don't
want to be you don't want to let on that
you're hurt, because it's the most embarrassing thing to like
get hurt doing something fun trying to be funny to
get her. So I covered it up at first, like

(43:09):
I was like, but she must have seen like real pain,
like she must have seen me suppressing like genuine pain
because I was. I was. I was shot through my
leg and shot all the this was this was Brooke.
This was Kate Brooke. Um and and and she was
like skate bang and she was like, um uh, she

(43:33):
didn't really laugh, I was. She kinda give me a
consolation laugh. And then she goes and I'm sweat. I
must have had the weirdest grin plastered on my face
because I wanted to cry. You know, it was that bad.
It hurt that bad that I wanted to like, And
she goes, are you okay? And I tried to play
it off like um uh, you know what do you mean?

(43:54):
She's like, you seem like you're in pain, and um,
I had to come clean. I mean it was a
moment where I was like, well, I have to this
person can see um. And so I had to admit
that I had hurt myself. And I hurt myself so
badly that I went I was hot, I was limping.
I was like hobbling. I think I may have broken
my toe. And I had to go shoot a movie

(44:14):
Bulgaria the next day. I had to travel so for
the first and I was doing and then yeah, correctly.
Um So, justin you have this, you have this energy
on set that is contagious for and obviously this love
for comedy that in a way, even the way you

(44:36):
explain it just now, it's almost teacher like. It's almost
um like you could teach a class on this type
of stuff you're directing. Now, you know what what is
that like? Is this something you've always wanted to do?
Is that something uh that you enjoy doing? Yes? Thanks
more and I it's nice to you to say. I
think that's just along everybody. Uh yeah, I do. I

(45:00):
my brother and I with whom I do the podcast,
Christian shout Out, Christian Shouler. Christian went up krap Um
we we call I called him Krit when I was
growing up because we didn't like As to this day,
I'm not crazy about multi syllable names. Uh so I
he called me jut and it's my other brother, Damian

(45:20):
is dame. Um So Chrit and I do this podcast.
So we made a movie with Jason's wife, Melanie Melanie
wonderful Melanie Melanie. She is one of my sister's best friends.
Yes that's right, Yes, I think I knew that. Melanie
Lynskey Um, it's so good and she's on this if
you haven't seen Yellow Jackets checking out, she's so good. Uh.

(45:42):
But but Melanie and Judy, Um, it's like an odd
couple comedy which which we loved, which were favorite Judy Greer,
Judy Greer and Melanie out. Um, yeah it was. But
we got so lucky with them. It's called Lady the
Manner and it's out on I don't know, you know,
in the stream where everywhere. Yeah, platforms. Yeah, but we

(46:04):
we love doing it. We can't wait to do another one.
And those were are always our favorite movies growing up,
those Buddy Buddy comedies which um, in fact, I was
thinking about what about Bob. I've been thinking about Gensling
or knowing that I was going to do the show
and the character I played on your show, um, And
I think that's why I loved Bill Murray And what
about Bob so much was that he had a similar

(46:28):
a guy it's guy. It's always great words guilelessness, like
he was just kind of guileless. Uh. And I really
movie so good. I haven't thought about that in a
long time. That Baby Stepping to the keeping Miss Miss
misunderstands Baby stepping. Yes, but I but it's the it's

(46:54):
the again, it's something that could have been very dark,
that relationship between Richard Dreyfus and Bill mur Right that
was handled so beautifully by Frank Coz. I just love
I love that movie. So that movie is always such
a that movie is so good. Well, that character the
Richard Drivers plays is kind of like the lead character,

(47:15):
but then he's a he's like a narcissist character, and
then it's like super sweet guy who's like innocent in
a lot of ways, but also like a table and
he's sting him. Yeah, yeah, but he wins over the
entire family. Spoilers. Sorry, Lauren, you gotta see that movie.

(47:39):
But it's also you haven't seen it? What you have
to see that movie? It's no, it's called what About Bob?
What About Bob? What Bill Murray? Oh? Oh if you
like Bill Murray, lam you'll really love it. But it's
also although do you ever go back and watch those

(48:00):
like eighties comedies and be like, oh that doesn't hold
up very I need let me go back and watch
have you watched it recently? Like how oh yeah, I
watched it all the time. Its well, sometimes they don't
hold up. But they're also like not okay, problematic. I

(48:21):
haven't Oh my god, what is it six sixteen candles?
Candles and Pretty and pink those movies. Oh my god,
there's so much problematic stuff. I think it's sixteen candles. Yeah,
sixteen candles. Sneaks in the room and hooks up it's

(48:45):
someone and she thinks it's someone else or something. So
the one guy who's like the lead guy who you're
supposed to like, says to Anthony Michael Hall like this
was on TV or somehow. I was like, oh, let
me watch that movie again. And I was like, oh
my god. So he's like he's going out with this
girl who's kind of shallow, and then he's like, she

(49:07):
gets really drunk. She's passed out in this car. And
then um, the lead guy whose name I forgot, Jake Ryan,
I think it's like the guy and he says, like
the Anthony Michael Hall character, he hands them the keys
and it's like you take her, do what you want
with her or something like that. Put her to bed

(49:27):
and like to give her some water. The next day,
they wake up together and then she's like what happened?
And he's like like I can't remember, but she's like
I think I liked it or something like that. It's
so not to problematic, like of that caliber from back

(49:52):
in those days. Would to change some of the Would
that be the movie you'd remake or would you? I mean,
I think they're like I think we're due for some
good team movies because again, like all the ones from
the eighties are racist and problematic in various ways, um
like either rap or racist or both. So um, so

(50:18):
maybe we're due for some more teen movies that we
can feel okay showing arks. Yeah. Wow, I haven't seen
those movies in a long time. I hadn't seen The
Jerk in Along ever, I didn't I had not seen
The Jerk, and um, it had been a movie that
people that I really admired were like, you know, strongly recommended,
and I so I got to see that a couple

(50:39):
of years ago, and I just I fell in love
with I mean, there's some like there's racial humor in it,
but it's it's at his expense. It feels like, um,
you know, some of that stuff seems like if you
looked at it through a very macro lens, it should
you know it could be problematic, but I think some
of that stuff if it was done propably and and

(51:03):
by that I mean, um, not not in danger of
hurting anyone or alienating all. Oh gosh, yes, that my
character is probably like it's funny because that that was
one of the things that has been brought to our
you know, not not brought to our attention, but like
people are like, how are you guys going to talk
about the way Schmidt talks, which is on a episodic

(51:29):
basis problematic? Really in that that's a good question. Have
there been things on the show that through a new
lens you've had to read like kind of explain or
apologize for, Well, you had to, you know, there was
a lot of even when it happened, a lot of
explaining from me on that. There was a Crack episode

(51:49):
where his character is he thinks that the best way
to get to my heart is to get out of here.
What is it to take me to to find crack?
Your I don't remember this. I don't remember. I'm not
joking because he's like asking me, like, what was it
like living in the hood and all this? The clown

(52:13):
was our dealer. Um, wait, LaMura, are you seriously and
what about how did Schmidt talk? That was like, but
he also also a lot of yeah, there's there is
so much. But the thing is we did establish that
he's a douche bag from and it was self deprecating.
It was self deprecating. It was it was it wasn't
offensive to me because it was it happens. People are

(52:35):
like that, people like he would talk differently to you. Yeah,
and he would like, you know, he wanted me to
feel welcome and more included. So he was like, I
want you to feel warm around me. So I'm gonna
take you to get some crack. Because I don't remember
this because what was this in I don't remember, Joel,

(52:55):
if we could figure that out, it was the episode
it was it was he forget what it was, but
I was, I was messing with him. I was like, yeah, Schmidt,
you know, when I was a kid, we used to
we used to, you know, huddle up around the fire
and like sing songs in a trash barrel, a trash
can fire, and we would sing songs and then we

(53:16):
would warm up to some nice sweet crack. And he
was like, see, I'm gonna get you some crack, man.
But isn't then the joke on on Schmidt, I mean,
isn't isn't it his own ignorance? And exactly That's what
I was saying. That's why I didn't find it offensive
because there are like that. Yeah, every moment that Schmidt
had on the show, where it may have been looked

(53:37):
at with a cringe, was a teachable moment for him
because if you write the show and the way his
character evolves, he is not that character in the end. Yeah, totally.
And that this is so great about the David Brank
character and the Michael Scott character on the Office or
Archie Bunker, is that you know, it reveals their own shortcomings,

(53:59):
their own judices or biases that that are are laughable,
you know, if they're examined properly and you know, comedically.
So I got I didn't even know, but I know
that everything is now being relooked relooked at and rightly.
So I think people are kind of doing a Yeah.
I mean, it's just it's interesting just to look through

(54:21):
a lens and like, would we portray that character that
way as a comment on people like that or would
there be you know, I mean, it wasn't up to
me because I wasn't writing it, but um or you know,
or acting it, but you know, it's it's like there's

(54:42):
people like that in the mix, you know. Yeah. And
that's the reason why I love All in the Family
is because that's one of my favorite is because you know,
he's clearly telling on himself, and the audience is in
on this and their characters around him that are letting
him know, Bro, this is not this is not how
we behave not what you're supposed to be doing. Like
and and I think I hope society is progressing to

(55:05):
the point where we like it did during All in
the Family time, where whoever is taking that at face
value and enjoying it at face value and and doesn't
see the irony in those jokes. I'm hoping eventually they'll
just they'll, I hate to say it, I they'll just
die out. I mean they'll just die, Like that way
of thinking will die, and that kind of prejudice will

(55:28):
That's I guess the hope. I don't know, maybe that's
too maybe that's too positive way of like hope that
idea dies out. I hope they just hope they learn.
I hope they develop some self awareness A lot of
people don't grow. They don't a lot, especially if you're
of a certain age. I mean, you know, I struggle
with this sometimes. I'm not saying certainly this is what
we're talking about with my parents, but but you know,

(55:50):
if people were of a certain age, they're kind of
setting their ways. Um to this is this agist? Am
I being agist? Yes you are, Yes I am. I'm
gonna pull out. I'm gonna bail out of this theory
that I had Episode twelve Cabin. That's the episode O
Cabin I remember because that was um we had Olivia

(56:11):
Mann on that one. And um, that's right, David Walton
where we all go to a cabin. That's right, you
go to a cabin and to crack. Welcome justin so, yes,

(56:36):
you're on our podcast and and and we're ever so
grateful I've done your podcasts, ever so grateful. Tell us
about your podcast, man, how did it come about? Tell
us how you liken it, how you've been doing it
a long time? Yeah, yeah, well it's been m a
couple of years now. Well, thank you invented podcast? Right, yes, uh,

(56:57):
the first one before Joe, but I came up with
the word. Um, he said, we should call it voice
casting And I said, what about But like when we
do it, we're in kind of a pod a little
bit and he's a little baby pod and he was like, nah,
I'm out. I'm I'm too tough for that sho. Um,

(57:20):
So I stayed in my little pod to do the show. Uh.
We know, my my brother and I we do it,
of course wondering as you can see. Um, but but
my brother and I've been doing it mostly out of
um just where I live. I mean we do it.
We have a little kind of a closet studio and
you guys live together. We lived together. He's getting he's

(57:41):
moving out sadly. Um, but we did. We spent the
whole It was the best. I mean we're we're you know,
best friends and really love each other so and laugh
a lot. So it's basically just us getting to hang
out and laugh and we he that we do the
intro and the outro for for the guests, and then
we have a guest on that I I have a

(58:03):
conversation with and um, and then Christian kind of brother. Yeah,
I didn't meet your brother at all, so he didn't exist. No, No,
I know, he's like the voice. I don't even know him,
the voice of God. He'll he'll he'll like critique are
not You're going to critique me? Not you he'll he'll
he's very honest with me. Um, but he's going to

(58:24):
judge me. No, okay, he will judge me. And that's
kind of part of the fun. And because we're very
honest with each other. Um, And we've been doing it
for a couple Ye. We just love It's God life
is short, and uh, I love it. I've always loved
doing podcast because, as you can hear, I like to
talk and um, I'm curious about people. I like, I

(58:45):
like talking to people. And it's been such a blessing
during the pandemic, of course, because you know, I just
we just weren't going out and so it was a
way to Like Lamuren when you were on, it was
a perfect example of this. I just to catch up
with people that you don't normally get to talk to
people that you like, um from your life. So Jake
Max was on Mass Max Max Reinfield, No, no, we're um,

(59:14):
we've had we've been really like so I think now
that's always been on and you know, once Amazon will
have the whole will have collected all the girl cast members.
So I'm gonna so one days where we get lazy,
all we have to do is just pull from your
your podcast on our podcast and well yes, uh and

(59:34):
I kind I love I just love to talking about
this show. This was such a that was such a
fun job. And it's it's a job your show that
keeps coming up justin the episode that makes me laugh
so much. I just have to mention this where um
we do the musical at the end with Josh gad

(59:55):
with Josh. Yeah that one somebody somebody sent or like
it was like in my mentions on Instagram like the
other day and I was like this is so I
was like, oh I forgot about this is so funny.
It was wolf. Remind me it was like something wolf,
you're a gay wolf. You're a gay wolf food. No,

(01:00:17):
but no one understood you. You you were misunderstood of right,
a gay wolf and wolf is a word that I
can't really say properly. So it's always trip tripping me up.
And Josh adds doing a show called wolf like me
so much change the boaster wolf like me? I think
maybe is it wasn't you that was the wolf? Or

(01:00:39):
was it h I don't remember. I was just talking
about Josh Dad with at work yesterday because we're talking
about Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from this year where Josh
plays a guy who wears like tattered underwear. Have you
seen have you seen this? And Josh he's playing a doctor.
He's really funny. He's playing a doctor. Or and Larry.

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He bends over to pick something up and Larry notices
that he has like kind of holes tattered underwear. And
Josh was the gay wolf. Gay Josh was the gay wolf. Yeah. Noway,
we're talking about because Vince Bonn calls it. But I'm
working with Vince Bond now and he he Um, So
he's been his voice has been in my head, has
been around. He's just been around. Um. And he on
the on curb he calls he refers to the underwear

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as being um. He goes, well, I suppose it was
a little rustic. He goes at rustic the idea of
old tattered under rustick. I guess I guess it was
a little rustic. Um. So justin thank you, thank you
very much for being a part of this podcast. We're
not going to let you off the hot seat just yet.

(01:01:44):
Oh no, we're not. We're not gonna let you off
the hot seat. I don't want to go. I have
nothing to do, having too much fun. I know this
is fun. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna
play a little game. Okay, it's a game called Nick's Box.
It starts with you slowly taking your shirt off for
the fans out there, and then slowly leaving put the

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s and then quickly leaving. Okay, okay twice you leave twice?
Well yeah, because first you have to leave as slowly
as possible, they have to leave as quickly okay, alright,
and then you have to hit your foot on the
door your head. I haven't done that bit since because
I'm afraid now and it's my I'm gonna show. I

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haven't sat on a couch since the only sectionals. Um,
welcome back to the segment where we crawl into the
back of Nick's closet and we put out the memories
that the cast and crew of New Girl have kept
hidden for years for obvious reasons. Justin long, what's your
favorite memory from your time working on New Girl? Oh? Man, Um,

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you know it's gotta be. And we talked about it
that it's got to be that sex. It's it's weird
called a sex scene. A lot of erotic love scene.
I I just remember laughing so much that day. Uh
and and it was so weird and um it was
just so weird and fun to like commit to. Um.

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I love that, you know, there were moments I actually
felt bad there. I love playing around Lamaren with you
and Max and Jake so much that UM. I remember
trying to stretch out scenes that were meant to just
be filler scenes, you know, like like Zoe, I remember
we had one where I basically just go to pick
you up. It's like the scene is just like it's

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meant to get from like you got you in the
room to like us on a date or whatever. And
it's just me at the door being like let's go,
and and I the three of you, Lamor and Max
and Jake were behind like there were you were in
the background on the couch when you used to sit
on couches, Lamar and and I remember kind of like

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around Zoe because because I was like are you ready
to go? And say yeah? And and then just say
hi to you guy. You You've made a lot of
bits that were like that weren't in the script. That
that became like recurring bits that you just carried through,
like you every time you'd see the guys trying to
impress them. It was almost at a certain point like

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you liked them more than you're like trying to impress them. Yeah,
it was great how you'd carry those through. Well, it's
real commitment to something that would that is in an
unprofessional way because it's something that you knew wouldn't be
used as someone who had been doing the show long, well,
we knew a lot of it was going to get yes.

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And and the indulgent part that I do have some
regrets about was that I should have known that too.
And there's something I'm a guest star. I'm like, I'm
coming in just to like, you know, for a limited
time and it's your show and dumb and I but
but it was it is only because I loved playing around,
uh with with you guys so much. But I remember, Zoe,

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at one point you started kind of like kind of
opening the door more, um, you opening the door less
like reveal that so I going to see them to
throw lines of them. I was definitely messing with you.
Back so um, but um, we always enjoyed having you

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on the shows. It was so much fun and we
knew that we would have a great time. Yeah when
you were around bringing the funny. Oh man. A lot
of folks are calling for a reboot and they don't
give a god damn about any of the other characters,
but you, I just want to see Paul. Yeah. Well,
if if Liz is listening, Mary, whether we should do

(01:05:49):
a spinoff, and then you guys could yeah, and then
we're the ones who are going to have to like
curb our break our toes and no, it would be
as yeah. Yeah, but to get back at me, you
won't know. I it's it's a it's a show that
comes up all the time. Obviously it's so popular and

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but but whenever people come up to me about it
mentioned it, they always seem so sweet. They seem like good,
like nice people, you know. But I know that New
Girl fans are the best bet. Yeah, yeah, I always
enjoy them. I enjoy those interactions so much. So if
you're listening and you see that you see the guns

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out on the town, say what's up? Yeah? I loved it,
And you guys were so fun to work with, so
it's fun to talk about. And the fans out there
love you. They love you so much. Yes, thank you
so much for being on our show. You guys, thanks
for having me when I got to do this. Yeah,

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we appreciate it. So I tell Hannah sorry, I just
got a text from Hannah. I just will you read it?
Verbat him? Well, it's a photo. It's a do you
want me to shall use the photo that hand I
just sent? I could right now. Let's sad just sent
this photo. Oh it's a middle tinger. It's a middle

(01:07:18):
summer middle finger. I yeah, I don't know why she
did that. I'm calling her, calling her right now. She
may have changed her number. Hello, where the f are you? Hi?
Kind of got really shut out of the podcast today,

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and then my feelings are a little hurt. Oh well,
a lot of hurt feelings because my feelings were hurt
that you weren't here, and I I've got paranoid that
it may have been something that I did. And then
Lamaren made a joke and I didn't know if he
was being serious about wasn't a joke. That's whole sense
of humor is making people feel like everybody gave them.

(01:08:03):
Zoe is, wait, we're on. Wait can you hear me?
She can't hear. Yeah. We asked if you wanted to
be on, and you were like if it's additive, and
we're like up to you, and then I thought you
were gonna be on, and then you weren't on, and
so we're like, Okay, I guess we're doing with that.
With Hannah. Oh yeah, filings were really hurt. Too many cooks.

(01:08:23):
That's the vibe was like, oh, I guess yes. This
is why texting sometimes doesn't work because the tone. This
is why emoji's coming handy to create a tone. Well, listen,
you are on the show now, So problem solved. Well,
I thought I thought. I thought it would give us
the opportunity to have episodes off, like when Hannah interviews

(01:08:43):
Steven Hmel or whatever. I have to be here, Joe saying,
she thought, I give you an opportunity to have you
guys could like take episodes off and not I'll have
to be at the same time. I'm gonna um. But Hannah,
it's so nice to hear your voice. I missed you
in this chat. It was so fun. But it's so
fun talking about the show. I missed you. Yeah, well

(01:09:04):
maybe I'll come on your podcast and we'll talk about it. There.
Let's do let's do it truly, um, because I was
just saying, I've had everyone on uh life a short
except for you. So I'm gonna I'm gonna text you
and figure out a date. Perfect, that would be great. Um.
Thanks pel okay, all right, voice, okay, thank you, justin,

(01:09:33):
thank you for being here. Hello, Hey, hey, oh my god,
just just yeah, you're on. You're on the podcast right now.
Justin hung up and said, oh my god, I'm not sure.
I'm so glad she wasn't a part of this. And
I was like, yo, what do you guys have a
history or something? Because you I'm so glad she was

(01:09:54):
a part of this. Oh I thought I heard you wrong. Well,
you know I have a soft spot for Yeah, I
like all Hannah's because my my pet, uh this is quirky.
Are are like family pet growing up was a rabbit
named Hannah. Yes, and even more quirky. When Hannah passed away,

(01:10:16):
we had it for for a long time. When Hannah
the rabbit passed away, I went to the pet store
to get another rabbit, and I picked one out like
like the smallest one in the runt of the litter,
because I identified because I was the shortest and smallest.
And and I took it home and it started hopping
around in a strange way, like its front pause were
kind of splayed out, and I I picked it up,

(01:10:39):
and I looked underneath it, and I realized it had
no hind legs. It just had little nut nubs, little
like little snubs and and and so I took it
back to the pet store and the guy, the kind
of surly pet store owner was I I said, sir,
there's no Yeah, I'm twelve years old. I was like, no,

(01:11:00):
this rabbit has no legs and has no feet. And uh.
He said, all right, put you pick out another one
and he and he took it and he tossed it
in a separate tank. Then the other one's separa and
what's going to happen to that rabbit? And he said,
one of the pythons is gonna get lucky. And yeah,
so of course, you know, my little animal loving heart

(01:11:22):
was I couldn't let this thing be eaten by then.
So I said, wow, okay, I'll take it. I said, well,
can you knock off? Can I get like a discount
or something. He said, I'll take five. I'll take five,
but no five bucks. And at the time, I was
like a twenty dollar rabbit. And so he gave five
dollars off and I had and I called him nubs

(01:11:42):
and I had that rabbit. I took it to college.
I had it like all throughout my freshman year. It
lived for quite some time for a rabbit with no feet, um,
it lived. So that's kind of a Genslinger story. Yeah, yeah,
you didn't want to be on the podcast. You guys,
they have to go. You gotta go. Zoe, thank you,

(01:12:02):
Thank you so much. I love you guys. Thank you
Justin for being on, and thanks for having me on
your show too. Thanks for being on, Thanks for being on,
and thanks for having me. I love you, guys. Miss you. Guys.
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