April 3, 2025 • 17 mins
Hannah talks about that photo from the Cruise finale was created. Lamorne reads a touching letter on found family.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, okay, we're having a loft meeting. You guys,
you know the drill. You send in your questions, your concerns,
your theories, and we address them right here on the
loft meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Hi, Hannah and Lamore, and my name is a Parna
and I am a huge fan of both New Girl
and the pod. I've been watching and listening to both
since their inception. I too use New Girl as a
comfort show. I rewatch it so much I'm sorry to
say my family rolls their eyes when they hear the
intro or when I make a New Girl reference in
everyday conversations to Hannah. I was so excited to finally
(00:55):
see Indian women represented in such a cool way. I
grew up in the States and never saw Indian women
on TV. CC is such a badass, and I appreciated
that she's American. Growing up, people always question my nationality,
but Americans can be brown people. Thank you for your
performance of CC. I definitely wish I had a CC
in my life, and Hannah, if we ever hung out,
(01:16):
I'd be down with some wine and puzzles. Bonus points
if it's a New Girl Meseronne puzzle hint, hint too,
lo morn. I'd regret it if I didn't say to
you showed me what that thang do?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Your performance of Winston was so funny, even beyond the
popular lines people quote. Sometimes it was just a look
you would give that would crack me up. And I
love that Winston found Ali. I can't wait to hear
your recap of your time with the scene pajad Okay, okay, okay.
I have some questions. My first is to both of you,
what's your favorite type of music? I realized it might
be passe, but with huge music stars like Prince and
(01:50):
Taylor Swift on the show got me wondering what the
two of you listened to. And finally, I was rewatching
the episode Cruise, episode twenty three of season three. At
the end of there's a picture of the group after
being locked up for days in the cabin. My questions
are about how Cec is looking at Schmidt. What was
the direction for that shot? Why do you think Schmidt
brushed it off instead of pursuing Ceci right then? Meanwhile,
(02:13):
I love how Cec chases after Winston as he teases
her seriously. I love the friendship between them. Okay, I'll
sign off, but thanks so much for your time. A
new girl and an extra thank you for this podcast.
Loved you both. A Parna from Tucson, Arizona.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I've only known arpanas orpanas.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's beautiful and a lovely, beautiful note that she wrote
to us to Shotty what that thing do line?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's so near and dear to me?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I uh I wrote that in an episode or I
improvised that one of the two.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I can't wait for I can't wait for our recap
within the scene as well. I haven't talked to her
in a little bit. People will stop. People are starting
to wonder if we broke up.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But yeah, your favorite type of music, hip hop.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Is my numeral? Who know hip hop?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I'm a Lil Wayne guy. I love Lil Wayne. Drake
is dope, and you know I like some old school
hip hop as well.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wu Tang do you tang?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I feel like there's like an like a divide now,
like can you listen to Kendrick and Drake?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, I think people who try to make it so
divisive are stupid. I hate people all the time when
I say like, oh, Drake. Then Drake's all like, you
still mess with Drake? And I go, he didn't do
anything to me to his music, Like what are you
talking about? Are you really letting this get to you
and your spirit? That two rappers, two guys worth one
(04:00):
hundred million dollars up, that are just having the time
of their lives are engaging in a rap battle that
made them both crazy amounts of money, and you're upset.
You're at home, upset at the idea that I still
listen to Drake. I think those people are absolutely I
will say.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I turned up in Canada and I first song I
played is Hotline Thing.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So I mean, Drake is one of your own too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You know what I'm saying. You gotta represent Drake. Love
Kendrick though. I mean, I ain't gonna lie to you.
The guy is a genius and I love his music.
But also like Drake, and I'm allowed to do so.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
This is a fact.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is a fact.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So yeah, but there is a divide to the idiots.
If you're not a member of Drake's camp or Kendrick's
camp and you have a problem with each other, then
you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Sure, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, they're not talking about you at their dinner table.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, relax.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What do I like to listen to?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Gangster gospel?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Not gangster gospel? I it's honestly just depends on the day,
and like the mood I'm in, I'll listen to anything.
And I always have like a specific song usually I
want to listen to depending on the day, the mood
or whatever. I'm like, I know, and I always go
(05:29):
to music first. I can't drive in silence. That's insane
to me. So I need music. And it'll just depend
if I having a good drive home or not. Am
I doing like a you know, like a bonnie Ver
kind of like playlist just to get that kind of
vibe going? Is that nice? We're doing that? We're going
like old school Lilith Fair and I'm just like mad
scream singing from the nineties. We're doing that. Or we
(05:51):
get some TLC and some Bell Bivdevo going, or you're
just gonna just like bounce around in the car all
the way home, Like I don't know, depends on the day.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, I feel you because I do. Like on the plane,
I don't really listen to hip hop that much. Right
when I'm on the plane when I'm mellowing out, it's
like it's Cage the Elephant, is Young the Giant.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's music like that that I like.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To sure, like the Cage the Elephant. The Neon Pill
album I think is fire.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Okay, listen to it when we get off this rewatching cruise. Okay,
So I have to address this, right, The question is
CC looking at Schmidt was the direction for the shot?
And why do you think Schmid brushed it off instead
of pursuing CC?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Then, Well, because in cruise she's still with Buster, She's
still in a relationship. His ring got knocked off the
side of the boat by Wen the bish, and so
he wanted this moment. The moment doesn't exist. He can
tell that she's still like in this relationship and doing
this thing, and so he didn't pursue it. He had
(06:53):
a thought about it with the violinist, and then it
just just it wasn't working. And so and I don't
don't know what the direction is. I think honestly, I
just looked at Max. Yeah, I don't think it was
like a big thing, but we just that's just the look.
Everybody's got that look.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You got the look, you got the look. Who thinks
that song?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
M I don't know, I know the song. It's a Prince.
It's the end of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You got the look.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Let's see, let me make sure it's Prince before.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Gotta be Prince. It's gotta be Prince.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You know, back in those days be people will be
trying to sound like them.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Sound like That's why I got confused, like.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Rock will always feel like Money's.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I used to think that was Michael Jackson my whole
life Rockwell, yeah, you have to look, it's Prince, So
I thought you got the looks. So sorry, thank you.
I'm one of the greats. Hi Hannah and lamourne My
name is Natalie, and the messing around is such a
breath of fresh air in the midst of chaos of life.
(08:11):
I have been a huge New Girl fan from the
time it aired, and it's my go to comfort when
my go to comfort show when I need to decompress.
As a nonprofit lawyer representing detained asylum seekers, my job,
neilas to say, can be stressful, especially now. But complicating
things more is that I come from a family that
(08:31):
believes that the work that I derive such meaning from
is actually harmful, and I have sometimes not been welcome home.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sorry that I screwed that up.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I have pondered a lot over why New Girl, rather
than some other show, has been my safe haven when
I have been ostracized by my family, friends, and the
religious community that I grew up in. I think the
power of New Girl is in the fact that these
friends have created in idyllic, idyllic fantasy of chosen family. Yes,
(09:03):
their parents make occasional and hilarious guest appearances, but it
is through the magic of the loft and their relationships
with one another that they created their own community of
love and support that rivals and even surpasses that of
biological family. For those of us who do not have healthy,
if any, relationships with our biological families, whether it be
(09:24):
because of what we think or who we love, New
Girl represents or new Goir presents a model for what
loving community can look like. Family can be chosen. In
that sense, New Girl isn't an escape, it is what
many of us hope for.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thanks for keeping the magic alive on this podcast. Can't
wait for the next episode. Best Natalie.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Natalie.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
First of all, let me just say I struggled through that, and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Your voice at the end turned into you know when
you turn on the computer to start reading for you,
it turned.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Into that as I started out doing my voice.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and then I realize, all this is serious, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So you put on a serious place.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I had to put on a serious for us. Then
she threw me off with idyllicyl.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Here's what I will say. The thing I think that
at least I connected so much with when I read
the pilot is that there's this in between phase for
most people where they're not at home living with their
parents anymore, and they're not you know, married or with
a partner or have kids and like adult responsibilities, right,
(10:34):
and there's just like this window of time where your
friends are your chosen family. Like that's who you go
to every single day. That's who's helping you. It's not
your mom and dad, it's not your partner. It's like
it's there's this window that exists, and it is so
special because you really then get to pick who those
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people are. And it's usually a great time in your
life because you're just so ided buy your best friends
who really get you, they forgive a lot easier. There's
no heavy expectation on you. And I feel like Liz
was in the time of her life when she wrote
this pilot, and a lot of us were too when
we joined the show, and so it was awesome. It
(11:17):
was one of those art you know imitates life, life
imitates art kind of weird thing that was going back
and forth for all of us, and I just think
it showed and I think a lot of people who
are in that season of life really have a deeper
connection to the show because it's not like, oh, I
remember the day when I had roommates like they're in
it now, and it feels like so validating of why
(11:41):
chosen family is so important. I think our show does
that for people, even.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Though that's just on camera because off camera, Jake one
returning phone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Calls, it's a war, a war like go and how's
a beef going? I feel like you guys have died
down the attacks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I've been busy, you know, I mean, I'm busy being
a single dad. I don't have time to I don't
have I'm trying to teach my daughter a different path
than what Jake is trying to teach his You know
what I'm saying, Jake is teaching chaos, corruption and confusion,
and for me, I'm teaching love, appreciation and generosity. And
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and that's when we differ, and we're always going to
be on the separate lines of that. I teach love,
he teaches hate. And so yeah, I just keep myself.
I just keep myself focused on that. You know what
I'm saying. No time for fuds, No time for feuds.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Drake Kendrick situation.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No, No, life is all about love making and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's all I'm doing, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Next question from Abel Abel are mh. Hey, guys, I
love the podcast. I'm a little late to the game,
so not sure if this question has been asked, but
if it hasn't, you should ask this to every guest
and even yourselves. Kill Mary, Screw how plitically correct Nick,
(13:15):
Schmidt and Winston. My answer Abel's sharing is screw Schmidt.
Of course, the more for that sexy bod and to
experience the captain Mary Winston because he has a stable
job on season four. He's a stable job, and I
(13:36):
know he wouldn't cheat on me unlike other people. Kill
Nick and yelling and temper or his alcoholism will eventually
kill him anyway, how well, thanks guys, ab.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I think you just killed us all.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't even know what so accurate?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Then assessment is so accurate.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But I will say, when's the last time you got
called marriage material? Out of the gate? Me all the time,
just like married marrying that man.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm not marrying you, and you know why, because why
would I marry you if you over here trying to
fuck my homeboys?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
This is a fact.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
This is not a good game to marry you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But I'm really sexually attracted to that other man over there,
like what, I don't know. If I like this, I
get the privilege of giving you half of everything.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Heart. You're getting just destroyed by Schmidt with the.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Captain great dad, that's what matters. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I'm gonna go sleep with him.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'll lie out with you after I attracted to your
dignity A track.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
To his dick versus dignity. Every time it'll get you.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh god, a, why would you do this to me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh my gosh, Mary, screw Nick Schmidt and Wiston.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We'll ask those guests that I guess how Hi Hannah
and Lamoren live the podcast. I'm just gonna assume you
met love Hi. Hannah and Lamoren love the podcast. I
listen to both episodes every week. Me and my fiance
are huge fans. We have watched the whole series all
the way through countless times. Just wanted to share that
we too, have named a pet after characters in the show,
(15:18):
and even our daughter. So our cat we named Winston,
and we named our daughter Cec.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I'll share some pics. Love this show. Keep up the
great work you both are doing. Love listening to the show.
Cec and Winston are besties. He follows her around everywhere,
sometimes getting into trouble. Classic Cec and Winston mess around.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Ha haha, Steve, O, my goodness, so cute kitties and babies.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Thank you, Kenny, Gosh, look at her face than you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Face.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I love that. Wherever they're from. There's a film being
shot across the street.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
No, it's just someone's trailer.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, it's like a trailer. It's like a double banger.
You you see the whole, the pop out part and
the and the car parked in front of it, and
somebody filming across.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
This is just Liz. Liz just wrote the email. She's
going by Steve. He's my cat and here's one of
my babies. Oh my goodness. Well that's just the sweetest.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Thing, Steve.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
We appreciate you man.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
How flattering.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You should get We should make many mess Around merch
just for this. Look at this. There's a whole oh world.
We're only making it for grown ups right now.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And I tell you, I.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Tell you, cec here gets it for free. We will
send CC some some new.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Girl merch free of charge.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So cute, and we'll send uh, we'll send Winston over
there some kiddy treats. I don't know what kitties eat.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wow, well that was sweet. What a sweet ending.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh yeah, that's our show. Folks.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
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Bye bye.
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Catch You Next Time. Bye,
All right, okay, we're having a loft meeting. You guys,
you know the drill. You send in your questions, your concerns,
your theories, and we address them right here on the
loft meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Hi, Hannah and Lamore, and my name is a Parna
and I am a huge fan of both New Girl
and the pod. I've been watching and listening to both
since their inception. I too use New Girl as a
comfort show. I rewatch it so much I'm sorry to
say my family rolls their eyes when they hear the
intro or when I make a New Girl reference in
everyday conversations to Hannah. I was so excited to finally
(00:55):
see Indian women represented in such a cool way. I
grew up in the States and never saw Indian women
on TV. CC is such a badass, and I appreciated
that she's American. Growing up, people always question my nationality,
but Americans can be brown people. Thank you for your
performance of CC. I definitely wish I had a CC
in my life, and Hannah, if we ever hung out,
(01:16):
I'd be down with some wine and puzzles. Bonus points
if it's a New Girl Meseronne puzzle hint, hint too,
lo morn. I'd regret it if I didn't say to
you showed me what that thang do?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Your performance of Winston was so funny, even beyond the
popular lines people quote. Sometimes it was just a look
you would give that would crack me up. And I
love that Winston found Ali. I can't wait to hear
your recap of your time with the scene pajad Okay, okay, okay.
I have some questions. My first is to both of you,
what's your favorite type of music? I realized it might
be passe, but with huge music stars like Prince and
(01:50):
Taylor Swift on the show got me wondering what the
two of you listened to. And finally, I was rewatching
the episode Cruise, episode twenty three of season three. At
the end of there's a picture of the group after
being locked up for days in the cabin. My questions
are about how Cec is looking at Schmidt. What was
the direction for that shot? Why do you think Schmidt
brushed it off instead of pursuing Ceci right then? Meanwhile,
(02:13):
I love how Cec chases after Winston as he teases
her seriously. I love the friendship between them. Okay, I'll
sign off, but thanks so much for your time. A
new girl and an extra thank you for this podcast.
Loved you both. A Parna from Tucson, Arizona.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I've only known arpanas orpanas.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's beautiful and a lovely, beautiful note that she wrote
to us to Shotty what that thing do line?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's so near and dear to me?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I uh I wrote that in an episode or I
improvised that one of the two.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I can't wait for I can't wait for our recap
within the scene as well. I haven't talked to her
in a little bit. People will stop. People are starting
to wonder if we broke up.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But yeah, your favorite type of music, hip hop.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Is my numeral? Who know hip hop?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I'm a Lil Wayne guy. I love Lil Wayne. Drake
is dope, and you know I like some old school
hip hop as well.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wu Tang do you tang?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I feel like there's like an like a divide now,
like can you listen to Kendrick and Drake?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, I think people who try to make it so
divisive are stupid. I hate people all the time when
I say like, oh, Drake. Then Drake's all like, you
still mess with Drake? And I go, he didn't do
anything to me to his music, Like what are you
talking about? Are you really letting this get to you
and your spirit? That two rappers, two guys worth one
(04:00):
hundred million dollars up, that are just having the time
of their lives are engaging in a rap battle that
made them both crazy amounts of money, and you're upset.
You're at home, upset at the idea that I still
listen to Drake. I think those people are absolutely I
will say.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I turned up in Canada and I first song I
played is Hotline Thing.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So I mean, Drake is one of your own too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You know what I'm saying. You gotta represent Drake. Love
Kendrick though. I mean, I ain't gonna lie to you.
The guy is a genius and I love his music.
But also like Drake, and I'm allowed to do so.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
This is a fact.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is a fact.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So yeah, but there is a divide to the idiots.
If you're not a member of Drake's camp or Kendrick's
camp and you have a problem with each other, then
you're an idiot.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Sure, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, they're not talking about you at their dinner table.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, relax.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What do I like to listen to?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Gangster gospel?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Not gangster gospel? I it's honestly just depends on the day,
and like the mood I'm in, I'll listen to anything.
And I always have like a specific song usually I
want to listen to depending on the day, the mood
or whatever. I'm like, I know, and I always go
(05:29):
to music first. I can't drive in silence. That's insane
to me. So I need music. And it'll just depend
if I having a good drive home or not. Am
I doing like a you know, like a bonnie Ver
kind of like playlist just to get that kind of
vibe going? Is that nice? We're doing that? We're going
like old school Lilith Fair and I'm just like mad
scream singing from the nineties. We're doing that. Or we
(05:51):
get some TLC and some Bell Bivdevo going, or you're
just gonna just like bounce around in the car all
the way home, Like I don't know, depends on the day.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, I feel you because I do. Like on the plane,
I don't really listen to hip hop that much. Right
when I'm on the plane when I'm mellowing out, it's
like it's Cage the Elephant, is Young the Giant.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's music like that that I like.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
To sure, like the Cage the Elephant. The Neon Pill
album I think is fire.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Okay, listen to it when we get off this rewatching cruise. Okay,
So I have to address this, right, The question is
CC looking at Schmidt was the direction for the shot?
And why do you think Schmid brushed it off instead
of pursuing CC?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Then, Well, because in cruise she's still with Buster, She's
still in a relationship. His ring got knocked off the
side of the boat by Wen the bish, and so
he wanted this moment. The moment doesn't exist. He can
tell that she's still like in this relationship and doing
this thing, and so he didn't pursue it. He had
(06:53):
a thought about it with the violinist, and then it
just just it wasn't working. And so and I don't
don't know what the direction is. I think honestly, I
just looked at Max. Yeah, I don't think it was
like a big thing, but we just that's just the look.
Everybody's got that look.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You got the look, you got the look. Who thinks
that song?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
M I don't know, I know the song. It's a Prince.
It's the end of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You got the look.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Let's see, let me make sure it's Prince before.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Gotta be Prince. It's gotta be Prince.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You know, back in those days be people will be
trying to sound like them.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Sound like That's why I got confused, like.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Rock will always feel like Money's.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I used to think that was Michael Jackson my whole
life Rockwell, yeah, you have to look, it's Prince, So
I thought you got the looks. So sorry, thank you.
I'm one of the greats. Hi Hannah and lamourne My
name is Natalie, and the messing around is such a
breath of fresh air in the midst of chaos of life.
(08:11):
I have been a huge New Girl fan from the
time it aired, and it's my go to comfort when
my go to comfort show when I need to decompress.
As a nonprofit lawyer representing detained asylum seekers, my job,
neilas to say, can be stressful, especially now. But complicating
things more is that I come from a family that
(08:31):
believes that the work that I derive such meaning from
is actually harmful, and I have sometimes not been welcome home.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sorry that I screwed that up.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I have pondered a lot over why New Girl, rather
than some other show, has been my safe haven when
I have been ostracized by my family, friends, and the
religious community that I grew up in. I think the
power of New Girl is in the fact that these
friends have created in idyllic, idyllic fantasy of chosen family. Yes,
(09:03):
their parents make occasional and hilarious guest appearances, but it
is through the magic of the loft and their relationships
with one another that they created their own community of
love and support that rivals and even surpasses that of
biological family. For those of us who do not have healthy,
if any, relationships with our biological families, whether it be
(09:24):
because of what we think or who we love, New
Girl represents or new Goir presents a model for what
loving community can look like. Family can be chosen. In
that sense, New Girl isn't an escape, it is what
many of us hope for.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thanks for keeping the magic alive on this podcast. Can't
wait for the next episode. Best Natalie.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Natalie.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
First of all, let me just say I struggled through that, and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Your voice at the end turned into you know when
you turn on the computer to start reading for you,
it turned.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Into that as I started out doing my voice.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and then I realize, all this is serious, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So you put on a serious place.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I had to put on a serious for us. Then
she threw me off with idyllicyl.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Here's what I will say. The thing I think that
at least I connected so much with when I read
the pilot is that there's this in between phase for
most people where they're not at home living with their
parents anymore, and they're not you know, married or with
a partner or have kids and like adult responsibilities, right,
(10:34):
and there's just like this window of time where your
friends are your chosen family. Like that's who you go
to every single day. That's who's helping you. It's not
your mom and dad, it's not your partner. It's like
it's there's this window that exists, and it is so
special because you really then get to pick who those
(10:54):
people are. And it's usually a great time in your
life because you're just so ided buy your best friends
who really get you, they forgive a lot easier. There's
no heavy expectation on you. And I feel like Liz
was in the time of her life when she wrote
this pilot, and a lot of us were too when
we joined the show, and so it was awesome. It
(11:17):
was one of those art you know imitates life, life
imitates art kind of weird thing that was going back
and forth for all of us, and I just think
it showed and I think a lot of people who
are in that season of life really have a deeper
connection to the show because it's not like, oh, I
remember the day when I had roommates like they're in
it now, and it feels like so validating of why
(11:41):
chosen family is so important. I think our show does
that for people, even.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Though that's just on camera because off camera, Jake one
returning phone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Calls, it's a war, a war like go and how's
a beef going? I feel like you guys have died
down the attacks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I've been busy, you know, I mean, I'm busy being
a single dad. I don't have time to I don't
have I'm trying to teach my daughter a different path
than what Jake is trying to teach his You know
what I'm saying, Jake is teaching chaos, corruption and confusion,
and for me, I'm teaching love, appreciation and generosity. And
(12:19):
and that's when we differ, and we're always going to
be on the separate lines of that. I teach love,
he teaches hate. And so yeah, I just keep myself.
I just keep myself focused on that. You know what
I'm saying. No time for fuds, No time for feuds.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Drake Kendrick situation.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No, No, life is all about love making and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's all I'm doing, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Next question from Abel Abel are mh. Hey, guys, I
love the podcast. I'm a little late to the game,
so not sure if this question has been asked, but
if it hasn't, you should ask this to every guest
and even yourselves. Kill Mary, Screw how plitically correct Nick,
(13:15):
Schmidt and Winston. My answer Abel's sharing is screw Schmidt.
Of course, the more for that sexy bod and to
experience the captain Mary Winston because he has a stable
job on season four. He's a stable job, and I
(13:36):
know he wouldn't cheat on me unlike other people. Kill
Nick and yelling and temper or his alcoholism will eventually
kill him anyway, how well, thanks guys, ab.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I think you just killed us all.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't even know what so accurate?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Then assessment is so accurate.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But I will say, when's the last time you got
called marriage material? Out of the gate? Me all the time,
just like married marrying that man.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm not marrying you, and you know why, because why
would I marry you if you over here trying to
fuck my homeboys?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
This is a fact.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
This is not a good game to marry you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But I'm really sexually attracted to that other man over there,
like what, I don't know. If I like this, I
get the privilege of giving you half of everything.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Heart. You're getting just destroyed by Schmidt with the.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Captain great dad, that's what matters. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I'm gonna go sleep with him.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'll lie out with you after I attracted to your
dignity A track.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
To his dick versus dignity. Every time it'll get you.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh god, a, why would you do this to me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh my gosh, Mary, screw Nick Schmidt and Wiston.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We'll ask those guests that I guess how Hi Hannah
and Lamoren live the podcast. I'm just gonna assume you
met love Hi. Hannah and Lamoren love the podcast. I
listen to both episodes every week. Me and my fiance
are huge fans. We have watched the whole series all
the way through countless times. Just wanted to share that
we too, have named a pet after characters in the show,
(15:18):
and even our daughter. So our cat we named Winston,
and we named our daughter Cec.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I'll share some pics. Love this show. Keep up the
great work you both are doing. Love listening to the show.
Cec and Winston are besties. He follows her around everywhere,
sometimes getting into trouble. Classic Cec and Winston mess around.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Ha haha, Steve, O, my goodness, so cute kitties and babies.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Thank you, Kenny, Gosh, look at her face than you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Face.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I love that. Wherever they're from. There's a film being
shot across the street.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
No, it's just someone's trailer.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, it's like a trailer. It's like a double banger.
You you see the whole, the pop out part and
the and the car parked in front of it, and
somebody filming across.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
This is just Liz. Liz just wrote the email. She's
going by Steve. He's my cat and here's one of
my babies. Oh my goodness. Well that's just the sweetest.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Thing, Steve.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
We appreciate you man.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
How flattering.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You should get We should make many mess Around merch
just for this. Look at this. There's a whole oh world.
We're only making it for grown ups right now.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And I tell you, I.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Tell you, cec here gets it for free. We will
send CC some some new.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Girl merch free of charge.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So cute, and we'll send uh, we'll send Winston over
there some kiddy treats. I don't know what kitties eat.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wow, well that was sweet. What a sweet ending.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh yeah, that's our show. Folks.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
As always, we love you and appreciate Go to our website,
the messurroundpod dot com. Check out our latest merge. You
can follow us on Instagram at the mess Around Pod.
And if you have a question, you gotta concern, you
got something you want to say, You want to leave
us a voicemail at no doesn't matter. You can email
us at the mess Around Pod at gmail dot com.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That was the mess Around in iHeartMedia Production.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Our executive producer is Joel Monique.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Our senior producer is Abu Zafar Bei Wang provided engineering
and editing.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Services, additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler and Kyle Shevron.
Our theme song was written and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Catch You Next Time. Bye,
Hosts And Creators
Lamorne Morris
Hannah Simone
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