July 11, 2022 • 52 mins
Welcome back to our show! The whole gang's back to recap "Injured." This is the third episode that was filmed, Zooey, Hannah, and Lamorne discuss why the series had to ear this episode, Jake Johnson's decision to run into the ocean, and how the saddest song in the world came into being. On that note, this week's True American has our hosts guessing the titles of the saddest songs ever written.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ring Ring Ring Ring. May I please speak with Zoe.
Oh hello, Lamar, Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. Hello, and
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welcome to our show. Welcome to our show. Welcome dogs,
not like, not in a negative way. I'm not calling
you guys dogs, but you know it's fine. You mean
like D A W G exactly ks. Nobody says that
welcome cats. Hello cats, Hello, kitty cats. Here we are welcome.
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Do I say that you do? Now? Okay, So guys,
we're going to talk about an episode called Injured, one
of my favorite episodes of all time. You know what
time it is, It is recap time, Episode one. Injured,
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one of my favorites. So, after Jess brutally tackles Nick
during the game of football, he is so wounded he
can barely drive. Winston's vehicle is also a casualty of
senseless violence and possibly neglect. The mechanic declares that it
can no longer be called a car. Of course, our
buddy Nick doesn't believe in doctors, or insurance or money,
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so Jess has to take him to see her doctor,
Dr Sady the O B G U I N and
she gives him Med's her menstrual ramps. After Nick takes
the pills, Sadie sees that his s thyroid is swollen,
and she suggests that he gets it looked at. This
sends Nick and the rest of the gang into a tailspin.
Fearing the worst cancer. Over drinks, Nick tells Jess that
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she doesn't know how to be real, and so she
fires back, saying, well, you never do anything. Nick then
confesses that he wants to know the outcome before he
dives into things that are serious, but the cancer scare
bolsters him to be brave and he runs buckets naked
into the ocean. The entire crew falls asleep on the beach.
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The next morning, Nick goes the doctor and learns that
he is cancer free. The gang splits his medical bills
so he won't have to worry. You're welcome. Unfortunately, no
one has enough money to pay for Winston's used to
be card, so he leaves it behind. We actually filmed
this episode really early in the season. I think we
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filmed it third or something, and there was some controversy
around it right about airing it that quick. Yeah, they
decided it was too early uh in the season, like
it was season one and we hadn't earned a semi
serious episode, not that you know, of course, it has
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lots of jokes and comedy in it, but it deals
with the serious subject matter. And they felt like we
needed to, you know, have a few more um strictly
comedic episodes under our belt, um, so that we could
earn this semi serious episode. Right. Yeah, I mean it
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makes sense if you're going to do it makes cancer
scare episode, you want the audience to be fully invested
and in love so they can do it. But it
is funny because you and Schmidt in that episode are
it seems like you're just still flirting when in reality
c C and Schmidt had been hooking up for a
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while by the time this episode aired, but it was
like you're back to just kind of having a subtle
undertone of yeah, it's interesting. It was all kind of
papered over because it was done out of order, right,
This one was shot obviously way before, and so it
threw a lot of different things off. Relationship stuff was off,
the introducting new characters were off. Um. But you know,
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the fans didn't catch on, so we're good. An island
of an episode there was a moment in the um
in Sadie's office. You can hear it clearly, a d
R line of June going like nice to see you again. Yeah,
just really camera just kind of I didn't even I
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caught that line, thinking that's kind of weird, but I didn't,
um it's but it definitely caught my ear too, because
I was like, wait, what is the and that I
remembered that drinking you never do anything. There was one
previous meeting, but they caught it, and they caught it
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and did a little band aid fix on it appropriate
for an episode called Injured. So J. J. Philbin wrote
this wonderful writer um, and I always thought she was
really great at marrying the comedy with the drama in
in episodes and was great at writing like more meaningful
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episodes I think. And then we had the wonderful Lynn
Shelton direct this episode, who sadly passed away last year.
We were all devastated and was she was just such
a talented person and so um incredibly kind um and
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wonderful to work with. So she was like being I
remember that because it was so beautiful. Yeah, it was
early on we shot this and so for me I
was still very very um nervous. I got, you know,
to shoot an episode and it's a brand new director,
and I just remember her being so open hearted and kind,
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and she was like the epitome of a safe space.
Like you just you could ask her anything, um, and
she was just you know, she was just warmth. That's
what she exuded all the time. So now I think
all of us were devastated when she passed away so suddenly. Um,
but so is so much of the film community and
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TV community. You could just feel it. Everybody felt like
such a huge hole had been created. So, um, we
miss you, Lynn, Yeah, we miss you Lynn. Let this
episode be um in her honor and her memory. Um
we loved her. Yeah, much love, much love. Well, let's
dive in, y'all, yes, into this great Yeah. And I
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was actually going to say that Lynn had such a
great She had like a a great back ground in
you know, indie filmmaking. So I'm not sure how much
episodic TV she had done before this, but it was
so awesome to have her point of view. Um, you know,
I think I always found that there were a lot
of similarities between shooting episodic TV and shooting indie movies
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because you have to shoot fast but still find the
truth and and um, you know, kind of be scrappy
about how you're you know, how you're making everything because
you don't have the time, you know, the luxury of time. Um,
so I thought it was it was wonderful to have
her perspective. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely absolutely the special episode
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for many reasons. And so we'll dive in. So obviously
this cold open was super easy for you. So because
you play like football all the time, so good nice burn. Um,
you're right, I am not a sports person. I know.
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I know nothing. Well, actually I know a little bit
about baseball because I grew up watching baseball with my dad,
but not playing it and not playing definitely not playing
football grown men. To that I was like getting I
was like petitioning to get dance credit for pee pretty
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early on. So yes, I knew nothing about that. But
it was kind of funny in the fact that we
were playing tackle football as as a loft um is funny.
Was it tackle? I don't even know if it was
supposed to be tackle for I don't think it was.
Maybe it was just just trying to like prove herself.
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It was the same way from the pilot or the
second episode when you were dribbled in the basketball and
then you end up breaking something. You break the television
and yeah, break Nick Miller every time. I feel like
we all have a friend that refuses to go to
the doctor and is hyper suspicious of modern medicine. Oh yeah, yeah,
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I can tell you everything has that that one persons
paper rub that's all I trusted. Chris Roxy rubbed some
robot testing on it. Yeah. So I remember filming in
those two locations, and then at the beach by the
Santa Monica Pier, which is a famous place. Do you
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remember filming with that car and everything and um on
that night and on the beach because um, Jake did
not want to was very grumpy about having to get
in the water, which I would be too. You know
what's interesting what I do remember though about that particular
moment um folks, if you remember he at some point
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towards the end of the episode, he runs and he
jumps into the ocean. Now, Jake did that? Jake did that? However,
I remember being an option. Do you want someone else
to be the one to jump into the water and
Jake won't jump off of a two ft like ledge.
He won't do anything. He will always have the stunt double,
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you know, go and make that money. He's like, we
gotta stunt double here. We may as well use that
person this. It's October, by the way, when we're shooting
in the in the ocean, and the Pacific Ocean with you.
Pacific Ocean is not it's not known for being like
a warm ocean. Like it's in the middle of maybe
in August, and that's it. In the middle of the night.
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It's October. Yeah, And he decides, and I do remember
it being a choice, and I remember Jake saying, no,
I'll do it, and that confused me. And he did it,
and I was just laughing because I thought, what, what
kind of idiot is that? Maybe he's just very body confident.
He was just sort of like, I've worked hard for
that's right. You're gonna see someone's, but it's gonna be mine.
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I don't think he was for he was wearing like
some underwear, he wasn't. I remember everybody kind of like
turning and looking away to kind of give him a
little privacy. I don't remember that being tidy Whitey's is
still uh naked. It's still white revealing completely naked, especially
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in the Pacific. Yeah, especially in the cold Pacific. When
I jump in the Pacific. Yeah, we all do. We
all corduroy bathing suits for everybody. I just remember going like, Wow,
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we really have to do this. It was one of
those things where it started to be like this episode
was like the Wizard of Oz moment, like pulling back
the curtain on TV and filmmaking. I mean, so you've
been in the industry for a really long time, but
for me this was like learning, like, oh, this man
really has to go jump in this ocean in the
middle of the night to get some stuff she can't fake.
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That's exactly I was like, Oh, okay, and we're all
here because we had to shoot like stuff afterwards, I guess,
or I don't know why we're so I feel like
that was the last shot of the night, so maybe not.
I don't know why everybody was still hanging out then,
but I do remember him going to do it, and
I was like, wow, Um, I'm gonna pay attention to
what they write for me in future because I may
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have to actually do some of this insane stuff. Anyone
who knows me and I have a reputation in the
industry is being to like, yeah, it's anonymous. However they're
like Tom Cruise, Lamore and Morris anyone else. I can't
think of anybody else. And honestly, and this it sucks
too because I stay busy and I don't want to
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be I just want to be home at times, you
know what I mean. But but then, but then, if,
if ever the stunt was to jump into the ocean,
that's the one thing that I would be like, hold on, now,
hold on, I think we got somebody else who can
do this, right, I just won't do it. I would
outsource that one to thank you well bye. I feel
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like this was also this episode. It's so funny. There's
so many things in this episode that I feel like
people have like held onto um. And the other is
that this one is too of the Nick Schmidt kisses,
the establishment of maybe the true love story of New Girl. Yes,
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so so funny. Yeah, Max really just crushing those Fraido kisses,
so so hilariously, very committed as as a performer. That
was one of the first watching Max do. That was
one of the first. It's when I saw a true
commitment obviously when we do on the show. You know,
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we were characters, were all comedic, funny people, and we
do bits and we go there and we commit to
certain things, launching Max do those bits. Sometimes. I don't
know why. I just felt like a full commitment from him,
and I thought I gotta elevate my performance ability because
he doesn't care. Max just goes for it of the time,
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no matter and what, and in those particular moments, and
then watching Jake always commit to the bit no matter what,
We'll just stay in character. That was something in the
beginning that was hard for me to do and you'll
see it later on in other episodes where I can't,
like I can't stay committed to the bit when it's
an extreme bit because I'm always laughing. No, but I think,
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like everybody's energy is different, you know what I mean.
Like I think what makes Max a great actor is
different from what makes Jake a great actor, or you
a great actor, or Hannah a great like a great actor.
I think all of these things have like In fact,
I think like Max's ability to like fully commit uh
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is like his It's like his stamp, you know what
I mean. Um, But sometimes the not fully committing can
be just as real, you know what I mean, like
can be just can come off just as true and
real as an actor. It just kind of depends on
the circumstance. But I do think like that's kind of
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his Max's hallmark, and then Jake's reactions to Max are
kind of equally committed in a aggressive way. So yeah, no,
I mean that is obviously one of the things about
their dynamic that is really funny. Yeah, you be committed,
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Mr Lamar, No, I could be, especially when you're falling
off a building. Absolutely mission impossible. Seven eight, just call me. Yeah, yeah,
I don't remember all of them. Um. Also, this one
thing about this episode I that I um that we
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get to see is more of the It's kind of
more of the will they won't they stuff the energy
between Nick and jess um with how we're all kind
of dicking around with this news we're having fun with
obviously we're a little emotional about it. But you your
character is you know, more maternal and more um truly
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engaged with what what's going on with him, and that
to me, you know, kind of lays the foundation for
the audience a little bit in the beginning, Yeah, which
I thought was which I thought was pretty cool. Even
though we switched episodes around a little bit, it was
fun to see a little later on. Yeah, I definitely
think there. I think his kind of criticism of her
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and her reaction, the fact that it act hurts her
feelings rather than makes her mad, it shows like that there.
I think there's a you know, it seems like there's
a connection there, and especially in this this episode, I mean,
it was one of my favorite just moments I feel
like of the season is you get to see um
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it's not so perfectly sweet side of her. You get
to see her her, you get to see her lash out,
you get to see her do something that's not very
kind and then have to recover from it. And I
think that's the I don't know, the beauty of this
show is that it's you know, you get these very
three dimensional characters. Um, maybe you will throw into a
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little break and when we come back, we can talk
about the impressions and the songs in this episode welcome,
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all right, we're back, We're back, We're back. I keep
saying that you love doing that, and you know I
support it. I'm like, M not me. If you go
back far enough. I'm sure, yes it's true. If you
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go back to historically, you are correct. So can we
talk about this song that the incredible editor um Steve
Uh well yeah, um yeah to a masterpiece, this sad song,
because I have to share something because it brought it
all back when I was rewatching this episode. Oh my goodness.
So talking about an episode where you realize, oh, I
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really have to do this stuff like Jake jumping in
the ocean. I remember they came and knocked on the
trailer door and they were like, you know, ten away
and I looked at the scene and it was like, okay,
we're doing this song and it's like c c raps
and she has to do it. Well, that's that bit
of it is that it's surprising she actually can do it.
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And y'all that's that my forte not something I can do.
It's not not a rapper. I thought you were a rapper.
And I just remember like walking down my three little
steps of my trailer, walking two steps, took over to
Lamaren's three steps up his trailer because we shared a trailer,
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banging on his door and I was like open up
and he was like yeah what and I'm like um,
so help help me. I need your help. Did you
help her? Did you coach her? Yes? And I was
like We've got I said, I don't know, Like there
has to be like a rhythm to this. There has
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to be like a beat to this, and Lamard was
like beat boxing. He's like, well, I could beat box
and you could say like the but I'm like, but
how am I just gonna speak it? Like what are
we doing? And they're just sort of like five away
and I was like, oh my god. And it was
just like this freak out I had, because that is
part of being an actor. You're scared you're going to
go on set and suck right, and everyone's going to
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be like this bit doesn't work. So's he's supposed to
be great at rapping and this chick cand pulled this off.
And because my like whatever, little Stanza kind of goes
right into Lamourin's too, and it had to work and
make sense. I just remember being in like a full
sweat and him and I are just like locked in
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this trailer trying to work this beat out, trying to
make it makes sense. The difficult part about doing something
like that is like it's like imagine Zoe having to
sing songs that someone who's not a songwriter wrote for you.
That's what you said, this makes sense like these Yeah,
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it doesn't work. And I was like, well, we have
to make it work, figure it out. And I do
think that we dropped a word from it to make
it flow better. Like I do think you're like, just
take this bit out or something to make it work.
I think we did some fine. I have done that.
That's the like, uh, just writing music and then sometimes
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I've had to write stuff with other people's lyrics and um,
and then sometimes it doesn't flow and you do have
to drop I mean that's just how It's just how
it works. That's got to drop a word. What would
you guys? But I'm proud of you guys. You guys
did a really good job with your rap. What would
you all the folks at home, what would you rate
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the scale of one wrapping? Don't open don't open up?
I actually thought you guys sounded great. I'm talking about
for the whole thing, not just not just your part.
Whole thing though, is a credit apparently to Steve Right,
because that was like the story that came to our editor. Well,
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because and I remember too, is this like we were
covering there were a lot of people and they were
all you know, in this sat scene in the bar,
and we're all around the room. So we're covering everything separately.
It's not like, you know, there wasn't a flow and
they had like you were doing your your Aaron Neville
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impression or something, right, that's what Okay, that's what That's
what I got from it. I was like, oh, he's
doing he does a good brothers um and then that
was funny and working. And then you had everybody separately
doing like little bits of things and some of it
was like improvised, and some of it was written in
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the script and when we were shooting it, none of
it was really it wasn't necessarily meant to together like
a complete song. I remember being very piecemeal and it
wasn't really written that way. Was like, it wasn't like that.
I mean, it wasn't really written as one long thing.
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It was like, oh, one person said one thing and
then maybe there was some dialogue and you know, but
it ended up being cut as like one kind of
song rap sequence and it worked really well. And I
would say salute to you, Steve. I would have to ask.
We could ask Steve, I'm sure, but I feel like
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the story was that he had to put that scene
together and it didn't really work, and so apparently he
had like a bottle of whiskey and stayed up all
night and just like worked on it and he made
that scene what it is and he made that song. Yeah,
they all were like, man, Steve's a genius after the song,
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because I think it wasn't working only because is uh,
it was probably too long, you know, because we had um,
you know a lot of times for network television. Now
it's totally different for like a cable show or a
show for a streamer, and now network TV like isn't
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really necessarily like what you know, It's like it's like
just a portion of what we watched now. But back
in the day, like pretty much everything was network TV,
UM and network TV. Everything has to fit commercials in it,
and it has to be a really specific length. So
our episodes were twenty one minutes and thirty five seconds.
They had to be exactly that, and maybe they'd give
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us thirty seconds more if it was some really really
special occasion, but generally everything had to be that length.
And now if you watch an episode of another show
that was you know, on HBO or on you know,
like Netflix or something that was made for you know,
a streamer or a cable network. Um. Those shows could
be like, you know, a half hour show could be
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anywhere between twenty and thirty five minutes, um, whereas ours
had to be exactly a certain length and we didn't
have any wiggle room so um, or very little wiggle room.
So like a lot of times if something wasn't working,
it was because there was a length issue or they
wanted to cut in more space, you know, and they
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couldn't and they needed, you know, to take stuff out.
So there had to be so much creative editing. Um.
And well I will say this, and this is for
the folks at home. I want you guys to put
this little tidbit in your back pocket. Although Steve did
edit the crap out of that scene, I played the
piano myself, get out. I didn't know that. Yeah it
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was you playing piano. Yeah, I remember that, but there
weren't any real notes. Did you hit a chord? Oh?
Somebody playing in my mind? You had so no, I
was no, I was playing it, but they weren't. Like
if you pay attention to the song. It's not exactly
I'm not like playing playing. I'm just hitting like one
chord after I say something, or another chord after. Yeah, No,
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I know that, um and um. So technically I am
a pianist. Technically I'm not mature. So when you're on tour,
when you're out there on tour, something's going down with
the piano. You know you have, I should call you you, Okay,
I'll give you a call. I'll be like la mouren um.
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Tell me what do you know about world? It sirs everything,
everything and person? Can you can you? Can you tune it?
How do you tune a world? Its? Honestly with faith
and hope, That's what I mean. And belief. Actually, you
solder it. Yeah, everybody solder it. Everybody knows that you
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knew that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right, I'm going to
call you next time it's out of tune. You just
come pick me up in your private jet. I don't
have a pray to chet um. Oh yeah. Also, so
you tapped in a little bit about the Aaron Neville impression.
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More impressions in here. There's a there's a first rock impression,
and there's also a Daffy Duck impression. Yes, the Daffy
Duck impression is very sweet. I have to thank you.
Thank you a very sweet way to do it, because
I forgot that that was in the episode. And then
when Jess says like, oh, this is what my mom
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used to do for me. I thought it was gonna
be some like big, over the top kind of bit.
It's actually like a really sweet little Daffy truck. It
was very endearing. What was funny is I remember that
it had to be a Looney Tunes character. I think
because of write what we could reference really um but
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Daffy Duck was something that I, as a kid, would
do Dabby up Duck impressions to myself, not to anybody else.
But I remember sitting in my room and being like,
I got it. I have this impression. It was like
not that great, but so you got to pick that character.
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That wasn't the one in pick it. I think it
ended up in the script, but I was like, I
got perfect in your wheelhouse. Perfect, it's in my wheelhouse.
And Lamarne, you're the comedy at the funeral. That Chris Rock.
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That was a Chris Rock and that was a semi
Chris Rock impression. I had never done it before, and
I just thought when I thought of stand up, I
immediately thought of Chris Rock. And the script may have
said it just says he does a stand up. I
think he said he does like a Chris Rock like impression,
because Chris Rock, if you know when when he's when
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he's if you look at any Chris Rock special, he
paces the stage a lot to make emphasis, walk fast
across the stage to say one thing and then fast
across the other part. And to do that at a
funeral I thought would be funny. Um, it was real.
It was great. You did it, You did it. That
was a fun That was a fun bit to do.
I used to do a little bit of stand up
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back in the day, and so obviously not on the
Chris Rock level, but it was just not at funerals.
But I would, I would. I would. If somebody wants
like a tight tent at a funeral, you're you're there,
call me worse than the feeling they're already feeling. Speaking
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of literal impressions, UM, I do remember reading the script
and it talked about how there was an impression of
my butt in the sand and is that what is
that your butt? U near? Like? It was a funny things.
I wasn't there right when they did it. They weren't
sort of like, let me tek at your butt and
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then carve this out, so this is accurate. So I
just remember watching the episode for the first time, and
I was like, those are two large watermelons that have
been pushed into the sand. Like if anybody's butt left
that impression in the sand, that is a very pronounced
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but don't don't. That's right, that's too large impression. It
just seemed very aggressive. It was so funny because I
was like, whoa, okay, well, hopefully people don't seem large.
It seemed like narrow, but like predated. It was injected
and not like yeah well like not like somebody with hips.
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It seemed like somebody with like no hips who just
had like two watermelons. Also, there's no there's no like
hay end print next to it to push yourself up
out of the sand. So I just stood up with
that big booty with my legs and then you do
so much apparently I do glutes but all whole day.
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But also like you lavitated up because there's no there's
nothing it's just in the sand. I just dropped down
with my butt and bounced out and that was it.
I really like. I was like, there's so many questions.
It's like you're bent fully in half. That's right, and
then your button up, you were craned down and that's
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right out we're solving. I really do have a question though,
for props of like what did they use because it's
just such a perfect specific scoop into the sand. Um
that's really I mean, I know this is like a
heartfelt episode of you think crops that did that? That
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feels more like set that well, maybe, said Dick. I
don't know. They walked around with these perfect little scoopers
and I was like, wow, I just have a lot
of questions, man, that's all. Do you think that was
like maybe it was like an un acknowledged fantasy sequence
dream ballet. Um uh. In Schmidt's mind, that is the
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most logical explanation my creamed butt into the Booty dream
ballet Booty lasted. We would like to name the injured
episode Booty Dream Ballet. That's not the name of the
next She and Him album, Booty Dream Ballet. I don't
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know if I could buy it. Here's the thing, I
was kind of a little apprehensive about doing the podcast
because I just immediately immediately thought, because this episode deals
with a cancer scare, that this, you know, when we
sat down to talk today, that we were kind of
going to go deep and heavy. And the fact that
we have just spent forty minutes talking and where we're
(33:11):
at is talking about a booty dream ballet really warms
my heart, you guys, really warms my heart. This is
when I wanted to be an issue. It's the podcast
is for. We have to answer these questions. We now
know it's a dream sequence and he's just seeing what
he hopes her what looks like, but also but actually
realized that, you know, obviously cancer is a very scary thing.
(33:35):
But Nick, you know, and he has all these thoughts
run through your mind of what it could possibly be
because you're you're searching the internet. You're trying to figure
out what dr Google? Dr Google? Also what is that
app that's like with the cross skull and crossbones on
it and crossbones and just as death, like go back
and find another site. It's also like the font tells
(33:58):
me that that app is not accurate diagnosed. Just the
back of a bleach bottle, like it's not it's not
even the thing. Well do you so? Well, I'm not
obviously you forget what websites look like in two thousand
and eleven. I mean website, website, that's what they were.
Very basic, great beta like websites. Um, it was yeah,
(34:19):
well I don't think it was that much. But he
but but you know, he realizes quickly after his his
ocean visit and after a long night on the beach,
after the booty ballet on the beach dream booty ballet
on the beach, that he indeed does not have cancer.
(34:40):
It was what he doesn't know. He just there was
something there could have possibly, But what is it? He
says he thought it was assist but that he kind
of blanked out after they said it was a cancer.
I think we had to after school specialists. Um. This
episode is a commentary on American healthcare because he can't
afford to pay right um And to the Hannah's Canadian, So,
(35:04):
do you want to tell us something about Yeah, I
think it's bonkers. I think that's so crazy that to
decide whether or not to take yourself, you know, your
child to the hospital, to a doctor. To get something
checked out, you have to check your bank account first.
I think that is so crazy and scary and said
that that's um it is determined to make everything's okay.
(35:26):
But it's a good thing. Nick Miller had rich friends,
who pays super rich friends. And then the other part
of the after school special, I feel like the moral
old teacher, out of work basketball player. Everybody pushing quarters
together is that go check it out. Man. If you've
got something that you're concerned about, check it out. It's
(35:47):
probably nothing. Then you get peace of mind, and that
is worth everything. Check it out. Always check it out, Yeaco.
(36:08):
If we jump into Winston's car a little bit, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
well Nick and your car are both injured. That's very true.
But also both Nick's car and Winston's car looked like
a bag of what the fuck? And find the way
(36:28):
all of our cars like in in a few episodes,
there's a whole thing about my car breaking down. We're
all driving cars that are on their last legs. Maybe
a nice car, beautiful car, which also makes no sense
because I live in an apartment with a bunch of
other people, Like you're spending all your money on your car.
(36:52):
I guess you remember people that I was friends with,
like in my twenties that would live in a like,
you know, not a super nice place, but they would
drive a really really crazy nice car. And I was like,
why are you driving a BMW? That was always the
guy picked you up in a BMW and then takes
(37:13):
his take you back to like a studio apartment where
seven people live. Yeah. I was like, that money elsewhere
or save it? And I'm curious guys will pick you
up in a BMW and then take you back to
their junkie apartment. No, it was just like other people.
It is it is I feel like that. It was
(37:35):
a lot of people would just spend all their money
on their car, right, that's right. Oh yeah. When I
first moved here. When I first moved to l A,
I lived in a small apartment in North Hollywood and
one of my neighbors really nice guy. Every time every
time I would see him in the parking lot walking
to one of his cars. He had a bunch of cars.
It was always like a g Wagon or range Rover
(37:56):
or a Ferrari. And this apartment complex was very cheap,
second very cheap, and I just thought, holy crap, this
guy could have just those cars alone, you could buy
a nice house with and uh yeah, the drug dealer
a little more, maybe showing out to Daniel, who was
the my neighbor's name is Daniel? Daniel clear, your good
(38:23):
nights is just throwing shade at I don't afford it.
They don't talk less say less Daniel the drug dealer.
Oh my god, um um okay. As we wrapped this
(38:43):
episode up, my friends, where's the Bear? Hannah? Okay, So
I've kind of been avoiding it because I looked long
and hard and it almost reminds me of the wedding
episode for the Where's the Bear, where the big stretch
was the bare feet. The closest I can get to
(39:05):
it on this one is that's right, That's right, right,
Miller's boot. That's all I got, you, guys. And it's
a stretch. And I know Zoe does not accept things
that are not Actually I don't, but you know what,
(39:29):
I like the creativity. I gotta be. I gotta be.
You know I like the creativity. Um, all right, let's
play True American where the rules change sweetly and you
leave more confused than when you showed up. This week
(39:50):
we're playing Eldest Blues where we'll try to guess some
of the saddest songs in the world. Um, I guess
our engineer Daniel is going to play some of those
songs for us love songs. And I didn't mean to
cut you off, but I just joking and I did
that though that's what you were thinking about. You were
(40:12):
thinking like great minds, bro. I'll take it a bit. Okay,
let's try this. This is song number one, and don't
cheat by using Shazam. Don't cheat, know chasaming and I'm
just sharing computer sounds. We're gonna try to stat Okay,
let me know if you can hear this one. Okay,
(40:33):
Oh yeah, I know. Eric Clapton. Tears in Heaven by
Eric Clapton the saddest song. It is the saddest song ever.
Genuinely the saddest song, the saddest song ever. I don't
even want to it's too horrific. I can't even hear
the song it actually know it is actually a horror song.
(40:53):
That's a horror song. Listening to it as equivalent to
reading like one of the current headlines and then your
that's right, okay. With Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
I can't even talk about it because it feels like
a curse for our songs. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a
horror song. It's very sad. I don't want to cry,
(41:13):
so I'm not going to talk about it. Thank you.
The next one, everybody's tears and terrified. Right, yeah, it
was ready for the next one. Here, we can do it.
We're ready. Lamour on the Keys. Is that Gloomy Sunday?
(41:36):
Is this Nina Simone? You gloomy Sunday? Nor Nina? Oh god,
it's just strange indeed, But hold I mean, this is
another horror song. That's the saddest song I need here.
(42:02):
Oh my god. I thought the songs are going to
be like he's cheated on me and broke my heart,
And now I thought I'm gonna have to got to
go with therapy after this game. Damn. Yeah. Okay, first
of all, I don't know what to say. It doesn't
get any better, though, better than listening. Can we get
(42:23):
like crimea River by Justin Timberlake or something? Can we
just get something that's just like innocuous? So I guess not,
what in thee were you thinking? You strange? There's there's
three more and I think, oh god, I gotta laid down. Okay,
(42:44):
all right, next, I mean this is hard. I feel
like I'm gonna throw up. The next one, windows opening,
it's spins. Yeah, this is right, this is oh know,
nothing compares to you nothing? Yeah, also very sad. What's
(43:06):
that about? That's my Prince, our friend prince and um,
this is shand O'Connor singing nothing compares to you. Also
a very sad song, not on the level of the
other two sad Like it feels that narrating song is
(43:26):
very depressed. Right, that's where her mom passing away, Well,
Prince's mom passing away. Yeah, it's about a mom's passing away.
Oh god, well then now, yeah, that's I guess thanks
a lot. I thought it was just about a breakup, alright.
When we know the context of all these songs, it
(43:49):
makes them just like I feel like puking. Right, God,
that was a kind of a great music video, though
she was phenomenal in that music video. That's and gold
Tier with Joel You and in a mood when you
pick these songs, I'm still going back to strange Fruit
(44:11):
really yeah, dark dark Strange Fruit takes the cake. This
is a Halloween episode of True America. Okay, yeah, let's
just get through it. I guess over the coals. It
only continues. I can't even think of songs on this loft.
But I mean starting with tears at Kevin. Yeah, yeah,
(44:34):
I think I think now that we know the theme,
I'm having a trauma response. Here we go. Here's number four,
the needle. Oh my god, listen, Johnny Cash just yes, yeah,
heroin addiction, nails hurt. Okay, that was one of and
(45:01):
wasn't it right after he covered that song right after
June Carter Cash passed away, right, Okay? I mean it's
like one of the most like hauntingly beautiful cover songs
that I can't because it's so sad. Yeah. I think
Trent Roseman has said that that is no longer uh
(45:23):
nine inchnail song that is now a Johnny Cash song, Yeah,
which I appreciate. He's yeah, I appreciate that. Oh my god, alright,
just one more, just hold onto something more white knucklet
let's go everybody by Aria. I mean, you know that
(45:54):
that song, the song I said, here's how that song
I'm gonna go ruined because it's a beautiful song is
don't they play a song and like nine o two
and no, when uh Tori Spelling finds out that she's
being like cheated on or something, well, they play it.
They used it. So the thing about that song is
they in the nineties and the early two thousand's, that
(46:15):
song got abused by MTV. They always use it in
like the real world and like then like shows like
um the Hills and stuff like that. Um, you feel
like anytime somebody was sad, they played that song. And
it's an amazing song. Arim is an amazing band. Um,
(46:37):
but it got you so much that then when I
hear it, I start thinking of music cues from reality shows,
mainly in the late nineties. Yeah, Dylan and Brenda's breakup song.
That's right, that's right, that's what. And I was like, oh,
(46:58):
God says that, well that one at least, and I
just for us, that's ending our producer making us all
go on this emotional roller coast. No no, no, my
day's ruined. Whisper in. Yeah, she really shamed in. You
(47:29):
really leaned into this. We didn't know what we were
getting into, but somehow we won the game. So did
I say about us the game within three seconds were like,
we know that, you know the game. You know who
didn't win the game, all the victims of those songs.
That's right. I consider myself one now, to be honest
(47:51):
with you. But isn't it The thing is is like,
isn't it important that these songs were written? Have I
never heard Tears in Heaven again? I would be just fine? Yeah,
me too, me too. It's like that movie Dancer in
the Dark. I can't ever see un see that movie,
(48:12):
but I will never see it again because I was
traumatized by it. But it was a very good movie
and I'm happy it was made. But all these songs,
I'm like, well, they were great expressions of tragedy um
and expressed through music, and I'm happy they were written.
Do I want to listen to them ever? Again? No,
(48:37):
as part of it, because they post said on a
comic dep podcast. Okay, before we wrap this episode up,
I have a little bit of unfinished business with you,
um Zoe and I have also been what is this
(48:58):
this whole episode? Like, why do I talk about to
talk about it? But we're at the end of the episode, y'all,
and I can't hide anymore. So I sent a little
massage to Dave Finkel, who's close friends with Um Walpert. Okay,
David Walpert who wrote the episode that had Snap out
(49:19):
of It and the reference with the Moonstruck reference, And
I said was obviously has to be Moonstruck. Will part
um you must agree? So here was the response. I
will read it out loud. You already smile. You seem
like very vindicated, So I'm assuming that you're you are
(49:40):
or no, I don't know. He said it starts one
way and it takes a turn Hannah or let Hannah
know I'm on her side. So I was like, great,
this makes sense. That's all I wanted to hear. That said,
don't like this part. I don't recall having Moonstruck on
the but pretty sure Crescent Moon was in my pre
(50:03):
list draft and I do like Moonstruck, So possibly an
unconscious homage. This is not going to settle anything, is it.
Oh gosh, the kind of I'm vindicated. Yeah, it sounds
like you know, I I love how much you love
Moonstruck like that is so awesome to me, Like, I
just like love you more for how much you love Moonstruck,
(50:26):
like and that you think it's like in Awe in
everybody's thoughts and on their minds and and and living
in their hearts. Um. I remember a few things about Moonstruck,
but like almost none of the dialogue. Um, I see
it everywhere. It's like that number twenty three things, you
know what I mean? Well, I just see it in everything.
(50:47):
Great movies influence everything, and then people a lot of
times don't realize they're being influenced. But it's the same
with music and everything. I mean, that's like it's a
great movie. Everybody saw it, you know, and it had
a lot of things. I'm sure that we're unique to
it at the time that then everybody ripped off without
realizing it. And then those people ripped you know, not
(51:09):
ripping it off, but like we're influenced or inspired by it,
and then other people were inspired by you know, and
then things become tropes and they become part of the
fabric of our entertainment. And I think that's a testament
to that movie. I will say right now, you're being
very um generous, and I'm just gonna have to on
(51:31):
this podcast give one point to Zoe d one point.
It'll come around again on something else. I'm sure. I'm sure.
I'm not a very competitive person, so it works for me.
This is a great episode, you guys. Yeah, this was fun,
except for the listening to terribly sad solids part. Thanks
(51:54):
everybody for listening. Good Bye for now you will see
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Ring Ring Ring Ring. May I please speak with Zoe.
Oh hello, Lamar, Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. Hello, and
(00:28):
welcome to our show. Welcome to our show. Welcome dogs,
not like, not in a negative way. I'm not calling
you guys dogs, but you know it's fine. You mean
like D A W G exactly ks. Nobody says that
welcome cats. Hello cats, Hello, kitty cats. Here we are welcome.
(00:52):
Do I say that you do? Now? Okay, So guys,
we're going to talk about an episode called Injured, one
of my favorite episodes of all time. You know what
time it is, It is recap time, Episode one. Injured,
(01:13):
one of my favorites. So, after Jess brutally tackles Nick
during the game of football, he is so wounded he
can barely drive. Winston's vehicle is also a casualty of
senseless violence and possibly neglect. The mechanic declares that it
can no longer be called a car. Of course, our
buddy Nick doesn't believe in doctors, or insurance or money,
(01:36):
so Jess has to take him to see her doctor,
Dr Sady the O B G U I N and
she gives him Med's her menstrual ramps. After Nick takes
the pills, Sadie sees that his s thyroid is swollen,
and she suggests that he gets it looked at. This
sends Nick and the rest of the gang into a tailspin.
Fearing the worst cancer. Over drinks, Nick tells Jess that
(01:58):
she doesn't know how to be real, and so she
fires back, saying, well, you never do anything. Nick then
confesses that he wants to know the outcome before he
dives into things that are serious, but the cancer scare
bolsters him to be brave and he runs buckets naked
into the ocean. The entire crew falls asleep on the beach.
(02:19):
The next morning, Nick goes the doctor and learns that
he is cancer free. The gang splits his medical bills
so he won't have to worry. You're welcome. Unfortunately, no
one has enough money to pay for Winston's used to
be card, so he leaves it behind. We actually filmed
this episode really early in the season. I think we
(02:40):
filmed it third or something, and there was some controversy
around it right about airing it that quick. Yeah, they
decided it was too early uh in the season, like
it was season one and we hadn't earned a semi
serious episode, not that you know, of course, it has
(03:03):
lots of jokes and comedy in it, but it deals
with the serious subject matter. And they felt like we
needed to, you know, have a few more um strictly
comedic episodes under our belt, um, so that we could
earn this semi serious episode. Right. Yeah, I mean it
(03:24):
makes sense if you're going to do it makes cancer
scare episode, you want the audience to be fully invested
and in love so they can do it. But it
is funny because you and Schmidt in that episode are
it seems like you're just still flirting when in reality
c C and Schmidt had been hooking up for a
(03:45):
while by the time this episode aired, but it was
like you're back to just kind of having a subtle
undertone of yeah, it's interesting. It was all kind of
papered over because it was done out of order, right,
This one was shot obviously way before, and so it
threw a lot of different things off. Relationship stuff was off,
the introducting new characters were off. Um. But you know,
(04:09):
the fans didn't catch on, so we're good. An island
of an episode there was a moment in the um
in Sadie's office. You can hear it clearly, a d
R line of June going like nice to see you again. Yeah,
just really camera just kind of I didn't even I
(04:33):
caught that line, thinking that's kind of weird, but I didn't,
um it's but it definitely caught my ear too, because
I was like, wait, what is the and that I
remembered that drinking you never do anything. There was one
previous meeting, but they caught it, and they caught it
(04:56):
and did a little band aid fix on it appropriate
for an episode called Injured. So J. J. Philbin wrote
this wonderful writer um, and I always thought she was
really great at marrying the comedy with the drama in
in episodes and was great at writing like more meaningful
(05:19):
episodes I think. And then we had the wonderful Lynn
Shelton direct this episode, who sadly passed away last year.
We were all devastated and was she was just such
a talented person and so um incredibly kind um and
(05:44):
wonderful to work with. So she was like being I
remember that because it was so beautiful. Yeah, it was
early on we shot this and so for me I
was still very very um nervous. I got, you know,
to shoot an episode and it's a brand new director,
and I just remember her being so open hearted and kind,
(06:08):
and she was like the epitome of a safe space.
Like you just you could ask her anything, um, and
she was just you know, she was just warmth. That's
what she exuded all the time. So now I think
all of us were devastated when she passed away so suddenly. Um,
but so is so much of the film community and
(06:31):
TV community. You could just feel it. Everybody felt like
such a huge hole had been created. So, um, we
miss you, Lynn, Yeah, we miss you Lynn. Let this
episode be um in her honor and her memory. Um
we loved her. Yeah, much love, much love. Well, let's
dive in, y'all, yes, into this great Yeah. And I
(06:55):
was actually going to say that Lynn had such a
great She had like a a great back ground in
you know, indie filmmaking. So I'm not sure how much
episodic TV she had done before this, but it was
so awesome to have her point of view. Um, you know,
I think I always found that there were a lot
of similarities between shooting episodic TV and shooting indie movies
(07:19):
because you have to shoot fast but still find the
truth and and um, you know, kind of be scrappy
about how you're you know, how you're making everything because
you don't have the time, you know, the luxury of time. Um,
so I thought it was it was wonderful to have
her perspective. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely absolutely the special episode
(07:43):
for many reasons. And so we'll dive in. So obviously
this cold open was super easy for you. So because
you play like football all the time, so good nice burn. Um,
you're right, I am not a sports person. I know.
(08:08):
I know nothing. Well, actually I know a little bit
about baseball because I grew up watching baseball with my dad,
but not playing it and not playing definitely not playing
football grown men. To that I was like getting I
was like petitioning to get dance credit for pee pretty
(08:28):
early on. So yes, I knew nothing about that. But
it was kind of funny in the fact that we
were playing tackle football as as a loft um is funny.
Was it tackle? I don't even know if it was
supposed to be tackle for I don't think it was.
Maybe it was just just trying to like prove herself.
(08:49):
It was the same way from the pilot or the
second episode when you were dribbled in the basketball and
then you end up breaking something. You break the television
and yeah, break Nick Miller every time. I feel like
we all have a friend that refuses to go to
the doctor and is hyper suspicious of modern medicine. Oh yeah, yeah,
(09:10):
I can tell you everything has that that one persons
paper rub that's all I trusted. Chris Roxy rubbed some
robot testing on it. Yeah. So I remember filming in
those two locations, and then at the beach by the
Santa Monica Pier, which is a famous place. Do you
(09:30):
remember filming with that car and everything and um on
that night and on the beach because um, Jake did
not want to was very grumpy about having to get
in the water, which I would be too. You know
what's interesting what I do remember though about that particular
moment um folks, if you remember he at some point
(09:52):
towards the end of the episode, he runs and he
jumps into the ocean. Now, Jake did that? Jake did that? However,
I remember being an option. Do you want someone else
to be the one to jump into the water and
Jake won't jump off of a two ft like ledge.
He won't do anything. He will always have the stunt double,
(10:13):
you know, go and make that money. He's like, we
gotta stunt double here. We may as well use that
person this. It's October, by the way, when we're shooting
in the in the ocean, and the Pacific Ocean with you.
Pacific Ocean is not it's not known for being like
a warm ocean. Like it's in the middle of maybe
in August, and that's it. In the middle of the night.
(10:35):
It's October. Yeah, And he decides, and I do remember
it being a choice, and I remember Jake saying, no,
I'll do it, and that confused me. And he did it,
and I was just laughing because I thought, what, what
kind of idiot is that? Maybe he's just very body confident.
He was just sort of like, I've worked hard for
that's right. You're gonna see someone's, but it's gonna be mine.
(10:59):
I don't think he was for he was wearing like
some underwear, he wasn't. I remember everybody kind of like
turning and looking away to kind of give him a
little privacy. I don't remember that being tidy Whitey's is
still uh naked. It's still white revealing completely naked, especially
(11:22):
in the Pacific. Yeah, especially in the cold Pacific. When
I jump in the Pacific. Yeah, we all do. We
all corduroy bathing suits for everybody. I just remember going like, Wow,
(11:42):
we really have to do this. It was one of
those things where it started to be like this episode
was like the Wizard of Oz moment, like pulling back
the curtain on TV and filmmaking. I mean, so you've
been in the industry for a really long time, but
for me this was like learning, like, oh, this man
really has to go jump in this ocean in the
middle of the night to get some stuff she can't fake.
(12:04):
That's exactly I was like, Oh, okay, and we're all
here because we had to shoot like stuff afterwards, I guess,
or I don't know why we're so I feel like
that was the last shot of the night, so maybe not.
I don't know why everybody was still hanging out then,
but I do remember him going to do it, and
I was like, wow, Um, I'm gonna pay attention to
what they write for me in future because I may
(12:24):
have to actually do some of this insane stuff. Anyone
who knows me and I have a reputation in the
industry is being to like, yeah, it's anonymous. However they're
like Tom Cruise, Lamore and Morris anyone else. I can't
think of anybody else. And honestly, and this it sucks
too because I stay busy and I don't want to
(12:46):
be I just want to be home at times, you
know what I mean. But but then, but then, if,
if ever the stunt was to jump into the ocean,
that's the one thing that I would be like, hold on, now,
hold on, I think we got somebody else who can
do this, right, I just won't do it. I would
outsource that one to thank you well bye. I feel
(13:06):
like this was also this episode. It's so funny. There's
so many things in this episode that I feel like
people have like held onto um. And the other is
that this one is too of the Nick Schmidt kisses,
the establishment of maybe the true love story of New Girl. Yes,
(13:29):
so so funny. Yeah, Max really just crushing those Fraido kisses,
so so hilariously, very committed as as a performer. That
was one of the first watching Max do. That was
one of the first. It's when I saw a true
commitment obviously when we do on the show. You know,
(13:53):
we were characters, were all comedic, funny people, and we
do bits and we go there and we commit to
certain things, launching Max do those bits. Sometimes. I don't
know why. I just felt like a full commitment from him,
and I thought I gotta elevate my performance ability because
he doesn't care. Max just goes for it of the time,
(14:15):
no matter and what, and in those particular moments, and
then watching Jake always commit to the bit no matter what,
We'll just stay in character. That was something in the
beginning that was hard for me to do and you'll
see it later on in other episodes where I can't,
like I can't stay committed to the bit when it's
an extreme bit because I'm always laughing. No, but I think,
(14:37):
like everybody's energy is different, you know what I mean.
Like I think what makes Max a great actor is
different from what makes Jake a great actor, or you
a great actor, or Hannah a great like a great actor.
I think all of these things have like In fact,
I think like Max's ability to like fully commit uh
(15:02):
is like his It's like his stamp, you know what
I mean. Um, But sometimes the not fully committing can
be just as real, you know what I mean, like
can be just can come off just as true and
real as an actor. It just kind of depends on
the circumstance. But I do think like that's kind of
(15:25):
his Max's hallmark, and then Jake's reactions to Max are
kind of equally committed in a aggressive way. So yeah, no,
I mean that is obviously one of the things about
their dynamic that is really funny. Yeah, you be committed,
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Mr Lamar, No, I could be, especially when you're falling
off a building. Absolutely mission impossible. Seven eight, just call me. Yeah, yeah,
I don't remember all of them. Um. Also, this one
thing about this episode I that I um that we
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get to see is more of the It's kind of
more of the will they won't they stuff the energy
between Nick and jess um with how we're all kind
of dicking around with this news we're having fun with
obviously we're a little emotional about it. But you your
character is you know, more maternal and more um truly
(16:34):
engaged with what what's going on with him, and that
to me, you know, kind of lays the foundation for
the audience a little bit in the beginning, Yeah, which
I thought was which I thought was pretty cool. Even
though we switched episodes around a little bit, it was
fun to see a little later on. Yeah, I definitely
think there. I think his kind of criticism of her
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and her reaction, the fact that it act hurts her
feelings rather than makes her mad, it shows like that there.
I think there's a you know, it seems like there's
a connection there, and especially in this this episode, I mean,
it was one of my favorite just moments I feel
like of the season is you get to see um
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it's not so perfectly sweet side of her. You get
to see her her, you get to see her lash out,
you get to see her do something that's not very
kind and then have to recover from it. And I
think that's the I don't know, the beauty of this
show is that it's you know, you get these very
three dimensional characters. Um, maybe you will throw into a
(17:44):
little break and when we come back, we can talk
about the impressions and the songs in this episode welcome,
(18:05):
all right, we're back, We're back, We're back. I keep
saying that you love doing that, and you know I
support it. I'm like, M not me. If you go
back far enough. I'm sure, yes it's true. If you
(18:28):
go back to historically, you are correct. So can we
talk about this song that the incredible editor um Steve
Uh well yeah, um yeah to a masterpiece, this sad song,
because I have to share something because it brought it
all back when I was rewatching this episode. Oh my goodness.
So talking about an episode where you realize, oh, I
(18:51):
really have to do this stuff like Jake jumping in
the ocean. I remember they came and knocked on the
trailer door and they were like, you know, ten away
and I looked at the scene and it was like, okay,
we're doing this song and it's like c c raps
and she has to do it. Well, that's that bit
of it is that it's surprising she actually can do it.
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And y'all that's that my forte not something I can do.
It's not not a rapper. I thought you were a rapper.
And I just remember like walking down my three little
steps of my trailer, walking two steps, took over to
Lamaren's three steps up his trailer because we shared a trailer,
(19:33):
banging on his door and I was like open up
and he was like yeah what and I'm like um,
so help help me. I need your help. Did you
help her? Did you coach her? Yes? And I was
like We've got I said, I don't know, Like there
has to be like a rhythm to this. There has
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to be like a beat to this, and Lamard was
like beat boxing. He's like, well, I could beat box
and you could say like the but I'm like, but
how am I just gonna speak it? Like what are
we doing? And they're just sort of like five away
and I was like, oh my god. And it was
just like this freak out I had, because that is
part of being an actor. You're scared you're going to
go on set and suck right, and everyone's going to
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be like this bit doesn't work. So's he's supposed to
be great at rapping and this chick cand pulled this off.
And because my like whatever, little Stanza kind of goes
right into Lamourin's too, and it had to work and
make sense. I just remember being in like a full
sweat and him and I are just like locked in
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this trailer trying to work this beat out, trying to
make it makes sense. The difficult part about doing something
like that is like it's like imagine Zoe having to
sing songs that someone who's not a songwriter wrote for you.
That's what you said, this makes sense like these Yeah,
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it doesn't work. And I was like, well, we have
to make it work, figure it out. And I do
think that we dropped a word from it to make
it flow better. Like I do think you're like, just
take this bit out or something to make it work.
I think we did some fine. I have done that.
That's the like, uh, just writing music and then sometimes
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I've had to write stuff with other people's lyrics and um,
and then sometimes it doesn't flow and you do have
to drop I mean that's just how It's just how
it works. That's got to drop a word. What would
you guys? But I'm proud of you guys. You guys
did a really good job with your rap. What would
you all the folks at home, what would you rate
(21:45):
the scale of one wrapping? Don't open don't open up?
I actually thought you guys sounded great. I'm talking about
for the whole thing, not just not just your part.
Whole thing though, is a credit apparently to Steve Right,
because that was like the story that came to our editor. Well,
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because and I remember too, is this like we were
covering there were a lot of people and they were
all you know, in this sat scene in the bar,
and we're all around the room. So we're covering everything separately.
It's not like, you know, there wasn't a flow and
they had like you were doing your your Aaron Neville
(22:30):
impression or something, right, that's what Okay, that's what That's
what I got from it. I was like, oh, he's
doing he does a good brothers um and then that
was funny and working. And then you had everybody separately
doing like little bits of things and some of it
was like improvised, and some of it was written in
(22:53):
the script and when we were shooting it, none of
it was really it wasn't necessarily meant to together like
a complete song. I remember being very piecemeal and it
wasn't really written that way. Was like, it wasn't like that.
I mean, it wasn't really written as one long thing.
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It was like, oh, one person said one thing and
then maybe there was some dialogue and you know, but
it ended up being cut as like one kind of
song rap sequence and it worked really well. And I
would say salute to you, Steve. I would have to ask.
We could ask Steve, I'm sure, but I feel like
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the story was that he had to put that scene
together and it didn't really work, and so apparently he
had like a bottle of whiskey and stayed up all
night and just like worked on it and he made
that scene what it is and he made that song. Yeah,
they all were like, man, Steve's a genius after the song,
(23:57):
because I think it wasn't working only because is uh,
it was probably too long, you know, because we had um,
you know a lot of times for network television. Now
it's totally different for like a cable show or a
show for a streamer, and now network TV like isn't
(24:18):
really necessarily like what you know, It's like it's like
just a portion of what we watched now. But back
in the day, like pretty much everything was network TV,
UM and network TV. Everything has to fit commercials in it,
and it has to be a really specific length. So
our episodes were twenty one minutes and thirty five seconds.
They had to be exactly that, and maybe they'd give
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us thirty seconds more if it was some really really
special occasion, but generally everything had to be that length.
And now if you watch an episode of another show
that was you know, on HBO or on you know,
like Netflix or something that was made for you know,
a streamer or a cable network. Um. Those shows could
be like, you know, a half hour show could be
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anywhere between twenty and thirty five minutes, um, whereas ours
had to be exactly a certain length and we didn't
have any wiggle room so um, or very little wiggle room.
So like a lot of times if something wasn't working,
it was because there was a length issue or they
wanted to cut in more space, you know, and they
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couldn't and they needed, you know, to take stuff out.
So there had to be so much creative editing. Um.
And well I will say this, and this is for
the folks at home. I want you guys to put
this little tidbit in your back pocket. Although Steve did
edit the crap out of that scene, I played the
piano myself, get out. I didn't know that. Yeah it
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was you playing piano. Yeah, I remember that, but there
weren't any real notes. Did you hit a chord? Oh?
Somebody playing in my mind? You had so no, I
was no, I was playing it, but they weren't. Like
if you pay attention to the song. It's not exactly
I'm not like playing playing. I'm just hitting like one
chord after I say something, or another chord after. Yeah, No,
(26:11):
I know that, um and um. So technically I am
a pianist. Technically I'm not mature. So when you're on tour,
when you're out there on tour, something's going down with
the piano. You know you have, I should call you you, Okay,
I'll give you a call. I'll be like la mouren um.
(26:33):
Tell me what do you know about world? It sirs everything,
everything and person? Can you can you? Can you tune it?
How do you tune a world? Its? Honestly with faith
and hope, That's what I mean. And belief. Actually, you
solder it. Yeah, everybody solder it. Everybody knows that you
(26:55):
knew that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right, I'm going to
call you next time it's out of tune. You just
come pick me up in your private jet. I don't
have a pray to chet um. Oh yeah. Also, so
you tapped in a little bit about the Aaron Neville impression.
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More impressions in here. There's a there's a first rock impression,
and there's also a Daffy Duck impression. Yes, the Daffy
Duck impression is very sweet. I have to thank you.
Thank you a very sweet way to do it, because
I forgot that that was in the episode. And then
when Jess says like, oh, this is what my mom
(27:38):
used to do for me. I thought it was gonna
be some like big, over the top kind of bit.
It's actually like a really sweet little Daffy truck. It
was very endearing. What was funny is I remember that
it had to be a Looney Tunes character. I think
because of write what we could reference really um but
(27:59):
Daffy Duck was something that I, as a kid, would
do Dabby up Duck impressions to myself, not to anybody else.
But I remember sitting in my room and being like,
I got it. I have this impression. It was like
not that great, but so you got to pick that character.
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That wasn't the one in pick it. I think it
ended up in the script, but I was like, I
got perfect in your wheelhouse. Perfect, it's in my wheelhouse.
And Lamarne, you're the comedy at the funeral. That Chris Rock.
(28:41):
That was a Chris Rock and that was a semi
Chris Rock impression. I had never done it before, and
I just thought when I thought of stand up, I
immediately thought of Chris Rock. And the script may have
said it just says he does a stand up. I
think he said he does like a Chris Rock like impression,
because Chris Rock, if you know when when he's when
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he's if you look at any Chris Rock special, he
paces the stage a lot to make emphasis, walk fast
across the stage to say one thing and then fast
across the other part. And to do that at a
funeral I thought would be funny. Um, it was real.
It was great. You did it, You did it. That
was a fun That was a fun bit to do.
I used to do a little bit of stand up
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back in the day, and so obviously not on the
Chris Rock level, but it was just not at funerals.
But I would, I would. I would. If somebody wants
like a tight tent at a funeral, you're you're there,
call me worse than the feeling they're already feeling. Speaking
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of literal impressions, UM, I do remember reading the script
and it talked about how there was an impression of
my butt in the sand and is that what is
that your butt? U near? Like? It was a funny things.
I wasn't there right when they did it. They weren't
sort of like, let me tek at your butt and
(30:06):
then carve this out, so this is accurate. So I
just remember watching the episode for the first time, and
I was like, those are two large watermelons that have
been pushed into the sand. Like if anybody's butt left
that impression in the sand, that is a very pronounced
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but don't don't. That's right, that's too large impression. It
just seemed very aggressive. It was so funny because I
was like, whoa, okay, well, hopefully people don't seem large.
It seemed like narrow, but like predated. It was injected
and not like yeah well like not like somebody with hips.
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It seemed like somebody with like no hips who just
had like two watermelons. Also, there's no there's no like
hay end print next to it to push yourself up
out of the sand. So I just stood up with
that big booty with my legs and then you do
so much apparently I do glutes but all whole day.
(31:16):
But also like you lavitated up because there's no there's
nothing it's just in the sand. I just dropped down
with my butt and bounced out and that was it.
I really like. I was like, there's so many questions.
It's like you're bent fully in half. That's right, and
then your button up, you were craned down and that's
(31:40):
right out we're solving. I really do have a question though,
for props of like what did they use because it's
just such a perfect specific scoop into the sand. Um
that's really I mean, I know this is like a
heartfelt episode of you think crops that did that? That
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feels more like set that well, maybe, said Dick. I
don't know. They walked around with these perfect little scoopers
and I was like, wow, I just have a lot
of questions, man, that's all. Do you think that was
like maybe it was like an un acknowledged fantasy sequence
dream ballet. Um uh. In Schmidt's mind, that is the
(32:26):
most logical explanation my creamed butt into the Booty dream
ballet Booty lasted. We would like to name the injured
episode Booty Dream Ballet. That's not the name of the
next She and Him album, Booty Dream Ballet. I don't
(32:48):
know if I could buy it. Here's the thing, I
was kind of a little apprehensive about doing the podcast
because I just immediately immediately thought, because this episode deals
with a cancer scare, that this, you know, when we
sat down to talk today, that we were kind of
going to go deep and heavy. And the fact that
we have just spent forty minutes talking and where we're
(33:11):
at is talking about a booty dream ballet really warms
my heart, you guys, really warms my heart. This is
when I wanted to be an issue. It's the podcast
is for. We have to answer these questions. We now
know it's a dream sequence and he's just seeing what
he hopes her what looks like, but also but actually
realized that, you know, obviously cancer is a very scary thing.
(33:35):
But Nick, you know, and he has all these thoughts
run through your mind of what it could possibly be
because you're you're searching the internet. You're trying to figure
out what dr Google? Dr Google? Also what is that
app that's like with the cross skull and crossbones on
it and crossbones and just as death, like go back
and find another site. It's also like the font tells
(33:58):
me that that app is not accurate diagnosed. Just the
back of a bleach bottle, like it's not it's not
even the thing. Well do you so? Well, I'm not
obviously you forget what websites look like in two thousand
and eleven. I mean website, website, that's what they were.
Very basic, great beta like websites. Um, it was yeah,
(34:19):
well I don't think it was that much. But he
but but you know, he realizes quickly after his his
ocean visit and after a long night on the beach,
after the booty ballet on the beach dream booty ballet
on the beach, that he indeed does not have cancer.
(34:40):
It was what he doesn't know. He just there was
something there could have possibly, But what is it? He
says he thought it was assist but that he kind
of blanked out after they said it was a cancer.
I think we had to after school specialists. Um. This
episode is a commentary on American healthcare because he can't
afford to pay right um And to the Hannah's Canadian, So,
(35:04):
do you want to tell us something about Yeah, I
think it's bonkers. I think that's so crazy that to
decide whether or not to take yourself, you know, your
child to the hospital, to a doctor. To get something
checked out, you have to check your bank account first.
I think that is so crazy and scary and said
that that's um it is determined to make everything's okay.
(35:26):
But it's a good thing. Nick Miller had rich friends,
who pays super rich friends. And then the other part
of the after school special, I feel like the moral
old teacher, out of work basketball player. Everybody pushing quarters
together is that go check it out. Man. If you've
got something that you're concerned about, check it out. It's
(35:47):
probably nothing. Then you get peace of mind, and that
is worth everything. Check it out. Always check it out, Yeaco.
(36:08):
If we jump into Winston's car a little bit, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
well Nick and your car are both injured. That's very true.
But also both Nick's car and Winston's car looked like
a bag of what the fuck? And find the way
(36:28):
all of our cars like in in a few episodes,
there's a whole thing about my car breaking down. We're
all driving cars that are on their last legs. Maybe
a nice car, beautiful car, which also makes no sense
because I live in an apartment with a bunch of
other people, Like you're spending all your money on your car.
(36:52):
I guess you remember people that I was friends with,
like in my twenties that would live in a like,
you know, not a super nice place, but they would
drive a really really crazy nice car. And I was like,
why are you driving a BMW? That was always the
guy picked you up in a BMW and then takes
(37:13):
his take you back to like a studio apartment where
seven people live. Yeah. I was like, that money elsewhere
or save it? And I'm curious guys will pick you
up in a BMW and then take you back to
their junkie apartment. No, it was just like other people.
It is it is I feel like that. It was
(37:35):
a lot of people would just spend all their money
on their car, right, that's right. Oh yeah. When I
first moved here. When I first moved to l A,
I lived in a small apartment in North Hollywood and
one of my neighbors really nice guy. Every time every
time I would see him in the parking lot walking
to one of his cars. He had a bunch of cars.
It was always like a g Wagon or range Rover
(37:56):
or a Ferrari. And this apartment complex was very cheap,
second very cheap, and I just thought, holy crap, this
guy could have just those cars alone, you could buy
a nice house with and uh yeah, the drug dealer
a little more, maybe showing out to Daniel, who was
the my neighbor's name is Daniel? Daniel clear, your good
(38:23):
nights is just throwing shade at I don't afford it.
They don't talk less say less Daniel the drug dealer.
Oh my god, um um okay. As we wrapped this
(38:43):
episode up, my friends, where's the Bear? Hannah? Okay, So
I've kind of been avoiding it because I looked long
and hard and it almost reminds me of the wedding
episode for the Where's the Bear, where the big stretch
was the bare feet. The closest I can get to
(39:05):
it on this one is that's right, That's right, right,
Miller's boot. That's all I got, you, guys. And it's
a stretch. And I know Zoe does not accept things
that are not Actually I don't, but you know what,
(39:29):
I like the creativity. I gotta be. I gotta be.
You know I like the creativity. Um, all right, let's
play True American where the rules change sweetly and you
leave more confused than when you showed up. This week
(39:50):
we're playing Eldest Blues where we'll try to guess some
of the saddest songs in the world. Um, I guess
our engineer Daniel is going to play some of those
songs for us love songs. And I didn't mean to
cut you off, but I just joking and I did
that though that's what you were thinking about. You were
(40:12):
thinking like great minds, bro. I'll take it a bit. Okay,
let's try this. This is song number one, and don't
cheat by using Shazam. Don't cheat, know chasaming and I'm
just sharing computer sounds. We're gonna try to stat Okay,
let me know if you can hear this one. Okay,
(40:33):
Oh yeah, I know. Eric Clapton. Tears in Heaven by
Eric Clapton the saddest song. It is the saddest song ever.
Genuinely the saddest song, the saddest song ever. I don't
even want to it's too horrific. I can't even hear
the song it actually know it is actually a horror song.
(40:53):
That's a horror song. Listening to it as equivalent to
reading like one of the current headlines and then your
that's right, okay. With Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
I can't even talk about it because it feels like
a curse for our songs. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a
horror song. It's very sad. I don't want to cry,
(41:13):
so I'm not going to talk about it. Thank you.
The next one, everybody's tears and terrified. Right, yeah, it
was ready for the next one. Here, we can do it.
We're ready. Lamour on the Keys. Is that Gloomy Sunday?
(41:36):
Is this Nina Simone? You gloomy Sunday? Nor Nina? Oh god,
it's just strange indeed, But hold I mean, this is
another horror song. That's the saddest song I need here.
(42:02):
Oh my god. I thought the songs are going to
be like he's cheated on me and broke my heart,
And now I thought I'm gonna have to got to
go with therapy after this game. Damn. Yeah. Okay, first
of all, I don't know what to say. It doesn't
get any better, though, better than listening. Can we get
(42:23):
like crimea River by Justin Timberlake or something? Can we
just get something that's just like innocuous? So I guess not,
what in thee were you thinking? You strange? There's there's
three more and I think, oh god, I gotta laid down. Okay,
(42:44):
all right, next, I mean this is hard. I feel
like I'm gonna throw up. The next one, windows opening,
it's spins. Yeah, this is right, this is oh know,
nothing compares to you nothing? Yeah, also very sad. What's
(43:06):
that about? That's my Prince, our friend prince and um,
this is shand O'Connor singing nothing compares to you. Also
a very sad song, not on the level of the
other two sad Like it feels that narrating song is
(43:26):
very depressed. Right, that's where her mom passing away, Well,
Prince's mom passing away. Yeah, it's about a mom's passing away.
Oh god, well then now, yeah, that's I guess thanks
a lot. I thought it was just about a breakup, alright.
When we know the context of all these songs, it
(43:49):
makes them just like I feel like puking. Right, God,
that was a kind of a great music video, though
she was phenomenal in that music video. That's and gold
Tier with Joel You and in a mood when you
pick these songs, I'm still going back to strange Fruit
(44:11):
really yeah, dark dark Strange Fruit takes the cake. This
is a Halloween episode of True America. Okay, yeah, let's
just get through it. I guess over the coals. It
only continues. I can't even think of songs on this loft.
But I mean starting with tears at Kevin. Yeah, yeah,
(44:34):
I think I think now that we know the theme,
I'm having a trauma response. Here we go. Here's number four,
the needle. Oh my god, listen, Johnny Cash just yes, yeah,
heroin addiction, nails hurt. Okay, that was one of and
(45:01):
wasn't it right after he covered that song right after
June Carter Cash passed away, right, Okay? I mean it's
like one of the most like hauntingly beautiful cover songs
that I can't because it's so sad. Yeah. I think
Trent Roseman has said that that is no longer uh
(45:23):
nine inchnail song that is now a Johnny Cash song, Yeah,
which I appreciate. He's yeah, I appreciate that. Oh my god, alright,
just one more, just hold onto something more white knucklet
let's go everybody by Aria. I mean, you know that
(45:54):
that song, the song I said, here's how that song
I'm gonna go ruined because it's a beautiful song is
don't they play a song and like nine o two
and no, when uh Tori Spelling finds out that she's
being like cheated on or something, well, they play it.
They used it. So the thing about that song is
they in the nineties and the early two thousand's, that
(46:15):
song got abused by MTV. They always use it in
like the real world and like then like shows like
um the Hills and stuff like that. Um, you feel
like anytime somebody was sad, they played that song. And
it's an amazing song. Arim is an amazing band. Um,
(46:37):
but it got you so much that then when I
hear it, I start thinking of music cues from reality shows,
mainly in the late nineties. Yeah, Dylan and Brenda's breakup song.
That's right, that's right, that's what. And I was like, oh,
(46:58):
God says that, well that one at least, and I
just for us, that's ending our producer making us all
go on this emotional roller coast. No no, no, my
day's ruined. Whisper in. Yeah, she really shamed in. You
(47:29):
really leaned into this. We didn't know what we were
getting into, but somehow we won the game. So did
I say about us the game within three seconds were like,
we know that, you know the game. You know who
didn't win the game, all the victims of those songs.
That's right. I consider myself one now, to be honest
(47:51):
with you. But isn't it The thing is is like,
isn't it important that these songs were written? Have I
never heard Tears in Heaven again? I would be just fine? Yeah,
me too, me too. It's like that movie Dancer in
the Dark. I can't ever see un see that movie,
(48:12):
but I will never see it again because I was
traumatized by it. But it was a very good movie
and I'm happy it was made. But all these songs,
I'm like, well, they were great expressions of tragedy um
and expressed through music, and I'm happy they were written.
Do I want to listen to them ever? Again? No,
(48:37):
as part of it, because they post said on a
comic dep podcast. Okay, before we wrap this episode up,
I have a little bit of unfinished business with you,
um Zoe and I have also been what is this
(48:58):
this whole episode? Like, why do I talk about to
talk about it? But we're at the end of the episode, y'all,
and I can't hide anymore. So I sent a little
massage to Dave Finkel, who's close friends with Um Walpert. Okay,
David Walpert who wrote the episode that had Snap out
(49:19):
of It and the reference with the Moonstruck reference, And
I said was obviously has to be Moonstruck. Will part
um you must agree? So here was the response. I
will read it out loud. You already smile. You seem
like very vindicated, So I'm assuming that you're you are
(49:40):
or no, I don't know. He said it starts one
way and it takes a turn Hannah or let Hannah
know I'm on her side. So I was like, great,
this makes sense. That's all I wanted to hear. That said,
don't like this part. I don't recall having Moonstruck on
the but pretty sure Crescent Moon was in my pre
(50:03):
list draft and I do like Moonstruck, So possibly an
unconscious homage. This is not going to settle anything, is it.
Oh gosh, the kind of I'm vindicated. Yeah, it sounds
like you know, I I love how much you love
Moonstruck like that is so awesome to me, Like, I
just like love you more for how much you love Moonstruck,
(50:26):
like and that you think it's like in Awe in
everybody's thoughts and on their minds and and and living
in their hearts. Um. I remember a few things about Moonstruck,
but like almost none of the dialogue. Um, I see
it everywhere. It's like that number twenty three things, you
know what I mean? Well, I just see it in everything.
(50:47):
Great movies influence everything, and then people a lot of
times don't realize they're being influenced. But it's the same
with music and everything. I mean, that's like it's a
great movie. Everybody saw it, you know, and it had
a lot of things. I'm sure that we're unique to
it at the time that then everybody ripped off without
realizing it. And then those people ripped you know, not
(51:09):
ripping it off, but like we're influenced or inspired by it,
and then other people were inspired by you know, and
then things become tropes and they become part of the
fabric of our entertainment. And I think that's a testament
to that movie. I will say right now, you're being
very um generous, and I'm just gonna have to on
(51:31):
this podcast give one point to Zoe d one point.
It'll come around again on something else. I'm sure. I'm sure.
I'm not a very competitive person, so it works for me.
This is a great episode, you guys. Yeah, this was fun,
except for the listening to terribly sad solids part. Thanks
(51:54):
everybody for listening. Good Bye for now you will see
next week. Bye. You've been listening to Welcome to Our Show,
a New Girl recap podcast. Welcome to Our Show is
a production of I Heart Radio, hosted by Zoey Deschanel,
Lamour and Morris and Hannah Simone. Our executive producers Joel Monique.
(52:17):
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