Speaker 1: Ring ring ring ring man, I please speak with Zoe.
Speaker 2: Oh hello, Lamarn let's patch in Hannah.
Speaker 3: God, I forgot what it was like working with you, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Sorry you guys. I was looking at
Speaker 1: Schmid's penis cast in the background. No, I just have
Speaker 1: photos of his penis cast as a motivational background. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at.
Speaker 2: Should we have a moment of silence or yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: not yet? Should say grace, Lord Almighty all our father,
Speaker 2: we thank you for or mother the image or mother,
Speaker 2: we thank you for the image of Schmidt and his
Speaker 2: penis cast for inspiration for this episode. Yeah, okay. We
Speaker 2: would like to welcome our very distinguished guest, Nelson Franklin.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here.
Speaker 4: Yayyah, what a pleasure, what an honor.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 6: We have a fantastic show today. We are recapping episode
Speaker 6: one two. We have a fantastic show today. We are
Speaker 6: recapping episode two oh one.
Speaker 3: Relaunch.
Speaker 2: I probably should have interrupted you. We're recapping episode two
Speaker 2: of one real by relaunching our lives. We're relaunching our show,
Speaker 2: the show every show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we have someone you may know him as Robbie,
Speaker 6: but we know him as missed.
Speaker 2: Nelson, right, Robbie. Also, you know spoiler alert, my justice
Speaker 2: third cousin. That was a nice twist, which makes a
Speaker 2: lot of sense. What's up, Nelson, How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good. I'm very well. I'm so happy
Speaker 5: to see you guys.
Speaker 1: It's been likewise, yeah, yeah, it's been a very very
Speaker 1: long time, my friend. Before we get into the recap
Speaker 1: of exactly what this episode is, tell us how did
Speaker 1: you how this come about? What were you doing in
Speaker 1: that moment when you got this call of the greatest
Speaker 1: the greatest job your life.
Speaker 5: I know you're joking, but it is one of the
Speaker 5: greatest jobs, definitely of my life. It was so fun,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: I was just doing the audition thing, and I was
Speaker 4: dating my wife Georgia back then, and we had planned
Speaker 4: a trip to New York. We were going to take
Speaker 4: our first trip together out of town, and we had
Speaker 4: friends in New York, and and then I blew the
Speaker 4: trip off to do New Girl instead.
Speaker 2: I got that she forgave you.
Speaker 4: She went without me and had a great time, and
Speaker 4: then that gig turned into a seven year job.
Speaker 6: So I don't regret it for one Wow, did they
Speaker 6: just say it was just two episodes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just two Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was just there to you know, make schmid angry
Speaker 4: for two episodes.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, it was a good yeah. And
Speaker 2: you were doing a lot of other like shows that
Speaker 2: I feel like at the same time, right, making Blackish
Speaker 2: and a couple of other shows too.
Speaker 5: I don't think I was on Blackish yet, but I think.
Speaker 2: You got a because of us.
Speaker 5: Right, that's it. That's exactly.
Speaker 2: We saw you on New Girl and we think you've
Speaker 2: got a future.
Speaker 5: We saw you dancing awkward.
Speaker 3: It was the Green Spandex.
Speaker 5: That was the second one. Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 6: Was the Halloween episode. Later they put you in that
Speaker 6: Green Spandex. One of the funniest things where you see
Speaker 6: Max Greenfield break multiple times on the camera, just trying
Speaker 6: to it together while while you sit there and take
Speaker 6: his insults and he just can't handle it.
Speaker 2: Is that the first time you saw yourself in green
Speaker 2: span x.
Speaker 4: That's but not the last, because then again I did
Speaker 4: it again on New Girl.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I was in a red jumpsuit, not a
Speaker 5: green one.
Speaker 2: Well, everyone loved it so much. They were like, let's
Speaker 2: pretty this back.
Speaker 5: What have you?
Speaker 3: They were very happy.
Speaker 4: I'm very tall, so my crotch was at eye level
Speaker 4: for Max all the time when he was sitting.
Speaker 1: Folks, if you're if you're just tuning in, uh, this
Speaker 1: is season two of Welcome to Our Show, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna switch things up a little bit. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: things a little bit differently. We're going to not only
Speaker 1: have a little sit down chat with our dear friend
Speaker 1: Nelson Franklin, but he's also going to help us recap
Speaker 1: this episode. You know, sometimes we'll just recap it episode,
Speaker 1: sometimes we'll have an interview. But this time we're going
Speaker 1: to combine the best of the both worlds. So I know, Nelson,
Speaker 1: we're doing it because you're here.
Speaker 2: And we know how good you are recapping exactly.
Speaker 1: We've seen all other recaps, so let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: A plus man a place.
Speaker 2: Remember when you did that recap thing.
Speaker 3: We liked it.
Speaker 5: Private recaps. This will be my first public recap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get paid big bucks to privately recap.
Speaker 5: I'm a personal recapper.
Speaker 1: Recap up, recap up. We don't do the e R
Speaker 1: on the show. The uh So the flatmates, they're struggling
Speaker 1: with major life changes. Jess gets fired from her job
Speaker 1: as a teacher, the only profession she's ever considered. But Jess,
Speaker 1: you know, it's Jess, and she always tries to see
Speaker 1: that the glass half full. After all, if you don't
Speaker 1: go to work, you don't have to put your boobs
Speaker 1: in boob jail.
Speaker 5: Boob jail were my favorites from this.
Speaker 1: It's a thing that we always say around my household. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now that's.
Speaker 2: A boot jail. I'm just going to say it is.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 2: It's a great description jail because it's like you're not free, you.
Speaker 1: Know, not frue. Speaking of things that are not free,
Speaker 1: Schmidt's penis definitely not free in this episode. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's functioning now mostly and he and he wants
Speaker 1: to celebrate with with a danger themed party. He ropes
Speaker 1: in Nick as a bartender, and Winston is determined to
Speaker 1: get Nick to craft the fruity explosions that make him
Speaker 1: get weird. Uh, that's just a Winston thing. La Morne
Speaker 1: does not do that.
Speaker 2: Lamourn doesn't like fruity drinks at all.
Speaker 1: You got, I don't. I don't don't put up even
Speaker 1: a smoothie.
Speaker 2: Only yeah, it won't even drink a smoothie. We've seen
Speaker 2: him drink a smoothie for sure not.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Jess also convinces Schmidt to hire her as a shotgirl,
Speaker 1: but the term is lost in translation and just shows
Speaker 1: up as a cigarette girl from the thirties. Uh in
Speaker 1: her O two's bathing suit. It struggles to keep up
Speaker 1: with the more experienced half brain girl Shotgirl Casey played
Speaker 1: by Parker Posey literal half brained, half brain. Just she
Speaker 1: says that that she has brain damage.
Speaker 2: Uh, not Parker, but the character.
Speaker 1: The character.
Speaker 2: The character is a genius.
Speaker 1: Literally a genius graduated on my t now uh.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Nick tries to keep Jessic's spirits up by being mean
Speaker 1: to her, which is very strange or kink, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. Winston brings a box of fruit
Speaker 1: so Nick can get to work, and the overall party
Speaker 1: is a huge success until c C arrives, which I
Speaker 1: also thought was strange and uh, and then we could
Speaker 1: see Schmid's real reason for throwing the party. Now she
Speaker 1: hasn't spoken to him in months. As Schmidt goes to
Speaker 1: make his move, c C introduces her new boyfriend, Robbie
Speaker 1: Robby Robby Robbie. He is not what Schmidt has expected.
Speaker 1: He's not rich, super fit. Sorry that's what they said
Speaker 1: in here. I didn't say that. Or Prince Charming. Sorry
Speaker 1: that's what they said in here. I didn't say that.
Speaker 2: But you yes, playing a part. It's acting.
Speaker 1: Uh now, all those things it makes Schmid's It's makes
Speaker 1: Schmid a little crazy, you know. So he decides to
Speaker 1: spend fire as a way to win her back. That
Speaker 1: was dumb. Instead, he almost kills Robbie and uh cecy
Speaker 1: let Schmidt down easy by saying we're too similar to
Speaker 1: ever work out. Schmid's crushed, but he's not giving up.
Speaker 1: Jes eventually must feel her feelings. It sucks to be fired,
Speaker 1: but as Nick reminds her, life will get better again
Speaker 1: and then it'll be shitty. That's life, and that's what
Speaker 1: happened in episode two to one relaunch.
Speaker 2: Hey, do you remember the song? I remembered so well
Speaker 2: that sexy girl all around the road. Do you remember
Speaker 2: the song? There's like a song I had to do
Speaker 2: a dance too, so I heard it like a million times.
Speaker 2: I don't think i've heard it like before or since.
Speaker 4: But the show, I remember, you're up on the table
Speaker 4: with Parker dancing on the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never thought in my life that I would
Speaker 2: get to do dance on a bar with Parker Posey.
Speaker 2: But I didn't dream enough.
Speaker 1: We've always said that about you, Zoe. You don't big enough.
Speaker 2: I don't. I probably don't. Should I should have been
Speaker 2: thinking and that should have been on my vision board,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't.
Speaker 1: So let's dive right in. Uh this episode directed by
Speaker 1: Steve Pink, written by K Cannon. Uh in the In
Speaker 1: the beginning of this episode, Uh, something strange happens to
Speaker 1: just she gets she gets fired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she gets sheeted.
Speaker 5: She gets fired, Yeah, but not for me, not for me.
Speaker 5: Thing she did it was just layoffs, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the worst presentation of how to get fired.
Speaker 6: She's bad news and then there's bad news and then
Speaker 6: a sombrero.
Speaker 2: And then a tiny and then a tiny hat.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right?
Speaker 5: From the Lost and Found Box, Well, would.
Speaker 2: You guys pick from the Lost and Found box weed?
Speaker 1: I know there's always weed in there, Not for me though,
Speaker 1: from from my from my friends, your grandma, she does
Speaker 1: have not anymore. You know she's she did, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, thanks, Nelson, Well.
Speaker 5: You can smoke one in her honor. I guess.
Speaker 1: Now she left over a bunch of joints.
Speaker 2: It's like a pristine thing with the smell, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: so you remember her.
Speaker 1: My question is this if you when this happened in
Speaker 1: the episode, were you was this? Was this the Was
Speaker 1: this a plan going forward? Did they have a conversation
Speaker 1: with you saying, oh, we're no longer going to make
Speaker 1: you a teacher, We're going to switch up your profession,
Speaker 1: or is this just a way to get to something?
Speaker 1: What was it? Did they pitch anything else?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 2: They were trying to figure out how to just change
Speaker 2: things up a little bit, you know, have a shake up,
Speaker 2: shake up the whatever, fish tank. I don't know. And
Speaker 2: so they they said they were going to have me
Speaker 2: lose my job and then I was going to be
Speaker 2: jobless for a while and I would then find another
Speaker 2: weird job, I guess. And I'm gonna have to remember
Speaker 2: via watching the show which job that next one is?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like, were you about to be Winston and have a
Speaker 1: million different career paths?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think they liked I think this
Speaker 2: show is like always about drifters, you know, not drifters,
Speaker 2: but like kind of people who are drifting in and
Speaker 2: out of relationships, and jobs and you know kind of
Speaker 2: figuring it out, like they don't have it figured out.
Speaker 2: That's part of the problem that makes the show, you know,
Speaker 2: work right, you know, I guess that the dramas created
Speaker 2: around and so gotta get ess fired. She has a
Speaker 2: good job and she's content, Like you can't get her
Speaker 2: in those situations where she's weird and awkward and she
Speaker 2: loves being a teacher, Like that's I mean, I always
Speaker 2: thought that was like one really like key parts of
Speaker 2: that character was that she just loves being a teacher.
Speaker 2: She loves the kids. It's and you know, taking that
Speaker 2: away from her really kind of throws her into a tailspin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because I do you end up being
Speaker 1: a teacher? And it's interesting because in this one, it
Speaker 1: your love for being a teacher is almost like a
Speaker 1: relationship in you know, and obviously people are coupled off
Speaker 1: on the show when people come and go in relationships,
Speaker 1: but your job on this one is like being in
Speaker 1: a relationship because we feel it so much that you
Speaker 1: lose it and then it's kind of like we hope
Speaker 1: that it actually comes back, you know, in a weird Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: my character loses jobs and It's like, well, fuck that job.
Speaker 1: I didn't want that job, and what a real passion
Speaker 1: was you know? This one is definitely a character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I think Whinston's looking for the
Speaker 2: thing and Jess knows it, but she just can't quite
Speaker 2: find the job, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, her journey. We're on the journey you speaking of
Speaker 6: a journey. I honestly he was so shocked because I
Speaker 6: remember the multiple calls that would happen.
Speaker 3: I'm in video village with.
Speaker 6: What's the name of the department that says they're in
Speaker 6: decides how many times you can say the word penis and.
Speaker 2: Butt standards and practices, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Those guys, Because I was like, ah, it was a
Speaker 6: real like fast dive into vigorous nipple play. I literally
Speaker 6: was like, this is network television. How did that get
Speaker 6: green lighted? Or green light And then I remember Finkel
Speaker 6: once being like, oh, we've said butt too many times.
Speaker 3: We got to cut some butts out of here.
Speaker 2: I was like that it's a number of times things.
Speaker 2: It's actually really funny. They're like, you can say that once,
Speaker 2: but not more than once, and then they had to
Speaker 2: It was like I remember there was one where they
Speaker 2: were like you can hold a sausage, but you can't
Speaker 2: say dong while holding the sausage.
Speaker 4: Man, and that the dude would come by at least
Speaker 4: on other shows I was on the standard practice, I
Speaker 4: would come by physically be there to check it out. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was always like a weird like we.
Speaker 2: Had we had a gal. She was not weird, she
Speaker 2: was really cool, but she was like, guys, you know,
Speaker 2: we can't can't say dong more than once.
Speaker 1: The three departments that are that are strange that I
Speaker 1: find on set because one has been added recently with
Speaker 1: the with the the State.
Speaker 2: Of our World Intimacy Coordinator.
Speaker 1: Well one one one is intimacy coordinator, one of the
Speaker 1: standards and practices, and one the COVID compliance people with
Speaker 1: the stick or you're talking to coastal like couple of
Speaker 1: a stick and like move you and like make sure
Speaker 1: you're six feet apart. Sometimes you're like, oh man, this
Speaker 1: is my good friend. Like we don't give a down.
Speaker 1: You gotta stand far apart. And then the intimacy coach
Speaker 1: when you're like you're doing a scene even if it's
Speaker 1: not even if it's not like it's like network, it's
Speaker 1: like network intimacy you're not doing anything, and they're like
Speaker 1: right there, like, hey, listen, if you don't mind, just
Speaker 1: when you waste, waste a little bit, put a pillow
Speaker 1: right there. And it's so creepy to me, And it
Speaker 1: takes away from any level of act thing that you
Speaker 1: planned on doing. You know, have you had that experience
Speaker 1: any of you?
Speaker 2: I haven't had anc coordinator on any sets. Event I
Speaker 2: guess they were maybe they were more like worried about
Speaker 2: you or something. Just dude, yoh yeah, it was just
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: There's no department.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Actually a pigment of your imagination.
Speaker 3: Wait, Nelson, did you have to deal with one?
Speaker 5: There was an intimacy coordinator, but she died twenty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 4: I did this show on Stars called gas Lit last
Speaker 4: summer and I did a scene with with Dan Stevens
Speaker 4: where we went to an orgy and they were like,
Speaker 4: I'm not even kidding, like a hundred fully nude men
Speaker 4: and women there, and so they had to have like
Speaker 4: six intimacy coordinators, like all around the room.
Speaker 5: They all had like.
Speaker 2: Like background intimacy coordinator were also naked.
Speaker 3: We're all naked. Yeah, if you're.
Speaker 4: Naked and they would so instead of calling you know,
Speaker 4: rolling action or whatever, it would be like rolling and
Speaker 4: it would be like robes and then six people would
Speaker 4: get all the robes from all that and then they
Speaker 4: would be like and it was a crazy thing, but
Speaker 4: it worked great.
Speaker 2: Not no, I do. I don't think it is good.
Speaker 2: I do think it's good to have somebody making sure
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of weird you know, gray area,
Speaker 2: I think, and to make have somebody there making it clear.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 6: I think it's helpful because I've definitely had moments where
Speaker 6: somebody didn't know where the line was the line and
Speaker 6: you're like, what are you?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? No one obviously sat and explained
Speaker 3: this to you.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I'm opening a condom? What
Speaker 1: do you mean, sir?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: I think like, well, I think a lot of female
Speaker 6: you know, doctors hasn't experience that before, like what is happening?
Speaker 1: So what I found to be interesting about this episode is, well,
Speaker 1: Schmidt Will Schmidt obviously he's getting his cast, you know, removed,
Speaker 1: and he wants to throw a party in celebration of that,
Speaker 1: a danger themed party, and he you know, the gang
Speaker 1: is all there like we normally are. However, on this one,
Speaker 1: I was actually shocked at how inconsiderate Cecy's character was.
Speaker 6: You know what, I kind of agree with you. What
Speaker 6: a wild thing to show up You didn't say you
Speaker 6: were coming. You show up to your ex boyfriend's spot
Speaker 6: with your new boyfriend that you don't say you're bringing.
Speaker 3: It was shady. Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1: And he got his cast off ready to go.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a strange move.
Speaker 1: Did you feel that was strange in that moment? Did
Speaker 1: you were? You were? We just like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: the script, let's do it. I didn't You didn't know
Speaker 1: that it was like a character trait of yours to
Speaker 1: be an asshole.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've put a lot of deep thought
Speaker 6: in it, though, I do think it's something that's quite understandable.
Speaker 6: This guy that you really like who dumps you and
Speaker 6: then invites you to his party to be like, hey,
Speaker 6: guess what my penis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say you're pretty justified, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be like, fine, guessing I'm not interested.
Speaker 6: You don't me And she says that. Ceci says that
Speaker 6: during the party, she's like, you're you don't me. So
Speaker 6: unless you want to address that, I'm letting you know
Speaker 6: that I'm good. So it's a bit of a shady mood,
Speaker 6: but also a justified one.
Speaker 1: My thing is this, like, how do you pitch? How
Speaker 1: do you pitch Robbie Like, Hey, we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: this party. Uh my my ex boyfriend got his cast
Speaker 1: removed from his penis. I want you to be there
Speaker 1: to celebrate it, like it's free. Now.
Speaker 5: Robbie's not a normal person, He's happy about everything.
Speaker 4: Oh great, I'm so glad it's penis.
Speaker 2: Is the is the Is it clear that the parties
Speaker 2: like for the penis cast coming off like in the
Speaker 2: invite or does it just say like relaunch danger.
Speaker 1: I think he mentioned it in the beginning. I think
Speaker 1: he says something about out celebrating, but I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tapless post, do you feel like Schmidt would be
Speaker 6: very specific in sharing that information it also? I mean
Speaker 6: it's it's I think the reason why Nelson everybody fell
Speaker 6: in love with Robbie so much, like the audience fell
Speaker 6: in love with your characters so much, because you're the
Speaker 6: most confident secure Robbie's the those confident secure person ever,
Speaker 6: and you see it established so quickly in this episode,
Speaker 6: and then when you came back for the Halloween episode
Speaker 6: where he's just so cruel towards you and she just
Speaker 6: keeps trying to head butt you, and you just keep
Speaker 6: your hand there, still loving him, totally secure in your
Speaker 6: relationship and in yourself. It's an amazing you're a He's
Speaker 6: an inspiration that Robbie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Robbie would never have a relaunch party for his penis.
Speaker 3: Cast coming unthreatened, just unthreatened by life.
Speaker 1: Never left.
Speaker 4: Unbreakable. He's like a sort of like a hipster Flanders,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 5: Just like a more bearable Flanders.
Speaker 3: Either way, I get help but love them.
Speaker 2: Like a lot of it's kind of feels timeless and stuff.
Speaker 2: And then there are things that date the show, but
Speaker 2: like the Schmidt's list of invites for the girls from Lululemon,
Speaker 2: his badminton partner, his financial planner, his urologists, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Speaker 2: ri I p a writer from crank Yankers, and obviously CC. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so some some things in there that that date date
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I feel like it's gonna be as this show,
Speaker 6: you know, goes on and on and on. I think
Speaker 6: it's always so nice when you like shout out one
Speaker 6: of like the greats, and so you know the kids
Speaker 6: will be like.
Speaker 3: Philip seymour Hoff, phil how body of work? They discovered
Speaker 3: it through New Girl? How weird?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so everybody. Actually one of my favorite
Speaker 2: actors ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the best of all.
Speaker 4: I'm a little surprised that Schmid is into film. I
Speaker 4: thought he was gonna say somebody like, you know, to Cruiser.
Speaker 2: You're like, who's that? Who's that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Uh, stand up? That was really big? What's his name? Cook?
Speaker 2: Dane Cook? That just felt like a Schmidt. Schmidt would
Speaker 2: like ads at.
Speaker 5: Least you know.
Speaker 1: Joe Piscopal, you know what I mean? Joe.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: New Girl director Eric Appel also uh wrote on crank anchors. Guys,
Speaker 2: crank anchors if you don't if you've never seen it,
Speaker 2: right show where they crank called people and then they
Speaker 2: puppet they animated with puppets.
Speaker 1: Yes, so, uh it's who there was stuff? Did we
Speaker 1: talk about this before? Where there was someone else on?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: There was also a New Girl writer who wrote on
Speaker 1: crank anchors or am I tripping?
Speaker 2: Maybe it was I mean they I think they had
Speaker 2: to have a lot. It's funny because it's like improvised,
Speaker 2: but they have like writers. I randomly was in one
Speaker 2: of like the sessions watching the Crank calling years ago
Speaker 2: and they were like, they're just there live writing like
Speaker 2: alts and you know, kind of responses to kind of
Speaker 2: supplement the uh, the improvisation.
Speaker 1: Like our show in a way though we had Yeah, just.
Speaker 2: Like our show, we brought an unsuspecting people. We had
Speaker 2: lots of comments.
Speaker 1: Question So this is an episode where we realized and
Speaker 1: I may have spoken about it before there there was
Speaker 1: like an evolution to my character where I was getting
Speaker 1: more and more uncomfortable on the show and getting I
Speaker 1: guess finding out who my character was gonna be. And
Speaker 1: I remember there was you.
Speaker 2: Were the unsuspected they brought in, and you're like.
Speaker 1: I thought I was an interview for something, just to
Speaker 1: create a character. That's kind of how it felt, you know,
Speaker 1: especially Big popping in on the second episode. But we
Speaker 1: rerealized thanks to a note from Jake Kasden, who was
Speaker 1: screaming out more girly. I think this was the episode
Speaker 1: when I was the Fruit and Drink and I kept
Speaker 1: from the episode not. Well, it's a big meme that
Speaker 1: It's like a big memorable thing where I you know,
Speaker 1: I look at I'm having a free drink in my
Speaker 1: hand and I say naughty or whatever. Memorable moment and
Speaker 1: we and we talk about it. We talk about the
Speaker 1: kind of drinks that Nick likes to make, the ones,
Speaker 1: the ones that Winston likes to drink. Now, are you
Speaker 1: a drinker? What do you what? What is in your cup?
Speaker 1: What do you what's your go to?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My wife and I like to make cocktails. We have
Speaker 4: a very robust bar in our house during the pandemic,
Speaker 4: you know. But I'm a I'm a whiskey guy. I
Speaker 4: like to have Manhattan's and stuff like that. My my
Speaker 4: wife is a Martine drinker. But I am notoriously like
Speaker 4: super sweet drinks that give you a headache later.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: All the syrups, all the syrups.
Speaker 2: How about you guys, Little mourn and Hannah, what do
Speaker 2: you guys? Do you drink?
Speaker 1: Grony Kick lately? Vartier?
Speaker 2: You guys are so old fashioned? Now you you guys
Speaker 2: are old fashion.
Speaker 1: I'm a father, now, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to drink old fashions. I picture
Speaker 2: you in smoking jackets with cravats.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: How about you? Hannah? Your wine wine? Right?
Speaker 3: Nice class of cold white wine.
Speaker 2: That's me too. I don't like red wine me either,
Speaker 2: I don't like it. I like white wine or rose.
Speaker 5: Me too, was my favorite.
Speaker 1: How do you know of this one?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, you don't know. Maybe the correct pronunciation. I think.
Speaker 1: I was actually shocked to find out because Hannah and Joey,
Speaker 1: you remember this one. Hanna would always talk about how
Speaker 1: wild her knights would get.
Speaker 3: Favorite thing to talk about every chicken.
Speaker 2: Story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this one, this one is this is this
Speaker 1: is why cy is why something. Yes, but this is
Speaker 1: why it's different from the other times that I've told it,
Speaker 1: because I was just Hannah just informed me that all
Speaker 1: those times when she would come and she would clear,
Speaker 1: her and her husband would clear a bottle of a
Speaker 1: couple of bottles of wine. I thought it was red wine,
Speaker 1: but she'd be like, no, we like went through a
Speaker 1: bottle of white wine, which I never thought.
Speaker 3: It really really like took them for like a loop.
Speaker 1: What I like on a sunny day outside drink and
Speaker 1: you're like at night down in bottles of clear stuff.
Speaker 7: I didn't first of all, we're a downing bottle, so
Speaker 7: you know they're playing categories like you said, they weren't
Speaker 7: either categories and they ordered wings.
Speaker 3: I know drink white wine.
Speaker 2: Even hear from the wine experts, does white wine compliment wings?
Speaker 6: And also can you drink it in the evening, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna say, yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, I drink it. That's the I don't drink red wine.
Speaker 2: So if I'm drinking wine, it's gonna be white wine, yes,
Speaker 2: and it will be chilled.
Speaker 3: You're so shocked by it was so funny.
Speaker 6: You're like, wait, what just after dark?
Speaker 1: Better than that?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: We are better than that?
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Speaker 1: Right here, the Great State of China. So, Nelson, you
Speaker 1: talked about witnessing uh Zoe and Parker dancing on on
Speaker 1: a you know, doing the whole thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, a performance situation. What else about this episode?
Speaker 1: Do you remember what else about this, like did you
Speaker 1: find me be interesting or shocking about our show? There's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we've fine to be different.
Speaker 1: When people come on our show, they go, I didn't
Speaker 1: know you guys did things this way or that way.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this one?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I had a great time.
Speaker 4: You know, this is this is over ten years ago now,
Speaker 4: and it was He's still pretty early in my career.
Speaker 4: I hadn't really done too much stuff, so this is
Speaker 4: a big deal for me, and I was very excited
Speaker 4: to meet everybody. And I remember, you know, the whole
Speaker 4: time I was doing that episode, Max had his shirt
Speaker 4: off for the entire like three days I was there,
Speaker 4: never put a shirt on, and half the time.
Speaker 5: He was really greased up and glimmering and all that.
Speaker 4: And so I had said to him, like, hey man,
Speaker 4: just really casually, you know, I was.
Speaker 5: Like, dude, how many how often? How many days a
Speaker 5: week do you work out?
Speaker 4: And he looked at me super offended, like a crazy
Speaker 4: thing to ask him, And he was like, every.
Speaker 5: Day, dude, Sorry, even on Sunday. He's like every day.
Speaker 2: Dude. Even Mark Wahlberg takes a day off. Yeah, even
Speaker 2: Mark Wahlberg he goes harder than Mark Mark. I worked
Speaker 2: with him and he worked out twice a day, four
Speaker 2: I have to work out three, okay, dedication. But he
Speaker 2: would take a day off and eat like eat normally
Speaker 2: like I think, not just chicken rust or whatever. And
Speaker 2: he would also take a day off workout.
Speaker 4: So Max Mark perfect name. Yeah, say instead of instead of.
Speaker 3: Did you do you remember your first day on set?
Speaker 3: Do you remember the first thing you shot? Did you
Speaker 3: feel nervous at all?
Speaker 4: Very nervous because I had to do like a stupid
Speaker 4: little dance when I came in. It would like they
Speaker 4: like cut back to me dancing like an idiot or
Speaker 4: whatever song was playing, and I was like, oh man,
Speaker 4: at least people are looking at me. I'm gonna dance,
Speaker 4: I mean the precious kind off because I'm supposed to
Speaker 4: look down.
Speaker 5: But like I remember that in the audition.
Speaker 2: Well, you're such a cool dance, so you don't know
Speaker 2: how to dance?
Speaker 3: Like, would you have to do the dumb dance in
Speaker 3: the audition?
Speaker 5: Yeah? They made me do that.
Speaker 4: Wow, most out of everything I think, And it even
Speaker 4: said like in the stage direction he does some super
Speaker 4: lame dance or whatever, and I was like Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: just trying to dance the best I can, and this
Speaker 4: is perfect.
Speaker 1: Till this day, till this day. That's what I hate
Speaker 1: the most about acting is when they say, all right,
Speaker 1: this is the dance scene and I have to have
Speaker 1: to do that many times and my skin crawls. I
Speaker 1: get I get such anxiety and I usually back out
Speaker 1: of it. But on this one they put me on
Speaker 1: a stage at the end and had me singing and dancing,
Speaker 1: which I did not like.
Speaker 6: The tag Yeah, well it's funny because it's a full
Speaker 6: circle thing, right because it starts with Jake in the
Speaker 6: shower singing dlight screw is in the Heart, which he
Speaker 6: really committed to.
Speaker 3: The to the bad good singing.
Speaker 2: I remember somehow, like Liz was like more excited about
Speaker 2: getting the rights to that for Jake to sing than
Speaker 2: almost anything I can think of. Like she was like,
Speaker 2: we got grooves in the heart, like Jake's gonna saying.
Speaker 2: And then Jake was really annoyed. He did not want to.
Speaker 2: He was like, this is so stupid.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's good. It's such a perfect choice.
Speaker 2: Yeahs advantage of like everything Jake Johnson has to offer, right.
Speaker 5: He wanted to sing Springsteen or something.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but no, it's just saying d light.
Speaker 6: I couldn't figure out Lamarne at the end if you
Speaker 6: were trying to do bad singing, but you just can't
Speaker 6: because you're a really good singer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have one of the greatest voices of all time.
Speaker 1: That's just what people say. Yeah, that's that's also just
Speaker 1: how people feels. They always talked about it. It's always
Speaker 1: invited me to be on her album. Numerous times I've declined, but.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of it.
Speaker 1: Just go with it. It's fine, it's fine. Don't be
Speaker 1: embarrassed by that. I'll do it one day. But I
Speaker 1: actually hate that. I used to do musical theater, and
Speaker 1: I know I just the dumber the better. And I
Speaker 1: think they might they may have auto tuned some stuff
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 5: Well I had to, you know, I had to come
Speaker 5: back and sing on your show.
Speaker 4: I had to sing Toto with you, Zoe, And of course, yeah.
Speaker 5: They got somebody to sing for me. Thank god.
Speaker 2: It was it was our It was our composer, no
Speaker 2: way big he's Oscar winning composer for our show. He
Speaker 2: didn't win an Oscar for her show. For he did
Speaker 2: the score for Black Panther. So that's what you want for.
Speaker 2: But he's saying your part in uh, saying that I.
Speaker 5: Can't believe you. Guys are surprised and nobody knows it
Speaker 5: wasn't me.
Speaker 4: This is amazing that I'm getting away with this all
Speaker 4: these years because now it's over.
Speaker 2: Oh you did a very good job. Wow, I sinking it.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks, and you did a good job actually singing.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: The reason why we brought you on the show today, Nelson,
Speaker 1: is so you can yourself. This is your moment to God.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Apple EarPods are my preferred way to
Speaker 4: record my voice.
Speaker 2: The microphone is not. It's not right. I don't want
Speaker 2: my vocal chain. It's not.
Speaker 5: My right. My producers are not gonna let me sing
Speaker 5: without my proper Yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Need permission from your label.
Speaker 1: I was actually shocked to realize that none of the
Speaker 1: members in Toto were black. I was like, I thought
Speaker 1: they were black this whole time. Yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: made those voices and they're talking about Africa, So I
Speaker 1: was like, oh.
Speaker 4: Miss, they missed the rain in Africa playing that they're
Speaker 4: down there all the time.
Speaker 2: Also, none of that song. I mean, I love the
Speaker 2: song but doesn't make a lot of sunset once you
Speaker 2: break it down, like if you sing that song karaoke
Speaker 2: and you start reading the words what I can't Oh.
Speaker 1: Did they say I blessed the rain? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think it's one of each, or they switch, or.
Speaker 2: It's like about a flight and you're talking about like
Speaker 2: a flight and like you know, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, I missed the reins and we're like, wait, what.
Speaker 3: I missed them? Or bless them?
Speaker 1: I thought they were saying bless this whole time.
Speaker 5: My memory is that they say bless and miss. I
Speaker 5: can't remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if it's blessed or miss. I
Speaker 2: guess even the Internet doesn't know.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're just tuning in, if you're a
Speaker 1: member of Toto, please call in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the moments that listen to this podcast, please
Speaker 2: call us.
Speaker 1: H what do you say?
Speaker 3: It's bless Are you sure that?
Speaker 2: Because sometimes the Internet has it wrong?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean somebody has like transcribed the lyrics, you know.
Speaker 6: I seem to cure what's deep inside and of this
Speaker 6: thing that I've become.
Speaker 3: This isn't real.
Speaker 1: I say, you've been in Africa and make you do something.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, to do something.
Speaker 2: I bet Hannah, Hannah, you've been everywhere. Yeah, Hannah's like
Speaker 2: a travel blogger. I actually don't know travel as much
Speaker 2: wanderlust as you I do.
Speaker 6: I remember having that conversation with when with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 6: I was talking to her because we were going to
Speaker 6: h Jesse and are going to India, and she was like,
Speaker 6: I love India and she was talking about all this
Speaker 6: stuff and I was like, wow, have you ever been.
Speaker 6: She's like oh no, no, no, no, She's like I
Speaker 6: have zero wanderlust zero.
Speaker 3: And I was like, you should really go, it's really beautiful.
Speaker 6: She's like no, And I was like wow. I love
Speaker 6: people who know themselves that well, right. I don't feel
Speaker 6: like they have to pretend to go like.
Speaker 3: Well maybe or I could. She was like, oh no, no,
Speaker 3: thank you, no wonder lust at all. I was like wow.
Speaker 3: I was like no, I have to.
Speaker 5: I have to.
Speaker 3: I got to be somewhere at all times.
Speaker 1: You have to.
Speaker 2: I love to travel, and I'm like really specific about
Speaker 2: like where and like what type of place, Like I
Speaker 2: don't just want to randomly go places, you know.
Speaker 1: I found it interesting that that Robbie had never left California.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a great life.
Speaker 4: People hit me up later about that because you know,
Speaker 4: Robbie ended up turning into being like a cool bass
Speaker 4: player because I say, I've never left California, but then
Speaker 4: I did go on tour with Santana later, and then
Speaker 4: I also said.
Speaker 3: You're not in a band?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just hate music. What's up with me? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, a little a few inconsistency.
Speaker 2: Well there's he never left California at this point, but yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe touring was like after like in the break you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: in the break around.
Speaker 3: That was my question for you, Nelson, because I feel
Speaker 3: like in.
Speaker 6: Every episode, especially in this season, you just you just
Speaker 6: have to sit there and take a lot of personal attacks, yeah,
Speaker 6: from from Max about.
Speaker 3: All parts of you all the time.
Speaker 6: Did you know that was going to be part of
Speaker 6: the job when you're actually there on the receiving end
Speaker 6: as an actor?
Speaker 3: How does it?
Speaker 6: Because I had to take a lot of that from
Speaker 6: Max too, but it was usually all about my culture, right.
Speaker 6: There was always some weird like Indian brown skin thing
Speaker 6: coming my way, And to be very honest with you,
Speaker 6: it didn't really phase me at all that.
Speaker 4: Humor in Asia, right, Like, yeah, my thing is like,
Speaker 4: as long as it makes me laugh, I don't care
Speaker 4: what he said. Who's that Liberty shell liberty bell shaped
Speaker 4: guy over there? And you know this is like, you know,
Speaker 4: over ten years ago. So I'm watching the episode last night.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, man, I was so much thinner
Speaker 4: back then, and they still call me fat. You know,
Speaker 4: that's fine.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't mind that kind of thing at all.
Speaker 4: It's it's funny as long as its funny. I don't
Speaker 4: care as long as well written. You know, I don't
Speaker 4: have any like, I'm not getting offended by any of
Speaker 4: this stuff.
Speaker 3: Come on, Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 6: It's always so weird when things like that kind of
Speaker 6: of happened. I feel like, as I watch it and
Speaker 6: you're a friend with someone, you're just like, how do you.
Speaker 3: Feel about them? Because they're obviously grossly exaggerating thing? Right,
Speaker 3: that's right. He's pissed off.
Speaker 6: He's trying to be mean, he's trying to just like
Speaker 6: grab at straws. That's part of the character, and it
Speaker 6: just makes him look terrible. But so he's a weird
Speaker 6: thing to just sit there and take it. I think
Speaker 6: That's why I love the character of Robbie so much,
Speaker 6: is that he's just like, oh you poor little sad
Speaker 6: man negativity story.
Speaker 5: Did you did you ever hear that story about home alone?
Speaker 5: There's that there's real quick.
Speaker 4: This is this one part where mccauay culkin's like looking
Speaker 4: at a like his family's gone. He's looking at a
Speaker 4: picture of his older brother, Buzz his girlfriend, and she's
Speaker 4: like super ugly and apparently John houstdn't sorry.
Speaker 5: It was they didn't want to be mean to anybody.
Speaker 2: Chris Columbus, I'm.
Speaker 5: Talking about it.
Speaker 4: He didn't want to be mean to any young girl,
Speaker 4: so he had Buzz dress up like a girl and
Speaker 4: took a picture of him and that's girlfriend, So nobody.
Speaker 2: I have such a hard time being mean to people.
Speaker 2: I don't like mean humor very much. But the show
Speaker 2: I'm doing right now is like I'm I have to
Speaker 2: be mean, but it's kind of like fun to step
Speaker 2: out of my comfort zone a little bit.
Speaker 6: We've gotta talk about brands. That's one of my favorite
Speaker 6: things that they kind of like jump into in this
Speaker 6: episode is what's the brand of every character? And I
Speaker 6: love the fact that when they get to you more
Speaker 6: and when they get to Winston's character, they're like, you're
Speaker 6: just Winston, like holding up to the fact that we still.
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 3: Figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Winston's brand is is Winston, which I thought, you're right,
Speaker 1: and it made, uh made a lot of sense at
Speaker 1: like I don't know yet exactly. And then towards the
Speaker 1: end we got to we got we got to see
Speaker 1: a glimpse of what that meant. And I think actually
Speaker 1: after this episode we start to see a lot more
Speaker 1: of that, a weird uh off off the off, the rails,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a character. I think the next episode,
Speaker 1: the next few episodes, we start to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that. We introduce all kinds of prank
Speaker 1: Sinatra stuff and you know, different jobs and things like that.
Speaker 1: And that's the same for your character, Nelson. When you
Speaker 1: come in like like we said, you are this jobless
Speaker 1: person who's not a jobless person, less traveled person who
Speaker 1: doesn't like music. Is that something? Who is that something
Speaker 1: that was discussed or did you just get a script
Speaker 1: one day and realize, oh I'm different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, nobody ever talked to me about what I
Speaker 4: was going to become or who this person was I just,
Speaker 4: you know, they just.
Speaker 5: Sent me the script. But I will say that I
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a big fan of writers in general. Guys.
Speaker 4: You guys had some really really good writers on that show,
Speaker 4: and they were always very true, very cool.
Speaker 2: A lot of them too. I think we had like
Speaker 2: one of the biggest writers rooms.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were only rivaled by the Wu Tang clans.
Speaker 2: That we had like such a huge writer's room, Like
Speaker 2: it was just stacked full of amazing writers.
Speaker 4: And these are all people I ended up working with
Speaker 4: many other times later in my life too.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 5: I did my last TV show on NBC was this
Speaker 5: Josh Melmoth.
Speaker 4: Show, and uh, and I just became good friends with
Speaker 4: Noah Garfinkel and stuff, all these guys. But point my
Speaker 4: point being is they would come to me and say, like,
Speaker 4: this is what we're thinking.
Speaker 5: Do you like that?
Speaker 4: Do you want to change anything? They were always very
Speaker 4: open with me about it, and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 4: this is early in my career. I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna I'm not the boss. You tell me what he did.
Speaker 5: But uh, they were always really cool about it. And also, I.
Speaker 4: Mean it started off this Robbie just started off literally
Speaker 4: as like a prop to annoy Schmidt. That was the
Speaker 4: only purpose. So I wasn't looking too deeply into it
Speaker 4: past that. You know, it's just everything he's not and
Speaker 4: doesn't appreciate, you know. But then later I had, you know,
Speaker 4: it got much more sort of deep and complex and stuff.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 6: It's so funny because you were kind of given a
Speaker 6: hard job and you did it so beautifully. Because Schmidt
Speaker 6: was such a beloved character that would automatically think that
Speaker 6: the audience wouldn't like you no matter what you did.
Speaker 6: They wouldn't like you because they love him so much
Speaker 6: and they root for him so much.
Speaker 3: But you just like kind of.
Speaker 2: A beloved and kind of like like somebody that people
Speaker 2: like make fun of too. I don't know, it's like
Speaker 2: some beloved like you know, in the same way as
Speaker 2: some other beloved.
Speaker 1: You know, Jesus, he's not us.
Speaker 2: Like like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: That's right. I agree with that.
Speaker 5: He's pretty high maintenance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people, now that I'm now that I'm thinking about
Speaker 4: that story I told you about how Max said I
Speaker 4: work out every day.
Speaker 5: That's such a Schmid thing. There's a lot of.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of crossover.
Speaker 2: I just remember in the first it was the first or
Speaker 2: second season, I think. I think actually he worked out
Speaker 2: a ton between the two seasons and got more fit,
Speaker 2: and it was like he came back. He was doing
Speaker 2: CrossFit every day, and I just remember like walking past,
Speaker 2: like a little fly in the wall thing. I was like,
Speaker 2: pass and he was talking to some guest star and
Speaker 2: he goes, yeah, uh, look up Paleo diet. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you are well, you're dedicated.
Speaker 1: He what's interesting? And I want to ask you the
Speaker 1: same question too. You have a very uh it's really
Speaker 1: funny and a very specific demeanor on our show, and
Speaker 1: your delivery on our show is that with Max? For example,
Speaker 1: when Max was coming in the morning, he would just
Speaker 1: kind of be like be super early and he'd be groggy,
Speaker 1: and he'd he'd say, you know, hey, what'd you do yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I went out. He's like, oh, cool, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: all right, And he'll go on this trailer and he'd
Speaker 1: crank out fifty thousand push ups and then you would
Speaker 1: hear he would have his bands in there, and you'd
Speaker 1: come out as Schmidt, a completely different person to be weird.
Speaker 1: You know, you you your brand of comedy is is
Speaker 1: very dry and so funny. It's like, is that is
Speaker 1: that something that you enjoyed doing the most? H Do
Speaker 1: you like getting crazy and like broad and ever and
Speaker 1: big and wilder?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I would love to do that too. I mean I
Speaker 4: and I have done that. Uh, and it's really special
Speaker 4: for me. But my sort of you know, neutral point
Speaker 4: is sort of like a like a low energy type.
Speaker 5: Of But the thing, here's the thing about Robbie.
Speaker 2: Good baritone, you know, a nice uh what do they
Speaker 2: call it, a vocal fry A little yeah, yeah, good
Speaker 2: radio voice. You know.
Speaker 4: I did a lot of high school theater too, and
Speaker 4: they would always musical theater, and they would always have
Speaker 4: to tune the songs down like.
Speaker 5: Three octaves for me to be.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing about Robbie, which I don't find in
Speaker 4: many other roles ever, is that he's he's simultaneously the
Speaker 4: straight man and also like a character at the same time.
Speaker 5: You know, it's because because Schmid is so big.
Speaker 4: And I loved it when then when they made Schmid
Speaker 4: and Robbie friends who are sort of cooperating, that was
Speaker 4: so fun for me. And and that's a perfect example,
Speaker 4: like I got to play everything down because Schmid is
Speaker 4: so big, no matter what, it doesn't matter my weird
Speaker 4: character quirks. It's like it's not gonna be anything compared
Speaker 4: to That's.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent tri we don't You don't see
Speaker 1: that often the person who gets to play the straight person,
Speaker 1: it was also the character that's every kick.
Speaker 2: But that's the special thing about this show. I think
Speaker 2: every single person like played a version of a straight
Speaker 2: person sometimes and a version of a of a like
Speaker 2: sort of more over the top character. It's like everyone
Speaker 2: had like the quirk that made them the kind of
Speaker 2: crazy person in the scene or could make them a
Speaker 2: crazy person in the scene, and then also had the
Speaker 2: ability to be like this, you know, the straight man.
Speaker 1: And also something I find interesting about this show too
Speaker 1: is that every guest star, and I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: that because you're here, every guest star could have their
Speaker 1: home spin off of that character to go off and
Speaker 1: to lead their own series, missed.
Speaker 2: Out on a on a real opportunity.
Speaker 1: Done it.
Speaker 3: I want it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to know more about Parker Posey's character,
Speaker 6: her whole life and backstory.
Speaker 3: That was a.
Speaker 6: Super because it wasn't like she had a huge role
Speaker 6: in this in this episode, but it's so memorable because
Speaker 6: she just got so weird with her PhD, her pretty
Speaker 6: heavy drug problem. I thought was super funny. Did you
Speaker 6: know her from before Zoe or did Is that the
Speaker 6: first time you'd met.
Speaker 2: I didn't know her before that, But I did see
Speaker 2: her again a few years later at a film festival
Speaker 2: and we had a really fun time hanging out. But no,
Speaker 2: I hadn't met her. But like, I don't think it
Speaker 2: would be a surprise that she is one of my heroes.
Speaker 2: So only it's like super surprising. She's like she was
Speaker 2: just like the like cool, funny, interesting actor who you know,
Speaker 2: made great choices and you know, just you know, when
Speaker 2: I was like in high school, I just like Parker
Speaker 2: POSI was like it.
Speaker 5: You know her Invested show is like one of my
Speaker 5: favorite things.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, have you Lost in Space? Have you
Speaker 1: seen her and Lost in Space?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's so great, so great.
Speaker 6: That's the one I think about this show Party Girl.
Speaker 6: We got to come on Party Girl.
Speaker 3: We were just like, how are you? How are you here?
Speaker 5: You guys got a lot of big names on that show.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, we really did. It was incredible.
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really wild because I guess I realized when
Speaker 6: you came on, because this is, you know, the first
Speaker 6: episode of season two. Had you watched any of season one? Like,
Speaker 6: did you watch the show?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if I had. It's so hard for
Speaker 5: me to remember.
Speaker 1: Bye Bye Nelson.
Speaker 4: It's one of my favorites now, like White Man, George
Speaker 4: and I watched through it like five times at this point.
Speaker 5: But at that point, I don't know. I don't remember
Speaker 5: what I was watching ten years ago, eleven years ago.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Who can remember these things?
Speaker 6: YEA the platform for you to just jump say to
Speaker 6: broke Yeah, don't even say two broke girls.
Speaker 2: What if that was like our enemy?
Speaker 5: I just assumed. I just assumed that it was.
Speaker 2: Girls we had we had no rivals, you know, but
Speaker 2: but but we could just invent we could invent rivals.
Speaker 2: It was like I was like, I feel like we
Speaker 2: were never up against other shows that were like the
Speaker 2: same genre at once.
Speaker 1: It ended up becoming Brooklyn nine nine. I want to.
Speaker 2: Say, no, Brooklyn nine nine was on our same network,
Speaker 2: so it was our like lead in or no, we
Speaker 2: were there leading or they would show us back to
Speaker 2: back we they were like our allies. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: like their networks playing at the same time usually be
Speaker 2: like a drama or news.
Speaker 5: I can't remember what day of the week it was.
Speaker 2: That none at nine, so there wouldn't be a nine
Speaker 2: o'clock news.
Speaker 5: What day was it.
Speaker 1: What day of the week was it Tuesdays?
Speaker 5: Tuesdays at nine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. I think it was like
Speaker 2: some drama on one of the other major networks, and
Speaker 2: then I think there was like maybe a reality show anyway.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of like young people who
Speaker 4: are fans of New Girl because of Netflix and stuff.
Speaker 4: Now them hearing us.
Speaker 5: Talking about tuning in at Tuesday at nine must be
Speaker 5: the craziest thing. That's like, I think it's still on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think it's a Netflix show. I've
Speaker 6: had a lot of people think it's a Netflix show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Netflix show Girl with the Girl.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're gonna go to break. We're gonna hear
Speaker 2: about some stuff and we're gonna come back in a second.
Speaker 1: Welcome shoes.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're back. We're gonna go, and we're gonna go
Speaker 2: gingerly into Nick's closet.
Speaker 3: Find this box.
Speaker 2: We're crawl into the back of that dirty old closet
Speaker 2: and we're gonna open the box of memories and we're
Speaker 2: gonna get a memory. Nick's box is brought to you
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Speaker 2: thinking of every mile. Nelson, do you have a favorite
Speaker 2: memory from a New Girl?
Speaker 5: Favorite memory from New Girl? Dang? I remember. There's two
Speaker 5: things that come to my mind.
Speaker 4: One of them is the first time I did episode
Speaker 4: where Max and and me were when Robbie and Schmidt
Speaker 4: were friends. I was like trying to spy on CC
Speaker 4: at a restaurant and Schmidt like catches me and it
Speaker 4: comes over. He's like, are you spying on it? And
Speaker 4: I had an idea for a joke and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: kind of be funny. It would be funny if I
Speaker 4: if I said this, and but I'm not gonna, and
Speaker 4: Max was like you should do it, and I'm like
Speaker 4: I was like, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: I was too scared to bring it up. And then Max,
Speaker 4: out of his own the kindness was hard. He like
Speaker 4: brought me over to Jake who was directing, and was like,
Speaker 4: listen to this joke. Nelson wants to do it's really
Speaker 4: funny and you should put it in, and I told
Speaker 4: him and then and now it's in the episode. And
Speaker 4: that was the first time I like ad lived something
Speaker 4: on TV that was a long time.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It's like, I'm like wearing a hat and I'm trying
Speaker 4: to spy on Ceaz And then at the end of
Speaker 4: the scene, Max goes, He's like, do.
Speaker 5: You think she saw me? And I said, yeah, you
Speaker 5: don't have a hat on.
Speaker 4: My other memory was we did it we did that
Speaker 4: Christmas episode where we were all dancing out there in
Speaker 4: the street with Megan Fox.
Speaker 8: Was it was this was this was like season six
Speaker 8: or something, and uh, it was we were shooting this
Speaker 8: like joyous nighttime Christmas episode the day after or like
Speaker 8: the same week.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was the day after Trump got elected, the
Speaker 5: day after.
Speaker 3: I remember this, so I remember that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to make it about that or whatever,
Speaker 4: but I just have a very visceral memory of like
Speaker 4: having to turn on the smiles.
Speaker 5: And then as soon as we cut, just like going
Speaker 5: back to the.
Speaker 4: And Aaron was directing that one, and she was the
Speaker 4: most upset out of everybody.
Speaker 5: Obviously, it was crazy and.
Speaker 4: That was also the day where that was also the
Speaker 4: day where we were we were all standing out there
Speaker 4: in the street.
Speaker 5: I remember there's a picture of us.
Speaker 4: All standing there and my little Santa hat on the
Speaker 4: whole cast standing on the street for that Christmas episode,
Speaker 4: and we're all getting the picture and I'm standing next
Speaker 4: to it Megan, and she said she's kind of looking
Speaker 4: at me like like this, and and I heard her
Speaker 4: like quietly, stay to Max, like this guy supposed to
Speaker 4: be And.
Speaker 6: I met and.
Speaker 5: Sorry to to Jake and and Jake was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's on the show. He's on the show.
Speaker 4: And she turned to me and and she was like, really,
Speaker 4: how long you've been on the show. And I was
Speaker 4: like six years. And that made Jake laugh a lot,
Speaker 4: because I was, you know, I just.
Speaker 5: Didn't care about anyway. That's all those are. Those are
Speaker 5: fun memories. I don't want to put shade on anybody.
Speaker 5: I don't want to know that.
Speaker 6: By the way, the confidence of that response is where
Speaker 6: you see a Robbie Nelson overlap.
Speaker 3: I'm going to very sweetly tell you I've been here.
Speaker 2: I had never ever watched the show before, never seen
Speaker 2: the show, stepped in with no research.
Speaker 1: We got to have her on next and ask have
Speaker 1: you seen the show?
Speaker 2: Have you seen the show? I think maybe we'll get
Speaker 2: you know, we can clear up some uh you know,
Speaker 2: some of these gossip rumors about how she didn't know
Speaker 2: who Nelson Franklin was.
Speaker 4: All right, I don't expect Megan Fox and know who
Speaker 4: Nelson Franklin. That's another universe.
Speaker 1: There's hey, hey, hey, hey, you shut up.
Speaker 2: You shut up right there, everybody knows.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows who you are, bro.
Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, everybody knows, mister Franklin.
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Speaker 1: By the way, your bit in Jimmy Jimmy Kimmell, I
Speaker 1: have to say, is one of the funniest things because
Speaker 1: I mainly when I saw that guy, I thought, man,
Speaker 1: you know who he looks like. It looks like Franklin.
Speaker 5: That's a while a month of my life there. When
Speaker 5: that came out with.
Speaker 2: It, what was it? I didn't see it.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 5: You know it's got George Santos like this.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Oh my god, did you play him on?
Speaker 5: I did? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It was sort of like this like three week
Speaker 4: period where people are coming out of the woodwork saying
Speaker 4: that I look like this guy, or he looks like me,
Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. So yeah, kim Will had
Speaker 4: me on and I did a bit. It was super fun,
Speaker 4: it was wild. I think I'm going to do it.
Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna do some more too talented.
Speaker 2: Tune in to Jimmy Kimmel to see Nelson Franklin played
Speaker 2: George Santos.
Speaker 6: Not that there's any question, but Nelson Franklin is such
Speaker 6: a talented actor that they sprung this like ten page
Speaker 6: monologue that he has to basically do on Kimmel Live
Speaker 6: running around with nobody else, and they offered a teleprompter
Speaker 6: right because they literally gave it to like an hour
Speaker 6: and a half two hours before, and he said, nah,
Speaker 6: I got this and went and memorize the entire thing
Speaker 6: and did it just by himself and ran, I mean,
Speaker 6: you're so talented and amazing and people should uh should
Speaker 6: recognize if you were.
Speaker 4: You would have done the same thing. Because they were
Speaker 4: talking about putting a teleprompter. It was a steadycam shot
Speaker 4: all throughout these hallways, rocking around, and they were gonna
Speaker 4: put the teleprompter on the steady cams.
Speaker 5: Poor guy.
Speaker 4: I can't be like looking at it. It would have
Speaker 4: been it would have been psychotic. You would have done
Speaker 4: the same. You guys would have killed it too.
Speaker 1: Sure, well, you did a great job.
Speaker 3: He did a great job.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did real.
Speaker 3: Yes it is, it's very real, Okay. On my bear hunt,
Speaker 3: there's a bear.
Speaker 6: And of course there would be because it's the launch
Speaker 6: of a brand new season, so there had to be
Speaker 6: an actual bear, not a refrigerator bear. And it's right
Speaker 6: there on Tanya's desk, the vice principal's desk.
Speaker 5: I forgot to pay the bears.
Speaker 2: I just never do. It's Hannah's bears area.
Speaker 6: It's my job, and I love it so much. It
Speaker 6: makes me so happy hunting for bear. I to drive
Speaker 6: myself doing it. Yes, that's right, Hannah.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm shocked you found
Speaker 1: it this time because you've been slacking. You've been slacking.
Speaker 1: You haven't found that slack. I found it every episode
Speaker 1: there's a beer. I found them all. I just didn't
Speaker 1: want to say anything to the fans. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You last couple episodes have not found this one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, Hannah, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3: So much, not me questionional.
Speaker 1: It was like, I don't funk with bears.
Speaker 6: Now it's time to open up Schmidt's Sexy mail Bag,
Speaker 6: a segment brought to you by Hulu where I answer
Speaker 6: a fan question.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing to do. I love answering fan questions.
Speaker 3: Please keep sending them.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: So this week's question is.
Speaker 2: Hannah.
Speaker 6: You spoke a lot about your hair for the show
Speaker 6: on the podcast. I was wondering if there was ever
Speaker 6: a time when you wanted to switch it up a
Speaker 6: New Girl, but couldn't. I know a lot of actresses
Speaker 6: do a big change after playing a role for many years.
Speaker 6: Just wondered if you'd ever felt locked in to the
Speaker 6: CC hair that's from Sarah h in Texas. I love
Speaker 6: my banks, I love my bangs, I truly do. I
Speaker 6: have actually tried to grow them out once. I feel
Speaker 6: like a few years ago after New Girl and I
Speaker 6: was like, no, this is terrible, this doesn't work for
Speaker 6: me at all. I recently announced I started cutting my
Speaker 6: own bangs. Took ten years to get that confidence.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 6: I love my banks. I do remember on the show
Speaker 6: once I talked about this on the podcast where we
Speaker 6: slicked my bangs back for an episode where CEC goes
Speaker 6: to a nightclub and I was wearing like this red
Speaker 6: leather dress and we were like, oh, let's make it
Speaker 6: a little rock and roll, and the powers that be
Speaker 6: on the.
Speaker 3: Show were very displeased.
Speaker 6: That was a very signature of cec look to have
Speaker 6: the bangs, the long hair, so the character could not
Speaker 6: really stray from it, which I understand. There's that comfort
Speaker 6: and the familiar. But know me as Hannah, I love
Speaker 6: my bangs, so I never felt locked in or restrained
Speaker 6: by it. And if I ever have a moment where
Speaker 6: I'm just like, what would I look like, I just
Speaker 6: swoop them to the side, y'all.
Speaker 3: I swoop them to the side, and I feel like
Speaker 3: a whole new person.
Speaker 6: I mean, okay, So this has been a great first episode.
Speaker 6: Back into season two, Nelson, you want to sing us
Speaker 6: out to Grooves in the Heart?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yes, I was gonna do it.
Speaker 5: Somewhere between Jake and the Morning.
Speaker 2: Thank you now, the third time.
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