Speaker 1: Ring, ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe.
Speaker 2: Oh, Hello, Lamurn, Let's patch and Hannah.
Speaker 3: God, I forgot what it was like working with you, guys.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to Welcome to our show. How
Speaker 1: have you all been out there? I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: I hope all of your hopes and dreams have come true.
Speaker 1: I hope you get the job that you want. Hope
Speaker 1: you start that company that you have been dying to start.
Speaker 1: I hope you slept with that person that you've been
Speaker 1: dreaming of sleeping with. And I hope that person is
Speaker 1: laying next to you right now. And I hope you
Speaker 1: guys are perfect harmony, in sync and madly in love
Speaker 1: with each other, which is a perfect segue into who
Speaker 1: our guest is. On today's show, Folks, we're recapping episode
Speaker 1: four of season two Neighbors with a very special guest.
Speaker 1: For nearly a decade, he wrote for Conan O'Brien. Scratched that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he wrote with Conan O'Brien. Conan O'Brien
Speaker 1: could be so lucky to have known this person did
Speaker 1: all that before writing on the hit series Single Parents
Speaker 1: and New Girl. Now recently wrote a hilarious episode of
Speaker 1: the Sarah Borealis and Busy Phillips show Girls five ever
Speaker 1: fantastic show. This man is one of the coolest and
Speaker 1: funniest people that I've ever had the pleasure of knowing
Speaker 1: and working with. I've always said that this man is
Speaker 1: someone who has and will help me hide the body.
Speaker 1: So please welcome Berkeley Johnson to the shower. What's up, man?
Speaker 4: Nothing, Thank you. It's a real treat to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for being here.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this show for a season and you
Speaker 1: are someone who has the inside scoop on this show
Speaker 1: because because for a long time you've been a creator
Speaker 1: of this show. Uh tell me, man, Uh, what's going
Speaker 1: on with you? What's going on? We talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about your your your your writing credits and such.
Speaker 1: You know what, what what are you working on? What
Speaker 1: you got going on?
Speaker 5: You know very little right now, but uh, you know,
Speaker 5: just this hasn't been my favorite three years in the
Speaker 5: history of time, but it's been you know, it is
Speaker 5: what it is, and uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I say, none of that matters because you worked on
Speaker 1: one of the greatest shows of all time.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, I'm done. Yeah, why you even why even
Speaker 4: try to, uh to top you running around with a ski?
Speaker 4: One of the wanted to hit people with it.
Speaker 1: Jesus that, I gotta say that was one of the
Speaker 1: more interesting things about my character development. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: was curious what some of those, I don't know, those
Speaker 1: discussions in the writer's room look like, because you know,
Speaker 1: for so long, coming on as a new character on
Speaker 1: a show, you have to piece certain things together and
Speaker 1: figure out storylines, and you've lived with other storylines for
Speaker 1: other characters and character traits for so long. But then
Speaker 1: you have this guy who just pops up in episode two, Like,
Speaker 1: what was that like in the writer's room? Was it hectic?
Speaker 1: Was it kind of loose?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think has been well documented both in
Speaker 4: speaking Foreman by just watching the show. We had to
Speaker 4: us a little while to figure your character out because
Speaker 4: through no fault of your own and entirely our own thing,
Speaker 4: and we were very sleep deprived just in general. It
Speaker 4: was along a couple of seasons. But anyway, and then
Speaker 4: when we kind of just figured out, I don't even
Speaker 4: know what the what they like figuring out moment was.
Speaker 4: But then I think it really unlocked a lot of stuff,
Speaker 4: and it really like you were always great, we just
Speaker 4: weren't giving you like enough to do. I think it
Speaker 4: was I'm sure you. I'm sure you humbly didn't feel
Speaker 4: that way. You're like, no, no, I'm just here to support.
Speaker 4: But no, you you Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm dog shit, I'm dog shit.
Speaker 1: I need to figure out.
Speaker 4: That's what I know. I said support, but I met
Speaker 4: dog shit.
Speaker 1: You didn't have. I appreciate that. Man, you're being kind
Speaker 1: and you're definitely being kind.
Speaker 4: But like with this episode, I vividly remember. I mean
Speaker 4: his vivid is again, you can remember anything when you've
Speaker 4: been sleeping eight minutes a night, like on the couch
Speaker 4: in someone else's office. But uh, we were beating out
Speaker 4: the story and Nick was going to be pranking Schmidt
Speaker 4: and it was like he's really good at and I
Speaker 4: was pitching out for Liz and she's and I was like,
Speaker 4: Nick's really good at pranks, and and she's like, what's Winston.
Speaker 4: What's Winston's take on the pranks? And I had nothing.
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, he's really bad at pranks. And she
Speaker 4: like gave me like a Liz eye roll and yet
Speaker 4: that became I feel like one of the most through
Speaker 4: no credits for myself, just to you, one of the
Speaker 4: most like few through lines of like seven seasons. Was
Speaker 4: it like Winston's bad at pranks? Yeah? And just fun?
Speaker 1: It was. It was very fun. You know what I
Speaker 1: want you to hold that thought. Well, here's what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do for the folks at home. If you're
Speaker 1: just tuning in, I'm going to give you a quick
Speaker 1: recap of this episode, and then I do want to
Speaker 1: dive right back into what you're talking about, because I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think a lot of people know
Speaker 1: the origin of that.
Speaker 4: And you feel like people when I just start talking
Speaker 4: about pranks in an episode from eleven years ago, you
Speaker 4: don't think people immediately know what I'm referring to that
Speaker 4: it needs a recap.
Speaker 1: I don't think they do.
Speaker 4: I'll just run this No, no, no, no, I I love it,
Speaker 4: Please do.
Speaker 1: But I do want to jump into this recap. So neighbors,
Speaker 1: we're talking neighbors.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jess has reverted to a pre professional life. You know,
Speaker 1: she used to be a respected teacher an educator of
Speaker 1: the youth, but now she just links casseroles during the
Speaker 1: day and watches TGIF every night that Jess. Unfortunately, some
Speaker 1: millennials they move down the hall right. They embrace Justic's regression,
Speaker 1: which causes Schmidt to lose his mind a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now why would they love the cast all over? The
Speaker 1: successful and handsome Schmidt. Meanwhile, Winston, he reconsiders his path
Speaker 1: after a test tells him that he will live to
Speaker 1: be sixty seven years old. He at least wants a
Speaker 1: job that means something, you know. He whips out this
Speaker 1: amazing speech and demands his own show and the title
Speaker 1: of producer. Now our man has his own two am show,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic. It's primetime for truckers. Schmidt perceives the
Speaker 1: neighbor's rejection as an indication that he is an old person.
Speaker 1: Nick exacerbates this fear by pulling insane pranks on Schmidt.
Speaker 1: He removes a small portion of his shoes, he steals
Speaker 1: the stuffing out of his favorite chair, and pretends schmidt
Speaker 1: hearing is gone. Jess tries to warn Schmidt that the
Speaker 1: kids they don't like him, but he's persistent when he's
Speaker 1: trying to gain their respect and actually begs Jess for help.
Speaker 1: Then he ignores all of her suggestions at the party
Speaker 1: just a cool, low budget web series. Family Matters wins
Speaker 1: over the neighbors, but when she learns that their parents
Speaker 1: still do their laundry and they're all still aimless, she
Speaker 1: comes to her senses and decides to grow upt. Schmidt
Speaker 1: learns the kids don't think he's old. They just think
Speaker 1: he's an ass hat, which I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what that is. But that title is perfectly acceptable
Speaker 1: for Schmidt, and that's what happened on episode two O
Speaker 1: four Neighbors Boom. Now let's jump right back into it.
Speaker 1: Let's start from the begetting. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about the idea of the writer's room and the age
Speaker 1: gap between all the folks. We're the same age, so
Speaker 1: I'm imagining folks were in their early mid twenties, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe early thirties writing on the show, and then there
Speaker 1: are some folks you know, who are a little older.
Speaker 1: Was there ever that argument or was there ever that
Speaker 1: discussion about millennials versus you know, you and me and
Speaker 1: and all that bs that goes on in society.
Speaker 4: Sure? Yeah, I mean I was on the older side,
Speaker 4: I suppose, and I like was kind of but I
Speaker 4: had spent so much of my life doing basically what
Speaker 4: the neighbors across the hall were doing, not like you know,
Speaker 4: hula hooping and eating artichokes, but just kind of drifting
Speaker 4: through life, and you know, uh, just a staggering amount
Speaker 4: of my like you know, twenties unemployed. So I like, really,
Speaker 4: even though I'm unbelievably old and don't know what's going
Speaker 4: on in the world, in that sense I did, there
Speaker 4: is like a fundamental truth to like, oh yeah, when
Speaker 4: you're that age, you kind of just hang out. I
Speaker 4: don't remember getting into a lot of like fights about
Speaker 4: like no, it would be this way be because I
Speaker 4: think once we decided like, oh, they're gonna be fooled
Speaker 4: by Jess's like pretending TV show catchphrases are her like
Speaker 4: sort of all realism goes out the window, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of just like, well, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Right because I love these I love I you know,
Speaker 1: I remember watching that episode and kind of going back
Speaker 1: into my own TV vault in my head going, damn
Speaker 1: alf some strangers, bro, Like these shows were, uh, these
Speaker 1: shows are what we grew up on. That's that's all
Speaker 1: that we had, you know, what I mean, tgif was
Speaker 1: our shit.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I feel like and I feel like, watch
Speaker 4: if someone were to watch it now, they would probably
Speaker 4: it would be as if we're like, you know, she's
Speaker 4: quoting like the Ed Sullivan Show or like a radio
Speaker 4: show from nineteen twenty, they're like, what are you talking to? Who? Like?
Speaker 4: It just feels like it must feel so like archaeological.
Speaker 4: Yeah to today's eve.
Speaker 1: When you look at just the boity of it, it
Speaker 1: was it was dog shit.
Speaker 4: It was that. Yeah, it was not.
Speaker 1: Great, but we love it just the same.
Speaker 4: It was on and we loved it. That's all. It's.
Speaker 4: That's all it took. Back then, you're like, it's there's
Speaker 4: a box in my house and there's people on it,
Speaker 4: and I get and I get to watch it till
Speaker 4: my parents say go to bed, and that's like, really
Speaker 4: all it took.
Speaker 1: So we are let's let's let's plow through this episode
Speaker 1: for a second.
Speaker 4: That's the best way to get through this one.
Speaker 1: It's flowing, no, because you know on normally, so what
Speaker 1: happens on these you know we're doing these. We're doing
Speaker 1: this season a little bit different than we did the
Speaker 1: first season. First season, you know, we would just do
Speaker 1: a Q and A and just you know, talk about
Speaker 1: stuff with you from the fans, and at this one,
Speaker 1: we want you, you know, as a creator to kind
Speaker 1: of help us break down this episode a little bit.
Speaker 1: And when we walk through it, who came up? We
Speaker 1: just talk about, you know, some of the specific minutia
Speaker 1: and the details of the show. So we've got we
Speaker 1: started off with just sitting on the couch, she can't
Speaker 1: find a job, and then we go into you know,
Speaker 1: you know the pranks you were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 1: Winston is someone who and even until this day, people
Speaker 1: walk up to me all the time and talk about
Speaker 1: fucking pranks. But I'm watching this and I'm reminded that
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure I was the og
Speaker 1: prank Sinatra because it was a it was a duo.
Speaker 1: It was it was Nick and Winston when they were kids,
Speaker 1: and Winston was actually really bad at it. But it
Speaker 1: feels like Nick is like he's fucking fantastic at it.
Speaker 1: When you watch this episode, it.
Speaker 4: Feels like this was unintentionally. It was as if we
Speaker 4: decided we can only have one prank person on this show,
Speaker 4: and this was sort of like a like backdoor audition
Speaker 4: to like, who is more enjoyable to watch pranking Nick
Speaker 4: taking it really seriously and being like sort of diabolically
Speaker 4: good at it, or is it Winston also taking it
Speaker 4: very seriously but being completely OUTA yeah, completely on Mars
Speaker 4: and clearly it was the ladder you it was so much.
Speaker 4: You know, it's way it's almost always more fun to
Speaker 4: see someone be bad at something than good at something.
Speaker 4: I think that's sort of the one of the basic
Speaker 4: tenets of New Girl and all television I enjoy and
Speaker 4: life really absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what I found to be funny is that
Speaker 1: the the tag on this when Winston and we allude
Speaker 1: to it when they're kids, when he was talking about
Speaker 1: hitting his teaching with a ski, Like in the moment,
Speaker 1: I'm like watching it, going like that, shit's funny, It's
Speaker 1: really funny. And then now as I watch it again,
Speaker 1: I go, did I hit my roommate with eski? What
Speaker 1: is this?
Speaker 4: Crazy?
Speaker 1: Crazy? This is this loft?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think, you know, similar to like how we
Speaker 4: don't really know you know, was Tay Diggs Okay they
Speaker 4: left him unconscious in that elevator that coming he said,
Speaker 4: It's like everyone's fine. Yeah, you know, It's just it's
Speaker 4: like it's got kind of a you know, Looney Tunes
Speaker 4: quality where fall off a cliff and with a rocket
Speaker 4: up your butt and you're fine, oh yeah, next the
Speaker 4: next cartoon.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So we're sitting down at the table and Winston
Speaker 1: is reading it with's the actuary? Is it an actuary table?
Speaker 4: An actuarial table?
Speaker 1: At actuary table? Are those real stats? It's you know,
Speaker 1: Winston African? What does this African American mid live? They
Speaker 1: have a life expectancy? Was sixty seven years old? Was
Speaker 1: that a real thing?
Speaker 4: I having not watched the show in this episode in
Speaker 4: quite some time, and I rewatched it, like, you know,
Speaker 4: to so I could stumble through a few words for
Speaker 4: this podcast, I like let out like an audible gasp
Speaker 4: where I'm like, Jesus, that's not very like I'm I'm
Speaker 4: like sixty seven next year. But I have to believe
Speaker 4: that that. I don't know why we would have done
Speaker 4: that if it wasn't like true, yeah, true, at least
Speaker 4: for a certain you know, slice of that demographic.
Speaker 1: But yeah, because that freaked me out.
Speaker 4: That freaking me out? No, yeah, same back.
Speaker 1: Then, I think when we filmed this episode, I was
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight. I think I was twenty maybe,
Speaker 1: and so now now being almost forty year old, man,
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at that clock, you knowing, have these
Speaker 1: stats changed?
Speaker 4: What am I?
Speaker 1: What am I doing?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: Am I drinking too much coffee? Am I drinking too much?
Speaker 1: In general? You know? To try to share this out.
Speaker 1: So when we when we moved through this episode, we
Speaker 1: also we realized that Schmidt, actually let's go back. Let's
Speaker 1: just talk about the neighbors. That's the name of this episode.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the neighbors. Chaz, Fife, Sutton, and Breery.
Speaker 1: I know in life, I think I know, really I
Speaker 1: don't know personally Fife dog, you know, tryp call questions.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I think that's it. Chazz, I don't see those.
Speaker 1: Chas Dean, Yeah, but I don't know a Sudden or
Speaker 1: a Breery. Are these personal names that you guys knew?
Speaker 4: I just I think this was this was the episode
Speaker 4: where I this was a delightful job. I really loved it.
Speaker 4: There's also was a lot you're just we're just there
Speaker 4: a lot, and you kind of started doing things to
Speaker 4: sort of make it a little more like a game
Speaker 4: for you. And this is kind of when I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm going to try to just sneak as many insane
Speaker 4: names onto this show as possible. Yeah, and like sort
Speaker 4: of low level infuriate Liz. So it's kind of I
Speaker 4: think I was sort of like easing into it with
Speaker 4: these four names. Also, any turds. I really started wanting
Speaker 4: to the word any turds in episodes, and then this
Speaker 4: was the first one of those, I think, And it
Speaker 4: shows up a few times.
Speaker 1: And what does that mean?
Speaker 4: You like any turds? Like anyway, it's.
Speaker 1: You know, hilarious.
Speaker 4: Important. The important thing is, in true New Girl fashion,
Speaker 4: your story where you're truly worried about something very serious,
Speaker 4: which is like your mortality and uh and then and
Speaker 4: and how you can you know, find uh peace and
Speaker 4: joy in life and live longer? Is like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but here's we'll deal with that, and we'll do with
Speaker 4: that in the scene. So we'll cut some scenes and
Speaker 4: then you'll be there. It'll be great. But what's important is, uh,
Speaker 4: is the names of these fuckers.
Speaker 1: No, it works because it definitely plays it to who
Speaker 1: these characters are for sure, and the idea that Schmidt
Speaker 1: wants to to be friends with him and uh and
Speaker 1: can't be you know, so they go over there just
Speaker 1: decides to bring a castle role which I which which
Speaker 1: I think is stupid somebody's party. Well it works in
Speaker 1: the episode, you know.
Speaker 4: Well, I gotta say, like, this is really making me
Speaker 4: sound like I put no work in on this episode,
Speaker 4: which is which in some ways it's true. In some ways,
Speaker 4: no one's ever talking about anything than we did on
Speaker 4: these episodes, not to like great effect frequently, but the
Speaker 4: name of my Wi Fi network was the Castle Role
Speaker 4: Shanty at Home because I just thought that would be
Speaker 4: quote funny, uh if, like my neighbors in my building
Speaker 4: were like, is there a cast role restaurant like nearby?
Speaker 4: Like really just so that had just been and so
Speaker 4: that's pretty good. So they just needs a job, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, this seems like a shitty place to work.
Speaker 4: What if she worked at this this like nautical theme
Speaker 4: to castleball places, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 4: But I agree bringing it to the party.
Speaker 1: Was you know, but what would you bring? What would
Speaker 1: you bring to a stranger's house? I mean I would
Speaker 1: just bring whiskey, which is what yeah.
Speaker 4: Or I just would not go I think what you
Speaker 4: and Nick did what what? What? What you do when you
Speaker 4: guys show up? Is about I'd be like, oh right,
Speaker 4: I can't, this is crazy, but yeah I would bring
Speaker 4: you know, yeah booze, a really elaborate flower arrangement.
Speaker 1: Would you really no, Like it's like a maybe it's
Speaker 1: a funeral, it's a funeral house party.
Speaker 4: Sure, some sort of some some sort of you know,
Speaker 4: incredibly delicate pet that they would have to like take
Speaker 4: care of for years and years.
Speaker 1: I knew a guy who did that. He try this
Speaker 1: dog off once and never came back. And I would
Speaker 1: hear the stories about it all the time, like because
Speaker 1: I knew the guy and he literally asked someone in
Speaker 1: the house sit and and then I heard years later,
Speaker 1: you know he never picked that dog up. I was like,
Speaker 1: what anyway, I digress.
Speaker 4: That's uh, well, did they learn to love the dog
Speaker 4: as there are? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah fell in love with that dog? It hit
Speaker 1: my train, he didn't. That's that story was entirely made up.
Speaker 1: My mom used to always tell me my mom would
Speaker 1: come to my house and she would visit me, and
Speaker 1: my house is filled with alcohol. But it's not that
Speaker 1: I drink a lot. It's just that I would have
Speaker 1: parties and people would you know, or even just invite
Speaker 1: people that people just come by and it always bring
Speaker 1: something and it was always alcohol. Where every time you
Speaker 1: would get a gift bag, it was always alcohol and
Speaker 1: so and I would always bring alcohol. So my mom
Speaker 1: would be over, hey, I got to go to this thing.
Speaker 1: I gotta go stop good bottle of something and then
Speaker 1: and then I'll take someone's house. And for the longest time,
Speaker 1: my mom was concerned that I had a drinking problem, sure,
Speaker 1: because of all the alcohol that riddled my apartment. In
Speaker 1: my house.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I know you're in you're you're out
Speaker 4: of town right now, but I've not seen any alcohol
Speaker 4: behind you.
Speaker 1: And you look around that corner right there, right okay,
Speaker 1: and that little dugout can't get my hair in that
Speaker 1: little corner right there, tons of bullet bourbon.
Speaker 4: All right, you're ready, you're ready, You're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Another thing I found interesting about this was that as
Speaker 1: much they hate Schmidt, they definitely spent the night at
Speaker 1: their apartment. And I didn't realize that until he walked
Speaker 1: back in wearing the same clothes, and until now it's like,
Speaker 1: did they did they spend the night across the hall.
Speaker 1: Were they just party till that early in the morning.
Speaker 4: I think they were supposed to be partying. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it is a weird because there's one place here the
Speaker 4: least likely to stay over. It's probably across the hall
Speaker 4: from your own apartment, because yeah, there's like no the
Speaker 4: barrier to entry of getting home is couldn't be easier.
Speaker 4: You're like, I have to get up and walk eight feet,
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know. It's not an air tight story.
Speaker 4: I'll just get that out right now. There may be
Speaker 4: some holes here and there. One of the as many,
Speaker 4: especially the earlier episodes of New Girl, we had a
Speaker 4: real just opus of a story that, once filmed, was
Speaker 4: an hour and a half long and then had to
Speaker 4: be cut down to twenty minutes. So there's like, you know,
Speaker 4: massive kind of like holes where if I'm there to
Speaker 4: watch it with you, I can be like, well, see,
Speaker 4: this would make more sense if you knew that blah
Speaker 4: blah blah happened if we had to cut it for time.
Speaker 4: But since I can only do that, you know a
Speaker 4: couple thousand times a year where I watched this episode
Speaker 4: with people, There's a lot of people out there who
Speaker 4: just aren't you know, probably getting it, but you know it's.
Speaker 1: Been well, you know, I didn't, I didn't notice any holes.
Speaker 1: I thought that. I just thought that was a very
Speaker 1: interesting fact.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: One thing that I thought was cool about it were
Speaker 1: the the I guess, the the parallels between Winston being
Speaker 1: inspired by Nick's drive, which is very random in his ambition,
Speaker 1: and then Schmidt needing help from Jess to be cool.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like a complete swap of Now was
Speaker 1: that intentional or we just happened to find ourselves in
Speaker 1: this place?
Speaker 4: I think so, because we've sort of done the opposite
Speaker 4: of fair amount. It seems well that you know that
Speaker 4: where Jess is the is the like motivator and the
Speaker 4: like come on, guys, let's do this, and that like
Speaker 4: Nick is the the anchor, and the Winston is generally
Speaker 4: like very enthusiastic and kind of the initiator. And so
Speaker 4: I think it was kind of like a again, this
Speaker 4: is all the fog of insomnia has robbed me of
Speaker 4: a lot of these details. But oh yeah, but I
Speaker 4: definitely I'm just gonna say, sure, that's what we're totally
Speaker 4: intentional and a plus execution. I thought it really worked.
Speaker 1: I thought it definitely worked, especially when you watch the show.
Speaker 1: When you when you watch the show, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that happen in the show which sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: watch later and go was that intentional? Was that not intentional?
Speaker 1: If we find ourselves with just not having a job,
Speaker 1: but that's usually my thing, you know, and I the
Speaker 1: character swaps a lot of times. I think is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: especially when you go back and you watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you go back and you go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize, for example, pranks was a nick thing,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's interesting to hear how we how
Speaker 1: we come to it being a Winston thing. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about let's go back a little bit. I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about you mentioned you mentioned your Wi Fi
Speaker 1: password the cashword. To me, that is a fantastic prank. Yes,
Speaker 1: k Are you yourself a prankster? Is that something that
Speaker 1: you that you do?
Speaker 4: I aspire to be, like I think if I could change,
Speaker 4: like I think I have the brain of a prankster,
Speaker 4: but not the like, uh, the follow through of it,
Speaker 4: Like I think. I think if there was if there
Speaker 4: was some sort of like service where I could just
Speaker 4: think of franks and then just then like hand them
Speaker 4: out to people who add the like follow through to
Speaker 4: go do them and to like and the sort of
Speaker 4: I'm very conflict averse, so the idea of like doing
Speaker 4: something that someone maybe gets mad about is horrifying to me.
Speaker 4: Or I can't keep a straight face, so I'd be
Speaker 4: like laughing at me. Like so there's a lot of
Speaker 4: I have a lot of qualities that would make me
Speaker 4: a bad branker. But yeah, so I think I think
Speaker 4: I could. I could maybe conceive of a few. But
Speaker 4: like that's you know, that's the easiest part. It's it's
Speaker 4: the going in doing that really matters. And I'm not
Speaker 4: that's the no.
Speaker 1: One spending twelve hundred bucks on pranks. I'm not sawing
Speaker 1: down someone's shoe.
Speaker 4: And yes, yes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go and sell some diapers. But when we
Speaker 1: come back, we are with Berkeley Johnson Well Shoes, and
Speaker 1: we are back Berkeley. There's something that there's a segment
Speaker 1: on our show that Hannah Simone is usually in charge of.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if you've noticed, it's just you
Speaker 1: and I here today. It's just it's just bros. Would
Speaker 1: our dicks out, just talking and drinking.
Speaker 4: I just assumed Zoe and Hannah are going to jump
Speaker 4: in when they had anything to add, and we weren't
Speaker 4: saying the perfect things, and that we just can say
Speaker 4: the perfect things. So there's no they're just applauding with
Speaker 4: their computers muted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they usually hold it together. But Zoe is off
Speaker 1: on her private jets somewhere, and I think Hannah's got
Speaker 1: a joy riding and cruising the friendly skies with her.
Speaker 1: So it's you and I today. But the segment that
Speaker 1: Hannah usually tackles is called Where's the bear? Yes, and
Speaker 1: we talk about that on this show all the time,
Speaker 1: In fact every episode. We don't know if that's a
Speaker 1: real thing. I don't think it's a real thing. Hannah
Speaker 1: swears it's a real thing. Is there a bear in
Speaker 1: every episode of is there a bear? Reference? Not talking
Speaker 1: about the bear that's on the refrigerator in that picture,
Speaker 1: not talking about that one. But what do you think
Speaker 1: is that a real thing?
Speaker 4: I would I don't know, but I would think And
Speaker 4: I say this with like true like love for the
Speaker 4: entire all the riders, everyone involved with the show. I
Speaker 4: have like the fond memories of everyone. But the thought
Speaker 4: that but we could for one hundred and forty whatever episodes,
Speaker 4: like do something as consistent as like, oh, there needs
Speaker 4: to be a bear in every episode, is like it
Speaker 4: should also be like oh there's you know, like we
Speaker 4: go to the moon in every episode. Like there's just
Speaker 4: no way that there's no way that a detail like
Speaker 4: that was paid attention to and followed through one consistently.
Speaker 4: I mean, we couldn't get much more important things than that, right,
Speaker 4: So I can't believe we were like at least the
Speaker 4: bears in there. But yeah, I would also love to
Speaker 4: be wrong. I would say there's probably more bears in
Speaker 4: more scenes of Noodle than there are in most shows
Speaker 4: that take place in a non bear environment.
Speaker 1: I do think. I think at some point it just
Speaker 1: happened to happen, happened to have happened. There's photos of
Speaker 1: bears on refrigerator, there's one in Winston's room. Nick likes
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, Liz, as is well documented, loves bears, and
Speaker 4: I get it. Bears are very funny. There was someone
Speaker 4: in a the guy in a I'm gonna say a
Speaker 4: guy could have been, a lady could have been, it
Speaker 4: could have been or non non gendered. I don't know
Speaker 4: there was there was. Maybe it wasn't even a person.
Speaker 4: I assume it was a person in a bear costume
Speaker 4: at Liz and Alex's wedding, just wandering around.
Speaker 7: So that's the really Yeah, I don't remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 7: or was it you and you're just the uh So
Speaker 7: there's a real love of bears there, so it would
Speaker 7: make sense that there's I would love for them to
Speaker 7: be one in every episode and to be proven wrong.
Speaker 4: I just having been there and having been like a
Speaker 4: huge culprit of this myself. The idea that we had
Speaker 4: any sort of system in place to get everything, to
Speaker 4: get anything like right with any consistency, is not how
Speaker 4: it felt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't. I never thought it was a real thing.
Speaker 1: But for a long time you, I mean, there are
Speaker 1: quite a few, there are quite a few bare references.
Speaker 1: I just didn't know if it were every single episode.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad to hear from you that you felt
Speaker 1: that you guys couldn't have pulled it together. And maybe
Speaker 1: on drinking and partying you were doing in the writer's.
Speaker 4: Room, if only a lot of like two am, like
Speaker 4: what if Winston got a ceiling fan? Have we done.
Speaker 6: That a lot of stuff like that, which is it's
Speaker 6: it's a type of party and musing on you know,
Speaker 6: appliances you might acquire in a b story.
Speaker 1: My storyline is the idea that I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: going to die early and I want to have a
Speaker 1: job that I can feel good about, and so him
Speaker 1: working I think at the time he's like an assistant
Speaker 1: or something at the at the at the radio station.
Speaker 1: He wants to get his own show, and he goes
Speaker 1: in and he gives this very impassion to plea this beach.
Speaker 1: Which is one of my favorite things about the show
Speaker 1: was whenever I'm like a and enraged and passion monologue
Speaker 1: was written for me. They had so much fun doing it.
Speaker 1: Was this based on anything Has it ever happened to
Speaker 1: you before? Where you have to walk into a room
Speaker 1: and just let everybody know what time it was? Has
Speaker 1: it what happened? Have you seen it happen?
Speaker 4: I'm sure that it has, but I could certainly say
Speaker 4: it didn't like end with a good result. It wasn't
Speaker 4: like it. Then cut to me telling my roommates guess
Speaker 4: what they loved it. I got the job, but no,
Speaker 4: I think you know, you really sell it though. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you've got some great No, there's some great monologues throughout
Speaker 4: a later episode of mine. You have one of my
Speaker 4: favorite things that I can only take partial credit for
Speaker 4: because I remember Joe Wanger was helping me with it.
Speaker 4: But it's about when you look in the suggestion box
Speaker 4: of my life. You know what it says in there.
Speaker 4: It says good job and like and you know who
Speaker 4: put it there and me? You know how I know
Speaker 4: because I recognize my handwriting. But again it's not quite right,
Speaker 4: but so funny.
Speaker 1: Well still do I mean? You so you're you're responsible
Speaker 1: for and I'm not sure if you knew this. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure you knew this, the quotes that come
Speaker 1: out of this show, the things that fans post, the
Speaker 1: tiktoks about our show. Is there anything that stands out?
Speaker 1: Is there any line that you're most proud of or
Speaker 1: you could always say I wrote I wrote that shit,
Speaker 1: you know when you see fans blasting it all over
Speaker 1: the place, or is there anything that sticks out to you?
Speaker 4: It's hard. I mean, you'll be shocked to learn. I'm
Speaker 4: I'm a pretty light footprint on TikTok, so I'm not
Speaker 4: exactly sure what's you know.
Speaker 1: I watch your tiktoks?
Speaker 4: What's lighting up the boards out there? There are? And
Speaker 4: in coming on this podcast, I was like, I should
Speaker 4: probably think of one frickin memory to just be like,
Speaker 4: here's the one. Really, there's so many, and it's kind
Speaker 4: of like I was there for like all seven seasons,
Speaker 4: which though it felt much longer. So it's kind of like,
Speaker 4: you know, what's your favorite memory from like college and
Speaker 4: your master's program or wherever. It's like, there's just like
Speaker 4: so many, like so many, so much it's hard to
Speaker 4: like isolate one.
Speaker 1: Well, I could tell you from a you tell me
Speaker 1: what it is, and I'll agree with you. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you specifically, but I will tell
Speaker 1: you if you get on a TikTok. They are everywhere.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm tagged in all these things. And what's
Speaker 1: interesting about it is that the fans, when they tag
Speaker 1: you in it, they the question is always the same,
Speaker 1: did you improvise that? Or did someone write that? And
Speaker 1: I could tell you a majority of the time it's written.
Speaker 1: Really improvise a lot on the show, but majority of
Speaker 1: the time the silliness and the madness. And I've always
Speaker 1: said this comes from which I think the greatest writers
Speaker 1: ever assembled, and I genuinely mean that, and and you
Speaker 1: are one of them, and you know, I just I like,
Speaker 1: extremely like extremely like its like happy to have been
Speaker 1: a part of something like that with people who because
Speaker 1: then you're part of certain things where it doesn't go
Speaker 1: quite the way you thought it was going to go.
Speaker 1: But you guys together, it's like it's it was brilliant, man.
Speaker 1: We got we got away with some really cool shit
Speaker 1: on this show. And you know, and you're a reason
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 4: Well thanks, I mean I am reading you're obviously a
Speaker 4: much bigger reason not to get into a reason measuring contest.
Speaker 4: But uh no, I it was an amazing group I
Speaker 4: mean of writers and there were a lot because people came,
Speaker 4: I mean, we were on for a long time. We
Speaker 4: made a lot of episodes and people came and went,
Speaker 4: and like every incarnation of the writers room was a
Speaker 4: really good group of people. And and you guys were
Speaker 4: the cast was amazing and like it was a very
Speaker 4: bumpy ride at times, but like so much of the
Speaker 4: end as all, it was I think really like and
Speaker 4: it's which the process too, It was it was a
Speaker 4: lot of fun, but but uh yeah, it definitely like
Speaker 4: it was a really special to be a part of.
Speaker 4: And I also like it was funny because when I
Speaker 4: was there, I was just like just enraged all the
Speaker 4: time about all the things we couldn't do, like uh
Speaker 4: and then when I you know, that was Fox and
Speaker 4: my next thing I worked on was in ABC, and
Speaker 4: I was like, I think I need to write the
Speaker 4: execsit Fox, like an apology letter for a bunch of things.
Speaker 4: I never said to them, but thought, because like we
Speaker 4: were doing whatever we wanted as long as we couldn't
Speaker 4: we couldn't mention like a name brand and you know whatever.
Speaker 4: But like otherwise they're like, we don't understand what you're doing.
Speaker 4: But like all right, sure we got to do some
Speaker 4: really for a network that comes like really really really
Speaker 4: weird stuff that that I found quite enjoyable, and that
Speaker 4: is not the case uh many places. Yeah, so yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Was in It was Uh did you have as much
Speaker 1: freedom on any show after that? What do you did?
Speaker 1: You compare it and go, man, we got away with
Speaker 1: Murder a New Girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a little bit. I mean my next
Speaker 4: job was after that was Single Parents, which was kind
Speaker 4: of like a uh new Girl Extension and like so
Speaker 4: many of the same writers and stuff were involved and
Speaker 4: that was great, but it and also there were kids
Speaker 4: in it, like it was obviously a much more like
Speaker 4: family yeah, sort of like Angled show. But but yeah,
Speaker 4: the the execs on that were much like more interested
Speaker 4: in stuff that I'm less interested in as opposed to
Speaker 4: like the stuff that which and listen, i mean they're
Speaker 4: you know, they're running the world and I'm not, so
Speaker 4: I don't I'm not saying wrong. And then yeah, girls,
Speaker 4: I've ever was very I mean that was because I
Speaker 4: was like over Zoom, which is a whole different because
Speaker 4: it was you know, pandemic era and that was you know,
Speaker 4: a little that was kooky here. But it's also hard
Speaker 4: to get a feel for something. Not hard, but when
Speaker 4: you're used to doing twenty two episodes for like years
Speaker 4: and years, which is like such a you know you
Speaker 4: there's it's just you know what the thing is in
Speaker 4: a way that's like sometimes helpful sometimes kind of like
Speaker 4: soul crushing. But you in compared to like with so
Speaker 4: much of TV now, which is you know, eight episodes
Speaker 4: and you may not even be on set for the shoot,
Speaker 4: so you're just less kind of like, I guess, well,
Speaker 4: I guess you're less, you're less invested in less. It's
Speaker 4: harder for you to get angry at the execs verstay
Speaker 4: notice stuff because you're not even really sure what's happening.
Speaker 4: You're kind of just like, well, here you go, blast
Speaker 4: good luck maybe, Whereas like when it's when you're like,
Speaker 4: you know, on set and you're editing, you're you know,
Speaker 4: sitting in and editing, and you're right, you kind of
Speaker 4: just so much of your of your time and blood
Speaker 4: and sweat and stomach lining goes into something that then
Speaker 4: when they're like.
Speaker 1: Enact I got ulcers on the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that was one of again. I said, we don't.
Speaker 4: I said we were good about like setting goals and
Speaker 4: then like following through like with the Bears. But with that,
Speaker 4: we did get together and we were like, let's really
Speaker 4: make sure we every day we ask ourselves, are we
Speaker 4: giving them more ulcers?
Speaker 1: Three of them?
Speaker 4: Three? Oh three? Wow? See we we were just trying
Speaker 4: for two. So that's really yeah. I've got to make
Speaker 4: some calls after this and let everyone know what a
Speaker 4: great job we did. We really fucked them up.
Speaker 1: Welcome shoes.
Speaker 3: Now it's time to open up Schmidt's Sex Email Bag,
Speaker 3: a segment brought to you by Hulu where I answer.
Speaker 1: A fan question.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing to do. I love answering fan questions.
Speaker 3: Please keep sending them. I love it Anna all Caps.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge fan of New I love the relationship
Speaker 3: between Just and CC. It reminds me a lot of
Speaker 3: my relationship with my bestie. I love hearing you and
Speaker 3: Zoe on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Obviously, you guys became friends while on the show, and
Speaker 3: the connection was felt in the audition. But I was
Speaker 3: wondering if there was a moment when you realize Zoe
Speaker 3: would be a lifelong friend. For me, was when my
Speaker 3: besties told my ex off unprompted joways makes me feel safe.
Speaker 3: Thank you for reading this letter.
Speaker 4: Daniel G. Hawaii.
Speaker 3: Wow, what was the moment I knew? You know, it's funny,
Speaker 3: it's actually in that audition. In that audition, I'd just
Speaker 3: flown back from shooting a show with the beautiful Katrina
Speaker 3: balf who, as we all know from Outlander. This was
Speaker 3: before Outlander. We were shooting a show down in Chile,
Speaker 3: and I flew back straight to the audition. I still
Speaker 3: had sand in my hair from shooting this desert scene
Speaker 3: down there, sand in my hair and raced in and
Speaker 3: did not look all glam. I was supposed to look
Speaker 3: glam because I suppos playing this model character named Ceci.
Speaker 3: And I remember walking in to do the audition with
Speaker 3: Zoe and I made this joke or she made some
Speaker 3: compliment about you know, Chilean food, and I made a
Speaker 3: joke and she just laughed, like caught by surprise kind
Speaker 3: of laugh. It was so genuine and there's just that
Speaker 3: and she kind of looked at me. You know, that's
Speaker 3: that thing when you can make someone laugh, like truly
Speaker 3: laugh that doesn't even know you, that will to know
Speaker 3: that would make you laugh.
Speaker 4: And it's like.
Speaker 3: My humor, which was very dry, sardonic humor, and the
Speaker 3: fact that she got it and laughed, So I don't know,
Speaker 3: we just got each other in that moment, and that's
Speaker 3: like just true human chemistry where you're like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: going to be in my world. I'm keeping you in
Speaker 3: my world no matter what. And so it always was
Speaker 3: a little surreal that we got to play then best friends,
Speaker 3: knowing we would be really good friends, and then our
Speaker 3: best friendship grew over the you know, near decade that
Speaker 3: you work together and then have been sad ever since,
Speaker 3: and so we created this podcast so we could keep
Speaker 3: working together. Any excuse to see each other. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 3: for that question, that's so nice.
Speaker 1: I do have a question for you that there's a
Speaker 1: fan question, okay from Samantha Ship Samantha's Ship. She asks,
Speaker 1: was Adam Brodie's character on New Girl named after Berkeley Johnson.
Speaker 1: He played the role of Berkeley just as Boyfriend season
Speaker 1: three episode execs Uh was?
Speaker 4: I mean it wasn't named after me. I'm involved, like
Speaker 4: through no involvement of my own in a sense, where
Speaker 4: like as I said earlier, I was getting real into
Speaker 4: the like entertaining myself by just like giving characters like
Speaker 4: crazy names and trying to you know, just sort of
Speaker 4: sneak him out of the show. And sometimes if you're
Speaker 4: if your episode is next to is near another episode,
Speaker 4: you're kind of not involved with that other episode because
Speaker 4: you're so busy with your own stuff and they're so like,
Speaker 4: you know, they're going on production one after each other.
Speaker 4: I had very little to do with that episode, and
Speaker 4: I think they were like, oh, we'll call this guy
Speaker 4: Berkeley because that'll piss Liz off. Because bub blah, but
Speaker 4: you know whatever. And then Liz, in a very shrewd
Speaker 4: move she saw She's like, oh no, this is great.
Speaker 4: Leave this in. Fuck him, leave it Berkeley. And so
Speaker 4: I got a call or right I talked to it
Speaker 4: from that. They're like, we're so sorry we put your
Speaker 4: name in. We didn't think she was going to keep it.
Speaker 4: She's keeping it. And the next thing I knew it
Speaker 4: was it was in. But what is fun is like
Speaker 4: on the call and it's and my name is spelled
Speaker 4: strangely because my parents decided to make it hard for me,
Speaker 4: but they spelled it like that. So then on the
Speaker 4: call sheet, which I still have, it's like it says
Speaker 4: like Jess tells Berkeley she doesn't love him, and then
Speaker 4: it's like and then the next was like Berkeley cries
Speaker 4: and begs for Jess to come. I felt very involved.
Speaker 1: So they were fucking with you.
Speaker 4: Yes, tell is it Samantha Samantha Ship? That sounds like
Speaker 4: a name you made up because you wanted to ask
Speaker 4: this question, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't make that up. Samantha Ship is my assistant.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, she wanted to know. She's a huge fan.
Speaker 4: It is like, I wonder it is? Uh, it is?
Speaker 4: I am. I guess I was involved and I remember.
Speaker 4: This tells you like one zone kind of where like
Speaker 4: then Adam was on Single Parents and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: is it gonna be weird again? Is it gonna be
Speaker 4: weird to be like, hey, I'm Berkeley. He'd be like, wait,
Speaker 4: I played Berkeley, And like then, I'm like, this guy
Speaker 4: has no fucking memory that he like ever played someone
Speaker 4: in like who cares? He doesn't care. I wonder if yeah,
Speaker 4: I could have you know, I could be like, my
Speaker 4: name is your name from the O C And he'd
Speaker 4: be like, I don't really remember doing that.
Speaker 1: It's like where's my check?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If you know Adam Broder, you know that's how he
Speaker 1: gets down. Actually I don't know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he loves checks.
Speaker 1: He's a well I would imagine, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no credit cards checks.
Speaker 1: Only checks and money orders. We're gonna have into a
Speaker 1: segment in this show called Nick's Box.
Speaker 8: Okay, knicks Box is brought to you by Hyundai. When
Speaker 8: it comes to your journey, Hyundai is thinking of every mile.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this segment where we crawl in the
Speaker 1: back of Nick's closet we put out the memories that
Speaker 1: the cast and crew of New Girl have kept hidden
Speaker 1: for years. So let me ask you a question, Berkeley,
Speaker 1: who was sleeping with who in the writer's room? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm s so kidding unless you want to anser that
Speaker 1: day Bred day. Yeah, Bred Dave a regular old Burdon Ernie,
Speaker 1: you know, shout out to Bretton Dave. What are some
Speaker 1: of you know, we talked about this a little bit ago,
Speaker 1: fond memories of the show. Is there anything that sticks out,
Speaker 1: any story, anything that you always wanted to get off
Speaker 1: your chest, anybody that you wanted to keep praise on
Speaker 1: or heep, you know, non praise on, anything you want
Speaker 1: to say about your time at Nuker.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many that are of course totally
Speaker 4: leaving my Swiss cheese brain as we speak. Just something
Speaker 4: I thought of the other day because amazingly it almost
Speaker 4: happened to me again, was that when this was an
Speaker 4: episode from season one, we were outside, it was freezing,
Speaker 4: there were all these heaters around. This was the one
Speaker 4: where like it was, Martin Starr was in it and Derman.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, but basically one of the actors had
Speaker 4: like asked me for some sort of thing and I'd
Speaker 4: given a note and I don't know something had happened
Speaker 4: and and now it was a guest cast member and
Speaker 4: she came up to me afterwards. Well we moved on
Speaker 4: to a different scene and the cameras rolling, and she
Speaker 4: was like, she was like, excuse me, excuse me, And
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, no, it was great.
Speaker 4: You did great, Like just assume me in my own
Speaker 4: like again sleep deprived, but just ego. I was like, well,
Speaker 4: clearly she wants to tell me, like, hey, that was
Speaker 4: a great note, thank you so much. I really felt good,
Speaker 4: or even be like I didn't know, but I certainly
Speaker 4: thought it was going to be about like this note
Speaker 4: I'd just given that it unlocked her and it was like,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm going to thank you when I went
Speaker 4: an oscar and ten years or whatever. But I was like, also,
Speaker 4: there's an other tape going and she's like, I'm just sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm like, can we talk to it. She's like, I
Speaker 4: just want to let you know your entire arm is
Speaker 4: on fire, and I like, gone in my jacket was
Speaker 4: because I've been standing close to like one of these heaters.
Speaker 4: My jacket had caught on fire and whoa, And then
Speaker 4: in a rare moment of coolness, was like I was
Speaker 4: not not coolness, Like I was like I know, and
Speaker 4: then just like it out kind of like like like
Speaker 4: like this happens all the time in Hollywood. Your arm
Speaker 4: catch on fire. You just be cool. But I don't
Speaker 4: know why you're making a big ruckus. But then as
Speaker 4: soon as it was like cut, I like ran to
Speaker 4: the part we were shooting, like outside of Dodger statedium like,
Speaker 4: ran to the bathroom, took off my jacket. Was like okay,
Speaker 4: I'm okay. So that's not really like a Knicks Box
Speaker 4: memory so much. It's just something it came to me
Speaker 4: the other day.
Speaker 1: That is definitely a Knicks Box memory.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, it might be. It might be the greatest one.
Speaker 4: It might this we may have ended the Knicks Box segments.
Speaker 1: That might have been the greatest one.
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Speaker 1: I had to drop a deuce really bad in an
Speaker 1: episode and I was begging, like begging someone to like
Speaker 1: call cut so I could go to the bathroom and
Speaker 1: do so. It was bad. It was I forgot what
Speaker 1: I had salsa or something else. And people remind me
Speaker 1: of that often. Yeah, you almost you almost burned like
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson did in that Pepsi video. Yeah, and no
Speaker 1: one talked about this.
Speaker 4: That's that's the double edged sort of like you know,
Speaker 4: being a writer versus being talent, Like everyone knows what
Speaker 4: you're up to, what you're up to, good and bad.
Speaker 4: But that's we just kind of like, you know, slip
Speaker 4: slip quietly through the night, like you know, doing great
Speaker 4: stuff and people are like eh or like almost you know,
Speaker 4: bring alive and be like eh, it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: Well I can say, uh, I can say, and I
Speaker 1: can speak for myself, the rest of the cast and
Speaker 1: all the fans of New Girl out there, we are very,
Speaker 1: very appreciative of all the great stuff that you have
Speaker 1: brought to television, my friend into I think the greatest
Speaker 1: show of all time New Girl. I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: that because I'm on it, well mainly i am, but
Speaker 1: but I do want to say thank you man, thank
Speaker 1: you for being on the show. Thank you for humoring
Speaker 1: me even though my co hosts bailed on me and
Speaker 1: ditched me. But thank you, thank you for being a
Speaker 1: part of this man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you tell them that if if I'm not a
Speaker 4: big enough draw, yeah, that you will not tell them
Speaker 4: that you had this ship story. And then they wouldn't
Speaker 4: like because that was just for you and me, because
Speaker 4: they're not here and they missed it.
Speaker 1: They definitely missed it. They definitely missed it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love you, man, I love you so much. Thank
Speaker 1: you for being here.
Speaker 4: I love you man. It's great to see you have
Speaker 4: fun that you're in Calgary.
Speaker 1: Correct, I'm in Calgary. Yeah, all right, that's why I
Speaker 1: have this weird mustache.
Speaker 4: Ye I like it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Maya, thank.
Speaker 4: You very much.
Speaker 1: Okay, folks, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's give a big round of applause to Berkeley Johnson
Speaker 1: for joining us today to help break down this episode.
Speaker 1: We truly do appreciate it. Now, make sure to go
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