Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what Really missed podcast the Glee
Speaker 1: three D E dish Welcome yep here.
Speaker 2: It is the movie that no one saw coming, none
Speaker 2: of us, No, we didn't. It was one of those
Speaker 2: add on to the extensive list of things that we
Speaker 2: did not think were possible. Were one of those things
Speaker 2: in the original pilot contract that we did not think
Speaker 2: was ever going to be needed. But here we are.
Speaker 2: We got to have a movie after the second season.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is like the time of like
Speaker 1: like the Justin Bieber kind of documentary films which shout
Speaker 1: out to John Chu and like the Katie Perry wan
Speaker 1: which I loved. And so yeah, okay, this was not that,
Speaker 1: but it was not that, And this I thought it
Speaker 1: might be, but it was.
Speaker 2: This was peak Glee. I also wonder if this is
Speaker 2: also when like, I feel like this was the first
Speaker 2: indicator that we were a bit oversaturated.
Speaker 1: M that's fair. It just feels like they were like, look,
Speaker 1: this is probably an easy like drop in, you know,
Speaker 1: like it We're already doing the tour, so why not
Speaker 1: just film it and then throw it out, you know,
Speaker 1: fix it and post and then throw it out into
Speaker 1: the world. But let's talk about it. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: So this is Glee three D, the concert movie, and
Speaker 1: it was released on August twelfth, twenty eleven, which.
Speaker 2: Is crazy because we finished tour the beginning of July
Speaker 2: and they did post production in six weeks. From the
Speaker 2: time they started doing posts the time it was out,
Speaker 2: it was six weeks, which makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Also that tracks, yeah, and what.
Speaker 2: Was wild too, is so you have to understand that
Speaker 2: in six weeks of tour, we performed for over half
Speaker 2: a million audience members, right, And so then because we
Speaker 2: couldn't go on tour for a long cerod of time,
Speaker 2: they're trying to like maximize the reach, the reach and
Speaker 2: so then here we are. But like maybe we saw
Speaker 2: a lot of the people that wanted to see us
Speaker 2: in person because those shows were sold out.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 2: So we shot this in New Jersey over two days.
Speaker 2: We came into arenas like we normally do, but for
Speaker 2: this we came in hours earlier to do some of
Speaker 2: these steady cam close up things. That's why the wide
Speaker 2: zucy were sweaty.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: They also shot some of the wides in concert like
Speaker 1: while we were actually doing the tour. Yeah, just real audiences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yes, we needed the close ups and the steady
Speaker 1: cans and the things that needed to be where the
Speaker 1: camera's on stage, and we couldn't really have that while
Speaker 1: we were doing the actual tour because that would infringe
Speaker 1: upon our performance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all these people that paid to come see the concert,
Speaker 2: and we did get some of that. There were moments
Speaker 2: where a steady cam operator and Andrew talked about this,
Speaker 2: where there was a steady cam that would come out
Speaker 2: very quickly and briefly so you could see some of
Speaker 2: the audience and honestly watching this that was Those were
Speaker 2: some of my favorite moments because there were quick inserts
Speaker 2: of from behind us to an arena full of people,
Speaker 2: because I think sometimes you get used to just seeing
Speaker 2: us on stage and you forget that there's fifteen sixteen
Speaker 2: thousand people.
Speaker 1: Well it's not Glee, it's Glee the concert, right, So yes, yes, totally.
Speaker 1: It's it's a more immersive that way reminds you where
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 2: So to talk about the state of mind a bit,
Speaker 2: we're just jumping in going, I mean sure a bit.
Speaker 2: We didn't really know what was going on because we
Speaker 2: were in full tour mode. We hadn't seen anybody, Like
Speaker 2: we left La right and we were just touring with
Speaker 2: our whole tour family. There's no Ryan, there's no Zach
Speaker 2: Woodley or.
Speaker 1: Brooke's going yeah.
Speaker 2: And so then we get to New York and we
Speaker 2: do these shows in New Jersey and we're filming and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, everybody shows up. Everybody shows up,
Speaker 2: and we're sort of like rehearsing again, trying to figure
Speaker 2: out and we're a little like beaten down entire rewind.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when they told us we were going
Speaker 1: to do the three D tour movie the three D
Speaker 1: I don't either. It feels like it was kind of
Speaker 1: a dropped in there and then like a runaway.
Speaker 2: But also I think, yes, I think that was probably
Speaker 2: strategic in how because it really didn't cost us any
Speaker 2: more time other than showing up early those two days
Speaker 2: where it's like we got paid a fee but we're
Speaker 2: still doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: What's weird is too is like, so Kevin tantra On,
Speaker 2: who directed this, I've known Kevin since I first moved
Speaker 2: to LA when I was fourteen, when I first started
Speaker 2: coming to Eli actually, and so it was also this
Speaker 2: and he's friends with John Chew as this very like circular,
Speaker 2: serendipitous thing where it's like, Okay, Kevin understands performance and
Speaker 2: dance and is the nicest person. And so then Kevin's
Speaker 2: coming in to like shoot this thing, but like Ryan's
Speaker 2: there and everybody's there, and so then we didn't know
Speaker 2: what the structure of the film was going to be, right.
Speaker 2: We didn't know that they were going to be these
Speaker 2: fan interactions at all. We didn't know what they wanted
Speaker 2: from us backstage, and so that's when Ryan showed up
Speaker 2: with the camera right and shooting us himself.
Speaker 1: Because I think I'm not I'm sure Ryan had a vision,
Speaker 1: because Ryan always has a vision, but I'm sure they
Speaker 1: were also just taking as much footage as possible, kind
Speaker 1: of like a documentary, like you just shoot and shoot
Speaker 1: and shoot and then you find your story, right, And
Speaker 1: so I think they were Ryan's like, we have to
Speaker 1: get like the confessionals right of the characters. And at
Speaker 1: one point we weren't sure if we were going to
Speaker 1: be us or we were going to be our characters,
Speaker 1: kind of like the tour, like there was a decision
Speaker 1: to be made, and because the tour was all in character,
Speaker 1: I think Ryan decided that it was you know, only
Speaker 1: appropriate that we were also in character for our little confessions,
Speaker 1: which were very funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't like Kenna, oh Kenna, look at us,
Speaker 2: Jenna and Kevin's experience going a tour. It was Art's
Speaker 2: experience aging exactly.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there was just it kind of happened before
Speaker 1: we you we could like blink. It was like they
Speaker 1: were coming. We were at the end of our tour
Speaker 1: or before like the end of the US leg, right,
Speaker 1: and they came in and they kind of like gorilla
Speaker 1: style shot all those behind the scene things while we
Speaker 1: were in the makeup room, because that's really where you
Speaker 1: get all of a lot of us at one time.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: You know, other than that, you're shooting whatever we're you know,
Speaker 1: doing on stage like we're performing. And yes, we didn't
Speaker 1: know about the fan interviews, which thank god they did
Speaker 1: them because that made the whole film what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we didn't know until we sat down
Speaker 2: to watch at the premiere, right, and it was so special,
Speaker 2: like this is actually, oh.
Speaker 1: Why we do it? Yeah, because again, like we didn't
Speaker 1: like the show like the tour, you don't get those
Speaker 1: one on one moments with fans. You get droves of fans,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get attention or an autograph or something, right,
Speaker 1: and so we didn't get any of their stories. So
Speaker 1: thank god for that, I will say, yeah.
Speaker 2: And I mean they were in depth. I felt like
Speaker 2: I was watching you know, American Idol back in the
Speaker 2: day where they would like, oh yeah, stick with one
Speaker 2: person when they were first auditioning. They would go to
Speaker 2: like get their little story and all that, and it
Speaker 2: was it was really sweet special.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about what was going on in the
Speaker 1: world a little bit and then we can get more
Speaker 1: into the film itself. So the number one song around
Speaker 1: this time was party Rock anthem like by Ella feol.
Speaker 2: I feel like that paints a really perfect picture of
Speaker 2: where we were in time time when this movie came out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the number one movie was Rise of the
Speaker 1: Planet of the Apes. I did see this, you know.
Speaker 2: The movie wasn't number one Glee three D.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely was not. And on August sixth, just a
Speaker 1: week before the release, the clastically attended the premiere at
Speaker 1: the Westwood Village Theater in California, and that's where we
Speaker 1: went to the Twilight premiere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where it was like full circle moment, Yes, very strange.
Speaker 1: And we also released the soundtrack of the Glee Concert movie,
Speaker 1: which I have to say I do listen to because
Speaker 1: it's live. So I like listening to the not as
Speaker 1: produced Glee songs. And I listened to the Glee three
Speaker 1: day sometimes some versions of something else.
Speaker 2: I forgot it existed. Okay, I never listened to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, you should go back. It's fun to go listen to,
Speaker 1: like Ain't Away. And then the album was also made
Speaker 1: on CD, like who has CD's anyway? And then on
Speaker 1: August seventh, Kevin Glee won three awards at the Teen
Speaker 1: Choice Awards were bre but I remember this time getting
Speaker 1: ready with like our glam team and everything, and it
Speaker 1: was just NonStop. It was like you're like you again,
Speaker 1: let's get.
Speaker 2: Ready and if you find pictures of us are the
Speaker 2: Teen Choice Awards. I clearly was overwhelmed by the amount
Speaker 2: of things we were doing, because my outfit says as much,
Speaker 2: because I remember I forgot to like do it plan
Speaker 2: an outfit and my friends guess Silas Bow at the
Speaker 2: time was over at my house and He's like, okay,
Speaker 2: what can we do? And he like took some old
Speaker 2: clothes I had and like cut off the sleeves.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Really yes, it like really bad things and just started
Speaker 2: chopping things up and like well this is good enough, Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: sure we'll do. This's so many pictures where I'm just
Speaker 2: like what were we thinking? Because everyone looked really good
Speaker 2: at the movie premiere the day before, and so I
Speaker 2: think that was And we had a junket all day.
Speaker 2: We were wink press the entirety of the.
Speaker 1: Day, run out our stuff. I will say, the junkets
Speaker 1: for the Glee three D movie. You sit in a
Speaker 1: room and the press comes to you and it's it's
Speaker 1: it is a lot, but because you're just sitting there
Speaker 1: and you're waiting for the next person to come in,
Speaker 1: you get to gab and there's just so many fun
Speaker 1: memories that we had and I really actually it's one
Speaker 1: of those press days that I actually enjoyed the most
Speaker 1: because like we didn't have to move.
Speaker 2: I just remember being out of like out of my mind.
Speaker 2: You were all out of our minds. I was so
Speaker 2: tired because all questions too, yes, the same questions you're
Speaker 2: talking about yourself, which is not like super fun, and
Speaker 2: then you're talking about the tour that we had just
Speaker 2: ended doing, so like it was very redundant, you know,
Speaker 2: like we were worn out about this.
Speaker 5: How was this?
Speaker 2: And also like how was this movie already out?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It very much felt like that, like where are we
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like and like yeah, what's happening? And then we're
Speaker 1: like go back to work. Yeah, it was very fast.
Speaker 1: I don't think I got a surfboard this year. This
Speaker 1: was the pretty one that I wanted because I like
Speaker 1: the colors, and that's the one, the ugly one the
Speaker 1: next year. I don't know if I have the surfboard
Speaker 1: from this team choice sword. I have a couple I
Speaker 1: can't find. I don't even know where my teen choice word.
Speaker 1: Did I give her away?
Speaker 2: Mine are still like bubble wrapped and my garage?
Speaker 1: Isn't it in my garage? Or did I give it away?
Speaker 2: I might have given you might have given it away.
Speaker 2: You give stuff away.
Speaker 1: Normally I would keep something like that. But I think
Speaker 1: I kept one surfboard. I don't, but we call it
Speaker 1: you have it like you actually can surf on them.
Speaker 1: I will say they did say they gave us the fins,
Speaker 1: they gave us the wax, like, but who's surfing on
Speaker 1: their choice award?
Speaker 2: Or Okay, why didn't we get this one?
Speaker 1: I don't think we won and comedy cast we won
Speaker 1: for comedy like like cast ensemble or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, because with the year before, did I
Speaker 2: host the year before? Yeah, with Katie Right and the
Speaker 2: boys or Demi? Oh, Demi, Demi? I hosted in twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: okay said the following year, yes with Demi? Okay, because
Speaker 2: then I got one. That's when we got one.
Speaker 1: That's right. Okay, So this movie we had some special
Speaker 1: guest stars. We had Gwyneth in there who came and
Speaker 1: did Forget You in Jersey and then also in London.
Speaker 2: Did she helicopter in?
Speaker 1: She helicarapters from New York City over to Jersey. It's
Speaker 1: a nine minute flight.
Speaker 2: It is so smart because we waited like an hour
Speaker 2: and a half in track.
Speaker 1: To get through the tunnels.
Speaker 2: She's helicopter again.
Speaker 1: You know what when you're Gwyn's Paltraw, you helicopter in yep.
Speaker 1: And Jane Lynch, who opened the show for us a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I in my memory this one and
Speaker 1: maybe one other one, maybe in La she was there
Speaker 1: with Matt maybe yeah, or maybe that was Radio City.
Speaker 1: I can't they're all the they're all blending together. We
Speaker 1: didn't meet any of these wonderful uh cinematographers, or at
Speaker 1: least I didn't, or the wonderful editors of this film.
Speaker 2: Well that's you know. When we were talking to Andrew
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, you did the steady camera
Speaker 2: and he' said no, that was somebody else. As a
Speaker 2: whole three D thing. We didn't meet anybody really because
Speaker 2: this was all happening behind the scenes where like we
Speaker 2: sort of went about our same tour day right, Like
Speaker 2: I said, like we were just on stage and we
Speaker 2: didn't really know where the cameras were. We were just performing.
Speaker 2: We also had some like little audience in there during
Speaker 2: that time, do you remember, hmmm?
Speaker 1: No, we had actually in the morning right, yes, early
Speaker 1: early matinee if you will.
Speaker 2: Okay, and there was like a small section like close
Speaker 2: to the stage, I think, just to like give us
Speaker 2: something to perform for. And then Sam admitted to us
Speaker 2: that she was there. Sam, do you want to come
Speaker 2: on for a second so we can ask you about this.
Speaker 2: Our memories are foggy as you're used to, but you
Speaker 2: were in the audience. How did that happen?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 6: I had tickets to the first night of the tour,
Speaker 6: and I remember we were like getting all ready, literally,
Speaker 6: my friends and I curling our hair, best dresses because
Speaker 6: we were like maybe someone will see us from like
Speaker 6: the rafters, you know, so you're getting already, and my
Speaker 6: friend she like called me and she was like, I
Speaker 6: think I just won something huge. And I was like what,
Speaker 6: and she was like, I saw on Twitter they were
Speaker 6: asking if you're like a Glee fan, so she like
Speaker 6: entered her name and then they contacted her and we're like, hey,
Speaker 6: can you be at the Izod Center again tomorrow morning
Speaker 6: at like eight am and you're gonna watch them film
Speaker 6: for the three D movie.
Speaker 7: And we were like three D movie because.
Speaker 6: I don't think anyone even knew that was happening at
Speaker 6: that point, right, So we're like totally, and they're like,
Speaker 6: and if you come, you'll get tickets to tomorrow night
Speaker 6: show as well, So we were like, sign us up totally.
Speaker 6: We went and saw the show and it was amazing,
Speaker 6: and then the next day we reported for duty at
Speaker 6: like eight am, and we like lined up outside and
Speaker 6: then they let us in and they brought us in
Speaker 6: and they sat us in that section.
Speaker 7: It was like a stage left I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we were sitting there and we just got
Speaker 6: to watch you guys like redo the numbers like hundreds
Speaker 6: of times, like over again, just so they could get
Speaker 6: the shot. And we sat there all day, and I
Speaker 6: remember we were like freaking out because we could see you.
Speaker 6: You were just like hanging out in between sets. I
Speaker 6: remember you guys are in between songs. I remember you
Speaker 6: guys laying on the stage and we just it felt
Speaker 6: like we were like at a freaking zoo watching you're.
Speaker 2: Not much more things.
Speaker 7: We were like, we were.
Speaker 6: All freaking out and you just were like I remember
Speaker 6: watching you guys like laying on each other on the
Speaker 6: stage in between each song, and someone would take your
Speaker 6: your chair, Kevin at some point just like roll around
Speaker 6: in it, because why not. I remember at one point
Speaker 6: they had Darren come and talk to us and like
Speaker 6: amp us up before filming, and everyone was like.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, because he was like right there.
Speaker 6: I also remember us watching Darren was like skateboarding throughout
Speaker 6: the arena at some point. And then yeah, we just like,
Speaker 6: we're watching you guys the whole time, and then they
Speaker 6: had us they would film reaction shots from us. You
Speaker 6: cannot see me in the movie, especially after rewatching last week.
Speaker 6: I remember when we went to go see we were devastated,
Speaker 6: like we were there the whole day, and they filmed
Speaker 6: the reaction shots from us. They had like dummies sitting
Speaker 6: next to us too.
Speaker 7: They had like.
Speaker 6: Inflatable people to make it seem like there were people
Speaker 6: there too, just to fill it out. Yeah, And then
Speaker 6: after we were there for like hours, it was like amazing,
Speaker 6: we just got to watch you guys redo it forever.
Speaker 6: They had us like sit inside the concourse of the
Speaker 6: arena because they couldn't like let us out to let
Speaker 6: us back in.
Speaker 1: Oh, she was just like were there all day.
Speaker 7: We were there all day. It was legit, like extra work.
Speaker 6: And then when we were sitting there, I remember the
Speaker 6: doors were shut and Leah was doing or I don't
Speaker 6: know if she was sound checking or they had filming
Speaker 6: her doing don't ran on my Parade, which I think
Speaker 6: at that point had been like cut from the set.
Speaker 7: So we were all like whoa, we could hear her.
Speaker 6: Doing it, and I remember all of us inside were
Speaker 6: like cheering from the concourse because we were like, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: She went saw the show for the second time that night,
Speaker 6: so not after the first night all day, and then
Speaker 6: we went back that night and saw it again. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it was It was really fun though. We were like,
Speaker 6: this is the best thing that's ever happened to us.
Speaker 6: My friend and I were like, this is so cool.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: The odds, I know, how weird is I know, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were.
Speaker 6: I forget when I was just talking to my friend
Speaker 6: last night. It had to have been Twitter. It was
Speaker 6: something like that. It was a social like they were,
Speaker 6: you know, asking for fans of something like that.
Speaker 7: But it was so cool. Yeah, it was amazing, and.
Speaker 6: There was like a lot of people there. I remember
Speaker 6: like both nights I think were sold out or something.
Speaker 6: Our second night seats were like behind the stage, like
Speaker 6: I was just for photos and our viewers from like
Speaker 6: behind the stage just looking because I remember I posted
Speaker 6: the whole thing on Facebook.
Speaker 7: At the time, like oh my god.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll have to send you guys the photos because
Speaker 6: I thought we had it.
Speaker 7: We were like superstars. But it was a really fun experience.
Speaker 2: So for us it was fun.
Speaker 6: I know it was crazy for you guys, but for
Speaker 6: fans it was really really fun.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, M glad your memory is better than ours now, Claire.
Speaker 1: Yes, thanks Sam.
Speaker 2: I do remember that us like hanging out with everybody
Speaker 2: on the floor while we were filming. And I will
Speaker 2: say we didn't not enjoy this. We just were sort
Speaker 2: of like, what are we doing? Tell us where to
Speaker 2: go and do it? Yeah, And it was nice to
Speaker 2: actually catch up with people. I remember, like hanging out
Speaker 2: with Zach all day. Hadn't seen in age, like since
Speaker 2: we had left Vegas or right. And I do remember
Speaker 2: because we had done the show so many times by
Speaker 2: that point, you know what the lighting looks like, you
Speaker 2: know what the crowd looks like. I remember looking out
Speaker 2: at the stage both nights we did that, especially, I
Speaker 2: think it was the second night was like the really
Speaker 2: big night and it was lit differently and it looked
Speaker 2: so cool. I think they added an extra lights for
Speaker 2: the entire thing, but they all I think there was
Speaker 2: also extra lights for the audience to light the audience
Speaker 2: in a way and because you can't normally see them,
Speaker 2: And I have this very distinct memory of looking out
Speaker 2: and literally being able to see every single row and
Speaker 2: it was so cool and it felt it just felt bigger.
Speaker 2: It felt like a really important, interactive, immersive thing, you know,
Speaker 2: especially after you've done the show. You know it in
Speaker 2: and out, you can sort of do it with your eyeshut,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: there's that many people here. And then we had you know,
Speaker 2: family and friends there too, and so.
Speaker 1: Well you also have like in the inner ear zone
Speaker 1: so you can hear yourself, hear the music, and it
Speaker 1: kind of drowns out the screaming fans. But you know,
Speaker 1: mid show, I'd always take them out, or at least one,
Speaker 1: just so I could feel and hear what they felt
Speaker 1: like and what you know, how cool that was. And
Speaker 1: it was like when you're looking at people's faces, there's
Speaker 1: just a different like when you're connecting with people and
Speaker 1: fans versus like how stadiums are so massive it feels
Speaker 1: kind of impersonal. So to be able to see all
Speaker 1: these faces there, knowing that, like Sam said, is like
Speaker 1: the best day of their lives. It's like, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: I I do remember that. I do remember in some
Speaker 1: photos of Jersey seeing like in the Encore, I remember
Speaker 1: it being brighter, like I remember us looking brighter as well,
Speaker 1: like our blue jackets looking brighter. I also remember the
Speaker 1: second day we shot the we came in like a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier to do like a couple of extra
Speaker 1: things for the movie. It wasn't a full I don't
Speaker 1: think it was a full day. That's when we did
Speaker 1: dog Days and that's when it was getting close to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: I remember, yes, and.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it was like this is why, this is why
Speaker 1: I got cut. Really, I know, I joke about it
Speaker 1: all the time and I had like a pusspace about it,
Speaker 1: But actually what happened was we got really close to
Speaker 1: the show. The camera was taking a long time. Kevin
Speaker 1: was like he didn't know any of us well enough
Speaker 1: to be like stay here, So like people were just
Speaker 1: like all right, I gotta get ready for the show
Speaker 1: and like starting to like kind of leave. And I
Speaker 1: remember during it going I don't think we got what
Speaker 1: we needed for this number, or at least being disappointed
Speaker 1: that like, yeah, it didn't get the time, you know
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, that everything else mattered you coming back and saying
Speaker 2: that and just being a little bummed out, like I
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen, but.
Speaker 1: And then I just never thought they would cut it
Speaker 1: without telling me. But it's it's okay, it's not all
Speaker 1: about me. But I was bummed about it, and I
Speaker 1: remember very distinctly thinking like, I don't think we got
Speaker 1: everything for this number, because which is.
Speaker 2: A bummer, because such a number. The number is so good.
Speaker 2: It also looks beautiful. Yeah, you guys sound so good.
Speaker 1: They also like, there's it is in the extras, so
Speaker 1: like they did get enough. Yeah, yeah, it's weird. It's
Speaker 1: very strange.
Speaker 2: It is also weird how they completely changed the order
Speaker 2: of the set list.
Speaker 1: No, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: It is just like random, and it's I you know,
Speaker 2: it goes I guess in accordance to the stories they're
Speaker 2: telling in it exactly. But part of me want to
Speaker 2: be like, can I just I want to see it
Speaker 2: in the order how we did it, because I think
Speaker 2: it was structured really, it was paced really well, like
Speaker 2: there was a whole thing of group numbers, solo numbers,
Speaker 2: and the classroom thing, like there were segments intentionally.
Speaker 1: Right, Maybe we're just attached to it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Probably we're too. Yeah, so something we wanted to do
Speaker 2: for this episode because the movie was really all about
Speaker 2: the fans and finding people who connected with the show
Speaker 2: on a deeper level. Also shout out to all the
Speaker 2: people who said they were getting tattoos Berkeley. So we
Speaker 2: had a bunch of people, actually, like an overwhelmingly amount
Speaker 2: of people, large amount of people send in voice memos
Speaker 2: about their experience with the movie, and so we're gonna
Speaker 2: play some and talk about it.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to hear. Actually, Sam was telling us
Speaker 1: that there's like a lot of people who wrote are
Speaker 1: voiced in and let's do it.
Speaker 8: Hello.
Speaker 9: First of all, this is Andrew maguire from Gleickly Week Podcasts.
Speaker 9: You all reached out and asked if I had any
Speaker 9: memories of the Gley three D concert movie or that
Speaker 9: tour somemmer in general and oh my god, you know
Speaker 9: that TikTok sound where it's like, oh my god. I
Speaker 9: had noowt this question. Unfortunately, I was unable to go
Speaker 9: to the tour, and I was very very jealous of
Speaker 9: all the There was a group of girls I remember
Speaker 9: that all went to the Philadelphia up date in a
Speaker 9: limo and I was like, y'all do not deserve this.
Speaker 8: I that should be me.
Speaker 9: But I did go to see the movie later that
Speaker 9: summer on a random weekday in the middle of the
Speaker 9: day with my mom, and in my head, I was like, Okay, there,
Speaker 9: it's going to be packed with gleeks. I'm ready to
Speaker 9: be surrounded by my people. Of course, when we arrived
Speaker 9: to the theater, absolutely not a soul in sight. We
Speaker 9: watched the movie and it wasn't until the very end
Speaker 9: that I saw that there was a guy sitting by
Speaker 9: himself in the back row of the theater.
Speaker 8: I thought we were alone, and yet we weren't.
Speaker 9: Anyway, I've already shared this with Jenna during our episode
Speaker 9: with y'all, but the fact that dog Days Are Over
Speaker 9: was not part of the movie but Virgin story, Like,
Speaker 9: I'm convinced that that's why my theater was empty. Like
Speaker 9: they were like, oh, there's no Tinquin Chang representations. I
Speaker 9: am not actually going out to the AMC today, But
Speaker 9: on a railo, I did love the fact that there
Speaker 9: were some gleek spotlight representation in the movie, specifically Trenton
Speaker 9: talking about his coming out experience and talking about it
Speaker 9: on such a platform. Was such a moment for me
Speaker 9: in my own coming out experience, and I am positive
Speaker 9: that it had such a great effect on other closeted
Speaker 9: queer youth.
Speaker 10: So love that.
Speaker 9: All in all, Summer twenty eleven was for the Gleeks.
Speaker 9: We had the tour, the movie, and we had the
Speaker 9: first season of the Glee Project.
Speaker 8: We stayed fed that entire summer.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for you.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not wrong. It was the summer of
Speaker 2: the Gleeks. We gave them everything we had, I know, truly,
Speaker 2: and shout out to Trenton who shared his story. I
Speaker 2: think all those like wonderful people who came on there
Speaker 2: to you know, put there to be vulnerable in a
Speaker 2: movie like that where you're sort of going in cold
Speaker 2: and like, here's my story, and I hope the world
Speaker 2: appreciates it where it's like you never know who's going
Speaker 2: to affect and there you go, you know, you have
Speaker 2: somebody who's personally impacted by that in such a great way.
Speaker 1: Yes, and there are so many of those stories, so
Speaker 1: I'm glad we could highlight one, just one.
Speaker 11: Who's next, Hey, Kevin and Jenna, it's your girl Alex
Speaker 11: in Manhattan I'm so excited that you guys are making
Speaker 11: an episode all about the Glee three D Concert movie.
Speaker 11: I can't wait to hear all of the stories that
Speaker 11: you guys have to share, but I definitely have some
Speaker 11: stories to tell of my own, so thank you so.
Speaker 8: Much for reaching out.
Speaker 11: I saw the movie the day it came out in theaters,
Speaker 11: and I was ten years old, and I went with
Speaker 11: my older cousin, who is about to flee for college,
Speaker 11: and that was something that really bonded us at the time,
Speaker 11: despite our age difference, was our shared love of the
Speaker 11: Glee music. And I remember I went to the theaters
Speaker 11: checked out in my finest Glee merch that I had
Speaker 11: gotten from Claire's, so as you can imagine, I probably
Speaker 11: looked super chic.
Speaker 8: And I think that the movie was.
Speaker 11: In theaters for like two weeks, and I remember I
Speaker 11: dragged my grandparents to the theater and begged them to
Speaker 11: take me to see it for a second time.
Speaker 10: And there was.
Speaker 11: A movie theater employee there who had overheard that conversation
Speaker 11: and came up to me and offered me the Glee
Speaker 11: three D Concert movie lanyard that they were wearing, and
Speaker 11: I just remember thinking that that was just such a
Speaker 11: nice gesture from Gleek to gleek and it has.
Speaker 10: Stuck with me for the last twelve years and.
Speaker 11: More recent note, I have since bought the Glee three
Speaker 11: D Concert movie on iTunes. And in college, some of
Speaker 11: my roommates and I were looking for something to watch
Speaker 11: after a long night and decided her on some wholesome
Speaker 11: family fun that was the Glee three D Concert Movie.
Speaker 11: And this is where we would usually say that this
Speaker 11: isn't our story to tell, but my roommate Zoe has.
Speaker 8: Given us permissions.
Speaker 11: So right as Puckett started singing Fat Pottom Girls, she
Speaker 11: ended up doubling over in pain and we had to
Speaker 11: take her to the emergency room and she ended up
Speaker 11: having kidney stones and we spent the night there and
Speaker 11: when we it came back the next morning, our TV
Speaker 11: was still puzzed on Fat Bone and Girls in the Club,
Speaker 11: so we sat down and we watched it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 11: None of us thought that that would be a memory
Speaker 11: that we would look back on fondly, but surprisingly we do.
Speaker 8: And I just think that that is the spirit of.
Speaker 2: Glee branding to the TV.
Speaker 11: I'm sure that there's so many other people who have
Speaker 11: similar stories about the Glee movie and so thank you
Speaker 11: so much for giving me the opportunity to share mine.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so sweet. I love people who forced their
Speaker 2: family members to go with them to the movie. There
Speaker 2: was a lot of that, you know, the show bringing
Speaker 2: people together, and that's what we saw in person too.
Speaker 2: The demographic of people, how wide it was was we
Speaker 2: could never get used to that.
Speaker 1: I think we thought we were going to be performing
Speaker 1: for a ton of tweens at the tour, yeah, to
Speaker 1: be honest, and we had moms, grandma's couples. It was
Speaker 1: really like an adult full grown adults jamming out like
Speaker 1: they were at a bon Jovi concert.
Speaker 2: I mean, like you just said, it was good, wholesome,
Speaker 2: family fun truly. And there's this man in the movie
Speaker 2: who talks about he has like three daughters and two
Speaker 2: sons and it's something that they can all bond over
Speaker 2: every single week and watch it together. And I would
Speaker 2: imagine from the standpoint of like Ryan brad and Ian
Speaker 2: that has to feel really good to create something that
Speaker 2: is talking about and showing so many different walks of life,
Speaker 2: and yet you can bring in so many different types
Speaker 2: of people together, families together, I just had another memory
Speaker 2: of do you remember what? Also, we were talking about
Speaker 2: a lot backstage when we were filming this what the
Speaker 2: Glee Project?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: So the Glee Project started airing while we were on tour,
Speaker 2: and we really didn't know anything about the Glee Project tbh.
Speaker 2: We were stored. I don't know if we were ever
Speaker 2: officially told it was happening or we all found out,
Speaker 2: you know, when trickles. I don't know, but I remember
Speaker 2: it was the first time that we were around Ryan
Speaker 2: since it had come out, and we were all sort
Speaker 2: of like, so, what's up with this?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: And remember we all he had to like get us
Speaker 2: all into a meeting or was it and talk about
Speaker 2: what the Glee Project was just so like we didn't
Speaker 2: think they were hiring people to come like take our
Speaker 2: jobs and things like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, because we were definitely feeling confused by it.
Speaker 2: What is this being replaced? So this was so new? Interesting.
Speaker 2: A lot of my memory of that day was there
Speaker 2: was this slight undercurrent of panic, Yes, what the hell
Speaker 2: is happening?
Speaker 1: Well, especially because we were going into a new season, right,
Speaker 1: so like we didn't know what was coming. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a good memory, Kevin, that's very interesting. We should
Speaker 1: talk about that in more, in more in depth at somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's definitely do a Glee Project episode.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Yeah, get on some of those So some
Speaker 1: of those peeps.
Speaker 2: Also shout out to Damien. Was Damien McGuinty in this movie?
Speaker 1: He was there? Yeah, he was there. They showed him.
Speaker 1: We need to get Damien on. We need to get
Speaker 1: Samuel Larsona, and we need to get Hannah. We need
Speaker 1: to get Lindsay. We need to get all these people
Speaker 1: because I think, yes, Bally, yes, Damien, we get in
Speaker 1: our sweet, sweet prodigal Damian McGuinty is they.
Speaker 2: I love that chat?
Speaker 12: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's play another voice note.
Speaker 13: Okay, Hi, Kevin and Jenna, This is Alexis Reese from
Speaker 13: South Florida and this is my Lee Live three D
Speaker 13: concert movie story. So in twenty ten, I had senior
Speaker 13: guys at Radio City Music Hall for your first tour
Speaker 13: and it was the best concert I ever been too.
Speaker 8: I was obsessed.
Speaker 13: I was twelve years old, and so naturally, when the
Speaker 13: second tour was announced, my mom got us VIP tickets
Speaker 13: first row. Meet great with you guys and I was
Speaker 13: so excited.
Speaker 8: This was in Ohio.
Speaker 13: Because for some reason, you guys had something against Florida,
Speaker 13: so we always had to travel to see you guys.
Speaker 10: Not a problem.
Speaker 13: So a few months out, I auditioned for The X
Speaker 13: Factor with a bunch of girls. We were in a
Speaker 13: little girl group. We were from the ages like thirteen
Speaker 13: to fifteen. It was really cool and we made it
Speaker 13: all the way to the live rounds with the judges
Speaker 13: Simon Cowell, Paul Abdul, l A Reed, Nicole Scherzinger. So
Speaker 13: the filming of the live audition with all of the
Speaker 13: big names that's going to be on TV was the
Speaker 13: same exact day as Glee Live.
Speaker 1: And I to make a choice.
Speaker 13: Twelve year old me had to make a choice X Factor,
Speaker 13: my career or Glee, and I stupidly chose the X
Speaker 13: Factor because when we got on see in front of
Speaker 13: fifteen hundred people, we bombed and Simon Cowell said we
Speaker 13: sounded like twenty five cats being ran.
Speaker 1: Over the freeway.
Speaker 13: So all in all, I did not get to see
Speaker 13: you guys on that world tour, and I was devastated.
Speaker 13: I thought for sure you guys were gonna go on
Speaker 13: tour again. I guess what, you guys never went on
Speaker 13: tour again. And this story still haunts me because I
Speaker 13: am the biggest gleep that there ever was and I
Speaker 13: didn't see this tour and I'm still devastated. I'm still horrified.
Speaker 13: So with that being said, when all the clips of
Speaker 13: you guys on tour were coming out and when you
Speaker 13: guys dropped the CD for this tour, I was hysterical.
Speaker 13: The very first night of that tour, I was sitting
Speaker 13: in my bedroom looking at your faces on my posters,
Speaker 13: crying as I'm listening.
Speaker 1: To the d D D da da da.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 10: Back to the movie.
Speaker 13: My mom ended up getting me like bi pee tickets
Speaker 13: to this like pre screening.
Speaker 10: Of the movie.
Speaker 13: We got all this like free merch and all these
Speaker 13: theme things.
Speaker 10: It was very, very fun.
Speaker 13: It was such a cool experience because I never see
Speaker 13: you guys at that capacity and.
Speaker 10: It was just so so much fun.
Speaker 13: So yeah, that's my little Glee Live story. I love
Speaker 13: the movie. I watched it all the time, but it
Speaker 13: was just not the same I seen you guys in person,
Speaker 13: And to this day, I think about that decision and
Speaker 13: I'm like, why did I do that?
Speaker 10: So yeah, that's not on that Okay.
Speaker 2: Bye, No, I think you made the right decision.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 2: You and I share that experience of being told negative
Speaker 2: things by Simon on stage on ins factor.
Speaker 1: I do also think that this just reminds me like
Speaker 1: that the movie, for all the weird things that it was, like,
Speaker 1: it's still people who weren't able to make it through
Speaker 1: the tour really did get a piece of it in
Speaker 1: some way.
Speaker 2: Totally, and I do. I do like, even though we're
Speaker 2: playing our characters and saying the weirdest, most random game
Speaker 2: of ad libs mad libs behind the curtain, it is
Speaker 2: also cool to see, like those were the rooms we
Speaker 2: were getting ready in that is us just like hanging
Speaker 2: out backstage. So it was like a little taste of that.
Speaker 2: I remember us all talking how we wanted we wished
Speaker 2: there was more behind the scenes stuff of us in
Speaker 2: real life, to actually to meet the crew members, to
Speaker 2: see like what our daily routine is, just to like
Speaker 2: the experience of showing up to an arena when there's
Speaker 2: nobody there and all that process and then going out
Speaker 2: into the world and seeing that there's you know, sixteen
Speaker 2: thousand people screaming at you, right, but it's still the
Speaker 2: ditch job. People went to it and liked it.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going, keep it moving. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of people who wrote who voiced in you guys.
Speaker 8: My name is Jordan. I'm from Vermont, and funny enough, I'm.
Speaker 14: Currently watching the episode of the Office where they have
Speaker 14: a Glee viewing party.
Speaker 8: Y'all talked about that.
Speaker 14: But anyways, my experience with the Glee three D movie.
Speaker 14: I was a big fan of Glee obviously, and my dad,
Speaker 14: who we don't bond on too much, but we watched
Speaker 14: Glee together and we enjoyed that, and so we went
Speaker 14: to see the movie together and we turned out to
Speaker 14: be the only ones in the theater, which can be
Speaker 14: pretty but that's really fun because I was dancing in
Speaker 14: the aisles to all the songs and I loved the
Speaker 14: whole movie, and my dad loved the movie and it
Speaker 14: was a super fun experience and a really fun memory.
Speaker 10: Love the podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, Thank you. I love that there does.
Speaker 1: Seem to be a running theme that they were the
Speaker 1: only ones in the theater.
Speaker 2: Empty theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, also like bringing you know, like to not have
Speaker 1: a lot of things in common with your with your
Speaker 1: father and then to be able to for Glee to
Speaker 1: be able to do that again. It's just good reminders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's sweet.
Speaker 1: It's sweet. What's deep going?
Speaker 15: Oh my god, Hid and I hike Kevin. Yeah, my
Speaker 15: name is Max. I'm from Amsterdam. And yeah, my first
Speaker 15: time wasn't Glean. When when I was teen, there was
Speaker 15: like a girl's night at my local theater.
Speaker 8: And it was all pink.
Speaker 15: Themes and like you got all girls stuff and there
Speaker 15: was like girl toys or whatever, and then all the
Speaker 15: girls get to watch the movie together. But it was
Speaker 15: the only way of watching the Glean movie for like
Speaker 15: the direct first time. So I tried to buy a ticket.
Speaker 15: They wouldn't let me in because I'm a boy. But
Speaker 15: then my mom came and then my mom threatened to
Speaker 15: shoot the theater. I believe them of sexism, and then
Speaker 15: I got it instantly. So yeah, I'm really thrateful to
Speaker 15: my brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have to somehow sue your way in to see
Speaker 2: the Glee movie. That may be the only one who
Speaker 2: did that in the entire world.
Speaker 1: And all girls thing, Hey, what what what is it that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why are we? Why are we excluding?
Speaker 2: They hadn't seen the show. They didn't know what it
Speaker 2: was about.
Speaker 10: C Hi, guys, I'm Mitchie.
Speaker 16: I'm from Argantina and I watched Lee from the beginning,
Speaker 16: and obviously we didn't get the tour here, so when
Speaker 16: the movie was released, it was like our way of
Speaker 16: experiencing it in our country. So we were dancing this
Speaker 16: at the cinemas and singing and it was so much
Speaker 16: fun and we cried all the way through the end credits.
Speaker 10: So it was great.
Speaker 12: We wish we could get the show, the actual show,
Speaker 12: but the movie was was good as well.
Speaker 10: So Hi, thank you, and let's from Argentina.
Speaker 1: Bye, Wow Argentina.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what was so special. Like the movie
Speaker 2: ended up making more money internationally right than it did domestically,
Speaker 2: And I think that's because, like we didn't get to
Speaker 2: go all to all those places, right. I did want
Speaker 2: to do another tour, do you remember? I had, like you,
Speaker 2: I had an idea for another tour.
Speaker 1: You did? I was like, you're crazy.
Speaker 2: There was no way I was going to get anybody
Speaker 2: to agree to it exactly, but I was trying to
Speaker 2: make it simpler to do bigger venues, go to one
Speaker 2: city and my name for like several days. Yeah, and like,
Speaker 2: do South America, do Asia? Do all the places we
Speaker 2: didn't get to go to do Australia, so you know,
Speaker 2: at least there is the movie for that. They got
Speaker 2: to experience it in Argentina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were the only one thinking of another tour,
Speaker 1: and well, because I.
Speaker 2: Was thinking if we did stadiums we would be Yeah,
Speaker 2: then I was it would incentivize people. You can make
Speaker 2: more money that way. So that's how that was.
Speaker 1: Now years because you're a smart cookie, none of us
Speaker 1: were thinking that way. We were thinking chefs and chefs
Speaker 1: and drivers.
Speaker 2: You know, no time for sure. Yeah, It's like the
Speaker 2: world was overstaturated with Glee, and then in a different way,
Speaker 2: the cast was also oversaturated with Glee.
Speaker 1: True, we were all oversaturated with Glee. Okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 17: Hi, Kevin and Jenna. My name is Anika. I'm from Vancouver, Canada.
Speaker 17: I went to see the Glee concert in Toronto. I
Speaker 17: went to one of the Mattine shows and I had
Speaker 17: front tickets and I was so excited that the concert
Speaker 17: was going to come out as a movie version.
Speaker 8: I basically spent the whole summer talking about.
Speaker 17: The concert, and so when the movie was coming out,
Speaker 17: they did like a special screening to see the movie
Speaker 17: specifically for Glee fans, and so it came with a
Speaker 17: merch package that had a bag, a ticket with a lanyard,
Speaker 17: three D classes of bracelet, a pin, and a hat.
Speaker 17: So it was just for gleiks and we all sing along,
Speaker 17: we all danced. Sure, the theater was sold out and
Speaker 17: it was seriously so much fun.
Speaker 1: Sold out the first time.
Speaker 2: For everything I do love, though, that has to be
Speaker 2: such a like like I went to the Justin Bieber one,
Speaker 2: I went to the Katy Perry one. But I'm not
Speaker 2: someone who necessarily like sing in a theater, right unless
Speaker 2: it was Beyonce. So for people who like this was
Speaker 2: their favorite thing, what a special experience you get to
Speaker 2: do that and like share that with people who love
Speaker 2: it as much as you do.
Speaker 10: Right, hey, guys, it's your read.
Speaker 18: I'm from the Netherlands, and because I'm from there, I
Speaker 18: could not go to the show. I was super devastated,
Speaker 18: and I followed a tour one basically every night.
Speaker 10: I remember the Dublin the very last Dublin show.
Speaker 18: Specifically because the old As went rogue in every performance
Speaker 18: and Darren kissed Chris on stage and I kissed Heather
Speaker 18: on stage, and some ofder on Twitter completely broke down,
Speaker 18: like it's stopped working because.
Speaker 10: All of the fans were online talking about it. It
Speaker 10: was crazy.
Speaker 18: After the tour, I definitely saw this for the movie
Speaker 18: theaters because we made it our own concert experience.
Speaker 10: Friends and I just sang along to every song. There
Speaker 10: were like two other people there. I think I knew
Speaker 10: all the choreo to ver.
Speaker 18: Deep because I saw YouTube videos of the cast dancing
Speaker 18: it behind Nyan Ember so many times.
Speaker 10: I loved watching Jenna and Heather do that.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 10: Love you guys, love this podcast.
Speaker 18: It brings back so many good memories and I have
Speaker 18: so many.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. I just I just love.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad we did this, are doing this. I know.
Speaker 1: I love hearing from our fans from across the world.
Speaker 1: And we don't get to do it a lot. We're
Speaker 1: just talking at a blank zoom to each other, always
Speaker 1: to each other. But that's this is awesome. Yes, you're right, Kevin,
Speaker 1: Let's hear a few more.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 12: My name is Kendall Cole, and I am from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 12: When I first heard about the Glee three D concert movie.
Speaker 8: I was absolutely excited.
Speaker 12: I remember listening to the first couple of albums and
Speaker 12: listening to them on repeat, to the point where I
Speaker 12: even scratched a couple of the CDs. But to see
Speaker 12: that it was gonna be a movie form, I was
Speaker 12: just beyond excited. We planned on seeing it opening day.
Speaker 8: Who was me and my.
Speaker 12: Mom and my sibling, and I wanted to dress up
Speaker 12: as Mercedes, so I wore this sparkly purple shirt with
Speaker 12: this awesome hat. I don't know, it just gave me
Speaker 12: Mercedes vibes. But it was just amazing, and I remember
Speaker 12: at the end of the movie, I didn't want to
Speaker 12: leave my seat. I was too excited and I just
Speaker 12: wanted to stay there and.
Speaker 10: Watch it again.
Speaker 8: It was so awesome.
Speaker 12: I also tried to contain myself from singing all the.
Speaker 8: Lyrics during the movie.
Speaker 12: It was so good, and I remember it seeing it
Speaker 12: two times after that as well.
Speaker 8: I loved watching it as well as the show.
Speaker 2: Wow, I love that repeat offenders. I get it, you know.
Speaker 2: It's also it's everything you want. You also have the
Speaker 2: best seats in the house.
Speaker 1: You get whatever seat you want.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: The world is your oyster. Oh God, I'm sorry him.
Speaker 19: My name is Daisy and I'm from England. I love
Speaker 19: the Glee three da concerts so much because all of
Speaker 19: the songs are just amazing, the performances were amazing, the
Speaker 19: whole show was just put together so amazingly. And my
Speaker 19: favorite performance would have to be Riverty Mountain High because
Speaker 19: Amber and.
Speaker 8: I just sleigh so hard.
Speaker 19: They literally killed that. I love them together, I love
Speaker 19: their friendship. The concert was the first thing I actually
Speaker 19: ever bought. I brought it on a DVD from a
Speaker 19: Thrive store and it's literally my prize possession. I just
Speaker 19: love it so much, like I love seeing the click
Speaker 19: us together on stage doing what they love, and just
Speaker 19: everything about it was just amazing, Like the dancers were amazing,
Speaker 19: the whole performances were amazing.
Speaker 10: I love it so much.
Speaker 19: I have something. I have the bath bag from the tour.
Speaker 19: I have some cute little merch from the premiere. I
Speaker 19: have Leah's blue jacket with g on it.
Speaker 20: What also, Kevin, we heard in Nya's book something about
Speaker 20: you crawling on the floor outside your hotel in London
Speaker 20: after the show, and we need a storytime for this.
Speaker 2: We do need the story time for that Kevin I
Speaker 2: was crawling on the floor outside of my hotel room
Speaker 2: in London. I mean that sounds like a lazy stripper moment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm entirely sure.
Speaker 1: Outside in London. Where were we in the Savoy Yeah.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of lazy stripper moments, which was
Speaker 2: a dance that we would do, and it's it is
Speaker 2: what it says, it is, You're just being a lazy stripper.
Speaker 2: Naya does a little of it during Valerie in the
Speaker 2: movie twice. Actually really I cut it twice. She does
Speaker 2: it once. I river deeper. She slaps her own ass.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite.
Speaker 2: And then she during Valerie when she's walking shaking your shoulders,
Speaker 2: it's the same part she did in the show at
Speaker 2: the film version, you know the series as well. That's
Speaker 2: probably what it was. I imagine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know. The world is your oyster.
Speaker 3: A little bit about my Lee three D experience, honestly,
Speaker 3: was that I was a sophomore in college and may
Speaker 3: have gone a couple of friends to skip a class
Speaker 3: or two, was just about to turn twenty one, may
Speaker 3: have talked my older friends into bring in some flask
Speaker 3: in for us, but honestly, it was like being front
Speaker 3: row at a concert. It was the most amazing experience.
Speaker 3: You guys looked like you were having a blast on stage.
Speaker 3: We as an audience were having a blast with you.
Speaker 3: There was people dancing, everybody was singing. I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody was sitting, to be honest, I'm pretty sure we
Speaker 3: were all standing and it literally felt like we were
Speaker 3: at front row at a concert, just having a ball.
Speaker 3: It was the coolest experience ever.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate what you guys have done and like, honestly,
Speaker 5: like I didn't get to go to watch you guys live,
Speaker 5: but that three D movie made me feel like I
Speaker 5: got to watch you guys live.
Speaker 10: You guys are so talented.
Speaker 8: Thank you for that movie.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: Terrible.
Speaker 2: Oh this is really good for like a if we
Speaker 2: ever need an ego boost, Like what am I going
Speaker 2: to come back to the world? Yeah? Yeah. I was
Speaker 2: asking my family if they went to the movie, and
Speaker 2: my sister said she went twice.
Speaker 1: I believe that my brother did as well because she
Speaker 1: went to imagine Oh yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: And then she she said it was so cool crazy.
Speaker 2: Then she had to go again, like without the craziness
Speaker 2: of all that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you need to like go have a second
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: I had a friend of mine. I was talking to
Speaker 2: him the other day and I was like, did you
Speaker 2: watch Glee. He's like, no, I didn't, but I did
Speaker 2: watch the movie, and I go, well, we're doing an
Speaker 2: episode about the movie, so like, if you have anything
Speaker 2: you want to contribute, and he just sent me a
Speaker 2: voice note.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Hi, Kevin Diva, this is Jared Gellman,
Speaker 4: your best friend lover Hey icon inspo. Anyways, I have
Speaker 4: to let you know about my experience with the Glee movie.
Speaker 8: I saw it in three D.
Speaker 4: I was possessed by Slave for you.
Speaker 8: I mean, that was culture.
Speaker 4: I was just so enthralled, and my most exciting moment
Speaker 4: of that entire film experience I was watching You do
Speaker 4: Pretty Young Thing live.
Speaker 8: I saw it next thing I knew.
Speaker 4: I wanted to break my legs, steal a wheelchair and
Speaker 4: just recreate it. I still may I'm gonna get the
Speaker 4: passco to your garage door, so if you're missing your wheelchair.
Speaker 8: Oops.
Speaker 2: Love you, Mike, Love you, Jared. Thanks for love you, Jared.
Speaker 2: I mean, Slave was a moment watching Heather perform every
Speaker 2: single night was a gift.
Speaker 1: I remember you would always did you have time? You
Speaker 1: would go and watch it often?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I did. Yeah, I remember that as really
Speaker 2: I needed to learn it. Yeah, and so I'd usually
Speaker 2: stand somewhere on the side and try to I try
Speaker 2: to do that. Yeah. Yeah, you know. What can I say?
Speaker 10: My name is.
Speaker 21: Lauren, I'm from New Jersey and I went to the
Speaker 21: East Rutherford show. It was so much fun and absolutely crazy.
Speaker 21: We didn't know that there was even.
Speaker 10: Going to be a movie until we.
Speaker 21: Got there and someone came out on.
Speaker 10: Stage and was like, we're gonna be filming this.
Speaker 21: Let's chant out all the characters' names, Kurt, Mercedes, Rachel.
Speaker 21: We were like, oh, that's different, okay, and then sus
Speaker 21: Silvester comes out, Jane Lynch comes out wearing her blue
Speaker 21: tracksuit wedding gown, and we were like, oh, that's that's
Speaker 21: also different. And then Gwyneth Paltrow comes out and sings
Speaker 21: Forget You. And we had known the setlist because we
Speaker 21: were keeping up with the other shows, so that was insane.
Speaker 10: But it was absolutely crazy. But I'm so glad that's
Speaker 10: the show I got to go to.
Speaker 21: It was such a fun night and as a massive
Speaker 21: Glee f and it.
Speaker 8: Was just such an amazing experience.
Speaker 2: That is true. I didn't think about that. People showing
Speaker 2: up to that one were like, is this how it is?
Speaker 2: Every night? Right?
Speaker 1: They got a special one.
Speaker 2: It's true. It's like with Beyonce. Adds in the Big
Speaker 2: Three to Renaissance tour stopped talking about Beyonce.
Speaker 1: They never stopped talking about Beyonce. That was awesome. And
Speaker 1: how many people actually like voice memo in was awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for all of your memories. It really
Speaker 1: is like grounding to hear all of you guys talk
Speaker 1: about your experiences, and we love to hear it.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, thank you so much for spending your time
Speaker 2: watching the movie, getting your friends and family to go
Speaker 2: to the movie, and then sharing that experience with us today.
Speaker 2: So special. I love it made my day so cute.
Speaker 2: I bet some of my siblings didn't even go.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a lot of siblings, so I
Speaker 1: would give one of them, you know, like one out
Speaker 1: of the Oh no.
Speaker 2: My brothers got really quiet in the group chat when
Speaker 2: I asked if they went to the movie.
Speaker 1: See that's what I'm saying. They had seen enough Kevin,
Speaker 1: there was a out of glee at the time. Whatever
Speaker 1: you can't keep up, Okay, let's I think we should
Speaker 1: do some tardy takes.
Speaker 2: I would love to.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the cringe moments, I was saying that cutting
Speaker 1: Dog Days out of.
Speaker 2: That absolutely yes, mistake, huge cringe, huge ouchiet no, unacceptable,
Speaker 2: no excuses.
Speaker 1: Okay. Best dance move I pick safety dance or yours
Speaker 1: and I Valerie val Valerie.
Speaker 2: I was watching this this morning and Austin's like, well,
Speaker 2: this is just.
Speaker 1: The best number that in riverde but the like Carrie
Speaker 1: and Heather are running in that, Like what.
Speaker 2: A shout out to all of the dancers, because friends,
Speaker 2: the dancers are pulling like triple duty. The guys are
Speaker 2: in the warblers and are dancing with us. The girls
Speaker 2: are in every single number. They're on spin bikes doing
Speaker 2: single ladies. It's a lot, and they never have a
Speaker 2: break and are like the nicest, most sounded people. It's
Speaker 2: such a great group of dancers.
Speaker 1: Best song, Jenna, River Deep, River Deep, That's my vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think River Deep. And you know, I got
Speaker 2: a little emotional watching Somebody to Love.
Speaker 1: I love that one too.
Speaker 2: Also weird to put it like as a post credits
Speaker 2: type of thing.
Speaker 1: Agreed.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that best performance by a prop.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean the slushie thing.
Speaker 1: Oh the confetti slushies. Okay, I think they made them
Speaker 1: into three D slushies right, Yes, they were confetti slushies
Speaker 1: in the tour.
Speaker 2: There are also some like extra fireworks during fireworks like
Speaker 2: that's not Did we add that in post?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: They did, because I wish it lived that cool in
Speaker 2: real life.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the best lines. All of your stuff
Speaker 1: was great. It was so weird, really funny, very funny.
Speaker 2: I was, yeah, and just I already got real gay.
Speaker 1: He did, but I loved it. Yeah, you just saying
Speaker 1: like you were contender. Pimples will be seen in three D.
Speaker 2: That was also we shot that in Dublin. Do you remember,
Speaker 2: oh the makeup Like, no, the makeup stuff was shot
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, but the room I'm in when I'm
Speaker 2: talking about pimples, I think that was all shot in
Speaker 2: Dublin because I think we needed more scene stuff, so
Speaker 2: somebody came was filming that. I also remember sending in.
Speaker 2: I went to We went to London after that and
Speaker 2: Kevin tantra on hitting me up, and I had to
Speaker 2: send in voice memos so interesting, like dubbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa, that's how fast they were moving.
Speaker 2: Nya saying that she just drinks latis was very good.
Speaker 1: That was definitely a Naya Nya.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought Island's improv skills were pretty good.
Speaker 1: No, very good, very good performance MVP. I gotta say, okay, performance, MVP.
Speaker 1: I think Amber takes the cake in terms of her vocals.
Speaker 1: She always takes the cake. She was, she was, And
Speaker 1: then I have to say the tour, MVP, movie, tour, movie, whatever,
Speaker 1: the whole thing was, Kevin, why because you were a cheerleader.
Speaker 1: You were a literal cheerio, cheering us on, keeping us afloat.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so sweet. You loved tour. I did, and
Speaker 2: I love all of you, and I loved watching everybody
Speaker 2: perform every night you did. I loved watching people, love
Speaker 2: watching you guys like I.
Speaker 1: You loved it all. You loved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was just nice to be able to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, like, look, Naya wasn't that confident in her
Speaker 2: like performance ability. She was nervous to go out there
Speaker 2: and sing, and there would be nights. I'd be like,
Speaker 2: go out there and do this. She's like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I might just do this like
Speaker 2: you're gonna. And so to be able to watch everybody
Speaker 2: go out there and Chris was like, I'm singing live,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this and he was out there by himself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's not every day that you
Speaker 2: get an opportunity to do that. And then I also
Speaker 2: do as like you said, as weird, as like the
Speaker 2: movie was random, as the movie was, it is nice
Speaker 2: to have that forever, to look back and be like,
Speaker 2: you know, we did this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: I kind of want to say the MVP is all
Speaker 2: of us because we got through it.
Speaker 1: My h no, not all of us, but that's it.
Speaker 1: Are we doing a TikTok this episode? We sure are okay.
Speaker 2: Unrelated, just like you are the only exception in the
Speaker 2: Brittany episode. This TikTok was posted on Lilia's TikTok liar
Speaker 2: and it is the five Stages of Gleef, which is
Speaker 2: pretty great. It's a guy watching it and talking about
Speaker 2: at what stage are you a fan of a different character?
Speaker 2: As you're binge watching it, and it's very relatable for us.
Speaker 1: Funny, very funny, lilyar very good.
Speaker 2: Also, it is just so crazy to see, like the
Speaker 2: age of people watching Glee. It really is.
Speaker 1: It's also some of those fans who called in said
Speaker 1: that they were ten years old when it was on
Speaker 1: is troubling me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when she said she was ten, you and
Speaker 2: I looked at your like like, oh, I got a
Speaker 2: bunch in the stomach, But also like at least they
Speaker 2: were alive, because some of the people on TikTok were
Speaker 2: not alive right right and posting watching Glee and have
Speaker 2: opinions and.
Speaker 1: They were just floating souls waiting to come inside.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining us today. Thank you again
Speaker 2: for sitting in all those things.
Speaker 1: Yes, what a fun episode.
Speaker 2: Next episode, Jenna to season three? Are we season three?
Speaker 2: I have to say, I'm very excited because I feel
Speaker 2: like I'll be watching it all for the first time.
Speaker 1: Best season.
Speaker 2: Do you really you stand by that it's the best season.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I've just heard people are saying it's
Speaker 1: this season. I have to find out because I've never
Speaker 1: seen it. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: We just haven't seen it. Since it's been on.
Speaker 1: It's been a while.
Speaker 2: And I'm also not somebody who watches reruns.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited, so like, oh I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I saw Friends when it was on. I
Speaker 2: have watched it since I just watched it last night.
Speaker 2: And then all of you people say, well, I know
Speaker 2: you don't like Friends, Like, no, I just watched it
Speaker 2: when it was on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not like a rewatch.
Speaker 2: No, so should do this podcast?
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll only rewatch it if I'm in it.
Speaker 1: Just kidding. Thanks for joining us.
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