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 you Really missed podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm Jenna, I am Kevin. Welcome to asian F. Ooh,
Speaker 2: we are here. It is season three, Episode three, Asian
Speaker 2: F originally aired October fourth, twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm having sort of an excidential crisis that word already. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're here. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I know it's pretty crazy, but.
Speaker 2: You texted me last night and you were like, this
Speaker 2: episode is great.
Speaker 1: I am loving this season, and every episode gets better.
Speaker 2: I feel like we've hit a stride of just really
Speaker 2: good team television.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of it, like this episode didn't have
Speaker 2: a lot of teacher drama and that was sort of nice.
Speaker 1: Right, except for except for mister Shoe, which is like
Speaker 1: a whole.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Shoes a hole. There could be a class
Speaker 2: taught at Harvard about well, there's.
Speaker 1: A TikTok an algorithm for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's shoe talk. Shoe needs to be in prison petitions.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 1: You're right, we hit a stride. There's a lot happening,
Speaker 1: but it's moving forward, like there's we're leading up to
Speaker 1: a school musical and class run for class president, and
Speaker 1: I just it's it all feels like the stakes are
Speaker 1: in high school like this, this is like feels like
Speaker 1: what it was like for me. I was doing a
Speaker 1: school musical, I was running for class president. Like this
Speaker 1: all feels very real to me.
Speaker 2: Did you run for class president? I was class president?
Speaker 2: That's right? So this really is relatable to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, this is what I want to watch, Like,
Speaker 1: this is what I fourteen year old you would want
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 2: When we were doing it. Did you feel that way?
Speaker 1: No, that's this is exactly the point I was going
Speaker 1: to make very good Kevin. Watching this episode back yesterday
Speaker 1: versus doing it, it's two different shows. To me, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is crazy. This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: The continuity doesn't work. Where this one I watched, I
Speaker 1: was a fan, a viewer, and an emotionally invested viewer
Speaker 1: like my my musical theater girl self with a big
Speaker 1: dream to like go be on Broadway again, was like,
Speaker 1: this is the episode. I was like, he's following his dreams.
Speaker 1: He's not doing what the norm is. Mike Chang like
Speaker 1: he's auditioning for the musical, like everybody's just going after
Speaker 1: their dreams and it was like, oh yeah, like that's
Speaker 1: glee to me.
Speaker 2: There is such a disconnect for us, isn't there.
Speaker 1: It's it's alarming how a disconnect is funny versus and
Speaker 1: also have all fond of doing this episode. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Yes, when the strike is over and we have more
Speaker 2: actors back, I want to ask people, not just from
Speaker 2: our show, but other shows if if they've gone back
Speaker 2: to watch what they did, you know, sort of in
Speaker 2: the same distance of time like we're doing right now,
Speaker 2: like ten years twelve years previous, if they also felt
Speaker 2: that where there's the show that you're working on, there's
Speaker 2: the job, and then there is the thing that people
Speaker 2: are watching at home.
Speaker 1: And like if there's a complete disconnect us, I will say,
Speaker 1: like watching myself, when I have like heavier episodes, I
Speaker 1: cringe a little bit and I don't feel as invested.
Speaker 1: But when I'm not in as many of the scenes,
Speaker 1: I feel less.
Speaker 2: Fully Yes, right, yes, it is like you can take
Speaker 2: yourself out of it because you're literally not in it totally.
Speaker 2: Do you think this will make you a better actor?
Speaker 1: Well, I sure hopes I was a bath actor.
Speaker 2: I just mean yes, yeah, in terms of like when
Speaker 2: you when you get a script or you're auditioning for something,
Speaker 2: or if you're on a show or a movie, being
Speaker 2: able to play through lines right, that work through for
Speaker 2: scene to scene or from episode one to episode whatever
Speaker 2: it may be twelve or twenty two for the end
Speaker 2: of the season, of being able to I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm now learning watching this that I didn't really know
Speaker 2: what I was doing.
Speaker 1: That's funny because I.
Speaker 2: Was.
Speaker 1: I learned how to do that in school, so I
Speaker 1: was trained in that. That's not what I learned about.
Speaker 1: I learned about like how my face actually reads on camera,
Speaker 1: like I learned, and not about like how to trace
Speaker 1: and do my research and you know, tracking and kind
Speaker 1: of the beats. It was like, this is how I
Speaker 1: this is what reads, this is what doesn't read because
Speaker 1: camera is so different than bare So it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that actually could have been bigger, that could have been smaller,
Speaker 1: this could have been less, we could have been subtler. Here,
Speaker 1: Like there are just moments where you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't need to work as hard or I needed to
Speaker 1: work harder.
Speaker 2: Script analyzation. It works regardless of like what medium you're
Speaker 2: doing it in, totally, but coming from theater, like you're saying,
Speaker 2: coming from stage, that is a whole other lesson within itself, right,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: It was also frustrating to not be able to track
Speaker 1: your character, Like, had I known the stutter was fake,
Speaker 1: I would have done some things differently. So like in theater,
Speaker 1: you get to do that, You get to put it
Speaker 1: all out on paper for six weeks and then craft
Speaker 1: your journey for the show. You're like, well, I hope
Speaker 1: it goes this way, Like not everybody. You know, some
Speaker 1: shows are planned out from season one to six, but
Speaker 1: very few I think, like are like that. And so.
Speaker 2: Or if there was like a JK. Rowling Professor Snape
Speaker 2: type thing where he knew no end that wasn't published yet,
Speaker 2: like he knew what his endgame was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right exactly. So you're just doing your best
Speaker 1: and being in the moment. But I didn't. Yes, I've
Speaker 1: learned a lot. I do think I would be a
Speaker 1: better actor. I sure hope.
Speaker 2: So I also see I really enjoy watching our friends
Speaker 2: sort of grow in that way as well, totally, especially
Speaker 2: in this episode, Harry and Amber, Remember, was really because
Speaker 2: we all started from a relatively the same place, yes,
Speaker 2: and you can only work with what you're given, right,
Speaker 2: and to see them sort of step into these storylines,
Speaker 2: I think, challenge them totally. It was just really satisfying
Speaker 2: and made me so proud watching.
Speaker 1: And it felt like watching Harry. Not to speak for him,
Speaker 1: but it felt like for watching Harry in this time,
Speaker 1: who had been a dancer for most of his life
Speaker 1: and was really trying to break into the acting scene
Speaker 1: and bere have a more reputation as an actor and dancer,
Speaker 1: this fella get mirrored it a little bit like you
Speaker 1: started to see Mike Chang come out of his shell
Speaker 1: and try and do more and be you know, not
Speaker 1: just the dancer, but you know, auditioning for riffs. So
Speaker 1: it was just a really cool episode, especially for Harry.
Speaker 1: I felt like very his storylines really resonated this time around.
Speaker 2: I thought Harry and Ambers' storylines were very meta for
Speaker 2: several reasons. And I think obviously Ambers for all the
Speaker 2: obvious reasons for Dream Girls doing that number.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got that number.
Speaker 2: And to your point where you were just saying about Harry,
Speaker 2: I couldn't help but think about you know what has
Speaker 2: become of his career post Glee unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And you.
Speaker 2: See someone like Mike Chang go through, I'm like, this
Speaker 2: could be little Harry in high school, and like, little
Speaker 2: did he know that he was going to go from
Speaker 2: dancing in an iPod commercial in an iPod commercial to
Speaker 2: literally being on one of the most successful TV shows,
Speaker 2: Gray's Anatomy not Glee, of all time and also movies
Speaker 2: and yeah, and being in a Best Picture winner, and
Speaker 2: so I it was really beautiful to watch that and
Speaker 2: I felt so sentimental watching him play that out.
Speaker 1: All Right, so let's get into talking about some of this,
Speaker 1: because I feel like we could we could do two
Speaker 1: things at once. This The number one song is Moves
Speaker 1: Like Jagger Again.
Speaker 2: Number one movie is Dolphin Tale. Fun fact that nobody
Speaker 2: cares about that this was based off a dolphin that
Speaker 2: I had grown up around.
Speaker 1: No stop, that's very funny.
Speaker 2: I grew up going to marine biology camp in Clearwater, Florida,
Speaker 2: and the marine biology camp was at a It wasn't
Speaker 2: it was part of aquarium, but mostly rehabilitation center for
Speaker 2: I love that, yeah, for aquatic sea life and animals
Speaker 2: and things and that movie came out and I was
Speaker 2: like that the name of that dolphin sounds familiar. It
Speaker 2: was like, wait, that's the dolphin dead. Yeah, my entire life.
Speaker 2: I grew up going there. And it was so nice
Speaker 2: because they got so much more attention post that movie
Speaker 2: because it wasn't just some aquarium. Like these people marine
Speaker 2: biologists worked there and special and so they got some
Speaker 2: money from that movie and helps them do their work.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In Glee News this week, members of the cast attended
Speaker 1: the premiere of American horror story Murder House, and I
Speaker 1: was at the Cinerama Dome Rip and Leah Chris and I, Amber, Harry,
Speaker 1: Jama Dott and Ashley went. I feel like the other
Speaker 1: reason why we maybe weren't there was either a we
Speaker 1: were tired and didn't want to do a red carpet
Speaker 1: or B we were shooting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like at that point, if we got
Speaker 2: invited to like you would have gone, Yes, we would
Speaker 2: have gone, So we must have must have been working.
Speaker 2: So this episode, like Jenna said, was directed by resident
Speaker 2: Glee director Alphonso Gomez Rojon, written by Ian Brennan, and
Speaker 2: just has some really wonderful guest stars. In addition, to
Speaker 2: Edina obviously shout out to the parents that were in
Speaker 2: this episode.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Mike Chang Senior, Julia Chang, Rose, and Rusty Pills Right,
Speaker 2: oh my lord, oh my, I mean opposite of this
Speaker 2: on the spectrum, opposite ends of parenting here, uh right,
Speaker 2: but wonderful performances from all four of them.
Speaker 1: That was It's always nice to meet the parents.
Speaker 2: Yea. And I like how we went from having barely
Speaker 2: any songs last episode to having six songs, very good songs, yeah,
Speaker 2: and like lengthy, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Totally spotlight, run the world cool from outside story, It's
Speaker 1: all over out here on my own and fix you.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I know this is out here on
Speaker 2: my own is a big song. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: You didn't.
Speaker 2: I sort of know it as someone who like hasn't
Speaker 2: spent their life listening to it. Yeah, damn, that song
Speaker 2: is so good. And also I know we know how
Speaker 2: good Leah and Amber are, but we need to have
Speaker 2: certain people tell that story.
Speaker 1: Lord, this famous and bangers.
Speaker 2: That is that? That song.
Speaker 1: Out of that song, Yeah, that's that was probably the
Speaker 1: most famous one next to famous.
Speaker 2: I think, like what the whole time I'm like, there's
Speaker 2: no bad there's no bad lyric in this.
Speaker 1: There's some fun facts from this episode before we get
Speaker 1: into the.
Speaker 2: Meat that makes me angry.
Speaker 1: Every issue Mercedes has in the episode could be associated
Speaker 1: with pregnancy. That's right, causing some fancy believe that she
Speaker 1: was pregnant. And she took to Twitter. She made here
Speaker 1: that people knew that she said, ps Mercedes is not pregnant. Lmao. Okay, bye.
Speaker 2: Very because it was very Yeah, pregnant cyts mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: And this is the first and only episode to revolve
Speaker 1: around Mike Chang Love that and where he sings two solos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike Chin sings two solos in one episode. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is the first time. And those who audition for their
Speaker 1: chosen role with a West Side Story song, Rachel with
Speaker 1: Somewhere Blame That, Something's Coming and Mike with Cool all
Speaker 1: got their desired role. Maybe something to be said about
Speaker 1: singing from the show cardinal rule musical theater kids do
Speaker 1: not sing a song from the show unless instructed. Ever,
Speaker 1: that's the difference between high school and the big Leaks
Speaker 1: do not. Okay, just had to put that out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah I didn't know that, so thank you do not.
Speaker 1: Do not big no, No. I mean, look, who knows
Speaker 1: what these days these kids are doing. I've been out
Speaker 1: of the game for so long I don't even know anymore.
Speaker 1: And then, however, the audition, the auditionees that did not
Speaker 1: audition with a song from the show did not get
Speaker 1: their desired role, although I guess Mercedes could be argued
Speaker 1: that she did get the role, but she turned it down.
Speaker 1: And this is the first episode since Hirography a thirty
Speaker 1: three episode gap that Mercedes sings a solo, a duet,
Speaker 1: and a solo and a group number in an episode
Speaker 1: Thank you haesus because we need more Mercedes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that's too long. We need as much
Speaker 2: Mercedes as possible.
Speaker 1: What's going on in this episode, Kenny?
Speaker 2: Okay, So, after Mike gets quote unquote an Asian f
Speaker 2: on a chemistry test, which is an his father wants
Speaker 2: him to drop out of Glee Club, Mercedes auditions for
Speaker 2: Westside Story and is done with sharing the spotlight with Rache.
Speaker 2: Brittany's campaign for senior class president kicks into high gear,
Speaker 2: and Emma's parents visit and cause a flarepa for OCD
Speaker 2: plus the musicals cast list is finally posted.
Speaker 1: Oh, we want to see what do you want to
Speaker 1: start with?
Speaker 2: Kevin, I think let's go with the namesake of the episode.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Mike and the Asian f I did
Speaker 2: text you because my expectations were really high for this episode.
Speaker 2: He said, it was so good and then in the
Speaker 2: first five minutes there were so many that's rights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, you have an Asian one. Huh,
Speaker 2: I make one, you make one. And then Exemeio also
Speaker 2: references himself not having a dad. I was like, right,
Speaker 2: let's right. Tropes and stereotypes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly exactly. You can just save those for
Speaker 1: tardy takes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, moving on, Mike Harry in.
Speaker 1: This episode is just award winning. I my heart like
Speaker 1: was breaking for him, but also I'm so proud, like
Speaker 1: empowered by him. I like I said, the musical theater
Speaker 1: kid in me was just It's everything I needed in
Speaker 1: my fifteen year old self to hear.
Speaker 2: And your Tina was a good girlfriend. Also because I
Speaker 2: mean Mike Changs Senior sits sound with Fickens and is
Speaker 2: like thinks Mike is doing drugs because he had an
Speaker 2: an And then finally reveals he thinks it's his girlfriend
Speaker 2: that's the problem, and Fagan's reaction good. He looks up
Speaker 2: and he's like yes, and then you have that whip
Speaker 2: to you in the hallway.
Speaker 1: The Vampiatina comes back first second time.
Speaker 2: This is fuck.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love doing it.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's so funny. I love doing it
Speaker 1: working with Iggball because we never really got to work together.
Speaker 1: Aside from my racist line, I could have cut that out,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. I just really enjoy Vampire Tina. I
Speaker 1: love that Figgins is like deathly afraid of vampires. He
Speaker 1: thinks they're real, Like, you know what, get me out
Speaker 1: a gym class?
Speaker 2: So smart? I was like, she's crafty, and I really
Speaker 2: because Tina doesn't normally come off like that, Like she's
Speaker 2: someone who's out there threatening the principle.
Speaker 1: Right, but nobody knows about it. Nobody knows she does it.
Speaker 1: She just does it, and.
Speaker 2: It's always in the same spot, in the same hall
Speaker 2: like he.
Speaker 1: Just gets scared everything. Tina is going to be a
Speaker 1: good girlfriend for another couple of episodes. She's really going
Speaker 1: to support Mike in this whole thing with his parents,
Speaker 1: which is I think not unrealistic. In the world of
Speaker 1: musical theater, parents really have a hard time with you know,
Speaker 1: kids doing pursuing the arts without a backup, because it's
Speaker 1: scary and it's very hard.
Speaker 2: So I like this storyline and it also lends to
Speaker 2: some beautiful scenes.
Speaker 1: Well, Harry dancing in that dance room.
Speaker 2: With no music, Oh my god. I think that is
Speaker 2: one of the most powerful scenes on the show thus far,
Speaker 2: because the show is never still right. The show does
Speaker 2: not sit with silence ever, And I was so taken
Speaker 2: aback by that. I kept thinking, Oh, where's the music
Speaker 2: going to be? Like what's happening?
Speaker 1: And I almost like some piano or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I almost want to I wish I could
Speaker 2: look at the script to be like, how was this written?
Speaker 2: Was it intended to be like this? Or was this
Speaker 2: an Alfonso decision? But I love it. It was really powerful.
Speaker 1: Either way, all fonds of decision are not all Fonso
Speaker 1: put his pretty little pause all over it. Yes, And
Speaker 1: I remember shooting it. It was a very quiet shoot,
Speaker 1: like Harry had time, and you know, having these new
Speaker 1: actor adult actors come in, you know, you're like you're
Speaker 1: like stiffen up a little right, you want to like
Speaker 1: put on your a game and with the parents. They're
Speaker 1: both such excellent actors that like I get to work
Speaker 1: for them later too, and like they're just great. So
Speaker 1: everything felt a little bit like elevated for that scene
Speaker 1: and quiet, and you know Fonsie, he really is very
Speaker 1: focused when he works, and it was really quiet that
Speaker 1: whole time, and I really liked it, and I liked
Speaker 1: shooting that with Harry. It did feel different though, it
Speaker 1: felt like out ofly like when we shot it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I think is nice because it is signed
Speaker 2: something special to Harry's character mm because like you know
Speaker 2: how people have a certain style of songs, the characters
Speaker 2: always sing. He has a certain style of dancing, and
Speaker 2: now I feel like has a certain style of performance
Speaker 2: now that he's been given that scene.
Speaker 1: And then Harry's audition for or Mike Chang's audition for
Speaker 1: you guys, did you watch that? Were you there for
Speaker 1: a lot of that or no?
Speaker 2: Yes? I believe so great.
Speaker 1: So charming, well the football players.
Speaker 2: It was so backup d choreography phenomenal, and Harry just kill.
Speaker 1: One of his best numbers I think in the show.
Speaker 2: I think it might be his best number it really
Speaker 2: is phenomenal special and it fits his voice. And I
Speaker 2: really really liked seeing him be a lead in that way.
Speaker 2: So he looked yeah, exactly this episode. First of all,
Speaker 2: a little hottie.
Speaker 1: He looked like a leading man. I mean I buy
Speaker 1: it as he should be. M h okay. And then
Speaker 1: obviously we're bringing in the football players because Beast has
Speaker 1: required them to dance, so that that integrated both.
Speaker 2: There were some if you look closely, there were a
Speaker 2: number of vocal journal and dancers on the football.
Speaker 1: Team, maybe the same ones as the single ladies dancers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were back like they're not in the football
Speaker 2: scenes in the locker room, but they will be dancing.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of people to always have around, you know, totally.
Speaker 2: So then Harry or Mike Chang, I like that we
Speaker 2: both keep doing that mm hmm. Decides that obviously he's
Speaker 2: going to audition, he's going to be in the musical,
Speaker 2: and he's going to do it all and he wants
Speaker 2: to dance. And his mom swed.
Speaker 1: Moll I cried, good is she amazing? I mean amazing.
Speaker 1: They're chemistry too. I liked having parents around. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie, I really enjoyed it. Even though they weren't
Speaker 1: my parents, it felt like kind of my parents because
Speaker 1: I was associated with my chain excellent actors again, like
Speaker 1: it just like you kind of like, you know, push
Speaker 1: your shoulders back a little bit. You're like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: it could actually work.
Speaker 2: That little dance they did was the sweetest thing. Oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 1: So just yeah, spoiler alert, Harry's gonna my chain's gonna
Speaker 1: get riff woo duh, rightfully. So yes, okay, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Mercedes. Oh boy, where do we begin.
Speaker 2: I mean, Ambers showed up. Yes she did, I mean
Speaker 2: she always does, or like she was not played. So
Speaker 2: Mercedes encouraged by her boyfriend needing to like nail that audition,
Speaker 2: and she's sort of taking it back when he's He's like,
Speaker 2: you are better than her, you deserve this. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, she's struggling and Booty Camp showing up,
Speaker 2: she's showing up late. She's you know, has all the
Speaker 2: pregnancy symptoms. I can't symptoms like no, I mean, but
Speaker 2: you know there are symptoms.
Speaker 1: You get.
Speaker 2: It was so odd, like all those things were so weird,
Speaker 2: but you know, shee continuing his streak of really talking
Speaker 2: to the students appropriate is not like letting her have
Speaker 2: an inch. And after that sort of initial exchange between
Speaker 2: Santana Shoe and Mercedes, Mercedes isn't having it. She goes
Speaker 2: and nails that audition and that down and that's that song.
Speaker 1: Well also just back cup singers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all I could think about was you you guys
Speaker 2: just stepped touching in the background.
Speaker 1: Okay, once again had there and I somehow get canoodle
Speaker 1: venagled into doing the backup vocals because we're like, sure,
Speaker 1: we'll do it.
Speaker 2: And I feel like you find out day of.
Speaker 1: We absolutely found out the day of. I remember learning
Speaker 1: those ease and literally sitting in my seat behind Amber
Speaker 1: and me and Heather being like, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: And at some point you just get used to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're like cool, I'll that go, Bamber, no problem.
Speaker 1: But then why were we in our regular outfits in
Speaker 1: her audition?
Speaker 2: Well that's just like with when Mike Chang auditions in
Speaker 2: the whole football team, the Letterman Jackets. You know, it's
Speaker 2: not it's supposed to be not a very affluent town,
Speaker 2: you know, so to spend money on costumes or an audition
Speaker 2: that is not your own audition yeah, whatever, we have
Speaker 2: a full band and orchestra.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's just very funny. But I thought that
Speaker 1: was really funny. We definitely learned that on the day,
Speaker 1: those oohs and that stuff touching that was my prediction.
Speaker 1: But happy to back Amber always.
Speaker 2: So Mercedes nails are auditioned and sends the three of
Speaker 2: us basically m off off to like deliberate and we
Speaker 2: can't decide because they're both so so good, so we
Speaker 2: make them do basically have a callback.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize that you guys were together so
Speaker 1: many episodes, the three of you, Like I forgot like
Speaker 1: this was a series of episodes, that this was the storyline.
Speaker 2: Kind of That's why it's so fun because so much
Speaker 2: of I feel like the gleast are started and wrapped
Speaker 2: up with in a single episode. Yes, yes, so it's
Speaker 2: nice to have something carry over a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. No, you're totally right. Yes, they do
Speaker 1: a callback and you make them sing seminole Broadway out
Speaker 1: here on my own.
Speaker 2: I also you see me during Amber's performance and like
Speaker 2: moving my shoulders and samar producers like I'm imagining that
Speaker 2: was just your real reaction. Obviously, anytime anyone's performing, you're
Speaker 2: getting my real reaction because you are feeling it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no way they have They're a bump in the
Speaker 2: music on these big speakers, and you just have to
Speaker 2: give you a reaction, like I'm a student, Artie's a
Speaker 2: student watching his friends, and I'm a friend of these
Speaker 2: people in real life, and I just could not. Luckily
Speaker 2: it worked with the storyline and I could not enjoy it.
Speaker 1: They both killed it. Yeah, I love when a duet
Speaker 1: is like this, you know, I think I got to
Speaker 1: listen to that again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, thinking and I think this is underrated.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agreed, it's so Yeah, and the song itself
Speaker 1: is just excellent. So it's just it's a winner.
Speaker 2: And I think what it does just like with their characters,
Speaker 2: but also in real life, it shows their range and
Speaker 2: ability the two of them, like they're just masters totally
Speaker 2: at that and but they're so different, but they used
Speaker 2: to do the same thing but just.
Speaker 1: With their own flair. Yes, yeah, no, really special, this
Speaker 1: one was special. Yeah, we sive that for the end
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: We're only in episode three.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. So because you guys
Speaker 1: can't decide because the peanut gallery can't decide. They just
Speaker 1: decided to split cast and or double cast, sorry, where
Speaker 1: you split the role and you're doing they're doing two
Speaker 1: weeks of performances. I have to say that is a
Speaker 1: very long time for high school it's usually two weekends.
Speaker 1: But okay, but all right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Mercedes not so polite lead declines the she knows
Speaker 1: she was better or thinks she was better, and Rachel knows,
Speaker 1: and Rachel knows and Rachel was great. That's the thing. Look,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at cast, you know, type cast, go
Speaker 1: for it. If you're not looking at type cast, go
Speaker 1: for it. Like there's there's two ways to look at this, right, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did like Rachel knowing and like acknowledging.
Speaker 1: We had to kind of have that in the show.
Speaker 2: Because that has been very it's been the opposite of
Speaker 2: that up right now, right, I do want to talk
Speaker 2: about though. Right before that, there was that storm out
Speaker 2: that leads into the dream Girl's number. Let's talk amber.
Speaker 2: The way she lays into Shoe, lays into everyone. I
Speaker 2: was pushes over the music. I was shocked and it
Speaker 2: is so good. She also thought she was.
Speaker 1: Going to get a little bit in trouble by mister
Speaker 1: Shoe because mister Shoe can't speak that way to the students,
Speaker 1: but like students also can't speak to authority figures that way.
Speaker 1: You're right, not back in the day, maybe now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like every scene she was in. We had
Speaker 2: that scene with Rachel when Rachel when they find out
Speaker 2: they have the callback, and Rachel goes to Huger and
Speaker 2: she puts up her finger, which Amber doesn't realize.
Speaker 1: It's very funny.
Speaker 2: But she was in command of every scene she was in,
Speaker 2: and it was it felt good to see yes, former
Speaker 2: cities and for Amber, yes, we clearly have a hard
Speaker 2: time separating care from real truth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, like you watched them grow and
Speaker 1: then you see them do the scenes and you watch
Speaker 1: it on TV and you're like, wow, I watched that that.
Speaker 2: Monologue into dream Girls twice. I had to run it back.
Speaker 1: So Dream Girl's number was funny because it's basically it's
Speaker 1: an ensemble kind of weird number, right, talking number that
Speaker 1: leads into and I'm telling.
Speaker 2: You, yes, it's weird. You'll get that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't get that. I did see him do it,
Speaker 1: and it was I got that. But it was a
Speaker 1: weird day. It's a really weird day. It took a
Speaker 1: long time for us to get ready, and then the
Speaker 1: girls waited around for a long time, so me, Diana
Speaker 1: and Naya didn't do much, and so they shot for
Speaker 1: a really long time without us.
Speaker 2: What were they shooting?
Speaker 1: The boys like the first half and then it came
Speaker 1: around to.
Speaker 2: Us because it really feels like you're in almost.
Speaker 1: But we waited around for a really long time. So
Speaker 1: we were hanging out in Candy Kan Lane, which is
Speaker 1: like this little alley way that we named candy Kan Lane,
Speaker 1: so that telling you where to find us when we
Speaker 1: were hanging out in between scenes and like when we
Speaker 1: were off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a way to find some peace and price.
Speaker 2: I was in kiddy Can Lane for most of the day. Wow,
Speaker 2: looking glamorous, very glamorous. We had like oh deya from
Speaker 2: that it's that day. Yeah, yeah, yes, that's the photo.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll post all these photos. But that was a
Speaker 1: really fun one to shoot and also just to like
Speaker 1: support Amber and her like awesome storyline.
Speaker 2: So good. And then she ends up because she takes
Speaker 2: some she rejects the role and then we finally, oh
Speaker 2: my god, finally get the start of the Trouble Tones
Speaker 2: I and she walks into that classroom like yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you see it on Shelby Horker in Space.
Speaker 2: Yes, We're about to make hits.
Speaker 1: I also need to talk about Booty campfell within this
Speaker 1: storyline because Booty Camp the one where Tina magically appears.
Speaker 1: In Booty Camp, everyone does right, Everyone's there for some reason.
Speaker 1: It was a fun day to shoot. Anyway, I hurt
Speaker 1: my finger on the floor when we get down on
Speaker 1: the floor, my finger bent back. I had to go
Speaker 1: to the medic at Paramount and I had to be
Speaker 1: in a handbrace. So for like the next few episodes,
Speaker 1: I had this handbrace I had to wear off camera.
Speaker 1: It was insane and I would go out with Naya
Speaker 1: his handbrace.
Speaker 2: Jena, because you look at that Booty camprig What are
Speaker 2: these moves?
Speaker 1: I know? And of course I get on the floor yourself,
Speaker 1: my hand, my thumb bent backwards.
Speaker 2: Only they had everyone jumping on trampolines.
Speaker 1: And the next scene they have me. In the next episode,
Speaker 1: I'm in a hand race. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: wear it on camera, probably not, but wild. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks Woody Camp for nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready for Woody camp to be over personally, yeah,
Speaker 2: I kind of hate it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the race for senior class also is heating
Speaker 1: up because not only now is their Kurt and Brittany, who's.
Speaker 2: Also got a bunch of stats about the patriarchy, love that,
Speaker 2: but also Rachel. Mm hmm, this gets heated. She's flailing.
Speaker 2: She's flailing, she doesn't know what to do, where to go,
Speaker 2: she's fully panicked.
Speaker 1: Well, she doesn't think. Rachel doesn't think that she's going
Speaker 1: to get Maria after she watches Amber a Mercedes audition
Speaker 1: and therefore desperately decides that she's going to run for
Speaker 1: school president. This puts Finn in a pickle because of Kurt,
Speaker 1: because Kurt asks who he's going to vote for and
Speaker 1: Finn doesn't know, boom.
Speaker 2: Boom, and Kurt is sort of like, I am doing
Speaker 2: this out of the goodness of my heart. Basically, someone
Speaker 2: like me being president could really change things for people
Speaker 2: up to the school. And then Rachel was just like, well,
Speaker 2: I need the credit by my applications well.
Speaker 1: And Kurt just yeah, really kind of digging in about
Speaker 1: how this could be really important for the school and everything.
Speaker 1: It's like Kurt felt very mature in this episode, as
Speaker 1: our producer would say, because it felt like giving up
Speaker 1: and like you said, giving Blaine flowers and kind of
Speaker 1: just you know, conceding to the whole tony thing and
Speaker 1: which I didn't always take Kurt to just sit back
Speaker 1: and allow that. So like, this was really nice to
Speaker 1: see you. It was very giving and selfless. And then
Speaker 1: also having this like nuture conversation about like what this
Speaker 1: could do for the school versus like the credits that
Speaker 1: he wanted to get for Nada.
Speaker 2: Blaine's line was correct. Every time he thinks he's going
Speaker 2: to zig, He's totally right.
Speaker 1: I wasn't actually watching when that happened, and I heard it,
Speaker 1: and I went, uh.
Speaker 2: Huh, I have a question. Yeah, I just I'm wondering
Speaker 2: for viewer purposes, like when you see those exterior stairs
Speaker 2: and hallways in like the outdoor lunch area where we
Speaker 2: perform sometimes like does that work? Does that read like
Speaker 2: a normal school in Ohio to you?
Speaker 1: Or like does it feel like an extension of McKinley
Speaker 1: or does that feel separate?
Speaker 2: Because it feels so separate for us, very separate. I
Speaker 2: mean it it is like three different high schools that
Speaker 2: we use sometimes. And also it feels very California or
Speaker 2: southern California to me to have schools that are built
Speaker 2: that way and there's so much outdoors where, like like
Speaker 2: our when I went to high school in California, moving
Speaker 2: from Texas, Like our hallways were exterior hallways, and so
Speaker 2: just like Bernstein and we were shooting that whole stairwell
Speaker 2: outside and people were eating outside, and it's like, is
Speaker 2: this do I buy this as Ohio? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wait, I have a fun fact. So my my tailor
Speaker 1: who was doing a dress for a wedding and then
Speaker 1: I'm going to her and her son, he's grown now,
Speaker 1: he's probably in his twenty mid twenties, he just finished college,
Speaker 1: said that they growing up back when we were doing Glee.
Speaker 1: They went to the Staples Show to see us, and
Speaker 1: they watched the show together right when it was airing originally.
Speaker 1: And I saw her yesterday and she said, my son
Speaker 1: went to Ohio for a wedding. Now he's from la
Speaker 1: he's from Pasadena. She's like, my son went to Ohio
Speaker 1: for a wedding. That's where Glee was like, that's his
Speaker 1: theiation with Ohio, which I thought was so funny, like,
Speaker 1: coming from California, They're like, well, Glee was.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, Glee was set here. I've had a couple
Speaker 2: of people say that to me recently. I was shocked,
Speaker 2: and I can firmly say that was never in our
Speaker 2: minds but never, we never thought that about the show
Speaker 2: taking place in Ohio.
Speaker 1: And then also that like, people's associations with Ohio are Glee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but of course they are because I watch shows
Speaker 2: and I know what city that take place in, and
Speaker 2: I think about them every time I go there.
Speaker 1: Totally okay, anyway, sidebar, I just wanted to share that
Speaker 1: little tidbit.
Speaker 2: I think it's that is important to note though.
Speaker 1: So the class president thing is all great, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: run the world.
Speaker 2: Lord, I was watching this screaming holler in. First of all,
Speaker 2: do you know the level of dancer supremacy we have
Speaker 2: in this I know Beyonce's real dancers, Lady Gaga's real dancers,
Speaker 2: justin Timberlake's real dancers. We have Pink's real dancers. That
Speaker 2: was ever crazy. We have Taylor Swift's dancers. Like, we
Speaker 2: have all the best of the best dancers dancing with
Speaker 2: the best dancer on the show. And it was.
Speaker 1: Again this and out here on my own this song
Speaker 1: it goes into the top, not the song song, but
Speaker 1: the performance. Joking, are you joking?
Speaker 2: That shot Feather, the first shot of her in the
Speaker 2: auditorium auditorium sorry, the gym Superstar.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, in the side hallway,
Speaker 1: I know this dance really well in my mind. I
Speaker 1: started doing it, yeah, because I forgot I was in it.
Speaker 2: I'm only in like one section of it too, Like
Speaker 2: I don't even think I was there when you guys
Speaker 2: did the stuff in the gym gym. My only in
Speaker 2: real life interaction was just when they come to the
Speaker 2: classroom and I was so mad because I wanted to
Speaker 2: see it all.
Speaker 1: Oh my god it was I was hollering. I was
Speaker 1: so excited. This made me so happy. And this is
Speaker 1: when I texted you I think I've ran around this time.
Speaker 1: I was like, already, we're here, we are here. This
Speaker 1: episode is just giving me everything. It was so.
Speaker 2: Good, just the way like Beyonce has a certain like
Speaker 2: pose how she stands that is like her power pose.
Speaker 2: Heather has the same thing. Yeah, and they do like
Speaker 2: that pushback in the gym and she's like, you know,
Speaker 2: the weights on one hip and those heels. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: to go literally round the world please. I texted Diana
Speaker 2: because I was like, you gotta see yourself doing this.
Speaker 2: But I just text her. Okay, she has not texted
Speaker 2: me responded yet, but she I've never seen her dance harder.
Speaker 2: She looked like she was all, you look like you
Speaker 2: were living your life when all the dancers go down,
Speaker 2: and it's like her and her hands are up like
Speaker 2: that is Diana. I was full Diana in real life.
Speaker 1: We were living because like we were just surrounded by
Speaker 1: like people going so hard and it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. I really loved shooting that. I
Speaker 1: forgot I was in it, but I was like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: like that was that day because I confused that one
Speaker 1: with what's the number we do later? Womanizer?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can't even imagine getting to dance in
Speaker 2: their company.
Speaker 1: I know it was a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, powerful.
Speaker 1: Yes, very anyway, that had to be a feature feature moment.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: And then we've got this other storyline with Will and
Speaker 1: Emma and how Will is feeling a little down that
Speaker 1: he hasn't met Emma's parents yet, and for good reason,
Speaker 1: Emma has avoided it, but will takes it upon himself
Speaker 1: to surprise her bring her parents over for dinner. Not
Speaker 1: doesn't end well.
Speaker 2: No, not a great idea. Also, ginger supremacy.
Speaker 1: I can't with that. It's just it's so strange and weird.
Speaker 2: But it does remind me of like early Glee mmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 2: And so I do like it for that because it
Speaker 2: feels like the weird, quirky stuff that we had just
Speaker 2: in the first few episodes of the series.
Speaker 1: Totally, and it does trigger Emma to like back to
Speaker 1: her and original where we met Emma in the beginning
Speaker 1: of Glee with her OCD, which was so sad it
Speaker 1: was actually it was weird, right, like the whole story
Speaker 1: was weird. But it was also great to see Jima
Speaker 1: giving us some acting moments range and then mister Hue,
Speaker 1: even though this was his fault, supporting her during these
Speaker 1: really tough moments, and him getting down on his knees
Speaker 1: to pray with her, and then getting into fix.
Speaker 2: You before we talk about fixing you.
Speaker 1: I can't even watch it without laughing.
Speaker 2: No, I couldn't watch it without laughing. I was really scared.
Speaker 2: I scanned ahead to see, like what was coming up
Speaker 2: was like, oh, no, good shot to fix you. They
Speaker 2: got good shots of us and fix you. None of
Speaker 2: us looked too crazy. No, But I thought Jaima was
Speaker 2: phenomenal this episode. Those scenes where we're talking about who
Speaker 2: we should cast, she had some, and all the scenes
Speaker 2: between the teachers and the teachers lounge had some. The writing,
Speaker 2: I think the teachers in this episode just really minus Shoe,
Speaker 2: was really like sweet, saying really complimentary things about the
Speaker 2: students therefore like the characters that we've seen grow, and
Speaker 2: it was just really I really enjoyed that for some reason,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 2: the episode. I also think Dot was incredible.
Speaker 1: The line. Her line, it was one of the hardest
Speaker 1: decisions in my life, and that includes when I had
Speaker 1: to sell one of my two two prize donkeys to
Speaker 1: pay my gas bill. I sold kim By cat cloth.
Speaker 2: Also, she had to eat that bowl of pasta so gnarly.
Speaker 1: What I chicken at least is like, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know which ones worse, to be honest, because
Speaker 1: it's both like like TV food, it's not like a
Speaker 1: whole food, it's chicken, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true but I thought Dot was so funny, and
Speaker 2: also she's sort of steering the ship and a lot
Speaker 2: of these storylines. Truly, Yes, props to Jama beautiful work.
Speaker 2: But also it was Will's fault. He should he was
Speaker 2: taking advice from Beast right right steering the ship, but
Speaker 2: Beast didn't have all the information.
Speaker 1: No, she didn't. I don't know. Looks like freaky Dege's
Speaker 1: coming down with a case of the cleanes. That's also
Speaker 1: not okay. I hated these parents so much. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were so good, but they're they're like Quinn's parents or
Speaker 1: Quinn's dad, you know, you're like, oh, cringe.
Speaker 2: It was nice to see more parents, though.
Speaker 1: I know so many parents. Okay, fix you. We talked
Speaker 1: about this before the oos. Okay, when you put all
Speaker 1: of us together, which we haven't been together a lot
Speaker 1: in this episode on Risers not doing very much, that's
Speaker 1: the problem. There's not a lot of focus because we
Speaker 1: don't have a to do, so we have to stand.
Speaker 1: There were never just standing there, so we do oohs
Speaker 1: and all the oohs. At the end, when Matt singing
Speaker 1: his very emotional number, we're behind him singing off key,
Speaker 1: really really badly and loudly.
Speaker 2: It was so unprofessional and we yelled at us.
Speaker 1: He was like, come on, you guys, like focus, Matt
Speaker 1: has to cry once again. We're doing something well, Matt
Speaker 1: has to cry, and we're getting in trouble for it.
Speaker 1: But it was so funny. It will go down in history.
Speaker 1: It's like one of my favorite moments of like working
Speaker 1: with everybody because it's we're all trying to make each
Speaker 1: other laugh and it was it was really hard to watch.
Speaker 2: They really edited that magically beautifully because I don't think
Speaker 2: I was looking for a shoulder.
Speaker 1: We like shoulders were shaking, people were crying.
Speaker 2: There were a few and I could have just been
Speaker 2: projecting here, like searching for something that didn't exist. But
Speaker 2: on Harry's face and Chris's face, like the slightest it
Speaker 2: was knowing smiles and like twinkle in their eyes. I'm
Speaker 2: on the brink.
Speaker 1: LEA looked was looking down in one of them, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, I don't know. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a few of us that were tells that like maybe
Speaker 1: other people couldn't tell, but they're tells for us. Oh God,
Speaker 1: I will never get over that. Sorry, Fansie, I know us.
Speaker 1: He never cared either though, He's like whatever that you guys,
Speaker 1: It is pretty much the episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this season so far.
Speaker 1: Has done Yeah, upward Upward.
Speaker 2: Feels different, but not in a bad way totally. It
Speaker 2: just feels.
Speaker 1: More like seamless in a way. Should we do some
Speaker 1: tarty takes, let's do it. Cringe romans, there's a few,
Speaker 1: there's quite a few. Yeah, there's all those racist jokes,
Speaker 1: all the racist jokes that we mentioned or didn't mention.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't mention Emma's parents. Just bad bad?
Speaker 2: Oh god?
Speaker 1: Okay, best dance move.
Speaker 2: Harry, just Harry and not the widow Maker, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. What the hell is the widow maker? You?
Speaker 3: I didn't have to be there, Okay, best song? Oh
Speaker 3: you know my own Yeah, I drew my own romans
Speaker 3: by prop.
Speaker 2: My brace my my mouth spray Oh, which made nose.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding that that made no sense. Props department. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Prop's department. They were just trying to give
Speaker 2: me things to like do as a director, like something
Speaker 2: else to do, and they gave me this like breath spray.
Speaker 2: But the West Side story cast list, I think that
Speaker 2: was important. Yes, yes, yes, that's a good one best lines.
Speaker 1: Okay, God, I really like Figgin's delivery of Chinico and
Speaker 1: Shang and her band at no place in the.
Speaker 2: Loved it.
Speaker 1: It was very funny.
Speaker 2: Santana didn't have a ton of this episode, but every
Speaker 2: time she opened her mouth, nice blouse, hummel really brings
Speaker 2: out the color of your pink eye. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: are you kidding me? What? There's some other lines? Can
Speaker 2: we just like Brittany talks about the patriarchy? Where has
Speaker 2: patriarchy gotten us double digit inflation? Economic freefault? Oil spills
Speaker 2: wore in Afghanistan? Santana Kurt looks like Jimmy Fouon's butch daughter,
Speaker 2: but a vote for him would only empower yet another
Speaker 2: Franken Beans.
Speaker 1: My musical theater herself giggled when Kurt said if anyone
Speaker 1: else got Tony, including me, the wrath of Sondheim would
Speaker 1: fall upon William McKinley like a plague of Schubert Allie locusts.
Speaker 1: I was like that had to meaning and Brennan Lyne
Speaker 1: very specific, very specific, very good performance, MVP Kevin.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think a tie tie?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 2: Harry and Amber?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean Harry, maybe just because it's his episode,
Speaker 1: but like Amber, really she really brought it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no argument against that. I think that's
Speaker 2: I think that's what it is. Okay, shit, we found
Speaker 2: a TikTok today is a young Olivia Rodrigo and someone
Speaker 2: saying this is wanky pleak, minkey peleek. I don't know,
Speaker 2: minkey pleek. This is so Rachel Barry coated me in
Speaker 2: the shower after watching Glee and it's a little Livery
Speaker 2: Rodrigo singing don't rain on My parade.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 2: It is so cute. Oh my god, a little singer,
Speaker 2: isn't it great? You should go. Everybody go look that
Speaker 2: up if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: I finished this episode and started singing some of the
Speaker 2: songs from it, so I get it.
Speaker 1: Okay. So before we go, we just wanted to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to one of our listeners and one
Speaker 1: of the biggest gleeks, Amanda Singer.
Speaker 2: Amanda has been a gleek since the show came out
Speaker 2: and is getting married on November eleventh, so her sisters
Speaker 2: planned a bachelorette party Jenna. There were Glee props Glee
Speaker 2: tattoos like big quinch cups and at karaoke night. Are
Speaker 2: you kidding?
Speaker 1: I'm floored. I am floored. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 1: Honored.
Speaker 2: I hope it was an incredible success for you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and you hope you had the best time, Amanda,
Speaker 1: And congratulations on your wedding. One an accomplishment and how
Speaker 1: exciting for you. I hope it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Gabby for sending us the photos. Yes, yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: happy wedding, Jenna. Next week we have we have Damian McGuinty.
Speaker 2: That's right, pot of Gold, Trouble Tones, Rory candy Man.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Oh we're getting meta.
Speaker 1: We are getting meta. Well, thanks for joining us for
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