Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I heart radio podcast. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back, beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was short. I'm sure that will clear UM. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to and that's what you really missed with professional
Speaker 1: singer Jenna USh Kwitz and my professional mediocre person Kevin Michael. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're here. UM. We're going to recap the Roads Not
Speaker 1: Taken episode five. I'm so excited. This was a really
Speaker 1: monumental episode for us personally. I think off screen, this
Speaker 1: episode changed UM the game for us in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. I think it was the introduction of UM
Speaker 1: the first sort of like very famous. We had Victor
Speaker 1: Garber before and Josh Grobin, but the introduction of the
Speaker 1: guest star coming on too like showca ace their abilities,
Speaker 1: hanging out in the glee in the in the room
Speaker 1: with the kids and everything like. This was our first
Speaker 1: real UM peek in and it was a It came
Speaker 1: out with a doozy. It was a doozy and Christian
Speaker 1: channel with also was the perfect person to break that ice,
Speaker 1: to be the first person to do that, because she
Speaker 1: is just a ball of sunshine and as what a
Speaker 1: joy I mean, what a joy. Can't say enough great
Speaker 1: things about her. Um. This also was monumental for us
Speaker 1: because it was the first time we ever did a
Speaker 1: musical number with all twelve Glee Club members. Yes, so
Speaker 1: this was a big one for us. And this includes
Speaker 1: my one of my all time favorite Glee performances ever,
Speaker 1: which is the finale of this episode, which we'll get
Speaker 1: to um. And it was, Yeah, we get to we
Speaker 1: get to be with everybody. Yeah, it was the first
Speaker 1: like even though as an invitational it's not an official
Speaker 1: competent Asian yet. Um, it was the first time we
Speaker 1: get into that format of things, you know, the big
Speaker 1: risers on stage doing all the proper show choir, choreography. Um.
Speaker 1: And just as you know, the audience and the Glee
Speaker 1: Club on TV are learning that. That was a first
Speaker 1: for us, and so it was it's sort of set
Speaker 1: the groundwork, you know, for the next six seasons. Also,
Speaker 1: speaking of choreography, this, we have a really funny story
Speaker 1: about this episode and the number we did, the first
Speaker 1: number we did with christ and Channawi. Um, do you
Speaker 1: remember Kevin when we rehearsed, we had to rehearse the
Speaker 1: dance on stage that they had just like slicked the
Speaker 1: stage with some kind of polish, and we had our
Speaker 1: cowboy boots on which we were sliding all over the place.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a nightmare. We've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of trouble. Um, let's get to it, Jenna, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't remember that because I was in a wheelchair over
Speaker 1: the place. It was also the other time, it was
Speaker 1: humbling because we had spent you know, just like we
Speaker 1: had spent a month learning push it, we had spent
Speaker 1: a good portion of that time as well learning class name,
Speaker 1: and it took the glee kids, you know, like two
Speaker 1: weeks or something to learn it. Kristen comes in, learns
Speaker 1: it in maybe forty five minutes. She probably shorter. I
Speaker 1: think she looked at it once and was like it.
Speaker 1: Zach would be the choreographer, like, showed her her track
Speaker 1: of the number, showed her the you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of eight counts of what's like okay. Well, that day
Speaker 1: also was really big because Chris and I were huge
Speaker 1: Broadway fans obviously, and I was. Kristen was like the
Speaker 1: mecca at the time. You know, she had just finished
Speaker 1: Wicked Um and you know, she's christ and channawick. So
Speaker 1: we were very excited, and I remember having a nickname
Speaker 1: for her, a password for her. Her name was um Cupcakes.
Speaker 1: Were waiting in the tin shed and we're waiting, and
Speaker 1: we're waiting. We're like, oh my god, she's coming. She's
Speaker 1: coming down New York Street. She's going to come from
Speaker 1: here and freaking out her Christmas freaking and we were like,
Speaker 1: we got we need like prep. So somebody sat by
Speaker 1: the window and then when they saw her, Kevin was
Speaker 1: like Cupcake, Cupcake, Cupcake, and we were panicked. But she
Speaker 1: came in and she was so warm and welcoming and
Speaker 1: made us feel like we were all best friends. And
Speaker 1: you know, to this day, we are just so grateful
Speaker 1: to have her as our very first big star. She
Speaker 1: treats us like family, which is, you know, as a
Speaker 1: bunch of people who hadn't done too much um and
Speaker 1: you have this incredibly successful Broadway legend in your midst too,
Speaker 1: UM welcome us as we're welcoming her like that into
Speaker 1: her world. It was, you know, so going back to
Speaker 1: the number, UM, I just shared the story with you. Now,
Speaker 1: we were going to rehearse for the crew at the
Speaker 1: top of the day. You rehearse the number that you're
Speaker 1: they're going to light and then you're going to kind
Speaker 1: of shoot for that part of the day. And we
Speaker 1: were we were rehearsing it, but they had slipped the
Speaker 1: stage with some kind of just cleaned it or something right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, polish. And Ryan was there for some
Speaker 1: you know, obviously because Kristen was there. So Ryan was
Speaker 1: there even though he wasn't directing the episode. And the
Speaker 1: number was not good. I do remember this not good.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember we were messy. Zach looked like
Speaker 1: he wanted to kill us because it makes him look bad,
Speaker 1: and we couldn't keep our lines. It looked a muck,
Speaker 1: and you know, Ryan's like, I want Kristen to shine,
Speaker 1: and so we they put the crew out of the room.
Speaker 1: They're like, everybody leave, and they took like a pause
Speaker 1: in the day for us to like rehearse this number
Speaker 1: again after which was not normal. That did not happen.
Speaker 1: You don't do the time is money using money? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, it wasn't a fun day for us. I
Speaker 1: remember getting like being like, oh ship, we're in trouble
Speaker 1: and we better like clean up our act. Not that
Speaker 1: we were like acting out. We just weren't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the number wasn't good anyway. Um, I was like, but
Speaker 1: my boots, I was sliding, truly slide. I also wasn't
Speaker 1: in the number really, so I got I mean sort of,
Speaker 1: but I got to why you guys you know, and
Speaker 1: be like, was that was that thing when Kristen pushes
Speaker 1: you r wheelchair, was like scared of you? That was
Speaker 1: all her, right, she kind of made that whole thing up.
Speaker 1: I think she didn't rehearsal. I think she was like
Speaker 1: trying things and then yeah, oh man, April Rhodes. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: so this poured soda on the stage for the first time.
Speaker 1: Is that where this came in? Yes, yes, Kevin, so
Speaker 1: a dancers trick is um hairspray or soda, like dried
Speaker 1: up soda because it's sticky. So I said, go get
Speaker 1: some paper towels and soda and then our cowboy boots
Speaker 1: can step on them and then that way we So
Speaker 1: that was the first time and it worked. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: props to the crew because they were on that and
Speaker 1: they got Kansas. They did it real fast, real real fast.
Speaker 1: Listen to Jennas. You know she's been around, don't listen
Speaker 1: to Jenna. You should have listened to Janna. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into it. Season one, episode five,
Speaker 1: Roads Not Taken Um, directed by John Scott, who also
Speaker 1: directed Acafellas, written by Ian Brennan, but written by all
Speaker 1: of three of them. That's sort of how it works.
Speaker 1: Only one name on the script, but it is everyone
Speaker 1: fun fact Havan. This is the first time the show
Speaker 1: starts with here's what you missed, Hungle, and that's what
Speaker 1: you missed on Glee Um, voiced by Ian Brennan, the
Speaker 1: writer of the episode who we need on? Yeah, the show,
Speaker 1: all right, And the episode name is a play on
Speaker 1: the Robert Frost poem the Road Not Taking So Smart.
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with that. You're really smart? Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Vicky. Alright, so um, the main storyline is
Speaker 1: that Rachel is no longer in the Glee Club, right,
Speaker 1: she is still going off to do cabaret and she
Speaker 1: gets the full creative rights to do the show by
Speaker 1: thank you, Sue Sylvester. So um. We were rehearsing in
Speaker 1: he Don't Stop again, Stop for the fiftie time again
Speaker 1: so far. This is the second time we've heard of
Speaker 1: let's keep count. This is number two, okay, number two, Yes,
Speaker 1: the police that don't stop police Kevin McHale, um number
Speaker 1: two and um we Quinn is playing Rachel for THEO,
Speaker 1: but she's pregnant. Quinn's got morning sickness and runs out
Speaker 1: of the room. And also nobody's having Quinn's vocals, which
Speaker 1: is also rude. Right, um, and and so we're all
Speaker 1: kind of in need of a leader, right, we need
Speaker 1: a Rachel to complete the glee club. And we learned
Speaker 1: that Finn really has ulterior motives because of the baby
Speaker 1: and needing to support this baby. Um, he wants a
Speaker 1: scholarship and he wants glee to succeed. That's right, and
Speaker 1: so he has he had a plan. Meanwhile, Shoe realizes
Speaker 1: that UM Vocal journals cheating because they have older members
Speaker 1: failing on purpose so they can stay in the glee
Speaker 1: club because they're good. So which is brilliant. So what
Speaker 1: does he do? He thinks of who the star wars
Speaker 1: when he was in school, and that was none other
Speaker 1: than April Rhodes played by Chris and Chenowi April Rhodes
Speaker 1: and um and then Emma Hillsbury gets dragged into Will's sure,
Speaker 1: aids because obviously she'll do anything for him, And she
Speaker 1: takes him into the office and um sneaks him to
Speaker 1: get April Rhodes's file, and they find out she has
Speaker 1: MySpace page right nine top eight MySpace and we find
Speaker 1: her home address. So I mean, yeah, nowadays you could
Speaker 1: just Google. Yeah, but sometimes they're blurred out and you
Speaker 1: have to be you have to create an account to
Speaker 1: get the actual address and phone number, which I will
Speaker 1: never do. It was a different time, you know. It
Speaker 1: was also like around that time. It was September alright,
Speaker 1: white justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel weren't even married yet
Speaker 1: they've broken Oh my god, oh my god. Well we
Speaker 1: go to um, yeah, we get to uh, we get
Speaker 1: through April rhodes is beautiful home, which I want to
Speaker 1: know where they shop that do we know? I mean
Speaker 1: it looked like the valley, the valley as Lama, Ohio,
Speaker 1: right right. So we go to April rohods Is home,
Speaker 1: only to find her there drunk, drinking out of a
Speaker 1: plastic cup and a cracked open a box of wine.
Speaker 1: And at eleven, I am giving a comedic performance for
Speaker 1: the gods. I mean, just no other way to open
Speaker 1: up and welcome a character, and then the way she
Speaker 1: did it, and it sets us on her journey for
Speaker 1: the episode that April Rhodes is a bit of she
Speaker 1: needs help, she needs some guidance. She's lost her way
Speaker 1: since high school, and with Will's guidance, Will takes it
Speaker 1: upon himself to one manipulate her to getting in the
Speaker 1: glee club, to help the glee club, but also along
Speaker 1: the way finding some heart and trying to help her
Speaker 1: get her life back on track. And then we find
Speaker 1: that she's squatting. Yeah, it's not her house, she's a squatter.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I actually, Um, when I read
Speaker 1: the script, was like, what's a squatter? I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I don't remember reading the script because I can't read.
Speaker 1: I'm the one who can't read. Um, that's why you
Speaker 1: flipped through the pages. You learned how to read already.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta be honest. At some points we
Speaker 1: would just flip through the script at the end of
Speaker 1: and just look for our lines, and sometimes Kevin I
Speaker 1: would be like, well, we got two offensive this one.
Speaker 1: This one, this episode, we'll have to have jam on
Speaker 1: because Jamie and I once and we were shooting. We
Speaker 1: were having a battle of who was the most expensive
Speaker 1: extra bet the two of us. Oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I gotta see. Probably it was definitely it was
Speaker 1: you were me and but she was saying that episode,
Speaker 1: she was like, I have one line, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have to but I guarantee one. I was going
Speaker 1: to get cut get it and it did. Um. So
Speaker 1: April gets kicked out of the house, right, She gets
Speaker 1: kicked out of the squatterhouse, and Will says he's going
Speaker 1: to get her sobered up and find her some underwear
Speaker 1: because yeah, and he gets her. He reminds her that
Speaker 1: she didn't finish high school so he can re enroll
Speaker 1: her into high school and that serves the purpose of
Speaker 1: getting her second chance, but also getting her in Glee
Speaker 1: club and making the new directions win and happy. So
Speaker 1: he introduced him to the new directions. That's where there's
Speaker 1: the brilliant scene of her. Um, they don't really love
Speaker 1: her right the first she does maybe this time to
Speaker 1: try to impress them, which, by the way, maybe this time.
Speaker 1: I think I probably listened to this Glee cast version
Speaker 1: track more than any other songs that we really what
Speaker 1: I think it is so good before. Did I not
Speaker 1: know this before? You had to watch it? For this
Speaker 1: episode of doing this, I've looked ahead just to watch
Speaker 1: this number first. I just I I remember UM one.
Speaker 1: I think the the duet of it is really great.
Speaker 1: I think they both sound incredible, and they're both doing
Speaker 1: it in completely different styles, which is nice. But there
Speaker 1: was something special about again watching someone do what they're
Speaker 1: good at is so much fun and feels so good
Speaker 1: as an audience member, and we were just audience members
Speaker 1: in that scene. And then it was the first time
Speaker 1: we'd use that spotlight and it came and we're like,
Speaker 1: because we didn't know that was going to happen when
Speaker 1: I first the first time. We kept switching back and
Speaker 1: forth as well, kind of like like you said, you
Speaker 1: know that that duet version, that kind of thing on
Speaker 1: the stage in the choir room. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of first in this episode, and that the spotlight gets
Speaker 1: used a lot more in the choir room going forward.
Speaker 1: Gravity Yeah, yeah, And Kristen is it was so strange
Speaker 1: because you're when you've already re recorded the song, your
Speaker 1: lips singing when you're shooting it. She was saying, she
Speaker 1: was singing, and she was so meticulous in her She
Speaker 1: wanted her I kept I remembered she kept talking about
Speaker 1: in between takes, so she wanted her lip sync to
Speaker 1: be correct. So she was singing with it, but she
Speaker 1: wanted to match exactly. Well, she's she's a huge star
Speaker 1: at this point, she's playing, you know, doing a first
Speaker 1: guest star on the show. She actually does sing, and
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of controversy I think on
Speaker 1: the show, going like are people singing? Are they not singing?
Speaker 1: How because some of the lipstick lipstick lip syncing was
Speaker 1: a little bit awesome. People are better at it than others,
Speaker 1: and they always said to us Tim Davis always saying like,
Speaker 1: the more you sing, the more real it's going to
Speaker 1: look because of your breath and the way that you
Speaker 1: sing it and and just all of it. Write your
Speaker 1: performance in general, so yes, you're I do remember her
Speaker 1: being very specific about it, but also um, just her
Speaker 1: performance in general was just like that's how it's done.
Speaker 1: Put that in your pipe and smoke it. And Chris
Speaker 1: was crying as was real, and it just felt like
Speaker 1: a shift where it felt aspirational in a way of
Speaker 1: you know, where these bands of band of Misfits we
Speaker 1: did push it a couple of weeks before we're comedy,
Speaker 1: we're having fun, and then she comes in there with
Speaker 1: like the big guns and shows you what's possible and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. It was, and we didn't see
Speaker 1: Leah's version of it, so the first time we ever
Speaker 1: saw that was when the episode of screened for us,
Speaker 1: and so I just, yeah, that number is ingrained seared
Speaker 1: my memory so interesting it is for me as well.
Speaker 1: I just didn't realize you listened to it as much. Um,
Speaker 1: you know you had heard maybe this time before. I hadn't.
Speaker 1: This is my version of the song. Yeah. I only
Speaker 1: saw Cabaret for the first time last month. Oh god. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well anyway, I mean not that you got to see it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's also like Kristen was so good she came
Speaker 1: back four more times, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: this was the first of an arc of April Road.
Speaker 1: April Roads, Okay. So um, I had a really fun
Speaker 1: time shooting with Kristen and her teaching us how to
Speaker 1: steal steal things and we had to walk with lettuce
Speaker 1: between our legs and meat and it was really weird.
Speaker 1: But it was like that one of the highlights of
Speaker 1: my life. I remember you and Amber coming back and
Speaker 1: just saying how much fun you had shooting that scene.
Speaker 1: You were cracking up the entire time. So funny, and
Speaker 1: then us in like our jewels, it's really funny anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's the big storyline. And then be kind of
Speaker 1: the storyline the best Frylon kind of goes along with this,
Speaker 1: a storyline of Will bringing April Roads into the mix. Um,
Speaker 1: we have Finn with his motives, going to try and
Speaker 1: get Rachel back into the glee club. Well well, well, sweet, innocent,
Speaker 1: pretty damn Finn manipulating hard and really well and like
Speaker 1: very good. I was like, this is a little too good, right,
Speaker 1: He's not breaking he is man, he is so good.
Speaker 1: And then when that do do do do do do
Speaker 1: do music please, and you're like, oh god, I totally
Speaker 1: I have chills. I have chills. Um, So he asks
Speaker 1: Rachel out on her on a bowling date and he
Speaker 1: offers to run lines with her, which is so cute,
Speaker 1: chemistry and phenomenal, very cute, and who doesn't love a
Speaker 1: good bowling moment. So they have a really cute date
Speaker 1: and and then they kiss and we get to see
Speaker 1: the beginning of Rachel and Finn, and I say that
Speaker 1: all the time, but like we just get segmented things
Speaker 1: from them because it's there's there's Quinn, who's still in
Speaker 1: the mix. Yeah, and and he's this is like one
Speaker 1: of a three pronged approach to manipulating her into but
Speaker 1: also maybe I think he likes her as well, Like,
Speaker 1: let's be real, this is you know, he's getting getting
Speaker 1: good stuff out of this. It's also the intention of him, um,
Speaker 1: trying to be a good support of future father, right, sure, sure, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's also very cute that um he says, like, but
Speaker 1: wh're your friends too? Yeah, and he everything he says
Speaker 1: is the truth. It's just where the different motive, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly what makes it so convincing, you know. And so
Speaker 1: he eventually does convince her to come back to the
Speaker 1: glee club, but that's when everyone discovers that Quinn is
Speaker 1: actually pregnant, and now Puck like, who do you think
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, and Rachel feels bamboozled because she was,
Speaker 1: and then she walks out again. And I got to
Speaker 1: say that slap was jarring and prease like non reaction.
Speaker 1: I was like, that sounded really loud. Yeah it was good.
Speaker 1: He deserved it. Yeah, it was a good one. Um,
Speaker 1: she ain't going to be played and her dreams are bigger.
Speaker 1: So UM, I remember shooting that scene, Um finding out
Speaker 1: about Quinn Quinn Bean prego. You're like, that doesn't make
Speaker 1: up for the vomiting. We're very naive, I will say,
Speaker 1: Tina Artie and I do have to say that. Um.
Speaker 1: There are I think two moments in this episode where
Speaker 1: Naya doesn't speak, but her reactions to things that I
Speaker 1: think Rachel that Leah is doing are so good. I
Speaker 1: think I almost did a spittake in my house watching
Speaker 1: this yesterday because she just hates her like Santana hates
Speaker 1: everything Rachel does. And I was like, you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily know what everybody was doing, but how good
Speaker 1: and I it was for just being able to do
Speaker 1: a look and make you lose it just just so
Speaker 1: good the best. Um. We also get to go back
Speaker 1: to April and Shoe. They're having this. He's sort of
Speaker 1: doing what Finn is doing right where he's manipulating um
Speaker 1: April with the guys of getting her life back on track,
Speaker 1: but really he just wants her to be the start
Speaker 1: of the League Club, but they have a little wonderful
Speaker 1: duet moment your favorite, I know. I turned to David
Speaker 1: and I was like, why is this song so bad
Speaker 1: but so good? I love this number. I love this song.
Speaker 1: I was actually kind of upset that they got to
Speaker 1: do it, even though they did it better, because I
Speaker 1: was like, that's one of the numbers I would have
Speaker 1: wanted to do on the show, but it would have
Speaker 1: made no sense. That was also at the bowling alley, right, No,
Speaker 1: it was always the bulling, but a back room, like
Speaker 1: a back room, lots of manipulation going out of the
Speaker 1: bowling alley. These men cannot be trusted. No, No, typical.
Speaker 1: And of course Emma through this all, is like okay, well,
Speaker 1: she's like the moral compass of this episode, being like
Speaker 1: I see right through you and I'm really glad that
Speaker 1: you care for these kids, which really takes a dagger
Speaker 1: to the heart because April has taught all these kids
Speaker 1: bad things and is an alcoholic and I was also
Speaker 1: taught Kurt drink that. Okay, so this scene, oh bamy is.
Speaker 1: I remember watching the scene being filmed and like all
Speaker 1: of us cracking up behind the monitor because it was
Speaker 1: so good. So so good. Um, and of course am
Speaker 1: I going to the emergency room ticket wipe down? Oh band?
Speaker 1: They had croft so hard when I was humped, shot
Speaker 1: your mommy the way they the way Ian could really
Speaker 1: just prey on all of our physical He always said, UM,
Speaker 1: and he always said it's the sincerest form of flattery.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believe in that, but coming
Speaker 1: from Ian, no, I know it's I it's in UM.
Speaker 1: And then we get to uh, we get to uh,
Speaker 1: then the Invitational, which is super exciting. We're on the stage,
Speaker 1: we're performing with April Rhodes and her bright pink outfit,
Speaker 1: and um, that number ended up looking just fine. It did.
Speaker 1: It looked actually very clean. Maybe this a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes of pause to rehearse really worked and a little
Speaker 1: sprat and on the floor and didn't hurt anybody. Now
Speaker 1: do you have the like as clear of memory as
Speaker 1: I do as filming these scenes. Yeah, like filming the two,
Speaker 1: filming right the numbers and in the moments right before
Speaker 1: that's right, we were in that room and it was
Speaker 1: again like the first time all of us were in
Speaker 1: the choir room together shooting these big like scenes without singing,
Speaker 1: where everybody had lines and reactions, and so we had
Speaker 1: to get all these different this different coverage on everybody,
Speaker 1: and it was like the first time we were all
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out. So I think that's why it
Speaker 1: was really so um at the forefront of our minds.
Speaker 1: That's true. And what you should know is that every
Speaker 1: single time we did a scene in the choir room,
Speaker 1: there were at least twelve of us and we had
Speaker 1: to do coverage. That means the camera would have to
Speaker 1: shoot each of us several times through. So these scenes
Speaker 1: took four Ever. We were living in that choir room
Speaker 1: right this all day, all night. But Kristen was so
Speaker 1: much fun and her coming in there, I mean, our
Speaker 1: reactions are sort of we're just trying to keep it
Speaker 1: together the entire time because she's making us laugh and
Speaker 1: her her vocal warm ups. So then we go into
Speaker 1: we we do last name, and it's great name. I
Speaker 1: learned the choreography myself, I still do it, featured in
Speaker 1: it even though and also her. Finally, I have this
Speaker 1: picture and I got to try and find it of
Speaker 1: us in rehearsal, and I think there were wigs in
Speaker 1: the room for some reason. Yeah, right, And we were
Speaker 1: wearing wigs in the rehearsal room and she was standing
Speaker 1: on the chair. I don't know. I got to find
Speaker 1: the photo. Um. And we do it. And then and
Speaker 1: then Will realizes he can't keep this Sharrad up. Emma
Speaker 1: was right, yeah, yeah, and he's got to get April
Speaker 1: out of there. And she makes it really easy for
Speaker 1: him and says, you know, didn't feel right up there,
Speaker 1: you know, but even though it felt right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it looked right, it sounded right. I sure enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely incredible. What a great version of that song
Speaker 1: she can. She goes from singing cabaret maybe this is
Speaker 1: the country yeah, and switches up the style and kills it.
Speaker 1: She's it's sounded um. And then and then Will tells
Speaker 1: he's breaking the news to the glee club that we're
Speaker 1: probably not going back out and you know, that's it.
Speaker 1: And and then Rachel comes in and offers to play
Speaker 1: the understudy. Which this is where you need to mark
Speaker 1: Nya's reaction. Go to the scene, everyone and get hurt
Speaker 1: dog your reaction to the face of disgust. It's very good. Um.
Speaker 1: This number meant a lot to us personally. It is
Speaker 1: the number we performed everywhere, did it at the Upfront
Speaker 1: to New York City on OPRAH, we did it on tour.
Speaker 1: It was our finale on tour or our Encore, Encore,
Speaker 1: thank you on tour. And and if you find this photo,
Speaker 1: if you like, look up google this photo. Um it's
Speaker 1: like Corey in the spotlight and it's it's chilling for me. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: we used to we all used to um imitate Corey's
Speaker 1: opening can and when he did it. When I watched
Speaker 1: on the show, it brings back so many memories because
Speaker 1: every day on tour would be like we'd all sing ki.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. And Marco, my bff and ex boyfriend,
Speaker 1: he watched this episode with me because because he was around,
Speaker 1: like he remembers everything from the time and Corey started
Speaker 1: singing can, he bursts out laughing. I forgot because we
Speaker 1: used to give Corey ship for the fun. May I
Speaker 1: sang all of that too with the number last night
Speaker 1: when I watched it, it's so true's and we had
Speaker 1: um this isn't the days too when we had more
Speaker 1: time in the recording studio. The full recording version, I
Speaker 1: think the songs sort of split up into quarters and
Speaker 1: Amber and I sing like half the song basically, but
Speaker 1: you know, my parts are all cut for the TV edit,
Speaker 1: which is fine, it served no purpose. And um, I
Speaker 1: remember going in there and being really scared about this
Speaker 1: number because I hadn't really had to sing yet, like
Speaker 1: singing I Freddie Mercury's my favorite singer of all time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't think yeah, And I
Speaker 1: really wanted to impress Adam Ander's I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure like they hired the right guy. You know. I
Speaker 1: was still scared this whole time, and um, it was
Speaker 1: such a moment of discovery for all of us when
Speaker 1: Amber and I were like hanging out in our trailers
Speaker 1: before had to record this, talking about what we were
Speaker 1: going to do, and because Freddie Mercury for that big
Speaker 1: moment and does a huge run, and Amber was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I don't know what to do. I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna try this. Maybe I should try that,
Speaker 1: what do you think? And then I happened to Sam
Speaker 1: I don't know why be there when she was recording it,
Speaker 1: and Adam Anders just had her try several different things,
Speaker 1: and everything she tried was unreal. Sometimes it was just
Speaker 1: one long note. Sometimes she did a run. Then she
Speaker 1: she made up the and that's how iconic to like,
Speaker 1: she made up what it ultimately became. And it was
Speaker 1: so much fun because yeah, I mean and for me
Speaker 1: it was the first time I got to really push
Speaker 1: myself vocally. Yeah, it's you all sound real good on it.
Speaker 1: Um And and this this was really precise, and we
Speaker 1: rehearsed this for a while, but I remember us getting
Speaker 1: this one really quickly, Like I remember us like there
Speaker 1: was a lot of rehearsal, but it also felt like
Speaker 1: this one kind of clicked for some reason. I never
Speaker 1: knew it properly because I was playing guitar and it originally,
Speaker 1: and then when we started having to do this for
Speaker 1: live performances in it they put me and I couldn't
Speaker 1: pick it up for some I think, I think because
Speaker 1: everyone else knew it and I was so behind and
Speaker 1: I had a Yeah, I didn't know those backgrounds and
Speaker 1: to dance at the same time were really difficult and
Speaker 1: I could not get it together. I was I was
Speaker 1: so mad. And this song did really well on the charts.
Speaker 1: It did, and it just I think, Um, the song
Speaker 1: also I think just celebrates what we were doing at
Speaker 1: the time. And it felt like family and the song
Speaker 1: felt like that. It felt like a community experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one is one of my favorites, hands down. And
Speaker 1: also we get the good old the Glee gay hand
Speaker 1: you know that goes up at the end of Andrew
Speaker 1: the arem um And that's that's the episode. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty solid episode, and it turns out a lot of
Speaker 1: core memories built into it, didn't lots of first lots
Speaker 1: of four memories. Yeah, this is a cool episode in
Speaker 1: my in my mind, and I think this period, we're
Speaker 1: in like a stretch here where the next couple episodes
Speaker 1: are all like that that we were. You know, there's
Speaker 1: mashups coming up, there's wheels, lots of firsts and um like,
Speaker 1: you know, figuring out how we were doing this, and
Speaker 1: so there's nothing better than Christ and Channowith. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do some turdy takes. Turdy takes. Cringe moment, Jenna,
Speaker 1: um is this when April teaches us how to steal
Speaker 1: meat from our babe whole that in our who has
Speaker 1: There was a lot of feels like perping inappropriately drunk
Speaker 1: at all of that stuff so endearing for some reason,
Speaker 1: you meet everything so endearing except for the meat in
Speaker 1: our legs? Right? What was the worst dance move? Kevin? Um,
Speaker 1: I personally I liked all of um last name. Not
Speaker 1: anybody was necessarily good at it. Maybe that's it. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's that it wasn't a collective excellence. It's fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and I just follow somebody the entire time because some
Speaker 1: of those things are not like the others. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: won't refuse to watch myself. Um. Best song, I don't know, Kevin,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I mean? Somebody this time? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: it's got to be somebody to love as much as
Speaker 1: I love maybe this time. And the best line, Oh,
Speaker 1: I think we'll agree on this. Oh bad be oh bamby.
Speaker 1: I got so hard when those hunters shot your mommy.
Speaker 1: It was it's the delivery, it's the joke, it's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's really just excellent. I think there's a
Speaker 1: couple of honorable mentions here too. I bet you, I
Speaker 1: bet you thought Burton earned were just roommates. That was
Speaker 1: a funny one. Um. And then well also we mentioned
Speaker 1: will saying we'll get you sobered up, find you some underwear. Oh.
Speaker 1: I did love when Sandy said let me tell you
Speaker 1: about my planned production of Equis. Have you ever hung
Speaker 1: out at a stable so dark sandy? Best performance by
Speaker 1: a prop? Best performance by prop had to be Um
Speaker 1: April's Pink Wine Glass. Oh yeah, because it kept showing
Speaker 1: up everywhere and it looks delicious, delicious. Um didn't age
Speaker 1: well and aged well? What do you think? Honestly? I
Speaker 1: think it all aged pretty well. I think we're okay,
Speaker 1: and I think aged well. I think those two last
Speaker 1: performances at the end, I mean all the performances. I
Speaker 1: think every performance in this holds a classic classic classic classic. Um, alright, Kevin,
Speaker 1: give it to me, So Jenner. The ship we found
Speaker 1: on TikTok this week is about Pitch Perfect because in
Speaker 1: pitch Perfect, which came out during Glee, Um, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how we all felt about it when it
Speaker 1: came out. I don't really remember it. But Skyler obviously
Speaker 1: yeah different, it was different, but it was all celebrating
Speaker 1: you know, uh, choir in schools show choir. But Skyler,
Speaker 1: your boy from Spring Awakening, wasn't that? And then he
Speaker 1: came on Glee and then was his always extraordinary playlist
Speaker 1: just in all the shows. Um, there is when they
Speaker 1: have this wheel they spend to like do a sing off.
Speaker 1: There was one of them that says songs ruined by
Speaker 1: Glee on in the movie. In the movie, and people
Speaker 1: have found this, Oh my god. And then also there's
Speaker 1: a a trend based off of um songs that they
Speaker 1: versions of songs they preferred that we did or that
Speaker 1: Pitch Perfect did, And so people will stand in the
Speaker 1: middle and go back and forth to say, which, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't need to be pitted against each other. Fine, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. That's hilarious and also just very meta. You. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think they keep sending us that ship because
Speaker 1: it's yeah, that's good you guys. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: realized that. Did you realize that? And do you remember
Speaker 1: seeing that in Pitch Perfect? No? And I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody told us or we would have remembered. There's lots
Speaker 1: of Glee references in movies and things that we've been
Speaker 1: told about, but um, that was definitely not one of them.
Speaker 1: And I really have to look deeply into that movie
Speaker 1: to see to find that. Yeah, but there's there are screenshots,
Speaker 1: so you can. I like that kind of stuff. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's good Easter Egg, but not Easter Egg. And however,
Speaker 1: I don't think we ruined any songs and roads not taken,
Speaker 1: so take that pit perfect whatever, whatever, So sending your
Speaker 1: TikTok things you find about Glee because we'll keep talking
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, this is UM. I really enjoyed those segments,
Speaker 1: do you? Partially because I just have to sit here
Speaker 1: on listen. This one was a fun, a fun one,
Speaker 1: an easy one. No drama really, no trauma. Never we
Speaker 1: could start drama. No, no, no no. We'll call up
Speaker 1: Sarah Highland to be like, did you know this was going?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? All right, well that is the roads
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