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[0:04] ANDREW Learn: Um, I wanna I wanted to start this episode a really particular way.

[0:08] Okay.

[0:09] ANDREW Learn: Good morning, everyone.

[0:12] Uh actually I had nothing else beyond that.

[0:18] Um it was like I wanted to do like almost like um a la like a White House briefing. You know what I mean? Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us here today, live at the White House. Um we have some things to discuss uh regarding the recent Russia uh Gleek.

[0:38] I'm like wait, do you know where I'm going with that? Do you remember the Russia Glee spoiler?

[0:42] I think that we talked about it on the podcast. Do you remember the Russia Glee spoiler?

[0:46] No.

[0:47] ANDREW Learn: During season five of Glee, Chris Colfer was hacked and he said that next season Kurt is going to Russia.

[0:57] We have talked about this. And I think that was like in 2004, when like I I have reason to believe that Russia is still wildly homophobic, but like there was something going on in the news that Kurt was going to deal with personally. Kurt was going to go to the US Russian embassy.

[1:13] Right.

[1:18] ANDREW Learn: And handle all the foreign relations for the country.

[1:21] Um I do remember you telling us about that.

[1:24] ANDREW Learn: There it today's a very important episode. Um we are celebrating our 500th song.

[1:31] Which is kind of crazy. We only have one more like landmark milestone 600th song to get to beyond this, but um I Which really fucks me up.

[1:43] Like it feels like no time has passed, but it also feels like we've been doing this podcast for our entire lives.

[1:50] It feels uh, I mean, like, it is kind of crazy that it's like, okay, every single week we're releasing an episode. There were three three weeks that we had did not um a few months ago.

[2:00] But we reached a breaking point.

[2:02] We reached so we took a break.

[2:03] Right, and we're back, and we are committed to getting this done.

[2:06] And I will say, and I maybe this maybe I'll cut this out because it's like really personal, but like there have been certain messages. I really do appreciate everybody that listens to the podcast.

[2:16] I cannot stress that enough. I love every single one of you that like tune into this. I love the fact that you care so deeply about this Glackett.

[2:25] Something that we completely made up from the ground up, and it's so stupid. And there are a lot of there.

[2:33] How do I want to say this? There are a lot of people that really care about certain songs.

[2:37] Yes.

[2:38] ANDREW Learn: And um I really appreciate how much you care about certain songs. And if I were to go back in time, maybe I maybe I would have like rethought making a a podcast that is literally built on being divisive.

[2:56] Yeah.

[2:57] ANDREW Learn: Um, but arguing. We are so far into this hole that it's like we cannot um get out of it.

[3:07] And I don't want it to sound like I'm not like grateful, and it's like, Andrew, just like deal with the haters, whatever. But because like sometimes like some of these messages about like certain songs that you feel so passionately about, I I take very personally, and it's like it's it's difficult for me to continue on my day knowing that I upset someone that a certain song is not going through.

[3:31] So, with that said, I am I'm so sorry to everybody that your songs have will not see the light of day in the second round.

[3:41] Um I want to propose uh an open forum between the glisteners that if you have any ideas for the second round of the Glacket or future rounds of the Glackett that would be like more conducive to everybody sort of gets a say, and it's more like you know, it's beyond the zoom call or whatever, like we are very open to it.

[4:06] I I mean I know that we've talked like a little bit privately about like changing it up for future rounds.

[4:12] Like, we don't want to like keep this format of like just being completely random and like using the same sort of rules that we have been using, right?

[4:20] But um maybe just like switching it up because I want I want I want more people to be happy, and it's hard using this format of like it is a bracket and people will be upset, but I want the majority of people to be pleased with the results.

[4:36] So um, so send us a DM. Um, and if you do send us a DM where you're unhappy with something, just I noticed that a few people like put like love you guys at the end.

[4:48] And I love those I love those messages when you're mad and you still say love you, like thank you for doing this.

[4:56] I mean, yeah, I appreciate that.

[4:59] ANDREW Learn: So just like let me know because it's so hard getting some of these DMs where you're upset and I can't read the tone, and I still need to go about my day and do my full time job.

[5:11] Yes, and exist as a human being, exist as a human being, yeah.

[5:15] ANDREW Learn: Some of the ideas that we've thrown around for the second round of the Glackett are maybe we will pull the songs an episode beforehand so we know the songs that are going into the next episode, so we can build our what we're gonna talk about, and the Gleeks can say, oh my gosh, this totally has to go through.

[5:34] Right.

[5:34] ANDREW Learn: We've thought about a bunch of different things, and I want to see what the Gleeks have in mind.

[5:41] Yeah.

[5:41] ANDREW Learn: Slide into our DMs in that respect and let us know what you think would be a good idea to make everybody happy.

[5:47] Um, because yeah, we don't we don't want to make people sad.

[5:47] We don't want to make people sad, and I'm Glee by its definition is about being happy, okay.

[5:58] But also at the end of the day, Glee doesn't exist.

[6:03] At the end of the day, this is a not serious podcast.

[6:07] This is a TV not serious show 10 years ago.

[6:10] I'm so Who cares?

[6:12] I do but I here's the thing.

[6:14] We all do I fucking care so goddamn much.

[6:17] And so it's like, but I want to like just sort of step away sometimes and be like, you know, it really isn't that serious, but I love that people are treating this so seriously, so I'm very conflicted in my mindy mind.

[6:29] You know what I mean?

[6:30] So I feel that.

[6:31] I get that.

[6:32] Yeah, there uh I mean, like people have brought up like uh maybe like put the videos on mute or like whatever and just like just watch the performance.

[6:40] I'm not crazy about that idea.

[6:41] ANDREW Learn: Let throw we we want to workshop this with everybody.

[6:45] Um more people are happy.

[6:47] I can't stress that enough.

[6:49] I want it to be because it started out as, you know, it wasn't my Glackett, it wasn't your Glackett Allison.

[6:55] It's ours, it was our Glackett, but the hour has expanded so much and covers so many people.

[7:03] Is that I'd like I almost wanted to cry.

[7:06] No, that is fair, and I appreciate that you're showing how much you care about this live on the podcast.

[7:12] I really appreciate it.

[7:13] It is a Glackett.

[7:15] It's a Glacket in the Glee universe.

[7:17] In the Gleeverse.

[7:18] Anyway.

[7:20] Um, do you want to announce?

[7:23] I want you to go first about the song that you want to bring back.

[7:27] No, I really want to hear yours.

[7:28] ANDREW Learn: I Well, I can do the In Memorium.

[7:30] Okay, do we do the In Memorial?

[7:33] I hope that you do this for the 600 song too, because I really love this bit.

[7:37] Okay.

[7:39] ANDREW Learn: Click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

[7:41] Um.

[7:42] Let's just talk about some of the songs that are going away forever from the first round of this Glackett.

[7:53] Um, I'm gonna start with number one, against all odds.

[7:58] Goodbye against all odds.

[8:00] Le Jazz Hot.

[8:02] Goodbye, Le Jazz Hot.

[8:04] Which as not.

[8:06] Uptown Funk.

[8:08] I don't think we're sad about that one.

[8:10] Dream On.

[8:12] Some people said that was better than the Aerosmith song.

[8:16] An Innocent Man?

[8:17] I was personally upset about that.

[8:20] Uptown Girl.

[8:22] A good warbler cover.

[8:23] I'm not gonna say no.

[8:25] I am the greatest star Kurt's version.

[8:28] I will be thinking about that competition until the day that I die.

[8:34] Moving out Anthony's song.

[8:37] Stop brushing your blazer up against that random man, Blame.

[8:41] Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah.

[8:44] The best holiday song on Glee.

[8:46] Other than Christmas rapping.

[8:49] Goodbye.

[8:50] Best day of my life.

[8:51] It wasn't the best day of your life.

[8:54] When we took you away.

[8:56] Pony.

[8:58] I'm not even gonna say anything about that.

[9:01] The living years, you're dead.

[9:04] Oh.

[9:05] One hand, one heart.

[9:08] One hand, one trash can that we put you in.

[9:12] My dark side.

[9:14] There's no light.

[9:16] Papa don't preach.

[9:19] Papa don't preach.

[9:22] Well, you better pray.

[9:27] Pompeii, you eh-e-o-a-o'd right into the ground.

[9:33] But thank you to all these songs that have tried their hardest.

[9:38] And one of them may be coming back.

[9:42] We'll see.

[9:43] ANDREW Learn: Thank you.

[9:46] That was really beautiful.

[9:47] That was really touching.

[9:48] I almost wow.

[9:49] I've I started crying twice in the past ten minutes.

[9:55] Um yeah, a lot of a lot of really great contenders.

[10:00] A lot of good contenders to come back for the 500th.

[10:03] It was I had a list of six.

[10:07] And I've narrowed it down to three.

[10:10] And I have a feeling that one of my three is the one that you picked.

[10:14] So that's why I want you to go first.

[10:16] Unless I need you to go first.

[10:23] ANDREW Learn: This is a demand now.

[10:25] This is a demand?

[10:26] This is a demand.

[10:27] Fuck.

[10:28] Okay, so the three that I eliminated from my six.

[10:34] Just canceled on us.

[10:37] No way.

[10:38] Yes.

[10:41] What do we do?

[10:47] Let's continue this bit and wrap it up and then we talk.

[10:53] What the fuck?

[10:54] 20 minutes?

[10:56] Oh.

[11:00] Hi, Andrew.

[11:01] I'm so sorry, but I'm gonna have to cancel tonight's recording session.

[11:04] So sorry for the late notice. Something's just come up, and I won't be able to make it back to my place to record it in time.

[11:10] I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.

[11:11] And I know this is the second time I've had to rearrange.

[11:14] I've just let my management management company, and so Georgina will no longer be involved in any discussions.

[11:20] So I really hope we can sort something out between us.

[11:24] Again, I'm so sorry for the late notice. I was really looking forward to recording, but there's just no way I can get home in time.

[11:29] So sorry.

[11:31] Okay.

[11:34] ANDREW Learn: Um, coming cut to this.

[11:37] Cut to this.

[11:38] So the three songs, so I had a list of six, and here are the three songs that were the first to die.

[11:43] Uptown Girl.

[11:44] Yeah.

[11:45] I was thinking about, but I was like, no.

[11:47] Innocent Man.

[11:48] I was like, ugh, nobody would agree with me.

[11:51] Um Girls on Film again, my personal fave, but nobody's gonna agree with me on that.

[11:56] Yeah.

[11:57] ANDREW Learn: Um god damn it.

[12:00] I really can't decide between these three.

[12:02] Okay, I think you know what?

[12:03] No.

[12:04] The Gleeks.

[12:05] The Gle I'm gonna do this for the Gleeks.

[12:08] The song I'm bringing back is not hopelessly devoted to you.

[12:12] I was thinking about that.

[12:13] Sure.

[12:14] And it's also not Hanukkah O'Hanukkah.

[12:17] Because I was also thinking about it.

[12:18] I would be upset if it was.

[12:19] I mean, hopelessly devoted for you would be a okay contender, but not Hanukkah, please.

[12:24] I'm bringing back Let Me Love You in parentheses until you learn to love yourself.

[12:28] Okay.

[12:31] ANDREW Learn: What a great contender.

[12:33] Thank you.

[12:34] Um, are you ready for my piece?

[12:38] Yes.

[12:39] ANDREW Learn: Um, I've prepared a bit of spoken word to go along with my submission for the song to bring back for the 500th song.

[12:47] Now, as we made our way through the last 100 songs and we became acquainted with the songs, unfortunately will be left behind in the first round of the Glackett and what I refer to as Kitty's Left Behind Club.

[12:59] There were a number of songs that I was considering between.

[13:02] Against all odds, in parentheses, Take a Look at Me Now was a major upset when it lost out to Dark Horse of the Glackett, What Does the Fox Say?

[13:11] But against all odds, the Fox said, I'm the winner.

[13:19] And Daisy voice.

[13:22] Maybe you would think I would choose Alfie, a Santolo that didn't have its day on the Glackett.

[13:27] Maybe you would even say that beautiful by Mercedes Jones would be eligible to be brought back after its devastating loss to Bohemian Rhapsody.

[13:36] And maybe you're saying to yourself, Andrew, what about Pony?

[13:39] To which I would say, what about it?

[13:42] How did you get here?

[13:45] It was a difficult decision for me because frankly, none of these songs that lost in the A Last 100 really stood out to me that much.

[13:52] Which is why I would like to draw attention to today's recording date.

[13:56] October 10th, 2022.

[13:59] 366 days ago, an episode of Gleek of the Week premiered entitled Clain Boxer AU, in which there was a competition that is brought up every day across the globe.

[14:11] That is Glee Lobe Loeb.

[14:13] If you didn't get it.

[14:17] Now I'm not talking about the winner takes it all losing out to mine.

[14:21] I am, of course, talking about the now infamous competition, Fighter Against So Emotional.

[14:27] The tapes are out there.

[14:29] I cast the single vote for So Emotional against three very passionate fighters.

[14:35] I have not forgotten about that day.

[14:37] The Gleeks have not forgotten about that day.

[14:40] Glaude definitely hasn't forgotten about that day.

[14:43] ANDREW Learn: So I'm honoring that day. Now one year and a day later, by bringing back "So Emotional" as my contender to be brought back for the second round of the Glacket. Now, over the sound of rapturous applause, I'm hearing some questions about the changing of the rules. A song that lost hundreds of songs ago can be brought back. And my answer to that is yes. The Glacket is my creation. I can choose to do what I want with it. Also, nothing is real. Congratulations, "So Emotional." And may the odds be ever in your favor against in Sir Allison's song here.

[15:23] Mystery Guest: Oh my god. You are incredible. This is amazing. The speech was beautiful. Thank you. And I'm not even mad about it. Because you are so right. People bring up "So Emotional." I was just thinking about it today. People bring that shit up every day I live. I lived. Glee Cast versus Glee Cast. Glee Cast version by Glee Cast. What really struck you to do this?

[15:53] ANDREW Learn: Um, well, I was like thinking, well, I truly looked through the past 50 losers that we've had, and I was like, you know, like the ones that I brought up truly but I mean beyond "Pony," obviously. Um, were like not that great of contenders, which I know people are gonna be really upset about. Like I know that people were really upset about "My Life Would Suck Without You." That really, that song does not do much for me, I'll be honest. Um, you know, "One Way or Another," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." It's like it's good, but like there's something missing. Like all these songs, like none of them are in, like, I'm okay with a lot of these decisions, like most of these decisions. And I think that if I were to bring back any of them, I was like, I don't even know if they would even last in the second round.

So I was like, I looked at the dates, and I was like, you know, the day that we're recording this is so close to when this episode came out, where "So Emotional" lost that I was like, I need to honor it. I don't want to forget you "So Emotional." And to quote "So Emotional," I don't know why I like it. I just do. I just do.

[17:06] Mystery Guest: Wow. Okay. Thank you for saying that. So the competition is "Let Me Love You Until You Learn to Love Yourself" versus "So Emotional."

[17:15] ANDREW Learn: Redacted against "So Emotional."

[17:17] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Yeah. We'll see what happens. Insert Allison's choice here versus "So Emotional." Some of the competitions that I think were really divisive in this past hundred rounds were the things you brought up against "All Odds" versus "The Fox." People were really upset about that.

[17:37] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Um, for some reason, people were upset about "My Cup" versus "We Got the Beat."

[17:42] Mystery Guest: I would agree. I would agree though. Like, you know, on relisten, "We Got the Beat" is really great. We get Rachel, Santana, and Brittany on one track. A trio that has only done that one song. And it's very fun. And I'm afraid that we might have voted for "My Cup" as a meme. But I'm guilty of it. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Um, but like I really wanted "My Cup" in the second round. I really did. I that makes that song makes me feel good.

[18:13] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. And I like music that makes me feel good. "Let Me Love You Until You Learn Yourself" versus "Jukebox Hero." That had everybody up in arms. For some reason, "Bitches Back," "Dress You Up in Milo" versus "White Christmas" had people up in arms a lot. And I was like, okay. That's what I'm talking about because I'm like, I'm sorry. That like "White Christmas" is like the song that you stand by.

[18:43] Mystery Guest: Yeah. I wish that they could go, they could both go through just to make these people happy. But this is the nature of the Glacket.

[18:52] ANDREW Learn: Literally. Um, "Hung Up," "Empire State of Mind" was I think some people came out of the woodwork for "Empire State of Mind." But I think it was simply because of the nostalgia factor.

[19:04] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Um, and then "My Life Would Suck Without You" versus "Sway." That was very different on our polls than what we decided to go with on the Glacket. And then this hasn't been released yet, but I think there's gonna be some opinions on "Here Comes the Sun" versus "America" season three.

[19:21] ANDREW Learn: I know, and I was I was really considering "America" season three to bring back personally, but I was like, the conversation that we had about it, like pulling attention to the puck, Rory of it all. I simply can't have my name attached to that.

[19:37] Mystery Guest: No, me neither.

[19:38] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. I agree. It's like that's not a Santolo.

[19:42] Mystery Guest: It is not a Santolo.

[19:43] ANDREW Learn: That is a great one. It's a Santana led song.

[19:46] Mystery Guest: Yeah. And it's Santeed.

[19:48] ANDREW Learn: Sure. But like, I don't know. Like, that's not enough for me.

[19:54] Mystery Guest: No. I agree. I still voted for it. The tapes are out there.

[19:58] ANDREW Learn: The tapes are out there. I just listened to it. I completely agree with you.

[20:02] Mystery Guest: Um, okay, I will post these polls and we will see which one goes on to the second round of the Glacket. Stay tuned to see who the Gleek this week is. Because we don't know.

[20:16] ANDREW Learn: We recorded an intro and the guest canceled on us.

[20:21] Mystery Guest: Canceled in the middle of the intro.

[20:24] ANDREW Learn: So I don't know what I'm attaching this audio file to, but you'll know right after this.

[20:34] Mystery Guest: So in the 15 minutes since I've last saw you, I just cleaned off my kitchen counter.

[20:41] ANDREW Learn: I did some dishes. I swept, I vacuumed, I swiped my floor, I made some eggs.

[20:48] Mystery Guest: They were microwaveable.

[20:51] ANDREW Learn: Um, I peed, I cracked open a cold beverage, and I started editing the bonus episode for October.

[21:00] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[21:01] ANDREW Learn: Because today is one of those days where I'm not allowing myself to sit down. I love those days where it's like they're actually kind of good, where it's like you're getting a lot done.

[21:12] Mystery Guest: Um, me, on the other hand, I pulled out all the stops with getting a guest for today. I emailed every single person that you could possibly imagine.

[21:27] ANDREW Learn: Leah Michelle.

[21:29] Mystery Guest: Leah Michelle.

[21:30] ANDREW Learn: Zach Woodley.

[21:32] Mystery Guest: Zach Woodley, Heather Morris, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, they all promptly responded, you know what, Andrew, we love you.

[21:42] ANDREW Learn: We love you, Andrew, so much. We love the pod, and we look forward to listening every single week.

[21:46] Mystery Guest: Yep.

[21:46] ANDREW Learn: However, you know, and Leah Michelle even said personalized, she said, oh God, I really would. I really would. I would really potentially like give up doing "Funny Girl" tonight to do this.

[21:59] Mystery Guest: It's Thursday, so she's not.

[22:01] ANDREW Learn: Oh fuck. Okay, thanks.

[22:03] Mystery Guest: Thanks.

[22:05] ANDREW Learn: Um really just like bursting a bubble in this entire plot line. Um she said, you know what, I would, I was gonna, I have "Funny Girl" tonight even though it's Thursday.

[22:11] Mystery Guest: Even though it's Thursday.

[22:18] ANDREW Learn: Even though it's Thursday.

[22:19] Mystery Guest: I'm Juju B's backup.

[22:21] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I'm Juju B's backup tonight. However, you know what?

[22:25] Mystery Guest: God, I just can't, I just can't.

[22:25] ANDREW Learn: Her reasoning, I don't know. It was like it was a bunch of scrambled letters. I like it was she can't read, she can't write. I don't know if you've heard this rumor about her.

[22:37] Mystery Guest: I think I heard that somewhere that she can't read.

[22:40] ANDREW Learn: So like I was just like, uh, I didn't get I didn't get the rest of it because she can't read or write.

[22:47] Mystery Guest: Popular rumor, which is proven to be true, as it turns out.

[22:51] ANDREW Learn: Um so we have the best guest, actually, today. I know that the title of this episode says, with mystery guest.

[23:03] Mystery Guest: And I want you to go to your bathroom.

[23:07] ANDREW Learn: I want you to go to the bathroom. Look in the mirror.

[23:11] Mystery Guest: That is today's guest. It is none other. It's it's none other than all of you.

[23:17] ANDREW Learn: Um for the first time ever. I well, I guess we sort of did this with the Gleeks in the chat episode.

[23:22] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[23:23] ANDREW Learn: Which really just ran amok.

[23:25] Mystery Guest: Crazy.

[23:26] ANDREW Learn: We went to Instagram live, remember that?

[23:28] Mystery Guest: Oh my god.

[23:29] ANDREW Learn: It it's one of the least listened to episodes.

[23:36] Mystery Guest: Um people just skip over that one.

[23:38] ANDREW Learn: They're like, oh god, I don't like this.

[23:40] Mystery Guest: They're stressed out the entire time.

[23:42] ANDREW Learn: They can't deal with this kind of content. So hopefully this is better content today.

[23:46] Mystery Guest: Um, so how are we gonna do this?

[23:48] ANDREW Learn: Um you are going to be voting, you the Gleek of the Week listening.

[23:53] Mystery Guest: Um, the beautiful girl reading this.

[23:56] ANDREW Learn: Um, you are the Gleek of the Week, and um you are going to be voting on which song to bring back.

[24:05] Mystery Guest: Um, whether it be "So Emotional" or um he can't even say the name.

[24:14] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god, I'm gonna throw up.

[24:16] Mystery Guest: Um and you're also gonna be voting on all of the three competitions in today's episode.

[24:22] ANDREW Learn: I I'm not sure. I we'll see uh how we vote on today's if we if I vote for one song and then you vote for the other.

[24:33] Mystery Guest: I think we're just gonna post all of them.

[24:35] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, we'll post all of them. Whether or not the Gleeks actually have a decision to make or not.

[24:39] Mystery Guest: Sure.

[24:40] ANDREW Learn: So we'll see. Um so we're recording this on October 20th.

[24:46] Mystery Guest: This episode goes live.

[24:48] ANDREW Learn: Oh gosh. This episode goes.

[24:50] Mystery Guest: Yeah, November uh 8th.

[24:55] ANDREW Learn: Oh god. We love a backlog.

[24:59] Mystery Guest: Um "Midnight" by Taylor Swift isn't even out yet.

[25:04] ANDREW Learn: We talked about "Midnights" three episodes ago.

[25:07] Mystery Guest: I literally, it makes me sick.

[25:10] ANDREW Learn: For a while we were like really good in scheduling, like we were like still current, but we were still you know what I mean? Like we were like a week ahead.

[25:16] Mystery Guest: Um, but somehow we like really backlogged.

[25:21] ANDREW Learn: We have a trip coming up.

[25:22] Mystery Guest: Yeah, we're going on Facebook.

[25:24] ANDREW Learn: The time that this episode comes out, we will be back from the trip.

[25:29] Mystery Guest: Um Halloween to LA.

[25:31] ANDREW Learn: Halloween in L.

[25:32] Mystery Guest: Halloween in LA with Mickey is what the document says.

[25:35] ANDREW Learn: With the Google Doc.

[25:36] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[25:37] ANDREW Learn: Um so yeah. Do you want to talk about anything before we get into the songs?

[25:42] Mystery Guest: Do we wanna like what is your relationship with the hitbox show Glee?

[25:45] ANDREW Learn: Um, what's my relationship?

[25:47] Mystery Guest: Um I actually host a Glee podcast.

[25:51] ANDREW Learn: Um yeah, I that's how gleaky I am.

[25:55] Mystery Guest: Um I have a Glee podcast.

[25:58] ANDREW Learn: Um I have been falling asleep to this show.

[26:02] Mystery Guest: I have sent away friends.

[26:04] ANDREW Learn: Usually I fall asleep to friends, but I was like, no, you know what? I'm gonna fall asleep to Glee now.

[26:08] Mystery Guest: So that when I fall asleep, it's like soaking into my brain subconsciously.

[26:13] ANDREW Learn: And do you think that like when the songs come up, do they sort of wake you up?

[26:18] Mystery Guest: Oh, wake me up, Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[26:21] ANDREW Learn: Um you have to pull maybe in this episode.

[26:23] Mystery Guest: Maybe that's what I'm thinking is gonna happen this episode.

[26:26] ANDREW Learn: No, you know what? We're not gonna have a guest this episode, and it's gonna be "Somewhere We Go Sometimes" versus "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You."

[26:33] Mystery Guest: And no one will be present for it.

[26:35] ANDREW Learn: Exactly. No one will be able to witness it except us.

[26:38] Mystery Guest: Well, and the glee.

[26:39] ANDREW Learn: We're just gonna be like, oh until November 8th.

[26:44] Mystery Guest: Holding the secret within us.

[26:46] ANDREW Learn: Right. Um, wait, what was I even saying?

[26:50] Mystery Guest: You were saying that you were like, Oh, yeah, I fall asleep to it.

[26:53] ANDREW Learn: I I it doesn't wake me up. I'm a he I'm like a heavy sleeper to a certain point.

[26:58] Mystery Guest: If there is movement going on around me, I can't really sleep.

[27:01] ANDREW Learn: Like, I can't sleep on planes, but I can fall asleep to the TV, and I sleep better when the TV's on.

[27:07] Mystery Guest: Mm-hmm.

[27:08] ANDREW Learn: Which you will notice when we sleep in a hotel together that I have to do that.

[27:12] Mystery Guest: I don't I can't do that personally.

[27:15] ANDREW Learn: Can I put the can I put my call map on and have like raining running water sounds?

[27:19] Mystery Guest: Yeah, you can do that.

[27:20] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[27:21] Mystery Guest: Absolutely.

[27:21] ANDREW Learn: Because I have my sound machine, it's right there. You see that white box?

[27:24] Mystery Guest: Yeah, so we're on the same page with that.

[27:26] ANDREW Learn: We need a little bit of sound going on.

[27:29] Mystery Guest: Um what about you?

[27:30] ANDREW Learn: What's your relationship with the hitbox show Glee?

[27:32] Mystery Guest: I did watch it, obviously, when it was like on the air, but like it started getting weird um like during season three.

[27:39] ANDREW Learn: Like I think I like tapped out a little bit.

[27:41] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[27:42] ANDREW Learn: Um, but like I think that's like sort of been like the main consensus around, you know, a lot of people that they just like didn't watch it past season three.

[27:50] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[27:51] ANDREW Learn: I don't really know what happened. So I'm excited to watch whatever performances.

[27:55] Mystery Guest: I'll have you guess the context of some of these songs.

[27:57] ANDREW Learn: Oh, okay. That that will be fun.

[28:01] Mystery Guest: Um, and then also, it was actually your job to um reveal who the guest was supposed to be that cancelled on us.

[28:12] ANDREW Learn: Oh, it was gonna be my job?

[28:15] Mystery Guest: Uh, yeah.

[28:17] ANDREW Learn: It was actually Ryan Murphy himself canceled on us 20 minutes before we started recording.

[28:24] Mystery Guest: And he really he said, really looking forward to it, however, just can't make it happen.

[28:28] ANDREW Learn: He said, he said, you know what? The first two episodes of American Horror Story in New York City just came out.

[28:34] Mystery Guest: We literally read the email.

[28:36] ANDREW Learn: And I will edit the email so it's redacted. Ryan Murphy.

[28:44] Mystery Guest: Um He was running late.

[28:45] ANDREW Learn: He had a lot of things to do as pertaining to American Horror Story.

[28:49] Mystery Guest: Season what is this?

[28:50] ANDREW Learn: Seven, eight?

[28:51] Mystery Guest: Oh, I think it might be like 11 at this point.

[28:54] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god. Because like what? They started during season three of Glee.

[29:01] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[29:01] ANDREW Learn: Right? So that was like 2011?

[29:04] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[29:05] ANDREW Learn: So they're like, I think they're season 11.

[29:08] Mystery Guest: Well, because and there's American Horror Stories.

[29:11] ANDREW Learn: Is that a different show?

[29:12] Mystery Guest: That's a different show.

[29:13] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god, I had so many questions prepared for Ryan today about that.

[29:17] Mystery Guest: I was gonna ask him about Hollywood.

[29:19] ANDREW Learn: That Netflix show that he had starring Darren Chris that I couldn't finish.

[29:23] ANDREW Learn: I was gonna ask you. I was gonna ask him about The Watcher, which I just finished the other day.

[29:27] Mystery Guest: Wait, did you watch it? Don't tell me about The Watcher. I want to watch it.

[29:30] ANDREW Learn: Watch The Watcher.

[29:32] Mystery Guest: Is it good?

[29:33] ANDREW Learn: Jennifer Coolidge.

[29:35] Mystery Guest: Can I tell you? I know like the plot of the show. I know that there's a person that stalks them and they never find out who's gonna be.

[29:43] ANDREW Learn: Can I just like—no, I don't even feel bad about saying this. Can I say this?

[29:48] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[29:49] ANDREW Learn: It's so goddamn annoying because it was a good show to watch. At the end of it, I just don't want people to waste their time. You don't know who did it. They don't know who did it. I still don't know who did it. The show just ends with like a title card that's like, "Well, we don't know who did this." We still don't know who the watcher is. And it's like, oh, like, just fucking make something up for us.

[30:12] Mystery Guest: Literally.

[30:14] ANDREW Learn: Well, people won't hear this until November 8th, so.

[30:18] Mystery Guest: They've had time to watch The Watcher.

[30:20] ANDREW Learn: You've had time to watch The Watcher. If you haven't seen Avengers: Endgame by this point, figure it out.

[30:26] Mystery Guest: I don't feel so good, Mr. Stark.

[30:30] ANDREW Learn: Even I know that.

[30:32] Mystery Guest: Poof.

[30:34] ANDREW Learn: Um, okay. Anything else about Glee?

[30:37] Mystery Guest: Um, it's like a good show, I guess.

[30:40] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess.

[30:44] Mystery Guest: Um, what are we doing?

[30:49] ANDREW Learn: What are we doing? We literally—I've moved apartments. I've literally—like, this fucking podcast controls my goddamn life. And I feel like this is the perfect episode with the intro included for me to lose my goddamn mind.

[31:06] Mystery Guest: I was almost crying in the intro. Literally.

[31:11] ANDREW Learn: Like an hour ago. Half an hour ago.

[31:13] Mystery Guest: Oh my god. Wait, no, wait. What?

[31:15] ANDREW Learn: I was like, we started recording at 1:30 my time. And now it's—so it's like two and a half hours ago. It's five o'clock my time. I don't know how time works.

[31:25] Mystery Guest: Um, but like I was crying too long, don't read, 20 minutes ago for you.

[31:31] ANDREW Learn: Uh, the listener. Um, yeah, so it's really up to you. Like, literally, come on now. It's the Glacket, please.

[31:39] Mystery Guest: This episode is giving Cole Sprouse revealing that his Tumblr was just a social experiment.

[31:46] ANDREW Learn: Look in the mirror. You in the mirror. It's you. And you know what? If the Gleeks really love this content, which I would be very surprised if they do, if they're like, they come out of the woodwork and they're like, they stream this episode, we will do the entire second round like this.

[32:03] Mystery Guest: Fuck it, no guests.

[32:04] ANDREW Learn: Fuck it, no guests.

[32:05] Mystery Guest: Fuck it, we ball.

[32:07] ANDREW Learn: Fuck it, we ball. No, there is a guest, and it's you, the beautiful girl.

[32:11] Mystery Guest: Um, so girls.

[32:15] ANDREW Learn: Wait, what are we projecting? You're saying "Wake Me Up."

[32:18] Mystery Guest: So yeah, and somewhere we go sometimes.

[32:21] ANDREW Learn: You just pulled it in a very tepid response.

[32:27] Mystery Guest: Um, I'm not gonna tell you.

[32:30] ANDREW Learn: Well, you know what's crazy? I was thinking about this, and I've yet to bring this up in the podcast. But you obviously love "Somewhere Only We Know."

[32:37] Mystery Guest: Yes.

[32:37] ANDREW Learn: And I love "I Feel Pretty/Unpretty." And no one ever talks about the fact that they're part of the same episode.

[32:43] Mystery Guest: Oh, that's fucked up.

[32:45] ANDREW Learn: That's kind of fucked up. What a colossal hour of television.

[32:49] Mystery Guest: Wait, I want to see if you can tell what this is.

[32:55] ANDREW Learn: I absolutely will. I'm sure you will. Do you know what it is?

[33:05] Mystery Guest: It's just a black screen.

[33:08] ANDREW Learn: Readers, readers. This is a black screen that I'm looking at.

[33:11] Mystery Guest: Wait, can I guess?

[33:12] ANDREW Learn: Oh, I'm still gonna guess.

[33:14] Mystery Guest: Black screen. So they're coming back from commercial break.

[33:18] ANDREW Learn: Oh god. I really want to guess, like an educated guess.

[33:22] Mystery Guest: Uh, black screen. What have we yet to pull?

[33:29] ANDREW Learn: I really—I don't—can you give me one singular hint?

[33:33] Mystery Guest: Opening night.

[33:35] ANDREW Learn: Oh, this is um, this is "Lovefool."

[33:40] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[33:45] ANDREW Learn: Do you—I feel we're facing a problem?

[33:50] Mystery Guest: You love me no longer, I know. And maybe there is nothing that I can do to make you do.

[34:07] ANDREW Learn: That I ought to stick to another man. A man that surely deserves me, but I think you do.

[34:19] Mystery Guest: So I cry and I pray and I beg. Say that you love me.

[34:34] ANDREW Learn: Pretend that you love me. Just say that you need me.

[34:42] Mystery Guest: So I cry.

[34:46] ANDREW Learn: And I beg for you to help me. Say that you love me.

[34:55] Mystery Guest: Just say that you mean me.

[34:58] ANDREW Learn: I can care about anything.

[35:01] Mystery Guest: But you are to love me.

[35:21] ANDREW Learn: I know that you need me.

[35:23] Mystery Guest: I can cabinet anything, buddy.

[35:30] ANDREW Learn: Wow. Just let it sit on that screen grab for a little bit.

[35:35] Mystery Guest: Um, POV. The cast of Glee is yelling at you.

[35:42] ANDREW Learn: Uh, in the grave. Six feet under. I feel like this is the perfect song to match the vibe today.

[35:50] Mystery Guest: Oh, for sure. This is the vibe. There are just so many things about this song that are very visually important.

[36:01] ANDREW Learn: So this is Rachel's nightmare before opening night of Funny Girl on Broadway. Speaking of, I feel like Lea Michele would be perfect. I think Lea Michele would be really good as Fanny Brice on Broadway.

[36:17] Mystery Guest: I'm trying to like—like John Locke as William Shakespeare, Derek Nelson looking absolutely terrifying. And then that's also, I think that's his sister, Rihanna Nelson. That's also like, uh, with the red hair.

[36:34] ANDREW Learn: Oh. She was—she's in this episode, uh, like playing an instrument. I kind of love that.

[36:40] Mystery Guest: Wait, is this—is this coconut head?

[36:42] ANDREW Learn: It but with a haircut?

[36:44] Mystery Guest: So does he have a little haircut?

[36:46] ANDREW Learn: He's got a little haircut, and I really like it.

[36:48] Mystery Guest: Yeah, and okay, you see, that's Derek Nelson's sister behind the keyboard.

[36:53] ANDREW Learn: Who's that?

[36:54] Mystery Guest: Uh-uh.

[36:55] ANDREW Learn: Oh, okay. Glad you brought that up because that's O.J. Simpson. I'm not even kidding. Like, this sounds like a joke, but it is O.J. Simpson.

[37:03] Mystery Guest: That's someone in an O.J. Simpson mask.

[37:07] ANDREW Learn: And they do like a close-up. I didn't realize until we watched this episode right before seeing Funny Girl last week that Elias was like, "Wait a minute. Was that a mask of O.J. Simpson?" And I was like, I just never registered it. But yeah, there is a close-up of that, and it's someone dressed up as O.J. Simpson.

[37:30] Mystery Guest: Wild. That was the soft launch of American Crime Story.

[37:34] ANDREW Learn: Of American Crime Story. Rachel is in her old reindeer sweater. Her director is there. Kurt's in his old black and blue sweater. I'm looking for the—then Kurofsky's here, and he's in the bully whips. Jacob Ben Israel is recording everything.

[37:55] Mystery Guest: Mm-hmm.

[37:57] ANDREW Learn: Um, Sue is like falling asleep in the audience as we're singing, singing, singing. Becky's like, "Get on with this."

[38:06] Mystery Guest: Yeah, there is the close-up.

[38:06] ANDREW Learn: Oh, there's O.J. Simpson behind Dark Show. O.J. Simpson is directly behind her.

[38:15] Mystery Guest: Um, John Locke. I think that's John Locke.

[38:18] ANDREW Learn: It is Sean Locke. John Locke is William Shakespeare.

[38:21] Mystery Guest: Yes.

[38:22] ANDREW Learn: Uh, I'd love to see set photos. Then we've got Darren in his Warblers outfit. This is season five, so this is weird. I'd love to just like recapping everything that's going on here.

[38:33] Mystery Guest: I feel like it's chaos. Like Tina is in her vampire outfit since I'm.

[38:37] ANDREW Learn: Which is okay, yeah.

[38:39] Mystery Guest: Yeah, okay. I feel like me being annoying.

[38:42] ANDREW Learn: Um, Kurt's wearing the outfit that he wore season one, "Defying Gravity."

[38:47] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[38:47] ANDREW Learn: And then Tina is wearing her season two promotional outfit.

[38:51] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[38:52] ANDREW Learn: Like the season two promotional pick.

[38:54] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[38:54] ANDREW Learn: That's Tina's fit. And then Santana is wearing a Cheerios outfit.

[39:00] Mystery Guest: Mm-hmm.

[39:01] ANDREW Learn: Um, Rachel sees herself and is like, "What the fuck?"

[39:06] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[39:07] ANDREW Learn: This is just really—this is really crazy. Okay, and then we're into the part of the performance when Rachel looks over and sees just—and this is where I get really confused in "Lovefool." Where Rachel looks over to stage left and sees Becky.

[39:20] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[39:28] ANDREW Learn: And she just looks very out of sorts. And her hair is like muffled with—and she just like, she's like, "Where the hell am I?" Is like the vibe I get from Becky.

[39:40] Mystery Guest: There it is.

[39:41] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Like, "What's going on? What's going on?" And I'm just so curious what the direction was there. It's like, is Becky—like, she looks like she was traumatized by something, deeply traumatized by something.

[39:56] Mystery Guest: It was Rachel Berry.

[39:57] ANDREW Learn: Rachel Berry's—Rachel Berry is singing "Lovefool." And then we have a bunch of—oh, there it is. And there's the O.J. Simpson.

[40:05] Mystery Guest: What the hell?

[40:07] ANDREW Learn: Right, right. Why? Because it reminds me of the fact that when Sue goes to her Hurt Locker in season six, I don't know if you remember this, but there is like a life-size dummy of Al Roker.

[40:19] Mystery Guest: Interesting.

[40:25] ANDREW Learn: That reminds me of the episode of iCarly where the crazy teacher—they go into the crazy teacher's classes.

[40:31] Mystery Guest: Oh, and she loves Randy Jackson.

[40:33] ANDREW Learn: She loves Randy Jackson. Yes. Really just the Hurt Locker.

[40:40] Mystery Guest: That's a whole other discussion.

[40:41] ANDREW Learn: Okay, so we did a whole like shot by shot. Shot by shot recreation, walking through what's going on here. Just to say this is a good song. I'm not mad about this song.

[40:51] Mystery Guest: I think it's a—not a—it's a middle of the road Rolo, as one would say.

[40:58] ANDREW Learn: Oh.

[40:59] Mystery Guest: Um, I like the song a lot. I like the original version. I think that the popular opinion, like, from the Gleeks, and I will co-sign on this, is that this should have been a Quolo.

[41:11] ANDREW Learn: I think it fits Quinn's voice so much better than it does Rachel's voice.

[41:16] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[41:16] ANDREW Learn: Which is so seldom to find with Rolos.

[41:19] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[41:20] ANDREW Learn: Um, but yeah, no. I think that this should have been to Quinn. And I don't think I will be voting for this today. I'm gonna say that right now.

[41:30] Mystery Guest: Okay, you haven't even heard the next one.

[41:33] ANDREW Learn: What I'm about to pull out of my cup.

[41:34] Mystery Guest: Uh, any final words about—um, yeah, no.

[41:38] ANDREW Learn: Um, my only notes were Derek Nelson and John Locke, Quolo, and the shot of Becky.

[41:45] Mystery Guest: So we covered everything that I want to talk about.

[41:49] ANDREW Learn: What are you thinking, Gleeks? What are you thinking, Gleeks?

[41:53] Mystery Guest: Sound off. It's like Dora. Can you say tree?

[41:56] ANDREW Learn: Can you say "Lovefool"?

[42:01] Mystery Guest: Gleek's version by Gleekast?

[42:05] ANDREW Learn: Oh.

[42:07] Mystery Guest: Oh, you know what? You know what?

[42:11] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[42:14] Mystery Guest: I was like, I've been waiting for this one in a way that—oh god.

[42:14] ANDREW Learn: No.

[42:14] Mystery Guest: Oh god.

[42:25] ANDREW Learn: Maybe you will be voting for "Lovefool."

[42:25] Mystery Guest: We know what it is.

[42:30] ANDREW Learn: All about that bass.

[42:31] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[42:33] ANDREW Learn: Because you know I'm all about that bass. About that bass. No treble. I'm all about that bass. About that bass. No treble. I'm all about that bass. About that bass. No treble. I'm all about that bass. About that bass, face, bass, face.

[42:47] Mystery Guest: Yeah, it's pretty clear. I ain't no size two. But I can shake it, shake it, like I'm supposed to do.

[42:54] ANDREW Learn: 'Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase in all the right junk in all the right places.

[43:01] Mystery Guest: I see the magazines work in the Photoshop.

[43:04] ANDREW Learn: We know that this ain't real. Come on, I make a stop. If you got beauty, beauty, just raise them up, 'cause every interview is perfect from the bottom to the top.

[43:14] Mystery Guest: Yeah, my mama should tell me to worry about your size.

[43:36] Mystery Guest: So if that's what you're into, then go ahead and move along.

[43:43] ANDREW Learn: Because you know I'm all about that bass.

[43:49] Mystery Guest: About that bass, no treble. I'm all about that bass, about that bass, no treble.

[43:49] ANDREW Learn: I'm all about that bass, about that bass, no treble. I'm all about that bass, about that bass.

[43:57] Mystery Guest: You know you know I'm all about that bass, about that bass.

[44:09] ANDREW Learn: I'm all about the babies on the baby.

[44:11] ANDREW Learn: No treble fit. I'm all about the baby, baby, bum that blaze.

[44:25] ANDREW Learn: Don't you know I'm all about that bass. About that bass.

[44:30] ANDREW Learn: Okay, yeah. I like that a lot more than I thought that I would, actually.

[44:34] Mystery Guest: Really?

[44:35] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, did you not?

[44:36] Mystery Guest: Uh no, I like it. I have a lot to say about this song for weird reasons.

[44:43] Mystery Guest: The first thing I will say is last night I hosted Trivia and uh I ordered a water, and the bartender brought me a water with a lemon and a umbrella on it. And it looked exactly like what Spencer was drinking in this scene.

[44:59] ANDREW Learn: Right, because they need to remind the audience, yeah.

[45:02] Mystery Guest: He's not like other gays, but he still is gay. He's still umbrella drink gay.

[45:09] ANDREW Learn: Um I don't know. For me, Roderick's voice is so very good on its own.

[45:22] Mystery Guest: Right. But the duets don't hit the same for me, because I think both of them are very, very strong singers, but very different singers.

[45:31] ANDREW Learn: And I don't know if this song is good for either of them.

[45:35] Mystery Guest: Really? Oh, it's either of those strengths.

[45:38] Mystery Guest: Because what I was thinking while listening to this, I was like, okay. Amber starts the track. She begins the song. And I was like, that was at the point where I was like, oh, okay. I was not looking forward to this song in a bad way. But then when Roderick starts singing, I'm like, I literally can have you sing whatever words strung together, and I will be voting for it.

[46:06] Mystery Guest: Um, and now it's coming back to me the fact that I did vote for Cherish Cherish over Take Me to Church.

[46:13] ANDREW Learn: Interesting.

[46:14] Mystery Guest: Interesting that I would say those string of words. Um but uh yeah no, Cherish Cherish, you gotta watch the you gotta watch Glee. You gotta watch Glee. You gotta see the Britannicus and Cherish Cherish.

[46:26] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. It's I cherish it. Um yeah, uh no, this is like I understand. This is like what a stupid song for them to sing. We understand why they have Mercedes and Roderick sing this song, okay? But um I don't know, they sound they sound good still, and this is like this is still played on the radio, not the Glee Cast version. But Meghan Trainor version. This was like a bop for a reason for a long time, for a very long time.

[46:53] Mystery Guest: Um, this I'm gonna use this opportunity as my soapbox to stand on for Samchel.

[47:02] ANDREW Learn: Oh, yeah, I was hoping you would.

[47:04] Mystery Guest: Because in this video, Sam and Rachel are flirty flirty, go upstairs to her childhood bedroom, and they proceed to have Gloydus.

[47:14] ANDREW Learn: And penetrated of sex.

[47:16] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Um, canonically. We I really, really, upon rewatch, really, really like Sam Chill. I think Sam does something like Sam is Rachel's hype hype man. Like, I don't think they were bound to be together forever, and I don't think either of them wanted that. Their relationship just served a purpose for both of them that was very healthy, and I liked them together, and I liked their little flirty flirty, and I like the songs they sing together, and I liked the scene where uh both of them are like, Do you want to go out? Uh yeah, I want to go out, but then they both stand each other up.

[48:01] Mystery Guest: At breadsticks, and then they're both like, oh, so sorry, I stood you up. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I stood you up. And then later on in the episode, they're like, Do you actually want to go on that date? And they're like, Yeah. Um, I like them. They're cute. He's got golden retriever energy, and that's what Rachel, who is down in the dumps, needs, and uh Sam needs a powerful woman who will be his golden retriever.

[48:32] ANDREW Learn: Okay. They're two golden retrievers running in a field.

[48:37] Mystery Guest: Hmm. Interesting. Uh okay. I feel like Julian said it best two episodes back.

[48:43] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god.

[48:44] Mystery Guest: Of being like, what was it? Like, it was like problematic ships are problematic ships are okay. Boring ships are.

[48:53] ANDREW Learn: And that's all that's sort of ringing in my ears right now.

[48:57] Mystery Guest: Um they are boring, but we need boring couples.

[49:02] ANDREW Learn: Do we? To fill who is Sam? Like, like Sam Sadies is not happening. Who is Sam gonna chase after? Like, Sam Sadies could have happened in season six. Mercedes was literally like Sam, no, do not stay hung up on me.

[49:17] Mystery Guest: Only because the main character of this goddamn show, Rachel, is pursuing him already.

[49:23] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. No.

[49:24] Mystery Guest: She Mercedes, Mercedes is like, Sam, don't stay hung up on me. I don't know if she necessarily says go after Rachel, though.

[49:34] ANDREW Learn: Nope, she literally does.

[49:35] Mystery Guest: She literally doesn't have to be.

[49:38] ANDREW Learn: Right, and they're in the auditorium, and he sings um they long to be close to you, and then Mercedes is like, um, I have a boyfriend right now. Also, like I hear that you're doing a little flirty flirt with Rachel. Uh oh.

[49:49] Mystery Guest: So like you should pursue that. And like, so Sam has already been pursuing, but he's aren't like also, like, I can't even like apply logic to season six because there are storylines where Sam gets fucking hypnotized into like literally. And it's it's not real for a little bit, but then it is real, and then they And then Mercedes is like, no, actually.

[50:11] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[50:12] Mystery Guest: So I don't know. I like it. Wait, so my question for you is that would you say Sam Chill is your I'm like, I wanna I'm almost like ready to throw up with your answer. Is Sam Chill your favorite Sam ship?

[50:29] ANDREW Learn: No.

[50:30] Mystery Guest: Oh, okay. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[50:32] ANDREW Learn: Sam Sadies is my favorite Sam ship.

[50:34] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[50:35] ANDREW Learn: But Sam Sadies circa earlier seasons.

[50:40] Mystery Guest: Like, not five and six.

[50:44] ANDREW Learn: Right. You like a you like a season three Sam Sadies?

[50:46] Mystery Guest: I like a season three Sam Sadies when he's still got the swoopy swoopy. Before the storyline was exclusively about it.

[50:52] ANDREW Learn: We will not have sex. What is the when you when you um press the uh walk button?

[50:59] Mystery Guest: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[50:59] ANDREW Learn: Wait, wait.

[51:04] Mystery Guest: And that's Mercedes. Um Wait, so I have my wait, what else do I want to say?

[51:14] Mystery Guest: Oh, I wanted to say Rachel singing along to this song. We didn't need.

[51:18] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, shut up, Rachel.

[51:20] Mystery Guest: Rachel, you were skinnier than you've ever fucking been. You were not all about that bass. You're all treble, baby.

[51:26] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, no treble. Wait, like remember when Meghan Trainor almost got in trouble for what does she say about skinny bitches in this song?

[51:35] Mystery Guest: She says something about skinny bitches, and they were like, Meghan Trainor, are you sizes against skinny skinny bitches? Um, anyway. And then Nicki Minaj is like, fuck them skinny bitches, fuck them skinny bitches, and nobody says in the club.

[51:48] ANDREW Learn: Um, and also, I've always said this. I've never said this publicly, but I've always said this. Roderick and Mercedes, the fact that they sang together in this episode, they should have fucking sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough instead of fucking all about that bass.

[52:04] Mystery Guest: Yeah, that's dumb. Could you imagine that would have slayed?

[52:09] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, killed me.

[52:10] Mystery Guest: Killed me. It would have played to the strengths of both of them. It could have exactly. And I would have loved it. And they never fucking sang that show that song on the show.

[52:19] ANDREW Learn: I will still vote for all that.

[52:20] Mystery Guest: Are you sure? They never don't do that.

[52:23] ANDREW Learn: You would know. But like, why do I hear to think about it? But why do I hear Mercedes in my head singing it? Is that just me being cuckoo?

[52:35] Mystery Guest: Well, she sings River Deep Mountain High.

[52:37] ANDREW Learn: Okay. Wow. That really takes me out that they never sang that on the show.

[52:42] Mystery Guest: They should have. Missed opportunity.

[52:45] ANDREW Learn: I'm voting all about that bass. How about you?

[52:47] Mystery Guest: I'm voting love fool.

[52:49] ANDREW Learn: Oh. Beautiful girl reading this.

[52:52] Mystery Guest: It's up to you.

[52:53] ANDREW Learn: It's up to you now.

[52:54] Mystery Guest: It's up to you all the way.

[52:59] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god. I think who sings ain't no valley high enough originally.

[53:07] Mystery Guest: Valley high enough. Think about the words that you're saying before you say them.

[53:12] ANDREW Learn: Ain't no mountain high enough.

[53:15] Mystery Guest: Ain't no valley low.

[53:17] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[53:18] Mystery Guest: It's Marvin Gaye and Tammy Tyrell.

[53:20] ANDREW Learn: Okay, we have the next song. This is good.

[53:24] Mystery Guest: Oh god. This is actually, I'm gonna say it. My brother's favorite glee song.

[53:33] ANDREW Learn: No.

[53:34] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[53:39] Mystery Guest: You haven't my baby. What a lovely way of saying how much you love me.

[53:49] Mystery Guest: You haven't my baby. What a lovely way of saying what you're thinking of me.

[53:58] Mystery Guest: I can see it. Your face is blowing. I can see it in your eyes. I'm happy you know it. That you're having my baby.

[54:15] Mystery Guest: You're the woman I love and I love what it's do and do, yeah. Having my baby. You're a woman in love, and I love what's going through. The need inside you. I see it showing.

[54:36] ANDREW Learn: Whoa, the seed inside a baby to you. I wish we could watch the rest of this scene.

[54:41] Mystery Guest: Where he's just like, you, or the disappointment here.

[54:49] ANDREW Learn: This is how many times do we see Quinn's dad?

[54:54] Mystery Guest: Only once, only in this episode.

[54:55] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Literally, only this episode. Wild to me.

[55:00] Mystery Guest: Um, but we see Quinn's mom a couple times.

[55:00] ANDREW Learn: A couple times.

[55:04] Mystery Guest: And she always has that say it with me. Wine glass candy.

[55:09] ANDREW Learn: Um I love her. I'm obsessed.

[55:11] Mystery Guest: I feel like this um it was it's it's Judy for Bray played by Charlotte Ross. Wow. Queen shit.

[55:19] ANDREW Learn: Um she's iconic. I feel like this is like a masterclass in Glee acting. I just feel like it's a very subtle um Judy looking over at Russell Fabray and being like, what's going on here? Uh I love that. It's just yeah, the very like, they understand what's going on.

[55:40] Mystery Guest: Um I also think that like there are some moments, especially in season one, where Diana Agron sort of does flop with acting. Um keep holding on, does come to mind where she's crying. Um BBL face. The BBL face.

[55:54] ANDREW Learn: But um, I feel like she's I think she's in her bag when she's a little angry. You know, and she's she's she's very angry and she's trying to hide it here, um, being subtle. But I I love this. And I think that Quinn is kind of at first like shut the fuck up, and then she's like, Right.

[56:13] Mystery Guest: Right, exactly. Yeah, no, this is kind of sweet. Very obvious fake lashes, though. I called that from a mile away.

[56:19] ANDREW Learn: Oh really? This is her fake eyelash era.

[56:22] Mystery Guest: Yeah, this beginning of season one. Um yeah. Do you think that I feel like I let's go to the Glee song opinion form because I feel like there was um someone who said that this was like Kurt setting up. Um, Finn to fail.

[56:42] ANDREW Learn: Which I've never seen like really considered before, but that's an interesting take.

[56:48] Mystery Guest: Yeah, let me see. Share screen. I mean, Finn, how fucking stupid are you? The song is literally called You're Having My Baby.

[56:56] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[56:58] Mystery Guest: Um, there's a lot to say about this song. So camp. I literally cannot watch this scene without feeling literal pain from how bad it makes me cringe. And I looked up the original version of this song because I can't imagine there being any situation in which this song isn't horrendously awkward, and I sure wasn't wrong. If we take that this is satire, perhaps it's funny, but I think they play it way too straight.

[57:22] ANDREW Learn: The secondhand embarrassment is too much.

[57:24] Mystery Guest: I actually don't feel any secondhand embarrassment from this scene.

[57:28] ANDREW Learn: I'm the same way. I feel like there's secondhand embarrassment. Where what was the thing that I felt secondhand embarrassment from? Like maybe like a week or two ago. Oh god. There was like something that I was like, I can't watch this. I don't remember.

[57:41] Mystery Guest: Yeah, no, no, no. There was something. I forget. But um, I don't feel that in this. I'm just like, this is hilarious to me.

[57:49] ANDREW Learn: I think this is yeah, this is funny funny.

[57:52] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Um peak season one. Hate this. This makes me want to roll up in a ball, bury myself underground, and die.

[58:00] ANDREW Learn: When you remember Kurt was responsible for this entire thing, season one Kurt was truly something else.

[58:06] Mystery Guest: Yeah, that's a good that's an interesting take. What an interesting thing. That Kurt was on purpose fucking with Finn so that Finn would be with Kurt, which is right. Uh you know, a lot of people are saying that like the secondhand embarrassment kills you, but like I'm uncomfortable. It's I'm still here, Glica's version by Glycast. Absolutely. Um cringe, uncomfy. Somebody at the very bottom was like, no, I'm not. I said, no, I'm not having your baby. No, I'm not. No, I'm not.

[58:43] ANDREW Learn: Um, you guys are so funny. Can I just say that?

[58:47] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[58:48] ANDREW Learn: I don't know. I almost want to like, I'm like ready to vote.

[58:52] Mystery Guest: I already did that after the first song.

[58:54] ANDREW Learn: Wow. Are you gonna vote for this?

[58:56] Mystery Guest: I think I might. Like, people are gonna be really mad.

[58:59] ANDREW Learn: Folo.

[59:01] Mystery Guest: Follow. Oh, we only have a few followers left. So this is representation.

[59:06] ANDREW Learn: Folo representation up in this chat.

[59:09] Mystery Guest: Oh. Um, okay. Maybe I take back what I said about your having my baby. We'll see.

[59:18] ANDREW Learn: Okay, I think that we're gonna have a lot to say about this.

[59:21] Mystery Guest: Yeah. I'm already thinking of the things I want to say in my brain without even having watched it yet.

[59:27] ANDREW Learn: What?

[59:27] Mystery Guest: What to live, just fit and put her.

[59:37] ANDREW Learn: Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter. Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade.

[59:46] Mystery Guest: Don't tell me not to fly.

[59:48] ANDREW Learn: I've simply got to. If someone takes a spill, it's me and not you.

[59:52] Mystery Guest: Who told you you're allowed to rain on my operate?

[59:57] ANDREW Learn: I'll march my band out.

[1:00:00] Mystery Guest: I'll be mad. And if I send out your turn at bat, sir.

[1:00:09] ANDREW Learn: At least I didn't fake it, hat, sir.

[1:00:12] Mystery Guest: I guess I didn't make it, but whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection, a freckle on the nose of life's complexion, the cinder or that shiny up beloved side.

[1:00:26] ANDREW Learn: I gotta fly once I gotta try once only.

[1:00:30] Mystery Guest: Can die once, right, sir.

[1:00:32] ANDREW Learn: All like this juicy, juicy and you see.

[1:00:36] Mystery Guest: I gotta have my bite, sir.

[1:00:39] ANDREW Learn: Get ready for me, love.

[1:00:41] Mystery Guest: Cause I'm a comer.

[1:00:42] ANDREW Learn: I've simply gotta march my heart's a drama.

[1:00:45] Mystery Guest: Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade.

[1:00:51] ANDREW Learn: I'm gonna live and live now.

[1:00:54] Mystery Guest: Get what I want, I know how.

[1:00:58] ANDREW Learn: One roll for the whole shebang, one throw, that bell will go clang.

[1:01:04] Mystery Guest: I on the target and wham.

[1:01:06] ANDREW Learn: One shot, one gunshot, and bam!

[1:01:10] Mystery Guest: Hey, Mr.

[1:01:11] ANDREW Learn: Arnsteep here much my bad.

[1:01:27] Mystery Guest: I feel I guess I didn't make it get ready for me.

[1:01:42] ANDREW Learn: Love, cause I'm a commer.

[1:01:44] Mystery Guest: I simply gotta match my heart to drum a nobody, no nobody's gone.

[1:02:09] ANDREW Learn: Holy moly, that was amazing.

[1:02:12] Mystery Guest: Holy moly!

[1:02:13] ANDREW Learn: Holy moly, that was amazing!

[1:02:18] Mystery Guest: Yeah, that was amazing.

[1:02:20] ANDREW Learn: Wow. I want you to start the discourse on this.

[1:02:23] Mystery Guest: Yeah, because I know you're gonna say something bad.

[1:02:25] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:02:27] Mystery Guest: Okay. Um not terrible, not terrible. Uh yeah, no, this is amazing.

[1:02:34] ANDREW Learn: I remember okay. I will say that this version of drum took me a while to like warm up to.

[1:02:46] Mystery Guest: Okay.

[1:02:46] ANDREW Learn: Because I remember when it came out. Uh, when I was a senior in high school, I was like, oh, okay, Santana's gonna be doing drum.

[1:02:55] Mystery Guest: That's sort of Rachel's song. We'll see how it goes.

[1:02:56] ANDREW Learn: I remember like from like when you got the song before the episode, I listened to it and I was like, oh, it doesn't really sound like it.

[1:03:04] Mystery Guest: And then a few seconds like listens later, I was like, okay, I sort of get it.

[1:03:08] ANDREW Learn: Like it does not sound like Rachel's drum.

[1:03:11] Mystery Guest: Symantha's drum.

[1:03:12] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:03:13] Mystery Guest: Um, so Samantha's drump sounds absolutely different.

[1:03:17] ANDREW Learn: Um, and I mean, I'm not gonna like, I know that it's so divisive, and I've done this poll on the Instagram a few different times where it's like, which dromp do you like better?

[1:03:30] Mystery Guest: And whenever we run it, it is truly 50-50.

[1:03:35] ANDREW Learn: It is so close that that Gleeks are so divided on Rachel or Santana drum.

[1:03:42] Mystery Guest: And um, you know, it really depending on the day I can even make in my mind.

[1:03:47] ANDREW Learn: I think who am I to even be making that poll?

[1:03:49] Mystery Guest: Because I can even make that decision myself.

[1:03:51] ANDREW Learn: Who are you now?

[1:03:52] Mystery Guest: Who are you now?

[1:03:53] ANDREW Learn: Who am I?

[1:03:54] Mystery Guest: Um who's driving the van?

[1:03:56] ANDREW Learn: And who the hell is driving the van?

[1:03:59] Mystery Guest: So I don't know. Like, I really love it.

[1:04:03] ANDREW Learn: She does, she added she adds runs into drump that are not there with Rachel's or in any other iteration of drum.

[1:04:13] Mystery Guest: Santana does something really, really amazing and special, which I really appreciate because I love when Glee does this with songs that already obviously exist, that they put their own little spin on it and they do it different than the original.

[1:04:25] ANDREW Learn: So, um, yeah, I don't know. I love it. It's it's great, it's fun.

[1:04:31] Mystery Guest: Uh, don't make me choose between Rachel and Santana.

[1:04:33] ANDREW Learn: I think they just offer two different things.

[1:04:35] Mystery Guest: Two different things.

[1:04:36] ANDREW Learn: That's yeah, for sure.

[1:04:37] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:04:38] ANDREW Learn: Um you're a purist.

[1:04:41] Mystery Guest: No, no, no, no, no.

[1:04:42] ANDREW Learn: I think I would agree with you, depending on the day, one dromp serves me better than the other one.

[1:04:48] Mystery Guest: I really like the choices she made with the runs, and I mean, Naya is a beautiful woman, and she slays in this outfit.

[1:04:59] ANDREW Learn: Um, we're talking about just outfits.

[1:05:02] Mystery Guest: Outfits now.

[1:05:03] ANDREW Learn: Uh beautiful downstairs.

[1:05:04] Mystery Guest: She's great.

[1:05:05] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:05:05] Mystery Guest: She looks great.

[1:05:08] ANDREW Learn: She sounds great.

[1:05:09] Mystery Guest: Um, I mean, I have my qualms with uh the Santana versus Rachel storyline.

[1:05:16] ANDREW Learn: Um I woke up to them again.

[1:05:19] Mystery Guest: No, let's talk about it.

[1:05:20] ANDREW Learn: Okay. Because I I really do like this era where it's Rachel versus Santana.

[1:05:27] Mystery Guest: I think that number one, we get a a lot of really great songs out of this.

[1:05:32] ANDREW Learn: Um, dromp, we get every breath you take, we get brave, we get Gloria.

[1:05:37] Mystery Guest: Uh, you know, hold on is in there.

[1:05:39] ANDREW Learn: Like, we get a lot of really great music.

[1:05:42] Mystery Guest: So that's why I like defend it.

[1:05:44] ANDREW Learn: I think it's just I don't know.

[1:05:49] Mystery Guest: I think it's been done before.

[1:05:51] ANDREW Learn: Like it was Rachel versus Quinn, Rachel versus Sunshine Corazone, Rachel versus Santana, Rachel versus Kurt sometimes, Rachel versus Mercedes.

[1:06:00] Mystery Guest: Like it's always uh why can't but why can't Rachel just calm down?

[1:06:10] ANDREW Learn: To why do people always just want to be mean to Rachel?

[1:06:14] Mystery Guest: I mean, you could say a lot of things why people want to be mean to Rachel, but specifically in this instant, it's like Santana, it was never your dream to be on Broadway, and this is something that really meant meant a lot to her.

[1:06:24] ANDREW Learn: But on the flip side, Rachel, why do you care if she's your understudy?

[1:06:30] Mystery Guest: That's true.

[1:06:31] ANDREW Learn: Like it's not like she's gonna boot you out of the show.

[1:06:34] Mystery Guest: Um also like Rachel's reasoning for not wanting Santana to be in it.

[1:06:40] ANDREW Learn: She has a lot of reasons why she doesn't want Santana to be the understudy, but.

[1:06:44] Mystery Guest: But many of them include very like just like racially charged reasons that I don't think age well at all, and I don't think that reflects your main character well at all.

[1:06:56] ANDREW Learn: No.

[1:06:57] Mystery Guest: Um so but like in in your in in response to what you said about like why is everyone like always against Rachel.

[1:07:05] ANDREW Learn: I feel as though like this episode, season five Frenemies, like I think is one of the most compelling episodes in a while from Glee.

[1:07:15] Mystery Guest: Like starting from season five, episode one until this episode, which I think is like 10, 11, I'm not sure.

[1:07:23] ANDREW Learn: Like where it's like you got the Beatles episodes, you've got the Katie Gaga, you got the Billy Joel, where Rachel's not in against anybody.

[1:07:29] Mystery Guest: She's not fighting with anyone.

[1:07:31] ANDREW Learn: So that's not compelling to me.

[1:07:33] Mystery Guest: That's not like fun television, like Rachel and Kirk getting a tattoo in episode five of season five.

[1:07:40] ANDREW Learn: Like that's like I I like this is just a mini sode, you know.

[1:07:44] Mystery Guest: Um, but like seeing her like battle it out and seeing like consequences of like, hey, like Santana, you you have to move out, or like whatever.

[1:07:52] ANDREW Learn: Or no, Rachel moved out.

[1:07:54] Mystery Guest: But like, I don't know.

[1:07:56] ANDREW Learn: Like this it this felt like a charged episode of Glee to me.

[1:08:00] Mystery Guest: And I really appreciate that.

[1:08:02] ANDREW Learn: I think what I would have rather have seen is the understudy being a celebrity cameo, a la like Kate Hudson, and having Santana back Rachel up because I think they're leading into that in a lot of ways, with Santana being a friend to Rachel in season four, early season five, but um in a weird Santana-like way.

[1:08:29] Mystery Guest: Like when she when Santana um confronts Brody.

[1:08:34] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:08:34] Mystery Guest: She has very good intentions and she wants Rachel to be happy, but Brody is a fucking weirdo and is acting weird around the apartment.

[1:08:44] ANDREW Learn: So Santana investigates and maybe does things that Rachel doesn't approve of, but it's for Rachel's benefit.

[1:08:49] Mystery Guest: And I liked that sort of thing where they're friends.

[1:08:52] ANDREW Learn: So I would have rather the understudy been somebody completely random and Santana being like, oh, I'll take this bitch down.

[1:08:59] Mystery Guest: And then Rachel being like, no, no, no, we don't have to do that.

[1:09:01] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god, what and then Santana maybe causing chaos that way.

[1:09:05] Mystery Guest: I don't I have so much to say.

[1:09:07] ANDREW Learn: And I don't think that we're gonna see eye to eye on this.

[1:09:09] Mystery Guest: I don't think that we're gonna leave.

[1:09:10] ANDREW Learn: We're never gonna agree.

[1:09:11] Mystery Guest: We're never gonna agree on on this thing, I don't think.

[1:09:15] ANDREW Learn: But like what's coming up for me is that if you want to watch Santana defend Rachel, someone that's like doing Rachel wrong, then you watch the season four episode Feud, where Santana goes and sings cold hearted to Brody.

[1:09:29] Mystery Guest: It's true.

[1:09:30] ANDREW Learn: Where it's like I don't I I feel like Glee repeats a lot of storylines, and like I this to me is like is like there's a new element to it because something that I really wanted to bring up was the yeast to Sat commercial where Santana gets the yeast to stack commercial and Rachel's sad.

[1:09:30] Mystery Guest: And Rachel's sad, and it's like fuck you.

[1:09:52] ANDREW Learn: Like celebrate the accomplishments of your girlfriend.

[1:09:55] Mystery Guest: Exactly.

[1:09:55] ANDREW Learn: You guys are fucking 19.

[1:09:57] Mystery Guest: Like there you should not be getting in commercials or you know, like roles for Broadway thing in the first place.

[1:10:05] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:10:05] Mystery Guest: Be fucking proud of where you fucking are.

[1:10:08] ANDREW Learn: I'm so over it.

[1:10:09] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:10:09] ANDREW Learn: And so um, I think Rachel's a shitty friend to Santana.

[1:10:13] Mystery Guest: And uh I I can't, I I know that there's a moment.

[1:10:18] ANDREW Learn: I'm gonna be listening back to this when I edit it.

[1:10:20] Mystery Guest: But like there is moments where Rachel is a good friend to Santana.

[1:10:23] ANDREW Learn: Unfortunately, right now in this moment, I can't think of a single one.

[1:10:26] Mystery Guest: That's fair.

[1:10:27] ANDREW Learn: I think what I what else I want to say is that after seeing Funny Girl, so I in the bonus episode that I'm editing right now, we're we're talking about how dromp is kind of just a random string of words, it feels like, if you don't listen to it in context.

[1:10:45] Mystery Guest: And the way that Santana is spinning this song audio-wise, sounds incredible.

[1:10:51] ANDREW Learn: Sounds great.

[1:10:52] Mystery Guest: Context of the show doesn't really make sense.

[1:10:56] ANDREW Learn: Um because she's making this a very powerful, happy song when it's really chip on my shoulder, fuck all you people.

[1:11:05] Mystery Guest: Like fuck off.

[1:11:05] ANDREW Learn: I'm gonna do this anyways, and I'm gonna rule my entire goddamn life.

[1:11:09] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:11:09] ANDREW Learn: And I think we get that from Rachel's, where she's very, very powerful and almost angry a little bit.

[1:11:17] Mystery Guest: Um, whereas Samantha

[1:11:19] ANDREW Learn: Samantha.

[1:11:20] Mystery Guest: No, you got her.

[1:11:21] ANDREW Learn: Santana's

[1:11:21] Mystery Guest: Santana's drum is very much like see what my voice can do, see what I can do.

[1:11:27] ANDREW Learn: Like and which is very great.

[1:11:30] Mystery Guest: It's it's very, it's a very good song.

[1:11:32] ANDREW Learn: It's great.

[1:11:33] Mystery Guest: Yeah, but I don't, I don't know.

[1:11:34] ANDREW Learn: I mean, like, but like Rachel also isn't doing the character of Fanny at sectionals in season one.

[1:11:40] Mystery Guest: But I think she's doing the character of Fanny more than Santana.

[1:11:44] ANDREW Learn: Santana is here.

[1:11:45] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:11:46] ANDREW Learn: That's true.

[1:11:46] Mystery Guest: I've never considered that because like Santana just comes in and the role she's playing is just petty.

[1:11:52] ANDREW Learn: The character is petty.

[1:11:53] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:11:54] ANDREW Learn: And she's doing, she's obviously doing the same thing that like Rachel does to Jacob Ben Israel in season one, where it's like hatser.

[1:12:03] Mystery Guest: Um, and it's like it's just an homage to that, and she's being petty, uh, because Rachel has been a shitty friend.

[1:12:10] ANDREW Learn: Um so I don't, yeah, it is interesting because like she still gets the understudy role, right?

[1:12:16] Mystery Guest: Even though she's really not playing a character at all, is she?

[1:12:19] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, yeah.

[1:12:20] Mystery Guest: She's just being herself, right?

[1:12:22] ANDREW Learn: But also, you gotta give her credit because those heels as well.

[1:12:27] Mystery Guest: We have not brought them up.

[1:12:29] ANDREW Learn: Come on.

[1:12:30] Mystery Guest: They are seven inches off the ground.

[1:12:33] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, holy fuck.

[1:12:34] Mystery Guest: I could not dance around in those.

[1:12:35] ANDREW Learn: Oh god.

[1:12:36] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:12:37] ANDREW Learn: All this to say, I am going to vote for this.

[1:12:40] Mystery Guest: Yeah, yeah, me too.

[1:12:42] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. We'll see.

[1:12:43] Mystery Guest: We'll see how it goes with you.

[1:12:45] ANDREW Learn: The beautiful girl reading this.

[1:12:46] Mystery Guest: Beautiful girl reading this.

[1:12:49] ANDREW Learn: Um, I I liked that discourse that we just had.

[1:12:52] Mystery Guest: Yeah, that was that was wow.

[1:12:54] ANDREW Learn: I'm so glad that we can look back on the conversation we just had.

[1:13:01] Mystery Guest: Okay, here is my final song.

[1:13:05] ANDREW Learn: I hear the ticking of the clock.

[1:13:09] Mystery Guest: I'm lying here, the rooms pitched dark.

[1:13:16] ANDREW Learn: I wonder where you are tonight.

[1:13:20] Mystery Guest: No answer on the telephone.

[1:14:25] ANDREW Learn: Glee the Music Volume One?

[1:14:27] Mystery Guest: I just had to look that up and to confirm it absolutely is on Glee the Music Volume One.

[1:14:32] ANDREW Learn: Nice.

[1:14:32] Mystery Guest: Cool. Um, I'll be honest. This song does not do much for me.

[1:14:36] ANDREW Learn: No, me neither. Will and Kristen Chenoweth with their duets really don't do a ton for me. We have "Alone." We have "Fire." We have the Rumors one, which is escaping me.

[1:14:55] Mystery Guest: "Dreams." Um, do we have another? We have the one that's not on the Glacket, which I wish it was, "Have I Slept With You?" Nice to meet you. Have I slept with you? Have I slept with you? God, that's good.

[1:15:06] ANDREW Learn: And there's two more that you're missing.

[1:15:08] Mystery Guest: Two more?

[1:15:09] ANDREW Learn: Right, yeah, I know. There's a season five one and there's a season one. There's another season one.

[1:15:16] Mystery Guest: Oh, uh, do we count "A Bell to Answer" too?

[1:15:20] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, that's absolutely a duet.

[1:15:22] Mystery Guest: That's a duet. Okay.

[1:15:23] ANDREW Learn: Why would you not consider that?

[1:15:24] Mystery Guest: Because I'm only the part of that song that I'm hearing in my head is only April Rhodes.

[1:15:28] ANDREW Learn: No, yeah. But Will is on the track.

[1:15:30] Mystery Guest: Oh, yeah, because he's like laying there.

[1:15:32] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:15:33] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:15:33] ANDREW Learn: This is the blanket. He's holding the blanket.

[1:15:36] Mystery Guest: Right, right. Audio medium.

[1:15:37] ANDREW Learn: Audio medium. I have my hands up and he's holding the blanket to his chest. And then season five.

[1:15:43] Mystery Guest: We've already got a big one.

[1:15:44] ANDREW Learn: 100th episode?

[1:15:45] Mystery Guest: Mm-hmm. "Raise Your Glass."

[1:15:48] ANDREW Learn: Okay. Um, "One Less Bell to Answer." We have not pulled that yet. And I'm excited about that one.

[1:15:53] Mystery Guest: Oh my god, that's so iconic.

[1:15:55] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:15:56] Mystery Guest: That's the one that will do something for me.

[1:15:58] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god. It's so great. I remember going through because I remember this was like a college song for me. One we're not even talking about "Alone" now. We're talking about "One Less Bell to Answer." I remember rediscovering that song, like, what was this? Like sophomore year of my college. And I just listened to that song so much. And I know it like it's really high up there on my most played. But so iconic.

[1:16:28] Mystery Guest: Yeah. "Alone?" I'm sorry. Like you sound great.

[1:16:33] ANDREW Learn: I'm Yeah.

[1:16:34] Mystery Guest: Tilna!

[1:16:36] ANDREW Learn: I know. Like who's to say that's bad? Like that's it's great. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much for me.

[1:16:43] Mystery Guest: No, I'm not on my hospital bed reaching for it. So right.

[1:16:47] ANDREW Learn: Oh god. Anything else to say about it?

[1:16:49] Mystery Guest: Oh, the only note that I wrote down was on location Glee. Um, Glee and it's like first season, like did like on location shoots. Like they're at like a bowling alley.

[1:17:02] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[1:17:02] Mystery Guest: In past dot tumbler.com.com. Um, like they just don't do that in later seasons. I the that is the one thing that really stood out to me in this song. Not the one thing, I mean, I mean the vocals are great. But um the fact that they're on location at a bowling alley, I'm like, you don't find this in Glee season five or four, you know, like it's just it would be a box set from it.

[1:17:27] ANDREW Learn: Paramount studio.

[1:17:28] Mystery Guest: Exactly. Uh I don't know. "Alone." Sorry. Sorry, you're you're there. You sure are there on the one. Who knows? Volume one. You might win.

[1:17:41] ANDREW Learn: Oh fuck. You I pulled the song and you fucking might win. We wow, a lot of sleepers on this episode.

[1:17:51] Mystery Guest: Sleeper, not sleeper heads, though. God, I just watched this the other night. I was actually listening to this too the other day.

[1:18:02] ♪ Musical number: "Everything" — performed by Meghan Trainor ♪

[1:20:05] ANDREW Learn: I don't know, I don't know much, but I know that that position, not how you make a baby.

[1:20:11] Mystery Guest: What do you mean?

[1:20:12] ANDREW Learn: They're like spooning. You can't make a baby like that. He was like coming at her sideways.

[1:20:18] Mystery Guest: Oh, you you can't make a child that what do you know about making a child?

[1:20:22] ANDREW Learn: I've never had one, so I wouldn't know.

[1:20:25] Mystery Guest: I've never made a baby before.

[1:20:27] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:20:27] Mystery Guest: I know. Baby songs that make me cringe. This one.

[1:20:30] ANDREW Learn: This one!

[1:20:31] Mystery Guest: This one hurts. Because it's Will Schuster.

[1:20:35] ANDREW Learn: Okay. So many thoughts about this. Um. Oh my god, this is like the. I don't know what was going on with Jayma Mays' scheduling past season three. But Baby Girl only shows up in like maybe like ten episodes after the season three finale. She is like, she's in, she's like, she's in, she's out. She's in, she's out. Like, she does not do much. Their stunt double is in.

[1:20:59] Mystery Guest: The stunt double is in season six.

[1:21:02] ANDREW Learn: Like, this is one of two episodes that she appears in in season five. She appears in the quarterback and she appears in this. And I feel as though they were like, Jayma Mays, we need you back for one episode to get you pregnant, to get you pregnant, and then you go.

[1:21:18] Mystery Guest: And then you're done.

[1:21:19] ANDREW Learn: And then you're done. And then we might see you in season six walking with a stroller.

[1:21:24] Mystery Guest: Just the back of your head.

[1:21:25] ANDREW Learn: Just the back. Um, yeah, no, this is God. I don't know. I used to like Wemma a lot, but I I don't know where they went with Wemma. Not for me. These songs, when they so when they play on my car and it says Danny's song, I'm like, what the fuck is that? And then I listen to it, I'm like, oh, like Arthur's theme. I'm like, what the fuck is that? Danny song, Arthur's theme, Anthony's theme.

[1:21:56] Mystery Guest: Wait song.

[1:21:57] ANDREW Learn: Anthony's song.

[1:21:58] Mystery Guest: Moving out.

[1:21:59] ANDREW Learn: Moving out. Yeah, I'm like, for what? For what? Why are we naming songs after men now?

[1:22:06] Mystery Guest: Yeah.

[1:22:07] ANDREW Learn: I'm confused. Um. Think I'm gonna have a son. Okay, you're gonna have a son and you're gonna name Dan. Whatever. Next scene. I don't care. I just like in them painting on the same spot that already has paint on the wall.

[1:22:27] Mystery Guest: I understand.

[1:22:29] ANDREW Learn: I understand why from like a production point of view, but it's like, would Will and Emma be that fucking I'm gonna use a British slang term, daft. Would they would Will and Emma be so fucking daft to just to paint on the same area of the wall?

[1:22:51] Mystery Guest: Apparently.

[1:22:53] ANDREW Learn: Like the rest of the wall doesn't have any paint on it. I don't know. Rewatch the tapes. You'll know what I'm saying. Go to YouTube, search Danny's song Glee Cast Version by Gleecast, watch the scene, HD, Glee Swifty.

[1:23:09] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Um, would you call this a Will solo or a Wemma duet?

[1:23:13] ANDREW Learn: I was thinking about that. I think I would call it a Wemma duet. Simply because I'm gonna I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna be completely wrong. Because on the MP3, I think Emma's a little bit featured more.

[1:23:30] Mystery Guest: I think that she is. Yeah.

[1:23:34] ANDREW Learn: Because I think Glee Wiki has like sort of gone at war over whether this is a Will solo or a Wemma duet. Because it's sort of like I don't wanna know in that regard, where it's seeing the same thing at the same time. Singing over each other. But like with this, like Will has lyrics to himself that like Emma doesn't have, I don't believe Emma doesn't have a single lyric to just herself.

[1:23:59] Mystery Guest: I don't think so. Yeah.

[1:24:00] ANDREW Learn: But I would consider this a Wemma duet versus a Waperl.

[1:24:08] Mystery Guest: Waperl?

[1:24:10] ANDREW Learn: Or April.

[1:24:13] Mystery Guest: App app oh, App Will.

[1:24:15] ANDREW Learn: App Will.

[1:24:17] Mystery Guest: Wait, they have a ship name.

[1:24:21] ANDREW Learn: Roadster?

[1:24:22] Mystery Guest: Roadster.

[1:24:24] ANDREW Learn: That's kind of good.

[1:24:25] Mystery Guest: I like Roadster.

[1:24:26] ANDREW Learn: Roadster versus Wemma. Um. Yeah. Any final thoughts on Danny's song?

[1:24:35] Mystery Guest: No.

[1:24:36] ANDREW Learn: And they name the child Daniel.

[1:24:41] Mystery Guest: No.

[1:24:41] ANDREW Learn: And it's like, they don't even say Daniel in the song.

[1:24:45] Mystery Guest: No.

[1:24:46] ANDREW Learn: It doesn't.

[1:24:47] Mystery Guest: Who sings this originally?

[1:24:49] ANDREW Learn: I'm gonna say Kenny Loggins.

[1:24:52] Mystery Guest: You can say that.

[1:24:53] ANDREW Learn: This was like the era of Glee where they were singing. They sang two Kenny Loggins songs right next to each other. They sang "Whenever I Call You Friend" and "Danny's Song."

[1:25:06] Mystery Guest: Interesting.

[1:25:06] ANDREW Learn: One episode after another. Um "Danny's Song." "Danny's Song" versus "Alone." Which one do you want?

[1:25:14] Mystery Guest: It's "Alone."

[1:25:15] ANDREW Learn: "Alone."

[1:25:16] Mystery Guest: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[1:25:18] ANDREW Learn: Okay. Sorry, Gleeks.

[1:25:21] Mystery Guest: Sorry, Gleeks. We'll see. Um, to summarize, we're going to the polls with "Love Fool" versus "All About That Bass." The Gleeks will decide. Um I mean, like you can also decide on what was oh, I feel like the other two competitions are very uh obvious.

[1:25:42] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I think we're we have the Gleeks in the bag with these other two, but we'll see if there's an upset and people really like "You're Having My Baby." Or um "Danny's Song."

[1:25:50] Mystery Guest: Or "Danny's Song." Um we'll go to the polls with all these and see what happens. Andrew and my vote is out there. You can take it or leave it. Um maybe we convinced you some way, shape, or form. Um, anyway, follow us on Instagram, follow us on TikTok, follow us on Twitter. Um, you can support us on Patreon. We would really support all of your support on there, especially because we we put it in.

[1:26:19] ANDREW Learn: We support your support.

[1:26:21] Mystery Guest: We, yeah. Thank you. We're getting emotional about this. We like so emotional, if you will.

[1:26:27] ANDREW Learn: So emotional. Also, vote for so emotional in the polls.

[1:26:31] Mystery Guest: Vote for what did I even pick? Let me love you until you learn a lesson. Woo! Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. Um, yeah, or vote for that. Uh anyway.

[1:26:47] ANDREW Learn: Vote for um so emotional, support us on Patreon. We put exclusive content. We have the entire or entire like funny girl recap, which is very fun and exciting. Um, and if you want to hear our thoughts on there, and also to support us, that would be really great. It is only three dollars a month. Um, it is big kiss.

[1:27:06] Mystery Guest: Less yeah, it's just like less money than a goddamn coffee.

[1:27:10] ANDREW Learn: That's true.

[1:27:11] Mystery Guest: It's like a pack of gum.

[1:27:12] ANDREW Learn: Yep. Clee!

[1:27:13] Mystery Guest: Wait, we have to do wait. How do we end episodes?

[1:27:15] ANDREW Learn: Let's say bye and the most annoying. It's weird without a guest. Um, bye and um our most annoying voices after one. Three, two, one, bye.

[1:27:26] Mystery Guest: Bye.

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