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[0:00] Andrew: We've got a mission to find the best song that's ever been on Glee.

[0:09] Andrew: There's no remote to it, so don't get mad at me.

[0:17] Andrew: Glack it by Glacket.

[0:19] Andrew: We'll rank everyone.

[0:21] Andrew: To see which song will move closer to spot number one.

[0:54] Andrew: Gleek of the week.

[0:54] Andrew: Click, click, click of the week.

[0:54] Andrew: It's Gleek.

[0:56] Andrew: Gleek of the week.

[0:56] Andrew: Um, hi, um, it's me, Andrew.

[0:56] Andrew: Wow.

[0:56] Andrew: You could have took a stab in the dark and guess who is gonna be on this episode?

[0:56] Andrew: It's me again.

[0:56] Andrew: But I'm joined by three Gleeks this week, but I'm only talking to one of them right now, the person behind this entire um corral of Gleeks.

[0:54] Andrew: It's a very special episode of Gleek of the Week podcast. I am joined by past Gleek of the Week, a few weeks over, Matt from the choir room and Diary Room.

[1:04] Matt: Brand new podcast.

[1:05] Andrew: Brand new podcast.

[1:05] Andrew: Wait, wait, wait. Do you wanna before we like talk about why this is a special episode of Gleek of the Week podcast, let's talk about Diary Room, a newly launched thing.

[1:15] Matt: Sounds great.

[1:16] Andrew: Yeah. Um, I don't know if you've ever heard of this concept where um you create a podcast that's based around a bracket and you take uh you know X amount of items that go into it and have them match up against each other with the ultimate goal of finding the best.

[1:30] Matt: Um Wow, wait, that sounds uh like a lot of time, but it does, it does.

[1:34] Andrew: You need um yeah. My favorite thing about what's been happening so far is that every time Amon advertises it on a podcast that he's like plugging it on, he says, Yeah, it's gonna be like two years.

[1:43] Matt: And like, Aman, no, like that's the first round.

[1:46] Andrew: Like, baby. That's the case. We got a lot of time uh to fill here.

[1:51] Matt: So wait, that's so funny that okay, wait, wait. Explain first what the bracket is, what the who the the variables in this bracket are.

[1:59] Andrew: I would love to. So what we're about to get into here in this episode is in the world of reality television, but it's a different world of reality television.

[2:08] Andrew: It's Survivor. That's that's here today.

[2:10] Matt: Okay.

[2:11] Andrew: Uh over in this new podcast that Amon and I have uh picked back up uh our mics together on is about uh a different show on CBS called Big Brother.

[2:21] Andrew: I would imagine if anybody is uh checking out this episode for the Survivor people specifically that are about to join us, our guests here, um, you've at least heard of Big Brother, or maybe you're a fan of both.

[2:31] Andrew: Um what we ended up deciding to do uh with many conversations with you as well, uh to just kind of figure out if this would work, whatever, you know, just kind of figuring it all out together, uh, was we just created a bracket of Big Brother players, which uh there are over 500 of, not quite the over 600 that Glee uh has in songs.

[2:49] Andrew: Um, and we're doing the exact same thing that Gleek of the Week is doing here, uh the same mission with you know a couple tweaks along the way.

[2:56] Andrew: There's no songs to watch, so it's a lot more just conversation and Wikipedia pulling.

[3:01] Andrew: And it is like in the moment you like it's like not like hey, this week we're going to be talking about this person, this person, this person.

[3:09] Andrew: It's in the moment, like you better come equipped to talk about any of the 500.

[3:15] Andrew: So the small difference, uh or one of the small differences is um because not every Big Brother fan is created equal, where most Gleeks know most of Glee.

[3:28] Andrew: It's six seasons, and most of us have watched it all. Obviously, not everybody, yeah, but most of us that are appearing on this podcast have.

[3:34] Andrew: Um, as far as Big Brother goes, a lot of people have only seen certain seasons, half the seasons.

[3:40] Andrew: Um, and we're talking about Big Brother, the the US version, the Canadian version, the celebrity version, a spinoff that occurred a couple of years ago.

[3:47] Andrew: So Big Brother super fans have seen all of this.

[3:49] Matt: Right.

[3:50] Andrew: But Big Brother medium super fans have only seen some seasons.

[3:54] Andrew: Um, and we're taking it guest by guest. And if a guest comes on that hasn't seen this, that, and the other season, we're keeping those out of contention for that week just to make sure that nothing comes up that they've literally got it.

[4:05] Matt: Yeah.

[4:06] Andrew: Okay. We don't have a couple. We started with a cup because obviously I was like completely emulating everything that happens here.

[4:13] Andrew: Uh, but we ended up going to a wheel, which is available online. It's like a randomized wheel uh every week. Just copy and paste the names in there, the wheel spins, and we get our outcome.

[4:22] Andrew: And it's you know, similar, not the same. Um, I need to ask, because you are dealing with um real life people that walk on God's green earth and not performances that exist uh in a fictional realized uh God's green earth.

[4:37] Andrew: You were talking about people that are are you predicting that you're going to hear from these people that like specifically like I cannot believe that I was like out so quickly in round one? Or how do you feel about that?

[4:49] Matt: It's definitely possible. I mean, our first two guests that we had were uh two players from the most recent season, and the fun part is you know, what if there's a world where they pull not only themselves, which would be insane, yeah.

[5:05] Matt: Uh, but what if they pulled somebody that they know or that they've played with?

[5:09] Matt: Um, so we definitely anticipate people eventually getting, you know, uh whether like somebody comes on and they're like, Oh, uh, why am I on this podcast? You eliminated me last week.

[5:18] Andrew: Um but the crazy thing that actually happened was in the second episode, the first episode we had uh from last season's Big Brother, a guy by the name of Corey.

[5:27] Matt: Okay.

[5:27] Andrew: Second episode, we had his uh girlfriend who he met on the show. They were an item on the show, they've been an item since.

[5:34] Matt: Yeah.

[5:34] Andrew: She was the second guest that we had, and she, for her first competition, got Corey.

[5:41] Matt: Oh, wow.

[5:42] Andrew: I mean, that's the.

[5:53] Andrew: Her now almost a year-long boyfriend. Uh, and Corey, who is in the other room, just got home, came into the screen uh as we pulled his name live.

[6:03] Matt: So I mean that was you know enough of a to make it all worthwhile and make us understand that we were creating a good project there.

[6:13] Matt: That's insane. I'm sure that uh things like that will continue to happen as you go down uh this what are you calling it?

[6:21] Andrew: Are you I mean, I guess it would just bracket?

[6:25] Matt: We're we're not going with uh too detailed of terminology yet.

[6:29] Matt: I mean, I don't want to literally steal every single thing that you I personally I'm I like Babracket.

[6:36] Andrew: Ba bracket.

[6:37] Matt: I mean I think I think is that stupid team.

[6:39] Andrew: No, I I I just haven't I it didn't come across my mind yet.

[6:43] Matt: I don't know. Marketing team, get on that.

[6:46] Andrew: Um, okay, but in terms of this episode today, uh, you came to me maybe like a month or two ago.

[6:53] Matt: Yeah, was like, hey, I have this idea for an episode of Gleek the Week, and um now I'm passing it back over to you to describe what that idea was and why we're doing it.

[7:03] Andrew: Yeah, we'll we'll get into it more when our guests are here with us as to what specifically brought the two of them into this world where we should talk to them about Glee.

[7:13] Andrew: Um, but I am a lifelong Survivor fan, and uh I would say a lot of the newer season uh cast members are um I don't know I don't know how to okay that that was a a terrible way to uh bring it because I didn't know how to describe what I was trying to say.

[7:29] Andrew: Maybe more available, more accessible is kind of what I was getting at.

[7:32] Matt: Okay.

[7:33] Andrew: Um they're all online. So uh it was easy to uh as time went on, their their season just aired. Did I even say these are Survivor players? I think I did.

[7:41] Andrew: Um their season aired last year. Um in the time sense, it has been discovered that both of our guests today uh are Gleeks.

[7:49] Andrew: Um wait, what do you do you recall exactly what the telling signs were?

[7:55] Matt: Yes. Um and again, I think we're gonna get into this with both of them as well. But um for Jake, uh both of these players, by the way, Jake from season 45 of Survivor, and Kelly also from season 45 of Survivor, which aired it is the uh it was last fall, fall of 2023.

[8:12] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[8:13] Matt: Uh, Jake in the preseason, before the season began, they do a bunch of interviews and whatnot that were recorded before they went to play the game.

[8:20] Andrew: Um and uh Glee came up in some capacity there. I'm gonna ask him about that because I don't remember exactly how that came out.

[8:25] Andrew: But before the game even started, I knew that he that there was a Glee on the island.

[8:29] Matt: Kelly, not so much. It was only after uh the season was completed and recently in the month of June, uh Rob as a podcast did a Pride Month series where they spoke to guests um to speak about uh their queer experience and queer life and all this kind of stuff, and Kelly was on there and uh told a bit of a story about how Glee was involved in her life.

[8:51] Andrew: Yes. I was going to be like, do not tell this story because it's so good. I'm not telling Kelly's story for her. She will do that. I want to hear, I want to hear it from this Survivor horse's mouth herself.

[9:02] Andrew: Um, but yeah, I'm very excited. I watched um this entire season in anticipation.

[9:12] Matt: Um, are you hooked?

[9:14] Andrew: I enjoyed it. I mean, like there was like points of it that I was like, okay, there's a lot of there's a lot of because I watched it with Elias.

[9:21] Andrew: I think he was a little bit more into it than I was. And um, because like I at a certain point I kind of gave up with all the rules that I was like, okay, I'm I he was like, oh, but this character has this thing, so like he they're safe and da-da-da-da-da.

[9:37] Andrew: And I'm like, I kind of have given up. And I'm just like looking at pretty pictures on a screen and seeing who gets eliminated at the end of the episode.

[9:45] Andrew: Getting enough out of it that I that you know, I comprehend it, but not getting the full story, like I imagine you and other Survivor super fans.

[9:55] Matt: You know, I can tell you, uh, as time has gone on in the course of Survivor history as a whole, um, a lot of super fans, people that just pay super close attention to the show, uh, have tried like me specifically.

[10:06] Matt: I've fallen into the same kind of spot that you do watching the show. I don't I don't care about the gadgets and gizmos and uh a plenty that they have uh while trying to play the game.

[10:14] Matt: Like I understand when it gets played, and I'm like, okay, great. So this person's safe, they played an idol, but there's a lot going on there, and that's a whole another podcast.

[10:21] Andrew: But um, yeah, I mean, just the experience of watching the characters, watching these people tell their stories is really what you should be getting, I think, uh, from the show, especially in these days.

[10:32] Matt: So I feel so validated.

[10:33] Andrew: Yeah.

[10:34] Andrew: Um, I don't know if I'm if I'm no, I'm not gonna say this. If I would say that I would watch another season, I had a really great time watching it.

[10:43] Matt: Um I think you should, especially uh this fall, the season that is airing starting September, one of my very good friends and uh a a fellow podcaster on the RHAP network with the mon and I uh actually is on the show.

[10:56] Andrew: Oh my gosh.

[10:57] Matt: I was like surprised because like I was like going through like Instagram and like finding all of them very cautiously while I was watching the show because I didn't want any spoilers and I was surprised to find out like like a number of them like there were like a lot of like mutual friends that I had with them and I'm like oh this I feel like so connected to the people on screen that I usually you know you're watching TV you don't there's so much disconnect that I'm like yeah being in in the community of people that watch these shows Survivor Big Brother you realize that uh at the end of the day they are just normal people that get cast on a television show and you'll see that when we talk to Jake and Kelly today just very nice normal people uh that want to come and talk about Glee so it's uh it's gonna be fun.

[11:40] Andrew: It's gonna be really fun and the last thing that I'll say is that um in terms of like Glacket connections I was getting so like my brain was was going a mile a minute watching Survivor.

[11:50] Andrew: I was like there are so many tricks of the trade that you can apply to a to a like a bracket system that I don't know if I would apply, but I think it would it's a fun exercise to consider.

[12:01] Andrew: Round three is gonna have some hidden immunity where it's like ooh like a crush because I was thinking a lot about because I'm not gonna reveal like how like you can watch the season uh for yourself if um you love this episode which I know that you will and you're like, oh, I want to see um these people, these Gleeks in action on an island, but I won't reveal what happens at the end.

[12:21] Andrew: But I'm like, crush. So honestly, truly, truly, truly, I don't think we're gonna get through this episode without spoilers being involved.

[12:27] Matt: Oh.

[12:28] Andrew: Um, I don't think I because I don't know, unless we like specifically ask our guests to not mention how the season went.

[12:34] Matt: Sure. I mean, I think that's gonna be the vibe. Okay, that's a that's a hard bush to beat around. So um if you would like to watch season 45 of Survivor, um go watch that entire season first and then come back and listen to this episode.

[12:53] Matt: One of the guests is already in the waiting room, so intro done. So we are so excited to have with us today two of the stars of Survivor 45 who have not necessarily been hiding a secret this whole time, but they haven't really talked about it a whole lot that they are in fact Gleeks. Let me first welcome in again from Survivor 45. We have Kellie with us today. Kellie, how are you?

[13:15] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm great. I'm so happy to be here. And I'm, you know, I think I used to be a little secret Glee fan, but now I wave the Gleek flag, you know, freely and proudly.

[13:26] Matt: Now you have a recorded fashion of you being a Gleek.

[13:28] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[13:29] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh my gosh, both of you guys, a little bit of like where you found the show and you know how your relationship with it today. But again, not just Kellie here, we also have again, Survivor 45's Jake. Jake, how are you?

[13:41] Jake O'Kane: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, guys. I'm looking excited for this today.

[13:45] Matt: Yeah, Jake, who is also a big musical theater guy, alongside being a Gleek.

[13:51] Jake O'Kane: Oh yeah. I mean, I mean the two kind of go hand in hand a little bit, right?

[13:54] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, yeah.

[13:55] Jake O'Kane: Oh, definitely. I mean, when you think about like the hip flock show Glee, your favorite numbers, because we're doing this today, where we're going through the numbers, deciding which are better. Are there numbers to y'all that stand out as like the best of the best of the series?

[14:11] Kellie Nalbandian: In my mind, "Cough Syrup" sticks out.

[14:13] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, we go.

[14:15] Matt: Was that is that a basic choice?

[14:16] Kellie Nalbandian: That might be a basic choice.

[14:18] Jake O'Kane: But it might be a basic choice.

[14:20] Kellie Nalbandian: I probably have some basic choices. So that's my number one, too. "Cough Syrup" is the first one that pops out in my head.

[14:27] Matt: No, I think that's, I mean, I'm sure we'll go through more. I mean, it's a basic choice for a reason because it hits.

[14:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, exactly. I have a, I feel like I have so many. Oh my gosh, go fire away.

[14:39] Kellie Nalbandian: I think my favorite like mashup, I mean, "Rumor Has It / Someone Like You" is just iconic.

[14:44] Matt: Oh, okay.

[14:45] Kellie Nalbandian: But I also love "Safety Dance."

[14:49] Matt: Oh.

[14:49] Kellie Nalbandian: That is like a low-key bop. I know that's my like sleeper pick, but I feel like Kevin is like underappreciated and he gets up and dances and he's such a good dancer, and he gets like, doesn't get to do that the whole show.

[14:59] Jake O'Kane: Yes.

[15:00] Kellie Nalbandian: Like, so I always loved "Safety Dance." That's my weird one. Oh, and "Valerie." I love Maya.

[15:05] Matt: So yeah, no, Kellie, I think that's a good place to start because the way that this kind of all came about is gonna get to Jake in a second, because as soon as the season, your guys' season was announced, there was rumors going around that there was a Gleek on the cast. And I knew that it was Jake. I kind of narrowed it down. We figured this all out. So get to Jake in a second. But Kellie, you went under the radar for a while. It wasn't until recently on your episode of The Pride of Spoken over on RH AP last month that I discovered there was a second Survivor 45 Gleek. Can you share with us, if you don't mind, the story of there because Glee played a pretty big role in your life, even still to today?

[15:46] Kellie Nalbandian: Still to this day. I owe everything to Glee. I mean, I told this story to Jake about one of our first days on the Bello Tribe together. It was a great bonding moment. I was always hoping it would make TV and it didn't. So I didn't mean to be secretive about it, but it didn't come out until the interview. But yeah, I was obviously a huge Glee fan. And specifically, I loved Naya Rivera the most. And like I liked Brittany, but like I was definitely more Naya. But anyway, there was a meet and greet for Naya at an AT&T store in New Jersey on my senior skip day.

[16:21] Jake O'Kane: Uh-uh.

[16:21] Kellie Nalbandian: So I was 17 years old, skipped high school to go to this meet and greet. And I wore a shirt, a Lebanese shirt.

[16:29] Matt: Okay.

[16:29] Kellie Nalbandian: So I was and I wasn't out. Like this was like a big, like a little secret trip for me.

[16:33] Matt: Oh my god.

[16:33] Kellie Nalbandian: I went with two of my friends, and in front of me in line is my now fiancé Gabby. So we met in line to meet Naya Rivera and Cory Monteith. So yeah, I basically owe it all to Glee, because now we're getting married next year, and yeah, she was a huge Naya fan.

[16:54] Jake O'Kane: Truly the wildest story.

[16:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Crazy story.

[16:57] Matt: That's so sweet though. I love that. And so you mentioned that you brought that up to Jake. I mean, like, so was that the culmination of y'all realizing that you were both like fans of this show?

[17:08] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, yeah, we realized pretty early on.

[17:10] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, that was pretty like right away. I mean, I think like at least for me, like I think there was an assumption, like I think Brando said it to me at the what was it? Sweat and Savvy, like yes, you're a sports guy. I'd be like, no, I'm not. I know like I come across that way a little bit, but I'm like I—

[17:22] Jake O'Kane: No, he totally does.

[17:30] Kellie Nalbandian: You were wearing that dance t-shirt at pre-game, and I was like, hold on. Who is this?

[17:33] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, well, that's yeah. So like in pregame, one of the shirts I wore was one of the dance studio that I work at direct and children's theater. I was wearing one of their studio shirts in pregame to try to soften that blow a little bit.

[17:52] Kellie Nalbandian: I was like, who is this guy? He is multifaceted.

[17:56] Matt: As if like, you know, CBS would have ever allowed a conversation about the hit Fox show Glee to air on their network. You know, I should have known. But that's why we're here today to get into it for all the Survivor fans that are gonna hop over here and listen to this, all the Glee fans that are gonna maybe take the jump into Survivor to have this crossover.

[18:13] Matt: Um, but Jake, can you get a little bit into your backstory with the show?

[18:16] Jake O'Kane: It's like so much less exciting than Kellie's. I mean, it was just I, it was one of those things, like I think I started watching like season three, but then I went back and watched everything, and it was really like one of those things where there wasn't anything like it. I mean, especially for me, like going into high school and you know, kind of making that decision from being younger, like hey, sports, they're not my thing, and just really like kind of embrace this.

[18:45] Kellie Nalbandian: Sounds like a coming out story, even though I'm the straight man.

[18:47] Jake O'Kane: But uh very Glee.

[18:50] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, but just kind of being like, you know what, it's okay to be what you're into, and like Glee kind of celebrated that and was all about like things that I was really into. So I don't know, it just kind of really spoke to me, and I think there's a reason why it's had the impact it has for years.

[19:06] Matt: Yeah, I totally relate to that as it as a, you know, coming out. Can't just be all of us. Glee was like a little problematic, but it did do a lot of good.

[19:18] Kellie Nalbandian: Did you have a lot of things? Because it wasn't all perfect.

[19:20] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, yeah.

[19:22] Kellie Nalbandian: And behind the scene.

[19:23] Jake O'Kane: It has to leave room for growth.

[19:25] Matt: Yeah. We were asking Jake and Kellie a little bit about like where you guys stopped watching the show. And both of you seem like you watched like through the first three seasons, like a pretty good amount. Maybe not as much in the latter half, which is a very common story for, you know, maybe like half the population of Gleeks out there. I'm hoping that today we get at least one or two songs from the later season so that we can walk you through a little bit of what you did not see, you know, at some point. So we'll see what comes up.

[19:49] Kellie Nalbandian: Perfect.

[19:50] Matt: We'll see what comes out of the cup. I think I've seen like bits and pieces, but yeah, I really haven't seen much past three. But I was like I was like a really big Glee fan. Did anybody go to Glee Live?

[20:00] Kellie Nalbandian: No.

[20:01] Jake O'Kane: Are you gonna tell me that you went to Glee Live as well as metal?

[20:06] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh yeah.

[20:07] Matt: This is salt in the wound.

[20:09] Jake O'Kane: Oh wait, what was your experience?

[20:12] Kellie Nalbandian: It was, oh, I mean, I got like really close tickets.

[20:15] Jake O'Kane: Uh-huh.

[20:16] Kellie Nalbandian: It was magical. Like actually heavenly. No notes. I've said it on the record a number of times before on this podcast that like I was so angry that I wasn't able to make it that year that I was like, oh, I'll just go next year. And that was the last one that they did.

[20:32] Matt: So we only do it once.

[20:34] Kellie Nalbandian: No, they did so they did it after the first season and they did it again after the second season. But like my like high school brain was like, oh, well, like they can just keep on working like every season out of the year, you know.

[20:50] Matt: So, but they needed a little break and they got one.

[20:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, I mean, they really could have gone on for a long time.

[20:55] Jake O'Kane: They could have ran and gotten like a Degrassi-like situation.

[20:58] Kellie Nalbandian: I mean, I think there was a problem with the attachment to Lea Michele, in my opinion.

[21:03] Matt: But um, I do have our first song of the episode. It's a good one from season two, so I feel as though y'all have seen this at least.

[21:14] Matt: Well, so really, really quick. I just want to ask you both. Um, so I think I know what Kellie's answer to this is gonna be. Who are we like manifesting today? You want to see?

[21:20] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm I'm gonna guess Kellie wants to see some Santana.

[21:24] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, of course. But you know, I also like I did love Rachel Berry back in the day.

[21:30] Matt: Don't do that.

[21:30] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't know. I just like—

[21:34] Matt: Lee didn't get in between you two on the matter and be like, she's a Rachel Stan.

[21:39] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm not a Rachel Stan, but like, listen, I like brunettes. I was having a moment in my life where I was discovering this.

[21:47] Matt: Okay.

[21:47] Kellie Nalbandian: And so there was like yes.

[21:51] Matt: Wasn't my girls. Did you watch "Baby One More Time"?

[21:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay.

[21:54] Matt: Um, right. You know? I have good news for you about songs going through to the next round of this bracket. Jake, any particular characters we're looking forward to see today?

[22:02] Jake O'Kane: Um, Blaine and Santana. Probably my two favorite singers from the show.

[22:08] Matt: Okay. I do have our first song. It's by none of the people that we just mentioned.

[22:14] Jake O'Kane: Oh, great.

[22:15] Matt: Um, I think we're still gonna enjoy it. Is it Mr. Shoe?

[22:18] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, rapping.

[22:21] Matt: Sorry, too. Here we go.

[22:24] ♪ Musical number: "Tik Tok" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[24:49] Matt: As a nurse, no way. Um, who wants to start us on the discourse of "Tik Tok"? What are your immediate thoughts?

[24:58] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, I love the split from Heather Morris. I mean, it was impressive. It was great dancing. The outfits are terrible.

[25:07] Matt: They're so bad.

[25:08] Jake O'Kane: I feel like what would you even call those fits though? Because it's almost like steampunky, like grungy.

[25:15] Kellie Nalbandian: But it's still like it's also giving like live, laugh, love woman trying to be steampunky. You know what I mean? Like this isn't they didn't quite get there.

[25:24] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, isn't it literally what Kesha wears on the album cover? Like they're just copying it.

[25:28] Andrew: I think it's so good. Heather Morris looks good. Everybody else looks like it's like Heather's outfit is good, but like I don't know. Rachel and her it wasn't really working for me.

[25:38] Matt: I just love the fact that you know, the beginning of season two, they obviously lean into the Britney Spears of it all with Heather Morris, and then they say, but we also have you know this other artist that's very big right now that we could also just dress Kesha up in uh asha dress Brittany up and cash a drag and hope for the best. And I mean it didn't it didn't not work. It's uh it was a it was a bad thing.

[25:57] Jake O'Kane: I was gonna say Mercedes really comes in clutch with the backup vocals towards the back half of that song. Like Mercedes. I was like, oh, there's Mercedes. Oh, this sounds way but not that our Adam Morris is bad, but Amber Riley coming in sounded awesome.

[26:09] Andrew: Yes. A fun fact legal note about this song. I know that there's some circles of Gleeks that refer to this as a Mercedes and Brittany duet because of the amount of Mercedes that is in there toward the end, which I think is I don't know. It's fun. That's not just a Britney solo to everybody.

[26:27] Kellie Nalbandian: I would say that's fair. Because like that, I mean the Mercedes stuff really stuck out to me. Like I thought Mercedes.

[26:32] Jake O'Kane: That's true. She made it some assistance. A seven to a nine, you know, or like whatever. She raised raised the stakes on it.

[26:39] Matt: I want to amend my previous answer and say bust your windows is also one of my favorite side.

[26:45] Jake O'Kane: Exactly. Just for that arm movement that she does like this. Oh my god. Do uh glee covers regularly like come on in the car or like on workouts for you guys.

[26:54] Kellie Nalbandian: Don't attack me like that.

[26:56] Jake O'Kane: You're in a safe space.

[26:57] Kellie Nalbandian: Don't attack me like that. This is a very safe space, Jake.

[27:00] Jake O'Kane: This is a podcast about being uh Glee. It has. It has. It has. In the musical, um, it's more of a chalk, you know, for me if I'm on a treadmill or going out for a walk. That might come involved, but no, hard hardcore gym stuff, not really, but it has come out. It has come out when exerting physical effort.

[27:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay. I love that. No, I can't say that, but I do think I'm gonna put Valerie on my wedding playlist. So there we go.

[27:25] Jake O'Kane: Grinch.

[27:26] Matt: Wait, Matt, you've talked about the the wedding playlist of it all as it as it pertains to Glee Songs. Kelly, what's uh do you have any ideas of what glee covers would be involved in the big day?

[27:37] Kellie Nalbandian: I think we'll probably just do one. You know, we're not gonna just do it. It'll be like Jake will be the only one who will be there who will appreciate the glee song, and like my mom. Um I think like we have to do a Naya song. Um that would be a good one. I used to say I'd be like, yeah, I like it. We'll do Valerie. Although I do love Songbird, it's so I think that's so pretty too. Like, yo, Smooth. Sorry. Smooth criminal. I love Smooth Criminals. Their version of Smooth Bird episode was amazing.

[28:08] Andrew: Smooth Criminal was pulled in the episode prior to this one, and I am so glad to announce that it's seeing light of day of round three of the Glackett.

[28:18] Jake O'Kane: Thank God. Love it.

[28:19] Andrew: That being said, do we feel good about TikTok? Like, do we is it a good without knowing what the competitor is, do we feel like it has what it takes to move forward?

[28:30] Kellie Nalbandian: Is this a head-to-head battle or like a guest of six?

[28:33] Andrew: Oh head head.

[28:36] Jake O'Kane: I'm gonna go probably not.

[28:38] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay, not feeling great.

[28:40] Jake O'Kane: I might be a little higher on it just because I know there's a lot of garbage glee songs out there, but there's a lot of hangers. Like it feels like it feels really middle of the pack for me.

[28:49] Matt: Agree.

[28:50] Jake O'Kane: Like it's really a coin flip. That's a non-answer, but like it's really a coin flip for me.

[28:54] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm a TikTok boy, so I'm I'm scared.

[28:56] Jake O'Kane: Wow.

[28:57] Kellie Nalbandian: But anticipating what's next. And I think like what you were saying earlier about like the blame it on the alcohol episode is such a fan favorite among so many glieks that I think that that brings up TikTok a little bit more.

[29:09] Andrew: So I do know what it's against. Wait, Jake and Kelly, there's uh one song fun fact for you of the day. Uh the song Blame It on the Alcohol, um, or is it just called Blame It? Uh, is actually now in round three, right, Andrew?

[29:24] Matt: It is, yes.

[29:24] Andrew: Yeah, it has never won a matchup that it that it has every so often we've they the listeners vote to bring back songs that have been wrongfully voted out, and that's happened to blame it on the alcohol twice now. It's never won its way in, it's been voted in by the audience at home.

[29:41] Kellie Nalbandian: I still can't believe that. But wow.

[29:46] Andrew: Glacket trivia. Uh, against TikTok. Oh. Here we go.

[29:51] Jake O'Kane: What is this?

[29:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh man, I love this musical.

[29:54] Jake O'Kane: That's gonna be hard.

[29:55] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh yeah. Come on now.

[32:29] ♪ Musical number: "Take Me or Leave Me" — performed by Rachel and Mercedes ♪

[32:29] Andrew: Oh hey. It's going to be a hard competition. But before we cast our votes, what are our immediate thoughts of Take Me or Leave Me?

[32:34] Jake O'Kane: Literally amazing.

[32:35] Kellie Nalbandian: It's so good.

[32:36] Jake O'Kane: It's so good. Mercedes and R and Rachel singing together. It's like the two best singers. You really can't go wrong. I mean.

[32:44] Kellie Nalbandian: And it's like the perfect two people to sing that song, too. Like out of like the entire cast. Like, you know, Rachel obviously has the most uh theater, musical theater is voice. And then Mercedes is. I don't think I need to explain that. Um you're just so powerful, and it's such. I mean, she was singing Dina Menzel, and I I forget the other actress's name from Rent who plays that character. But something?

[33:10] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[33:11] Kellie Nalbandian: It's gonna kill me. I'm gonna look it up right now. Jake, have you uh uh has any of have any of your productions ever been rent of uh all the ones you've done?

[33:20] Jake O'Kane: You know what? No, I've never no, I've never done rent. But I just saw I just went to my um college, Westfield State in Western Mass, like maybe like two months ago. They just did rent, and the girl who did this song was so good. I wish I recorded it. That was the only knock on this song, is that it wasn't this girl who I just listened to like two months ago.

[33:41] Andrew: Wow. Damn. Um, I just remember like watching this episode live, and the only at that time, the only in that I had with this song was that like my sister liked it, and so like I ran to her room while it was on the television, and I was like, Oh, they're singing, take me or leave me the song that you really like. And she's like, Well, are there is it lesbians singing it? Because it's lesbians that sing it in in the musical. And I'm like, I don't think so. And she's like, Well, it's not actually like true to form. And I was like, Okay, like you give a fuck about any of that. But um, so that's what comes up every single time. But I love this. I like this a lot more than I thought I would. So I feel like this is a really hard competition. But Matt, what are you thinking?

[34:24] Matt: See, uh what I'm thinking is that I was excited for TikTok to have a chance, and then I saw this come on the screen, and I saw both Jake and Kelly's faces light up like a Christmas tree. Um I'm definitely worried for TikTok. Um, but if TikTok is to go down, this is obviously a worthy competitor for it to go down to um the power between a Rachel Mercedes season two, season one or season two?

[34:50] Andrew: Two.

[34:51] Matt: Season two. This is early for sure.

[34:53] Andrew: Yeah, yeah. Like this is like, you know, Glee at their best, these two at their best. Uh, and you know, ending with a hug when these two characters have such an up and down relationship. I mean, anybody could jump back into this episode to this song and you know, just feel it all over again.

[35:08] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, excuse me, Tracy Thomas.

[35:11] Kellie Nalbandian: Tracy Thomas. I was right on the money with the Tracy. If TikTok wanted a shot in this, Kelly and I were the worst two people to have on.

[35:18] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, sorry. This was just a terrible combo for TikTok.

[35:21] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, the lesbian musical theater. Yeah, it was screwed. It's gonna be tough. And also it's a classic choir room moment, which is just near and dear to my heart.

[35:32] Jake O'Kane: Why was Sue there? Although why is Sue?

[35:34] Matt: Why is Sue there? I was in it, I was like who um is Sue a Sidal this week, and so is brought into the Glee Club to help like another good glee moment.

[35:46] Andrew: Right, one of those classic glee moments. Um, and so she's part of the Glee Club that week. So shout out to Sue. Like, I wish like Sue Sylvester just appeared in other shows for like no rhyme or reason. Just to get that kind of comedy.

[35:59] Matt: She's making her way around the internet this week for certain news items, uh Andrew.

[36:03] Andrew: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, just like the fact that, you know, in the series finale of Glee, she does announce that she's running for president in 2024. So my god, stop after being the previous vice president. So like it's a little bit too close to me.

[36:23] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[36:24] Matt: SNL get Jane Lynch to go play Donald Trump this fall.

[36:27] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, yeah.

[36:28] Jake O'Kane: How great would that be?

[36:29] Kellie Nalbandian: How great would that be?

[36:31] Jake O'Kane: Oh, that would be literally amazing.

[36:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Jane Lynch.

[36:35] Jake O'Kane: It'd be so good.

[36:36] Kellie Nalbandian: I need it right now. Iconic.

[36:38] Andrew: Um but in terms of this competition, if I'm understanding correctly, casting our ballots, Jake, you're a vote for take me or leave me.

[36:48] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[36:48] Andrew: Yeah. Kelly, you're echoing.

[36:51] Kellie Nalbandian: I am echoing for sure.

[36:52] Andrew: Matt, what are you doing?

[36:54] Matt: Uh, where are we at with pity votes? Do I give pity uh a pity vote to TikTok? Because uh famously, Jake and Kelly, if there is a tie, if both Andrew and I voted for TikTok, uh, the tie would go to you two as the guests here. So um, I I think uh I think I will with that said, cast the pity vote for TikTok, but I'm very happy for taking me or leave me to uh go through.

[37:14] Andrew: Yeah, I'm I gotta go take me or leave me. I mean, like it's sad, but like everything that I was saying earlier about like that, obviously the blame it on the alcohol episode being such an iconic episode of glee. That I think that blame it on the alcohol, the song itself is the better representation of of the episode. Which is wild because Britney throws up on Rachel in a school assembly. Uh going into competition number two.

[37:40] Kellie Nalbandian: I love this little slushy.

[37:42] Jake O'Kane: I didn't even notice that.

[37:43] Kellie Nalbandian: I love it. Amazing. There it is. Arts and crafts.

[37:47] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, I have my feelings about it. Um, from season three, Santana heavy song.

[37:51] Jake O'Kane: Season three, Santana heavy.

[37:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, I know what this is.

[38:30] ♪ Musical number: "I Kissed a Girl" — performed by Santana ♪

[39:52] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay. I kissed a girl, the season three version. They covered this song three times over the course of this.

[40:00] Jake O'Kane: Are you kidding me?

[40:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, twice was done by Tina. Um, I remember that premiere.

[40:08] Jake O'Kane: And the premiere and then song.

[40:10] Kellie Nalbandian: Exactly. Yeah. That counted, but not.

[40:13] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, and then in the penultimate episode of the series, they have like a Tina do they have a flashback episode where Tina does it again, and so they really love this song.

[40:23] Kellie Nalbandian: Well, that's like were either of you like deep enough into the Glee fandom to know about Faberry?

[40:30] Jake O'Kane: Yep.

[40:31] Kellie Nalbandian: What I mean, the berry Faberry.

[40:33] Jake O'Kane: I was a fan. I liked Faberry.

[40:34] Kellie Nalbandian: Kelly, you are my shipping.

[40:37] Jake O'Kane: Who we shipping?

[40:38] Kellie Nalbandian: That's Quinn and Rachel.

[40:39] Jake O'Kane: Okay, but let me tell you why I wanted it to be Santana and Rachel.

[40:43] Kellie Nalbandian: So this was like as close as we got.

[40:45] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, no, the opening to this song when we get the Quinn wrapping her arm around Rachel.

[40:50] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh yeah. Oh, things to me. I remember that. It shouldn't have.

[40:53] Jake O'Kane: Um, you like Faberry?

[40:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, this is so embarrassing. Yes, I totally that was my fave.

[40:59] Jake O'Kane: Kelly, you were surprised the song could come up at such a good time.

[40:59] Kellie Nalbandian: Such a good time, you know, perfect for me. I love that.

[41:07] Jake O'Kane: Um, but this is just like such the epitome of Glee for me, where it's like, especially with covering like Santana's sexuality, like and just you know, women being queer in general, it's like you it's almost good, you know.

[41:22] Kellie Nalbandian: You're it's nuts, like that, but then they cover I kissed a girl, and then they hyper sexualized pretty Santana.

[41:27] Jake O'Kane: Like, we're so close, right?

[41:29] Kellie Nalbandian: Right. But I think I but honestly, I'm sure I loved this in the moment. I'm sure I was eating it up.

[41:35] Jake O'Kane: No, I'm acting without being a queer woman, a queer man, Kelly.

[41:40] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm echoing everything that you're saying. But I'm like, I feel like there had to have been a better song for this situation than Katy Perry talking about kissing girls at parties.

[41:50] Jake O'Kane: Like, I don't I think that this was kind of a major flop.

[41:54] Kellie Nalbandian: I think that this in the way that they handled Santana's coming out just in general was flop.

[41:59] Jake O'Kane: I have a lot of feelings on that.

[42:02] Kellie Nalbandian: Go off. Now's your time.

[42:03] Jake O'Kane: I also wrote, I also like I wrote a paper in college, and it wasn't about Glee, but it was about like representation of queer people on TV.

[42:12] Kellie Nalbandian: And this was like, you know, I was I'm old, I'm 30. Um, so I was started. This was like in 2012, I think.

[42:18] Jake O'Kane: And so I use the example of how they kind of discussed Brittany and Santana versus how they discussed Kurt and Blaine as and like the dichotomy there of sort of like the romantic vibe that Kurt and Blaine would get, but then like Brittany and Santana, they'd be like, We're scissoring at home.

[42:33] Kellie Nalbandian: It's like and I feel like it's like perfectly like encapsulated everything that you're saying, the fact that Santana is even singing with Rachel, someone that doesn't even like have anything to do with this plot line, and Britney is just mute for the entire thing.

[42:50] Jake O'Kane: I don't know.

[42:50] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, they were like they could have done like I feel like I can remember Kurt and Blaine, like when they first get together, like singing dance running down the hallway, exactly singing a cute song, and I'm like, could we have done that?

[43:00] Jake O'Kane: I mean, then they get better later on, but this was less like tragic.

[43:04] Kellie Nalbandian: If it's not Faberry for you, Jake, do you have a favorite couple from Glee?

[43:08] Jake O'Kane: Oh, damn.

[43:11] Kellie Nalbandian: Like real, like shit, or like well, it could be I mean, ideally probably a real couple, but very opening seem like that.

[43:19] Jake O'Kane: What are you talking about?

[43:20] Kellie Nalbandian: Jesus, I don't you got your Rachel, you know, Rachel and X, you know, I know I'm Sam and Mercedes.

[43:28] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, like Sam and Mercedes.

[43:30] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, Kurt and Mercedes, you know, Mercedes for an episode a scene that always stuck out to me, and this is from season four, and it's unfortunate that so many plot lines got cut off because and look, I'm not a Leah Michelle fan, but I really like when Finn beat the shit out of the gigolo.

[43:48] Jake O'Kane: So stay away from my future wife or something.

[43:50] Kellie Nalbandian: He said something.

[43:51] Jake O'Kane: Stay away from my future wife.

[43:52] Kellie Nalbandian: I really want an F bomb right there.

[43:54] Jake O'Kane: Like I really want an F bomb on like primetime television right there.

[43:57] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, but I don't know.

[43:58] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I was always kind of into the like the it's pretty basic.

[44:01] Kellie Nalbandian: But I mean Blaine and Kurt always root for Santana and Brittany.

[44:07] Jake O'Kane: That was so cute. Trying to think, yeah.

[44:08] Kellie Nalbandian: Well, Kelly, have you ever gotten to the wedding episode?

[44:12] Jake O'Kane: Oh, you know what? I do think I've seen clips of it.

[44:15] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't think I watched it.

[44:16] Jake O'Kane: Oh, with my fiance knows has watched it.

[44:18] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, um, I should watch it.

[44:20] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, they do. Did you say Quintana?

[44:23] Kellie Nalbandian: Quintana.

[44:24] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, that happened.

[44:24] Kellie Nalbandian: That's a deep cut.

[44:27] Jake O'Kane: Quintana is that a wedding.

[44:29] Kellie Nalbandian: I will tell you, I did watch that when I was.

[44:31] Jake O'Kane: We've got tonight.

[44:32] Kellie Nalbandian: We've got tonight is really good.

[44:33] Jake O'Kane: That's a good cut.

[44:34] Kellie Nalbandian: Like season four is not great, but they got there's some good ones.

[44:37] Jake O'Kane: There's some good songs in there.

[44:38] Kellie Nalbandian: And we've got tonight, I think was good.

[44:40] Jake O'Kane: Also, appearance from the Glee Project lady.

[44:45] Kellie Nalbandian: Allie, yes.

[44:46] Jake O'Kane: Uh, Jake, I was not expecting Quintana to come out of your mouth tonight.

[44:50] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm not happening in the episode.

[44:53] Jake O'Kane: He's like, Faberry's not even real.

[44:55] Kellie Nalbandian: Quintana is real.

[44:57] Jake O'Kane: But Quintana happened in an episode.

[45:00] Kellie Nalbandian: Did we did did Rachel and Santana ever make out?

[45:03] Jake O'Kane: Did I make that up?

[45:04] Kellie Nalbandian: No, they did not.

[45:05] Jake O'Kane: Um, in many fan fictions, yes, but I don't think.

[45:09] Kellie Nalbandian: I just was like, I don't know, maybe they did that.

[45:11] Jake O'Kane: Um, I kissed a girl without knowing what the competitor is yet.

[45:16] Kellie Nalbandian: Are we feeling good?

[45:18] Jake O'Kane: We're feeling bad.

[45:20] Kellie Nalbandian: What are we?

[45:21] Jake O'Kane: I feel like everyone sounds great and I love a girly pop moment, but I'm not gonna so I feel like it w because like TikTok I felt like it was at like the 50% mock.

[45:31] Kellie Nalbandian: This is like, okay, it's better than probably sixty percent.

[45:35] Jake O'Kane: Like it's not high, but it's like I feel like the odds are that it will be better than a random Glee song.

[45:43] Kellie Nalbandian: The girls coming together for that number is is really what makes it so good.

[45:46] Jake O'Kane: Besides, the content couldn't be better.

[45:51] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, we do have another So I kissed a girl, Santana Rachel duet.

[45:58] Jake O'Kane: And it's against another Santana and Rachel duet.

[46:03] Kellie Nalbandian: So it's really fun episode, baby.

[46:05] Jake O'Kane: Anybody's game.

[46:07] Kellie Nalbandian: And maybe they'll kiss in this one finally.

[46:10] Jake O'Kane: Oh, I'm a big Beatles man.

[46:16] Kellie Nalbandian: It's been a hard day's night.

[46:19] Jake O'Kane: I should be sleeping like a log.

[46:22] Kellie Nalbandian: So I under.

[46:24] Jake O'Kane: Cause when I get you alone, you know I feel okay.

[46:29] Kellie Nalbandian: When I'm home, everything seems to be right.

[46:36] Jake O'Kane: When I'm home, feeling the hold of me side!

[47:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay. Our day's night. From season five, episode one.

[48:02] Jake O'Kane: So what are what is our familiarity with that area of the series?

[48:07] Kellie Nalbandian: I have a lot I remember watching the Demi Lovato of it all.

[48:11] Jake O'Kane: That's Santana.

[48:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[48:13] Jake O'Kane: So I think I've seen a few episodes here, maybe not the whole season, but I don't really remember this number, to be honest.

[48:18] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, how did it land for you?

[48:21] Jake O'Kane: Listen, that was my that's my two brunettes, so I love it.

[48:26] Kellie Nalbandian: I mean, like I love the Beatles.

[48:28] Jake O'Kane: I don't know if it like it didn't give me like wow factor.

[48:32] Kellie Nalbandian: You know what I'm saying? I was vibing with it.

[48:34] Jake O'Kane: I don't know. I liked it.

[48:36] Kellie Nalbandian: I love this cover. I love them working at the diner.

[48:39] Jake O'Kane: Their outfits are the best outfits of like the entire show.

[48:43] Kellie Nalbandian: The entire series.

[48:44] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, truly.

[48:45] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh, nobody looks bad in a spotlight diner, you know, red.

[48:49] Jake O'Kane: The leg kicking moment so bad.

[48:52] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, the Beatles episodes that they did, um, for anybody who hasn't seen, or just I don't know, my thoughts is that they obviously had a obvious concept and executed a couple of the songs very well.

[49:05] Jake O'Kane: Uh, but it ended up being a two-part Beatles episode, which is too much for our generation, I would say.

[49:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Throw a couple Beatles songs in, and you know, you kind of cover your bases there.

[49:15] Jake O'Kane: Um, I get why they did it. They had access to the catalog, and they were like, all right, we're gonna jump right in and do as much as we can while we can.

[49:21] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, but you know, could have been a little bit more concise.

[49:25] Jake O'Kane: As far as this performance goes, um, I uh Andrew, between these and be okay, like I the all the Pezberry falls in my lap, and I'm not upset about it.

[49:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, but when I get Pezberry, oh my god, you're cute.

[49:36] Jake O'Kane: When they go head to head, that's where I don't know what to do with myself.

[49:40] Kellie Nalbandian: So this is like Faberry versus Pezberry right now.

[49:43] Jake O'Kane: Faberry versus I think Battle of the Ships.

[49:48] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm gonna take a little different approach from Kelly.

[49:50] Jake O'Kane: I I'm not the biggest Beatles fan.

[49:52] Kellie Nalbandian: I think they're a little overrated in my opinion.

[49:54] Jake O'Kane: That might be a hot take, but yeah, this I just wanted it to be nine to five the whole time, personally.

[49:59] Kellie Nalbandian: You know what I mean?

[50:01] Jake O'Kane: That would have been fine.

[50:03] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, like I'm like this this song just doesn't like there's so many songs they can do better.

[50:07] Jake O'Kane: I just feel like this song is made for dudes with not a lot of vocal range.

[50:13] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, you don't need to hear their range.

[50:15] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, that is yeah.

[50:16] Kellie Nalbandian: There's so much better than this song.

[50:18] Jake O'Kane: You know what I mean? I wrote down like when Naya's doing the and I've been working like a dog.

[50:23] Kellie Nalbandian: When just she sounds amazing there. Great.

[50:26] Jake O'Kane: Yeah. But like you can hear like I mean, you know, take me or leave me, you get like such more range or whatever, but sure, sure.

[50:32] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't know. It's like I this is gonna be a hard pick for me because like I guess it'll give me complicated feelings.

[50:39] Jake O'Kane: Um I'm like, huh. But the light kicks.

[50:41] Kellie Nalbandian: But it's a little bit more like these are like you good point about the outfits.

[50:46] Jake O'Kane: To me, these are like elevated Cheerios outfits.

[50:49] Kellie Nalbandian: Like, it's still the red and the white skirt, but now we're mature anymore.

[50:54] Jake O'Kane: Oh my god. Imagine we got a Quinn Britney and Santana uh spotlight diner number.

[50:59] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh my god.

[51:01] Jake O'Kane: It would end it.

[51:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[51:02] Jake O'Kane: It would it would never be a good one.

[51:04] Kellie Nalbandian: That's the black little brigade right there.

[51:06] Jake O'Kane: I don't think we ever got Britney.

[51:07] Kellie Nalbandian: No, we didn't get Brittany Orquin.

[51:08] Jake O'Kane: There's like a scene in season five where like Tina is having a dream sequence, and a bunch of other characters that don't live in New York are working at the Spotlight Diner for five minutes, but it's not Brittany or Quinn.

[51:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Brittany's there, Quinn is not.

[51:20] Jake O'Kane: Brittany is there?

[51:21] Kellie Nalbandian: And Britney is there.

[51:22] Jake O'Kane: Check the tapes.

[51:23] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh.

[51:23] Jake O'Kane: Mm-hmm.

[51:24] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, but it's like only like a 15-second scene.

[51:26] Jake O'Kane: So with all this being said, I feel very confident in saying because I just really could not stand the way that they handled Santana's coming out.

[51:38] Kellie Nalbandian: And I thought the I I Kissed a Girl performance was a great encapsulation of all of that.

[51:43] Jake O'Kane: That I am voting against that song and voting for Hard Day's Night.

[51:47] Kellie Nalbandian: So I'll cast the other thing.

[51:52] Jake O'Kane: I kind of am with you on that though.

[51:54] Kellie Nalbandian: Like I totally agree with you on the say I don't know if I can vote for I Kiss a Girl in Good Conscience.

[51:59] Jake O'Kane: I'll vote for the for uh Hard Day's Night just because it's part of the whole themed episode, and there's only so many of those in the series.

[52:06] Kellie Nalbandian: And this is how the episode opens, right?

[52:09] Jake O'Kane: Uh I'm not sure where like I think it's early on, but yeah.

[52:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, it's not okay.

[52:13] Jake O'Kane: I'll vote for that.

[52:13] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't know if it's the exact opening number.

[52:15] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I think I I mean like I know I kind of cracked on it, but I I think I'm gonna vote for Hard Day's Night because it's it's definitely better overall.

[52:22] Kellie Nalbandian: I'll give another penny vote because it doesn't matter at this point.

[52:25] Jake O'Kane: But uh just because I kissed a girl has the uh has uh all of the girls coming together in a way that's like, you know, besides the storyline, I get you know the criticism there, um, and the way that they handled a lot of that.

[52:38] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, the the girl power that walks through that hallway, pushing those guys aside, coming into the choir room, and you like Blaine and Kurt in the back row recording it on their phone being like this is the best thing I've seen in my entire life.

[52:49] Jake O'Kane: That's me watching just from my couch.

[52:51] Kellie Nalbandian: So well, I was like thinking while that was happening.

[52:53] Jake O'Kane: I was like, if Glee was on today, that like I feel like everybody would just all everybody watching these performances would just be filming everything.

[53:02] Kellie Nalbandian: But I'm like, this is content.

[53:04] Jake O'Kane: So who are they not to capture it?

[53:07] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, but okay, going into our final competition of the episode.

[53:11] Jake O'Kane: Let's see. Any any last manifestations of a song that we would like to see potentially.

[53:17] Kellie Nalbandian: You know, I don't I have you guys done push it yet.

[53:19] Jake O'Kane: I just think that's just push it.

[53:21] Kellie Nalbandian: Push it was out in round.

[53:23] Jake O'Kane: I feel like push it was out episode four over three years ago.

[53:26] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm so sorry that you're finding out this.

[53:29] Jake O'Kane: I just think it's the most hilarious.

[53:30] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't know why, but of all the episodes of Glee I've seen the most is that that second episode?

[53:34] Jake O'Kane: I've seen that so many times.

[53:36] Kellie Nalbandian: I feel like I start, I'm like, let me rewatch and then I like only see the first two, and then I've just like seen that so many times.

[53:42] Jake O'Kane: I have a little bit more, maybe a more iconic performance than push it.

[53:48] Kellie Nalbandian: Also from season one.

[53:50] Jake O'Kane: I think you're gonna know what it is immediately.

[53:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh god.

[53:54] Jake O'Kane: From Bass on the Football.

[53:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Or maybe the Gaga episode, yes.

[53:58] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[54:00] Kellie Nalbandian: Roma Roma!

[54:04] Jake O'Kane: Watch your bad room.

[54:06] Kellie Nalbandian: I watch an ugly, I want your disease.

[54:10] Jake O'Kane: I want your everything as long as it's free.

[54:13] Kellie Nalbandian: I want you love.

[54:16] Jake O'Kane: Love, love, love.

[54:17] Kellie Nalbandian: I want you love.

[54:22] Jake O'Kane: I want you to cycle your vertical stick.

[54:26] Kellie Nalbandian: One you and my rear window, baby, you're sick.

[54:29] Jake O'Kane: I want your love.

[54:32] Kellie Nalbandian: Love, life, love, I want your love.

[54:36] Jake O'Kane: I want your love.

[54:38] Kellie Nalbandian: You know that I want you.

[54:40] Jake O'Kane: And you're a freak, baby.

[54:43] Kellie Nalbandian: I want a bad bad romance.

[54:47] Jake O'Kane: I want your love in and I want your revenge.

[54:50] Kellie Nalbandian: You and me could ride a bad romance.

[54:54] Jake O'Kane: Oh you love it, all your love is revenge.

[54:58] Kellie Nalbandian: You and me could ride a bad romance.

[55:02] Jake O'Kane: Oh, oh, caught in a bad romance.

[55:10] Kellie Nalbandian: Walk, walk, fashion, baby, work and move that thing crazy.

[55:15] Jake O'Kane: Walk, walk, fashion, baby, work it, move that thing crazy.

[55:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Walk, walk, fashion, baby, work it, move that thing crazy.

[55:23] Jake O'Kane: Walk, walk, passion, baby, work it.

[55:25] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm a freak, baby.

[55:27] Jake O'Kane: I want your love and I want your revenge.

[55:31] Kellie Nalbandian: I want your love.

[55:37] Jake O'Kane: Watch out that romance.

[55:41] Kellie Nalbandian: Watch a battle man.

[55:43] Jake O'Kane: I want your love and I want your revenge.

[55:46] Kellie Nalbandian: You and me could ride a bad romance.

[55:50] Jake O'Kane: Oh, you love it, all your love is revenge.

[55:54] Kellie Nalbandian: You and me could ride a bad romance.

[56:01] Jake O'Kane: Watch out.

[56:03] Kellie Nalbandian: Caught in a bad romance.

[56:05] Jake O'Kane: Watch out that room back.

[56:11] Kellie Nalbandian: Caught in a bad romance.

[56:23] Jake O'Kane: The damn plushies all over her outfit.

[56:26] Kellie Nalbandian: How it's bubbles.

[56:28] Jake O'Kane: Oh my this was a glee live performance, I remember.

[56:32] Kellie Nalbandian: Rubbing it in, Kelly.

[56:35] Jake O'Kane: Right in the wound.

[56:36] Kellie Nalbandian: Speaking about the outfits, before we discuss the entire performance.

[56:41] Jake O'Kane: Best fit, worse fit for everybody.

[56:45] Kellie Nalbandian: What who's taking the cake for that number one slot here in this performance?

[56:49] Jake O'Kane: Her best?

[56:50] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[56:50] Jake O'Kane: It's Naya.

[56:51] Kellie Nalbandian: It's gotta be Naya.

[56:53] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[56:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[56:54] Jake O'Kane: She looks hot and the giant bow.

[56:56] Kellie Nalbandian: I mean, like, not only is we get to that part in the song where she like vocally just runs over everybody else and takes it to that next level.

[57:03] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[57:03] Kellie Nalbandian: But like while she's doing it as the best dressed on the stage, it's like, geez.

[57:08] Jake O'Kane: This was her moment.

[57:09] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, yeah.

[57:10] Jake O'Kane: It was kind of like she comes in towards the end, and it's like, why was she not featured the whole time?

[57:14] Kellie Nalbandian: Doing the whole thing.

[57:15] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, not like that.

[57:16] Kellie Nalbandian: Why was it just not her song?

[57:17] Jake O'Kane: Well, she was still like kind of like a minor-ish.

[57:19] Kellie Nalbandian: She was not a minority.

[57:20] Jake O'Kane: She wasn't Santa.

[57:22] Kellie Nalbandian: She was just her up.

[57:24] Jake O'Kane: This is how she heard the main cast billing for season two.

[57:27] Kellie Nalbandian: She was like she was like, I'm gonna go into the studio and I'm gonna lay it down.

[57:32] Jake O'Kane: She friggin' killed this.

[57:34] Kellie Nalbandian: I feel like a maybe MVP Quinn.

[57:37] Jake O'Kane: I like the the p.

[57:38] Kellie Nalbandian: I think it's Q.

[57:39] Jake O'Kane: I think.

[57:40] Kellie Nalbandian: People love that one.

[57:42] Jake O'Kane: The pink eyelashes is nice.

[57:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Does anybody have a worst fit here?

[57:46] Jake O'Kane: It's obviously Rachel, right?

[57:48] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, it's Lady Michelle, yeah.

[57:49] Jake O'Kane: I think that's tragic.

[57:51] Kellie Nalbandian: But I think it's like funny.

[57:53] Jake O'Kane: I don't know.

[57:53] Kellie Nalbandian: It's like kind of campy.

[57:55] Jake O'Kane: Like also the story of how she goes to Shelby to get help with the outfit and comes out with this.

[58:02] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[58:02] Jake O'Kane: Oh my god, fucking Shelby.

[58:04] Kellie Nalbandian: That's her her uh everyone else's is pretty good.

[58:08] Jake O'Kane: Let's see.

[58:09] Kellie Nalbandian: I mean Tiniko and Chang a little weird with the bubbles, but I think she pulls it off.

[58:13] Jake O'Kane: I feel big look for Kurt.

[58:16] Kellie Nalbandian: It's a big look for Kurt.

[58:17] Jake O'Kane: Like, I feel like when people think of him and Glee, like that's an outfit they think of.

[58:21] Kellie Nalbandian: They do.

[58:21] Jake O'Kane: Mm-hmm.

[58:22] Kellie Nalbandian: Jake, are you a Katie or a Gaga?

[58:26] Jake O'Kane: I feel like if your cast on Survivor, you're just a Gaga.

[58:29] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh my god, that'd be a great season.

[58:31] Jake O'Kane: That's so funny.

[58:35] Kellie Nalbandian: It would be it would be um new era casting on one trap and just like you know, the forgotten of Mactors of the 20s.

[58:43] Jake O'Kane: That's so funny.

[58:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Look, Andrew, season 50 has already been announced, Andrew, as a returning player season, and uh we don't yet know what the theme is going to be yet.

[58:51] Jake O'Kane: So I feel like this could be something.

[58:53] Kellie Nalbandian: First to say that it will be pitying Gaga.

[58:55] Jake O'Kane: Okay, I will be tuning back in, absolutely.

[58:58] Kellie Nalbandian: If I play on season 50, I will submit the Rachel plushy Gaga outfit as my personal later when you just pull out plus.

[59:08] Jake O'Kane: I'm gonna be like, I promise I won't vote you out on this duck plushie.

[59:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Or like loved ones' visits comes back and Gabby shows up wearing the the plushie outfit.

[59:17] Jake O'Kane: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

[59:18] Kellie Nalbandian: Or she could wear Naya's outfit, you know.

[59:20] Jake O'Kane: Well, that's I'll be missing her after still you're gonna put her in that in the Fiji heat.

[59:28] Kellie Nalbandian: I feel like that gets really hard, right?

[59:30] Jake O'Kane: That's torture.

[59:31] Kellie Nalbandian: That's me, Al, come on.

[59:32] Jake O'Kane: Okay, okay, okay.

[59:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Maybe the Quinn.

[59:33] Jake O'Kane: Oh, I don't know.

[59:34] Kellie Nalbandian: The bubbles?

[59:36] Jake O'Kane: Every loved one should have to come out dressed in one of these outfits.

[59:40] Kellie Nalbandian: Wait, speaking of this Glee Survivor, what are we calling it?

[59:43] Jake O'Kane: Gleiver?

[59:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Um mash up.

[59:48] Jake O'Kane: When I announced to our listeners that y'all are coming on, they lost it.

[59:52] Kellie Nalbandian: And they wanted to know from both of y'all which Glee characters would win Survivor, and which would be the first to go, do you think?

[1:00:06] Jake O'Kane: I feel like my first like inkling on first to go is Rachel for being a winning.

[1:00:12] Kellie Nalbandian: But and I want to say this, I actually kind of liked Leah Michelle.

[1:00:16] Jake O'Kane: Rachel, like I could have my moments where I liked her.

[1:00:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:00:19] Jake O'Kane: She's sort of like, is Angelina the Rachel of Survivor?

[1:00:25] Kellie Nalbandian: Kelly.

[1:00:26] Jake O'Kane: Who is who's she asking for a jacket?

[1:00:29] Kellie Nalbandian: Andrew, uh, we'll catch you up later.

[1:00:31] Jake O'Kane: Who's she asking for a no?

[1:00:33] Kellie Nalbandian: It's just so right.

[1:00:34] Jake O'Kane: It's so accurate.

[1:00:35] Kellie Nalbandian: No, it's not.

[1:00:36] Jake O'Kane: Like she would win the rice negotiation.

[1:00:38] Kellie Nalbandian: She.

[1:00:38] Jake O'Kane: I'm like, so like maybe Rachel sticks around.

[1:00:41] Kellie Nalbandian: What do you mean?

[1:00:41] Jake O'Kane: Maybe she sticks around.

[1:00:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Wait, no, actually, that works so well.

[1:00:46] Jake O'Kane: That works too well.

[1:00:47] Kellie Nalbandian: So on a season of survivor named Sugar.

[1:00:52] Jake O'Kane: Oh yeah.

[1:00:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, I thought you were talking about sugar from the Hit Fox show.

[1:00:55] Jake O'Kane: I think he was talking about Shirada, and then the other thing.

[1:00:57] Kellie Nalbandian: I do think that she would also.

[1:00:59] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:01:00] Kellie Nalbandian: Too perfect of a world.

[1:01:01] Jake O'Kane: Oh.

[1:01:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Wow.

[1:01:02] Jake O'Kane: I would also go, okay, Emma Pillsbury, she would have a nerves breaking.

[1:01:05] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, right.

[1:01:06] Jake O'Kane: She's not making it one.

[1:01:07] Kellie Nalbandian: She's not very, I don't think she would deal with the the elements well.

[1:01:11] Jake O'Kane: She might she might take the Hannah Rose route.

[1:01:13] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:01:15] Jake O'Kane: She is she's out of it.

[1:01:16] Kellie Nalbandian: But wait, who's winning?

[1:01:18] Jake O'Kane: Uh that's who's winning is a tougher question.

[1:01:20] Kellie Nalbandian: I've actually no, I've I feel like I've thought about this before, and I think I've said Sam.

[1:01:25] Jake O'Kane: Sam?

[1:01:26] Kellie Nalbandian: Sam's.

[1:01:28] Jake O'Kane: He doesn't have the strategic acumen, I think.

[1:01:31] Kellie Nalbandian: I don't know.

[1:01:31] Jake O'Kane: I think of him as a star.

[1:01:32] Kellie Nalbandian: Like Fabio, okay.

[1:01:34] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, exactly.

[1:01:35] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay.

[1:01:35] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, well, like, I guess you're talking about the options.

[1:01:39] Kellie Nalbandian: Also, he's gonna, he's like a physical guy.

[1:01:41] Jake O'Kane: He'll just be like eventually sniped.

[1:01:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Let me tell you.

[1:01:45] Jake O'Kane: If we're looking for like a D type, then maybe you're looking at Santana herself.

[1:01:49] Kellie Nalbandian: But I I think it would be Santana's a little more biting than D.

[1:01:54] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I feel like Santana's gonna get a little bit more lipped.

[1:01:57] Kellie Nalbandian: I think Santana makes it.

[1:01:58] Jake O'Kane: Santana does commercials just like D does.

[1:02:01] Kellie Nalbandian: That's so funny.

[1:02:03] Jake O'Kane: I think I think, yeah, I think Santana's merge, and then they maybe she has a what the hell guys moment, you know?

[1:02:09] Kellie Nalbandian: Maybe Mercedes.

[1:02:12] Jake O'Kane: Mercedes.

[1:02:12] Kellie Nalbandian: I feel like a bowl could get far, maybe.

[1:02:15] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:02:16] Kellie Nalbandian: Like there's no one in the middle of the city.

[1:02:17] Jake O'Kane: Oh, you know who I think.

[1:02:19] Kellie Nalbandian: I think Quinn.

[1:02:20] Jake O'Kane: I was thinking Quinn too.

[1:02:21] Kellie Nalbandian: She's a sneaky.

[1:02:23] Jake O'Kane: She's sneaky.

[1:02:24] Kellie Nalbandian: And she's kind of got like a parvity thing, you know, where they like everyone will like underestimate her, but she's secretly pretty smart.

[1:02:29] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, she called it.

[1:02:31] Kellie Nalbandian: Like, I'm gonna be Lucy Caboose.

[1:02:32] Jake O'Kane: She's gonna get called mother so fast.

[1:02:35] Kellie Nalbandian: She's she is mother.

[1:02:36] Jake O'Kane: I know.

[1:02:36] Kellie Nalbandian: And also the cheerleading would be good for like hanging on the pole and all those balancing challenges.

[1:02:41] Jake O'Kane: Okay.

[1:02:42] Kellie Nalbandian: Cheerios are gonna be the biggest threats, you know.

[1:02:44] Kellie Nalbandian: That's the new black male game.

[1:02:46] Jake O'Kane: I love that.

[1:02:46] Kellie Nalbandian: She's the quinner.

[1:02:48] Jake O'Kane: The quinner.

[1:02:49] Kellie Nalbandian: I think Kurt would be good too.

[1:02:51] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:02:52] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:02:52] Jake O'Kane: Maybe Kurt and Quinn would have like a Shan Ricard rivalry.

[1:02:57] Kellie Nalbandian: That would kind of eat.

[1:02:58] Jake O'Kane: That would be.

[1:02:58] Kellie Nalbandian: That would be an amazing scene.

[1:02:59] Jake O'Kane: This would be like, let's do a can someone do a brand steal of the colour.

[1:03:02] Kellie Nalbandian: Can we do a brand stealing?

[1:03:04] Jake O'Kane: I have good news for you that that does exist over on the choir room.

[1:03:08] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh my god, who won?

[1:03:10] Jake O'Kane: Um, I don't remember, but I will let you know.

[1:03:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Can we do another one for 2024?

[1:03:13] Jake O'Kane: Can we do another one?

[1:03:15] Kellie Nalbandian: We can do a new one.

[1:03:15] Jake O'Kane: Absolutely.

[1:03:16] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh my god.

[1:03:17] Jake O'Kane: That's so funny.

[1:03:18] Kellie Nalbandian: But my official answer is Quinn.

[1:03:19] Jake O'Kane: Okay.

[1:03:19] Kellie Nalbandian: I think that, yeah, I think Quinn's a good answer.

[1:03:21] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, Quinn or Kurt, I think, are two.

[1:03:24] Kellie Nalbandian: They're both making merge.

[1:03:26] Jake O'Kane: I mean, look, at this point, an AI could simulate this entire thing for us and we can actually can.

[1:03:31] Kellie Nalbandian: Although Blaine could be a showman's downfall for Kurt.

[1:03:35] Jake O'Kane: Oh.

[1:03:36] Kellie Nalbandian: But I feel like Blaine would get taken out before.

[1:03:38] Jake O'Kane: I think Blaine is like a Caleb and just is way too obvious of a Yeah, he's too charismatic.

[1:03:43] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:03:43] Jake O'Kane: Well, that was a fun exercise.

[1:03:45] Kellie Nalbandian: I really enjoyed that.

[1:03:46] Jake O'Kane: Oh my god, I'm sorry.

[1:03:48] Kellie Nalbandian: So funny.

[1:03:48] Jake O'Kane: And I know that the Survivor had what what are Survivor fans called?

[1:03:53] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh Dorks.

[1:03:54] Jake O'Kane: I don't know.

[1:03:55] Kellie Nalbandian: Okay.

[1:03:56] Jake O'Kane: Survivor had Gleeps.

[1:03:58] Kellie Nalbandian: They will have loved that.

[1:03:59] Jake O'Kane: Sugar stuff.

[1:04:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Sugar's definitely first food.

[1:04:03] Jake O'Kane: That was so funny that that accidentally happened.

[1:04:06] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm literally dead.

[1:04:07] Jake O'Kane: I wasn't even thinking like sugar from Survivor.

[1:04:09] Kellie Nalbandian: I was just thinking sugar from Sugar Mata.

[1:04:12] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:04:14] Kellie Nalbandian: How about that?

[1:04:14] Jake O'Kane: Okay, going into our final song of the episode against Bad Romance.

[1:04:21] Kellie Nalbandian: Here we go.

[1:04:22] Jake O'Kane: Good luck.

[1:04:23] Kellie Nalbandian: From a prom episode.

[1:04:24] Jake O'Kane: Yoli secure.

[1:04:28] Kellie Nalbandian: Yep.

[1:04:29] Jake O'Kane: No, sorry, Blaine.

[1:04:30] Kellie Nalbandian: I said no hair job, remember?

[1:04:31] Jake O'Kane: I can totally smell it.

[1:04:35] Kellie Nalbandian: You can do this.

[1:04:40] Jake O'Kane: Everyone mouse in the room to see it.

[1:04:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Everyone else but yeah.

[1:04:47] Jake O'Kane: Maybe you be you like my world like nobody else the way that you flip your head gives me overwhelm.

[1:04:55] Kellie Nalbandian: Well when you smile as they brown, it ain't hard to tell.

[1:04:59] Jake O'Kane: You don't know.

[1:05:00] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh-oh.

[1:05:01] Jake O'Kane: You don't know you're beautiful, it's only you from what I can see.

[1:05:06] Kellie Nalbandian: You'll understand why I want you so desperately.

[1:05:10] Jake O'Kane: Right now I'm looking at you, and I can't believe you don't know.

[1:05:15] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh-oh.

[1:05:17] Jake O'Kane: You don't know you're beautiful.

[1:05:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh oh.

[1:05:20] Jake O'Kane: That's what makes you beautiful.

[1:05:37] Kellie Nalbandian: Baby light up now like nobody else.

[1:05:41] Jake O'Kane: Though the truth with your head gets me overlap.

[1:05:45] Kellie Nalbandian: But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell.

[1:05:51] Jake O'Kane: You don't know your beauty.

[1:05:56] Kellie Nalbandian: So your head gives me all.

[1:06:00] Jake O'Kane: Well, when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell, you don't know.

[1:06:05] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh-oh.

[1:06:07] Jake O'Kane: You don't know your beauty.

[1:06:09] Kellie Nalbandian: It's only you saw what I can see.

[1:06:12] Jake O'Kane: You'll understand why I want you so desperately.

[1:06:15] Kellie Nalbandian: Then when we're at you, and I can't believe you don't know.

[1:06:21] Jake O'Kane: Uh-oh.

[1:06:22] Kellie Nalbandian: You don't know your beautiful.

[1:06:25] Jake O'Kane: Uh-oh.

[1:06:26] Kellie Nalbandian: You don't know your beautiful.

[1:06:28] Jake O'Kane: Uh oh.

[1:06:29] Kellie Nalbandian: That's what makes you beautiful.

[1:06:32] Jake O'Kane: Oof.

[1:06:33] Kellie Nalbandian: I didn't do much for me.

[1:06:35] Jake O'Kane: I love boy bands.

[1:06:37] Kellie Nalbandian: I love One Direction.

[1:06:38] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I mean, it activated again, like 2012.

[1:06:44] Kellie Nalbandian: And you know, Kevin was in a boy band.

[1:06:46] Jake O'Kane: So this was his wheelhouse.

[1:06:48] Kellie Nalbandian: NLT.

[1:06:49] Jake O'Kane: NLT.

[1:06:49] Kellie Nalbandian: Shout out.

[1:06:50] Jake O'Kane: I had to look that up the other day because I was curious.

[1:06:55] Kellie Nalbandian: It was fun.

[1:06:55] Jake O'Kane: Like I was like bopping along, but it didn't give a lot performance wise either.

[1:07:00] Kellie Nalbandian: You know, it was just Friday.

[1:07:02] Jake O'Kane: Oh, I love a Friday.

[1:07:04] Kellie Nalbandian: No.

[1:07:04] Jake O'Kane: I thought it was a hot winner.

[1:07:07] Kellie Nalbandian: What's also in the prom?

[1:07:08] Jake O'Kane: Like, I was thinking it was doesn't like Brittany sing like Dinosaur by Tesla.

[1:07:12] Kellie Nalbandian: She does.

[1:07:12] Jake O'Kane: That's what I thought it was gonna be for a second.

[1:07:14] Kellie Nalbandian: I was like, I know.

[1:07:14] Jake O'Kane: Is that the same?

[1:07:15] Kellie Nalbandian: That's the season before's prom, I think, right, Andrew?

[1:07:17] Jake O'Kane: That's that's two.

[1:07:19] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, that's the I didn't remember this.

[1:07:22] Jake O'Kane: I didn't remember this song.

[1:07:24] Kellie Nalbandian: It didn't mix it up my uh prompt.

[1:07:25] Jake O'Kane: I had no recollection of this, but that was fun.

[1:07:27] Kellie Nalbandian: I had never remember the name.

[1:07:30] Jake O'Kane: We all enjoyed it.

[1:07:30] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm telling you, Sam having that moment there uh with the solo.

[1:07:34] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, when it was coming to that solo.

[1:07:35] Kellie Nalbandian: Like, oh no, Sam, I can't do this again.

[1:07:37] Jake O'Kane: Not again, not again.

[1:07:39] Kellie Nalbandian: I was like, it better be him.

[1:07:40] Jake O'Kane: Like, no one else could have that moment.

[1:07:42] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:07:42] Jake O'Kane: I feel so bad for uh Rory and Joe.

[1:07:45] Kellie Nalbandian: They really just took those guys on and tossed them.

[1:07:49] Jake O'Kane: They did nothing.

[1:07:49] Kellie Nalbandian: Abyss was the extent of it.

[1:07:51] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:07:52] Kellie Nalbandian: They did nothing.

[1:07:53] Jake O'Kane: That's it.

[1:07:54] Kellie Nalbandian: And they competed for weeks to get that.

[1:07:58] Jake O'Kane: They won.

[1:07:58] Kellie Nalbandian: And they won't glee bronze.

[1:08:00] Jake O'Kane: Ooh, I would be pissed.

[1:08:02] Kellie Nalbandian: They were like joint winners.

[1:08:04] Jake O'Kane: And then um Alex Newell, I think was like a runner up.

[1:08:10] Kellie Nalbandian: Alex Newell got way more tough.

[1:08:12] Jake O'Kane: Alex got a huge part.

[1:08:13] Kellie Nalbandian: Alex Noole should have.

[1:08:14] Jake O'Kane: Like Alex Noel Noole killed it.

[1:08:16] Kellie Nalbandian: They live there.

[1:08:16] Jake O'Kane: They or they're from around where I'm from.

[1:08:19] Kellie Nalbandian: But but yeah.

[1:08:20] Jake O'Kane: But yeah, weird, weird.

[1:08:22] Kellie Nalbandian: That's so funny.

[1:08:25] Jake O'Kane: I the amount of lore that you know as the Gleek, I am like, whoa.

[1:08:31] Kellie Nalbandian: Because some clieks come on here and they they know little a little bit, but you're coming on and you you have the facts ready and I love it.

[1:08:37] Jake O'Kane: I gotta I gotta be honest, I didn't watch season one of the Glee Project.

[1:08:40] Kellie Nalbandian: I just know how it ended.

[1:08:41] Jake O'Kane: I watched season two more.

[1:08:42] Kellie Nalbandian: Um do we have anything to say about what makes you beautiful before we cast a vote in this final competition?

[1:08:51] Jake O'Kane: I wish it was like the regular, like the the first few guys of like I would have loved that the OGs do in a one direction.

[1:08:58] Kellie Nalbandian: If this was like that was like Lori, uh giving it away.

[1:09:01] Jake O'Kane: But one D came along too late, I guess, I think.

[1:09:03] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:09:04] Jake O'Kane: This isn't right to start.

[1:09:05] Kellie Nalbandian: If this was if this was in that early episode that Kelly's been watching a lot, uh, and this was like the Mr.

[1:09:10] Jake O'Kane: Shoe Boy band uh doing this one, rather than like Akafella's doing this.

[1:09:15] Kellie Nalbandian: Rather than doing I want to sex you up, honestly, I would take the warblers, I would say the warblers tearing this up as well.

[1:09:21] Jake O'Kane: Ooh, yep.

[1:09:25] Kellie Nalbandian: And it went so hard.

[1:09:27] Jake O'Kane: It was so honestly.

[1:09:28] Kellie Nalbandian: Can I just tell you I actly live?

[1:09:30] Jake O'Kane: I think I had a meet and greet thing.

[1:09:32] Kellie Nalbandian: This is just coming back to me now.

[1:09:33] Jake O'Kane: And I didn't I got no I got the fucking warblers, like two random warblers, like other people were meeting like actual good people, and my concert was two warblers.

[1:09:45] Kellie Nalbandian: So that can make you feel better because that was a robbery.

[1:09:48] Jake O'Kane: Was it at least make me feel like it was it was it a main warbler?

[1:09:51] Kellie Nalbandian: Like did you at least get like Sebastian?

[1:09:53] Jake O'Kane: It wasn't Kurt, it was nope, nope, who they were.

[1:09:57] Kellie Nalbandian: If you can figure it out, you need to let it be.

[1:09:58] Jake O'Kane: I gotta find the photo.

[1:10:01] Kellie Nalbandian: It was literally guessed on the police.

[1:10:03] Jake O'Kane: Oh my god, I'm so sorry.

[1:10:04] Kellie Nalbandian: No, no, no.

[1:10:05] Jake O'Kane: It's fine.

[1:10:05] Kellie Nalbandian: I was there for the girls, all right.

[1:10:06] Jake O'Kane: I'm sorry, I was having my moment.

[1:10:08] Kellie Nalbandian: Right, you're like, where's the where are the trouble toasts?

[1:10:11] Jake O'Kane: I was like, I thought we were gonna get a main cast member.

[1:10:14] Kellie Nalbandian: Or like you know, maybe yeah, Blaine was like coming up.

[1:10:18] Jake O'Kane: Make no mistake.

[1:10:19] Kellie Nalbandian: If there was a meet and greet available and you didn't get, you know.

[1:10:23] Jake O'Kane: Naya or Brittany or somebody.

[1:10:25] Kellie Nalbandian: Also, it was postseason two, so I don't even think the warblers had had a lot of moments yet.

[1:10:29] Jake O'Kane: It was really just like Blaine, and then the Warblers were just kind of like in the background.

[1:10:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Then they kind of get more of their own storyline.

[1:10:35] Jake O'Kane: This is Press Bastion's.

[1:10:37] Kellie Nalbandian: If you can track down this photo, this would be awesome.

[1:10:40] Jake O'Kane: I'll try to do that.

[1:10:41] Kellie Nalbandian: It was also a photo of me and Gabby in line to meet Naya.

[1:10:45] Jake O'Kane: Oh, yeah.

[1:10:45] Kellie Nalbandian: She's about to be Naya, and I'm in the background.

[1:10:48] Jake O'Kane: It's like cosmic.

[1:10:51] Kellie Nalbandian: It exists.

[1:10:51] Jake O'Kane: I don't know.

[1:10:52] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm obsessed.

[1:10:53] Jake O'Kane: Um, okay.

[1:10:54] Kellie Nalbandian: Wrapping up this episode, where we f I mean, I feel like the vote is obvious, but just for the sake of voting, um, who we I mean, I'm voting for bad romance.

[1:11:03] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:11:04] Kellie Nalbandian: Is everybody with me?

[1:11:05] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:11:05] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:11:06] Jake O'Kane: Okay.

[1:11:09] Kellie Nalbandian: That's like I don't know.

[1:11:10] Jake O'Kane: It's kind of, I mean, big numbers, season one.

[1:11:13] Kellie Nalbandian: Lady Gaga was huge.

[1:11:14] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, Lady Gaga was so big when like Glee came out.

[1:11:17] Kellie Nalbandian: It was like she's kind of like, and this was a good cross.

[1:11:17] Jake O'Kane: This was a good like theme artist episode that was like super relevant and it hadn't been overdone yet, so it was just really fun.

[1:11:27] Kellie Nalbandian: And I mean, like, this final competition was girl group number with versus the boy group number, which I feel like the boy group number for the most part on the hitbox show Glee.

[1:11:36] Jake O'Kane: They kinda are never as good as the girls.

[1:11:39] Kellie Nalbandian: No.

[1:11:39] Jake O'Kane: They try.

[1:11:40] Kellie Nalbandian: Walking out sunshine, beat whatever the boys were doing.

[1:11:42] Jake O'Kane: What was that one episode they did where it was like?

[1:11:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Oh, it's my life confessions.

[1:11:45] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, like come on now.

[1:11:47] Kellie Nalbandian: Right.

[1:11:48] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:11:49] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh so in recap for this episode, um, TikTok.

[1:11:52] Jake O'Kane: Uh, the the party did stop when you walked in.

[1:11:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, take me or leave me.

[1:11:58] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I'm gonna take you um to round three.

[1:12:03] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh what's next?

[1:12:07] Jake O'Kane: I kissed a girl and I didn't like it, so I left it behind in round two.

[1:12:11] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, it's been a hard day's night, and you were getting a fat paycheck, and also an all season pass to a round three of the Glackett.

[1:12:20] Jake O'Kane: Bad romance.

[1:12:21] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, I think that's a great romance.

[1:12:23] Jake O'Kane: You were solidifying your slot in round three.

[1:12:26] Kellie Nalbandian: Uh, and what makes you beautiful?

[1:12:29] Jake O'Kane: Um, what makes you kind of like not good enough for round three?

[1:12:34] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, thank you so much, first of all, Matt, for initiating this meeting of the the Glines, the Glee Mines.

[1:12:34] Jake O'Kane: The Glines.

[1:12:43] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, and for Jake and Kelly for joining today.

[1:12:47] Jake O'Kane: But Jake, starting with you, where can all the Gleeks find you?

[1:12:51] Jake O'Kane: Anything that you would like to promote at this time.

[1:12:53] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, I mean, you can find me on Instagram at Jake O underscore Kane or like on Twitch at Jake Woke.

[1:13:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, you can find me either one of those places, just Twitch stuff.

[1:13:05] Jake O'Kane: Twitch, yeah.

[1:13:06] Kellie Nalbandian: What did I not say twitch?

[1:13:07] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, Instagram or Twitch.

[1:13:09] Kellie Nalbandian: I got the Twitch.

[1:13:09] Jake O'Kane: Jake Woke Twitch.

[1:13:10] Kellie Nalbandian: Thanks.

[1:13:11] Jake O'Kane: Incredible.

[1:13:12] Kellie Nalbandian: And Kelly, where can they find you?

[1:13:14] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah, you can uh follow me on Instagram.

[1:13:16] Kellie Nalbandian: It's just my name, but it's very hard to spell.

[1:13:18] Kellie Nalbandian: So it's K-E-L-L-I-E.

[1:13:20] Kellie Nalbandian: And then my long last name, Albandian.

[1:13:23] Kellie Nalbandian: But you Google me, you'll be able to find me.

[1:13:25] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, yeah, Instagram.

[1:13:27] Kellie Nalbandian: My Twitter is or X, it's shorter because it won't allow my full name.

[1:13:31] Kellie Nalbandian: It's just Kelly Naub.

[1:13:32] Kellie Nalbandian: I used the Twitch.

[1:13:33] Kellie Nalbandian: Maybe one day I'll do it again.

[1:13:35] Kellie Nalbandian: Um, I just don't have time.

[1:13:37] Kellie Nalbandian: I I I also play like boring games.

[1:13:39] Kellie Nalbandian: Like, I'm not playing like shooting games.

[1:13:41] Kellie Nalbandian: I like like farming sims and like resource management.

[1:13:44] Jake O'Kane: That's fun.

[1:13:44] Kellie Nalbandian: Love that.

[1:13:45] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:13:45] Kellie Nalbandian: Is it?

[1:13:46] Jake O'Kane: Every time I watch it, it's a lot.

[1:13:48] Kellie Nalbandian: It gives you more time to like vibe.

[1:13:49] Jake O'Kane: You know what I mean?

[1:13:50] Kellie Nalbandian: Like I feel like if I'm doing like a first person shooter thing, it's like I can't read what people are saying then also.

[1:13:55] Jake O'Kane: You know what I mean?

[1:13:56] Kellie Nalbandian: Because it's so like I did have a lot of fun.

[1:13:59] Jake O'Kane: I should do that again.

[1:14:00] Kellie Nalbandian: But I my Twitch is also Kelly Nalbandian.

[1:14:02] Jake O'Kane: But Kelly, when's the wedding podcast?

[1:14:04] Kellie Nalbandian: It is next October.

[1:14:06] Jake O'Kane: So is mine.

[1:14:07] Kellie Nalbandian: Really?

[1:14:08] Jake O'Kane: What day?

[1:14:10] Kellie Nalbandian: What day you said?

[1:14:11] Jake O'Kane: Do you know?

[1:14:12] Kellie Nalbandian: Yeah.

[1:14:13] Jake O'Kane: 11 maybe?

[1:14:14] Kellie Nalbandian: 13.

[1:14:15] Jake O'Kane: Oh, okay.

[1:14:15] Kellie Nalbandian: I'm 25.

[1:14:17] Jake O'Kane: Oh.

[1:14:17] Kellie Nalbandian: Well.

[1:14:18] Jake O'Kane: 10, 25, 25.

[1:14:20] Kellie Nalbandian: That's amazing.

[1:14:21] Jake O'Kane: We'll coordinate our our uh you know, our music if we're gonna get some glee in there.

[1:14:24] Kellie Nalbandian: I know I have a lot of glee in mine already, so you guys have kind of inspired me.

[1:14:28] Jake O'Kane: I'm not gonna lie, but right now I just have Valerie on the playlist.

[1:14:31] Kellie Nalbandian: I was literally working on it in on a drive with Gabby recently, so I might have to do that.

[1:14:36] Jake O'Kane: I think that Valerie works too, because I don't think that most people would even clock that it's not even the original.

[1:14:42] Kellie Nalbandian: It's a fun one, and it's kinda like a little different.

[1:14:45] Jake O'Kane: Yeah, yeah.

[1:14:46] Kellie Nalbandian: It's honestly better than the original.

[1:14:48] Jake O'Kane: Since safety, no one likes safety dance, so you know.

[1:14:51] Kellie Nalbandian: Kelly, I would dance in safety dance.

[1:14:52] Jake O'Kane: Safety dance is fun.

[1:14:54] Kellie Nalbandian: Well, if I put anything song, Jake better be on the dancing.

[1:14:58] Jake O'Kane: Yeah.

[1:15:01] Kellie Nalbandian: Well, thank you all again for helping out with the Glack this week.

[1:15:05] Jake O'Kane: Thank you, Jake.

[1:15:06] Kellie Nalbandian: Our pleasure.

[1:15:07] Jake O'Kane: Thank you.

[1:15:08] Kellie Nalbandian: A new episode in your feeds next week.

[1:15:10] Jake O'Kane: Bye.

[1:15:13] Kellie Nalbandian: It's Glick.

[1:15:14] Jake O'Kane: Glick of the lake.