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[0:00] Andrew: Glee.

[0:03] Emilee: Let me okay.

[0:04] Andrew: Uh yeah, I'm ready.

[0:06] Emilee: Okay.

[0:06] Andrew: Three, two, one.

[0:08] Emilee: Three, two, one.

[0:10] Andrew: Mrs. Lovett's meat pies.

[0:13] Emilee: Submarine sweet pies, tis you, Nick.

[0:17] Andrew: You're coming so loud for me, but I love it.

[0:20] Emilee: I love the end.

[0:23] Andrew: Um Mrs. Lovett's meat pies. Um we have a lot of a lot to talk.

[0:31] Emilee: It's been a it's been a minute since we recorded last.

[0:33] Andrew: It has.

[0:34] Emilee: Um it has only been a week for the glisteners.

[0:38] Andrew: Um but uh I feel like it's been like over two weeks since we recorded last, which is kind of weird for us.

[0:43] Emilee: Um, but a lot has actually transpired um recently.

[0:46] Andrew: So much has happened.

[0:47] Emilee: The Queen died.

[0:48] Andrew: The Queen died.

[0:49] Emilee: Michelle had her debut in Funny Girl, Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles at Don't Worry Darling.

[0:55] Andrew: But most importantly, um it became public knowledge, the final competition of the Ned episode.

[1:03] Emilee: The Colo versus Colo became public.

[1:08] Andrew: We were holding it inside. It was kind of weird to like sit on that information.

[1:09] Emilee: It was.

[1:12] Andrew: It was.

[1:13] Emilee: It was stressing me out.

[1:14] Andrew: I know that it was holding something over you.

[1:16] Emilee: Um Yeah.

[1:17] Andrew: The thing about that poll is that it felt like a poll.

[1:20] Emilee: You know what I mean?

[1:21] Andrew: It's yeah.

[1:22] Emilee: It felt like a it felt like a real matchup.

[1:25] Andrew: Uh, which I kind of crave. It felt like we this is what we made our podcast for.

[1:31] Emilee: I'm referencing Harry Styles.

[1:33] Andrew: Oh.

[1:34] Emilee: You know, the Wendy's like my favorite part about a movie is when it feels like a movie.

[1:41] Andrew: Um, so yeah, this matchup really like re-ignited me.

[1:46] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:47] Andrew: Um and it definitely breaks it ignited the Gleeks, and they are standing their ground.

[1:55] Emilee: Um, how how do we want to because the this entire intro is going to be devoted to the Gleeks hating me?

[2:04] Andrew: No, just like hearing both sides.

[2:06] Emilee: Um so how do we want to start this?

[2:09] Andrew: Um I think you should start with the Gloy Smail that you told me about.

[2:14] Emilee: Okay.

[2:14] Andrew: Um about I am the greatest star.

[2:16] Emilee: Okay, then okay, I have it here.

[2:19] Andrew: Okay.

[2:19] Emilee: And you have not heard this Gloy Smail yet.

[2:21] Andrew: Nope.

[2:21] Emilee: Going in blind.

[2:22] Andrew: Mrs. Lovett's meat pies.

[2:24] Emilee: Okay. Hi, it's Sarah, she her. Um I just listened to the podcast, and I'm frankly very disappointed in the I'm the greatest star Kurt Spirgin Hay.

[2:34] Andrew: I think this is one of his best performances, and he just seems like he's having so much fun.

[2:38] Emilee: Also, Chris Wolfer is apparently really passionate about that sword twirling thing in real life, and that's why he did it on the show.

[2:45] Andrew: So I don't understand the slander. I think it should have gone through.

[2:48] Emilee: Um, Andrew, I don't think you should have let Allison bully you.

[2:51] Andrew: Um, but anyway, you guys can get this part out if you want to put me on the pod.

[2:55] Emilee: But me and my little brother are both so obsessed with Glee. I've watched it for a really long time. I submitted a request to go on the podcast, but um, we want to go on together.

[3:04] Andrew: So I don't know if I should do a new form or if I'm just telling you guys now, but anyway, yeah, we would both love to come on.

[3:10] Emilee: So just letting you know. Okay, bye.

[3:13] Andrew: I would love to make Gleek of the Week a family affair.

[3:16] Emilee: Oh my god, please.

[3:17] Andrew: Number one.

[3:18] Emilee: Number one.

[3:19] Andrew: Um also, I don't know if you could tell. The um the Gleeks recently have been um there have been a number of glisteners on.

[3:26] Emilee: We love talking to the glisteners more so now than ever.

[3:30] Andrew: Um, and so what I will say to those of you who have already submitted um the um glistener submission form, um, if you didn't mention in your form that you listened to the podcast, please go back and do so because I feel like there are some of y'all that don't actually there were some people that submitted the form and I'm like, I don't even know if you listen.

[3:54] Emilee: So it's like it's very important to us that you listen to the podcast and that you want to come on.

[4:01] Andrew: Um we would love to have you and your brother on, I feel like with you know you know, fights. And I wanna talk about this specifically.

[4:08] Emilee: Um Andrew, okay.

[4:10] Andrew: So I opened this episode and I not well, this Zoom call, and I said I just had the most fun half hour ever.

[4:19] Emilee: Okay.

[4:19] Andrew: Because I knew that we were gonna I was gonna have to defend my stance on I Am the Greatest Star being the worst song on Glee.

[4:25] Emilee: Which is crazy that you're still holding on to that.

[4:28] Andrew: I don't know why people are mad because I'm right.

[4:30] Emilee: So And you're also saying the colo version is the worst song.

[4:30] Andrew: The colo version is the worst.

[4:36] Emilee: So what I did during this two weeks, I listened, I I do this thing where I listen to episodes of Glee, like they're a podcast when I go on my hot girl walks.

[4:49] Andrew: Um, and I listened to I Am Unicorn, this episode where I am the greatest star colo version is on.

[4:58] Emilee: I listened to it so I got all the context of the episode, context of the song, why why he sang it.

[5:03] Andrew: Um I so and just now I watched I Am the Greatest Star Kurt version.

[5:03] Emilee: I watched I Am the Greatest Star Rachel version, I watched I Am the Greatest Star Julie Banko at Bryant Park version.

[5:09] Andrew: I watched I Am the Greatest Star Sutton Foster version.

[5:09] Emilee: I watched I Am the Greatest Star Barbara Streisand movie version.

[5:24] Andrew: Okay.

[5:24] Emilee: And because I wanted to come with receipts, I wanted to come in here and I didn't want people because one of the points you made was that you were like, no, now that I've seen Funny Girl and I get the Fannie Bryce character a little bit more, this song makes sense and it's funny.

[5:41] Andrew: Um and I feel like I have a little bit more of an understanding of how this song should go because I can see the Barbara Streisand almost complete recreation in the Rachel Berry version of the song.

[5:56] Emilee: Um like down to the set, down to the outfit.

[5:59] Andrew: Um and I stand by what I said. However, I do want to clarify that I think I am the greatest star Kurt's version is two songs in one.

[6:15] Emilee: So the first half of the song, where he says things like, I have 36 expressions, um, where he says, stick around for the jokes.

[6:26] Andrew: Um, terrible.

[6:29] Emilee: Really god awful, really cringy, really makes me want to light myself on fire.

[6:33] Andrew: However, when the song goes into the Don't Rain on My Parade orchestra, right, and he turns around and he's kind of like in his head figuring his life out, he turns back around.

[6:47] Emilee: That's a different song to me.

[6:49] Andrew: And that is good. However, the first part takes so much away from the second half of the song that I can't do it.

[7:00] Emilee: Wait, so even like one half of a song that's bad is still the worst song on Glee for you.

[7:09] Andrew: Yeah.

[7:09] Emilee: It's enough to make this the worst song on Glee.

[7:12] Andrew: I stand by, I mean, Sarah, I felt the heat from your voicemail.

[7:17] Emilee: I felt that you were really passionate about this, and I completely appreciate that because I am also heated.

[7:23] Andrew: Um however, um Chris Colfer, great.

[7:28] Emilee: I love that you like swinging knives around.

[7:30] Andrew: It doesn't make sense.

[7:32] Emilee: It is it's a reach for Kurt.

[7:34] Andrew: I'm sorry. Kurt is Kurt is a very theatrical person.

[7:38] Emilee: I think this performance is him as a whole.

[7:42] Andrew: Okay.

[7:43] Emilee: I don't need the knives.

[7:44] Andrew: I don't need the knives because again, I'm directly comparing it to being alive.

[7:48] Emilee: Being alive is a better song.

[7:50] Andrew: We can all agree that being alive is a better song than I am the greatest star cult.

[7:54] Emilee: And also, we're recording this on the evening of September 11th, when the poll is live.

[8:00] Andrew: Exactly.

[8:01] Emilee: So a historic day.

[8:03] Andrew: A historic day for no other reason.

[8:05] Emilee: Um and and being alive is winning.

[8:09] Andrew: I was excited to see how it would land.

[8:11] Emilee: Um currently, let's let's check in on the polls.

[8:13] Andrew: Okay.

[8:13] Emilee: Um we're still in the city.

[8:14] Andrew: Let's call into CNN live poll results.

[8:17] Emilee: We're still waiting on a few states.

[8:19] Andrew: Stay in line.

[8:20] Emilee: Stay in line.

[8:21] Andrew: Oh my god, going through the story.

[8:24] Emilee: Umly, this is this is live.

[8:29] Andrew: Okay. I am the greatest star, 39% being alive, 61%.

[8:35] Emilee: You're gonna tell me that I'm wrong.

[8:37] Andrew: Okay. At the beginning, when we first posted the poll, it was it was all over the place.

[8:41] Emilee: People were coming from all over the U.S.

[8:44] Andrew: It really was anybody's race at that point.

[8:46] Emilee: Right now, maybe not.

[8:48] Andrew: No.

[8:48] Emilee: Um.

[8:49] Andrew: So I watched the Rachel Berry version as well.

[8:53] Emilee: The Rachel Berry version, I when we pull it, I will have a lot to say.

[8:58] Andrew: I'm not gonna say all of my points.

[9:00] Emilee: Um, but I will say it is the weakest Funny Girl song for Rachel.

[9:05] Andrew: Um, wait, how about you are a woman, I am man.

[9:10] Emilee: Oh no, I would uh it's the same level of cringe, Andrew.

[9:16] Andrew: Ooh, okay, okay, okay.

[9:20] Emilee: I don't know about that.

[9:22] Andrew: Um when she sticks, she's sticking her tongue out.

[9:26] Emilee: I can't wait to, I hope we pull it today, because I noticed so many things about that performance.

[9:31] Andrew: She's literally going like Oh my god, wait, wait, wait.

[9:34] Emilee: Um, wait, what is the one part?

[9:36] Andrew: Um, oh my god.

[9:39] Emilee: She just like she does something weird with her lips and her mouth in that song.

[9:44] Andrew: What what is I forget what the lyric is right now, where she's like walking across the stage.

[9:48] Emilee: I forget what the lyric is, but it's I'm a natural came.

[9:51] Andrew: Yeah.

[9:52] Emilee: It's like almost like that.

[9:53] Andrew: It's bad.

[9:54] Emilee: Um I still like I'm the greatest star.

[9:58] Andrew: I'm not cosigning on anything that you've said.

[10:00] Emilee: Okay, that's fine.

[10:01] Andrew: I'm just going off.

[10:02] Emilee: Um, the Julie Banko version.

[10:05] Andrew: Slay.

[10:06] Emilee: She slayed um, she does Julie Benko loves to say, I'm a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

[10:13] Andrew: That's like her favorite fucking line.

[10:15] Emilee: She says it in every goddamn Instagram live that they have.

[10:19] Andrew: And I love that for Julie Benko, that that is her favorite.

[10:22] Emilee: Wait, more so than other fannies?

[10:24] Andrew: More so than other fannies, more so than any other line from the show.

[10:28] Emilee: Okay.

[10:28] Andrew: She's like, I love Fanny because she's a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

[10:33] Emilee: I feel like I remember Beanie Feldstein using that in the press leading up to her her debut.

[10:39] Andrew: Maybe she did.

[10:39] Emilee: But Julie Benko, goddammit. If I have to hear her say that one more time.

[10:43] Andrew: Because that's the opening to this song.

[10:46] Emilee: And Julie Benko really killed it.

[10:48] Andrew: I mean, I s with Julie Banko's version, I start to get where the jokes are coming in.

[10:54] Emilee: Kurt's version of this song, not funny.

[10:57] Andrew: Stop.

[11:00] Emilee: It's not funny.

[11:01] Andrew: I don't get the character bits.

[11:04] Emilee: Like he's no, it's not there for me.

[11:08] Andrew: Julie Benko, I kind of get like where she's coming from.

[11:12] Emilee: I get the stick.

[11:13] Andrew: You heard the what about the traveling salesman?

[11:15] Emilee: Like that was funny to me.

[11:17] Andrew: I was like, okay, I get it. Fanny.

[11:18] Emilee: I will I'll say the same thing because when I saw Funny Girl, I was like, oh, I'm the greatest star, and also you are a woman, I am man.

[11:25] Andrew: I was like, I feel like I'm watching a different music.

[11:28] Emilee: Like a different song.

[11:28] Andrew: I'm like, I didn't under even even understand the jokes that were I've listened to hundreds of times.

[11:35] Emilee: Like in You Are Woman, I am Man, um, where like he says like a bit of pate, and then she says, I drink it all day.

[11:42] Andrew: And for some reason, brain it all day is numb when I watch the Glee version, but the joke landed when I watched Julie Benko do it.

[11:49] Emilee: Yeah, none of the jokes land in the colo version for me.

[11:52] Andrew: None of the jokes land, but they land, and especially with Sutton Foster.

[11:56] Emilee: I'm a Sutton Foster.

[11:58] Andrew: Oh, title of the episode.

[12:01] Emilee: Um I really love Sutton Foster.

[12:04] Andrew: I love Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[12:05] Emilee: If Thoroughly Modern Millie is one of my favorite shows.

[12:08] Andrew: And her voice and how she performed it, I think she was doing it for a benefit concert or something, really landed when she was like, stick around for the jokes.

[12:17] Emilee: She like was moving around the guy as he was like leaving.

[12:21] Andrew: Okay.

[12:22] Emilee: Whereas with Kurt, it's like stick around for the jokes.

[12:26] Andrew: Like, you need a second person on stage for this song in a lot of ways, I think.

[12:30] Emilee: Um to interact with and for the jokes to land.

[12:33] Andrew: Wait, so you're saying that, okay, if I'm understanding correctly, Sutton Foster is a better performer than Chris Colfer.

[12:40] Emilee: I mean, she's got the Tonies to prove it, babe.

[12:44] Andrew: Um wait, okay, wait. So if you were to rank the greatest stars.

[12:49] Emilee: Okay.

[12:50] Andrew: I mean Barbara at the top.

[12:51] Emilee: Barbara at the top.

[12:52] Andrew: Barbara at the top, then it's gonna go Sutton, then it's gonna go Julie Benko, then it's gonna go Rachel Berry, then it's gonna go Kolo.

[12:59] Emilee: Mm-hmm.

[13:00] Andrew: Really, really deep at the bottom.

[13:02] Emilee: But I do want to say, I have two more points, okay?

[13:02] Andrew: I have two more points.

[13:06] Emilee: Okay.

[13:07] Andrew: My first point is that there are parts of the song that in each iteration of the Glee version, the Rachel version and the Kurt version that they cut out.

[13:17] Emilee: The Rachel version does not have the stick around for the jokes.

[13:21] Andrew: Doesn't have that part.

[13:23] Emilee: Um, and I don't think either of them, the performance-wise, have the 10 American toes.

[13:31] Andrew: Yes, yeah.

[13:32] Emilee: And I love that part.

[13:33] Andrew: I love it when it goes back into drum and it's like, oh my god, yeah.

[13:37] Emilee: Yeah.

[13:38] Andrew: This turns me on.

[13:40] Emilee: Right.

[13:40] Andrew: Um nostalgia.

[13:42] Emilee: Yeah.

[13:42] Andrew: Yeah, because you hear the orchestra in the Kurt version, you're like, are we gonna get drum Kurt version?

[13:48] Emilee: Like, oh my god.

[13:49] Andrew: No, you don't.

[13:50] Emilee: You don't get it at all.

[13:51] Andrew: No.

[13:51] Emilee: Um.

[13:52] Andrew: And then my last point is that I mean, Gleeks who listen to this podcast know that I like I think I hate the middle of musicals.

[14:04] Emilee: Because I like to say I hate the beginning of Act Two, but I know I am the greatest star is not the beginning of Act Two.

[14:10] Andrew: I just I love big opening numbers and I love big closing numbers.

[14:15] Emilee: And it's when the middle gets messy for me, is that I'm like, I don't really care about this anymore.

[14:21] Andrew: And this is a perfect example of that.

[14:23] Emilee: This song.

[14:25] Andrew: Wait, so you're saying like okay.

[14:28] Emilee: Okay, I'm just thinking of like middle musical numbers.

[14:33] Andrew: No, I have a list.

[14:34] Emilee: I have a list.

[14:34] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[14:35] Emilee: Okay.

[14:47] Emilee: They're not big showstoppers, they're not defying gravities. They're trying to move the plot along, and they're big talking songs. Like, stick around. Like, I keep going back to that, but when they stop singing and they're half talking.

[15:01] Andrew: Right.

[15:01] Emilee: I really don't prefer. I thought of, by the way, sorry to interrupt.

[15:05] Andrew: No, tell me.

[15:06] Emilee: I thought of the part that Rachel does that she uses her. She, I'm a great big crap. Big clump of shallow.

[15:13] Andrew: Laugh.

[15:17] Emilee: I'll bend in half.

[15:19] Andrew: They'll bend in half, actually.

[15:20] Emilee: Those are the words.

[15:21] Andrew: Oh, men in half.

[15:23] Emilee: Exactly. I know this song like the back of my goddamn hand now. It gives just you wait from My Fair Lady. I don't know if that hits for you.

[15:32] Andrew: No.

[15:32] Emilee: But it's where My Fair Lady, her name is escaping me, right?

[15:37] Andrew: Eliza.

[15:38] Emilee: Eliza is like, just you wait, Mr. Higgins, just you wait. Like she's moving and kind of plotting, and it's like you don't understand my potential. Um, that sort of thing. That's what this song gives. It's kind of giving I feel pretty, but I mean West Side Story, there's no flop in the bunch, but it kind of gives me anything. I'm kind of, it's kind of giving I feel pretty where it's like it's moving. You're moving and it's fluff. Like, do we need it? What's going on?

[16:06] Andrew: Ooh, okay.

[16:18] Emilee: Um, I love an I feel pretty, so please—

[16:18] Andrew: No, I love I Feel Pretty.

[16:26] Emilee: I do, there's not a flop in West Side Story.

[16:27] Andrew: Cool.

[16:27] Emilee: Um, cool but cool would like to say something.

[16:31] Andrew: I love cool.

[16:33] Emilee: Are you kidding? Um, okay, we continue. Sorry. Uh, and then I think it gives I know things now from Into the Woods, the little Red Riding Hood song.

[16:44] Andrew: Yeah.

[16:45] Emilee: It's like I think that was only like a minute and a half, maybe it's short, but it's again moving, like kind of describing something that they saw, and it's like, all right, like I, what, why are we here? Um, and then it does give, um, Mrs. Love, it's me pause say Marine Sweet Pause tis you neat. Um, it does give that a little bit. Well, because when you said like middle of musicals songs don't hit for you, I'm immediately going to end of act one performances.

[17:18] Andrew: Okay.

[17:19] Emilee: They don't, are you including them? Are you including a defining gravity? Are you including and I am telling you, are you including drama?

[17:27] Andrew: Those are big belters.

[17:28] Emilee: I'm not including big belters. I'm talking middle of act one, plot development, and beginning of act two. If those songs do not hit for me, the entire musical is not gonna hit for me.

[17:43] Andrew: Okay.

[17:45] Emilee: Like, thank goodness.

[17:47] Andrew: Stop. Wait, what are you gonna say about thank goodness?

[17:51] Emilee: Um, thank goodness, flopped.

[17:55] Andrew: Fuck.

[17:58] Emilee: No. I'm just out here on this podcast saying things. This was, this is your apology tour. This is like when Whoopi said the thing about the Holocaust and then went on Stephen Colbert that night and was like double down. And then like the next morning, they were like, Whoop is not here for the next two weeks.

[18:19] Andrew: This is what's gonna happen.

[18:20] Emilee: Compare this conversation to the Holocaust, absolutely.

[18:23] Andrew: Well, I would say pretty historic.

[18:26] Emilee: Um, I also, I know that this intro is going longer than already. Um, but I don't know if you saw. I also opened it up to the Gleeks um on Instagram to weigh in.

[18:39] Andrew: Yes.

[18:40] Emilee: Um, if you want to open up your phone uh and look at what people—

[18:40] Andrew: Grab it one second. Wait, I'm so scared.

[18:48] Emilee: It's not that bad. I think this is a good note to go out on.

[18:52] Andrew: Okay.

[18:53] Emilee: 10 American beauty toes. Like, that's good. That hits for me.

[18:58] Andrew: So did people just respond or did they—

[18:58] Emilee: No, look at the our most recent story where I asked a question and people responded, like the question thing.

[19:08] Andrew: Um, Love both, but the development and maturity is unmatched in being alive.

[19:14] Emilee: Thank you, Kendall. Being alive is probably the most relatable glee song.

[19:18] Andrew: Thank you, Becky.

[19:20] Emilee: I'm called Katie being alive. Marley, being alive. H B I C being alive.

[19:26] Andrew: I agree with everything Allison said during the episode.

[19:29] Emilee: Okay, Slay. Being.

[19:31] Andrew: I know I had bitch in charge.

[19:33] Emilee: And that's a H B I C. So I stan.

[19:36] Andrew: Being alive literally makes me cry.

[19:38] Emilee: Uh, what a bummer that two amazing colos had to compete.

[19:43] Andrew: It's true. Being alive is so good, and why sing Barber for Tony.

[19:46] Emilee: Glee Boot Pod, thank you fucking a lot.

[19:51] Andrew: Allison can rot for what she said on the podcast.

[19:55] Emilee: You said that. You submitted that.

[19:56] Andrew: It's no, it's signed anonymous.

[20:00] Emilee: Anonymous at McGui guy. That's your Instagram handle, you bitch.

[20:05] Andrew: Everybody's standing. Being alive, boring. Greatest share's greatest star shows Kurt's true personality, and he's having fun.

[20:12] Emilee: Sarah Loving, you came into our DMs already once. And I am not changing my voice.

[20:20] Andrew: Sarah Loving hating Sarah. Sarah Loving, we love you for how passionate you feel about this, about this combat competition. Thank you for sledding into. I can't believe World War Three is commencing.

[20:32] Emilee: Says Ned.

[20:33] Andrew: That's so good.

[20:34] Emilee: That's good. Um, Danielle being alive, it's much better fit for his voice.

[20:39] Andrew: Yeah, exactly.

[20:41] Emilee: Okay. I'm right.

[20:44] Andrew: Why are you yelling?

[20:45] Emilee: I'm right. Um, wait, or do you want to let's sing?

[20:47] Andrew: Oh, do you already stop your recording?

[20:49] Emilee: No, no, no, no, no.

[20:50] Andrew: Okay. We can sing. Um, okay. I'm also just like fair warning. I'm, I had a really good feeling earlier, a really bad feeling rather, that we are going to have a very difficult competition in today's episode as well. I think we're reaching the bottom of the barrel, and I think that we're gonna have like something like somebody to love season one version against like um I feel pretty unpretty. And I'm not ready for it.

[21:13] Emilee: Okay. Just letting you know.

[21:15] Andrew: Okay. Three, two, one, two, three. And American duty knows. American beauty toes. I on the target. Target and wham.

[21:29] Emilee: Wait, so you want, I want I am the greatest star Rachel's version. And I want I feel pretty slash I'm pretty, Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[21:38] Andrew: Okay, we'll see. Even though I'm scared for it, we'll see.

[21:40] Emilee: Okay. Gleeks, we have the inventor of the Emily rule, which if you need a recap, the Emily rule, of course, is um Emily was upset with me for um talking about songs before we actually listen to them. And so we have um the scientists behind this rule um with us on the podcast today. Emily, how are you doing?

[22:05] Emilee: I am wonderful. Thank you.

[22:08] Andrew: Oh my gosh, that's so funny because every time I listen to it, I'm like, oh no, oh no, Andrew, oh no. It's so funny though. It makes me laugh every time. Emily, we're so excited to have you on the podcast. Talk to us about your relationship with Glee, when you watched, for how long, all that good stuff.

[22:28] Emilee: Well, um, I'm actually, I like to call myself an elder gleek. Um, I started watching when I was 23 years old when it came out.

[22:36] Andrew: Incredible.

[22:37] Emilee: Um, so most people started in middle school, high school. I started in college. And a friend of mine said, Hey, you've got to watch the show. A whole bunch of us were in a theater company, and we were all together before that started for the summer, and I watched it and I'm like, this is now my everything. Uh so um I kind of connect when I was watching Glee with where I was in my life. I moved a lot of different times, went to a couple different colleges, and eventually met my now husband and got him into Glee.

[23:07] Andrew: Okay.

[23:08] Emilee: So he has now watched every episode of Glee. And I watched start to finish. I was a trooper all the way through the good and the bad.

[23:17] Andrew: Nice. You watch all the way to the series finale.

[23:19] Emilee: Oh, definitely. 100%. Never miss an episode.

[23:22] Andrew: Yep.

[23:23] Emilee: Even on the Friday evening.

[23:24] Andrew: Oh yes.

[23:25] Emilee: Like, I have nothing better to do. This is what it's better to do. Like this is. This is yeah, I would I would rather watch Child Star than go out on a Friday night.

[23:35] Andrew: Silent Star. Wait, so where do you and your husband differ on your glee takes?

[23:41] Emilee: Oh man, he is a big Blaine fan. So he's right there with you, Alison. Um, I'm not, I'm it's not that I don't like Blaine because oh my gosh, dare Chris, so talented. But um, I am more of a basic biatch when it comes to glee. I'm a Rachel Finn stan. I am like OG all the way. Get me my pumpkin spice latte and my Uggs because I'm the most basic of them all.

[24:08] Andrew: Yes.

[24:09] Emilee: Uh nice. So yeah, he's uh he he likes you know a little bit more of the warblers and things like that, where I'm more into the new directions OG of it all.

[24:21] Andrew: That's fair. We so I don't know if you heard on the episode we released this week with Ned, we pulled I am the greatest star with uh the Kurt Solo.

[24:31] Emilee: Yes, and I said apparently a lot of things that the Gleeks didn't like. The beginning of this episode is a 20-minute of us just talking about the reactions to that competition.

[24:43] Andrew: Yes, I want to know your takes on I am the greatest star Kurt Solo.

[24:47] Emilee: Okay. So I actually wrote a note about this because that took a bunch of notes. And um I I was so grateful that being alive went through. It is my favorite Kurt solo. Hands down. So good. And that was a hard competition. I mean, in any other situation, would that version have gone through season? What is it? Season three?

[25:06] Andrew: Oh my gosh. Yes, okay.

[25:12] Emilee: Season three. Greatest star. Um, I I think it's it it definitely both in the conversation, both sides were very strong, where it was like, why is he auditioning for this with Tony? But he's also trying to show his masculinity. So I think that I think the right decision was made, but I was here for the fight for it all. I loved it. It was great. I was like, yes, let's battle it out. But um I do like it. I will say I'm a fan of Rachel's more than Kurt's by a long shot. And it might be because of the theatricality of it all. I'm a theater person and I'm like, oh, a full production of this, right? But they were totally different, like worlds different, which is why I'm glad they did it twice. Um in my opinion. But yeah, I I was that was a hard, hard battle, but it was so fun to watch. I'm it'll go down in Gleek of the Week history for sure.

[26:11] Andrew: Absolutely. Yeah. I'm curious, Emily. What other competitions have like kept you up at night? Um, where have you differed with us? Where are you angry about? What's the hot takes?

[26:20] Emilee: Oh yeah. Okay. I wrote down a couple, but nothing really crazy because I feel like I'm the crazy person who calls in so many times being like, no, this. No, um, you're here, Emily. That's why.

[26:31] Andrew: Okay.

[26:33] Emilee: So this is kind of a hot take, but um, season five, just the way you are. Um, that did not go through over suddenly Seymour, which I was the only person that voted for just the way you are. That was the first dance at my wedding with my husband.

[26:47] Andrew: So it was so it was like the Gleek ass version.

[26:51] Emilee: The glee cast version, of course.

[26:53] Andrew: Of course. I mean, nothing else. I mean, Billy Jules didn't love you, but wait, that's so funny that that was the first dance at your wedding with uh with Bert and Carol.

[27:01] Emilee: It's the just the way you are gleek ass version by Bruno Mars.

[27:05] Andrew: Right, right, right.

[27:06] Emilee: No, it is definitely the the uh the Billy Joel version, yes. But um, but suddenly Seymour, how can you not? I mean, yeah, it is that was a hard one. Um one of them that I did call in about was the MCR version of Sing.

[27:22] Andrew: Okay.

[27:23] Emilee: I love that. I think it was so outside of what they normally do. Yes, they look ridiculous wearing lumberjack outfits, but yeah. And Sue was there for like some reason. Yeah, I just think that that was such a cool, like Finn's voice just sounded so good on it, so gritty, and uh, it was just something completely different. Isla Bonita, fun, Ricky Martin, you know, it is, but you know, that was one that I was kind of like, uh, I wish. Yeah, wish it would have got one more round, but um, yeah, so those are two bigger ones, I guess. And of course, uh so emotional, you know, right? So emotional game. Everyone I'm sure brings that up, but yeah, it was uh that was up there, that was a big one for me.

[28:08] Andrew: But I'm here for the Greeks to hate me, apparently.

[28:13] Emilee: I hope you don't feel that way because it's not—

[28:13] Andrew: No, I don't mind I love being hated but no it's it's not it's not that it's just it's so interesting to see what guests have different views and then the two of you right sometimes you're right there together and then sometimes it's like a whole you know a whole fight of it and I love it right yeah we're here for the fight love it um what songs are you hoping to fight for in this episode today?

[28:13] Emilee: I went through and I was like oh I'm just gonna write down a few I wrote down 10 so I don't have to go through the whole list but no no no go through the entire list let's go entire list here you go so the first one was the scientist uh yes love yep um it's all over we we talked about this today me Alison and I it's all over please let's pull it let's pull it yeah um go your own way love that Rachel um happy days are here again get happy that's great love it uh being good isn't good enough okay uh don't dream it's over yes a weird Marley Finn but like I reach work I know it works um barely breathing the only Finn and Blaine duet okay yeah missed that uh my man because you know my man no man of course my man is my man the only the last two are faithfully I love that duet and drumps season five we got a pull it five we have we need it so those are my those are my predictions, my hopes, my dreams, but what we're glanifesting here is.

[29:50] Emilee: Glanifesting, yes.

[29:52] Andrew: But I hope that we, uh, I hope we pull at least one of them, but there's a lot left on the list, so we'll see.

[29:58] Emilee: There is.

[29:59] Andrew: It's shocking. Like this cup, this cup feels lighter in a lot of ways, but like still so my gosh.

[30:06] Emilee: Those are so cute, seriously.

[30:07] Andrew: I've been dreaming of what they look like since I begin.

[30:14] Emilee: Literally.

[30:15] Andrew: Oh, so we come out through here. I like to do the ASMR.

[30:22] Emilee: Need the summer cup.

[30:23] Andrew: Because I'm like, I need, I need the Gleeks to know that we're not out here rigging this.

[30:27] Emilee: I can confirm, no rigging.

[30:29] Andrew: I can confirm.

[30:32] Emilee: It's Emilee's rule, so anything.

[30:37] Andrew: Um, that is something you do not have to follow.

[30:41] Emilee: It is not something I have to do.

[30:43] Andrew: No, we love it.

[30:44] Emilee: We love it.

[30:45] Andrew: Oh, yes.

[31:08] ♪ Musical number: "I Love It" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[32:17] Andrew: So short. They cut out arguably the best part of that song.

[32:24] Emilee: There's the best part of that song. Don't do that.

[32:29] Andrew: This is the best song on Glee, Emilee.

[32:31] Emilee: Oh my god. Really? Really?

[32:34] Andrew: On a different road. I'm in the Milky Way. Wait a minute.

[32:42] Emilee: Too please. I gotta kill this. Did they really not sing a cell?

[32:48] Andrew: Look at that! That's really short for a competition piece.

[32:55] Emilee: I remember the days when the Glee Club went to regionals and they sang songs like "Faithfully."

[33:02] Andrew: Oh, me too.

[33:05] Emilee: And "Don't Stop Believin'." Even "Loser Like Me."

[33:09] Andrew: Here's the us. Uh, uh, the fly mashup. But then we get to season four. And I'm not listening. I love this song. I think it's a great cover. I think it's a very fun song. I don't care. I love it. But context. They should not have won regional with this. This was silly.

[33:30] Emilee: No. The boys look so bored. I mean, I know they were supposed to at the beginning, but I was just like the only one who looked like they had any energy was Sam for the boys. And I was just like, oh, get it, Sam, get it. He's going around.

[33:45] Andrew: Yeah. I have a deeply personal relationship with this song for absolutely no reason. So the song is originally written by Charli XCX, and I've seen it performed by Charli XCX, and I've been seeing I've seen it performed by Icona Pop. Um, and the Charli XCX, when I saw her perform this, she opened for Marina and the Diamonds. So this was like 2014, 2013. Very, very early. Um, Charli XCX looked great. Uh, incredible performer. Um, I love her. Uh, but I do love there's a YouTube video or like a Vine or something of her performing this song in like Germany.

[34:31] Emilee: Yes.

[34:31] Andrew: And she was told that this song fucking blew up in Germany. I thought this song was big in Germany. What the fuck?

[34:38] Emilee: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[34:40] Andrew: And she says, like, like why aren't you singing along? Like, I don't understand anything.

[34:45] Emilee: I was told.

[34:46] Andrew: Yeah. I was told this song blew up in Germany.

[34:49] Emilee: That's funny.

[34:50] Andrew: Um, this gives clarity in a lot of ways because it's a very poppy electronic song that's sang by a Glee Club. I don't think this is a New Directions song. I think they should have given it to Oral Intensity or something.

[35:04] Emilee: Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. Um, I just have to comment though. Uh, I kind of had to laugh a little bit. Um, in the very beginning when the girls are dancing and they're doing stuff, they pan a sugar, and she just like looks, she has this blank look on her face, and I'm just like, are you there? Hello?

[35:23] Andrew: Hello.

[35:23] Emilee: We're not making a regionals. I mean, I love Sugar. I think she's hilarious, but it was just like I was just watching all the girls dance, and then I'm like, and then there's Sugar. She's just there.

[35:34] Andrew: There she is. She's getting like a moment though. She's getting like the comedic moment of the which I love.

[35:39] Emilee: I did laugh. Yeah, I laughed.

[35:42] Andrew: Um, I will say, absolutely like waste. I'm like so bitter at New Directions for like bringing on Unique into their Glee Club after was like the MVP of the Nationals the previous year. And then this is the oh, I think like maybe sings like a part of like um "America" in the season five nationals, but like this is one of the two songs that they're featured on, and it's like not even it was yeah, like nothing.

[36:08] Emilee: Give them a solo for sure.

[36:10] Andrew: What other songs were in their regional set list? It was this "Hall of Fame," and then Marley's original song, "All or Nothing."

[36:24] Emilee: Ooh, woof. Um, yeah. Any any further thoughts on "I Love It"?

[36:31] Andrew: Yeah, I don't know if I love it as much as the two of you do, but I'm curious to see what it's up against.

[36:31] Emilee: I'm curious to see what it's up against. It's fine.

[36:41] Andrew: It's a solid five out of ten.

[36:42] Emilee: Yeah, agreed.

[36:43] Andrew: We have a season one song.

[36:46] Emilee: Oh.

[36:46] Andrew: Oh, wait, Emilee, I'm not gonna say anything further.

[36:49] Emilee: Well, it's okay. That's okay. Season one, is that too much?

[36:52] Andrew: No, no, my goodness, no. And we're gonna we're gonna know exactly what song it is right from the first.

[36:59] Emilee: Oh yeah.

[37:01] Andrew: Done!

[37:01] Emilee: What?

[37:02] Andrew: Oh, this is good.

[37:08] ♪ Musical number: "Like a Virgin" — performed by Glee Cast featuring Jonathan Groff ♪

[38:40] Andrew: I feel like we just watched porn together.

[39:26] Emilee: Agreed. We shared a moment.

[39:30] Andrew: Um Emilee, what are your first thoughts about "Like a Virgin" Glee Cast version by Glee Cast featuring Jonathan Groff?

[39:37] Emilee: Featuring, I love it. Um I like I like this song. I think it's a very interesting way to portray the different couples. I will say that um I got a little bit of ick with the Will and Emma of it all, just because it's like okay, it's showing students, which I get like two student couples and like experiencing these things, but it was just a little like why are the teachers there? Like right here, they have part of it. I laughed at Rachel's jacket in the beginning. That cracks me up every time. She's got that little like blow over jacket. But all overall, I really do like this. I love all the voices together. I think that it was um a good way to do the song and yeah, intertwine it with the storyline, which made sense, but I just get a little ick with the teachers, and I think I get a little ick when the teachers are involved in general.

[40:25] Andrew: Yeah, completely agree. What gives me the ick is Finn in the robe.

[40:27] Emilee: I guess.

[40:27] Andrew: Finn in the robe, really. Like, why did you bring that to a hotel?

[40:37] Emilee: Wait, maybe that was just like the robe that was like.

[40:40] Andrew: No, it was gray and like worn down. That was Finn's robe he brought from home. Let me bring my robe to this ordeal.

[40:45] Emilee: To this, yeah, to this intimacy.

[40:51] Andrew: Um I love this song. This is a good song. It hits for me. Um I'm confused on the logistics. How did they plan out that they were all gonna sing this song at the same time and do the exact same movements?

[41:04] Emilee: Well, I mean, come on, like sex is a communal activity in Glee. They do that in this.

[41:12] Andrew: They they do it in the West Side Story episode, and then they do it at Mr. Schuster's wedding. They're like, hey, we gotta clock in, we gotta have sex.

[41:20] Emilee: Yep. It's sex time.

[41:22] Andrew: It's sex time. All of us are doing it.

[41:28] Emilee: Um, I will say that, like, you know, this is a good song, but like when it gets when because like it takes a while for like Santana to have a moment in the number, but when she gets added in, it's like, oh, okay, it's like up a level, it's up a tier for me.

[41:46] Andrew: Is this one of the first songs she has a moment like that on?

[41:51] Emilee: This is the first episode that she sings in. I think that she like she sings in "Express Yourself" at the beginning of the episode, but then I think like this is like the first like real moment, I feel it.

[42:01] Andrew: Right, "The Boy Is Mine" comes after this, right?

[42:04] Emilee: Like a couple episodes after.

[42:05] Andrew: Yeah.

[42:06] Emilee: Yeah. I love it. I love Santana's intro to the to the Glee world. Um, my last note is that Lea Michele's eyebrows.

[42:16] Andrew: What about that?

[42:16] Emilee: So expressive. So expressive, like the the literal like pushing up of this. Like she can't do that anymore.

[42:24] Andrew: And too much Botox.

[42:26] Emilee: Too much Botox in the forehead. But I wish she could because I really loved her expressions as Rachel Berry.

[42:32] Andrew: It's tough getting old though.

[42:34] Emilee: She's only two months younger than I am. So I get it.

[42:36] Andrew: Yes.

[42:37] Emilee: It's just outing myself there. But yes.

[42:40] Andrew: It gets tough when you're already to express your eyebrows.

[42:46] Emilee: Definitely.

[42:48] Andrew: When it comes down to it, between these two songs.

[42:52] Emilee: Easy.

[42:52] Andrew: Emilee.

[42:53] Emilee: Don't say easy. Emilee's here.

[42:55] Andrew: That's right.

[42:56] Emilee: I'm not like this big scary entity.

[43:01] Andrew: Oh, funny. Easy for you. What are you voting?

[43:04] Emilee: Oh, you want me to vote first? Okay. I'm gonna say "Like a Virgin." That's my that's where I'm putting my vote for sure.

[43:11] Andrew: "Like a Virgin." Yeah. Um, I know. I'll miss "I Love It." It's fun.

[43:16] Emilee: It's fun.

[43:18] Andrew: I would miss "I Love It" if the person who sang "Clarity" sang it.

[43:22] Emilee: Jessica Sanchez.

[43:23] Andrew: Jessica Sanchez.

[43:24] Emilee: Jessica Sanchez.

[43:25] Andrew: American Idol's Jessica Sanchez.

[43:27] Emilee: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[43:27] Andrew: Yes. Glee Cast version by Glee Cast featuring American Idol's Jessica Sanchez.

[43:30] Emilee: Exactly.

[43:31] Andrew: Oh my gosh. Um, but I am excited to watch porn again.

[43:36] Emilee: Again, yeah.

[43:37] Andrew: Communally.

[43:38] Emilee: Communally.

[43:39] Andrew: Maybe that's like "One Hand, One Heart" in this episode.

[43:43] Emilee: That's another one.

[43:44] Andrew: That's another porn one.

[43:45] Emilee: We pulled something with Nikki Blonsky that I was like, should we be watching this?

[43:49] Andrew: Oh, that was um "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me."

[43:51] Emilee: Yeah.

[43:51] Andrew: Yeah.

[43:53] Emilee: I was like, all right. Okay.

[43:55] Andrew: Okay.

[43:56] Emilee: Okay.

[43:56] Andrew: This was on Fox.

[43:58] Emilee: This is um okay. Um another Power of Madonna song.

[44:04] Andrew: Really?

[44:05] Emilee: Yeah, yeah.

[44:07] Andrew: Wait, I feel like we only have like one left.

[44:09] Emilee: I think we do. And it's oh, it's "Express Yourself"?

[44:11] Andrew: Yeah.

[44:12] Emilee: Yes.

[44:12] Andrew: Oh, yes.

[44:15] Emilee: Do you believe in love?

[44:17] Andrew: Cause I got something to say about it.

[44:19] ♪ Musical number: "Express Yourself" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[46:23] Andrew: That was the best song on Glee, I think.

[46:26] Emilee: I would say so.

[46:27] Andrew: Agreed. This is so good. I forgot how good this is. No one talks about this enough. I talked to you about "Express Yourself" Glee Cast version by Glee Cast enough.

[46:38] Emilee: The outfits. Please.

[46:39] Andrew: That song. Number one thing I put on there. Costumes are awesome.

[46:41] Emilee: Awesome.

[46:45] Andrew: The hair, the bustier tops. The only problem I have with the outfits though is that they put Quinn and Brittany in the same color.

[46:56] Emilee: And so it's like confusing.

[46:57] Andrew: Because there's like a moment where like blonde.

[46:59] Emilee: Yes.

[47:00] Andrew: Like, um, I forget who it is. I think it might be like Mercedes that like has her foot on Brittany's back as Brittany's doing a push-up, and I thought it was Quinn, and I was like, oh no.

[47:10] Emilee: She's pregnant.

[47:11] Andrew: She's pregnant. Don't do that. I was trying to look at the baby book to see which one was which, but there wasn't much of one. I'm like, how pregnant is she here? Why does that keep changing?

[47:20] Emilee: Don't get it twisted in the following scene.

[47:22] Andrew: It's there.

[47:23] Emilee: Right.

[47:24] Andrew: Fully, fully full impressed.

[47:25] Emilee: Right.

[47:26] Andrew: It's popping out. The child's waving at us. Um, I love this song. I think the one drawback for the outfits for me is the dangling necklace.

[47:35] Emilee: Um at one point, Tina like grabs it and centers it between her boobies.

[47:41] Andrew: Um, which is like, sure. Um, I loved the boys' reaction to this.

[47:47] Emilee: How they're just like, uh drooling out of the side of my mouth.

[47:51] Andrew: Except Kurt.

[47:51] Emilee: Except Kurt.

[47:52] Andrew: He's like, yeah.

[47:54] Emilee: I love that for him.

[47:55] Andrew: He's loving it. And I'm very like, this is this is top-tier Kurt fit for me. Like, I think I would wear that sweatshirt.

[48:01] Emilee: I love it.

[48:01] Andrew: No, the hoodie over the head, I think it's so cute. I'm like, yeah, Kurt. It's giving.

[48:07] Emilee: Okay.

[48:07] Andrew: I did have a nightmare um sophomore year of high school that was based around this song.

[48:13] Emilee: Oh my gosh.

[48:18] Andrew: Um, I had uh my chemistry teacher sophomore year of high school. His name was I'm not even joking, his name is Dr. Feigenbutz.

[48:26] Emilee: Fag and Butts?

[48:27] Andrew: But like whatever. Very unfortunate, but we called him Dr. F. And I remember one day in particular.

[48:35] Emilee: Um, like there was the homework assignment that he handed out, and so then like the following day, like he was like, I just like throw your hand like um homework assignment in the air and just like show me that you've done it, like a piece of paper with work on it.

[48:46] Andrew: My friend Tori just like she literally put her assignment book up in the air and just like and then Dr. F was like signed it off. He was like, Tori did it. I actually tried doing it, but then I finally like gave up and I was like, I cannot do this.

[49:00] Emilee: And so I put like my paper that it was halfway done up in the air, and he only called me out, and he was like, Um, Andrew, did you actually do it?

[49:10] Andrew: And I was like, Well, I did half of it. And he was like, Well, if you didn't lie to me, I would give you partial credit, but you lied to me, and so you're getting no credit at all.

[49:16] Emilee: And I was like, oh my God.

[49:17] Andrew: And so like that.

[49:18] Emilee: Why did you lie?

[49:19] Andrew: Because I guess like I didn't actually like finish it. And so like I didn't actually like come forth with the information that I didn't finish it. I don't know.

[49:28] Emilee: Oh my what?

[49:29] Andrew: And he was just like, yeah, I don't know. Um, but anyway, that was um a deep trauma for me. And then I do have is it related to express yourself?

[49:41] Emilee: It will be, it will be uh coming back.

[49:43] Andrew: So I had a nightmare that week where it's Dr. F singing the very beginning of this song where he says the come on girls, stupid in love, because I got something to say about it.

[49:57] Emilee: And it goes something like this, having nothing to do with the story I just told. I'm so sorry for even telling you about the the assignment story, but I feel like it was so deep rooted that I needed to talk about it with someone.

[50:07] Emilee: Oh my god.

[50:07] Andrew: If that's all he was doing in the nightmare, it wasn't he was singing the song, and I was like, Oh, that's weird. You know how like when you're in a dream and you're like, oh, like how did I get here? But like I don't actually know.

[50:14] Emilee: I don't care.

[50:17] Andrew: Yeah, it's like deep rooted, yeah.

[50:18] Emilee: Right, right, right.

[50:19] Andrew: Um that's what that's wild.

[50:21] Emilee: That's what brings up for me.

[50:23] Andrew: No, I'm glad you shared that. Dr. F, fuck you.

[50:26] Emilee: Fuck you.

[50:27] Andrew: Listener of the podcast. You're definitely I saw you in my dream. You were singing "Express Yourself."

[50:34] Emilee: I thought you were gonna say like he came out and like boostier or something, and like I wish he did.

[50:39] Andrew: Yeah.

[50:41] Emilee: I wish I did.

[50:42] Andrew: Okay. We have season three.

[50:48] Emilee: This might be a good competition.

[50:50] Andrew: I think this might be a really fun competition.

[50:52] Emilee: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[50:54] Andrew: I'm the greatest star.

[50:56] Emilee: Ooh, okay.

[50:58] Andrew: Oh god, okay.

[51:02] Emilee: Hit me with your best shot.

[51:05] Andrew: Why don't you hit me with your best shot?

[51:09] Emilee: Hit me with your best shot.

[51:11] Andrew: Fire away.

[51:13] Emilee: I'm gonna get you, getcha, getcha, getcha.

[51:16] Andrew: One way.

[51:17] Emilee: All the nutter, I'm gonna find ya.

[51:20] Andrew: I'm gonna get you, getcha, getcha, getcha.

[51:23] Emilee: One way.

[51:24] Andrew: Or another.

[51:25] Emilee: I'm gonna win the I'll get ya, I'll get ya.

[51:36] Andrew: That's okay, let's see how you do it.

[51:39] Emilee: Put up your dukes, let's get down to it.

[51:42] Andrew: Hit me with your best shot.

[51:45] Emilee: Why don't you hit me with your best shot?

[51:49] Andrew: Hit me with your best shot.

[51:51] Emilee: Fire away.

[52:03] Andrew: I'll follow your bus downtown.

[52:09] Emilee: See who's hanging now.

[52:16] Andrew: Hit me with your best shot.

[52:18] Emilee: Fire away.

[52:20] Andrew: I'm gonna get you, get you, getcha, get ya.

[52:22] Emilee: Hit me with your best shot.

[52:25] Andrew: Fire away.

[52:27] Emilee: I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, get you.

[52:29] Andrew: Hit me with your best shot.

[52:33] Emilee: Wow, I was just taken on a journey.

[52:36] Andrew: Agreed.

[52:37] Emilee: Greetings, loved ones.

[52:38] Andrew: I don't know where I've been journey.

[52:41] Emilee: Hard.

[52:42] Andrew: This season three was so gifable.

[52:46] Emilee: Was so gifable.

[52:48] Andrew: Like uh, this entire performance, I'm like, that was a gift.

[52:50] Emilee: That was gonna be that was a gift.

[52:53] Andrew: And it was season three was good because you can watch it and focus on a different character in the scene and create your entire own storyline.

[53:03] Emilee: Right.

[53:04] Andrew: Like especially this song and especially um "Found Love in a Hopeless Place."

[53:09] Emilee: Yeah.

[53:10] Andrew: Um, like Artie rolling himself into the pool.

[53:13] Emilee: Like shit, like that was hilarious.

[53:15] Andrew: And I think the cast was really in their bag with background kind of scenes and storylines.

[53:21] Emilee: Like, I'm sure people saw Quinn holding on to Artie's wheelchair and being like, oh my god, they're friends.

[53:21] Andrew: Oh my god, they're friends.

[53:28] Emilee: Oh my god.

[53:29] Andrew: Or like creating fucking, oh my god, uh Diana and Kevin were dating.

[53:36] Emilee: Like this is proof.

[53:37] Andrew: This is proof.

[53:38] Emilee: Sure.

[53:38] Andrew: I love it.

[53:39] Emilee: I kinda pop.

[53:40] Andrew: I kind of pop.

[53:43] Emilee: Emily, what are we thinking?

[53:44] Andrew: Um, I really like this too. Season three is my favorite, actually.

[53:48] Emilee: Uh really.

[53:49] Andrew: Yeah, I love season three. It just feels like, you know, I think it's just because it's the OG cast, graduating senior year.

[53:57] Emilee: You've seen them go through, you know.

[53:59] Andrew: Um, you don't find out until that time that half the cast is not in their senior year.

[54:05] Emilee: Uh exactly.

[54:07] Andrew: Or that Blaine is younger than Kurt.

[54:09] Emilee: Um for this, I really liked it.

[54:12] Andrew: I love low register Santana.

[54:14] Emilee: Like, ooh, that yeah, deep.

[54:17] Andrew: I mean, I yeah, I I don't know. I I just think she's really, really talented in that register.

[54:23] Emilee: Um, shooting must have been a nightmare for this number.

[54:26] Andrew: Because it only jumps.

[54:28] Emilee: Right, you see the floor being like bare while they're playing, but you know there's gotta be trampolines and like I'm thinking those like track things like that, people vaulting to and stuff.

[54:39] Andrew: Yes, like, and then getting literal balls in the face.

[54:43] Emilee: Uh like that must have been a nightmare to shoot, but it looked like you said they're having so much fun.

[54:49] Andrew: Um, the track is good.

[54:50] Emilee: I yeah, this is a hard one.

[54:52] Andrew: This is a hard I think this there's like um behind the scenes, like the for a lot of behind the scenes for this performance that they talked about.

[55:00] Emilee: And it's very, very cute about like talking with like Naya just like attacking everybody and like actually like taking it like way too seriously.

[55:08] Andrew: Oh, didn't someone bleed?

[55:09] Emilee: Like, didn't like yeah, like her attack.

[55:12] Andrew: Yeah, it was Kevin.

[55:13] Emilee: Yeah, it's um I love this and I love that shot where it's just Santana and um Brittany and Mercedes behind her of her doing the little blondie part.

[55:13] Andrew: I love that.

[55:23] Emilee: Um this is a really hard competition for me though.

[55:26] Andrew: I'm going to the Glee song opinion form and people for "Hit Me with the Hit Me with Your Best Shot" one way or another.

[55:34] Emilee: Yes.

[55:35] Andrew: All of the dodgeball promos for season three.

[55:38] Emilee: Um, I play on Santana's team.

[55:41] Andrew: Um Santana's low notes.

[55:43] Emilee: I like this one, but more importantly, I need to point out that Blaine is wearing the girls' shorts.

[55:49] Andrew: It's funny, I didn't even see that.

[55:51] Emilee: Glee does not understand dodgeball at all, and it's so distracting.

[55:55] Andrew: I don't like this at all, even with Naya.

[55:57] Emilee: Okay, wait, within this same episode, I think this is the episode where Kurt is like running for class president with the campaign that it's like, we're going to ban.

[55:57] Andrew: We're going to ban Dodge Ball at Kinley High.

[56:09] Emilee: And it's like, this is the only episode that it happened.

[56:11] Andrew: And I remember like me, like in high school, I was like, wow, that's so smart.

[56:15] Emilee: I love that.

[56:15] Andrew: That's actually really good. Ban it.

[56:17] Emilee: We should ban it.

[56:18] Andrew: Get rid of it. My last name is Dodge, so people assumed that I was very good at dodgeball, and I was called the queen of Dodgeball on several occasions.

[56:26] Emilee: I'm terrible.

[56:27] Andrew: Please don't make me play.

[56:28] Emilee: Please.

[56:29] Andrew: I don't even know if I've ever played it.

[56:30] Emilee: When was the last time you've played Dodgeball?

[56:33] Andrew: Don't ask the old lady over here.

[56:35] Emilee: My God.

[56:36] Andrew: Elementary school?

[56:37] Emilee: I know.

[56:38] Andrew: Maybe middle school?

[56:39] Emilee: Maybe middle school.

[56:41] Andrew: Like we didn't do that in high school.

[56:43] Emilee: Silly enough.

[56:44] Andrew: Yeah.

[56:44] Emilee: Uh, somebody says behind the scenes makes it bulletproof hospitality.

[56:50] Andrew: Uh let's go to express yourself here.

[56:52] Emilee: They also say bulletproof hospitality about express yourself.

[56:55] Andrew: "Express Yourself," this version beats Madonna's.

[56:58] Emilee: I would say so.

[56:59] Andrew: Yeah.

[57:00] Emilee: Feminism.

[57:01] Andrew: Um, they also said that um the New Direction Boys are literally so lame.

[57:05] Emilee: Oh my god, when they did their dumb kiss number in in um a later episode, the girls cheered for them.

[57:10] Andrew: And that was even a quarter good as "Express Yourself."

[57:14] Emilee: Absolutely.

[57:14] Andrew: Truth.

[57:15] Emilee: True.

[57:16] Andrew: True.

[57:16] Emilee: Great women empowerment song.

[57:18] Andrew: Too early in the show for the Madonna episode should have been in season two.

[57:21] Emilee: I've never heard that take before.

[57:23] Andrew: Yeah, I sort of like that.

[57:25] Emilee: This could be it with me.

[57:28] Andrew: This could be a troubled tones competition song.

[57:32] Emilee: Yes.

[57:34] Andrew: Wait, are you saying "Express Yourself"?

[57:36] Emilee: If they didn't sing it in this episode, they could have sang it as a treble tones competition.

[57:41] Andrew: Oh, well, anything that they would have sang would have just been slid.

[57:45] Emilee: They would have bulletproof hospitality, absolutely.

[57:47] Andrew: Bulletproof, bulletproof hospitality.

[57:49] Emilee: Um, also the idea that Quinn is pregnant in this is hilarious.

[57:55] Andrew: Um god.

[57:57] Emilee: Who knows their vote?

[57:58] Andrew: Emily, do you know your vote?

[58:01] Emilee: I think I know my vote.

[58:02] Andrew: I don't.

[58:03] Emilee: I don't.

[58:03] Andrew: Oh no.

[58:04] Emilee: Okay.

[58:04] Andrew: Actually, I think.

[58:05] Emilee: Oh no, I don't.

[58:06] Andrew: I don't, I don't.

[58:07] Emilee: Oh, Allison, you go first.

[58:09] Andrew: I'm gonna vote for whatever song I think I would want to hear again.

[58:14] Emilee: "Express Yourself."

[58:16] Andrew: I think has version by Glee Cast.

[58:18] Emilee: Oh, okay.

[58:19] Andrew: Okay. To clarify.

[58:22] Emilee: I think I'm also gonna go with "Express Yourself."

[58:25] Andrew: I love uh "Best Shot."

[58:27] Emilee: I love the moment of it, but which one would I reach for?

[58:31] Andrew: Yeah, it would be "Express Yourself" on your deathbed.

[58:34] Emilee: I think I think I mean it's pretty low on the list on my deathbed compared to other numbers, but these two numbers.

[58:42] Andrew: Yeah, you're going through the glacket on your deathbed or okay, right.

[58:47] Emilee: But I do appreciate what "Best Shot" is because it's a really cool group number that's outside of the realms of competition, which you don't see a lot in season three.

[58:55] Andrew: Um I appreciate it for what it is.

[58:59] Emilee: I do love it.

[58:59] Andrew: We love a good mashup.

[59:01] Emilee: Um I'll co-sign "Express Yourself."

[59:04] Andrew: Cosigning Express Yourself.

[59:06] Emilee: Already do.

[59:07] Andrew: I want to fight.

[59:08] Emilee: Let's go.

[59:09] Andrew: Yeah, I know.

[59:11] Emilee: That was a close, it was almost a fight.

[59:13] Andrew: It was close.

[59:13] Emilee: It was true, true.

[59:14] Andrew: It was almost a fight.

[59:16] Emilee: True.

[59:16] Andrew: Um, my last song of the episode.

[59:21] Emilee: Okay.

[59:22] Andrew: Emilee, you actually posted about this song today.

[59:26] Emilee: Have you been watching the stories?

[59:29] Andrew: I have been, but now I can't remember.

[59:30] Emilee: Oh no, no, no.

[59:32] Andrew: I did.

[59:33] Emilee: Oh my gosh.

[59:34] Andrew: Every day I watch the stories.

[59:35] Emilee: But no, I'm so excited.

[59:38] Andrew: Okay.

[59:39] Emilee: Uh here we go.

[59:40] Andrew: Oh my gosh, no way.

[59:42] Emilee: I did see this.

[59:46] Andrew: Every generation.

[59:50] Emilee: Blame's the one before.

[59:55] Andrew: And all of the frustration.

[1:00:00] Emilee: Come beating on your door.

[1:00:05] Andrew: I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear.

[1:00:10] Emilee: I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears.

[1:00:14] Andrew: I just wish I could have told him in the living years.

[1:00:22] Emilee: Say I'll say I say a lie.

[1:00:32] Andrew: Say it, say it, say it.

[1:00:35] Emilee: You're gonna listen as well.

[1:00:52] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:00:53] Emilee: Are you not moved?

[1:00:53] Andrew: I love that.

[1:00:54] Emilee: No, they killed it.

[1:00:56] Andrew: Absolutely murdered.

[1:00:58] Emilee: Killed.

[1:00:59] Andrew: A sleigh.

[1:00:59] Emilee: And for what?

[1:01:00] Andrew: And for what?

[1:01:01] Emilee: To cover no reason place at sectionals and to be happy with that.

[1:01:09] Andrew: Are you kidding?

[1:01:11] Emilee: That's so good.

[1:01:12] Andrew: Okay, okay.

[1:01:13] Emilee: I just pay it.

[1:01:15] Andrew: I'm like to agree with Mike Chang's face.

[1:01:19] Emilee: Oh, it said it all for me.

[1:01:20] Andrew: I actually Okay, so we're fighting.

[1:01:22] Emilee: We're fighting.

[1:01:23] Andrew: I actually did have to Google this number because when you posted on your stories, it just said the living years, and I'm like, what the fuck is the living years?

[1:01:31] Emilee: How is this a song?

[1:01:32] Andrew: And as soon as I saw it, I'm like, I know this song.

[1:01:34] Emilee: I just didn't know.

[1:01:35] Andrew: It's called The Living Years, but oof.

[1:01:37] Emilee: It's all I'll say.

[1:01:39] Andrew: Wait, no, elaborate.

[1:01:40] Emilee: No, I'll elaborate on the move.

[1:01:42] Emilee: It's just it's it's let me don't let me get this straight.

[1:01:47] Emilee: I think they're very talented.

[1:01:48] Andrew: I think that they're very good.

[1:01:50] Emilee: I just think it's the most ridiculous plot to have this as a competition number.

[1:01:57] Andrew: And like maybe they should have cave and second for their talent, but like, what is it?

[1:02:01] Emilee: Glee, what is this?

[1:02:03] Andrew: Like I was just dying the whole time.

[1:02:06] Emilee: So that's kind of my take on it.

[1:02:08] Andrew: But I do remember re-watching season two, like literally last month, and being like, yeah, bulletproof hospitality.

[1:02:18] Emilee: Absolutely.

[1:02:19] Andrew: Yes.

[1:02:20] Emilee: It's so good.

[1:02:21] Andrew: I just laughs I listened to the entire like um full version, which I feel like is like much longer than you would think it was on like the actual iTunes release.

[1:02:32] Emilee: Um there are multiple like sleigh moments of this song.

[1:02:36] Andrew: Also, before I forget, I desperately wanted to say they put their entire grand pussy into this song in the episode.

[1:02:47] Emilee: But something about it, I was like, I can't, I can't say that.

[1:02:50] Andrew: So you're just getting it.

[1:02:52] Emilee: Should I have said it?

[1:02:53] Andrew: Should I have said grand pussy?

[1:02:58] Emilee: Can you just keep that voice note and insert it in the episode?

[1:03:04] Andrew: Um, even though people in the Glee song opinion form, one person in particular said not the sleigh that they thought it was.

[1:03:14] Emilee: Like, I don't know her.

[1:03:16] Andrew: We're watching different shows.

[1:03:18] Emilee: This is a sleigh.

[1:03:20] Andrew: Um, the one part that I that always bothers me about this song is that the first woman, the like the shaky, feeble old woman with a cane.

[1:03:28] Emilee: The living year.

[1:03:30] Andrew: She's that's not an actual old woman.

[1:03:33] Emilee: No, right?

[1:03:34] Andrew: No.

[1:03:35] Emilee: I'm like, that just it looks like a woman that is just doing old cosplay almost and she has almost like makeup or prosthetics.

[1:03:44] Andrew: I was looking at everyone else in the background after I saw her because I was like, uh, is everyone else like that?

[1:03:50] Emilee: And I don't think they are, but I think that woman is.

[1:03:53] Andrew: Like, I think she just used a lot of hyaluronic acid in her youth.

[1:03:59] Emilee: And she had a really good skincare routine.

[1:04:02] Andrew: Well, give it up, lady.

[1:04:03] Emilee: Come on.

[1:04:04] Andrew: I know.

[1:04:04] Emilee: And she used sunscreen on her hands.

[1:04:06] Andrew: I can tell she put sunscreen on her hands in her youth.

[1:04:09] Emilee: She looks great.

[1:04:10] Andrew: I want to look like her when I'm that age.

[1:04:13] Emilee: I'm mad at her.

[1:04:14] Andrew: I am so mad at her, or the decision to include her in this in this performance.

[1:04:19] Emilee: I'm like, get an actual old person.

[1:04:21] Andrew: Let's get fucking like Betty White or like Angela Lynch.

[1:04:24] Emilee: People can look good, okay?

[1:04:26] Andrew: I don't know what you're saying.

[1:04:28] Emilee: That's not what I'm saying.

[1:04:29] Andrew: I want an authentic actress.

[1:04:31] Emilee: I want the actress to embody the character.

[1:04:34] Andrew: That is a that is a younger woman playing old, and I do not stand for that.

[1:04:40] Emilee: This is Glee 2011, where they had a non, you know, wheelchair actor in the wheelchair.

[1:04:48] Andrew: They were like, we don't care.

[1:04:50] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:04:50] Andrew: But now, yes, they should.

[1:04:52] Emilee: They should.

[1:04:53] Andrew: Aegist.

[1:04:53] Emilee: That's ageists.

[1:04:55] Andrew: So that's funny.

[1:04:56] Emilee: Yeah, a lot of the people in the Glee Song Opinion form do not like this.

[1:05:00] Andrew: They said, this is just no, I don't know her.

[1:05:02] Emilee: Skip.

[1:05:03] Andrew: But one person did say honestly super good, and I can't help but agree.

[1:05:08] Emilee: I relate.

[1:05:09] Andrew: I think that I would like this song more if I was just listening to it.

[1:05:13] Emilee: I think the visuals of it just like make me completely go outside of the realm of it.

[1:05:19] Andrew: But well, and I want to listen to all of the competition songs that aren't new directions and the warblers.

[1:05:26] Emilee: Agreed.

[1:05:26] Andrew: Like I want to hear like all the third place people.

[1:05:29] Emilee: Right.

[1:05:29] Andrew: Like they're on the Glacket.

[1:05:31] Emilee: Like it's literally this Clarity.

[1:05:35] Andrew: Clarity, Wings.

[1:05:36] Emilee: We have like Starlight Express.

[1:05:39] Andrew: Starlight Express.

[1:05:40] Emilee: Um we have Yeah.

[1:05:43] Andrew: Oh my god, I can't wait to get to Yeah.

[1:05:45] Emilee: I love yeah.

[1:05:46] Andrew: Yeah, I think like we don't actually know what the Glee Club is called, but it's at Nationals, right?

[1:05:50] Emilee: It's at Nationals in season two.

[1:05:52] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:53] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:05:53] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:54] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:05:54] Andrew: I think that is when we get to it.

[1:05:56] Emilee: I have a whole theory that that performance is what inspired Pitch Perfect.

[1:06:00] Andrew: Um, I completely agree.

[1:06:03] Emilee: Yeah, I completely agree.

[1:06:05] Andrew: Um, but yeah, no, I and then Vacation in season five.

[1:06:10] Emilee: The beach balls.

[1:06:11] Andrew: Um we had like, I think like there was like a bird glee club in season six that sang broken wings.

[1:06:18] Emilee: They have a have we pulled that yet?

[1:06:20] Andrew: Broken wings is not on the glacket.

[1:06:22] Emilee: Fuck.

[1:06:23] Andrew: No.

[1:06:23] Emilee: I feel like I remember watching that and being like, why the hell isn't it?

[1:06:27] Andrew: I should have been there.

[1:06:29] Emilee: Um, wait, I what I wish was on the Glackett was Jesus is a friend of mine.

[1:06:34] Andrew: Jesus my friend Jesus.

[1:06:36] Emilee: Yes.

[1:06:37] Andrew: And they make the starved David in the end.

[1:06:38] Emilee: Iconic.

[1:06:40] Andrew: Um kind of pop.

[1:06:41] Emilee: I really want this to go through.

[1:06:42] Andrew: I'm scared.

[1:06:43] Emilee: Like, I almost don't want to pull a fucking song out of this cup.

[1:06:46] Andrew: I want you to pull a song out of my cup.

[1:06:50] Emilee: I don't trust me, I don't.

[1:06:53] Andrew: But I'm ready to fight.

[1:06:54] Emilee: I have the song.

[1:06:56] Andrew: I have the song.

[1:06:57] Emilee: It is.

[1:06:58] Andrew: Can I say this, Emily?

[1:06:59] Emilee: You can sing what you want.

[1:07:00] Andrew: It's your podcast.

[1:07:03] Emilee: So true.

[1:07:03] Andrew: Emily, it is the final song from.

[1:07:08] Emilee: Well, we have we pulled every other song from the famous episode a Katie Origaga.

[1:07:15] Andrew: This is the final song that we have left to pull.

[1:07:18] Emilee: I know what it is.

[1:07:19] Andrew: I know what it is.

[1:07:20] Emilee: Okay, what is it?

[1:07:20] Andrew: What is it?

[1:07:21] Emilee: Is it applause?

[1:07:22] Andrew: It is applause.

[1:07:25] Emilee: I think this will be a very oh I already know where Emily stands on the competition, though.

[1:07:30] Andrew: I hate this song.

[1:07:32] Emilee: This song sucks.

[1:07:34] Andrew: Entertain me.

[1:07:36] ♪ Musical number: "Applause" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[1:09:58] Andrew: Okay, they're clapping for this.

[1:10:00] Emilee: I'm clapping for that.

[1:10:01] Andrew: Are we clapping for this?

[1:10:02] Emilee: I'm clapping.

[1:10:04] Andrew: You know I'm clapping for that.

[1:10:05] Emilee: Okay, wait, Emily, why are we clapping for this?

[1:10:07] Emilee: Well, the first thing I wrote was Penny Get Out.

[1:10:11] Andrew: Leave the go to jail.

[1:10:14] Emilee: I generally love that actress, though.

[1:10:15] Andrew: She was in the original cast of Spring Awakening, which I just found out.

[1:10:18] Emilee: I can't love her, but they didn't utilize her vocally.

[1:10:18] Andrew: Stupid.

[1:10:21] Emilee: Anyways, no.

[1:10:22] Andrew: Um I think that this is iconic.

[1:10:26] Emilee: Icono pop.

[1:10:28] Andrew: I love this song.

[1:10:30] Emilee: Even though this album of Lady Gaga's didn't do very well, this song stands out to me.

[1:10:36] Andrew: Um, I just really like it.

[1:10:37] Emilee: It is one I reach for.

[1:10:38] Andrew: It is one that once karaoke reopened, I sang a karaoke.

[1:10:43] Emilee: It is.

[1:10:44] Andrew: Oh, this is a great song.

[1:10:45] Emilee: Um, but that's just me.

[1:10:47] Andrew: But um I just wrote like the riffs that Darren and Kevin have in this, like near the end.

[1:10:53] Emilee: Ugh, I love it.

[1:10:55] Andrew: It is weird.

[1:10:55] Emilee: It's weird, it's strange.

[1:10:57] Andrew: It's you know, but it's gaga, so it's supposed to be weird, right?

[1:11:02] Emilee: The wig on blade, though, is like woof.

[1:11:04] Andrew: Like okay, I don't know the plot of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and I don't know what it's about, but I think this is as close as I come to seeing Darren and Hedwig and the Angry Inch live in San Francisco.

[1:11:19] Emilee: I would agree with that statement.

[1:11:22] Andrew: His thighs, holy fuck.

[1:11:24] Emilee: His butt was hanging out of his little shorty short.

[1:11:27] Andrew: I was like, fucking take a watermelon in between those thighs and break it.

[1:11:33] Emilee: Take my fucking skull, crush me with those thighs, doing this.

[1:11:37] Andrew: End me.

[1:11:37] Emilee: Yes, literally kill me, please.

[1:11:40] Andrew: Emily, um, are you a kitty or a gaga?

[1:11:44] Emilee: I I feel like we should we should begin every conversation with this.

[1:11:48] Andrew: Yeah, we should with anybody.

[1:11:49] Emilee: Every conversation we ever start.

[1:11:49] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:11:51] Emilee: Are are you a Katie or are you a gaga?

[1:11:54] Andrew: Oh man, that's hard.

[1:11:55] Emilee: I think I am a gaga.

[1:11:56] Andrew: I think that I'm a little more flashy.

[1:11:58] Emilee: I'm kind of introverted in that sense.

[1:12:00] Andrew: Though Wide Awake is one of my top glee performances, that version.

[1:12:05] Emilee: It is great.

[1:12:05] Andrew: It is yes.

[1:12:07] Emilee: I just I get chills.

[1:12:09] Andrew: I love singing it.

[1:12:10] Emilee: I have a lot of really talented theater friends, and when they sing this song in harmony, whoop, it's good.

[1:12:15] Andrew: Um, but I think overall I'm a gaga.

[1:12:18] Emilee: I like to be out there a little more.

[1:12:20] Andrew: Um I think it's the theatricality in me.

[1:12:24] Emilee: So you you need to take the Buzzfeed quiz because I also thought that I would be a gaga.

[1:12:29] Andrew: But you you take the BuzzFeed quiz and you become a different person.

[1:12:31] Emilee: All right.

[1:12:32] Andrew: I will I'll take it, I'll report back.

[1:12:34] Emilee: Buzzfeed will tell you exactly who you are.

[1:12:36] Andrew: They know all for a millennial like they know all.

[1:12:42] Emilee: They're my Bible, don't you know?

[1:12:44] Andrew: I do really like, okay.

[1:12:45] Emilee: I think for this song in particular, I really like separate it as an audio medium in the performance because like I can't stand to watch the performance.

[1:12:55] Andrew: It is a little cringe.

[1:12:58] Emilee: I like it.

[1:12:58] Andrew: It's too much.

[1:12:59] Emilee: I really are T P O P.

[1:12:59] Andrew: Why?

[1:12:59] Emilee: No.

[1:12:59] Andrew: Okay.

[1:13:04] Emilee: Well, I think one part that I really do like is um Marley just flailing on the ground.

[1:13:09] Andrew: They cut back to that like a number of times.

[1:13:11] Emilee: And like when did they when did they do that on stage?

[1:13:14] Andrew: Well, yeah, exactly.

[1:13:16] Emilee: It's like, okay, what is contextually happening happening with Marley?

[1:13:16] Andrew: Right.

[1:13:20] Emilee: It does she need medical help.

[1:13:22] Andrew: Is she okay?

[1:13:22] Emilee: Is she okay?

[1:13:24] Andrew: Um, I don't know.

[1:13:25] Emilee: And then I also get reminded of like the plot that surrounds this song and what immediately precedes uh this um performance of Marley's suspension for not wearing a seashell bikini.

[1:13:41] Andrew: I I that's my hot take, is I think she got the punishment she deserved.

[1:13:51] Emilee: But I think that she got the punishment she deserved because she went against the rules. She didn't come up to them and say, I'm not comfortable wearing this. Can I restructure my outfit? Can I do this? She just blatantly said, F the rules. I'm gonna do what I want to do because this is what I feel inside. And it's like that could have just been a discussion, and you got the punishment you deserved.

[1:14:10] Andrew: Wow.

[1:14:12] Emilee: I've always did not agree with you.

[1:14:13] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:14:15] Emilee: We don't agree.

[1:14:16] Andrew: That's okay.

[1:14:17] Emilee: That's all right. I know I'm definitely always the odd one out when I talk about this, but it was like wait, but I'm like, I'm curious because I'm like, Emily, who else do you think should have gotten suspended over the course of play?

[1:14:29] Emilee: Uh everyone.

[1:14:32] Andrew: Exactly. Yes, but I agree. I do agree that like that was like the one time that like they actually like went through with it. And I'm like, yeah, why didn't you do that with the first three years?

[1:14:41] Emilee: Right. Like when Rachel and Finn did their born again, like hello.

[1:14:45] Andrew: Right. Well, when Rachel and Finn fucking kissed at NASA's.

[1:14:49] Emilee: Yes, like no.

[1:14:51] Andrew: Yes.

[1:14:52] Emilee: So I don't know. Like, I'm thinking about like Sam and Artie when Ryder confesses the like, no. That's called abuse. And you're you're not allowed back.

[1:15:02] Andrew: Right.

[1:15:03] Emilee: Right. Well, yeah, I have a whole theory on Ryder and how he shouldn't have been allowed back, but that's all right.

[1:15:08] Andrew: Wait, wait, wait. I know I want to hear it.

[1:15:10] Emilee: Oh, this was after when he was going to leave the Glee Club and the whole catfish thing happened. I like kind of wish that like he wouldn't have come back, or he would have like not just that, but like just because of the story, not because of the character.

[1:15:23] Andrew: Right.

[1:15:24] Emilee: Right. I mean, I'm not a big Ryder fan, but like I'm like, I just feel like yeah, I felt like it was just like, you know, look at what he did to another person. And I, but you need it's just a whole thing, it's a whole thing, but like, yeah, it's just there are things that I wish would have gone different, but don't be off.

[1:15:40] Andrew: No, yeah, I think that's still talking about this show.

[1:15:43] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:15:44] Andrew: I like applause.

[1:15:46] Emilee: I uh this gaga album is this do what you want, what you want with my body album. Which that I think is the top track from this album, yeah.

[1:15:53] Emilee: That's this is a flop album for her.

[1:15:55] Andrew: Yes, it was this.

[1:15:58] Emilee: Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't know, I don't keep up with Gaga right now, but I feel like Chromatica's the same way.

[1:16:04] Andrew: Chromatica's hitting in the in a similar way, yeah.

[1:16:07] Emilee: Um, yeah.

[1:16:09] Andrew: They're just like, okay.

[1:16:10] Emilee: I think people are just yeah, excited because it's she's back.

[1:16:14] Andrew: It's like post-COVID music, yeah.

[1:16:16] Emilee: But it's not bad romance, it's not paparazzi, it's not Mary the Night, it's not you and I, like, it's not hitting the same.

[1:16:24] Emilee: Um, but I do love this song. I love the costumes. I Sam, god damn that body on Thorid over straight. Um Kevin McHale like smearing all the makeup on his face. I was like, this is comedy. This is hilarious to me. Um Marley, I don't know. She sticks to her guns, and I can appreciate that. Should she have been suspended? I don't think so. She gets suspended for wearing this fit to this performance, and then proceeds to wear the fit for the entire week. And then goes home and makes out with Jake in the exact same outfit. Like with the wig still on. She has her heels on in bed with Jake. Girly, give up this fit.

[1:17:11] Andrew: She'll stay on in bed.

[1:17:14] Emilee: She obviously doesn't know much.

[1:17:17] Andrew: No.

[1:17:18] Emilee: I'm confused. I mean, I'm not a Marley girl. We all know that. But I don't know. I don't think she should have been suspended. I think she made the effort to have a really cute Katie costume. Um I don't know. She deserved.

[1:17:36] Andrew: There are people that um agree with you, Emily. Marlon suspended from Glee made sense after this. She didn't have to wear a bikini. She could have just worn full clothing because she deadass just sabotaged the performance, and people just love hating on Will for this.

[1:17:51] Emilee: I agree. See? I'm not alone, but I know I'm in the minority with that.

[1:17:55] Andrew: Because we're all minorities here.

[1:17:56] Emilee: We're all minorities.

[1:17:57] Andrew: We're in the Glee Club.

[1:17:57] Emilee: We're in the club.

[1:17:59] Andrew: Um I don't know. I can't listen to this song because this episode fills me with so much rage. I would have gone all Lima Heights on Will's ass.

[1:18:07] Emilee: I don't know how the rest of the class let him treat Marley the way he did.

[1:18:10] Andrew: It's so true. He is targeting her.

[1:18:13] Emilee: He just goes after her. She's a singer-songwriter, Will.

[1:18:17] Andrew: Yeah, leave her alone.

[1:18:19] Emilee: It's like literally within the same performance. Sam is shirtless singing to one of your penny!

[1:18:27] Andrew: That's true.

[1:18:28] Emilee: That is true. Also suspendable. Get him out again. Blaine's ass is peeking out of his legless chest. We need to lie, we have to line up all the Glee Club members and be like, you one week suspension. You suspended for three weeks. You expelled that out of the game. Never want to see you again.

[1:18:45] Andrew: That's so funny.

[1:18:48] Emilee: Oh this is a hard competition, actually. We we know where Emily stands.

[1:18:54] Andrew: A vote for applause, hands down.

[1:18:56] Emilee: I've even I like I said, I forgot what the Living Years even was.

[1:19:00] Andrew: So it's so rude, Emily.

[1:19:02] Emilee: I know I'm the rudest. You come into our podcast and you disrespect us like this.

[1:19:07] Andrew: It's just so funny that you posted about it today. Like that is kind of so weird.

[1:19:12] Emilee: I was like on shuffle and I was like, wait, I'm gonna give this a chance. And I'm like, wait, no, this hits. Wait, this is a slay.

[1:19:17] Andrew: It is a sleigh.

[1:19:18] Emilee: If it's if you're just listening to it, I think it's the visuals for me and like just the plot of it all. I'm like, what is going on? So yes. I am one vote for applause.

[1:19:31] Andrew: Um, I'm gonna vote for Living Years.

[1:19:34] Emilee: Here we go.

[1:19:38] Andrew: Okay, here's what's going on in my brain. Applause, obviously, the song I would want to listen to again. Like, hands down. Um, Living Years, I do it's very unique. I think vocally, it is incredible. Uh I don't care that that woman looks young. I think she put a lot of sunscreen on, SBF 50. Um, in the 1980s. Um I don't know. What year were old people born? What year were I was born in the 80s, you losers.

[1:20:14] Emilee: Well, she was in her 20s in the 80s.

[1:20:17] Andrew: Okay, okay. She's putting on sunscreen. You only put on sunscreen in your 20s, okay? That's it. Um my vote is gonna have to be for applause. I'm so sorry, Andrew.

[1:20:27] Andrew: I figured as much. Uh that's okay. I I understand Living Years is absolutely a song that we leave behind in the first round. But it was, it was honestly like you said, the song was it slays. It's not like a, you know, it's not a song that you're just like, okay, next. It's like well, this is good. It's just the visuals for me. But it's it gives the the what Will wanted when he wanted to do an easy listening week. When we wanted to do like Michael Bolton.

[1:20:56] Emilee: Oh no.

[1:20:59] Andrew: Christopher Cross.

[1:21:01] Emilee: Yeah.

[1:21:02] Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

[1:21:05] Emilee: Um, yeah. Wow. What a what a fun episode.

[1:21:08] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:21:09] Emilee: It's really insane. Kind of chaos. I have Like a Virgin going through. Hit me with your best shot, one way or another, staying behind, and applause going through. And I have I love it and The Living Year is staying behind. But Express Yourself Going Through.

[1:21:30] Andrew: Wait, so we're done with Power of Madonna songs. Two Madonna and a Gaga.

[1:21:32] Emilee: Two Madonna and a Gaga.

[1:21:34] Andrew: Wow. Two Madonna and a Gaga don't make it right.

[1:21:39] Emilee: Okay.

[1:21:40] Andrew: They do in my book. How many of like Madonna songs are going through? Like, I know regrettably Vogue is not going through.

[1:21:46] Emilee: We established this.

[1:21:48] Andrew: That was a hard one. Um Borderline Open Your Heart is going through. Like a Prayer is officially going through now. Um that's my favorite Madonna song. Um Express Yourself, uh What It Feels Like for a Girl. Going through. People were mad about this.

[1:22:05] Emilee: Four minutes? I was interested in that one.

[1:22:08] Andrew: Yeah. Have we pulled four minutes here?

[1:22:09] Emilee: Four minutes is going through.

[1:22:10] Andrew: Okay. Performance was like against like a puck solo, I think.

[1:22:13] Emilee: Oh, Apollo.

[1:22:15] Andrew: Apollo of all things.

[1:22:16] Emilee: Of all things. Um I feel like we're forgetting one, but we're probably forgetting one, but.

[1:22:23] Andrew: Anyway.

[1:22:24] Emilee: Anyways. Emily, to wrap up the episode, you know, we like to ask people this question every episode. She's pulling up the rope. If Glee, if Glee was on in 2022, what are they singing?

[1:22:35] Emilee: Okay, so I've put some thought into this. Now Will really, really loved doing stuff, especially in like season four and five, like in the 80s, right? There's a lot of like foot loose and whatever, all the 80s songs. Um, I think that Y2K is really making a comeback in style and fashion and all different aspects. So I think more late 90s, early 2000s hits.

[1:23:01] Andrew: Okay.

[1:23:01] Emilee: So I've got, I said more Avro Levine, um, Blink 182, more no doubt, more Jason Moraz, uh, more in sync and backstreet boys. They had such a catalog to explore with so many men in their show. And I think that they only did one song of each of the artists that yeah, it was the mashup, right?

[1:23:20] Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:23:21] Emilee: Exactly. And they just keep they did keep holding on twice.

[1:23:24] Andrew: Right, right.

[1:23:25] Emilee: Like there's so many more good Avril V songs. But yeah, I've got even like the like the pre-emo era. So like some of the pop punk, like Panic at the Disco's first album, Fallow Boy, uh, Good Charlotte. Just they never really explored that punk genre as much, but they did a lot of like 80s rock, but not so much like punk. I didn't say like Evanescence or some like 90s Mariah. They only did the one Mariah.

[1:23:49] Andrew: Well, and also I still believe Super Baby.

[1:23:55] Emilee: Yes. I think that was was that the only Mariah they did, and then All I Want for Christmas.

[1:24:01] Andrew: Oh, duh, of course.

[1:24:02] Emilee: Yeah, well, but yeah, I don't count Christmas songs. So why didn't they sing I'm yours by Jason Morass?

[1:24:08] Andrew: I don't know, but that's a great song.

[1:24:10] Emilee: It was right there.

[1:24:11] Andrew: They probably couldn't have sang Curbside Prophet because that one indicates not high school appropriate things.

[1:24:19] Emilee: Probably doesn't do that.

[1:24:21] Andrew: Glee never does that.

[1:24:22] Emilee: No, blurred legends isn't a thing.

[1:24:25] Andrew: Bye.

[1:24:26] Emilee: Um, who would have sang I miss you by Blink182?

[1:24:32] Andrew: Where are you?

[1:24:33] Emilee: That's that's Puck.

[1:24:35] Andrew: Oh, for sure.

[1:24:36] Emilee: And I think that would have been like uh maybe even like a Puck Quinn storyline.

[1:24:42] Andrew: For sure.

[1:24:43] Emilee: I think so. But more Quinn solos and Tina solos in some of these because I feel like they have good voices for those kind of songs. Like when Tina did um Rivers, that was I was like, that's a great voice for some of these, you know.

[1:24:59] Andrew: Why am I forgetting? What's the Wake Me Up Inside?

[1:25:01] Emilee: Um Evan Essence Evans.

[1:25:03] Andrew: Wait, what's what song is that?

[1:25:04] Emilee: What is that song called?

[1:25:06] Andrew: Um Bring Me to Life.

[1:25:07] Emilee: Bring Me to Life. Yes. Come on, Tina.

[1:25:10] Andrew: Tina on the track.

[1:25:11] Emilee: Yes. Wake me up. Or Am I Immortal? A nice kind of rock ballad. Uh that would have been, I don't even know, but yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. And that's also like my favorite genre of music. So it would been it would have been really cool to see some of those things, especially because the age gap from the 80s to the 2010s is now the age or the you know right years gap between the 90s, early 2000s, and now so true.

[1:25:40] Andrew: Yeah, I love it. Emily, um, thank you so much for being around this week.

[1:25:45] Emilee: Both of you, thank you so much for having me. Absolute delight.

[1:25:49] Andrew: It has been a color. Um, where can all the glisteners find your social gladiator? And also, have I heard that you're doing uh podcast upgrade?

[1:25:57] Emilee: Up that is correct. I'm going to be starting my own Glee podcast called Glee and T. Um, it is going to be very similar to your show. It's based on you are the inspiration for this show. So thank you for doing what you do. Um it's gonna be you are, it's gonna be very similar where we bring guests on and we find out the best episode of Glee. So we're there's 121 episodes. So we're gonna break it down versus style with a point system and figure out like best uh, you know, rate each song of the episode, talk about the plot and different characters and things like that.

[1:26:34] Andrew: So um very similar style. Uh, thank you for the inspiration.

[1:26:38] Emilee: I wait, I love the point system. Wait, so like so excited.

[1:26:42] Andrew: It's gonna be stars too. If they do like a really good song in one episode, but then also do like a bad song, like it's like adding subtracting.

[1:26:49] Emilee: Right.

[1:26:50] Andrew: It'll be like averaging it out.

[1:26:51] Emilee: Yeah, yeah.

[1:26:52] Andrew: So you have like, oh, some incredible song, but then if you've got a couple bummers in it, it can bring that score down.

[1:26:58] Emilee: So wow, yeah. So that that's in the works, not uh an official start date on that yet, but definitely I love that.

[1:27:05] Andrew: Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be hopefully, you know, it'll be uh successful in a fun concept that's like yours, but a little different, obviously.

[1:27:14] Emilee: Love it. Um, but right now you can find me on uh TikTok and Instagram at Emily C17. So um it's uh E M I L E E C isn't cat e 17.

[1:27:27] Andrew: I'm thank you so much again, Emily. It has been seriously, it has been an honor. Your podcast is so fun and really brings me back and makes me feel a lot less alone in this journey of my obsession. So thank you.

[1:27:42] Emilee: So real. Thank you so much again, Emily. This was literally the best. To end the episode, we're gonna say bye in our most annoying voices after one. Three, two, one.

[1:27:56] Both: Bye.

[1:27:57] Andrew: Bye!

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