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[0:11] Andrew: Oh my god, it's the last day of Musical May.

[0:17] Allison: Oh my god, it's the last day of Musical May. What are we gonna do after this?

[0:25] Andrew: It's all downhill. Well, can we reveal what we're doing in the next?

[0:29] Allison: Okay, so we are like backlogging these episodes.

[0:31] Andrew: Yes.

[0:32] Allison: Um, I don't know if you could tell. Uh, the lilt of our voices is slightly similar.

[0:37] Andrew: Similar, yeah.

[0:39] Allison: Um, and drastically in the next episode, you'll hear us like in a Cockney accent or something.

[0:46] Andrew: Um, no, next, okay, so we're backlogging episodes because, um, should I reveal this?

[0:53] Allison: You should say it.

[0:54] Andrew: You can say it.

[0:55] Allison: Okay, so, um, I am working part-time for the Tony Awards.

[0:59] Andrew: Ever heard of it?

[1:00] Allison: Um, Allison will be, um, hopefully joining, um, me at the award ceremony.

[1:08] Andrew: You're frozen right now.

[1:09] Allison: Oh, wait, no, you're back. Hi.

[1:12] Andrew: Allison's back.

[1:13] Allison: Frozen the Broadway musical.

[1:16] Andrew: You're frozen right now. Okay, go.

[1:18] Allison: Um, and so I guess the next episode we will, um, be reporting.

[1:26] Andrew: I was about to say live reporting. We will not be doing that.

[1:28] Allison: We will not be live.

[1:29] Andrew: Um, we will not be live at the Tonys. Um, our experience bumping shoulders with, uh, Broadway elite.

[1:42] Allison: Yeah, I hope so.

[1:44] Andrew: If they let them in.

[1:46] Allison: We'll be there. Um, okay, so the last musical, um, let's reveal it.

[1:51] Andrew: You wanna reveal it?

[1:52] Allison: Mean Girls.

[1:54] Andrew: It's Mean Girls. I'm not even gonna do anything cute. It's just Mean Girls.

[1:58] Allison: It's another movie that was turned into a musical.

[2:02] Andrew: Movie first, musical second.

[2:04] Allison: Book first.

[2:04] Andrew: So this is the crazy thing.

[2:06] Allison: Book first.

[2:07] Andrew: It was a book?

[2:08] Allison: Tina Fey adapted, like, it's like loosely adopted, adapted from, like, um, Queen Bees and Wannabes is the title of the book.

[2:14] Andrew: Oh.

[2:15] Allison: But like, I don't even, I've never cracked open a book, I don't think.

[2:20] Andrew: I've never read a single book.

[2:22] Allison: Don't do that.

[2:22] Andrew: You do.

[2:23] Allison: Um, you read smut.

[2:25] Andrew: I do read smut.

[2:27] Allison: Anyways. Um, and so, uh, the crazy thing is, is that it went from a book to a movie to a musical. Now it's going back to a movie. The musical is being adapted into a movie.

[2:40] Andrew: Okay, I had heard about that.

[2:42] Allison: And I'm sure there's gonna be a book to accompany the, uh, the movie musical. So it's really just this pyramid.

[2:50] Andrew: I'm gonna be able to do that.

[2:51] Allison: I'm skimmed.

[2:52] Andrew: Yeah. Uh, what is your relationship with the Mean Girls musical?

[2:56] Allison: Um, the musical, not much. Um, I do love it. I do love the soundtrack. I have never seen it anywhere.

[3:03] Andrew: Have you ever seen The Slime?

[3:05] Allison: The Slime, yes.

[3:06] Andrew: A little bit.

[3:07] Allison: A little bit of Barrett, because I love Barrett with my whole fucking soul.

[3:12] Andrew: Um, but I've seen a little bit of the slime.

[3:16] Allison: I think slime tutorials were for me when I was 16. I think at 26, I don't have the patience or the aptitude to consume content like that.

[3:29] Andrew: I wish I did.

[3:31] Allison: You've outgrown the slime.

[3:32] Andrew: Yes, I've outgrown the slime. Not to say that slime is to be outgrown. It's just not for me.

[3:36] Allison: You know, that's so interesting that you say that because I feel like they're literally marketing toward, you know, I'm grouping together an entire age bracket, but I feel as though slime is much more popular with children.

[3:47] Andrew: So it's like, okay, let's call these musicals. Also, if you're not familiar, I don't, maybe I'm just preaching to the choir. The musical bootlegs are called slime tutors on YouTube because they're catering, this is my headcanon, to children that also like slime tutorials.

[4:03] Allison: Yeah.

[4:03] Andrew: No, I think if you were a child looking for a slime tutorial and you came across the full Wicked, you'd be extremely confused.

[4:12] Allison: It's the modern-day Rickroll.

[4:14] Andrew: But that's how they get you. That's how they're talking about. That's how they get you sucked in. That's how they make you a theater kid.

[4:19] Allison: My first, I mean, this is going off book, but my first slime tutorial, I guess it wasn't even a slime tutorial, it was just a recording of a show, was A Very Potter Musical.

[4:28] Andrew: And I love A Very Potter Musical so much.

[4:31] Allison: Um, I can't watch it anymore. I think my hearing is just bad.

[4:34] Andrew: Wait, why didn't we do A Very Potter Musical as one of our musicals?

[4:40] Allison: Well, I don't know.

[4:42] Andrew: What did you want? Like, would you want to?

[4:44] Allison: I would love to. I would love to talk about A Very Potter Musical.

[4:49] Andrew: I didn't include it in my top five musicals because I didn't think it was technically a Broadway show.

[4:53] Allison: Oh, that's interesting.

[4:56] Andrew: Um, okay.

[4:57] Allison: Um, anyways. Mean Girls.

[5:01] Andrew: Mean Girls.

[5:02] Allison: Um, I saw it, I've seen it once. I saw it actually, um, the previews of it.

[5:10] Andrew: Uh, in New York with the original Broadway cast, obviously.

[5:15] Allison: Flex.

[5:16] Andrew: Flex.

[5:17] Allison: Um, I love them.

[5:19] Andrew: Ashley Park.

[5:20] Allison: Mm-hmm.

[5:21] Andrew: Eat me.

[5:22] Allison: Eat me.

[5:23] Andrew: Step on my necks.

[5:24] Allison: Step on my neck. I was trying something.

[5:28] Andrew: Step on my neck and then consume my flesh.

[5:31] Allison: Yeah. Um, I just love, I love it. You know, it's so good. It's just so, it's so fun.

[5:36] Andrew: I will say, okay, listening to the soundtrack, you have a much better experience.

[5:44] Allison: Ooh, do I want to say this? I just want, like, I just remember, like, it's so hard because I remember, like, they were teasing Mean Girls on Broadway for years. And they were like, you and me and Paige, former Gleek, were in New York City, and we were drunk in Times Square, and we are running around singing and screaming loudly about how much I hate Cats.

[6:06] Andrew: The musical.

[6:08] Allison: Both the animal and the musical. Um, and I remember I have a video of us walking down the street, and Mean Girls photo is in the background.

[6:16] Andrew: But that was early, early, early.

[6:17] Allison: That was a long time ago. Early, early, early. Um, yeah, I just feel like I was anticipating it so much that it was like it was never gonna live up to my expectations.

[6:26] Andrew: I will say there are points in this musical that are like a little cringe, um, and the jokes just don't land. And like, the one that really comes to mind is actually featured in "It Roars" when like Katie is going up to the girl and she's like, "Hi, teens," and then they say "unsubscribe," and I'm like, ooh, that's a 40-year-old man that wrote that line.

[6:52] Allison: Tina.

[6:53] Andrew: Oh, Tina, Tina. I don't know, because I feel like, okay, it's obviously had some great zingers in there, and obviously all your favorite lines are there. The whole gang is there. Blank Coco.

[7:06] Allison: Um, and they add some jokes in there that do land. Uh, I really love the, um, like Gretchen compares herself to an iPhone without its case, like very expensive and like worth a lot, but like if you drop it, it will shatter.

[7:26] Andrew: And I'm like, that's great. Relatable.

[7:28] Allison: Relatable queen. Um, but yeah, I love it. I think it's very fun. I will say the second act, aside from the obvious ones, does not have as good a song as the first act.

[7:42] Andrew: That is what I'm saying about all musicals ever. Second act. I have yet to find a show that the second act is better for me.

[7:51] Allison: You famously watched every single musical too.

[7:54] Andrew: I've famously seen every slime tutorial ever made. Um, but like I was listening to it today, the soundtrack, and I'm like, these last two songs. What is this?

[8:06] Allison: Weak.

[8:08] Andrew: Yeah. Um, I can't even like what is it? I think "Stars" is the last song, and then there's a song that they sing at the Mathletes competition that I'm like, oh no.

[8:19] Allison: Too yeah.

[8:20] Andrew: Um, anyway, do you want to cast it because our Gleek will be here soon?

[8:23] Allison: Yes, I will just say I think "Apex Predator" is my number one favorite song from the show.

[8:29] Andrew: Um, it's very good. I wanna, what is it? I wanna be me.

[8:33] Allison: I'd rather be me.

[8:34] Andrew: I'd rather be me.

[8:50] Allison: I'd rather be me. That's a close second. I think that is a good, like, Broadway audition song.

[8:50] Andrew: Yeah.

[8:50] Allison: Like if I was going in and I could sing a lick of literally fucking anything, yeah.

[8:50] Andrew: Um, I would sing that. I think "I'd Rather Be Me" takes the cake for me, but I will say, and this is just me being annoying, but, um, I like Barrett's Jimmy Fallon performance so much better than, um, like I don't like really listening to like the original Broadway cast recording.

[9:09] Allison: Just because like in the background, I don't need it where it's like Janice, Janice.

[9:13] Andrew: You don't like that.

[9:14] Allison: And I'm like, it's cute for what it is, but I'd rather just like, I like, it's just Barrett on Jimmy Fallon, and it's so good.

[9:22] Andrew: We love Barrett on this podcast.

[9:24] Allison: We do. But we also love the Glee cast. And do we want to cast them?

[9:27] Andrew: Yeah, I guess we want to talk about Glee.

[9:29] Allison: I guess we have to talk about Glee. Um, let's start, I, well, the set to the, excuse me, the text I sent you started with Janice. Do you want to start with Janice or do you want to start with Katie?

[9:42] Andrew: Oh yeah, I know. I noticed that and I was like, that's an interesting choice.

[9:45] Allison: I just automatically put Katie at the top.

[9:47] Andrew: I just changed it myself. Okay, so Katie.

[9:51] Allison: Katie.

[9:51] Andrew: Three, two, one, Marley.

[9:55] Allison: It's Marley. It's so obvious.

[9:56] Andrew: I think you and I might have very, very, very similar tastes.

[10:00] Allison: I was thinking the same thing where it's like, I'm, it's pretty obvious.

[10:04] Andrew: It's pretty obvious. I don't think I like chose like anybody that's too off base.

[10:09] Allison: No.

[10:10] Andrew: I maybe, do we win anything if we, if we get the same cast?

[10:14] Allison: Uh, big kiss.

[10:15] Andrew: Big kiss.

[10:16] Allison: Okay. Big money, big money, big money. Um, okay, so we have Janice next.

[10:21] Andrew: Janice, three, two, one, Mercedes.

[10:25] Allison: Harmony.

[10:26] Andrew: Oh no.

[10:27] Allison: That kid.

[10:28] Andrew: Stop that.

[10:29] Allison: Stop this.

[10:31] Andrew: No, I have to. It's the, it's the Barrett Wilbur to Mercedes pipeline.

[10:36] Allison: Where?

[10:37] Andrew: Um.

[10:38] Allison: Well, I said the same thing with, uh, with Veronica. Um, you know, I, I know it's different, but you know what? I think that Frankenfurter was a very different role for Mercedes.

[10:51] Andrew: That's true.

[10:52] Allison: And very good. And I think that she would nail this. And I, I have further notes later on, but, um, about this, but it's tied in with another character. Let's keep on going.

[11:01] Andrew: Um, wait, let me reopen my phone. Um, Regina.

[11:08] Allison: Regina.

[11:09] Andrew: Three, two, one, Santana.

[11:11] Allison: Tina.

[11:17] Andrew: Wait, you thought that I was gonna say Tina?

[11:21] Allison: Regina George.

[11:23] Andrew: I don't know why, but when I cast these dumbass fucking musicals, I shouldn't say that. When I cast these musicals, I only think of season four.

[11:34] Allison: Oh, okay.

[11:35] Andrew: I am not frequently thinking of season one. Like I was looking at these characters and I saw there was no Rachel. There was no Mercedes. There was a chance.

[11:42] Allison: You know what's so hilarious? You casted Harmony in this. Where was Harmony in season four? Does anybody remember?

[11:51] Andrew: Harmony!

[11:52] Allison: Harmony's in every season for me. Lindsay, we love you.

[11:57] Andrew: Anyways.

[11:58] Allison: Anyways, Gretchen.

[12:00] Andrew: Well, I just want to say one thing that's, say something about Santana.

[12:02] Allison: Santana.

[12:03] Andrew: Santana, um, you know the line where she's like, "These are real." I think it would be so funny. Like, come on, just you're sitting in the audience, and then she says these, these are real, and Santana famously got a boob job and everyone laughs, everybody laughs because we know that's not true.

[12:14] Allison: Okay. Are you gonna say the unholy trinity is Regina, Gretchen, and Karen?

[12:21] Andrew: No, I'm not.

[12:24] Allison: Because we're actually, we're gonna get to Gretchen next.

[12:26] Andrew: Three, two, two, one, Rachel.

[12:33] Allison: Wait, I just like, I need to wrap my head around you just doing the season four thing. Because if I had the same assignment, if I was like given the same assignment, then yeah.

[12:41] Andrew: If you had the own your the same assignment that is like in my head that I made up for myself.

[12:46] Allison: Right. Uh, it's Rachel for me.

[12:48] Andrew: I think you know it would be so funny. He just like, you know how like they would have those scenes where they all like approach the cast list and she gets Gretchen Wieners. Come on. That, there's Leah Michelle's Emmy right there.

[13:00] Allison: There'd be a wiener joke somewhere in there.

[13:02] Andrew: Oh, for sure. Um likely. Defend casting Kitty, if you will.

[13:07] Allison: I'm not.

[13:08] Andrew: Okay. Um, I th, well, I think we obviously have the same Karen. I think that everybody on Ryan Murphy's Earth would.

[13:17] Allison: You don't.

[13:18] Andrew: Three, two, one, Brittany.

[13:21] Allison: Sugar Mata.

[13:22] Andrew: Oh, that's so fun.

[13:24] Allison: Yeah. I felt like it was way too on the nose to put Brittany, but I think I actually really like Sugar.

[13:29] Andrew: Sugar's great. Now that I remember that literally, I don't know why, but casting this like I needed season four, and I completely forgot that Britney is in season four.

[13:39] Aaliyah Raffell: And Sam.

[13:40] Andrew: Where the fuck is Sam on my cast list? He's not here.

[13:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Sam is on mine.

[13:45] Andrew: Is Sam your Aaron?

[13:46] Aaliyah Raffell: Sam is my Aaron. And you know why? Because there's the line, you know, I the reasons behind my castings are just so all over the place. There's a line where um Regina says, Stop pushing it down. Your hair looks sexy pushed back. And I'm like, I totally agree. Court Overstreet in the later seasons when he when he um pushes his hair up, sexy pushback.

[14:10] Andrew: Yes.

[14:10] Aaliyah Raffell: I thought you were gonna say it's sexy push down, and I was like, what the fuck are you about to say?

[14:14] Andrew: The Bieber carrier cut?

[14:16] Aaliyah Raffell: No, no, no. Who do you think? Um my errand is writer.

[14:20] Andrew: That I was gonna say writer.

[14:22] Aaliyah Raffell: I was also gonna say Finn at one point in my life. And um I don't know. I just think that I would like to see Sam and Marley. I think they had they had one scene together in all of Glee where they talked, and I'm like, this I wanted to explore more. I think Marley is the only female character that Sam didn't kiss.

[14:40] Andrew: I do remember that scene where Sam kissed Carmen Thibodeau, yeah.

[14:44] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, and Sue Sylvester.

[14:47] Andrew: It was weird.

[14:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Menage a toi.

[14:48] Andrew: Menage toi.

[14:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Damien.

[14:54] Andrew: Three, two, one.

[14:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Blaine.

[14:57] Andrew: Kurt.

[14:59] Aaliyah Raffell: I was gonna say Kurt, but I was in the season four mode.

[15:02] Andrew: You were in the season four mode.

[15:04] Aaliyah Raffell: And that's okay. I'm not in that gear yet.

[15:06] Andrew: Yeah, exactly. I I mean, like, Kurt's so obvious, and I feel bad. It's the same like Brittany as Karen. I'm like, it's too obvious, but it's obvious for a reason.

[15:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Right. Um, okay, and then we also have Miss Norberry, Mrs. George, Mrs. Heron, all I don't have Mrs. George, Mrs. Heron.

[15:21] Andrew: Because no, no, no. They're all the one same character. It's like all the same. Like Carrie Butler played all the same characters, yeah.

[15:30] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, are you ready?

[15:32] Andrew: Yeah.

[15:33] Aaliyah Raffell: Three.

[15:34] Andrew: Two Quinn.

[15:36] Aaliyah Raffell: Unique.

[15:37] Andrew: Hmm. Here I was thinking I was gonna get a big kiss.

[15:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Not today, baby. Um, wait. And then do we want to one final character? Oh my god, why am I blanking on his name? Because I I meant to write him down, but who is it that the math lead? What's that?

[15:54] Aaliyah Raffell: The mathly guy?

[15:55] Andrew: Kevin Napoor.

[15:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Yep. I didn't cast him. Did you have a casting for that?

[16:00] Andrew: I think there's a very obvious answer, and I'm going with obvious answers today. The most obvious answer for Kevin Nippor is Artie Abrams.

[16:09] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, yeah.

[16:11] Andrew: Yeah. I again forgot. Artie is fully in season four. Where was I? I am fo I am too focused on I think Marley and Ryder. I think I'm in a season four mood. I think I want to pull season four songs.

[16:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. I was thinking today. We have not talked at all about the scientist and how it will play a role in the Glacket.

[16:24] Andrew: In the Glacket.

[16:30] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, yeah. And I am terrified. That's what I'm projecting today. I'm projecting scientists.

[16:33] Andrew: I'm ready for it.

[16:36] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm projecting a Marley solo. I don't know which one. Because my now favorite, it wasn't my favorite at the time. Now it is my favorite. Um every time I cry, nah na na. But that's not how it goes.

[16:48] Andrew: It's already not going to be.

[16:50] Aaliyah Raffell: It's already gone. I know. And I'm sad. And I only just started loving it. So I think that we have three more Marley solos that come to mind. So I'm. So you might get your wish.

[17:01] Andrew: Okay, good. All right, Gleeks. Um, our Gleek this week is from her YouTube. Glee Reacts. Um, Aliah. Hi, Aaliyah, how are you?

[17:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Hi, I'm good. How are you?

[17:11] Andrew: We're so excited that you're here. We recently just found out, like literally a minute ago, that you've listened to every single episode of the podcast, which I was like, okay. Um god, so I never before we get into your hot takes and you like rip us to shreds about um competitions that we've done that you don't agree with. Uh, what is your relationship with Glee?

[17:30] Aaliyah Raffell: My relationship with Glee is a toxic one.

[17:33] Andrew: Okay.

[17:34] Aaliyah Raffell: So I I yeah, don't we all?

[17:37] Andrew: So I've started listening to it with my sister. Listening, watching it with my sister. I think she introduced me to it because she knew that I liked musicals. And it was kind of halfway through season one, I think it was. So we watched that, and then she immediately stopped watching because not her thing. But then I watched it pretty much live up until start of season four.

[18:00] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[18:01] Andrew: Okay. Like everybody else. And then I got up to the breakup, and that's where I drew the line. I could not take the heartbreak.

[18:10] Aaliyah Raffell: So you just dipped. You were like, no more.

[18:13] Andrew: You okay as soon as I hear Santana singing mine, it's nah. Waterwork start and it's a co.

[18:20] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god. Walk us through what you're doing on your YouTube channel. Why you why do you think that Glee is kind of having this renaissance, Glenescence, if you will.

[18:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Glenescence. I love that. Um, I think probably because of COVID and people had nothing else to do. And it was on like Disney Plus? I already had it. Wait, it was already on in the UK. But it was fun to see you guys be excited about it. Because like all the casts like shared about it too. And I was like surprised that Lee and Michelle even like posted a story. I was very shocked.

[18:56] Andrew: It's back on Disney Plus, and I'm like, mmm, Lee Michelle. I don't know. Why are you all so into this? I'm sure half of you like dipped.

[19:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Right. So stopped paying attention to it. They're like, they devoted like some of them devoted like grid posts to it too. And I'm like, wow, you're letting this live on the grid that you're excited that Disney. It was all like in the same hour, too. Yeah. As well. We're all just online at the same time posting the same thing. So it seemed quite big, but very episodic. And never left for me. Yeah. But I'm happy with you guys.

[19:27] Andrew: So you recently went to Liverpool Comic Con this last weekend, right?

[19:31] Aaliyah Raffell: I did. Um, which is so crazy that we we planned this over like a while ago, but like this is so perfect that you're coming right after uh to talk to us. So tell us about that experience because I hear it was pretty crazy.

[19:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Where do I begin? Um first of all, I'm so traumatized, but in the best way.

[19:55] Andrew: Okay.

[19:55] Aaliyah Raffell: It was terrifying. I had anxiety plu for a month beforehand because I'd bought tickets to get a picture with Heather Morris.

[20:05] Andrew: Okay.

[20:05] Aaliyah Raffell: So I kind of dragged my nephew with me. He's eleven, he wanted to dress up as the Joker. I was like, yeah, come with me. I love that. So he was my excuse to go. Um so yeah, we got there, we got in line, and the way the lines were, you could kind of hear behind the curtain, like the actors. So jokingly, not so jokingly, I was like, She's in there. I can hear her. I can hear her, she's in there. And I started to freak out. My nephew was like, get a grip.

[20:34] Andrew: Yeah.

[20:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Um But the crazy part is when the curtains opened, because it was all behind a curtain, so you couldn't see in unless you were in the room. Um the first first of all, I saw her in front of all these lights, and I was like, Oh my god, she's gorgeous. And yeah, I was terrified instantly. But then I looked to my right and I saw Josh, who you had on the podcast a few weeks ago. And I thought that was crazy. So I saw him, and then it was my turn to go into the room. So by the time I got in, I looked to my right again, and standing two, three feet away from me, Matthew Morrison.

[21:14] Andrew: Oh my god.

[21:16] Aaliyah Raffell: I was like, Mr. Schuster. But he was so close to me that it it like took me back a bit. It caught me off guard.

[21:24] Andrew: Yeah.

[21:25] Aaliyah Raffell: And if you watch my channel, not as tall as I expected.

[21:30] Andrew: Okay.

[21:31] Aaliyah Raffell: I can see that.

[21:32] Andrew: I can say that about all of them. None of them were as tall as I expected.

[21:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Really?

[21:36] Andrew: Yeah, you're welcome.

[21:38] Aaliyah Raffell: I yeah, because I saw I saw Wicked, one of Lindsay's la Lindsay Pierce's last performances of Wicked. I had the same exact thought. And I don't know if it's like this like celebrity stigma that it's like all celebrities or I think it is. That they're all like giants, but like she came out and like, oh, this is she's just like us.

[21:55] Andrew: Yeah.

[21:56] Aaliyah Raffell: That's just I had the exact same thing.

[21:58] Andrew: Yeah. So I don't know if you've watched my videos, but I I swear quite a lot.

[22:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[22:05] Andrew: Cannot help it. So what's the first thing I do is I point in Matthew Morrison's face and say, Oh shit, hi. And then he laughed at me.

[22:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, that's he laughed at me, and then he turned to whoever he was with, and he was like, That's so funny. She said, Oh shit, hi. I was like, oh no.

[22:26] Aaliyah Raffell: It was mortifying. And then he was laughing at me, and then it was my turn to go up. And Heather Morris, she was so lovely. Instantly complimented my outfit. And I was like, I'm dressed up as Laura Croft. You are dressed up as an angel. Like, there's no comparison.

[22:42] Andrew: I loved that. Like the the button down and the top. It was very, very cute.

[22:46] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh no, that was the second day. The first day she had like a flower crop top and like some power to be jeans. It was incredible. She needs how to put together a look.

[22:56] Andrew: Yeah.

[22:57] Aaliyah Raffell: She does. She sure does. So yeah, she complimented my outfit. And then I think I just kind of crumbled from there. I was like, it's so nice to meet you. And that's when I noticed she wasn't too tall.

[23:10] Andrew: And then we got the picture. I think she was willing to talk for longer, but I just was like, let's get this over and done with before I embarrass myself further.

[23:17] Aaliyah Raffell: Sure.

[23:18] Andrew: Right. So she was like kind of wanting to have a conversation, but I was just like, let's smile. Let's go. I'm ready.

[23:23] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. So then we took the picture. And then I asked her if I could give her a note because I had so much to say that I didn't know how much time I'd have to say it. So I was like, can I give you a note? And she said, You sure can. So I tried to get this note out of my pocket and it got stuck. I couldn't get the note out of my pocket, and she was just stood there watching me trying to get this note out.

[23:44] Andrew: Oh, I wanted the ground to suck me up.

[23:46] Aaliyah Raffell: But she was lovely about it. She just let me know.

[23:49] Andrew: Wait, the piece of paper was stuck in your pocket?

[23:51] Aaliyah Raffell: It was in my bag. I had a backpack on, and there was like a little pocket in the side. So I was trying to get it out of this pocket. I'd done a trial run and I got it out in the line, but I could not get it out in front of her.

[24:05] Andrew: But you eventually did.

[24:07] Aaliyah Raffell: It felt like forever. It was probably about five seconds.

[24:10] Andrew: I know. I can feel that.

[24:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes. That was that. Wait, that sounds so amazing though. And I saw your um your video that you posted of like the entire QA as well of the panel. I love that.

[24:21] Andrew: Yes.

[24:23] Aaliyah Raffell: I didn't even mean to go to that. I didn't have a ticket for it until the morning of because the panel was on the Sunday, but my meetup was on the Saturday. And I don't live in Liverpool. I had to drive two hours to my sister's house. So I planned to drive home on Sunday morning.

[24:39] Andrew: Right.

[24:39] Aaliyah Raffell: But then I was sat there eating hash brown, and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna go. I'm gonna do it. Just gonna go. Just gonna do it. I dragged my sister with me. She went against her will, but she came with me.

[24:52] Andrew: I know that I love it.

[24:54] Aaliyah Raffell: That was great.

[24:55] Andrew: Good. That's awesome. Um, okay, so shifting gears. Okay, so you listen to the podcast. We need your hot takes about any competitions that just have stuck with you that captured you up at night.

[25:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Let me get my notes. Well, Andrew, I do have a bone to pick with you because Okay, perfect.

[25:13] Andrew: Oh, thank God, not me.

[25:14] Aaliyah Raffell: From the very beginning, I have agreed with you, I think maybe 90% of the time.

[25:20] Andrew: Oh.

[25:21] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, not where you thought it was gonna go.

[25:23] Andrew: The bone, yeah.

[25:24] Aaliyah Raffell: No, no, it gets worse. Because the last few weeks I've disagreed with you, and I've been quite disappointed.

[25:31] Andrew: Okay, cite your sources.

[25:33] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm just gonna list ready. Right. Jesse's girl.

[25:40] Andrew: Over Takeabow.

[25:42] Aaliyah Raffell: The ball was in my court with that one, I understand. I don't think that Jesse Jesse's girl is for me. I think maybe maybe I am I think that it does it hit for a female audience more than it does for a gay male audience.

[26:01] Andrew: But does take a bow hit for anybody?

[26:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, take about does. I think I think take about hits a little bit.

[26:07] Andrew: Take about does does hit.

[26:09] Aaliyah Raffell: What what do you have against take a bow?

[26:11] Andrew: I think it's just the way she pronounces the words and really over pronounces them. It's like you just kind of take away half the song by doing that.

[26:20] Aaliyah Raffell: Right.

[26:21] Andrew: And it's not Rihanna. I think I'm too used to the Rihanna version, and it got Rachel Fied. I don't know.

[26:28] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[26:29] Andrew: Not for me.

[26:37] Aaliyah Raffell: I know. I know. And I I feel bad because we got rid of two follows in that episode. But yeah, that was a deep cut. That was a that was a bad episode for Finn. What was the other one? But I the other one was more than a woman.

[26:50] Aaliyah Raffell: That yeah, I have beef with you on that one too.

[26:53] Andrew: Okay, I a lot of people said that.

[26:56] Aaliyah Raffell: A lot of people said that about that.

[26:57] Andrew: Yes, okay.

[26:58] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[26:59] Andrew: Join the choir, Aaliyah.

[27:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Let's uh but it's not because of the thin part, it's because of the Santana part.

[27:06] Andrew: Her low notes in that song would take over the entire song for me.

[27:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[27:11] Andrew: But still, I mean, like against "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

[27:14] Aaliyah Raffell: I hate "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

[27:15] Andrew: Okay.

[27:16] Aaliyah Raffell: Really?

[27:17] Andrew: Oh my god.

[27:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Aliyah, I'm so glad that you are a Gleek this week.

[27:22] Andrew: We the Glackett will never be the same.

[27:24] Aaliyah Raffell: I just came to cause chaos, that was all.

[27:26] Andrew: Good.

[27:27] Aaliyah Raffell: Good.

[27:28] Andrew: I love that.

[27:30] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[27:31] Andrew: Any other hot takes or favorite? What are your favorite performances from the show? What are you hoping comes out of this cup today?

[27:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god, the cup. I really thought it was all a big joke.

[27:41] Andrew: It's real.

[27:43] Aaliyah Raffell: The cups are real.

[27:44] Andrew: I love that.

[27:45] Aaliyah Raffell: Um I will take anything Santana, anything Brittany, anything Mercedes, anything Artie.

[27:54] Andrew: Okay.

[27:55] Aaliyah Raffell: Interesting.

[27:55] Andrew: We're vibing today.

[27:57] Aaliyah Raffell: We're Artie fans.

[27:58] Andrew: Anything else?

[27:59] Aaliyah Raffell: No, it's not gonna cut it for me.

[28:03] Andrew: I love it.

[28:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay, perfect. Are we ready for our first song?

[28:07] Andrew: I'm ready.

[28:07] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm so ready.

[28:09] Andrew: Okay. Wait, so Aaliyah, wait, before we get into it, did you finish you did finish the series?

[28:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Barely.

[28:14] Andrew: Eventually.

[28:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Just barely, okay.

[28:16] Andrew: In lockdown, I did, yeah.

[28:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay, okay.

[28:19] Andrew: So we know the entire trajectory.

[28:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Yep.

[28:23] Andrew: Okay. Season three.

[28:26] Aaliyah Raffell: Deep into season three.

[28:28] Andrew: Um, I'm pretty sure I know who sings this song.

[28:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, off the top of my head.

[28:33] Andrew: But I could be wrong.

[28:36] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I know who sings this.

[28:38] Andrew: This is good.

[28:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, Andrew, can you give me permission to share your screen?

[28:41] Andrew: Yeah.

[28:42] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[28:43] Andrew: Oh my gosh.

[28:44] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[28:44] Andrew: Podcast you can't.

[28:46] Aaliyah Raffell: Um I think is it good now?

[28:49] Andrew: Yes.

[28:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Here we go.

[28:50] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm sorry. I've said no, sorry, so much space.

[28:53] Aaliyah Raffell: Here's our first one.

[28:55] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay, I'm so ready.

[28:56] Aaliyah Raffell: For all those times you stood by me for all the truth that you made me see, for all the joy you brought to my life, for all the wrong that you made right, for every dream you made come true, for all the love found in you.

[29:21] Aaliyah Raffell: I'll be forever, baby.

[29:26] Aaliyah Raffell: You're the one who held me up.

[29:30] Aaliyah Raffell: Never let me fall.

[29:34] Aaliyah Raffell: You're the one who saw me through it all.

[29:40] Aaliyah Raffell: You were my strength when I was weak.

[29:44] Aaliyah Raffell: You were my voice when I couldn't speak.

[29:48] Aaliyah Raffell: You were my eyes when I couldn't see.

[29:54] Aaliyah Raffell: There was in me.

[29:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Lifting me up when I couldn't reach.

[30:00] Aaliyah Raffell: You gave me cause you believed I'm everything I am because you love me.

[30:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, you were always there for me.

[30:17] Aaliyah Raffell: The tender wind me carried me.

[30:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Light in the dark, shedding your love into my life.

[30:29] Aaliyah Raffell: You've been my inspiration to the lies you were the truth.

[30:37] Aaliyah Raffell: My world is a better place because of you.

[30:47] Aaliyah Raffell: You were my strength.

[30:51] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, when I couldn't speak, I couldn't see.

[30:56] Aaliyah Raffell: You saw the best there was in me.

[31:04] Aaliyah Raffell: You came back.

[31:09] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm everything just noticing Mike is down.

[31:28] Aaliyah Raffell: You saw the best there was in me.

[31:36] Aaliyah Raffell: You gave me life.

[31:55] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh no, it froze.

[31:58] Aaliyah Raffell: No!

[31:59] Andrew: Are you still with us?

[32:01] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm with you, but Tina's not.

[32:05] Andrew: It cuts off.

[32:07] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm sorry that it froze, and I'm sorry that this clip cuts out the best part of the song for me.

[32:14] Andrew: Oh, it's so good.

[32:15] Aaliyah Raffell: Which I tweeted a couple weeks ago when we had Samuel Larson on.

[32:19] Andrew: As they're like clapping, Samuel does this thing as Mike Chang.

[32:24] Aaliyah Raffell: He doesn't like so fucking good.

[32:30] Andrew: So good.

[32:31] Aaliyah Raffell: That is the best part of the song.

[32:33] Andrew: We could talk about this performance and just break it down all day, or at least I could.

[32:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Easily.

[32:38] Andrew: Um I am ups I'm obsessed with this performance.

[32:43] Aaliyah Raffell: I okay.

[32:44] Andrew: I feel like let's go around.

[32:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Best swap.

[32:48] Andrew: Best swap.

[32:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Let's give it to the for the people that are just listening. In this music video, they swapped like people.

[32:56] Andrew: So like Finn is Kurt.

[32:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[33:00] Andrew: Kurt is Finn.

[33:01] Aaliyah Raffell: The only time she'll get a solo is when she's pretending to be somebody else.

[33:05] Andrew: Exactly.

[33:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, Oliah, what is your favorite swap?

[33:09] Aaliyah Raffell: I think nothing beats Santana dressing up as A.

[33:13] Andrew: With the bangs.

[33:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh god. It's so fun.

[33:15] Andrew: And his little hour.

[33:16] Aaliyah Raffell: And doing like the praise hand of the thing.

[33:19] Andrew: His praise the signature move.

[33:22] Aaliyah Raffell: I think she did that really well.

[33:23] Aaliyah Raffell: And I think Quinn is sugar.

[33:26] Andrew: Oh.

[33:27] Aaliyah Raffell: That's good.

[33:28] Andrew: She was just living her best life doing that.

[33:30] Aaliyah Raffell: That's absolutely.

[33:31] Andrew: Oh, the role she was born to play.

[33:33] Aaliyah Raffell: Well, because like I feel I say all the time that I like sugar pulls focus constantly for me in the background.

[33:39] Andrew: And so I think that Diana Agron bodied this role.

[33:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Um whereas like Vanessa Lengies, I don't I don't think.

[33:46] Andrew: She just has to sit there.

[33:47] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm not sure what she was going for.

[33:49] Andrew: I don't I don't know what the direction was.

[33:52] Aaliyah Raffell: I guess I don't know.

[33:53] Andrew: Because sometimes like Quinn does have fun watching performances, but I feel like that's more like a Diana choice.

[33:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, sure.

[34:00] Andrew: Quinn choice.

[34:01] Aaliyah Raffell: So I don't know.

[34:02] Andrew: I mean, like maybe it was a good choice.

[34:04] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know.

[34:04] Andrew: I'm conflicted about Vanessa Lengies in this performance, actually.

[34:07] Aaliyah Raffell: I think the best swap is easily Kurt and Finn and Blaine and Puck.

[34:14] Andrew: Yeah.

[34:14] Aaliyah Raffell: That's good.

[34:15] Andrew: They Ryan Murphy was like, the Gleeks are gonna love this one.

[34:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh yeah.

[34:20] Andrew: Uh bald cat the bald cat with me with the Mohawk.

[34:24] Aaliyah Raffell: So goddamn funny.

[34:26] Andrew: Kurt, like in his lower register, so good.

[34:26] Aaliyah Raffell: So good.

[34:31] Andrew: It hits for me.

[34:32] Aaliyah Raffell: I love this.

[34:33] Andrew: I think this it's not my favorite Tolo.

[34:37] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[34:38] Andrew: But it's my second favorite, I think.

[34:40] Aaliyah Raffell: It's good.

[34:41] Andrew: I have more notes about the actual about the swapping.

[34:45] Aaliyah Raffell: Tell me.

[34:46] Andrew: Tell me about it.

[34:47] Aaliyah Raffell: I want to I w I want to talk more about the swap before we actually get to the actual song at hand.

[34:51] Andrew: Okay, sure.

[34:51] Aaliyah Raffell: Um go for it.

[34:52] Aaliyah Raffell: I want to talk about the Britanna of it all.

[34:54] Andrew: And you know what?

[34:55] Aaliyah Raffell: I love the fact that you know it seems as though Kevin McHale and Amber Riley are having fun on set this day, and it's like it's a very fun thing.

[35:03] Andrew: Am I mad that um they get a kiss in this?

[35:08] Aaliyah Raffell: And and pretend it doesn're not.

[35:10] Andrew: We waited three seasons to get a kiss.

[35:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Uh yeah, absolutely.

[35:15] Andrew: That does grind my gears a little bit.

[35:17] Aaliyah Raffell: I didn't even put two and two together there.

[35:19] Andrew: It stings a little bit.

[35:20] Aaliyah Raffell: It stings.

[35:21] Andrew: There's a little salt in the wound there.

[35:22] Aaliyah Raffell: I you know, I love to see people having fun in this performance was that um people were having fun here.

[35:29] Andrew: Do I also wish I feel like I'm just finding things to complain about?

[35:31] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm not complaining about it.

[35:32] Andrew: Tell us.

[35:33] Aaliyah Raffell: I wanna I I want an entire 45-minute episode.

[35:36] Andrew: I want even an entire season inside of Tina's mind.

[35:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Me too.

[35:39] Andrew: I want to see um I want to see Beast as Emma and Emma as Beast.

[35:43] Aaliyah Raffell: I want to I I want to expand out.

[35:49] Andrew: I want these actors to it's like it's like it's acting challenge exercise.

[35:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Um will as well.

[35:56] Andrew: So good.

[35:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Sue and Will.

[35:57] Andrew: And they chose I'm obsessed.

[36:00] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[36:00] Andrew: Or Will just putting fingers in the ears as yeah.

[36:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Um I also want to say when was last time that Tina dressed like this?

[36:09] Andrew: Rachel is Tina.

[36:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, I don't agree that Tina has not dressed like that since season one.

[36:14] Andrew: So I don't know.

[36:16] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, sure, sure, sure.

[36:17] Andrew: I just feel like does Tina is Tina having an identity crisis that she's dreaming of herself in like I don't know.

[36:24] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know what's going on.

[36:25] Andrew: They needed to make it clear that Rachel was Tina.

[36:27] Aaliyah Raffell: That's what I'm thinking.

[36:28] Andrew: Yeah.

[36:28] Aaliyah Raffell: I wouldn't give the Ratchas too much credit.

[36:30] Andrew: I feel like they were just like, let's swap the one that has the most songs and the one that has the least songs and see how it goes.

[36:37] Aaliyah Raffell: It's true.

[36:37] Andrew: Yeah, it's fair.

[36:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, this this episode was huge.

[36:40] Andrew: Do you remember like being part of the fandom during this episode?

[36:42] Aaliyah Raffell: And they were like, Yes, Tina is finally getting her day in the sun, and it really was sort of just like a a foil to Rachel's plot.

[36:50] Andrew: But I remember seeing like exclusive photos of the fountain scene when she comes out of the water and Finn and Puck are there, but they're Curtin Blaine.

[37:03] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, and I remember like shitting my pants about it.

[37:07] Andrew: Absolutely.

[37:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Very excited.

[37:10] Andrew: Um Aaliyah, what do we think about this song in general?

[37:15] Aaliyah Raffell: I think that this song it shows the audience that Tina can sing Rachel songs.

[37:21] Aaliyah Raffell: Because her riffs at the end.

[37:24] Aaliyah Raffell: So good.

[37:24] Andrew: They don't give her the chance to do that in any of the song because she doesn't get any songs.

[37:29] Aaliyah Raffell: But I think this just proves that she can do that kind of thing.

[37:32] Andrew: And they just don't give her enough of the opportunity to do it.

[37:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[37:36] Andrew: Right.

[37:36] Aaliyah Raffell: So Justice for Tina.

[37:38] Andrew: Justice for Tina.

[37:40] Aaliyah Raffell: All day, every day.

[37:41] Andrew: Justice for Tina.

[37:42] Aaliyah Raffell: I completely agree.

[37:43] Andrew: This is a good song for me.

[37:44] Aaliyah Raffell: This hits.

[37:45] Andrew: I don't really like the slow songs.

[37:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Can I say that?

[37:53] Andrew: The like riffs in the background, choir in the background, slow songs.

[37:58] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm not into those as much, but this one hits for me because it's Tina.

[37:58] Andrew: This one hits.

[38:03] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't mind it if they make it obvious that it's supposed to be cheesy.

[38:06] Andrew: Right.

[38:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[38:07] Andrew: I think when they try and be serious, it's like maybe don't do that.

[38:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Very fun.

[38:11] Andrew: Yeah.

[38:12] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm not I don't think I would maybe I'm gonna get hate for this.

[38:18] Andrew: But I think if I was going to breach "Because You Loved Me," I'm gonna go for the original over the Glee Cast version.

[38:23] Aaliyah Raffell: Right.

[38:23] Andrew: I'm is that that's not like that's not a hot take.

[38:27] Aaliyah Raffell: That's not crazy.

[38:27] Andrew: That's acceptable, yeah.

[38:29] Aaliyah Raffell: Um other tolos come to mind that I feel as though she sounds better in.

[38:33] Andrew: What's your number one tolo?

[38:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Which ones?

[38:36] Andrew: I know mine.

[38:38] Aaliyah Raffell: I want you to guess what mine is after you say yours.

[38:41] Andrew: Is yours the Madonna one?

[38:43] Aaliyah Raffell: It's the Madonna one.

[38:44] Andrew: It's "Hung Up."

[38:44] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[38:46] Andrew: Um I think I like "I Don't Know How to Love Him," which is already not going through.

[38:51] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[38:51] Andrew: But I love that one.

[38:53] Aaliyah Raffell: I think she sounds that's from the Sadie Hawkins episode.

[38:56] Andrew: It's so weird.

[38:57] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh no, I hate that one.

[38:58] Andrew: Yeah.

[38:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Wait, why?

[39:00] Andrew: Why do we hate it?

[39:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Not that one in particular, just that whole storyline.

[39:02] Andrew: I kind of block it out.

[39:03] Aaliyah Raffell: The storyline was bad.

[39:04] Andrew: This song is not that great, babe.

[39:07] Aaliyah Raffell: No, it's so good.

[39:08] Andrew: Please.

[39:08] Aaliyah Raffell: I can't defend you on this one.

[39:10] Andrew: No.

[39:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Listen to the video.

[39:11] Andrew: You betrayed me a few seasons ago, a few episodes ago.

[39:13] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm gonna betray you now.

[39:15] Andrew: Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[39:17] Aaliyah Raffell: Listen to the MP3!

[39:18] Andrew: Listen to the MP3!

[39:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, okay, against "Because You Loved Me."

[39:25] Andrew: This might be.

[39:26] Aaliyah Raffell: I wait.

[39:27] Andrew: I am not saying in the last episode I said that I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna give any context for what the song is because I feel as though it's going to lead the our guest in a certain direction and it might be peer pressure.

[39:38] Aaliyah Raffell: So I'm not gonna say anything.

[39:40] Andrew: We're just going to watch it.

[39:42] Aaliyah Raffell: Instantly nervous.

[39:43] Andrew: I know.

[39:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Stress.

[39:44] Andrew: And you're gonna know what it is right from the Yep.

[39:48] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my gosh.

[39:51] Andrew: I was just talking about this one.

[39:57] Aaliyah Raffell: What the hair?

[39:58] Andrew: I love that hair.

[40:05] Aaliyah Raffell: And nothing gets me down.

[40:09] Andrew: You gotta go!

[40:11] Aaliyah Raffell: I've seen the toughest round.

[40:16] Andrew: And I know Baby Just High Yu!

[40:23] ♪ Musical number: "Jump" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[41:43] Andrew: Um, oh my god, Aaliyah, what are we thinking about "Jump" Glee Cast version by Glee Cast?

[41:48] Aaliyah Raffell: I love the way you said that, you sound like... Um, I think I'm gonna... I was making sure she wasn't gonna go off behind me.

[41:57] Andrew: That is classic season one.

[41:59] Aaliyah Raffell: It is.

[42:00] Andrew: I think that song and that performance is just classic season one, and that's what I think Glee does best.

[42:07] Aaliyah Raffell: And it's probably the peak.

[42:10] Andrew: It was only down for babies too.

[42:12] Aaliyah Raffell: They look so young.

[42:13] Andrew: They look so young.

[42:15] Aaliyah Raffell: I love the hair that they do. Like the little middle part, cup little bit of braids, about a quarter of the way back.

[42:21] Andrew: Then it's done.

[42:22] Aaliyah Raffell: It's cute. It's fun. Um, this is camp. This is cute. I love it.

[42:29] Andrew: Mercedes hitting those notes.

[42:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Hitting those notes.

[42:32] Andrew: I know. She does it the first time, and I'm like, oh wow, that's great. And then she does it like two more times.

[42:38] Aaliyah Raffell: That's wild.

[42:40] Andrew: There are some things that Kurt does in musical numbers that make me kind of cringe. Um, but Kurt in this for me, good.

[42:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Though like this really so good. Hits for me.

[42:54] Andrew: I love Kurt season one. Even though it's pre-Blain.

[42:59] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm gonna say that there was a cringy moment in this, and I think Aaliyah, you know what it is.

[43:03] Andrew: Is it this?

[43:05] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I think that's cute.

[43:06] Andrew: It's this.

[43:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, oh yeah.

[43:09] Andrew: This is the audio medium. Um, gesturing forward.

[43:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, I think you know. I think you know what I'm talking about. Um, that is a little bit weird.

[43:19] Andrew: No, it's cute.

[43:20] Aaliyah Raffell: You like it?

[43:21] Andrew: Yeah, I'm gonna stand up for Kurt Hummel this episode. This episode of Gleek of the Week, I'm a Kurt fan.

[43:27] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Kurt fan. Big Kurt girl.

[43:30] Andrew: I could not care less about Kurt or Blaine.

[43:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Really?

[43:33] Andrew: Okay. You're grouping Blaine into this too.

[43:36] Aaliyah Raffell: We're just roping them in. Um, I think I dislike Blaine more than Kurt.

[43:40] Andrew: Wow.

[43:42] Aaliyah Raffell: I not dislike. Dislike's the wrong word. I'm so incredibly indifferent that I just don't care.

[43:50] Andrew: Yes.

[43:51] Aaliyah Raffell: To the point where it's like a waste of screen time to me.

[43:54] Andrew: That's what I... No, I totally agree. I think there's...

[43:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Do you?

[43:57] Andrew: I'm sorry, Alex. Are you sure, Andrew, that you totally agree with that?

[44:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Do I tell? I think there's a line by Sue in the series finale of Glee where she's talking to Clain in her office, and she's like, you know, Kurt, I've seen you like your dad's health go like fluctuate, you get bullied, and then the bully dates your ex and all this stuff, and like talks a lot about Kurt and his journey, and then she says, and Blaine, I'm still trying to figure out what your deal is, but it seems like you're doing you.

[44:35] Andrew: And I'm like, yeah, that's so true. Like at the end of the series, right? I don't know if we really have a good read on Blaine, you know?

[44:42] Aaliyah Raffell: And what I'm genuinely sorry, Allison, because I know that you do love Blaine and Darren Chris.

[44:47] Allison: I love him.

[44:47] Aaliyah Raffell: And I love that for you.

[44:49] Allison: Thank you.

[44:49] Aaliyah Raffell: I think it would be Darren Chris first. Just not for me.

[44:51] Andrew: Right?

[44:51] Aaliyah Raffell: Darren Chris first, Blaine Anderson second.

[44:53] Andrew: Yeah.

[44:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. That I can respect.

[44:55] Andrew: That's fair enough. It's fine.

[44:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, jump.

[45:02] Andrew: I jump, jump to me, because this is a commercial. I feel as though this is like... Do you remember those like Shirley Temple commercials that would come on?

[45:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[45:11] Andrew: Oh my god. You'd be sleeping on your couch, and then all of a sudden, like it would just be at another octave that the TV would be playing a Shirley Temple.

[45:22] Aaliyah Raffell: And I feel like, okay, Aaliyah, this is not landing with you.

[45:25] Andrew: Um, American thing.

[45:27] Aaliyah Raffell: American thing, unfortunately.

[45:29] Andrew: You would just be like... You would leave the TV on and you would fall asleep, and then they would show you Shirley Temple, you're familiar, Aaliyah.

[45:37] Aaliyah Raffell: The person.

[45:38] Andrew: Yeah.

[45:41] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes, I am. Um, and they would show... It would be a commercial where it would be like buy the entire box set and Shirley Temple.

[45:48] Andrew: What's the song she would sing? Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rain, right?

[45:51] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[45:51] Andrew: Is that the... Oh no?

[45:53] Aaliyah Raffell: It's the... Oh, the Ali Papa.

[45:57] Andrew: Yes, that's... Yes.

[45:58] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. Um, and I feel like this is giving... That's like you would just wake up and it would be like... It would be a Mercedes.

[46:06] Andrew: It's always like 3 a.m. too.

[46:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[46:08] Andrew: It's like after hours.

[46:10] Aaliyah Raffell: The tenth.

[46:12] Andrew: QVC ceiling mattress advertisements.

[46:15] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, exactly. Um, we talk about um, the flips as well.

[46:16] Andrew: The flips.

[46:20] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, where are those coming from?

[46:22] Andrew: Mm-hmm.

[46:22] Aaliyah Raffell: And why don't we see that more?

[46:24] Andrew: Pass out.

[46:25] Aaliyah Raffell: I love this.

[46:26] Andrew: From... It would kill me.

[46:29] Aaliyah Raffell: I... It would take me out completely to one flip.

[46:34] Andrew: Fully pregnant Quinn for Bray.

[46:37] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, just there.

[46:39] Andrew: She did a lot of that in season one when she was heavily pregnant.

[46:42] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh yeah. A week before birth, she really gave up that funk.

[46:45] Andrew: Yes.

[46:46] Aaliyah Raffell: It's almost like she was...

[46:48] Andrew: I just made a video on this.

[46:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes. It's the season one recap altogether and just how Quinn was going absolutely insane.

[46:55] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[47:00] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. She's a New Directions first, mother second.

[47:04] Andrew: Yeah.

[47:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Is she mother second? Mother at all?

[47:09] Andrew: Mother should perform.

[47:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Sometimes she's a mother.

[47:13] Andrew: When she wants to be. Season three.

[47:15] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes, exactly. When it pertains.

[47:19] Andrew: Um, this is a harder competition than I thought it would be for me personally. Who wants to start us in the vote?

[47:25] Aaliyah Raffell: Not me. Does anybody feel strong?

[47:27] Andrew: I'll go first. Uh, jump.

[47:30] Aaliyah Raffell: You're going jump.

[47:32] Andrew: I think jump was more entertaining to listen to.

[47:37] Aaliyah Raffell: But is it because you loved me? Is that what it's called?

[47:40] Andrew: Oh, I thought you were asking like me a question. Is it because you asked me that I like to jump?

[47:45] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I was like, oh my god, what?

[47:51] Andrew: Um, but I prefer to watch... Oh no, I like to watch jump too. I think I would listen to and watch jump, but I would only watch "Because You Loved Me."

[48:01] Aaliyah Raffell: That's fair.

[48:02] Andrew: You're saying jump.

[48:02] Aaliyah Raffell: That's a r that's a good analysis. I respect that. That's my justification.

[48:07] Andrew: Are you putting me in the hot seat? Putting me next?

[48:12] Allison: Wait, do you know who you're voting for, Alison?

[48:15] Aaliyah Raffell: I really don't know what I'm gonna vote for. Um then can I vote for because you love Damn it?

[48:24] Andrew: Because I know that I said that like I would reach for the Celine Dion version, but I think this performance is so good and I want to watch it again with other people, is my thinking.

[48:34] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. You know, I'm saying jump.

[48:03] Aaliyah Raffell: You're saying jump.

[48:43] Andrew: Just as patina all day long, but yeah.

[48:45] Aaliyah Raffell: I know. Hung up. I mean, I say this every time, but hung up, that's going through for me. I will fight for that.

[48:50] Andrew: That doesn't matter what's what it's against.

[48:52] Aaliyah Raffell: What it's against? Yeah, doesn't matter.

[48:55] Andrew: Any song?

[48:55] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm thinking of another courtyard song that I think that would be hung up.

[49:01] Andrew: It's not unusual.

[49:03] Aaliyah Raffell: Uh, no.

[49:04] Andrew: Somewhere.

[49:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, somewhere we go sometimes?

[49:07] Andrew: Some somewhere only we know.

[49:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Where we go sometimes.

[49:09] Andrew: Yeah. Somewhere where we like to go when it's a good thing.

[49:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Somewhere we like to go when we're sad.

[49:13] Andrew: Sometimes we like to go here. Sometimes we like to go there.

[49:16] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, decision. I can't make the decision. I think I would quit the podcast if that was a thing that I had to do.

[49:28] Andrew: Well, we're hiring then.

[49:29] Aaliyah Raffell: So now it would tear me apart.

[49:31] Andrew: See what happens. Just have to rig it for that.

[49:34] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. My next song, season five, episode two.

[49:39] Andrew: Okay.

[49:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Uh, Beatles.

[49:42] Andrew: Yeah. I think I love this.

[49:45] Aaliyah Raffell: I think I love this too.

[49:47] Andrew: Oh, it's not what I thought it was.

[49:49] Aaliyah Raffell: When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.

[49:56] Andrew: Speaking words, let it be.

[50:02] Aaliyah Raffell: And in my hour of darkness, she is standing.

[50:07] Andrew: Oh, this is real cute.

[50:09] Aaliyah Raffell: Speaking words of wisdom. Let it be.

[50:12] Andrew: Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be, let it be.

[50:21] Aaliyah Raffell: How old are they meant to be?

[50:23] Andrew: Fully like nineteen.

[50:24] Aaliyah Raffell: A nineteen, yeah.

[50:28] Andrew: And shouldn't we drink it?

[50:29] Aaliyah Raffell: When you broken hearted people living in the world agree.

[50:38] Andrew: Let it be.

[50:42] Aaliyah Raffell: For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see there will be an answer.

[50:51] Andrew: Let it be highness. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be.

[51:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Let it be. Let it be.

[51:15] Andrew: Whisper the word the winter let it be.

[51:28] Aaliyah Raffell: And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me.

[51:35] Andrew: Shine until tomorrow. Let it be.

[51:42] Aaliyah Raffell: I wake up to the sound of music.

[51:46] Andrew: Mother Mary comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom. Let it be.

[51:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Let it be. Let it be. Yeah, let it be. Let it be. Let it be, let it be. Let it be. Let it be.

[52:34] Andrew: Woo!

[52:40] Aaliyah Raffell: Why are we reacting like that?

[52:43] Andrew: Because Beatles is finally over.

[52:46] Aaliyah Raffell: They're like, we're finally done with the Beatles.

[52:48] Andrew: Oh my god!

[52:50] Aaliyah Raffell: These two weeks are over.

[52:52] Andrew: Let's go into the quarterback next.

[52:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Yay!

[52:56] Andrew: Um, gosh. Yeah, I know. That happens, isn't it?

[52:59] Aaliyah Raffell: That happens immediately after this performance.

[53:02] Andrew: Um, Aaliyah, what are we thinking about "Let It Be"?

[53:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Not one I'd reach for.

[53:07] Andrew: Okay.

[53:09] Aaliyah Raffell: I do like to see Santana with Danny just as a... just as respect for Santana so she can have a relationship with someone that isn't Brittany.

[53:21] Andrew: But we all know that they were endgame, so it was okay.

[53:25] Aaliyah Raffell: So that was real cute. But why were they drinking?

[53:29] Andrew: Um, this is right after Rachel gets cast as Fanny. This is like... that's what like it started off the performance, like she was in the diner and she's like, oh my god, I got Fanny. And then it like, let's go celebrate at the apartment by getting drunk.

[53:44] Andrew: Even though I feel like you've got a cool Gloria.

[53:46] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, yeah, Gloria going through. Um, I will say that this happens a lot with Glee songs that like um the performance influences the MP3 in that like okay, so when I listen to the MP3 of this song, when it gets to the part in the performance, like in the song where in the performance they pop the cork and they Ah!

[54:08] Andrew: I I'm I do it in my head.

[54:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god.

[54:13] Andrew: That's good. I wanted to rewind the tapes and see where that cork went.

[54:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, let's let's rewind. Share the screen. Let's watch it.

[54:22] Andrew: I already closed it, but let me open it. I want to know where this cork goes.

[54:28] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Oh, okay. Here we go. Does it oh it just gone?

[54:35] Andrew: We don't care where it goes.

[54:37] Aaliyah Raffell: It just evaporates. Did you think there was a take where it hit somebody?

[54:41] Andrew: I hope so.

[54:42] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. That would be quite funny. See, it takes me out of this stupid, stupid season because you are a goofball if you don't think the first person li Ray Leah, Rachel is calling is Finn when she gets cast as Fanny.

[55:03] Andrew: You cannot start season five without addressing Finn. They should not have started with the two episodes of Beatles. They should have started with the quarterback, and then you can go into that.

[55:15] Aaliyah Raffell: We have this conversation in episode that hasn't been released yet, Alia, so you have not heard this conversation. But where do you stand on this?

[55:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Well, no, we were just like talking about like we pulled yesterday in the episode that you'll listen to next. Um and my opinion is that they did that as an homage to the summers that Gleeks just had, where it's like, we know, we've seen the news, we understand what's happening with this cast on this show, and yesterday is like them acknowledging it before they get into the Beatles two the two Beatles tribute episodes, and then they'll get to the quarterback full tribute episode in the third episode. Where do you like do you do you wish that they had acknowledged it from the beginning?

[56:01] Andrew: Like Finn's disappearance.

[56:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, yeah.

[56:05] Andrew: Oh, I didn't know that. I thought they just kind of filmed it as and when it happened.

[56:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Right. Yeah.

[56:11] Andrew: Because they could.

[56:12] Aaliyah Raffell: No, like they went into production like a few weeks after he had passed. And then did these two Beatles episodes without like fully acknowledging it.

[56:26] Andrew: Yeah, that made me uncomfortable.

[56:28] Aaliyah Raffell: Without acknowledging it at all.

[56:30] Andrew: Without acknowledging it at all. You think Finn is not going to be at Blaine proposing to Kurt? He would be there.

[56:35] Aaliyah Raffell: I didn't even think of that.

[56:41] Andrew: But like what are you supp what are you okay? You're in the writer's room. What are you supposed to do? Like Finn can't make it, and then like two episodes later, you have this giant episode. Like it's like it would be weird if they were like Finn cannot come to the You start episode one, quarterback. Episode one coming into season five. Finn is dead. You address that right away, and then everything else falls into place and makes sense later. And you can address, you can have, I wish my brother was here for this proposal. I wish Finn was here. I wish I could talk to Finn because I could tell him about Fanny Bryce. Like it does, it just doesn't make sense to me.

[57:17] Aaliyah Raffell: I think that there were probably like contract things that was like, okay, we already bought this Beatles music. We have to do this. We've already written these episodes. I think I don't know.

[57:31] Andrew: Right. At least. Yeah, I don't yeah. I don't know why this is the hill I'm dying on. Ryan Murphy, I just want to talk.

[57:39] Aaliyah Raffell: I yeah, I I am really curious about some of the decisions that they've made. Can we talk about the well being of the cast too? The fact that they've already had to film two episodes without acknowledging it. And that's gotta fuck you up somehow.

[57:54] Andrew: Yeah. Well, I I'm I'm actually I'm defunct I'm done defending.

[57:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, don't this is not the hill to die on.

[58:02] Andrew: I don't I don't okay. What I'm thinking is that like okay, then they they get to be they get to be with the people that they love. They get to be like they get to go back to work because I think that when you're mourning and something terrible happens to be around people that you know have gone through something similar too. I think it would be I think it would be um sort of what's the word I'm looking for? Healing.

[58:24] Aaliyah Raffell: Healing.

[58:26] Andrew: I again I don't know why this is the opinion that I'm dying on. I don't know.

[58:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Let it be as a song.

[58:33] Andrew: I do I am glad that they forgot we were in a competition.

[58:37] Aaliyah Raffell: I know.

[58:38] Andrew: Oh yeah. I am glad that usually this song is a very slow, very sad context um in when they use it in advertising or pop culture and stuff. But I'm glad this song is kind of a positive song. Like they're celebrating, they're holding hands, kumbaya, um, that sort of thing. It's very cute. I love the shot of them all on the floor. I think that's very, very sweet.

[59:03] Aaliyah Raffell: I know, but are we supposed to believe that they all four got drunk off of one bottle of champagne?

[59:10] Andrew: They're broke teenagers. What do you expect they're gonna drink?

[59:13] Aaliyah Raffell: That's true. That's all they can afford. One $13 bottle of champagne.

[59:18] Andrew: Yeah. Also, what I will say is Blaine's pink suit. I loved it. I don't know what seersucker is, but if I had to call something seersucker, that's what I would call that. It's amazing. I love it, and I wish you would wear it more often.

[59:33] Aaliyah Raffell: A search seersuck?

[59:34] Andrew: Seersucker suit. Can I Google what that is, actually?

[59:37] Aaliyah Raffell: Uh-huh. Please do. Keep discussing, but I'll come back.

[59:41] Andrew: I think I wouldn't have hated it to watch that without seeing the Glue Club. I would have been happy to just see them in New York.

[59:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. They do this a lot in season five where it's like let's end every episode with like a dual performance of the city. So we're gonna sing this somehow.

[1:00:00] Andrew: Yeah. In the auditorium. You guys can sing it now in the apartment, and then we'll pretend that we're doing it together.

[1:00:05] Aaliyah Raffell: Exactly. Right. Hey, we're doing Beatles Week. We can only sing Beatles right now.

[1:00:10] Andrew: Yeah. Are they in this? I always forget. Is this the same time zone?

[1:00:12] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[1:00:14] Andrew: Right?

[1:00:15] Aaliyah Raffell: New York and Lima Ohio?

[1:00:16] Andrew: Uh maybe. Because I think Central and Eastern time zone is divided in Indiana. Because in Indianapolis, I was in Eastern, and in Chicago, when I drove three hours, I was in Central.

[1:00:28] Aaliyah Raffell: These are the conversations that they're having to sing, let it be.

[1:00:31] Andrew: Yeah, they're like, okay, we're on the same time zone. Let's figure out at exactly what time you start singing and then I'll start singing.

[1:00:39] Aaliyah Raffell: And do they just stop singing when it's.

[1:00:45] Andrew: When I Google when I Google Seersucker suit pink, it's almost exactly what.

[1:00:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Can you spell that? Because I can't tell what you're saying.

[1:00:53] Andrew: Seersucker is like.

[1:00:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay, let's look up. Seersucker defined.

[1:01:00] Andrew: It's e a R. Seersucker is a printed cotton or synthetic fabric that has a surface consisting of puckered and flat sections, typically in a striped pattern. So it's like very summary. It's the the feeling of it kind of goes like waves.

[1:01:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, exactly. Like that.

[1:01:22] Andrew: Like like frilly.

[1:01:24] Aaliyah Raffell: No, not frilly, but just kind of like you you think about I'm doing like permanent ends with you think of like men going to the Hamptons and wearing like a beachy suit or like beachy shorts, and they kind of have that texture to it. Um that's what a seersucker is.

[1:01:48] Andrew: And that's what Blades.

[1:01:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:01:49] Andrew: Searsucker pink suit. Title of the album.

[1:01:52] Aaliyah Raffell: So you're saying I I loved Unique's outfit. I love Unique's hair. I think I she looked phenomenal. Like also the energy, I think she is the sugar motor sugar motta of this performance.

[1:02:03] Andrew: Yes.

[1:02:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Pulling focus for me. Very fun. The second that the performance ends, instantly screams at the top of her lungs. And I'm like Yeah, very excited to be over Beatles Week.

[1:02:13] Andrew: Well, I'm I'm with you, you need is like finally we get to address the fact that Finn is dead.

[1:02:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god.

[1:02:20] Andrew: No. We're gonna talk about it. Um okay, let's do anything else about let it be. I feel like we really got off course, but just a little bit.

[1:02:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Um not really.

[1:02:35] Andrew: Okay.

[1:02:36] Aaliyah Raffell: I hate that you don't say that.

[1:02:38] Andrew: I can't say anything anymore.

[1:02:39] Aaliyah Raffell: I can't say anything anymore.

[1:02:40] Andrew: And I'm I'm I know that my my tone is aggressive, and I sound like I resent I resent the Gleek that told me to stop doing this, but I think it's a fantastic note, and I am going to take it.

[1:02:51] Aaliyah Raffell: Um I missed something. What just happened?

[1:02:54] Andrew: No, I I received a note that said from a glistener that said, Andrew, you need to stop um like is saying, like, oh, this is gonna be a hard competition when you pull the second song, because then it informs your guest on what to vote for. And I'm like, that is a fantastic note. So I'm I can't say anything anymore.

[1:03:14] Aaliyah Raffell: Do we know what song this is from the s the first screen grab?

[1:03:18] Andrew: Not even a clue nice.

[1:03:26] Aaliyah Raffell: I listened to this in the car on my back from work today.

[1:03:29] Andrew: Yes. I have a Mercedes playlist.

[1:03:51] Aaliyah Raffell: But what you say Jade, yes.

[1:04:15] Andrew: Young girls, they don't forget it.

[1:04:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Happiness, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:04:28] Andrew: But it goes so easy.

[1:04:32] Aaliyah Raffell: All you got to do is drag.

[1:04:35] Andrew: Try a little bit.

[1:04:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, all you got to do with me.

[1:04:42] Andrew: Hold away, you wanna keep that believer.

[1:04:58] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh yeah.

[1:05:33] Andrew: Incredible.

[1:05:34] Aaliyah Raffell: So good.

[1:05:35] Andrew: Thank you, Mercedes.

[1:05:36] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm obsessed.

[1:05:37] Andrew: Maybe best.

[1:05:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Just thank you.

[1:05:40] Andrew: Best Molo.

[1:05:41] Aaliyah Raffell: Best Molo.

[1:05:42] Andrew: Um.

[1:05:43] Aaliyah Raffell: I feel like it's up there. I don't know if I'd say if it's it was the best, but vocally, it was a Vocally. Insane.

[1:05:51] Andrew: Like, I can feel the back of her throat.

[1:05:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Like, oh my god.

[1:05:56] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:58] Aaliyah Raffell: Thank you.

[1:05:58] Andrew: Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's Amber Riley. She could sing anything, and I would think it was the best thing ever.

[1:06:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Absolutely.

[1:06:05] Andrew: I mean, hello. But just so good. It's hard to talk about songs that are good because you can just say so good and that's it.

[1:06:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Exactly.

[1:06:12] Andrew: I totally agree.

[1:06:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Exactly.

[1:06:14] Andrew: I feel as though this is the second to last episode in season two. Funeral, where like half of the plot is like them trying to audition for solos at nationals next week.

[1:06:29] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh yeah. They did something really great where they were like, okay, let's have this storyline and then release like try a little tenderness, some people, back to black, my man. And it's like, what a great way to just get these songs. Like it's it's so perfect. And I wish that Glee did that more, where it was like, okay, we just we just want to we just want to watch them sing the songs, you know. And I just love it.

[1:06:54] Andrew: I'm obsessed. This is a good thing. Can we talk about those other songs? Was it Santana, Rachel, Mercedes, and did Kurt audition for it to be?

[1:07:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. What did Kurt sing?

[1:07:04] Andrew: Some people from Gypsy.

[1:07:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[1:07:07] Andrew: Yeah. Okay. I don't remember though.

[1:07:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Um something in the back of my mind.

[1:07:13] Andrew: In the sing it?

[1:07:15] Aaliyah Raffell: No.

[1:07:16] Andrew: Um, wait.

[1:07:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Some people can thrive and bloom. Live a life in the You know it.

[1:07:24] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:07:25] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, I think that's the I think it's a really good colour I think with comparatively the weakest link there.

[1:07:31] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:07:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Um Back to Black Tartina Shade.

[1:07:35] Andrew: Back to Black, My Man.

[1:07:37] Aaliyah Raffell: My man. I love him.

[1:07:40] Andrew: He'll never know.

[1:07:41] Aaliyah Raffell: Like, yeah.

[1:07:43] Andrew: Yes. I'm not a massive Rachel fan, but when she sings my man, it takes me somewhere.

[1:07:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Andrew, did they have that in the Broadway show? Did they include it?

[1:07:52] Andrew: No, there's no my man in the in the Broadway show.

[1:07:55] Aaliyah Raffell: B I think we talked about this. It's only in the movie.

[1:07:59] Andrew: It's I think it's only in the movie. They it's like Who Are You Now, which Glee also did like the same song.

[1:08:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Correct me if I'm wrong, Glee.

[1:08:10] Andrew: Now in the movie. Who are you now is in the in the stage version.

[1:08:15] Aaliyah Raffell: Right.

[1:08:15] Andrew: Okay. And Sue and Rachel sing it in Glee.

[1:08:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Um.

[1:08:21] Andrew: But not on Broadway.

[1:08:23] Aaliyah Raffell: No, who are you now is?

[1:08:24] Andrew: No, Sue and Rachel did not sing it.

[1:08:26] Aaliyah Raffell: Sue and Rachel did not sing it on Broadway.

[1:08:29] Andrew: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No.

[1:08:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, yeah. I but I love try a little tenderness. I think this is very easy vote.

[1:08:40] Andrew: Very easy vote for me too.

[1:08:42] Aaliyah Raffell: I will say John Locke looking really good. His hair ten out of ten.

[1:08:45] Andrew: I was thinking the exact same thing.

[1:08:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, and he's he's loving this.

[1:08:48] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:08:49] Aaliyah Raffell: And he was having a great time. He loves Mercedes.

[1:08:51] Andrew: Loves Mercedes.

[1:08:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Don't we?

[1:08:53] Andrew: I will read that fanfiction.

[1:08:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Absolutely. Thank you. You have to give him a name first before you can make it a fanfiction.

[1:08:59] Andrew: Johnny Tromboner.

[1:09:00] Aaliyah Raffell: Johnny Tromboner. Um are we even going to even do a vote?

[1:09:07] Andrew: Try a little tenderness.

[1:09:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Try a little tenderness.

[1:09:10] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:09:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. Even I'll let it be. They sound great. Sorry. I just don't want to talk about episodes one and two of season five ever again.

[1:09:19] Andrew: We have multiple songs left.

[1:09:23] Aaliyah Raffell: But I do have beef, but I'll get over it eventually.

[1:09:27] Andrew: Maybe one day.

[1:09:28] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:09:31] Andrew: Okay.

[1:09:33] Aaliyah Raffell: Because I do the same thing.

[1:09:35] Andrew: I do the same thing, Andrew. I'm like, oh okay.

[1:09:38] Aaliyah Raffell: I usually do that, and I feel like that kind of makes people guess what it's going to be.

[1:09:44] Andrew: Wait, but I kind of want to hear it.

[1:09:46] Aaliyah Raffell: I need to prepare myself.

[1:09:47] Andrew: Right? Like, oh god.

[1:09:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. Um, here we go. Serious, you're hot.

[1:09:53] Andrew: Okay.

[1:09:54] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Oh.

[1:10:02] Andrew: I feel like you got into my playlist somehow.

[1:10:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Nothing you can do. I'll say baby.

[1:10:09] Andrew: I've had enough.

[1:10:12] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm not your property is from today.

[1:10:17] Andrew: Babe.

[1:10:19] Aaliyah Raffell: You might think that I will make it on my own.

[1:10:26] Andrew: But now I'm stronger than yesterday.

[1:10:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Now it's nothing but my way.

[1:10:36] Andrew: My loneliness and killing me no more.

[1:10:43] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm stronger.

[1:10:49] Andrew: Oh yeah. Here I go on my own.

[1:10:54] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't need nobody better off alone.

[1:10:59] Andrew: Here we go on now. I don't need nobody not identified.

[1:11:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Here we go.

[1:11:15] Andrew: Here we go. Stronger than yesterday.

[1:11:26] Aaliyah Raffell: My loneliness and killing me no more no more.

[1:11:35] Andrew: Stronger.

[1:11:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Tina.

[1:11:39] Andrew: Tina at the end.

[1:11:40] Aaliyah Raffell: That's zoom in.

[1:11:42] Andrew: Let's zoom in.

[1:11:43] Aaliyah Raffell: It was kind of serious. The banner in front of her, just say loser.

[1:11:46] Andrew: Is that what it said?

[1:11:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Wait, I literally already closed out of it. Let me find it. Roll back the tapes.

[1:11:51] Andrew: Roll back the tapes.

[1:11:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Roll back the tapes. Uh these dream sequences just call in teen or a loser.

[1:11:57] Andrew: Because I I'm rolling back the takes because I also want to see something else.

[1:12:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Loser.

[1:12:02] Andrew: Loser.

[1:12:02] Aaliyah Raffell: That's good. I used to be.

[1:12:03] Andrew: I also want to see uh where is it?

[1:12:08] Aaliyah Raffell: This body roll again. Let's see the body roll.

[1:12:10] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[1:12:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Weakest, weakest body roll I've ever seen in my entire life. I whenever I sing this in the car, like I'm singing along, and I'm like, I do this thing that he does.

[1:12:23] Andrew: Like the I am obsessed.

[1:12:27] Aaliyah Raffell: The fingers uh for the audio media, the fingers near the head and the head back and forth. What is he what is the line he's singing when he does that?

[1:12:34] Andrew: Oh, I don't know.

[1:12:36] Aaliyah Raffell: Roll back the tapes.

[1:12:37] Andrew: Roll back the tapes. This is the best Artolo.

[1:12:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Ooh. Ooh. I said it.

[1:12:45] Andrew: Um I heard you. What else is better?

[1:12:51] Aaliyah Raffell: What's better than stronger? I think that you say things.

[1:12:54] Andrew: P Y T.

[1:12:55] Aaliyah Raffell: PYT is.

[1:12:56] Andrew: Okay.

[1:12:57] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Uh, I how about safety dance?

[1:13:01] Andrew: Safety dance? No.

[1:13:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Is that hit for you?

[1:13:04] Andrew: Um, I really like I like for once in my life. I think that's really great from the state.

[1:13:10] Aaliyah Raffell: I know. That's weird to me that you really, really like that song. We've pulled that before. We've pulled that before and it it lost against physical, I think.

[1:13:18] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:13:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Um Wow. No, I this is I was gonna say the complete opposite. This Artolo really does not hit for me for some reason.

[1:13:28] Andrew: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[1:13:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Why?

[1:13:32] Andrew: I was in the same mindset as you up until about two days ago.

[1:13:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Really?

[1:13:35] Andrew: Really? Okay, what was the show?

[1:13:37] Aaliyah Raffell: This is recent for me. The drive to Liverpool. Two hours with only glee CDs because my phone was on charge.

[1:13:45] Andrew: And safety reasons, I had the one C D on. Repeat. Good.

[1:13:49] Aaliyah Raffell: And I kept going back to this one.

[1:13:53] Andrew: Oh, that's that's oh, they forgot. No, this is Glee the Music Volume 4.

[1:13:57] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:13:58] Andrew: Orange. I love it. So this is blue.

[1:14:00] Aaliyah Raffell: This is blue. And I'm gonna say You can run out and have a look if you want, but I know it. You don't even need to learn it.

[1:14:05] Andrew: Glee the Music Volume Four is Top Two Best album of all time.

[1:14:12] Aaliyah Raffell: No. Um Glee the Music Volume 4. And I think that Stronger is I think the weak link of this of this album.

[1:14:21] Andrew: For me. It's the skipper one.

[1:14:23] Aaliyah Raffell: For me. I think Glee the Music Volume Four, everyone go look at this track list. I'm absolutely obsessed. Um it has everything that you could possibly want. I feel like I'm saying like New York Status Club.

[1:14:33] Andrew: Um but Stronger, I don't know what it is. I feel like I need to be sold on it.

[1:14:40] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know why. I just like it, it doesn't it's good. It's a female song sung by Artie.

[1:14:46] Andrew: I love this.

[1:14:47] Aaliyah Raffell: I love I the performance doesn't really do anything for me. I just love the song as it is.

[1:14:54] Andrew: It's a very good song. His voice sounds great. I like the kind of his ad libs.

[1:14:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah. Yeah. Digital auto-tune.

[1:15:02] Andrew: Um the breathing, the made me a little bit uncomfortable for that.

[1:15:09] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, just listen to the MP3 on your walk.

[1:15:11] Andrew: On my walk, I'll listen to it today.

[1:15:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Okay.

[1:15:15] Andrew: Um I think the difference between the quality of the audio and the quality of the video were just on par.

[1:15:21] Aaliyah Raffell: It sounds way better than it looks.

[1:15:23] Andrew: Yes, I would agree. Um, any final thoughts about Stronger?

[1:15:28] Aaliyah Raffell: I just know I'm getting my wish. I wanted Artie, I wanted Mercedes, and I've got them both.

[1:15:33] Andrew: Good.

[1:15:34] Aaliyah Raffell: Good. I can't say anything about our final song.

[1:15:39] Andrew: I can't say anything on my own podcast anymore.

[1:15:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god. Oh.

[1:15:45] Andrew: Oh no.

[1:15:48] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, okay.

[1:15:52] Andrew: I'm just gonna go.

[1:15:55] Aaliyah Raffell: Logging out.

[1:15:57] Andrew: I just got goosebumps and not in a good way.

[1:16:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Beth, I hear you calling, but I can't come home right now.

[1:16:09] Andrew: Me and boys are playing, and we just can't find the sound in just a few more hours, and I'll be right home to you.

[1:16:25] Aaliyah Raffell: I think I hear them calling. Oh Beth, what can I do?

[1:16:28] Andrew: Beth, what can I do?

[1:16:37] Aaliyah Raffell: You see you feel so empty that our house just stayed at home.

[1:16:45] Andrew: I'm always somewhere else.

[1:16:48] Aaliyah Raffell: And you're always there alone.

[1:16:53] Andrew: Just a few more hours, and I'll be right home to you.

[1:17:01] Aaliyah Raffell: I think I hear them calling. Oh Beth, what can I do?

[1:17:04] Andrew: Beth, what can I do?

[1:17:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Beth, I know you're lonely. And I hope you'll be alright.

[1:17:46] Andrew: Cause me and them boys will be playing all n you have to catch the tear that falls off the eyelash.

[1:18:14] Aaliyah Raffell: The seven-inch long lashes. That is very crazy.

[1:18:20] Andrew: Uh yeah, I have so much to say about this performance actually.

[1:18:24] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm confused. So I know the context between Kurt and Finn.

[1:18:28] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:18:29] Aaliyah Raffell: What where what's going on with Puck and Quinn in this scene?

[1:18:33] Andrew: I is it. I know that this prompts them naming the child Beth.

[1:18:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Right.

[1:18:40] Andrew: But is it because they they were like having that does Puck want to keep the baby now? What's going on?

[1:18:48] Aaliyah Raffell: I think she's just told him that she wants to give the baby away.

[1:18:51] Andrew: She went okay. But he's kind of expressed that he wants to be in her life and in the baby's life.

[1:18:57] Aaliyah Raffell: So I think this is him trying to get a bit of control back by at least naming the child.

[1:19:03] Andrew: I will say I don't know. I think so. They're all fantastic actors, but this does not really show off their chops because I was not getting anything from this performance.

[1:19:15] Aaliyah Raffell: From Quinn?

[1:19:16] Andrew: I I think I don't know because like now I'm going back to like the Vanessa Lenji's like trying to be Quinn. Like I'm like, I don't actually know what to do.

[1:19:24] Aaliyah Raffell: Because I feel the same way after we watched like Keep Holding On Season 5 version where Puck's singing to Quinn and Quinn is just I hated that.

[1:19:33] Andrew: So uncomfortable.

[1:19:34] Aaliyah Raffell: Diana Agron, wonderful actress, but when when Puck is singing to her these songs, she is doing way too much, and it makes her so uncomfortable.

[1:19:45] Andrew: It's too much.

[1:19:46] Aaliyah Raffell: It's too much. I like this song though.

[1:19:49] Andrew: I do too.

[1:19:50] Aaliyah Raffell: This is probably my favorite polo.

[1:19:52] Andrew: Favorite polo?

[1:19:53] Aaliyah Raffell: What were some of this other ones?

[1:19:56] Andrew: Only the good Day Young. Like school's out. Sweet Caroline is good. We like that one.

[1:20:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Um keep holding on.

[1:20:05] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:20:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Season six version. Oh, a big ass heart. We love that one.

[1:20:10] Andrew: Yeah, we didn't. I like big ass heart.

[1:20:13] Aaliyah Raffell: I was kidding.

[1:20:15] Andrew: In the context at all.

[1:20:15] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:20:16] Andrew: Fat bottom girls.

[1:20:17] Aaliyah Raffell: Fat bottom girls.

[1:20:19] Andrew: Fat bottom girls.

[1:20:21] Aaliyah Raffell: But with the I don't even know if this is considered a polo because Finn did have a that's true.

[1:20:40] Andrew: He thought that that was his child.

[1:20:42] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I think he's singing to Kurt because he's apologizing to Kurt.

[1:20:46] Andrew: Um, because Kurt's kind of like mad.

[1:20:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Maybe do it separately then.

[1:20:50] Andrew: Don't join in on a song with your friends.

[1:20:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Singing the Quinn your ex-girlfriends.

[1:20:54] Andrew: Right, co-opting a narrative, yeah.

[1:20:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, I do love later, I think maybe right after this scene, Finn shows up in a full Gaga outfit.

[1:21:05] Andrew: The shower curtain good, yeah.

[1:21:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:21:07] Andrew: Uh, I was thinking during this, um, showing this performance to a Victorian child, and I think it would really just destroy them, I think.

[1:21:17] Aaliyah Raffell: Because I think, I think, yeah.

[1:21:20] Andrew: Um, yeah, just watching them just like the guys just in very like day-to-day outfits singing to Bubble Girl and the girl and like angry George Washington crossing his arms.

[1:21:37] Aaliyah Raffell: Which is the best outfit.

[1:21:40] Andrew: Yes.

[1:21:41] Aaliyah Raffell: Which is the best outfit for you guys?

[1:21:43] Andrew: It's Santana.

[1:21:44] Aaliyah Raffell: I think it's Santana.

[1:21:46] Andrew: I tried to do this when I reacted to that episode, and I really struggled with it.

[1:21:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:21:52] Andrew: I think top three were Santana, Britney, and Rachel.

[1:21:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:21:57] Andrew: The original Rachel outfit or like the—

[1:21:58] Aaliyah Raffell: No, the glow up Rachel outfit.

[1:22:02] Andrew: Glow up Rachel.

[1:22:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Not the mother.

[1:22:03] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:22:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:22:04] Andrew: I think Santana as well.

[1:22:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:22:07] Andrew: That's good.

[1:22:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Brittany.

[1:22:09] Andrew: I love the Brittany lobster.

[1:22:10] Aaliyah Raffell: The lobster glasses just extra points for me.

[1:22:14] Andrew: Makes it difficult to decide.

[1:22:15] Aaliyah Raffell: It's so good.

[1:22:16] Andrew: But also, Quinn, I like the—it's almost like an—it looks like an egg yolk or something.

[1:22:16] Aaliyah Raffell: An egg yolk.

[1:22:24] Andrew: It's like a satellite.

[1:22:26] Aaliyah Raffell: Do we have anything else to say about Beth?

[1:22:28] Andrew: This is a hard competition for me.

[1:22:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Is it?

[1:22:31] Andrew: Aliah, do you feel confident in what you're voting for?

[1:22:35] Aaliyah Raffell: What was the other one?

[1:22:36] Andrew: It was "Stronger."

[1:22:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh yeah, I'm confident.

[1:22:39] Andrew: Okay.

[1:22:40] Aaliyah Raffell: What are you saying?

[1:22:43] Andrew: "Stronger."

[1:22:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:22:44] Andrew: Oh yeah, me too.

[1:22:45] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:22:45] Andrew: You scared me for a second then.

[1:22:47] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I'm saying "Stronger" as well.

[1:22:49] Andrew: You're saying "Stronger"?

[1:22:50] Aaliyah Raffell: It's so hard.

[1:22:51] Andrew: I'll put a pity vote out for Beth.

[1:22:53] Aaliyah Raffell: Beth.

[1:22:54] Andrew: You really don't need to do that.

[1:22:55] Aaliyah Raffell: No, I don't know.

[1:22:58] Andrew: Not really sure.

[1:23:01] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know if it deserves a pity vote.

[1:23:04] Andrew: I just really didn't like "Stronger" for some reason.

[1:23:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, I don't know what your fucking problem is.

[1:23:12] Andrew: I think I need to drive to Liverpool, I think is what I need to do.

[1:23:15] Aaliyah Raffell: And listen to it.

[1:23:16] Andrew: You need to have it on repeat for two hours.

[1:23:18] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:23:18] Andrew: It was that and "Sway." I kept alternating between the two.

[1:23:22] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, okay.

[1:23:22] Andrew: Wait, "Sway" also.

[1:23:24] Aaliyah Raffell: Have you—do you like this one?

[1:23:27] Andrew: I really like "Sway."

[1:23:29] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:23:29] Andrew: I might think of what "Sway" is.

[1:23:32] Aaliyah Raffell: When the rhythm rhythm stop.

[1:23:36] Andrew: Who sings that?

[1:23:37] Aaliyah Raffell: Shu?

[1:23:38] Andrew: Mm-hmm.

[1:23:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:23:40] Andrew: Interesting.

[1:23:40] Aaliyah Raffell: I think it's probably one of his best solos.

[1:23:42] Andrew: Really?

[1:23:43] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm glad the podcast is over.

[1:23:45] Andrew: Oh no.

[1:23:47] Aaliyah Raffell: God that we're done talking to you.

[1:23:50] Andrew: Well, if you have to pick a favorite, what would you pick?

[1:23:53] Aaliyah Raffell: A Wolo?

[1:23:54] Andrew: A favorite wallow.

[1:23:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Wolo.

[1:23:58] Andrew: Um, oh my god. I need like a list of Wolos in front of me.

[1:24:03] Aaliyah Raffell: Definitely not the one he sings in the Broadway theater.

[1:24:06] Andrew: The original song.

[1:24:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh no.

[1:24:08] Andrew: No.

[1:24:09] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, like "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Bust a Move," "Ice Ice Baby."

[1:24:13] Andrew: Oh, cannot stand "Leaving on a Jet Plane."

[1:24:15] Aaliyah Raffell: It's so boring.

[1:24:16] Andrew: "Bust a Move" for you?

[1:24:17] Aaliyah Raffell: "Bust a Move" for me.

[1:24:20] Andrew: I think.

[1:24:20] Aaliyah Raffell: I really like that.

[1:24:22] Andrew: Because I'm thinking of a lot of duets.

[1:24:24] Aaliyah Raffell: I love "Endless Love."

[1:24:25] Andrew: I mean, we already had that.

[1:24:27] Aaliyah Raffell: Can I—I don't want to come into this conversation unprepared. Can I look up every single Will Schuster solo?

[1:24:32] Andrew: Please.

[1:24:33] Aaliyah Raffell: Wait, can I also do that?

[1:24:34] Andrew: Yes.

[1:24:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Or we're all gonna do that.

[1:24:36] Andrew: I made a bold statement saying it was my favorite, but now I’m not sure.

[1:24:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god, "Thong Song."

[1:24:41] Andrew: Thong Th Thong Thong Thong.

[1:24:43] Aaliyah Raffell: You've already pulled "Thong Song," haven't you?

[1:24:44] Andrew: Yes.

[1:24:44] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[1:24:45] Andrew: What was it against?

[1:24:46] Aaliyah Raffell: "Tell Him That You Never."

[1:24:51] Andrew: "Tell Him."

[1:24:53] Aaliyah Raffell: I actually really like "Thong Song."

[1:24:56] Andrew: Not in the episode or in the context, just the song itself.

[1:24:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Wait, do you have a list?

[1:25:01] Andrew: I'm struggling to find a list.

[1:25:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, I have a list.

[1:25:03] Andrew: Okay.

[1:25:03] Aaliyah Raffell: Here are every Matthew Morrison solo.

[1:25:05] Andrew: Make him laugh.

[1:25:07] Aaliyah Raffell: Go.

[1:25:08] Andrew: A little less conversation.

[1:25:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Which is not a little less conversation.

[1:25:13] Andrew: I'm not that.

[1:25:16] Aaliyah Raffell: "Sway."

[1:25:17] Andrew: "Forever Young."

[1:25:19] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm curious.

[1:25:19] Andrew: Wait, what is the order that you're—is this like someone's ranking?

[1:25:23] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know.

[1:25:23] Andrew: "Thong Song."

[1:25:25] Aaliyah Raffell: "Busta Move."

[1:25:26] Andrew: "Danny's Song," which I can't remember how that goes.

[1:25:29] Aaliyah Raffell: Even though we think a money.

[1:25:33] Andrew: I'm so in love with you, honey.

[1:25:36] Aaliyah Raffell: Uh, "Leaving on a Jet Plane."

[1:25:37] Andrew: Still got tonight.

[1:25:39] Aaliyah Raffell: "Fix You."

[1:25:41] Andrew: "Fix You."

[1:25:42] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh no.

[1:25:43] Andrew: "Tell Me Something Good."

[1:25:45] Aaliyah Raffell: "Ice Ice Baby."

[1:25:47] Andrew: "Teach Your Children."

[1:25:48] Aaliyah Raffell: "Don't Stand So Close to Me, Young Girl."

[1:25:50] Andrew: That's my favorite.

[1:25:51] Aaliyah Raffell: And then "In Your Eyes."

[1:25:53] Andrew: What is "In Your Eyes"?

[1:25:55] Aaliyah Raffell: "In Your Eyes."

[1:25:56] Andrew: The lights, the dreams in your eyes.

[1:25:58] Aaliyah Raffell: It's the same thing.

[1:25:59] Andrew: I love that you're so ready to just go and say anything.

[1:26:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:26:02] Andrew: Holding up the radio.

[1:26:03] Aaliyah Raffell: You've got the one on your head and you got it.

[1:26:04] Andrew: I have them.

[1:26:06] Aaliyah Raffell: "Don't Stand So Close to Me, Young Girl" is my favorite.

[1:26:08] Andrew: That was my favorite from season one.

[1:26:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, I like that one too.

[1:26:12] Andrew: I think that "Fix You" also.

[1:26:14] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know.

[1:26:15] Andrew: I don't know. There's a lot that we need to pull—we need to pull in this fucking cup game.

[1:26:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, yeah.

[1:26:19] Andrew: There's a lot of other shit.

[1:26:21] Aaliyah Raffell: Have you got left until you finish the round one?

[1:26:24] Andrew: Um, we have—I—that next episode is actually our 400th song, and we have 666 in total.

[1:26:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:26:32] Andrew: Do you know what song do you pull into?

[1:26:34] Aaliyah Raffell: Well, we're gonna—I think I have mine ready.

[1:26:37] Andrew: To bring back.

[1:26:38] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, but we're not recording it for like a few weeks, so we have time to—

[1:26:43] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:26:44] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, wait, do we—we voted?

[1:26:44] Andrew: We voted.

[1:26:48] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, okay.

[1:26:49] Andrew: Let's recap.

[1:26:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Wait to recap.

[1:26:51] Andrew: Okay, so I have "Jump" and "Try a Little Tenderness" going through and "Beth" staying behind.

[1:26:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Bye, Beth.

[1:26:57] Andrew: Bye, Beth!

[1:26:57] Aaliyah Raffell: I have "Because You Loved Me," "Let It Be" staying behind, and then "Stronger" going through.

[1:27:02] Andrew: Okay, this was a good grouping.

[1:27:04] Aaliyah Raffell: How do you feel about this grouping, Aliah? Do you think it's like reflective of who you are as a person?

[1:27:11] Andrew: Uh, what were the winners again?

[1:27:14] Aaliyah Raffell: "Jump," "Try a Little Tenderness," and "Stronger" are the winners.

[1:27:18] Andrew: I think "Try a Little Tenderness" and "Stronger" definitely reflect what I would reach for.

[1:27:23] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:27:24] Andrew: "Jump" was kind of just a situational kind of thing.

[1:27:28] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:27:28] Andrew: But yeah, I'm happy with that.

[1:27:30] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:27:30] Andrew: I'm glad. That's all we want.

[1:27:33] Aaliyah Raffell: Thank you so much. The question we ask all of our guests to wrap up the episode: what is Glee singing in 2022?

[1:27:42] Aaliyah Raffell: I've been so ready for this.

[1:27:43] Andrew: She's going into her phone.

[1:27:45] Aaliyah Raffell: Going into the notepad.

[1:27:47] Andrew: Good.

[1:27:48] Aaliyah Raffell: I love this. Can I be really annoying and tweak it?

[1:27:52] Andrew: Yes.

[1:27:52] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh my god, of course.

[1:27:53] Andrew: Yes.

[1:27:54] Aaliyah Raffell: So it's just not what they would sing today because I don't actually listen to music that's new.

[1:28:00] Andrew: Okay.

[1:28:01] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't listen to the radio.

[1:28:02] Andrew: Why would you have Glee: The Music Volume 4?

[1:28:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:28:04] Andrew: Exactly.

[1:28:06] Aaliyah Raffell: No point.

[1:28:07] Andrew: So I just listened to the songs that are already in my phone.

[1:28:10] Aaliyah Raffell: But I did say that they would do—do you know that episode of iCarly? Where I think it was a dream sequence where everything was just a musical?

[1:28:14] Andrew: Yes.

[1:28:20] Aaliyah Raffell: But it was in Carly's head, I think it was.

[1:28:23] Andrew: Okay.

[1:28:23] Aaliyah Raffell: I can see the outfit she's wearing, the dress.

[1:28:26] Andrew: Yes.

[1:28:26] Aaliyah Raffell: And all the boys are coming down the stairs in the school, like clicking at her.

[1:28:30] Andrew: I feel like they should do something like that.

[1:28:32] Aaliyah Raffell: Should have done something like that.

[1:28:33] Andrew: Oh, I thought you were gonna say they should sing that song.

[1:28:35] Aaliyah Raffell: Should they sing that song?

[1:28:36] Andrew: Oh, no.

[1:28:37] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay.

[1:28:39] Andrew: But just that kind of thing where it's in one person's head and everyone's just singing everything and it's really cheesy and yeah.

[1:28:47] Aaliyah Raffell: I love that.

[1:28:48] Andrew: Okay. So that was the first thing I have. And then—oh, and then I wrote that it would turn out that it was all in Becky's head.

[1:28:50] Aaliyah Raffell: Becky's head.

[1:28:55] Andrew: Nice.

[1:28:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Or like a fantasy from Sue or something like that.

[1:28:58] Andrew: The entire series.

[1:29:00] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:29:00] Andrew: The entire series is just in Becky's head.

[1:29:02] Aaliyah Raffell: I don't know if that's actually been disproven.

[1:29:04] Andrew: And we find out that it should be true.

[1:29:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Becky is Helen Mirren.

[1:29:09] Andrew: Plot twist.

[1:29:10] Aaliyah Raffell: I love that. Um, I noticed that they did a lot of Pink songs, but I feel like they didn't ever do the right Pink songs.

[1:29:19] Andrew: Okay, or give them to the right people.

[1:29:21] Aaliyah Raffell: Okay. Like what Pink song?

[1:29:22] Andrew: "Start Me Up"?

[1:29:25] Aaliyah Raffell: "Who Knew"?

[1:29:26] Andrew: "Start—what's 'Start Me Up'?"

[1:29:27] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, "Get the Party Started."

[1:29:29] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[1:29:30] Aaliyah Raffell: That's the—as soon as like that came out of my mouth, I was like, I'm a fucking idiot. That's not right.

[1:29:34] Andrew: You know that song, "Start Me Up"?

[1:29:38] Aaliyah Raffell: "Start Me Up" by Pink.

[1:29:39] Andrew: It's like I didn't write that one.

[1:29:41] Aaliyah Raffell: What?

[1:29:42] Andrew: Everybody knows it.

[1:29:43] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, yeah, specifically "Who Knew."

[1:29:46] Andrew: Okay.

[1:29:47] Aaliyah Raffell: Mm-hmm. I think it's criminal that they didn't find a way to put that song in there.

[1:29:52] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:29:54] Aaliyah Raffell: I would have loved like "Just Like a Pill."

[1:29:54] Andrew: "Just Like a Pill."

[1:29:59] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[1:30:00] Andrew: "Just Like a Pill."

[1:30:01] Aaliyah Raffell: I love that song.

[1:30:02] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:02] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, that's a good one.

[1:30:06] Andrew: "Start Me Up."

[1:30:07] Aaliyah Raffell: "Start Me Up."

[1:30:09] Andrew: "Start Me Up," "Living on a Prayer."

[1:30:09] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:30:10] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Jam.

[1:30:11] Andrew: Um, I think somebody mentioned a few weeks ago they would do Jonas Brothers "Love Bug."

[1:30:16] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[1:30:17] Andrew: Sam would sing it to Quinn.

[1:30:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh.

[1:30:21] Andrew: Yes.

[1:30:21] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:30:22] Andrew: Start of season two.

[1:30:23] Aaliyah Raffell: Mm-hmm.

[1:30:23] Andrew: Before she talks him over.

[1:30:25] Aaliyah Raffell: Would be very fun.

[1:30:26] Andrew: True.

[1:30:28] Aaliyah Raffell: What do they say during that song? Like, "Get off that couch"?

[1:30:29] Andrew: Like, uh that cake.

[1:30:31] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, get off that couch.

[1:30:33] Andrew: Oh, get off the couch.

[1:30:34] Aaliyah Raffell: I lost my song.

[1:30:37] Andrew: I can see like Finn doing that part.

[1:30:39] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:30:39] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:41] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, and I have they should have done "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" during the criminal episode when they did Lady Week.

[1:30:48] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:49] Aaliyah Raffell: Oh, I was like, wait, a criminal episode of Glee?

[1:30:53] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:53] Aaliyah Raffell: Just "Smooth Criminal."

[1:30:55] Andrew: They're all in jail.

[1:30:57] Aaliyah Raffell: That's so good.

[1:30:58] Andrew: Mr. Girl is a very questionable episode, but they really missed out on doing "Man! I Feel Like a Woman."

[1:31:04] Aaliyah Raffell: Yes.

[1:31:04] Andrew: They should have done Shania Twain in general.

[1:31:06] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah.

[1:31:07] Andrew: They didn't do a single one.

[1:31:08] Aaliyah Raffell: Mm-hmm.

[1:31:09] Andrew: Shania Twain, Cheryl Crow.

[1:31:11] Aaliyah Raffell: Missed out.

[1:31:11] Andrew: Cheryl Crow, they did one.

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: But they didn't do the one to Sunday— which one did they do? They did, um, "A Change Would Do You Good."

[1:31:13] Andrew: No one wanted that one.

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: No, was that Brody and Rachel running down the street?

[1:31:13] Andrew: Actually, yeah, no, it's not sure where you would say that. Um, just lying compulsory.

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, I have many more, but that's all that, yeah, I think needs to be said.

[1:31:13] Andrew: I'm obsessed. We need you in the writer's room for the Glee boot.

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: I'm so ready for it. All of my notes right here, just stick me in that room and I'll do—

[1:31:13] Andrew: Do we actually want a Glee boot? What's your take on a Glee boot?

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Definitely not.

[1:31:13] Andrew: Definitely not.

[1:31:13] Aaliyah Raffell: Definitely not.

[1:31:13] Andrew: I think it's fun to throw around the idea, but actually doing it, we know that if it ever happened, it would be terrible and nobody would be happy with it, so let's stay away from that idea.

[1:32:12] Aaliyah Raffell: Sure. Um, Aliah, I thank you so much for being our Gleek this week. You are officially frozen right now; you've gone off again. Um, where can all the glisteners find your social media, all your YouTube videos, all of that?

[1:32:12] Aaliyah Raffell: So my YouTube, all my social media and YouTube are all the same. It's just @AaliyahRaffell, which I realized the other day rhymes with Lea Michele and it made me a little bit sick.

[1:32:36] Andrew: Wow, is that—that's a good way for people to remember it.

[1:32:36] Aaliyah Raffell: It is, yeah, yeah. So Aaliyah Raffell, double A, L I Y A H, R A double F E L.

[1:32:45] Andrew: It's so good.

[1:32:46] Aaliyah Raffell: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube. You can find me in all of those.

[1:32:50] Andrew: I'm obsessed. Are you gonna be posting a full recap of your time at Comic Liverpool?

[1:32:56] Aaliyah Raffell: Or you posted something like that.

[1:33:01] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:33:01] Aaliyah Raffell: Yeah, I posted the panel. I'm gonna do a story time-ish type thing of my experience being bought by Matthew Morrison.

[1:33:09] Andrew: Okay.

[1:33:10] Aaliyah Raffell: Um, so yeah, that will be up soon.

[1:33:12] Andrew: Thank you so much. To end the episode, we're gonna say bye in our most annoying voices after one.

[1:33:19] Aaliyah Raffell: Three, two, one.

[1:33:21] Andrew: Bye!

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