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

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

[0:26] Andrew: Glackett by Glacket will rank everyone.

[0:35] Andrew: Click of the week.

[0:37] Andrew: Click, click, click of the wing.

[0:41] Andrew: It's click, click of the week.

[0:44] Andrew: Back with two guests that I feel long time coming, very, very excited.

[0:50] Andrew: Bringing back just from a few months ago, I feel his last appearance on the Glackett.

[0:57] Andrew: Um, you've seen him on TikTok, Sue Sylvester TikTok. Zach, how are you doing, Zach?

[1:02] Zach Faust: I'm so good. I am so good. How are you?

[1:06] Andrew: I'm doing really, really great. We just saw each other last week and it was really—

[1:08] Zach Faust: We did. It's always a damn time.

[1:14] Andrew: And we have returning to the Glackett. People have been clamoring to have her voice heard back on the Glackett.

[1:25] Andrew: Coley Lamb. Nicole, how are you doing?

[1:30] Nicole Lamb: I'm great. I want to apologize for my lack of glee content.

[1:36] Andrew: Oh my gosh. No, this is—we're bringing you back in. We're like, welcome back to the cult.

[1:42] Andrew: The goal. We're doing it again.

[1:44] Nicole Lamb: The goal.

[1:45] Andrew: Um, wait. Nicole, I wanted to share with you someone last week literally was like, I am seeing Aladdin and I'm looking at the playbill, and I'm like, isn't this—wasn't this girl on the podcast?

[1:58] Andrew: And I was like, oh yeah. So don't forget where you came from, Nicole, I guess, is the moral of the story to me.

[2:07] Nicole Lamb: No matter how much I want to run away from this show, it keeps bringing me back.

[2:13] Andrew: Oh my gosh. Wait, it's been fully two years since you've made an appearance on the podcast, Nicole, and I understand that you have some scathing opinions of competitions that have transpired, and I'm really curious to hear all of them.

[2:26] Nicole Lamb: Uh, would you like my list now or later?

[2:29] Andrew: We want them now. Let's go through it.

[2:31] Nicole Lamb: I think my biggest bone I have to pick is Alison's hatred for "I'm the Greatest Star" versus "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"

[2:42] Nicole Lamb: Can you hear me?

[2:44] Andrew: And before you say anything, Andrew, you folded so quickly.

[2:52] Nicole Lamb: It was a very emotional episode, and I was just like, I'm forfeiting really quickly.

[2:59] Nicole Lamb: Maybe I forfeited a little bit too quickly.

[3:01] Andrew: Um, I'm going to ask our other panelist this episode, Zach, if he has any opinions on that competition where you would have lied.

[3:12] Zach Faust: Um, "I'm the Greatest Star." Is it number three or is it number five?

[3:18] Zach Faust: Really, it doesn't matter. "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is five.

[3:21] Nicole Lamb: Oh.

[3:21] Zach Faust: Um, I think "Papa" is better, but I don't like either of them.

[3:25] Nicole Lamb: Hmm.

[3:27] Andrew: See, okay, wait, so Nicole, where—explain to me the entire thought process that you were having in that moment.

[3:34] Nicole Lamb: Well, to quote Alison, she said—

[3:39] Nicole Lamb: Bring up the receipts, please.

[3:41] Nicole Lamb: She said, this song fucking sucks. This is the most punchable song.

[3:49] Nicole Lamb: Well, it's like lore at this point that she does hate that song.

[3:53] Andrew: So it's like there's—it's like in the chemistry of Alison Dodge that this is a song that just simply won't land.

[4:01] Andrew: And I'm sure that you have a similar song. Which—that's—which one does she hate? Does she hate "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" or "I'm the Greatest Star"?

[4:06] Nicole Lamb: Oh, "I'm the Greatest Star."

[4:10] Andrew: Got it.

[4:10] Nicole Lamb: She rises for "Papa."

[4:13] Andrew: Okay.

[4:16] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[4:17] Andrew: Okay. I just don't understand. I mean, why are we supporting Rachel singing at Bird's bedside, making it about herself? It's not a good song.

[4:27] Nicole Lamb: I think hot take.

[4:30] Andrew: A hot take. I don't know. I don't want to say that that's not a hot take because I feel like—I don't know. I feel like other people are sharing that opinion.

[4:39] Nicole Lamb: I think that Alison may be in the minority with this love for "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"

[4:46] Andrew: Um, I don't know. I feel like I—wait, Zach, you want to interject. What do you want to say?

[4:51] Zach Faust: The performance of "I'm the Greatest Star" is awful. Like, she is terrible in it.

[4:58] Zach Faust: And so because he said, you know, I saw—I saw Lea Michele do "Funny Girl." She was awesome.

[5:04] Andrew: Yeah, yeah, I think we all saw it. She was awesome doing that song.

[5:09] Zach Faust: But the performance was bad on the show. Like, she's just like, you know, flopping around, just fake coughing and not even good.

[5:17] Nicole Lamb: Fake.

[5:17] Zach Faust: I think that's one of my favorite things about Glee that kind of gets lost throughout the show is that Rachel, like, canonically is a bad actor.

[5:24] Zach Faust: Um, and so it like is kind of on full display in this. Comparatively to like "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is like while it's not a great song by any means, while she does make it about herself, it at least showcases the emotional range that Lea Michele has.

[5:28] Andrew: Okay, I'm going to be able to do that.

[5:47] Andrew: Shifting the conversation to like the "Colo" version, does the "Colo" one land for you more, Zach?

[5:52] Zach Faust: Why is he on scaffolding with knives that he's spinning for an audition for "West Side Story"?

[5:58] Zach Faust: I think it was a fun choice.

[5:59] Andrew: To whom it's—because it's an audition for "West Side Story."

[6:03] Zach Faust: For not "Hello, Dolly!" yeah.

[6:05] Andrew: Knives are pretty vocal.

[6:07] Zach Faust: But if he's there, but if he's like, I want to go for Tony, and Blaine sings a Tony song, and Kurt sings "Funny Girl."

[6:15] Nicole Lamb: Hmm.

[6:16] Zach Faust: What—that was kind of the—I was giving them a little bit.

[6:23] Zach Faust: Like that's very—like that guy was full of it.

[6:26] Andrew: But wasn't that kind of the plot? Maybe that he was like not understanding actually what like was being asked of the role?

[6:37] Zach Faust: Right?

[6:37] Andrew: Yeah, I watched the episode.

[6:41] Zach Faust: In full costume.

[6:42] Andrew: Yeah. So anyway.

[6:45] Andrew: "I'm the Greatest Star," kind of—I guess where we're landing on this generally is that it's not—we're confused on where we fall on both iterations of the song.

[6:56] Nicole Lamb: I'm not confused. I know exactly where we fall.

[7:00] Zach Faust: But we're not landing generally.

[7:02] Nicole Lamb: "Papa" made it through.

[7:04] Zach Faust: Over "Five"?

[7:05] Nicole Lamb: I would think absolutely put it through. I think that I—like when watching it against "I'm the Greatest Star" season five, I understood the humor a little bit more.

[7:16] Nicole Lamb: Whereas, like, literally, if she—she's performing a song from a show called "Funny Girl," and I thought it was funnier that she was singing "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" to someone that isn't even her papa.

[7:28] Nicole Lamb: I think it's hilarious.

[7:31] Andrew: There it is.

[7:32] Nicole Lamb: Right, right, right. No, no, no. I'm saying comparatively to a song from "Funny Girl." I thought the funnier girl was the girl singing "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"

[7:43] Andrew: Anyway. Nicole, what other grievances would you like to let out?

[7:51] Nicole Lamb: "Feliz Navidad" losing to "Crush." It's a canon event.

[7:57] Nicole Lamb: I—nothing gets my seven-year-old nephew hype more than Kevin McHale's version of "Feliz Navidad."

[8:05] Zach Faust: No.

[8:06] Nicole Lamb: Well, your seven-year-old nephew wasn't the click of the week. I'm sorry.

[8:13] Zach Faust: Fair.

[8:14] Andrew: I think—okay, what do you have against "Crush"?

[8:16] Nicole Lamb: Supporting Rachel's crush for Mr. Shu. I think it's hilarious. I'm here for the—I’m here for the gag. Again. The Rachel gag. She was funny.

[8:26] Nicole Lamb: You asked for hot takes. Here are mine. And here I am, just like slamming them all down.

[8:32] Andrew: Wait, Zach, do you have any opinion on "Crush" versus "Feliz Navidad"?

[8:37] Zach Faust: I agree. I like "Feliz Navidad." I don't like "Crush." Especially like performance-wise. I think it's a funny concept, but I'm just like, okay. No.

[8:42] Nicole Lamb: I think it's a full—it’s a full gag that "Crush" is making it to round three of the Glackett.

[8:53] Nicole Lamb: And I think that's hilarious.

[8:55] Andrew: But is—so is the Glackett a gag? Or is it for real?

[8:58] Zach Faust: It's a gag.

[9:01] Andrew: Are we being for real?

[9:02] Nicole Lamb: This is the Glackett.

[9:03] Zach Faust: It really depends on the day.

[9:05] Andrew: Um, certain days I'm crying, certain days I'm laughing.

[9:09] Nicole Lamb: It's a three-year journey.

[9:10] Andrew: It's gonna have the absolute—

[9:13] Nicole Lamb: What were you that day?

[9:14] Andrew: Oh, that was for the gag.

[9:16] Andrew: That was—that was like simply—I mean, like, I do like "Crush" more though, more than "Feliz Navidad." I'll say that.

[9:23] Nicole Lamb: I hear you, I see you, I respect you.

[9:27] Zach Faust: I don't agree with you.

[9:28] Nicole Lamb: I don't—I don't feel welcome here, Nicole.

[9:33] Andrew: What other things would you like to air out at this time?

[9:37] Nicole Lamb: Um, I'll just leave it at this. The fact that people lost to "Mustang Sally."

[9:43] Andrew: Okay.

[9:44] Nicole Lamb: Is a crime. As a Rachel Berry apologist. That's all I have to say.

[9:49] Andrew: You—but you didn't want "Crush" to go through.

[9:53] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, you didn't want "Crush." How about that?

[9:54] Andrew: Let's roll back the tapes actually.

[9:56] Nicole Lamb: Very different.

[9:59] Zach Faust: I think people are saying that "Crush" is actually on par with "People."

[10:03] Nicole Lamb: You also didn't want Rachel to make it through too.

[10:09] Zach Faust: That "People" is on the same part as "Crush."

[10:15] Nicole Lamb: I said it in the episode.

[10:16] Zach Faust: Okay, go ahead.

[10:18] Zach Faust: I think it's on the same level.

[10:21] Nicole Lamb: Uh-huh.

[10:22] Zach Faust: I think—and I'm not even saying this for the gag of it all. I think that "Crush" is better than "People," Gleekass version by Gleekass.

[10:30] Zach Faust: I said it in the episode, and I'll say it again because I watched—I heard you. I watched back the Jimmy Fallon performance.

[10:33] Zach Faust: The Jimmy Fallon performance, no crumbs. She understood.

[10:40] Zach Faust: I just like—I felt something with this song. The Gleekass version doesn't make me feel much.

[10:47] Nicole Lamb: Does that make sense?

[10:48] Zach Faust: I think I would agree about "People" if it— I don't know who said it in the episode, but if it was like everybody singing the song at different points, I think I would agree that it's a better song.

[11:00] Nicole Lamb: But "Mustang Sally"—Rad Sally Rad, you know?

[11:06] Andrew: You cannot deny.

[11:07] Nicole Lamb: What do you have against Noah Guthrie, Nicole?

[11:09] Nicole Lamb: I'm realizing right now it's gonna be two against one this whole episode.

[11:14] Zach Faust: No, no, no. I've been flopping between the two of you. I think I like have no side.

[11:19] Nicole Lamb: I think it's the two of you, and I'm just gonna decide comparatively to who I'm feeling I want to antagonize more.

[11:27] Andrew: I would—when I say this every single episode, I would love some blood tonight, and I feel like that is exactly what I say before an episode of all the same opinions being shared for the next hour or so.

[11:41] Andrew: Wait, Zach, do you have any grievances that you would like to bring to light?

[11:47] Zach Faust: I’m scared to ask.

[11:49] Zach Faust: The only one that I have, I was looking through this Glackett, I was looking through this thing.

[11:53] Zach Faust: Um, the only one that I think, Amelia, Amelia, Queen.

[11:57] Nicole Lamb: Yes.

[11:58] Zach Faust: Seriously. Um, I don't know who won. I don't remember who won up against it, but "Don't Stop," the season two Fleetwood Mac cover, yeah.

[12:09] Zach Faust: Lost to a different song because their version of "Don't Stop," hot take, is better than the original.

[12:15] Nicole Lamb: And Zach, I think that you'll have my back here.

[12:18] Zach Faust: So maybe we're like choosing sides. This—it's a weird triangle of like who has whose sides here.

[12:24] Nicole Lamb: Wait, why do you have a pocket knife?

[12:28] Zach Faust: I'm scared to say anything.

[12:31] Nicole Lamb: No, right. Exactly. Don't give me a wrong opinion.

[12:34] Zach Faust: No, I found this in my desk and I was like, why do I have a pocket knife over here?

[12:39] Nicole Lamb: Like, you're so right. "Don't Stop" was so good.

[12:41] Zach Faust: "Don't Stop" was the best.

[12:43] Nicole Lamb: No, "Don't Stop" was against, um, arguably, I think maybe general consensus, best song of season six, at least in my mind.

[12:55] Nicole Lamb: "Hand in My Pocket," "I Feel the Earth Move."

[12:59] Zach Faust: And no one brings that competition up except for you.

[13:03] Nicole Lamb: So I don't know what that says.

[13:04] Zach Faust: I'm just saying.

[13:06] Andrew: Does the opinion remain?

[13:08] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, yeah.

[13:09] Zach Faust: You think—oh, yes. I still think "Don't Stop"—like anything that season six did rarely touches anything season two.

[13:16] Nicole Lamb: Like the best of season six doesn't touch season two.

[13:19] Zach Faust: Musically.

[13:20] Nicole Lamb: That's for the most part.

[13:22] Andrew: Um, what are we—or is there like a general vibe that we're rooting for this evening in terms of what we're looking for in the best song on Glee in these competitions?

[13:36] Nicole Lamb: Is there anything specifically that you're looking for?

[13:40] Andrew: Oh, you want me to start.

[13:42] Zach Faust: Oh, do you need time with this question?

[13:48] Nicole Lamb: I think we all know I'm a purist. I'm just rooting for some season one through three. That's all I want.

[13:55] Andrew: Okay.

[13:55] Nicole Lamb: We got a lot of season three the last time we were on.

[13:58] Andrew: And I was really happy about it.

[13:59] Nicole Lamb: That's true. Because season three has the best music.

[14:02] Zach Faust: Season three does have some bops, as it turns out.

[14:04] Nicole Lamb: Um, "Roots Before Branches" not being one of them.

[14:09] Zach Faust: Um, at least in my opinion.

[14:12] Nicole Lamb: Um, wait, I wanted to roll through your last competitions, Nicole. The last time that you were on the Glackett, these three competitions, because I was like truly shocked when I went through these.

[14:24] Andrew: We've got "Tonight," you had like some really good competitions.

[14:27] Nicole Lamb: We've got "Tonight" winning against "Every Breath You Take." A competition that does not sit right with me.

[14:34] Andrew: How does it sit with you?

[14:36] Nicole Lamb: To yourself.

[14:36] Andrew: Well, I want to hear why it doesn't sit right for you.

[14:39] Nicole Lamb: I think without looking at a list, that might be. I even if I were to look at a list, I think that it would be the best Santana-Rachel duet.

[14:48] Andrew: And it's a shame that she's gone in round.

[14:51] Nicole Lamb: "B OK" was pretty good too.

[14:53] Zach Faust: "B OK" was good.

[14:55] Nicole Lamb: Everything was so emotional arrangement.

[14:57] Andrew: Mmm.

[14:58] Nicole Lamb: It's just true. This is people are saying this.

[15:01] Andrew: I think the reason I didn't pick the duet was the context of it.

[15:06] Nicole Lamb: Mm-hmm.

[15:08] Andrew: I hated that they wrote them to like fight against each other.

[15:12] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[15:13] Andrew: And so that always overrules it for me.

[15:16] Zach Faust: See.

[15:17] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, Allison also shared that opinion.

[15:19] Andrew: But I— you love, you love the girl fight of it all.

[15:22] Zach Faust: I love the girl fight. I think it's a fine, it like it changes things up. You know, the storylines were getting stale.

[15:30] Andrew: Wait, but then your other competition, your second competition, "Teenage Dream" season four version, winning against, and people are talking about this a lot.

[15:39] Nicole Lamb: "Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer."

[15:42] Andrew: I rebuke what I said before.

[15:46] Nicole Lamb: I feel like "Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer" is so good.

[15:51] Zach Faust: I feel as though, and I should have ran back the tapes, but I feel as though you— I voted for that.

[15:56] Nicole Lamb: You might have been the sole vote for the mashup.

[16:00] Zach Faust: I'm triggered all over again.

[16:04] Nicole Lamb: Y'all are like, "Teenage Dream," he's crying.

[16:09] Zach Faust: No, I like— I prefer the season four version of "Teenage Dream" over the season two.

[16:16] Nicole Lamb: So sue me.

[16:18] Andrew: Respect heard.

[16:20] Zach Faust: It's too much.

[16:21] Nicole Lamb: I don't need to see that.

[16:25] Zach Faust: But also "Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer" is so good.

[16:29] Nicole Lamb: Gets me hype.

[16:30] Andrew: It doesn't, it doesn't land for me.

[16:33] Zach Faust: There's something in my chemistry that it doesn't.

[16:37] Nicole Lamb: It doesn't land.

[16:38] Andrew: And I think that's just the way that my bones are made up that I can't— I can't like this song.

[16:43] Zach Faust: Well, I respect you.

[16:45] Nicole Lamb: Thank you.

[16:45] Zach Faust: If people are choosing my opinion, they are.

[16:49] Andrew: Most.

[16:49] Zach Faust: Are you finding the majority?

[16:51] Andrew: I would say yeah.

[16:52] Zach Faust: Yep.

[16:52] Andrew: You have the popular vote.

[16:53] Zach Faust: Yep.

[16:54] Andrew: Thank you, because it's correct.

[16:56] Zach Faust: Right.

[16:58] Andrew: I'm definitely in the minority, and me and Allison both voted through I guess an inferior Glee song.

[17:07] Zach Faust: Do you have— I see you shaking your head? Do you have opinions on this competition?

[17:11] Nicole Lamb: You and Allison were wrong.

[17:15] Zach Faust: It's a bust.

[17:16] Nicole Lamb: "Start Me Up."

[17:18] Zach Faust: "Start Me Up" impeccable.

[17:20] Nicole Lamb: To "Teenage Dream" season four.

[17:23] Zach Faust: Damn mine.

[17:24] Nicole Lamb: I'm so sad.

[17:26] Zach Faust: I feel like I need to be like explained this sick question.

[17:31] Nicole Lamb: Why?

[17:32] Zach Faust: Why is that?

[17:33] Nicole Lamb: I feel like I've like watched it recently and I was like, I feel like I'm missing something at this performance.

[17:38] Zach Faust: And I'm like, why don't I— why don't I like it? What is it for y'all that you love this?

[17:43] Nicole Lamb: Uh oh, for me— oh you froze so I just thought I was like I was just waiting for it to go.

[17:48] Zach Faust: Um, why do I like it? I mean it's a powerhouse vocal showcase first off.

[17:54] Nicole Lamb: Um, contextually within the show is fine.

[17:58] Zach Faust: I mean it's just a— you know it's a mashup competition but like all of them decked out in like black and leather and just this like— I mean it's got this like incredible infectious energy where like the song starts in this really like not calming place but it starts in this like cool place and then it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger as it goes on.

[18:24] Nicole Lamb: Like they really built the song and "Teenage Dream" is just weepy lots of tears.

[18:32] Zach Faust: But I like— I like a little weeping solo.

[18:35] Nicole Lamb: I listen, is it because he's man— oh no because we all know that a lot of these— a lot of these songs by men on the Glackett are not faring that well so you cannot put that on me.

[18:49] Zach Faust: I don't know I'm just saying we— we didn't like "Every Breath You Take" and now we don't like— and now we don't like "Start Me Up" so that's where they've drawn the conclusions.

[18:56] Nicole Lamb: The math is mapping.

[18:56] Zach Faust: The math is mapping.

[18:58] Andrew: I will say that like in my defense of like not liking this song I feel as though maybe the reason being is that like it's a girls number by an artist that are not girls and I like— that's the point!

[19:16] Nicole Lamb: I know that's the point.

[19:18] Andrew: And I don't like when the boys do the number by the girls in the same episode.

[19:22] Nicole Lamb: It's a great number.

[19:24] Andrew: I don't think that I like those songs.

[19:26] Nicole Lamb: I don't know what it is.

[19:27] Andrew: Okay.

[19:28] Nicole Lamb: It's okay. You don't like the songs.

[19:29] Andrew: If I needed to describe, I think that I would put it on that.

[19:32] Nicole Lamb: Anyway, your final competition of the last time that you were on, Nicole. And we get competitions like this fairly frequently, "Crush" and "Feliz Navidad" being one of them.

[19:41] Andrew: But your final competition was "Endless Love" winning against "Story of My Life."

[19:48] Nicole Lamb: Yes.

[19:48] Andrew: And I remember this.

[19:51] Nicole Lamb: I just hate "Story of My Life."

[19:54] Andrew: I just hate it.

[19:56] Nicole Lamb: I think that we were all in agreement that "Endless Love" was the one of those two.

[20:02] Andrew: Yeah.

[20:03] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[20:03] Andrew: They sound great.

[20:06] Nicole Lamb: I love the stupid little monologues in between.

[20:09] Andrew: Right.

[20:10] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[20:11] Andrew: And "Story of My Life."

[20:13] Nicole Lamb: I hate what the boys are wearing.

[20:14] Andrew: I'm just bored.

[20:15] Nicole Lamb: I hate— I vividly remember.

[20:18] Andrew: Who is it?

[20:19] Nicole Lamb: Well, I maybe I don't revisitly remember because I asked these questions. I remember, was it um like— like uh Shirley MacLaine, like Blaine is like giving his hand or something, and then Kurt just goes up for it as well and like is like begging for— like it makes me uncomfortable watching it.

[20:39] Andrew: It's icky, it's icky Kurt Lap Dog.

[20:43] Nicole Lamb: Wait, hate it.

[20:45] Andrew: So what are we looking for this evening?

[20:50] Zach Faust: Zachary.

[20:54] Nicole Lamb: I said I want season one through three.

[20:55] Zach Faust: Season one through three.

[20:57] Nicole Lamb: Not the— I— my government name has been exposed.

[21:00] Zach Faust: Um, I uh I also love one through three, but again, as I said last time on this podcast, I am looking for blood.

[21:11] Nicole Lamb: I'm looking for a challenge, I'm looking to take people down if I have to.

[21:15] Zach Faust: Nicole has words.

[21:17] Nicole Lamb: Nicole?

[21:19] Andrew: You have a question?

[21:20] Nicole Lamb: I think for um audience appeal to give the people what they want.

[21:27] Zach Faust: We need like some Sue-heavy songs, some Rachel-Santana.

[21:33] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[21:34] Zach Faust: Maybe a Blaine sprinkling.

[21:36] Nicole Lamb: This is the conversation that we're having.

[21:38] Zach Faust: Yes, exactly.

[21:39] Nicole Lamb: To cater to all parties.

[21:41] Andrew: Listen, the Sue song that I have wanted was knocked out, so I really don't have an opinion about that.

[21:46] Nicole Lamb: I feel like we don't actually even talk about that competition.

[21:48] Andrew: No, I told you I wasn't bringing it up, so it doesn't even matter.

[21:50] Nicole Lamb: No, you know what? I love Rachel.

[21:52] Zach Faust: No, I'm really curious.

[21:53] Nicole Lamb: "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" so much.

[21:57] Andrew: That's what I thought.

[21:59] Nicole Lamb: Um, Nicole Audio Medium is voguing right now.

[22:02] Andrew: Not sure what that could mean in the grand sense of things.

[22:05] Nicole Lamb: Um, but are we ready to get into our six songs of this episode?

[22:13] Andrew: Do we have any final words before we do so?

[22:16] Nicole Lamb: You're going down.

[22:17] Andrew: I don't know who it's to, but we have a great season one song.

[22:24] Nicole Lamb: I'm scared for her.

[22:26] Andrew: Is it "Jump"?

[22:28] Nicole Lamb: It's not "Jump."

[22:29] Andrew: I jump it.

[22:30] Nicole Lamb: No, "Jump" is still around.

[22:32] Andrew: I love "Jump."

[22:33] Nicole Lamb: Okay, here we go.

[22:34] Andrew: Here we go.

[22:34] Nicole Lamb: "Nightland."

[22:34] Andrew: This is a four minute and 40 second performance.

[22:39] Nicole Lamb: So we really have a lot of time to gather our thoughts.

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[26:56] Andrew: A cinematic experience. Who wants to start us on the discourse?

[27:06] Nicole Lamb: Had to take a sip of water. Got me parched. It was a little parching. Um, Matthew Morrison truly has never sounded better. That is my favorite style of singing from Matthew Morrison is lyrical, baritone, musical bleeder. Would you say that this is like again? This is a common occurrence of not looking at a list. Is this Matthew Morrison's best vocal on the hit show Glee?

[27:35] Zach Faust: I think so. I also like anytime he can kind of float notes. I like "Sway," because I'm usually like, oh yeah, he should do the baritone jazz thing, but I don't know. It's why I understand why he was such a prolific actor in the mid-2000s on Broadway is because of things like those from Yeah, I get it.

[27:58] Andrew: Do you have anything else that you would like to add before Nicole shares her piece?

[28:04] Zach Faust: No, Nicole, please.

[28:07] Nicole Lamb: That's so interesting that the one thing you had to say was about the man. I was thinking it. Because all that I thought about is Kristin Chenoweth. She just has better things. She's incredible. She does better things. She's slaying. She looks amazing. Yeah, everything. Her bags are fabulous. Oh, it's great. There was something that I noticed that I never noticed before this viewing of this performance was that Will doesn't put down like a sheet on the couch where it's just like she just lays on the bare couch. She's expected to sleep on the bare couch with just a blanket draped over her. And I don't know how I have completely not seen this part of Glee up until now. But I feel unfortunately that's like deducing maybe like one or two points here for me that I'm like, this is not how overnight couch sleepovers actually transpire, at least in my household. I would expect a similar formality in the Schuster household, but I guess not.

[29:17] Zach Faust: Well, Terry was the only one who worked at Sheets and Things.

[29:22] Nicole Lamb: That's true. Yes. But why would he know what sheet to put down?

[29:27] Zach Faust: Okay, those two points are back.

[29:30] Andrew: Yes.

[29:31] Zach Faust: Should people be putting—because here's the thing. Whenever people are saying on my couch, I'm like, all right, there's the couch. Here's a sheet if you need it. And that's why you're no better than Mr. Schuster.

[29:39] Nicole Lamb: And that's why you loved him in that number.

[29:44] Zach Faust: Actually, my favorite part was that, you know, he only gave her one blanket, and that's it. No sheets. No sheets or things. Not a singular thing. I don't know. I just— is it common practice to put a sheet down over? Because I don't know. It just never bothered me. I'm just like coming from the standpoint of like you are, at least in like Manhattan, you are sitting on the couch and then you were sitting on the outdoor clothes. With the outdoor clothes, the same jeans that you sat on a subway seat in. And it's like, why do you not wash your couches?

[30:24] Nicole Lamb: Well, you can only wash the couch so much.

[30:27] Zach Faust: This isn't about me. This is about you, Zach.

[30:29] Zach Faust: Sorry. Are you putting a sheet down every time you sit on the couch?

[30:34] Zach Faust: Oh, no, no. Sleeping. We're talking about sleeping here, Zach.

[30:39] Zach Faust: My face is where the butt goes. You know what I mean?

[30:42] Andrew: Right.

[30:43] Zach Faust: And the butt was on the subway.

[30:45] Nicole Lamb: Yes. Again, you don't wash your—like, you don't wash before the couches before people are staying over?

[30:53] Zach Faust: I will put down a washed sheet on the couch to answer your question. I think you got dirty couches. If either of you were to stay at my apartment overnight, I would at least put down a sheet on the couch. Just—I don't know. I don't know, but I guess the same can't be said for the Faust House.

[31:17] Nicole Lamb: The Faust House.

[31:18] Zach Faust: Yeah, clear.

[31:19] Andrew: Scary. Wow. Anyway. Andrew, you uh not coming over to my house anymore.

[31:27] Zach Faust: You will sit in the hallway.

[31:29] Andrew: No. I'll just take my ass home. I know better than to stay overnight there. Um wait, but what else do we have to add about this song? In which ways do we feel it's excelling as a Glee performance that it could be possibly named the best song on Glee?

[31:48] Nicole Lamb: I think vocally they're slaying, as we all can hear and know. Um, Kristin always comes through. Um, I think that what's gonna go against them is that I never cared for this relationship. Do they—I maybe media literacy is going over my head right now, and it frequently does. They don't hook up after this. They simply just go to bed.

[32:16] Zach Faust: See, and that's kind of why I like whatever is happening. It's why I kinda like whatever's happening in this because it's really just the two of them talking about how lonely the two of them are. So I don't know. I like it. I think it's a nice visual, like it's a nice storytelling song. And also, you know, like the way that the music is structured also gives them nice back and forth, and then when you think the song is over, she's like, No, no, no, I actually have more things I need to say. And he—so when she's a little bit more like outward or she's a little bit more aggressive in what she's saying, you know, and how she's feeling. Will's like, Yeah, I feel the same way, but like I'm just so—she's getting over a relationship that's ended like what, three months or something like that.

And he's with Buddy Liebowitz, who like I think it is that that is part of like the humor, at least for me, that it's like Will is singing about this relationship that he's been in since he was at least right. Whereas like April, like she's in this relationship with Buddy Liebowitz for as far as we can tell, just a couple months.

[33:28] Nicole Lamb: Yeah. But I don't think that—like, is she actually singing about him? I don't know. I think she's just singing about being lonely.

[33:35] Zach Faust: Well, they never know.

[33:36] Nicole Lamb: Right. I think the only thing that knocks this—like what I would say that this isn't necessarily my favorite performance overall, or like the best song on Glee, is the episode surrounding it is kind of a lackluster episode.

[33:49] Andrew: Because it's from "Home," isn't it?

[33:50] Nicole Lamb: I love—it's from "Home." Don't do that.

[33:53] Andrew: Oh, it's from "Home." "Home" is in the title of the song.

[33:55] Nicole Lamb: That's right.

[33:56] Andrew: Yeah, it's right. It's not "Hello."

[33:57] Nicole Lamb: It is "Home."

[33:58] Andrew: Um still a—yeah. Okay. Alright. For some reason I thought it was in "Hello," but you're also—you're right. It's "Home" and "Hello." Um, and I take it back. I do think I really want to see what's up against it. I will say the back nine of Glee season one is not as strong. So almost none of the back nine songs are gonna be like, yeah, for me.

[34:20] Zach Faust: I think that I like almost like prefer the back nine. I think that back nine like showcases—

[34:26] Andrew: The first 13. This is like you're dealing with Andrew in the moment, and that's the opinion that he has right now.

[34:32] Nicole Lamb: Okay.

[34:33] Andrew: But I think I'm just like thinking about like "Bad Reputation." I'm thinking about um, uh, "Theatricality." I'm—and Nicole is fist pumping to everything that I'm saying. But I'm thinking like "Preggers" and "Throwdown" and "Sectionals."

[34:50] Zach Faust: Right.

[34:51] Andrew: And "Sectionals" is like a non-denominational episode to me. I know that exists in the first 13, but that is just such an apex that I don't include that for some reason. Um, I do not like "Hello."

[35:06] Nicole Lamb: I'm not a "Hello."

[35:07] Andrew: Which is that I do love "Home." I love "Power of Madonna." I um, I love "Journey to Regionals," whatever. Um, as funk.

[35:19] Zach Faust: Right.

[35:19] Andrew: And I'm skirting around that episode, actually. I don't know if you caught me.

[35:24] Nicole Lamb: Wait, we don't like "Funk"?

[35:26] Zach Faust: "Funk" is fun.

[35:30] Nicole Lamb: What are your opinions, Nicole?

[35:33] Nicole Lamb: I love "Funk."

[35:35] Zach Faust: What else do you want me to say?

[35:38] Nicole Lamb: Well, obviously.

[35:40] Andrew: What do—what is the draw with "Funk" for you? Are you in "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"?

[35:46] Nicole Lamb: Um, do you like that song? Is it because of that song you like "Funk"?

[35:50] Nicole Lamb: It's campy. It's so stupid.

[35:52] Zach Faust: I don't disagree.

[35:55] Nicole Lamb: I think it's fun. I think it's weird. I think it's—it is weird. I think it's good. I wouldn't put it in the same category as like a "Laryngitis," "Bad Reputation," "Home." I put it in uh "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" Um, "The Greatest Star" season five. I put it in the—um, what else do I need to say about this before we get into seeing what it's against?

[36:22] Andrew: Um, I want to share the initial competition that it was in in season—in round one, not season one. Um, round one, its competition that it won against was "Superbass," "I Still Believe," which was a song that was brought back at the end of round one.

[36:43] Zach Faust: Why would you bring that back?

[36:46] Andrew: Okay, okay. If you are a fan of the Glacket Analytics, then you are a fan of Amelia, and that's Amelia's favorite Glee song. And so don't you dare put disrespect on her name.

[36:57] Zach Faust: Like I'm putting disrespect.

[36:59] Andrew: I'm gonna do it. I don't understand. And again, a Sue Apologist. I love that episode. What an odd, odd hill to die on.

[37:10] Zach Faust: Well, it came back to the Glacket, and it's already been pulled in round two, and it is actually seeing round three. So "I Still Believe"—I mean, I love it. I just really—let me correct myself. Gleeks love it.

[37:25] Nicole Lamb: Right, right. We're not part of the Geks.

[37:28] Andrew: No, I still like it. I don't like the—no, I do like the blame part of the beginning. I don't know. I don't feel like I really understand it to the Amelia extent, but I get it. I will say, I get it more than um, uh, "Start Me Up," "Livin' on a Prayer," to put it into terms.

[37:49] Zach Faust: You're losing this one.

[37:50] Andrew: I understand. I understand the company that I keep. Um, but yeah, anything else that I need to share? Uh, just on the Kristin Chenoweth of it all. Um, I watched—have either of you watched the movie, the Jennifer Lopez movie "The Boy Next Door"?

[38:09] Nicole Lamb: No.

[38:10] Zach Faust: Yes, you have.

[38:13] Andrew: I watched it this past week, and it was truly a—oh, just be—I was just like this is a movie that I never watched. I feel like I'm on a little bit of a J-Lo kick right now without actually really caring much at all for the woman. Um, but watched it, and it was truly a jump scare when I realized that her best friend that she worked with was Kristin Chenoweth at the school.

[38:37] Nicole Lamb: Yes.

[38:39] Andrew: Which Kristin, she really does pop up in those like early mid-2000 movies.

[38:45] Zach Faust: Just for Christmases.

[38:47] Andrew: JLo should play Mr. Schuster in the reboot.

[38:53] Nicole Lamb: Just as likable.

[38:55] Andrew: The internet likes them the same amount. Like she should use Glee as a vehicle. And then like that last episode should be the Glee Club recreating her new movie.

[39:07] Zach Faust: She couldn't get anybody to come and do—

[39:11] Andrew: I mean, wait. Has anybody giving somebody a TikTok idea? You know the video that's floating around of her dancing with the umbrella?

[39:21] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[39:21] Andrew: From her new movie.

[39:23] Nicole Lamb: From "This Is Me Now."

[39:25] Andrew: I feel like I'm like vaguely imagining it. Wait, why? Somebody needs to pair it over "Umbrella," singing in the rain, but only Will Schuster's part.

[39:35] Zach Faust: Okay, and see, this is you actually creating the carousel. So this will actually be in the carousel for this episode. So thank you so much. Before you can even have the opportunity to make the TikTok.

[39:46] Andrew: Um, alright. Seeing what this song is against. Chaotic. Okay. Okay. This is a really fun, not fun at all, song to unpack from the season five premiere. Um, God. It's loading. Loading. I don't like it. "Got to Get You Into My Life." Um, no, I said that it's like fun, except it's not fun at all.

[40:22] ♪ Musical number: "Yesterday" — performed by Rachel Berry ♪

[42:56] Andrew: Yesterday season five premiere rollout, does anybody feel so compelled to start the conversation surrounding this performance?

[43:07] Nicole Lamb: I think the Rachel apologists start us off.

[43:11] Zach Faust: Start me up living out of prayer. Start us off.

[43:15] Nicole Lamb: Yes. Um, I'll be honest, I kind of forgot about this song. Okay. But I loved it. I think it's good. I think it's beautiful. I love this arrangement. I think she sounds great. It makes me emotional. Um, with Funny Girl ending and then her having these little like memories, walking past Sardi's where she and Finn went, walking through Central Park, when they went there for the first time. Um, I think it's great. Do I think it's the best song that's ever blessed us from the box hit TV show Glee? No. But I think it's wonderful. I think it's good. I think that it's on the better on the higher side of Rolos that we get. I think that this is ranking a little bit higher on my list. I will say that like surrounding the conversation of like, so this is season five premiere.

I feel like we've talked a lot about um how this the first two episodes of season five. Um, in past episodes, we've talked about how the first two episodes don't acknowledge um the passing of a major cast member. But I feel like this performance is acknowledging it. It's like, I feel like a heavy wink that it's like, hey, we understand that like someone in our cast died during the hiatus, but we have to do these episodes that we already had written before we get around to acknowledging the passing of this person. That's my headcanon. I just I don't think that because this is while like Rachel's in the midst of Funny Girl auditions and she's not she's not sure she's gonna get the part or not yet.

And I don't think that she's like fully singing this song, you know, like that like before she sings My Man and Jesse's like, when you're singing this song, are you singing this song about someone in particular? And she's like, no. I think she is singing this song about Finn. And I think that it's like, I think it is a heavy wink. I don't know. Do we have opinions on this? Or am I alone in this?

[45:32] Zach Faust: No, it has to be. What what her the Sardis part of it all? Like if they took that out, yeah, then I'd be like, uh, I don't know. But like she and him went on that date there. Which was when they kissed and all the things. Yeah.

[45:52] Nicole Lamb: I think it is. I think that it's funny that we have you back for this episode, Zach, because I feel like the last time that we had you on was Rits Before Branches, where we got the Rachel walking tour of um Manhattan, but this is like the Finchel um sightseeing tour comparison. What do you think about this performance, Zach?

[46:17] Zach Faust: Um, I mean, I think I I'm actually looking back through old text messages um from you and me, Andrew, where I said that I thought this was the wrong choice for her to sing um because I thought because I'm I understand that it's a Beatles tribute episode, like 100%. I just thought that I I feel as though why didn't they if they didn't want us to just hit you over the head with like this is the Beatles, Rachel probably would sing, or in my head canon it would make more sense if she's like I'm singing a Barbara Streisand song that is of a that is a Beatles cover because you know she does that earlier in season four when she's like she sings Empire State of Mind. She's like it's by Barbara Streisand, but or she's like it's popularized by Barbara Streisand, but it's sung by Billy Joel.

And um, I I think Barbara covered Goodbye. I think the song called Goodbye, but I have this list of like why wasn't it Honey Pie or I Get a Little Help from My Friends or Goodbye? And I was like, it would make more sense if she sang that to like ease you into this is the Beatles tribute episode, but it's not it's not just like she's randomly singing the Beatles, no, she's singing a Barbara Streisand cover. Like that would make more sense to me. Um also she walks from my understanding is because she's at the Yeah, okay, right, because she's I think it's St. James Theater. It's at the St. James, yes. And she's walking left, but Sardi's, I thought was to the right of the St. James.

[47:51] Nicole Lamb: Don't ask questions that you know the writers didn't have.

[47:56] Zach Faust: No, we need to be asking these questions. And content. And then there's a there's there's a shot of her walking down Central Park, and there's a woman in gold or silver shorts that walks across the street, but or across the screen. But then when she's walking down to the fountain, that woman is now walking up the stairs, and then I was like, she walked out. It's New York City, everybody. I I here's here's my text string to Andrew, because I I delete most of my text messages on my phone, but I have them all on my computer. And I said, What's the story there? And I said, apparently there was supposed to be a scene reunioned with Kurt Santana and Mercedes, getting a sleepover, singing Getting Better, which would have been great.

It would have been a nice setup for the scene if Rachel sang Getting By with a Little Help from My Friends, calling them all together as she does the song, and then ends with her at the loft, and the group is all together being like, We got you. And I don't, you know, I don't know how that's supposed to be done. And then I also thought that Hard Day's Night at the diner was misplaced, but that's a whole different conversation.

[49:01] Nicole Lamb: You know, I yeah, I I don't like Hard Day's Night as much as I should, admittedly. I will say that it's a great song.

[49:07] Zach Faust: Yeah, it's great. And I did cover. I'm like, yeah, it was a great cover. I think it's crazy when you're watching the episode. It's like, oh my god, here we go. And then as soon as the performance over, Santana's like, Rachel, we gotta get to Ohio. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's happening here? Um, I think that the Getting Better performance was actually supposed to be like a lock-in at the school. It wasn't supposed to be in the loft. It was supposed to be like Rachel and Santana officially back in Ohio, meeting up with um Kurt and Mercedes. I think that like the scripts are out there somewhere. Like meeting up with Kurt and Mercedes ahead of the claim proposal, and they're all talking about the claim proposal, like being like, he's gonna do it.

And then Kurt's like, I know, and they sing. Oh, well, that's cute. We'll still still I think that I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends would have been a better song choice. Um especially when she's looking at her phone and they like they cut off Matt. They cut not only Matt, did you catch they cut out another New Direction? Did we see who else they cut out in that?

[50:17] Nicole Lamb: Let me bring it back up.

[50:19] Zach Faust: I don't remember. It's actually I can probably guess. It's Quinn.

[50:23] Nicole Lamb: Um, it's Quinn.

[50:38] Zach Faust: Quinn is not in that picture.

[50:42] Nicole Lamb: She's getting the Matt treatment.

[50:44] Zach Faust: Yeah. Well, all that to say, you know, she's looking at her phone. I understand it's a Finn thing, but you know, maybe singing Get By with a Little Help for My Friends contextually would have been a little bit stronger of a choice. It's also season five, though. Like, I just feel like they didn't care anymore.

[51:01] Nicole Lamb: So, like, it doesn't make any sense because it doesn't make sense.

[51:05] Zach Faust: But I remember them doing like a whole hoopla about this. Because I remember the like, the Glee finally has the Beatles. Like, I remember that being like they were there were like magazine rights.

[51:17] Nicole Lamb: Are you talking about?

[51:18] Zach Faust: Yeah, so like I remember like magazine articles coming out about this, and I remember like TV spots being like Glee finally does like Beatles episodes.

[51:27] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[51:28] Zach Faust: It was commercialized.

[51:29] Nicole Lamb: It was.

[51:30] Zach Faust: It just flopped.

[51:31] Nicole Lamb: And yes.

[51:34] Andrew: Well, Zach, you had said I rem in the last episode you had said that you hadn't you didn't watch the show live, did you?

[51:40] Zach Faust: No, I watched I watched season two.

[51:43] Andrew: Season two onwards, I right.

[51:44] Zach Faust: Okay. So you don't remember these?

[51:46] Andrew: No, I do remember Yesterday. Are you talking about? I no, just like the fact that they advertised how big this was. I remember distinctly summer of 2013 that we got the news that the everybody everybody remembers where they were when they found that the Glee was gonna be extra, extra. It was the biggest thing that had the nation. You just had to be there. Um, but I remember like learning that they would I don't know why we got this information so early. Like, why did we get this information early July? And then Corey died, and then we were like, okay, they were like, we're still gonna do the Beatles episodes. Um, we will address um Corey's passing in episode three. Um, but my question to you, Zach, in terms of rights, song rights, they covered a lot of Beatles songs before they even got to the Beatles tribute episode. So what what is that about?

[52:43] Zach Faust: I my thought is that they finally got a handle on the entire catalog, or at least they were able to finally do tribute episodes. Because they had done they've done a few in the past where you know, like I can remember Hello Goodbye. I Want to Hold Your Hand, Blackbird.

[52:59] Andrew: I Want to Hold Your Hand.

[53:00] Zach Faust: Right. And my my thought about, because they uh my thought with the rights for those songs comparatively to like the rights of ABBA songs is because you know they had to go through like channels, which is only why they only had a few ABBA songs in in the first place. Because they're like every like all the living members of ABBA own all the rights to the songs. You have to get in contact with all of them. My thought is maybe similarly, that's why they only were able to get so many Beatles songs in the beginning, comparatively to like now, where they're like, all right, we've we we knew we wanted to do the Beatles, so now we've gone through all the channels to be like, these are all of the songs that we're asking for, or we want the collection of these songs comparatively to like Lady Gaga or Madonna that were like here are all of our songs, just use whatever you want, you know.

[53:50] Andrew: That's my thought.

[53:51] Nicole Lamb: Oh yeah.

[53:51] Zach Faust: And that's why they were like, and because I remember Apple Music also was really like they were like, we got the Beatles catalog. Everybody, like anytime that they're like, we're doing all the Beatles, everybody's like, we they make a big thing about it. It's like fine. I'll say it again. Everybody remembers where they were. Everybody remembers.

[54:09] Andrew: Right, everybody remembers. Um, do we have any final notes on "Yesterday" Glee Cast version before we cast a vote on this first competition?

[54:18] Nicole Lamb: I have one. Actually, Andrew, to answer your question, I have a final note. Um, my final note is the again, there's a through line of Jennifer Lopez um in this performance, and it's a real um blink and you'll miss it. Um, I also watched the movie "Second Act." Have you watched, Nicole? Please tell me you've watched "Second Act."

[54:39] Nicole Lamb: With Vanessa Ann Hudgens?

[54:41] Zach Faust: With Vanessa Ann Hudgens, yes.

[54:45] Nicole Lamb: Correct.

[54:46] Zach Faust: Yes, of course.

[54:47] Andrew: Zach, have you seen it?

[54:49] Zach Faust: No.

[54:50] Nicole Lamb: You're I I wish I could say you're missing out.

[54:53] Zach Faust: You're not.

[54:54] Nicole Lamb: You're not.

[54:56] Zach Faust: Likes Will Schuster.

[54:58] Andrew: But I didn't know doesn't put the sheets on the couch.

[55:01] Zach Faust: No Jennifer Lopez movies.

[55:02] Nicole Lamb: I no no no. I will say that "Boy Next Door," which is um the the title is not not the boy next door. Gleeks might get it confused. Um, but "Second Act" has a shot in the movie where they're walking down the Central Park mall where um Rachel's walking in "Yesterday," and I think that it's Vanessa Hutchins' character. Um, it might be Jennifer Lopez's character that's wearing a dress that is very similar to Rachel's, like this big like jacket that extends out that really shows off these beautiful legs.

[55:39] Andrew: Um, and it I remember like watching "Second Act" and being like, huh, that kind of reminds me of "Yesterday." So there will be a side by side in the carousel. Um, you can tell me if I'm crazy or if you see the vision. But anyway.

[55:55] Nicole Lamb: Can't wait.

[55:56] Andrew: Um, it's really this is this is really the content that y'all deserve. Um, I like the Glee Jennifer Lopez like Venn diagram that you've created in the chat. Jennifer Lopez has really sunk her teeth into my mind this past week.

[56:10] Nicole Lamb: I watched like her documentary as well.

[56:13] Andrew: I didn't watch the movie though, Nicole. I didn't the documentary did not.

[56:17] Nicole Lamb: I haven't watched the movie yet either.

[56:20] Zach Faust: Oh.

[56:21] Nicole Lamb: I am trying to get people to like ironically watch it with me. And they're like not getting it.

[56:28] Zach Faust: Yeah.

[56:28] Nicole Lamb: I will say that the documentary after watching it, the documentary is simple because the documentary is about the making of the film, which I don't know. I feel like you have to watch the film first before watching the documentary, but rule breaker. Um, I watched the documentary, and the documentary is simply just like her being like, oh, all these um like Netflix and all these corporations are telling me not to make this movie, and I'm still going to make it by my like I'm going to produce it myself.

[56:57] Andrew: And she just like says that regurgitates that piece of information over and over for the entire documentary.

[57:03] Nicole Lamb: Which I think I think she's trying to like convince herself that it was the good idea. Like she's not trying to convince anybody else at that point.

[57:11] Andrew: Right. It's it's simply about just convincing her own brain. Um, do we wanna do we want to cast a vote?

[57:18] Zach Faust: Sure. Who, Zach? Do you want to start us off?

[57:20] Zach Faust: My vote goes to uh "One Less Bell" slash "A House Is Not a Home."

[57:27] Nicole Lamb: Ditto.

[57:29] Zach Faust: Yeah, I think it's a three for three, even though I love "Yesterday." It's a really great rendition, and like I wanna sing it somewhere, but I just don't care about it. It's good. Like I said, it's like it's high up there in the terms of Rolos, but just like no, you cannot, you cannot compete with this this mashup.

[57:52] Andrew: Um, before we get into our second competition, I feel like we should have like a challenge from for ourselves as we're watching these songs. Maybe this is just a challenge for me to find the Jennifer Lopez angle in all six of these performances.

[58:07] Nicole Lamb: I have never seen a Jennifer Lopez movie.

[58:10] Zach Faust: I'm so sorry.

[58:11] Nicole Lamb: But I I think it'd be kind of fun if you just try.

[58:17] Andrew: I am loving the hyperfixation.

[58:20] Nicole Lamb: It's I I will try. I'm gonna be honest with you. I I don't know about this.

[58:27] Zach Faust: What if I what if I found a shot that I'm like this might this reminds me of something Jennifer Lopez would probably do?

[58:33] Andrew: I I don't wanna I don't wanna like put the cart before the horse here. I have what song the horse behind you the horse behind me, audio medium, the painting of the horse.

[58:44] Nicole Lamb: Um, I have this next song, and I already know what the Jennifer Lopez angle is.

[58:53] Zach Faust: I already know. My brain is kind of forever changed by Miss Jennifer Lopez.

[58:59] Nicole Lamb: Oh, I feel like I have a theory. What season is it?

[59:03] Zach Faust: It's season three.

[59:03] Nicole Lamb: I would be very surprised if you wait. What song were you gonna guess?

[59:06] Zach Faust: I was thinking choreography.

[59:10] Nicole Lamb: Because have you seen that part from the documentary where she's like when I wear my hair like this?

[59:17] Zach Faust: She's sitting on the chair.

[59:19] Nicole Lamb: I was thinking I like to wear my hair like this. I was thinking earlier when you were saying that Jennifer Lopez should be the new Mr. Schuster, like the way that Mr. Schuster like sits on a chair in front of the Gleek Club. I think that it would be really great if it was like that image of Jennifer Lopez with her hair all like out and like just looking at the

[59:31] Andrew: Um okay. I have our next song. It's really iconic if I have to say so myself. Do we know what it is?

[59:48] Zach Faust: "Girls Run the World."

[59:55] Nicole Lamb: We run this mother who run the world.

[59:55] Zach Faust: Who run the world?

[1:00:01] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:00:04] Zach Faust: It's hot up in here, DJ. Don't be scared to run this, run this back. Let me raise a glass for the college bats. Anyone rolling, I'll let you know what's on it. Check. You can't hold me. I work my nine to five and I come my check. This goes out to all the women get needing you on your mind. To other than that, respectful idea, please accept my shine.

[1:00:28] Zach Faust: Well, yeah, no, you love it. How was mod enough to make these millions strong enough to bear the children? Then get back to Binance E. You better not play me. Don't come here, play me. Hope you still like me if you pay me.

[1:01:03] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:01:05] Zach Faust: Who run the world?

[1:01:07] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:01:09] Zach Faust: Who run the world?

[1:01:11] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:01:13] Zach Faust: Who run the world?

[1:01:14] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:01:16] Zach Faust: Who run the world?

[1:01:26] Nicole Lamb: Who from this mother?

[1:01:33] Zach Faust: Who from this mother?

[1:01:41] Nicole Lamb: Who run the world?

[1:01:44] Andrew: Wow. Okay. I just want to point out first and foremost, that performance was only a minute and 55 seconds long. It feels like they really went on a cinematic journey. I already said that earlier in the episode, but just like fully, that was like an op like it should have been like an Oppenheimer length performance of Glee.

[1:02:05] Nicole Lamb: No, it's I I like it. My favorite, my favorite shot, and I don't know if this is the Jennifer Lopez shot, but my favorite shot is when it's everybody's down but the three of them, and the camera just pans backwards. Love it. I love love that shot. Love that Tina is included in the whole thing. Love you can see Mercedes and Rachel later. Like it's a cool number. It's not one that I'm like actively always reaching for, but I like it a lot.

[1:02:28] Andrew: Nicole, what are you thinking?

[1:02:29] Nicole Lamb: I think for when this song was such a hit. This was revolutionary. Very exciting. Um, I don't know. I I think Mercedes needs to be involved more. I I don't know. I I think it it could use another eye or seven. You have notes.

[1:02:58] Zach Faust: Um, I love like Santana shaking her ass and Quinn like doing white girl dancing.

[1:03:07] Nicole Lamb: The white girl dancing from Quinn is iconic here. It's everything. Um, I think J-Lo would be Emma in this number.

[1:03:18] Andrew: Okay. Okay. In which way?

[1:03:20] Nicole Lamb: That she thinks she's with it and she's not.

[1:03:26] Andrew: Okay, guys. Let me join in. I um the J Lo reference. I'm gonna uh the reveal of the J Lo reference for this this number. Um is that I feel like maybe it was a year or two ago, Heather Morris did in an interview that she was in a room full of dancers for a J Lo project, and J Lo came in. You know what I'm talking about?

[1:03:53] Nicole Lamb: Okay, wait, Nicole, pick up. Now it's your turn. Take the story and run.

[1:03:56] Nicole Lamb: Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[1:04:01] Nicole Lamb: Okay. J Lo's horoscope is a Virgo.

[1:04:07] Zach Faust: I I don't think it's Virgo. I think it was actually Virgo's that she didn't like.

[1:04:13] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's a Leo.

[1:04:15] Zach Faust: She's like me.

[1:04:16] Nicole Lamb: That's what it is. She's a Leo.

[1:04:18] Zach Faust: So Heather Morris is in this massive dance call.

[1:04:24] Nicole Lamb: And J Lo walks in, and obviously we all know that Heather slayed.

[1:04:30] Zach Faust: Right.

[1:04:31] Nicole Lamb: And J Lo comes in and is like, if you're a Virgo, leave.

[1:04:36] Zach Faust: What star sign is Heather Morris?

[1:04:38] Nicole Lamb: Right? Let's see. That's very important information. I don't think she left. I think I remember her being like, I was like, whew.

[1:04:46] Zach Faust: Yeah.

[1:04:46] Nicole Lamb: She is an Aquarius, so she she made it through. She was, thank God.

[1:04:51] Zach Faust: But you but you know who is a Virgo bringing it back to this performance?

[1:04:56] Nicole Lamb: Beyonce.

[1:04:58] Zach Faust: Interesting.

[1:05:00] Nicole Lamb: Very interesting.

[1:05:02] Zach Faust: Interesting to consider.

[1:05:05] Nicole Lamb: I love that we both know this random audition story.

[1:05:09] Zach Faust: That I think Heather said on some Glee podcast forever ago.

[1:05:14] Nicole Lamb: But like it, like it got picked. I remember like it was it was picked up and it was like talked about.

[1:05:19] Zach Faust: Like I always get like a little bit of a jump scare when like Ahoda and Jenna on the Today Show are talking about something that relates to Glee that I'm like, oh, oh god, you're talking about this too. It's reached you.

[1:05:31] Nicole Lamb: Um scary.

[1:05:33] Zach Faust: Yeah, I remember them.

[1:05:34] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:05:35] Andrew: So um what else do we feel about "Run the World Girls"? Do we have any further notes?

[1:05:41] Nicole Lamb: I love to see Heather shine.

[1:05:43] Zach Faust: Yeah.

[1:05:45] Nicole Lamb: Uh I love when she's center stage and it's her moment. This, I feel like I feel I prefer this Bertolo more than "I'm a Slave for You."

[1:05:55] Zach Faust: Is that is that crazy to say?

[1:06:01] Andrew: Wait, you whispered at such a pitch that I wasn't even able to hear it.

[1:06:06] Zach Faust: That's crazy.

[1:06:08] Andrew: Okay. Wouldn't be the first time I was called that.

[1:06:11] Zach Faust: Nicole, if you're pointing an agreeing agreement that's not translated over an audio medium.

[1:06:19] Nicole Lamb: No one will hear that.

[1:06:21] Zach Faust: I think they will. I think that the power of the point is how they know.

[1:06:27] Andrew: Like they can they can feel it.

[1:06:28] Anyway, I agree with Nicole, you're crazy.

[1:06:30] Zach Faust: No, I I think that it it really helps that this might be when people ask, what's your favorite episode of Glee? "Asian F" is my favorite episode of Glee.

[1:06:40] Nicole Lamb: It's not a bad episode.

[1:06:42] Zach Faust: It's not it's a great episode, as it turns out.

[1:06:44] Andrew: I think it's a great ensemble piece, and it really focuses on characters that we don't regularly do a little check-in on.

[1:06:44] Nicole Lamb: But out of like it's not even the best episode of season three.

[1:07:00] Zach Faust: You're saying what, Nationals?

[1:07:00] Nicole Lamb: And then "Saturday Night Gleaver."

[1:07:05] Zach Faust: Oh, see, you lost me there.

[1:07:05] Nicole Lamb: Oh I feel like we've talked like recently in the past few episodes. I is for whatever reason, again, in the chemistry in my bones, "Saturday Night Gleaver" is not sticking the landing for me.

[1:07:16] Zach Faust: I don't know what it is. I like moments of it, but I don't get why people are so obsessed with it. What's the obsession, Zach?

[1:07:24] Andrew: Of what, Saturday Night Gleaver?

[1:07:26] Zach Faust: Yeah, go ahead. Saturday night. Here's the thing. Saturday Night Gleaver is one of those like classic I have to sit back to this. Saturday Night Gleaver is one of those um classic glee, like kooky episodes. Um that allows, you know, it allows members that we haven't checked up on in a while, shine. I mean, Finn, yes, he is kind of the lead, but most of the things that we have learned about Finn for season three have just been surrounding Rachel. And Mercedes almost like it's one of the few Mercedes plot lines that does not revolve around her being a diva or about her engorging on food, or uh, you know, like it's actually like a Mercedes-centric plot line that doesn't revolve around her, like a stereotype about Mercedes.

Um Santana, who again, you know, she's come out of the closet, that was a huge thing, or she was kind of pushed out of the fucking closet. That was a huge thing. But again, we don't really know a lot about what Santana wants to be doing. So you have all of these three characters. You have this bizarre reference of a movie, which like a Saturday Night Fever isn't exactly the, you know, like this is a guy that doesn't know what he wants to do, sort of plot line. Um, there's a lot of strange other elements, but he uses, you know, he uses the disco club as sort of his escape from the reality that he lives in, which is very similar to what the kids of Glee are doing. And on top of that, the music is so fun. Like, you're not like the music is phenomenal in that episode.

[1:08:55] Andrew: See, that's that's where I want to put a discrepancy. Love the music down in Saturday Gleaver. But I think that in terms of like an like an episode of Glee, you know, because we have to fill time between these musical performances, I'm not caring for the plot line as much. Whereas with Asian F, this song's episode, I'm like, this is high-stakes drama. There is like multiple things going on. There is a race for um uh class president as well as race for Tony and Maria going on in the same, it's mostly Maria in this episode. That that has like reached a peak in this episode, which I think is like very fun. And also I was like trained because before Glee, my obsession was lost. And so I was trained that at the end of every episode that like expect a cliffhanger and to be like, oh fuck, what are they gonna be doing next?

That I feel like Asian F is a great encapsulation of like a glee cliffhanger, which we so seldom get that it's like Mercedes like showing up to a Dina Manzella and being like, Hey, I'm I'm about to join your Glee Club, and like again, everybody remembers where they were when Mercedes left in New Directions. So I think I think with the episode for me, the songs don't hit as much, and I can't stand the so the ginger supremacy plot line. I think that's that's a little too out there for me. And I don't understand fix you. Like it's what it kind of comes out of this place of like I understand why it is the way that it is, but like that whole the whole thing just kind of goes like that's what syncs the episode.

I think the other like the Mike and the Mercedes of it all, like stand out. The will of it all, terrible, and it knocks the episode real hard for me comparatively to Saturday Night Gleaver, where I think all of the plot lines work in that one and all of the music works in that one. But I think that like at the the heart is still felt even in the Wemis storyline, that it's like even this ginger supremacy storyline, as like ridiculous as it is, it is like inherently glee that it's like so stupid. Um, because I do think that when they're talking about ginger supremacy, they're actually talking about something else. You know, like they're like taught like they're giving a voice to a lot of people that live in this country and elsewhere, whatever. Sure.

[1:11:17] Nicole Lamb: Um, but at the same time that they're like dealing with it in like a very serious way, which I think is the main like grab for glee for me, that it's like it's so ridiculous, but it can still like treat it as seriously as anything else. I don't know. That's why I like it.

[1:11:38] Andrew: I like Asia. Listen, I'm not I am not disagreeing with the fact that it's a good episode, and I'm not even knocking the fact that you like the episode a lot. I just it's it's not mine. It's not mine.

[1:11:48] Zach Faust: Right. We we we both exist in our same in in our respective camps. Nicole, to bring you into the conversation, do you have you are you more on the Asian F side of history?

[1:12:02] Nicole Lamb: I personally don't care about either of us.

[1:12:06] Zach Faust: So that's the next song. She's like, we gotta wrap this shit up. So we go. I really hope that the next song is from Saturday Night Gleaver.

[1:12:16] Andrew: Oh, hey, wouldn't that be the fucking?

[1:12:19] Zach Faust: You want chaos. You just want to be like it's not from Saturday Night Fever.

[1:12:24] Andrew: Gleaver.

[1:12:25] Zach Faust: Sorry. Oh my god. I was about to come for you. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Glee card rejected.

[1:12:32] Nicole Lamb: Um, but it is a staple glee song from from season one, I would say.

[1:12:40] Andrew: Hell yes. Good. Oh gosh, and you're gonna know exactly what it is when I pull it up. Are you ready? Boom.

[1:12:47] ♪ Musical number: "Rose's Turn" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[1:14:47] Zach Faust: No notes. Absolutely none. Sorry, run the world. My cheeks hurt from smiling!

[1:14:54] Nicole Lamb: Mm-hmm. Does anybody have anything that they would like to say about this performance?

[1:15:01] Andrew: This was revolutionary. Absolutely. Groundbreaking content. I'm teary-eyed. It's so much better than like you think it's you think it's a certain level of excellence. And then you wash it again, and it's like, wow, wow, wow. It's even better than I left it.

[1:15:25] Zach Faust: Rose's turn, Glee Cast version Mike Lee Cast. I love it. Big fan um contextually the perfect like crux of a storyline for him. Yes. Um in uh such a fantastically fun episode um I think in the in the back nine if I'm yeah mistaken I'm not saying I dislike the back nine I'm just saying I like the first 13 more but Laryngitis uh what is I I think he's an honorary uh first thirteen yeah well power of Madonna is also in the back nine and I love power of Madonna but um I think it's also the episode that both Chris and Leon uh put themselves in for Emmy nominations and I think they both got nominated from this episode um for the Emmys him and the supporting actor and she was an elite actress um that was a question about this performance yeah it was like it because I he won the Golden Globe was season two I don't know how that was for season two do we know?

[1:16:31] Andrew: Mm-hmm yeah I think do you know what episode he won for um I think uh the religio grilled cheeses that's what I would imagine I think it's real I think it's cheeses but this was the episode that both uh the two of them uh put for nominations and they both got them and clearly this is a reason why I mean he sounds great everything about it is set like it's theatrical it's kooky it's fun it's and it's giving so much it's giving so much.

[1:17:01] Zach Faust: And he excels. He like he excels. So no notes. And I it feels like the perfect song as well as like the fact that I feel as though. Correct me if I'm wrong. Chris like suggested this song. This was like a uh, you know, like a little like nudge to uh Orion, Ian and Brad that was like, hey, I think Kurt should sing this song, right? Does that sound right to you?

[1:17:27] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:17:28] Zach Faust: And what I love about it is, you know, uh earlier in the season, he wants to sing a woman's song, but he can't, like, the Glee Club won't allow him. So in the episode where he's trying to prove that he is uh a straight man, ending it with a like like probably musical theater's like most like compelling number sung by a woman. Um is I mean it's it's just like a it's a it's so it's so well done. I wish Glee would do more would have done more things like that as the show went on, like just this like perfect culmination of these storylines.

[1:18:03] Andrew: Yeah, but I will say that like the fact that like Rose's turn exists, that it's like if they continued to like I I'm glad that they didn't continue in a sense of like this peak of Rose's turn because I feel like that would kind of water down Schwarz's turn in a sense. I I feel like I'm gonna like butcher this quote, like right after this performance, like Bert like asks him how he's doing or something, and he's like, I'm fine, and then like Bert says, like, fine doesn't sing like you just sang, and I'm like, ooh, I love that line. That's a very good line for me. The two of them were always just the most consistently written characters, at least together. Yeah, uh separately, uh, you know, Bert didn't really have much to do, and Kurt was kind of all over the place, but together, the relationship was always the most consistent. It hit, it hit every single damn time.

[1:18:59] Zach Faust: Kolos, just in general, have not been faring that well in the Glackett, to maybe no one's surprise. But Rose's turn is absolutely the one that is like above it all. And we just in the last episode, we just sent through I'll Remember over Sway. Um which I feel like they exist in the same playing field. Um but I I threw all I was like part of the reason that I wanted to I'll remember to go through was simply because Kurt does not have that much representation that much more in the Glackett, but I feel confident in saying that now he has at least two solos to his name reaching round three. What if I just threw in I want girls from the world more? I still like Run the World Girls. It's from an iconic episode. I feel bad for it. That it's like this is a competition. I too love girls' world running. Let record show. Do we even like do we want to the formality of doing a vote? Are we just the give it to the boy in the skinny jeans and the skull scarf?

[1:20:17] Andrew: Right.

[1:20:18] Zach Faust: So scars. Whoever that was. Um Rose's turn. Come on, Rose's dinner. Um.

[1:20:28] Andrew: I have first song of our final competition. Saturday. It's a song that I really like that Gleeks hate. Um so I'm I'm ready for for the discourse. And maybe we're not bleaks, so yeah, right. Don't get it twisted.

[1:20:42] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[1:20:44] Zach Faust: I don't think we might agree.

[1:20:47] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:20:48] Zach Faust: I don't know what it is.

[1:20:49] Nicole Lamb: Um what what did you say?

[1:20:51] Zach Faust: What show?

[1:20:52] Nicole Lamb: It's called Glee.

[1:20:54] Zach Faust: G L C E it's called Glost.

[1:20:56] Nicole Lamb: It's another four letter, another four-letter word.

[1:20:59] Zach Faust: They often get mistaken for each other.

[1:21:02] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:21:03] Zach Faust: Ringing a bell or no.

[1:21:05] Nicole Lamb: The one with Michael Scott.

[1:21:07] Zach Faust: Yeah, one let's bell.

[1:21:09] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:21:09] Zach Faust: Yeah.

[1:21:10] Nicole Lamb: Yes.

[1:21:10] Zach Faust: Michael Scott's actually in this performance here.

[1:21:14] Nicole Lamb: Here we go.

[1:21:21] Zach Faust: Please kill me.

[1:21:22] Nicole Lamb: Stop it.

[1:21:23] Zach Faust: I love her.

[1:21:28] Nicole Lamb: We both found what we were looking for.

[1:21:36] Zach Faust: With a friend to call my own.

[1:21:40] Nicole Lamb: I'll never be out.

[1:21:44] Zach Faust: Honey, my friend will see.

[1:21:47] Nicole Lamb: You've got a friend in me.

[1:21:51] Zach Faust: You've got a friend in me.

[1:21:57] Nicole Lamb: Then you'll always running here and there.

[1:22:08] Zach Faust: And you ever look behind and don't like what you find.

[1:22:19] Nicole Lamb: There's something you should know.

[1:22:23] Zach Faust: You've got a place to go.

[1:22:26] Nicole Lamb: You've got a place to go.

[1:22:32] Zach Faust: Then most people would turn you away.

[1:22:38] Nicole Lamb: Away I don't listen to a word.

[1:22:43] Zach Faust: They say they don't see you as I do.

[1:22:51] Nicole Lamb: I wish they would try to.

[1:22:54] Zach Faust: I'm sure they'd think again if they had a friend like Ben.

[1:22:54] Nicole Lamb: A friend like Ben.

[1:23:13] Zach Faust: What's the J-Lo friend?

[1:23:15] Nicole Lamb: Oh, what I complet I was blinded by the glitz and glamour of Rose's turn that I don't even know what the J the J Lo angle of that performance was.

[1:23:26] Zach Faust: The first shot of it.

[1:23:27] Nicole Lamb: Rose's turn.

[1:23:28] Zach Faust: Oh, Rose's turn, and also I need time to think about this as well.

[1:23:31] Nicole Lamb: But we didn't even like bring up J Lo during Rose's turn, which I feel like it's just J Lo.

[1:23:39] Zach Faust: I didn't see Elaborate on that.

[1:23:41] Nicole Lamb: Chris Colfur, I saw Jose.

[1:23:44] Zach Faust: Oh, Coley Frost.

[1:23:46] Nicole Lamb: It's not about her.

[1:23:48] Zach Faust: Oh, the song is about her not having her turn in the spotlight.

[1:23:55] Nicole Lamb: Um Nicole, do you are you familiar with Iowa Deborah hosting SNL a few months ago, and how ahead of her hosting it with a musical guest, Jennifer Lopez?

[1:24:08] Zach Faust: Um the the receipts were brought up of her dissing Jennifer Lopez, and so she went to JLo's like um the dressing room at N Dirty Rock to apologize because it got so much press.

[1:24:23] Nicole Lamb: So this is me saying, Nicole, if we when you work with Jennifer Lopez one day, they're gonna they're gonna circle back to this episode.

[1:24:32] Zach Faust: I haven't said anything negative other than she's the star of the show, and she's a Leo just like me.

[1:24:42] Nicole Lamb: And me.

[1:24:43] Zach Faust: Not and me!

[1:24:49] Nicole Lamb: Um that's not what I heard, but um, in terms of wait, do we wanna do we want to start the conversation off with the Jennifer Lopez angle of Ben?

[1:24:58] Zach Faust: Oh Ben Affleck.

[1:25:01] Nicole Lamb: Duh.

[1:25:02] Zach Faust: That's really lending itself.

[1:25:05] Nicole Lamb: Anyway.

[1:25:06] Zach Faust: And he's just as boring as this song.

[1:25:11] Nicole Lamb: Okay.

[1:25:12] Zach Faust: I'll let you have.

[1:25:13] Nicole Lamb: Go ahead.

[1:25:14] Zach Faust: Nicole, I want you to have your space to share your wrong opinion about this song.

[1:25:21] Nicole Lamb: I got that, and that is a win for me.

[1:25:29] Zach Faust: Correct me.

[1:25:30] Nicole Lamb: This is from the Michael Jackson episode.

[1:25:32] Zach Faust: It's it's Michael.

[1:25:33] Nicole Lamb: Yep.

[1:25:34] Zach Faust: Yep.

[1:25:36] Nicole Lamb: Rocks and the slushy.

[1:25:38] Zach Faust: That's right, yes.

[1:25:40] Nicole Lamb: Um it's great.

[1:25:42] Zach Faust: I just don't know why I should care about them singing.

[1:25:49] Nicole Lamb: About a rat.

[1:25:50] Zach Faust: Uh about a rat named Ben with an eye patch.

[1:25:55] Nicole Lamb: Like, why couldn't they sing?

[1:25:56] Zach Faust: Why couldn't they sing um I'll be there?

[1:25:59] Nicole Lamb: Like, if they really wanted it, like, if that was the angle that they were going for, why did they have to sing about the rat?

[1:26:04] Zach Faust: Like, maybe I get the like comedy aspect of it, but again, the song is just so like snooze fest.

[1:26:11] Nicole Lamb: I feel like they could mash Papa Can You Hear Me with Ben.

[1:26:17] Zach Faust: And still no forward momentum to the plot.

[1:26:23] Nicole Lamb: See, I think once they got once they got rid of Blaine, once they like threw the rocks all and they were like, okay, Blaine's out this episode.

[1:26:30] Zach Faust: What they should have done is like use this time to like let Mercedes sing a Michael Jackson song.

[1:26:37] Nicole Lamb: Or let Tina sing a Michael Jackson song.

[1:26:39] Zach Faust: Because uh Mercedes only has human nature and Tina doesn't sing at all.

[1:26:43] Nicole Lamb: So and I know that the like that was the genet hiatus of like I've been so like my behavior's been trash, so I have to set this one out.

[1:26:52] Zach Faust: But like why did they have to give why Ben?

[1:26:57] Nicole Lamb: Why this song?

[1:26:58] Zach Faust: I like I I like the song in general.

[1:27:02] Nicole Lamb: I just so bad.

[1:27:06] Zach Faust: Um I'm I have conflicted opinions about all the things that you're saying because I agree that I think it's like it's like really um silly that it's like okay, we're going to like have Blaine have this like grand departure from the series for one singular episode as he goes to do Broadway.

[1:27:31] Nicole Lamb: Um, whereas Miss Tina Cohen Chang is missing in the same damn episode, and no one even makes reference to it until a few episodes later in a racist joke.

[1:27:45] Zach Faust: Um, but I will say I love Ben Dunbad.

[1:27:50] Nicole Lamb: Ben to me, I think what my question to y'all is like, do you do you are you familiar with the word nuance?

[1:27:50] Zach Faust: Are you familiar with like maybe just like I don't know, like just like you don't need to not like a song just because everybody else isn't liking the song.

[1:28:12] Nicole Lamb: You can actually like a song on your own.

[1:28:15] Zach Faust: You can actually make your own opinion.

[1:28:16] Nicole Lamb: Have you ever considered that?

[1:28:18] Zach Faust: Thank you so much.

[1:28:18] Nicole Lamb: Thank you for asking questions.

[1:28:20] Zach Faust: Keeping curious.

[1:28:22] Nicole Lamb: Um, Zach?

[1:28:26] Zach Faust: Zachary?

[1:28:27] Nicole Lamb: Would you like to take the song?

[1:28:28] Zach Faust: Do you know what the word nuance means?

[1:28:30] Nicole Lamb: I I think that um being invited into uh into a safe space or what I thought was a safe space, only to be annihilated with large words that I don't properly understand, but have that's what I thought that one, yeah.

[1:28:44] Zach Faust: Complete um, I think contextually I get what you mean.

[1:28:47] Nicole Lamb: And I would just like to say that as the Saturday Night Gleaver apologist, I think I do understand what it means to go against the the Glane, and um I also understand Glee Blaine.

[1:28:59] Zach Faust: Yeah, Glee Blaine, uh Gay Blaine.

[1:29:01] Nicole Lamb: Um, I also understand um what it means uh when there's a losing battle to hop onto the winning team.

[1:29:08] Zach Faust: And I think Nicole's opinion and my opinion are the winning team of the song.

[1:29:12] Nicole Lamb: Here's but here's the thing.

[1:29:15] Zach Faust: Here is the thing that I know that you're aware of.

[1:29:18] Nicole Lamb: You don't even know what Ben is against yet, and you're already saying to send him away.

[1:29:24] Zach Faust: Fine, you're right.

[1:29:25] Nicole Lamb: I don't know what Ben is against.

[1:29:27] Zach Faust: Can we who?

[1:29:29] Nicole Lamb: What?

[1:29:30] Zach Faust: Say it.

[1:29:31] Nicole Lamb: Say it.

[1:29:33] Zach Faust: What is the question here?

[1:29:35] Nicole Lamb: Say it.

[1:29:37] Zach Faust: Who?

[1:29:37] Nicole Lamb: That's how irrelevant T is to me.

[1:29:40] Zach Faust: Okay.

[1:29:41] Nicole Lamb: Who?

[1:29:42] Zach Faust: You're right.

[1:29:43] Nicole Lamb: Exactly.

[1:29:44] Zach Faust: I don't know.

[1:29:44] Nicole Lamb: I don't know her song.

[1:29:45] Zach Faust: I didn't.

[1:29:45] Nicole Lamb: I didn't.

[1:29:47] Zach Faust: I thought maybe I was talking again.

[1:29:47] Nicole Lamb: I guess you're not familiar with the hitbox show Glee, so let me just explain to you uh the cultural significance of the series as well as this song in particular.

[1:29:57] Zach Faust: Um this song, I feel as though Nicole, how are you doing?

[1:30:03] Nicole Lamb: I it was so good for me.

[1:30:05] Zach Faust: It's so good to you know, I think we just spent Are you really gonna glee Splaine this me?

[1:30:11] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[1:30:12] Zach Faust: Your local misogynist, Andrew McGuire is going to is going to explain to you why a man, Ben, is good.

[1:30:23] Nicole Lamb: Not just a man, a male rat.

[1:30:25] Zach Faust: Okay.

[1:30:26] Nicole Lamb: And isn't that what Blaine is?

[1:30:33] Zach Faust: I like the decoration of his room.

[1:30:36] Nicole Lamb: Oh, I love Blaine's room.

[1:30:38] Zach Faust: It's great.

[1:30:39] Nicole Lamb: I will say that like this performance offers some really I would say that this is the most haunting Glee song.

[1:30:51] Zach Faust: That it it offers such haunting vocals.

[1:30:55] Nicole Lamb: When you listen to it, it's like am I am I in a haunted house right now?

[1:31:02] Zach Faust: What is going on?

[1:31:03] Nicole Lamb: Are the haunting vocals in the room with us right now?

[1:31:07] Zach Faust: Oh my gosh.

[1:31:08] Nicole Lamb: This is just such a random like battle.

[1:31:12] Zach Faust: Like, I don't get why you want to die on this hill, Ben.

[1:31:17] Nicole Lamb: He is my husband.

[1:31:19] Zach Faust: Ben, he's my husband.

[1:31:21] Nicole Lamb: Alright, J-Lo.

[1:31:22] Zach Faust: Out of the chat.

[1:31:26] Nicole Lamb: Can we do like a say something nice challenge?

[1:31:30] Zach Faust: About the song?

[1:31:32] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:31:34] Zach Faust: Um.

[1:31:35] Nicole Lamb: Um.

[1:31:37] Zach Faust: I'm sorry, I hurt its feelings.

[1:31:39] Nicole Lamb: That's not saying something nice.

[1:31:44] Zach Faust: I liked that Rachel squinted, even though she didn't need to.

[1:31:50] Nicole Lamb: Zach.

[1:31:50] Zach Faust: Do you want to I like hearing Corey Monty sing a little lower than usual?

[1:31:58] Nicole Lamb: Right?

[1:31:58] Zach Faust: It's a haunting.

[1:31:59] Nicole Lamb: I do think Corey sounded nice.

[1:32:02] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:32:03] Zach Faust: Mm-hmm.

[1:32:03] Zach Faust: And I think the three of them sound fun together.

[1:32:08] Nicole Lamb: It's a cool little experiment.

[1:32:11] Zach Faust: I liked this part of the conversation.

[1:32:17] Nicole Lamb: Intention versus impact.

[1:32:17] Zach Faust: So different, but I respect it.

[1:32:21] Nicole Lamb: I like it.

[1:32:23] Zach Faust: And for the record, let the record show.

[1:32:23] Nicole Lamb: In round one of the Glacket, Ben won against You Make Me Feel So Young.

[1:32:29] Zach Faust: The Clay duet from season five.

[1:32:32] Nicole Lamb: Do we do we have an opinion on that competition?

[1:32:38] Zach Faust: I like that song more.

[1:32:39] Nicole Lamb: You said season five.

[1:32:40] Zach Faust: I tapped out.

[1:32:42] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:32:44] Zach Faust: It's one of the more forgettable claim duets, I will say.

[1:32:49] Nicole Lamb: So at least I remember how much I don't like this one.

[1:32:52] Zach Faust: The final song of the episode.

[1:32:55] Nicole Lamb: Uh okay.

[1:32:57] Zach Faust: Is it a stinker?

[1:32:59] Nicole Lamb: No, it's not a stinker.

[1:33:01] Zach Faust: I will say it's a good song that's gonna beat Ben.

[1:33:04] Nicole Lamb: Anything was gonna beat Ben.

[1:33:06] Zach Faust: That's so fucking rude.

[1:33:12] Nicole Lamb: Seriously.

[1:33:13] Zach Faust: I thought you might um Okay, and we're gonna know exactly what song it is.

[1:33:24] Nicole Lamb: Are we ready?

[1:33:27] Zach Faust: Grab a pot and take it down.

[1:33:30] Nicole Lamb: It's just me and me.

[1:33:33] Zach Faust: Yeah.

[1:33:34] Nicole Lamb: Come on.

[1:33:37] Zach Faust: Hey, Brittany.

[1:33:40] Nicole Lamb: Are you ready?

[1:33:42] Zach Faust: Uh-huh.

[1:33:44] Nicole Lamb: Are you no one cares?

[1:33:47] Zach Faust: Whipping my hair, it's pulling my waist to hell stair.

[1:33:51] Nicole Lamb: Sweat is dripping all over my face.

[1:33:53] Zach Faust: And no one's there.

[1:33:55] Nicole Lamb: I'm the only one dancing up in this place.

[1:33:57] Zach Faust: Tonight I'm here.

[1:34:06] Nicole Lamb: I wanna get in the sound.

[1:36:02] ♪ Musical number: "Me Against the Music" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[1:36:02] Zach Faust: Um, me against the music, Lee Cash version Michael cast, what are we thinking?

[1:36:07] Nicole Lamb: Thrilled. This is my comfort episode. And I under love this performance. I understand that Zach, you have a differing opinion on Brittany Brittany, right?

[1:36:21] Zach Faust: It's like kind of like famous at this point that you don't like this episode. This is my least favorite episode of the show.

[1:36:27] Nicole Lamb: No.

[1:36:29] Zach Faust: Don't say that. It is my least favorite episode of the show. Do you care to elaborate why?

[1:36:37] Zach Faust: It's I don't know. And I do know. I just I remember watching it, and it was the very first time I watched the show and kind of went, I don't really like this show anymore. Because I don't like, I just it was it it's the A, it's not an artist that I cared a ton about. So Brittany Spears was, you know, when they were like, we're doing Brittany, I was like, okay. And then it's just music videos. It's just how many music videos can we recreate with this terrible plot of putting everybody under asphyxiation or under uh anesthesia. Just like okay, so you know, it's really it's a really funny episode. I'll say that, but like it's uh and it's a great showcase for Britney. It's a terrible episode for Rachel, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

The sex riot doesn't make a whole you want to talk about the J-Lo angle, is J Lo is Will Schuster in this episode. Um the the the plot line of of Sue catching Jacob and Israel masturbating to a photo like to the video of Rachel public school library. What baffles me? Like the like the whole that's where you draw the whole episode just kind of baffles me as an episode. I'm just like, this is it was just a whole whole bunch of random things thrown at the wall and tied together with how many Britney numbers can we do?

[1:37:59] Nicole Lamb: Well, I mean they they they maxed out toward the end and they did a paramour song to to to finish it out.

[1:38:07] Zach Faust: Yeah. So another another it just it's I don't know. I just remember watching it and going, I don't like this. I really it was the first time I'd ever watched series, and it was the episode prior to that where I was like, I don't know if this is as good as I remember it being. And then this one happened, and I said, ah, this is a brand new show. And so regardless of if it may be better than other episodes, it's just personally was the episode that I was like, this dropped to the bottom of the barrel for me, and I have to recontextualize what the show is. That's why I don't want to.

[1:38:38] Nicole Lamb: Interesting.

[1:38:39] Zach Faust: Not to say that it's a bad episode to other people that like it. I just do not like it. Comparatively to Nicole, who's Nicole who is beaming.

[1:38:50] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, please explain the beam, Nicole.

[1:38:53] Nicole Lamb: All of the reasons why you hate this episode is what makes Glee glee. Jacob and Israel masturbating in a public library. Like, hello. Sign me up. Yes. It's crazy, it's kooky, it's satire. Is it serious? I don't care. Like Ray like Rachel doing what is it, baby one more time? Right. It it makes sense to me. The girls that get it get it. And the girls that don't, they just simply don't. And that's okay. And to quote Santana, you go Bluetooth. And that's all I have to say.

[1:39:33] Zach Faust: Right. Right.

[1:39:35] Nicole Lamb: I also love, which I don't know if people catch this the first time they watched this specific number, which is what we're discussing. Not the entire episode. Right, right. Is that like Tina's there? Uh Finn and Rachel are there. Puck is there. I love these little like glamios.

[1:39:56] Zach Faust: Cameos.

[1:39:56] Nicole Lamb: Yes, glamoures. Yes. And I think I'm glad that you brought that up because I feel as though there was a glamour that we didn't actually even see in the episode. But just like I have this like memory of a picture of Heather Morris wearing the outfit that she's wearing and me against the music, hugging Diana Agron in the Cheerios uniform, but with her hair down. I don't know. The Gleeks at home might be knowing what I'm I'll put it in the carousel when I find it.

[1:40:27] Zach Faust: Right.

[1:40:27] Nicole Lamb: It's like, and I'm like, I think Diana was supposed to be in I was supposed to be in the music video. What's that? What's that um meme? Whatever.

[1:40:34] Zach Faust: Oh, Madison Beer.

[1:40:35] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, Madison Beer. I was supposed to be in the music video. Um, and that's that's Diana Agron, where it was like, she's hugging Heather Morris in that picture because she says she's saying, sorry I couldn't be in the performance. We did not see you on on camera. But I but I love this girl sound down bad. Um I will say that it is inherently better than Ben. I will be the first to say it before you ask that question.

[1:41:06] Zach Faust: Um, I still why is it better than Ben?

[1:41:12] Nicole Lamb: I think that I think that you know why.

[1:41:15] Zach Faust: Oh, no, no, no. Please give me a nuanced answer.

[1:41:18] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, there's that word. Right. And I know that I know that word, so I will provide you with some nuance. Um, I think that Me Against Music, Gleek Hass Russian by Gleecast, is a better song because it broke new ground. It was um the first Brit Brittany and Santana duet of the series, and it really um got us got us going. We only had a few by series end of those duets. Um, but this one was very important. Also, I'm gonna sound like a dead horse. Um, but it is from the Bess Glee, the music album. It is from volume four. Um, I remember playing this album in the car with my mom when I was a freshman in high school, and um the line that Santana sings is like, what is it? Like, come over here, I got something to show ya. My mom was like, she turned it off, and she was like, Oh, that's that's a little bit too much for me. Um, and so that that's what's coming up for me.

[1:42:27] Zach Faust: It was the cigars right.

[1:42:30] Nicole Lamb: The cigars.

[1:42:30] Zach Faust: I smoke cigars.

[1:42:33] Nicole Lamb: Um, any further comment on me against the music.

[1:42:37] Zach Faust: No, it's just it's so good. It stands the test of time.

[1:42:43] Nicole Lamb: It really does. Um also what a Heather Morris heavy episode. We have to clack it.

[1:42:52] Zach Faust: I know she was like, Oh, you're not gonna send me away so fast. I'm coming back in a major way.

[1:43:00] Andrew: Um, do we want to even do the formality of voting?

[1:43:04] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, let's do it.

[1:43:07] Andrew: We want you to hear the name again. We need you to say it out loud. We don't just suffer. I wanna I want to let you both go first. You're you're my guest.

[1:43:18] Zach Faust: Well, I want to push forward. Me against that.

[1:43:25] Nicole Lamb: Me against the music.

[1:43:27] Andrew: What a surprise.

[1:43:28] Nicole Lamb: It's just me against the music.

[1:43:32] Zach Faust: Right. It's just me and me.

[1:43:35] Nicole Lamb: And not Ben.

[1:43:37] Andrew: Ben was there was a lot of cameos in that in that performance, but Ben was not seen. Um would you be mad at me if I did a pity vote for Ben? Even if I don't fully mean it.

[1:43:50] Nicole Lamb: I mean, I I think that it's good for people to see that you don't have to be swayed and you can stand your ground.

[1:44:00] Zach Faust: And that you understand nuisance.

[1:44:02] Andrew: Nuisance. Yes.

[1:44:05] Nicole Lamb: Right. Right.

[1:44:08] Andrew: Um then I will I will cast the pity vote for Ben. We could have had a three for three. We could have had a wow, we all unanimously agree on these three.

[1:44:16] Zach Faust: No.

[1:44:17] Andrew: And and you would think that, wouldn't you? But um I I need I need to stand up for my rat husband.

[1:44:26] Zach Faust: Oh.

[1:44:26] Andrew: Ben. My rat husband. Um, all right. In recap, I was about to pull another song. Um I know, I was like, are we doing a bonus round? Are we doing a bonus round? What are we doing? Are we pulling Ben back out of the out of the glagot? Wait a minute. The movie, Ben is back. Um, okay. So in recap of this episode, um, one less bell to answer. A house is not a home. Um your you your home is now round three. Um yesterday, you are so yesterday, Glee Cast version by Gleecast. Um, because you are not seeing round three. Run the world, girls. You ran yourself to round two, but you couldn't run to round three because it was Rose's turn at that, I guess. Ben, um Ben. Um, you you have a friend in me, but that is not enough to get you to round three. And me against the music. Uh you were against something that was definitely music in the eyes of my guests this week. Um, but maybe that's all it can really say for itself. Um, and you are seeing round three. Wow.

[1:45:50] Andrew: Um I'm going, it's the part of the episode where I ask you both if Glee was still on the air today. What do you think that they would be doing? What do you think that they would be singing? Does anybody want to take the stage first?

[1:46:05] Nicole Lamb: Why yes.

[1:46:08] Nicole Lamb: Okay. In true Kooli Lamb fashion. One thing I'm possibly more obsessed with than Glee is Miss Ariana Grande.

[1:46:17] Andrew: Okay.

[1:46:18] Nicole Lamb: Have we listened to Eternal Sunshine?

[1:46:21] Zach Faust: I listened to the what is it? Um now that we don't know what what's the We Can't Be Friends.

[1:46:25] Nicole Lamb: We can't be friends in the boy's mind. I listen to those, and that's it.

[1:46:33] Zach Faust: Okay, well, great, because a couple of those songs are on my tribute episode.

[1:46:37] Nicole Lamb: Okay.

[1:46:38] Zach Faust: Of Eternal Sunshine Ariana Grande. We can't be friends, in my humble opinion, would be a group breakup song. A la the scientist. And little We Are So Sad. We Love Each One. Um The Boy is Mine. Obviously, Santana and Mercedes would sing. A nice little like revamp. About which boy. You know, I'll leave that up to you. Maybe Ben.

[1:47:11] Nicole Lamb: Ben. Yes. Um.

[1:47:14] Nicole Lamb: And then I wish I hated you actually would be a song I would sing about Mr. Schuster. Because though he's so cringy, I can't hate that man.

[1:47:27] Andrew: Right.

[1:47:28] Nicole Lamb: Because you watched one less bell to answer, A House is not a home. I wish that I hated you. Absolutely. Also, if either of you are into Olivia Rodrigo.

[1:47:39] Andrew: Of course.

[1:47:40] Nicole Lamb: Have we heard her new song Obsessed?

[1:47:45] Zach Faust: I listened to it once.

[1:47:46] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, wait. Sing it.

[1:47:48] Zach Faust: So obsessed with your extra.

[1:47:50] Nicole Lamb: Yes.

[1:47:51] Zach Faust: Yes.

[1:47:52] Nicole Lamb: It's uh Rachel's song about Quinn.

[1:47:56] Zach Faust: Ooh, a little Faberry moment, which I love.

[1:47:59] Nicole Lamb: Yeah.

[1:48:00] Zach Faust: Because she's like, you would think I'm in love with her. That's how obsessed I am with her.

[1:48:04] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[1:48:05] Zach Faust: Right.

[1:48:05] Nicole Lamb: Oh, I kind of I kind of really need that. Um, do you have any further additions?

[1:48:11] Zach Faust: I'm obsessed with all these. Obsessed.

[1:48:13] Nicole Lamb: No.

[1:48:14] Zach Faust: Olivia. Take it away.

[1:48:16] Nicole Lamb: Zach, the floor is yours.

[1:48:19] Zach Faust: Um, a couple of them. Uh I so I I didn't listen. I I listened through was it Beyonce's new album. Um the song with uh Molly and Molly, the song with Miley would be a Mercedes and Santana number.

[1:48:39] Nicole Lamb: I don't remember the song, but I know that that would be their number.

[1:48:42] Zach Faust: Uh what's it got? Oh, uh Two Most Wanted.

[1:48:45] Nicole Lamb: Yes, that would be theirs.

[1:48:47] Zach Faust: Um I also want them to sing, I want them to go back in the classic rock genre. So Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd would be a phenomenal song for them to cover.

[1:48:57] Nicole Lamb: Um I also what was I thinking of? Oh, um, I think Sue would sing Not My Fault from Renee Rap featuring uh Mercedes on uh for the Megan the Stallion section.

[1:49:12] Zach Faust: And I think it's I think it's in a similar fashion of like uh the rise and fall of Sue Sylvester of like you guys are blaming me for all of these things, but it's I love this. That's not my fault. Like it's her and all the Cheerios.

[1:49:26] Nicole Lamb: Um also think she would probably sing Material Girl. We got we got it in a the mashup, but I think she and Brittany and Santana would do Material Girl, and I think um we'd have an episode probably featuring Quinn that sang uh Dua Lipa, um Dance and Idaway. Uh or Sue singing training season. Either one.

[1:49:52] Zach Faust: Wait, what's that last song that you said?

[1:49:54] Nicole Lamb: Training season?

[1:49:55] Zach Faust: It's the most recent dual leap.

[1:49:56] Nicole Lamb: It's a dual-peep song.

[1:49:57] Zach Faust: It is unfamiliar at the same moment. I'm not, I don't listen to a lot of like recent music, but I will listen to Doula uh now I got my head.

[1:50:07] Nicole Lamb: Doula Peep Dool.

[1:50:09] Zach Faust: Yeah, you're saying it right. I will listen to Doula Peep. Um so I think she'd be great. Also, Artie and Sam doing What a Fool Believes by the Doobie Brothers would also be really fun.

[1:50:20] Nicole Lamb: Okay. I'm obsessed. Really really. What about you?

[1:50:25] Zach Faust: I'm so glad that you asked. Because I actually do have one prepared this week. Um in the in the um in the spirit of Cowboy Carter.

[1:50:33] Nicole Lamb: Wait, what is your have you listened to it all the way through, Nicole?

[1:50:38] Nicole Lamb: You have.

[1:50:39] Zach Faust: The song River Dance. Is this a song that lands for you?

[1:50:42] Nicole Lamb: Okay. Correct. River Dance.

[1:50:44] Zach Faust: I'm in like I'm listening to it in like because the way that my brain is made up, I'm listening through the lens of how they would cover it on Glee and how they would do an entire episode of the entire album. I'm still stuck on the entire album, but I have at least River Dance and like Levi Jeans.

[1:51:06] Nicole Lamb: I think that River Dance, this is like end of like close to end of season three, like right before nationals. And they go to the entire Glee Club, like goes to Carmel to like check in on vocal adrenaline to see what they're rehearsing.

[1:51:22] Zach Faust: And unique is doing River Dance. And but they're but she's also doing it. It's a duet with Rory, who they didn't even realize transferred to vocal adrenaline.

[1:51:37] Nicole Lamb: And so they were on the bus and they were like, wait a minute, we just didn't even realize that he wasn't even here anymore. And so he's they like scouted him because they weren't the new directions wasn't using his talents. And so unique Rory duet that everyone was clamoring for, um, River Dance.

[1:51:57] Zach Faust: And then Levi Jeans, I think that um that's a Britanna duet. Um, with Sam doing the post Malone part. And um, I think that's like the the first like inklings that like the Bram relationship is something that we're we're forced to live with. And yeah.

[1:52:18] Nicole Lamb: Do we think that Beast also still sings Jolene?

[1:52:22] Zach Faust: Ooh. I see I'm I'm still stuck on that. I'm still stuck on like Blackbird as well, another song that they've already covered, you know. Um I don't know. What do you think?

[1:52:33] Nicole Lamb: I think so. I think especially if we like brought it back today, I think Beast would have like a whole new perspective, especially on Sue.

[1:52:41] Zach Faust: Right. Because it's not like a it's not a true inform cover of Jolene. It's kind of like a remix in a sense.

[1:52:48] Nicole Lamb: Yeah. Right. And so I think Beast would be like, listen, not today.

[1:52:53] Zach Faust: Right. And they would bring Kristen back as April Rhodes to be Dolly P.

[1:52:58] Nicole Lamb: Oh. So right. This is why we workshop. I love it. We'll put it we'll uh we'll we'll put it up somewhere.

[1:53:06] Zach Faust: Exactly. Um this has been such a fun episode. Nicole, I would love if all the the glisteners were to see all of the things that you're doing on stage and on social media. Where can they do that?

[1:53:21] Nicole Lamb: Yes. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok at Coley Lamb.

[1:53:29] Zach Faust: As well as what's going on with Aladdin, girly pup.

[1:53:33] Nicole Lamb: Oh, yes, I am traveling around the country. In Broadway's biggest party on tour. Aladdin the musical.

[1:53:45] Zach Faust: Wow. It really is. Are you what a great time? Are you guys gonna be anywhere close to the New York area anytime soon?

[1:53:52] Nicole Lamb: No, the tour is actually closing.

[1:53:55] Zach Faust: Oh.

[1:53:55] Nicole Lamb: We are ending May 12th.

[1:53:58] Zach Faust: Okay. Very soon.

[1:53:59] Nicole Lamb: So we're on the West Coast right now. Whenever this comes out. We'll be in.

[1:54:07] Zach Faust: So we'll be in Anchorage, Alaska, Seattle. Uh Fresno, California. And Costa Mesa.

[1:54:19] Nicole Lamb: Wow. And if you don't see me swinging there, I'm sure you'll see me somewhere soon.

[1:54:26] Zach Faust: Exactly. That's what I was gonna say. I was like, she's always doing something. You'll see her on the next big thing.

[1:54:33] Nicole Lamb: Um maybe the glee boot.

[1:54:35] Zach Faust: Maybe even the glee boot.

[1:54:36] Nicole Lamb: Hush hush.

[1:54:38] Zach Faust: Um audio medium. Do you want to describe what you were doing, Nicole?

[1:54:45] Nicole Lamb: I mean, I would love it. I will take it whether or not people want it to happen or not.

[1:54:51] Zach Faust: I think you would you should be first in line outside of that audition room.

[1:54:55] Nicole Lamb: Absolutely.

[1:54:57] Zach Faust: Um, Zach, where can all the glisteners find you?

[1:55:01] Zach Faust: Um, you can find me on Instagram, my name uh Zach underscore fast, or you can find me on TikTok, Sue Sylvester TikTok. I need to start doing more. I don't do enough Sue Sylvester content, but also I know it needs to come back. It's just so time consuming.

[1:55:16] Nicole Lamb: So I'm so busy.

[1:55:17] Zach Faust: You're telling me.

[1:55:18] Nicole Lamb: You're telling you.

[1:55:20] Zach Faust: You listen, if you have time to do an entire glee podcast week after week after week after week, coordinating all these people, I should just I could be able to get off my ass and put on a little wig and be like, let's let's say some mean things to the camera for about a minute and then click back.

[1:55:35] Nicole Lamb: I mean, you said a you said a number of things in recorded fashion tonight. So I mean, I feel like that's content right now, right there.

[1:55:43] Zach Faust: I should, yeah, you can just edit me with a wig, uh, all of the vitriol.

[1:55:48] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The vitriolic things, and I'll just I'll just uh I'll I'll I'll clip them.

[1:55:52] Zach Faust: It's just yeah.

[1:55:53] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, that wasn't that wasn't Zach that said it was actually Sue Sylvester TikTok.

[1:55:57] Zach Faust: Yeah. No, here and here's the thing. Sometimes the line is brand. Bargain brand.

[1:56:01] Nicole Lamb: The thing is sometimes is that the the line the line is thin. Sometimes that line is real freaking thin.

[1:56:08] Zach Faust: When it comes to like Sue and Zach.

[1:56:11] Nicole Lamb: You do not know who you're talking about.

[1:56:12] Zach Faust: I'm so sorry. Not to make this about me.

[1:56:19] Nicole Lamb: In the chat too. We're hearing you.

[1:56:22] Zach Faust: I need to tell you guys this.

[1:56:24] Nicole Lamb: Oh no.

[1:56:25] Zach Faust: Because we're talking about Aladdin and Glee. When I was in my Aladdin audition, we had like a dance audition first. There was like 20 something girls. And like we did a dance combo. And I like go to the side, and this girl looks at me and she goes, Are you TikToks Rachel Barry?

[1:56:45] Nicole Lamb: Aww.

[1:56:46] Zach Faust: No one has ever said that to me in real life.

[1:56:49] Nicole Lamb: And you know what? I'm not surprised. I'm not you're popping off.

[1:56:54] Zach Faust: People know who you are. You gotta wear sunglasses when you walk outside. People know.

[1:57:00] Nicole Lamb: Right.

[1:57:01] Zach Faust: Who lost?

[1:57:04] Andrew: Bringing it back to where we s we began this conversation. Um thank you so much again for joining me on this week's episode. Um, there was bloodshed, without a doubt. Um if you would like to squirt.

[1:57:22] Nicole Lamb: All right, it was a pocket knife, but there's also a screwdriver.

[1:57:26] Zach Faust: Exactly.

[1:57:28] Andrew: But like also, like at the beginning of this conversation, you wanted to drag Kurt for having a knife during I'm the Greatest Star, and yet here you are, knife on a podcast.

[1:57:36] Nicole Lamb: But I'm not singing I'm the greatest star for an audition for a West Side story with with swinging knives.

[1:57:42] Zach Faust: I said I wanted blood and I brought a knife.

[1:57:46] Nicole Lamb: Yeah, show up. Dress for the job that you want.

[1:57:50] Andrew: Or what is that saying? I don't know. I'm not a job you have.

[1:57:54] Zach Faust: And here's the thing. It's just it's just a prop knife from West Side Story. I don't know what you people are talking about.

[1:58:00] Nicole Lamb: Right, right.

[1:58:01] Zach Faust: Yeah. I think that's a reference to something. I'm not sure what it is.

[1:58:04] Nicole Lamb: The lost.

[1:58:04] Zach Faust: It's a reference to the lost.

[1:58:07] Nicole Lamb: You know who had the pocket knife?

[1:58:09] Zach Faust: Who?

[1:58:10] Nicole Lamb: J Lo.

[1:58:12] Zach Faust: That's the angle.

[1:58:14] Nicole Lamb: I am Just rip off the if you know you know.

[1:58:14] Zach Faust: If you know, you know.

[1:58:19] Nicole Lamb: With my orange drink.

[1:58:22] Zach Faust: Bag of chips, and an orange drink.

[1:58:25] Nicole Lamb: As somebody that orders from the bodega pretty frequently. If you know you know.

[1:58:30] Zach Faust: I don't know. What are you talking about?

[1:58:32] Nicole Lamb: I'm down the street from now.

[1:58:34] Zach Faust: I feel so validated by everybody on TikTok that does not know what she's talking about.

[1:58:40] Nicole Lamb: I'm not far from the Bronx. Like, what orange drink are we to send?

[1:58:45] Zach Faust: What orange drink? What chips? There's so many orange.

[1:58:48] Nicole Lamb: Yes. Right.

[1:58:49] Andrew: And not uh do we have any further comment before I do my outro proper.

[1:58:56] Nicole Lamb: I don't think people know this, but JLo is from the Bronx.

[1:59:00] Zach Faust: She is Jenny from the block.

[1:59:01] Nicole Lamb: I love this video of her showing up to her apartment and being like, I used to live here. And then the man being like, Who are you?

[1:59:07] Zach Faust: Who are you?

[1:59:11] Nicole Lamb: Feral. Absolutely.

[1:59:12] Zach Faust: I'm really excited for next week's episode. Our Glee of the Week will be Jennifer Lopez. Um, and I think that she'll really enjoy everything that we talked about on this week's episode, as well as like we're gonna really unpack um her one singular song that was covered on Glee.

[1:59:27] Nicole Lamb: Um, Dance Again.

[1:59:29] Zach Faust: Uh, I think that really took her career to new What that win against because I remember looking at that and going, Why did Americano Dance Again win against this other song?

[1:59:40] Nicole Lamb: It was confused.

[1:59:40] Zach Faust: Silly Love Songs.

[1:59:42] Nicole Lamb: So you're preaching to the choir. I was in the minority there. I love silly love songs. One of my favorite covers of all time.

[1:59:48] Zach Faust: It's beautiful.

[1:59:50] Nicole Lamb: It's beautiful.

[1:59:52] Zach Faust: It's lovely, and it's the best episode of the second season, but we won't get into it.

[1:59:56] Andrew: If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so by going to Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Give a five-star review. On Apple Podcasts, you can write a review. Um, a lot of Gleeks lately have been leaving these beautiful, glowing reviews um that are very, very cute and keep me energized. So if you want to do that, I would love.

[2:00:15] Zach Faust: And if you want to support the podcast financially, you can go to Patreon.com slash Gleek the Week Pod.

[2:00:20] Andrew: Um, there are bonus episodes as well as I've decided the last week's episode. The last episode was a live stream episode. I would like to make them a little bit more frequent. So we will be doing them once a month, seeing how that's gonna go. Um, but those again are uh Patreon exclusive. So go to Patreon.com slash Gleek the Week Pod, join the Cheerio tier, and I promise it will be worth every singular Glenny.

[2:00:49] Zach Faust: Glee Penny.

[2:00:50] Andrew: Anyway, we'll be back. We will be back next week with another episode. Bye.

[2:00:56] Nicole Lamb: Bum bum bum.

[2:00:58] Andrew: It's gleek.

[2:01:00] Zach Faust: Gleek of the week.