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[0:00] Andrew: Glee, glee.

[0:03] Andrew: Okay, before we get into this episode, I just want to say Apple Podcast reviews have been a little light. So if you have been enjoying this podcast, which I know some people really have been enjoying this podcast.

[0:15] Brantly: Everybody does.

[0:16] Andrew: Everybody enjoys this podcast. We see the messages, we see the DMs, and I'm like, I love that you love it. Um, way to really support the podcast is to go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Give us a five-star review, write us something nice on Apple Podcasts. Say that you're absolutely obsessed with Andrew and Allison.

[0:33] Brantly: Mostly Allison, but mostly Andrew as well.

[0:36] Andrew: And um, and just like show some love. I just like, I'm like, okay, last review was in July. It's been a minute. Let's let's let's freshen it up. We want to hear what you have to say. Only about how good we are, though. Not the bad things. You have negative things to say, put it in the code. Send our DMs.

[0:51] Brantly: Yeah.

[0:52] Andrew: And wait, which you have been. You have. I'm scared to go outside.

[0:57] Brantly: Yeah.

[0:58] Andrew: Um, but yeah, um, I'm excited for another episode of Gleek of the Week. Another episode of Gleek of the Week, another episode for Album October. I really put my entire glissy into this.

[1:10] Brantly: Okay.

[1:11] Andrew: So the next album for Album October is Fine Line by Harry Styles. And I think what I decided last episode is that this is going to be a continuous storyline.

[1:25] Brantly: Okay.

[1:26] Andrew: I think um Fine Line is a very melancholy album in itself. It's very much a breakup album. So the Glee Club is going to be in the come down from Valentine's Day, which was the last episode I gave you with ABBA.

[1:40] Brantly: Okay.

[1:40] Andrew: Um, and just kind of down in the dumps. Um, this doesn't help but they're going to regionals. So what I realized when I made this was I'm just writing fan fiction. That's all I'm doing.

[1:50] Brantly: Okay.

[1:51] Andrew: That's all this is. It's in our blood, though.

[1:54] Brantly: It is in my blood.

[1:55] Andrew: Uh Sean Mendez. But what I'm doing is kind of rewriting the end of season four to make it match all the other seasons.

[2:05] Brantly: Okay.

[2:06] Andrew: So it's going to wrap up with the end of the year graduation.

[2:10] Brantly: Mm-hmm.

[2:11] Andrew: For these Marley, Kitty, Unique people.

[2:14] Brantly: Well, the grand Marley, Kitty, and Unique are not graduating.

[2:17] Andrew: Tina.

[2:18] Brantly: And they are.

[2:19] Andrew: Wait.

[2:20] Brantly: Yeah, they are.

[2:20] Andrew: No, they're all gone.

[2:21] Brantly: They're all done.

[2:22] Andrew: Wait, wait. I'm changing the story. You're saying that Marley, Kitty, Unique are canonically seniors?

[2:29] Brantly: No, I'm not saying that. I think I'm just, but this is just gonna be the end of their story.

[2:34] Andrew: Okay, okay. We're wrapping up.

[2:36] Brantly: Okay.

[2:40] Andrew: We don't care about these people at all. So um, I've decided that this replaces everything after Glee, actually. No couples are back together after the breakup yet. Um, and we're doing regionals right after Valentine's Day, like it should have been done and not at the end of season four.

[2:57] Brantly: Like Glod intended.

[2:58] Andrew: Like Glod intended, exactly. Um, so we open I really need to check if I close my door one second.

[3:06] Brantly: Yep, it's locked.

[3:07] Andrew: I do that maybe eight times a day. Is that OCD? Wait, can you let me know in the DMs? Can you see if your door is locked from your uh your bedroom?

[3:18] Brantly: Yeah, I can see my my front door is right there.

[3:21] Andrew: Wait, but how never mind. Okay. At least before I go to bed, I check it three times. Is that scary?

[3:26] Brantly: Anyways.

[3:27] Andrew: Anyways. Here we go with my Glee fanfiction. Um, so we enter on Miada, and Rachel has this guy from Mamma Mia that we decided was kind of a celebrity cameo.

[3:39] Brantly: I don't know if we decided who this celebrity cameo is.

[3:41] Andrew: I said Andrew Garfield.

[3:43] Brantly: Andrew Garfield, okay. So Mamma Mia was a hit. They both did great. Um, her and the celebrity cameo are gonna be opening the episode by talking about um you need to let me share my screen.

[3:56] Andrew: Oh uh they're gonna be talking about I'll just sing the songs for you. Her and the celebrity cameo are talking about how good Mama Mia was and how good it felt to sing together. They go around a piano and they sing uh this song, an acoustic version of this song.

[4:13] Brantly: Well, a piano version of this song.

[4:15] Andrew: Okay. You don't have to say love me. You don't have to say love in. You don't have to say your life.

[4:35] Brantly: Does that hit for you?

[4:36] Andrew: I can totally hear like Leah Michelle doing that.

[4:39] Brantly: Huh?

[4:43] Andrew: Yeah. Exactly. That's why I chose that.

[4:46] Brantly: Yeah.

[4:47] Andrew: So at the very end of this piano song, they kiss.

[4:55] Brantly: Uh, I was gonna say Gevrash. That was the first thing that came to my mind, but that is canonically already a character.

[5:00] Andrew: But he could be at Niata.

[5:02] Brantly: Well, Gavrach, I think was canonically uh homosexual.

[5:05] Andrew: Oh yeah. Next. Um, let's let's Jeffrey.

[5:10] Brantly: Ooh, I like um wait, what was um what's uh uh oh my god. What's what's the what's the police officer from um Lame is?

[5:20] Andrew: What's his name?

[5:20] Brantly: Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.

[5:23] Andrew: Jean Valjean?

[5:24] Brantly: Jean Valjean is the main character of.

[5:26] Andrew: And I'm Javert.

[5:27] Brantly: And I'm Javer.

[5:28] Andrew: Javert? Do you like Javert?

[5:30] Brantly: This is Javert.

[5:31] Andrew: Okay.

[5:31] Brantly: Yeah, this is Javert. And he does make a LeMez joke at least once.

[5:34] Andrew: At least once. So they kiss at the piano, and Rachel goes home and starts freaking out. She's like, no, this is wrong. I need to be with Finn. Uh she calls Finn and he picks up, but and they talk, and she's like, hey, I really just gotta talk to you.

[5:50] Brantly: And she hears none other than Quinn in the background.

[5:54] Andrew: What? And she's like, what? She starts spiraling. It's season two all over again and season three and season one. Quinn, I loved that unresolved trauma between her and Quinn and the Quinn, Finn, Rachel love triangle.

[6:11] Brantly: So you mean to tell me that Finn is in New Haven, Connecticut?

[6:14] Andrew: Finn is in Lima, Ohio.

[6:15] Brantly: Quinn is in Lima, Ohio as well.

[6:17] Andrew: Oh, okay. That actually makes sense. We'll get into this.

[6:19] Brantly: Okay. We'll get into this.

[6:21] Andrew: Um so she starts spiraling, she hangs up the phone abruptly, starts like freaking out. You maybe there's like a couple of flashback shots to uh season two, and like, oh my god, it's happening all over again. She sings, she sings this.

[6:39] Brantly: Um fall in again, fall in again, fall.

[6:49] Andrew: I get the feeling that you never need me again.

[7:01] Brantly: Wait. So Rachel.

[7:03] Andrew: Rachel sings and kisses Javert, calls Finn to confess to, you know, having feelings for Javert, and then like gets upset about Quinn.

[7:18] Brantly: Yep.

[7:18] Andrew: Okay. Name something more Rachel.

[7:21] Brantly: That's actually so.

[7:25] Andrew: That's actually so true. You got me there.

[7:29] Brantly: So we go back to the school, and Quinn is in town helping up the Glee Club. It's something completely innocent.

[7:35] Andrew: Okay. And Blaine is exhausted post-Valentine's Day whirlwind of emotions. He gets up and he's like, guys, I have I have the song because it's Harry Styles Week.

[7:48] Brantly: Yeah, Rachel's already established that twice.

[7:51] Andrew: Exactly. So Finn is like written Harry Styles in his chicken scratch handwriting on the whiteboard.

[7:58] Brantly: And uh Blaine is going to sing this.

[8:03] Andrew: I was away. I'm just gonna some of a bitch. You can't admit that the twin sorry.

[8:14] Brantly: Don't call me baby.

[8:23] Andrew: Don't call me baby.

[8:32] Brantly: Uh do we get like a signature Blaine like you?

[8:38] Andrew: Yeah.

[8:39] Brantly: Okay.

[8:39] Andrew: Somewhere in there. I don't think there is one in the song, but he'll make one.

[8:40] Brantly: He'll make one.

[8:43] Andrew: Okay. So after that performance, Sam gets up and he's like, No, man, we gotta get you out of this funk once and for all. He says, something that always cheers me up, strippers.

[8:56] Brantly: No.

[8:57] Andrew: Sam makes a comment about how male strippers aren't for me, but I'll do anything to get my best friend out of this funk. So that was like canonically their first like interaction, Blaine and Sam was like them like fighting strippers.

[9:13] Brantly: So this is full circle.

[9:14] Andrew: Okay. Exactly, exactly. And it's gonna make sense that high school kids go to fucking scandals, a strip club now.

[9:21] Brantly: Right.

[9:22] Andrew: Um so they're gonna go to Scandals, enter scandals, um, and they're gonna sing this song.

[9:29] Brantly: Uh strippers are there apparently.

[9:31] Andrew: It's just kind of gross and grimy, and this is what they're singing.

[9:49] Brantly: So that's the song.

[9:52] Andrew: Um bad. Um lights up arguably Harry Styles' best song ever. I love that song. I have a note.

[10:07] Brantly: Um, so so far in the episode, there's been four songs a Rachel Duet, a Rachel Solo. A Blaine solo, a Blaine duet.

[10:15] Andrew: So explain this to me. Justify that.

[10:16] Brantly: I'm Ryan Murphy.

[10:20] Andrew: I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.

[10:23] Brantly: I don't know what to tell you. I'm Ryan Murphy, and I'm pitching this episode.

[10:27] Andrew: That's true.

[10:28] Brantly: Yeah, this is yeah, that actually really adds up. You gave me a note last episode that these dedication episodes would be absolutely jam-fucking packed.

[10:37] Andrew: Right.

[10:37] Brantly: With songs. And so I was like, I'm gonna go balls to the walls. And there's just gonna be a shit ton of songs in this episode.

[10:43] Andrew: How many songs are in this episode?

[10:45] Brantly: Seven.

[10:46] Andrew: Okay.

[10:47] Brantly: Um both boys agree that that stripper thing didn't work on the other side of the song. Blaine appreciates the support and just says he needs time. Let's go kill this fucking regionals company.

[11:00] Andrew: Wait, is Blaine and Sandy? Are they stripping in that song?

[11:03] Brantly: No.

[11:03] Andrew: No.

[11:03] Brantly: They're just in general.

[11:04] Andrew: No, they're just being grinded up on and like kind of drunk. Like it's the Harry Styles lights up music video where he's just like kind of oily.

[11:12] Brantly: Oh, okay.

[11:13] Andrew: And like bumping up against other oily people.

[11:17] Brantly: Oh, I forgot. There's eight songs. I need to pull up the last one.

[11:21] Andrew: Okay.

[11:22] Brantly: Oh wow. So.

[11:22] Andrew: Bonus track.

[11:23] Brantly: A bonus track, if you will. This is a deleted scene. Just kidding. I'm selling this episode, and this is gonna be a deleted scene.

[11:33] Andrew: So we're going back to Niata. Where's Kurt? We don't know. Uh, he hasn't been in this.

[11:39] Brantly: Um Rachel decides and overwhelmed that you have to do it.

[11:43] Andrew: Rachel decides Finn. And by that I mean going to therapy. Lately the I forgot that I was sharing my sound.

[11:53] Brantly: I always thought that was Heather Morris. God damn it.

[11:57] Andrew: Um, Rachel decides, fuck Finn. I'm giving my all to Javert, and they have sex.

[12:06] Brantly: Uh-uh, okay.

[12:07] Andrew: Yeah.

[12:08] Brantly: Yeah.

[12:09] Andrew: Um, but the entire time they're having sex, uh, she's singing this.

[12:14] Brantly: No.

[12:16] Andrew: She's the first one that I sing.

[12:20] Brantly: Talking about Quentin.

[12:21] Andrew: She lives in the great dream.

[12:23] Brantly: Faberry. The Faberie of it all. I don't know why.

[12:26] Andrew: I don't know where she is.

[12:37] Brantly: A woman who's just in his head.

[12:41] Andrew: Just as her.

[12:43] Brantly: And she sleeps in his bed.

[12:47] Andrew: Uh no.

[12:49] Brantly: Wait. That's the flop for you?

[12:51] Andrew: Yeah, that this might be the flop of the episode for me. Again, like the first Rollo was like okay.

[12:57] Brantly: I I was here for it.

[12:59] Andrew: I'm trying to visualize what like I um, you know, during coitus solo would look like.

[13:07] Brantly: Um very carefully.

[13:09] Andrew: Okay. Then we're gonna go to regionals.

[13:14] Brantly: We're gonna go to regionals.

[13:15] Andrew: Rachels is in this episode.

[13:17] Brantly: Yep.

[13:17] Andrew: We have eight songs in this baby.

[13:20] Brantly: Okay.

[13:20] Andrew: So here is the medley of three songs, hairstyle songs that Glee that uh the Glee kids are gonna sing. Starting with this one.

[13:28] Brantly: Yeah.

[13:31] Andrew: On a summer evening.

[13:35] Brantly: And it sounds like a song.

[13:38] Andrew: Who is singing this?

[13:39] Brantly: Maybe Jake?

[13:41] Andrew: Oh, yeah, I think like I like Jake.

[13:45] Brantly: It's so wonderful and warm.

[13:49] Andrew: Breathe me in.

[13:51] Brantly: Enter kitty.

[13:52] Andrew: Breathe me out.

[13:53] Brantly: Oh. Good note.

[13:55] Andrew: Okay.

[13:59] Brantly: Everybody.

[14:00] Andrew: No, just kidding. I thought he was gonna say watermelon sugar.

[14:03] Brantly: Watermelon sugar.

[14:04] Andrew: Then Boys Leave.

[14:07] Brantly: Oh, I really like I really do love when they sing about oral sex at competitions like they did with Whistle.

[14:13] Andrew: It seems just yeah, you know it seems following this yeah theme.

[14:18] Brantly: Exactly.

[14:19] Andrew: Then they're gonna just the girls are going to be rolling into this because Unique is going to be the soloist on this.

[14:25] Brantly: And the girls are in the background.

[14:28] Andrew: We can find a place to feel good, and we can treat people with kindness.

[14:40] Brantly: Find a place to feel good.

[14:43] Andrew: I got a good feeling.

[14:46] Brantly: I'm just taking it off.

[14:50] Andrew: What do you think?

[14:51] Brantly: Wow, this is your best work yet.

[14:52] Andrew: I well I think well, obviously it already sounds like a show choir.

[14:57] Brantly: I'm obsessed.

[14:59] Andrew: And giving a Unique solo at a competition, finally.

[15:03] Brantly: Yeah.

[15:03] Andrew: Icon.

[15:04] Brantly: Icon.

[15:05] Andrew: Ryan Murphy wishes he would have done that.

[15:07] Brantly: I know.

[15:07] Andrew: But then the entire Glee Club is gonna come back and it's gonna be Marley on the solo, I think.

[15:12] Brantly: But this is going to be wrapping up the episode.

[15:16] Andrew: They're gonna be talking through this song.

[15:17] Brantly: Here we go.

[15:34] Andrew: And Finn is talking, thinking about his own regionals, kind of having like throwback memories.

[15:40] Brantly: He's thinking about Rachel.

[15:42] Andrew: He flies to New York.

[15:44] Brantly: He's going to her apartment.

[15:46] Andrew: He's unlocking the door because of course he has a key.

[15:49] Brantly: And he finds her with this new guy.

[16:13] Andrew: I'll be honest. There's more trumpets in that song than there were singing.

[16:19] Brantly: Exactly, because at the this is a five-minute long song.

[16:22] Andrew: Oh.

[16:23] Brantly: Like the first three minutes are singing, and then the last two are kind of instrumental with trumpets, and that's when Finn is doing his thing.

[16:31] Andrew: Wait, so Finn leaves the Glee Club.

[16:35] Brantly: Yep.

[16:35] Andrew: That he's coaching, correct me if I'm wrong.

[16:37] Brantly: Yep.

[16:38] Andrew: Okay.

[16:38] Brantly: Um, to go to New York.

[16:41] Andrew: In the middle in the middle of the performance.

[16:43] Brantly: Yes.

[16:44] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[16:45] Brantly: All right.

[16:45] Andrew: You really know how to write for this show.

[16:47] Brantly: I do.

[16:51] Andrew: Um, and the fine line climax when he's like really screaming the we'll be alright.

[16:56] Brantly: Yeah.

[16:57] Andrew: Is when he discovers her.

[16:59] Brantly: And it's like, will we be alright?

[17:01] Andrew: Wait, I have a question.

[17:03] Brantly: Um Quinn.

[17:04] Andrew: Like, what is she doing?

[17:06] Brantly: She's just hanging out.

[17:07] Andrew: She doesn't get to sing.

[17:08] Brantly: Oh, okay.

[17:09] Andrew: I'm pretty sure.

[17:10] Brantly: It's just like co-coaching.

[17:11] Andrew: Okay.

[17:12] Brantly: I'm pretty sure it was in her contract, and you as a Glee writer should know this.

[17:16] Andrew: In her, it was in her contract that Dianna Agron needs to sing in every single episode that she appears in postseason three, and in which she did.

[17:25] Brantly: So is that really part of her contract?

[17:27] Andrew: I'm um I'm I feel like I read that somewhere that um she had to sing in every single episode that she appeared in, and she she absolutely did.

[17:34] Brantly: I mean, she appears in like seven episodes after she graduates, and she sings in every single one of them.

[17:40] Andrew: Wow.

[17:40] Brantly: Okay.

[17:41] Andrew: So you gotta fix that.

[17:42] Brantly: Um, maybe she's on the she track.

[17:45] Andrew: As Rachel's having sex with Javert, uh, Quinn is thinking about Rachel, because Faberi.

[17:51] Brantly: Faberi is canon in my rewrite.

[17:53] Andrew: So you're throwing a bone to the Faberi fans.

[17:55] Brantly: Okay.

[17:55] Andrew: Yeah.

[17:56] Brantly: Uh, what do you think? Are you greenlighting this?

[17:59] Andrew: I love this.

[17:59] Brantly: Wait, is that was there what was the bonus?

[18:01] Andrew: Oh, the bonus track was the coitus one.

[18:03] Brantly: Yeah.

[18:04] Andrew: Oh, okay, okay.

[18:05] Brantly: Um that's it.

[18:06] Andrew: No, I love this.

[18:06] Brantly: I think this is your best work yet.

[18:08] Andrew: Thank you.

[18:09] Brantly: I really love it.

[18:10] Andrew: Thank you very much.

[18:11] Brantly: Um, do I have any notes?

[18:13] Andrew: Yeah, no, just Quinn.

[18:14] Brantly: We just gotta get Quinn on the track.

[18:16] Andrew: Yeah, we'll get Quinn on the track.

[18:18] Brantly: She'll be she.

[18:20] Andrew: She lives in daydreams with me.

[18:24] Brantly: She exactly like that.

[18:27] Andrew: Do you wanna do you wanna sing what we're what we think is gonna hear we're gonna hear tonight?

[18:31] Brantly: Uh yeah.

[18:32] Andrew: Let me think.

[18:33] Brantly: Do you have one?

[18:34] Andrew: I have a good one.

[18:35] Brantly: Okay, I have one too.

[18:37] Andrew: Three, two, one.

[18:39] Brantly: I am bitching.

[18:40] Andrew: When I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay.

[18:43] Brantly: Cause I could draw.

[18:45] Andrew: My uncle was, and I kept my room straight.

[18:48] Brantly: Glee!

[18:50] Andrew: Gleeks, we have yet again another glistener, a fabulous glistener.

[18:53] Brantly: Brantley, how are you?

[18:55] Andrew: Hello, I'm great.

[18:56] Brantly: How are you?

[18:57] Andrew: I'm doing so well.

[18:59] Brantly: Um, just take us through your relationship with this little show, Glee.

[19:04] Andrew: Oh, the hit fuck show Glee.

[19:08] Brantly: Yeah.

[19:09] Andrew: Um, oh my gosh. Okay.

[19:11] Brantly: So you know how they did the whole thing back in the day where they showed the pilot episode after was it like American Idol or whatever?

[19:20] Andrew: So I did not watch it after American Idol, but right after that they put it on iTunes as like a free download.

[19:26] Brantly: Right.

[19:26] Andrew: And I don't remember who it was, but someone told me, and they were like, Brantley, you have to watch the show.

[19:32] Brantly: Uh, you will love it and go download it on iTunes.

[19:35] Andrew: So I did.

[19:36] Brantly: And I put that episode on my little like iPod video.

[19:40] Andrew: Um, and I watched it like all summer long, like over and over and over.

[19:46] Brantly: And I was obsessed.

[19:47] Andrew: And so once it started, I started watching it live.

[19:50] Brantly: Um, I was a junior in high school when Glee came out uh when the first episode I was starting my junior year of high school when it actually started airing.

[19:57] Andrew: Um so I was like a year ahead of the characters, which was I don't know, it was fun to be around their same age.

[20:03] Brantly: Yeah.

[20:03] Andrew: Um, but I watched like the whole thing live the whole first season.

[20:07] Brantly: Uh, me and three friends had watch parties every single Wednesday, because it came on Wednesdays during first season.

[20:13] Andrew: Um, we were youth group kids.

[20:15] Brantly: So we would uh go to youth group and then we would rush away and leave youth group um and go to my friend's house where it had been like recording on DVR, so we could uh start fast forwarding.

[20:26] Andrew: And that's we did that the entire first season.

[20:28] Brantly: I will never forget uh when uh the second was it sectionals where Rachel did Don't Rain on My Parade for the first time.

[20:36] Andrew: Yes, yeah, we were gagged.

[20:39] Brantly: Like we like jaws on the floor, um, and none of us even knew what Funny Girl was, which is really sad.

[20:45] Andrew: But no, I didn't.

[20:47] Brantly: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[20:48] Andrew: There you go.

[20:48] Brantly: But it had that effect.

[20:49] Andrew: Yeah.

[20:50] Brantly: So anyway, not to like belabor my whole like story with Glee, but I just I kept watching during the second season, two of our people in our watch party had gone off to college, so the watch parties weren't happening anymore.

[21:02] Andrew: Um, and my parents, um, God love them, uh, caught wind of the homosexual activity that was happening on the hitbox show Glee.

[21:10] Brantly: Um, and they said, Oh, dare we we shouldn't be watching this.

[21:14] Andrew: And I was not allowed to watch it.

[21:16] Brantly: I was a senior in high school at this point, and I was old for my class, so I was 18 for the entirety of my senior year of high school.

[21:22] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[21:22] Brantly: I actually turned 19 two weeks before graduating.

[21:25] Andrew: But I was like, yeah, I was like, I am 18 years old.

[21:28] Brantly: I am too old for my parents to be telling me what to not watch on television.

[21:32] Andrew: So this was back in the day when you didn't have to have a subscription for Hulu.

[21:35] Brantly: And I would get my mom's laptop and sit in a corner in a recliner that was back up against a wall so no one could see, and I would watch it on the laptop in secret.

[21:44] Andrew: Um yeah, and I watched it live through the end.

[21:48] Brantly: Like when I studied abroad in college, I was finding like maybe not so legal ways to stream it online so I could keep watching it live.

[21:55] Andrew: Um, and like I was cognizant of as the show was getting bad, I was like, this is not good anymore.

[22:01] Brantly: But I am too invested.

[22:03] Andrew: I was too invested.

[22:04] Brantly: Um, and now I've watched it like three times through and all, I think.

[22:07] Andrew: Um very formative to me, uh, very special place in my heart.

[22:12] Brantly: I have recently I just accepted it that I will probably be re-watching it at least once a decade for the rest of my life.

[22:18] Andrew: So of course.

[22:19] Brantly: What stood out to me in your glistener submission forum was that you watched the finale in college on your laptop, and you were just like completely alone.

[22:27] Andrew: And I just want to say that I resonate with that.

[22:32] Brantly: Say more, say more.

[22:34] Andrew: I was just like, I remember watching the finale and being like, okay, there's simply no one to talk about this with.

[22:40] Brantly: There's just like everyone's fell off.

[22:43] Andrew: And I'm like, okay, all this work for what?

[22:47] Brantly: Yes.

[22:47] Andrew: And it's over.

[22:49] Brantly: My uh, one of my very best friends from high school, she's still watched it with me, and we would text about how bad it was.

[22:55] Andrew: Um she went to college like way out of state, and I stayed in our hometown for college, and we I was texting her, I was like, You gotta catch up, so I don't have to watch alone.

[23:04] Brantly: But she didn't make it.

[23:05] Andrew: So I've I had one roommate, he was I don't know where he was.

[23:09] Brantly: I just literally sat alone on my kitchen table in my tiny college apartment.

[23:14] Andrew: Um and they sang that song that Allison hates, or maybe both of you hate it.

[23:19] Brantly: The last song.

[23:20] Andrew: I lived.

[23:20] Brantly: Yeah.

[23:21] Andrew: We all hate it.

[23:22] Brantly: Yeah, I I actually don't think it's that bad of a finale.

[23:27] Andrew: Like I so I just finished my most recent Glee rewatch.

[23:32] Brantly: Okay.

[23:32] Andrew: Um, and when it got to that song, I was like, you know, it it hits, it fit like it it it could have been bigger, it could have been a better song, it could have been grander, but for what it was, I actually don't hate that as the finale.

[23:44] Brantly: So maybe that's my hottest take.

[23:46] Andrew: I don't know.

[23:46] Brantly: Are you saying are you saying just the fin like I lived by itself?

[23:50] Andrew: Are you saying the finale in general like landed for you?

[23:53] Brantly: Um, the the I lived as the final song landed for you.

[23:57] Andrew: Oh, okay, but the rest of the finale doesn't hit.

[23:59] Brantly: It did the first time.

[24:00] Andrew: Um this most recent time, I was like, this is kind of lazy.

[24:05] Brantly: Like everything got wrapped up the episode before.

[24:07] Andrew: Now we're just kind of like looking ahead, and yeah.

[24:10] Brantly: Ugh, yeah.

[24:11] Andrew: So I I do I do like season six though.

[24:16] Brantly: Um so this is actually one of my uh recent like big thoughts that I had during my most recent rewatch.

[24:24] Andrew: Season six, it kind of works, but it would work so much better if they had done a bigger time jump because it it is just like it has been three years since these characters graduated, and like sure three of them are back teaching.

[24:38] Brantly: They're all the other ones are always coming back in town.

[24:40] Andrew: Listen, I went to high school to college in the same hometown as my high school, and my parents worked at my high school, so I was back at my high school all the time.

[24:48] Brantly: And I think that these kids were back at their high school way too much.

[24:52] Andrew: Like it's just like wild.

[24:54] Brantly: But yes, I think season six is good.

[24:56] Andrew: It could have benefited from a couple more episodes, and it would have majorly benefited from a way bigger time jump.

[25:02] Brantly: I really yeah, and I really liked the new kids, although given what we know, and not to open this can of worms, but like given what we know about the Samantha Marie Ware's whole like experience, it's a little uncomfortable to watch now, especially when she has one-on-one scenes with Mitchelberry, yeah.

[25:21] Andrew: But I don't know, I just it was a good, especially after how rough seasons four and five were.

[25:26] Brantly: I just feel like season six is a good wrap-up.

[25:29] Andrew: Yeah.

[25:30] Brantly: Okay.

[25:30] Andrew: You can say that.

[25:31] Brantly: You can say that in this place.

[25:33] Andrew: Um I thank you.

[25:34] Brantly: Um, I do think um, I can't I think it was maybe you, Allison that said, or maybe it was you, one of you said that you hate that they just gave Artie the wedding planning thing because he had nothing else to do that season.

[25:46] Andrew: That must have been Andrew.

[25:47] Brantly: Yeah, totally agree.

[25:49] Andrew: And they even pointed out in the show, Brittany says, Artie, you don't have anything else going on this year.

[25:53] Brantly: Why don't you plan our wedding?

[25:55] Andrew: Like it's hilarious.

[25:56] Brantly: No, but I I love the the um the new characters in season six so much more than the season four new casts.

[26:03] Andrew: I just feel like they're so much apart from not like other gays, Spencer.

[26:09] Brantly: He's the flop of the bunch.

[26:11] Andrew: Yeah, but um but I think that there's so much more like I wish that we they we fleshed them out more than we did like Ryder and Kitty.

[26:18] Brantly: I'm sorry.

[26:19] Andrew: Yeah, I guess the season four cast, I felt like in a lot of ways was just copy-pasted season one.

[26:26] Brantly: Yeah.

[26:26] Andrew: Like you have the love triangle, you have the Puckerman, you have the cheerleaders, better mean.

[26:33] Brantly: I think they were just enough different that, and I think I said this to you guys in a gloicemail, but like the the beginning of season four had such great potential, in my opinion.

[26:44] Andrew: Yes.

[26:45] Brantly: Um, and yes, it was a bit copy and paste, but I mean, I love Kitty.

[26:50] Andrew: Like, I know she's terrible.

[26:51] Brantly: Okay.

[26:52] Andrew: Like, um, and like her whole storyline in season four, like, yeah, she does terrible things, she gaslights Marley.

[26:59] Brantly: But then after shooting Star, they just kind of like it's like she confesses and all is forgiven, and she has like some interesting stories after that.

[27:07] Andrew: I also just think Becca Tobin is fabulous and was way underused on Glee.

[27:11] Brantly: Yes.

[27:12] Andrew: Um, yeah.

[27:13] Brantly: But like Sign Still Delivered, I think she does that one like in the season one episode.

[27:18] Andrew: Oh I was checking the songs that we have left to pull in the first round.

[27:23] Brantly: We have yet to pull well, she only gets two solos.

[27:26] Andrew: But we um we haven't pulled either one of them.

[27:28] Brantly: So maybe look at me, I'm Sandra D reprise.

[27:33] Andrew: No, just the original reprise is Marley's.

[27:35] Brantly: No, you're right, you're right, you're right.

[27:37] Andrew: Um I love that song, and I love Kitty singing it.

[27:40] Brantly: That is I love on Glee when they would take songs from musicals and make the context of the song and the musical work within the context of the show.

[27:49] Andrew: Right.

[27:49] Brantly: Yes.

[27:51] Andrew: Yeah, along those lines, what musical I was thinking about it because I just watched Dream Girls, Andrew strapped me to my couch from a thousand miles away and forced me to watch Dream Girls and educate me, which I greatly appreciate because it was very, very good.

[28:07] Brantly: But what musical did they sing the most on this show?

[28:11] Andrew: Because they sing a lot of Dream Girls songs.

[28:13] Brantly: They do a lot of Dream Girls.

[28:14] Andrew: They do a lot of Dream Girls.

[28:15] Brantly: I feel like they might have done more Funny Girl though.

[28:19] Andrew: Funny Girls Greece.

[28:20] Brantly: Yeah, Funny Girl Grease or Um West Side Story.

[28:25] Brantly: Like the shows that they actually do a lot of show.

[28:30] Andrew: Yeah.

[28:31] Brantly: It has to be Funny Girl, but like runner up.

[28:34] Andrew: I think is definitely Greaser West Side Story.

[28:37] Brantly: Yeah. And I was thinking about this earlier today. Glee really could have so you know how Mr. Shu was always like trying to educate the Glee Club about like their musical history. There is so much untapped potential to just do like educate them about Broadway. Like half of those kids wanted to be on Broadway. There should have been more episodes like uh exploring like the ups and downs of Broadway, like the Golden Age and the Sleazy 70s, and that could have been really interesting. Um, but now we have uh Shmigadoon to explore all of that.

[29:10] Andrew: So oh my god, so fun.

[29:12] Brantly: I love Shmigadoon. Well, like what once Glee gets to like season five, it like season five and six, you so seldom will find a musical theater number in those episodes. Like you'll find the funny girl, obviously, because that's a major plot point. But like they don't do a musical, like a school musical within that season. They obviously don't do one in season six, and it's like I think like like the only one that I can think of in season six was like the trolley song from God. What is that? Um Meet Me and St. Louis, yeah.

[29:44] Andrew: And it's so random too, isn't it? That the episode, like the rise and fall of Sue Sylvester.

[29:49] Brantly: Right. And she, oh, my friends are gonna listen to this and be like, Brantly's crazy. But like I just rewatched the show. We're connecting with Frank Lee and everyone else, we're connecting. But it's it's like Sue is having all these terrible things, and she finds out that happened to her, and she finds out that her parents lied about their entire life, and then her she's just like, Well, mom, or maybe the mom was like, Well, Sue, let's just sing one song before we like finish this fight that we're having. And then they sing the trolley song, like, what the hell? Clang, clang, clang, like the trolley. How does that resolve any trauma? It doesn't, it doesn't. It was giving like very much like Carol Burnett like showed up to set and like Maria Murphy was like, What song do you want to sing so you can like do this episode? Clang's also I want to do Clang Clang Clang, and honestly, I'll say it, it's a bop. I love it.

[30:36] Andrew: That's good. I will say also, while they didn't do a lot of songs from musicals in seasons five and six, well, you know, they did, of course, like the funny girl and season six, they had suddenly seymour. But what they really leaned into um in C especially starting at the the last few episodes of season five, after the Glee Club has been vanquished and the storyline moves only to New York, they really leaned into making pop songs uh work as a musical theater number. Like, I'm thinking of like downtown as the opening scene for um the the first ep New New York. Um, they really like took that song, looked at the words, and were like, this really fits the context of what is happening within Glee right now, and they turned the pop song into a musical number, which in a perfect world that is what Glee should do.

[31:28] Brantly: And I think that's what they wanted Glee to be, but it got so far away from that. Like just songs were like performances, or like, oh, we gotta do this song because it's on the radio right now.

[31:37] Andrew: Yes, right. But they really the uh for the last few episodes of season five and for a good chunk of season six, did a lot of like musicalizing pop songs and having them actually contribute to the plot.

[31:48] Brantly: And so interesting I I eat that up. Like I'm a musical theater nerd. Um if you can't tell, like that. I just I love when it's like it's like a jukebox musical. That's what Glee is supposed to be. It wasn't for so long, but I digress.

[32:03] Andrew: I mean, you're a musical theater kid, you're wearing your six shirt right now.

[32:06] Brantly: I sure am. We posted on our Instagram earlier today. Um, I saw Six for the first time last night. Absolutely loved it.

[32:12] Andrew: Congratulations.

[32:14] Brantly: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was waiting. Um, and um I was thinking the entire time watching it, was like, how do you cast the original six glee girlies as these these queens? Um, Brantly, I want to start with you. How would you cast the six girls?

[32:30] Brantly: Uh okay. So I just saw six this summer for the first time um in July. Um did not think I was gonna get to see it. Walked up to the box office with my bestie. We were on a trip together to NYC, and we were like, Do you have any tickets? They're like, Would you like these 180 dollar orchestra tickets for only $70? And we're like, Yes, we would like that. Yeah, anyway, sorry, I had to tell that story, but I think no-brainer, Aragon has to be Mercedes. Like, I can just hear Amber Riley.

[33:00] Andrew: Okay.

[33:01] Brantly: They should my vision for six on Broadway is that it has a long, long run and a la Chicago and starts stying. We gotta get Amber Riley in there.

[33:13] Andrew: Okay. Oh, I love this.

[33:15] Brantly: That would be so, so good. Um I'm gonna throw a curveball with Anne Boleyn, I feel. Um, I think it would be Rachel.

[33:25] Andrew: Really?

[33:26] Brantly: I know.

[33:26] Andrew: Yes, be which you would expect Rachel to get one of the more like ballad songs.

[33:31] Brantly: Like Seymour. I honestly think they just gotta fit Rachel in somewhere, and she doesn't really fit in six in my opinion. So that's where they would like shoehorn her in because Tina has to be Seymour. I think Tina doing Heart of Stone would just be she oh Andrew has thoughts.

[33:52] Andrew: No, I'm obsessed with this because we asked on Instagram today, and like I it was very like run of the mill, like very obvious. And for a while it was like it like everybody was saying Rachel was Seymour. And so it was like, okay, Rachel has cast at this point. So I love this perspective.

[34:09] Brantly: And see, I thought about that at first too, but I was like, no, I just I I think I it's Glee. Something weird and wild is gonna happen. Umbe it would be one of those weird storylines where Rachel's like, Tina, I pity you here. Let me be semi-nice to you.

[34:23] Andrew: Right.

[34:26] Brantly: That'd be terrible. No, we gotta let Tina get on our own. I take that back. Um I think Cleves would be Brittany S. Pierce.

[34:33] Andrew: Okay.

[34:35] Brantly: Um, side note, Cleves is probably my favorite queen in the show.

[34:39] Andrew: I agree.

[34:40] Brantly: Um, I can't remember the name of the original gal who did it on Broadway. Her energy was like insane off the charts, and she does so many like she like jumps up from her knees so many times, not just during her song, but throughout the entire show. And I really think Brittany S. Pierce could bring that physicality as a dancer. Um, also they love to like give Brittany songs like Beyonce and Kesha, and I think Cleves fits in that vibe.

[35:06] Andrew: I love it. I'm obsessed. Um, I really struggled with these last two. I went back and forth, but I think um Kay Howard would have to be Santana, and um uh Parr would be Quinn.

[35:20] Brantly: Now I love Quinn. I love Diana Agron. I don't really hear her voice in that song, but that's just like that's how the cookie crumbled. That's what was left for her.

[35:27] Andrew: Right.

[35:29] Brantly: Um yeah. No, I agree. I was I remember I was watching it last night and I was like going through the only reason that I was started thinking about this was because I was like, Amber Riley would do Aragon's number so well. And so I was like, okay, this is a fun activity for myself for the next hour. Let me just do this. I had Mercedes as Aragon, Brittany as Boylan, um Rachel as Seymour, Santana as Cleves, Quinn as Howard, and Tina as Parr. I was like stuck at the end with like Tina and Quinn, who I think we can all agree are the other weakest vocalists of the Glee Girlies. Um and so with Parr, I was like, ooh, I don't know if I'm like, I don't know.

[36:12] Andrew: Well, and that is why I ended up putting Santana as Catherine Howard, because she's gotta have those runs. Like that, and I love you, Diana Agron. I love you, Quinfabray. But she has a very specific kind of voice, and she can't do those runs. Baby girl cannot. Maybe, maybe she maybe she's improved. I haven't seen her Cafe Carlisle show, but um she slayed. I mean, but like I don't know if she could slay on a Broadway cat that level.

[36:40] Brantly: Yeah, yeah.

[36:41] Andrew: Every night eight shows a week.

[36:43] Brantly: Right, right, right. Mine, okay. So my relationship with Six is I I love it. I've listened to a handful of the songs, but I I'm seeing it in St. Paul, Minnesota twice next month.

[36:56] Andrew: Yes.

[36:56] Brantly: So there's a couple of songs, like most of the songs I have not heard yet because I want them to be surprises. And I want to like get to know them as I watch them, but I know a lot of the culture surrounding it. And I follow Coley Lamb on Instagram. I see Rose K. Howard on The Bliss.

[37:13] Andrew: Yeah.

[37:14] Brantly: Book your your cruise today. Just to see Six.

[37:17] Andrew: I love it.

[37:18] Brantly: Yeah. Just to see Six, Coley Lamb and Six. No, I do know I I thought about booking, trying to book a cruise just so I could see Six before I got to see it this summer.

[37:27] Andrew: Yeah.

[37:28] Brantly: After seeing Coley Lamb uh posts on TikTok about being cast. Anyway, sorry, Alsace.

[37:32] Andrew: Oh my god, I love this.

[37:33] Brantly: She's so good. The songs that I do know is All You Wanna Do I Babe. I do know that song. I know Get Down, because that was on TikTok. I know Don't Lose Your Head, because that was on TikTok. And I know like X Wives and Six and Mega Six, but that's pretty much it. So I made my casting kind of blind, and I want you guys to react to it.

[37:56] Andrew: It's almost identical to mine.

[37:57] Brantly: Okay.

[37:58] Andrew: Oh, okay. I'm so excited that you have you get to see the show and experience the songs live. Like I rarely get to do that with musical and like you. It's so exciting. So I'm so excited for this journey for you.

[38:09] Brantly: I'm very excited. Anyway. I I know that it's like a concert and there's no intermission and it's very like singing, singing, singing, but that's I know and I know the basic plot, but I don't know.

[38:20] Brantly: That was the best part of the night last night. With like I was so surprised by the the audience reaction. They were so like in love. They were like, yes, Queen. They were just like so excited to be there. I was like, this isn't a Broadway show. This is a full concert.

[38:30] Andrew: I love it.

[38:33] Brantly: Six is kind of like changing. Well, not just Six. Six is a major contributor in this recent trend of audiences, the way audiences interact with Broadway shows has been changing. And there's a lot more cheering, it's a lot more concert-like. And if that was not here to stay, I feel like six has cemented it anyway. I could I could talk about this stuff for hours.

[38:54] Andrew: So say in your six t-shirt. I love it.

[38:56] Brantly: No, I'm obsessed. Alison, I want I need to hear your cast.

[39:01] Andrew: I'm giving Bolan to Pr Brittany. I'm giving Parr to Tina.

[39:07] Brantly: Okay.

[39:08] Andrew: I'm giving Anna of Claves to Santana. Yes. Aragon is Mercedes. I'm giving Okay. Kay Howard to Rachel.

[39:19] Brantly: Okay.

[39:20] Andrew: And Seymour to come in because I don't know Seymour's songs. I don't know any of them.

[39:24] Brantly: Seymour is like uh see uh Adele is like that's the the queen's Adele vibes.

[39:31] Andrew: Yeah, honestly uh Quinn would slay Seymour. Uh that the it would really suit her voice, I think. Because I know that I mean Coley Lamb is Howard, so I was like, who who plays Coley Lam? Like Rachel Berry.

[39:45] Brantly: Rachel.

[39:46] Andrew: Okay. Oh my gosh, but oh that uh I can't see it. I can't see it.

[39:50] Brantly: Like it's it's like too Rachel is a diva, but she's she is a powerhouse diva, but not a pop powerhouse diva. She's a Broadway powerhouse diva, so that is why I am like shooketh.

[40:08] Andrew: Well, get back to me at the end of October. Like, I will re-evaluate after I've seen it.

[40:12] Brantly: Yes, I will be up in your DMs.

[40:15] Andrew: Please. I'm so excited you're gonna see it twice. That's I I'm excited too. My mom was like mad at me because I I texted her and I was like, um, six tickets are available, and she was like, Okay, okay. And then I'm going with Maggie too. So I'm like, Maggie, six tickets are available. And so my mom was like, You're already going to see the show. Like, I didn't need to see this show. Like, you could just go once with Maggie. Mom, you are lucky to see this show. Stop it. You saw me at the Tony's right in front of the Tony Award winners, okay?

[40:49] Brantly: Yeah.

[40:49] Andrew: In front of Toby. You, you come see this fucking show with me.

[40:55] Brantly: So good. I just oh, I love Broadway. I just my last job I worked at a theater that presents touring Broadway shows. And so many times I got to because I worked there, see shows multiple times while they were in town. And it is just the most fun.

[41:11] Andrew: It's so good.

[41:14] Brantly: When I saw Moulin Rouge, I was like, anyone, I will see that again.

[41:18] Andrew: Oh my gosh.

[41:18] Brantly: Let me in. Let me in.

[41:20] Andrew: No.

[41:21] Brantly: I am I can't, I haven't seen that one yet. I'm so excited.

[41:24] Andrew: Oh, it's that was really fun. I saw that like a few weeks ago, and I was like, this is it again, like a concert, like you were saying. It was like the audience participation is what makes it.

[41:32] Brantly: Yeah, like that's what when I because I saw six last night, which was a Sunday evening, and I was like, okay, if the audience was this good on a Sunday evening, I want to come back on a Friday. You know? I really wanted to soak up the energy.

[41:45] Andrew: Was it a Sunday evening? Like an evening evening or a matinee?

[41:49] Brantly: Uh Sunday at 7 p.m.

[41:50] Andrew: Wow.

[41:51] Brantly: Okay. Not a lot of shows do that. That's that's super fun. I love that for you.

[41:54] Andrew: It was very fun. They knew their audience.

[41:57] Brantly: Yeah. Um, Brantley, we want to know some of your hot takes on our podcast. Some decisions that were made that you'd support, that you don't support.

[42:07] Brantly: Uh we want to hear it all.

[42:08] Brantly: Okay, this isn't really uh pertaining to a decision and not to immediately come for your neck, Alison. But I am still not over the fact that you said the biggest thing that Adam Lambert has ever done is Glee. I know this was forever ago. I think I was I so when I was like in my Gleek of the Week binge era, like trying to catch up. Um I think I would listen to the show while I was going out for runs.

[42:36] Brantly: I'm a runner, and um I think I had just like I was like out standing outside of my apartment, which I'm motioning to is over there, um, and was like doing some active stretches, and you said that, and I think I said, shut up, Allison.

[42:36] Brantly: Like I was like shocked. I was like, he was on American Idol, he was on Broadway. He has a new, he tours with the classic rock band.

[43:03] Andrew: I want to say Queen.

[43:04] Brantly: Yes, a queen, that's correct. Okay, wow, you're so mad, and you don't even have the facts ready. It's just like I knew who he was before he was on Glee.

[43:12] Brantly: I forgive you, Allison. I just fine am still shocked to this point. As Allison's lawyer, I feel as though um, you know, it started off as a bit how did it end up like this with like the biggest, like because we've said before, like Patti LuPone's biggest thing that she ever did was the guest spot on Glee.

[43:30] Andrew: And I yes, I think so.

[43:32] Brantly: Okay, apparently we agree on that, but not on Lambert. She hasn't won multiple Tony awards.

[43:37] Andrew: Like, no, no, no, no, no. This is the biggest thing that she's ever done.

[43:40] Brantly: Yes, I was in Show Choir too in high school, yeah.

[43:42] Andrew: Same, I forgot to say that about my um my glee journey.

[43:49] Brantly: Um, I was in Show Choir, or well, I was in my high school's excuse for a show choir in high school.

[43:54] Andrew: Okay, and I forced that sounds bad. I weaseled my way into our director's brain, and we did the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believin'" of my Club with a bah.

[44:07] Brantly: It was great. Anyway, but hot takes. Sorry. I love that. I took it down a like rabbit hole.

[44:13] Andrew: Please do.

[44:13] Brantly: Um this is the most recent thing that stuck out, stuck out to me. I think so. Being alive versus I'm the greatest star color still on this, okay.

[44:24] Andrew: Right choice.

[44:24] Brantly: I being alive is a great color. Um I also, as a single unmarried person in his 30s, like wolf, that that song gets I can't listen to that song.

[44:36] Andrew: Yeah.

[44:37] Brantly: Um but I am still, I know this was a huge topic the next episode. The slander against I'm the greatest star Kurt version. I'm not taking that one back. I'll take back the Adam Lambert. I'm not taking back the I Am the Greatest.

[44:53] Andrew: Well, kudos to you for sticking to your guns.

[44:55] Brantly: But I I oh I think it's great. I uh and yeah, the knife thing is weird, and he tried to do the weird um jungle gym thing.

[45:05] Andrew: Right.

[45:05] Brantly: But it's vocally, like it's great. Is it is it a good audition song for West Side Story if you're wanting to play um Tony Tony, thank you, Tony.

[45:16] Andrew: No, absolutely not, but it's still a great performance.

[45:19] Brantly: And since when does Glee have actual songs that are good for audition songs as their character's auditions?

[45:24] Andrew: That's so true.

[45:25] Brantly: Like in Neon Trees um audition for Greece. Or blow me one last kiss. Like absolutely not.

[45:31] Andrew: Um wait, while we're on I'm the greatest star, um, color Rolo.

[45:37] Brantly: Uh probably the Rolo, but but I do like the color like I do reach for it from time to time.

[45:43] Andrew: I reach for the Rolo more often.

[45:45] Brantly: Right. They offer different things.

[45:47] Andrew: They 100%.

[45:48] Brantly: And when all the when it was announced that uh Leah was going into Funny Girl, I I'm pretty sure that I'm the greatest star Rolo version popped up on my um uh on repeat playlist on Spotify.

[46:01] Andrew: I think it charted on iTunes, yeah.

[46:05] Brantly: Um other hot takes. Um wait, I I've been making notes for several months now.

[46:14] Andrew: Wait, wait, so audio medium, you're scrolling through.

[46:18] Brantly: It's a very long note.

[46:20] Andrew: Yes.

[46:21] Brantly: Well, before I even knew I was gonna be on y'all's show, I started. This is only a little embarrassing. I if I had a thought about Glee, I went to this note and I wrote it down.

[46:30] Brantly: I've like taken away a lot of the random things, but um journaling is healthy.

[46:34] Andrew: Yes.

[46:36] Brantly: I wrote something about "Express Yourself" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot."

[46:39] Andrew: Oh, yeah, okay.

[46:40] Brantly: So y'all had "Express Yourself" from Power of Madonna versus "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" slash um one way or another. I think the mashup should have gone through.

[46:51] Andrew: Um yes, "Express Yourself" is a great Madonna number, and that was the first and one of the only great tribute episodes, but like this is one of the best mashups on Glee.

[47:02] Brantly: Like probably top three to five mashups for me. Oh, and I think the dodgeball of it all is like it's camp. And I just I I would have that's where my vote would have gone.

[47:15] Andrew: Wow. A lot of people said that. You're not alone with that.

[47:19] Brantly: There were people on our DMs that were like top-tier mashup.

[47:22] Andrew: No, the poll the polls reflected that your decision won.

[47:27] Brantly: So "Express Yourself" did not win among the Gleeks. To be clear, I wasn't like super pressed about it, but I was that I love that mashup.

[47:36] Brantly: This was in my um illegally downloading music era. Um because I was a college student and couldn't charge iTunes to my parents' credit card anymore.

[47:45] Andrew: But um, no, yeah, I I specifically sought that out to download. Um that's the thing is I heard that song and I when I hear it, I hear the kind of tainted, illegally downloaded version of it.

[48:01] Brantly: Yes. So like I hear the like uh the glitches.

[48:05] Andrew: Yeah.

[48:07] Brantly: Um so it's kind of tainted for me. But I try to be I try to be non-biased on this glacket, everybody. Okay. Um the only other uh hot take that I had was uh "Moving Out" and um the mashup of "Any Way You Want It" slash "Love and Touch and Squeezing."

[48:27] Andrew: So y'all put the mashup through, which was the correct decision.

[48:30] Brantly: Okay, but the reasoning for not putting "Moving Out" through was so flawed because you guys kept talking about how oh it's so cliché, they're moving to New York and they're seeing "Moving Out," but that is not what was happening in that episode.

[48:43] Andrew: Sam and Blaine were going to New York to visit.

[48:46] Brantly: Yes. And I feel like I mean, maybe if I went back and I listened to that episode again, I would remember. But yes, I feel like the full context of the song was not recognized.

[48:56] Andrew: Um I like that version. I would have voted for the matchup though, because that is that is also a top tier matchup.

[49:03] Brantly: Transformative, yes.

[49:05] Andrew: Yes.

[49:06] Brantly: You know what? You said things. And I appreciate it. Because sometimes I just say say things on this fucking Glee podcast.

[49:14] Andrew: We know.

[49:14] Brantly: Yes, we know. I love I when I listen to the show, I like envision what my contribution would be. And I I'm not gonna lie, Allison, like all love to you, but I often find myself siding with Andrew.

[49:30] Andrew: Wow.

[49:31] Brantly: So you might be in a little bit of trouble tonight, Allison.

[49:35] Andrew: That's okay.

[49:35] Brantly: As we go on, I think there are more Andrew supporters than Allison supporters. And I that is my crust to bear.

[49:43] Andrew: But because there will be a rare Allison supporter that will be like, Andrew, I don't even know why you said that. And I will be like, I'm here for you.

[49:54] Brantly: There well, there were people that came out of the woodwork to support you.

[49:58] Andrew: Well, there were also people that like, you know, crucify you for the I'm the greatest star of it all. But you know, there were people that were like, you know what, Alison, you made some points, and I actually hate that song.

[50:08] Brantly: It's actually the worst song on Glee.

[50:12] Andrew: I think that title belongs to "The Living Years."

[50:15] Brantly: Stop that!

[50:16] Brantly: I I uh almost fast forwarded when y'all were playing that on the show because I was like, I you know, I don't think there was one. There was someone in our DMs um that after this episode, after that episode with "Living Years," and they said, Um, I can't believe that you got rid of "The Living Years." I thought this podcast was supposed to vote on what the best song on Glee was.

[50:38] Andrew: Well, um that person is welcome to have that opinion.

[50:45] Brantly: The opinion is wrong, but they were welcome to see your own opinions.

[50:49] Andrew: Wait, Brantly, before we pull our first song, I know that this has been going on truly forever, but I know I remember you in our DMs when you first started listening to the podcast, and you said that you really wanted to come on the podcast to talk about "Let's Have a Kiki Turkey."

[51:02] Brantly: We have yet to pull that song.

[51:03] Andrew: I know.

[51:04] Brantly: And I'm manifesting for you.

[51:06] Andrew: Thank you. That's I that is what I'm manifesting. I have a long list of songs I'm manifesting, but that is the top of the list.

[51:13] Brantly: Um I also really would love if we got "Pompeii" uh Glee Cast version. A so I have a strong emotional attachment to that song just because of like what was going on in my life when it was introduced to me.

[51:28] Andrew: I love that whole Bastille album.

[51:30] Brantly: But the they did ex what I was talking about earlier, they took that song and made it fit perfectly to what was happening in the season five finale of Glee. And that was in like the peak of my obsession with that song. And so for me, that was just one. And I like I said, just rewatched it. It holds up.

[51:47] Andrew: Um there's not many Pompeii heads.

[51:49] Brantly: So oh, I was saying Oh, I love that song. Um, I would love to hear some "Hopelessly Devoted to You." I can be heard belting that around my apartment along to I will say Echo, because I call my Alexa Echo. Play "Hopelessly Devoted to You," Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[52:08] Andrew: Yeah.

[52:09] Brantly: Um, so good. I love the I the New York mashup. I love "New York" and "New York, New York, New York."

[52:15] Andrew: That's very good.

[52:15] Brantly: Another good song. I listened to that the first time I ever went to New York City, and it was just you know what, Brantly? I love that you're coming to us with songs that we have yet to pull.

[52:25] Brantly: Oh, I I surveyed the Glacket. You sent me the link to the Glacket. I said I will use it.

[52:30] Andrew: You guys in your research, you've you know what songs we have left.

[52:33] Brantly: I'm obsessed. Thank you. Yeah, I have I made a very long list, and I said to myself, I cannot bring up all of these songs because we will talk about them for 20 minutes. So let's just move on.

[52:45] Andrew: If if a song that was on my list comes up, let us know.

[52:48] Brantly: I'll let you address it. Yeah. Um, I do have our first song. Do we know what it is from the screen grab?

[52:56] Andrew: Um I don't believe that I do.

[53:00] Brantly: Is this like "Faithfully"?

[53:03] Andrew: This is a little too old for "Faithfully." You can tell that Rachel has bangs in this.

[53:07] Brantly: Oh let's watch porn together, everybody.

[53:15] Andrew: Oh god.

[53:17] Brantly: Exactly what this is. I be wet. With this ring, I be wet.

[53:35] Brantly: Make of our heart Make of our vows one last fellow.

[54:12] Andrew: Now it became Ladies and gentlemen, Glornography.

[55:09] Brantly: Kurt just waiting in the wings, like, yeah, I'm gonna fuck that guy.

[55:12] Andrew: Creepy Officer Krapke.

[55:17] Brantly: Um, okay, wait, I have a question. This is so inappropriate. But like, um, the scenes of them in bed together, Finchel and Klaine. Is that pre-quitus or post-quitus? What do we think?

[55:31] Andrew: Oh.

[55:31] Brantly: Some of it's pre and some of it's post. Like, let me pull it up here. I that's what I'm saying. I have watched this scene a thousand times.

[55:42] Andrew: Um, this is like the beginning.

[55:44] Brantly: That's definitely pre. He's touching her body, they laid down together. There this is like at the beginning. She's in her like nighty.

[55:57] Andrew: Okay.

[55:58] Brantly: Uh, the he's in jeans. Oh, wait. Fanny and Blaine are both in jeans in bed. So they haven't taken off their clothes yet.

[56:05] Andrew: Okay.

[56:06] Brantly: I always, I when I would think, not that I often thought of the song, but like I remember saying this for the first time and this part where we're like standing on their feet as the camera like pans up.

[56:20] Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

[56:20] Brantly: I always envisioned this as them being like, wow, we're about to do it. Like I love you. Let's have sex.

[56:27] Andrew: This screen grab right here, this was my computer background.

[56:32] Brantly: Clain feet?

[56:33] Andrew: Clain feet.

[56:34] Brantly: Title. Clain feet. Because then we go like, then he's in the tank top. You're we're implying here that they've started to take off layers of clothes.

[56:45] Brantly: And they're starting to have sex, and then they're like holding hands, kissing, but the clothes are still on.

[56:51] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[56:51] Brantly: This really changed my life.

[56:53] Brantly: When Kurt and Blaine had sex, I became a woman.

[56:56] Andrew: Um, I love this.

[56:59] Brantly: I have watched this song over and over and over again. This is my favorite episode. Like this episode and the drunk episode, I literally call them the sex episode and the drunk episode.

[57:09] Andrew: That's not fair.

[57:10] Brantly: There's multiple sex episodes.

[57:11] Andrew: This is the first one.

[57:12] Brantly: So this is the sex episode trademark.

[57:15] Andrew: Wow, I'm with you, Allison. I thought I was gonna be siding with Andrew all night, but wait, wait, wait.

[57:21] Brantly: No, there's—wait, would you say not say that the power of Madonna is the sex episode?

[57:25] Andrew: No, absolutely not.

[57:26] Brantly: More couples have sex in that episode.

[57:29] Andrew: Yeah, one couple has sex.

[57:30] Brantly: One couple has sex in that episode.

[57:32] Andrew: Wait.

[57:33] Brantly: I will say, and I uh in that The Power of Madonna, uh, when they do sing "Like a Virgin," that little uh run that Santana does, it's like one of the few bits of singing I remember just being like, what? She can sing.

[57:46] Andrew: Right.

[57:49] Brantly: But anyway, back to this song. I made sure to, when I made the poll to include that little run of hers in the poll.

[57:58] Andrew: Because she does like the hair flip too, right?

[58:00] Brantly: Oh, iconic. Um, I gotta say this one loses major points for me, as does every West Side Story song in Glee, because the whitewashing of Maria via the casting of Rachel Berry. Um, was I thinking about this in—well, season three, I would have been in college, but like was I thinking about this back then when it aired? No, but um, yeah, the casting is all wrong. They should not—the William McKinley High School should not be putting on West Side Story; they do not have the diverse student population to do it. So shame on you, Will Schuster.

[58:35] Andrew: You know how like on HBO Max, like they have like that little thing at the beginning of like things that have not aged gracefully, where they're like, hey, just letting you know, this is just like um, uh, something that was like made at this time. So like, I feel like they should have this before like the West Side Story episode of Glee. Um, well, really, before every episode that has the Mercedes versus Rachel showdown of who's gonna get Maria, which may only be two or three episodes, but right, it was impactful.

[59:03] Brantly: So it loses major points. I do uh—Rachel Berry, Lea Michele sounds beautiful, but maybe this isn't fair of me, but I just—Rachel Zegler singing that song.

[59:15] Andrew: Rachel Zegler, Rachel Berry, yes, like so no, like Rachel Zegler, like in the new movie version, like not Rachel Berry.

[59:23] Brantly: Okay, so good. Crystal clear. That woman is a star, and I am so excited to follow her career.

[59:31] Andrew: So I also was just actively comparing Rachel Berry to Rachel Zegler in my head.

[59:35] Brantly: Okay.

[59:36] Andrew: Um, Rachel versus Rachel.

[59:38] Brantly: Yeah, Rachel versus Rachel. Rachel Zegler, who we have emailed dozens of times to come on the podcast.

[59:44] Andrew: She is a Gleek.

[59:45] Brantly: She is a Gleek at heart. She loves Glee. You gotta get her on.

[59:48] Andrew: That would be a good one. Please come on the podcast.

[59:52] Brantly: This song does close to nothing for me. I'm so sorry.

[59:55] Andrew: I will say that the West Side Story episode does have some bops. Like the West Side Story, like, you know, Glee presents.

[1:00:01] Brantly: That wasn't an album, but I made it. I made the playlist. I made the CD myself. Um, but this song doesn't do much of anything for me. This is the flop of West Side Story.

[1:00:11] Andrew: Um, and not to bring it back to the pre-oice post coitus.

[1:00:16] Brantly: I really—I do—why are we referring it to like that? This is this Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. Why are we calling it that?

[1:00:23] Andrew: Gloitus.

[1:00:24] Brantly: Gloidus, yeah.

[1:00:27] Andrew: Post-Gloidus.

[1:00:28] Brantly: I think that this is post—I think that this is post-Gloidus. I think—I think that they—they're like—they already—sorry, sorry. Like, I don't know, like this is post-nut.

[1:00:36] Andrew: This is post-nut.

[1:00:39] Brantly: Okay.

[1:00:41] Andrew: They have post-nut clarity and they put their clothes back on and they're just like—they're just like touching each other because they're in love now. They're not horny; they're just like in love. I'll say that.

[1:00:49] Brantly: Sure.

[1:00:50] Andrew: No, you can say that. I think I would agree because they have on minimal clothing, which either implies that they're in the process of taking them off, or they put on the closest thing to them.

[1:00:59] Brantly: Right.

[1:01:00] Andrew: Um, I have—yeah, this is a scene that I have memorized. I do think, I do think that uh you were—whoever said it was spot on with Rachel and Finn, pre and post, because that very first shot, he is very clearly like unbuttoning her.

[1:01:16] Brantly: Unbuttoning her dragons.

[1:01:17] Andrew: With his weird like hands.

[1:01:18] Brantly: Yes. Like, let me just touch she like this.

[1:01:21] Andrew: Yes.

[1:01:22] Brantly: What are you doing?

[1:01:23] Andrew: The very true deform though.

[1:01:24] Brantly: Oh, they're like his fingers are as awkward as his body.

[1:01:29] Andrew: Um, do we have anything else to say about "One Hand, One Heart," Glee Cast version by Glee cast?

[1:01:35] Brantly: I mean, I might have more to say after we pull another song, but I could speak for eons about Klaine sex because I spent most of my youth thinking about it.

[1:01:45] Andrew: Think so, go ahead.

[1:01:47] Brantly: Straight woman. What is about Klaine sex, please?

[1:01:53] Andrew: I love it, and I think about it all the time. Have you guys seen this TikTok? I can't believe I didn't tag you on this. I saw this TikTok uh like literally just yesterday about this woman who was talking about growing up—she grew up in a like strict Mormon household, and um Glee was not allowed, but she had seen enough to become hooked, and she was allowed 30 minutes of computer time a day, and she would use her 30 minutes of computer time once a week to go. She would go to Wikipedia, copy and paste the synopsis of the most recent episode of Glee and paste it into the lyrics section of a song on iTunes. You remember when you could do that? You could like really—and she would at night in her bedroom read the—what was happening, and she did this specifically to know what was happening with Kurt.

Um, and she would read the Glee synopsis plot synopsis on her iPod, like to keep—which is like a step further than even me watching it on Hulu, like with uh behind my parents' back, like literally no, that's extreme.

[1:02:55] Brantly: Wait, I love her. Wait, she needs to come on the pod.

[1:02:58] Andrew: Yeah, versus Zegler. You've already—you've been removed from this advice by Rachel Ziegler.

[1:03:03] Brantly: You've been replaced. We need Mormon lyric iPod girls.

[1:03:10] Andrew: I also gotta say, I am real worried what the title of this episode is gonna be after that conversation.

[1:03:14] Brantly: I think it's post-Gloidus.

[1:03:16] Andrew: I already like Klaine Feet.

[1:03:21] Brantly: Well, it's got—yeah, it's gotta be something that I'm uh—I'm comfortable posting the conversation, but people are gonna see that on my feed. And I used to be a social media manager, so I think all the time about how's it gonna look, what should I post.

[1:03:36] Andrew: So, because that was my job for a really long time.

[1:03:38] Brantly: So I'm post-Gloidus. I don't know if I would be comfortable posting off on my Instagram feed.

[1:03:44] Andrew: Klaine Feet, totally okay.

[1:03:46] Brantly: I constantly think about that, and I was thinking about that specifically with Emily from a few episodes back because I made her episode title, "He'll Stay On in Bed." And I just love it.

[1:03:56] Andrew: She—Emily, I know you're listening. You made a grid post and you were like, go listen to this on Apple Podcast or Spotify. The episode is called "He'll Stay On in Bed." And I'm like, Yes.

[1:04:06] Brantly: Oh my gosh. Hi, Emily. Shout out to Emily. I loved her episode. I felt—I felt a kinship with her when she was like, "Y'all, I am a Gleek of a certain age," or whatever she said. I was like, I—I—she—I think she said—didn't she say she was in college when she watched the show?

[1:04:23] Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:04:23] Brantly: She likes a little older than I was, but I would like so many guests have been like, yeah, I discovered Glee when I was in high school and it was on Netflix. And I was like, I am an old man.

[1:04:35] Andrew: Um, I have—what do we have against "One Hand, One Heart"? We know exactly what it's gonna be from the first screen grab.

[1:04:41] Brantly: Are you ready?

[1:04:42] Andrew: Well, yes, but wait, what?

[1:04:44] Brantly: Where are the cups?

[1:04:46] Andrew: Oh my god, to see the cups.

[1:04:48] Brantly: I just pulled it while we were talking.

[1:04:50] Andrew: Oh my gosh.

[1:04:51] Brantly: Okay, I—for a second I was like, they've been lying about the cups this whole time.

[1:04:55] Andrew: Those are amazing.

[1:04:57] Brantly: Okay, we're real. Emily, you better say that you saw the cups.

[1:05:02] Andrew: Okay, here we go. We know the song.

[1:05:05] Brantly: Oh, "Dancing Queen." Oh, this is on my list.

[1:05:10] Andrew: This is hard.

[1:05:12] Brantly: Holy shit.

[1:05:20] Andrew: Excuse me.

[1:05:28] Brantly: Yes, sir.

[1:05:37] Andrew: Watch the screen.

[1:05:39] Brantly: Take it to dancing.

[1:05:44] Andrew: Friday night and the lights alone.

[1:05:49] Brantly: Looking up for a place to go.

[1:05:53] Andrew: Oh, where to play the vine music?

[1:05:56] Brantly: Get in me in the sling.

[1:05:58] Andrew: You come to look for a king.

[1:06:02] Brantly: And when you get the chance, you want the dancing queen.

[1:06:10] Andrew: Young and sweet, only seventeen.

[1:06:18] Brantly: Dancing queen. Feel the beep on the sideway.

[1:06:27] Andrew: You can bang a day.

[1:06:39] Brantly: Watch the scene. Take in the dancing queen.

[1:06:58] Andrew: Oh my god. That was cute.

[1:07:01] Brantly: The gods have smiled on me today.

[1:07:05] Andrew: Please go.

[1:07:07] Brantly: I freaking love ABBA. Like when I was growing up and we were in the car on a road trip, ABBA Gold was always in the CD player.

[1:07:17] Andrew: Yes.

[1:07:18] Brantly: And so like this is the music of my childhood. I don't see if I don't know if you could see. I like yanked my iPad and started like making notes because I had so many thoughts. First and foremost, bulletproof hospitality.

[1:07:33] Andrew: This one.

[1:07:33] Brantly: Absolutely.

[1:07:34] Andrew: Okay.

[1:07:35] Brantly: So good. I hate prom episodes of Glee. I hate—or any episode where there's a dance because they use these episodes to just shoehorn a bunch of songs in because the Glee Club is performing, and it's stupid. And I hate it. And it's not a good use of the time, and it's a waste of songs.

[1:07:57] Andrew: But this is one of the ones that actually really works.

[1:08:00] Brantly: Um, because it's a good finale. And I mean, we just had the whole drama of Kurt being made prom queen, which of course is terrible and traumatic. Um, but what better song to lift everyone's spirits? Like, um, well, I don't know. Maybe Kurt would have a way to feel about that of singing "Dancing Queen," after having been dancing queen.

[1:08:22] Andrew: That was my note, yeah.

[1:08:23] Brantly: Really? Because I remember watching this episode with my mom in, I guess, like 2011.

[1:08:29] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[1:08:29] Brantly: And she was like, "This is entirely inappropriate that they're singing this song." Especially with like Dave Kurofsky, who is not even like out at this point. That it's like they're—you're singing a very like, uh, gay-owned song at this point. That this song is like owned by the LGBTs. And um, and so like to be singing this song, it just feels a little strange.

[1:08:52] Andrew: Absolutely slays, MP3 version, but context, I'm like, oofie, you know.

[1:08:57] Brantly: But could they have planned to sing this song without knowing who king and queen were gonna be? I mean, what better song to sing when someone has just been crowned prom queen if it's any other normal prom queen crowning and she's having a first aid.

[1:09:12] Andrew: They didn't know.

[1:09:13] Brantly: My counter-argument would be then why is Santana singing this song? She is on the prom court, and why—like if she had won prom queen, then who would be singing this song with Mercedes? Quinn would have been so much.

[1:09:27] Andrew: That's Ryan Murphy. There's no continuity in this.

[1:09:30] Brantly: That was my—that was one of my notes. Santana sounds so good. I mean, she never does she not sound good, but like this, uh, just like those low notes are so rich.

[1:09:41] Andrew: Yeah, and dancing, dancing queen.

[1:09:45] Brantly: Oh, so good. Um, whatever that little walk Quinn did.

[1:09:49] Andrew: Oh.

[1:09:49] Brantly: Or dance walks. That was so cute.

[1:09:51] Andrew: Diana Agron.

[1:09:54] Brantly: She's cute.

[1:09:55] Andrew: The Rachel, the Rachel twirl, I'm obsessed.

[1:09:57] Brantly: I'm sorry.

[1:09:58] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[1:09:59] Brantly: Yes.

[1:09:59] Andrew: It's so cute. This performance is just so good.

[1:10:03] Brantly: They really should have done that. Quinn takes a photo by herself.

[1:10:05] Andrew: Quinndependence.

[1:10:06] Brantly: That's what I wrote down. Quinndependence.

[1:10:08] Andrew: Title of A.

[1:10:09] Brantly: Title of Ash. Quinndependence.

[1:10:11] Andrew: Yes. Um, no, they should have done more ABBA on Glee.

[1:10:16] Brantly: Yeah. And I know apparently you will love—not this week's episode, but next week's episode, because it's Album October. And I write an episode of Glee with ABBA Gold.

[1:10:28] Andrew: Hell yes.

[1:10:29] Brantly: Oh my gosh, I can't wait to hear that.

[1:10:31] Andrew: I guess. Yeah, they really didn't do enough ABBA. And like, I know we have the Mamma Mia of it all to compare it to, but their ABBA songs lend themselves to be musical.

[1:10:42] Brantly: Right.

[1:10:43] Andrew: Yeah. Like it is about the drama, honey. Like, you know, like the whole thing was they were two couples and then they broke up, and but they were still together as a group.

[1:10:57] Brantly: Oh, what is one of my favorite ABBA songs of all time? And it's oh my gosh. This title is leaving me. Um, one of us. Um, they do it in Mamma Mia 2. One of us is crying. One of us would have been perfect for at some point in during season four after all the couples have broken up. Someone should have sang that. Like, probably, oh, probably okay. It would have had to be Kurt or Blaine. And either Blaine, right after the initial breakup in season four, or Kurt when he's trying to get Blaine back in season six. Okay. I think that would have been even better in season six because Blaine's with Krofsky. Which, like, yes, look, but like one of us is crying, but one of us is not. One of us is lying in her lonely bed, but one of us is not. Sorry, more ABBA. Justice for ABBA on Glee.

[1:11:57] Andrew: So true. I love this. I completely agree. This is a hard competition for me. Wow. Because I mean, if I voted for one hand, one heart, the Gleeks would be like, Allison, you're just voting for that because you like the scene that it is. You don't care about the MP3. And they'd be right.

[1:12:16] Brantly: Pitch perfect impression.

[1:12:17] Andrew: Yeah. But that's okay because we go off vibes, right? We go straight off vibes. Listen straight up vibes. I have had my fair share of like opinions and frustrations about going on on this podcast. But when it all comes down to it, it's just vibes, y'all. It's just vibes. And who who is hating on vibes? Who? It's true. Whoops. Not me. Um Allison, if you want to assert your quindependence and vote for one hand, one heart, I think you should do where you're what your heart leads you to do.

[1:12:50] Brantly: Your one hand, one heart.

[1:12:51] Andrew: I'm gonna vote for one hand, one heart. The Klaine feet of it all.

[1:12:55] Brantly: The Klaine feet of it all. Um Brantly and I, I believe we're in solidarity here. Dancing queen.

[1:13:02] Andrew: Oh, 100% dancing.

[1:13:05] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:13:06] Andrew: You scared me for a second. I thought you were trying to pull a fast one on me.

[1:13:10] Brantly: No.

[1:13:11] Andrew: Oh yeah, one hand, one heart. I am so sorry. Sorry. We're going through. Um, okay. That, okay. No, it's so good. I wow, we can end the episode right now. I'm so happy. Actually, that's a lie. That's a lie. I want all the competitions. There we go. Don't stop now.

[1:13:31] Brantly: Okay. Oh, it's a flop.

[1:13:33] Andrew: Flop flop.

[1:13:34] Brantly: No, no, no. Don't do that. Don't read into my okay. I want to see if I can guess what it is from the screen grab.

[1:13:41] Andrew: Yeah, let's see.

[1:13:41] Brantly: Okay. Now you can see it.

[1:13:44] Andrew: Oh, oh, I know what the situation is, but I can't think what the song is, so let's go.

[1:13:49] Brantly: Okay. There's something I want to tell you. There's something I think that you should know. It's not that I shouldn't really love you. Let's take it slow. Remember that special night when all the stars were shining bright. But on that very first night, it wasn't quite bright. Let's wait a while. Before it's too late, let's wait a while. Our love will be great. Let's wait a while. Before we go too far. A while before it's too late. You know you can't rush love. Oh, let's wait a while. Before it's too late, let's wait a while. Wait a while. Let's wait a while. Before we go too far.

[1:16:07] Andrew: Um I have so many questions.

[1:16:12] Brantly: Yes, give them to us. Apparently, yeah, I apparently I had questions for you because I feel like you have most recently watched this episode.

[1:16:18] Andrew: I did. Is this the one where Artie has an STI?

[1:16:22] Brantly: Yes.

[1:16:23] Andrew: Okay. And and is he who is this girl he is with?

[1:16:27] Brantly: Gosh. Random. Uh I'm gonna find out her name. I'm gonna find out a name. Keep on talking. But but is it is is it not true that is that he is like on a date with her? And hasn't has he slept with her and hasn't told her, or he has the STI and meets her and really likes her?

[1:16:47] Brantly: Yes. So he sleeps with the beginning of the episode. There's two women he sleeps with, and he finds out he has an STI from one of them. And then he meets this third girl, yes. Her name is Julie. Yes. He meets this third girl, and he's like. Hey, before we have sex, um, I just need to let you know that I have uh what what does he have? Ooh, I'm gonna I think it might be chlamydia, yeah. It's either chlamydia or gonorrhea. Um it's not coming up on like the Let's Wait a While on Glee Wiki. Let me go to the episode Glee With. Okay, the episode description. So, and she's like, Whoa, I wasn't even thinking about that. Okay, great. Thank you.

[1:17:31] Andrew: What I did just watch this episode like two or three weeks ago, and I completely forgot that Artie was in this number.

[1:17:39] Brantly: Yeah, it it hits as a Mercedes solo because that's what I remember from this era. I think I trauma block the STI part of it all out.

[1:17:50] Andrew: Yes, also let's for the glisteners um contextualize because they couldn't see the video. I find myself one thing having to think really hard about what the visual of the song was during the conversation.

[1:18:02] Brantly: Yeah. Um so uh this was Sam and Mercedes. I believe they've just had the conversation about whether they're gonna go all the way or not, and they go to that pier, and Mercedes is singing Let's Wait a While and then Artie and did we call her Julie?

[1:18:15] Andrew: Julie.

[1:18:16] Brantly: But that is her name conceptually, yes. Why did they meet all four meet up and start looking at each other?

[1:18:21] Andrew: That's I don't know. That was weird. They're like standing across from each other, the couples, and then they're singing, and then at one point they're all standing in a line, just looking out.

[1:18:32] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:18:33] Andrew: What I believe they use this set for a lot of Sam and Mercedes scenes.

[1:18:38] Brantly: That was my first note. You can't read that, but it said they go to this pier a lot, or more for whatever. When I think of that pier though, I think of Natural Woman.

[1:18:48] Andrew: Yes, a good one.

[1:18:48] Brantly: Yeah. I think this I think of him throwing the jacket into the Hudson.

[1:18:52] Andrew: Oh, yeah, that was bad. Right.

[1:18:53] Brantly: And to the East River. Don't do that. Um God. Um I think this this pier is to Sam and Mercedes as the courtyard is to Klaine.

[1:19:03] Andrew: We agree.

[1:19:04] Brantly: Yes.

[1:19:06] Andrew: Okay. Watch, I know that you guys hate the courtyard.

[1:19:11] Brantly: Wait, what if we said that we hate the courtyard?

[1:19:13] Andrew: Oh, you are always talking about how it makes no sense that a school in Ohio would have this outdoor courtyard.

[1:19:19] Brantly: No, I'm still obsessed with the courtyard.

[1:19:20] Andrew: And well, okay. Well, I just I must say, I went to school in um a place where it gets really cold in the winter as well. And well, relatively. I it was in Texas, but we still had real seasons half the time.

[1:19:36] Brantly: Okay.

[1:19:37] Andrew: And we had a all our hallways were outside. We had outdoor rest like recreation areas. So like it is, I don't think it's that far of a stretch for the courtyard to at William McKinley.

[1:19:47] Brantly: No, it is cold. It is.

[1:19:48] Andrew: You were in Texas.

[1:19:50] Brantly: Yeah, Texas.

[1:19:52] Andrew: Oh Midwestern upper Midwestern. It does get really cold sometimes for like two weeks.

[1:20:00] Brantly: Stop that.

[1:20:01] Andrew: Stop it. If you're not dealing with two feet of snow, don't talk to me.

[1:20:06] Brantly: But conversely, it gets, I'm trying to think of a way to say this that isn't crude. Um, say like hotter than the seventh circle of hell in Texas. And we still had all these outdoor areas. So like we had did have extreme weather. Well, I'm just making myself look really stupid talking about the weather. Just it would get really cold sometimes.

[1:20:25] Andrew: You're on a Glee podcast, Brantly. How much stupider can this game?

[1:20:29] Brantly: This is very true. Very true. Um, um, let's put a while. When I was watching this, I was like, okay, is this supposed to be hilarious? Because I think this is a simply hilarious number. Um, because it starts off like the the two couples are just like looking at each other. Julie is not in on the joke yet, and she's like, she's just watching it and she's like, what's going on? And then later on in the performance, I I lost it when she starts like bada be da bada.

[1:20:56] Andrew: Wait, did she start singing?

[1:20:57] Brantly: Yes, oh I missed that.

[1:20:59] Andrew: She is a regular New Direction, yes. I just I think this would have been so much better as just a Sam and Mercedes duet. Like I don't think we needed Artie and Julie, and especially I Julie did look really uncomfortable too when they were all when they were all singing, and I guess maybe it was before she started singing, because I totally missed that she did, but like they the Mercedes and Sam and Artie were all standing there and they were all four looking at each other, but the three of them were singing, and Julie was kind of like looking around, like, uh-huh, yeah. Like, what's going on? Like, it should have been a Sam and Mercedes duet.

[1:21:37] Brantly: Yeah, especially because we only get one Sam and Mercedes duet. This would have been a great follow-up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because we got we only got Michael Jackson Human Nature, and this would have been Janet Jackson, Let's Wait a While. It would have been like a full circle moment. What I will say is that Mercedes, when she's having this discussion with Sam, sings about it a lot.

[1:22:01] Andrew: She sure does.

[1:22:02] Brantly: She sings at least three songs while she is contemplating whether she wants to see. Also, I just gotta say, I appreciate that they let Mercedes stick to her whole abstinence thing. Like, that's not like as someone who grew up in a conservative environment and like in a churchy environment, like that is not something we saw a lot of. Like, we would get a lot of like the Kitty and the Quinn, like hyper, like um. Whereas Mercedes is just like, yeah, I'm Christian, but I'm chill. And I still don't want to do that. Yeah. And we don't have to get into like the I just really I just like that there were there was a a more like a a nuanced portrayal of her wanting to have wanting to remain abstinent. Um but while also not portraying her to be like Kitty, who was like a sociopath Christian.

[1:22:57] Andrew: I will kill you.

[1:22:58] Brantly: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just my two cents. And that was something I thought about a lot. I uh when I was on my most recent Glee watch, was like, wow, I'm it's kind of surprising that this storyline was given such nuance on Glee.

[1:23:12] Andrew: Like given a lot of airtime, yeah.

[1:23:15] Brantly: Given a lot, and given a lot of songs as well.

[1:23:17] Andrew: A lot of songs. Um, some of them flop, some of them slay.

[1:23:21] Brantly: Yeah, okay. Against Let's Wait a While. I really appreciate that ever since I said, wait, where are the cups? You have both very perfectly shown the cups. We are making sure that you know that this is not rigged. They're real, everyone. I'm vouching for them. I have a season one number.

[1:23:40] Andrew: Ooh, and that's all I'll say about it.

[1:23:42] Brantly: Just pulling it up. I want to guess what it is. It's not on my list. They're wearing a season one numbers on it. You're gonna know exactly what it is from the first screen. You can sing along if you want to, it'll help your foot work.

[1:23:52] Andrew: Oh yes.

[1:23:54] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:23:55] Andrew: Yes.

[1:24:12] Brantly: I could have danced all night and she'll have begged for more. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done. Be full. I'll never know what made it so excite. I could have danced danced.

[1:25:06] Brantly: Oh no.

[1:25:10] Andrew: Okay.

[1:25:11] Brantly: Is that her voice?

[1:25:14] Andrew: I think so.

[1:25:15] Brantly: I'm gonna say so.

[1:25:16] Andrew: I'm gonna say so.

[1:25:17] Brantly: Why?

[1:25:17] Andrew: Okay.

[1:25:18] Brantly: You have your hands.

[1:25:18] Andrew: The first time I watched it, I was not convinced. I was like, that's somebody that sounds like Jayma Mays, but that ain't Jayma Mays.

[1:25:27] Brantly: Yes.

[1:25:28] Andrew: Well, do you believe it to be Jayma Mays on "Getting Married Today"?

[1:25:31] Brantly: Oh yeah.

[1:25:32] Andrew: Rap goddess Jayma Mays, more likely.

[1:25:34] Brantly: Yes.

[1:25:34] Andrew: Yes.

[1:25:36] Brantly: Yes.

[1:25:36] Andrew: But this is like the tone I mean, she is one of my closest friends, but when it comes down to it, I haven't heard her sing a ton.

[1:25:45] Brantly: So I don't I want to believe this is her and not covered in auto-tune.

[1:25:52] Andrew: Jayma Mays, come on the podcast and sing "I Could Have Danced All Night."

[1:25:55] Brantly: Yeah, I want to hear it live.

[1:25:57] Andrew: She could do it.

[1:25:57] Brantly: She could do it.

[1:25:58] Andrew: That was one of my notes was like auto-tune, baby.

[1:26:03] Brantly: But she still sounds good even though there's auto-tune.

[1:26:07] Andrew: I don't know.

[1:26:09] Brantly: Yeah, I don't pick up on those.

[1:26:10] Andrew: I don't pick up on auto-tune. That didn't even like occur to me.

[1:26:13] Brantly: It's more like, well, I could tell like on some just like some of the notes have very obviously been like tweaked. But there's just like the a like overlay quality, like a quality overlaid on her voice that just I can it just it sounds a little off.

[1:26:29] Andrew: I do really like this though.

[1:26:31] Brantly: Me too.

[1:26:31] Andrew: Um and I really like the context of she's trying on her wedding dress and making sure she can dance in it to her favorite song at her wedding. And she and Will are dancing around this little bridal salon, but all the face close-ups are weird.

[1:26:45] Brantly: It is it made me uncomfortable.

[1:26:48] Andrew: Could have done without also I couldn't help but think I just saw My Fair Lady live like a month ago on tour.

[1:26:55] Brantly: So good.

[1:26:56] Andrew: But I immediately I was thinking, is this the original key?

[1:27:00] Brantly: I don't think it is.

[1:27:01] Andrew: Um, because Eliza Doolittle, she she gets up there in the rafters.

[1:27:05] Brantly: My wings!

[1:27:06] Andrew: Yeah, it's very it's way up high.

[1:27:08] Brantly: And Shereen Ahmed, who is playing Eliza Doolittle on tour, I'm a nerd.

[1:27:12] Andrew: Um, she physicalized reaching up to the dance, dance, dance. She would like reach up and you and she does that like several times in a row, and she would reach up every time.

[1:27:22] Brantly: So I was thinking Jayma Mays does not sound like she's quite as in the rafters. So I'm like, is this in the original key?

[1:27:29] Andrew: Yeah. All this being said, even though all my notes were like, hmm, like question mark, that was weird. I really, really like this. This was um a standout of season one for me.

[1:27:41] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:27:42] Andrew: I I completely agree. I also was just like, I didn't think Emma would ever get to sing.

[1:27:47] Brantly: Oh, did she sing "Like a Virgin"?

[1:27:50] Andrew: She does.

[1:27:50] Brantly: Oh, she does singing "Like a Virgin," yeah, a little bit.

[1:27:53] Andrew: Okay, but she doesn't get her own song until this song.

[1:27:56] Brantly: Yeah, and then I was very excited about that as a 17-year-old.

[1:28:02] Andrew: Jayma Mays.

[1:28:03] Brantly: Yeah, she is transformative.

[1:28:05] Andrew: I love her.

[1:28:06] Brantly: So good.

[1:28:07] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:28:08] Brantly: I love My Fair Lady. I think it's I mean, I would say a sleeper hit. I think people would very much disagree and be like, My Fair Lady gets the credit that it gets.

[1:28:17] Andrew: Not in my book because I didn't care for it very much until I saw the touring cast.

[1:28:24] Brantly: Um, incredible. I love this musical. I think this fits so well with her character and the situation.

[1:28:30] Andrew: I agree. The one thing I do want to say is that I don't know if either of you have ever worn elbow-length gloves.

[1:28:37] Brantly: Um, but they're incredibly annoying.

[1:28:40] Andrew: And you can't use your phone, and you can't really pick up food.

[1:28:46] Brantly: Well, when we do see Emma at her wedding to Ken, like in season one episode 13 at the Sectionals episode.

[1:28:54] Andrew: Is she wearing those gloves?

[1:28:56] Brantly: I don't think she's wearing the gloves, but I think I do believe she's wearing the dress.

[1:28:59] Andrew: She is wearing that dress.

[1:29:00] Brantly: Okay, okay. Sorry, I was just furiously Googling to make sure that I said the actress who plays Eliza right, and yes, her name is Shereen Ahmed.

[1:29:08] Andrew: You're she's awesome. First Egyptian American actress to play Eliza Doolittle, according to this random article.

[1:29:14] Brantly: An icon.

[1:29:16] Andrew: I love that story. I wish they sang "On the Street Where You Live" on Glee.

[1:29:21] Brantly: Oh, it would have been so good.

[1:29:23] Andrew: So good. The touring cast version of that song is very good.

[1:29:27] Brantly: Who would have sung "On the Street Where You Live"?

[1:29:30] Andrew: I think I give everything to Blaine.

[1:29:32] Brantly: Oh yeah, I was gonna say Blaine.

[1:29:34] Andrew: I think maybe when he's um, like maybe when he goes to New York to visit Kurt, or maybe like I feel like it would fit better there, but it could also make it work like post-breakup, the first breakup.

[1:29:46] Brantly: Um but I I feel yeah, it would have been Kurt pining or uh a Blaine pining.

[1:29:46] Andrew: It would have been Blaine pining after Kurt for sure.

[1:30:00] Brantly: Yes, I like that. Um I'm obsessed with Jayma Mays. I've said it before, I'll say it again.

[1:30:07] Andrew: Um she did not sing enough on this show.

[1:30:09] Brantly: Oh, I agree.

[1:30:10] Andrew: I like I don't I don't recognize auto-tune. I don't know her, but I do know Jayma Mays, and I understand that she has talent and I want to hear more songs by her.

[1:30:18] Brantly: Um I will say that um it does feel like almost like contractually, Jayma Mays does need every time that she sings, she needs to be in a wedding dress, which I have problems with.

[1:30:29] Andrew: Um I I wish that weren't the case uh because I would have loved to see her sing on more occasions.

[1:30:36] Brantly: Yeah, who would you wanted her to sing?

[1:30:38] Andrew: I don't I don't know.

[1:30:39] Brantly: Like I just I don't even know. Like I just cast her in Six.

[1:30:44] Andrew: Ooh.

[1:30:47] Brantly: I don't oh god, you're stuck.

[1:30:51] Andrew: Is there a queen for Emma?

[1:30:54] Brantly: I I mean I would put her as Seymour, I feel.

[1:30:54] Andrew: Oh I don't know if she could do Seymour, but I don't know if she could do any of them.

[1:31:01] Brantly: No, that's fair.

[1:31:03] Andrew: I thought you liked Jayma Mays.

[1:31:05] Brantly: I love Jayma Mays, but like I like her singing voice, but like in the same way that I love Dianna Agron's singing voice.

[1:31:11] Andrew: That I'm like, I understand the fallbacks where I'm like, she has her range and I love where she lives.

[1:31:18] Brantly: I'm with the street where she lives.

[1:31:20] Andrew: The street where she lives.

[1:31:21] Brantly: Something on the screen podcast.

[1:31:23] Andrew: I wish you would.

[1:31:24] Brantly: I I don't know if this will hit for Andrew. Brantly, this might hit for you. I think Emma could have done any Thoroughly Modern Millie song.

[1:31:32] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:31:33] Brantly: Gimme Gimme.

[1:31:34] Andrew: Gimme Gimme.

[1:31:35] Brantly: That thing called Love.

[1:31:36] Andrew: Oh, that would have been I want it. Top tier.

[1:31:39] Brantly: Yeah. That would have been bulletproof hospitality.

[1:31:42] Andrew: Bulletproof hospitality if it had ever happened.

[1:31:45] Brantly: Lindsay Pierce sang that on her final um Glee Project episode.

[1:31:51] Andrew: Did she?

[1:31:51] Brantly: Yes.

[1:31:52] Andrew: I didn't watch the Glee Project.

[1:31:54] Brantly: So that's you guys have that on me.

[1:31:56] Andrew: I know. Apparently, our connection's actually going bad right now.

[1:31:59] Brantly: Um, so I guess we're gonna do that.

[1:32:01] Andrew: I'm going through a tunnel.

[1:32:04] Brantly: But I I I mean, I know obviously several of the I got to see Ali Stroker in Oklahoma.

[1:32:10] Andrew: Um my gosh, so freaking good.

[1:32:15] Brantly: That's awesome. Also, I was randomly on a webinar one time for where they uh brought her on as a this was like during peak COVID. It was not a webinar, it was a conference happening via a webinar during COVID, and they zoomed her in and she sang "Natural Woman."

[1:32:32] Andrew: Oh my god.

[1:32:33] Brantly: Yeah, no, I'm gonna sing my favorite. It was entertainment during the conference, and she was like, I'm gonna sing one of my favorite songs for you guys. This is "Natural Woman." And it had that like that like tiny like zoom sound that sometimes gets, but she sounded great. She sang the full song on Zoom.

[1:32:47] Andrew: Wow.

[1:32:57] Brantly: For a good track.

[1:32:58] Andrew: Like yeah, she had a track.

[1:33:00] Brantly: She was literally sitting in her apartment. Like you could see her bed behind her. It was iconic.

[1:33:05] Andrew: I've got a I think I might have a picture of it on my like I took a picture of my screen on my phone. Please have to find it and send it to you guys.

[1:33:12] Brantly: Oh, I love it. Please, I love that.

[1:33:15] Andrew: Um, let's wait a while versus I could have danced all night.

[1:33:19] Brantly: Oh, do we even have a competition?

[1:33:22] Andrew: Sorry, let's wait a while.

[1:33:24] Brantly: Sorry, let's wait a while. We're gonna wait a while until we ever fucking hear from you again.

[1:33:28] Andrew: Yeah, I could have danced all night, and I will.

[1:33:32] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:33:33] Andrew: And I will dance all night, okay?

[1:33:35] Brantly: I will.

[1:33:36] Andrew: I want more of My Fair Lady on this fucking show.

[1:33:39] Brantly: Well, there's only two. It's only this and Spain.

[1:33:42] Andrew: Exactly. I want more.

[1:33:44] Brantly: We uh we just gotta wait for the Glee boot.

[1:33:46] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:33:47] Brantly: The Glee boot, and then we'll get "On the Street Where You Live."

[1:33:50] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:33:51] Brantly: Um your final song of the episode.

[1:33:58] Andrew: My final song. Um, I texted Andrew about this semi-recently. Um, let's see if we can tell what it is from the Oh, is it "Nowadays"?

[1:34:10] Brantly: Nope.

[1:34:11] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[1:34:12] Brantly: It I already saw it's "Sway."

[1:34:15] Andrew: Oh, okay.

[1:34:16] Brantly: Okay.

[1:34:17] Andrew: It's "Sway."

[1:34:24] Brantly: When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me.

[1:34:29] Andrew: Make me sway like a lazy ocean hugs the shore.

[1:34:35] Brantly: Hold me close. Sway me more.

[1:34:39] Andrew: Other dancers may be on the floor, dear, but my eyes will see only you.

[1:34:47] Brantly: Only you have that magic technique.

[1:34:51] Andrew: When we sway, I go weak.

[1:34:54] Brantly: When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me.

[1:35:00] Andrew: Make me sway.

[1:35:02] Brantly: Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore.

[1:35:06] Andrew: Hold me close. Sway me more.

[1:35:11] Brantly: Like a flower bended in the breeze, bend with me.

[1:35:17] Andrew: Sway with me.

[1:35:19] Brantly: When we dance, you have a way with me.

[1:35:23] Andrew: Stay with me.

[1:35:24] Brantly: Sway with me.

[1:35:28] Andrew: Okay.

[1:35:30] Brantly: Is this a Bublé original song?

[1:35:32] Andrew: Or did Michael Bublé just cover this?

[1:35:34] Brantly: I think this is a Bublé cover.

[1:35:36] Andrew: Let me make sure.

[1:35:37] Brantly: Okay.

[1:35:38] Andrew: You go off. Whatever it is, it is an appropriate Will solo.

[1:35:42] Brantly: Very good Will solo.

[1:35:44] Andrew: Like he should have done every time he rapped, he should have done a Michael Bublé song.

[1:35:50] Brantly: Yes.

[1:35:51] Andrew: Or something like this jazzy.

[1:35:54] Brantly: Like I love "Sway." I love "Kiss" as a tango.

[1:35:59] Andrew: Ooh, that was good, yeah.

[1:36:01] Brantly: Very good. Like this is what you should have stuck to, and not in the third grade.

[1:36:06] Andrew: I thought that I was gay.

[1:36:07] Brantly: Like, don't do that.

[1:36:08] Andrew: Well, oh, that was so cringe. I just just like two weeks ago watched that episode, and I was like, what are you doing?

[1:36:17] Brantly: Um, so this is not.

[1:36:19] Andrew: Okay, so this is kind of crazy. This is by Pablo Beltran Ruiz, but it's the Dean Martin version.

[1:36:27] Brantly: So Michael Bublé, nowhere to be found.

[1:36:29] Andrew: I understand that Michael Bublé does cover this, but this isn't even the Michael Bublé version.

[1:36:35] Brantly: Because is "Something Stupid" in Michael Bublé original?

[1:36:37] Andrew: No.

[1:36:38] Brantly: The Frank and Nancy Sinatra?

[1:36:39] Andrew: That's a cover too?

[1:36:40] Brantly: That's uh Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

[1:36:43] Andrew: Oh, okay. What was Michael Bublé doing?

[1:36:45] Brantly: Just covering other people's songs?

[1:36:46] Andrew: Wait, is yeah.

[1:36:48] Brantly: Reese Witherspoon.

[1:36:50] Andrew: Yeah, with Michael Bublé on "Something Stupid."

[1:36:53] Brantly: Okay, not on Glee.

[1:36:55] Andrew: I was so confused. It was like, she did not appear on the hitbox show.

[1:36:59] Brantly: You missed a full season.

[1:37:01] Andrew: She was not on the hitbox show Glee, but she would have killed it on the hit.

[1:37:04] Brantly: Oh my god, she would have been so much fun.

[1:37:06] Andrew: We need to be.

[1:37:06] Brantly: She's singing a lot of Glee songs on the Sing franchise.

[1:37:09] Andrew: Uh Brantly, I don't know if you're watching the Sing movies with the animals singing.

[1:37:14] Brantly: Um, I have seen parts of one of them because I have a brother who is uh 16 years younger than I am, and so I caught parts of it while he was watching it one time several years ago.

[1:37:26] Andrew: Um I don't have I don't have a younger sibling, and yeah, I watched both in theaters.

[1:37:31] Brantly: Well, okay.

[1:37:33] Andrew: Um bring it back to "Sway."

[1:37:38] Brantly: Bring it back to "Sway." Um it's just like prom where they just have them perform to get to shoehorn songs in there, and I hate that.

[1:37:45] Andrew: You hate it.

[1:37:46] Brantly: But this was a Will solo.

[1:37:48] Andrew: And I really I loved all the cut like the camera cut away from Will or from uh Bert and Carol dancing, and it cut to the Glee kids just like enjoying the wedding and the ambiance.

[1:38:03] Brantly: And it was really cute.

[1:38:04] Andrew: And sh uh Santana did this like little shoulder thing.

[1:38:07] Brantly: That was super fun.

[1:38:08] Andrew: Yeah, but then I can't remember if this was significant to the plot or not, but I wrote it down. What was this like soft look away that Quinn did at one point?

[1:38:16] Brantly: She just went, oh my god.

[1:38:18] Andrew: Yes.

[1:38:19] Brantly: Like what I caught that too because like Quinn and Sam were both very into the performance at the beginning.

[1:38:24] Andrew: They had it, they had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

[1:38:27] Brantly: And then it's toward the end of the song, they are both out of this song.

[1:38:32] Andrew: They both hate "Sway." They want it to be over.

[1:38:35] Brantly: Wait, I'm looking at the video again. It's like toward the end. There's like a shot of Quinn and Sam.

[1:38:42] Andrew: Oh, was she looking away from Sam?

[1:38:44] Brantly: That's it.

[1:38:45] Andrew: That shot.

[1:38:46] Brantly: I I no no no. I think he's whispering something in her ear, and she's responding.

[1:38:53] Andrew: Yes, that is exactly what that was.

[1:38:55] Brantly: You're right.

[1:38:56] Andrew: I read the room, so they love "Sway."

[1:39:02] Brantly: Well, I love Quinn and I loved her like little soft look away to listen to Sam. Like no, she's like leaning into him.

[1:39:08] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:39:09] Brantly: Look away from the camera, lean into Sam. I was curious to look at the Glee Song opinion form for this song because I knew that we were gonna be a Galatian divided on this.

[1:39:18] Andrew: Um so people are saying somehow the best Will solo.

[1:39:22] Andrew: Um, uh, the one Will song I love, don't come for me, okay.

[1:39:26] Brantly: Wait, what is this nonsense about Will making it about himself?

[1:39:31] Andrew: He's performing, he's performing, bro.

[1:39:34] Brantly: Don't make this about you, just be chill for once.

[1:39:36] Andrew: Jesus F in Christ is what one user says.

[1:39:39] Brantly: Well, that user is misguided.

[1:39:43] Andrew: No, fine.

[1:39:45] Brantly: Someone just says no.

[1:39:46] Andrew: Um, fine.

[1:39:48] Brantly: Uh, I liked the term show for shoe solo.

[1:39:52] Andrew: Solo.

[1:39:52] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:39:53] Andrew: Are we doing show or are we doing Wolo?

[1:39:54] Brantly: Or Wolo?

[1:39:56] Andrew: I'm partial to Sholo, but it's y'all's podcast, and y'all are making a shot.

[1:40:01] Brantly: Wolo, show low.

[1:40:03] Andrew: We refer to at work though straight to jail.

[1:40:06] Brantly: The polos that we wear for show at work.

[1:40:10] Andrew: We call them sholos, so that's what I associate.

[1:40:13] Brantly: Oh, so you don't want you.

[1:40:15] Andrew: I don't want sho. I want po, I want Wolo.

[1:40:17] Brantly: You want Wolo?

[1:40:18] Andrew: I sort of like show.

[1:40:19] Brantly: I'm sorry.

[1:40:20] Andrew: I think that's why the sholo at work really shulo.

[1:40:23] Brantly: Shulo.

[1:40:24] Andrew: Oh no, that doesn't roll off the tongue.

[1:40:26] Brantly: That makes it worse.

[1:40:27] Andrew: Okay.

[1:40:27] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:40:28] Andrew: Maybe that's what that person wrote, and I just misread it.

[1:40:32] Brantly: Um, don't hate this Wolo.

[1:40:34] Andrew: The best show, and then they put in parentheses, in parentheses shoe solo to clarify.

[1:40:39] Brantly: Um, yeah, I mean, it's a good show.

[1:40:43] Andrew: I'll say it.

[1:40:45] Brantly: I'll say it.

[1:40:45] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:40:47] Brantly: We all said it, yeah.

[1:40:50] Andrew: Um, it's weird that we had two, like we had a Wemma wedding solos back to back.

[1:40:56] Brantly: Um, our last song of the episode.

[1:40:58] Andrew: Brantly, I'm rooting for "Let's Have a Kiki" for you.

[1:41:01] Brantly: Oh, thank you. There are a couple that I would be okay with it beating it out, but if it isn't "Let's Have a Kiki," I just need to say my piece about it before we wrap up.

[1:41:10] Andrew: Of course.

[1:41:11] Brantly: But what is it?

[1:41:12] Andrew: You will have to say your piece about "Let's Have a Kiki" because this is unfortunately not that song.

[1:41:17] Brantly: Oh, I will say that it is, um, a minute slay.

[1:41:21] Andrew: Uh oh boy.

[1:41:23] Brantly: Okay, we're gonna go into it.

[1:41:25] Andrew: I wonder if it was on my list.

[1:41:28] Brantly: I can't say more.

[1:41:29] Andrew: Emily's gonna come for my neck.

[1:41:30] Brantly: I also have to say I agree with Emily's rule.

[1:41:34] Andrew: I thought this a lot before the rule was made, was like, you're spoiling it.

[1:41:38] Brantly: You're spoiling it before they have time to form.

[1:41:43] Andrew: Okay.

[1:41:43] Brantly: We're gonna know what song it is.

[1:41:46] Andrew: Do we know what song?

[1:41:47] Brantly: I think "Oh My Life Would Suck Without You."

[1:41:51] Andrew: My life would suck without you.

[1:41:53] ♪ Musical number: "My Life Would Suck Without You" — performed by Kelly Clarkson ♪

[1:42:06] Andrew: Yes, this means you're sorry.

[1:42:09] Brantly: You standin' at my door.

[1:42:13] Andrew: Yes, this means you take back all you said before.

[1:42:19] Brantly: Like how much you want it.

[1:42:23] Andrew: Anyone but me said you never come back, but here you are again.

[1:42:39] Brantly: Yeah, forever you know.

[1:42:46] Andrew: Yeah, you gotta pee somebody.

[1:43:00] Brantly: I know that I've got issues, but you're pretty messed up too.

[1:43:08] Andrew: You went down.

[1:43:11] Brantly: Nothing without you.

[1:43:15] Andrew: Catch me belong together now.

[1:43:20] Brantly: Yeah, forever you know.

[1:43:27] Andrew: Yeah, you gotta pee some way.

[1:43:27] Brantly: And suck Cush.

[1:43:27] Andrew: We get on.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Forever you know.

[1:43:27] Andrew: Put yeah, you gotta pee some way.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Plus wow, wow.

[1:43:27] Andrew: What if Glee ended right there? Could you imagine?

[1:43:27] Brantly: Okay, but that's what it feels like.

[1:43:27] Andrew: That's what it feels like. It feels like when they wrote this episode and chose this song, they weren't sure if it was gonna get renewed past.

[1:43:27] Brantly: This wasn't even the season one finale.

[1:43:27] Andrew: This is the midseason finale.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Yes, midseason finale, yeah.

[1:43:27] Andrew: So it feels like they didn't know if they were gonna get picked up for a full season or not and were like, well, we could end it right there.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Yeah, I'm just piecing together now that they're doing all the dances from the previous numbers, which is so good.

[1:43:27] Andrew: Went right over my head. I had never noticed that before.

[1:43:27] Brantly: But then I was like, oh my god, say a little prayer.

[1:43:27] Andrew: Oh my god, push it.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Yeah, oh my god.

[1:43:27] Andrew: That was one thing I wrote down was the hip thrusting.

[1:43:27] Brantly: Was that from push it or was that from the balloon thing with the abstinence club?

[1:45:03] Andrew: No, that's push it.

[1:45:04] Brantly: That's push it.

[1:45:04] Andrew: They do a lot of push it choreo.

[1:45:06] Brantly: Yeah, they're like, they might do a little bit too much push it.

[1:45:09] Andrew: Yeah, a little bit.

[1:45:10] Brantly: Um, but push it a little bit too far.

[1:45:10] Andrew: Wait.

[1:45:12] Brantly: Has "Push It" been pulled on the Glacket yet?

[1:45:14] Andrew: I don't remember.

[1:45:14] Brantly: Yes.

[1:45:16] Andrew: Did it go through?

[1:45:17] Brantly: I think it didn't go through against like "True Colors," I want to say.

[1:45:22] Andrew: Oh, jail.

[1:45:22] Brantly: Jail.

[1:45:22] Andrew: Jail.

[1:45:25] Brantly: I mean, I've said this a couple times before now on our bonus episode and last episode that Kelly Clarkson isn't hitting for me right now.

[1:45:34] Andrew: These songs, I've listened to them so much that I don't want to hear them ever again.

[1:45:42] Brantly: Like, not it, I haven't listened to them so much in a good way, like in a bad way, that it's like I skip this when it shuffles.

[1:45:51] Andrew: I'm like, I don't want to hear this.

[1:45:52] Brantly: So you've done this to yourself.

[1:45:54] Andrew: It's not Kelly.

[1:45:54] Brantly: Kelly.

[1:45:54] Andrew: I've done this to myself.

[1:45:56] Brantly: It's not Kelly herself.

[1:45:57] Andrew: It's not the Glee Cast by Glee Cast by Gleecass versus the case.

[1:46:00] Brantly: The Glee Cast by Glee Cast by Glee Cast.

[1:46:04] Andrew: It is simply because I put it on too many safe for work playlists and have listened to it too many times because all I do at work is listen to music, and so I've listened to it way too many times.

[1:46:17] Brantly: And it just doesn't hit anymore.

[1:46:19] Andrew: I, there are redeeming qualities of being able to see all the throwbacks.

[1:46:24] Brantly: Like that was super cute.

[1:46:26] Andrew: Um, it's a weird Wemma moment for me because he's not fully divorced yet.

[1:46:33] Brantly: No, he's not fully divorced.

[1:46:35] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[1:46:36] Brantly: Yeah, I will say I don't care for that whole like, uh, Will running to Emma being an interstitched.

[1:46:44] Andrew: That's not correct, but like put into the song.

[1:46:44] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:46:50] Andrew: And then the next scene I think that we see of them is in her office.

[1:46:56] Brantly: And he's like, so weird.

[1:46:58] Andrew: We've done this a million times before.

[1:47:00] Brantly: This time I could just lean over and kiss you if I wanted to.

[1:47:00] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:47:04] Brantly: And I want to.

[1:47:04] Andrew: Cringe.

[1:47:04] Brantly: Cringe.

[1:47:06] Andrew: Like, stop it.

[1:47:09] Brantly: This is a big Wemma episode.

[1:47:10] Andrew: I'm, I don't know how, what your thoughts about Wemma is, Brantly, but this is what the GLODs have delivered for you.

[1:47:15] Brantly: This was a big Wemma episode.

[1:47:17] Andrew: You know what? I'm at peace with it.

[1:47:18] Brantly: I don't have any particularly anti-Wemma feelings.

[1:47:23] Andrew: Um, feelings.

[1:47:25] Brantly: That's from the episode.

[1:47:29] Andrew: Other than that, their relationship got a little toxic at points, but they always came to their senses.

[1:47:35] Brantly: I think.

[1:47:35] Andrew: Right.

[1:47:37] Brantly: Um, but one thing I did write down is this is a little bit weird of a song to sing to your teacher.

[1:47:46] Andrew: Um, I get that, like, yeah, he's changed their lives and their lives would suck without him.

[1:47:52] Brantly: But babies, this song is about a relationship.

[1:47:56] Andrew: Like, so I guess it makes it work more for the Wemma stuff than it does, um, but yeah.

[1:48:03] Brantly: I think they learned their lessons because they were like at the end of the season, they're like "To Sir With Love," which is actually to a teacher.

[1:48:11] Andrew: What I was about to say is that this does not even compare to "To Sir With Love."

[1:48:11] Brantly: Yeah.

[1:48:18] Andrew: Like that is a beautiful song that will make me cry every time.

[1:48:22] Brantly: Love it.

[1:48:22] Andrew: This song, it's like, okay.

[1:48:24] Brantly: I mean, it does evoke emotion.

[1:48:26] Andrew: I'm not a soulless automaton, you know.

[1:48:26] Brantly: Right.

[1:48:29] Andrew: Um, but is this the midseason finale?

[1:48:33] Brantly: It is.

[1:48:34] Andrew: Yes, it is.

[1:48:34] Brantly: And then they sing "To Sir With Love" after they lose.

[1:48:39] Andrew: Okay, got it.

[1:48:39] Brantly: Got it.

[1:48:39] Andrew: Okay.

[1:48:41] Brantly: We have another, yeah!

[1:48:44] Andrew: Um, also one thing I wrote down is the, like, show choir voices.

[1:48:49] Brantly: You know how when they have ensemble singing on Glee, it's that weird sounding choir.

[1:48:54] Andrew: This sounds like it's actually people, like it actually might be all the cast members recorded.

[1:48:59] Brantly: I don't know, it sounded, it hit different for me.

[1:49:01] Andrew: It sounded different.

[1:49:02] Brantly: Um, just at the very beginning, I loved all the throwbacks though, too.

[1:49:09] Andrew: And it's like, it's all the OGs.

[1:49:11] Brantly: Yeah, oh, they look like such babies too.

[1:49:15] Andrew: Babies, children.

[1:49:17] Brantly: Had the realization, like obviously they were all older than high schoolers when they were playing high schoolers.

[1:49:21] Andrew: I think I've reached the point in my life where I am now older than most of, if not all, of them when they were filming the first season of Glee.

[1:49:29] Brantly: Oh my gosh.

[1:49:30] Andrew: And so I was like, wow, they're actually babies.

[1:49:32] Brantly: You've made it.

[1:49:33] Andrew: You're officially a new direction.

[1:49:38] Brantly: Um, what really took me out for this performance was obviously like there's like the intercut between like the Wemma moments and everything.

[1:49:38] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:49:49] Brantly: But when they would show Will watching this performance in the show in the choir room, um, he was like hardly not into it.

[1:49:56] Andrew: And the moments that he was into it, you could tell that he was like playing into it, which is like, yeah, could you imagine 12 of you performing at your teacher and he is like feigning into it?

[1:50:10] Brantly: Like performing at the teacher.

[1:50:13] Andrew: And then he does like, he does this Will laugh, the Will laugh, which I've waited so long to bring up on this podcast, where the Will laugh, where he, it's like, you know, like it's just like it's fake, yeah.

[1:50:28] Brantly: And he just slaps his leg a little bit, and it's like, okay, give us a real reaction, please stop it.

[1:50:36] Andrew: Yeah, I just, okay.

[1:50:37] Brantly: On my most recent Glee rewatch, and I believe I tweeted about this, and I think you guys might have even interacted with it in some way.

[1:50:47] Andrew: Will really is a terrible person, yes, like I fully agree with what Quincy Brown said, and I, uh, on the Sentimental Man episode, what he said on the Sclee podcast about how he said on the Sclee podcast, yes, how people have like conflated the character of Will Schuster with Matthew Morrison, the person, yes, um, but I see why though, re-watching it because like when I was a teenager watching this, it's like, yeah, arts teachers change lives.

[1:50:47] Brantly: Right?

[1:51:15] Andrew: Like I love my choir and theater teachers, right?

[1:51:18] Brantly: Um, but he's like kind of manipulative, and like it gets worse as like as the season goes on, like not only to like his adult friends, like he's manipulative to the students.

[1:51:31] Brantly: Like, yes, uh, what episode is it where he is having a bad time outside of work, and he just comes in and he like takes it out on everyone, he makes like a slightly transphobic comment towards Unique and his little tirade that he goes on.

[1:51:46] Andrew: That was what's like out to me.

[1:51:47] Brantly: Yeah, I think that's like season four, where he's like, he's just like pissed at the Glee Club, and he's like, Unique, give it up, like stop it.

[1:51:55] Andrew: And I'm like, oh my god, yeah, Jesus Christ, yeah, and then he tries to call Mercedes season three, yeah, Mercedes season three that pushes her away.

[1:52:05] Brantly: Like that's problematic in itself, right?

[1:52:07] Andrew: Uh, and, uh, it still makes me so mad that the Treble Tones were like by the show choir bylaws, we're allowed to just rejoin the New Directions.

[1:52:21] Brantly: That's cheating.

[1:52:22] Andrew: Like if a school can have two show choirs, and then when one loses, you're just gonna merge the two together.

[1:52:29] Brantly: Like that's a great idea.

[1:52:30] Andrew: I never even thought about that.

[1:52:31] Brantly: Yeah, wait, yeah, fix it.

[1:52:32] Andrew: I think that I thought about it when it first happened.

[1:52:34] Brantly: It was even more glaring in my most recent Glee watch.

[1:52:37] Andrew: Like, especially because they, before that competition, the New Directions go up to the Treble Tones.

[1:52:53] Brantly: They're like, no matter what, who wins, it's all good, it's all like, it's all Gucci.

[1:52:58] Andrew: And if we win, you can join us.

[1:52:59] Brantly: And they're like, that's offensive, and you Treble Tones.

[1:53:03] Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

[1:53:04] Brantly: Um, and then they go back anyway because the Treble Tones can have their own number, which again, it's like rigging the system, like also every time that the Treble Tones had their own number after that point in a competition set.

[1:53:19] Andrew: I don't know if y'all have noticed this.

[1:53:21] Brantly: You know how the Treble Tones was made up of, uh, Mercedes and Brittany and Santana and Sugar and a bunch of random Cheerios?

[1:53:28] Andrew: Yes, yep.

[1:53:29] Brantly: The random Cheerios appear for the Treble Tones numbers and appear in no other scene.

[1:53:36] Andrew: Like when they're in Chicago and they're like in, they're all in the like hotel and they're like practicing and they're on the buses, like the Cheerios are nowhere to be found.

[1:53:48] Brantly: And then they're polygrams for Edge of Glory.

[1:53:51] Andrew: Right.

[1:53:52] Brantly: And then they disappear again.

[1:53:53] Andrew: Their moms needed to drive them.

[1:53:55] Brantly: Yeah, yeah.

[1:53:57] Andrew: Sorry.

[1:53:58] Brantly: No, I'm obsessed. I've been thinking about that. That's been plaguing me, actually. So I'm glad that you brought it up.

[1:54:03] Andrew: This is a hard competition for me because neither of them super super hit.

[1:54:09] Brantly: Okay.

[1:54:09] Andrew: Um I'm s yeah.

[1:54:13] Brantly: I'm saying sway.

[1:54:15] Andrew: You're saying sway.

[1:54:16] Brantly: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say my life would suck without you.

[1:54:18] Andrew: So Brantley is in the hot seat.

[1:54:20] Brantly: Oh boy. You know, I think I'm gonna have just what's gonna happen is I'm gonna have to make a decision. And five minutes after this recording is over, and when I get to hear it when it's published and all, I'm gonna be like, that was the wrong decision.

[1:54:37] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:54:37] Brantly: But it's all about vibes. We established this.

[1:54:39] Andrew: Yes, it is all about vibes.

[1:54:41] Brantly: Um just I liked the vibes more of what was going on in the background of the song. I'm gonna have to go with Sway.

[1:55:00] Andrew: Um, I'm so sorry to side against you, Andrew. I'm as shocked as you are. Um the bleaks are also with me. They're their jaws on the floor. I just I don't know. It's something about the the Sam whispering to Quinn and the little Santana shoulder shit. Like But five minutes from now, I'm gonna be like, I should have voted for all the throwbacks. Like, so we're getting we're getting the Brantley in the now. You made the decision. And the Brantley of the future is going to be very I don't know. I don't know. Brantley, you still I'm I've cast my vote, and I'm still going back to the boat.

[1:55:35] Andrew: You okay, you you okay the vote has been cast.

[1:55:37] Brantly: Okay, okay, yeah. Own it.

[1:55:40] Andrew: Um, okay, so to wrap up, I have one hand, one heart, and let's wait a while staying behind, and sway going through to the next round of the Glackett.

[1:55:49] Brantly: Wow, I can't believe that. Um, well, this is like truly wait to the end of the episode. Um Dancing Queen, I could have danced all night, both going through, and my life would suck without you staying behind. Man, if I would have voted for Sway, then all the songs about dancing would have gone through. That's my fault.

[1:56:07] Andrew: Oh my god, you're so right.

[1:56:10] Brantly: Oh, I'm terrible. Wow. I ruined it. Wait. Because I had Dancing Queen, I could have danced all night, and this final I my life would suck without you, which was a dance medley. But Sway is about dancing.

[1:56:25] Andrew: Sway is about dancing.

[1:56:26] Brantly: Mmm, so you did vote for dancing.

[1:56:28] Andrew: That's wait, what did I say?

[1:56:30] Brantly: I don't know. I'm I'm tired. Don't you can cut that all out because we've been here for two hours now.

[1:56:38] Andrew: This is what my final episode like time like this game.

[1:56:44] Brantly: Two hours.

[1:56:45] Andrew: Because we also have an intro at the beginning of this, which is easily like 25 minutes.

[1:56:48] Brantly: 20 and 25 minutes. My word. Am I gonna be the first three-hour episode of Gleek of the Week?

[1:56:54] Andrew: We might be pushing it. Um we're not even done with the episode.

[1:56:58] Brantly: We're not, because I still have to ask you our age-old question, Brantley. Um, if Glee were still on in 2022, what are they singing?

[1:57:07] Andrew: The year of our glory, 22. This is a question that I think about every day of my life.

[1:57:15] Brantly: Okay. Okay. Um so as a musical theater person.

[1:57:22] Andrew: Sure.

[1:57:23] Brantly: And actually, the reason that someone told me, Brantley, you should watch this show Glee, the reason someone told me that was because I was obsessed with high school musical.

[1:57:36] Andrew: Okay.

[1:57:36] Brantly: Like high school musical is actually what got me into musical theater. It was the gateway drug. Like and um, but I think eventually, especially now that Disney owns Fox, I think they would have had to do an episode where they acknowledge, like, there's kind of like this symbiotic relationship between high school musical and glee. It was like Glee kind of played off the popularity of high school musical and people thought of it as like the more of a skay high school musical. I think they would have had to do an episode where they acknowledge that and they had some high school musical covers, and it would feature guest appearances from the main cast.

[1:58:16] Andrew: Um in a more substantial way than high school musical, the musical of the series.

[1:58:20] Brantly: Say it.

[1:58:20] Andrew: Okay. I would I just I need to see Ashley Tisdale on Glee. Um like the Glee boot. And I think she is like she's pretty close friends with Leah Michelle. I'm understanding.

[1:58:32] Brantly: Well, she they've done like um videos together. They did a cover of Dancing on My Own on Ashley Tesdale's YouTube channel.

[1:58:39] Andrew: I must have missed that.

[1:58:40] Brantly: Well, I don't watch her. I love her, but I don't watch her YouTube channel.

[1:58:43] Andrew: So Dancing on My Own, the Tove Low song.

[1:58:46] Brantly: No, dancing on my own, Robin.

[1:58:48] Andrew: What's to wait, what's the Tove Glow song?

[1:58:51] Brantly: Maybe it's Robin, but I thought it was.

[1:58:54] Andrew: I think I think that's what's happening here.

[1:58:56] Brantly: Yeah, I thought it was Tov.

[1:58:57] Andrew: Michael Bublé.

[1:58:59] Brantly: Michael Bouble. Um, I also think if Glee were still going on, and I know this is a popular answer to say they would should have done more Taylor Swift.

[1:59:09] Andrew: Yes.

[1:59:09] Brantly: But listen, I'm a Swifty. Like through before I'm a musical theater nerd, before I am a Gleek, I am a Swifty. Before I'm a human.

[1:59:17] Andrew: Yes.

[1:59:20] Brantly: And I think there should have been a full Taylor. If Glee were still on, there would be a full Taylor Swift tribute episode by this point because they had uh um Theatricality and Acadia Origaga, which are both essentially Lady Gaga tribute episodes. And like born this way, pseudo.

[1:59:38] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:59:41] Brantly: Yeah. And like Taylor Swift is at the level, if not past the level that Lady that Lady Gaga was at in 2009, 2010. Now now I also love Gaga and she is her own thing. I'm not saying that Taylor is better than Gaga. I'm not pending them against each other. I just gonna edit this episode and be will.

[2:00:00] Andrew: You're the worst. Don't betray me, Andrew McGuire.

[2:00:03] Brantly: Taylor is better than Gaga, Taylor is better than Gaga, Taylor is better than Gaga.

[2:00:07] Andrew: I just no, I I think that um she has reached the level that Lady Gaga was at in 2009. And so they would have had to do a tribute episode, but I'm not gonna leave it at that. I've have like a very loose plot synopsis.

[2:00:20] Brantly: Right. Okay. Um so I think it would have been um the whole the like lesson of the week in Glee Club would have been about a feud. And the biggest example would have been Taylor Swift versus Scooter Braun. Um, okay. There would it be mirrored by some terrible will and sue feud because the their fights, some of them were just like, y'all are adults and you need to calm down.

[2:00:50] Andrew: Right, right, right.

[2:00:51] Brantly: Yeah. Um, which would have someone would have sang to them, perhaps. Um maybe you need to calm down the Taylor Swift song.

[2:00:57] Andrew: Oh, that's good.

[2:00:57] Brantly: Um actually, I think, yeah, so that it and they would have all in this episode, it would have all been songs owned by Taylor Swift. So whatever is re-recorded, Taylor's anything since she um switched a record label and owns all her own music, it would they would have only done songs that she owns. I think you need to calm down would have been some kind of a mashup in the same vein as let's have a Kiki Turkey Lurky Time just totally unhinged.

[2:01:21] Andrew: Okay. I'm obsessed.

[2:01:23] Brantly: Rachel would sing cardigan. Sam would somehow end up singing all too well 10 minute version.

[2:01:29] Andrew: Sam.

[2:01:30] Brantly: Yeah. I did that just came to me while I was looking at this the other day and I was like yeah totally.

[2:01:37] Andrew: Okay. I don't have context for it. I just I'm gonna need to process it.

[2:01:40] Brantly: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna need to listen to it all 10 minutes of it and really think about it. I do want the glee boot to happen eventually. I think when it does happen, I think Ben Platt will somehow be involved.

[2:01:52] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[2:01:53] Brantly: Yeah. Also and Gavin Creel and Aaron Tibate because I think they're the new wave of Ryan Murphy.

[2:01:59] Andrew: Yeah.

[2:02:00] Brantly: Oh so good. But also I I have a bit of a curveball um for you in in what what would Glee be doing today. This is something that I'm manifesting and I think actually needs to happen. We need Glee the Broadway musical.

[2:02:18] Andrew: Yes okay a la smash being adapted for the Broadway stage Smash the TV show. I think we need to take either just season one or seasons one through three and condense condense those, like you know, trim the fat a little bit so that the storylines are more cohesive. Because you know that's three seasons worth of television, but like make condense it to where you can fit it all into a two-act, two-hour 20-minute musical. Um, and it would be the jukebox musical to end all jukebox ever musicals like Mama Mia. I'm sorry I don't know her, it would run for 20 years.

[2:02:55] Andrew: Like, right, yeah.

[2:02:58] Brantly: Um it will run for 20 years. Um I think my life would suck without you would be a very good end to act one. If we're just doing season one, and then they like Will and Emma run to each other's center stage, kiss, lights come up, curtains come down. Like, and then we would have uh the same problem that Into the Woods has been experiencing, where people think it's over at the end of Act One and they leave.

[2:03:24] Andrew: And they leave.

[2:03:24] Brantly: Like, no, there's actually five more seasons.

[2:03:27] Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

[2:03:28] Brantly: Everything gets worse.

[2:03:30] Andrew: Yeah, and you need to witness it.

[2:03:32] Brantly: Okay. Um, I I did not put any thought into this bit, but I uh would like you to perhaps in a future episode cast Glee the Broadway musical for me.

[2:03:44] Andrew: Oh, that's so please do it on my behalf.

[2:03:46] Brantly: Okay, we can do that. We could hypothesize now, but we've been going for way too long to do that. I think Rachel Zegler is front of mind right now, and that's where that's where my mind is going right now for Rachel.

[2:03:58] Andrew: Aaron Tivate.

[2:03:59] Brantly: Aaron Tibet for Finn.

[2:04:02] Andrew: Oh, Finn.

[2:04:03] Brantly: I'm saying Mr. Shoe.

[2:04:04] Andrew: Shoo!

[2:04:05] Brantly: Mm-hmm.

[2:04:07] Andrew: Mr. Shoe.

[2:04:10] Brantly: Okay, yeah. Yeah, you're gonna be able to do that. We're gonna spend time with friends and family, get back to you, Brantley. Good. Um, we really love this idea. I I will admit this is an idea that my own brain has thought about um once in a while. We are we're of one mind, we're kindred glerus. Um and um, you know, I'm I'm gonna really think about this. We're gonna really workshop this.

[2:04:33] Andrew: Okay, I love this. This is good. I am I will look forward to it. Brantley, where can the glisteners find your social glio?

[2:04:42] Brantly: They might have your neck after this sway. My life would suck without you. Alright. Um Glisteners, please be kind. We um we're all just going off vibes here in this episode. Uh and everything I have said has been said with love. My uh social Gledia is Brantly No E. Because my name is Brantley, and there was no E in Brantley, but people always spell it B-R-A-N-T-L-E-Y. Oh so my uh and one of them is the underscores and one of them is dots. Um I think it is my um Instagram is Brantley dot no dot e.

[2:05:20] Andrew: Okay.

[2:05:21] Brantly: And my Twitter is Brantly underscore no underscore e. Um y'all, I'm like nobody. I'm I'm a working prof I'm a working professional, I'm an adult, like I don't do social media as my job anymore. I don't have a lot of time to devote, so you're just gonna see it's just some random life highlights on my Instagram and some random thoughts I have about pop culture on my Twitter feed.

[2:05:47] Andrew: Um the Gleaks will eat it up.

[2:05:49] Brantly: Yeah, well, uh we can we can only hope.

[2:05:54] Andrew: Brantly, thank you so much for being our Gleek of the Week this week. We had so much freaking fun.

[2:06:01] Brantly: This is a good idea.

[2:06:02] Andrew: Thank you so much for having me. We don't give two hours just to anybody.

[2:06:05] Brantly: We don't give two hours to anybody.

[2:06:06] Andrew: We definitely didn't do that to Allie Stroker.

[2:06:08] Brantly: That's true. Well, Ali Stroker didn't give us the full hour.

[2:06:12] Andrew: I am honored. This has been a dream come true.

[2:06:16] Brantly: A dream that I have had since December 31st of 2021.

[2:06:23] Andrew: That's so good.

[2:06:24] Brantly: No, I would um this has been so fun. Um we'll see you in round two.

[2:06:29] Andrew: I was about to say, if you have me, but if you would have me back for round two, I would love nothing more.

[2:06:33] Andrew: We'll have you back in round two. Don't even worry about it. You have some glots.

[2:06:36] Brantly: Yeah. Thank you. I am nothing if not opinionated. I just don't always express the opinions.

[2:06:42] Andrew: That's why we've gone two hours because I try to keep my hot takes off to it.

[2:06:48] Brantly: To end the episode, we're gonna say bye in our most annoying voices after one. And I want to record this for my one second a day video.

[2:06:55] Andrew: Oh my gosh.

[2:06:56] Brantly: Oh my gosh, yes. Okay. Let me know when you're ready.

[2:06:59] Andrew: I'm ready.

[2:07:00] Brantly: Okay. Three, two, one, bye.

[2:07:04] Andrew: Bye!

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