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[0:00] Andrew: Glee glee go the week.

[0:03] Allison: I'm ready to record a conversation. Do you have something to say to me, Andrew?

[0:09] Andrew: Yeah. And I want it recorded. And I want you to be able to listen back to it actually. I want you to hear what I have to say to you, bitch.

[0:17] Allison: Yeah. And actually, I'm gonna publish this shit.

[0:21] Andrew: I really do have swear.

[0:24] Allison: You need to swear more in order to get over the PTSD of not swearing during the live stream.

[0:28] Andrew: I do have PTSD of swearing on the live stream because Gleeks, if you were there during the live stream, um we were woke to our audience on the live stream. We had 74 faces looking back at us, and we just we were like, oh, I'm scared to swear right now.

[0:45] Allison: I just noticed that a few times I swore and there were reactions, and I was like, oh, I'm not used to this when recording content.

[0:56] Andrew: I know. When I'm just looking at you, all I want to do is swear.

[0:59] Allison: So fuck bitch.

[1:02] Andrew: Fuck bitch, shit, damn fart hell, okay. Um Andrew, what do you have to say to me?

[1:09] Andrew: I have actually three things that I need to say. Um, oh, the first being the live episode recap. And that was like literally what I wanted to talk about about the swearing. It was very fun. It was very cute. I felt all the love in it was so fun. I cannot thank you enough. And I feel like we sort of like undermined the fact that it was episode 100.

[1:34] Allison: Yeah.

[1:35] Andrew: Because I was like, I was like, I really want to send these people to sleep. Like I was very aware of like time zones. You know, it was like a reasonable hour for us, but it was reaching 4 a.m. for some of you.

[1:48] Allison: Yes.

[1:49] Andrew: And I was like, oh no, no, no, no. You need to go. We love you. Thank you for tuning in.

[1:53] Allison: Yeah.

[1:54] Andrew: Okay, thing number two. Thing number two. Um, second round thoughts. And we were talking about it off mic yesterday. But like well, on mic, but off recording. We weren't recording this conversation.

[2:08] Allison: Um, which I feel like in some ways, I get like a side note. I kind of get sad about our friendship sometimes because I'm like, if we are like just like talking, if most of our conversations are recorded, it's like we're not actually having conversations as like just like as like real as we can be. You know what I mean?

[2:27] Andrew: We talk to each other on the phone after every episode not being recorded.

[2:34] Allison: Yeah, I don't know. I just like I I don't know. It was like in my feelings a little bit about it. But anyway, um we were oh I'm like, can we just record can we actually just stop releasing this podcast for anybody and just release it just for us? Second round is actually just for us. And then we listen back and we're like, I wonder what they're gonna do.

[2:56] Andrew: What are they gonna do?

[2:58] Allison: Um, but uh second round thoughts, we want to supply you with the best glant um available on the internet. Um, and we are afraid that by talking about songs that we've already given our opinion on, that we are gonna recycle thoughts, we're going to recycle jokes, and it will not be good content for you.

[3:25] Andrew: We are aware of this, and we are brainstorming ways that we do not give you, I don't know, what am I saying? But yeah. We want to give you the best new and good content, but about songs that we've already heard at least once.

[3:43] Allison: Right.

[3:43] Andrew: So we want to keep it new and we want to keep it fresh. Because I think I think that's what you're trying to say.

[3:48] Allison: Exactly, because the way that the Glackett has been so far, all the songs that we've pulled, a hundred percent of them have been new songs that we have not given our opinions on.

[4:01] Andrew: I'm in the public eye.

[4:03] Allison: Yeah, so um, I don't know. Like, I am curious to hear if you have any ideas. If you have any like, okay, like in the second round, I want Andrew and Allison to be looking through it through this lens, through a more like hypercritical, like, was their dancing? Was the vocals more vocaling? I don't know. But um, I don't know. That we're just like, we really are aware of the content that we are putting out, and we want to give you the best.

[4:36] Andrew: The best of the best.

[4:37] Allison: Big kiss.

[4:38] Andrew: Big kiss. Give us your ideas, give us your glots because we are we are glotting all up in here, just glotting all over the floor. And um we're thinking about it. We're excited. We're thinking about it. We are scared. I think that the second round will be um, you know, it's an honor just to be nominated for sure. You know, like if you made it this far, like consider yourself a winner of the Glackett.

[5:03] Allison: Exactly.

[5:04] Andrew: Um, yeah, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be silly. We're gonna have a guest that we had on in the past, but it's a few episodes from now. Anyway, um, my third bullet point was ugly thought that I've been sitting on for so damn long that I was like, hmm, like, where do I talk about this? And I'm like, oh, that's right. You have a glee podcast. I have a glee podcast. Okay.

[5:30] Andrew: So, um, I'm gonna actually look up the stats here. Because in the hit fuck series Glee, Lauren Zises first appears in the episode Wheels, and then she like is like here and there until season three, episode three, Asian F. She's there present for Run the World Girls, right?

[5:56] Allison: And then the following episode, season three, episode four, Rory arrives.

[6:03] Andrew: And we see Rory pretty frequently throughout season three, and then we see him in season four in his last appearance in season four, episode Glee actually in the dream sequence. Sick with me.

[6:21] Allison: Okay.

[6:22] Andrew: The following episode. After Glee actually is season four, episode Sadie Hawkins, which Lauren Zises finally returns after not appearing since Asian F. And she makes that one appearance, and then her next and final appearance is in the series finale. And actually, now that I'm saying it out loud, I don't know if this is actually interesting content that it's like Lauren Zises can only exist when Damien McGuinty does not.

[7:02] Allison: Does not? Is that intro Do you find this interesting?

[7:06] Andrew: Yes. Because I'm you know me. I love the lore, and I love um as a deep internalized swifty, I have to notice the patterns.

[7:17] Allison: Yeah.

[7:17] Andrew: Um and yeah, I I think that actually Rory and Lauren Zises are the same person. I've never seen them in the same room together.

[7:25] Allison: We truly haven't.

[7:26] Andrew: I just think it's so odd that it's like the second Lauren stops making frequent appearances, Rory shows up immediately in the next episode.

[7:37] Allison: And then weird.

[7:39] Andrew: Rory ends his entire arc and then Lauren comes back.

[7:45] Allison: Interesting.

[7:46] Andrew: I think Ashley Fink and Damien McGuinty had a strenuous love affair, and they actually had in their contract could not be on set on the same day.

[7:55] Allison: Oh, okay.

[7:57] Andrew: Damon McGuinty and Ashley Fink, tell me I'm wrong.

[7:59] Allison: Damien McGinty, Ashley Fink, you're invited.

[8:02] Andrew: Oh my god, could you imagine if we had them on one episode together? Like, I think I would explode simply because I've never even considered them taking up space in the same.

[8:14] Allison: You know what?

[8:15] Andrew: No, they actually, now that I think about it, they both went to the Glee 3D concert movie premiere.

[8:23] Allison: Premiere.

[8:24] Andrew: They were both there.

[8:26] Allison: Okay.

[8:26] Andrew: So they have interacted before.

[8:28] Allison: They have interacted, and we have like they were both in.

[8:30] Andrew: Oh, Damien was not in I Lived.

[8:34] Allison: Right, exactly.

[8:35] Andrew: Wow. That's what I'm saying.

[8:36] Allison: Oh, that's cosmic right there.

[8:39] Andrew: Right. I mean, Lauren, Ashley did an episode of the Glee Project, season one, which Damien was a participant in.

[8:50] Allison: Oh.

[8:51] Andrew: But that's them playing themselves.

[8:54] Allison: Right.

[8:54] Andrew: I don't know. I just needed. I need to have all of my glee opinions sort of published somewhere in the city.

[9:03] Allison: Thank you for sharing that.

[9:05] Andrew: That's one that I just like have been sitting on.

[9:07] Allison: Yeah, no, I am gonna think about that for a long time, and I'm gonna wonder what a scene between Rory and Lauren would have looked like. Because I think Lauren would have come in and been very aggressive, and Rory would have been like, I'm Irish.

[9:19] Andrew: I don't know.

[9:20] Allison: I'm right. How do you think that conversation would have gone?

[9:24] Andrew: I don't know. I think that like I'm just thinking like the way that they wrote Rory, and it's like I feel like you'd be like never seen a strong woman like you before or something, you know?

[9:36] Allison: Is that your Irish accent?

[9:39] Andrew: I guess so. I I don't want to actually say it was, so no one can actually come from.

[9:43] Allison: I think so.

[9:44] Andrew: I think so. Um, but yeah, I don't I don't know what what would they talk even talk about?

[9:45] Allison: I don't know.

[9:52] Andrew: I don't know, right? They're like lives don't even cross paths. Like I guess Lauren Zises is tied to Quinn is tied to Puck and uh Rory is tied to Artie, is tied to Sugar, is tied to Brittany, is tied to Santana, is tied to Finn.

[10:10] Allison: So they're like two sides.

[10:13] Andrew: I feel like there was a much quicker way of connecting these two characters. Hey, guess what? They were both in the same Glee Club.

[10:21] Allison: I don't know if you watch.

[10:23] Andrew: Oh, yeah, they were, weren't they?

[10:25] Allison: Oh, okay.

[10:25] Allison: Okay, I got you.

[10:26] Andrew: Yeah.

[10:26] Andrew: No, I'm thinking of like the circle of characters that Lauren Zyces was connected to, and the circle of characters that Rory was connected to don't cross really.

[10:36] Allison: Lauren was connected to there's a quick, we're gonna do like uh HOV lane, you know what I mean? To uh HOV lane to uh the Lauren Rory um connection.

[10:52] Andrew: Okay, that that's the carpal lane, right?

[10:56] Allison: Yeah, that's what that is.

[10:57] Andrew: Um okay, I'm I just wanted reaffirmation. Um yeah, okay, so Quinn uh Lauren was connected to Puck.

[11:06] Allison: Yep.

[11:07] Andrew: Quick stop.

[11:09] Allison: Quick stop.

[11:10] Andrew: Puck was connected to who is he like really connected to? That was like Puck had an episode with Artie, would you say?

[11:20] Allison: Yeah.

[11:21] Andrew: Yeah. And then could you do could you do the the Artie to Rory?

[11:25] Allison: Yeah, and that's what I'm I I can see that, but I don't think there's one degree between Rory and Lauren.

[11:34] Andrew: There's two degrees at all times.

[11:36] Allison: You know what? In her penultimate um episode, Sadie Hawkins in season four. She was part of the Too Young to be Bitter club that consisted of Dottie Casatori, Lauren Zises, Sugar Mata, and Tina Conchange.

[11:53] Andrew: Oh, there it is.

[11:54] Allison: Sugar Mada.

[11:55] Andrew: Sugar Mata.

[11:56] Allison: Sugar Mata is the one degree between Rory and the one degree.

[11:59] Andrew: Sugar. Connecting everybody. Remember how we're one degree from Taylor Swift?

[12:05] Allison: Oh, because of Harper Gray?

[12:06] Andrew: Yeah. I don't think we ever talked about this on the podcast, but like that was when we were like really like we don't talk about anything.

[12:07] Allison: We don't talk about Bruno, yeah.

[12:15] Andrew: We really don't talk about one degree from Taylor Swift because we had Harper Gray on the podcast and Harper Gray was in a wedding party with Taylor Swift.

[12:23] Allison: She was like in a bridal party?

[12:26] Andrew: Yeah, that's crazy.

[12:29] Allison: Wide?

[12:30] Andrew: Wide. I said wide. I wanted to say why, and I wanted to say wild. So I just said wide.

[12:36] Allison: Wide.

[12:37] Andrew: High occupancy vehicle.

[12:41] Allison: Um yeah, that is really wild. And like I remember you telling you told like your mom's friends or something about it.

[12:49] Andrew: Right.

[12:49] Allison: And my mom's friends pooped their pants. They were like, what?

[12:53] Andrew: She's one degree from Taylor Swift.

[12:55] Allison: That means she's two degrees from Mr. Harry fucking styles, baby.

[12:59] Andrew: Stop. You just cursed and I got really nervous again.

[13:05] Allison: Oh my god, I have to do exposure exposure thing for swearing.

[13:09] Andrew: Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

[13:12] Allison: We literally mark every episode explicit.

[13:14] Andrew: I don't know what you want us to do.

[13:16] Allison: Um, I have a a Glois mail as well. I'm really just like providing a lot of providing I had something, but I'll keep it.

[13:24] Andrew: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No. We need Alice and Breaks.

[13:30] Allison: So I recently got a couple tattoos, right?

[13:34] Andrew: Mm-hmm.

[13:34] Allison: Oh wait. Reveal.

[13:36] Andrew: Reveal.

[13:36] Allison: Tattoo reveal, everybody. I got a Harry's Styles tattoo and a nineteen seventy-five tattoo. Nineteen seventy-five is my favorite band.

[13:45] Andrew: And medium, all of the glisteners' jaws on the float.

[13:50] Allison: No, on the float. Um I am on TikTok and my TikTok algorithm gives me a bunch of shit. Recently, I've been like noticing the algorithm really badly. Like I'm like, oh, I stayed for too long on this type of video, and now they're giving me just a shit ton of it.

[14:10] Andrew: Right, right, right.

[14:11] Allison: And recently they gave me a 1975 Glee TikTok that I wanted to share with you. Because you don't know any 1975 music.

[14:20] Andrew: No, don't do that. Because remember a few years ago, I listened to an album every day for like maybe two months, and I listened to 1975, and it didn't really land for me.

[14:20] Allison: It didn't really land for you.

[14:31] Andrew: It's not for you.

[14:32] Allison: It's not. It's not for me, but it's okay.

[14:34] Andrew: But that's okay. We're gonna share the TikTok. Um let me find the TikTok. I'm gonna play you some songs that people think, and the context that people think they would uh share them on Glee.

[14:48] Andrew: Can you give me permission to share my screen, please?

[14:50] Allison: Uh no.

[14:52] Andrew: No, you're good.

[14:53] Allison: No, actually, no.

[14:55] Andrew: I have more things I want to say.

[14:58] Allison: I have more points.

[15:00] Andrew: So I actually do have another point that just came up.

[15:02] Allison: Oh, you do?

[15:04] Andrew: Yeah, actually I do.

[15:05] Allison: God.

[15:06] Andrew: Okay, so this song is called "Sex," and TikTok thinks that it's a duet between Kurt and Blaine.

[15:14] Allison: Probably when they were broken up, and one of them is trying to win the other back.

[15:17] Andrew: Which I don't see this.

[15:36] Allison: That does sound like Darren Criss.

[15:38] Andrew: You think?

[15:39] Allison: Like, I would believe.

[15:41] Andrew: If I was like gone gone.

[15:46] Allison: Yeah, I can see it in his like, won't like one.

[15:50] Andrew: Like in the world.

[15:52] Allison: Oh, that's a good one for tonight.

[15:53] Andrew: Okay.

[15:54] Allison: Oh yeah, we're pulling that tonight.

[15:56] Andrew: I'm telling you right now.

[15:57] Allison: I'm telling you right now.

[15:58] Andrew: Um, and then this song would be Sue.

[16:07] Allison: Uh, the song was written for Sue, probably done as a number when she tries to seduce Michael Bolton.

[16:16] Andrew: Um, skip to some words.

[16:31] Allison: I'm just holding it.

[16:39] Andrew: I don't see that one.

[16:41] Allison: I don't see it.

[16:42] Andrew: I don't I don't see it.

[16:43] Allison: It's kind of a reach for me.

[16:45] Andrew: Um, I mean, like it is very like monotone.

[16:48] Allison: Yeah.

[16:49] Andrew: Like within the range.

[16:51] Allison: Yeah, it stays within the range.

[16:52] Andrew: There's a part where he goes.

[16:56] Allison: Yeah.

[16:57] Andrew: Uh wait, why am I even? I'm trying to sing it, but like my mind is completely blanking in what the words are.

[17:01] Allison: Maddie Healy famously can't tell what the fuck he sang in any of these songs.

[17:06] Andrew: Um, but the lyrics mean so much to me.

[17:09] Allison: Audio medium and shaking my head.

[17:11] Andrew: Audio medium, you're shaking your head now.

[17:13] Allison: Um, this next song is uh Rachel solo, obviously turned into a massive ballad, sat in the choir room, directed at Finn and Quinn after Rachel cheated on Finn with Puck.

[17:32] Andrew: And it was a lie.

[17:38] Allison: What do you think, Rachel?

[17:41] Andrew: That's a good one thing.

[17:47] Allison: Audio medium, I put my hand up when I'm like stop.

[17:52] Andrew: Because I feel like it's rude audio if I'm like, okay, you're done.

[17:52] Allison: Okay, you're done.

[17:58] Andrew: Um, but I mean I didn't hear like a big note note. Is there a note note later in the song?

[18:05] Allison: Um, I hate that I like I want the like lyrics right in front of me so I can pick out a part.

[18:15] Andrew: Not really.

[18:15] Allison: There's not really the gun.

[18:18] Andrew: Okay.

[18:25] Allison: Yeah, I don't know.

[18:26] Andrew: I don't like this.

[18:28] Allison: You don't like this music.

[18:30] Andrew: You don't like this music.

[18:31] Allison: I love this music.

[18:32] Andrew: Like this is I'm so sorry.

[18:34] Allison: This is my everything, but I'll finish up with my favorite song of all time, so you can't say anything bad about it.

[18:40] Andrew: And I do agree, TikTok says that this would 100% be done by the Warblers.

[18:44] Allison: Uh, their harmonies and weird swaying side to side.

[18:47] Andrew: Okay.

[18:48] Allison: Let me get to like the chorus.

[19:01] Andrew: Yeah, I can hear like a like um for like the Warblers in the back being like.

[19:08] Allison: Yeah, acapella.

[19:09] Andrew: I you could acapella the sound by The 1975.

[19:12] Allison: I could see it.

[19:13] Andrew: Yeah.

[19:13] Allison: I could see it too.

[19:14] Andrew: They made points with that last one.

[19:16] Allison: They made points with that last one.

[19:17] Andrew: There they go on for another half of the TikTok, but I won't I won't force you to uh uh listen to the rest because I don't I don't agree.

[19:25] Allison: There is an Artie song and a Mercedes song.

[19:28] Andrew: Do I do you dare?

[19:30] Allison: No.

[19:30] Andrew: No.

[19:31] Allison: What what do you want?

[19:32] Andrew: I'll just say it for the people that know The 1975. This TikTok person thinks "Love It If We Made It" is a Mercedes solo.

[19:39] Allison: Uh-huh.

[19:40] Andrew: And then "Two Time" is an Artie number.

[19:43] Allison: Which I don't I wouldn't have wanted them to sing The 1975 on Glee genuinely, uh, because it would have made me kinda sick.

[19:52] Andrew: Because it's like it's a very particular sound that they have with their music, and that I don't think would fit on Glee.

[20:02] Allison: I know. That's like one of the things that like I'm like kind of like thankful, and I'm like, I'm sure that like people would love like Glee to cover like Lil Nas X, but I'm like personally I don't need that.

[20:17] Andrew: Like I don't want to hear that.

[20:18] Allison: I don't need "Unholy" Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[20:21] Andrew: I don't need "Die For You" Weekend Ariana Grande remix Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[20:27] Allison: They would have done it, but I don't want it, you know?

[20:30] Andrew: Yeah.

[20:30] Allison: Yeah.

[20:31] Andrew: Like I don't need "Kill Bill" by SZA covered by Ooh, wait, no.

[20:37] Allison: Wait, maybe.

[20:39] Andrew: No, I don't want that.

[20:41] Allison: I know. I'm like struggling to like think of I know I'm I'm thinking in my head, Glisteners at home, audio medium.

[20:48] Andrew: I'm thinking about Santana, Rachel and Unique and Mercedes.

[20:52] Allison: For SZA.

[20:53] Andrew: But like for like SZA, yeah.

[20:56] Allison: But like, I don't know if I would actually want any of them to sing it actually.

[21:00] Andrew: No.

[21:01] Allison: The only SZA I would want them to sing is the song that I have on my Bird Show playlist, "The Other Side," SZA Justin Timberlake song from Trolls World Tour.

[21:10] Andrew: Yeah.

[21:10] Allison: Yeah.

[21:11] Andrew: Trolls.

[21:12] Allison: Um, did you watch that movie?

[21:13] Andrew: No.

[21:14] Allison: No.

[21:14] Andrew: I've never seen a single troll.

[21:16] Allison: They fart glitter.

[21:19] Andrew: I think that, like, I think I would enjoy it.

[21:22] Allison: Like, knowing me, knowing like I enjoyed like the Paw Patrol movie, and I enjoyed like the Blues Clues movie.

[21:29] Andrew: Like, I think that I would enjoy this.

[21:33] Allison: You would like Trolls, you think?

[21:35] Andrew: I think I would.

[21:36] Allison: They have they have trolls at um Universal Studios that actively fart glitter, like in person.

[21:44] Andrew: You're kidding.

[21:45] Allison: I'm not joking.

[21:46] Andrew: Wait, how do they do that?

[21:47] Allison: I don't know.

[21:48] Andrew: Do they just go?

[21:51] Allison: Umise.

[21:53] Andrew: Do it again.

[21:56] Allison: It's like at a pitch that I I can't hear it right now.

[21:59] Andrew: So I I can't actually sign off on it.

[22:01] Allison: Oh, okay.

[22:03] Andrew: I have a gloyce. It's like it's a sh a one-minute gloy smell. Do you want it?

[22:08] Allison: Yeah.

[22:08] Andrew: Okay.

[22:09] Allison: I forced you to listen to a lot of music you don't like, so here's the gloys.

[22:16] Andrew: This is my this might be the most important gloycell that we've ever received.

[22:20] Allison: Oh.

[22:20] Andrew: Stick with it until the end.

[22:22] Allison: There's a question in here.

[22:23] Andrew: Okay.

[22:24] Ali: Hello, Yan Julian Allison. This is Ali. I use she, her pronouns. Um, I used to use someone that like would go through a chat and decide. Um, like who what star sign everybody was.

[22:47] Andrew: And I've not browned out. Don't do that anymore.

[22:49] Ali: But I do need to know. Like it's heritage that I know. Out of the entire lack of characters. Who I guess who is most likely to, or even like who would. If they were going to lunch at a diner, who would order the classic lunch of a Caesar salad, a side of fries, and a diet coke?

[23:26] Andrew: That's all I got.

[23:28] Allison: I I but I do need you know. Thank you, bye.

[23:35] Andrew: You really strung us along.

[23:37] Allison: That really took me for a fucking whirlwind.

[23:41] Andrew: I know, I was sure that I did not want to share screen so you could read like the transcript of this voicemail.

[23:48] Allison: Um, but like when I listened to it earlier, I was like, when is the coin?

[23:53] Andrew: Yeah.

[23:54] Allison: Because I was like, okay, Elisa's gonna ask what star sign we think is.

[24:00] Andrew: Yeah.

[24:00] Allison: So I was like, okay, let me go through the star signs, Taurus, Gemini, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces.

[24:06] Andrew: But then who what Glee character is getting the classic Caesar salad, a diet coke, and a thing of fries at a restaurant?

[24:17] Allison: Wait, is that even like a is that a thing? I is that a I I don't know if that's like a meme or something that we're I'm just like unaware of.

[24:26] Andrew: But it is a classic combo.

[24:27] Allison: It is a classic com. I mean, I would eat that. I like I'm hungry for it right now.

[24:32] Andrew: I know.

[24:32] Allison: Um who would order that?

[24:36] Andrew: Rachel.

[24:38] Allison: Because she's a vegetarian and she's going to Texas Roadhouse Grill, and there's nothing else for her to get.

[24:45] Andrew: Oh, no, but they're at a diner.

[24:48] Allison: They're not a tech. This is Ali said that.

[24:51] Andrew: Okay, okay.

[24:51] Allison: Yeah.

[24:52] Andrew: Okay, okay.

[24:52] Allison: Sorry, Elise. I was thrown I was thrown through a loop with this glory meal.

[24:57] Andrew: Um, at a diner, I still think it's Rachel.

[25:01] Allison: I think she's boring and she's afraid of diner food.

[25:04] Andrew: Hmm.

[25:05] Allison: Do you think that she's getting fries?

[25:08] Andrew: Yeah, for fun.

[25:09] Allison: Yeah.

[25:10] Andrew: She's like, we won nationals, we're at a diner.

[25:12] Allison: We're at Denny's at fucking 2 a.m. after nationals, and uh I want a plate of French fries because she knows the benefit of um a little bit of olive oil and a little bit of uh um potatoes, carbohydrates.

[25:28] Andrew: Okay, okay.

[25:29] Allison: These fries are cooked in olive oil, I think.

[25:32] Andrew: Maybe I don't know.

[25:33] Allison: I've never made French fries before.

[25:35] Andrew: Right.

[25:36] Allison: Do you think okay? She would enjoy the meal. Like and she would like drink down the Diet Coke.

[25:40] Andrew: She'd chug that Diet Coke.

[25:41] Allison: She would.

[25:42] Andrew: She would.

[25:42] Allison: And when the waitress came back around and was like, do you want to refill? What would she say?

[25:45] Andrew: Yes.

[25:46] Allison: Genuinely, why wasn't there an addicted to soda storyline?

[25:55] Andrew: I remember my biology teacher in high school was addicted to Diet Coke.

[26:00] Allison: No, people love Diet Coke.

[26:02] Andrew: They have problems.

[26:04] Allison: Um, I personally think that Lauren Zizes and Rory Flanagan would would split this.

[26:13] Andrew: Wrap it up.

[26:15] Allison: Wrap it all up into a cute little present.

[26:17] Andrew: Um, that's pretty good.

[26:19] Allison: My final point.

[26:19] Andrew: Our guest is waiting in the waiting room.

[26:22] Allison: My final point is that we um spent hours um sh writing, straining ourselves, um rewriting episodes of Glee.

[26:34] Andrew: Um, I wrote rewrote the episode "I Kiss a Girl" on the Patreon.

[26:39] Allison: Um, hate that episode as it aired on the on the Fox Network.

[26:44] Andrew: Um, and I I feel as though I did it some justice for once.

[26:49] Allison: Um, and then Andrew, you wrote.

[26:49] Andrew: I wrote an episode in between the role you were born to play and Gleece.

[26:58] Allison: It was really iconic.

[26:58] Andrew: It was iconic.

[27:00] Allison: There's a little bit of Rydeek in there.

[27:02] Andrew: I couldn't help myself.

[27:04] Allison: Sometimes you can't.

[27:05] Andrew: I can't.

[27:05] Allison: Um, so become a Glaitron, support the podcast, and you get extra content as well as um episodes early on Fridays instead of Tuesdays.

[27:13] Andrew: Yeah.

[27:13] Allison: Um, and to wrap up the conversation, and wait what?

[27:16] Andrew: Add free.

[27:17] Allison: Add free no ads.

[27:19] Andrew: No ads, mama.

[27:21] Allison: Um, and to wrap up the conversation, what song are you manifesting tonight?

[27:26] Andrew: Uh I'm not gonna teach you.

[27:27] Allison: One you know what I heard in the bank earlier?

[27:32] Andrew: Next to me.

[27:35] Allison: No one talks about that.

[27:36] Andrew: I know I know um glistener Audrey Campbell loves that song.

[27:40] Allison: I love that song too.

[27:41] Andrew: That's a good one.

[27:42] Allison: Um, but yeah, I'm manifesting both.

[27:45] Andrew: Anyway, Glee! Gleeks, we are joined by another loyal glistener this week who has been with us for like literally like years, I feel at this point.

[27:54] Allison: Years and our DMs constantly.

[27:57] Andrew: We just found out what she looks like because she uses a burner account to message us.

[28:03] Allison: Um, Leah, how are you?

[28:06] Leah: I'm so good. I actually just followed the podcast on my like real account recently.

[28:10] Andrew: Do you really?

[28:11] Leah: Yeah, like just like the other day.

[28:13] Andrew: Okay.

[28:14] Leah: Wait, what other what other accounts are you following on your burner?

[28:18] Leah: Um, so I just use it to follow like all the things that I like don't want my real life friends to like see that I'm following.

[28:25] Andrew: Sure.

[28:25] Leah: So it's not like bad things. I feel like that sounds so bad. It's like I'm really into like the same. I'm really into like gymnastics, like college gymnastics. Like that's my secret passion project. Um, not really passion project. I don't know. Um, so I follow like a bunch of like NCAA gymnasts and like gymnastics teams. I follow Glee stuff, I follow like actors from shows I watch and stuff like that. I really just don't want to mess up my following ratio and like be following 2,000 people on my like real account.

[28:52] Andrew: That's fair.

[28:53] Allison: Yeah, Leah's crying right now on a couple of respect.

[28:58] Andrew: We're only a few minutes into the episode and she's crying.

[29:01] Allison: Oh my god.

[29:01] Leah: Oh my goodness.

[29:02] Andrew: Um, Leah, I I I completely really I also have an account exactly like that. Um, where it's just like I just want an account that I can like follow those things, and like I can see all of that content in one place.

[29:15] Allison: I don't know. Anyway, um that shit on Maine, baby.

[29:23] Andrew: That is really great.

[29:25] Leah: Um, so you mentioned that you're following some Glee accounts um on this account. Um, so I imagine that you have a relationship with the hitbox show Glee.

[29:34] Leah: I do, yes.

[29:36] Andrew: Please elaborate.

[29:38] Leah: Yeah. So it started uh like in 2009, I was in fourth grade. So I was like a little too young to be watching it, but like I had some friends who had chill parents who like let them watch Hi Gleeks.

[29:50] Andrew: Okay.

[29:50] Leah: And I remember thinking it was the most scandalous thing in the world, specifically because I knew there was like a teen pregnancy plot, and being like, oh my god, I can't believe you let them watch that. Like to these friends' parents. Um, so I was vaguely aware of Glee, like ever since then, but it was mostly just kind of like peripheral. Um, of the things I did know, I knew that there was like a blonde cheerleader with down syndrome, and I also knew that there was a blonde cheerleader and a brunette cheerleader who were dating.

[30:14] Leah: So I think in hindsight, I did fully think that Santana and Becky were a couple.

[30:18] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[30:20] Leah: That would have been really interesting to there's fanfiction about that.

[30:23] Andrew: Probably, yeah.

[30:24] Leah: Um, I also like for some reason I remember when Cory died, that being like a very formative moment in my life, despite never seeing the show.

[30:31] Andrew: Interesting.

[30:32] Leah: Um, I just remember it happening. I also remember the song See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. For some reason, for years, I was like, Oh, that's the song about that glee guy who died.

[30:41] Andrew: It is not.

[30:41] Leah: It was, it was.

[30:42] Andrew: Um, Paul Walker played Finn.

[30:46] Leah: Yeah, apparently he died like six months later. Um, but I did fully think that song was about Cory Monteith.

[30:51] Andrew: Wait, Paul Walker would have done great on Glee, actually.

[30:54] Leah: I think so, yeah.

[30:55] Andrew: He kind of I feel like he looks like Will.

[30:57] Leah: He does look like Glee. And that song would have done really well on the show.

[31:01] Andrew: I hate that song, actually.

[31:03] Leah: Oh, but um, but yeah, so like for years everyone was like, You need to watch Glee, and I was like, I will not, because I knew that like people who liked Glee were like considered annoying, and I did not want to be considered annoying.

[31:19] Leah: Um, I also have a fun little tendency of like hyperfixating on things. Um, so when I get into something, I get like really, really into it. Um, like in middle school, my Instagram handle was Pretty Little Leah because I was so obsessed with Pretty Little Liars.

[31:33] Andrew: That's good.

[31:33] Leah: And like that's a good thing. I'd go around at school telling people like it's Tuesday, that means it's like Pretty Little Liars day. Like everyone has to watch.

[31:40] Leah: Like, I was actually the worst. Um, and I knew like the monster I'd become if I watched Glee.

[31:46] Andrew: So this does come back to Pretty Little Liars.

[31:48] Leah: Oh my gosh, wait, that's like self-restraint.

[31:50] Andrew: I'm kind of obsessed with that.

[31:52] Leah: That you have like the wherewithal to like stop yourself.

[31:55] Leah: Yeah. No, I think that's a addict.

[31:58] Andrew: Exactly.

[31:59] Leah: But yeah, so it does come back to Pretty Little Liars because when Mike's Mike started making the Pretty Little Liars videos, I was obsessed. Like I watched those like weekly as like background noise things.

[32:08] Leah: So then he made the Glee videos and I started watching them and I was like this just doesn't hit the same like I feel like it would hit better if I watched the show.

[32:15] Andrew: Yeah.

[32:16] Leah: So I watched it you watch Mike's Mike Glee videos raw.

[32:21] Andrew: Yeah.

[32:22] Leah: Wow.

[32:25] Andrew: Okay, wait, wait, wait, because like Mike's Mike, he just like sort of just recaps the entire show.

[32:31] Leah: He doesn't really like it's just like hey here's what you miss on the entire series.

[32:38] Andrew: I just think he's so fucking funny.

[32:39] Leah: And I like could listen to him talk about anything.

[32:43] Andrew: But I did feel like I've literally have done the same thing. Like he just started making a Gossip Girl series and so I started watching Gossip Girl.

[32:49] Leah: Damn influencer.

[32:51] Andrew: Yeah truly I'm influenced.

[32:54] Leah: So but yeah so that was in the spring and then over the summer I did this like 60 mile bike ride that I was training for all summer.

[33:02] Leah: So I was biking and running all the time and was just like listening to Glee songs. And also Glee podcasts.

[33:09] Leah: So hence how I have ended up here. Got really in your guys' spot gas into recovering gleek um and would just like binge the backlogs while I biked.

[33:21] Andrew: Um so yeah.

[33:23] Leah: Now I'm here.

[33:25] Andrew: There you are. Love that.

[33:27] Andrew: We have so we got your submission.

[33:30] Leah: I was gonna call it Glub Mission form.

[33:32] Andrew: There's something about that that doesn't feel comfy.

[33:35] Leah: Didn't work.

[33:36] Andrew: Glove mission.

[33:37] Leah: Your Gleek submission form, and you gave us so many good details.

[33:43] Andrew: So all about your glory, your glee story.

[33:46] Leah: Yeah. And I wanna take it to your the point you make about Samchel.

[33:52] Andrew: Because I am actively seeking out other Samchel supporters.

[33:57] Leah: And I need to hear your perspective on it.

[33:59] Leah: I mean, I don't know that I really have like a specific like take as to why it works, but I just think it works. I think I think Sam and Mercedes are so boring.

[34:11] Leah: Um I just like I cannot bring myself to care.

[34:15] Leah: Um season five, oh maybe I'm just a Rachel stand, and so like I kind of support all the bad choices she makes.

[34:22] Leah: Maybe not all of them. I shouldn't go there.

[34:25] Andrew: No.

[34:25] Leah: But no, the crack house.

[34:28] Leah: Um I just I don't know. I feel like they had better chemistry than Sam Sadies.

[34:37] Leah: Rachel and Mercedes. But like I feel like Yeah, I can admit that Sam Sadies in season five, like kind of boring and like repetitive, but like Sam CDs, like end of season two, all of season three.

[34:52] Leah: Cute. Cute and I think that's better.

[34:54] Andrew: Oh, it's cute.

[34:55] Leah: And I think that it's better than all of Samchel.

[35:00] Leah: Sam Chel, Samchel is the reason I get through season six alive.

[35:07] Andrew: Not so valid.

[35:08] Leah: I wanna pull, what is it, time after time?

[35:08] Andrew: Time after time, time after time.

[35:12] Leah: I'll never fall in love again.

[35:14] Andrew: Yeah, we've got so much Samchel still in this cup, and I want to hear that tonight.

[35:18] Leah: Because I I think it's I read too deep into it where it's like Rachel's real one true love was Finn.

[35:29] Leah: And Sam has a lot of the same characteristics as Finn, and Sam knew Finn.

[35:36] Leah: So she's drawn to him because there's this natural comfort of him.

[35:43] Andrew: Um, and I love that.

[35:44] Leah: And he reciprocates.

[35:46] Andrew: He absolutely reciprocates.

[35:48] Leah: And also, I just don't think her ending up with Jesse made sense.

[35:51] Andrew: No.

[35:52] Leah: I support, I support, I love Jonathan Groff.

[35:55] Andrew: Yes.

[35:55] Leah: I just like he like the entire pretense of them getting together in the first place was like him spying for Idina Menzel.

[36:03] Leah: And he never apologized.

[36:05] Andrew: Exactly.

[36:06] Leah: Never, never, never made up for this.

[36:09] Andrew: Don't say that.

[36:10] Leah: No, I think that he did he did apologize.

[36:13] Andrew: Maybe he said I'm sorry, but he didn't apologize with his actions.

[36:16] Leah: He didn't become a better person.

[36:18] Andrew: He no, he became a better person in season six.

[36:20] Leah: He's fine in season six.

[36:22] Andrew: It's Jonathan Groff playing Jonathan Groff in season six, and we know that.

[36:26] Leah: A little puppy dog boy.

[36:27] Andrew: Yeah.

[36:28] Leah: I think he's like, I don't know.

[36:29] Leah: I forgive it. At that point, I'm like, sure.

[36:32] Leah: Like, it's better than Samchel for me.

[36:34] Andrew: I understand where you where you're coming from, though.

[36:36] Leah: It's like I don't know.

[36:39] Andrew: Fine.

[36:39] Leah: Anyway.

[36:40] Andrew: Fine.

[36:41] Leah: Sorry for yelling.

[36:45] Andrew: We need to yell on this podcast.

[36:47] Leah: We need to be needed.

[36:49] Leah: I really, I have not told any of my roommates what I'm doing, so I really hope that they're just really confused about what's happening right now.

[36:54] Andrew: I love this.

[36:54] Leah: They're like, what the fuck is Samchel?

[36:56] Leah: Like Samuel's Samchel.

[36:58] Andrew: Why is Lila talking about Glee?

[37:00] Andrew: Um, you're from Ohio.

[37:02] Leah: I am from Ohio.

[37:03] Andrew: You're from Ohio, Leah.

[37:05] Andrew: Um, and I want to know where Glee got it right about Ohio and where Glee got it terribly wrong.

[37:12] Leah: They got none of it right.

[37:13] Leah: Um, for one thing, I have been to Lima one time.

[37:18] Leah: I drove through it like on my way home from Michigan, and it's a scary ass place.

[37:23] Leah: Um, yeah, it's like very like run-down, like old industrial town.

[37:28] Leah: Um and there's like a really big drug problem there.

[37:32] Leah: Um, like it's not the kind of place you'd want to break down on the side of a road.

[37:35] Leah: Um and yeah, I did grow up.

[37:40] Andrew: Yeah, no, no.

[37:42] Leah: Um I literally drove through. I was like, I think that we're the only Jews who have ever been in the city.

[37:46] Andrew: Oh my god.

[37:47] Leah: Like we're I'm with my family, and I'm like, we are the only Jews who have ever been here.

[37:51] Andrew: Um no Peckerman would like a word.

[37:56] Leah: Yeah.

[37:57] Leah: Um and I will say I do live near near Westerville, so near uh Dalton Academy.

[38:04] Andrew: Okay.

[38:05] Andrew: Okay. Nowhere near Lima.

[38:08] Leah: Um also the fact that they I know people have talked about this, but like the outdoor courtyard, it really gets me.

[38:15] Leah: Couldn't have been a thing in a Midwestern school.

[38:17] Andrew: Like, don't even pretend.

[38:19] Leah: No, don't even pretend.

[38:21] Leah: I'm frustrated because I want that.

[38:24] Leah: Because I watch movies like EZA and I'm like, oh, that could that should be me, Justin Bieber.

[38:29] Leah: Like I that I want that.

[38:33] Andrew: And uh they just play with my heart and pretend that a Midwestern school.

[38:37] Leah: Although Ohio, not to talk about the weather on this Glee podcast right now, but Ohio has been like warm.

[38:44] Andrew: Yeah.

[38:46] Leah: People are like, oh my god, 70 degrees in Columbus.

[38:48] Leah: And I'm like, we just got 20 inches of snow, bitch.

[38:51] Andrew: Yeah, I I think we are not the same.

[38:53] Leah: I go to school in Boston. I was in Vermont this past weekend.

[38:56] Andrew: Yeah, no, it was a different beast.

[38:58] Leah: But no, Ohio historically is cold.

[39:00] Leah: Yeah, and I think it was also cold um in the years like two thousand nine.

[39:06] Andrew: Yeah, sometimes it got cold.

[39:08] Leah: Sometimes it got cold.

[39:10] Leah: Cold too cold, too cold for Will Schuster to hold a boom box outside of Emma's.

[39:16] Andrew: Oh, for sure.

[39:18] Leah: No, that was actually like because there was like fake snow.

[39:21] Andrew: I don't know.

[39:21] Leah: There was like there's better referen Okay.

[39:24] Andrew: Um like stereo hearts, an episode that famously takes place on Valentine's Day.

[39:31] Leah: Yeah.

[39:31] Andrew: Yeah.

[39:32] Leah: And they're just like comfortably outside.

[39:34] Leah: No.

[39:34] Leah: Like I think they're wearing like some little coats, but not what you need.

[39:34] Leah: No, not in like Travel, Ohio.

[39:41] Andrew: And then also I like I really like have like this speed round of uh questions for you, Leah.

[39:47] Andrew: Um, so you mentioned that like Smooth Criminal is good, but um I'm waiting for it to be great.

[39:54] Leah: You're you're waiting for it to be great.

[39:55] Andrew: Okay, and um I think that's an opinion that has never been said publicly ever, so I I'm kind of curious.

[40:02] Leah: Yeah, I've gotten in fights about this.

[40:05] Leah: Um I um I just don't think it's that great.

[40:11] Leah: Like I feel like there's like 10 Santana songs alone that I like better than Smooth Criminal.

[40:16] Andrew: It doesn't scratch your brain?

[40:17] Leah: No, it really doesn't.

[40:19] Andrew: Not the cellos?

[40:21] Leah: No. That's like not even my top number in that episode.

[40:25] Andrew: Black or white.

[40:26] Leah: Speaking of things, we're glanifesting.

[40:27] Andrew: That's it.

[40:29] Leah: Yeah.

[40:29] Andrew: Okay.

[40:30] Andrew: One of my faves.

[40:31] Leah: Do you like that better than Smooth Criminal?

[40:33] Andrew: The like this is changing.

[40:36] Leah: Oh no.

[40:37] Andrew: Oh no, that's too high for my Zoom to pick up.

[40:40] Leah: You can't hear it.

[40:41] Andrew: I could not.

[40:42] Leah: Oh my god, it's finally my turn.

[40:45] Andrew: Wow.

[40:45] Leah: Yeah.

[40:46] Andrew: Um, and then also to to really this out, your relationship with Glee, Leah.

[40:53] Leah: Um, you have um an interesting story about um Roe v. Wade that connects with Glee that um we would love for you to tell publicly.

[41:05] Leah: Yeah, so I work in a hospital and I was just at the at the desk of the nurses station minding my own business one day, listening to my glee playlist as one does, like with one airpod in, um, while I was doing my work, and I was listening to the scientist, glee cast version, and by Glee Cast, you might have heard.

[41:24] Andrew: I'm just like, wait, who is a black one?

[41:26] Leah: Yeah.

[41:27] Leah: Um, and I get in like New York Times notification on my phone that says that Roe v. Wade has been returned.

[41:32] Leah: Um, specifically, I was listening to the Brittany verse or like the Brittany two lines.

[41:38] Andrew: Questions of science.

[41:39] Leah: Yes, exactly.

[41:40] Leah: Um grass. I really just I feel like that's a story that I will tell my grandchildren one day.

[41:46] Leah: Is I was listening to the Glee Cast version of the scientist, the Brittany verse. When I found out that Roe v. Wade was overturned.

[41:54] Andrew: I'm trying to think of like when Glee songs are happened in important times in my life.

[42:00] Leah: Yeah.

[42:00] Andrew: Nothing beats that though.

[42:02] Leah: That's a that's a good that's like a really good one.

[42:04] Andrew: Yeah.

[42:05] Leah: I mean, not good, but like not good, but like wow, that's iconic that you can you can say that.

[42:11] Andrew: Like the Britney part.

[42:12] Leah: Yeah, I feel like I had like an out-of-body experience where I was like I was on one plane experiencing this happening and then on the other plane looking at myself from outside and being like this is so fucking funny.

[42:22] Leah: Um they don't speak as loud as my heart.

[42:26] Andrew: No, I would say yeah um that is that is a line about abortion actually.

[42:31] Leah: I'm speaking the truth.

[42:32] Andrew: You're you're manifesting black or white yes for this evening.

[42:37] Andrew: Are there any like front runners for glanifestations?

[42:40] Leah: I mean, obviously faithfully.

[42:42] Leah: Um I feel pretty unpretty, landslide, all those things.

[42:47] Leah: Yeah twisted my heart.

[42:49] Leah: You want to cry cry.

[42:50] Andrew: And then the other one that I feel like this one might not be quite as popular of an opinion as those other ones.

[42:54] Leah: Those are all pretty popular, is you learn slash you've got a friend.

[42:58] Leah: I firmly believe Jagged Little Tapestry, top five episode for music.

[43:02] Andrew: Well and I want to talk about it.

[43:04] Leah: You'd be right.

[43:05] Andrew: Yeah, you've you've had some opinions that like no one would agree with, but I feel like I'm myself included.

[43:11] Andrew: I'm in I'm agreeing with that opinion.

[43:13] Leah: I love that that soundtrack.

[43:15] Leah: I uh it's so good.

[43:16] Leah: I like I don't know that I'd say the episode is a top five episode, but the soundtrack, top five soundtrack.

[43:22] Leah: No skips, not not a single goddamn skip on that album.

[43:26] Andrew: Okay, we're ready.

[43:29] Leah: Yes, yeah.

[43:30] Leah: I have not even gotten my cup yet, if I'm gonna be honest.

[43:33] Andrew: I need to get out of my closet.

[43:34] Leah: Okay. Go get it.

[43:35] Andrew: I'll pull this up.

[43:37] Leah: Trying reaching into the deep depths of my brain.

[43:41] Leah: I literally just listened to I mean, we listened to the Gleek of the Week Remaining Pl playlist all the fucking time.

[43:47] Andrew: And I'm you don't know it.

[43:50] Leah: Wait, no, I do.

[43:51] Leah: We literally talked about this at the top of the goddamn episode.

[43:55] Andrew: Here we go.

[43:56] Leah: Now that I see the photo, I'm like, oh yeah.

[43:58] Andrew: Oh yeah.

[44:00] Leah: What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble.

[44:12] ♪ Musical number: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[45:47] Leah: Wait. Boop boop boop pop. I pulled this, and reading words is not enough for me. Somebody who is in the mental illness field, please diagnose me because I read this. I read I'll never fall in love again, and I hear never going back again. I'm like, wait. No, we already pulled it. We pulled that. That's not what this is. But then I see the image and I'm like, I would listen to that again tonight, though. We're not gonna pull it. It's already gone. Um I feel like this is perfect for this. Perfect. We've got the courtyard. We've got the sample. Wow, so much. Leo. Everything is reaching a peak.

[46:34] Andrew: My first note was did they make Sam Burnett to finify him?

[46:37] Leah: That's what I was about to say. Like, is did he just did he just stop dyeing his hair or did he dye it brown?

[46:45] Andrew: That's so interesting. I've never seen it. Is he a blonde? Naturally?

[46:49] Leah: I don't know. Well, they say like in the in the show canon, they say that he bleaches his hair.

[46:56] Andrew: Yeah.

[46:57] Leah: Yeah. But I don't know. Is Cord Overstreet a blonde?

[46:59] Andrew: Well, I think like Cord is blonde now. Like, I think that this was a good one. I haven't looked at a recent photo of Cord Overstreet in a long time.

[47:07] Leah: No.

[47:08] Andrew: Uh, but like he well, I mean, like he was in Lindsay Lohan falling for Christmas.

[47:12] Leah: Oh yeah.

[47:13] Andrew: Blonde.

[47:14] Leah: Blonde.

[47:15] Andrew: Like he's he's blonde boy. That is that's an interesting theory.

[47:20] Leah: That I could almost get behind.

[47:22] Andrew: To fit. I don't think I could I could get behind that, yes.

[47:25] Leah: Yeah. No, but I like the song. It's not one that I would like necessarily put on while I was driving, but like I wouldn't read for it, but I also wouldn't skip it if it came on.

[47:36] Andrew: I don't like songs that talk about pneumonia. Because I had pneumonia and it sucked.

[47:42] Leah: Rhyming pneumonia with Tafonia.

[47:45] Andrew: Yeah. I kinda I know I love that. Iconic. It's it's inspired, it's camp, it's all of the above. Um yeah, I love it. What is this song from?

[47:57] Leah: This is the Bert Backrack episode of Glee.

[48:02] Andrew: So what movie was this in?

[48:04] Leah: Wait, was this in a um? I just assume that all Bert Baccarak movie or songs are in movies.

[48:11] Andrew: Uh it might be the movie literally called I'll Never.

[48:14] Leah: No, it's from I Feel Dum Dumb.

[48:16] Andrew: It's from Promises Promises, and they cover two songs on Glee from Promises Promises. Anybody know the other one?

[48:23] Leah: Promises, promises Promises, Promises, and also wait, there's actually a third one. I know you're gonna be gooped. Are you ready?

[48:33] Andrew: Is it uh uh don't sleep on the subway?

[48:37] Leah: Turkey Lurky time.

[48:40] Andrew: Yeah. Wow. Okay, it's me, Andrew. I'm in the middle of editing, and again, I said something not factually correct in the musical Promises Promises. Um, it includes uh Turkey Luger Time, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Promises Promises, as well as two other songs that have a Glee Cast version by Glee Cast, which include I Say a Little Prayer. And also A House Is Not a Home. Okay, back to the episode. Bye.

[49:06] Leah: So full of bops. I w I would say this is a bop.

[49:09] Andrew: Okay. I like it.

[49:10] Leah: It's not bad. I don't think that like Samchel had a bad track to their name. I just didn't like the plot.

[49:19] Andrew: Yeah, all their songs are good. Time efforts. They're also really hot, both of them in this.

[49:24] Leah: They do look really hot. Rachel has like three ear piercings. And I'm like, okay, sis.

[49:29] Andrew: Yeah. Interesting. Sleep or berry.

[49:32] Leah: Slateelberry. I really empty brain with this one, though. Andrew, what would you have rather seen if we didn't get Samchel? Because Rachel, it's the Rachel Berry show. She has to have a love interest. Who do you would you rather have had?

[49:46] Andrew: I would have just like wanted to see something more interesting. Like, um, like Rachel with. Oh, I would have loved to see like her and Mike Chang the final season. Like, oh.

[49:56] Leah: I don't like that it's interesting. I would just like to see that how that dynamic plays out. Considering they've never spoken to each other before.

[50:05] Andrew: Yeah. Has anybody ever told you how great you are? In the in the blame it on the alcohol episode.

[50:10] Leah: Yeah. That's good. I made my friend who has never seen an episode of Glee watched that episode with me the other day. She was real confused.

[50:17] Andrew: It really stands the test of time.

[50:21] Leah: Yeah. Um, I don't, I don't imagine this song will go through, but I guess I wouldn't be mad if it did.

[50:31] Andrew: It's a big one.

[50:32] Leah: It's a big one? Is it big three?

[50:35] Andrew: I just want to tell you.

[50:40] Leah: It might. Oh my god! It is big three.

[50:43] Andrew: Bye, Sam 3. Big three.

[50:46] Leah: Wait, okay, wait. So is have we decided is let's have a kiki big part of the big three.

[50:51] Andrew: Big three is turkey.

[50:53] Leah: Somewhere only we know.

[50:54] Andrew: Yeah. Number one. I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend.

[50:58] Leah: And then turkey lurky time.

[51:00] Andrew: Turkey lurky time. Okay, here we go. This is hilarious.

[51:04] Leah: Hello.

[51:05] Andrew: Hey, I'm calling you back.

[51:08] Leah: Oh, she's been a bitch tonight. And by bitch, I mean this rain.

[51:13] Andrew: No cabs, nowhere.

[51:16] Leah: So I had to put on the wig and the heels and the lashes and the ear. And take a train to the club. So I hope you're up, girl. Because we are all coming over. Unlock the door, lower the blinds, a light up the smoke machine, and put on your heels, cause I know exactly what we need.

[51:35] Andrew: Let's have a kiki.

[51:36] Leah: I wanna have a kiki. Lock the door tight. Let's have a kiki. Mother. I'm gonna let you have it. Let's have a kiki. I wanna have a kiki. Fork, let's have a kiki. We are gonna serve. And work. And turn hop up, honey. We're what what's a kiki?

[51:54] Andrew: A kiki is a party for calming all your nerves. We're spilling tea and dishing just desserts when they deserve. And though the sun is rising, few may choose to leave. So shave that lid and we'll all bid a cute your on week.

[52:09] Leah: Let's have a kiki. I wanna have a kiki. Lock the door tight. Let's have a kiki. Mother. I'm gonna let you have it. Let's have a kiki. I wanna have a kiki. Turn for let's have a kiki. We are gonna serve and work. And turn ha up, honey. It's turkey lurky time. Turkey ran away, but he just came home. It's turkey lurky time. He's really holding his stay, never want to roam. Let's make a wish, and may I always just come. Turkey, lurky, goosy, loose? Silver, uncle Joe! Silver Cas and Lucy. Everybody gather on the table. Dick Engine is being served. Eat all the turkey label. Can't you see a partridge in a pantry? Climb up and bring it down for me. That's something I would let to see. This Kiki is fabulous. So we we no. Kiki. So so no, let's have a Kiki. I wanna have a Kiki. Look the doors. Let's have a Kiki. Dropper. I'm gonna let you have it. Let's have a Kiki. I wanna have a Kiki, please. Ten queens. Let's have a Kiki. We are gonna serve and work until Giki.

[53:26] Andrew: Okay. We've been waiting for this. Who wants to lead us in this discourse?

[53:35] Leah: My cheeks hurt from smiling so hard. This is the epitome of everything that has ever been anything.

[53:48] Andrew: Uh glee. When you think glee, you think.

[53:52] Leah: Don't stop believing first. Turkey lurky time, let's have a kiki second. This is I love this. I think when I first watched the show when it this episode first came out, I was like, okay, this means nothing to me. Um, it didn't hit, but now with all of the knowledge that I have and the sense of humor I have and the like wokeness to what glee became. Um This could have very well been left in the dust.

[54:25] Andrew: Yes.

[54:26] Leah: If Glee didn't have a resurgence. Mm-hmm. I think that we would look back at it like, haha, wasn't that funny that like we witnessed that and like there were like no other people there? Like, I mean, like other people obviously watched it, but like would anybody remember it? It's not like a a reference point that is easily made. I don't know. Like this is so easily referential now.

[54:53] Andrew: Yes.

[54:54] Leah: Oh yeah. Around Thanksgiving, I feel like so many people who I did not even ever know had watched Glee were making jokes about let's have a kiki turkey lurky time.

[55:02] Andrew: Right. Like when I feel, I mean, you mentioned Thanksgiving. I feel it's important in this discourse to bring up is Turkey Lurky Time a Thanksgiving song, even in the first place. Because in the original lyrics, let's make a wish and may all our wishes come true. That's when the Glee cast version ends. And then they go into a snowy blowy Christmas, a mistletoe Christmas, a turkey lurky Christmas. To you not even a Thanksgiving song.

[55:37] Leah: What the fuck is Promises Promises about? I've never seen it. I've I only know what the Hit Fox series Glee has told me about this.

[55:49] Andrew: Interesting.

[55:50] Leah: What the fuck? I think that we've been like kind of like gaslit into believing that this is a Thanksgiving song. I'm not mad about it. Do you what meat do you eat on Thanksgiving?

[56:02] Andrew: Well, I'm Jewish, so we don't eat ram.

[56:05] Leah: Okay, you don't eat ham, so you eat turkey turkey.

[56:08] Andrew: Yeah. You eat turkey, okay. Well, some people are ham families. I'm a little bit of a ham family. Um, but we also eat ham on Christmas.

[56:17] Leah: So we're also we're also ham Christmas people. Um why why is that a thing?

[56:23] Andrew: I don't know. Um, I do think we are gaslit. I I I don't know how I feel about the term orphan Thanksgiving.

[56:32] Leah: Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't want to like, I don't want to stay too long. I just wanted to like present that as like as an op like I don't know. I don't want to say anything bad about the song because I know how much it means to everybody.

[56:45] Andrew: It means a lot to me.

[56:46] Leah: I just like that's like the the turkey lurky Christmas. That is always the orphan Christmas, I agree. Or or Orphan Thanksgiving. Making this a whole this mashup of Thanksgiving song is really is what makes it camp, I think. I think it's so silly. Yeah. And I do just absolutely love it. Um I never realized before was that when Isabel is coming out of the subway and she's calling Kurt, someone is holding a pie that is completely exposed to the elements. Like not covered at all. And it's like it's um, oh my god, what is the Sarah Disco Parker about the rain? Um by bitch I mean this rain. Um so I'm just like concerned for the piece of pie. It's getting gross. It's getting really gross. Because that's basically the Hudson River coming from the sky.

[57:46] Andrew: Thank you. New York rain has always grossed me out.

[57:50] Leah: Al Roker, everybody. New York rain. I don't know how to feel about it because it it's the hudson River evaporated into the sky coming down. Like, how is it not toxic waste?

[58:05] Andrew: It's delicious. And then also, I don't know if anybody caught the celebrity. There are like obviously like multiple celebrities in this performance, but there's one blink and you miss it celebrity in this performance that I feel like is not discussed enough. Does anybody know who's there?

[58:25] Leah: Perez Hilton.

[58:30] Andrew: Really?

[58:30] Leah: Yes, Perez Hilton is present for Let's Have a Kiki Turkey Lurky Time. They give us one shot in particular. Let me find it really quick. Perez Hilton also canonically a character in Glee.

[58:45] Andrew: There he is.

[58:47] Leah: Oh, in his bleach blonde hair.

[58:49] Andrew: Yeah.

[58:50] Leah: Right.

[58:50] Andrew: Interesting.

[58:52] Leah: And it's like, oh, do you think the character within Glee Perez Hilton is piecing together that he's watched members of the same Glee Club win nationals this past year?

[59:05] Andrew: Yeah, that's the face that he's making when he's doing it.

[59:07] Leah: He's like, you won nationals.

[59:10] Andrew: Yeah, I remember it's all coming back to me now.

[59:13] Leah: Yeah, you got that right, man.

[59:15] Andrew: Full circle.

[59:16] Leah: Full circle for Perez.

[59:18] Andrew: Um.

[59:19] Leah: But yeah.

[59:20] Andrew: And then also Brooke, one of the choreographers for Glee, who's also, here she is.

[59:28] Leah: Beautiful.

[59:28] Andrew: Um, who's also canonically played a member of the Jane Adams Academy.

[59:34] Leah: Is also in there.

[59:35] Andrew: And I'm like, oh, is she also putting together?

[59:39] Leah: I I just I love thinking about like them piecing it together. But it's like, hey, we were waiting like we know each other.

[59:46] Andrew: Wait a minute. Remember it. When we also did Proud Mary in wheelchairs?

[59:51] Leah: What? Was Brooke also a Vocal Adrenaline member at some point?

[59:56] Andrew: I feel like she must have been.

[59:57] Leah: Probably.

[59:58] Andrew: Yeah.

[59:59] Leah: Um Wild.

[1:00:01] Andrew: I I love this song.

[1:00:03] Leah: It's what the fuck.

[1:00:06] Andrew: I wanna know, Ryan Murphy.

[1:00:08] Leah: I'm calling you right now.

[1:00:09] Andrew: Um what was it like to ask Sarah Jessica Parker to do this?

[1:00:15] Leah: Like, I can't vibe-check Sarah Jessica Parker. Like, would she have been like, oh my god, yes. I love that song. I love these people. I know all these people. Like, this is so fun. I'm so down. Or was she like, what? What the fuck is a Kiki?

[1:00:27] Andrew: Why do I feel like I I have a I guess like a vague recollection of like Chris Colfer being the one to like campaign for a Scissor Sisters song on Glee?

[1:00:40] Leah: And I think that he's wearing like a si like a pin of scissors in this performance.

[1:00:46] Andrew: Um and I don't know how he actually feels.

[1:00:49] Leah: I think that he doesn't like this performance.

[1:00:51] Andrew: No, I remember Chris Colfer saying, I think it's on the episode of And That's What You Really Missed.

[1:00:57] Leah: Yeah.

[1:00:58] Andrew: And he's like, it was embarrassing.

[1:01:01] Leah: Yeah.

[1:01:01] Andrew: It was embarrassing that they're gonna be.

[1:01:03] Leah: I kind of get the vibe that Chris Colfer doesn't really like any of the songs he did on Glee.

[1:01:09] Andrew: What did he oh I mean he wanted to do Rose's Turn? That was his idea.

[1:01:12] Leah: So I can't imagine that he's turning his back on that.

[1:01:16] Andrew: But I guess maybe he might be. Who knows?

[1:01:19] Leah: I just wanna know what was going on in the boardroom when they not even just told Sarah Jessica Parker she was singing this, but how did they come up with the fact that they were gonna mash these two songs up?

[1:01:30] Andrew: There's not really a thematic link.

[1:01:32] Leah: Well, I think that, like, what like okay, so like they're singing. I think let's have a kiki. If I were to get into their brains for a second, I think that they were like, let's have a kiki first, and then they were like, oh, we need to sing about Thanksgiving.

[1:01:49] Andrew: Let's have Rachel do the thing.

[1:01:52] Leah: Rachel Berry did the thing.

[1:01:55] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:01:56] Leah: And she did.

[1:01:58] Andrew: Um I don't know. I I mean, it's iconic, and they should be proud.

[1:02:04] Leah: Is there any other Thanksgiving songs?

[1:02:07] Andrew: That's so true. My elementary school made us sing a song about a kid who like lets a turkey go so that it doesn't get killed for Thanksgiving.

[1:02:16] Leah: And they made us perform it every year.

[1:02:19] Andrew: Ooh, mash that up with Let's Have a Kiki.

[1:02:21] Leah: Yeah.

[1:02:22] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:02:22] Leah: It was called No One Could Kill the Turkey.

[1:02:25] Andrew: Wow.

[1:02:26] Leah: Okay.

[1:02:26] Andrew: No one could.

[1:02:27] Leah: I know a lot of things.

[1:02:28] Andrew: There was choreography too.

[1:02:29] Leah: People that have.

[1:02:33] Andrew: Um, okay. Well, you know, promises versus promises here.

[1:02:38] Leah: It's so true.

[1:02:40] Andrew: I'm going with Let's Have a Kiki.

[1:02:42] Leah: I want to watch that again.

[1:02:43] Andrew: The Samchel.

[1:02:45] Leah: I mean, I didn't even know what it was when I read it.

[1:02:47] Andrew: So there are other Samchel duets that will triumph in the Glackett.

[1:02:54] Leah: You think Time After Time has time?

[1:02:56] Andrew: I think I think it could do something.

[1:02:58] Leah: Um, but there is no other Let's Have a Kiki.

[1:03:01] Andrew: No.

[1:03:01] Leah: That's so true.

[1:03:03] Andrew: You're right.

[1:03:04] Leah: When you're right.

[1:03:05] Andrew: And I just I feel sick.

[1:03:06] Leah: My final note about Let's Have a Kiki.

[1:03:08] Andrew: I feel sick that they felt compelled to release Let's Have a Kiki as a solo track on iTunes.

[1:03:16] Leah: Yeah.

[1:03:16] Andrew: That they completely erased um Turkey Lurkey Time from the discourse.

[1:03:21] Leah: That it's like this is probably what people will want.

[1:03:24] Andrew: No, no, stop streaming.

[1:03:26] Leah: Let's Have a Kiki.

[1:03:27] Andrew: Glee Cast version by Glee Cast. Play the original.

[1:03:31] Leah: Thank you.

[1:03:34] Andrew: I um I really have no reaction for my next song.

[1:03:39] Leah: It's just Oh my gosh.

[1:03:45] Andrew: Oh god.

[1:03:46] Leah: Oh no.

[1:03:48] Andrew: When I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay.

[1:03:51] Leah: Cause I could draw my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.

[1:03:54] Andrew: I told my ma tears rushing down my face.

[1:03:56] Leah: She's like, Well, you love girls since before pre-K trippin.

[1:04:00] Andrew: Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?

[1:04:03] Leah: Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.

[1:04:05] Andrew: I remember doing the math, like, yeah, I'm good at little league.

[1:04:08] Leah: I preconceived idea of what it all meant for those that like the same sex, had the characteristics.

[1:04:14] Andrew: The right wing conservatives think it's a decision, and you can be cured with some treatment and religion.

[1:04:19] Leah: Man-made rewiring of a predisposition playing God.

[1:04:23] Andrew: Yeah, ah no, here we go.

[1:04:25] Leah: America the brave still fears what we don't know, and God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty five hundred years ago.

[1:04:34] Andrew: I don't know.

[1:04:35] Leah: Then that can change.

[1:04:38] Andrew: Even if that's right, even if I wanted to.

[1:04:43] Leah: Hey, uh my love, my love, my love.

[1:04:46] Andrew: She keeps me warm.

[1:04:49] Leah: She keeps me warm.

[1:04:52] Andrew: She keeps me wall.

[1:04:55] Leah: She keeps me warm.

[1:04:58] Andrew: She keeps me warm.

[1:05:12] Leah: Wow.

[1:05:13] Andrew: Here for a good time, not a long time.

[1:05:15] Leah: Okay, winner of the Glacka is.

[1:05:17] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:18] Leah: Same love.

[1:05:20] Andrew: Okay.

[1:05:21] Leah: Okay.

[1:05:22] Andrew: That's already started.

[1:05:25] Leah: Alright.

[1:05:28] Andrew: Audio medium, Leah.

[1:05:29] Leah: You seem like you don't actually like this video.

[1:05:31] Andrew: Yeah, um, the girls in the audience when Will was performing that were rolling their eyes, um, I related to them on like a metaphysical level.

[1:05:39] Leah: That was you.

[1:05:39] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:40] Leah: Um I see myself in this performance.

[1:05:43] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:05:43] Leah: The truly the uh when I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay is just like that's my sleep paralysis demon.

[1:05:54] Andrew: I had my best friend in high school, Tori. I remember every time that we were in the car in this song. Remember when this song would play constantly on the radio.

[1:06:04] Leah: And every time that it would come on the radio, she would let it go to when I was in the third grade.

[1:06:11] Andrew: I thought that I was gay because I could draw, and then she would change the station.

[1:06:11] Leah: Because I could draw.

[1:06:20] Andrew: End of song.

[1:06:21] Leah: Um unfortunately, really love 50% of this song.

[1:06:27] Andrew: Because I really love the unique part.

[1:06:30] Leah: Um I uh I don't know.

[1:06:36] Andrew: Will Schuster.

[1:06:37] Leah: Well, I'll say this. Will Schuster has very good intentions, I think.

[1:06:42] Andrew: I think he wants to wake up Vocal Adrenaline to the things that they are doing.

[1:06:52] Leah: And he has very good intentions.

[1:06:54] Andrew: His methods, I don't know if I could agree with them.

[1:06:58] Leah: I don't know if I even would agree with Macklemore and this song.

[1:07:02] Andrew: Um that's all I can say.

[1:07:07] Leah: I don't know. I actually really like this original song.

[1:07:12] Andrew: You do?

[1:07:13] Leah: I don't know. I never like minded it. Like I was like, this honestly is kind of good.

[1:07:18] Andrew: Like, I don't know. Like I I thought it was like a beautiful song.

[1:07:23] Leah: Um and uh I really like there's like the merit because like it's featuring Mary Lambert, and then she had like her own origin like um song outside of it, She Keeps Me Warm that I liked even better, where she like it's like an entire song.

[1:07:37] Andrew: I don't even know what came first, but like it's an entire song like built off of the She Keeps Me Warm part of this song.

[1:07:43] Leah: Um but in the original iTunes release, in the full um release, it does constantly surprise me that one when listening to this in the Glee of the Week Remaining Songs playlist, um Matthew Morrison doesn't refrain from saying the F slur.

[1:07:59] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:08:00] Leah: And I'm it really catches me off guard every single time.

[1:08:05] Andrew: Um and so I I it it's losing a lot of points for me.

[1:08:09] Leah: Yeah, it just like didn't need to happen.

[1:08:13] Andrew: Also, I think that this is like being like this is Glee being way too self-aware. I this performance. It's like, okay, like, well, like I think that what I enjoyed about like Will rapping in earlier seasons was that like everybody else was kind of on board, and we the viewer at home were the ones rolling our eyes.

[1:08:34] Leah: Okay.

[1:08:35] Andrew: I didn't need to see like all of them rolling their eyes.

[1:08:38] Leah: I don't know. I want like I like missed when they were all like, he, like I say's baby, you know, like we're all playing along.

[1:08:46] Andrew: I don't know. I feel like they're nodding on the joke though, because I think they met this with full sincerity.

[1:08:52] Leah: You think so?

[1:08:53] Andrew: Yeah. I think they really thought they were doing something here.

[1:08:56] Leah: Yeah.

[1:08:57] Andrew: My other question is I realize, I mean, general LGBT anthem, obviously unique is transgender.

[1:09:05] Leah: Isn't Unique straight though?

[1:09:07] Andrew: Unique is straight.

[1:09:09] Leah: Yes.

[1:09:10] Andrew: And she's singing, she keeps me.

[1:09:12] Leah: Yeah, that's what I was.

[1:09:14] Andrew: That's true. Something I've never considered.

[1:09:16] Leah: Yeah.

[1:09:21] Andrew: Perhaps this Antana moment.

[1:09:23] Leah: I don't yeah, it would have been cute. I think that this would have worked.

[1:09:26] Andrew: And like if they were to do it in full sincerity, I think that this would have worked as like an Artana.

[1:09:31] Leah: Yeah.

[1:09:31] Andrew: Duet.

[1:09:32] Leah: Ooh, I could have seen Artana. That would be fun.

[1:09:35] Andrew: Like, I think that would be fun.

[1:09:37] Leah: Um, it would be cute again.

[1:09:38] Andrew: I well, I guess like Kevin McHale could get the pass with the get saying the F slur.

[1:09:42] Leah: Um but um, yeah, I don't know.

[1:09:46] Andrew: I also while we're talking about unique, bad unique fit. Like, I think we could just like rack these, like these up, like unique, like who the fuck is dressing you?

[1:09:56] Leah: Isn't this like a reference to the vocal it felt like a reference to pinball wizard outfit?

[1:10:03] Andrew: Oh, kind of like um, because like unique's dress is almost like a flapper, yeah.

[1:10:08] Leah: In that, yeah.

[1:10:10] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:10:10] Leah: And I don't know. This was really not it.

[1:10:13] Andrew: The hair, the dress, and it's it the cut of this song makes it worse.

[1:10:18] Leah: Like, I think there's I wish they had chosen a different part of the song for unique to sing in the show.

[1:10:24] Andrew: What do you mean?

[1:10:25] Leah: Like the beginning part of this song I liked better because they cut it, they just chose unique to sing, like the end part of the song on the show.

[1:10:35] Andrew: I wish it was the whole thing.

[1:10:36] Leah: I honestly wish Same Love was longer. Is that bad?

[1:10:40] Andrew: Yeah, no, I get that.

[1:10:42] Leah: I get that.

[1:10:42] Andrew: I wish I heard someone that likes Same Love.

[1:10:45] Leah: Yeah, I get it.

[1:10:47] Andrew: Ha ha.

[1:10:49] Leah: I can't believe this is only Macklemore's on they did. Glee what a body bigger is.

[1:10:53] Andrew: They didn't even touch Thrift Shop.

[1:10:55] Leah: Yeah.

[1:10:56] Andrew: I know.

[1:10:57] Leah: Sam and Marley were ready to pop some tags too.

[1:11:01] Andrew: They were like jumping at the bit.

[1:11:04] Leah: Yeah.

[1:11:05] Andrew: Anyway, against Same Love.

[1:11:07] Leah: Let's see.

[1:11:08] Andrew: Okay.

[1:11:09] Leah: Okay.

[1:11:11] Andrew: Another duet.

[1:11:12] Leah: I feel like if any song is hardly considered as a song on Glee, but still got an iTunes release, this is it.

[1:11:21] Andrew: Oh, just barely on the Glackett.

[1:11:24] Leah: Where it's like, oh, the voc they hardly sing.

[1:11:28] Andrew: Here we go.

[1:11:31] Leah: Got you.

[1:11:32] Andrew: So the top war is begun.

[1:11:34] Leah: Thank you.

[1:11:37] Andrew: The life you thing.

[1:11:40] Leah: You can live the life you like.

[1:11:45] Andrew: You can even marry a mess around with Ike and that's the good.

[1:11:57] Leah: Isn't it grand?

[1:11:59] Andrew: Isn't it great?

[1:12:01] Leah: Isn't it swell?

[1:12:03] Andrew: Isn't it fun, isn't it?

[1:12:08] Leah: But nothing stays in fifty years or so it's gonna change, you know it's now it's Audio medium, I'm grinning from ear to ear.

[1:13:58] Andrew: Again.

[1:13:59] Leah: Audio medium, you really loved it.

[1:14:01] Andrew: Audio medium, they were dancing, if you didn't know, um, during like that whole instrumental part.

[1:14:07] Leah: Gordon Peltro and Rachel Berry were dancing.

[1:14:09] Andrew: Wait a minute.

[1:14:10] Leah: No, I was watching it and they were actually just standing still while the instrumental played.

[1:14:15] Andrew: Okay, weird.

[1:14:17] Leah: Interesting.

[1:14:18] Andrew: Um interesting choice. Leah, what are we thinking about nowadays slash hot honey honeytime rag?

[1:14:27] Leah: Hot honey rag.

[1:14:28] Andrew: Hot honey rag.

[1:14:29] Leah: Not the goop song I wanted, but the goop song I deserved.

[1:14:32] Andrew: Okay.

[1:14:33] Leah: Um, okay. Um, I do not have any recollection of what the context of this is.

[1:14:40] Andrew: Um, but I loved Kurt in it. His face cute.

[1:14:42] Leah: Kurt and Quinn. They're like, they are giving a lot. I love it.

[1:14:48] Andrew: And yeah, the context of this is like one of my notes was like, it's shoehorn. It felt like very contractual that it's like, oh, Gwyneth Paltrow wants to do an episode of Glee.

[1:15:00] Leah: And like Gwyneth Paltrow's people were like, well, she's going to get a duet with Lea Michele, no.

[1:15:06] Andrew: And they were like, well, we didn't really have it in the cards, but we can make it happen.

[1:15:12] Leah: And doesn't it happen at the like the end of the episode?

[1:15:15] Andrew: This happens like, I feel like smack dab in the middle because like it's like right at the beginning of the performance.

[1:15:20] Leah: We it's like the tots thing. The tots thing is like really taking off.

[1:15:25] Andrew: It's like it's very, I feel like it's right in the middle of the episode.

[1:15:29] Leah: And speaking of tots, like Holly helps Mercedes with the Tots thing, so it would stand to reason that Mercedes and Holly would have a duet more than Rachel, but like the whole plot is like Rachel's like stick in the mud, like I don't get you, Holly.

[1:15:47] Andrew: And then Holly's like, well, why don't we sing a song?

[1:15:50] Leah: And she's like, okay, and then we get this. It's really like it's really out of pocket. That's all I remember. Is like why why are they singing together?

[1:15:59] Andrew: When have they, why?

[1:16:01] Leah: Well, Lea Michele needs to she needs to sing a Chicago um duet with every blonde special guest star.

[1:16:09] Andrew: This and all that jazz, Kate Hudson.

[1:16:12] Leah: So that's good. She needed to, yeah.

[1:16:15] Andrew: I love the like, it's kind of like a uh what foreshadowing the Michael Jackson episode because with the lights in the background, I love those lights.

[1:16:29] Leah: Those lights are so good.

[1:16:30] Andrew: And then when they take the guns and they like I'm I am anti-gun, but I do love this song.

[1:16:37] Leah: I love you're pro pop prop gun.

[1:16:39] Andrew: Pro pro pop pro prop gun.

[1:16:46] Leah: And I love them going. Like that is that's good to me.

[1:16:51] Andrew: Okay. That was a fire hazard, honestly.

[1:16:54] Leah: Oh, absolutely.

[1:16:55] Andrew: Well with the fire next.

[1:16:57] Leah: Yeah.

[1:16:58] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:16:59] Leah: Speak of flappers.

[1:16:59] Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rachel Berry is so cute. Can I say that?

[1:17:07] Leah: As ashamed as I am that Lea Michele's the most famous person that shares my name. I do. I love Rachel Berry.

[1:17:11] Andrew: Is that true? Is that is there not a more famous Leah?

[1:17:14] Leah: I mean, like maybe the one in the Bible. I don't know.

[1:17:18] Andrew: Leah, Leah.

[1:17:22] Leah: She hasn't really done a lot.

[1:17:23] Andrew: The girl from the Bible.

[1:17:24] Leah: Yeah. She kind of fell off the charts.

[1:17:27] Andrew: Yeah, she got she kind of fell off, huh?

[1:17:29] Leah: Um I'm really like grasping at straws for notes about this song. But you know, I did think that Quinn and Kurt were very cute.

[1:17:34] Andrew: Quinn and Kurt were very cute.

[1:17:37] Leah: Everybody was sitting so far away from Artie, and it made it like hurt my feelings.

[1:17:46] Andrew: Wait, were they really?

[1:17:47] Leah: Yeah, they were like sitting several seats away from Artie.

[1:17:50] Andrew: Oh, that's so oh, that's sad, but honestly, so good.

[1:17:54] Leah: Oh yeah, wait, I'm looking at it right now. Let me bring it back up.

[1:17:58] Andrew: Um, yeah, they're like, don't do that to Artie. It's not even part of the fun.

[1:18:04] Leah: They could have easily sat Mercedes right next to Artie and they could have like exchanged notes about the performance.

[1:18:10] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:18:11] Leah: But no.

[1:18:12] Andrew: But no, Artie's gotta sit up there.

[1:18:14] Leah: I do like this song. I when it plays on the Gleek of the Week Remaining Songs playlist, I am like waiting around, like for it to get to the more singing part, you know?

[1:18:28] Andrew: Um but I like the outfits.

[1:18:31] Leah: I love the robes at the beginning.

[1:18:34] Andrew: Oh my god, I want one of those.

[1:18:36] Leah: Really bad.

[1:18:38] Andrew: I think it it again, this competition is way too easy.

[1:18:44] Leah: You think so?

[1:18:46] Andrew: What are you?

[1:18:47] Leah: I don't genuinely if I if gun to my head, prop gun to my head, what gun to your head.

[1:18:52] Andrew: What is Andrew voting for?

[1:18:54] Leah: I don't know what you're voting for.

[1:18:55] Andrew: One of these songs was a hate crime.

[1:18:58] Leah: One of these s yeah, that's so true, Leah. Thank you.

[1:19:03] Andrew: Oh, Leah. Start the vote.

[1:19:06] Leah: Oh, I'm nowadays hot honey rag.

[1:19:10] Andrew: Yeah. I'm going that as well.

[1:19:12] Leah: Okay.

[1:19:13] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:19:14] Leah: Did I scare you for a second?

[1:19:15] Andrew: You did.

[1:19:16] Leah: Do you think I was?

[1:19:17] Andrew: I genuinely thought you were gonna vote same love.

[1:19:19] Leah: Love, same love.

[1:19:21] Andrew: No, I don't.

[1:19:22] Leah: No, I don't.

[1:19:23] Andrew: Um.

[1:19:24] Leah: But like, whatever. It happened.

[1:19:26] Andrew: It's part of the glacket.

[1:19:29] Leah: It's gone.

[1:19:29] Andrew: It's gone.

[1:19:30] Leah: We never have to watch the same love.

[1:19:32] Andrew: Never have to watch it.

[1:19:32] Leah: We're done.

[1:19:33] Andrew: My final song fell out of my cup along with Same Love.

[1:19:38] Leah: Uh, so this is my next song. I've been waiting for this one.

[1:19:41] Andrew: I think, Andrew, you have to um I'm very excited about this.

[1:19:49] Leah: Just because it's gonna be pleasurable to my ears.

[1:19:52] Andrew: Do we know what it is?

[1:19:55] Leah: Oh, audio medium is a completely black screen.

[1:19:58] Andrew: There's a boy!

[1:20:00] Leah: Okay.

[1:20:11] Andrew: Take me to the clouds above.

[1:20:14] Leah: Mm-hmm.

[1:20:16] Andrew: Oh, hello!

[1:20:18] Leah: Control.

[1:20:20] Andrew: Can't seem to get enough.

[1:20:23] Leah: Uh-huh.

[1:20:25] Andrew: When I wake from dreaming.

[1:20:29] Leah: Tell me, is it really love?

[1:20:32] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[1:20:35] Leah: Who How will I know?

[1:20:38] Andrew: I don't trust you feeling how will I know?

[1:20:38] Leah: How will I know?

[1:20:47] Andrew: Love can be deceiving.

[1:20:50] Leah: How will I know?

[1:20:53] Andrew: How will I know if he really loves me?

[1:20:58] Leah: I say a prayer with every heartbeat.

[1:21:02] Andrew: I fall in love whenever we meet.

[1:21:07] Leah: This love is strong.

[1:21:08] Andrew: Why do I feel it?

[1:21:10] Leah: Oh wake me.

[1:21:13] Andrew: I'm shaking.

[1:21:14] Leah: I wish I had you near me now.

[1:21:17] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[1:21:19] Leah: Say there's no mistaken.

[1:21:24] Andrew: What I feel is really love.

[1:21:27] Leah: Oh, tell me he loves me.

[1:21:31] Andrew: He loves me.

[1:21:33] Leah: If he loves me not, oh yes.

[1:21:39] Andrew: He loves me.

[1:21:42] Leah: If he loves me not Oh will I know?

[1:21:48] Andrew: How will I know if he's thinking of me?

[1:21:52] Leah: I try to fall, but I'm too shy.

[1:21:55] Andrew: I can't speak.

[1:21:57] Leah: Falling in love is a bit of sweet.

[1:22:01] Andrew: This love is strong.

[1:22:03] Leah: I do I feel weak.

[1:22:04] Andrew: How will I know?

[1:22:06] Leah: How will I know?

[1:22:07] Andrew: How will I know?

[1:22:09] Leah: How will I know?

[1:22:11] Andrew: How will I know everyone?

[1:22:15] Leah: Fall in love.

[1:22:16] Andrew: How will I know?

[1:22:18] Leah: How will I know?

[1:22:22] Andrew: Yes, how will I know?

[1:22:26] Leah: Wow, wow, Wubsy Wow wow Whitney I gotta come back to life after that because I died.

[1:22:33] Andrew: It killed me.

[1:22:35] Leah: Oh my god. Incredible.

[1:22:37] Andrew: I did get chills.

[1:22:39] Leah: And I don't know if I usually get chills when like watching Glackett submissions.

[1:22:45] Andrew: You don't think so?

[1:22:46] Leah: I like I oh my god that that one really did get me good.

[1:22:49] Andrew: Uh dude, emo, Leah, what are we thinking?

[1:22:53] Leah: I literally cut this from my list of songs I'm manifesting like five minutes before printing this document because I was like, I have too many.

[1:23:01] Andrew: Um but this was definitely like yeah, I love this.

[1:23:06] Leah: I literally just wrote slave really big.

[1:23:10] Andrew: Um also my one I feel like I cannot um get with the idea that Santana is like really torn up about Whitney Houston's death, but you know, I don't mind.

[1:23:22] Leah: Wait, where do they where do they lose you with Santana with Whitney?

[1:23:26] Andrew: That just doesn't seem she doesn't seem like she that would be in character for her.

[1:23:31] Leah: It's not that like there was anything in the performance, it's just I just don't feel like the character of Santana Lopez would be like a Whitney Houston stan.

[1:23:41] Andrew: That's that's so interesting because now that I think about it, it's like Santana would be like the least fan of the four of them, I feel.

[1:23:49] Leah: Yeah, I'm not complaining because I got to hear Naya sing that.

[1:23:53] Andrew: Yeah, of course, and that's a gift to me personally.

[1:23:56] Leah: Right.

[1:23:57] Andrew: Yeah, but it's like Santana, like Amy Winehouse also died canonically this past year, and we didn't hear a peep about that one.

[1:24:05] Leah: Interesting, yeah.

[1:24:07] Andrew: Yeah, interesting.

[1:24:08] Leah: Santana, you're just trying to bandwagon this this funeral this morning. What's going on?

[1:24:14] Andrew: Oh my god.

[1:24:17] Leah: Um, feels a little, I don't know. But like you it sounded great, Santana. We love.

[1:24:20] Andrew: And you looked amazing too.

[1:24:21] Leah: They all do.

[1:24:23] Andrew: I'm obsessed.

[1:24:24] Leah: You look so good.

[1:24:26] Andrew: This is really truly one of the best songs on Glee.

[1:24:31] Leah: I love this stripped down, no instruments. Incredible.

[1:24:35] Andrew: Just raw voices.

[1:24:37] Leah: Warblers who?

[1:24:39] Andrew: Exactly.

[1:24:40] Leah: Acapella, try again.

[1:24:42] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:24:42] Leah: The warblers have been real silent since How Will I Know Glee Cast version Gleecast has been dropped.

[1:24:48] Andrew: I love this.

[1:24:51] Leah: Uh, but did you peep?

[1:24:53] Andrew: Um did you peep Marley in the background?

[1:24:58] Leah: Marley.

[1:24:59] Andrew: What?

[1:25:00] Leah: Marley was in this room.

[1:25:04] Andrew: Okay.

[1:25:06] Leah: They're doing a soft launch of Marley.

[1:25:08] Andrew: Yeah, Marley, not even born yet.

[1:25:11] Leah: But I every time I every time I watch this, I think I'm like, when they walk right into the library, that is Marley.

[1:25:20] Andrew: Oh, that is such a like a Marley fit, too.

[1:25:24] Leah: That is a Marley fit, and I swear to God.

[1:25:28] Andrew: Okay, you need to include this in the carousel so people know what we're talking about.

[1:25:31] Leah: Yes, that is mostly.

[1:25:35] Andrew: Wait, I'm like fully convinced that Marley is at the computer.

[1:25:40] Leah: She's like looking over like at someone's like homework or something.

[1:25:43] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:25:44] Leah: Oh wow.

[1:25:46] Andrew: That's that's my older song.

[1:25:48] Leah: Until just seeing that screen grab that Mercedes is wearing a shirt that says OMG in zebra print.

[1:25:55] Andrew: Outlined in a line.

[1:25:56] Leah: No, she's not.

[1:25:57] Andrew: I feel like I've missed so much about this performance.

[1:26:00] Leah: It says OMG in zebra print. It's a blue shirt with a like lime green outline of the letters.

[1:26:07] Andrew: Oh, wow.

[1:26:09] Leah: That's good.

[1:26:09] Andrew: That's a good idea.

[1:26:10] Leah: Pay respects, Mercedes.

[1:26:12] Andrew: Mercedes was really really coming through in these fits, the fedora, the bright colors, the zebra print.

[1:26:20] Leah: An icon.

[1:26:21] Andrew: Remember in the first episode when Finn asked her if you can do costumes and she's like, have you seen the things I wear?

[1:26:27] Leah: Yeah, we have babe.

[1:26:29] Andrew: And it's like, we don't actually know what you mean by that.

[1:26:32] Leah: Um I would take that as a no.

[1:26:37] Andrew: Have you seen what I have on?

[1:26:38] Leah: Absolutely.

[1:26:39] Andrew: To ask someone else.

[1:26:40] Leah: Um I I don't know. I I love this performance so much.

[1:26:45] Andrew: Better than the original, which I think like when we get down to the like um last few songs of the Glackett, I think that like that, me personally is how I'm going to be like gauging the songs.

[1:26:57] Leah: It's like if they're better than the original, then um they'll be getting a vote.

[1:27:02] Andrew: But um I love this uh so much.

[1:27:06] Leah: And then like, but the production of this episode always like I remember when it was happening because February Whitney dies right before the Valentine's Day episode, which they had already like filmed the uh Mercedes singing I Will Always Love You.

[1:27:25] Andrew: And they tribute that episode to Whitney Houston, and then like months go by and they film and release this Whitney Houston tribute episode, and it always feels like these four characters are just learning about Whitney's death.

[1:27:45] Leah: And they have to have a line. There's a line that I think Will says that's like the kids are still torn up.

[1:27:52] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:27:53] Leah: Yeah.

[1:27:53] Andrew: News travels really slow to Lima, Ohio.

[1:27:56] Leah: Yeah, apparently.

[1:27:58] Andrew: It's like, baby girl, you literally, the week before you did a tribute to disco, you could have just swapped it.

[1:28:04] Leah: Yeah. Like you were fine a week ago.

[1:28:06] Andrew: You were completely. I saw you doing that.

[1:28:08] Leah: You did the disco move.

[1:28:12] Andrew: Yeah. Um, I don't know, but I'm not complaining. I I've said this in a previous episode, but I feel like this entire episode is built off of this performance. They thought, like, hey, let's do a stripped down version of How Will I Know for the Whitney Tribute episode. They greenlit the episode and they were like, oh, we actually need to do more. Um, and that's why the other, besides like so emotional, the other covers in this episode are not as good.

[1:28:44] Leah: My love is your love.

[1:28:45] Andrew: Good.

[1:28:46] Leah: I have nothing.

[1:28:46] Andrew: I want to dance with somebody.

[1:28:50] Leah: My love is your love is actually one of the competitions that I had complaints about, but oh wait, we completely forgot to ask you, Leah. What competitions you disagreed with?

[1:29:02] Leah: Um, breakaway versus call me maybe. Um, I believe the direct quote was I'd be surprised if anyone said their favorite Glee song was breakaway. Is it my top favorite? No. Is it in the top 25? Yeah.

[1:29:13] Andrew: Interesting.

[1:29:14] Leah: Really? Okay. Um, that's ever said that before.

[1:29:17] Andrew: I think I might be.

[1:29:18] Leah: Um, okay. This I'm not disagreeing. I just think because to love you more versus River Deep Mountain High, obviously, River Deep Mountain High is the correct option. I just feel like to love you more deserved more than a first round elimination. Like it deserved its moment.

[1:29:32] Andrew: Okay.

[1:29:33] Leah: It's a it's a glad all of its own.

[1:29:35] Andrew: Yeah. She does like a like almost like a whistle tone in that episode in that song, right?

[1:29:39] Leah: Yeah. Um, this is the new year versus my love is your love. This is the new year is cute. As a season four defender, Allison, I expected more.

[1:29:47] Andrew: Um, okay, this one might be controversial. Kiss versus telephone. I realize telephone's an iconic moment. Kiss is the best Will song.

[1:29:57] Leah: Oh, you're gonna say that with Sway sitting right there?

[1:30:00] Andrew: Okay, that's because Sway versus My Life would suck without King.

[1:30:03] Leah: Okay, flip page. Yes, is one that I had some thoughts on. And then the number one, the biggest one. I have been in your DMs ever since this one.

[1:30:17] Andrew: Uh-huh.

[1:30:18] Leah: River versus Mercy.

[1:30:21] Andrew: River is a great song.

[1:30:24] Leah: You love it. That's your favorite Glissmas song with Christmas rapping.

[1:30:26] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:30:27] Leah: Joni Mitchell kind of sucks as a person. Leah Michelle is a better singer.

[1:30:31] Andrew: And you are wrong that the Darren version is better. I love sad Christmas music. The MP3 is so good. You said in the competition that you liked Mercy because your previous Gleek of the Week was in it.

[1:30:43] Leah: She didn't even sing in it.

[1:30:45] Andrew: Allison literally says when you were talking about this that it blends with other Vocal Adrenaline songs. Um, this is a sort of Rachel Christmas song. I don't mind, because it's not like talking about Christ. That's why I hate half the Rachel Christmas songs because I'm like, baby girl, you are Jewish.

[1:31:00] Leah: Um, in another episode Allison says River is her third favorite Rolo.

[1:31:05] Andrew: I truly just be saying things though. You can't trust me. I was truly at the airport, flying home from winter break, flying back to Boston from winter break, listening to this podcast, and heard this, standing at baggage claim, and I just took out my phone notes and started typing all this. And these are my those were my raw thoughts when I heard that.

[1:31:25] Leah: Wow.

[1:31:27] Andrew: I'm so sorry that River top 10 song. River, like a Christmas song that really isn't. It's as much of a Christmas song. I feel like Turkey Lurky Time is more of a Christmas song than River is.

[1:31:47] Leah: That's the last that's the whisper of Christmas.

[1:31:50] Andrew: It's like somebody was shouting Christmas from the other room while River was across the hall.

[1:31:55] Leah: I'm so sorry, Leah. It's really, it's yeah, that's my number one. Audio medium doesn't look like she's gonna forgive us.

[1:32:02] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:32:05] Leah: Really sad. Anyways, those were my that's my side tangent. Please uh where were we?

[1:32:11] Andrew: How will I know?

[1:32:13] Leah: How will I know?

[1:32:14] Andrew: It's a great song.

[1:32:15] Leah: It is.

[1:32:16] Andrew: It is. Yeah, you can argue with us on that one.

[1:32:18] Leah: It's better than River.

[1:32:19] Andrew: It's better than River, I'll say that.

[1:32:22] Leah: Jesus Christ.

[1:32:24] Andrew: Um, Leah is flicking up both middle fingers at me.

[1:32:28] Leah: Wait, Leah just left the Zoom.

[1:32:32] Andrew: She's gone. Wait, come back. I'm really I suddenly brought back the trauma of River getting eliminated two months ago.

[1:32:41] Leah: You opened that wound.

[1:32:43] Andrew: Yeah. When I had one final note about How Will I Know. I'm so sorry. Anyway.

[1:32:49] Leah: Give us your final note, Andrew.

[1:32:50] Andrew: It's a question. Oh. Is this performance happening IRL or naw? Because we see like Will Schuster kind of like clocking the performance.

[1:33:02] Leah: Yeah.

[1:33:03] Andrew: But no one else. So is this a Will Schuster dream? No. What is going on?

[1:33:11] Leah: I think it's happening in real life, and the kids in McKinley have just learned to fucking encourage it.

[1:33:17] Andrew: Marley at the computer. She's like, yeah.

[1:33:20] Leah: Classic.

[1:33:20] Andrew: They're in the fucking library again. God, I can't stand these kids. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck that they almost won nationals.

[1:33:29] Leah: They didn't.

[1:33:31] Andrew: They didn't. But then she's like, but they're pretty cool though, right? They're pretty cool. I'm gonna join them next year.

[1:33:40] Leah: Oh god. It really does like mess me up that like um Marley, Jake, Ryder, and like Kitty, they're like all like canonically freshmen during season three. They are like supposed to be there.

[1:33:52] Andrew: And I'm so glad that we found Marley. I thought she was a little bit more season four.

[1:33:58] Leah: Did she?

[1:33:59] Andrew: Yeah. I think like Ryder. Maybe there was like I feel like there was a line about Ryder transferring. I don't know. Like listeners will let us know.

[1:34:06] Leah: But listeners will let us know. It seems weird that Jake would have been there as a freshman when Puck was there as a senior and no one.

[1:34:12] Andrew: Talk about it.

[1:34:13] Leah: Yeah. Please. I just have to imagine they all transferred.

[1:34:18] Andrew: They all spawned.

[1:34:20] Leah: Yeah, they all spawned. They grew from the seats in the choir room.

[1:34:25] Andrew: Like little babies.

[1:34:26] Leah: Oh my god. Artie and Tina are the only characters that have ever been freshmen at McKinley High School.

[1:34:35] Andrew: Oh god. Okay. There's actually no freshmen in Ohio, didn't you know that?

[1:34:39] Leah: No, there's nobody of the ages.

[1:34:41] Andrew: When are you a freshman? 14, 15?

[1:34:44] Leah: 14.

[1:34:45] Andrew: Okay, I'm scared for against How I Know. It's gonna be this song. Ready?

[1:34:49] Leah: Okay.

[1:34:51] Andrew: Okay. This is a song that Allison really likes. I feel like this is like it sounds like I'm about to like do like um a roast battle. This is a song that uh okay. And I think that you mentioned that it's like in your top like 10 songs.

[1:35:09] Leah: Oh, okay.

[1:35:10] Andrew: I don't know. You really like this. She also said River was in her top three rollos.

[1:35:14] Leah: That okay. You know what it is? Leah, do you know what it is?

[1:35:18] Leah: Oh, I oh.

[1:35:21] Andrew: It's time.

[1:35:22] Leah: It is time.

[1:35:35] Andrew: So this is what you meant when you said that you were spent, and now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit right to the top. Don't look back. Packing my bags and giving the academy your aim check. I don't ever want to let you down. I don't ever want to leave this time. Cause after all, the city never sleeps at night. It's time to begin. Isn't it? I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit I'm just the same as thou don't you understand? I'm never changing who I am. This road never looks so lonely. This house doesn't burn down slowly to ashes to I say it's time to begin, isn't it? I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit I'm just the same as I was Thou don't you wonder? I'm never changing who I am.

[1:37:08] Leah: Miss you so much.

[1:37:37] Andrew: Audio medium, I'm crying.

[1:37:40] Leah: Wait, audio medium, are you actually crying?

[1:37:42] Andrew: I'm tearing up BFFR.

[1:37:43] Leah: BFFR. Look in these eyes, baby.

[1:37:47] Andrew: I'm tearing up. This song means so much to me. I really, really truly love this song. Andrew, the way that you love flash mobs.

[1:38:02] Leah: They get you emo.

[1:38:04] Andrew: I think I'm cups.

[1:38:07] Leah: Wait, are you wait? Are you actually?

[1:38:09] Andrew: I'm not joking? Cups, Pitch Perfect really gets me going. I think it's like, it's not even just cups, it's like people making sounds with their heads.

[1:38:24] Leah: That is kind of beautiful. I will agree.

[1:38:25] Andrew: And coming together and all doing it at once. And violins make me emotional. Um, this was I love this song. I love the words. I love the singer. I love the claim. I love it all. And this is a hard, hard competition for me. Really, really hard, actually.

[1:38:52] Leah: Is this Imagine Dragons?

[1:38:54] Andrew: Yes.

[1:38:56] Leah: Yeah. Wait, what was their big song? Was it Radio Access?

[1:38:59] Andrew: No. Right.

[1:39:00] Leah: Radioactive!

[1:39:02] Andrew: Radioactive! Oh thunder, feel the thunder, lightning and the thunder, thunder. What was like another one?

[1:39:16] Leah: Um, there was Thunder, there was It's Time, there was Radioactive.

[1:39:21] Andrew: Oh god, I don't know. Where are they now? Leah's doing the search.

[1:39:25] Leah: I'm looking at them on Spotify. There's Believer.

[1:39:30] Andrew: Believer.

[1:39:31] Leah: I don't know. Make me a you make me a believer. Believe up. Oh, believe uh, yes. And there's a song called Demons.

[1:39:38] Andrew: Oh, D yes, Demon, Demon. Well, how I that sounds whatever it takes.

[1:39:44] Leah: Those are the big ones.

[1:39:45] Andrew: Whatever it takes. Oh, I was singing the Degrassi theme song. Whatever it takes. I know I can make it through. Uh oh, yeah. You know the Degrassi thing song?

[1:39:58] Leah: If I hold out.

[1:40:00] Andrew: If I do, yes. You know it. That's the best song of all time. I will say that.

[1:40:05] Leah: Okay. Wait, there's another one.

[1:40:07] Andrew: Oh my enemy.

[1:40:10] Leah: My enemy.

[1:40:11] Andrew: That's a recent one because I think it's in like a Joker movie or something.

[1:40:16] Leah: Maybe Harley Click.

[1:40:17] Andrew: Okay. Oh yeah, enemy with JID from the series Arcane League of Legends.

[1:40:24] Leah: Oh, I was wrong.

[1:40:26] Andrew: Huh.

[1:40:26] Leah: Oh no. Um my enemy.

[1:40:30] Andrew: I have.

[1:40:31] Leah: Go ahead.

[1:40:31] Andrew: No, you go.

[1:40:33] Leah: I have a joke about Imagine Dragons that if I were active on Twitter, I would post about. Um, but now I feel with the only Imagine Dragons song on Glee, this is the only opportunity for me to say it. Do you want to hear it?

[1:40:47] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:40:50] Leah: Imagine Dragons?

[1:40:51] Andrew: Yeah, I'm sort of forced to.

[1:41:09] Leah: Audio medium. Allison has never heard a funnier joke in her life.

[1:41:18] Andrew: I'm so proud.

[1:41:22] Leah: Oh my fucking god. Now I am really crying.

[1:41:27] Andrew: Oh gosh.

[1:41:33] Leah: Yeah, I'm kinda forced to.

[1:41:40] Andrew: Oh my god.

[1:41:43] Leah: Okay.

[1:41:46] Andrew: Leah didn't like that drink as much.

[1:41:50] Leah: Allison's reaction got me.

[1:41:54] Andrew: Oh my god.

[1:41:56] Leah: Oh.

[1:41:57] Andrew: Okay. Well, that was good and I appreciated it.

[1:42:00] Leah: Thank you.

[1:42:01] Andrew: It was my only platform to share.

[1:42:06] Leah: Oh this Andrew, does this song really mean nothing to you?

[1:42:11] Andrew: No. I like it. It's it's season four, episode one. Famously the episode Marley was born. Um I I like it. I think it's good. I think that um in terms of like Blaine singing a song in the courtyard as a solo with the first word being it's for a season premiere. I think that it it's probably not the better option. But um I still like it. I I'm not gonna be mad. I don't know. I think that in the same way that like the Glee Club in the last song, they were like late to the game with like the Whitney morning bandwagon.

[1:42:57] Leah: I think that Lima, Ohio was late to the cup song bandwagon.

[1:43:02] Andrew: Yes.

[1:43:03] Leah: Yeah, like Pitch Perfect has come and gone.

[1:43:05] Andrew: Like it's, yeah, stop it.

[1:43:08] Leah: I would agree with that. I think it has a lot to do with the time that I listened to this song, and when it came out was like, it's time.

[1:43:21] Leah: It's time and like graduation, like senior year of high school era, and I still listen to it heavily.

[1:43:30] Leah: It was one of my number one most played songs of I think 2021, I believe. Um, I really love it.

[1:43:35] Leah: It scratches the itch on my brain.

[1:43:40] Andrew: It's Darren.

[1:43:42] Leah: I think this is Darren at his best.

[1:43:42] Andrew: At his best?

[1:43:47] Leah: This is Darren at his best.

[1:43:48] Andrew: There are some flop blowos.

[1:43:50] Leah: This is a top blolo.

[1:43:52] Andrew: A top number one blolo?

[1:43:55] Leah: You'd pick this over "Somewhere We Go Sometimes."

[1:43:57] Andrew: No.

[1:43:58] Leah: This is not a, this is not number one blow low.

[1:44:01] Andrew: This is like "Somewhere We Go Sometimes," number one.

[1:44:05] Leah: Number two, I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you.

[1:44:07] Andrew: Number three.

[1:44:08] Leah: Any of the teenage dreams.

[1:44:10] Andrew: Teenage dream season two.

[1:44:13] Leah: And then I think I would say like "It's Time," "It's Not Unusual," and then season four.

[1:44:18] Andrew: I think I've said the complete opposite before on this podcast.

[1:44:21] Leah: You like just changing your opinion all the time, which is really fun.

[1:44:24] Andrew: I love to evolve and grow as a human.

[1:44:27] Leah: And, uh, I don't know if it's evolution more so just constantly just changing your opinion in the moment.

[1:44:34] Andrew: Based on like my vibe.

[1:44:36] Leah: Yeah, it's like, okay. I would say that this is a top 10 blow for me.

[1:44:41] Andrew: Yes.

[1:44:42] Leah: It's good.

[1:44:43] Andrew: It's very good.

[1:44:44] Leah: I know every word. I stream.

[1:44:47] Andrew: It's not gonna get your vote though, and that makes me sad.

[1:44:51] Leah: Is it getting your vote?

[1:44:52] Andrew: I don't know. This is really, really hard for me. This is an extremely hard competition for me, and I want to vote last.

[1:45:02] Leah: Uh, my top note was this little word hat.

[1:45:06] Andrew: Uh, Kurt's hat in this.

[1:45:08] Leah: Yeah.

[1:45:08] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:45:09] Leah: It's a choice.

[1:45:10] Andrew: It is.

[1:45:11] Leah: Absolutely a choice. And like he's like kind of like his hair that's kind of like falling down is dyed.

[1:45:17] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:45:17] Leah: Oh.

[1:45:18] Andrew: Did you catch that?

[1:45:19] Leah: Yeah.

[1:45:19] Andrew: Weird hat choices being made in season four, episode one, uh, between this and Marley.

[1:45:26] Leah: Yes.

[1:45:26] Andrew: God damn it. Um, "Kitcha Papers."

[1:45:30] Leah: My other.

[1:45:32] Andrew: New York Times!

[1:45:33] Leah: 15 cents, get your papers.

[1:45:37] Andrew: That's what Glee was missing.

[1:45:41] Leah: Like a cockney papermine.

[1:45:44] Andrew: Or like a deep New York exit.

[1:45:47] Leah: Yeah.

[1:45:49] Andrew: It's just in.

[1:45:51] Leah: Read it and weep, everybody.

[1:45:56] Andrew: Um, I think that they would join the Glee Club and all they would sing is "Chim Chim."

[1:46:02] Leah: Anyway, I'm so sorry, Leah. Go ahead.

[1:46:04] Leah: No, I want to go off with this character. We actually won a really good workshop this time.

[1:46:10] Andrew: There's a reason you never get a song.

[1:46:13] Leah: It's because I'm in the Glee Club.

[1:46:17] Andrew: It's because you fucking sick.

[1:46:20] Leah: I feel like it's like a Boston accent.

[1:46:26] Andrew: Appropriate.

[1:46:27] Leah: That is currently where I live.

[1:46:30] Andrew: Oh, that's right. Sorry, bringing a great circle back to Leah.

[1:46:37] Leah: Thank you for that segue.

[1:46:39] Leah: No, mine was just if they were gonna do the cup song, I feel like this could have been mashed up with the cup song really well.

[1:46:45] Andrew: And that's kind of a mystery code.

[1:46:49] Leah: Exactly.

[1:46:50] Andrew: Yeah. Um, and also, if Pitch Perfect canonically exists in the Glee universe, what did they think it meant on in Pitch Perfect when they said songs ruined by Glee?

[1:47:00] Leah: By happiness.

[1:47:02] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:47:04] Leah: It was like, was this play about us?

[1:47:05] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:47:06] Leah: That's all. But that being I'm voting for, uh, the Whitney Houston song.

[1:47:12] Andrew: How will I know, that's what it's called.

[1:47:15] Leah: Whitney Houston.

[1:47:17] Andrew: Yeah, I'm sort of forced to my god.

[1:47:26] Leah: I think the newsboy character's name is Whitney Houston.

[1:47:32] Andrew: Just like unfortunately named.

[1:47:35] Leah: He's living in the back of my head.

[1:47:38] Andrew: He won't leave me alone.

[1:47:39] Leah: Every time somebody says something, I want to respond through with his voice.

[1:47:44] Andrew: Well, Whitney's parents lived in Lima, Ohio, and so they canonically did not get the news until a few years later.

[1:47:51] Leah: I can't believe it.

[1:47:52] Andrew: Oh, that's right.

[1:47:55] Leah: I can't believe I feel like you're doing the do the roar voice.

[1:48:02] Andrew: Oh my god, my body hurts from laughing.

[1:48:06] Leah: Okay.

[1:48:08] Leah: That was really fun, everybody. I'm so glad that we recorded that conversation.

[1:48:12] Andrew: Are you voting?

[1:48:14] Leah: Oh, yeah.

[1:48:16] Andrew: Fuck it.

[1:48:18] Leah: How will you know?

[1:48:19] Andrew: How do you know what's good for?

[1:48:24] Leah: I wasn't, I was saying that I'm really glad that we recorded this conversation for posterity's sake.

[1:48:29] Andrew: I know. I'm really, I'm thinking, I'm thinking about releasing it on podcasts.

[1:48:37] Leah: On Spotify?

[1:48:38] Andrew: On Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and maybe even early on Patreon.

[1:48:42] Leah: Early on Patreon on Fridays.

[1:48:44] Andrew: Ad free.

[1:48:46] Leah: Add free.

[1:48:48] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:48:48] Leah: How did you know?

[1:48:49] Andrew: Comes out, and there's a character with a cockney accent who's a newspaper boy named Whitney Houston.

[1:48:54] Leah: I think I'm we sue them for idea.

[1:49:00] Andrew: I am just thinking, does anybody know the Hannah Montana episode where Miley hires a boyfriend because Lily and Oliver have just started dating, and she's like, oh my god, my friends are dating, and I'm so, I'm almost slipping into it.

[1:49:00] Leah: Oh my god, my friends are dating and they're being annoying because they're like, oh my gosh, you need to date this person.

[1:49:18] Andrew: And she's like, okay, I'm gonna fake a boyfriend.

[1:49:20] Leah: And so it's literally an Italian man, um, who the bit is that he's not attractive.

[1:49:28] Andrew: And so I love that.

[1:49:29] Leah: Lily and Oliver are like, Miley, are you sure?

[1:49:32] Andrew: That's the guy who's in the Glee Club.

[1:49:35] Leah: Okay.

[1:49:37] Andrew: He's in the Glee Club.

[1:49:39] Leah: We really want to. I really want to like develop like what's his relationship with Sam, what's his relationship with Brittany?

[1:49:46] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:49:46] Leah: Like I really want to.

[1:49:47] Andrew: I want to say Trump.

[1:49:51] Leah: Give me a chance.

[1:49:52] Andrew: Give me a chance, Mr. Shoot.

[1:49:57] Leah: I'm also like Rachel Drash a little bit, maybe.

[1:50:00] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:50:00] Leah: Like to summarize this episode.

[1:50:10] Leah: I would say Whitney Houston, Imagine Dragons.

[1:50:16] Andrew: Okay.

[1:50:17] Leah: Um, I have.

[1:50:19] Leah: Let's, oh, wait, no, I don't have all the winners.

[1:50:21] Leah: I have "Let's Have a Kiki," "Turkey Lurkey Time" going through.

[1:50:24] Leah: Nowadays, "Nowadays," "Hot Honey Rag" going through, and it's time to say goodbye to "It's Time."

[1:50:31] Andrew: Time to die.

[1:50:32] Leah: Time to die.

[1:50:33] Andrew: No, time to die.

[1:50:34] Leah: Time to die.

[1:50:35] Andrew: And then I have "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" and "Same Love" staying behind.

[1:50:39] Leah: But "How Will I Know" going through to the next round of the Glacket?

[1:50:43] Andrew: How will I know how many rounds it will last?

[1:50:45] Leah: I don't.

[1:50:46] Andrew: I guess you need to keep on tuning in.

[1:50:47] Leah: You need to keep the week.

[1:50:51] Andrew: I'm thinking about releasing those conversations as well.

[1:50:53] Leah: Yeah, those too.

[1:50:54] Andrew: In the coming months. Um, Leah, I'm gonna ask you the question that we ask all of our glisteners, but my friend here is gonna ask it actually.

[1:50:56] Leah: Um, Leah!

[1:51:07] Andrew: Wait.

[1:51:11] Leah: Pained.

[1:51:12] Andrew: Pain to ask.

[1:51:15] Leah: I can't do it under pressure anymore.

[1:51:18] Andrew: Leah.

[1:51:20] Leah: You got it.

[1:51:21] Andrew: We're not gonna look.

[1:51:22] Leah: Nobody look at her.

[1:51:24] Andrew: Audio medium, my eyes are still fully open.

[1:51:28] Leah: Leah, if Glee was still on in the year 2023, what songs are they singing?

[1:51:34] Leah: Oh, great question.

[1:51:36] Leah: Great question, Lendy Houston. So unfortunately, at this point, the music I listen to is like Glee covers, songs they sang on Glee, country music, and Taylor Swift.

[1:51:48] Leah: So my repertoire of like song knowledge from the current day is like very limited. Um, so here are songs that I wonder how they did not end up doing at some point.

[1:51:58] Leah: The first thing, "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.

[1:52:01] Andrew: Daniel Powters.

[1:52:03] Leah: I think that's a bad day.

[1:52:05] Andrew: It would be a Blaine solo.

[1:52:06] Leah: Yes.

[1:52:07] Andrew: Blaine solo of "Lola."

[1:52:07] Leah: Yes.

[1:52:08] Andrew: I'm saying follow, but that's okay.

[1:52:09] Leah: Oh, maybe. I can see that.

[1:52:11] Leah: Um, "Rivers and Roads" would be like an end of season graduation y.

[1:52:16] Andrew: Sing it.

[1:52:17] Leah: Uh, "Rivers and Roads," "Rivers and Roads."

[1:52:21] Andrew: I can't say rivers you.

[1:52:23] Leah: Um, it's like never heard that song before.

[1:52:25] Andrew: That was beautiful though.

[1:52:27] Leah: You love songs about rivers.

[1:52:28] Andrew: Oh, oh my god, I didn't even think about that.

[1:52:30] Leah: Wow.

[1:52:31] Leah: Um, "Cosmic."

[1:52:33] Andrew: Um, no, but I don't know. It's a very like summer campy, like sing around a campfire song.

[1:52:39] Leah: And I feel like, um, yeah.

[1:52:42] Leah: Um, "This is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[1:52:46] Andrew: Oh.

[1:52:47] Leah: I feel like they would have slayed that.

[1:52:49] Andrew: That's yeah.

[1:52:51] Leah: Um, a thick, thick, thick boy Halloween episode.

[1:52:56] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:52:57] Leah: What is a thick boy Halloween episode?

[1:53:00] Andrew: What does that mean?

[1:53:03] Leah: Where they only sing Halloween songs, like scary songs?

[1:53:07] Andrew: Oh, would you call like the season three Whitney Houston tribute episode a thick boy Whitney Houston episode?

[1:53:18] Leah: Like, is that what we're referring to episodes?

[1:53:22] Andrew: A thick boy rumors episode.

[1:53:27] Leah: Okay.

[1:53:27] Andrew: Thick boy burned back a rack.

[1:53:32] Leah: Oh, okay, Leah.

[1:53:34] Andrew: Um, "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls.

[1:53:38] Leah: Don't know how they didn't do that.

[1:53:40] Andrew: Um, "Daughters" by John Mayer is such a will song.

[1:53:43] Leah: I don't think that that's something they should have done, but it's something I'm surprised they didn't do.

[1:53:48] Andrew: Um, shout out to my ex by Little Mix would have been done by another one.

[1:53:51] Leah: I thought you were like shouting out someone.

[1:53:54] Andrew: It's like, oh wow.

[1:53:56] Leah: In the midst of this, you're shouting everyone.

[1:53:59] Andrew: The song, the song by Little Mix would have been done by another group at a competition.

[1:54:04] Leah: Um, then the last, the only original thought I had was, um, I think they would do a La La Land tribute episode.

[1:54:11] Andrew: Um, "Another Day of Sun" would be a group number that would be like maybe to begin the episode.

[1:54:16] Leah: Yeah, maybe led by like Keena, actually.

[1:54:19] Andrew: I could see that.

[1:54:19] Leah: Um, that'd be really cute.

[1:54:21] Andrew: I really like that.

[1:54:22] Leah: Yeah, I actually say it with me. I play that on my bird show pod.

[1:54:26] Andrew: What?

[1:54:26] Leah: Oh, I love that song.

[1:54:28] Andrew: Um, "Someone in the Crowd" would be an unholy trinity number, and they'd be like, like making over Rachel.

[1:54:34] Leah: Oh, I really love this.

[1:54:36] Andrew: Okay.

[1:54:36] Leah: A lovely night would be a claim duet.

[1:54:40] Andrew: Um, an audition, "Fools Who Dream."

[1:54:44] Leah: Obviously, it's a Rolo.

[1:54:45] Andrew: It's a Rolo, yeah.

[1:54:46] Leah: Um, my aunt used to live in Paris.

[1:54:49] Andrew: Yeah.

[1:54:50] Leah: Um, I just think that they would really do really well with a La La Land episode.

[1:54:55] Andrew: Yes.

[1:54:55] Leah: I'm Gloglog Land.

[1:54:58] Andrew: Glogglog.

[1:55:00] Leah: A thick boy La La Land episode for once.

[1:55:00] Andrew: For once.

[1:55:05] Leah: I think that they would, would they sing like "Another Day of Sun"? Like, are we like gonna see like this, the um, the parking lot?

[1:55:11] Andrew: Oh, like them all parking.

[1:55:13] Leah: Oh yeah, that'd be so good.

[1:55:14] Andrew: I would love that.

[1:55:15] Leah: That would be so cute.

[1:55:17] Andrew: That's that agree that station western.

[1:55:20] Leah: I think that'd be really great.

[1:55:21] Andrew: That's really, that's amazing, Leah.

[1:55:24] Leah: Thanks.

[1:55:24] Andrew: It's the only original thought I've ever had.

[1:55:27] Leah: Wait, no, the other thoughts were original.

[1:55:29] Andrew: Were they not?

[1:55:29] Leah: Yeah, they were.

[1:55:30] Andrew: They were okay.

[1:55:31] Leah: Yeah, don't say that.

[1:55:33] Andrew: We love you.

[1:55:34] Leah: We love you, Leah.

[1:55:35] Andrew: Um, where can everybody else wants to love you on social media?

[1:55:39] Leah: And where can you listeners?

[1:55:42] Leah: I'm not sure.

[1:55:42] Andrew: You're gonna burn.

[1:55:44] Leah: Oh, you're not giving the burner right now.

[1:55:44] Andrew: Oh, you'll give my dog.

[1:55:47] Leah: Um, my real Instagram, yeah. My real Instagram is Leah Grace716, L E A H G R A C E 716. I don't really post on it much, but if you wanna, if you want to come see what I'm up to, I'll probably this summer I'm gonna be doing that bike ride again, and it raises money for cancer. So stay tuned.

[1:56:05] Andrew: Hell yeah.

[1:56:09] Leah: You have loved us.

[1:56:13] Andrew: Nice.

[1:56:14] Leah: I love that. And you pity my, uh, sadness over "River" not going through.

[1:56:22] Andrew: Thank you, Leah.

[1:56:23] Leah: Thank you so much for joining us. I have literally laughed until I feel like I want to throw up.

[1:56:28] Andrew: Um, thank you. Uh, to end the episode, we're gonna say bye in our most annoying voices. And actually, my friend is gonna, my friend's gonna join us, okay?

[1:56:38] Leah: Not your friend.

[1:56:39] Andrew: Yeah, my friend.

[1:56:40] Leah: You're your friends with him now?

[1:56:41] Andrew: Yeah, no, he's my bestie. I love him.

[1:56:43] Leah: He speaks through.

[1:56:44] Andrew: Bessie and a taste?

[1:56:45] Leah: Yeah.

[1:56:46] Andrew: Okay. Three, two, one.

[1:56:49] All: Bye.

[1:56:50] Leah: Bye!

[1:56:52] Andrew: I just wanted to see how you were gonna do it.

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