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

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

[0:18] Andrew: Glacket by Glacket, we'll rank everyone to see which song will move closer to spot number one.

[0:26] Andrew: Gleek of the Week, Gleek, Gleek, Gleek of the Week. It's Gleek, Gleek of the Week.

[0:35] Andrew: How do I want to start this? I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Glee Club. I'm gonna keep on dancing at the... And you know why? I'm singing that because we're doing a little, like, random Chappell tribute episode fanfic, as well as Glacketing this episode. We're joined by...

[0:55] Andrew: She planted the seed a few episodes back in a livestream episode. Of course, we're talking about Whitney.

[1:01] Whitney: Hello.

[1:02] Andrew: Hey! And we're also joined by icon legend of the moment, queen of my life for real, Allyson Alamode.

[1:10] Allyson Alamode: Hello, hello!

[1:11] Andrew: Hey! Okay, so, Whitney, before we get into, like, all things Glacket, I really just want to throw it to you and just, like, have you completely take over my entire life with this Chappell...

[1:22] Whitney: Okay, I'm allowed to talk on this Glee podcast?

[1:26] Andrew: You're allowed to. The stage is yours.

[1:28] Whitney: Okay. So, I don't really know where to start with this, and I've been trying to think of, like, how to start, but my voice note kind of starts with, like, a synopsis of the plot that I have in mind. And then I also have some plot holes that I've thought about, too, that I'm just ignoring.

[1:43] Andrew: Okay.

[1:44] Whitney: And so, to set the stage, this is the Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

[1:49] Whitney: Rise and Fall of a Glee Club Princess. I'm so sorry.

[1:56] Andrew: Again, the stage is yours. What am I doing?

[1:58] Whitney: So, it's a tribute episode to the Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. You were right there. However, this is going to focus on two princesses, Santana of New Directions and Unique of Vocal Adrenaline.

[2:08] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[2:09] Whitney: So, we're in season three.

[2:15] Whitney: It's somewhere between regionals and nationals. And what I thought of it would be the episode after Saturday Night Gleiver. So, before the Whitney Houston episode.

[2:27] Andrew: And this is, I mean, history is kind of repeating itself because it's the Whitney tribute episode.

[2:31] Whitney: Right.

[2:32] Andrew: Again, with you behind the wheel.

[2:34] Whitney: Yes.

[2:35] Whitney: The more talented Whitney is the other episode, though.

[2:40] Andrew: Right.

[2:41] Whitney: Right.

[2:42] Whitney: So, Finn and Mercedes have cemented their future plans. Finn's going to try to go into inside the actor's studio.

[2:48] Whitney: It's just the actor's studio. And then Mercedes is going to be singing in LA. And she's going to be backup for Beyonce. Or what was it? Opening for Beyonce.

[3:02] Andrew: Right.

[3:03] Whitney: Right. Right. Right. Wait, that's serious finale.

[3:05] Allyson Alamode: That's later.

[3:06] Whitney: That's later.

[3:07] Whitney: Yeah.

[3:08] Whitney: Of course.

[3:09] Whitney: That's what she dreams of being.

[3:11] Whitney: Of course. That's on the vision board.

[3:13] Whitney: Yes.

[3:14] Whitney: And so, Santana doesn't have her dream. She's still caught up in between her dream.

[3:18] Whitney: Right.

[3:19] Whitney: And she's struggling with deciding between college and going to New York to be famous.

[3:22] Whitney: And it's affecting her performance and well-being.

[3:27] Whitney: Elsewhere, Unique is figuring herself out and coming down from the high of regionals. So, she's already done Boogie Shoes.

[3:32] Whitney: So, for my homework, I have been re-watching Saturday Night Gleiver a bunch of times to try to really get in the mind of the Gleiver writer of what was going on in this episode.

[3:41] Whitney: But Unique is... And also, can we just talk about how Jesse St. James gave Unique Boogie Shoes and then did not expect her to eat down like that? Of course, she was going to diva out.

[3:50] Andrew: I need to know the version of Boogie Shoes that is not what it was.

[3:55] Whitney: Not Unique. You know what I mean?

[3:58] Whitney: Jesse St. James is still refusing to let Unique perform as herself, but Unique is building up her self-confidence to fight for herself.

[4:06] Whitney: So, somewhere in the episode. Or should we... Should I start with like the songs?

[4:10] Whitney: And then as we get into this part of the episode, I'll tell this little plot point. Or how do you want to start?

[4:16] Andrew: I want to go through... How are you feeling, Allyson Alamode?

[4:20] Allyson Alamode: You know, I trust you implicitly.

[4:24] Whitney: Be careful.

[4:26] Allyson Alamode: I'm along for the ride.

[4:28] Whitney: Yeah. I kind of want to go just like through the story and just like find the songs as they come.

[4:34] Andrew: Yes.

[4:35] Whitney: Okay.

[4:36] Whitney: Well, right now, we've already had two, maybe three songs happen.

[4:41] Andrew: Okay.

[4:42] Whitney: I know we just talked about the beginning, but my other major plot point, there's songs that will happen at this plot point that were not there yet.

[4:49] Andrew: Okay.

[4:50] Whitney: So, first, I was stuck between having Feminine Ominon or Hot To Go as the Cheerios opener.

[4:57] Whitney: I stuck with Hot To Go, but I see Feminine Ominon as an option.

[5:03] Whitney: I was going to workshop with y'all if you did not agree.

[5:06] Whitney: While I was listening to the Chappell album, I was hearing Feminine Ominon as almost like an express yourself sort of like girls number.

[5:15] Whitney: And specifically, I was hearing the part where she's like, Play the fucking beat!

[5:25] Andrew: As that's Tina.

[5:27] Whitney: That's what I wrote in my notes app.

[5:29] Whitney: I literally, I wrote Tina, Britney, Marley, question mark.

[5:34] Allyson Alamode: Ooh.

[5:35] Whitney: Yeah.

[5:36] Whitney: Marley.

[5:37] Whitney: They'll save Feminine Ominon for season four.

[5:40] Andrew: Okay.

[5:40] Whitney: When the boys are being like misogynistic, because they always are.

[5:43] Andrew: Sure.

[5:45] Whitney: Lots of easy access for y'all.

[5:46] Whitney: Watch this space.

[5:47] Whitney: Yeah.

[5:49] Whitney: But Hot To Go is a Cheerios opener.

[5:51] Whitney: Santana led with Quinn and Britney solos.

[5:54] Whitney: And we see that Santana is all confident. She's fierce.

[5:56] Whitney: And it's a stark contrast from where she will be later in the episode.

[6:00] Whitney: Ooh.

[6:01] Whitney: And then I say that it ends up getting cut with Sue's usual like sloppy, sloppy babies in the megaphone.

[6:07] Andrew: Right, right.

[6:08] Whitney: You know, because she doesn't, she's not impressed by it.

[6:10] Whitney: And then Santana's like, why? I did so great, you know.

[6:14] Whitney: And then they get to talking like her and Britney are talking.

[6:17] Whitney: And Britney's like, how are you going to decide if you want to go to New York if you're not even if you haven't even visited New York yet?

[6:23] Andrew: True.

[6:23] Whitney: So that's a little seed.

[6:26] Whitney: I mean, they did to borrow the-

[6:28] Allyson Alamode: No, plot hole, plot hole, plot hole were not weird.

[6:31] Whitney: Oh, oh, so we're like, we're working in plot holes now.

[6:36] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[6:36] Whitney: Okay.

[6:37] Whitney: Because they were canonically there, season two finale.

[6:40] Whitney: I remember.

[6:41] Whitney: Again, at the bottom of my thing, I have plot holes that I'm choosing to ignore.

[6:46] Andrew: And it is that fact.

[6:47] Whitney: Well, you could say like, you never really explored it to their knowledge.

[6:50] Andrew: That's true.

[6:51] Whitney: It just seemed like New York, New York.

[6:53] Whitney: And that was their whole exploration.

[6:55] Whitney: I love New York, New York, New York.

[6:57] Andrew: Right.

[6:57] Whitney: They were there for business.

[6:58] Whitney: So it doesn't have to be a plot hole.

[6:59] Whitney: So her and Britney are done talking and St. Tim is like, oh, you're kind of you're so right.

[7:03] Whitney: And then another plot hole is that the scene that I'm about to say kind of happens in Saturday Night Gleever, but I want it to happen anyways.

[7:10] Whitney: So our second song is Kaleidoscope.

[7:18] Whitney: And you know how we always have to give Rachel and Finn their own scene when the plot's based on someone else?

[7:23] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[7:24] Whitney: Well, of course, the focus of the episode is on someone else.

[7:27] Whitney: So we still have to give Finchel their little moment, which I'm here for.

[7:31] Whitney: You know, I love Finchel.

[7:33] Whitney: But with Kaleidoscope, you know, I'm sensing a Finchel scene because I literally wrote because there's the obligatory Rachel solo.

[7:41] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[7:41] Whitney: Spotlight of the episode is focused on another character.

[7:44] Whitney: She's going through her Rolodex of possible solo choices for nationals.

[7:48] Whitney: She says, not the Rolodex.

[7:50] Allyson Alamode: Rolodex.

[7:52] Whitney: I didn't even plan that.

[7:53] Whitney: Not the Rolodex.

[7:55] Whitney: Not the Rolodex.

[7:58] Whitney: She says, I think I've found the perfect song for nationals.

[8:01] Whitney: And then it cues Kaleidoscope.

[8:04] Whitney: And she's talking to Finn before and then they're in the auditorium and Finn has like his signature smile.

[8:10] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[8:10] Whitney: Where he's like smiling at her so proud as she's singing.

[8:14] Whitney: And then this one I need opinions on.

[8:18] Whitney: On this next one.

[8:18] Whitney: Okay.

[8:20] Whitney: So my other plot hole is that what I have planned for this kind of happens in the Whitney Houston episode.

[8:26] Whitney: So since this technically is before the Whitney Houston episode, we can just cut this part out of the Whitney Houston episode and instead go with my idea.

[8:35] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[8:36] Whitney: Okay.

[8:37] Whitney: We're rewriting Glistory right now.

[8:39] Allyson Alamode: Wait, now it's finally kind of like clicking to me that this would be three tribute episodes back to back to back.

[8:46] Whitney: Again, that is another plot hole that I wrote down.

[8:50] Whitney: I mean, they do kind of do that.

[8:52] Whitney: Like when season five comes around, they do.

[8:55] Whitney: Obviously.

[8:55] Whitney: I mean, I guess Quarterback is like not a tribute tribute, but it is, you know, but then like you have Katie Gaga right after Quarterback.

[9:03] Andrew: So the first four episodes truly are tribute episodes.

[9:06] Whitney: So it's not beyond the reach yet.

[9:08] Allyson Alamode: Well, I mean, if you hate Vanessa Lenges, just say that.

[9:11] Whitney: Oh, Vanessa Lenges, you're not invited to say it.

[9:13] Whitney: So we're going to just keep on doing these tribute episodes.

[9:17] Whitney: To keep her off the set.

[9:20] Allyson Alamode: She has a part in this tribute episode.

[9:23] Whitney: Oh, we're breaching contract.

[9:26] Whitney: Vanessa Lenges, yeah, you're allowed on set.

[9:30] Whitney: Remembering that she's a cast member and that she's allowed on these tribute episodes.

[9:35] Whitney: So this is, there's not a plot hole right there.

[9:38] Whitney: Okay.

[9:38] Whitney: Maybe plot hole because she's not supposed to be in the bi-contract.

[9:42] Whitney: She's legally obligated to stay away from the studio.

[9:46] Whitney: How can we get Vanessa Lenges to stay away from the Glee set?

[9:55] Whitney: There's a couple of things that I could, that we could do with this scene.

[9:58] Whitney: So I could scrape this scene and just say, we'll keep it in the Winnie Houston episode.

[10:02] Whitney: I'm still going to tell you guys about it anyways.

[10:04] Whitney: But then you guys tell me if we workshop to fit another song in before I get to the rest of the song.

[10:11] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[10:12] Whitney: So Picture You.

[10:14] Whitney: Very cute. Very sweet. Right?

[10:18] Whitney: And kind of a little dirty.

[10:21] Allyson Alamode: Right.

[10:22] Whitney: Joe and Quinn.

[10:24] Whitney: I see it.

[10:27] Whitney: In there.

[10:30] Whitney: Yeah.

[10:30] Whitney: Wait.

[10:30] Whitney: So then they do.

[10:32] Whitney: All of the things I do when I picture you.

[10:33] Allyson Alamode: Oh my God.

[10:34] Whitney: Wait.

[10:34] Whitney: So you're getting back to back, saving all my love for you and Picture You.

[10:38] Whitney: We're getting back to back.

[10:42] Whitney: Quo duets?

[10:43] Allyson Alamode: Quo.

[10:43] Whitney: Yeah, Quo.

[10:44] Whitney: We're developing their plot a little bit.

[10:48] Whitney: Yeah.

[10:49] Whitney: You know?

[10:49] Whitney: Someone has to.

[10:50] Whitney: Someone has to because the Glee writers were not.

[10:53] Allyson Alamode: Right.

[10:54] Whitney: But it's, I didn't write down much for this one because it is kind of in my head exactly, almost to the T, how saving all my love for you ended up.

[11:03] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[11:03] Whitney: So we could either, we could scrape this and save this for the Winnie Houston episode.

[11:08] Whitney: Or we scrape the Whitney Houston episode scene and do this.

[11:12] Whitney: I don't see the issue with having.

[11:14] Whitney: Workshop.

[11:16] Whitney: You know, as time has progressed, the joner of it all during the physical therapy.

[11:21] Whitney: At first I was like, what is this? This is, this is so dumb.

[11:25] Whitney: I hate it.

[11:25] Whitney: But I actually would be a fan of like back.

[11:28] Allyson Alamode: Are we getting, are you suggesting that they literally are the same performance in both episodes where it's like they're singing in the choir room, but then it's also cutting to physical therapy where Quinn's feeling his joner?

[11:34] Whitney: It would be a little different.

[11:43] Whitney: I wouldn't want them to be singing like together in the choir room, but like.

[11:47] Whitney: She's like singing alone.

[11:49] Whitney: Sure.

[11:50] Whitney: At home.

[11:51] Whitney: For like the first verses.

[11:53] Whitney: And then they're kind of together for the chorus.

[11:56] Whitney: And then.

[11:57] Whitney: We could show his house if he has one.

[12:00] Whitney: Because.

[12:01] Whitney: If he has one.

[12:03] Whitney: This is the first time that I'm considering.

[12:05] Whitney: Maybe he does have.

[12:08] Whitney: Because he was homeschooled.

[12:10] Whitney: He was homeschooled.

[12:12] Whitney: But like where?

[12:13] Whitney: In a church.

[12:14] Whitney: At your home.

[12:14] Whitney: Exactly.

[12:15] Whitney: At church.

[12:16] Whitney: Or we can show him at church.

[12:19] Allyson Alamode: Oh, there we go.

[12:19] Whitney: Oh, that's a good one.

[12:21] Whitney: That'll, that'll add a good layer to it.

[12:23] Whitney: Because, you know, he's a little guilty.

[12:25] Whitney: Right, right, right.

[12:25] Whitney: And so it wouldn't be exactly the same, but it'd be very similar.

[12:28] Whitney: So maybe it doesn't even have to be physical therapy.

[12:30] Whitney: Like we could just, they could just be singing to each other.

[12:33] Whitney: Like in their own respective places.

[12:35] Whitney: I'm not going to deny Diana and Samuel Larson vocals.

[12:39] Whitney: So I'm for it.

[12:40] Whitney: I was listening to Picture You and I was like, Diana would eat on these verses.

[12:45] Whitney: Because it's like that low tone kind of thing.

[12:49] Whitney: So if we're going to keep Picture You, then we won't need a workshop for another song.

[12:54] Whitney: But if we're wanting to workshop another song.

[12:56] Whitney: I have ideas.

[12:57] Whitney: And I have ideas of how songs get cut.

[13:00] Allyson Alamode: Oh, so you're like building in songs that are like, just kind of Gleek Out Brazil, where it's like, oh, they didn't actually reach production?

[13:06] Whitney: Yeah, okay.

[13:11] Whitney: Yes, I do have.

[13:12] Whitney: I do have that.

[13:13] Whitney: Okay.

[13:15] Whitney: So our fourth song.

[13:17] Whitney: So the next part of the plot.

[13:19] Whitney: Santana, Brittany, Quinn and Sugar.

[13:22] Whitney: And sugar.

[13:23] Whitney: Impromptu trip to New York.

[13:24] Allyson Alamode: Oh, why not?

[13:26] Whitney: Why not?

[13:27] Whitney: Why not?

[13:28] Whitney: It's a girl's trip.

[13:30] Whitney: And then I put in here.

[13:31] Whitney: Remember that Quinn is in her wheelchair at this point canonically.

[13:35] Whitney: It's important to recall.

[13:36] Whitney: Okay, okay.

[13:37] Whitney: We have to recall that.

[13:38] Whitney: Because we care about plot consistencies on Glee.

[13:41] Whitney: And Unique is also in New York, but for another reason.

[13:45] Whitney: And oh, but it's a vocal adrenaline.

[13:48] Whitney: Unique New York.

[13:49] Whitney: Unique New York.

[13:53] Whitney: Unique New York.

[13:54] Whitney: Unique New York.

[13:57] Whitney: It's a vocal adrenaline intense training by Jesse St. James and explained away in a lot one liner how something in the New York air that prepares him for crushing the hearts of singing mediocre teenagers.

[14:08] Allyson Alamode: I believe that.

[14:10] Whitney: That was my impression.

[14:10] Whitney: And Unique runs into the girls at Glee Club.

[14:14] Whitney: Now, caveat.

[14:16] Whitney: I don't know if Unique has ever met Santana, Brittany, Quinn or Sugar.

[14:20] Whitney: Because, well, I mean, Unique has only been in one episode and she only met she only met Mercedes and Kurt.

[14:28] Whitney: Yeah, I don't know how they cross paths and realize that they're both in Glee Club and that, you know, their directions and Unique is vocal adrenaline.

[14:37] Whitney: But somehow they they make that connection.

[14:40] Whitney: I think it's like well within reason for like Kurt Mercedes to share that information with the rest of the Glee Club.

[14:46] Whitney: Like, oh, my God, like this.

[14:49] Whitney: The new vocal adrenaline lead performer is a force to be dealt with.

[14:53] Allyson Alamode: So it works.

[14:54] Whitney: It works.

[14:55] Whitney: Yes, it works.

[14:57] Whitney: And so she runs into the girls at a.

[15:00] Whitney: So maybe they all got fake IDs. I don't know. Or a teen club.

[15:05] Allyson Alamode: That is yet to be determined. And they run...

[15:10] Whitney: introduces them to a drag queen that Younique has befriended. And I wrote in here, guest-starring Chappelle herself. Not really, actually. I don't know if she likes acting or Glee. But in my head, I think Chappelle is going to be fine.

[15:24] Allyson Alamode: She has shouted out Glee.

[15:25] Whitney: Yeah, no, she's since watched it. And like, she like, she, I think she, well, she famously like posted, when she reached the season three Christmas episode, that she really reached a breaking point. And she was like, I'm turning it off forever. I don't know if actually she meant that. I don't know.

[15:43] Allyson Alamode: But then she has like an apology. Like, I'm sorry for what I said about Glee.

[15:47] Whitney: I'm sorry.

[15:51] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[15:51] Whitney: And so at that point, we have Supergraphic Ultra Modern Girl.

[15:57] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[15:58] Whitney: So Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Younique, and Sugar perform this at the New York club with the help of local drag queen in attempt for Santana and Younique to fill the rush of performing at a not high school auditorium. It's a girl song.

[16:10] Allyson Alamode: And is Vanessa Lynch's like in the studio?

[16:13] Whitney: Yes.

[16:14] Allyson Alamode: Mic was on.

[16:15] Whitney: Mic was on.

[16:18] Allyson Alamode: It was on.

[16:18] Whitney: Anything other than what?

[16:21] Allyson Alamode: What?

[16:22] Whitney: What?

[16:26] Allyson Alamode: Maybe just a little bit more.

[16:28] Whitney: Maybe a little bit. We're not gonna push it.

[16:29] Allyson Alamode: I haven't, I wanted to like, I don't know exactly what line she'll be. But if since I'm directing this episode, she, her line is going to make it into the episode. Like not just the mp3. She's gonna be in the mp4.

[16:39] Whitney: I love that you're writing and also directing this episode.

[16:43] Allyson Alamode: Yes, yes. I'm multi-talented.

[16:46] Whitney: You need to make sure that it's safe within your hand. Like, nobody else can be trusted with it. Yeah.

[16:51] Allyson Alamode: I want full control. I'm yeah. And I will also edit it too.

[16:55] Whitney: Oh, gosh. Okay, great.

[16:57] Allyson Alamode: So now we're not going to have a lot of fun anymore for this episode.

[17:01] Whitney: Okay, we're done.

[17:02] Allyson Alamode: Oh, okay.

[17:03] Whitney: So the girls had their fun. You know, they've sung their hearts out. They had fun at the teen club. And then now we're leaving New York. And so I gave Santana California.

[17:15] Allyson Alamode: Is that not the song that um, that Lea Michele is singing? Sing California for me. Because like Lea Michele is singing a song on tour that she's like, I think that she would be singing this when instead of uninvited. Where California is like about like leaving.

[17:32] Whitney: Oh, yeah.

[17:33] Allyson Alamode: Come get me out of California.

[17:36] Whitney: California.

[17:37] Allyson Alamode: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:40] Whitney: Yes.

[17:40] Allyson Alamode: So there's the connection. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:42] Whitney: There's the connection. So it is canonically now.

[17:45] Allyson Alamode: Within the universe.

[17:46] Whitney: It's within the universe.

[17:48] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[17:49] Whitney: So this is the peak of Santana's angst. Since her plot points can only be contained in one episode. She's reflecting on who she is and what Ohio means to her as she's making the decision to pursue college. So it starts kind of like a dream sequence of sorts. She's back on the drive back from New York to Ohio. They decided to drive.

[18:10] Allyson Alamode: Oh, I was like drive.

[18:12] Whitney: They don't have that like, bullet train, like private jet back and forth to Ohio.

[18:17] Allyson Alamode: It doesn't exist yet.

[18:17] Whitney: The wicked train. Yeah, yeah. Got it.

[18:21] Allyson Alamode: They don't have that yet. That's that's. So she's in, you see her like actually in the car.

[18:27] Whitney: Okay.

[18:27] Allyson Alamode: And she sings this while looking out the window while all the girls are chatty and giggling together in the background. And so I envision kind of like, you see them all having fun and everything. And then there's like, sad Santana.

[18:38] Whitney: Wait, I really love this picture that you're painting. I really love that. Car number.

[18:44] Allyson Alamode: By mid performance, she's back in Lima in the auditorium alone.

[18:49] Whitney: And then commercial break after that, because like, we need time to process.

[18:54] Allyson Alamode: Let's hear from our sponsors. Yeah.

[18:58] Whitney: And then I have so my last song is like my magnum opus, the one that I'm most proud of. If I had to choose one, if I had to say like, I based this whole tribute episode to have this one song, it would be what is my next song.

[19:14] Allyson Alamode: But before I get into that, do you want to hear the songs that are cut?

[19:17] Whitney: And then some other plot points that I came up with them?

[19:20] Allyson Alamode: Yes, please. And also are these songs that are cut? Like, are they released on Ryan Murphy's YouTube channel? Are they still making it to iTunes? Where do they live?

[19:31] Whitney: So they're not really set first, but then they're just randomly dropped on the YouTube channel.

[19:37] Allyson Alamode: And were they filmed?

[19:39] Whitney: Not all.

[19:40] Allyson Alamode: Got it. Okay.

[19:41] Whitney: But they're gonna be on the EP. I have some plots for the ones that got recorded, but then we kind of we just recorded the whole album and then we're just gonna release all of it.

[19:50] Allyson Alamode: Sure.

[19:51] Whitney: So Feminine Nominons got cut because we went with Hot To Go.

[19:54] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[19:54] Whitney: And let's just say that they filmed both opening scenes with Feminine Nominon and Hot To Go, but Hot To Go ended up being the one that went through.

[20:01] Allyson Alamode: Got it. Okay.

[20:02] Whitney: To the next round. And then I don't have anything for Red Wine Supernova. They just cut this one out of the tribute episode, but they'll release on MP3.

[20:10] Allyson Alamode: Red Wine Supernova, Chapel herself said, do you know what this Allison?

[20:15] Whitney: No, I had like a head canon who I thought would sound good on it.

[20:20] Allyson Alamode: I think that she was like, asked, like, she like, I guess like did like a talk back at one of her concerts. And like there were like questions and someone was like asking, like, what songs would you want the Glee cast to cover? And she said like Red Wine Supernova, she would, she sees as like a Nationals performance featuring a lot of different voices.

[20:40] Whitney: Who did you think, Allison?

[20:42] Allyson Alamode: Britney.

[20:43] Whitney: Yeah, I can see that as well.

[20:44] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[20:45] Whitney: Very fun.

[20:46] Allyson Alamode: I see like Trouble Tones.

[20:47] Whitney: Yes, yeah.

[20:48] Allyson Alamode: Like it's the Trouble Tones Nationals number.

[20:53] Whitney: Yeah, that's a good one. After Midnight, they cut this one out of the tribute episode, but it's later sung by Santana and Quinn to Rachel in New York in one of their interventions.

[21:02] Allyson Alamode: Okay, okay.

[21:03] Whitney: Oh, okay. I did put Santana, like, Santana is an After Midnight.

[21:08] Allyson Alamode: And then where are you getting to Pink Pony Club?

[21:11] Whitney: Spoilers.

[21:12] Allyson Alamode: We're not getting there yet.

[21:13] Whitney: Spoilers.

[21:14] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[21:14] Whitney: Spoilers.

[21:15] Allyson Alamode: Savannah, slow down.

[21:18] Whitney: What about Pink Pony Club?

[21:21] Allyson Alamode: Spoiler.

[21:22] Whitney: Remember how I said my last song is my magnum opus?

[21:25] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[21:26] Whitney: Okay.

[21:27] Allyson Alamode: There we go.

[21:28] Whitney: Coffee's also cut. Everyone is too happy in their relationships right now.

[21:32] Allyson Alamode: Okay, all right.

[21:35] Whitney: Wait, but like coffee, who would sound good on coffee? Like, um.

[21:38] Allyson Alamode: I put Rachel and Blaine.

[21:40] Whitney: Yeah.

[21:41] Allyson Alamode: Rachel and Blaine is kind of it.

[21:43] Whitney: That's canon and it would sound so good.

[21:45] Allyson Alamode: Casual.

[21:47] Whitney: So remember, canonically in this?

[21:50] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[21:50] Whitney: Right now, where we are, we're after Saturday Night Gleeber. The only situation ship happening is Quinn and Joe, which would not work for the performance given context of the lyrics.

[21:59] Allyson Alamode: I said, please don't do this.

[22:03] Whitney: And then I also really want Santana to sing this one. So maybe she goes through a situation ship with another lesbian in Louisville or Danny in New York sometime during Britannia's break.

[22:13] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[22:13] Whitney: Break.

[22:14] Allyson Alamode: Break.

[22:15] Whitney: Santana, don't cheat.

[22:17] Allyson Alamode: Could also see Tina singing this about Blaine during that one weird era of her trying to flirt with a very gay man.

[22:22] Whitney: Who knows? Maybe Rachel with Brody.

[22:24] Allyson Alamode: I don't have anything for My King is Karma. I think they just record it and then it just never made it into fruition of like.

[22:29] Whitney: Right.

[22:30] Allyson Alamode: The episode or anything.

[22:33] Whitney: Naked in Manhattan is obviously has to be a New York episode. So that comes later down the road.

[22:36] Allyson Alamode: Right, right, right, right.

[22:39] Whitney: And then Guilty Pleasure, I also did not have anything for. I don't know if we workshop something.

[22:42] Allyson Alamode: Me either.

[22:44] Whitney: But I could not. I was listening to it and I could not find a way that doesn't lend itself to Glee very well.

[22:51] Allyson Alamode: Could they use it as a mashup in the Guilty Pleasures episode?

[22:56] Whitney: Oh, there we go.

[22:57] Allyson Alamode: That they're like, they could work it in?

[22:59] Whitney: I don't know.

[22:59] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[23:00] Whitney: Maybe. It could be like, it could be a sugar number. And she thought she had to sing songs called Guilty Pleasure.

[23:05] Allyson Alamode: That's, there we go. Iconic.

[23:09] Whitney: I love it.

[23:11] Allyson Alamode: That is perfect.

[23:12] Whitney: Here we are to the finale. I wonder what it could be.

[23:14] Allyson Alamode: Pink Pony Club.

[23:17] Whitney: What?

[23:20] Allyson Alamode: What?

[23:21] Whitney: You're joking.

[23:22] Allyson Alamode: It is a Unique solo.

[23:24] Whitney: Oh.

[23:26] Allyson Alamode: Unique is in sort of her dream sequence.

[23:28] Whitney: Okay.

[23:29] Allyson Alamode: She's alone in the auditorium of Carmel High.

[23:35] Whitney: And as she's singing, she's thinking about this, how that she wants to perform as Unique. But Jessie St. James, her parents, everyone in her life has admitted that she doesn't.

[23:46] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[23:47] Whitney: However, she just wants to keep dancing.

[23:51] Allyson Alamode: I'm gonna keep on dancing.

[23:52] Whitney: Slow motion shots.

[23:55] Allyson Alamode: Where?

[23:57] Whitney: At the Pink Pony Club.

[23:59] Allyson Alamode: Oh, yep.

[24:01] Whitney: Or at the Carmel High auditorium. Slow motion shots of Jessie yelling and being awful while Unique wails that she wants to keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club. Chills as I was thinking about this. I just have to give like a pat on my own back because like this was a really good idea that I had.

[24:15] Allyson Alamode: No, no, it's really Galaxy Brain idea.

[24:20] Whitney: I do feel as though that, okay, so Leah again has been singing Pink Pony Club as well on tour. But she also puts out the disclaimer that she understands that it wouldn't be a Rachel number if Glee was still on. That it would be a instead Kurt number.

[24:36] Allyson Alamode: So how are you responding to the Gleeks online that are like, actually, Chris Colfer should have went into the studio for this number instead of Alex Newell?

[24:47] Whitney: A really insane sentence to be had. My response is that is just a very wild statement.

[24:53] Allyson Alamode: We can give Chris Colfer a line like Constant Craving.

[24:58] Whitney: Wait, do you not think that Pink Pony Club because I love the idea of Unique singing. I think it really lends itself.

[25:04] Allyson Alamode: I just so bad want it to be a Unique solo.

[25:07] Whitney: You just want a Unique solo. That's all.

[25:09] Allyson Alamode: In my head. It's nothing. I'm seeing it as like, kind of like, half, like how they do with the half New York half Ohio, where it's both of these Glee clubs that are singing it.

[25:22] Whitney: But they're just like both performing it, you know, in their own auditorium, you know.

[25:28] Allyson Alamode: A la New York state of mind.

[25:30] Whitney: There we go. Yes.

[25:31] Allyson Alamode: That could be a pretty gaggy duet.

[25:33] Whitney: Yeah, I can be down for that. But I think that like, it also could be so we get like the best of both worlds. Whitney with like, okay, so I'm thinking of like how like, um, Divine Gravity, we have the duet version released on iTunes. We have the Lea Michele solo version. We have the Chris Colfer solo version. So it's like a kind of like, choose your own adventure with what you who you want to listen to.

[25:57] Allyson Alamode: Did they do that for? Did they do that for Don't Cry For Me Argentina?

[26:03] Whitney: They did it for Don't Cry For Me Argentina and also Bring Him Home.

[26:08] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[26:08] Whitney: And it always like, made me a little like, mad that like, I needed to like, find this is I'm sure that someone listening has done this as well. For Don't Cry For Me Argentina and Bring Him Home that there isn't a duet version on iTunes. So like someone on YouTube, like mash them together. So there is a duet version that like you can add to your iTunes library. Of course, I do have that.

[26:34] Allyson Alamode: You know what I'm saying?

[26:35] Whitney: So it's just the version from the show.

[26:38] Allyson Alamode: It's just the version from the show.

[26:39] Whitney: But like, for whatever reason, they were like gatekeeping like an actual duet.

[26:43] Allyson Alamode: That is so silly.

[26:43] Whitney: For both of those songs. And I'm like, you kind of like have to be left to your own devices to create one.

[26:49] Allyson Alamode: Well, unfortunately, the version has been replaced by the Rachel Ziegler version.

[26:54] Whitney: I'm sorry.

[26:55] Allyson Alamode: I don't like the rules.

[26:56] Whitney: After all these years, dethroned.

[27:03] Allyson Alamode: Dethroned.

[27:09] Whitney: Okay, so this entire episode, the Emmys are calling.

[27:11] Allyson Alamode: The Emmys are like, yeah.

[27:11] Whitney: And I will like accept my Emmy for directing, writing, producing, editing, filming, maybe.

[27:18] Allyson Alamode: And I will be playing all the parts.

[27:21] Whitney: Create new categories just to present you with.

[27:25] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, I think it's iconic.

[27:27] Whitney: Thank you so much for doing this entire assignment. Whitney, this is iconic.

[27:30] Allyson Alamode: I worked really hard on this.

[27:33] Whitney: My boyfriend was like, I wish you work on like your schoolwork and your actual work.

[27:39] Allyson Alamode: Like, as hard as you do this.

[27:41] Whitney: And I was like, this is a job.

[27:45] Allyson Alamode: It's a full time job.

[27:47] Whitney: Being a Gleek is a full time job.

[27:49] Allyson Alamode: Oh my God.

[27:50] Whitney: Clock in, clock out.

[27:52] Allyson Alamode: Okay. We are here, of course, to not only talk about Chapel Rowan potential tribute episodes, but also to Glackett. I also this is a really special episode of the Glackett.

[28:00] Whitney: We are after this episode, we will be officially halfway through round three, meaning we are finding number 49 and 50 of the 100 songs that will be in round four today.

[28:21] Allyson Alamode: Very, very exciting.

[28:23] Whitney: Yeah. They have to be special. And also, I kind of like once one of them to be a rollo because I'm looking at my stats of how we're doing in round three.

[28:33] Allyson Alamode: And there have not been a single a single rollo hasn't went through yet.

[28:41] Whitney: There have we have lost three rollos in round three.

[28:46] Allyson Alamode: Can you name them for the audience real quick?

[28:49] Whitney: I know off the top of my head. I know Get It Right was one of them. Let's see. Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna without you was another one.

[28:58] Allyson Alamode: That's and then what is the what is the last one?

[29:02] Whitney: Cry, which I'm not a crier.

[29:06] Allyson Alamode: Not a crier.

[29:07] Whitney: Whitney, are you a crier?

[29:08] Allyson Alamode: No.

[29:09] Whitney: Yeah, I feel like they're the same font as uninvited. And then I would go No, no cry and uninvited.

[29:17] Allyson Alamode: And uninvited is so much better.

[29:19] Whitney: Like, I mean, higher, I don't think it's the same font. It's a different, you know, but I do think that like all three of those songs, I think that like, they all feel like kind of like canon events of like, okay, they aren't gonna make it. They've served their purpose.

[29:35] Allyson Alamode: They serve their purpose.

[29:36] Whitney: They're not kind of like at the S tier rollo level, but it is like crazy to me that not a single rollo is confirmed in round four yet.

[29:48] Allyson Alamode: We have I'm looking at the playlist right now, which one?

[30:30] Whitney: No, we still have Never Coming Back... Never Coming Back? Never Going Back Again. I don't get her, but I wish her the best.

[30:35] Allyson Alamode: You don't get her? I don't get her.

[30:41] Whitney: Do you get her? Never Going Back Again? I like her.

[30:46] Allyson Alamode: I like her. I do too. I feel like people think it's like, oh my, Artee's best vocal, and I'm like, I don't know. One of my favorite ones is one that Andrew really dissed, and I called him out on it on my first episode, and the name of it is like, escaping my head. Wait, what is it? Addicted to Love.

[31:04] Whitney: Addicted... yeah, get out. That is one of my favorites. I thought it was a good cover.

[31:10] Allyson Alamode: It was weird, but that whole episode's weird, so... Yeah, I'm just like... Also, wait, I'm so curious of like, what even, like, we need to consider what Addicted to Love was actually against in round one that it lost to. Addicted to Love... oh, well, actually, this competition's kind of weird. Addicted to Love was against L.O.V.E., which recently just went home. Addicted to Love should have won.

[31:37] Whitney: Maybe. Maybe an unpopular opinion. I mean, not just because of the Mike and Tina of it all, but that's probably what the mindset was, like, there's gonna be way more Arty solos, you're not... And now look at the Arty solos. And now look at, and we only have one left. Arty is the Chris Daughtry of the Glackett.

[31:57] Allyson Alamode: I have no idea what that reference means. What does that mean?

[32:03] Whitney: Hold on, did you watch American Idol? I watched, like, I guess when I was, like, in second grade.

[32:08] Allyson Alamode: Okay. Yeah. I'm so surprised that no one has made this reference to you before, but I don't even remember which season he was on, but everyone thought he was gonna win, and so no one ended up voting for him, they were all voting for everyone else, because they wanted to save the other people, because everyone's like, oh, everyone's gonna vote for Chris Daughtry anyways. Well, he loses, like, I don't know, fifth, sixth place, maybe. And so this is Arty. Because no one was voting for him, and so that's Arty, because everyone's like, oh, we're gonna have so much more Arty, and then...

[32:36] Whitney: I feel like that's Mercedes, as well. I feel like... That is also Mercedes. I'm always like, there's so many more!

[32:42] Allyson Alamode: No, but there's, there, Mercedes does have, she's, she's tied for first! Yeah. She has, she has three more solos to her name.

[32:48] Whitney: I feel like Arty kind of is, also to put in Diggly terms, I think the Tina Cohen Chang of the Glackett, you know? Chris Daughtry lost to Salt-N-Pepper King Taylor Hicks.

[33:01] Allyson Alamode: Wait, I do remember Taylor Hicks, did Taylor Hicks, like, have a good voice? I don't remember.

[33:08] Whitney: He was on Broadway in Grease, but I didn't know if he was playing Danny or the Teen Angel, but I'm like, hopefully the Teen Angel. Hopefully. But... Taylor Hicks kind of always, I don't know, not for me.

[33:19] Allyson Alamode: I'm looking at the Rachel solos that are left, and there's some that I'm like, okay, obviously those have to go forward. But there was one that I scrolled past that I'm like, I could do without that one. Ooh, you wanna name it? Crush.

[33:29] Whitney: Um, right, Crush. Um, oh my god. I could do without the only exception.

[33:37] Allyson Alamode: Stop! This is not a safe space.

[33:39] Whitney: Wait, you're nodding! So, it's complicated. It's a good cover, but it's run its course, maybe. I'm not a ride or die for it. It depends on what it's up against. I'm not gonna outright say, like, no matter what, I'm not gonna vote for it, because there are circumstances where I would.

[33:58] Allyson Alamode: Okay, if it gets pulled in this episode, I will make the strongest argument that I've ever made in recorded fashion for any song. Like, that song actually means the absolute world to me, and I will open your eyes to everything that it's offering.

[34:10] Whitney: Okay, I'm looking forward to it. Well, now I'm obviously manifesting that one. We need only exception. But I'm also, like, really scared, because I know that... I don't know if I'll be able to effectively...

[34:24] Allyson Alamode: While looking at a list, like, we have what? We have the my mans. We have the on my owns. So, I'm, like, if I'm ranking them, only exception is not...

[34:34] Whitney: But you... Just hold on.

[34:38] Allyson Alamode: Savannah, slow down.

[34:39] Whitney: You are going to eat your words whenever you hear what I have to say. But yeah. So, Rachel, she will have some... I know she will have, obviously, some songs in round four, but none yet. Um, Glacket Grievances. Do we have things to share at this moment?

[35:05] Allyson Alamode: Oh, I have a list. I've been taking notes. I take notes while I listen to the episode. Let's see. Okay, Glacket Grievances. They're not so much grievances. And I'm, like, I feel like I should put, like, the voting next to me. So, I, like... I think I wrote down when you had... Oh, when it was run, Joey, run, and hand in my pocket, I audibly gasped.

[35:26] Whitney: That was insane.

[35:28] Allyson Alamode: There's competitions sometimes that I'm, like, oh, I wish I was a part of that. And then there's competitions where I'm, like, don't want that.

[35:34] Whitney: Don't want it.

[35:35] Allyson Alamode: I don't want any part of that, actually.

[35:37] Whitney: What do you think that you would have done?

[35:40] Allyson Alamode: It... Did I have hand in... I think I...

[35:44] Whitney: You did have hand in my pocket in round two.

[35:47] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, I did. Let me see. It was up against Pinball Wizard, which I feel confident in my vote. But...

[35:55] Whitney: Yeah.

[35:56] Allyson Alamode: And then did... I can't even remember. Did it hand in my pocket, or run, Joey, one? One?

[36:01] Whitney: One, Joey, one.

[36:05] Allyson Alamode: Did it lose or did it go through?

[36:07] Whitney: So, hand in my pocket, won in the episode. And then run, Joey, run was voted back.

[36:12] Allyson Alamode: In the polls.

[36:13] Whitney: Yes.

[36:13] Allyson Alamode: Oh, voted back. Okay.

[36:15] Whitney: Yeah. So, they're both still around.

[36:17] Allyson Alamode: Yeah. Oh, also, Christmas... Christmas Wrapping versus Call Me Maybe. That whole episode, I felt... I hate that song.

[36:27] Whitney: I would have had to vote for Call Me Maybe just because I purely hate Christmas Wrapping.

[36:32] Allyson Alamode: I'm...

[36:32] Whitney: Okay.

[36:33] Allyson Alamode: What?

[36:33] Whitney: I don't subscribe. I don't...

[36:35] Allyson Alamode: It's crazy that Christmas Wrapping really is, like, the most divisive song. Like, people, like, it's like... No one feels, like, eh about it. It's very large feelings.

[36:45] Whitney: Yes.

[36:46] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[36:46] Whitney: I do not like that song. I can't even believe it is the only Christmas song that has lasted this long. There are so many others that are just, like, objectively better.

[36:56] Allyson Alamode: Okay.

[36:56] Whitney: But Heather Moore's vocals.

[37:00] Allyson Alamode: That's not even...

[37:00] Whitney: Her best vocal.

[37:01] Allyson Alamode: It's not even her top three best vocal.

[37:03] Whitney: No, no, no, no, no. It is her best vocal.

[37:08] Allyson Alamode: Oh, my God. I... I don't know.

[37:12] Whitney: Okay.

[37:12] Allyson Alamode: I feel like... Well, last... Okay. I think Last Christmas is, like, no pun intended, like, an evergreen... Like, that is, like, the... One of the Christmas glee songs. I was at a karaoke place the other night, and, like, my friend was like, I want to sing, like, a duet. And I was just, like... I was going through the karaoke list of all the songs. I was like, I saw Last Christmas, and I'm like, it would be such a gag to sing Last Christmas in September.

[37:38] Whitney: And she was like, no. And I'm like, no, this is actually a good bit, and I'm going to do it, eventually.

[37:42] Allyson Alamode: You don't understand. You hate fun.

[37:43] Whitney: You don't get it. Yeah. Everyone would be laughing. Everyone would be singing along. It would be so fun. Yeah, yeah.

[37:51] Allyson Alamode: Um, let me see. Oh, the Ain't No Way versus Chasing Pavements of it all. That was another competition that I'm like, I don't... I hear... I hear you out, because it is such a good cover. And I know that people were like, well, this was my first time hearing Chasing Pavements. It couldn't be me. When I was getting ready for school, and VH1 was playing music videos, it was Chasing Pavements.

[38:11] Whitney: The music video of them, like, the car crash.

[38:14] Allyson Alamode: The car crash, laying on the pavement, like, they're like, moving sideways, but they're...

[38:20] Whitney: And I just thought the choreo... I don't know. I love Chasing Pavements, and it was a great cover. But Ain't No Way, I feel like I have an attachment to it, because they... she performed it at Glee Live.

[38:30] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[38:32] Whitney: Like, flawlessly every single time. And at first I thought, I was like, well, it's Ain't No Way, but I... oof, I would have had to go with Chasing Pavements, if I had my way.

[38:45] Allyson Alamode: Chasing Pavements. Yeah, I just... she's really, really special. And like, the talking over the song just, like, really adds to it. I think it's so iconic.

[38:59] Whitney: Yeah, it's sad. I thought it was very on brand for the Instagram Gleeks to vote Raise Your Glass over Superstition. And I feel like, at first, I'm like, oh, obviously. But then when I was listening to Superstition, I'm like, wait, wait a minute. This is...

[39:06] Allyson Alamode: I'm glad you came back to reality.

[39:14] Whitney: ...really good. Listen, I... Marley... like, I know that it's super extra and super silly, but Marley sounds really good.

[39:22] Allyson Alamode: She sounds so good. Superstition, like, people are, like, sleeping on. Superstition, I'm so happy that she's in round four. I don't think that she's going to make it past that. Superstition, though, like, oh, you're so great. Amazing.

[39:40] Whitney: I was scrolling through the remaining songs in round three, I believe. And I made a section in my notes called You're Still Here. And it's all songs, honestly, that are not by New Directions. So it's Rehab, Yeah, and Mercy. I don't see Superstition in any... I know you guys really went up for Yeah. And I don't...

[40:01] Allyson Alamode: I... all three of them really special. I understand that, like, they're probably going to die in this round, all three, probably. I think probably, like, Rehab stands the best chance to continue on because of the pilot weight of it. And it's just so iconic beyond that as well.

[40:23] Whitney: There are always skips for me.

[40:25] Allyson Alamode: But Mercy and Yeah, you're not reaching for?

[40:29] Whitney: At all. I mean, I would rather listen to the, what, Duffy? Duffy version. And yeah, I'm going to listen to Usher. I'm not whoever these women are.

[40:38] Allyson Alamode: You're not seeing the vision with Yeah.

[40:42] Whitney: I want you to see the vision. Not as much as I want you to see the vision with, like, Only Exception. But like, Yeah, and to a lesser extent, Mercy. Both have a lot to offer. I think that you should consider.

[40:54] Allyson Alamode: Only Exception versus Yeah.

[40:57] Whitney: I really need to sit down. Yeah.

[41:01] Allyson Alamode: Um, another question that from one of your episodes with Connor and Bri that I really thought about when he said, Well, what is your glitter in the air? And I was like, that is an amazing question. And I had a song come to mind. And then Bri said it. And I was like, it is what it feels like for a girl for me. And that is, I was like, I felt so seen breeze just like me for real, because what she also hates Christmas wrapping.

[41:22] Whitney: There we go.

[41:24] Allyson Alamode: Shout out to Bri.

[41:25] Whitney: Sisters, twins. Yeah.

[41:27] Allyson Alamode: Um, oh, and I saw that I made a note that you said no one is talking about alone. I am talking about alone. I reach for alone. Thank you. I love I even put I love a wicked wet. That was the name of one of my episodes. Yes. Talk about a guilty pleasure. My guilty pleasure. My guilty pleasure is yeah, we'll do it on this show. I said it. I'll go on record.

[41:53] Whitney: Well, it almost like similar to like Cordova Street that it's like he by himself. We don't stream. But when he's singing specifically with a woman, I Wow, I've actually never made that connection.

[42:07] Allyson Alamode: So you don't need to make that connection. Actually, like that crazy.

[42:13] Whitney: I don't go for Sam solos. If what are a billionaire and then not really? Because that's yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

[42:25] Allyson Alamode: Um, are we going to get a chance to talk about the weakest Glink?

[42:30] Whitney: Well, let's talk. What do we have to the same Sadie's of it all? Is that what we're discussing?

[42:34] Allyson Alamode: I almost burst into tears at the end. I was like, this feels like, like it should be edited into an episode. Like, look at my like, I don't Oh my god, it just felt like I was like my parents. I was like, like, literally, I was like, my mind is obviously large enough to realize that the Sam and Mercedes do not exist. But in that moment, they went out the window. I was like, No, that's Sam and Mercedes.

[43:04] Whitney: I'm so glad because literally, as soon as I finished the episode, like at the end of it, I was like, my Sam Sadie's and my boyfriend's like, you're what? I'm like, it's my Sam. I get it. It's so special. And like, I saw like someone tweet, I thought this is so funny. Someone tweeted, like, I haven't, I haven't even heard the word Sam Sadie's since 2011. That this has unlocked so many memories for me.

[43:32] Allyson Alamode: It's always like a meme of someone smoking a cigarette. Like, yeah.

[43:35] Whitney: I haven't heard that in, uh, back in my day.

[43:42] Allyson Alamode: It felt so good to see all of them. Of course, you're only allowed like certain amount of people. There's so many. I hope they do a second one.

[43:49] Whitney: Yeah. Well, Kevin and Jenna have like, they did like a little recap that was just released of Weakest Glink. And they were like talking about like, oh, they want to do like a season of The Traitors where it's just Glee cast members. Could you imagine?

[44:07] Allyson Alamode: I would pay like, I don't, if you want money, do that. Like, I would.

[44:13] Whitney: Like, Traitors but Glee.

[44:17] Allyson Alamode: Oh, please.

[44:19] Whitney: It was very funny. Like, it felt like I, I feel like Jane Lynch really stepped right back into her Sue role, even though everything's like written for her. Very scripted.

[44:28] Allyson Alamode: I thought like all the jokes, they obviously like wrote a lot of those like jokes for, like, the different like exits for each of the cast members. But I thought like all the jokes were like really, really funny and clever.

[44:39] Whitney: There were some deep cuts and there were some that I was like, okay, that's like low hanging fruit.

[44:45] Allyson Alamode: I'm glad that like, you can like see in the moment that like Heather Morris is like, I'm going to give the Gleeks what they want as I'm walking away. And she says dolphins are just gay sharks. And I'm like, thank you.

[44:55] Whitney: She knows.

[45:00] Allyson Alamode: But yeah, really, really special.

[45:02] Whitney: And Amber Riley has another competition show under her belt. I mean, I never expected any less.

[45:08] Allyson Alamode: Oh, no, as soon as like, they, as soon as I saw that, like they were going to be on The Weakest Link, I was like, oh, okay, Amber's gonna win. She's gonna win. You guys are underestimating her. Have you ever watched her on the Terrell show? Like the Nate, like, she has to sing a song.

[45:23] Whitney: Connect the song, yeah.

[45:24] Allyson Alamode: Yes, like she's very, like, competitive. Clearly. I walk in and I'm in, I'm in like a competition and Amber Riley's there. I'm just walking out.

[45:35] Whitney: Walking right out.

[45:37] Allyson Alamode: Literally, like the Grandpa Simpson gif, like you walk in to Amber Riley immediately.

[45:42] Whitney: I'm good.

[45:43] Allyson Alamode: No.

[45:43] Whitney: I'm good.

[45:43] Allyson Alamode: Done. It was, it was everything that I could ever want. And I really loved it. Jenna Auschwitz. Jenna, girl, didn't know Cardi B.

[45:51] Whitney: I, there were so many.

[45:59] Allyson Alamode: I was like, the buffalo wing girl.

[46:01] Whitney: That was funny. That was so.

[46:03] Allyson Alamode: Very reminiscent of the tuna. Is this chicken what I have or tuna?

[46:10] Whitney: Chicken of the sea.

[46:11] Allyson Alamode: Chicken of the sea. And then, okay, the Max Adler not knowing Friday Night Lights just shows you that he was such a Glee kid because who doesn't? I mean, even I know Friday Night Lights.

[46:22] Whitney: Yeah, but they also like did like, like behind the scenes. We will glock it in this episode, by the way. They did it behind the, like, they did like a, who sang the song on Glee? And like, I just posted it the Instagram story yesterday.

[46:34] Allyson Alamode: Oh, yes.

[46:35] Whitney: And they asked, like, Max Adler, who sang Vogue on Glee? He, he like said, like, Heather, Jenna, Amber. Oh, it was Jane Lynch. I'm like, oh, so you didn't even watch this show.

[46:46] Allyson Alamode: Is he thinking of Express Yourself?

[46:49] Whitney: And I don't think so. I, everybody knows Vogue, right?

[46:53] Allyson Alamode: You should.

[46:55] Whitney: Maybe. I mean, yes, is Vogue still here? Hello?

[47:00] Allyson Alamode: Vogue famously did die. Round one. Anyway. Um, but there was one song that came up on my shuffle. And I was like, I forgot. This is the version I reach for. And it's blasphemous because it's a Broadway song. But I really enjoy it. And then I was like, whatever happened to her died in round one.

[47:20] Whitney: Who?

[47:21] Allyson Alamode: No one is alone. I don't like the face you're making.

[47:27] Whitney: No one is alone. I that's I haven't heard that name in years. That's trying to remember which one that is not to be confused with walking with the other song.

[47:35] Allyson Alamode: Oh, oh, that one is good.

[47:39] Whitney: Other song in the episode. I confuse the titles all the time.

[47:42] Allyson Alamode: Oh, me too. Um, it's not while I'm around not while I'm around. So not that one. But no one is alone. Specifically. Kurt sounds beautiful.

[47:50] Whitney: Yeah. And also like really, really random. I feel you as a musical theater aficionado. Tell me if I'm off base for saying this. Crazy to me that that's the only Into the Woods song.

[48:07] Allyson Alamode: It is the only Into the Woods song because they yeah, but like any other songs they would do are so plot driven.

[48:14] Whitney: Yeah, you're right.

[48:17] Allyson Alamode: Because that's why that for even West Side Story, they had to do a whole episode like, kind of because they need it. Yeah. But like anything Sondheim, which honestly, I have not that big of a Sondheim fan. But anything Sondheim it is so plot driven. You can't really take separate the song from the show. If you're putting in a show like Glee.

[48:34] Whitney: That's Yeah, it's true. And they really made it work. And I always say this, but like, they really made it work with like getting married today.

[48:41] Allyson Alamode: I was just gonna say getting married today worked so well given they they found how to work it in a way that wasn't like shoehorned. And I really love it.

[48:51] Whitney: Yeah, Into the Woods in almost impossible. Other than no, I don't know. I really I think people should revisit. No one is alone. Also, sorry, last thing. I'm glad that people are still feeling a way about how to be a heartbreaker versus shout. I tried to tell y'all.

[49:15] Allyson Alamode: Like the couple of hairs like I told you so.

[49:20] Whitney: I told you I pitched and I was like you guys shout it. It's not that girl and I think she's still here. If she is dead on site. I don't care what she's up against. You're not saying shout versus only exception. Congratulations on the exception. No, shout is going home. I will have vengeance. And I was watching that episode with how to be a heartbreaker. And I was just like, you know, that duck with a cigarette like, like, oh, they really ate with like, you guys, you guys shouldn't listen to me. Uh huh. Okay. All right. All I have brought to the table.

[50:01] Whitney: Um, thank you so much. Incredible. Whitney, what grievances do you have to bring to this beautiful table?

[50:09] Whitney: I don't really have any. Okay. I I've looked back in like the because there's only been a few competitions since I was on the live stream episode. And I agree with all of them.

[50:24] Allyson Alamode: We're good. Okay, we're good. We're going in with like a clean slate. Where are you looking for a competition today that's going to make you big time mad?

[50:33] Whitney: I mean, I would like I wouldn't mind to have feelings on something like I wouldn't mind to be a part of like a big competition. Yeah, then at the same time, I'm like, I don't know if I want to be the one making that decision.

[50:45] Allyson Alamode: You know, there's something specific that you would like to say,

[50:48] Whitney: well, I would like to see you defend the only exception, I would say only exception, obviously. Okay. Because I would really like to see you defend it. And then, yeah, looking through the remaining songs, and they're all pretty good. Like, give me a season six. I always am an advocate for season six songs. I can do season six.

[51:07] Allyson Alamode: Trying to think we have like, there is one father figure.

[51:10] Whitney: Yeah, that will not be the winner of my the winner of my glock is still here. Will you still love me tomorrow? Head over feet? Is that really I think you've said this before.

[51:19] Allyson Alamode: I have I have I am the really the winner glock it be real. I don't know if it's the winner. It's the winner that I listened to. Like it has so many plays. I know objectively it's maybe it's the winner of my diluted black it like my personal black it that I know that is only being seen by my eyes. The Allah is that it's like, okay, like, no one can see this because they would think that I'm insane. Right? I love that song. Like the end. And I don't know that whole episodes at EP. Yeah, is always on my end of the year wrapped.

[51:55] Whitney: Um, okay, let's get into it with song. Number one here. It's gonna be this one. Who is that?

[52:05] Allyson Alamode: Not. Okay. So it's not only exception. But it's, I've called her only exceptions little sister. Do you think that you know who only exceptions? Little sister is?

[52:19] Whitney: Only exceptions little sister and does it happen before or after only exception? It happens after because she's a little sister.

[52:26] Allyson Alamode: Oh, pie in the sky. Before I share screen. Do you have a need to see like the first screenshot? You're gonna know when I share it. And boom. You know what this is? Jar of hearts.

[52:44] Whitney: Jar of hearts. Okay. Oh, so good. Literally, so important to me. I have it was back when there was the Finn and Jesse school of talking during a prom song. And then actually went to class that year. Finn went to class.

[53:03] Allyson Alamode: Wait, but Finn didn't talk.

[53:07] Whitney: No, but he was. That was the year he went to class. I talking. Yeah.

[53:11] Allyson Alamode: I talking. I talking. He went to the I talking classes. Yeah. Um, really, I just thought like, prom queen just as an episode, those performances are packed with plot so much.

[53:26] Whitney: Yeah. Oh my gosh. And the Sam Sadie's of it all. Is this our first seed? Our first Sam Sadie's?

[53:36] Allyson Alamode: This is our first Sam Sadie's seed. We need to put them side by side.

[53:42] Whitney: But the birth and look how far we are now.

[53:48] Allyson Alamode: Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. There's so many I'd like was making little like notes of things that I've just never noticed. Whenever I watch songs on this podcast, I like look at it through such a different lens than when I'm sitting on my couch, like, like picking apart everything. But one of the first things I was like, what is Ryan Murphy's budget on orchestra high school students? That was a very large orchestra of musicians at a school that canonically hates the arts.

[54:15] Whitney: They showed up though.

[54:21] Allyson Alamode: Are they in any other number?

[54:24] Whitney: Um, oh, yeah. Are they only for jar of hearts? Right. Well, I think it's like, it's funny because like, okay, earlier in the episode, Rachel says the AV club members of the AV club, I'm going to be like thinking I'm saying I think I'm thinking about singing the song at prom. Let me know if you think it's brilliant, or simply outstanding.

[54:40] Allyson Alamode: And it's rolling in the deep, rolling in the deep was the backup option, I would suppose for jar of hearts, both crazy picks, of course for for prom songs. But I think are they Oh, they're not obviously the AV club is not the orchestra. I'm dumb, whatever.

[54:59] Whitney: The AV club. They're also painting sets.

[55:02] Allyson Alamode: They're painting sets. Yeah, that's not the AV club.

[55:05] Whitney: Like, I don't actually just Rachel just doesn't know. Right?

[55:09] Allyson Alamode: I have never even considered that.

[55:11] Whitney: Duh, they would not be painting a set.

[55:13] Allyson Alamode: Why is she getting the clubs mixed up when she is also canonically in all of them? Girl, you're in this club.

[55:19] Whitney: You're in this club. She's getting them mixed up. Have you seen Pitch Perfect 2? And she's like, I don't know which one of you are which. And she's like, we've been here the whole time.

[55:28] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, yeah.

[55:31] Whitney: And then also, who is Britney dancing with? Who is that girl? I remember I was wondering that too. I've never noticed that.

[55:39] Allyson Alamode: She pissed me the fuck off in 2011. Get away from her.

[55:44] Whitney: Get a job.

[55:45] Allyson Alamode: Get a job. That's my number one op. That high school student has like the little like, the Bluetooth.

[55:55] Whitney: The Bluetooth, like microphone.

[55:58] Allyson Alamode: Yes. The Bluetooth was like a joke that like, was already like, old in 2011.

[56:06] Whitney: Yeah, I think so.

[56:09] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, all of their references are always like, so made so late. Like, even in the pilot, when they're talking about MySpace, it was on its way out.

[56:19] Whitney: I'm still on MySpace in 2009.

[56:22] Allyson Alamode: Okay, so I just found out some really interesting lore about MySpace as it relates to Glee. And okay, so Fox programming, or like, 20th Century Fox, I believe, like, literally, like, was working with MySpace and integrating MySpace into their programming. So like, there's like a Family Guy episode, where it's like talking about MySpace, when MySpace wasn't actually because like, when Glee started, MySpace was already like, pretty dead anyway.

[56:51] Whitney: Not too much. I was absolutely on MySpace in 2009.

[56:54] Allyson Alamode: So sorry. Actually, I'm really, it was actually really thriving as it turns out. But like, it would have been made more sense for them to make a Facebook reference.

[57:06] Whitney: Um, yes, yes.

[57:07] Allyson Alamode: And so and so like, they, I'll share like, this TikTok of like, that someone explained why like, MySpace was like, it was like, involved in like, a bunch of other shows as well, when it was like,

[57:19] Whitney: Well, that makes sense, because they were doing their auditions for the Glee project via MySpace.

[57:24] Allyson Alamode: On MySpace.

[57:25] Whitney: Yes. In the big year of 2012.

[57:29] Allyson Alamode: That okay, that's when it was I was not using it. 2012 is crazy.

[57:33] Whitney: Yeah, what are we doing? Ali Stroker logging into MySpace to record her audition.

[57:40] Allyson Alamode: Right. Um, but yeah, anyway.

[57:44] Whitney: Well, are you are you aware of the obviously the Faberia of it all where she's singing to Quinn and not?

[57:52] Allyson Alamode: Oh, of course. Everyone is attracted to her in this in this number, Rachel, like there, you're getting Jesse watching her, you're getting Finn, you're getting Quinn. Yeah, everyone is all the shit. This girl.

[58:06] Whitney: Yeah.

[58:07] Whitney: I love it. I love the drama. It's perfect. I love the drama. I love prom songs.

[58:13] Allyson Alamode: It's just really, really has a really special place. All the prom song, or I should reiterate the prom queen songs.

[58:21] Whitney: Prom queen song specifically, have a very special place in my heart.

[58:26] Allyson Alamode: I know that Allison Dodgers said before that, like, prom queen as an episode has like the most elite track list of any episode.

[58:36] Whitney: I kind of agree. I kind of agree. I got her flowers. Yeah.

[58:41] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[58:44] Whitney: What do you wait? There's prom queen promisorious. And there's there. There's Sadie Hawkins. And then there's Tina in the sky with diamonds. I always can never separate like, because there's like dancing queen. Is that this? That's this episode?

[58:59] Allyson Alamode: That's this? Yes. Oh my God. See? And but see, and I'm like, nope, lock out.

[59:05] Whitney: Name another prom song. Name another prom song that's better than dancing queen.

[59:11] Allyson Alamode: Oh, well, I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend. We gotta I would pick dancing. I am I am a Blaine Stan, but I would pick dancing queen over.

[59:18] Whitney: Not gonna teach your Whitney. Literally, that is the go to the school of talking during song.

[59:27] Allyson Alamode: That is like the valedictorian.

[59:33] Whitney: Oh my God. And corrected. I feel like we've really manifested this song with the conversations that we were having before. Obviously, like the Sam Sadie's and also Rolos that like a Rolodex. I'm scared for her.

[59:47] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, I literally forgot that Sam like, when I just saw him walking through, I was like, Oh my God, am I crying? I forgot about the little Sam Sadie's part. It started I was like, Oh, it's my Sam Sadie's and just to be talking like I just watched that weakest.

[1:01:00] Allyson Alamode: Like the first night, the first few nights she was doing "Jar of Hearts." And I was like, oh, Lea Michele, deep cut. That's fun. And so like, and then I bought my ticket. And I was like, oh my god, like, I can't wait to see "Jar of Hearts" live. Like what a treat. She stopped doing "Jar of Hearts" after like a few shows. What happened? Who was she like, you know what, I'm good? Oh, I don't know. Maybe she was seeing that it wasn't landing with people. I don't know. There was there's no Mercedes. There's no one to talk. No one talks. Everyone was like, wait, where's Amber Riley in Cordova Street? Did you compare the tracklist to see what she put in its place? Oh, I didn't do the math there. But yeah, I don't know.

I think and then also like I feel like I saw like an interview with her after she removed it. And she like kind of like made a remark about "Jar of Hearts." And she's like, oh, yeah, we're not doing that anymore. I'm like, what happened? Right? No, no, I need to elaborate. What do you have against this song? Yeah, I feel like it's a good song. I could take it or leave it depending on what it's up against. It was it definitely was more compelling watching it this time. But if it's like up against some kind of heavy hitter, if it's up against "Only Exception," I'm saying goodbye to "Only Exception." But we'll see.

[1:02:45] Whitney: Sure. Um, I'm looking at my official Rolo ranking from 2022. "Jar of Hearts" is number seven for me.

[1:02:57] Allyson Alamode: Okay, she's doing well. So I would be sad to see her go. Um, here we...

[1:03:06] Whitney: Oh, interesting competition alert. You said you wanted to sit in season six and and sure enough, season six is here.

[1:03:17] Allyson Alamode: And Alison Alamode, you were you were here for this song in round two.

[1:03:22] Whitney: Is it in round two? So it's not we I thought that already went through. Wait, no, wait, what's up? Go ahead. Still, let's see. Okay, we have the still up. It's Sue and she's... wait, is it? Is it? Is it "Father Figure"? Is it "Father Figure"?

[1:03:38] Allyson Alamode: It is "Father Figure."

[1:03:41] Whitney: Oh, and that's my comfort episode. Like that is my comfort episode of Glee that I'd have it downloaded to my iPad to watch on flights.

[1:03:53] Allyson Alamode: Just in case of emergency.

[1:03:55] Whitney: In case of emergency, brain glass for her locker parts. I literally have not to get off topic. But I have my YouTube downloads, I think are Lea Michele's people performance on Jimmy Fallon downloaded on YouTube. And as well as don't not too much maybe Colleen Ballinger's "Toxic Gossip Train." That song unironically is such a bop. People are not talking about it.

[1:04:31] Allyson Alamode: Is it? Do you have it memorized?

[1:04:35] Whitney: I have a lot of it. Like it's so and it's like an 11 minute song, right? So like, it's it and then she like stops at one point and then she's like, actually, I have more to say. And then like, there's still like three more because it was so long. I didn't either. When you listen to it. Obviously, Colleen Ballinger, big, big yikes, everything going on there. The fact that we have that as like a response is really, really insane. But also icing on the cake. It's actually a great, like composed song that she wrote, like, you know what you you kind of ate with that a little bit.

[1:05:15] Allyson Alamode: No, she really did. And like, every time I listened to it, it's like, oh, I'm seeing I'm seeing what she's doing. I'm seeing like, kind of like the I see the vision crazy. It's like almost like a villain song where it's like, oh my god, like, this is kind of the best song in the movie, you know, wasn't like based on real life things. Like if it was written for fiction, it would have eight. Right? Fortunately, this is real life.

[1:05:40] Whitney: The only thing I groomed were my two Persian cats.

[1:05:47] Allyson Alamode: I'm not. Wait. I'm, I'm, I'm not a groomer. I'm just a loser.

[1:05:55] Whitney: Bars, bars. She wasn't who she was. She would have ate. Oh my god. I'm you know, I'll revisit it every time I leave this show. I have homework and that is mine. And it's it's literally just like it's not even called "Toxic Gossip Train." The YouTube video is called Hi. No capital letters, period. Hi. Oh, anyway, "Father Figure." This competition might kill me. Because it was we were unanimous in the episode that we voted this through and the Instagram polls did not agree.

[1:06:30] Allyson Alamode: Well, the Instagram Gleeks don't understand "Father Figure" are not safe around me.

[1:06:37] Whitney: Yeah, they're not safe around. I didn't realize the drastic like until I'm like looking at patterns. I'm like, yeah, okay, that. That's right. No, I understand. No, I understand what led them to vote for "Suddenly Seymour." I don't like, oh, we we know Rachel and Blaine. I'm voting for Rachel and Blaine. But y'all weren't there.

[1:06:58] Allyson Alamode: Watching. Listen, close your eyes and listen. It's not clocking to you. No Guthrie is standing on business. He's incapable of not standing on business. I reach for this song. Like I, I play this song.

[1:07:14] Whitney: Yeah, like, does it count as talking during a number if it's voiceover?

[1:07:21] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, I think so. Okay. She hasn't. Okay. Check. Check. Talking during a number. But her face, Sue Sylvester's facial expressions when she like realizes that her candidate is losing is the reason that she is Emmy winning. Jane like, oh my god. I don't know if I've like ever like really fully realized this before. But the idea of Sue decorating her house to reflect the candidate that she's rooting for is so funny. Like getting the bobbleheads getting the banner.

[1:07:59] Whitney: Yeah. And like, as we forget, this is every four years, and she looks exactly the same dress.

[1:08:07] Allyson Alamode: It's great. It's changed in four years, not even a layout of her apartment.

[1:08:11] Whitney: Yeah, it would be since the 90s. Right? Since Clinton?

[1:08:17] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:08:22] Whitney: That is so correct. But also like not to like get into like, political territory, because I remember we did get into political territory last time, Alison, when round two talking about like, okay, is Sue still part of this? The party? But I think like, now I'm watching it as things have progressively gotten way scarier and worse. It's like, almost like nice to have like a time capsule of like, oh, like, this like, was like, kind of like, endearing and fun to see. Like, it's not like, oh, no, actually, Sue is terrifying, you know, that she's rooting for this person.

[1:09:58] Allyson Alamode: Yeah. And if you look at it, like, she's watching all of these elections. And then she's like, I'm gonna do that and then makes her dreams come true by becoming president.

[1:10:05] Allyson Alamode: Ooh, I need to hear it.

[1:10:06] Whitney: Right? Yeah.

[1:10:08] Allyson Alamode: So if you think of it through that lens, it's like...

[1:10:09] Whitney: If he's gonna sing any songs from Glee, this is like the best option because people don't realize that they did this song on Glee, like, no knees or whatever. And I feel like this is also a song you could play anywhere and people aren't going to realize it's a Glee cover. But they're gonna be like, this is really good.

[1:10:10] Whitney: Be the change you want to see in the world.

[1:10:11] Allyson Alamode: Be the change. Mike that change.

[1:10:13] Whitney: Mike that change. Yeah.

[1:10:18] Whitney: So good. It's so good. I love this one so much. I was scrolling through the remaining songs playlist and I was kind of manifesting through this one. Honestly, so I was like, I know it's so good. But it's like, when I listen to it, I'm like, damn, it's so good. Like, yeah, I know it's good. When Claudia and I went to go see Noah Guthrie a few months back, it's like a very small venue. And I was like, I literally like, if I ask him to sing "Father Figure," do you think he'll do it? Of course, he didn't sing any. He didn't sing any songs from Glee. He did actually sing a Chappell Roan song. What was the Chappell Roan song that he sang?

[1:10:25] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, you like it? It's Glee.

[1:10:28] Whitney: Yeah. I was talking to Alison Dodge about like, oh, Alison Dodge reveal she's engaged. Breaking news. I was talking to her about her inevitable wedding, and fun things that she wants to do and thinking about my own eventually, and like things that I would want to do. I need Noah Guthrie there. Noah Guthrie canonically needs to be there.

[1:10:52] Allyson Alamode: What is the price of "Father Figure"? If you had to put a price?

[1:10:56] Whitney: We have to put a price list.

[1:10:58] Allyson Alamode: That's the whole budget.

[1:10:59] Whitney: Right. That's the budget. He's singing it in a field.

[1:11:04] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:11:07] Whitney: Have we heard? Are we Swifties here?

[1:11:13] Allyson Alamode: Tangentially.

[1:11:14] Whitney: I think there's a song on her new album Unconfirmed. But there is a song called "Father Figure." And I don't know if it's gonna sample George Michael or not. I feel like it has to. She should sample Noah Guthrie.

[1:11:23] Allyson Alamode: She should sample Noah Guthrie.

[1:11:26] Whitney: Get Noah Guthrie on the track.

[1:11:28] Allyson Alamode: Caveat. But I'm excited for that one. I just had to put that out there.

[1:11:33] Whitney: "Father Figure." I did see that on the track list. And I was like, oh.

[1:11:36] Allyson Alamode: I know. I'm like, oh, Noah Guthrie.

[1:11:38] Whitney: Noah Guthrie, maybe.

[1:11:40] Allyson Alamode: Maybe. Last thing I want to say about "Father Figure" is I just think it's so funny that the choreography, I guess, is simply walking from the back of the stage to the front and each of them having their turn.

[1:11:55] Whitney: Don't forget the looking back. Don't forget the looking. They have to, like, cue the next person by making eye contact.

[1:12:01] Allyson Alamode: Hey, did you see what I just did? Follow me.

[1:12:03] Whitney: Your turn.

[1:12:07] Allyson Alamode: Oh my god.

[1:12:08] Whitney: What do you expect? It's not like Rachel and Kurt are the dancers of the group to choreograph this Glee Club.

[1:12:13] Allyson Alamode: They no longer have Will Schuster's amazing choreography.

[1:12:20] Whitney: Right.

[1:12:23] Allyson Alamode: Do we have final notes on "Father Figure" before we place our votes?

[1:12:27] Whitney: I was just looking at the voting history of "Jar of Hearts" and "Father Figure," and we were all unanimous in round two.

[1:12:33] Allyson Alamode: What did "Jar of Hearts" beat?

[1:12:40] Whitney: "Girls on Film," but somebody voted for "Girls on Film."

[1:12:43] Allyson Alamode: Whoever wins.

[1:12:44] Whitney: Alison Dodge.

[1:12:45] Allyson Alamode: You know what? Exactly. That tracks.

[1:12:50] Whitney: Wait, and then did you see what it beat in round two?

[1:12:53] Allyson Alamode: Okay. "Father Figure."

[1:12:56] Whitney: Oh, "Father Figure" was unanimous again in round one.

[1:13:00] Allyson Alamode: And Instagram Gleeks, 70% voted for "I Don't Know How to Love Him."

[1:13:05] Whitney: "I Don't Know How to Love Him." Because it's again, it's like we know Tina, but we don't know Roderick.

[1:13:10] Allyson Alamode: That.

[1:13:13] Whitney: If that isn't fully telling of what the Instagram Gleeks are like, I don't know how to love him. They are not safe. They don't even listen to the podcast, half of them.

[1:13:23] Allyson Alamode: So round two was "Take Me Home Tonight."

[1:13:28] Whitney: "Take Me Home Tonight."

[1:13:29] Allyson Alamode: Oh, that's Dog Nutrix.

[1:13:32] Whitney: Dogs in the Diner.

[1:13:33] Allyson Alamode: Okay, unanimous "Jar of Hearts" in round two.

[1:13:37] Whitney: And "Take Me Home Tonight," beautiful Naya vocal. I think that's the only thing that's going for it.

[1:13:43] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:13:44] Whitney: Yeah. I'm just thinking I'm like, what am I voting for?

[1:13:48] Allyson Alamode: I know what I'm voting for.

[1:13:51] Whitney: Then do it Whitney.

[1:13:52] Allyson Alamode: It's going to be "Father Figure."

[1:13:54] Whitney: What are you voting for?

[1:13:56] Allyson Alamode: Do you want me to put you in the hot seat?

[1:13:58] Whitney: Come on. I mean, it's I already know what I'm voting for.

[1:14:02] Allyson Alamode: I don't think she has a choice.

[1:14:03] Whitney: Then do it. Just do it.

[1:14:05] Allyson Alamode: It's gonna be "Father Figure."

[1:14:08] Whitney: Rolos are gonna hate this announcement.

[1:14:11] Allyson Alamode: I'm so sorry.

[1:14:13] Whitney: But it was just our collective reaction whenever we noticed "Father Figure" too. I was like, oh, this one's gonna win.

[1:14:21] Allyson Alamode: I can't even do a pity vote for "Jar of Hearts." I'll be real.

[1:14:24] Whitney: I know deep down in my heart that I need to vote for "Father Figure."

[1:14:28] Allyson Alamode: Exactly.

[1:14:29] Whitney: "Jar of Hearts" is a great singer.

[1:14:32] Allyson Alamode: She "Jar of Hearts" is beautiful.

[1:14:34] Whitney: But I think it was one of those that I'm like, there's more heavier ones left.

[1:14:40] Allyson Alamode: It's run its course.

[1:14:42] Whitney: Just like Artie, it's going to be like, oh wait, we got rid of all of the Rolos.

[1:14:50] Allyson Alamode: They're all gone.

[1:14:52] Whitney: Oh wait, who ate all the Rolos?

[1:15:00] Andrew: Okay, that doesn't...

[1:15:03] Allyson Alamode: Oh, Jar of Hearts. That sucks.

[1:15:06] Whitney: I mean, I hate to see it go. It was beautiful. I hate to see it go.

[1:15:09] Andrew: But you see the list of Rolos that are left, and I mean, they speak for themselves.

[1:15:17] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:15:18] Whitney: It was only number seven for you. So yeah, not that hurt. Not even top five.

[1:15:23] Andrew: There are 42 Rolos!

[1:15:29] Whitney: Um, oh, heavy hitter.

[1:15:34] Allyson Alamode: Heavy heavy? Like winner of my Glocket heavy?

[1:15:37] Whitney: Um, I wouldn't be surprised if people did say like, this was the winner of their Glocket.

[1:15:42] Andrew: I don't think many people are saying it.

[1:15:43] Whitney: Valid people or not valid people?

[1:15:45] Allyson Alamode: Or Instagram Gleeks?

[1:15:46] Whitney: Yeah, is it Instagram Gleeks saying this?

[1:15:49] Andrew: It's a slur.

[1:15:51] Whitney: Derogatory.

[1:15:52] Allyson Alamode: Derogatory Instagram Gleeks.

[1:15:54] Whitney: Um, okay. I'd be surprised if like, you could get it from this first screen grab.

[1:16:00] Andrew: We are looking at Jessie, Rachel, looking at Finn at the lockers.

[1:16:05] Whitney: So this is this Hello, Goodbye?

[1:16:07] Allyson Alamode: It is not Hello, Goodbye.

[1:16:09] Whitney: Or not Hello, Goodbye. Like a Prayer?

[1:16:12] Allyson Alamode: It is Like a Prayer.

[1:16:12] Whitney: That's what I meant. When I said Hello, Goodbye, I meant Like a Prayer.

[1:16:14] Andrew: I listened to this today.

[1:16:19] Whitney: Oh no, I listened to this today.

[1:16:22] Allyson Alamode: Oh no!

[1:16:24] Whitney: I'm actually crying.

[1:16:25] Allyson Alamode: I got chills.

[1:16:27] Whitney: Oh my god.

[1:16:30] Allyson Alamode: Winner of the Glocket, potentially.

[1:16:30] Whitney: That song just is Glee. Like, oh my god, that made me so like, nostalgic.

[1:16:35] Allyson Alamode: Um, actually crying.

[1:16:37] Whitney: I really love her a lot.

[1:16:38] Andrew: You want to talk through the tears? What brought on the tears?

[1:16:42] Whitney: Okay, so that I don't know, like, it just seems so Glee.

[1:16:45] Allyson Alamode: I love that they're all in their outfits that are their own personality.

[1:16:49] Whitney: It's their own clothes from their own closet.

[1:16:51] Allyson Alamode: It just seems...

[1:16:52] Whitney: And they're red.

[1:16:53] Allyson Alamode: Like, it's like a callback to the pilot.

[1:16:57] Whitney: And it just seems very, like, believable.

[1:17:00] Allyson Alamode: Like, okay, everyone wear red.

[1:17:02] Whitney: Like, and then even the choreography is like, kind of like, simple enough that they're like, just beginners.

[1:17:07] Allyson Alamode: I love the shot of Finn and Jessie dancing next to each other.

[1:17:12] Whitney: Because Jessie is very clearly a trained dancer.

[1:17:15] Allyson Alamode: And he's like, very sharp movement.

[1:17:17] Whitney: Yeah.

[1:17:18] Allyson Alamode: And then Finn is just like, do do do.

[1:17:20] Whitney: And then also we have to mention featuring Mama Mercedes, or Mama, Mrs. Riley.

[1:17:27] Allyson Alamode: Mrs. Riley on the track.

[1:17:28] Whitney: Yes.

[1:17:30] Allyson Alamode: And also any number with Matt Rutherford is gonna have my heart because we need Matt representation.

[1:17:34] Whitney: So important to me.

[1:17:39] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:17:42] Whitney: The adlibs, I only like, I hear them in my head.

[1:17:46] Allyson Alamode: And, you know, okay, so I was listening to this today.

[1:17:49] Whitney: And I was like, I wonder if I would get this song.

[1:17:51] Allyson Alamode: Because I do have some thoughts on the iTunes or Apple Music.

[1:17:56] Whitney: This song says featuring Jonathan Roth.

[1:17:58] Allyson Alamode: I knew you're gonna bring this up.

[1:18:00] Whitney: Yes, yes, yes.

[1:18:01] Allyson Alamode: And it's only on the mp3, which I love.

[1:18:05] Whitney: Like, you, I, the versions that they use on the episodes are, I hate when they're so drastically different.

[1:18:10] Allyson Alamode: Like, wait, I like that verse.

[1:18:13] Whitney: Like, there's so many.

[1:18:15] Allyson Alamode: I wanted to hear Sugar's Tango verse.

[1:18:18] Whitney: That's literally what I thought of first.

[1:18:20] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:18:21] Whitney: And I feel like Glee, I feel like music people are starting to do that after people become famous.

[1:18:27] Allyson Alamode: I don't know, for like the search results or whatever.

[1:18:32] Whitney: Like putting, featuring Jonathan Roth, because Hamilton did that too.

[1:18:35] Allyson Alamode: If you go back, like some of the songs say, like featuring Anthony Ramos.

[1:18:39] Whitney: Yeah.

[1:18:40] Allyson Alamode: Like featuring whatever actors are in it.

[1:18:43] Whitney: That with like Glee songs, I don't know why this is the example that I'm thinking of specifically.

[1:18:48] Allyson Alamode: But like, it will be like, okay, on Spotify, it will be like, Crush, Gleecast version by Gleecast, cover of Jennifer Page.

[1:18:55] Whitney: Yes.

[1:18:56] Allyson Alamode: They only did it with season one.

[1:18:58] Whitney: And I, that's so funny you said that, because I was listening to the playlist and I forget what, oh, it was Jump.

[1:19:02] Allyson Alamode: I was listening to Jump and it says Van Halen cover.

[1:19:06] Whitney: Yeah.

[1:19:07] Allyson Alamode: And so I think if they're just trying to get the search results up like get their name out there, because it's only season one, like and not even all of season one, just the first half.

[1:19:16] Whitney: Oh, really?

[1:19:16] Allyson Alamode: And then they were like, actually, this is too much work.

[1:19:19] Whitney: I mean, I could be wrong. Maybe I'm just making things up and hoping they're true.

[1:19:22] Allyson Alamode: Like I always do.

[1:19:22] Whitney: I think like the first Warbler songs also featured Darren Criss, but then whenever he's not a Warbler anymore, the songs don't say featuring Darren Criss anymore.

[1:19:29] Allyson Alamode: Right. I think that it's like, well, once he, once he became main cast in season three, I think all of his songs in season two say featuring Darren Criss, but then season three, he's like main billing.

[1:19:38] Whitney: Yeah, he's part of the titular Glee cast.

[1:19:48] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:19:49] Whitney: Yeah, I'm looking at because like the Power of Madonna obviously had its own EP, but like only like the Glee, like the one and the two.

[1:19:57] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:19:59] Whitney: Say who it's originally by.

[1:20:02] Allyson Alamode: And some of them don't though, like the Jump says cover Van Halen, but then Endless Love doesn't have Lionel Richie or whoever that is.

[1:20:11] Whitney: Yeah, yeah, that's Lionel Richie and Diana Ross.

[1:20:15] Allyson Alamode: Yes. Am I thinking of Hello?

[1:20:18] Whitney: No, Lionel Richie, that's that's only Lionel Richie anyway.

[1:20:24] Allyson Alamode: But yeah, much to think about.

[1:20:27] Whitney: Oh, also, while we're on the topic of featuring Jonathan Groff, of course, we need to bring up the lost performance of Burning Up from this episode.

[1:20:35] Allyson Alamode: I don't know if that was like actually like planned on being in the episode, like a vocal adrenaline number or what have you.

[1:20:41] Whitney: Do you know about this, Alison?

[1:20:42] Allyson Alamode: I know that there was a lot of I'm like, Jonathan Groff has just been because what no Hello 12 Hello 13.

[1:20:48] Whitney: No, yeah, yeah.

[1:20:49] Allyson Alamode: But what if you said Burning Up?

[1:20:51] Whitney: Obviously, I'm thinking of the Jonas Brothers.

[1:20:53] Allyson Alamode: What is this song?

[1:20:54] Whitney: I'm burning up burning up a yellow.

[1:20:57] Allyson Alamode: Oh, really good.

[1:21:00] Whitney: It was it originally?

[1:21:02] Allyson Alamode: Oh, Power of Madonna.

[1:21:03] Whitney: Oh, got it.

[1:21:04] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, yeah.

[1:21:06] Whitney: And so I don't know if if we were if that was ever intended to be seen.

[1:21:12] Allyson Alamode: I also like know that like, this is so weird and like such a backlogged memory.

[1:21:18] Whitney: But like, I remember seeing that there was apparently a time that Tina was supposed to have a solo in Power of Madonna.

[1:21:25] Allyson Alamode: That was a mashup of Erotica and Justify My Love.

[1:21:31] Whitney: And I don't know.

[1:21:32] Allyson Alamode: That sounds like fan fiction.

[1:21:33] Whitney: Kind of.

[1:21:34] Allyson Alamode: It really does.

[1:21:35] Whitney: And so you know what? Next time I have a Jenna's attention.

[1:21:40] Allyson Alamode: Jenna, we need to get to the bottom of this.

[1:21:41] Whitney: Is there any truth to this?

[1:21:43] Allyson Alamode: Dang, you would think that that Burning Up would be on the EP and it's not.

[1:21:48] Whitney: No, it surely is.

[1:21:49] Allyson Alamode: I'm looking at it right now.

[1:21:50] Whitney: Unless I'm one, two, three, four.

[1:21:53] Allyson Alamode: It's not.

[1:21:54] Whitney: Wait, in my mind, it's the last track.

[1:21:57] Allyson Alamode: Yeah, it's it ends with like a prayer featuring Jonathan Groff, like a virgin featuring Jonathan Groff.

[1:22:04] Whitney: But you're able to see Burning Up on-

[1:22:06] Allyson Alamode: I was just on Glee Wiki, but I didn't.

[1:22:08] Whitney: Let me see.

[1:22:09] Allyson Alamode: Oh.

[1:22:10] Whitney: I don't know.

[1:22:11] Allyson Alamode: Is it even streaming?

[1:22:12] Whitney: It's on streaming.

[1:22:13] Allyson Alamode: It's on streaming.

[1:22:14] Whitney: Burning Up.

[1:22:15] Allyson Alamode: Stream it now.

[1:22:16] Whitney: Okay, it's on the complete album, like the complete season one EP or whatever it is.

[1:22:21] Allyson Alamode: But it's not on the Power of Madonna.

[1:22:24] Whitney: But like a prayer.

[1:22:27] Allyson Alamode: I just feel like I just need to say my piece about when they bring out the choir.

[1:22:33] Whitney: I think that they understood so well the utilization of bringing out a choir with like a prayer for so many different reasons.

[1:22:45] Allyson Alamode: Because, of course, we have the lyric right there.

[1:22:49] Whitney: Let the choir sing.

[1:22:50] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[1:22:51] Whitney: Up come the curtains.

[1:22:52] Allyson Alamode: There's a choir.

[1:22:53] Whitney: And I'm like, okay, perfect.

[1:22:55] Allyson Alamode: I'm obsessed with this.

[1:22:56] Whitney: I'm not even distracted thinking about who these people are.

[1:23:00] Allyson Alamode: You know, it's just, it's there.

[1:23:02] Whitney: It's good.

[1:23:03] Allyson Alamode: But then it gets to a point where, and like, I'm thinking of like Black or White, where it's like, why is the-

[1:23:10] Whitney: there's already so much happening in that performance specifically, where like the Warblers are being convinced to be nice, and they're coming up on stage.

[1:23:20] Allyson Alamode: And then we cut to the weird, the Michael Jackson music video-

[1:23:24] Whitney: The morphing, yes.

[1:23:24] Allyson Alamode: Where they're morphing into each other.

[1:23:26] Whitney: Yeah.

[1:23:26] Allyson Alamode: Why did we also need the choir there?

[1:23:29] Whitney: You know, there's already too many gimmicks here.

[1:23:31] Allyson Alamode: Do you think that it's because, you know, Mercedes has them on retainer, and they have to meet a minimum performance requirement.

[1:23:35] Whitney: So they're like, I guess Black or-

[1:23:41] Allyson Alamode: fuck, the deadline's coming up.

[1:23:43] Whitney: I guess Black or White.

[1:23:45] Allyson Alamode: I guess we'll show up for stereo hearts.

[1:23:50] Whitney: Right.

[1:23:51] Allyson Alamode: Like this choir needs to learn stereo hearts now.

[1:23:58] Whitney: Like, what are we doing?

[1:24:00] Allyson Alamode: They had to meet their quota for Mercedes.

[1:24:02] Whitney: It's about, you know, justified having them on retainer.

[1:24:07] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:24:07] Whitney: Okay, I like this headcanon. That's fine.

[1:24:12] Allyson Alamode: But I also really love the stained glass behind.

[1:24:17] Whitney: They're really committing.

[1:24:19] Allyson Alamode: To the bit.

[1:24:20] Whitney: You know, I'm surprised that they didn't have, like, a Sue moment, like, just to round out the episode.

[1:24:25] Allyson Alamode: Like, her watching it.

[1:24:26] Whitney: I just, like, imagine they're like, oh, you're doing Madonna?

[1:24:30] Allyson Alamode: Here's some extra money for stained glass, choir, a larger choir.

[1:24:35] Whitney: Is it always that big?

[1:24:37] Allyson Alamode: That seemed really big.

[1:24:38] Whitney: That was really big.

[1:24:39] Allyson Alamode: I think that, like, for, like, Black or White, it seems a little bit more contained.

[1:24:45] Whitney: Because there's already, like, two Glee clubs on stage.

[1:24:48] Allyson Alamode: The size of the choir in I Know Where I've Been, right?

[1:24:53] Whitney: They say the number, doesn't he say?

[1:24:55] Allyson Alamode: This is a choir, something strong, like, 200, 500 strong.

[1:25:00] Whitney: I Know Where I've Been?

[1:25:01] Allyson Alamode: Yes.

[1:25:02] Whitney: They say that many people?

[1:25:03] Allyson Alamode: Like, the amount?

[1:25:04] Whitney: They say, yes.

[1:25:06] Allyson Alamode: Will says, he's like, so we, something, something trans choir, 200 strong.

[1:25:10] Whitney: I'm just making up numbers.

[1:25:11] Allyson Alamode: But he says how many people.

[1:25:15] Whitney: Okay.

[1:25:16] Allyson Alamode: Oh my god.

[1:25:16] Whitney: This is where we are in the Glee discourse.

[1:25:18] Allyson Alamode: Talking about, like, the amount.

[1:25:21] Whitney: Choirs.

[1:25:21] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:25:22] Whitney: Huh.

[1:25:24] Allyson Alamode: Um, yeah.

[1:25:26] Whitney: What else do we need to add for, like, a prayer?

[1:25:28] Allyson Alamode: It was just so good.

[1:25:30] Whitney: It's so good.

[1:25:31] Allyson Alamode: 200 members.

[1:25:32] Whitney: I had to look it up.

[1:25:33] Allyson Alamode: 200 strong.

[1:25:33] Whitney: 200 members.

[1:25:35] Allyson Alamode: Crazy.

[1:25:39] Whitney: I listened to Amber Riley's interview where she was on Raven Simone's podcast.

[1:25:45] Allyson Alamode: Have either of you listened to this?

[1:25:46] Whitney: No, but I saw clips.

[1:25:48] Allyson Alamode: Um, they were talking about playing spades.

[1:25:51] Whitney: Yes.

[1:25:52] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:25:52] Whitney: It was a very, very good listen.

[1:25:55] Allyson Alamode: Uh, I'm like, solidified, obsessed with Amber Riley as a person.

[1:25:59] Whitney: She's just such a fun talker.

[1:26:00] Allyson Alamode: And like, she just like, gets it.

[1:26:02] Whitney: She liked one of my Instagram comments and it was like, the best moment of my life.

[1:26:06] Allyson Alamode: Yes!

[1:26:08] Whitney: Amber Riley, perennially online.

[1:26:11] Allyson Alamode: And I love her for it.

[1:26:13] Whitney: Why do you think she's so good at winning competitions?

[1:26:15] Allyson Alamode: She just knows everything.

[1:26:16] Whitney: She knows everything.

[1:26:18] Allyson Alamode: She's retaining so much knowledge.

[1:26:20] Whitney: Um, but yeah, go listen to that episode.

[1:26:22] Allyson Alamode: It was just like, I'm obsessed with this woman.

[1:26:24] Whitney: She, she knows how to have fun.

[1:26:26] Allyson Alamode: I love her.

[1:26:27] Whitney: They're putting the cast of Glee on all sorts of, like, we're everywhere.

[1:26:31] Allyson Alamode: Like, big year for the Gleeks.

[1:26:34] Whitney: It is.

[1:26:34] Allyson Alamode: Yeah.

[1:26:35] Whitney: Are we ready to see what the final song is of this episode?

[1:26:38] Allyson Alamode: I worry for that song, whatever it is.

[1:26:40] Whitney: You too.

[1:26:41] Allyson Alamode: But then if it's a good song, I was gonna say, I worry for me.

[1:26:44] Whitney: Yeah, I hope, I hope it's the only exception.

[1:26:48] Allyson Alamode: Could you imagine?

[1:26:49] Whitney: It's gonna be number 50.

[1:26:51] Allyson Alamode: Oh!

[1:26:52] Whitney: It's gonna have the halfway point song.

[1:26:54] Allyson Alamode: It shouts.

[1:26:58] Whitney: Uh, wait.

[1:27:01] Allyson Alamode: Perfect song, actually, to be pulling with both of you.

[1:27:05] Whitney: We've already, we've already discussed her a little bit.

[1:27:11] Allyson Alamode: Is it alone?

[1:27:12] Whitney: No one's talking about alone.

[1:27:14] Allyson Alamode: I am talking about alone.

[1:27:16] Whitney: Okay, here we are talking about alone.

[1:27:19] Allyson Alamode: Oh no.

[1:27:22] Whitney: You guys, come on.

[1:27:23] Allyson Alamode: That was too short.

[1:27:24] Whitney: That was too short.

[1:27:26] Allyson Alamode: That's what I'm talking about.

[1:27:27] Whitney: Where it's like, it's so short that it's like.

[1:27:29] Allyson Alamode: I don't remember it being that short.

[1:27:31] Whitney: This your fave?

[1:27:32] Allyson Alamode: I don't remember it being that short.

[1:27:33] Whitney: I remember being a lot longer in my Glee headcanon.

[1:27:37] Allyson Alamode: I streamed the fuck out of this song.

[1:27:40] Whitney: This song is so good.

[1:27:44] Allyson Alamode: I really hate to have this conversation right now.

[1:27:46] Whitney: Because like, this song is so good.

[1:27:49] Allyson Alamode: This is gonna sound crazy.

[1:27:50] Whitney: I know there's people like, what?

[1:27:52] Allyson Alamode: Like, why?

[1:27:53] Whitney: No, no, I, I, it has everything that like, I would like about a Glee song, like in it.

[1:28:01] Allyson Alamode: You know, like, I, I don't, I don't know.

[1:28:04] Whitney: I just like, I think it's like almost the same thing as like, um, the start me up living on a prayer where it's like, I, I should like this.

[1:28:13] Allyson Alamode: But why don't I?

[1:28:14] Whitney: Why don't I ever stream it?

[1:28:16] Allyson Alamode: You know?

[1:28:16] Whitney: I, I just love that.

[1:28:19] Allyson Alamode: Like, Will always sounds good.

[1:28:21] Whitney: Like we said, on a duet, his harmonies with whoever he's performing with always sounds so good.

[1:28:26] Allyson Alamode: And I don't know.

[1:28:29] Whitney: It's so fun.

[1:28:30] Allyson Alamode: Like 80, it's, it caters to like the 80s rock.

[1:28:33] Whitney: Um, in the beginning of the number, I could not, like, it just looked like she was very, like, obviously she's lip syncing.

[1:28:41] Allyson Alamode: But like, it was very evident and like distracting up until she like the build and she's like belting and then it looked more real, but it just looked so not well lip synced in the beginning.

[1:28:50] Whitney: Yeah, but I remember being in high school, like talking to my counselor about the hit Fox show Glee.

[1:29:00] Allyson Alamode: And I was like, are you watching this?

[1:29:04] Whitney: Are you watching Glee?

[1:29:06] Allyson Alamode: And she says, I tried watching it.

[1:29:08] Whitney: I get, I got too distracted by the lip syncing.

[1:29:11] Allyson Alamode: And me at like 15 years old was like, they're lip syncing?

[1:29:20] Whitney: I didn't understand at that point, like production or anything.

[1:29:24] Allyson Alamode: So my mind was blown.

[1:29:25] Whitney: That's kind of how I felt when they were like, and it's not Zac Efron singing in High School Musical 1.

[1:29:30] Allyson Alamode: I'm like, what are you talking about?

[1:29:31] Whitney: Yes, he is.

[1:29:34] Allyson Alamode: What else is a lie?

[1:29:35] Whitney: What else have you been lying to me about?

[1:29:37] Allyson Alamode: And now when you watch that through like adult eyes, you're like, oh, that is not his voice or like, yes, very clearly lip syncing.

[1:29:44] Whitney: So yeah.

[1:29:47] Whitney: Um, Whitney, Alone.

[1:29:50] Allyson Alamode: I mean, sell me on it.

[1:29:53] Whitney: What, what should I like about this, please?

[1:29:57] Allyson Alamode: Just the vocals, like.

[1:30:01] Whitney: The build up. I really love the build up. Yeah, through the belting of the chorus, like it's... I don't know why you don't like it. Why don't you tell us why you don't like it? Like, I can't think of a reason why you would not like this song.

[1:30:13] Allyson: I don't, I don't know. I think that, like, it's weird, because it's on Glee The Music Volume 1, which was a very consistent stream for me. I would, I would put that shit on all the time. But what always skip.

[1:30:26] Whitney: I was gonna say, is this a skip for you?

[1:30:28] Allyson: It's a skip. But like, there's so many great ones in there. We of course have like, we have that You Keep Me Hanging On, which I remember like, always coming back to that one. And we have like, gold diggers on that and what a time capsule that was.

[1:30:43] Whitney: Is Endless Love? No.

[1:30:45] Allyson: There's so many.

[1:30:45] Whitney: No, Endless Love is not.

[1:30:46] Allyson: That's on number two. I loved number two.

[1:30:48] Whitney: Crash is on two.

[1:30:49] Allyson: Yeah, I've seen.

[1:30:50] Whitney: Weird. Weird pull for... But yeah, I don't, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's like comparatively to like the other like, Wicked Wouettes, that they're better for me. I'm trying to think of like, I guess like not like Razor Glass. Razor Glass is like, we could...

[1:31:09] Allyson: Does that count as a...

[1:31:11] Whitney: I could cut both of them.

[1:31:12] Allyson: That's not a... I think...

[1:31:14] Whitney: That is a Wicked Wouette. If you think about, uh, Ro... What is it? What is their ship name? Road... Roadster?

[1:31:24] Allyson: Roadster?

[1:31:25] Whitney: When you think about Roadster duets, obviously, there's one HBIC and it is one less bell to answer House Is Not Home.

[1:31:32] Allyson: Yeah, of course.

[1:31:33] Whitney: And so, uh, you know, who is her sister? A lone sister? Fire.

[1:31:41] Allyson: I love me some Fire.

[1:31:43] Whitney: Thank you. They are...

[1:31:46] Allyson: They're the twins from Sideshow.

[1:31:50] Whitney: I... But there's... But Fire, do you... What's better for you? Fire or Alone?

[1:31:55] Allyson: Oof, I feel like Alone has like the belty factor, kind of like you said, the build. And Fire is just fun.

[1:32:03] Whitney: Fire's fun. Fire... They're both really short.

[1:32:05] Allyson: Yeah, I think Fire is shorter.

[1:32:07] Whitney: Yeah, I love the dynamic of like a Rollerblade number. I think that's very fun. Also, I just think that like Fire as a song is so much... Like, I don't know, it speaks to me more. The belting, the buildup. The build is what does it for me. In this number, I feel like this was to cater to the adults that are watching Glee with their kids.

[1:32:30] Allyson: Yeah.

[1:32:31] Whitney: Like, this was for my mom.

[1:32:32] Allyson: Yeah, that's why people are not liking it or reaching for it because they're like, oh, okay, I guess my mom liked this cover. Like...

[1:32:40] Whitney: Yeah, mom's stopping what she's doing to sit down on the couch to watch it.

[1:32:43] Allyson: Because it's... She said Springsteen... Or no, is Fire Springsteen? No.

[1:32:47] Whitney: Yeah, Spring... That's Fire.

[1:32:49] Allyson: This is Heart.

[1:32:49] Whitney: Yeah. This is Heart.

[1:32:51] Allyson: Mm hmm. Yeah. Um, oh, Alone, Who She Beat to Get Here, Danny's song in round one.

[1:33:04] Whitney: Well, yes.

[1:33:06] Allyson: Another, another wuwet. Not a wicked wuwet, but a wuwet nonetheless. And then When I Get You Alone in round two with...

[1:33:14] Whitney: Oh!

[1:33:15] Allyson: That was in the Heather Morris episode. And Heather and Alice and Dodge really conspired against me in that competition.

[1:33:25] Whitney: When I Get You Alone.

[1:33:27] Allyson: When I Get You Alone, I think.

[1:33:28] Whitney: Alone. I mean, When I Get You Alone, it's... I think, again, sometimes voting for nostalgia's sake, it makes it easier. But I reach for Alone more than When I Get You Alone.

[1:33:41] Allyson: I reach for When I Get You Alone more, to be honest.

[1:33:45] Whitney: When I Get You Alone is like, kind of like similarly to like Christmas wrapping, I guess, like that it's like very divisive that like people have very, very strong feelings about like, I know like Elias like can't watch When I Get You Alone because of the like, kind of like a secondhand embarrassment. Even though it's like, it's a TV show.

[1:34:05] Allyson: It's funny.

[1:34:05] Whitney: Get over it. They're not real.

[1:34:10] Allyson: Now I'm thinking about When I Get You Alone. And it's a fun number to watch. I'm actually, I'm surprised. But have Heather voted for this one?

[1:34:18] Whitney: Heather voted for this one.

[1:34:19] Allyson: Oh yeah, I'm looking at it right now.

[1:34:20] Whitney: She was like, kind of blinded by the glitz and glamour of Kristen Chenoweth.

[1:34:24] Allyson: Which maybe not anymore.

[1:34:27] Whitney: Maybe it may be. Hey, it has not aged very well. I mean, Kristen Chenoweth. We kind of had her number for a while though.

[1:34:36] Allyson: It's so funny this number like when it's like Will and like Kristen Chenoweth. It's like, oh, it's always two like Dululu besties telling each other.

[1:34:42] Whitney: Exactly. Exactly.

[1:34:47] Allyson: Just two problematic people, even though, you know, it's all nuanced. But yeah.

[1:34:55] Whitney: Kristen Chenoweth, girl, if you're trying to sell tickets to this to this show, log out of Instagram.

[1:35:01] Allyson: I was literally trying to explain to somebody like, I'm like, this woman because of course, she's like in like regular normie news. And I'm like, you don't understand she has a Broadway show that has not yet opened. This is like insane.

[1:35:15] Whitney: Terrible.

[1:35:16] Allyson: Like, it's not I bet you the rest of the cast or whoever was like, no.

[1:35:21] Whitney: Why do this?

[1:35:24] Allyson: Oh my god.

[1:35:26] Whitney: Anyway, voting between Like a Prayer and Alone. Two season one divas, but only one can go through.

[1:35:34] Allyson: I'm gonna vote Like a Prayer.

[1:35:36] Whitney: We have I mean, I am voting Like a Prayer.

[1:35:39] Allyson: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna vote Like a Prayer. Simply because I don't believe in the pity votes.

[1:35:46] Whitney: We're not part of that.

[1:35:47] Allyson: I'm not a part of that party. But I would if I believed in pity votes, I would give one to Alone.

[1:35:54] Whitney: I mean, are there any aloners that will be offended?

[1:35:59] Allyson: Heather Morris?

[1:36:00] Whitney: Sorry, Heather.

[1:36:04] Allyson: Yeah. Oh, okay. This is I'm glad that we agreed. That first competition really hurt my spirit. Oh, I'm gonna need to think about that.

[1:36:15] Whitney: I feel like the Instagram gleeks are gonna come for us.

[1:36:20] Allyson: Oh, the Instagram gleeks are gonna go like Jar of Hearts like no question. And I'm like, you guys actually need to.

[1:36:26] Whitney: In order to come for us the list, the Instagram gleeks have to listen to the podcast.

[1:36:31] Allyson: Exactly. You're saying I have something to show. I forgot to Yes. It's in relation to my Oh my gosh, I can't find it. The rise and fall of a glee club princess thing. I made this for the carousel.

[1:36:46] Whitney: When you told us that we were going to be on the episode together and you were talking about like, Oh, I have a like rise and fall of a glee club princess and it's about two princesses. I immediately thought of the Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time because it's about like, different princesses and singing like basically exactly what you said covers.

[1:37:09] Allyson: That was such a like what a period of time that was. Oh my god. That's, I think that's a mouth number one. It has to be.

[1:37:19] Whitney: Is that Met Gala look? Yeah, that's Met Gala. Right? Yeah. Oh my god.

[1:37:24] Allyson: Pulled it from their Instagram.

[1:37:27] Whitney: Audio medium, we are looking at a and it will be featured in the carousel, of course, slide number one, but it's a picture that Whitney put together of Alex Knowles Met Gala look superimposed on top of Chapel Rowan, the rise and fall album cover. It's so good. Oh, it's so good. Perfect. Thank you for everything. I need to send that to me. Um, I'm so proud of it. It's really, really great. Wait, does it? Does the album cover say rise and fall? Or is it just the picture? It's just the picture. But I think like, some versions have like this really weird font that I couldn't find. I'll do some magic, do some magic for me. In fact, it does not it is just her with the set. Maybe you can make a sash that says unique. Oh, yeah. Unique. That's what you are. Um, okay, and recap for this episode jar of hearts. Oh my god. One of the hearts that is in that jar. The hell are you is me. And that jar of hearts is just rolling down the stairs. Jar of farts.

[1:38:43] Whitney: Father figure, we're looking up to you in round four. That's when you're gonna figure it out. Happy Happy Father's Day. Um, like a prayer prayers have been answered. You're around for I'm alone. Alone banished to hell.

[1:39:04] Allyson: Yeah, yeah. Um, what a fun episode. Thank you, Whitney, so much for all this work that you put into the the rise and fall of a glee club princess. So iconic. Um, where can the gleeks find you? Do you have any call to actions for them?

[1:39:19] Whitney: Um, you can find me on Instagram if you want. If you so choose. I think my at is Whitney dot mp4. I believe I love that. That sounds right to me. mp4. Um, Alison Alamode. It's just Alison Alamode. I haven't been posting. I've just been working. But yeah, I'm shenanigans happen on Instagram sometimes. Oh, and Whitney's wearing earrings from my shop.

[1:39:48] Allyson: Oh my god. Thank you so much. Product placement. They were wearing...

[1:39:56] Whitney: and the Cheerios earrings. My friend got them for me for my birthday. And it was like my best birthday present. Oh my gosh. Oh, I love that so much. Oh, I forgot to mention I was working and Juliet and got to chat briefly with alum of this podcast. Koli lamb. Koli lamb. I was like, Hey, I like I was at an event with like the cast and I did. I was like, How do I? How do I just go up to this person and talk about like, Hey, I just wanted to say hi, because we both sometimes guest on the same podcast week of the week. And she was like, Oh,

[1:40:31] Allyson: and then she's so fun. Her two roommates on the tour were like, interested in starting to watch a glee for the first time two guys. And so she's like introducing them to glee for the first time. So hopefully they're in their glee. I have not seen in Julia. And obviously I would I need to see it with with Koli. Um, it's so she plays Andrew. It's so is it Lady Capulet? Is that who I don't know if she's moved in because I thought she was a swing. So I got to see her several times swing on. Yeah. But unless she has changed now, but I know they did a lot of cash changes. So she maybe she's ensemble now. And I think that I've been like seeing that she's playing a character with like a high bun and glasses. Juliet's mom. So I'm wondering if she stepped into that role full time, then.

[1:41:15] Whitney: Yeah, but oh my god, that show is so fun. If you haven't seen and Juliet, like the way that they the way they weave the songs and it's very red. Like if you like glee, you're going to like and Juliet. Yeah, it's a fun it is basically I mean, the non binary character sings not a girl not yet a woman. It's basically glee. It's all there. Yeah. Like I need to, I need to.

[1:41:40] Allyson: And that's also a call to action. If Cully Lamb's coming to your city, you gotta go go see this girl. And call to action. Listen to the next week's episode of this podcast when it comes out a week from now. Anyway, thank you so much for listening. We'll see you then. Okay, bye.

[1:42:01] Whitney: It's Gleek, Gleek of the Week.