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[0:00] ANDREW Learn: Glee Glee Glee of the Week.

[0:04] Maddi: Okay.

[0:04] ANDREW Learn: Happy New Year, everybody.

[0:05] Maddi: Happy glue year.

[0:07] ANDREW Learn: I have some news.

[0:09] Maddi: What's going on?

[0:10] ANDREW Learn: Oh, yeah, you do.

[0:11] Maddi: I d I just remembered. As soon as we started recording, I was like pregnant.

[0:14] ANDREW Learn: I'm pregnant with a glee baby.

[0:17] Maddi: This podcast has impregnated me, and we and Gleek of the Week are expecting our firstborn Glun.

[0:25] ANDREW Learn: Wow.

[0:26] Maddi: Yeah.

[0:27] ANDREW Learn: Congratulations.

[0:28] Maddi: That's how long it takes for a pregnancy to even appear. You know, we started in March 2021.

[0:35] ANDREW Learn: And yet finally, you know Finally, I've been impregnated.

[0:40] Maddi: No, um, Glivia is happening.

[0:42] ANDREW Learn: Glee trivia is happening January 12th at Wooden Hill Brewing in Edina, Minnesota.

[0:50] Maddi: If you are can't help but laugh.

[0:54] ANDREW Learn: If you are in the Edina, Minnesota area. It's a south suburb of the Twin Cities.

[1:01] Maddi: Please, God, come out to Glee Trivia. I cannot wait.

[1:04] ANDREW Learn: I'm hosting it through my trivia company, Trivia Mafia. Um, I'm very, very excited. I I'm torn and maybe the Gleeks can help me decide what I'm gonna wear.

[1:15] Maddi: Um, I'm just gonna pretend that these dry spots are hickeys. Do you think people will believe me?

[1:20] ANDREW Learn: At Glee Trivia.

[1:21] Maddi: At Glee Trivia, yeah. Like, yeah. Hey, this is not eczema, it's actually just hickeys. I got pull up to Glee Trivia, just full of hickey.

[1:29] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I got impregnated last night. So um, no. I don't know what to wear. I kind of like want to go all out Cheerio outfit, but I also want to wear like our Glerch.

[1:42] Maddi: Um Yeah.

[1:44] ANDREW Learn: I don't ooh, I think that you could. I would just bring both if I were if I were you and just be like, depending on the vibes, you could even do an outfit change between rounds.

[1:55] Maddi: I could. I went to a party the other night where a girl literally did an outfit change.

[2:01] ANDREW Learn: What was the like context of doing an outfit change?

[2:04] Maddi: It was her golden birthday, and she left like halfway through and came back in a new outfit.

[2:10] ANDREW Learn: Okay. I was trying to think golden birthday. What did that mean? Got it.

[2:14] Maddi: Okay. So how old was she turning?

[2:16] ANDREW Learn: Uh 28.

[2:18] Maddi: Oh, okay. Alright, so it happened on the 28th.

[2:20] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Her birthday. Um that's fun.

[2:24] Maddi: Yeah, I think that you should maybe do an outfit change. Why not?

[2:27] ANDREW Learn: Outfit change. The first three rounds, I'll wear my glurch, and then for the finale, I will put on um my fit. My my Cheerios fit.

[2:39] Maddi: And I'm gonna buy the um the thing that Nicole Lamb has. Coley Lamb has the Cheerio's jacket.

[2:47] ANDREW Learn: On Etsy.

[2:48] Maddi: On Etsy. I think I need it. It's like $75.

[2:51] ANDREW Learn: Oh, that's like not as bad as I thought it would be.

[2:54] Maddi: 75 glawers. Like I gotta go into my glank.

[2:57] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Uh and get some money, some Glenny.

[3:01] Maddi: Um, yeah, and also I think that you could could you wear that on in public?

[3:05] ANDREW Learn: Oh yeah. I I think so. I think so. I mean it's a bit.

[3:09] Maddi: It's a bit. Wooden Hill is very big on the themed trivia.

[3:14] ANDREW Learn: Okay. I hosted uh Pokemon trivia at Wooden Hill Brewing, and they did like it was amazing. They did uh themed alcoholic beverages.

[3:25] Maddi: I had a Charizard slushy. Um and it was like red and orange, and then it had a little bit of a little bit of things.

[3:31] ANDREW Learn: What do you think that they're gonna ball on top.

[3:33] Maddi: Have a big one.

[3:33] ANDREW Learn: Oh, they're gonna have Glinks.

[3:35] Maddi: They're gonna have glanks, baby.

[3:37] ANDREW Learn: Oh, that's fun. Okay, wait, wait, wait. Now that it's the new year, um, to make it about me, um, I I feel like one of my goals really truly for the new year is to first of all complete first round of the glacket.

[3:53] Maddi: Yep, step one.

[3:54] ANDREW Learn: We've step one. This is well, this is uh what is going to happen in the new year. Um, but also to to host a um a glee boat cruise.

[4:04] Maddi: A glow around Manhattan. I've been wanting to do it for the past two years. They do it with Brittany, they do it with Beyoncé. You go on a boat around Manhattan, you buy a ticket, and you just go around, you listen to the damn music.

[4:17] ANDREW Learn: I'm thinking maybe some drag performances, some like maybe like maybe we can get, I don't know, more obscure cast members, but like some cast members to perform like a bit like uh maybe even like a Lindsay Pierce show up and do anything you can do.

[4:31] Maddi: Um she would. She would, maybe, dependent on, you know, Telly Le Young would show up, I think.

[4:32] ANDREW Learn: Telly Le Young would show up. Um Allie Sh oh Allie Shirker does have a a child now, so maybe not.

[4:43] Maddi: Um, but Alex Newell would be would I think would be very fun.

[4:50] ANDREW Learn: Um but I I think that a glues cruise um in the cards would love to put that event together. Um sound off in the DMs if you're interested in in that event.

[5:00] Maddi: In going to the glues cruise. I'll be there. It would honestly be iconic. The drinks, the slushies, just everything.

[5:08] ANDREW Learn: That's gotta be what Wooden Hill is gonna make the glinks of the slushy.

[5:12] Maddi: That's that's why I said when you brought up the Charizard slushy.

[5:15] ANDREW Learn: Oh yeah. Yeah. It's gotta be the sl the big gulp.

[5:18] Maddi: Mm-hmm. The big gulp.

[5:19] ANDREW Learn: Big gulp. And we're gonna throw it at each other.

[5:22] Maddi: Um, that would be so fun. Glee trivial on the on the gloat.

[5:27] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god. Yeah. Finally, where glieks can just exist. A safe space in the middle of the fucking Hudson River.

[5:36] Maddi: Miracle on the Hudson.

[5:39] ANDREW Learn: I think the first to ever happen, actually. Um, but yeah. Um that's good. Do you have any other blue year's resolutions?

[5:47] Maddi: Um, no, I have been thinking about are you asking just Glee New Year's? Because I am exclusively I think I'm only thinking about Glee right now.

[5:56] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[5:57] Maddi: So I'm only gonna get good because we do host a Glee podcast. So I'm glad to be.

[6:02] ANDREW Learn: Here's some Glee New Year's resolutions. Um for the second round of the Glackett, I have done some uh deep counsel within myself about how to, and I can see you're sort of tending to your hickeys.

[6:16] Maddi: I'm thinking about putting a little bit of lip gloss on.

[6:19] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, maybe so. Um I've been doing a lot of counsel within myself um about what the second round will look like. I think I I keep on coming back to a singular idea, and it's an idea that we've talked about previously, and I think that is going to be the idea format of the second round, but um stay tuned.

[6:42] Maddi: What do you think about those?

[6:44] ANDREW Learn: I don't wanna I don't want to reveal now.

[6:46] Maddi: Oh sh do you want me to reveal?

[6:48] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I mean we haven't talked about this at all.

[6:51] Maddi: No, we have.

[6:52] ANDREW Learn: No, we have talked about second round. The idea would be I guess most recently I I haven't. The idea would be um, so we pull the six songs for the next episode.

[7:07] Maddi: Okay.

[7:08] ANDREW Learn: At the end of each episode.

[7:10] Maddi: Okay.

[7:10] ANDREW Learn: So we can prepare ourselves and like get our opinions ready. Make sure that it's not the same opinion because that's another thing that I'm afraid of. Like, I don't want to like regurgitate the same opinion about like for good Gleakast version.

[7:24] Maddi: Right.

[7:24] ANDREW Learn: Every single like time that it shows up. Yeah. Um, and so I want to come prepared with new takes every time. Um not caught off guard. And also it's a really great way to let our guests know, hey, these are the songs that we're gonna talk about.

[7:40] Maddi: Um, we're not gonna let them know which songs are against each other.

[7:47] ANDREW Learn: Are we gonna know that? Or are we just gonna rant?

[7:50] Maddi: We're not going to know either. So, like you'll pull three songs, I pull three songs at the end of each episode, and then we have each of our three songs ready during the recording, and then we pull those three songs each against each other.

[8:05] ANDREW Learn: Do you like this idea?

[8:06] Maddi: I like you've talked to me about this now that I now that you explain it. Yeah, I do love this.

[8:10] ANDREW Learn: Um there's still time for shift to see.

[8:14] Maddi: Um we have until March.

[8:16] ANDREW Learn: We do totally have until March, yeah. I so what are let's talk about what we're gonna do. I mean, let's just I mean, maybe we shouldn't even talk about this because it's not real yet, but I really wanna do Katie Gaga for our two-year.

[8:28] Maddi: Oh, that would be really fun.

[8:29] ANDREW Learn: Via Zoom. Two-year, yeah. Two year, I think is the Katie Gaga anniversary.

[8:37] Maddi: Like, you know how the first anniversary is like a diamond and then it's paper, and then it's it's it's actually Katie Gaga is the signal.

[8:44] ANDREW Learn: So if we release episodes every single week, then the two-year will air on February 28th.

[8:51] Maddi: My birthday!

[8:53] ANDREW Learn: 2023. Um, six hundredth song and a hundredth episode. Really culmination of a lot of different things.

[9:02] Maddi: Um and then the two-year anniversary, that episode would be on March 28th.

[9:09] ANDREW Learn: And then the end. Oh god, I didn't realize it was this late. End of first round is May 16th, 2023.

[9:16] Maddi: Is released.

[9:17] ANDREW Learn: Released May 16th. If we continue to release episodes every single week, do not hold us to those dates. We may take another break.

[9:28] Maddi: We were on a break.

[9:30] ANDREW Learn: Um, so yeah. Okay. What do you think? We could do Katie Gaga.

[9:35] Maddi: I love a Katie Gaga.

[9:36] ANDREW Learn: I would love to love a Katie Gaga moment. I think that a lot of our end to the second year birthday. Weird question to pose, but um I do feel as though a lot of our listeners are underage.

[9:47] Maddi: And so I don't know if they would be able to join us in the festivities of um uh an accurate Katie Gaga.

[9:55] ANDREW Learn: Do not condone underage drinking.

[9:58] Maddi: No.

[9:58] ANDREW Learn: Um bring your favorite sparkling grape juice, just like the Glee Club in season two.

[10:06] Maddi: Well, I think that every time that we talk do we when you when we say Katie Gaga, do y'all know what we're talking about?

[10:13] ANDREW Learn: We haven't talked about Katie Gaga in a while.

[10:16] Maddi: It's kind of a deep cut.

[10:18] ANDREW Learn: Do a refresh.

[10:19] Maddi: I am the worst at explaining Katie Gaga.

[10:21] ANDREW Learn: Katie Gaga.

[10:22] Maddi: So we're talking about the famous episode, episode four of season five.

[10:27] ANDREW Learn: Oh, four, yes, yeah.

[10:29] Maddi: And um it is the best episode of Glee ever. There's no disputing that. I'm not a big fan of five and six, but I will say Katie Gaga is the best episode of Glee.

[10:38] ANDREW Learn: Um, and what you do is you go to BuzzFeed and you take the BuzzFeed quiz: Are you a Katie or Are You a Gaga?

[10:44] Maddi: And depending on your result, you drink every time in the episode, Katie Gaga.

[10:51] ANDREW Learn: If you are a Katie, you drink when they say Katie. If you are a Gaga, you drink when they say Gaga.

[10:56] Maddi: And Andrew has formatted this episode so that after every time they say Katie or Gaga, Katie Perry will either go, ha, or Gaga will go, drink!

[11:08] ANDREW Learn: No, Katie also says drink. I did find it's um Bone Appetite when she says, yeah, drink.

[11:15] Maddi: This one's on me.

[11:16] ANDREW Learn: So it's just her saying, drink. And wait, what's the what is the one? Put your drinks up!

[11:21] Maddi: Get your drinks up.

[11:24] ANDREW Learn: For Gaga, yeah. Um, it's very fun. I think we would send out a Zoom link to do we want to make it Patreon exclusive?

[11:33] Maddi: No. I want I want everybody to be able to do that.

[11:36] ANDREW Learn: So we will publicly share the Zoom link. Everybody will be muted until the very end.

[11:42] Maddi: Um when we can all be like, yeah, Katie Gaga.

[11:47] ANDREW Learn: I did this one year for my birthday, where well it was 2020 birthday when I was like, I need to be able to celebrate this or else I will lose my goddamn mind.

[11:56] Maddi: Um You're a big birthday boy. You're not a big like Christmas boy, but you're a big birthday boy.

[12:02] ANDREW Learn: No, not Christmas. Uh Jesus' birthday, we don't give a fuck.

[12:05] Maddi: Your birthday, we do.

[12:07] ANDREW Learn: Even though Jesus' birthday happened on a Sunday this year, big balloons for Jesus on Sunday.

[12:14] Maddi: Um Big Balloons for Jesus.

[12:20] ANDREW Learn: Big balloons for Jesus.

[12:21] Maddi: Um but yeah, love my birthday, love Halloween. Um, but okay, so what I was trying to get at was um I held it on Zoom 2020 birthday, and um a few select individuals uh joined me outside in like very cold weather outside of a bar um November 20th, my birthday, and after the Zoom, and one of the people that did arrive, uh prior Gleak of the Week, I will not name who it was, um, did arrive very, very messed up from Katie Gaga because of Katie Gaga.

[12:56] ANDREW Learn: Katie Gaga really does because you have to take dependent on if you're Katie Origaga, it's 43 versus 44 shots.

[13:03] Maddi: So um Oh, are we some people can do shots, some people can do sippy sippies of a white claw.

[13:09] ANDREW Learn: Oh, yeah. When I say shots also, we are not taking shots of like vodka.

[13:13] Maddi: No, we're taking shots of white claw, which is honestly honest almost more disgusting.

[13:19] ANDREW Learn: I will say that like I tried burping. Oh my god, so much burping. Because like I was trying like when I was making this birthday event, I was like, oh, well, there is like the entire New York um plot line where they obviously don't say Katie Gaga at all because they don't they don't know what's going on.

[13:37] Maddi: Um they do sing Rora at the end, but they don't know that it's Katie Gaga.

[13:40] ANDREW Learn: Right. Just happenstance. Um and Adam Limbert's is sings Mary the Night. He's just there. Um, but uh, publicly cover.

[14:04] ANDREW Learn: It's like, hey, you want more?

[14:06] ANDREW Learn: Take a shot every time they say banned, because they say banned a lot in the New York storyline.

[14:12] ANDREW Learn: It's kind of sick.

[14:13] ANDREW Learn: That's like Justin Power Hour.

[14:14] Maddi: What's power hour?

[14:15] ANDREW Learn: How did you grow up with power hour?

[14:18] Maddi: I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

[14:19] ANDREW Learn: Stop saying power hour.

[14:22] Maddi: Power hour, I'm pretty sure is you take a shot every 10 minutes for an hour.

[14:22] ANDREW Learn: Take a shot.

[14:29] Maddi: Oh.

[14:30] ANDREW Learn: Wait, but that's like a hard liquor.

[14:32] Maddi: Yeah.

[14:33] Maddi: That's like rum or something.

[14:35] Maddi: Um that yeah, that seems like very dangerous, but I guess an effective way of pregaming.

[14:40] ANDREW Learn: When you went to college in the Midwest.

[14:44] ANDREW Learn: That's what you did.

[14:45] Maddi: Power Hour.

[14:46] ANDREW Learn: Power Hour.

[14:47] Maddi: Yeah.

[14:48] Maddi: But I think people have different versions of it.

[14:50] ANDREW Learn: Uh-huh.

[14:51] Maddi: Same with like King's Cup.

[14:53] Maddi: Everybody has their house rules for King's Cup.

[14:55] ANDREW Learn: Not to expose you, but you were drinking before you were 21.

[14:58] Maddi: Yes.

[14:59] Maddi: Oh yeah.

[15:00] Maddi: I was We got fucked up.

[15:02] ANDREW Learn: Wait, that was you were 21 at the time.

[15:04] Maddi: I was a month into my my 21st year.

[15:07] Maddi: When we got drunk on New Year's.

[15:09] Maddi: New Year's Eve.

[15:10] Maddi: And it was just cranberry vodkas as you do.

[15:13] Maddi: Cranberry vodkas everywhere.

[15:15] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[15:16] ANDREW Learn: Um, so Kikaga Glee boat, second round.

[15:22] ANDREW Learn: So much to look forward to in 2023.

[15:24] ANDREW Learn: 2020 glee.

[15:27] Maddi: Yeah, 2020 Vision, Gleeks we win in.

[15:31] ANDREW Learn: I don't think that's the words.

[15:33] Maddi: Um I wanted to make it 2023, but to make it rhyme with 2020 Glee.

[15:38] ANDREW Learn: Oh, I like that.

[15:39] Maddi: But then I'm just saying 2020, and that's an actual year.

[15:42] Maddi: That happened and we weren't really that happy about.

[15:45] ANDREW Learn: No.

[15:46] Maddi: A little bit sick.

[15:46] Maddi: A little bit sick.

[15:47] ANDREW Learn: Um.

[15:48] ANDREW Learn: Okay, anything else that we want to talk about?

[15:51] Maddi: No, I'm very excited for this next episode of Gleek of the Week.

[15:54] Maddi: Yeah, thankful for all the gleeks.

[15:56] ANDREW Learn: Truly.

[15:56] ANDREW Learn: I know this is not the Thanksgiving episode by any stretch of the imagination.

[16:00] ANDREW Learn: But we're wrapping up 2022 and we love you.

[16:02] Maddi: Come to Glee Trivia, come to the gloat.

[16:05] Maddi: Come to it all.

[16:06] Maddi: And just I was about to say come to the podcast.

[16:09] Maddi: Do not come to the podcast.

[16:11] Maddi: Do not show up to my house.

[16:12] Maddi: Please stop doing that.

[16:15] ANDREW Learn: Um okay, what songs are we manifesting?

[16:18] Maddi: Ooh.

[16:19] Maddi: I always think of Sign Seal Deliver just because I want to hear that really quick.

[16:23] ANDREW Learn: Come up with something different and do not use your shovel.

[16:25] Maddi: Oh, okay.

[16:27] Maddi: God, every single glue.

[16:28] Maddi: Quickly.

[16:29] Maddi: Make 'em laugh.

[16:31] ANDREW Learn: No.

[16:32] ANDREW Learn: That's not fair because Kaylee just said that.

[16:34] Maddi: I know I just watched the Kaylee episode or listened to the Kaylee episode.

[16:37] Maddi: Watched it.

[16:38] Maddi: Watched it.

[16:39] Maddi: I listened to it and I started to go.

[16:40] Maddi: We're releasing, we're releasing videos, but only for us.

[16:43] Maddi: Only for Allison's mind.

[16:45] ANDREW Learn: Um, I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you.

[16:49] Maddi: God, you say that.

[16:50] Maddi: I I want I want a deep cut.

[16:52] ANDREW Learn: You want to work assignments?

[16:55] Maddi: Yeah, come on.

[16:56] Maddi: That we have yet to pull.

[16:59] Maddi: From the deep corners of Allison's mind.

[17:02] Maddi: From the deep recesses of my mind.

[17:04] Maddi: I'm like going through.

[17:07] Maddi: I listened to a good one on shuffle today.

[17:08] Maddi: Never come back again.

[17:10] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[17:11] Maddi: We talked about that.

[17:11] Maddi: We talked about that a couple weeks ago, but I'm very excited about that.

[17:15] Maddi: I'll take that.

[17:16] Maddi: And mine was regrettably, only the good dad.

[17:28] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[17:29] ANDREW Learn: Gleek!

[17:30] Maddi: Glee.

[17:32] Maddi: Hi, Gleeks.

[17:33] Maddi: We are back with another amazing glistener uh that did a little bit of what it sounds like a a podcast binge, uh a glinge, if you will.

[17:43] Maddi: Uh Maddi, how are you?

[17:45] Maddi: I'm so good.

[17:46] Maddi: I'm so excited to be here.

[17:48] Maddi: I have two pages of notes just ready to go.

[17:55] ANDREW Learn: That is amazing.

[17:57] ANDREW Learn: Wait, I I I really get I desperately want to get into the notes, but first of all, we do need to know your relationship with um the the show Glee that aired on Fox.

[18:08] Maddi: Oh man, I I mean I watched The Pilot when it was first released.

[18:14] Maddi: I was in seventh grade, and I was like, yep, this is definitely made just for me.

[18:20] Maddi: I will watch every episode.

[18:22] Maddi: And it was really sweet because I I was, I was a young teenager, and my dad was like really trying to like put forth effort to spend time with me.

[18:33] Maddi: And he was like, you know what?

[18:35] Maddi: I'm gonna watch Glee.

[18:37] Maddi: And so like I watched like the first three and a half seasons like every week with my dad.

[18:43] ANDREW Learn: And cute and sweet.

[18:46] Maddi: And he is a huge uh just encyclopedia of musical knowledge.

[18:50] Maddi: So he would always tell me like the history of all the songs, or like that's so cool.

[18:56] Maddi: Like, yeah, any song that he knew, I would get like all this background information on.

[19:00] Maddi: And it was, yeah, it was a really cool bonding experience.

[19:03] Maddi: And then around halfway through season four, we just stopped watching.

[19:10] ANDREW Learn: Classic.

[19:11] Maddi: Wait, do you do you remember what the the breaking point was?

[19:14] Maddi: It was when um Finn and Puck saying fight for your right to party.

[19:19] ANDREW Learn: That was yeah, that's that actually adds up.

[19:21] Maddi: That's good.

[19:23] Maddi: And it wasn't even until starting to listen to the podcast that I even realized I never finished season four.

[19:30] Maddi: Uh-huh.

[19:31] Maddi: Because y'all were talking about things that I just had no clue about.

[19:35] ANDREW Learn: And you thought that when you stopped the series, the series also stopped.

[19:40] Maddi: It was over.

[19:42] Maddi: It was over for everybody included.

[19:43] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[19:44] Maddi: So it's been really fun listening to the podcast and just learning so much about what happened in those later seasons.

[19:52] ANDREW Learn: Wait, so have you have you watched the later seasons since?

[19:57] Maddi: Or I've gone halfway through season five.

[20:00] Maddi: So I finished season four, watched the first half of season five, could not finish season five.

[20:08] Maddi: And here we are.

[20:09] Maddi: Here we are.

[20:10] Maddi: But I count listening to your podcast as getting caught.

[20:13] ANDREW Learn: So stirred us down this this notes that you have.

[20:22] Maddi: Okay, you have on the podcast hot takes on the decisions we've made.

[20:27] Maddi: So I I started listening in April when I think Hannah Bales did her episode.

[20:35] Maddi: Yeah.

[20:36] Maddi: And I was like, oh, I love Glee.

[20:37] Maddi: Let me try out this podcast.

[20:39] Maddi: And it was right when I was getting ready to move.

[20:42] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[20:43] Maddi: And I for about a week and a half had no Wi-Fi.

[20:47] Maddi: So in the morning, I would go to Starbucks, I would download seven episodes of the podcast.

[20:52] Maddi: Oh my God.

[20:53] Maddi: And then I would go home.

[20:54] Maddi: And that was how I would like you'd pack for an episode, then you'd sit down and just listen to an episode, then you'd pack for an episode.

[21:01] ANDREW Learn: Wait, that's so good.

[21:04] Maddi: Like insane.

[21:05] Maddi: And I even remember saving the Lindsay Pierce episode, and I was like, no, this is the episode I'm going to listen to when I drive to my new place.

[21:14] ANDREW Learn: Lindsay Piercement is a fan favorite.

[21:17] Maddi: She was down for the cause.

[21:18] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[21:19] Maddi: I love her.

[21:19] Maddi: Yes.

[21:20] Maddi: So I listened to like those first 50 episodes in about two weeks, just because I was listening to seven a day.

[21:29] ANDREW Learn: Oh my gosh.

[21:30] Maddi: And they weren't, I wasn't listening to them in order either.

[21:33] Maddi: I was just like, this one looks interesting.

[21:35] Maddi: And then, yes, about a month ago, I was like, I want to re-listen to them all.

[21:42] Maddi: And I have not made my way through a second time.

[21:45] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[21:45] Maddi: But I'm all brushed up.

[21:47] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[21:48] Maddi: Wait, I'm kind of obsessed that you have probably banked way, you definitely have banked way more hours listening to the podcast than you would have watching the rest of Glee.

[21:58] Maddi: For sure.

[21:58] Maddi: So yeah.

[22:00] ANDREW Learn: So it's okay.

[22:01] Maddi: Yeah.

[22:02] Maddi: That's incredible.

[22:04] Maddi: Okay.

[22:04] Maddi: Songs I have opinions on.

[22:06] Maddi: Please.

[22:07] Maddi: Contra.

[22:08] Maddi: I don't know if this is controversial or not.

[22:10] Maddi: I would have voted for Fighter.

[22:13] ANDREW Learn: Thank you.

[22:14] Maddi: People are saying this, as it turns out.

[22:16] Maddi: So emotional.

[22:17] Maddi: It's a great song.

[22:18] Maddi: I have no like emotional connection to it.

[22:21] Maddi: But every time, like Fighter was on my like workout playlist.

[22:26] Maddi: And yes, I love that song.

[22:29] Maddi: Um the only song I would have like fought to the death for is Going Through, which is Power of Madonna Four Minutes.

[22:39] Maddi: It is my favorite Glee song.

[22:41] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[22:42] Maddi: I won't be upset if it doesn't go any farther.

[22:44] Maddi: I think it because if it goes up against like Paradise at the Dashboard Light or somewhere where Only We Go Sometimes.

[22:51] Maddi: I don't know if it's a third round song, but it made it through the first round.

[22:54] Maddi: So I'm happy.

[22:55] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, no, I agree.

[22:57] ANDREW Learn: And then what is my other one?

[22:59] Maddi: Oh, um the song that I think I listen to the most now is Boogie Shoes.

[23:07] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[23:07] Maddi: Interesting.

[23:08] Maddi: So good.

[23:09] Maddi: I just in retrospect, I think Unique is the best singer.

[23:15] Maddi: And all of their songs just hit so much harder.

[23:19] Maddi: Yeah.

[23:19] Maddi: Now I don't know.

[23:21] Maddi: I just I love that character.

[23:23] ANDREW Learn: No, I completely agree.

[23:24] ANDREW Learn: I love coming out of the glut work for Fighter So Emotional.

[23:29] Maddi: I think I think what triggered it, what people are just coming out of the DMs in support of it.

[23:36] Maddi: I think because it so emotional was brought back.

[23:39] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[23:44] ANDREW Learn: I think it's gonna be great.

[23:46] Maddi: They're both going through.

[23:47] ANDREW Learn: You're a Star Kid fan as well.

[23:50] Maddi: I'm probably a Star Kid before I'm a Gleek.

[23:53] Maddi: Okay.

[23:56] Maddi: Like I was a huge fan of Star Kid.

[23:59] Maddi: I I think even on social media, I've been the number one champion of Get Kurt Mega on the pod.

[24:06] Maddi: Like yes.

[24:07] Maddi: I love him.

[24:09] Maddi: Um, and they have so much Star Kid stuff coming up, so they could like you could promote each other.

[24:14] Maddi: Like Joey Richter, you were on Glee for an episode.

[24:18] Maddi: Like get your ass on here.

[24:21] Maddi: So yeah, I've seen Star Kid live.

[24:24] Maddi: Um yeah, big big fan.

[24:27] Maddi: Um but yeah.

[24:28] ANDREW Learn: Wait, can I ask a question about because Starkid is not my culture?

[24:32] Maddi: Yeah, how do you how did you find Star Kid?

[24:37] Maddi: It was um again, middle school.

[24:40] Maddi: I was getting into just fandom in general, yeah, and there was this like super nerdy guy at my high school who was like, Oh, you like Harry Potter?

[24:48] Maddi: You should watch the Harry Potter musical.

[24:50] Maddi: And I was like, Yeah, sounds good.

[24:52] Maddi: And here we are, all these years older.

[24:55] Maddi: Yeah, talking about that's all it took.

[24:57] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[24:58] Maddi: That's pr I that's a very good question on how Star Kid fandom like came about.

[25:04] Maddi: I feel like it had to be because a very potter musical was released in 2009 on YouTube.

[25:10] Maddi: So like exactly the exact same era as Glee.

[25:14] Maddi: And but I I can't remember how I found it.

[25:18] Maddi: I feel like it had to have been a YouTube, like me just watching I loved um Potter Puppet Pals.

[25:25] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[25:25] Maddi: Oh, for sure.

[25:26] Maddi: And I would watch Potter Puppet Pals like over and over and over again, and then I'm sure it came up as suggested.

[25:32] Maddi: This is the next stage in the evolution.

[25:33] ANDREW Learn: And then and then they just fed each other my love for Darren Chris into my love for Glee, into my love for Star Kid, and then just it's inexplicable.

[25:42] Maddi: Well, that's the Kurt Mega of it all.

[25:44] Maddi: Like, what's what came first?

[25:46] Maddi: His friendship with Darren from Glee, or like uh it's a lot, and I love it.

[25:52] ANDREW Learn: Wait, and then also explain to me and also um some glisteners that I'm sure have questions as well.

[25:58] ANDREW Learn: That what is Kurt Mega's uh uh association with Starkid?

[26:02] Maddi: He was in their newest musical called Black Friday, which is really good, and along with his wife, who is also an incredible singer, they like I don't really know how they got connected, but they're in all of their newest works.

[26:21] Maddi: Um during the pandemic, they would do little short plays over Zoom, yeah, and they would do those with Star Kid, and then I think they just kind of all became friends, and now they all work together.

[26:32] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[26:33] Maddi: I think Darren had to be the through line some in some way, shape, or form.

[26:38] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[26:39] Maddi: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[26:40] Maddi: Darren was like, you'd love these people.

[26:43] Maddi: You should be friends with them.

[26:44] ANDREW Learn: For sure.

[26:45] Maddi: And they're incredible.

[26:47] ANDREW Learn: Maddie, what other competitions were you peeved by?

[26:52] Maddi: Oh, okay.

[26:53] Maddi: I again, like all the ones that I think I was upset by have been sort of fixed.

[26:58] Maddi: Like I was upset.

[26:59] Maddi: Jesse's girl didn't go through.

[27:02] ANDREW Learn: And I normally am a couple of weeks behind because I like to listen to like a bunch of episodes in a row because when I started listening, that's how I did it.

[27:15] Maddi: I would listen to like seven episodes at a time.

[27:18] Maddi: So I normally wait, and like the first week of the month, I'll listen to all the previous months' episodes.

[27:24] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[27:25] Maddi: So normally, like by the time I get to them, it's over, it's been done.

[27:29] Maddi: I remember being those so sad about Empire State of Mind.

[27:33] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[27:34] Maddi: But then I listened to the episode and I was like, oh, I think I just like that song.

[27:39] Maddi: I don't think I like the glee version anymore.

[27:42] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[27:42] Maddi: Yeah.

[27:43] Maddi: Because I definitely that was how I was introduced to that song.

[27:45] ANDREW Learn: Mm-hmm.

[27:46] Maddi: Yeah.

[27:47] Maddi: And then I was like, oh yeah, maybe it doesn't live up to like what it was in my head.

[27:53] Maddi: Against Hung Up, we gotta we gotta stand tall for Tina.

[27:57] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[27:58] Maddi: Toto's gotta see it's the sun one day, you know?

[28:02] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, exactly.

[28:03] ANDREW Learn: And I I genuinely there has been nothing else that I've been devastated by.

[28:09] ANDREW Learn: Okay, good.

[28:09] Maddi: Oh my god, that's what a relief.

[28:13] ANDREW Learn: So I like that I love just the unpredictability of it. I think this format is so fun because you really do never know what's gonna go up against each other, and a song that you're like, no, of course that song would go through goes up against just an even better song, and just chaos, and I love it.

[28:34] Maddi: Um, what songs are you manifesting that we have left?

[28:38] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[28:39] Maddi: Oh man, I have I picked three. I was able to narrow it down to three.

[28:42] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[28:42] Maddi: Okay. Um, number one, misery. It's one of my favorites from when I like originally watched the show. It's so good. Um Happy Days Are Here Again. Get happy. That mashup, I think, is beautiful. And my number one song is It's All Over from season three, the Dream Girl song.

[29:04] ANDREW Learn: We oh no, has it already been pulled?

[29:07] Maddi: We just pulled it in the last episode.

[29:10] ANDREW Learn: You're gonna be happy about it though.

[29:11] Maddi: Two episodes ago.

[29:12] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[29:13] Maddi: Yeah, no, it is going through.

[29:14] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[29:15] Maddi: That's that's all that matters. I have two others, and then of course, like the big three the let's have a kiki, can't teach your boyfriend, somewhere we go sometimes.

[29:25] ANDREW Learn: Yep.

[29:26] Maddi: I would be very happy with any of any of the things. Let's pull all three of those tonight, baby.

[29:31] ANDREW Learn: I think like that's kind of the goal now. Everyone wants to be that person.

[29:35] Maddi: Yes.

[29:36] ANDREW Learn: So I experience one of those things. It is kind of like they're like the cop is like edging us at this point.

[29:42] Maddi: Like, okay.

[29:42] ANDREW Learn: It's like we only have so many songs left.

[29:46] Maddi: It's real.

[29:48] ANDREW Learn: We only have so many songs left, and yet, like, I feel like there's so many iconic songs still left that we've been talking about for now almost like two years.

[29:48] Maddi: Two years.

[29:59] ANDREW Learn: Crazy.

[29:59] Maddi: The someplace we go sometimes was literally what episode five.

[30:04] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, truly.

[30:05] Maddi: Yeah.

[30:06] ANDREW Learn: When that started.

[30:07] Maddi: It started out as a bit. How did it end up like it started out as a bit where I didn't even know the name of my favorite song on Glee? And then people get mad, like Alison, you don't know this and that. Like, I've been here since the beginning, babe.

[30:21] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[30:22] Maddi: Not knowing shit.

[30:23] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[30:25] Maddi: Um, okay. Wait, before we get started, I had another point I wanted to make sure to mention.

[30:30] ANDREW Learn: Please.

[30:30] Maddi: Which I have titled Quoting the Podcast in Real Life. How the vernacular just slipped into my vocabulary.

[30:39] ANDREW Learn: And I didn't even realize it.

[30:41] Maddi: Um, maybe the worst being when I was out shopping with a friend, and I said something was canonically the best flavor of chips.

[30:50] ANDREW Learn: I was like, where did that come from?

[30:53] Maddi: Wait, are we saying canonically?

[30:56] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[30:57] Maddi: We say that canonically the best.

[31:01] ANDREW Learn: Oh, that's good.

[31:02] Maddi: I love that canonically.

[31:05] ANDREW Learn: Wait, we said that like um Darren Chris was canonically Filipino in one episode.

[31:14] Maddi: Oh, that's good. I love that.

[31:15] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god.

[31:17] Maddi: And the other one, I was at a Christmas party, and we were talking about our favorite Christmas songs, and I don't even remember what song we were talking about. And someone was like, Oh, do you like the whatever version?

[31:30] ANDREW Learn: And I was like, No, I like the Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[31:34] Maddi: Yes.

[31:35] ANDREW Learn: It is, maybe.

[31:36] Maddi: They didn't know me, so they just think I'm extremely weird.

[31:39] ANDREW Learn: Which no, I've just been holding on to that for years.

[31:43] Maddi: Every time that I asked Siri it's like okay we're saying the entire title.

[31:48] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[31:48] Maddi: I love that oh my god that's amazing I'm kind of obsessed we're living rent free you really are that's amazing okay the first song the first song okay okay just so empty minded no no no can you give me screen sharing please mama oh gosh I keep on forgetting to do this every single week there you go somebody do a supercut of me asking Andrew to uh here we go glee club's going full Santa Holly put up the treepy for my spirit falls again up the stocking I may be brushing things but deck the halls again now you sat out those caroling with a band I'd seriously rather be learning for we need a little christmas you're making me hate Christmas candles in the window not that bad not that bad kind of more iconic than I than I thought it would be more iconic than I thought it would be but it's also like us when we pull a Christmas song and it's not Christmas time yes yeah this episode, Maddie, is come is the first episode to release in the new year.

[33:20] ANDREW Learn: So it is okay people listening to this are are done with the Halloween.

[33:24] Maddi: Stop it.

[33:27] ANDREW Learn: Which I feel like is a perfect this is the perfect song to have be the first song of the year.

[33:31] Maddi: Yeah.

[33:32] ANDREW Learn: Maddi, what are we thinking about?

[33:34] Maddi: Uh We Need a Little Christmas Glee Cast version by Glee Cast.

[33:37] ANDREW Learn: It's 37 seconds long.

[33:38] Maddi: Not long.

[33:39] ANDREW Learn: It was solidly okay.

[33:42] Maddi: It is.

[33:43] ANDREW Learn: I listen to a lot of Glee Christmas.

[33:45] Maddi: And I don't think this one makes the list for me.

[33:49] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[33:50] Maddi: It's it's just okay.

[33:52] ANDREW Learn: I love the little outfits they're wearing.

[33:56] Maddi: Yeah.

[33:56] ANDREW Learn: They're very cute.

[33:57] Maddi: I love them being shouted at, but it's there.

[34:02] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, it's there.

[34:03] Maddi: But it does get it remind me of um my one of my favorite Glee Christmas songs, which is not in the Glackett, which is Do You Hear What I Hear by Alex and Lindsay.

[34:15] ANDREW Learn: Who I listen to all the time.

[34:18] Maddi: It's iconic.

[34:19] ANDREW Learn: So good.

[34:20] Maddi: Like I like to keep things upbeat when I'm listening to music at work, but I've had to put that one on a little bit.

[34:28] ANDREW Learn: And I'm like, I don't even I'm not even a very religious person, but goddamn, I need some Lindsay Pierce up in my ear hole.

[34:34] Maddi: Oh my gosh.

[34:34] ANDREW Learn: And um God resty Mary Gentleman.

[34:37] Maddi: Yeah.

[34:40] ANDREW Learn: What?

[34:40] Maddi: Like Yeah.

[34:41] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god.

[34:43] Maddi: Really, really great.

[34:44] ANDREW Learn: This is great.

[34:45] Maddi: Yeah.

[34:46] ANDREW Learn: It's not though that like all I want to do is talk about other Glee Christmas songs.

[34:50] Maddi: Great.

[34:50] ANDREW Learn: Very telling.

[34:51] Maddi: That's something to say about this song.

[34:53] ANDREW Learn: And you know what? Just the nature of the Glacke, it's going to be like another like mid song against it.

[34:59] Maddi: Um it's not even gonna be like one that really deserves to be in the second round.

[35:03] ANDREW Learn: Um, but I feel sick never really realized Rachel doing the Artie.

[35:09] Maddi: Like she's like putting her hands on Artie's shoulders, and because they're all like leaning left to right, and she's making him lean left to right, and I'm like, I don't think I like that, Rachel.

[35:20] ANDREW Learn: No, she looks very old in this performance.

[35:24] Maddi: Like for some reason the hair is not working for her, and she looks like I'd see her at a PTA conference.

[35:31] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, yeah.

[35:32] Maddi: Yeah.

[35:33] ANDREW Learn: I don't know.

[35:34] Maddi: But I do like this haircut. This is the good, like shorter hair, Rachel that I do like.

[35:40] ANDREW Learn: It's good.

[35:41] Maddi: But something about this is not working for me.

[35:44] ANDREW Learn: Remind me of I literally just watched season two and I can't think of they're caroling to raise money for competition.

[35:55] Maddi: I don't know.

[35:56] ANDREW Learn: I don't know.

[35:58] Maddi: It's like truly fill in the blank.

[36:00] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[36:00] Maddi: It's just yeah.

[36:02] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[36:02] Maddi: Well, I like a lot of these Christmas episodes I skip on rewatches because I'm like, they they don't really add anything to the plot, so it's like okay.

[36:11] ANDREW Learn: But December bonus episode or watching previously unaired Christmas.

[36:15] Maddi: Yay.

[36:16] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, any final thoughts about we need a little Christmas.

[36:19] Maddi: I get this mixed up with uh Welcome Christmas.

[36:24] ANDREW Learn: Is that the No, I don't get it mixed up with the Fahu Ramus.

[36:28] Maddi: I get it mixed up with uh a water pistol that shoots jelly.

[36:32] ANDREW Learn: Jelly?

[36:33] Maddi: What is that one?

[36:34] ANDREW Learn: Uh most wonderful day of the year.

[36:36] Maddi: Yes, I get the all of these like five words or so going into a Christmas title.

[36:44] ANDREW Learn: Mix and match.

[36:45] Maddi: Just like, okay.

[36:46] ANDREW Learn: I will say my my major gripe with this song is that it's like, okay, um, you can have the Glee Club perform at your prom. You can have them perform in the courtyard and everybody's vibing, but the second that they they perform this and the context story allows, you hate it.

[37:04] Maddi: Make it make sense.

[37:05] ANDREW Learn: Mercedes sounds good.

[37:07] Maddi: Mercedes sounds good.

[37:08] ANDREW Learn: I'd literally rather be learning.

[37:10] Maddi: Shut the fuck up.

[37:11] ANDREW Learn: Shut up.

[37:11] Maddi: I do think that it's iconic that the teacher was the one that threw the shoe.

[37:15] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[37:15] Maddi: I love that.

[37:16] ANDREW Learn: Is that a nod to George Bush?

[37:22] Maddi: A George Bush nod?

[37:24] ANDREW Learn: Um I think maybe so.

[37:28] Maddi: Yeah.

[37:29] ANDREW Learn: Wait, George, someone threw a shoe at him.

[37:32] Maddi: Someone threw two shoes at him, I think.

[37:35] ANDREW Learn: I think that Jennifer Maddie, is this conversation landing at all for you?

[37:40] Maddi: It's okay.

[37:41] ANDREW Learn: Sometimes a shoe might just be a shoe.

[37:44] Maddi: Yeah.

[37:45] ANDREW Learn: Because like Jennifer Hudson does the same thing where she throws shoes, not at people, but just like in their direction to show like her support of the performance.

[37:55] Maddi: Like she takes off her shoes and throws it at them.

[37:59] ANDREW Learn: Wait, why?

[38:00] Maddi: I don't know where it started, but like she does it.

[38:03] ANDREW Learn: On her show?

[38:04] Maddi: No, I don't know when like I I don't I don't know.

[38:04] ANDREW Learn: I don't know.

[38:08] Maddi: I just I know that she does it.

[38:10] ANDREW Learn: Canonically.

[38:14] Maddi: Canonically, Jennifer Hudson do be throwing shoes.

[38:18] ANDREW Learn: Um okay, we're done with this conversation.

[38:22] Maddi: Um man.

[38:28] ANDREW Learn: It's exactly what I feared.

[38:31] Maddi: But you know what? It might land.

[38:33] ANDREW Learn: It might land for you too.

[38:36] Maddi: So who knows?

[38:41] ANDREW Learn: Whether I'm right.

[38:43] Maddi: Oh, whether I'm wrong.

[38:46] ANDREW Learn: Whether I'll find a place in this world or never belong.

[38:51] Maddi: I gotta be me.

[38:53] ANDREW Learn: I gotta be me.

[38:56] Maddi: The dream that I see makes me what I am.

[39:00] ANDREW Learn: That faraway price.

[39:03] Maddi: Old of success is waiting for me if I hear the call.

[39:10] ANDREW Learn: I won't settle down, won't settle for less.

[39:15] Maddi: As long as there's a chance that I can have it all.

[39:20] ANDREW Learn: I'll go it alone.

[39:22] Maddi: That's how it must be.

[39:28] ANDREW Learn: For me, I gotta be free.

[39:32] Maddi: I've gotta be free.

[39:35] ANDREW Learn: Daring to try to do it or die.

[39:37] Maddi: I've gotta be me.

[39:51] ANDREW Learn: That faraway price, a world of success is waiting for me if I hear the call.

[40:01] Maddi: I won't settle down, won't settle for less.

[40:06] ANDREW Learn: As long as there's a chance that I can have it all.

[40:13] Maddi: I'll go it alone.

[40:16] ANDREW Learn: That's how it must be.

[40:18] Maddi: I can be right for somebody else if I'm not right for me.

[40:23] ANDREW Learn: I gotta be free.

[40:25] Maddi: I just gotta be free.

[40:28] ANDREW Learn: Damn to try to do it or die.

[40:32] Maddi: I gotta be me.

[40:46] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[40:47] Maddi: It hit a little bit more than I thought it would.

[40:50] ANDREW Learn: Maddi, what are you thinking?

[40:52] Maddi: Okay.

[40:53] ANDREW Learn: I really that's a song that I remember really liking.

[40:56] Maddi: Um, and not a lot of Finn songs like really do it for me.

[41:01] ANDREW Learn: Um but that's one that really does.

[41:03] Maddi: I I thought it was cute.

[41:05] ANDREW Learn: I I liked watching it because so often I'm just listening to it and I forgot that there's like a whole little dance bit, and yeah, it was really cute.

[41:13] Maddi: Mm-hmm.

[41:14] ANDREW Learn: I this hit way more than I thought it would as well.

[41:20] Maddi: Like, I love the awkwardness of Finn's movements, like he's really embracing it.

[41:27] ANDREW Learn: I think there's something about Corey's singing voice that just itches a scratch on my brain.

[41:34] Maddi: Like the key change hits really good, the end note hits really good when he like hops up onto the piano.

[41:43] ANDREW Learn: That line is really amazing.

[41:44] Maddi: Like, I love this song.

[41:48] ANDREW Learn: I will say that this song, when I like am filing away songs in my brain, audio medium, but like I'm filing things in my brain right now.

[41:58] Maddi: Um, this song and The Lady is a tramp are like kind of right next to each other.

[42:04] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[42:05] Maddi: Because they're jazzy and uh lots of dancing in the choir room.

[42:11] ANDREW Learn: Um, and I do love both songs, but they're just for some reason they're sitting right next to each other.

[42:17] Maddi: Yeah, I'd say so.

[42:18] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[42:19] Maddi: I don't know. I liked this performance. I think that the performance itself is better than the audio medium.

[42:26] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[42:26] Maddi: Um, I will say that. Um, Mike Chang is giving like a little bit, like if I'm gonna be like the Simon of this discussion, it's giving like a little bit Mike cringe, right? Like he's like, I think that his dancing sometimes, I don't think that Mike Chang's dancing has stood the test of time.

[42:46] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[42:47] Maddi: I think his dancing season one and two are very sign of the times.

[42:53] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[42:53] Maddi: And especially his outfits too. And I think that there were dresses. Fedora Mike Chang to be like hipster representation.

[42:59] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[43:00] Maddi: Right? Because he has like a graphic tee underneath like a vest. And with Vidora, it's just like, okay. No, got it. It's like I love it. It's just, yes, that what else would he have been wearing?

[43:14] ANDREW Learn: Exactly.

[43:15] Maddi: It's sign of the times. It's really pushing the 2010 vibes. Um, I like, I think that this is probably the last song to pull from this episode beyond I feel pretty and somewhere we go sometimes. So we're really, we're really getting it close.

[43:36] ANDREW Learn: Because this is season two, born this way. This feels like this episode. Okay, this episode is fully 90 minutes of Fox programming, and I feel like I remember, and maybe like if this was like a rumor, and this is not true, maybe, but like I remember people were saying that they were like teasing the idea that every episode of Glee would be 90 minutes long, and that this was like the test of it, and I feel like this performance gives deleted performance, like it really didn't add anything to the episode. It's fun, sure, but like we're not getting anything plot-wise from this.

[44:15] Maddi: Um wait, so you're telling me that Kurt comes back to McKinley, Dalton Academy Warblers, say goodbye to him in the same episode as the Lucy Caboosey nose job drama.

[44:34] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I'm trying to think of like, oh, and then Emma has a big storyline in this episode as well. Like she starts therapy.

[44:40] Maddi: Yeah.

[44:41] ANDREW Learn: Oh my goodness. I didn't realize that was all one episode.

[44:43] Maddi: Yeah.

[44:44] ANDREW Learn: Holy crap, Ola.

[44:46] Maddi: Holy crap on a cracker.

[44:48] ANDREW Learn: Am I right?

[44:48] Maddi: Oh my good. It's real interesting because a friend and I were talking about this. Um, because she recently watched another favorite show of mine, Crazy X Girlfriend.

[45:00] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[45:01] Maddi: Okay. Right after she finished watching Glee, which are two musical shows. Crazy X Girlfriend is also 40 minutes, but it will maybe sometimes have two songs.

[45:13] ANDREW Learn: Interesting.

[45:14] Maddi: And we were just talking about the difference where sometimes Glee, it's like, no, you gotta have five songs.

[45:19] ANDREW Learn: Yep.

[45:19] Maddi: Yeah. And it takes up so much time, and sometimes they don't even have anything to do with the plot.

[45:24] ANDREW Learn: No.

[45:25] Maddi: And just sort of, I don't think I kind of realized that because I watched those two shows so far apart. But yeah, Glee had so many songs in every episode, and then you look at like, uh, um rumors, which had seven, yeah.

[45:43] ANDREW Learn: And it's just like they're packing the butt like I don't think that like, um season one Preggers comes to mind where they only had one song in that episode, and the only song was taking chances, which was fully maybe like 20-30 seconds of performance. And so like the rest of the episode was just plot. And so, like, as opposed to like a rumors or like a Michael Jackson tribute episode in season three, where it's like you're fully getting nine songs. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Whether you like it or not. It's just like, yeah, it is odd, but I mean, like, I'm still here for it.

[46:20] Maddi: Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I think that there is like a way to make it work with plot and song. We don't need fully nine songs prepped.

[46:29] ANDREW Learn: We don't need nine songs.

[46:30] Maddi: We don't.

[46:31] ANDREW Learn: Uh, when it comes down to it, we need a little Christmas versus I've gotta be me.

[46:36] Maddi: Where are you going?

[46:38] ANDREW Learn: I gotta be me a hundred percent.

[46:40] Maddi: Yeah, I've gotta be me, and I've gotta vote for I've gotta be me.

[46:44] ANDREW Learn: So I'll join you.

[46:45] Maddi: Sorry, not even a pity vote.

[46:47] ANDREW Learn: No, it's good. I do like the pressure would be intense, but I have the dream of being a tiebreaker.

[46:54] Maddi: Yes, okay, okay, we'll make it happen.

[46:56] ANDREW Learn: We'll make it happen.

[46:57] Maddi: The blacket is on my shoulders.

[46:59] ANDREW Learn: That would be the coolest thing.

[47:01] Maddi: Okay, okay. I was responsible for this song going through.

[47:06] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[47:07] Maddi: That's good.

[47:08] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[47:08] Maddi: Okay.

[47:08] ANDREW Learn: Okay, Allison's very excited. She's doing jumping jacks, if you could believe it.

[47:12] Maddi: I'm not necessarily um audio medium.

[47:16] ANDREW Learn: I just raised my eyebrows really high.

[47:18] Maddi: Uh-huh.

[47:23] ANDREW Learn: This was never the way I planned not my intention.

[47:31] Maddi: I got so brave, drinking hand, lost my discretion.

[47:38] ANDREW Learn: It's not what I'm used to. Just wanna try it one of Cory Us for you.

[47:49] Maddi: Caught my attention.

[47:53] ANDREW Learn: I kissed a girl, and I liked it. The taste of her cherry chapstick.

[48:00] Maddi: I kissed a girl just to try it. I hope my boyfriend don't mind it.

[48:07] ANDREW Learn: It felt so wrong, it felt so right. Don't mean I'm in love tonight.

[48:15] Maddi: I kissed a girl just to try it.

[48:20] ANDREW Learn: I did.

[48:22] Maddi: Okay. Andrew, you've probably never seen that.

[48:27] ANDREW Learn: I actually have.

[48:29] Maddi: You have?

[48:30] ANDREW Learn: I did watch the 2009 episode.

[48:33] Maddi: Okay.

[48:34] ANDREW Learn: Just for the nostalgia, and did not like it because of the clear rewriting of history.

[48:40] Maddi: Yeah.

[48:41] ANDREW Learn: Exactly. Like this, these events did not transpire the way you're saying.

[48:46] Maddi: At all.

[48:46] ANDREW Learn: Uh huh. No.

[48:47] Maddi: But that was still fun. I there was something fun about that.

[48:51] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[48:52] Maddi: I don't know. It's not a song that I needed multiple times on this show.

[48:59] ANDREW Learn: No.

[49:00] Maddi: Three times to be specific.

[49:02] ANDREW Learn: Three times.

[49:03] Maddi: Uh uh Jenna Ushkowitz sounds completely different.

[49:08] ANDREW Learn: Then she does than season one.

[49:11] Maddi: Yeah, because she's singing live in seas in the pilot, and then this is a recorded version that she's just lip syncing too.

[49:19] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[49:19] Maddi: I don't know. I just do not like this. This did not need to happen.

[49:24] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[49:24] Maddi: Uh we did not need to see like a full version of I Kiss the Girl. I think it's and like already getting turned on.

[49:30] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[49:31] Maddi: I'm like, it sort of like ruins the original I Kiss the Girl to an extent.

[49:37] ANDREW Learn: Because they just make no sense.

[49:39] Maddi: Angry.

[49:40] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[49:40] Maddi: Angry.

[49:41] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[49:41] Maddi: Good energy.

[49:42] ANDREW Learn: Like she's the shy stuttering girl.

[49:46] Maddi: Yes, angry, good energy. This is what we want. Also, is he reserving an entire page for every Glee Club audition person?

[49:56] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[49:56] Maddi: He was writing too big on that pad of paper.

[49:58] ANDREW Learn: No.

[49:59] Maddi: Yeah. He he was like, I know I'm not gonna have a lot of notes, so let me just start off big.

[50:03] ANDREW Learn: Exactly.

[50:04] Maddi: Go big or go home. Um I am a little bitter that this episode we did get like this release, iTunes release of I Kiss the Girl Tina's version. Um, but we didn't get like a full iTunes release of respect. We never got to see like Mercedes actually do like the full performance of that, and all we have is that just live version, which is iconic on its own, but I would have loved uh iTunes Verge.

[50:30] ANDREW Learn: Did we get iTunes version uh Mr. Cellophane?

[50:33] Maddi: We did not, but we do see it in this episode, but we don't like get it on iTunes.

[50:41] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[50:41] Maddi: So did you want it?

[50:43] ANDREW Learn: No.

[50:44] Maddi: No.

[50:46] ANDREW Learn: Not particularly.

[50:47] Maddi: Yeah, it's okay. I'm just wondering.

[50:49] ANDREW Learn: Mm-hmm.

[50:50] Maddi: Um but as far as like Tolo representation, this is not representation that no, I'm gonna lean towards hung up. It's not canon. This episode is not canon.

[51:03] ANDREW Learn: It shouldn't even be included in the glacket, actually.

[51:05] Maddi: Now that you bring it out. Yeah, this episode isn't real, so switch this out for tongue-tied because I am sad that tongue tied. Oh my gosh. I wish it wasn't even on the show in any way, shape, or form, so it wouldn't definitely be on the Glack it.

[51:19] ANDREW Learn: But I want.

[51:21] Maddi: Do you think my bonnet and you think of sex?

[51:29] ANDREW Learn: So good.

[51:30] Maddi: I wanna listen to that right now. Um I feel like empty brain about I Kiss a Girl. Any final notes before I pull the next song?

[51:37] ANDREW Learn: No.

[51:38] Maddi: Nope. It's so telling when we end the conversation about one song and we're talking about a different one.

[51:43] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[51:43] Maddi: Yes.

[51:44] ANDREW Learn: Um, we know what song it's gonna be.

[51:48] Maddi: Yes.

[51:49] ANDREW Learn: Okay. I'm excited. Wait, Alison, do you not know?

[51:52] Maddi: Is this whistle?

[51:53] ANDREW Learn: It is whistle.

[51:59] Maddi: These have this these two songs have the same energy to me.

[52:02] ANDREW Learn: Can you blow my whistle baby? Whistle baby, let me know. Girl, I'm gonna show you how to do it, and we stop real slow.

[52:12] Maddi: You just put your lips together and you come real close.

[52:16] ANDREW Learn: Can you blow my whistle baby? Whistle baby. Here we go.

[52:27] Maddi: I bet you like people. And I bet you love triple pen, I bet you like girls if you don't kick you love your girls and stroke your little people.

[52:35] ANDREW Learn: I bet you'll guilty your honor.

[52:46] Maddi: Yeah, let me know. Girl, I'm gonna show you how to do it, and we stop real slow.

[52:53] ANDREW Learn: You just put your lips together and you come real close.

[52:57] Maddi: Can you blow my whistle, baby? Whistle, baby. Here we go.

[53:05] ANDREW Learn: Whistle, baby. Whistle kid. It's like everywhere I go, my whistle ready to blow.

[53:14] Maddi: Shorty don't even know she can get any further low. Told me she's not a pro, it's okay, it's under control.

[53:19] ANDREW Learn: Show me soprano, because you can handle the music.

[53:22] Maddi: And you can make a whistle with the music.

[53:24] ANDREW Learn: If you ain't got no issues with the doing, even if you don't never lose it.

[53:30] Maddi: Can you blow my whistle?

[53:37] ANDREW Learn: And we stop real slow. Gonna show you how to do it. Gonna show you how to do it. Do it to it, gather.

[53:48] Maddi: Here we go.

[53:52] ANDREW Learn: Oh my whistle, baby.

[54:01] Maddi: I have so many thoughts.

[54:03] ANDREW Learn: Wait, okay, go ahead.

[54:04] Maddi: Go ahead. The first one is I was laughing so hard midway through when everyone stood up. Because all had that song been sung in my high school, people would be standing up in protest.

[54:16] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, oh my god, exactly.

[54:18] Maddi: Like, oh my gosh, this song is so inappropriate, and I think just the reality of like people cheering for a high school choir singing. Singing whistle.

[54:26] ANDREW Learn: Oh wow, yeah.

[54:30] Maddi: But also I loved it. It was kind of iconic. Uh this is the first time this song has hit for me. When I the MP3 doesn't hit the MP4 hits because I think this is the first time I've ever been attracted to that warbler.

[54:50] ANDREW Learn: Hunter.

[54:51] Maddi: Hunter. See, I was just trying to find Sebastian in the background.

[54:57] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[54:57] Maddi: So I actually love The Flash. Um I have not seen all of it. Again, I just I'm not caught up on anything, apparently. But the first two seasons of The Flash, I think are incredible. And yeah, I just love any chance to see Sebastian, Grant Gustin. I saw, I think I saw Kurt Mega in there.

[55:17] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[55:18] Maddi: Kurt Mega War. So I was really happy I got to see him. I got a warbler song.

[55:22] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[55:23] Maddi: It's just ridiculous. That's again quoting the podcast. It is camp.

[55:27] ANDREW Learn: It is camp.

[55:28] Maddi: Yep. That is what that is. What did they say this song? Is it um Live While We're Young?

[55:35] ANDREW Learn: It is Live While We're Young.

[55:36] Maddi: I love that one too. Sebastian leads that one and then Hunter does this.

[55:40] ANDREW Learn: Well, a great set list, I would say.

[55:43] Maddi: Crazy crazy set list. I would let Hunter put a shot in my butt, I think.

[55:50] ANDREW Learn: Oh steroid reference to anybody that's not landing.

[55:55] Maddi: It's a steroid. The steroid shut of steroids.

[56:03] ANDREW Learn: I was like, okay. Alright. Learning.

[56:05] Maddi: I'm listening for the people that don't get that joke. Um I love it.

[56:11] ANDREW Learn: I really like the Warblers.

[56:13] Maddi: I think though, I've realized as again listening to the pod, learning things about myself, Allison.

[56:19] ANDREW Learn: Allison's losing it.

[56:23] Maddi: You really thought you had something with that.

[56:25] I need to think about what I say before I say it.

[56:30] Because wait, what?

[56:35] I need to think about what I say before I say it so that I don't make a terrible innuendo like that.

[56:40] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[56:42] Maddi: Yeah, shot in my butt. Not it.

[56:45] Um, but I think I love the Warblers of fan fiction.

[56:50] Maybe more than I love the Warblers of canon.

[56:54] I've read a lot of Glee fan fiction.

[56:57] I've written Glee fan fiction.

[56:59] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[57:00] Maddi: It does not exist anymore. You cannot find it.

[57:02] Please don't be looking for it.

[57:03] ANDREW Learn: Wait, doesn't it exist anywhere?

[57:04] Maddi: Not even like in a hard drive or anything.

[57:06] It only exists on a hard drive.

[57:09] ANDREW Learn: Oh, okay.

[57:11] Maddi: But it's yeah, I just love, I love Sebastian.

[57:16] Sebastian, I think is the character that in retrospect I maybe love the most, but again, it is definitely the fan version.

[57:24] I yeah, I just read a really good fan fiction the other day about like Sebastian and all the Glee people just making it in New York.

[57:33] And it wasn't like it was a really like just grindy just like everyone going on auditions and like singing songs on the weekend.

[57:41] There was no like anything like major happening, but it was just like cute and fun, and I had had a stressful week.

[57:48] I just wanted to hear read works about people succeeding in their dreams.

[57:52] ANDREW Learn: I love that.

[57:53] Maddi: Oh cute. Love, love Sebastian.

[57:57] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, he's good.

[57:59] Maddi: Okay. Somebody was in our DMs the other day and was like, Allison, uh Sebastian.

[58:07] If Kurt had dated Sib, or if Blaine had dated Sebastian in season six, it would have been more problematic than Blaine dating Kurofsky.

[58:17] ANDREW Learn: No.

[58:19] Maddi: I understood.

[58:20] I think the person that sent that was like pointing to the fact that Sebastian tried to blind Kurt.

[58:29] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[58:30] Maddi: But I guess Kurofsky also made an attempt on his life as well.

[58:36] ANDREW Learn: Literally threatened Kurt with murder.

[58:40] Maddi: So I don't the between two evils, pretty bad.

[58:44] Yeah, I don't know if you can really say which is worse.

[58:48] ANDREW Learn: But someone will gatekeep and say.

[58:51] Maddi: I think is worse.

[58:52] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[58:53] Maddi: Yeah.

[58:54] I wasn't, I like I didn't watch season six.

[58:58] I've only seen that 2009 episode.

[59:01] I remember about Blainovsky.

[59:03] It's terrible.

[59:04] ANDREW Learn: No, I got like the shock waves of it.

[59:07] Like just going through the city.

[59:13] Content, and yet you're not even like finishing the series.

[59:16] Maddi: So I'm like what's you're just so sick and tired of the Glanon.

[59:22] ANDREW Learn: No, I really like for me.

[59:25] It was sitting on the side of the road watching the car wreck, just shoveling popcorn in my mouth.

[59:31] Maddi: Yeah.

[59:32] Very much like I am also with like the show Supernatural.

[59:36] I stopped watching like, I don't know, they had 8,000 seasons.

[59:40] I think I stopped in like season seven.

[59:43] And just always though enjoyed watching people freak out about something that I used to love so much.

[59:49] And Glee was very much because like I did keep up with the music of Glee.

[59:53] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[59:53] Maddi: Yeah.

[59:54] So I like wouldn't watch it, but I did like I've heard all the songs.

[59:58] Even before I started listening to the podcast.

[1:00:01] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:00:02] Maddi: Honestly, I'm jealous of you.

[1:00:03] I wish I had never watched season six.

[1:00:06] I could go with that.

[1:00:08] Hearing it through y'all's eyes.

[1:00:09] Like I'm almost like I'm almost tempted to like find out like what in context you perceived happened in season six, Maddi, without having watched it.

[1:00:22] ANDREW Learn: What do you know happens?

[1:00:24] Maddi: Number one, Dalton Academy burns to the ground.

[1:00:29] Number two, Rachel gives up on her Broadway dreams.

[1:00:34] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[1:00:35] Maddi: To be in a TV show.

[1:00:37] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:00:38] Maddi: Number three, people get married.

[1:00:41] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:00:42] Maddi: Multiple, multiple people get married.

[1:00:43] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[1:00:44] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:00:44] Four.

[1:00:45] And Sue becomes the president.

[1:00:48] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[1:00:49] Maddi: Close.

[1:00:50] Vice president.

[1:00:51] ANDREW Learn: She runs for president.

[1:00:52] Maddi: Okay.

[1:00:54] And um, what else?

[1:00:57] Oh, the little creepy doll, the little doll in the elevator.

[1:01:01] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:01:01] Maddi: Before I had seen season six, that was what I knew of season six.

[1:01:05] Is I know Jigsu.

[1:01:07] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:01:08] Maddi: Jigsu should be like on the season six DVD cover at this point.

[1:01:12] ANDREW Learn: Oh, yeah.

[1:01:12] Maddi: Like when they do the squares of the different characters, like season one.

[1:01:15] There's Jigsu, there's Kurofsky.

[1:01:18] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:01:18] Maddi: There's all of the new kids, and that's Myron.

[1:01:18] ANDREW Learn: Myron, yeah.

[1:01:22] Maddi: Wait, when we say Myron, Maddi, does Myron mean anything to you?

[1:01:26] Maddi: The child.

[1:01:27] ANDREW Learn: Myron is the child.

[1:01:28] Maddi: Okay.

[1:01:28] Yes.

[1:01:29] ANDREW Learn: Great.

[1:01:31] Maddi: Can you keep up, baby boy?

[1:01:33] Like a part of me kind of wants to get that song, but if we don't, I'm okay.

[1:01:39] ANDREW Learn: Are our votes obvious?

[1:01:42] Maddi: I would say so.

[1:01:43] ANDREW Learn: Did anybody have any other whistle notes?

[1:01:46] Maddi: I feel like such an iconic song.

[1:01:48] And yeah, we really veered off.

[1:01:49] ANDREW Learn: I don't know.

[1:01:50] Maddi: I got shot in the butt.

[1:01:51] ANDREW Learn: Shot in the butt.

[1:01:52] Maddi: I how can anybody top that?

[1:01:56] ANDREW Learn: Nope.

[1:01:57] Maddi: That was fun.

[1:01:58] ANDREW Learn: I really like that.

[1:02:00] So whistle going through.

[1:02:03] Maddi: Easy, easy boat.

[1:02:04] ANDREW Learn: Okay, we're going for a hard competition.

[1:02:06] Let's go.

[1:02:06] Maddi: Uh okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[1:02:13] Mildly impressed, I would say is the emotion.

[1:02:16] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:02:17] Maddi: I'm doing one of these.

[1:02:23] Okay.

[1:02:24] This one was like folded at the bottom of my cup, and then I remember I had to like get out and straighten it up.

[1:02:28] Here we go.

[1:02:29] Okay.

[1:02:36] Hey, over there, please forgive me.

[1:02:40] If I'm coming on too strong.

[1:02:43] Hey, stay, but you're winning.

[1:02:47] And the playing my favorite song.

[1:02:50] So come here a little closer.

[1:02:54] Wanna whisper in your ear.

[1:02:57] Make it clear.

[1:03:04] If I said my heart was beating loud, if we could escape the crowd somehow.

[1:03:11] If I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?

[1:03:17] Cause you feel like herodice and I need a vacation tonight.

[1:03:24] So if I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?

[1:03:32] If I said I want your body, would you hold it against me?

[1:03:37] Give me something good.

[1:03:40] Don't wanna wait, I want it now.

[1:03:44] Pop in like a hood, and show me how you work it out.

[1:04:02] Would you hold it against me?

[1:04:05] If I said my heart was beating loud, would you hold it against me?

[1:04:13] ANDREW Learn: Okay, no one talks about this song.

[1:04:16] Maddi: Nobody, not a single person has ever brought this up.

[1:04:19] ANDREW Learn: Start the discourse.

[1:04:20] Maddi: Maddie, actually, you start the discourse.

[1:04:23] Um the MP4 hit way harder than the MP3.

[1:04:28] Like that's not one I listened to, but that was really entertaining.

[1:04:33] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:04:33] Maddi: I like the dancing.

[1:04:34] I thought it was a really good dance number.

[1:04:36] It did remind me just how much I dislike Kitty.

[1:04:41] Just one of maybe one of my least favorite characters on the show.

[1:04:45] ANDREW Learn: Um, the reason that you dipped, do you think?

[1:04:49] Maddi: Um, I think it was there was a lot of reasons.

[1:04:53] Yeah.

[1:04:53] Kitty was just, yeah.

[1:04:55] Didn't help.

[1:04:57] ANDREW Learn: Which is funny, cause maybe hot take, possibly my favorite character in all of Glee is one Marley Rose.

[1:05:06] Maddi: Interesting.

[1:05:07] ANDREW Learn: Wait, defend that because I know that a lot of people feel very hit or miss with Marley.

[1:05:13] Maddi: Yes.

[1:05:13] I think, like, especially like when I was watching it, like you have the Rachel, you have Mercedes and Santana and Quinn.

[1:05:24] They're all very much like in the spotlight.

[1:05:28] And then you have Marley, and maybe they didn't do it very well, but she was a little shyer and quiet, and she had to work harder for her relationships.

[1:05:38] And I think for everyone who wants to be a Rachel and just knows that they're not, there's something in Marley that really kind of like speaks to that like underdog.

[1:05:50] And they didn't handle her character very well.

[1:05:54] Um, so another hot take.

[1:05:57] I really like "You Have More Friends Than You Know."

[1:06:00] ANDREW Learn: Um, okay. We need you to defend that even more.

[1:06:03] Maddi: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[1:06:05] And just like it's a sweet song.

[1:06:07] And like if you approach it like, and I know it's not, but like 15-year-old girl writes a song to encourage her best friend.

[1:06:16] Like that's a sweet sentiment.

[1:06:19] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:06:19] Maddi: Okay.

[1:06:20] Well, had it just been Marley and Unique, I think it would have been better.

[1:06:24] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:06:25] Maddi: Um, but yes, I just I love Marley.

[1:06:28] Love all the insight into the fanfiction that no longer exists, all of it's about Marley.

[1:06:35] ANDREW Learn: Nice.

[1:06:36] Maddi: Okay.

[1:06:37] Yes.

[1:06:37] ANDREW Learn: What if it's like a basic plot summary?

[1:06:40] Maddi: I can, and we're gonna get an insight into my brain.

[1:06:44] Um there was one where again preface this by like early high school, middle school Maddi.

[1:06:53] Marley is a vampire and going through history, meeting different members of the Glee cast in different like historical events.

[1:07:02] ANDREW Learn: No wait, I love that so much.

[1:07:06] Maddi: Yeah, this is not the route that I was expecting at all.

[1:07:09] They were all supernatural, alternate universes, all like weirdly.

[1:07:15] I got my minor in history, so they were all historical.

[1:07:18] ANDREW Learn: I love wait so are they musical fan fictions?

[1:07:23] Maddi: No, those things they leave that behind.

[1:07:27] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:07:27] Maddi: Uh-huh.

[1:07:28] Yes.

[1:07:29] ANDREW Learn: I love that.

[1:07:31] Maddi: Are those links readily available?

[1:07:34] ANDREW Learn: No, they're not.

[1:07:34] Maddi: They're not in green.

[1:07:35] ANDREW Learn: Oh, okay, great.

[1:07:36] Maddi: They're deleted.

[1:07:37] There was one though, yeah.

[1:07:38] ANDREW Learn: It there was another again.

[1:07:40] Maddi: Things that I loved about the show was the Finn and Marley relationship.

[1:07:47] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:07:50] Maddi: A non like sexual way, but like I because I think like Finn and Marley are were a lot more similar than people thought.

[1:07:59] They both had like extreme body image issues.

[1:08:02] They were like always next to these like really like powerhouse people, and they would always just get trampled, and people would hate on them, like in the show.

[1:08:14] And so I always liked that they're like "Don't Dream It's Over" is a favorite of mine.

[1:08:18] ANDREW Learn: So good.

[1:08:21] Maddi: And I just I always really liked sort of that like mentorship relationship that they had.

[1:08:29] ANDREW Learn: It's cute.

[1:08:30] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:08:31] ANDREW Learn: I like it.

[1:08:32] Maddi: Yes.

[1:08:33] ANDREW Learn: But yeah.

[1:08:34] Maddi: Yeah, it doesn't exist. Please don't go look for it.

[1:08:37] ANDREW Learn: I wish it did.

[1:08:38] Maddi: I wish it did exist.

[1:08:39] That sounds absolutely incredible, and I'm obsessed.

[1:08:42] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:08:43] Maddi: Um, "Hold It Against Me," however, as a song.

[1:08:49] I do agree.

[1:08:50] I would say that the MP3 hits more than the MP4.

[1:08:53] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[1:08:54] Maddi: Defend, defend that.

[1:08:56] Because I just like I because when you when you when you wish you were that when you wish you could because what's and you want him to do you so much that you could do anything?

[1:09:07] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:09:08] Maddi: When you won what, yeah.

[1:09:09] When you when you um I really love the Britney songs.

[1:09:14] I love uh Heather Morris's voice.

[1:09:17] I like the MP3 of this, but when I go to the MP4, I expect it to be like uh Brittany the first episode, the first movie episode.

[1:09:28] ANDREW Learn: Oh I expect the music video to absolutely slay.

[1:09:31] Maddi: And this music video is very good.

[1:09:34] Like I do love the dancing, like you said, but it's not hitting as much as actual Brittany Spears being there.

[1:09:39] ANDREW Learn: Um Slate for You, "Me Against Music," yeah.

[1:09:43] Maddi: Absolutely like recreation of the music video.

[1:09:45] It's doesn't hit the same.

[1:09:46] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:09:47] Maddi: Um that's why I can imagine it in my head.

[1:09:50] MP4 question, I don't know what those things are that they're tossing at the end.

[1:09:55] ANDREW Learn: What are they?

[1:09:56] Maddi: They're like batons for color guard, but they're like color guard tosses guns, but this is like a different form of not gun.

[1:10:07] It's just a thing to toss and spin.

[1:10:10] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:10:10] Did you have color guard at your school?

[1:10:12] ANDREW Learn: You went to a private school.

[1:10:13] Maddi: No, I did not.

[1:10:14] ANDREW Learn: Maddi, did you?

[1:10:16] Maddi: Very much so, yes.

[1:10:17] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:10:18] Maddi: Color guard.

[1:10:18] ANDREW Learn: That wasn't the big thing.

[1:10:20] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:10:21] ANDREW Learn: What was like what's the goal with Color Guard?

[1:10:25] Maddi: Just like just like team spirit or yeah, something fun to like throw in the air while the band plays.

[1:10:34] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, I guess.

[1:10:35] Maddi: And like spin around some flags. We have a really good band program at my school, and like our color guard was actually really good. So it was all just one big performance, and the band and color guard always worked really well together. So I might be biased and pro color guard.

[1:10:52] ANDREW Learn: Interesting. I had friends in Color Guard. The tech crew techie color guard Venn diagram was a circle. So I was friends with a lot of those people. But I think looking back on it, I'm like, what was the what was the point? I think that I'm sort of distracted by that in this performance that I'm like not fully able to enjoy it because I'm like, what's going on?

[1:11:17] Maddi: I mean, like I can appreciate that it's fun and they are doing the damn thing, but like I don't know what's going on.

[1:11:23] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, what are the what what are they trying to achieve?

[1:11:26] Maddi: Just like well, it's like the stilts.

[1:11:29] ANDREW Learn: The stilts, I understand stilts.

[1:11:32] Maddi: I understand stilts. Stilts is not I do not group them together. Because like that's like fun. I don't know. I under like I've been to a circus. Sorry, cancel me. But um I've been to a circus like when I was like a child, and I'm like, okay, this is fun. I get it.

[1:11:45] ANDREW Learn: I don't know. I've never seen Color Guard IRL.

[1:11:49] Maddi: Really?

[1:11:50] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[1:11:51] Maddi: No.

[1:11:52] ANDREW Learn: That's crazy.

[1:11:54] Maddi: Okay, sorry.

[1:11:57] ANDREW Learn: You're really missing out on a very important part of American culture.

[1:12:00] Maddi: I did you even cover it.

[1:12:02] ANDREW Learn: Not that important. Did we have no? We had like rallies where like the guys would dress up and like it would be almost like pseudo-drag, and they would do like a the a thing where they would pretend to be girls and it would just be like everyone would laugh because you know masculinity is a construct.

[1:12:23] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:12:24] ANDREW Learn: And um, but that's like the closest thing. So that is the closest thing that I could associate with Color Guard at my school. I would to a high school in the middle of Texas. Everything is about pep rallies and football season. And as someone who like didn't have a lot of school spirit, I loved a pep rally. I love the band, I love the cheerleaders and the dance team.

[1:12:52] Maddi: Yes, it was just one big performance. And my school did. We had an amazing band program. So it was fun to watch.

[1:13:00] ANDREW Learn: I'll take your word for it. Andrew, you asked me the other day, as you're pulling your song, I'll tell you the story.

[1:13:06] Maddi: Wait, I feel like we still have not even talked about the songs though.

[1:13:08] ANDREW Learn: No, it was cute. It was fun. It was the only note that I have is um Brittany Spears loves a double entendre. Um you see K me one, two, three. Everybody loves counting. Um if you if I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?

[1:13:27] Maddi: Yeah, I she loves a joke. I didn't realize how many innuendos were in her songs until I was embarrassingly old. So it it like she is comedy queen, where is her stand-up special?

[1:13:39] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:13:40] Maddi: She's an incredible artist. Wait, what were you gonna ask?

[1:13:43] ANDREW Learn: So you asked me what was the thing at your high school? Like, what was like the big drama?

[1:13:48] Maddi: Yeah. It didn't happen at my high school, and maybe I told you this already, but there was a high school in my district that did a pep rally, and part of this pep rally was these people were gonna be kissed, and they were gonna be blindfolded and they were gonna be kissed by someone. And they had to guess who the person was.

[1:14:04] ANDREW Learn: Oh and it turned out that they all kissed their parents.

[1:14:12] Maddi: Parents came in and kissed their kids on the mouth. Blindfolded. This is kind of sick to think about. Like on a Saturday evening, we're bringing Maddi into a Zoom call and we're telling her about high school trauma. I had to watch children kiss their parents in high school.

[1:14:36] ANDREW Learn: Maddi, what are you doing with this information?

[1:14:39] Maddi: I'm just falling more and more in love with you guys. I'm here, I'm seeing it firsthand. There's I I don't even want to say I'm cutting this out, but there is video of it that you did show me Alice, and I don't like it. So yeah, it's gross.

[1:14:54] ANDREW Learn: I will say that the the incident that happened at my school was that someone um pooped in the staircase. And so we we aptly named them the poopy bandit. And so, and so I don't know how they like sort of solidified it into like they knew that it was a senior. Um, but I guess like it was like the last few weeks of the school year, so they were like, it's probably a senior.

[1:15:19] Maddi: Yes, senior prank or something.

[1:15:21] ANDREW Learn: And so my sister, who was a senior at the time, um, they they gathered all the seniors in the gymnasium, and they're like, until we find out who this poopy bandit is, and none of you are going to prom. And then I think the poopy bandit did uh announce themselves.

[1:15:36] Maddi: So did you have an incident at your school, Maddi?

[1:15:39] Maddi: No, but we do have not to that level, but I I do always love because it's something that my friends and I still talk about to this day. Uh the theme of our senior prom, which is horrific and hilarious now. Um again, remember us middle of Texas. The Texas. Senior prom, a night in the Orient.

[1:16:04] ANDREW Learn: No.

[1:16:05] Maddi: No, no, no, no, no.

[1:16:07] ANDREW Learn: Wait, I'm afraid of I'm afraid to ask.

[1:16:09] Maddi: What do people do to sort of celebrate the there was no like it was that's what it was called, and there were egg rolls at the dance.

[1:16:17] ANDREW Learn: Like that was the yummy though.

[1:16:21] Maddi: I do like egg rolls. I mean, it could have been worse.

[1:16:25] ANDREW Learn: Um that's something that I But not too much worse. That is pretty bad. People weren't kissing their parents on the mouth making out with them.

[1:16:33] Maddi: No.

[1:16:34] ANDREW Learn: And it wasn't like the principal was like, ha ha, look at these kids kissing their parents. Someone was shitting in a staircase.

[1:16:45] Maddi: A girl lost her arms today. Because you weren't watching the door.

[1:16:50] ANDREW Learn: Um, okay, so I do have the last song. Um, and it is it is really it is great. Um I've been waiting for this for a very long time.

[1:16:58] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:16:59] ANDREW Learn: Um turn it up, and I think that it opens up a um a ploty conversation that I'm interested in hearing your friends. Let's see if you know what song it is, Maddi. Do you know?

[1:17:10] Maddi: Oh, it's Brave.

[1:17:13] ANDREW Learn: It is Brave, yes. You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug. You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

[1:17:31] Maddi: And nothing's gonna hurt you the way the words do when they settle neath your skin. Kept on the inside of no sunlight. Sometimes the shadow ends. But I wonder what would happen if you say what you wanna say and let the words fall out.

[1:17:53] ANDREW Learn: Honestly, I wanna see you be brave with what you wanna say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave.

[1:18:07] Maddi: Just wanna see you. Just wanna see you. I wanna see you be brave.

[1:18:18] ANDREW Learn: In a sense, yeah, his story of silence won't do you any good. Did you think it would? Let your words be anything but empty. Say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out.

[1:18:44] Maddi: Honestly, I wanna see you be brave with what you wanna say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see a baby. Just wanna see you. Just gonna see. Just see you. I wanna see a bee breath. I just wanna see you be brave.

[1:19:23] ANDREW Learn: I wanna see you be brave.

[1:19:26] Maddi: Okay, yeah. Top five Glee Castle.

[1:19:31] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[1:19:31] Maddi: Okay. Oh my god. Honest Slay, it's Slays. I love it.

[1:19:38] ANDREW Learn: I thought it was beautiful. The only thing, the only visual complaint I have is I just don't like Rachel's outfit. And I know like it's supposed to be like funny girl themed, right?

[1:19:50] Maddi: I think it's Barbara Streisand winning the Oscar.

[1:19:53] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. If it's based on something real, then it's not as bad. But if they just put Rachel in that.

[1:20:00] Maddi: Oh yeah.

[1:20:02] ANDREW Learn: 2013, this was the trend.

[1:20:04] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:20:05] ANDREW Learn: I, the MP3, very, very good. But I was deep in thought this entire time. Mostly you watch Glee and you finish all six seasons, and you somebody asks you, like gun to your head, what's the plot of Funny Girl?

[1:20:23] Maddi: Um, no idea.

[1:20:24] ANDREW Learn: No, you don't know. They don't tell you.

[1:20:26] Maddi: And I feel like the musical that Rachel is in. The Glee writers are sort of like like tricking them into like death almost, like by going to the August Wilson Theater. It's like, go to see this fun musical, and it's like, oh no, this is actually wildly depressing.

[1:20:43] Maddi: Yeah, I'm sad. Like I'm expecting from this music video, like I'm expecting Funny Girl to be kind of like my fair lady-ish.

[1:20:50] ANDREW Learn: Right. And but it's very much not. And I do love the outfit. I mean, I love it whenever Rachel wears like identical Barbara Streisand outfits, like you were saying. Uh um Happy Days. Happy Days are here again. Um because I'm like, oh, she knows.

[1:21:05] Maddi: She knows she knows.

[1:21:11] ANDREW Learn: Like she knows. It's her thing. She really loves Barbara, and I do love that. And like the nose stuff. I it's very good for me. But I I hear Brave, and I'm I thought when you started this that the plotiness of it, I thought, because is the other Sarah Borellis song, love song?

[1:21:37] Maddi: Yes.

[1:21:37] ANDREW Learn: Yes. Do they sing that in the one where she's gonna take a shirt off? She's gonna get naked.

[1:21:43] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:21:44] ANDREW Learn: So I thought that was the plot that you were gonna be talking about. I was like, oh, it's brave. No needs to be brave. This is a Quinn. Quinn's gonna be there. I was like, oh, that's not uh that's not what this is at all.

[1:21:54] Maddi: Okay. Yeah.

[1:21:55] ANDREW Learn: And we're not talking about Brave, the Pixar film either, when the Scottish girl's mom turns out. You could change your fate, would you?

[1:22:01] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:22:01] ANDREW Learn: We're not talking about that. Talking about this. Um it's a very good song. Very, very good song. I love the parasols.

[1:22:10] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:22:11] ANDREW Learn: So cute. It works, and I love Santana's dress.

[1:22:15] Maddi: Yeah. Beautiful.

[1:22:17] ANDREW Learn: Mm-hmm. But the the Parasols remind me of My Fair Lady. Like the scene in My Fair Lady where she's at the uh race and they're all like with their glasses, and she's like, oh, Oh yes, did they have parasols in Funny Girl?

[1:22:33] Maddi: I'm trying to think like Sadie Sadie, married lady with it. Was there parasols for that?

[1:22:38] ANDREW Learn: Maybe I don't know. I have questions about Funny Girl. Mainly um the character's hairstyle. Like, why does Rachel think Bob?

[1:22:49] Maddi: Because everything I've ever seen about Funny Girl, no one has a Bob.

[1:22:54] ANDREW Learn: Wait. I think it's just the Barbara of it all because I think I maybe people will I maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's supposed to be 1920s.

[1:23:04] Maddi: Okay.

[1:23:05] ANDREW Learn: Ish. Let me see.

[1:23:06] Maddi: 1920s is like, or maybe it's 40s.

[1:23:09] ANDREW Learn: I don't know. The Bob was very in in the 20s.

[1:23:12] Maddi: This isn't really flapper, though.

[1:23:14] ANDREW Learn: No, no. I just it makes no sense because in all of the like promotional materials for like actual funny girl, there's not a bob in sight.

[1:23:24] Maddi: No, and and uh Leah Michelle doesn't have her hair in a bob in the Broadway musical. Funny Girl takes place in the early 1900s, so I don't think so it was a Barbara Streisand choice, and therefore Rachel's choice.

[1:23:38] ANDREW Learn: Okay, the plot of the show. Bob, yeah, B O B. Um I love this. I'm sort of surprised that you like this as much as you claim to, Allison, because I feel like you have yet to rise for Santana Rachel duets. I I know. I step out for Team Allison, because something that you've often talked about is the potential for this storyline, yeah, for not having Santana and Rachel fighting, but instead having an unnamed guest star come in and be the antagonist.

[1:24:16] ANDREW Learn: I love that idea. And I think that would have been really fun. And the idea of Santana using her evil powers to help Rachel, a la cold hearted snake, like, because you can even have it. Santana doing things to help Rachel and Rachel not even liking it. Just she's like, why are you helping? Like there's you're overstepping, like stop. And I'm but I also am like, who would be that like enemy guest star? Like that's a fun game. Again, had they never had the Lindsay Pierce of it all never happened earlier, that would have been where Lindsay Pierce should have come in.

[1:24:56] Maddi: There it is.

[1:24:56] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:24:57] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:24:57] ANDREW Learn: Truly.

[1:24:59] Maddi: Ooh. Or who played Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the Musical? What's her name? Um Laura Bell Bundy.

[1:25:04] ANDREW Learn: Lori Bell Bundy.

[1:25:06] Maddi: Yeah, Laura Bell Bundy. That would have been fun. Laura Bell Bundy playing herself. It's playing a character. She can't be mean.

[1:25:12] ANDREW Learn: Yes.

[1:25:12] Maddi: No, no, no, no.

[1:25:13] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:25:14] Maddi: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm with it. I'm with it.

[1:25:18] ANDREW Learn: Okay. Um, you have not seen this storyline play out, Maddi, either.

[1:25:24] Maddi: No, I haven't. So you've just like, this is all like hearsay as well.

[1:25:28] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:25:29] Maddi: Yeah. I feel like though I've learned a lot about, like I said, y'all are great sources of information. And I've learned a lot through you guys. I feel informed enough to make a decision.

[1:25:41] ANDREW Learn: We are the CNN of Glee Podcasts.

[1:25:44] Maddi: Yes. Um I I feel okay. So when it comes down to the vote between hold it against me versus Brave. Oh, this is a good competition.

[1:25:52] ANDREW Learn: Oh, it's an easy competition.

[1:25:57] Maddi: Okay. I'm saying wait, wait, I wanna go sure that I want to ensure that Maddi is the tiebreaker. So I'm saying I'm saying brave. Allison, what are you saying?

[1:26:09] Allison: I mean, I'm gonna say brave too.

[1:26:11] Maddi: Okay, also brave. We're all saying brave.

[1:26:15] ANDREW Learn: Okay, okay. I'm sorry that we didn't have a tiebreaker for you tonight.

[1:26:18] Maddi: Okay, can I breathe? I have to come back in round two.

[1:26:21] ANDREW Learn: Exactly. And for the harder competitions. Only pull like top-tier songs. It'll be something we something we go sometimes versus I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance.

[1:26:33] Maddi: I like how it's like something we go sometimes. Um I don't know. Everywhere. What was that movie that came everywhere all at once?

[1:26:40] ANDREW Learn: Everywhere Everything Everywhere All At Once.

[1:26:43] Maddi: And I do think I've referred to it as that before. I love the song Everything Everywhere All At Once. But I will say I am genuinely happy with the three winners. They're they weren't like at the top of my list, but they're all songs that I really enjoyed.

[1:26:56] ANDREW Learn: Good. That makes sense. They are none of my songs are. We need a little Christmas, I kissed a girl, and hold it against me, are all going bye-bye.

[1:27:09] Maddi: I would almost say that all three are like they have round one. Yeah, they have round one energy.

[1:27:14] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, yeah. Thanks for showing up though. Um I've gotta be me, whistle and brave are all advancing. Which I'm happy about.

[1:27:21] Maddi: I love Maddie.

[1:27:26] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, uh, to wrap up, I'm gonna ask you the question that we always ask. Oh man, you ready for it? This is like most of my notes. I'm so excited about it. I'm not even gonna ask the question. Go.

[1:27:37] Maddi: Yeah, okay. First, have to slip in a story because I remembered it last minute about Cameron Mitchell. And what a great day that was. Um I think not even a week. I had become a patron like two weeks before.

[1:27:56] Maddi: Really? And that was, I think, one of the very first like guest announcements that I got to be part of. And I was like, I gotta get my question in there immediately because everyone's gonna have a question for Cameron. And so I put down like, if would you change anything about your journey?

[1:28:14] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:28:14] Maddi: And I was I and then cut to listening to the recording. I was driving to a work meeting, and I had had just a super hard week. Like I think I I don't know if I cried on the way to this meeting or on the way back from this meeting, but that was my mental state. And so on the highway, and you're talking, and we're like, also patron Maddi has a question, and you say the question, and Cameron Mitchell goes, Oh Maddie, and I'm like creeping out on the highway, and I'm like, he knows my name.

[1:28:50] ANDREW Learn: Oh, I love that highlight of my day.

[1:28:54] Maddi: That's awesome. Wait, I need to ask because we famously did not know that he dated Demi Lovato. Did you know that he dated?

[1:29:02] Maddi: Oh, okay. There was a like Glee was obviously a big deal in my house, but we also were very hardcore the Glee project people.

[1:29:12] ANDREW Learn: Good. Yes.

[1:29:12] Maddi: Yes. Allie Allie Stroker, she's amazing. We love it.

[1:29:17] ANDREW Learn: So good. Another person I want back. Like for real.

[1:29:21] Maddi: Yeah. But yes. Obsessed. But okay, moving on to my list. Songs that they should have sang on Glee. Number one, Iris by the Goo Goods. That is a song made for Glee. It is Wolo through and through. Like how did not sing that song on Glee? It's right there.

[1:29:40] ANDREW Learn: It's right goddamn there.

[1:29:43] Maddi: Yes. Bit more modern. Um, I love Tick Tick Boom. And in not it didn't make it into the movie, which is sad. The Andrew Garfield and Alexandria Ship version of the Green Green Dress. Yes.

[1:29:59] ANDREW Learn: Ooh, yeah.

[1:30:01] Maddi: Is a Finchel duet. So good. Ooh, yeah. Yeah, like a like season two Era Finchel. I could see them just killing that song.

[1:30:09] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:30:09] Maddi: And then number one, maybe the most um the one I'm most proud of. The follow-up to Smooth Criminal would be Tango Dey Rock Sand by Sebastian and Santana.

[1:30:23] ANDREW Learn: You're so right for that.

[1:30:25] Maddi: Yes. You were absolutely correct. Oh my god. I fucking love that song. Aaron Tvate fucking step on my neck.

[1:30:33] ANDREW Learn: Wait, wait, wait. Maddi, do you know that they were meant to sing that song on Glee?

[1:30:34] Maddi: They were?

[1:30:34] ANDREW Learn: They were meant to. They I think that it was in the season four movie episode that they were on Rhodie was going to sing that as part of like the chicken.

[1:30:48] Maddi: Um, yes.

[1:30:50] ANDREW Learn: I'm kind of glad they did it though.

[1:30:52] Maddi: Yeah, I'm glad Roadie didn't. I'm glad they did. And I think that they almost like replaced that with um like uh how to be a heartbreaker, if you could imagine those two. But I do like that song, so I'm not upset with that.

[1:31:02] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, okay. Okay. That concludes part one of my songs they should have sung on Glee. Part one. Turning the notebook over.

[1:31:11] Maddi: Yeah to a diary entry of mine from I love this. Yeah. Which I can't tell you how much I wanted to go through and edit this, but I was like, no, we need to hear it. Where I wrote and planned out a Disney episode of Glee, which it's so funny. I just missed Disney December.

[1:31:31] ANDREW Learn: But it's just barely.

[1:31:33] Maddi: Yeah. Um and then so this is season two, because that is when I wrote this. But then for fun for me, today I was like, let me add in some of the season four people.

[1:31:44] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:31:45] Maddi: Just at the end. But it's funny. There are two characters that I refused to give a song to. Any guess on who those two characters would be? Think um one from season one and one from season four.

[1:31:59] ANDREW Learn: It's Ryder and Puck.

[1:32:01] Maddi: No.

[1:32:02] ANDREW Learn: Puck and Jake.

[1:32:04] Maddi: No, no, no. It'll make sense. One of them will make sense. It is Will and Kitty.

[1:32:12] ANDREW Learn: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:32:13] Maddi: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Number we're just gonna go person by person. And I love input because like I said, this is a little bit more.

[1:32:24] ANDREW Learn: All right.

[1:32:25] Maddi: Number one, Rachel singing specifically the Christina Aguilera version of Reflection from what else would she be singing?

[1:32:34] ANDREW Learn: Literally.

[1:32:35] Maddi: That's so true. There is no order to these things. Hold on. Okay, number two, Mike. I got no strings from Pinocchio.

[1:32:44] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:32:44] Maddi: Yeah. Again, basic. Uh-huh. Um, I'll let you know when you lose me.

[1:32:50] ANDREW Learn: Okay.

[1:32:51] Maddi: But so far, this is great. Again, and we're in season two. Uh-huh. Sam, I just can't wait to be king. Like, little like I want to be a billionaire Sam on his guitar singing. He just wants to be king now.

[1:33:04] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:33:05] Maddi: Um Puck. I want to be like you from the jungle book. Whatever.

[1:33:10] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:33:11] Maddi: Yeah. Whatever, sure. Right. One I'm proud of is I think Tina would kill Just Around the Riverbend from Pocahontas.

[1:33:21] ANDREW Learn: Yeah.

[1:33:22] Maddi: Yeah. And you know what? Colors of the Wind honestly is like they are stepping on Just Around the River Bend. Just Around the River Bend does not have the light of day. No one even talks about that song. It's so good.

[1:33:34] ANDREW Learn: Um I love. Again, easy. Mercedes, Zero to Hero from Hercules.

[1:33:40] Maddi: Yep.

[1:33:41] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Yes. Um, and then a Santana Brittany mashup of Once Upon a Dream, a dream is a wish your heart makes.

[1:33:51] Maddi: Oh.

[1:33:52] ANDREW Learn: Chills.

[1:33:53] Maddi: For the longest time I thought they were the same song. But you know what? It makes sense, finally. Joining together.

[1:33:59] ANDREW Learn: Um, okay. Quinn, the scales and arpeggio songs from the Aristocats.

[1:34:07] Maddi: Like the little cats play on the piano. It's a very cool song. How does it go? What are the lyrics?

[1:34:12] ANDREW Learn: Oh, I don't know the lyrics off the top of my head. I can just see the cats in my head.

[1:34:18] Maddi: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[1:34:20] ANDREW Learn: Um Kurt, I won't say I'm in love from Hercules.

[1:34:25] Maddi: Oh.

[1:34:26] ANDREW Learn: This is where you lose me.

[1:34:26] Maddi: Andrew Gatekeepers.

[1:34:28] ANDREW Learn: Andrew Gates said. I stay key gatekeeping that song.

[1:34:31] Maddi: I I think that that's a Santana Quinn solo all over it.

[1:34:35] ANDREW Learn: That is. Again, this is middle school Maddie writing these notes.

[1:34:39] Maddi: Okay. All right. I'll bring it up with her then.

[1:34:42] ANDREW Learn: Blaine.

[1:34:44] Maddi: Lifelong love, Darren Chris singing A Whole New World from Aladdin. And who's like YouTuber Darren Chris like singing? Oh, when he would sing Disney covers.

[1:34:55] ANDREW Learn: So Artie singing the Trashing the Camp song from Tarzan.

[1:35:00] Maddi: Dooba doop, baba dot.

[1:35:02] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, doob.

[1:35:04] Maddi: Yeah. Doob. That's on my show mix. I play that before I do shows. Love it.

[1:35:08] ANDREW Learn: So another one I'm proud of. Finn singing Two Worlds, One Family again from Tarzan.

[1:35:17] Maddi: Ooh. I think you could.

[1:35:18] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, that one would work. I'm concerned that Finn doesn't have the range for that, but I would be interested in hearing it.

[1:35:25] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:35:26] ANDREW Learn: Trust your heart. They decide. And then I assume just for comedy's sake, Sue Sylvester singing I'll make a man out of you from Mulan.

[1:35:38] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:35:38] ANDREW Learn: Yeah, that's good.

[1:35:40] Maddi: Yeah, that's good. And then season four people.

[1:35:44] Maddi: I watched an interview with Alex Newell saying they want to play Ursula.

[1:35:49] ANDREW Learn: Right.

[1:35:49] Maddi: Um, and so I kind of went in that direction. I think Alex Newell would kill Mother Knows Best from Tangled.

[1:35:56] ANDREW Learn: Ooh, I thought you were gonna say poor unfortunate souls, and then you killed it.

[1:36:00] Maddi: Yeah. No, I wanted more modern songs. Yeah. And then Marley, I have God help the outcasts.

[1:36:08] ANDREW Learn: Oh, from Hunchback?

[1:36:12] Maddi: I don't know that's true. It's because she sings out.

[1:36:17] ANDREW Learn: Oh, that's good. And then Jake and Ryder doing a duet of Go the Distance.

[1:36:24] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:36:24] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Yeah. Go the Distance is a writer. Ryder is singing on that track, whether we like it or not.

[1:36:29] Maddi: Yeah.

[1:36:30] ANDREW Learn: Yeah. Uh-huh. But those are those are my notes. That's middle school Maddie.

[1:36:33] Maddi: I'm obsessed. You really put in the glurk.

[1:36:37] ANDREW Learn: Wait, really? Like you've been holding on to this information as well.

[1:36:40] Maddi: Yeah, you've been sitting on a drawer of every notebook from middle school.

[1:36:47] ANDREW Learn: Really?

[1:36:47] Maddi: So I was like, I know it's there. I just have to go find it.

[1:36:50] ANDREW Learn: You have the glant readily.

[1:36:52] Maddi: Yes.

[1:36:53] ANDREW Learn: I'm obsessed with you.

[1:36:53] Maddi: Thank you.

[1:36:54] ANDREW Learn: Wow. Wait, so Maddi, this has been such a an iconic episode of Gleek the Week. You have been the best top tier guest, I would say.

[1:37:03] Maddi: Thank you.

[1:37:04] ANDREW Learn: Thank you. Thank you, Maddi. That was amazing.

[1:37:06] Maddi: Thank you guys. It's so funny. I had like made it a mission literally about a week before you emailed me of like, I need to engage with them more. I need to put myself out there so they'll want me on their podcast and just.

[1:37:20] ANDREW Learn: Oh my god.

[1:37:21] Maddi: A week later, y'all emailed me and I was like, oh, it worked.

[1:37:24] ANDREW Learn: It works.

[1:37:24] Maddi: You glancested. You glanifested.

[1:37:27] ANDREW Learn: It was awesome. To end the episode, we're gonna say bye in our most annoying voices after one. Three, two, one.

[1:37:37] Maddi: Bye!

[1:37:37] ANDREW Learn: Bye!

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