Lamorne Spotted in Austin and This Loft Meeting
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I feel like I haven't done a loft meeting with you in a while. Loft meeting. Yeah, we do these loft meetings. Loft meetings are great. They're fun. It's when the fans get to tell us what they're thinking. Exactly. Deep insight. So thank you for all your letters and your videos and your voice memos you send in. It's what makes the loft meetings happen. 100%. Okay.

Hey, mess arounders. This is Fergus. I had to write in because I just listened to your recap of Cool It where Hannah says she's bummed that only true American she participated in was the one in the series finale episode.

about this you just talked about that i love you hannah but you couldn't be more wrong cooler is actually the last true american that you're not in for the rest of the series cc actually initiates a true american herself in the season five episode wedding eve when you pull your bride card to force everyone to play love the show look forward to

Look forward to it every week. Thanks, Fergus. Thank you so much, Fergus. But here's the thing I will say. I feel like it's one of those art imitates life imitates art moments where you black out with true Americans. Because we're actually drinking. We're method actors. We're committed to the craft. Meth actors. We're true American. That's why we can't tell you the rules. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's really funny. I truly was bummed.

Thinking I'd never done it except for one time at the end. And this rewatch has made me realize we did it a bunch of times. But they're so weird to shoot and all over the place that I think my brain just didn't like retain it as a thing. Right. Oh, yeah. I mean, you never I mean, it's the same game we play.

Same concept. I never know what the what is happening. So, yeah, Fergus, you're right. You're right, Fergus. You're right. When you write, you write. This one says only read if the word is here. Fergus, love Fergus. It's a good new girl time. Good old Fergus. All right, I'll just take this next one. It's long. Dear Hannah and Lamorne.

My name is Bergen and I'm currently living in Austin. Me too. I'm writing as a way to apologize to Lamorne for an encounter that he and I had on South Congress in Austin a few weeks ago, Feb 23rd, I think. My job is to sign up people to donate monthly to charity and my coworker and I were out pitching on South Congress. Her and I were just talking about how she's living in

a fluffer situation huh she lives with two male roommates one of which she is basically a girlfriend to they're even going to ikea to build furniture together like nick and jess do my co-worker had just reviewed the scene where the amazing winston explains that nick is jess's boyfriend without the rewards

On that Sunday, while pitching, my coworker and I had run into Matthew McConaughey and Carla Giugino. Did he pronounce her name? I love Carla. Two of the greats. My coworker and I were too shy slash shocked to approach them. So we joked with the next celebrity that we saw, we would ask them to donate to charity.

Then you walked by when my back was turned and you and her bantered for a moment about the charity. By the time I realized who you were, I screamed, are you Lamorne Morris? And she said,

shushed me because that of course was not very calm or cool or collected. I couldn't believe that we had just been talking about you and your characters, strangely wise advice. You laughed, thank God, but I'm sorry that I fangirled like that. What I meant to say was I'm a huge fan of your work in New Girl.

both of your podcasts and the podcast you're happening with Jake Johnson right now, my boyfriend and I regularly restart the series and the podcast keep me company during the coronavirus

rides and errands. Do you have any advice for my girl who's currently in a fluffer situation? Sorry again. And thank you for taking the time to read the long explanation. Let me know about the fluffer advice. Congrats on your move to Austin, Lamar, and you're going to love it. And I hope you're both having a great day. Bergen.

Well, I remember this. Do you? This just happened. Two weeks ago, I'd say probably like two weeks ago, this happened when I was in Austin looking for a place. I'm still in L.A., so I haven't moved. You know, not sure if I am. But yeah, I remember this. That's funny. That's really funny. Did you see Matthew McConaughey just like pass by in front of you? I was with Matthew McConaughey.

I'm kidding. I do not know that man. I do not know that man. I would feel the same way like you, Bergen. If I saw Matthew McConaughey, I'd be like, I'm not going to say hi. I can't say hi to him. But you know Carla.

Yeah. I mean, I would say hi to her for sure. Yeah, that'd be definitely would say hi to her. But no, yeah, I do remember this on South Congress. I was I was with a bunch of buddies of mine, 10 people I think we were with for a bachelor party out there. Yeah, that's funny. And also fluffer situation. Your friend is. So let me go back. Does your friend want to be with this person?

Is that what it is? Did I read that wrong? Because she lives with two roommates. One is basically a girlfriend to, girlfriend to, well, she's basically a girlfriend to. They're going to Ikea, building a front together. Oh yeah, so we don't know. But it feels like, yeah, she is in the exact same situation. Like if they're going to Ikea, they're doing all the things. I have other friends who are in those types of situations.

I think the issue is, is that if you want to be with that person, you have to make yourself available for that thing. Meaning stop doing this, stop doing the, the going to Ikea's and all that stuff like that, because what you're doing is you're, you're saying to them that this is what I'm available for you for, for your, for emotional stuff, for helping you out with stuff, but I'm not going to slip you the D. So you gotta, if you want, if you want this man to slip you the D,

in a relationship style slipping, then what you got to do is stop going to Ikea and being like, no, this is not what happened. That's not what's happening here. That's not what's happening here. If you want something else, we can go, you know what I'm saying? We can take this relationship to another level, but I'm not about to continue down this path because people will only do what you allow them to do. All right. You got to put your foot down. You got to put your foot down. You teach people how to treat you. Exactly what you said. But thank you, Bergen. If I see you out there on the street again, I will say hello.

As if I'm just roaming the streets of Austin. Looking for Bergen. I'll be out there looking for Bergen. Okay. So my name is Bella.

and i just want to start off by saying thank you for this incredible show and podcast i hold them both so close to my heart i am 24 years old and i've been watching new girl religiously since i was 14. it's safe to say that for the past decade new girl has brought me comfort and laughter in times i needed it most my favorite episode of the entire show is season 3 episode 21 big news

- This may be an unpopular opinion because it's a breakup episode between two main characters, but I am super excited for the recap coming up.

I am interested in what your favorite scenes or memories are from filming this episode. Despite the breakup between Nick and Jess, I think this episode captures the essence of the show and each individual character in the best way. If someone had never seen New Girl and asked me to pick just one episode to watch, it would be big news. I could go on and on about my love for the show, but I will wrap up with saying thank you endlessly for all you guys do on the pod and keeping the New Girl memories alive.

It truly is magic. P.S. I have a framed New Girl picture photo below in my apartment that I wanted to show you. Oh, that's pretty dope. That's a great one. That's a pretty good one right there. Yeah, that's a great one. Looky, looky. Well, if you like New Girl stuff, I'm just saying I'm wearing a Ferguson shirt. Go ahead and cop that. Lamorna Nightside. If you like New Girl stuff.

Oh, yeah. Thank you, Bella. Thank you. I definitely appreciate that. What were you going to say, Hannah? You got excited when she said. Oh, she was just talking about the big news episode. And I love that episode so much, too. And I the thing I love about the episode is how do you not hijack someone's day? Right. But you have something you need to share. But then all of a sudden there's something big that happens. And I feel like that happens so often in family.

Right? Yeah. Like something big happens for you and you walk in the door, but something big happened for someone else. Now you got to hold the information. You got to hold it. You got to hold it. You got to hold it. So beautifully. Because then the joke is everybody gets mad at you for being dishonest or not sharing or why didn't you tell me? And your intentions are good, but you're just trying not to hijack. Trying not to hijack. Someone else's big news.

I just, I just hijack it. You're telling me you're in a great day, but I just got to put this out here. Here's something. I just want to, I mean, keep going, keep going, keep talking about what you're talking about. No big deal. No big deal. Yeah. Um, yeah, but thank you, Bella. Um,

We love you back. We really appreciate you watching for all these years. That was a fun episode. It was a fun episode to recap. So hopefully you enjoyed the recap because we really dove deep and shared a lot of weird stuff that happened when we were shooting that one, including my near-death experience. Oh, yeah. Of making that episode. Hannah B almost dying on this show. I was almost dying. I have to find that photo of

Damon and I, someone took a picture of Damon and I sitting next to each other and I'm wearing like a dive coat because I was shivering so much with this crazy fever and I'm just like in a sweat and he's just like giving me a hug because he's just like the consummate dad. Oh yeah. I think this girl is about to pass away. I need to get her warm. She's very hot.

It's a very sweet little picture of me in the night. I just look like I'm struggling. Big news. I survived.

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Hi, Hannah and Lamorne. I've been a serial re-watcher of New Girl ever since my college roommate introduced me to the show years ago, and I was so excited when you all started the podcast. I was just listening to episode 319 about the take on Cece and Buster, and how it's creepy for her to be with a 20-year-old guy. I agree it's creepy, by the way. But are we just going to breeze by the fact that in season one, episode 21, kids, Nick is literally dating an 18-year-old?

I find that Nick dating Chloe to be way creepier than CC dating Buster. Just my hot take. Would love to hear your opinions on the comparison. Thanks so much. Love the podcast. Amy, I agree with you. Amy, period. Done.

Yeah. I think we did address that. We did. I think we talked about it a lot when we did that episode because we were like, um, what? Yeah. No. But I don't, but I, I, I agree that it's bad. I don't think it's as bad because the episode, episode, uh, that was season one. Jake was only 22. We were babies when we started the show. We're pretty young. Three years later, uh, Hannah is in her mid thirties.

I'm currently 75 years old. Yeah. No, that is creepy. That is. It was so, we talked about it. We were just like, how is this?

Okay. This feels illegal, but I think it's talked about at length in the episode. What was weird about the CC Buster thing is like two jokes were made, I feel like. And I was like, this is more inappropriate than I feel like they're letting on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had to address it though. We had to address it. So yeah, Amy, we're right there with you. Right there with you. But let's go back and listen to that episode that we recapped.

And at that time, it was probably Welcome to Our Show. So, yeah, let's go back and recap that. That was Welcome to Our Show, wasn't it, Hannah? Yeah, I think it was way back in the beginning of the podcast. And I feel like we were just like, this was not okay. It was a very strange little storyline. But I think it was heavily addressed in the episode, too. Yeah. That this was, like, weird. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah.

Well, yeah. Thank you for the, thank you for that note there, Amy. We definitely appreciate it. And please keep watching. Tell your friends, you know what I mean? Well, that's it, Hannah. That's it. Oh my God. Great lawful meeting. Thank you guys for sending all of the, the,

the letters in i love that someone called you out on the street i know that's a weird moment where you're like are we in the matrix like how did i just say this famous actor's name and this scene and now you appeared here well what i want what i want to freak me out what do you think what i want all the fans to know out there is that i hear everything

I know when you're sleeping. I know when you're awake. Wait, what's the horror film thing where you like say the name three times in the mirror and then he appears behind you? That's you. Candyman. That's you.

Yeah, I'm candy. Bergen, if you want him back, that's all you got to do. That's right. You got to say my name three times. I'll be right there. Anyway, go to our website, themessaroundpod.com. Check out our latest merch, which we spend a lot of time on designing that Hannah's rocking right now. Follow us on Instagram at themessaroundpod. If you have a question, you want to leave us a voicemail, a comment, we see them all. You can email us at themessaroundpod at gmail.com.

Bye. That was The Mess Around, an iHeartMedia production. Our executive producer is Joelle Monique. Our senior producer is Abu Zafar. Bay Wang provided engineering and editing services. Additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Chevron. Our theme song was written and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson. Catch you next time. Bye.

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