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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Laugh meeting. Laugh meeting, laugh meeting. I've been waiting to talk to you because, have you ever seen Wicked? No comment. Oh, so you've never seen it. So me either. I'd never seen it. Didn't know the story. Didn't know anything about it whatsoever. It's my mama's 70th and she absolutely loves musicals.

And so I was like, oh, for her birthday, my brother and I will take her to go to the Pantages Theater here in Los Angeles to watch Wicked, to see the stage play. None of us know anything about it, like literally nothing. And then what we'll do the next day is go and watch the movie.

So we could kind of see it how it was supposed to be seen before we go and watch the movie. And I have to say, and I am a tough like convert, like I have a natural resistance to things where everybody's like, and I'm just like, I just can't. I'm just, I can't, I can't go into the fold. It just bothers me. It's so...

I thought you said you hadn't seen it. Well, now I have. Now you have. Now I have. In like the past two days, I have. I've gone to the theater. And then I've gone to the theater. Let me ask you a question. How did the performers do? How did they fare versus me singing Wicked on New Girl? Because this is a big controversy. I mean, the bar was set so high when you sang. Here's the thing. I remember because...

like it's Schmidt and CC that are trapped naked under a map in the back of the car. That's right. Right. And so I remember like the singing of it. Cause I think Aaron O'Malley came and was like, this is what's going on. This is what's so crazy. And either she played it for us or something. Cause we were supposed to be making all these faces. Yeah. And, um, you're an exceptional singer. I had the flu during that time too. So it wasn't even, I wasn't even giving it my best. Oh, well you were exceptional. And, um,

I did think about it after when I left the theater. I was like, you would have fit really well into that movie. Like you, they could have really given you a fun. Fun. Yeah. John. CAA. What's going on with y'all? Like plug them in. But then all of a sudden, of course, I went down like the rabbit hole where I'm just like, man. And like,

You have to have like Jess. Jess could have been a really good, you know, Galinda. And, you know, Zoe could have done that. And then I just started thinking of the new girl cast in the Wicked movie. Who would we all have been? And I actually feel like the new girl cast is very Wizard of Oz-y.

Like it's not a big leap. And then you think of all the other characters like the bear claw and the whatever Tran, like everybody fits into that world, the wicked world very well. So I feel like we need some of our super fans out there to do like a mock-up. Please do. Like of us in the cast of wicked. I do think that every girl that watches that movie though, we all see ourselves as Elfie. So that's who I would want to be.

But I don't know if the new girl universe sees me that way. I don't know. Paint yourself green. Maybe they will. Love to paint myself green. Love to be green. Remember Kermie? Kermie said it to us at first. Oh, yeah. It ain't easy being green. Do you remember the Defying Gravity song? Do you remember it? Yeah. Sing it. I can't sing. I can't sing. I'm not going to sing it right now. You're like, I'm not singing it.

You've already done it. You've been there. You've done it. And you set the bar. I'm telling you. Well, and there I was doing falsetto on the show. Define.

I was doing that, but I shouldn't have done that. I should have went in my own register. I should have went to a lower register because I was sick. Lower register. You got higher registers and you get your lower registers. I should have went to my lower, you know? But I didn't. At the time, I wasn't classically trained. Now I'm a classically trained singer. But, you know, we'll get into it. Maybe I'll make a little music video of me doing the song. You should. Give it to the people. It's what they want. Okay, let's put this out there. Yeah.

I'll go into the studio with Ronald Jukebox Jackson. Yeah. I'll record my own version of Defying Gravity. Yeah. We got any filmmakers out there who wants to set it up, make a dope music video of me doing Defying Gravity. How about your boy? I'm down. I'll make myself readily available. Wow. This is a moment, you guys. You know what I'm saying? I'll do it. Are you listening?

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Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's dive in. Let's hear from you, Denise. You want me to read it? You're live. Go live. Hey, Joelle, you queen. I already love this intro. Hannah and Lamorne. As a kid, it's in quotations.

As a kid. As a kid from Chicago. I loved all the Chicago references on the show, but most of all, I love the poster Nick had on his wall throughout the series of an actual Chicago band. It was very funny. J.C. Brooks and the Uptown.

I spent my early mid-20s in Chicago during the late noughties. Ooh. Like actual Chicago. Not... How do you pronounce this? Waukegan. Waukegan. Because we all know what that means. And my friends and I followed J.C. Brooks and the Uptown Sound to venues all over the city. Ooh, diehard fan. My first introduction to them was when my friends were on the crazy Chicago public access television show, Chica Go-Go episode. Yeah.

When J.C. Brooks and co-performed, we were all locked in from there. I also thought it was really cool that Jake Johnson took his tampon commercial street cred to appear in a J.C. Brooks music video with Aubrey Plaza. I did not know that. I didn't either. I mean, these were Jake's friends, by the way.

Oh, for real? Yeah, that's how you get the poster on the wall. Oh, cool. I moved to St. Louis when I got married years later, but still wanted to see the band every time they were in town. In fact, the song that my spouse and I had our first dance to at our wedding was an Otis Redding cover that J.C. Brooks used to do. My last show with them was when I was several months pregnant with my first kid and we hung out in the parking lot while the band smoked the devil's lettuce. The kid is now 12. Sometimes life is

Pre-kids reads like a fever dream. This is very true. Anyway, just wanted to express my appreciation. You guys were my on-screen companions who walked with me and kept me laughing through big life changes, early marriage to late nights during the first time parenthood, losing a parent and more. My kids went to school believing that raccoon was pronounced the way Schmidt says it, raccoon. And we all yell at the sky to send messages north to Chicago.

Here's a link to a J.C. Brooks Wilco cover that slaps. It's XOXO Denise. I love that. That's awesome, Denise. I'm not 100% sure. Maybe Jake talked about it or something where he uses tampon commercial street cred to appear in a J.C. Brooks music video. But I remember Jake saying that those were his buddies, I want to say. That's how he got their picture on the wall. I'm not sure if he became buddies because of the...

you know, being in the music video, then they became friends. But yeah, Jake would have a lot of personal, like, um, his wife's artwork is all throughout the loft. Um, yeah, he, uh, he really got his way on that show. Yeah.

Will say it's something that both you and Jake Johnson have in common Which is that you use the platform to support and uplift your friends and family? You got so you know as you do you don't that's the thing you don't got to do it, but you guys It's very loving and kind okay. Hey Hannah in the morn to this day new girl is the only TV I've ever experienced that can make me laugh out loud by myself and

I still rewatch about once a year. I laughed until I cried the first time I experienced "Look at me being so not." My question is, I have often heard the cast mention that shoot days for New Girl were insanely long, like as long as 18 hours. That always made me sad to hear because I imagine how much more fun the whole thing could have been if everyone wasn't so exhausted.

How did you deal with that level of sleep deprivation? How did you manage to remember your lines and stay creative while tired? Thanks so much, Kate-rin. Is it Kate-rin or Kate-lin? In here it says Kate-rin. Hmm. Kate-rin? Kat-rin?

Did I say Caitlin? Caitlin? Have you ever heard of Caitlin? I don't know. Kate. Yeah, Kate. We're giving you a nickname. Cece. We're giving you a nickname. I could tell you, 18 hours is extreme. I think it was like 16 hours maybe was our longest day, something like that. But I can tell you, you get used to it.

That's true. I was going to say that. It was just the norm. I mean, that was my first time ever doing a show like that. And if it's all you know, it's all you know. And as the seasons went on, it did smooth out and then get a lot easier with the hours and they got into a better rhythm. It took a few years. Yeah, I would say it got to the point where we were doing like a 10-hour day would be considered a long day.

No, I don't think we ever got to a 10, 12. We've done eight.

Yes, we got down to 10. You remember? Because the reason why we, the reason how we did it was we stopped, we stopped doing the screaming out alts and we just had an alt packet. So then we would pick one or two jokes that we wanted to say and we'd roll right into it. And what would happen was we got more efficient that way. That's true. We'd be at lunch and the modern family folks would be heading home and we would complain about that a lot. We would go,

We would go, well, wait a minute. They're shooting. It's one of the funniest TV shows ever. And they're done by lunch. You know, they're doing six, eight hour days, it felt like. And then, so then we got ours down to like 10 hour work days. Yeah. Maybe in those last few seasons. Yeah. You bugging, dog. We was in and out, bro.

They became more efficient with our time. The more we don't need to hear that. That is true. They got easier. So I think it's better than the reverse, which is like, oh, you've done a show for years that had six to eight hour days or 10 hour days. And then if you went and did New Girl and it was like 16 hours, you know, for the first few years, that would have been tough. But I think because it was all we knew.

Also, we were all kind of in the same phase of life as our characters. Yeah. So it wasn't like you had big responsibilities at home. You had to go and take care of. It was sort of like this was it. And we'd kind of made it. It was like you were on this big dream show. So I think the just...

You were just so caught up in it. So yes, you're a little tired, but you're a little tired, like living your dream. It kind of, it doesn't register. Like there was no in the moment feeling like, okay, but I would rather do anything else than what we're doing. Yeah. Oh yeah. You kidding me? Yeah. No. Take that any day. Blessings. Give me a 16 hour day. I'm good. Okay. The next. Thank you, Kate.

Thank you, Kate, Kat, Trine, Tran, Lynn, Katrine, Lan. Hi, my name is Olivia. First off, I have to say I love New Girl. I love you guys and I love the fact that you do this podcast.

Three days ago, I discovered I've watched every episode twice. I have two questions. One is, so far during your rewatch, what's been your favorite episode to revisit? My second question is, can we get a podcast episode with the whole cast? Keep doing you and congrats on the Emmy. Winnie the Bish. That's right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. So cool. I...

Let's see. Favorite one we've watched so far. Actually, you know what's interesting? I feel like it's going to be the Prince one just because we've got so many stories. Well, we don't have that one until next week. You haven't rewatched it yet. I know. You can't say it. No. It's the perfect time to ask this question, Olivia, because we can't say Prince. Wait, but... Damn it. Okay. Do I pick another one? Man, that's a tough one. It's hard. There's literally so many. I don't...

They're all they're all fun and they're funny. And it's and it's great to to to have that nostalgia when you're sitting back, you know, just thinking about the weird shit that you guys did on the show. So it's all fun, especially even some of the more chaotic episodes. It's fun to look back on it because you're done with it now. Sure. So I would say one that I found to be very fun was Elaine's Big Day.

I was going to say that was mine too. Yeah. It felt like one of our bigger, like super epic. Yeah.

It was just like a big episode. And a lot of hijinks was happening. So it was fun to look at. It was fun to watch. You know, and Taylor Swift. And Taylor Swift was there. That, to me, also, Elaine. I mean, that's why we did special merch, by the way. If you go to our website, there might be a piece or two left. But we did special Elaine and Chivvy shirts because I was mad that they didn't really exist online. And we're like, we're just going to make our own. Exactly. So that's true. I was going to say that one, too. Yeah, I love that.

It was really fun. And it was also really interesting for me because it was like the first Indian wedding I'd ever been to. They kept asking me these questions like, so culturally, would you be wearing? And I was like, I don't know. I've never even been to an Indian wedding. I'm so sorry. I wear a tuxedo. Yeah. I remember being like, maybe she wears a white dress. And my mom, who, by the way, who is not Indian, she was like, oh.

if it's an Indian wedding she can't wear white because they wear white to funerals in India. So he's like she'd be a dead ghost coming down the aisle. I'm like first of all this is not real so calm down. Also good to know. Yeah. Yeah I think that was one of the most fun ones to re-watch because it brought so many memories. Yeah. Yeah a lot of hijinks like I said that's that's always fun.

Guys, thank you. Thank you. That's our show. You can join us Tuesday to recap season three episode Prince. The Prince episode. I don't know how we're going to do it in a one episode recap if I'm being very honest with you because this is like a

You know, a little while ago, I had a conversation with our beloved costume designer, the Queen, Deborah Maguire, and part of a story about Prince came out, but just part of it. So I think we are going to be able to address the whole thing and actually share the whole Prince story, which is very exciting. And I will gladly address, finally, after all these years, the Prince and Kardashian story.

New Girl Debacle. You think we should talk about it?

I think we should talk about it. It's out there, but I feel like everything is out there in pieces. So if you want to know all the stuff that happened with Prince, with all of us, be here on Tuesday. It's going to be a big one. Okay. And make sure you send in all your questions you have around the Prince episode, because of course we're going to hold a loft meeting all about Prance. So make sure you send those in. You can send in a voicemail, a video, anything that you want. All right.

Go to our website, themessaroundpod.com to pick up an Elaine's Big Day t-shirt or just a mess around, a classic mess around one. Follow us on Instagram, themessaroundpod. We'll see you Tuesday, man. It's a big,

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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