Speaker 1 (00:00):
H ring ring ring ring Man, I please speak with Zoe.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh hello, Lamar, let's patch in, Hannah.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
God, I forgot what it was like working with you guys.
I really love I wish this was the podcast. Let's

(00:32):
just talk about Eric Andre his deck and the myth
of the Big Deck.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I can call him. I could call him right now.
Do you want to call him and ask him? You
want to call him?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Eric, we doing a podcast right now? What's going on? Man?
You got you got, you gotta you got a solid ten.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, Amrana.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I was just altho. I'm not I'm a FaceTime Eric
right now. And this is gonna be part of the part.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Does he record? I gotta go? We got?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I hate I hate record already. I hate record right
and I.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Just gotta know, try recording again? Why?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I just gotta know, but why? I just gotta know. Oh,
it's Valentine's Day. There's no way he's gonna answer this.
So it's good Valentine's Day. Busy he has I know.
I'm stuck with Hannah.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm so sorry. That's okay, that is a fact. That's
what That's an appropriate response.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm over here with I don't want.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
To be stuck with me either. If I could have,
I would to.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Leave. I'm gonna leave a message, a bellive a message.
I'm leaving a very very and Hannah, you're gonna leave
my message too. Although he can't hear you right now
because you're in my ear.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, this is part of say hey, I love Eric,
I love this.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Part of the podcast. Hey Eric Man, me and Hannah
are doing this podcast right now, and you know, we
just do this, do go recap and and we we
have we start the podcast off. Fo. You know something
that's kind of clouding our day or whatever's been going on,
and the thing that we're curious about is how do
you do it? Man? Are you walking around here with
a solid ten? Huh? Are you walking around here with

(02:07):
a soft eight that moves up to a strapping bol
what's going on? Man? You know, Hannah and I were
just curious about it, and you know, get back to us. Man,
We love you and we want to hear. We want
to hear more from you. Look at look at the
look on that his face.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Is how many times have you left a message like
this for a friend? I need the inches. I need
to know your inches.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I gotta listen. I gotta know, only because you know,
she's someone who I've been after for a while. She
doesn't respond to any of mine showing up at her
house unannounced.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
She did a movie with Jake Johnson.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I know she She was a new Girl. You
know girl, she was a new Girl. Fun fact she
was in an episode of New Girl?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Was Eric was Eric?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
If New Girl Eric was never a New Girl?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I don't think I did a movie with Eric called
Flock of Dudes.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's right, it's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
But anyway, the randomness of today, talking about friends and
talking about love, talking about sex, that's all in this
episode two oh three of for Luffer. Give us the
Recapitla mourn.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Let's go for Luffer. Yes, okay, so here's the deal.
Just needs to be mentally stimulated before she can get physical. Now,
if you guys don't know what a fluffer is, google it.
Just don't google fluffer with xxx afterwards, that's strange.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Just don't go to Google images. Just google under the
words the words page.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
The Wikipedia page for fluffer. Now you enter the new
bestie Nick. Right. He makes her laugh, He makes her,
he makes her dinner, He makes her laugh at dinner sometimes,
you know, he takes trips to the second closet ikea,
you know what I mean. And then he even builds
her dressers. That's his thing. He does all that type

(04:04):
of stuff with Jess before she goes off and bones Sam.
That's strange. Now Winston feels like Jess is taking advantage
of Nick by having him fluff her for Sam, and
encourages Nick to set healthier boundaries with Jess. We've all
been there now. Meanwhile, Schmid is still spiraling from his

(04:25):
breakup with Ceci. Okay. He pretends to go to a
club and he wants to run into Kanye, but he's
really lightly stalking his ex. We've all been I've never
done that. Gone, I've never done that. I've felt urged
to do something like that, never done it. Okay. I
don't go to the coffee shop on Ventura that she
sometimes goes to. I've never done that. Okay. Now, Winston's

(04:49):
tag Romney maneuver gets them past the club security. Schmid
becomes Romney bait for some sorority girls. Now he dubs
himself Tug Tug Romney and he goes on to Day,
which is a very strange thing. Unfortunately, these Romney super fans,
they sniff out Schmidt's lies quickly, and luckily Cec comes
over and helps soothe him with her dare I say,

(05:14):
her memories, her memories, her food, satchels for babies. Okay, Now,
Winston and Shelby, they're struggling like they always are, the
dry spell. You know, they're going through a bit of
a dry spell, and it causes Winston to cheat on Shelby,

(05:35):
but in his mind, which is something I think most
people do. Now, when he reveals his infidelity to Shelby,
she tells him that, you know, he could think about
whatever he wants and declare is their fight over. Winston
doesn't think the fight is over because he doesn't think
it ever started. He's frustrated by this. Okay, they have
no action going on, there's nothing going on between these two,
and just decides to open up a dialogue with Sam. However,

(05:58):
things become awkward when he tells her the only reason
he would build furniture for a woman as if they
were married. Jess rethinks the way she's been treating Nick. Together,
they say healthy boundaries and settled on being friends who
are sometimes attracted to each other. And that's what happens
two o three Fluffer directed by Fred Goss, written by
A JJ Philbin.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh, there's so much to dive into on this episode.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Let's before we dive in. I got a response from Eric.
Before we dive in, I got a response from Eric.
He says, I never kiss and tell happy black his
three months. Oh man, he won't tell us but his
black castree months. So I know he you know, he
got that third good. Marshall going on. Okay, he got that.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, all right, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Got that third good? All right, keep going.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I also feel like we're probably the one million uh
text voicemail that Eric has gotten today. I think that yeah,
that was a paste.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Oh yeah, absolutely, but yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, he
sent that to a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
All right, let's dive in. I mean, this is what
this whole episode is about. Relationships, boundaries, What makes a
relationship a relationship?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Exactly exactly. I personally, I haven't gone through anything well,
I mean it's it's I've never been called out for
going going through something like this. But I do have
friends that you know, you do everything with, you know,
you you go shopping with them, You're there. You're the
shoulder for them to lean on, to cry on, you

(07:40):
give them dating advice. But I don't look at them
that way. I don't look at them the.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Way they look at you that way.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
They don't because I ship with the door open. Sometimes
it's disgusting.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, that's like true intimacy.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
They don't Nobody wants that from MEO intimates.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I mean to be honest with you. I don't want
to jump to the end, but I do feel like
the way this episode ends where Nick basically says, look
exactly what you just said. We're friends, and yeah, sometimes
I build your dresser and sometimes, you know, I'll make
you a cup of tea and bring it to you.
And our friendship doesn't look like most male female friendships.

(08:25):
But we just have to accept that we are friends
that are sometimes attracted to each other.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, have you ever been anything like that? You know,
I know right now you probably can't talk about it because.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
No, you know, what's interesting. It made me think. What
made me think of is that? And it was about
a piece of Ikea furniture and I had a very
one of my best friends was a guy friend and
who was so sweet and so lovely and my like
our families knew each other, and it was so it
was just he was my best friend, and I knew

(08:58):
like girls he had crushes on, and I would try
to be like a wing woman. But yeah, we were
like in our sweatpants, watching you know, like a movie
three times a week and hanging out and getting food.
And to me, my brother wasn't living here at the time,
and so I was like, he's like my brother. This
is awesome like to have. I just know that companionship

(09:18):
my whole life of having a brother, and I love it.
But I remember we went to Ikea to get something
and there was this really it was like the higher
end Ikea, this kind of like cubby kind of thing
you put by the front door, and it was really
expensive and I couldn't afford to buy it, but I
was like, man, it's so great. And then he bought

(09:39):
it for me and then like built it and it
was in my house and then I was like, oh,
I think my best friend really really like like likes me.
And I had to do a friendship breakup because I
loved him so much as my friend, and I realized
as long as we were k making it and he

(10:00):
was such a catch and such a wonderful person. He
was actually like, never going to put himself out there
because he'd much rather hang out with me. And I
think his feelings were deeper and break.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
He wasn't going to put himself out there. He wasn't
going to put himself out there. You weren't going to
put out That was.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I didn't have the feelings. I'm the jests. I was like,
I just I don't have the feelings. I don't feel
that way about you. I see, he was my brother,
which is probably the worst thing that any man could
ever hear. Okay, we're driving back into the episode.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Let's go, Wow, can I just ask where is he now?

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I know we had a friendship breakup so that he
could go find someone else.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
And that man was none other than near Sorry.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh, circle was up, Eric.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
So let's so let's dive back into the beginning of
this episode. You know a strange thing happened in the beginning. Well,
she leaves Sam in her room with crayons.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know, he can't have casual sex. She realized it's
not working for her anymore. She thought she could and
she can't just go from do you walking down the
Street to like jump in someone's bones. It just doesn't
write to her. She can't do it.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, so the the But in that moment, there are
a little there was a little back and forth between
her and and and Nick, which I thought was funny.
She says, what did she say by shorty on the side?
Why can't I have a shorty on the side? Is
that what she said?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Uh she did? Nick said. Nick said, you know, you
didn't use that term correctly. I think she did.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think she did lose it correctly too. I just
think that tells more about Nick than it does her.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, I was confused, but he's like, now, you can't
say it that way. It's like, actually funny enough, she
got it. She got it right because I got a
lot of I got a lot of shorties, you know,
so I get it. Also, something I thought that was
very interesting about and kind of timely, was you know,
during this time. I mean, obviously Kanye has been a

(11:59):
huge figure I think for a very very long time now.
But this obsession that this Jewish man as West, I
thought it was very that was very very funny.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh if they could see into the.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Future, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
One other thing I love in this episode because there's
so many really teeny tiny nods to like series what
happens during the series, and they just give us like
little tastes. Is that they inadvertently put Nick and Jess
on their first like romantic date together, and as an audience,
you get to see what a perfect match they are,

(12:40):
that he can be like a bit of like an oddball, goofy,
silly weirdo with her and she can do something like
smuggle booze into the fancy restaurant, which you would think
is such like a Nick character trait, Like it's it
makes you as an audience root for them. And and
it's so early on because they don't get together till

(13:02):
way later. But it was such like a nice little
like gift that Liz kind of gave us of seeing
them be romantic and then seeing like the heartbreak of
the whole thing where it's him loving her so much
as a friend to do that for her so she
could be with someone else.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
And I like it because it was even set up
that everything surrounding it was set up as a date.
I mean they lived together, however they arrived they arrived separately. Yeah,
And then what I found to be also interesting when
and also telling a bit foreshadowing is when she gets

(13:43):
that message from Sam to leave. You could tell right
away Nick is like internally, you know, he's jealous. Yeah,
he's jealous.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, it's sweet. It's like those old kind of rom
com moments. It felt this was another one of those
episodes that kind of just felt like a bit like
a movie because it had those kind of those these
moments that feel bigger than usually just like than a
twenty two minute episode of TV.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's hard for me to think of it as a
sweet moment. It's beautiful for sure, and I get it,
you know. However, it's hard for me to be like,
oh man, that's such a sweet moment because we see
how they do it. We see how Sam and just
do it. It's aggressive. It's aggressive. Just imagine being Nick
on that date, knowing like, oh man, I just paid
for half a soup and shared this love and laugh

(14:30):
at her. Now she's about to just get tossed the
route up room.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I hate that for him, and I do.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I hate that for him too. But that's those moments
where you kind of really like root for them together
because Nick kind of comes off often as a bit
u I don't know, on the the with some weird
life things that he likes to do that you don't
automatically think that Jess would be a really good pairing
for him. But then you see how far he's willing

(14:58):
to go to like support her, and then you all
of a sudden go like, no, no, no, they've got
the things that matter, they got that foundation. Yeah, want
them to be together. So and here I think, because
we know it like works out, that's why I think
it's sweet.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I guess, oh yeah, especially when you go back and
rewatch it in the moment, when you're watching it, as
in twenty twelve or whenever this episode came out, you know,
when you're watching it in the moment, it is a
bit gut wrenching for you because you're like, as an
audience member, you're like, man, this better payoff is better payoff.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's also one of those moments like this episode where
Winston like tells like just gives some really good advice.
He gives some really good advice, and like it's really
good for just to be called out. It's like that
moment with my friend who built the ikea furniture yeah,
where I had to be like, Yeah, this person is
trying to play a long game and it's not gonna happen,

(15:53):
and so I have to like let him go because
it's he's not going to change what he wants and
I'm not going to change what I want And if
I really care about you as a friend, I gotta
let you go. And it's hard, it's hard to be
grown up in the moment, and it's interesting to watch
Nick and Jess kind of navigate that. But that's all
Winston calling it out and naming it.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh yeah, absolutely, my question for you. Yeah, moving moving
on to the Schmid storyline. Obviously, he goes on a
date with one of these super fans that they're Romney
super fans, you know in those in that in that moment,
you know what is what is going on inside a
CC's skull. You know when she obviously she's moving at

(16:35):
the club.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Here's the thing that's so funny when she sees him
at the club. The thing it made me think of instantly,
and I'm sure you didn't notice this, but it reminded
me of it because it was a big chat on set.
Is that Nikki al care Nicky Chestnut, now married, who
did my hair for many, many, many many years on

(16:57):
New Girl. She still cuts my bangs to this day.
She's the best. But we decided she's like, oh cee,
she's out of the club and she's a models. You know,
she likes to kind of play with her look, and
we pulled my bangs back. Okay, I was wearing a
red leather dress and we pulled my bangs back, and
there was an uproar on set. I walked onto sets

(17:22):
because it's not like our looks got pre approved what
we did with hair and makeup, because there's it's a
network sitcom, so there's you know, you really only can
kind of move on the scale between like a four
and a six. You kind of always have to look
the same for a decade, and.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
You can that's my scale right there, between a four
and a six. That's that's my playing area right there.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
That's right. You can't just show up and be like
I have a huge beard and massive hair now and
just make it work with a character. Network sitcoms don't
work like that. It's a very odd thing, especially when
you do it for a decade, to be like, oh,
sale bangs and long hair got I got it, which
I find some comfort in. It was great. But we
just decided like, oh, let's pull the banks back and

(18:02):
I show up on set to shoot this scene and
it was just an and it's not so easy because
we had to really they're short, my banks. We had
to really HAIRSPRAYM she'll lack them back. It wasn't like
you could just drop them down and they would look
the same.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I need yes, stressing me out, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
So I just remember it was like this huge uproar
and Nikki got pulled aside and she got spoken to
and it was and I was like, no, no, no,
this is me. I I wanted to do this and
I love this look and it's me. And they were like, okay, fine,
well this one time because there was nothing they could
do to fix it, and the scene was about to

(18:41):
shoot and they're like, but never again. And it was
so I still don't fully understand it to this day.
I don't know they thought I would be so unrecognizable
that people wouldn't know it's not CC or something. I
don't know. Yeah, I guess I just remember I'd forgotten
all about it, and then I watched me walk up
in the scene that I just remember them having to

(19:03):
like delay camera for ten minutes, so there could be
this big conversation about my bangs sticking up versus sticking.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
But well, I tell you this, I got face bangs
right now, I got mouth bangs. I got this, uh
these this hand of our mustache situation going on. And
when I walk down the street, this is not this
is not an exaggeration. People will see me, people who
I know, and ask me if I'm okay because I
just like to take walks, and they'll go, you good, bro,
like everything everything, okay, what are you talking about? And

(19:36):
they'll just the way they the way they describe my
look is that of a person who's destituting down on
his luck. And I'm like, my gosh.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's what the mustache does to your whole vibe.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I guess. So you look like, you know, under a bridge,
you know. And you know me personally, I'm a beard guy.
I like my beard. I like to thank you, but
this mustache, you know, it's it's been really unsettling. So
maybe I see what the network was trying to do.
They were like, we don't know, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, they make that joke during this episode about like
the loft. She looks like a loft troll usually, and
maybe that's what it was. They were like, usually you
look like a model on the show, but you look
like a troll with those bangs beIN back. Don't do it,
don't show your forehead. It's been to around. Nobody wants
to look at you.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is that the same club that you guys shot the
model's episode in.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
No, this was some weird little spot that they did
it in and was being doubled for something else. Of
the time, I feel like and I was like, how
are they going to make this work? And they're like,
we're just shooting in this one tiny corner to sell it.
So No, it wasn't. That downtown club is like day
own town, and I think the only ever booked it.
If you're going to be there like for like a
whole day.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, I got a funny story about that particular scene,
us being outside in Winston having to cheat in his
mind the weird stare. We personally were not cheating my mind.
I don't do weird stairs, you know what I'm saying.
I like kind, I'll put shades on. I like to
I like to put a nice pair of shades on.

(21:11):
I like to walk down the street. I like to
check out what's happening on each side of the boulevard,
you know, and I don't, And they don't know. I'm creepy.
They can't tell, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Here's the thing. Is that true? Do you think there's
truth in it that everybody thinks things about other people
that they wouldn't want their spouse to know.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I don't think it's about everyone, but I think you know,
there's a statistic that says people think about sex every
sixteen seconds or something crazy like that. Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe that's just perverts think.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
About perverts of America. They're all perverts, mind you.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
They pulled from the registry. They both they fed one
hundred people on the registry anyway. No, So my point
is about this particular location, right, They they they had
a bunch of background actors there and I see this
one person in particular. They said, hey, La Warren, you
have to you have to look at this particularly. This

(22:20):
is going to be the girl that you that you
look at. Beautiful girl dropped out, gorgeous. The reason why
I could the reason why I could say that no.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
The scene where you look at me is later.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
No no, no, no, no, you didn't have you didn't have
the banks. You didn't have the bank.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Now banks are give me another one.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, okay. But the person that I was that I
was assigned to look at was the next girlfriend of mine. No,
and it ended terribly Yeah, it terribly weirdly. But they
had said, oh man, this is the person you have
to look at, and I was so uncomfortable. I was
so ac off the by the end of it, though

(23:02):
they I didn't see her, and I didn't see her
in the cut. I didn't see her the cut, so
I was like, Okay, have felt like, how awkward was that?
It was very awkward for me, very very awkward for me.
You know, go to our patreon and I'll tell you
the full story. But I can't tell you.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
That's like my living nightmare.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it was bad.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Wow, and you survived to tell the tale I did.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I did.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's some good tea. That's hot and pipe in, stop
talking about it.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I got right. Wolco shoes sho. Okay, So schmid Is

(23:56):
is pretending to be.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
By the way. One of the laugh out loud lines
of this episode is when he says, you don't I
wanna say yeah. Solo Tug Time truly one of the
funniest that I should text JJ and be like who
came up with that joke? Because honestly, I was like,
I laughed out loud.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Solo tug Time is so funny.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I could have given him any name, and I'm like,
did you guys name him tug just for that joke,
because it's so worth it A thousand percent fully respected.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Have you ever? Have you ever been mistaken for someone?
You know what?

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Only once I was mistaken for someone and it was
the most surreal thing. I had just moved to La
I didn't know anybody, Babs, is that you no? I remember?
And a friend of mine had also moved down here

(24:56):
and he was working for like a big record company
and so he had a little bit of income and
a bunch of them were going to Nobuu and I
was like, oh my gosh, it's so fancy. I couldn't
hadn't no boo and I it was just really He's like,
I'll pick you up. And he had like whatever artists
that you know he was working with at the time,

(25:16):
and picked me up and in a limo because that's
back in the day where that was like a flex
like a prom limo. Yeah, well, there's a bunch of
us they're picking up. It's just like pre ubers. So
we all kind of loaded it. I don't remember. There's
definitely some shamps.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
I love some shamps and snacks.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I love some shamps. So we pull up at Nobu
and get out and I had bangs and had pulled
my hair on a ponytail, and all of a sudden,
I get out of this limo and a thousand like
flash bulbs go off, and I was like what. I
was like, who's here? So I'm like looking around and
they're screaming Kim Kim Kim, and they're like Kim Kardashian

(26:00):
and I'm looking for Kim Kardashian and I'm like, I
wonder where she is. I don't know where she is. Is
she over here? I don't know where she And then
I realized that they're taking pictures of me, and my
friend just grabs my hand and like yanks me inside
of Noboo to eat. I remember sitting there being like, oh,
she's gonna be so mad because I Am not trying

(26:26):
to be you. I don't know why. Maybe she was
coming there the same night and they got tipped off
and I just happened to get out of a limo
and they're like, close enough, take the picture, it's gotta
be here. Ye had she had bangs at the time,
she had bangs, and yeah, I guess it was like
a close enough situation that they were like, uh, that's fine.

(26:47):
And you know what years later, I would in those
first few years when I started a New Girl, I
would often get tagged in Geddy as Kim Kardashian.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
So yeah, so there was a moment where we had
a weird crossover. I've never been tagged in her bank
account though, so that's a bit of shame.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, we gotta do something about that. Yeah, Eric, Eric,
I know you know her damn. On multiple occasions, I've
I've you know, been this is a real thing. I've
been mistaken as that that dude from New Girl, and
I just let them, are you that guy? Here? You

(27:26):
get there? Are you that guy? I oftentimes say no.
I say no a lot, but no, there's a I
once let maybe about I want to say, maybe about
ten minutes into a situation, met a girl at a bar.
She kept she thought that I was Jay Farrow from
I'm not getting mistaken for people a lot. This is
the only time I've taken it far. We're at Roger Room,

(27:49):
maybe I forget some bar, and she thought that I
was Jay Farrow, And she was talking to me as
if I was on Saturday Night Live, and I just
let her do it for a long time. We're having
we're having conversation. I'm talking about Lauren Michaels. I'm talking
about like how the writer's room goes, and going on
and on, and finally I was just like, nah, no,
I've never been onld sdel I'm not Jay Pharah. It

(28:14):
didn't end well. She was very disappointed that I was
in Jay Ferrell. Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay, that's okay.
But that's the only time.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Just to take a pause from the episode, just for
one second, how do you answer this question when someone
goes like, oh my gosh, you look exactly look like
that guy from New Girl, like Winston, you look exactly
like him.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
He depends on my mood. I'll get it all the time.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
What do you say back? You say I am him?
Or do you say yeah, I do get.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
That a lot sometimes if I if I if I'm
like not in a very talkative mood, or if I'm
like if I'm in a rush, or whatever the case
may be, I'll be like, I'll be like, oh, yeah,
I get that all the time. And then I'll just
like smile, laugh it off and keep walking. And then
it's like are you wait? Are you him? And I'll
just keep I'll just keep going. But a lot of
times I'll start the bit by saying, really, I go, yeah,

(29:05):
I get the all the time. People always like that
handsome dude or that guy who was just so charismatic
and charming, and you know, I think he's the greatest,
one of the greatest actors. Yeah, one of the greast
actors of all time. Actually, I'll do that bit and
then they catch on that I am him, right.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Because it's a hard one to get out of without
making them feel you know what I mean, I feel embarrassed.
I would be like, oh, gosh, wait a minute, you
are the person. What have I just said?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
I got annoyed the other day though someone did it,
Someone did that, and they wouldn't stop though telling me
that I wasn't him. After I tried to go, yeah,
it's nice to meet you, and it was like, no,
you're not. And then they would they kept coming back
up to me and my friends to like complain that
I'm not him, and I was like, all right, this
is getting old now, like.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I was cool, Sorry to disappoint you.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh she said that on TV, he's he's she thought,
She's like, I'm shorter, you know, then I should be.
I'm not as charming as I should be. Yeah, I
look similar but much better looking on TV. She was
going in and I was like, you go sit your
ass down, get the hell out of my face. Just

(30:17):
starting to get weird now, So if you're feel.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Weird, we got to jump back in because I feel
like every single time we do a Hannah Lamore and
mess Around podcast episode, we should just call it like
the Hannah Lamore in Tangentle mess Around episode. There's no
way to say on track, there's too much to talk about.

(30:40):
We're two close friends where we just like we pop up,
that's just how we are. You're really getting insight to
not only our friendship, but how we were for like
a decade, so that we could cover ninety topics in
sixty seconds. And it was like perfect conversation. Go bye. Okay.
Here's the thing, the thing that I really got thinking
about with the Winston Shelby storyline. Does sex define a

(31:01):
romantic relationship?

Speaker 1 (31:05):
I meet personally. I don't think it defines it, but
it is part of the definition, right, you know, I
think there are multiple things that that that you have
to take into consideration. However, if you are you are
you know, young, but it don't you know, you don't
have to be young. If you're physically attracted to people

(31:26):
and you have working tools, you know, every once in
a while, you should put those tools to use and
fulfill some of it, you know, you know, describe some
of those itches. And if you're not, it causes a
person to wonder why not if you're not open and
communicative about it at about the why not? That where
that's where it could become a problem. Now, there are

(31:48):
some people who who who aren't necessarily that sexually motivated
in relationship. That's that truly is not part of the definition.
It's a bonus, it's a plug. But they both have
that understanding of that's what it is, Schmidt. I mean,
Winston and Shelby, they're on two different pages. I don't
think it's the sex. I think it's the communication. That's

(32:11):
what's going.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, that's the thing too. I was watching because you're
just watching, you're like, well, this is not about the sex.
Like there's a reason why because if you were having
it before and then all of a sudden, you haven't
for close to a month right then, and he was tour,
you know what I'm saying. He was on tour. You
know's you want to be like, well, what's changed and

(32:34):
why don't you And it seems like they had like
they were just incompatible and like their sense of humor
they were incompatible, and how they dealt with conflict. They
were like all of that stuff. You're just like, oh,
that's the thing. So that's just the one thing I
love about this show is that they present things and
they deal with it on the surface like we most

(32:57):
of us, especially in our twenties, when you're dating, do like,
they don't have me. I don't want to be with
them right right, But then it's what they do. It's
so smart with the writing and this is JJ's episode,
who's so talented and so wonderful, but they they show
you those little insights to root causes of the relationships
of of what's making it work or or what's breaking

(33:20):
it apart. But they let the characters deal with it
like you really would, right, But they let the audience
see these two aren't a really good fit.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Well, yeah, it's foreshadowing. No, you know, we'll talk about
that at another time. But what's really under the surface,
you know what I mean? Like, what's you know? And
it goes back to even in the beginning, why they
broke up, why they end up getting back together. Do
they actually know each other a lot? There's a lot
to impact there with their relationship, and I think, well,

(33:52):
obviously if you're a fan of New Girl, you know
how it ends. But you know, communication is at its core. Yeah,
I think if you're not communicating, then who cares if
you're having sex or not? Like that's you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
There's so many like big meme moments that happens in
this episode that I didn't realize they all came from
this episode, right, Like with Nick banging his head against
the pillow, like lying like a little toothpick and he's
banging his head against the pillow. I've seen that a
million times. The CC line about the Taylor swift range

(34:29):
of emotions means I should come over. I've seen that
a million times. I didn't realize it was all in
this episode.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. It's a lot of memorable moments
on this this show memorable moments shows. Was one of
the more memorable shows. I think.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, And I didn't realize it. It's not like Fluffer
isn't one that I like think about a lot when
I think back of like, you know, my favorite New
Girl episodes. But I was like, oh wow, there's a
lot of things that the fans really like latched on
and have made like these big iconic moments coming off
of New Girl.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Another thing. Yes, And people ask all the time, you know,
because Nick Nick, I don't know if this is just
a Jake Johnson thing. He loves getting into slap fights.
I've been in multiple He's been in a lot with Schmidt.
It's just and what's interesting. I think the script will say,
the script will say one person slaps Nick and that's it,

(35:26):
just to keep them in line. But Jake always goes
back and it becomes a whole thing where you're like,
you got heavy knuckles, bro, Like you can't your palms,
your palms are very very rigid and dry, like you
can't you can't slap my face like that. And Jake
loves to and he's not and he and he's not.

(35:48):
He's not careful, you know what I mean. I'm very delicate.
Jake is not careful. We get into a slap fight,
and yet again I have a headache because he's clocking
like like aggressively, you know what I mean. So for
those out there who are probably wondering, yeah, that shit
was real. Yeah, that shit hurt.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Here's what's interesting though, because there's a little bit of
what goes around comes around and what you're saying. Because
later in the series and we'll get to that episode,
but it was in I think the last season, right,
maybe Jake did that with another actor, right, Oh, yes,

(36:31):
and he got really really hurt because it went a
step too far.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
And it was bad. It was bad for everybody all around.
It was an accident and everyone felt super terrible. But
that's that thing where you're doing physical contact and when
you haven't communicated and been clear upfront about how light
we're gonna go yeah, or how heavy we're gonna go. Yes,
somebody's gonna get hurt and it's in our show, in

(36:57):
our series, the one person that actually got hurt and
had to go see a doctor because of a fight
that happens in the show.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Exactly, and we'll tell you more about that later.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it a crazy episode and you know,
it's really nuts. And when we finally do that episode.
I found this recently. I have a video because I
was for that episode. I was standing behind the fake
hallway door that's supposed to be like the stairs of

(37:29):
the building, so across from the elevator, in that hallway,
waiting for my cue to come out because I joined
the scene at a certain point, and I took a
little video through the window because I was like, oh,
this is funny. And it didn't catch the hit, but
it caught a lot of other stuff. So I'll drop
it when we do that. Yeah, I know, I've never
shared it. I should text it you. I've never shared

(37:50):
it with anybody before, kind.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Of turn it into an NFTE.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Worldsar. I was like, oh my gosh, yeah, you got
slapped a lot. You got slapped a lot that was
not scripted.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I'm not okay with that. I still I still, I
still have a problem sleeping at night. Overall with this episode,
you know, what do we learn about relationships? Friendships? You know?
Did you did you watch this episode? Take anything away
from it or these lessons that you've already because it

(38:25):
sounds like you know with your Ika friend, these are
some life lessons that you already know.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, I mean I think that that, which is funny
because that was pre New Girl, that wonderful friendship that
I had. But this this episode reminded me so much
of that stage in your life where you can't ignore
certain signs, right, and you have to kind of do
the hard thing. And I just thought they wrote that

(38:52):
scene so beautiful of confrontation between Nick and Jess right
or she's like I'm not that you know, and then
he's kind of breaking open too and talking about, well,
I am attracted to you sometimes, and I'm okay with
that actually because I don't actually like have sex with you,
the intimate with you, but I can accept that. And
then realizing that every relationship looks different, friendship, intimate relationships,

(39:19):
all of them look different, and as long as you
can both set the boundaries and respect them, then that's
what works for you. Right. I think that I don't know.
It was really interesting because I know that so many
of us have friends of the opposite sex and you

(39:39):
kind of just have to you do have to figure
out where the line is.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, I think so. My takeaway from this thing from
this episode was that it's okay to cheat.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Cheat in your mind. I really was like a big
thing for Winston to say, to be like, well, everybody
or who says it to him, Max Schmid says it.
He's like, everybody does it. That's just normal, like a
human instinct to like fantasize and think about other people,
and it's okay. Yeah, I think that really. I mean,
my brain does not work like that at all. It

(40:17):
just doesn't. It doesn't. You know me well enough to
know it does.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Sure, when the transport guys show up on the New
Girl wearing those tight jeans, no wearing those Confederate flags
of the shirts.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
You show no thank.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
You, no thank you to everybody.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Just no thank you. Oh my gosh. That is Honestly,
if you see me looking at you and my eyes
kind of glaze over, it's because like I'm hungry and
I'm thinking about, like can I pick up my phone
and look at the postmades app or something like it's
there's no. That's not where my mind goes to. There's no. Yeah,
it's all you know, I'm a child of like the nineties.

(40:53):
It's all like stranger danger. I'm not interested in the
stranger danger. I don't know you, I don't know where
you've been. Everybody thinking what you're doing up?

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Everybody's terrifying, everybody's terrifying. Hannah, I got a question for you. Yeah,
it's a very serious question. I'm not sure if you've
not sure, if you've taken a dive into this episode
to find the bear.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Now it's time for where's the Bear?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Where's the Bear?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
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it comes to your journey, Hyundai is thinking of every.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Mile, Hanna, where's the bear?

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Where's the bear? Where is the bear? You guys know
I hunt high and low every single episode. I will
say this season, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need help
from a lot of you listening. Okay, because it's hard
for me to admit this. You guys know that. But
so far in this episode, I have not been able

(41:55):
to find a bear other than the bear on the refrigerator,
which I know Zoe thinks is a cop out, so
I don't like going there. Please DM me, email us,
go on our Instagram, tell me if you find it,
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(42:17):
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(42:38):
up episode New Girl, Season two, Episode three review Fluffer.
There's only one sentence. I'm gonna show two thought Winston
was great. That's the whole. That's the whole.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Big Glad to see my reviews are getting posted. You know,
finally people are sharing my sh.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Now it's time to open up. Schmidt's sex email Bag,
a segment brought to you by Hulu where I answer
a fan question. My favorite thing to do. I love
answering fan questions. Please keep sending them. I love it. Hey, Hannah,
we never get to see CEC's room when she's single,
and I always wondered what that room would look like.
What posters would you have on the wall, Would it

(43:21):
be clean or messy? What do you think CEC's room
looked like? Jeremy L. Kentucky, Huh. I do remember we
shot inside Ceci's room a couple times. One was when
she's super hungover and Jess comes to get her and
like a brush is like stuck in my hair or something,

(43:42):
and she has to I have to go model, like
on a car show. We peeked in there once, and
I do remember there was another one where I just
remember Turbin on or turban off. I just remember that line,
and it was in the room. And the room always
was really small because it was a model's apartment. We're
all sharing. It was a small apartment, small rooms, and

(44:04):
it was relatively clean. I think she was relatively clean
because I think she didn't spend a lot of time there.
I think she was kind of out and about with
her friends and over at the loft.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
So yeah, I wonder what posters she would have had.
That's interesting. I never really thought about that. What posters
would CEC have on the wall? All I think about
when you when you ask me that question. Is that
black and white picture that Schmidt had in his room.
I always thought that was like a really curious piece
of proper art. I don't know, maybe none, Maybe she's

(44:40):
a minimalist.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Welcome, We're back and it's time for true American. A
big question, big game here. It is what songs would

(45:13):
be on your sexy mix?

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Triumph A Wue Tank Clan sped. Hmmm, I can tell
you right now. There's a few. Pony Genuine, Oh my gosh,
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
So I looked at this list right that Joel had sent,
like of all of the questions and the recap and
everything before it came on, and I was like, I
don't know what's gonna be on my sexyes. I guess
pony by Genuine.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta do it. You gotta have that
on there.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
But how weird that our brains went into the same
thing and that song came on. I would be like,
I would feel like I was like in a full
music video. I feel like if a boy played that song,
I'd be like, oh, and like I feel like those
like automatic candles will just go and they'll light and
they'l likes to go and then they'd be like black
sad sheets or something, and I'd be like, not one one.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
That's all. I'm breaking out the baby oil and I'm
humping something. There's an ottoman a couch.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Like Johnson and Johnson's Baby. You'll be okay, gosh, I'm dying.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I could think of yeah, But also I would be
because sometimes you gotta slow it down, because that's a
bit aggressive. Sometimes you want to romance. Sometimes you want
to lay a person down on that ottoman that you
might have been using yourself. I don't know when you
were alone. You know, you find, you find a way.
So if you.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Okay, wait, what's your slow romantic song?

Speaker 1 (46:52):
A Woman's Worth genuine Woman's Work by Max Oh it
right now?

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Open?

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Did you do you hear all the panties melting across America?

Speaker 3 (47:06):
I just heard a bunch of dolphins lose their mind.
The dogs are howling.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Dolphins communicate very well, and I'm a communicator. Ladies.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Oh my god, I never realized that you and I
are so simpatico and like romantic sexy music.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
I never knew that in our whole friendship.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
We'll swap playlists. We will swap playlists.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Well, we swapped sexy playlist. It would just be the
same same.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Dogs, Like you stole my ship, that would be it.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
I forgot to give it to you. I still have
it in my hand. It's all the songs. So that's
that's the one I gave you. What did we just
become best friends? All right, you guys, we love you.
Thanks for tuning in for this very fun episode. Fluffer
learned a lot. Can't believe an X of yours was
in this episode.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Tea, oh tea, one hundred percent. All right, folks, make
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(48:19):
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Speaker 3 (48:59):
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