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January 31, 2022 52 mins

Welcome back to our show! This week we're talking about Kryptonite, and Winnie the Bish's inagural appearance on New Girl. Zooey explains how she petitioned the studio to bring in Lamorne after Coach. Lamorne and Hannah breakdown what it was like to come on a show where everyone was already emeshed in the creative process. Plus, we've got another fun round of True American! Play along with us. If you'd like to ask us a question, please send us an email to welcometoourshowpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @welcometoourshowpod.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Zoe and Lamar and Hannah and we're
here with our show. I don't know why I said
a couple of things. I don't know why I said
my name that way. I thought you said, I thought
you said. I thought you didn't really, I was kind
of put on the spot. You pause, and I thought
you were gonna say it. And then I just like Snapper,

(00:22):
I like, I like to hear your sweet malfilasime MOI
you take a dramatic beat to show your range, ring ring,
ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe? Oh, hello, Lamarne,
let's patch in. Hannah. God, I forgot what it was
like working with you guys. Hey guys, it's Zoe, deshadel

(01:00):
Ends and Hannah. And I think that was better. That
was a lot better. We have a lot of women
listeners and they just like my it's like a soothing
voice for the ladies. And then I did that. I
just screwed it up. It was I like your normal voice,

(01:22):
in addition to your your radio voice, my normal voice
like this, Yeah, I mean, I like, I like, I
like it all. My Robert Downey doing your tropic thunder voice.
It's also sounds like you do you remember, like there

(01:43):
were a lot of like euro bands from the euro
dance bands from the nineties that had a guy that
would wrap with a voice like that, like that Barbie song.
It sounds like that Hush yeah, it sounds like that.
It always it sounds like the beginning of the Joda

(02:03):
see Cry for You, Oh Hello Baby. It's the one
from yeah yeah right back of all Time, right next
to she and him Thank you? I love Do you

(02:25):
love that? Boy Bands have to always announce their presence
with a song that tells you about them as a
as an entity, like Motown Philly is voice demands like
and then there's like Backstreets back right, Yeah, yeah, you
got exactly. They all have to tell you about themselves

(02:49):
and intros on you want to make to get everybody familiar,
because you know, people have their specific they're a fan
of a specific character, if you will, and it's kind
of about him. Yeah, It's kind of like when you
have that intro song, you're like, Okay, we got this
out of the way. Now I can find which one
of you guys I like the most. Also, in the nineties,

(03:10):
there was always two that were very hard to distinguish
between like in Sync and Backstreet Boys. Yeah, and there
was in the UK. It was like take that and
I obviously like, take that better because I can't even
remember the other one. And they were like, so they
were take that and give that very many records because

(03:31):
people like take that better. Um So Previously a New Girl,
the episode is one oh two Kryptonite Coaches out, Bye
Bye Damon. Will we ever see him again? The real

(03:52):
fans know, and Winston returns to the law from his
adventures in lat You're gonna love Winston, I do believe.
Here's the thing. Winston wants his room back, but Schmidt
is the top dog now and he refuses to give
up the room. Eager to be just one of the guys.
Jess tries to surprise Winston, but Winston is hungover. Winston

(04:16):
been drinking. Nick begs her to keep it down, but
she wakes him up, needless to say, when he is pissed,
just complains she is out of clothes. She left all
of her things at her excess house. Schmidt allows her
to borrow from the Lost and Found box of his
sexual escapades. And if you know New Girl, then you

(04:37):
know Schmidt be having some escapades. Sexually. Trying to be
one of the guys, Jess accidentally hits their TV with
a basketball. She don't know how to handle the rock y'all.
Now Jess must pick up her items from her ex
boyfriend's house. Jess valuanly tries to get her things back,
but she's still under the spell of Spencer's perfect hair.

(05:00):
I mean, if you've seen his hair, wouldn't you. Meanwhile,
with her friend's support, a few drives around the block
and an evidence of a beloved plants neglect, Jess finally
gets the hotspah. The hotspah to get her TV, which
she drops, said Jess, but hey, is better than not
having a TV at all. And now back to the show.

(05:24):
It was one o two. But what we call that
the first episode, I don't know. I get confused. It
was It wasn't the it was the epode. It was
because you shot the pilot already and you had a
bit of a gap in between shooting the pilot and
in the second episode. How long was that gap. I
think we shot the pilot in April, and I think

(05:45):
we shot the first episode in September something like that.
It's kind of like school here a little bit but
more time everyone. So there's this funny thing that I
always noticed with pilots to first episodes, because there's was
a lag time between the pilot and the first episode
or the you know, or the second episode, whatever you

(06:06):
want to call it, and everyone always gets more fit
than they were. Everyone else goes to the jam a
lot while they're waiting, and then you come back and
you're like whoa. Yeah. I think Max was like, I
have to take my shirt off again, give me three months.
I got it very perfect because he took it into
the CrossFit gym. Yeah oh yeah. That first season he

(06:28):
was like they were making him take off his shirt
off like on an episode basis. I feel like, well
he was. He was also very very dedicated to I
mean he would work out. We'd have six am call times,
so sometimes earlier and he'd already gone to the gym.
He became dedicated. I think once we got like he
knew that we were picked up and that was going
to be a thing, because him and I talked about it.

(06:50):
Because I remember finding out there's an episode coming up
where I'm like sun tanning on a roof, and I
remember calling Liz Maryweather into my trailer because I saw
the wardrobe, big quotations around that where I was like
hanging up my trailer and I was like, I was
not aware this is a comedy that I would have
to be like. I was so nervous about it. And

(07:12):
I remember Max talking to me and he was like, Oh, yeah,
I feel like this is going to be a thing
but for you and I and I'm now I'm going
to the gym constantly. And I was like, OK, you
gotta go to the spray tan person. That's the sprays
that you gotta go to. You a steroid guy. Thankfully,

(07:32):
the spray tan thing I had covered from my mama
and my dad that would happened in Utero. So today
we're going to, uh, we're going to revisit kryptonite. Yeah, kryptonite.
Spencer was my kryptonite. For those who aren't familiar with
what kryptonite is, it's that little green interstellar stone that

(07:57):
can kill Superman or stop Superman or get rid of
his power. It weakens you're Achilles heal, It's right. And Spencer,
which I probably laughed the most out this moment and
I shouldn't have. It was based on the pilot but
also into this episode as well, how because I mean,

(08:18):
he's a good looking guy, but he's not your typical
Chris Hemsworth what Hollywood will tell you. But the way
you've fallen over him is as if he is Fabio
in the nineties. Takes his helmet off and he does
all this. His hair was beautiful, and you play it
so believable. Thank you. You know what I was thinking.

(08:41):
And I was like, it's so funny because I had
seen the episode of the first step of the pilot
a lot of times. I haven't seen all the other
episodes a lot of times, and I was just thinking
how great you guys were, and Max and Jake like everyone.
I was like, Oh, in my mind, I had had
thought that it took us a longer time to like

(09:03):
figure it out. I was like, no, all of my
co actors had this figured out, like from day one,
Like you guys were fantastic. That is not how I
felt you were. So you're really great. You're really great
day one. Day one. I was afraid day one because

(09:23):
you guys had a thing going on already, and all
I kept getting was, Oh, it's you're replacing Damon, even
though that wasn't necessarily the case, so I was like, Okay,
Damon is so great, how do I I don't know
what to do? And I couldn't. I couldn't find bits
or play in some of the lines because I was
so nervous. I just wanted to like say the lines

(09:43):
as an actor as and not do any bits, just
just like played as real as I could possibly play it.
It was so great. I thought it was. I thought
that top Dog bit like worked so well because you
and Jake were like playing it really in a very
grounded way. And then Max so believably wants to be

(10:07):
the and it's like, when I think of that storyline,
it sounds like if you described it, it could sound
like it could go broad, and it didn't at all.
You guys played it so well. You were all great.
And then Hannah when you come in the like you're
so dry and hilarious. I was just really it was.

(10:30):
It was so fun watching it. It was fun to
just to echo what little more and said, because I
remember I only had two very quick scenes and that episode,
one coming into the loft and then one when we're
you know, like basically like in the car and then
we go into the house. But I will never forget
because it it had been a huge gap, so I
hadn't seen you guys, and you guys have been shooting

(10:53):
all week all together, and then all of a sudden
to pop in and the first thing we shot for
me was that I had to take the bike, and
I've forgotten all about it until I watched it, and
I had like a PTSD response to my body watching it,
and I was like, oh God, I remember walking the
bike out of the house that was full of stuff

(11:15):
in these ridiculous like four inch wedge heels they put
me in to make me look like I'm a model
because you and I are the same height. Yes, So
I forgot. I totally forgot that they made this really
big thing out of like, well, hand it is supposed
to be a model and models are tall, which is
like not true, like a lot of models are different sizes,
and like, yeah, runway models are tall, but like in

(11:38):
l A you have a lot of print models who
aren't really tall. But they made this very big deal
out of it, and so then they decided you had
to be in foreign shields at all times and all
time whenever you're standing next to me because we are
the same height. Yes, it was the craziest thing. And
so I was just watching my you know, young self.

(12:00):
I just remember when they called action and I was
just like, get down the stairs, don't fall, don't drop
the bike, don't drop anything. Because the cold crew is
watching you. You're tiny, little bit. You have to do
very like cool and be like you can keep the bell.
I was so scared I would have tripped. Hannah. I
hats off to you, but should have done I've done

(12:21):
plenty of Yeah. It just to recap guys. Um in
this episode just needs to get her stuff back from
that heartthrop Spencer well, and and it's motivated by the
fact that, um, I break the TV with a basketball, right,
and um everyone's mad at me for breaking the TV,

(12:43):
and the guys put pressure on me saying I need
to go back to Spencer's house or my old house
and grab my stuff. And it's just very hard for
me because Spencer is my kryptonite. He's your kryptonite, he's
your fabio. And uh, it's interesting. I I wasn't. I

(13:04):
should have gone back and looked at the pilot. Was
that basketball hoop there in the pilot episode or was
it there because my character showed up, but he used
to play back. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't there
until that episode that you yeah, that was one of
your things you brought from. Yeah, I a professional basketball players, like,

(13:29):
what was it like a Fisher Price seven fop? Yeah, listen,
just talk to any pro ball player. They'll tell you. Yeah.
I just called Lebron. He just said, yeah, I got
a couple of those in my bag, five and a
half footer. Yeah, you got a practice somehow? How is

(13:51):
he going to practice? I remember that I didn't know
anyone really. I met Max a couple of times. UM
just out and about um to the show. But Jake
and I we had talked beforehand about playing being from Chicago,
things we like the sports that we like Chicago sports
basketball and basketball being one of those things. And in

(14:13):
that little moment when we're discussing Schmid and everybody else
and we're playing basketball, and for me, I thought, I said,
my god, this job is going to be a cake walk.
I just get to sit around a basketball hoopball day
and dunk the bask. I was like, this is so fun.
If I could do all my lines right here, just

(14:33):
like how Jake does alw his lines sitting on the
couch like this would be this would be two of
my favorite things combined into one. But that was not
the case. That was not the case at all. I
do remember because they stuck me in those foeign chiels
for at least six years that I was always standing.
I would walk into the loft and be standing in
these heels. I feel like after a while they kind

(14:54):
of like let you be your height for certain I
think it took like five seasons. Yeah, it took a
little nut, but I remember being so uncombed and I
was telling Jake, I was just like, my feet are
like like literally destroyed. And he was like, yeah, you
made a mistake. He made a mistake. And the and

(15:14):
the pilot of not like saying it was a character choice.
He's like, for your for and to choose things that
would be comfortable, he said. I said that Nick is
the kind of guy that's always just sitting on a
couch with a bear in his hand, and uh, like
how that's worked out for me? And I was like, Dash,
it's like that's genius advice for an actor. Yeah, sit down,

(15:37):
have a drink. My favorite part about Jake Johnson's approach
approach to the day. So for the folks out there
and listener land, we get to set, we have our
lines memorized. Maybe we don't, but we do a quick
rehearsal and the quick blocking rehearsal so the crew can
know exactly what our movements will be. The director gives

(15:57):
us ideas, we give the director ideas, etcetera. I remember
Jake always always rebutting it, going no, I see why,
I think my character will be sitting here. He would
do it so much. He would do so and then
he look over at you and wink. You know that
was like, that was my introduction. I don't feel comfortable.

(16:19):
I don't feel they'd be like I think, Jake, you
walk in, He goes, no, I don't feel comfortable. I
think I'm sitting on the couch. It works, It worked.
It it's a game part of the character, whether it
was meant to be or not. Very intentional choices and

(16:39):
I I have to so we could write his lines
on the notebook and Casey forgets them. Just tuck your
sides in there, it's fine. That's why working behind the bar.
Eventually when they put me there, that's also a Jak trick.
He was like, they never see below the bar, which
Marley Brando, by the way, would do that. He always
had his written everywhere. Isn't there like an infamous picture

(17:02):
where like he had stuck his lines on the off
camera actor's face. Yes, the famous picture of it, and
he's just like reading it, but in an incredible performance.
He's delivering what he's just reading the same thing we're
discussing now. We talked about it on set, and I
remember as a bit once Jake stuck his lines to

(17:23):
Max's forehead off camera and they did a scene that way. Now,
I was again, I wasn't there in the beginning. It
will dive more into the episode, but I wasn't there
in the beginning. Um, And so for me when the
show got picked up, it was exciting, but it wasn't
that exciting because I wasn't on it. I was like, damn.

(17:44):
I was like, man, I knew I should have did
that show. Um, how did you guys feel, I mean
imagining excited? What were you going through? What was happening
in your life when you heard that yes, it's it's
gonna go. I definitely felt like like every movie that
I ever did where I had fun on set would
turn out well, and if I didn't have fun on set,

(18:06):
it wouldn't turn out well. And it was this weird
thing where I know a lot of people have totally
different experiences than than that, and this was just my experience.
And so we had so much fun making that pilot
that I was like, this has got to turn out well,
and it's I was like, they have to pick this up.
Like I just I felt like so confident that like

(18:28):
we had such a great, you know, group of people,
and like, you know, I just felt like it was
I hate to say no brainer, because like, look, I
know tons of factors, you know, go into picking out
the shows that get picked up, but you know, Liz
being so talented, us having you know, Jake Kaz and
Brett Dave, great team you know in the writing room,

(18:49):
and you know, on the directorial side, and then like
getting such a good, you know cast, Like I'm not
patting myself on the back, I mean, like, you guys
are all so great. So I just felt like I
felt really lucky to be working with all these people.
So and I've been working I know, I felt like

(19:11):
it was going to happen, and then when it did,
I was like, we're all on the same page. If
it didn't if it hadn't gotten picked up, I would
have been so sad. So really, um yeah, I just
really really wanted to keep working with everybody. So you know,
it's hard to say. I mean, I was overjoyed that
this long story short. I was overjoyed what about you Annah?

(19:34):
And then and then you know, I was sad that
Damon couldn't do the show. But then when we got
to circle back to Lamourne, and I have to say,
we all rallied so hard to get Lamourne on the show.
Like I wrote emails called people. I know, Jake did,
Max did. I don't know what you were doing. I
did not call anybody, and like she has zero power

(19:57):
at that point of my career surfing. I was like,
I remember, I could probably find the email and maybe
I'll find it and read it. On another episode where
I could find the email, I wrote, I can't remember
if I think I might have written to Kevin Riley,
who was heading up the network UM at the time,
and I remember saying, like, I really believe that Lamore

(20:18):
and Morris is the man for this job. Please give
him your I was like he's so great. Come on, now,
what I'll tell you about finding out our show was
picked up That it has ruined me for the rest

(20:39):
of my life because because it was my first pilot experience,
it was my first real pilot experience. I shot one,
then it got picked up, and I just thought, Yeah,
that's what could happen. You do a show, you're doing
really great people, it's really wonderful. And then it picks
up and then it runs for you know, eight nine years,

(21:02):
and everybody's really wonderful. That's a great experience. And then
I got out into the real world. You got it
was a very different thing. And so for me, it's
it's interesting that I was so new to the industry
here in l a UM and how tough this business
can be, and and all the different factors like you

(21:24):
said they go into actually picking up a pilot and
how it lines up with their schedule. Like I didn't
know any of that, so I it made perfect sense
to me. I was like, it was a great pilot,
I guess, and then it becomes a show. And now
in retrospect, I'm like, holy smokes. Even like the best pilots,
there's no guarantee and how lucky we were that the

(21:47):
stars like aligned for us that we got picked up.
So yeah, I don't know if I had actually that
much like that, the level of deep gratitude that I
now only have in hindsight after seeing how like amazing
pilots getting passed over and all that stuff that I've
learned over the years. So um, I definitely was just like, yeah,

(22:11):
of course, cool, all right when we start work, and
the fact that they were willing to kind of like it,
take a chance on like a show. I mean, look,
it's an ensemble. All shows end up being ensembles. But like,
you know, the fact that it was you know, had
strong female characters. Um, I gotta I have to say,
up to that point, there weren't a ton. There weren't

(22:35):
a ton. So um that year was the year they
actually kind of started picking up more shows with female
leads and stuff. Um. And and they were like yeah, exactly, yeah,
two two Broke Girls Mindy Project was like next year. Yeah,
it was. It was. It was kind of a little
bit of a renaissance where they were like, oh, girls,

(22:57):
I guess they can be funny. The height of the conversation,
like really, the height of that ridiculous conversation. Remember, like
Tina Fey and all of these women and Liz and
you having to deal with this question of like, you know,
people say women can't be fun like it wasn't just
like a smattering of that conversation. Yeah, And also shockingly,

(23:20):
they were like, but can can a girl be pretty
and funny? And You're like, I can't even answer that question.
I mean that always is the question, isn't because can
they to do two things at once? That might be
it's hard being pretty and it's hard being funny. I

(23:45):
remember to go back to what Anna was saying. I
remember towards the end of New Girl, we were coming
to an end. I was talking with Max on set
and Max had done a number of you know, pilots
that didn't go recurs on show. Was you know, he's
been around the block and New Girl obviously was it
was a blessing to his life. And I asked him,

(24:07):
I said, I said, man, you know, I don't know
if I'm gonna, like, I wonder what work would be
like after this, And he was like, it's all downhill
from here. Man. Let's just say he goes. We got
very lucky. He goes we got very, very lucky on
this show. He goes, this doesn't happen often, and I
you know, obviously, you know we we still continue to
work in some capacity and we do shows or movies

(24:30):
or we do a podcast about let me do a podcast.
It was such a fun time like each other, such
a fun time. All right, let's dive right back into Yes,
let's do it. Thanks for keeping us on track. So
every once in a while, I'm gonna call you morning

(24:50):
because it's your nick name, morny. That's what my that's
what my my nieces called me morning. My grandma used
to call me that. She used to say, good morning morning,
so cute um miss that woman. But the beginning of
this episode, the cold open, it was one of the
funniest things I've seen, and it's really said up the

(25:12):
dynamic beats of the characters in the loft, with Schmidt
asking you where he's the most sexy, and how I
can see the transition between You're going, is he being
serious too? Oh? I could play a game with him,
and then Nick instantly going because they know each other

(25:32):
for the longest time, it's like, oh, I can play
this game with him, and then the question I have
is where did Schmidt look the sexiest on the chair?
On the chair, beds trying too hard, the side of
the chair, he kind of looks weird. The chair he
just looks like normal and kind of relax, you know.
And he set it up right. He was like, I'll
be shooting here just like clipping through a magazine, be

(25:53):
a real cash. On the bed, Yeah, I like the
bed just because every time he jumped on the bed
he did the same smooth every single time, smooth smooth
sheets that it was funny. The thing I loved about
that scene too, was it became one of those things

(26:14):
that was like an like an on camera, off camera
thing that felt true to life that translated in chemistry,
which was like these bits, you know because obviously and
it was like the first time we saw like a
jessin Nick bit um and like the easy chemistry of
that and how it worked and those things lived like

(26:34):
off camera so much and I was like wow an
episode two, like they had like a bit and it
worked and it was funny. And then the person caught
on that they were being messed with. Um, yeah, I
thought that was actually pretty cool. Um. I think we
need to take a little break. Break time, let's go

(26:56):
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(27:21):
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were talking about our onset bits, and I do have
to say, there is this there was this kind of

(27:41):
cool thing about this show that we could all do
like mix and match with who we were having our
storylines with, you know, because you might have a story
like I might have a week where I'm just working
with Lamuren or a week where I'm not just but
mainly working with Lamar and mainly working with Hannah, mainly
working with Jake, mainly working with Max. And I kind

(28:04):
of treasured all those, you know, those weeks where when
I got to kind of you know, bond with each
one of the cast members, and and then we kind
of saw what those dynamics were because they all changed
our performances, and like, you know, we're all different people
when we're around, are various friends and family and co workers.

(28:24):
So that was one thing that I definitely saw in
this episode was that, you know, because um, you know
it was our dynamics were just forming. Um, you really
start to see the genesis of those things. So thanks
for pointing that out, Hannah. Oh yeah, I can tell
you this to to piggyback what you're saying. You're saying

(28:47):
it was exciting. I was nervous because I like people's energy.
It doesn't show at all. You're like, seems so cool.
It does feel like you're such a perfect fit. But yeah,
it was the first dance. I was like, oh gosh,
it's am I gonna be funny? Are they gonna be mean? Like?
How's it? Like? How's this work? Because I was so

(29:07):
used to doing at that point. Up until that point,
I hosted television shows before, and I had done a
bunch of commercials where there wasn't a ton of scene work.
It was just you doing a bit to the camera
or with one other person, you know, and then you
go home this you know, throughout the course of the
day you had a scene with everybody and sometimes the
entire group, and you're just trying to find find your place.

(29:30):
And I'll be honest with you, I was the most
nervous um doing obviously doing scenes with Zoe just because
I was well, yeah, and at first, well, I mean,
god damn movie star. So I was like my first
I was like, this doesn't make any sense, Like like
like you were saying, this is my first pilot experience,

(29:50):
like pilot season and all that stuff. I didn't. I
was just kind of showing up and here's this what
we've done a hundred movies that she was young. The
whole family's crushing it in this particular arena. So there's
a certain level of professionalism and skill that you have
to have and experience um brings you a lot of that,

(30:12):
and I knew I wasn't experienced it. So it's like
I don't want to. I kept thinking, like when we
do these two shots, I don't want to mess up
her stuff. Just like so good A little more, I like,
I I didn't know. That's how I felt. I didn't know,
and you were so good, like right out the gate,

(30:33):
I um, I mean I turned into a superhero. Yeah, well,
I know we all know that, we all know the
end of the story. We're just very humble, very humble.
I wouldn't like you guys know, I'm a superhero, right,
I'm very humble but super just happy to be the

(30:54):
best genre of comedy. It's funny. I was thinking about
the difference between the pilot and this episode, because when
I watched the pilot, I was like, this is timeless,
Like they're so smart, there's nothing that dates this UM show.
You can watch it now and it's there's nothing that
throws you. And then I started watching this second episode

(31:16):
and I was like, again, they're doing it. I'm like,
this must have been a really conscious choice to make
sure that nothing will date this. And then all of
a sudden flipping which I actually think that they had
him have a flip phone, which was at that time
a really old thing to have, because they were like, well,
Nick would have like a really old phone. But then

(31:39):
that's had a really good picture, like I don't know why.
It was like watching soccer or something. I don't know, yeah, football.
Somehow the picture was just clear as like as if
he were watching like a a high quality that's true,
it's dating futuristic technology. Yeah it was. It was probably

(32:02):
UM done in post so it looked really good. And
we know for a fact that Jake, well, I don't
want to say fact, I do believe Jake had a
flip phone. He did, Yeah, he did. He's not a
tech guy. Oh fun story about Jake's on the iPhone.
There is a maybe a couple of stories about how

(32:25):
technologically advanced he is. So on the iPhone, there's a
button to put your phone to sleep. We're gonna turn
the screen off. You just hit the side button, right,
You just hit that little button every I think people
who have iPhones, no, let's click that button. It turns
the phone. Most most smartphones, probably all smartphones have a
button that when you want the screen to go dark,
you just press it. When we were filming, we were

(32:46):
sitting on the couch, obviously Jake's favorite place, and I
remember him he kept turning his phone in between takes.
He text and then he would turn his phone upside
down and put it under a pillow, and he kept
doing I was like, why are you keep turning your
phone side down? And he was like, uh, they took
all this time to light that set. I don't want
to have a stupid light shining up. I said, what

(33:10):
do you mean, he goes the phone the light from
the phone. I don't want it to be shining It's like,
and that's Jake put the phone to sleep? Is that?
What does that mean? It was like, just hit that
button and he goes, what what button? The button on
the phone and he hits the button. It was like,
am I supposed to know that? You get a phone,

(33:32):
don't you press the buttons? Did you think it was
just there for show? He had no idea we could
do a whole episode dedicated to Jake Johnson and his
lack of awareness around certain technological things, especially with his phone.
He told me his phone didn't have Wi Fi when
he had the latest iPhone and that's why he couldn't

(33:55):
use it on the sound stage. And I was like,
that's delicately walked through how I didn't get the WiFi plan. Why,
like it doesn't have WiFi. I was like, honey, yeah, Linda, Linda, Linda.
It all falls into the old man, yes, like he's

(34:17):
an old man living in a young man's body. Oh yeah.
I want to say. He had done a movie where
he was a drunk and ceremony I believe it was
he was like drunk out of wedding and a lot
of folks talked about how funny drunk a great movie
yes directed that. Yeah, I haven't seen it, um, but

(34:40):
I will watch I will watch it when it hits theaters.
I'll watch it. Um when the world opens back up
it hit theaters. Yes, it's gonna my bad. That's on me.
That is on me. Um um. But Jake being drunk
Jake when in Wild Jake in excited, any anytime there's

(35:02):
a moment where he has to go crazy, I think
it's really really funny. And when you break the TV,
his stressing over the television, it was so funny. So
I have to say I I I can't keep track
of how many times like he like all you guys
made me laugh in this episode. Like I was like,
oh my god, and I laughed out loud. I Um,

(35:25):
but yeah, Jake made me laugh. The thumb ring, uh
Max and the thumb ring Mamie laughed so hard, you Lamuren,
and you're like hilarious, playing it cool, like no, no,
the top dog that made me last hard And Hannah

(35:47):
when you're like your hand is on my leg and
he's like your hands on my leg and you're like no,
it's not so good. Amazing delivery, and then everybody you
know standing down, is that what we call it stand
up standing down. I don't know I'm making stuff up,

(36:09):
but standing down is that when we're all staring staring
down who plays Spencer Ian very funny guy, very funny guy,
everyone staring him down, coming in supporting Jazz just a
really fun hilariously and there were a lot of things

(36:33):
that made me laugh that all you guys did. Is
it true that there there was so much chemistry between
you and Jake in the beginning that you guys couldn't
be in the same shot together because it was just bing.
They remember them saying that that they were like, listen,
you guys have such good chemistry that like, this is

(36:55):
a series, like we have to play this out over time,
and we don't want to put you guys in the
in the same like storylines together because we're worried that
people are And I was like, what are you What
isn't that like a good thing? I think we all
had good chemistry together, like from the get go, you know,
in different ways. But yeah, they did say they wanted

(37:18):
to play out that storyline that are chemistry was really good.
I just want to make a quick thing because I'm
gonna probably do it leading up to certain things. We
didn't know anything about Winston, and this is the first
time I realized Liz was a psycho in a good way.
Uh my character owning up to save the best for

(37:39):
last by Vanessa Williams on his pregame mix that that's
the first clue to Oh, okay, there's something off about
this guy. And in each episode you'll find a little
thing that that will tell the tale of what Winston
will ultimately end up becoming. And I didn't realize it
in the moment. I didn't realize it until much much later.

(38:01):
I kept looking thinking back, going, wait, there are breadcrumbs
leading to this happened. It was trying things in the
weird obviously stuck around. You know it's interesting too, though,
is I was thinking about that an episode two they
did plant the seeds for little things that became these
then really known and loved character traits like your weirdness.

(38:23):
But they also had Max. I shouldn't even say that,
because I bet you they didn't have Max. Max probably
chose to do this thing like that's great, keep it
or he said foul Kate, And I'm sure he was
just supposed to say for nicate And he said it
in a weird way, and it stuck and it became
one of those like schmidtism's that stuck around. Yeah, and

(38:47):
I will say, actually that what happened Schmidt happened that
was actually sort of a spin off from one. I'm
pretty sure correct me, guys, if if you were remember differently.
But I'm pretty sure that David Near had improvised like
Schmidt happens, or that Max had improvised Schmidt happens in

(39:10):
the first in the pilot, I can't remember. We'll have
to ask around and see what other people remember, but
I remember there being an improvisation like which David Near
every time, you know, in the in that pilot, every
time they would do a different take, he would improvise
some other thing based on Schmidt. And he said, I'm

(39:33):
pretty sure he said Schmidt happens, or that Max said it,
and that it got written into that next episode, even
though it didn't make that pilot episode. At the end
when he says you got uh, you got some Schmidt
on your face because we were just tossing stuff out,
I feel like I pitched that joke. I believe that
I feel like I did. I'm not on a thousand

(39:54):
percent but I remember thinking that tossing out a bunch
of jokes. I want to say that was I tossed that.
Woul take the credit. I wrote, you are the only
cast member that that wrote an episode and directed. Oh alright, guys,

(40:16):
we're gonna take a little break now and sell some
things that lamore neuses. It's gonna be a tampon commercial.
I know it. I would take a lifetime. I probably
have tampons. That's fine, it's useful. So a little trivia

(40:37):
before we go to our break, um and hopefully when
we come back, so we'll have an answer and maybe
we'll leave this up to the fans. But one of us,
one of the characters from New Girl, was actually in
a tampon commercial. Really come back, okay, and we're back

(41:04):
from the break. Welcome back to our show, the Zoe
Lamourne and Hannah show um that's yet to be named.
So Lauren dropped a little piece of trivia before we
went to break, and I love to hear the answer, okay,
which one of the New Girl characters was in a

(41:25):
tampon commercial? And the answer is, of course, Jake Johnson, Yes,
I remember him. Tell it's like this, The girl in
the commercial has it's like her life before she has

(41:47):
these new tampons or is it pads or something. I
don't know. It's her life before in her life after.
Her life before like sucks. Her life before. Her life
after is great. And the guy and before it's Jake Johnson.
I feel like they were really mean to him while
they were shooting it too, right, do you remember that

(42:09):
part that they were like super mean to him and
he had to eat with background he couldn't eat eat,
didnt give him a trailer just says wait in your
card to eat food. Give him. They didn't see him
as becoming a huge star of screen and screen that

(42:31):
he is. Now you got to earn your dues. Yeah, okay,
So we have a little game to play before we go.
Do You're American? It's called True American where they were

(42:52):
exchange weekly and you leave more confused than when you
showed up. This week, we are um going to play
a game called Choose your Fighter. Um. In today's episode,
Nick tells Jess that Spencer is her kryptonite. He is,
of course, referring to the glowing green rock that steals
Superman's powers. So today we're going to decide which superhero

(43:14):
stripped of their powers would win in a fight, and
you guys are going to tell us who won in
a social media poll. Okay, so we're just picking superhero Okay,
so we're stripping them of their powers, so just like
in a fist fight, like they become regular. Well, so
I feel like Batman doesn't really have powers, so I
feel like he would win, Like he has that guy

(43:36):
that like build stuff for him, right, Like he's got
like all the cool stuff and like that's not those
aren't superpowers, right, He's got so many gadgets like Superman.
I feel like he's probably like ripped, right, But or
does that only happen once put the suit? It's hiding

(44:00):
it as Clark Kent or as Clark Kent, like he
Clark Kent's not before Jake Johnson. Clark can't. He's Superman.
He's Superman, so he's got braun. Batman has gadgets. Um,
I don't know any other I'm gonna go outside the

(44:22):
box of thinking of what a superhero is like, way
outside the box. Okay, don't say Neil deGrasse Tyson, don't
say Ruth Vader gets Okay, my mom Sally for one second,
you really hate the baby voice. Um, if you really

(44:45):
get he genuinely gets creeped out. It's got like it's
like a weird phobia of yours. Um. So here's my pitch.
Why do you hate babies? Little more? Babies grown up
sound like babies? I guess like, oh, you guys, like

(45:12):
everybody out there, if you're casting them, I can do
it if like anybody falls out. Okay, this is my
very outside but stick with me. Okay, any of the
care Bears because when you know they're not technically they
have all these like weird powers. But even if you

(45:34):
strip them, they're a bear. Yeah, but they're like bear,
that's like lavender, and they're super power change their nature,
that's true. I mean you're making Superman get into a
fist fight. Maybe they would. I mean it's a brawl
and bear. I'm just putting it out there. I mean,
I love the care Bears, but them and I love

(45:55):
them too, And I will say what I will. Zoe,
You're you're Batman because Batman is his intelligence, his superpower fact.
I think, so yeah, yes, yeah, he becomes a superhero
because he has the grit to do so. So are
you taking away his intelligence? He's just the rich dude.

(46:16):
Oh no, no, no, no, he has the intelligence. I
don't think it's a that's not superpower though. I think
his superpower is that he wants a superpower so bad
that he is like with his resources, his intelligence and
his his money and all that, he set it up
so that he u I don't even watch Batman movies,

(46:38):
by the way, Like I haven't been a Batman movie
and like since I was a child. Yeah no, but seriously,
he is the best superhero. I seem to know a
lot about him, having you seem to be leading this
basically nehero. I don't like watch superhero movie. Really. You
know who's definitely losing the fight Spider Man. Oh yeah, yeah,

(47:02):
he's a boy boy banks outfit, right. Yeah, he's walking
around and he can barely see the problem is he
would do the first time he would test the super powers,
he would go in the building, he would jump off
and realize he doesn't have super powers? Is no more
Spider Man? Yeah? And the last super like the last

(47:22):
superhero movie I saw, which was actually fantastic, was that
into the Spider Verse. Fantastic movie that Jake Johnson is
does a voice in and sitting on a couch drink
and literally everyone becomes Spider Man in that movie. Like,
I mean, they have like twelve different spider right, so

(47:44):
if you struck those away, none of them have like
really what it takes to beat to be a Batman
in a fight, that's for sure. Well I'll challenge you
to this one. Okay, challenge le. So my favorite movie
of all times The Matrix, Right, Okay, Kiana Reeves, that's
it's the best. But you you could say that Kiana

(48:06):
Reeves is a superhero in this movie right now, when
you strip his superpowers away, you know, his ability to
bend time and matter and create things out of his brain,
whatever the Matrix allows, whatever the program allows, he just
becomes a regular old dude. But what we know is

(48:26):
that when Kiana Reeves a regular old dude, he's John
Wick Baas. So are what is what we're saying? Like, so,
what we're saying, or what you were proposing, is that
Kiana Reeves just wins Keanu Reeves as a superhero. You

(48:48):
know what? Okay, can I just say I agree with
you Reeves wins. I say he was on a plane
that I was on once and he seemed very nice.
And you know it was not a private plane. Stop
making me into this. I go on normal planes just
like everybody else. Um, But Keanu Reeves seems really nice

(49:14):
and I support him. I would I put my money
on Kanu against Batman. Okay, so Kanu Batman, we're gonna
leave it. We gona. We're gonna leave it there. We're
gonna leave us up to the to the audience. If
you have any other ideas, who do you say the
best superheroes would be versus Batman? Who would win? It's

(49:36):
been coming, that fight has been coming. Please oh yes,
send your answers to all of us on Twitter. And
I was going to take it. I'm gonna throw one
out there. I'm gonna throw one out there, and then
I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'm just gonna
throw it. Blade Leslie Snipes even though he wasn't even
he's had Vampire, but he could still that sword action.

(49:58):
That's not a superpower. Okay, he's got he's got a weapon.
If Keanu is fighting him, does Kiana got a sword?
Oh yeah, damn? Because he beat up the entire Yakuza
by himself. I don't know. All right, everybody in Blade
or Kanu, I said, what about built in defense? Like
what you think about iron Man? Okay, stripped the powers,

(50:20):
but he's still just in that suit. No matter what
is the suit the superpower? I don't know. Like Spider
Man would have been in that suit, right, he just
couldn't do anything. The suit that Spider Man wears is
literally like a wet suit, right, he's with muscles. Yeah,

(50:41):
Michael Phelps, Well we got we gotta throw iron Man
in there and then we'll leave the rest of the audience.
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