Hannah Reads Your Letters!

Hannah cracks open your lovely letters in this week's solo Loft Meeting. Is it really a meeting if there's only one person? 

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I mean, that's not everybody, welcome to a loft meeting. Man,

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oh man, These are my favorite. These are my favorite episodes,
Real talk, Real life. Ask anybody to give you a
little context of why these are my favorite episodes and
why this has always been my history of loving these episodes,
these type of episodes. I used to be a much

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music back in the day in Canada, and they had
a bunch of different shows, and everybody wanted to host
those shows, and they were really cool, and they would
have an hour in the middle of the day called
Video Flow where people would send in emails or they
would call in and it was all live and ask

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their questions or request of video or be like Becky,
I love you so much, please don't break up with me.
Let's play this old lead treg and hopefully she falls
back in love with me. And I requested to host
it every single day. It was my favorite thing to
hear from people, to hear from people that loved our show,

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that wanted to have a voice on it, to have
their questions answered. And so that's why loft meetings are
my favorite because it's exact same vibes. If you have
any questions for us, about the show, about guest stars, anything,
anything you want to know. Send in your questions. Don't
take it to Reddit, I mean take it to Reddit

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and then all to bring it to us at the
mess Around Pod at gmail dot com and we read
all of them. Send in voice notes or a little video.
We will play them. I'd like to see your faces,
hear your voice. These episodes are for you to get
all these burning New Girl questions out of the way.
Speaking of cool things with New Girl before we dive

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into our first questions, some of you know, Lamorn and
I designed some merch New Girl mess Around merch and
we see this like cute little sweater Mornings. Is the
mess around a classic real ones know? And we have
twoks all sorts of stuff, really great holiday gifts. I

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wear mine all the time and so does Lamourn, so
do all our friendies and then tagers will always share
it and you can also tag the mess Around Pod
at on ig Okay, let's dive in. Okay, okay, So
this first email came from Sarah Jay, Hey, Hannah and Lamore,

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and just want to say a huge fan and also
I remembered that auction Hannah mentioned on the Box episode
woo whoop. I always wondered who bought the couch for
six thousand dollars, and honestly, I'm so happy it ended
up with you. Oh, thank you. I ended up getting
a chair back of Hannah's ooh and some pieces of mail,

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as well as the valet ticket that Jess wrote. I
always wondered who got that, and now it hangs proudly
in a display at my home. Here's some picks. Thanks
for being the best show out there. Love you both. Ps.
I also got the apartment number tattooed on me because
the show always meant so much Sarah. Sarah, you're like

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the super fan. This is like, you're the reason why
we started this podcast for people who are like die
hard New Girl fans are gonna put it on our
body to hang it on the wall. I love that
that auction was so crazy to see. I remember when
the show ended, and uh, it was wild because they
were selling like all our clothes. It's like, who wants

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the pair of like shorts Schmidt war when he was
like running down the street, fans did I guess it
was very cool. It was really cool to see that
it all sold. Awesome though, Thanks Sarah, that's cool, all right,
next question, here we go. This is from Isabella. All Right, Hi,

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Hannah and Lamar, and I have a very cat cat
centric question for you both, since I'm also a cat
lover myself, just like you, Hannah. Good thing you said,
just like me, Hannah, because as we know, Lamoarn has
some feline issues. He's some feelings about the feelings. You know,
I do not. I love cats. But first I just

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like to quickly share how much I appreciate your work
on New Girl. I was late to the party a
little over a year after Lockdown. When I started my
initial watch through the show, I remember going into it
unsure if it was my cup of tea, but immediately
halfway into season one, I was hooked. The show quickly
became a favorite, and I'm currently on my third rewatch,

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this time attempting to hook my dad as well, after
successfully spreading the viral laughter to everyone else in my family.
Your work together a New Girl has really become such
a comfort show to me now and something I instantly
feel the need to put on when times are stressful
or life is weighing me down. Being a twenty five
year old girl still trying to figure out life, like

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all the characters do on the show, really resonates with
me and helps me feel less alone in the journey
of adulthood. So thank you both and the rest of
the cast and crew for fostering that impact all those
years ago. My question for you guys is insert drum
roll here. She wrote that already someone I adore to
just write that. We know Winston is the cat lover

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in the series and Hannah is the cat lover in
real life. If CC were to be a cat lady herself,
what type of cat do you think she'd own and
what do you think she'd name him or her? How
do you think it would go down with Schmidt and Ruth. Also,
of either of your cat what type do you feel
the best represents you? And why I'd be a gray

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man coon. Here's a picture of my frey friend who
watches New Girl with me most days made Harold the
Kitty aka Harry aka Harold Houdini. I think of him
and I think him and Hannah would make great friends
if they were ever to meet. Thanks so much for
hosting this podcast and continuing the New Girl legacy. Congratulations

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Lamorn on his Emmy. Win can't wait to see what
you both do next. All the love Isabella, Isabella. That
is the nicest email. Thank you so much. Yes, I'm
a die hard cat rescuer, but I feel like it's
in my blood. My mom has a twin brother, my

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uncle Paul, and I have a lot of memories of
my uncle rescuing all animals. When I say all animals,
I mean all animals. And he then would classic brother move,
bring it to my mom's house, sister's house, you'd bring

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it over to our house. So we had all sorts
of like rescue animals all the time. We had you know,
dogs and cats and guinea pigs, and I don't know,
he would always just bring all the animals over. So
I'm a huge animal lover. What do I think, Cecie?
What kind of cat do I think she'd own? I

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feel like, who, maybe a Bengal? I love Bengals. They're
so beautiful and like sleek and super smart, and I
think that it would I think Schmidt would love it.
I think Schmidt loves anything that cec loves, So I

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think Schmidt would love it. He'd be down, and of
course Ruth would be into it because she's awesome. I
think at Bengal. What would she name the cat? I
feel like that would be a Schmidt CEC conversation and
she'd get to pick the cat, and then he would
get to name it, and she'd be like, fine, I

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don't care as long as I get the cat, and
he would name it something ridiculous. I don't know what
that would be. Give any ideas, what would Schmidt name
their cat? I want to hear from you something great.
I mean, I've had so many cats in my life.
I'll share their names. I've had Jake, Frank Franklin, Alfie Zeke.

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Zeke was a cutie z e k e. I've written
about him a bunch on my Instagram because I only
had him for a few weeks, but he was a
super super sweet, little impactful little kitty. Um. Yeah, I
don't know, but something cool, all right? And what was
your other question? Off I were a cat, I'd probably

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want to be a little rescue cat. Probably, to be
honest with you, they always have like the like their fun,
little adaptable personalities and like snuggles kind of like me.
All right. Next one from Hayley. Okay, here's what she says.

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I'm so sorry this isn't a question about the episode.
I know that would probably be more helpful for your podcast,
but I just couldn't think of one. I love the honesty,
but I wanted to thank you guys, because honestly, life
is just hard sometimes, and when you're in a really
low place, something unserious and warm hearted can really lift
your spirits. Don't I want to go into too much detail,

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but amongst other things, I had a still birth this
year when I was nine months pregnant. The pain of
losing my baby just before we were supposed to welcome
him into the world is something I wouldn't wish on
my worst enemy. Every day since has then required a
concerted amount of effort just to get out of bed
and keep going, and your podcast has brought me laughter
and levity in times when I didn't think anything could. Obviously,

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I'm a fan of the show, but I just wanted
to take a moment to honor what you guys are
doing now and say thank you. Keep doing what you're doing,
Oh fairy, Oh my goodness. Well, first I want to
say I feel grateful that we could offer any comfort

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or momentary heart distraction while you are trying to cope
and are dealing with grief. We've had so many people
reach out over the years since we started making the
show about dealing with grief, dealing with grief or dealing

(11:09):
with pain, and how this show has been like a
salve to them and Lamour and I discussed it all
the time. I've talked to Zoe about it a bunch
about how that's one of the greatest things we've heard
about our show is that when you just can't deal
with people, and you are feeling overwhelmed and actually just

(11:32):
can't even handle the level of pain or grief that
you're feeling and you need a coping mechanism, that our
show is there. And I feel really grateful, to be
honest with you, to Fox that they I feel like
we were kind of the last of the dinosaurs. They
let us make, you know, one hundred plus episodes. I
feel like that doesn't really happen anymore with network comedies

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or as often. And because of that, I think that's
not only the comfort of show and what the show
is about, but it it's it's there's so much of
it that if you're going through weeks or months of grief,
there's there's enough. There's enough, Like thread on the spool

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to to you know, support you. I'm really grateful that
you shared that. Thank you, and we're thinking of you
and love you and just you know, one day at
a time, one foot in front of the other and
uh yeah, turn on, turn on the show. You need us,
We're always there. Next letter is from Devin. I wasn't

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sure how to reach out to the show, my love,
so I decided I would try this platform. Oh, I
appreciate this podcast so much. Since New Girl is over,
thank you for continuing to bring the comfort the show
brought so many of us. I wish I could watch
it all for the first time again. I grew up
watch Friends and falling asleep to it every single night.
I couldn't help but see a similarity in the way

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New Girl made me feel warm and fuzzy. When I
found New Girl, I was in an abusive relationship and
it was my getaway. I would sit up in my
own world, zoning out to New Girl every single night.
I never got enough cut. Two years later, I still
put it on to end my days. I've seen every
episode probably twenty to thirty times. My wonderful boyfriend just
walks in and says, really again, my kids are are

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also always saying come on, you've seen it a million times.
It just brings me. It brings me just as much
joy now as it did when I was at my lowest.
Thank you for bringing the best of friend groups to
our lives. I absolutely love every single episode, but that
first season was an absolute banger and it never stopped.
Thank you again for all the warm and fuzzies and

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the laughs that turn to tears. Watch your back because
we've got your front. Love you guys, Devin. Oh well,
I am so happy with where your life has landed
up with a wonderful boyfriend. And it sounds really funny,
little kids, and yeah, it's really funny. People do say that.

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They say that New Girl is the you know, it's
kind of like Friends that kind of like iconic fun
comedy again, a ton of episodes to kind of just
keep you going, and a really solid friend group that
feels like it's your friend group. So it's a nice
little validation of that. Fun fact. Lamurn has never seen Friends.

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Is that crazy? I have this idea, I haven't I
haven't pitched it to him. Maybe I will that when
we finally get through all the New Girl episodes. He
and I should do a Friend's Rewatch episode, a friends
Rewatch podcast. I'd love to see him watch it. I
think you'd like it. I think it'd become a diehard fan,

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to be honest with you. Anybody into that idea, It's
just me, okay. Our next letter is hello, who was
the best unlikely duo? Schmidt and Robbie or the classic
Winston and CC mess around? Thanks for the show, lebau
cousin o Quasino, I don't know, it's very beautiful sounding

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last name, well, lebou. Let's see who do I think
was the most the best unlikely duo? I gotta give
it to Schmidt and Robbie. I love them together so much.
I love that, like the that they found common ground
their love for CC. Also, Nelson Franklin is one of

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my favorite human beings. He's so kind, so funny, always
up for anything, Like he was just always up for anything,
and we just like had the best sense of humor
about it all the best to act across from made
everybody break because he was just he's so ridiculous, like
how he plays Robbie like you love him so much somehow,

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even though you know with the you know the sitcom formula.
We know it's Schmitt and CC. You really do root
for Robbie and I love them together. I love the
dynamic between Schmitt and Robbie. I mean, you know, the
Winston CC messer on obviously has legs because here we
are doing the podcast. But I don't know if they're

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the most unlikely duo. Like I feel like they have
a bunch of weird little things in common, which is
why when they saw each other like that, they were like, ooh,
let's go yeah. Oh Schmitt and Robbie Nelson love Nelson
all right? Here is Ali from Miami? Could be Ali

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or Ali? Hey Annah. I saw that Abbott Elementary was
doing a crossover with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and
it got me thinking, what popular but tonally different sitcom
could New Girl match with. We did a crossover episode
with Brooklyn ninety nine. I don't know if that's really

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totally different, though. I think lam Morn and I talked
about this once in a Loft meeting and we just
were cracking up because we're like, you know, like New
Girl meets Succession or New Girl meets Breaking Bad. It'd
be so fun to see the new character New Girl
characters like in a drama, something really serious, because I

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just feel like they're all just like the most unserious people. Yeah,
I don't know. I think I would go that route
would be kind of great. I'm also watching franchise the
Franchise right now, and that would also be really fun
to see them all thrown into like a you know,
big movie world, see how they would cope. All right,

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last one and Jelica Angelica. All right, Hello, I'm a
huge fan of New Girl and y'all's podcast. I wish
I could watch New Girl for the first time again
because the show is so magical. You guys are such
great friends and great actors. I couldn't even tell you
guys were acting. I really want to be an actress,
but I'm scared of people judging me. Can I please

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have some advice on acting? It would be my dream
come true. If you responded, thank you so much. Have
a good day, slash night, Angelica. Here's what I'll say.
Maybe an unpopular take, but guess what, this is life,
and there are people who aren't, you know, smart enough

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to just read their own book, focus on themselves, measure
themselves against themselves, and they do jud judge other people,
but they're gonna judge you whether you're acting or not. Right.
But in one world you get to be an actor,
so do that. You know, that's all about them. I
always feel like when you find somebody doing something like that,

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like make you feel uncomfortable or making you feel like
you're not good enough, really just learning about them, right,
And if you look at yourself and go like, all right,
I'm learning and figuring it out and I'm really proud
of that. You know, audition I did, and oh I
could work more on this one. That's just you being
honest with yourself and having growth and having those moments.

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But it's a normal fear, right, because some people are
just like not great people, and so they make you
feel it by the way they look at you or
little comments they might make, But they're just telling you
about themselves, right, And they're going to be like that
whether or not you're chasing your dream or not. I
had that feeling. I definitely had that feeling. There weren't
a lot of people that looked like me. I was

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worried I'd go out there and fail and everybody would
be like, I told you so. And it did like delay,
I feel like me attempting to kind of break into
this industry. For a while, I was very worried about
that kind of reaction, and then I don't know, I

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just had had a moment where I was like, well,
I go one life, so I'm gonna not do things
with my one life based on what someone who doesn't
even care for me or love me you might think
or say. And that was kind of a bit of
a turning point because they were just going to be
like that anyway. So Angelica, I just say, go for it.

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Do all the acting classes, make your own content, and
do what makes you really, really happy. I'll tell you
this really quick story that Liz Merriweather told me when
she got the opportunity to write a pilot and the
biggest show on TV was A modern family and so
you know, you just go like, well, I guess that's
what they're into, that type of show, Like maybe we

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should do that type of show. And she was set
down by some very wonderful person in this industry who
said to her, well, look, the chances are low, right
of you making a show that's going to be a hit, right,
And it's gonna take a lot of time even just
to make that pilot, like, it's gonna take a lot
of time to do it, so you might as well
do something that's your story that you love. And so,

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you know, she wasn't married at the time and didn't
have kids at the time when she was like thinking
of like, maybe should I do a modern family style show?
So how would she relate to it? It's not her story.
So she wrote a story about, you know, a girl
that's like, you know, trying to get roommates and live
in la and start her life and where her friends
or her family and they're trying to figure it out,

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and she's trying to figure it out and they're dating
and they're in that weird in between where you're not
like a kid living at home anymore, but you're not
married and fully adulting. And and that was the New
Girl pilot. And because it was truthful and truthful to
her and honest, and she could see the humor in
her life, but it was heartfelt, you know, it became

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the hit that New Girl is. So I encourage you
to just kind of tell your truth and tell your story, Angelica.
You'll do great and forget dehitas. All right, Guys that
was a loft meeting. Thank you for hanging out with me.
This was great. I can't wait to get more of
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