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Okay, so guys, we're going to talk about an episode called Injured, one of my favorite episodes of all time. You know what time it is. It is recap time. Episode 115, Injured. One of my favorites. So after Jess brutally tackles Nick during a game of football, he is so wounded he can barely drive. Winston's vehicle is also a casualty of senseless violence and possibly neglect.

The mechanic declares that it can no longer be called a "car." Of course, our buddy Nick doesn't believe in doctors or insurance or money, so Jess has to take him to see her doctor, Dr. Sadie, the OBGYN, and she gives him meds for menstrual cramps. After Nick takes the pills, Sadie sees that his thyroid is swollen, and she suggests that he gets it looked at. This sends Nick and the rest of the gang into a tailspin, fearing the worst.

Over drinks, Nick tells Jess that she doesn't know how to be real. And so she fires back saying, well, you never do anything. Nick then confesses that he wants to know the outcome before he dives into things that are serious. But the cancer scare bolsters him to be brave and he runs buck-ass naked into the ocean. The entire crew falls asleep on the beach. The next morning, Nick goes to the doctor and learns that he is cancer-free.

The gang splits his medical bill so he won't have to worry. You're welcome. Unfortunately, no one has enough money to pay for Winston's used-to-be car, so he leaves it behind. We actually filmed this episode really early in the season. I think we filmed it third or something. Yeah. And there was some controversy around it, right? About airing it that quick. Yeah, they decided it was too early in the season. Like,

It was season one, and we hadn't earned a semi-serious episode. Of course, it has lots of jokes and comedy in it, but it deals with a serious subject matter, and they felt like we needed to have a few more strictly comedic episodes under our belt, obviously.

So that we could earn this semi-serious episode. Right. Yeah. I mean, it makes sense if you're going to do a cancer scare episode. You want the audience to be fully invested and in love with the characters. So they can go on an emotional journey. But it is funny because you and Schmidt in that episode, it seems like you're just still flirting when in reality, Cece and Schmidt had been...

hooking up for a while by the time this episode aired, but it was like you're back to just kind of having a subtle...

undertone of flirting. Yeah, it's interesting because it was all kind of papered over because it was done out of order. Right. This one was shot obviously way before and so it threw a lot of different things off. Relationship stuff was off. The introduction of new characters were off. But, you know, the fans didn't catch on, so we're good. It's like a little bit of an island of an episode. There was a moment in the...

In Sadie's office, you can hear a clearly 80-yard line of June going like, "Nice to see you again." Yeah.

Just really off-camera, 80-yard line to just kind of, yeah, they've met before. It's so funny. I caught that line thinking, that's kind of weird. But it definitely caught my ear, too, because I was like, wait, what is the... And then I remembered that they met in another. And so she fires back saying, well, you never do anything. There was one previous meeting, but they caught it.

They caught it. And did a little band-aid fix on it. Appropriate for an episode called Injured. So J.J. Philbin wrote this wonderful writer, and I always thought she was really great at marrying the comedy with the drama in episodes and was great at writing more meaningful episodes, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

And then we had the wonderful Lynn Shelton direct this episode, who sadly passed away last year. We were all devastated. And she was just such a talented actress.

and so incredibly kind and wonderful to work with. She was like an ethereal being. I remember that because it was very early on that we shot. Yeah, it was early on we shot this. And so for me, I was still very, very nervous. I'd go to shoot an episode and it's a brand new director. And I just remember her being so open-hearted and

and kind and she was like the epitome of a safe space. Like you just knew you could ask her anything and she was just, you know,

She was just warmth. That's what she exuded all the time. So not, I think all of us were devastated when she passed away so suddenly. But so is so much of the film community and TV community. You could just feel it. Everybody felt like such a huge hole had been created. So we miss you, Lynn.

Yeah, we miss you, Lynn. Let this episode be in her honor and her memory. We loved her. Yeah. Much love. Much love. Well, let's dive in, y'all. Let's dive in. Let's dive in to this great episode. Yeah, and I was actually going to say that Lynn had such a great... She had a great background in indie filmmaking. So I'm not sure how much episodic TV she had done before.

before this, but it was so awesome to have her point of view. You know, I think I always found that there were a lot of similarities between shooting episodic TV and shooting indie movies because you have to shoot fast but still find the truth and

And, you know, kind of be scrappy about how you're, you know, how you're making everything because you don't have the time, you know, the luxury of time. So I thought it was wonderful to have her perspective. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Absolutely. It's a special episode for many reasons. Yes. So we'll dive in. So obviously this cold open was super easy for you, Zoe, because you play, like, football all the time. So...

You're like, oh, wrong. I got this. Good. Nice burn. Yeah. Um,

You're right. I am not a sports person. I know nothing. Well, actually, I know a little bit about baseball because I grew up watching baseball with my dad, but not playing it and not playing, definitely not playing football. Full on tackles, knocking grown men to the ground. I was like petitioning to get dance credit for PE pretty early on.

So, yes, I knew nothing about that. But it was kind of funny. The fact that we were playing tackle football as a loft is funny. Was it tackle? I don't even know if it was supposed to be tackle football. I don't think it was. Maybe it wasn't. It was just Jess trying to prove herself. It was the same way from the pilot or the second episode when you're dribbling the basketball and then you end up breaking something. You break the television. And then this one, you break Nick Miller.

It did remind me that we all have a friend that refuses to go to the doctor and is hyper suspicious of modern medicine. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I could tell you every black family has that. That one person who's just like, no. We don't believe in doctors. No. Vicks Vaporub. That's all I trust. Chris Roxay rubbed some Robitussin on it. That's right. Yeah. So I remember filming in those two locations. And then at the beach by the Santa Monica Pier, which...

which is a famous place. Do you remember filming with that car and everything? And on that night and on the beach, because Jake did not want to, was very grumpy about having to get in the water, which I would be too. You know, what's interesting, what I do remember though, about that particular moment, if folks, if you remember, he, at some point towards the end of the episode, he runs and he jumps into the ocean and,

Now, Jake did that. Jake did that. However, I remember it being an option. Do you want someone else to be the one to jump into the water? And Jake won't jump off of a two foot like ledge. He won't do anything. He will always have the stunt double.

you know, go and make that money. He's like, we got a stunt double here. We may as well use that person. This it's October, by the way, when we're shooting in the, in the ocean and the Pacific ocean, which is Pacific ocean is not, it's not known for being like a warm ocean. Like it's in the middle of the night, maybe in August and that's it. Yeah. It's the middle of the night. It's October. Yeah. And he decides, and I do remember it being a choice. And I remember Jake saying, no, I'll do it.

And that confused me. And he did it. And I was just laughing because I thought, what kind of idiot is this? Maybe he's just very body confident. He was just sort of like, I've worked hard for this body. He was feeling himself. Yeah, that's right. You're going to see someone's butt. It's going to be mine. I don't think he was fully naked. He was wearing some underwear. He wasn't fully naked. I remember everybody kind of turning and looking away to kind of give him a little...

I do remember that. Being tighty whitey is still... It's still revealing. It's naked adjacent. It's still quite revealing. He wasn't completely naked. Especially in the cold Pacific. Yeah. You don't want that. Especially in the cold Pacific. That's why I always wear corduroys when I jump in the Pacific.

Yeah, we all do. We all have corduroy bathing suits for everybody. I just remember going like, wow, we really have to do this. It was one of those things where it started to be like this episode was like the Wizard of Oz moment, like pulling back the curtain on TV and filmmaking. I mean, Zoe, you've been in the industry for a really long time. But for me, this was like...

Like, oh, this man really has to go jump in this ocean in the middle of the night to get this shot. Some stuff you can't fake. That's right. I was like, oh, okay. And we're all here because we had to shoot like stuff afterwards, I guess. Or I don't know why. Though I feel like that was the last shot of the night. So maybe not. I don't know why everybody was still hanging out then. But I do remember him going to do it. And I was like, wow.

I'm going to pay attention to what they write for me in future because I may have to actually do some of this insane stuff. Anyone who knows me, and I have a reputation in the industry as being Tom Cruise-like. Yeah.

very Tom Cruise like synonymous Lamar Morris Tom Cruise however they were like Tom Cruise Lamar Morris anyone else I can't think of anybody else and honestly it sucks too because I stay busy and I don't want to be I just want to be home at times you know what I mean but then if ever the stunt was to jump into the ocean that's the one thing that I'd be like hold on now hold on I think we got somebody else who can do this right

I don't know why. I just won't do it. I would outsource that one too. Thank you. For sure. Bye-bye. I feel like this was also this episode. It's so funny. There's so many things in this episode that I feel like people have held on to. And the other is that this one is two of the...

Nick Schmidt kisses. Yeah, the Fredo kisses. The Fredo kisses. The establishment of maybe the true love story of New Girl. Yes. So funny. Yeah, Max really just crushing those Fredo kisses so hilariously. Very committed. As a performer, that was one of the first... Watching Max do that was one of the first...

It's when I saw a true commitment. Obviously, when we do stuff on the show, we're characters. We're all comedic, funny people. And we do bits and we go there and we commit to certain things. Watching Max do those bits sometimes, I don't know why, I just felt like a full commitment from him. And I thought...

I got to elevate my performance ability because he doesn't care. Max will do, Max just goes for it a hundred percent of the time, no matter what and what. And in those particular moments and then watching Jake always commit to the bit, no matter what, we'll just stay in character. That was something in the beginning that was hard for me to do. And you'll see it later on in other episodes where I can't, like I can't stay committed to the bit when it's an extreme bit. Cause I'm always laughing.

No, but I think everybody's energy is different. You know what I mean? I think what makes Max a great actor is different from what makes Jake a great actor or you a great actor or Hannah a great actor. I think all of these things have... In fact, I think...

Max's ability to fully commit is like his stamp. You know what I mean? But sometimes the not fully committing can be just as real. You know what I mean? Can come off just as true and real as an actor. It just kind of depends on the circumstance. But I do think that's kind of his...

Max is Hallmark and then Jake's reactions to Max are kind of equally committed in a aggressive way so yeah no I mean that is obviously one of the things about their dynamic that is really funny yeah yeah I'm at my step but I see you being committed Mr. Lamar no I could be committed especially when I'm doing my own stunts yeah yeah

Especially when you're falling off a building for real. Mission Impossible 7 or 8. Just call me. Yeah. 9, 10. Yeah, I don't remember which one. All of them. Yeah, all of them. Also, this one thing about this episode that we get to see is more of the...

It's kind of more of the will they, won't they stuff. The energy between Nick and Jess. Yeah. With how we're all kind of dicking around with this news. We're having fun with it. Obviously we're a little emotional about it, but you, your character is, you know, more maternal and more truly engaged with what, what's going on with him. And that to me, you know, kind of lays the foundation for the audience a little bit in the beginning because

Yeah. Which I thought was pretty cool, even though we switched episodes around a little bit. It was fun to see a little later on. Yeah, I definitely think there... I think his kind of criticism of her and her reaction...

the fact that it actually hurts her feelings rather than makes her mad, it shows that there... I think there's a... It seems like there's a connection there, especially in this episode. Right. I mean, it was one of my favorite Jess moments, I feel like, of the season is you get to see...

It's not so perfectly sweet side of her. You get to see her hurt. You get to see her lash out. You get to see her do something that's not very kind and then have to recover from it. And I think that's the, I don't know, the beauty of this show is that it's, you know, you get these very three dimensional characters.

Maybe we'll throw to a little break. And when we come back, we can talk about the impressions and the songs in this episode. Oh,

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I'm like, not me. If you go back far enough, I'm sure. I'm sure. Yes, it's true. If you go back far enough. Historically, you are correct. So can we talk about this song that our incredible editor, Steve Welch, wrote?

Yeah.

And I looked at the scene and I was like, okay, we're doing this song and it's like Cece raps and she has to do it well. That's that bit of it is that it's surprising she actually can do it. And y'all.

That's not my forte. Not something I can do. It's not? Not a rapper. I thought you were a rapper. And I just remember walking down my three little steps of my trailer, walking two steps over to Lamorne's three steps up his trailer, because we shared a trailer, banging on his door. And I was like, Lamorne! Lamorne! Open up. And he's like, yeah, what? And I'm like, so, help?

Help me. I need your help. Did you help her? Yes. Did you coach her? Yes. Because I was like, we've got, I said, I don't know. Like, there has to be like a rhythm to this. There has to be like a beat to this. And Lamorne was like beatboxing. He's like, well, I could beatbox and you could say it like this. But I'm like, but how am I just going to speak it? Like, what are we doing? And they're just sort of like five. And I was like, oh,

And it was just like this freak out I had because that is part of being an actor. You're scared you're going to go on set and suck, right? And everyone's going to be like, this bit doesn't work. Cece's supposed to be great at rapping and this chick can't pull this off. And because my like...

whatever little stanza kind of goes right into Lamorne's too. And it had to work and make sense. I just remember being in like a full sweat and him and I are just like locked in this trailer, trying to work this beat out. I will try to make it make sense. The difficult part about doing something like that is like, it's like, imagine Zoe having to sing, um,

that someone who's not a songwriter wrote for you. That's what you said, because you're like, it doesn't make sense. I was like, the words don't fit. They're not rappers. It doesn't work, Hannah. And I was like, well, we have to make it work. Figure it out. And I do think that we dropped a word from it to make it flow better. Like, I do think you were like, just take this bit out or something to make it work. I think we did some finessing. I have done that. That's the thing. Like, just...

writing music and then sometimes I've had to write stuff with other people's lyrics and then sometimes it doesn't flow and you do have to draw. I mean, that's just how...

That's just how it works. That's how it works. You sometimes got to drop a word. What would you guys... But I'm proud of you guys. You guys did a really good job with your rap. What would you all, the folks at home, what would you rate the scale of one... Of my rapping? Don't open it up. Be kind. Don't open up. Be very kind. I actually thought...

I actually thought you guys sounded great. I'm talking about for the whole thing, not just your part. The whole thing, though, is a credit apparently to Steve, right? Because that was like the story that came out of it. Yeah, Steve Welch, our editor. Well, because... And I remember, too, is this...

Like, we were covering... There were a lot of people, and they were all, you know, in that scene in the bar. And we're all around the room. So we're covering everything separately. It's not like, you know, there wasn't a flow. And they had...

Like you were doing your Aaron Neville impression or something. Yeah, I think that's what I was trying to do. Aaron Neville. Okay, that's what I got from it. I was like, oh, he does a good Neville Brothers.

And then that was funny and working. And then you had everybody separately doing like little bits of things. And some of it was like improvised and some of it was written in the script. And when we were shooting it, none of it was really, it wasn't necessarily meant to flow together like a comedy.

complete song. I remember it being very piecemeal and it wasn't really written that way. It wasn't like that on the page. I mean, it wasn't really written as one long thing. It was like, oh, one person said one thing and then maybe there was some dialogue. But it ended up being cut as one kind of song rap sequence and it worked really well. And I would say...

Salute to you, Steve. I would have to ask. We could ask Steve, I'm sure. But I feel like the story was that he had to put that scene together and it didn't really work. And so apparently he had like a bottle of whiskey and stayed up all night drinking.

and just like worked on it and he made that scene what it is and he made that song yeah they all were like man steve's a genius after that song because i think it wasn't working only because uh it was probably too long you know because we had um you know a lot of times

For network television, now it's totally different for, like, a cable show or a show for a streamer. And now network TV, like, isn't really necessarily, like, what, you know, it's like just a portion of what we watch now. But back in the day, like...

pretty much everything was network TV. And network TV, everything has to fit commercials in it and it has to be a really specific length. So our episodes were 21 minutes and 35 seconds. They had to be exactly that. Maybe they'd give us 30 seconds more if it was some really, really special occasion.

But generally, everything had to be that length. And now if you watch an episode of another show that was on HBO or on Netflix or something that was made for a streamer or a cable company,

Those shows could be like, you know, a half hour show could be anywhere between 20 and 35 minutes. Whereas ours had to be exactly a certain length and we didn't have any wiggle room. So,

or very little wiggle room. So like a lot of times if something wasn't working, it was because there was a length issue or they wanted to cut in more space, you know, and they couldn't and they needed, you know, to take stuff out. So there was, had to be so much creative editing. And well, I will say this, and this is for the folks at home. I want you guys to put this little tidbit in your back pocket. Although Steve did edit the crap out of that scene, but,

I played the piano myself. Get out. I didn't know that. That's all me. I just want to put that out there. Yeah, it was you playing piano. Yeah. I remember that. But there weren't any real notes. I was about to say, did you hit a chord? Did you just hit one chord? Oh, somebody played. In my mind, you had. No, I was. No, I was playing it. But they weren't. Like, if you pay attention to the song, it's not exactly...

I'm not like playing, playing. I'm just hitting like one chord after I say something or another chord after I say something. Yeah, no, I know that. Yeah. And so technically I am a pianist. Technically. I'm not mature. So Zoe, when you're out there on tour, when you're out there on tour and something's going down with the piano, what do you do?

You know, you have my phone number. I should call you? You have my number. Okay, I'll give you a call. I'll be like, Lamorne, tell me, what do you know about Wurlitzers? Everything. Everything. And I'll tell you in person. Okay, the Wurlitzers. Can you tune it? How do you tune a Wurlitzer? Honestly, with faith and hope. That's right. You know what I mean? And belief. Actually, you solder it.

Yeah, everybody knows that. You have to solder it. Everybody knows that. I have a soldering machine. Okay, you knew that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm going to call you next time it's out of tune. Thank you. Just come pick me up in your private jet. I don't have a private jet. Oh, yeah. So you had...

tapped in a little bit about the Aaron Neville impression. There's a few more impressions in here. There's a Chris Rock impression and there's also a Daffy Duck impression. Yes. The Daffy Duck impression is very sweet, I have to say. Thank you. It was a very sweet way to do it because I forgot that that was in the episode. And then when Jess says like, oh, this is what my mom used to do for me, I thought it was going to be some like big over-the-top kind of bit.

It's actually like a really sweet little daffodil duck.

It was very endearing. What was funny is I remember that it had to be a Looney Tunes character, I think, because of what we could reference. Really? But Daffy Duck was something that I, as a kid, would do Daffy Duck impressions to myself, not to anybody else. But I remember sitting in my room and being like, I got it. Yeah.

I have this impression. I was like, not that great, but... So you got to pick that character. That wasn't the one in this... No, I didn't pick it. I think it ended up in the script, but I was like, I got it. You're perfect. In your wheelhouse. Perfect. It's in my wheelhouse. And Lamorne, you're the comedy at the funeral. Yeah.

Was that Chris Rock? That was a Chris Rock. That was a semi Chris Rock impression. I had never done it before. And I just thought when I thought of stand up, I immediately thought of Chris Rock. And the script may have said it just says he does a stand. I think he said he does like a Chris Rock like.

Because Chris Rock, if you know, when he's... If you look at any Chris Rock special, he paces the stage a lot. To make emphasis, he walked fast across the stage to say one thing and then fast across the other part. And to do that at a funeral, I thought would be funny. It was really funny. Worked the whole room. It was great. You did it. You did it. That was a fun bit to do. I used to do a little bit of stand-up back in the day. And so... But obviously...

Not on a Chris Rock level, but it was just fun to cut at the tent. Not at funerals? No, but I would. I would. You would. If somebody wants a tight tent at a funeral, you're there. Call me. Call me. It can't get worse than the feeling they're already feeling. Speaking of literal impressions, I do remember reading the script and it talked about how there was an impression of my butt.

In the sand. Is that your butt? Uh, no. Like, it was a funny thing because I wasn't there, right, when they did it. They weren't sort of like, let me look at your butt and then carve this out so this is accurate. So I just remember watching the episode for the first time. And I was like, those are two...

Large watermelons that have been pushed into the sand. Like if anybody's butt left that impression in the sand, that is a very pronounced ba-dunk-a-dunk.

That's right. That's too large. It was a good butt impression. It just seemed very aggressive. It was so funny because I was like, whoa, okay. Well, hopefully people don't- It didn't seem large. It seemed like narrow, but like projected. Deep. Deep. Deep and projected. And not like a-

Yeah, well, like, not like somebody with hips. It seemed like somebody with, like, no hips who just had, like, two watermelons. Also, there's no, like... Just projecting out. There's no, like, hand prints next to it to push yourself up out of the sand. So I just stood up with that big booty with my legs and walked away. You're very strong. You do so much Pilates. Apparently. I do glutes all day. But also, like...

You levitated up because there's no footprint. There's nothing. It's just a butt in the sand. Yeah.

I just dropped down with my butt and bounced out. And that was it. I really like, I was like this. I have so many questions. It's like you're bent fully in half. That's right. And then your butt, I was craning. You levitated up. You were craned down. That's right. Craned out. We're solving. I really do have a question though for props of like, what did they use?

Because it's just such a perfect, specific scoop into the sand. That's really, I mean, I know this is like a heartfelt episode about cancer. Do you think that was props that did that? That feels more like set deck. Well, maybe set deck. I don't know. They walked around with these perfect little scoopers.

And I was like, wow, I just I have a lot of questions, man. That's all. Do you think that was like a maybe it was like an unacknowledged fantasy sequence, a dream ballet in Schmidt's mind? That is the most logical answer.

explanation it was a filter on it it was a dream ballet my craned butt into the stand it was a booty dream ballet the booty dream ballet that lasted we would like to rename the injured episode booty dream ballet when really it should have looked like a sack of potatoes if that's not the name of the next she and him album booty dream ballet I don't know if I could buy it

Here's the thing. I was kind of a little apprehensive about doing the podcast because I just immediately thought, because this episode deals with a cancer scare, that this, you know, when we sat down to talk today, that we were kind of going to go deep and heavy.

And the fact that we've just spent 40 minutes talking and where we're at is talking about a booty dream ballet. It really warms my heart. You guys really warms my heart. This is where I want it to be. It's an issue. I love it. It's an issue. It's an issue. This is what the podcast is for. We have to answer these questions. We now know it's a dream sequence and he's just seeing what he hopes her butt looks like. But also, but also we realized that, you know,

Obviously, cancer is a very scary thing, but Nick, you know, and he has all these thoughts run through your mind of what it could possibly be because you're searching the internet. You're trying to figure out what this lump could be. Dr. Google. Also, what is that app that's like... With the skull and crossbones on it? Skull and crossbones and it just says death. Yeah, like go back and find another site. What is that app?

I was also like, the font tells me that that app is not accurate diagnosing. It's just the back of a bleach bottle. Like, it's not even a thing. Well, obviously you forget what websites look like in 2011. I mean, websites were strange. They were very basic, very beta-like websites. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I don't think it was that much. But he realizes quickly after his ocean visit and after a long night on the beach, after the booty ballet on the beach. Dream booty ballet. The dream booty ballet on the beach.

That he indeed does not have cancer. It was what he doesn't know. He just, there was something there could have possibly. But what is it? He says he thought it was a cyst, but that he kind of blanked out after they said it wasn't cancer. I think if we had to afterschool specialist, this episode is a commentary on American healthcare because he can't afford to pay. Yeah. And two, the moral is. Hannah is Canadian. So do you want to tell us something about that?

Yeah, I think that's bonkers. I think that's so crazy that you have to decide whether or not to take yourself, you know, your child to the hospital, to a doctor to get something checked out. You have to check your bank account first. I think that is crazy.

So crazy and scary and sad that that's how you determine to make sure everything's okay. But it's a good thing. Nick Miller had rich friends who paid his bills. Super rich friends. And then the other part of the after school special, I feel like the moral is... School teacher, out of work basketball player. Everybody pushing quarters together. Yep. Is that go check it out, man. If you've got something that you're concerned about...

Check it out. It's probably nothing. Then you get peace of mind and that is worth everything. Check it out. Always check it out.

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In a few episodes, there's a whole thing about my car breaking down. We're all driving cars that are on their last leg. No, no. Cici has a nice car. Beautiful car, which also makes no sense because I live in an apartment with a bunch of other people.

Well, you're spending all your money on your car. I guess so. I have to remember people that I was friends with like in my 20s that would live in a like, you know, not a super nice place, but they would drive a really, really crazy nice car. And I was like,

Why are you driving a BMW? That was always the cliche. The guy picks you up in a BMW and then takes you back to like a studio apartment where seven people live. Yeah, I was like, spend that money elsewhere or save it. Hannah, I'm curious. Guys will pick you up in a BMW and then take you back to their janky apartment? No, not me. Seven roommates? It was just like, you know, the myth of L.A. The myth of L.A.

I feel like a lot of people would just spend all their money on their car. Right, that's right. Oh, yeah. When I first moved here, when I first moved to L.A., I lived in a small apartment in North Hollywood. And one of my neighbors, really nice guy, every time I would see him in the parking lot walking to one of his cars, he had a bunch of cars.

It was always like a G wagon or Range Rover or a Ferrari. And this apartment complex was very cheap. It's like very cheap. And I just thought, holy crap, this guy could have just those cars alone. You could buy a nice house with.

He was a drug dealer, Lamar. Maybe. Shout out to Danil, who was my neighbor. His name was Danil. Danil Goodman. Danil, clear your good name. Clear your good name. Lamar is just throwing shade at our engineer. I don't support it. I don't condone it. Talk less. Say less. Danil the drug dealer. Oh my gosh.

Okay. As we wrap this episode up, my friends. Where's the bear, Hannah? Where's the bear? Okay. So I've kind of been avoiding it because I looked long and hard and it almost reminds me of the wedding episode for the where's the bear where the big stretch was the bare feet.

The closest I can get to it on this one is... The bare ass on the beach. That's right. Is that what you're going to say? That's right. Were you really? I'm sorry. I was joking. That's exactly right. It's Nick Miller's bare booty.

That's all I got, you guys. I know it's a stretch. And I know Zoe does not accept things that are not actually a furry bear. I don't accept it. But you know what? I like the creativity. I gotta be. I gotta be. You know? I like the creativity. All right. Let's play True American where the rules change weekly and you leave more confused than when you showed up.

This week we're playing Elvis Blues where we'll try to guess some of the saddest songs in the world. I guess our engineer Daniel is going to play some of those songs for us. I love sad songs. Hannah, I didn't mean to cut you off, but I'm just joking. I did not know that's what you were thinking about. You are right. We think alike. Great minds, bro. I'll take it. I was trying to do a bit.

Okay. Let's try this. This is song number one. And don't cheat by using Shazam. Don't cheat. Yeah, no Shazamming. And I'm just sharing computer sounds. We're going to try this out. Okay, let me know if you can hear this one. Okay. Okay.

Oh, yeah, I know this. Eric Clapton. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. The saddest song. It is the saddest song ever. Genuinely the saddest song. Yeah, the saddest song ever. I don't even want to. It's awful. It's horrific. It's a horror song. I can't even hear the song. No, it is. No, it is actually a horror song. Yeah, it's a horror song. Listening to it is equivalent to reading one of the current headlines in the New York Times. That's right. Okay.

I'm going to go with Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. That's what it is. I can't even talk about it because it feels like a cursed horror song. Yeah, no. It's a horror song. I've never heard it. It's very sad. I don't want to cry, so I'm not going to talk about it anymore. So we'll move on to the next one. Thank you. Move on to the next one. Everybody's in tears and terrified. Right, yeah. Who's ready for the next one? Here we go. Let's do it. We're ready. Lamorne on the keys. Is that Gloomy Sunday?

Is this Nina Simone? Wait for it. Now you're Boonie Sunday nor Nina. Oh, God. Is this Strange Fruit? Strange Fruit.

Indeed. But not by Nina Simone. I mean, this is another horror song. That is a... This is the saddest song. Do you know what the fuck that song means? Oh my God. I thought the songs were going to be like, he cheated on me and broke my heart. I know, I thought it was going to be George Jones songs. I've got to go to therapy after this game. Okay. First of all, I don't know what to say. It doesn't get any better, though.

Oh my God. Do you know what strange fruit means? Can we get like Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake or something? Can we just get something that's just like

innocuous no i guess not no they're what in the juneteenth were you thinking strange fruit there's there's three more and i think oh god i gotta lay down okay god all right next i mean this is hard i feel like i'm gonna throw up here's the next one windows opening it spins this is sad yeah this is right this is shenanigans

Oh no, Nothing Compares to You. Nothing Compares, yeah. Bam. Also very sad. What's that about? What's that song about? That's written by Prince, our friend Prince. Shout out Prince. Shout out Prince. And this is Sinead O'Connor singing Nothing Compares to You. Also a very sad song. Not on the level of the other two sad. It feels that

The narrator of the song is very depressed. Right? That's about her mom passing away. Well, Prince's mom passing away? Yeah, it's about a mom passing away. Ugh, God. Well, then now, yeah, that's on the level, I guess. Thanks a lot. I thought it was just about a breakup. Two more. When we know the context of all these songs, it makes them just like...

I feel like puking. That's right. That was kind of a great music video, though. She was phenomenal in that music video. Daniel, who picked these songs? You or Joelle? That single tear? Joelle, you crushed this. You were in a mood when you picked these songs. I'm still going back to Strange Fruit. Really? It's not sad. It's dark.

Strange Fruit takes the cake. This is like a Halloween episode of True American. Okay. Let's just get through it, I guess. Run over the coals. It only continues. I can't even think of songs on this. We started with Tears in Heaven. Now that we know the theme, I'm having a trauma response. Here we go. Here's number four.

The needle tears open. Oh, my God. Johnny Cash. Listen, Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash. Is this hurt? Yes. That's good. Yes. Heroin addiction. Yeah. Johnny Cash covered Nine Inch Nails hurt. Okay. Ugh. That was one of, and it was right after. Wasn't it right after? He covered that song right after June. Mm-hmm.

Carter Cash passed away, right? That is true. Yeah. I mean, it's like one of the most hauntingly beautiful cover songs that I can't listen to because it's so sad. Yeah, I think Trent Rosemarie has said that that is no longer a Nine Inch Nails song. That is now a Johnny Cash song.

Yeah. Which I appreciate. Yeah, I appreciate that. Oh my God. All right. Just one more. Just hold on to something tight. Just one more. White knuckle it. Let's go.

Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. Fucking nailed it. You know, that song. Here's how that song got ruined because it's a beautiful song. Don't they play that song in like 90210 when Tori Spelling finds out that she's being like cheated on or something?

Well, they play it, they used it. So the thing about that song is they, in the 90s and the early 2000s, that song got abused by MTV. They always used it in like the real world and like, then like shows like, um...

The Hills and stuff like that. Made you sad. I feel like anytime somebody was sad, they'd play that song, and it's an amazing song. R.E.M.'s an amazing band. But it got used so much that then when I hear it, I start thinking of music cues from reality shows. Right. Mainly in the late 90s. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What did you say? Wait, Joelle just wrote this. Dylan and Brenda's breakup song. That's right. Yeah.

That's right. That's what I associated with in 90210. And I was like, oh my God, this is so sad. Well, that one at least for us, that's ending on a high note with this game. Hats off to Joelle, our producer, for making us all happy.

Go on this emotional roller coaster. I'm not going to lie to you, Joelle. No, no, no. My day's ruined. No. I'm so sorry. Shout out to Joelle. No, I refuse. Unshout. Whisper in. Yeah. She really leaned in. You really leaned into this. We didn't know what we were getting into.

But somehow we won the game. So what does that say about us? You know what I'm saying? We know all those songs. Within three seconds, we were like, we know this. You know who didn't win the game? You know who didn't win the game? All the victims of those songs. That's right. I consider myself one now, to be honest with you. But isn't it, the thing is, is like, isn't it important that these songs were written? If I never heard Tears in Heaven again, I would be just fine.

Yeah, me too. Me too. It's like that movie Dancer in the Dark. I can't ever unsee that movie, but I will never see it again because I was traumatized by it. Yeah.

But it was a very good movie and I'm happy it was made. But all these songs, I'm like, well, they were great expressions of tragedy and expressed through music. And I'm happy they were written. Do I want to listen to them ever again? No.

as part of a party game on our podcast on a comedy podcast okay before we wrap this episode up I have a little bit of unfinished business with you Zoe and I've also been avoiding this like this whole episode I'm like when do I talk about it but we're at the end of the episode y'all and I can't hide anymore

So I sent a little massage to Dave Finkel, who's close friends with, um, Walpert. Okay. David Walpert, who wrote the episode that had snap out of it. And the silhouette. Was it a reference with the Moonstruck reference? And I said, obviously has to be Moonstruck. Walpert. Um, you must agree. So here was the response. I will read it out loud.

You already smiled. You seem like very vindicated. So I'm assuming that you're you are or no, I don't know. He said it starts one way and it takes a turn. Hannah or let Hannah know I'm on her side. So I was like, great. This makes sense. That's all I wanted to hear. That said, don't like this part.

I don't recall having Moonstruck on the brain, but pretty sure Crescent Moon was in my pre-Liz draft, and I do like Moonstruck, so possibly an unconscious homage? This is not going to settle anything, is it?

Oh, gosh. So kind of I'm vindicated. Yeah. It sounds like. You know what? I love how much you love Moonstruck. Like that is so awesome to me. Like I just like love you more for how much you love Moonstruck. Thank you. And that you think it's like in everybody's thoughts and on their minds and living in their hearts. I remember a few things about Moonstruck, but like almost none of the dialogue. I still remember.

I see it everywhere. It's like that number 23 thing. You know what I mean? I just see it in everything. Great movies influence everything. And then people a lot of times don't realize they're being influenced. But it's the same with music and everything. I mean, it's like it's a great movie. Everybody saw it, you know, and it had a lot of things I'm sure that were unique.

To it at the time that then everybody ripped off without realizing it. And then those people ripped, you know, not ripping it off, but like were influenced or inspired by it. And then other people were inspired by, you know, and then things become tropes and they become part of the fabric of our entertainment. And I think that's a testament to that movie. I will say right now you're being very, um,

And I'm just going to have to, on this podcast, give one point to Zoe D. One point. It'll come around again on something else, I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm not a very competitive person, so it works for me.

This was a great episode, you guys. Yeah, this was fun, except for the listening to terribly sad songs part. Oh, we'll cry for like an hour in the shower. Thanks, everybody, for listening. Goodbye for now. Thank you. Bye. We'll see you next week. Bye. Bye.

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