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- Babe. - Yeah, babe. Our birthdays are very close together. - Yeah, are you the 20? - I'm the third. - Third. - I'll kill you dead. I'm the third. - What's mine? - 13th? - Exactly, time to die. - 13th? - 14th.

How close was I? Come on. That was really good. I remember that because we'd be heading back to work usually to shoot the show and we both would have just had our birthdays. Yeah. I remember that. Okay. So what are we discovering in this episode? We're going to talk secret tattoos. No, keeping secrets. Face tattoos. What are we going to talk about in the show?

Keeping secrets. Something I'm very good at. Yes. Face tattoos. Something I'm not very good at. And surprise birthday parties. Actually, my whole wheelhouse. Wait, do you throw? For real. I'm really good at throwing surprise birthdays. Really? Yeah, we'll get to that later, but...

All right. In this episode, Jess's dad, Bob, played by the magnificent Rob Reiner. The king. He comes into town for Cece's wedding and Jess begs Nick not to tell him that they are hooking up. Speaking of hooking up, things are getting quite steamy between Schmidt and Elizabeth, but he isn't sure where it's going. All the while, Winston is convinced that the Loftmates are throwing him a surprise birthday party.

And keeping him in the dark about it. It is so sweet, but damn, damn, damn, damn. Damn, damn, damn. Winston's disappointed and so am I. I just want to say something. We're going to get there, but one of my favorite laugh out moments just reminds me of the way you said damn. Is this? Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat. When Rob Reiner talks about how to build a sandwich. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat. Lettuce.

Tomato. Let it spread. Correct.

I was like, that sounds delicious actually. - Speaking of meat, Rob Reiner was, I don't wanna say best known, but he was known back in the day from being on the show All in the Family. Where his father on the show, or stepfather, father-in-law. - Archie Bunker. - Archie Bunker would call him Meathead all the time. - That's right. - He'd always call him Meathead. I thought that I was being clever in a scene

There is a scene that we'll get to later, but the scene where a very memeable moment where I'm eating the cake and he goes, are you sure you want to eat that with that body? And then I take the fork and I throw it down. Yeah. I usually, there's nothing scripted. At one point I call him a meathead and I go away. He was not amused. Oh no. Not only was he not amused, he decided to come up to me and ask me if I thought that was the first time he's ever heard that.

You got told. I was so like hurt because I thought, it's not that I thought I was being clever. I just thought like, he probably hasn't heard that in a while. Oh, sure. You know what I mean? Like that show was in the what, 70s, 80s, something like that, early 80s, late 70s. A long time ago. I was like, there's no way. There's no way. Especially with this generation, they probably never saw the show. Thought it'd be a deep cut.

He was not having it. Different kind of deep cut. Different kind of deep cut. So let us go to break. But when we come back, I want to talk about, I want to dive right into this episode. Oh, it's a good one. Yeah. Directed by Max Winkler. Written by Brett Baer and Dave Finkel. Brett Baer. That doesn't count. Come on. It does not count. It just makes me happy when I hear the word. Brett Baer. When we come back, I'm going to look completely different.

I'm not going to have this hat on. I just want to switch things up a little bit, okay? I'm going to have on a different hat. Let's go to break. Watch this.

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Oh, what a sweet beginning to this episode. Yeah. He's like watching her sleep. And he goes, fantastico. And then checks her pulse because she's sleeping so deeply. So still. So peaceful. That he checks her pulse. Yeah. Um,

And she's like, are you checking my pulse? Also felt a little, I don't know if that was in the script. It felt like that could be improvised. Probably. It's a Jake Johnson thing to be like, how many takes are we doing of this? And he's saying, fantastico. And then he just starts doing silly stuff. Oh, 100%. That's what it felt like to me. Oh, 100%. But you're right. Very, very sweet moment. Until she pulls out a pretzel. Right. Pretzel in the bed.

My favorite part, though, about this moment was when he decides to be like a good guy and he wants to go be romantic and make her breakfast. Wet eggs, man. Those eggs were so wrong. I laughed my ass off. I was like, he just pours them out like a glass of curdled milk. And I was like, why? It was disgusting. You know that Winston ate them. Yeah. That's the funniest part. He was just like, it's fine.

For sure. But also the dessert part. Yeah, he's like, everyone needs a dessert. And he's got a little vase of flowers. He's like, just takes the one, puts it in a beer. And

Yeah, it's classic Nick Miller. It's perfect. It's the thought that counts. There was a lot of thought. 100%. He could even cut a grapefruit right to make it look... I know. This is just intentionally bad. Yeah, he's a big baby. Oh, yeah. He's a big baby. But as he's walking to give her the breakfast, guess who walks in? Robbie Robb. Robbie Robb. Now, it's odd and it's tricky and it's troublesome for Nick because he was literally just...

Making love to this man's daughter. And I was trying to do like a sweet thing to show like, oh, like we're here. This is the morning. I still got you. I think you're great. Wonderful. And then bumps into, I mean, that's the living nightmare to just bump into the dad. Yeah. When you're trying to sort out what this is. We've all been there. And then your character just turns into Tom Hanks' soccer ball. Wilson. Volleyball. Call me Wilson.

I'm like, guys, it's Winston. You know, it's Winston. Justin Long would call me Wimbledon. Didn't he do that? Genslinger, yeah, he called me Wimbledon, Wilson. Sports references. A lot. Yeah. Look. Okay. Look at the muscles. Bicep, tricep, all in one flex. Okay. But Winston runs into him and he...

Which is great for Nick because he can say, "Oh, I was making this for Winston." And he goes, "For my birthday?"

I also like how Rob Reiner calls it girl food. Looks like girl food. It's just eggs. Eggs and grapes. And a grapefruit. Yeah, so then you get to announce. Yeah. It's for my birthday. Nobody knows what the hell you were talking about. Yeah, nobody knows. No, but you got excited. You thought you got a birthday breakfast. Yeah, you'd think so. That's sweet. But he was even a little skeptical in that moment. Yeah. He was like, hmm.

And we're gearing up. This is the penultimate episode. So we're gearing up for the big finale for CeCe's wedding. Which is why he's in town. Which is why he's in town. So they're doing all this prep work, which is also like a fun motivator for so many storylines in this episode. Speaking of which, Schmidt. Schmidt and Elizabeth, they're getting after it.

- Oh my gosh, I don't know why, maybe because I lived in LA in an apartment where I had my neighbor on the other side of the wall. There's sweet moments talking back and forth and then them banging on the wall.

- Shut up! - Show made me laugh. I remember, I don't know what episode of New Girl it was, but it was one that I was like, "Oh, I wonder how people are gonna receive it." I don't remember what it was, but I remember through my wall being able to hear my neighbors watch it and I could hear when they laughed. - Oh, wow. - And I was like, "Oh, it's doing well." - Oh, wow. - All right, it's working out, man. - You were very frugal. - Why?

Your walls. I didn't build the walls. Just that we're in the, that was the way the apartment was. You were there. You've been to that apartment. You know it. Yeah, but I'm talking.

The moment I booked New Girl, what a mansion. I mean, you did go out and spend a few dollars the moment you booked New Girl. We're like, what are you doing showing up in a Ferrari with four Rolexes? I didn't know how money worked. We haven't got the first check yet. I instantly regretted it. Yeah, we were just like, what are you doing? Go return all of it. I was like, ain't I rich? They're like, no. No, you're not. Have you seen your paychecks? Have you seen the first check? Not yet. Returning.

Oh, get your ass to Old Navy. What are you doing? Oh, my God. No. I tried to buy a jet. You tried to do so many things. They were like, what is happening? Somebody talk to him. Oh, ignorance, ignorance, ignorance, ignorance. I paid the ultimate price for that. It's hard to sell a jet. You know what I'm saying? I mean...

Yeah, no, I was in that apartment for years. I know. Years I stayed in that little apartment. Well, you also, also fun fact about Hannah. Yes, she stayed in that little apartment because she was never in town. Hannah was always in another country. That's right. Always in another country. That's right. So yeah, you didn't, you would have been ignorant to move when you're never there anyway. Oh, I don't know. That moment with the guy when he was living in my shed in my parking spot, I should have at some point been like, maybe we'll move. Yeah, that's on you. When I'm shouting at my neighbor through the wall, congratulations.

I was like, maybe. Maybe it's time. Did you ever meet those neighbors that knew they were watching your show? You know, actually, who it turned out to be was Katie Stoll. Do you remember my dear friend Katie Stoll? She also has an amazing podcast, by the way. Really? Katie, you met her a million times over. The neighbor, the one that I related to, the one this with the shut up, was there was a neighbor downstairs who advertised himself as a Craigslist star.

headshot photographer. So, you know, when that bus rolls into town, prettiest girl from Wichita and you're like, I need a new headshot. You look up this dude. Yeah.

It was busy downstairs. Let me just say. Oh, you could hear. And I've told you this story because I remember coming to set to tell you this story. Yeah. You know what I'm going to say? I remember sitting in the. Yabba dabba doo. Yabba dabba doo. It's yabba dabba doo. I remember. Sitting there in bed. I was like reading a book, glasses on, hair tied up in my jammies. Very Jessica Day in my life.

And all of a sudden I hear them going at it downstairs. And I'm just like, well, this will end soon. And then it was like a swinging from the chandeliers. Like she was definitely doing some theatrics. None of it felt real. And then all of a sudden I hadn't heard him. It was just all of her performance. And then all of a sudden I heard him say, yabba-dabba-doo. And I was like, oh, no. I got to move now.

I could never look you in the eye. Oh, no. Thin walls. Thin floorboards. You walk out, he's doing like this to you. Yeah, he gets in his car and just uses his little feet and just... Fred! He Freds off. Anyway, it made me laugh so hard because I just could relate to that moment so much where they're trying to have this meaningful moment, Schmidt and Elizabeth, and the way it's the best when Max does that angry yell. Shut up!

And then my favorite, too, is when they go flashback to the college party of how they met. That's great. The dancing. And how they danced together, which was chef's kiss. So good. Yeah, so good. Now, she... Which I found to be really funny. She asks him if the weight loss made him lose weight in his penis. And he goes, it's slightly smaller. Yeah. No medical reason. Nobody can explain it. Now...

Jess tells Nick that her dad could never find out about them hooking up. Very odd thing that she even has to tell him that. That was the part I was like, what? No man's father. Unless you're about to propose, unless you got a ring and you're about to ask for a blessing. Don't.

Right. He doesn't need the update, man. Right. Why would she even have to tell you? You're a grown man. Grown man. And apparently she did have to tell him because ultimately he did. But prior to that, you could see he's trying not to be, you could see he's trying not to be stuck alone with him. That's right. He documents was very funny. Oh my God. He goes, what did, what did, what did, uh,

He said, what kind of stuff? You got no stuffs? That one? No. And he says, I didn't gain my way out of Vietnam just to get killed by some punk. What he's trying to explain to her.

why he doesn't want to sit in her car and wait at her school. He's like, this is some punk guy. I didn't gain my way out of Vietnam. I heard it as gain my way, but now that you said what it is, it makes a lot more sense. That's what he said, right? I didn't gain my way out of Vietnam. I can see it, especially if it was Brett and Dave writing this episode. Oh, yeah. For sure.

Okay, and so just gets a call she is called to school. She's gonna get an opportunity to teach with kids again She's gotta go it's like her dream, but she is now in a real conundrum Yeah, because if it's one thing we all know about Nick Miller is the man can't keep a secret He can't hold water it literally comes out of his back. That's right. He sweats sweaty back will sweat back. Oh

I remember Joey. Remember Joey having to pour water down his back to make it look like he was sweating? They were in heaven. He was in heaven. They were in heaven. Joey, oh my gosh. Wardrobe assistant. Yeah, Joey Perla. Pouring water down his back. That'd be great. He'd be so happy. He's the best. Joey! So she goes to this school, but these kids, these kids ain't normal.

One of the worst kids I've ever seen. When the kid comes over at the end and offers the cigarettes and says he's got a car and take a ride. I got a car. Most beautiful kid. I was just like, what is happening? Mad disrespect to these substitute teachers. I just felt like Samuel Jackson should have been a teacher of those kids in one of those old movies where he tries to make a difference in these badass kids. Michelle Pfeiffer. Come on. Been spending most our lives.

Dealing with these badass kids tonight. Yeah. Yeah, so she goes there. The kids are having an issue. She's having an issue with the kids. But meanwhile, back at home, Nick is...

Dick is doing too much. He's doing the most. He's doing the absolute most. But, I mean, Dad is also putting the heat on him to like, you know, he wants a little hot gas. Tell me about the ladies. And so he tries to talk about it without not talking about it to kind of test the waters. 100%. Yeah. And he kind of gets taken down a garden path. Yes. It's not fully his fault.

No, it's not. Honestly, it felt like a good moment to say, hey, you know, I'm inside of your daughter. It was so wild. I was like, he's having a normal dad reaction. How did you think this was going to go any other way? You know what's interesting? I always, having a child, she's only three and a half, but I imagine if she was in her 30s, at some point in her 20s, I would have had to have gotten over it. Meaning, forced herself. Because...

People are adults. You really think you would get over a man saying, I banged your daughter last night? But he didn't say, I banged your daughter last night. I slept with her last night. Yeah. So my point is... The blow-up mattress makes sense. Come on, I would be like that too. Not if she's in her 30s. Really?

I don't want to be in the house when it happens. I'm not staying over. Once I get there and I realize she out here, you know what I'm saying? Now it's dramatic though now to be like, I'm going to go stay in a hotel. That means you're not over it. Yeah, I don't have to. My point is, my point is I don't have to

Express it. You got to just know. You're going to say, I repress the press. Here's the thing. My daughter gets married, right? She walks down the aisle. I'm not going to be thrilled about him. I know what's happening tonight. Sure, but at least they're married. I'm not thrilled about it, but I got to act like, oh, you know, whatever.

Take care of my daughter. He's going to be like, I'm going to take care of that ass, all right? I'm going to kill that man. So I'm just going to get it out of my head, okay? I like how you're just laying this runway for you now. She's three. I know. How are you going to cope at the wedding to not beat this man that he's going to find your daughter attractive? This conversation right now, I feel like it's going to go left for you real quick. Dudes are disgusting. Facts. I want my daughter to be a lesbian. I'm serious. Men are.

You're not wrong. Horrible. Sure. I understand what you're saying. I'm like, please. Speaking of your own kind. Please. Man, men are horrible. Not me. Not me. Great guy. Great guy. Subtly the best. One of the best. One of the best guys. One of the best. Which was interesting, too, because we're fast-forwarding a little bit. When they do have the conversation. Mm-hmm.

essentially Bob is saying to him that you know

He's like, why not? Why not Wilson? Why not this person? Anyone but you. Because he reminds him of himself. If your daughter ended up with someone that you're like, holy smokes, that's just me at 29 years old. Yeah. Would that scare you more? Yeah. When I was 29. When I was 29. I knew you at 29. I was charming. Yeah. You know what I mean? I was a man of the people.

you know what i mean uh-huh yeah a sea of women every night a lot of people yeah you know a lot of a lot of uh paid gigs i would go i would show up to yeah i would get paid i would show up i just i was happy you finished the no i wouldn't pay them they i just was i was just happy you finished the sentence oh yeah yeah they would pay me um for lovemaking oh god remember deuce bigelow that was me male gigolo

Me and Rob Schneider. It was a biopic? Me and Rob Schneider. It was a biopic. Got it, got it. Based on the real life. Now, Jess is like...

Cece's freaking out meanwhile. Cece's freaking out. The next day is her wedding day. She has to get her wedding sari. She has to get hennaed. A whole bunch of things. Her best friend has gone AWOL. She is stressed. The family's taking over the space. She can't hear herself think. I love the wardrobe fittings for this episode. I got to wear some really cool saris. I never worn a sari before in my life. It was the first time. I remember them leaving it in my trailer.

And I was like, I had to like you dress. I'm like, who's going to do? What do you mean in my dress? Oh, you need it. It's just that. Yeah. And like wrapping and then like folding. There's a whole thing. I have never worn a sara. How am I supposed to know? They just assumed you knew how to do it. They just assumed. What's that about? So many times things were assumed about me. You should be fine, right? You should be fine to wrap the sara around you. I was like, ah.

Never in my life. But it was really fun to wear and really fun to put on. And it was actually fun to be in a room full of Indian people all there because representation matters. And it was cool to get everybody hired. That was a fun feeling. I do remember the hennaed moment. Have you ever done that in real life? Gotten henna? Yeah. How long does it take to get up?

Until it fades. Like, you can't get it off. And I remember when we shot the scene where, you know, I wake up, I see it, and it was like a nice little imprint. And I was like, okay, this is fine. And then when Jess comes, and she's like, it's okay. And she kind of goes to clean my face with, like, the olive oil. And this was still...

I feel like I was still a little bit nervous on New Girl. And I, it's just, I don't know the fact of it. I was like, I didn't want to look ugly. Yeah. And they just kept, makeup just kept like smearing more and more and more to sell the Mandy Patinkin joke at the end of the episode that Satya says, Shivrung says. And I remember just being like, oh,

And it was like a genuine feeling of embarrassment that I had a full beard you did and Then it's one of my favorite jokes where then Jess goes Burke is not you guys, right? My favorite those Jess tells

Nick. I mean, Jess tells Winston to help you out. That's right. What does he bring into your house? The sari. The wedding sari, yeah. He's bringing that to your apartment. Yeah. But when he gets there, he's dressed in this orange Eddie Murphy raw... It's red. I think you didn't remember, no? It was orange. It was orange. It was very delirious. I guess it was...

Yeah, Delirious, I think he was wearing red, I want to say. Yeah. What was that role? I forget. But it's very much so Eddie Murphy inspired. Yeah. And I still own that. Oh, you took it from set? I took it. Does it fit still? Hell no. No? I think I might have worn it too for Halloween one year. It's a good one. Yeah, I love that. I love that suit.

And he shows up and he's like thinking, he's like, oh, you want me to go and drop off a sorry? Because again, he still thinks everyone's trying to plan him a surprise party. I mean, the episode is called Winston's Birthday. Yeah. He just thinks it's going to pop around some corner at some point. Even when I was reading it. You're like, is this it? I kept thinking like, oh, it's going to be a big surprise. You got played in real life. Is it me? Is it me yet? Yes.

No. Spoiler. It's not about you. Not at all. Really quick, Hannah. We're going to go to break. But before we go to break, did you find the bear? Is that California's tea flag? Has a bear on it? Is that school? I don't think we actually see the bear, though. We see that it's a flag. But I'm not sure if we see the bear on it. The bear's always there. That's my whole premise for this segment. What?

The bear's always there. Okay, you know what? You know what? I'm going to give you that one. Thank you so much. I'm going to give you that one. I am going to go back, though, and watch it again. And if it's not there, next episode, I will redact. I will redact. Come around with a big black Sharpie. Yep. Oh, my gosh. Take it back.

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So, ooh, a brutal moment happens in this episode that I really did cringe. And I was like, man, this is when they started to really go left a little bit with Schmidt for me. Oh, yeah. When Elizabeth, being sweet, wears the shirt that they first met in and he pretends.

That he doesn't know her. Yeah. That is ruthless, man. It's such a... It's ruthless. It's ruthless.

Yeah, that one's hard to explain because it's like, dude, you just expressed how much you're into her. Yeah. And immediately you're like, I don't know her because of her shirt. I mean, well, I think it was all of it. It was just like this whole, you know, like it was just her and it was just so horrible. Yeah. And I feel like fans will say like Schmidt became a little problematic. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The way he was dealing with it, even the way it was just written was just like, ooh, it was a struggle. Yeah. And like, you know, love to Max Greenfield because I feel like if it was anybody else, you would just be like in villain territory forever. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was a hard moment to watch. I wouldn't have done it. I didn't like it. Didn't like it. Because, you know, you're an actor and you have to play it. Sure. But you're like, mm.

But he manages to play those moments like he is a real idiot without malice. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. It's ignorance. I think that's the only saving grace of it. Yeah. Is that he's just an idiot in that moment. It's ignorance is what it is. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because you can forgive someone for literally not knowing their behavior is stupid. I did not like the fact that she danced with him at the end.

I will say that. Him showing up, him like eating crow, him wearing the sweater, him doing the thing. I think he should have danced alone and she should have gave him a smile. That's just me and my pettiness. Well, I could tell you why she did it. Because she knew the guy she was on a date with wasn't shit. Oh, God. I mean. He looked like a serial killer. Serial killer. And like, but he would kill you just by boring you to death. Like, that was his way. That's true. Of killing you. And she knew Schmidt.

thinner penis and all was still gonna be better than this yeah yes she knew it was gonna be better than her current situation i know but she still didn't need to dance that man still had to grovel a little bit yeah well we gotta push the story ahead somehow push the story but i'm glad they did it because it was such a funny uh a funny scene um now where are we at now we are back at uh oh you know what's so funny in that moment when he goes and speaks to the uh

I love this line when he looks to the band and he goes, Hey, Jepero, make with the oompa-pa. Perfect. Just perfect. Oh, my gosh. Acting is about choices, and no one makes choices quite like Max Greenfield. Oompa-pa. Okay, so now Bob is in the middle of the floor. He decides that he's going to sleep in between them. He's like, you know...

The blow-up mattress, him just huffing and puffing, trying to blow up the whole blow-up mattress. And he has that moment where he's like, I am your father. I'm never going to stop worrying about you. Exactly. This is how it's just going to be. So fine, you can make your messy choices. You can do all of this.

But you can't ask me to not worry. Another beautiful, like, heartfelt moment of New Girl where you're like, all right, Rob Reiner. Yeah. Lay down on the floor and then pass out like a dad that could be easily stepped over. I'm like, I mean, she walked out of the room and then closed her door and the door made a sound. I had that moment, too. I was like, why'd you close the door? That's the most risky part of this whole situation. Who would have woke up?

woke up just like not even like you know when you close the door trying to be quiet where you do like the slow thing you put the hand as the counter pressure or you turn the knob all the way all the way close it gently I mean that's a 10 minute release when people don't do that in the movies I go the director must have told them to speed it up that's right because then you have to take like a breath make sure you got away with it now we're into a go upstairs to the roof

For sure. And the fact that she was like, slam, walk. They were just like time. We did spend so much time on the henna situation. Yeah, we need to make sure. We got to get this girl up to the roof. She's got to get past the sleeping dad. Close the door. So Nick sends her a text message and says, meet me on the roof. She goes on the roof.

She loudly goes up to the roof. And up there, she discovers the breakfast that he was going to make her, which is so sweet. Yeah, breakfast for dinner. But then who comes to ruin their parade? Everybody. Schmidt.

Elizabeth. They go up there with a telescope. They're going to go and do some romantic stargazing. Yeah. Now, this one threw me because I'm like, what the fuck is Winston doing up there? He's just like, and Winston. Winston's like, oh, he may as well get the gang all here. And Winston goes up and he's like, you threw me a surprise party? He let it go, Winston. And finally, he gets the party going.

They just humor that man. He gets the party. Shitty party, you know, indeed. He's like, can I get the telescope? This is my telescope. You can't take the telescope. A golden telescope. You know what's funny about that is that I found myself in that situation a lot of times on this show. Couples, couples, couples, couples by myself. Winston. I was like, man, they couldn't like...

You couldn't even show up and be at the house? No. So I don't feel like... I was always the odd one fucking up somebody's romance. It's a very good, though, penultimate episode because you sit there and you go like, oh, Nick and Jess are doing great. Schmidt and Elizabeth have made up. And you see that sweet moment on the couch with Cece and Chevron and he's just like, it's okay with the beard, I got you. Everything is cool, all the relationships. Mm-hmm.

but you know the finale's coming yeah and you know they're gonna have to do some cliffhanger and you know it just can't be now nick and jess forever and everything is great and you deep down know it's not going to be schmidt and elizabeth and it's not going to be cc and chevron so it's like what is the deal vincent's going to get a cat yeah there's hope for you yet

Just damn. What a great episode. So funny. Yeah. We're going to go to break and when we come back, you know what we like to do. We like to mess around with each other. We like to mess around.

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Yeah, babe. What do you do if your parent or parents aren't a fan of your significant other? How do you navigate those murky waters? Stand on your choice, man. Really? Stand on your choice. And if not, bye-bye. Interesting. To your parents?

Look, I think you have to be at a certain point where you're introducing to your parents. I think it's wild when people are like, we have it on two dates and they met my parents. And I'm like, you guys are inviting a lot of opinions. That's true. So until you're really sure...

Don't involve other people. It's kind of like a baby name. Yeah. Don't tell people what you're going to name your baby. They're going to have their thoughts. Unless you want their thoughts. That's true. Don't bring in this strange man and be like, this is who I'm spending my special time with. Unless you want to hear everyone's thoughts. Yeah. For me, I let my mom choose. I let my mom arrange our marriage.

I'm going back to the arranged marriage. You're back in. You're going to be on that Netflix show for sure. Oh, 100%. Yeah. Be like, just give me a nice Indian lady. You pick her. I'll show up on the day. You know who you are. Yeah. Hannah can't wrap the sari. It's going to be great. Don't apologize. Let's see. Surprise birthdays. Are you a fan of them? You ever had one?

I feel like I must have had them, but I love throwing them. You love throwing them. I feel like you were there at the most epic surprise party I ever threw, which was for my brother's 30th. Do you remember this? So for my brother's 30th, there's a restaurant...

Up on like 3rd and Fairfax. No, but we did end up there, of course. And they had like a little private room, a little Italian restaurant. And so I had like my parents came down and all of his friends were there. And I just said to my brother, hey, a bunch of people are going to come over to the house and we're going to hang out and we just have to go pick up the pizzas. You want to go for a walk and get your pizzas? And he was like, all right. So we walked to the place.

And then I go, oh, apparently we have to pick him up in the back. And we go and open the door. And it was everybody was there, had this incredible like surprise birthday. It was so funny. He was genuinely surprised. He couldn't believe it. It was like such a huge thing. And then everybody said goodbye and left after this like two and a half hour dinner. It was super, super fun. And what they did is they ran all the way down the road.

I think it's called Carmelita, this Italian ice cream shop that was on 3rd Street. And the ice cream shop, if you went through the ice cream shop, behind the freezers, there was a door you could push. And they had a room back there that had like a photo booth. And like, yeah, it's small, but it was like this cool secret little kind of speakeasy style kind of room.

And so I had rented that out. And so everybody went there. So after the birthday party, it was like, this is so great and wonderful. Like I made it seem like it was like something wrong with the bill and my card. And then I was like, okay, let's walk home. And so we went to walk home and I was like, let's get some ice cream. It's your birthday. And he was like, all right. And so we went in and then I was like, played the girl card. Cause I was like, I go to the bathroom. I was like, I don't know. I was like, it's weird. It's late. I was like, would you just like come on, like stand outside the door? Just cause I feel a little weird. And he was like, all right, cool brother.

And he was like, walks back and I pushed the door and inside everybody shouts surprise again. And then we have this, it was the most fun. We had ice cream and drinks and like a DJ and it was super, super, super, super fun. Two surprise parties. What would be so funny is at the end of that, he goes, when do I get the pizza? I was like,

He's like, I was promised pizza. These people keep popping up. But I got him twice in one night. That's epic. I've never heard that before. It was really good. I couldn't believe him. And I was so, the problem is I couldn't enjoy the dinner because the whole time I was just so anxious. And then people were like loitering at the end of dinner. I was like. But you also, you were probably anxious because you realized you didn't invite me.

Are we going to have an Ellen DeGeneres Dakota Johnson moment? Just saying. I don't remember getting this invite. I don't remember a pizza party slash ice cream party. There's for sure invited. You know what I think? You probably shouldn't show up. No, no. I show up to everything. That is true. You actually do show up for everything. Maybe you're out of town. Never out of town. It was in May, though. We would be...

Oh, May. You were out of town. I was probably out of town. You were out of town. I was probably shooting some big Hollywood movie. You would show up. I would invite you. Facts. Two, you would show up. You probably were with Vin Diesel in South Africa. What year was this? He would turn 30. I don't know how old he is. How old is he? He was born in 85. Oh, so I wasn't with Vin Diesel. Maybe I was. I don't know. We got to go run the calendars, guys. We'll be back. We got to solve this crime. Face tattoos. Hannah, how do you feel about them?

Don't they usually indicate murder? Well, you get the teardrops. Is that what that usually means when you see a face tattoo? No, you get the teardrops. Murder. Like Post Malone got tattoos all over his place. I doubt he's killed anybody. I doubt Post Malone has killed anybody. Slays the charts. Well, he could be killing them tracks. You're right. Killing them tracks.

Gucci man had ice cream cone on his face. By the way, who does all of Post Malone's wardrobe and custom makes everything? Kathy, who was one of the wardrobe designers on New Girl. Oh, she does all of Post Malone's stuff? Yes, you know Kathy. How come she never had me dressed like Post Malone? Motherfucking overalls, cowboy boots, and face tattoos. That's right. Got me in bird shirts and shit. Talk to Kathy. Come on, Kathy. Come on, Kathy. Guys, thank you.

Thank you for listening to another episode of The Mess Around. Today, we ran through Winston's birthday. Tragic. Very tragic for Winston. The birthday. You've grown. You don't need a birthday. I know. But please, be sure to follow us on IG at The Mess Around Pod. We'll be back next week. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. The T-Swift episode. Never heard of her.

- Yeah. - I've never heard of her. - Up and coming artist. - Yeah, really, really shooting for it. - We should give her some attention and support. - I think so. This episode will boost her. - Help elevate her career. And this podcast now is gonna take her to the next level. - Yeah, if her phone's still on and working, then maybe we should contact her about being on the episode. - We should text her for sure. Yeah, 'cause you have the, you got her, I have the- - I got her old number when we used to, you know what I'm saying, canoodle. - Yeah.

People don't believe me when I tell them we used to canoodle. Canothing. I don't let them stop me from... Canothinging? What? Huh? That's what I'm saying. All right. See you next week. That was The Mess Around. This has been an iHeartMedia production. Our executive producer is Joelle Monique. Our engineer and editor is Mia Taylor. Additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Chevron. Our theme song was written and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson. So we're going to catch you next time.

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