Rerun: A Conversation with Justin Long
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Ring, ring, ring, ring. May I please speak with Zoe? Oh, hello, Lamorne. Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot what it was like working with you guys. Hello, friends. Welcome to our show. It's the New Girl Rewatch Podcast. I'm Zoe, and I'm here with Lamorne. Hannah's taking the day off.

Today our guest is Justin Long. You know him from cult classics like Jeepers Creepers, Drag Me to Hell, Dodgeball, and Galaxy Quest. And he's Alvin in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series. But mainly, you love him most as Paul Genslinger on New Girl. Please welcome the talented writer, director, producer, and actor, Justin Long, to our show. Welcome, Justin. Yes. What's up, dude? Yes.

Zoe, what are you eating? I'm sorry. I took some pretzels out of the stash. Are you having granola? Lentils. You're eating lentil soup? You say that like that was obviously. No, lentils are idiot. It's snack time. I'm having lentils, you dummy. It's lentil hour.

No. You don't have pretzels during lentil time? Fucking weirdo. It's two o'clock. We have lentils now. What is this bracket setup you got there, Justin? That's a pretty cool setup. Oh, thanks. It's the company I do my podcast with, Life is Short, is Wondery. They give you your own booth? No, I usually do it out of my home, which is where we did ours, Lamorne. Yeah. Friend of the show, Lamorne Morris. Thanks, man. Thanks.

I thought I was a friend as well. Your episode hasn't come out yet. Oh, it doesn't count yet? You're a potential future friend.

Lowest rated episode. Your friend of mine, not yet of the show. I'm at the Wondery studio. So I've been shooting this thing in Utah and I just came back to LA to do this. So we'd have good sound. And they gave you, you're at their offices where you have your own booth. Yes. You're hung up on this, on the poster. This actually could be anywhere, I suppose. You're right. Yeah.

I am in LA. I'm not hung up on a poster. I'm hung up on the fact that iHeart didn't give us one. They didn't give us a poster to put in the back. Didn't we need a poster? I think he's in there. I think we could record at the iHeart studios if we wanted. You could. Yeah. Daniel says yes. Yes. Our engineer says yes, we could record there anytime. We just don't want to drive there. And we have nice microphones here. Yeah. You can come for your...

I would love to, but I sit and do my podcast in this raggedy ass house that I have. It's falling apart on me. Wait, okay. I know for a fact you have a beautiful home. Some might call a mansion.

A raggedy ass mansion. A raggedy ass mansion. It's like a haunted mansion. Okay. A haunted mansion built in 2020. It's like that show Ghost on CBS. Haunted by the ghosts of the men who made it. Oh my goodness gracious. Justin, you look good, man. Oh, thanks. You say that like you're surprised. Well, yeah, because usually you look, you know, like... Yeah, raggedy. Well, no, much like my mansion. Yeah. Yes.

Usually you're just like chilling, dude. You usually have a surfing vibe. Now you're all professional and stuff. Well, I thought I'd dress up for you guys because out of respect. That's awesome, man. I'm excited to be on the show. I'm excited to talk to all of you. Where I don't see Hannah. Oh, gosh. Hannah. Yeah. She's a problem with me. No, no. She's just take. I think she's with her kids. Maybe. Yeah. Oh, she did want me to pass along a message to you.

What is it? She said, please don't let this be any type of negative space between the two of you. But she and her words were and I didn't make I could I would say this, Justin, but her words were, I don't fuck with him. That's what she said. Oh, like, like, like, because I'm so hostile. Like, I don't I don't want to anger him. You're such an angry. You're an angry guy. Yeah, I don't I don't. I'm

I'm now beginning to suspect that maybe she does want to fuck with me. I think she had a different experience of you, Justin, than I did. Yeah. I hope so. Because you have, you do want to. I mean, I worked with you a lot and I never had that experience. Well, I wonder what I did to her.

I think she was going to be on, but then she was like, is it too many people to interview Justin? And then we were kind of all talking about when this is probably stuff to cut, but we were just like, Oh, I worked with you the most probably. And then a little more. And Hannah didn't work with you as much. So I'm hoping to have episodes off when she interviews like, Oh, I see. Okay.

It's all because sometimes we'll interview the people we worked with the most. Oh, that makes sense. So I won't take it personally. Don't take it personally other than she doesn't fuck with you. Yeah, that's pretty personal. Okay. Yeah.

Oh my goodness. Well, I'm glad I'm fucking with you guys. Yeah, of course, man. Thanks for doing that. Of course, dude. Zoe, do we want to dive right in this and maybe get this intro out later? Or do you want to just get this combo going? Oh, yeah. Hi, guys. Welcome to our show. And you know what? I will say this because a couple of people were asking why we call it Welcome to Our Show. Well, I'll tell you.

It's because every time someone came to our loft apartment, I'd say, welcome to our home. Oh, yeah. And now we're saying welcome to our show. There we go. Oh, that's cool. It's a stretch, but we'll take it, right? And you start each show by saying that? Welcome to our show? It's one of the names we could clear with legal also. We had so many other names. We had a lot. What were some of the finalists?

We had Justin Longass podcast. Oh, okay. I like that one. Don't f*** with Justin Long. Sorry, we can't say the F word. Sorry, I shouldn't say it. No, no, I don't know if we can, but I don't say it very much myself. So if you don't know that, that's against my image. I've just been quoting Hannah.

Okay. That was a direct quote. I've just been quoting Hannah. I was just quoting Lamorne quoting Hannah. Right. I think we had a loft talk or apartment 4D. No, apartment 4D is like a... It's already established podcast. Yeah, it's an already established podcast. Who's that...

who's that? What's that pocket now? No, who's that girls within us. Oh, what was the one I loved? And they were like, that's not going to happen. Do you remember which one that was? Joelle? Um, they were like, well, true Americans was one. They thought that sounded like too much. We were like military. Yeah. Reminiscing about our times in the military. Um, uh,

Patriots. Yeah, that didn't work. We should have called you, Justin, to come up because you're a very close guy. Well, it's hard to... Well, no, thanks, Lamar. But it's... I feel you. It's hard to name things and we had a hard time. You know, of course, we like... I like stupid puns and so life is short with Justin Long is what we settled on. But we had a lot of...

There were a lot of long puns that we played with, which sounds very arrogant, but it's just me doing it. I mean, for you guys, it's like, I guess you'd have to do something New Girl related. And that's, I'm struggling to come up with one, just one. I mean, your show is very, very much so Jeepers Creepers themed.

That is true. It's the sequel. That's what it is. It's the Jeepers Creepers rewatch. Yeah, we've been dissecting it for two and a half years. It's deep, so we need more time to unpack it. Jeepers Creepers, it's crazy, Lamorne, that it comes up

All the time, Zoe and I were just talking about things that people will come up to you about. And that is one that just for this low budget horror movie, it truly comes up all the time. It's been 20 something years. Well, I know of two low budget horror movies that you've done that will never leave my brain. Never, never leave my mind. Jeepers Peepers is one of them. It's the first time I was introduced to you as an actor.

And I thought, my goodness, this guy at the time, this kid is incredible. And the second time was Tusk. And I if you guys haven't seen Tusk, don't.

It is a terrifying movie. What a great plug. What a great plug. Yes. Do not see it if you haven't. If you have seen it, don't see it again. Yes. Yeah, that's when you thought, the first one you thought, who is this kid? The second one you thought, what has this kid done to his career? Man, it's one of the dopest, most insane movies I've ever seen.

And I saw it in the theaters and I think I sent you a photo of me watching it going, what the F am I looking at? Yes, you were so nice about it, actually. Well, my mom, you know, I told her not to see it. My grandma was alive at the time and she was well into her 90s and they went together. So she must have been the oldest person to have seen that movie. But for the few of you who don't know, it is a movie about a psychotic older man who turns...

I play a podcaster, actually. I play like an obnoxious podcaster. Such a stretch. And he turns me into a walrus, basically. He's fast. He was like has this obsession with walruses. And it was based on this actual thing that happened. A guy in England took out a Craigslist type ad for a roommate. He said the deal was free room and board, free

And the only stipulation was that the person would have to dress like a walrus for like three or four hours during the day. Sounds like a New Girl episode, to be honest with you. It does. It's very quirky. But it turned out – I mean he did it as a joke, but he got like over 400 responses, people wanting to do that, thinking it was a good deal. Oh, wow.

Kevin Smith heard about this. They talked about it on his podcast. And he was so taken by the story that he turned it into this kind of like hammer horror human body mutilation story. And who played the man? Well, this great actor, Michael Parks, who has had passed away, unfortunately, but he had a real like cult following. And one of his friends.

Like Tarantino loved him and put him in a bunch of movies and Robert Rodriguez. These like auteur guys, um,

would cast him a lot. And Johnny Depp was a big fan. And so Johnny played a, that's why he played the detective in that movie. So he did it kind of in this really extreme. I haven't seen this movie. I'm not a big horror movie person, but it sounds interesting. Is it too much for me? Probably. Don't watch it. I'm begging you. Yeah. Do not. Okay.

Of all people. We should be talking about this on a New Girl podcast. Well, we want to get to know you. We want to get to know. Yeah. So welcome to our show. I already said that. Thank you. We have the incomparable, crazy talented Justin Long here today. Come on now. A.K.A. Paul Genslinger. Yes, the Gens. Yes.

So it was really cool because you came on our show first season and the Thanksgiving episode was your first episode. And they were like, what do you think of Justin Long playing your love interest? I was like, oh my God, that's amazing because I knew you were so talented. But what was cool about working with you is I saw how much...

work you put into everything behind the scenes. You write a lot of jokes on your own, like a lot of alt lines. Your mind is always going. You're always trying to come up with the best version of the scene. And the other thing that was really like

cool to see about you was that you have an amazing kind of sense of physical comedy that was like, reminded me of, of like a John Ritter. Oh my God. And there was this stuff that got cut from that episode, but you did a full on acrobatic tumble over, over,

The couch. Over a couch. Yes. And we were, I was like, oh my God, this is incredible. This guy's like so funny. I remember. And then they cut it. I was so mad. Yeah, I know. That was a bummer. I remember somebody gasping when I did that, thinking that I had...

uh and and the truth is people thought you really hurt yourself i do remember yeah and i had actually i have i have hurt myself in the past i have a thing in my elbow um i have a little bone chip that i can still feel and every once in a while if i hit it the wrong way and it's from something that something i should stop doing this this should be a lesson it's something else that got cut from a movie that wasn't very good that i really and the truth is i'm not trained as a i'm not a

stunt person, but I love doing that kind of stuff. Well, that's why you messed up your elbow. Clearly you're not trained. No, exactly. Exactly. But I will say like I worked with Jim Carrey and he did that stuff where he'd just be like, I'm doing this. And like, he's like, like, I remember him going like, okay, when you hear me say this line, move.

Okay. And I'm like, like he didn't, he just whispered it to me. He didn't tell anybody else. He's like, just his, well, he, it was like, I was behind this bar and he was like, just move, like move to the right, to your right and move the glass. And I was like, okay. And I, I did. And he like full on did a similar thing to you where he leapt over a bar and

and did a full front flip and surprised everybody because nobody knew he was doing it except I had an inkling because he kind of warned me, but I didn't know what he was going to do. Oh, my God. Was that Yes Man? Yes Man. Yes Man. Yas. Now the ring name is Yas. Oh, it's called Yas Man. Yas Man. Yas Person. Yas Person. Yas Person.

That's the 2022 remake. Well, that's so... John Ritter was my favorite. I mean, I've watched... I loved John Ritter. I loved his company. I loved him so much. And Jason Ritter is a friend of mine and I... Me too. I grew up with him. Oh, right. Right. So the craziest thing is that John Ritter would come and be a room parent in our kindergarten class. What? That's crazy. Yes. And I remember this because...

For some reason, my parents let me watch Three's Company when I was like three years old. Like, I don't know why, but like it was, I mean, look, I'm glad I did, but it was not necessarily like for the,

three yeah that's a little you probably missed some of the nuances some of the especially with the I just thought it was funny you know it was like he was funny he would like trip and fall you had John Ritter come to your class as a kid yeah so I had Rollo I had Rollo a street singing clown that would come to our he's a clown who lived on the street and he would show up at our school at lunch breaks and sing to us

I mean, that's what we had. I think he sounds cool, but... Nah, he was a tricky guy. So John Ritter would come in and volunteer as a parent, and he would be sitting... I remember, because he was a tall guy, and Jason was in my class, and I remember sitting at a little tiny table in little tiny chairs with construction paper and little baby scissors, and

And I walked in and I sat down and John Ritter sat next to me. And I was, I knew Three's Company was in syndication and stuff. It was on after school. Like it was like, you know, it was like on at 3 p.m. or 3, yeah, 3.30. And I remember being like, what?

Your mind must have been blown. My mind was blown because I still didn't understand that people, I was like, did he come out of the TV? What happened? Yeah. Am I on the show now? He was so nice and I didn't know what, yeah, I know. I was like, I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to say. I was just like, huh? It was very, very cool. Oh my God, I'm imagining his- And he was so nice and he was sitting on this tiny little chair, this tiny little chair.

cutting out construction paper with us in the garden that's so cute yes it is and i'm and i'm imagining his perspective of like little zoe like being like awestruck with the big eyes looking at it must have been so cute so nice i've heard he was just the sweetest such a nice man it makes sense because jason is just you know i love jason yeah yes and melanie and also so talented

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So good. You guys did Eulogy? No, we did Mumford, my first movie together. That's right. Yes, with Larry Kasdan. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, Jason is fantastic. Justin, your career has brought you to the highest of heights. You've been all over the world. You've seen a lot of things. Yeah. It brings you all the way here to New Girl.

So here you are, you're on our show. People usually have the traditional...

audition process for a show. They go audition, they go get on the show. What was yours like? How'd you get on the show? Let's just, let's start there. How did it even happen? Well, you know this little morning. Cause I, I know it. I don't know it either. I gave him a shot. You, it was a full casting couch situation. You were, you claim to be the casting director. Um, uh, I got a call. It was, this is boring, but I,

I got a call from my manager saying there was this new show and it was just, I just knew that Zoe was on it. And I always been such a fan of hers and thought she was so talented and sweet. And I just wanted to work with her. It was as simple as that. So all I knew about it was it was playing Zoe's love interest. And I was like, yes, ma'am. Like the movie. Yes. Yes, ma'am. I will say this on the show. You guys have a very interesting romance. Yeah.

So the men out there love this couple. This couple is... I mean, in a way, like, Genslinger was, like, the most Jess-like. Uh-huh. Yes. You know, the most, like, the exact, like, the, you know, Jess's exact, like, counterpart.

Yeah, it was sort of pitched to me that way, I guess. Yeah. That it should be. And Zoe and I were just talking about on my podcast the word quirky. Following us both around. Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny. You know what I think it is? It's like unexpected stuff. And that's what makes me laugh a lot. Like when you when you walked in at the beginning of the of this podcast.

recording session and I'm like eating pretzels and then I'm like what are you eating he's like oh you're eating pretzels okay and I'm like what are you eating I was like granola and he's like no lentils like that's where I like the minutiae of life that's what makes me laugh and I think that like that's kind of like I'm not it's not on purpose but it's like I think the things that come out of your mouth are unexpected and probably similarly mine yeah well

Yes, for sure. Don't make a thing out of that, Lamorne. Moving on. I just know Justin. I saw your face. I know. He was ready to pounce. He got excited. He's ready to pounce. He got excited. Like, I love the way your show explored those moments and allowed those moments to, like, breathe. And a lot of the awkwardness was created just from the silences and from the moments in between. And I always felt like that's kind of—that's definitely rare now. I mean—

I feel like shows used to indulge in those moments a little bit more often and more consistently. But I remember one of my favorite scenes was just riding in a car with Jake and I would just point out

kind of mundane things on the road that I had associations with. Like, you know, and like, oh, I think that's where my copies made. Jake, of course, is so over it. But I loved, I mean, Zoe used this great word when we just talked, guileless, that Paul, that Genslinger is as guileless as Jess, that he has, there's an innocence that is really, I loved playing. Like, I really loved, because I kind of aspire to be that person

present and positive and take people in that kind of way, like treat people with that kind of positivity. And so anything, any cynicism that Jake's character had or any of you guys on the show had, I would just completely, I just wouldn't absorb it at all. Like he's such a

Innocent that it just didn't affect him. I don't think he's dumb. I think he heard the jazz. He also doesn't know why people don't like him, which is like so sweet to like he's like it's a nice way to be. I know it. Yeah. And and they should like him because he's not. Well, I can also see why. Well, I also like the dynamic of the odd coupling of somebody like Jake who would get.

Like annoyed by him. I mean, who's more cynical? Oh, really? That's where you get your copies made? Oh, no, no. I'm sorry. It's that place. You know, I like that dynamic a lot. I loved that. So that was such a funny scene. So a favorite memory of mine working with you was that we had that crazy, hilarious scene.

like the on the page it was hilarious the love scene um where we're like supposed to be like we're like trying to role play and it's kind of coming out in an awkward way and i remember we were rehearsing and running lines and we just both started doing really weird voices just like out like just trying them like just because we were like just running lines and it was just weird like it was late at night and we're like

why don't I try this one? And then we were doing, we ended up doing the weirdest voices. And I remember you were doing a Jimmy sir, um, voice. And then I was doing like a West voice. And then I did this other, like really weird voice. And then you laughed and I was like, I'm going to try it. Cause just long laughed at it. And then, and then they were the weirdest. It was the weirdest choices, but,

People ended up really liking them. And I was like, I was very bolstered by the fact that you were like playing along so well with all that, like just weird, like the experimentation of finding those voices like in that scene was just really fun. Oh, it was so fun.

Yeah. That was so funny. Zoe, I remember, that voice made me laugh so hard that you did. It's like indelible. I can kind of do... Yeah, goodbye, Ed. I can hear it. Yeah. It was...

I think the fans really want to hear a reenactment of that scene. Start from the beginning. Well, I've been, I mean, Jimmy Stewart, I've been like working on. Wow. I think I want to get a little more comfortable. Yes. Oh, show me your cabots. But yours, that may, but what you did with. Young man. Young man. That was it. May West with a sinus infection.

Young Bayard. It was Harry Caray, kind of. It was very much so Harry Caray. I don't even know who Harry Caray is. What? No, I have no idea who he is. I was trying to do an old lady, but that's how it came out. Young Bayard. Young Bayard. I was like, what happens if you put the voice in your nose and then stick it so far up your nose that you can barely breathe? Young Bayard.

Because, you know, when you're doing something that like is so ridiculous and this is an exact this was definitely a case in point. You have to like you have to commit or you're screwed.

Right, yeah. If you don't commit, full commitment. So we were – You fall off the cliff if you don't fully commit. Yes, yes. So I'm in that – but then if you go too far or something like – if something brings you out of it, you immediately realize how absurd the thing is. And I think that's what happened when you did that. Y'all buy it. Because it was like –

It's just too much. And I hate when something is funny, which that scene was. It was written really funny. You were being so funny. When I'm doing something like that, I feel so lucky that I hate. I really don't like breaking. I don't like ruining. Did you break? Especially on a TV show. I don't remember that because you were so funny. It was so fun.

That was like, it's on the outtakes. I, I broke when you said, yeah, I just remember doing that. But I remember it was like a conspiracy, like it was conspiratorial between us that we had like almost made a pact to make the, the, the weirdest version of that scene. And yes,

And it was really nice because you weren't like, that was a little, you know, maybe don't do that voice or that was a little too far. It was just nice to have a scene partner who was like fully on board with the weirdest choices. Likewise. God. Yeah. Well, that's what's fun about this. Again, like if you don't.

That's what it's, that's the fun. I mean, and that was so fun. In a scene like that, you know, you obviously, you're a funny guy and you're bringing your own, I mean, the both of you together, that scene was one of the funniest things that I've seen on the show. But in real life,

Justin, on the romantic side. Would you stop, Lamorne? Are you an old school? Would you stop with? What are you doing? If you're going on a date. No, no, I'm sorry. Why? That's your show. Are you an old school romantic kind of guy where you might play some Jodeci, do a deep voice, tell her sweet things? Is this the Justin Long? Do you want to do it, Lamorne? Do you want to do it? Yeah, I am. I adopt this voice. Do you like to do the voice? Yeah, baby. Yeah, man.

Yeah, I kind of do this and I do a whole, I'll do the whole day like this. God damn, Justin. Justin, that's hot. How you doing in the morning? Let's pretend we're- Shit, Justin, stop. Zoe, you mentioned Macaulay Culkin. I remember running into him at Don Hills. Do you remember Don Hills? No. On Spring in Greenwich. It was this great- In New York, okay. In New York, great bar where I was introduced to like a lot of, you know, great like pulp and-

You know, like James, all these like Brit pop bands. Yeah. And it was just so fun. Like just dancing and cheap beer and NYU students. But I remember seeing Macaulay Culkin there and I was introduced to him and he was in character for Party Monster. Oh, really? And he was playing Michael. I think his name was Michael Alec. He was very kind of flamboyant and funny.

He was being that character. I never understand the being... Look, I have all respect for all processes, but what an arduous thing it is to be in character the whole time. It must be. It just seems like so much. And in a way, you're like, oh, it's kind of collaborative and it kind of...

Can like interfere with other people's processes sometimes? Yes. Yes. So I don't know. I'm like, whenever like I've thought about it, I'm like, I know. That's,

Pass on that for me. I mean, I always think that's the only way I'll get respected as an actor is if I actually committed to the process. But you can commit to the process without taking it home. I mean, like, even Meryl Streep doesn't like go home and, you know, talk and, you know, like her character. Well, that was the odd thing. They weren't even shooting. I mean, it was like he was just out. He was right. It was just out. And he hadn't gotten the role yet. Yeah. He was had an audition. But so my impression of him was that.

I had a years ago, I had a meeting with Kevin Spacey. He was making this movie about what's his name? Bobby Darin. Bobby Darin. Yes. Yes. And he I used to do this cabaret act and he'd come and seen it. And I was like, like they were meeting me about the part of Sandra Dee. Yeah. And Kate Bosworth eventually. Kate Bosworth did that part. And she is awesome.

Yeah, she is. And I met him somewhere for lunch or something. And I walk in and he's like, hey, hey, over here, over here. And I'm like, oh, hey. That's a great Kevin Spacey impression. Well, he talked like Bobby Darin the entire time. Are you serious? And I remember particularly not knowing what was going on. He goes...

I see two swinging cats doing a cabaret act. And I thought, Oh, yeah. Oh, he's like two swinging jazz cat ladies doing a cabaret. And I was like, Oh, I was like, I was like, uh,

no idea how to react like I've definitely worked with like my share of actors who like do that but usually it's like while we're working and I'm like you know I kind of yeah you're on set and that's fine but it was weird meeting somebody for a movie and he's already in character and he calls

called me a swinging jazz cat so that's wild the only time i've ever been called a swinging jazz cat did you find yourself like kind of trying to adopt a similar no i i was trying to get out of the meeting at that point i was like get me out of here this is weird i want to ski that i'll say i don't think i want to be in this movie i was like i got a weird feeling about this guy was that what made you say no to the movie

Nobody offered me the movie. I was not chosen. But it was good because it was, I was not, I think I was, you know. It would have been your nightmare. It would have been. I wouldn't have liked the four months of talking in Jazz Daddy. Oh my God.

Yeah, it'd be funny if now Kevin Spacey was like, wow, that wasn't me that did that. It was Bobby. I was in character as Bobby Darin. Yeah, I couldn't shake it. Yeah. In a world where TikTok didn't exist yet, las películas no tenían color. The comedy of a genio mexicano across borders conquistó the heart of America. Knock, knock.

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I got fired from a job in an animated movie called Tale of Despero. Really? Which I loved because it was all these great actors, actors I loved. I got to, it was an animated movie, but they were recording us. I wonder if you guys have done this where they like wanted us to be interacting and wanted. Oh, they recorded you all together? With booms. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, we're as together as we could be. We had body mics and stuff because they wanted us to feel our interactions, you know, which was cool. It was really cool. I did that on an animated movie. Oh, really? Yeah, but we were on a soundstage. Yeah, and I guess we had lavaliers and stuff. Yeah. You've done a lot of animated things. They let you go? What happened? I know. Well, I was playing...

I was playing a mouse, a kid mouse. What happened, baby mouse? Well, here's what happened. Oh, that's why I let you go. Yeah. Well, because I said, I love the director. Gary Ross was the director. And I said, I was kind of pitching my voice up a little, like, you know, to play. He was younger. And Gary said, no, just do your voice. Like, we just want you. You know, I don't want you to pitch it or do a thing, affect it at all. And, yeah.

And so I didn't. And I and I he they claimed that as they were animating to my voice, it just sounded too low, too rich. Your romance voice. Who know? I may have. So did you get replaced by an actual kid?

James Earl Jones. No, Matthew Broderick replaced me, which I was like so flattered by. I was like, because I love Matthew Broderick. He'll always be second place to me. Which would be fine. Truly, I grew up watching him and I was weirdly flattered. I was like, well, okay, if you're going to lose to somebody, lose to somebody you really admire. Yeah.

But who cares? You've done so much voiceover work, bro. Well, the irony is a couple, like a month later, I got the Alvin and the Chipmunks job, which Zoe and I were just talking about. And I remember running into Gary...

I don't know how much later. And I said, he was like, hey, sorry again about that. I said, well, I ended up playing a rodent after all. The computers, they enhanced my voice, made me sound higher. But yeah, it was a bummer. It was a bummer because it was just such a great cast. And Christopher Lloyd was in it. It was a good cast.

I worked with Christopher Lloyd. Oh, yeah. Well, okay, so. What did we do together? Refresh my memory. It was a little tiny movie called Flakes. Yes! Aaron Stanford and Keir O'Donnell. Yes!

Shot in New Orleans? Yes. Were you buddies with Keir? Is that right? I was very close friends with Keir. Yeah. I love those guys. Yeah. Oh my God. Keir and I... Keir, I haven't seen in so long, but he was such a good friend. I love Keir. Keir's doing great. Yeah. He's so hilarious and talented. So we did this movie with Christopher Lloyd, and I remember we were...

for it. And it was a little movie and like we didn't have anybody like any runners or anything to like go get lunch. And I was like, oh, I'll go get lunch. So I was like taking everyone's orders and like burritos or whatever we're getting. I was like getting Chipotle and shout out Christopher Lloyd, like in the most Christopher Lloyd way was like, and get some of those. Hmm.

jalapeno thing. And I'm like, okay. Jalapenos. And he's like, don't forget, get some of those jalapeno things. And I'm like, yeah, okay.

He said it like four times. Oh, yeah. And I was like, this is like the best. I was like, I wish I'd had like camera glasses. Yes. We had the funniest. We had a moment where he was playing like a mentor of mine and he gives me my character wants to be a knight. And he's got this courage. Your character, the mouse? Yeah, the mouse that I got fired from. And he so.

Christopher gives me like a needle that is to be my sword. And his line was, every good knight needs a sword. And he said, so he said, every good knight needs a sword. And I remember Gary, the director said,

That's great, Chris. We got that one. Bring it down a little bit because it's, you know, kind of an intimate moment. And so it's not so, oh, okay, okay. Take two. Every good night needs a sword. You know, and kind of the same. And he kept, Gary was like, yeah, yeah, just really bring it down. Like, very intimate, almost a whisper, you know, like it's this moment. Oh.

okay, okay, every good night needs a, you know. It was not the level that he had agreed to. And yet you were the one who was, you were the one who was let go. You were the one, well, it reminds me of, it reminds me of a moment that we had. It's one of my favorite moments actually on New Girl when you wouldn't call me by my name.

Do you remember that moment? You had to leave the scene. It was one of my favorites because it was, yeah. Walk us through what was happening in the scene. So here's what I remember from my point of view. The director said, just walk out of the, or just come on in and say hello. And you were like, I think it was Jake Johnson and I, or I think you said, hey, Nick. Hey, Winston's.

And then you added an S to my name. And each time it was slightly different. What do you remember from that? It's funny because I was just talking about this. I remember being in church when I was a kid and trying to make my brothers laugh by standing out in as subtle a way as possible from the conformity of the singing, for example. Like if we were to...

Like, you know, if we had to say, like, let us pray, I would say, let us praise. And I would just add, like, an S sound to it, which stands out, which makes it, like, really stand out. Yes, it definitely does. It definitely does. Or I try to be, like, the first one to rise to stand and the last one to sit. And I do it with my friend Craig Geiling, who was on the opposite side of the church.

And we'd play like kind of – it was like church chicken to see who would sit the last. So it was just the two of us still standing in this whole congregation of people sitting. So that reminded me of that a little bit. I always found it funny to –

Just get people's names slightly wrong. Your name was Winston. I think I called you every iteration of that. You called me Wimbledon, Wilton. Well, Walton, yeah. Justin, this is a part of your performance that has possibly gotten me in trouble in my life. So on New Girl, I had a nickname. I was Porcelain. I would always get injured. Porcelain Morris. For the most random things. Well, you would...

Like stuff would happen that didn't seem like an opportunity to get injured and you would somehow injure yourself like getting up from the couch. Well, I want to explain that. I didn't come up with that nickname. You know I didn't. Zoe came up with that nickname. I did not. You know that was Jake Johnson. Zoe would cut out letters from a magazine. No, no, no. Like a kidnapper and send me little notes. No, sir. Dear Porcelain, try to keep it together this episode.

Please don't break your wrist again. No, no, you did get injured, but I think it was just bad luck. Right, well, let me tell you this part. I injured myself getting off of a couch, and let me explain why. There was a moment where a director once said to you, Justin, leave the scene. Just kind of go quickly. And you would take your time in such a way that was so funny, and you would leave. And then it was like, can you just go a little bit faster? Yeah.

And then the next take, you bolted out of the door so fast, like you did a full sprint and ran out of the door and we were in tears. So a director was asking me to get off of the couch for like, this is maybe a season or two later.

And so I got up. Zoe and I were in the scene together. And I said, okay, when she does this, just get up and exit the scene. So I got up. And I said, okay, Lamar, can you do a little bit faster? So I thought I was moving as fast as I humanly could that made sense to the scene. So I got up and I walked out. He goes, I hate to do this to you, but if you could just move just a little bit quicker out of the scene. I said, okay, great. I said, I'm going to pull a Justin Long.

I'm going to push myself off of the couch and leap over the table. That was my plan. I was going to aggressively push myself down.

If you know that couch, the one that we always sat on on the loft, there's a dead spot in the cushion. It doesn't quite have that much cushion in it. It was a vintage couch when we got it. And as I push myself down, my thumb goes down and I dislocate my thumb. And you can hear it in an old edit. It just goes...

Oh my God. Isn't that embarrassing? It was not only embarrassing. I had to go to the emergency room, dude. I had to go to the ER. No. No. Yeah. And I credit you for that. Me? Justin. Oh, oh, oh. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you were inspired to hurt yourself. I used to do a bit, or I'm sure I did it on your show because I've been doing it since kindergarten, that I got from John Ritter naturally.

Not personally, but he would do this great thing with the door. I'm sure he got it from somebody. It probably goes back to Chaplin or something. But you stop a door with your foot. I mean, you just time it so that it's –

it hits your shoe perfectly right as it's hitting your foot. Jason Ritter taught that to me. No kidding. Yeah, like in high school or elementary, I can't remember, it was probably high school. But I remember he would do that and then he was like, oh yeah, he showed me. And then, yeah, no, it's a great trick. I love that one. Well, I've been getting mileage from it since kindergarten. I remember like,

It was an indelible moment to me, indelible memory getting a laugh from that. And so I do it all the time. I would do it all the time. And I was doing stuff. One of our sponsors on the show is Bud Light Seltzer. Shout out to Bud Light Seltzer. And so I was doing like a bit for Instagram to...

You know, hitting my – running into something. And the key part of it is that you have to be wearing protective footwear because that's what you're hitting. That's really what you're hitting. Yeah.

I was, I was with, uh, I was also trying to impress my girl. I was trying to make her laugh because she had never seen me do that. And it's like a surefire laugh. It's like a go-to like ace in the hole. And I was wearing Crocs. Oh, geez. And yeah. And so I hit it. So I hit my foot so hard because I re I like over committed to the bigs. I'm trying to impress her trying to be funny for this thing on Instagram. And immediately,

I knew... You know that... You know when you get hurt trying to do something funny, like a little more than your couch thing, and you quickly have to do the calculation? You don't want to be... You don't want to let on that you're hurt because it's the most embarrassing thing. To get hurt doing something... Trying to be funny. To get hurt. So I covered it up at first. I was like... But she must have seen...

Like, real pain. Like, she must have seen me suppressing, like, genuine pain. Because I was. It shot through my leg. It shot all the way up to my... This was Brooke or Kate? This was Brooke. Brooke? This was Kate Brooke. And she was like... And she was like... She didn't really laugh. She kind of gave me a consolation laugh. And then she goes...

And I must have had the weirdest grin plastered on my face because I wanted to cry. You know, it was that bad. It hurt that bad that I wanted to like – and she goes, are you okay? And I tried to play it off like –

Yeah, what do you mean? She's like, you seem like you're in pain. And I had to come clean. I mean, it was a moment where I was like, well, I have to, this person can see. And so I had to admit that I had hurt myself. And I hurt myself so badly that I went, I was limping. I was like hobbling. I think I may have broken my toe. And I had to go shoot a movie in Bulgaria the next day. I had to travel. So for the first, I was doing all this running. And then Brooke stole your joke.

And then Brooke. Yeah, exactly. And then Brooke stole your joke. Fucking Brooke. So, Justin, you have this energy on set that is contagious for, and obviously this love for comedy that, in a way, even the way you explain it just now, it's almost teacher-like. It's almost like you could teach a class on this type of stuff. You're directing now. What is that like? Is that something you've always wanted to do? Is that something that you enjoy doing?

Yes, thanks, Lamorne. It's nice of you to say. And that's Justin Long, everybody. That is our show. Yeah, my brother and I, with whom I do the podcast, Christian, shout out. Shout out to Christian. Shout out to Bud Light Seltzer. What's up, Christian Long? What up, Crip? I called him Crip when I was growing up because we didn't like... To this day, I'm not crazy about multi-syllable names. So he called me Jutt and...

my other brother Damien is Dame. So Crit and I do

So we made a movie with Jason's wife, Melanie. Melanie. The wonderful Melanie Linsky. I love Melanie. She is one of my sister's best friends. Oh, yes, that's right. Yes. I think I knew that. Melanie Linsky. It's so good. And she's on this. If you haven't seen Yellow Jackets, check it out. She's so good. But Melanie and Judy, it's like an odd couple comedy, which we loved, which were our favorites. Judy Greer.

Judy Greer and Melanie. Come on. Yeah. We got so lucky with them. It's called Lady of the Manor and it's out on, I don't know, you know, in the streams. Everywhere. Everywhere. Streaming platforms. Platforms. Yeah. But we love doing it. We can't wait to do another one. And those were always our favorite movies growing up, those buddy comedies, which, in fact, I was thinking about.

What about Bob? I've been thinking about Genslinger knowing that I was going to do this show and the character I played on your show. And I think that's why I loved Bill Murray in What About Bob so much was that he had a similar...

It's always a great word, guilelessness. Like he was just kind of guileless. That movie's so good, I haven't thought about that in a long time. Oh, man. That movie, baby stepping to the... Oh, baby stepping. Baby stepping. So keep stepping, mom. It would completely miss...

You guys keep talking about that. Misunderstands, baby stepping. Yeah. Yeah. But I, but it's the, it's the, again, it's something that could have been very dark, that relationship between Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray that was handled so beautifully by Frank Oz. I just love, I love that movie. So that movie was always such an, yeah. Oh, that movie is so good.

Richard Dreyfuss is the little things. Well, that character that Richard Dreyfuss plays is kind of like the lead character. Yeah. But then he's like a narcissist character. Totally. And then this like super sweet guy who's like,

innocent in a lot of ways but also like but also stable and he's stalking him yeah yeah so somehow i mean but he wins over the entire family spoiler jesus sorry sorry oh lamorne you gotta see that movie but it's also you haven't seen it no what you have to check it out was it called gilas

No, it's called What About Bob? What About Bob? With Bill Murray. With Bill Murray. I like Bill Murray. What's he done? Oh, if you like Bill Murray, Lamar, you'll really love it. But it's also... Although, do you ever go back and watch those 80s comedies and be like, whoa, that doesn't hold up. That's...

That's very... I need... Let me go back and watch... Have you watched it recently? Like, how... Oh, yeah. I watch it all the time. It holds up. Well, sometimes they don't hold up, but they're also like...

not okay like problematic the nerds see oh my god i haven't drugging people uh oh my god um dark and twisted it's dark what is it six 16 candle candles and pretty in pink oh yeah those movies oh my god oh really there's so much problematic stuff

Oh, I think it's 16 Candles. Yeah, 16 Candles. There's no one where some guy sneaks in a room and hooks up with someone and she thinks it's someone else or something like that. So the one guy who's like the lead guy who you're supposed to like says to Anthony Michael Hall, like this was on TV or somehow I was like, oh, let me watch that movie again. And I was like, oh my God. So he's like, he's going out with this girl who's kind of shallow. And then he's like,

she gets really drunk she's passed out in this car and then um the lead guy whose name i forgot jake ryan i think it's like the guy and he says like the anthony michael hall character he hands him the keys and he's like you take her do what you want with her or something like that maybe he meant like put her to bed and like to give her some water that's what i hope he was saying the

The next day they wake up together and then she's like, what? What happened? And he's like, like, I can't remember. But she's like, oh, I think I liked it or something like that. It's so. Oh, my God. Not to mention problematic, like, racial stereotypes. If you guys were to remake any movie of that caliber from back in those days, would that

to change some of the, would that be the movie you'd remake or would you, I mean, I think they're like, I think we're due for some good teen movies because again, like all the ones from the eighties are racist and, and problematic in various ways. Um, like I,

Either rapey or racist or both. Two hard R's. Two R's we don't want. So maybe we're due for some more teen movies that we can feel okay showing to our kids. Yeah, wow. I haven't seen those movies in a long time. I hadn't seen The Jerk in a long... Ever. I had not seen The Jerk and it had been a movie that people that I really admired were like, you know, strongly recommended. And I...

So I got to see that a couple of years ago and I just, I fell in love with it. I mean, there's some like, there's racial humor in it, but it's, it's at his expense. It feels like, you know, some of that stuff seems like if you looked at it through a very macro lens, it should, you know, it could be problematic. But I think some of that stuff, if it was done properly and by that, I mean,

um not not in danger of hurting anyone uh or alienating all kind of like the schmidt character oh gosh yeah the schmidt character is probably like it's funny because that that was one of the things that has been brought to our you know not brought to our attention but like oh people are like how are you guys gonna talk about the way schmidt talks which is

Oh. On an episodic basis problematic. Oh, really? In that... That's a good question. Have there been things on the show that through a new lens you've had to kind of explain or apologize for? Well, you had to... There was a lot of... Even when it happened, a lot of explaining for me on that... There was a crack episode where his character is... He thinks that the best way to get to my heart is to...

Get out of here. What is it to take me to find crack?

you're kidding you're you're i don't remember this i don't remember i'm not joking because he's like asking me like what was it like living in the hood and all this this is rollo this is rollo the clown rollo the clown was our dealer um wait lamorne are you serious wait and what what about how did schmidt talk that was like but he also also a lot of yeah there's there is so much schmidt but the thing is we did establish that he's a

A douchebag from the beginning. And it was self-deprecating. It was self-deprecating. It wasn't offensive to me because it happens. People are like that. Oh, like he would talk differently to you? Yeah. And he wanted me to feel welcome and more included. So he was like, I want you to feel warm around me. So I'm going to take you to get some crack.

because I don't remember this at all. What season was this in, Lamorne? I don't remember. Joel, if we can figure that out. It was the episode. It was, it was, he, I forget what it was, but I was, I was messing with him. I was like, yeah, Schmidt, you know, when I was a kid, we used to, we used to, you know, huddle up around the fire and like sing songs in a trash barrel, a trash can fire.

And we would sing songs and then we would warm up to some nice sweet crack. And he was like, I'm going to get you some crack, man. I'm going to get you crack. But isn't then the joke on Schmidt? I mean, isn't it his own ignorance? Exactly. That's what I was saying. That's why I find it offensive because there are people who like that.

And every moment that Schmidt had on the show where it may have been looked at with a cringe look was a teachable moment for him because if you watch the show and the way his character evolves, he is not that character in the end. Yeah, totally. And that's what's so great about the David Brant character and the Michael Scott character on The Office or Archie Bunker is that

you know it it reveals their own shortcomings their own prejudices or biases that that um are laughable you know if they're examined properly and you know comedically so i i got i i didn't even know but i know that everything is now being relooked relooked at and and rightly so i think people are kind of doing a deep dive yeah i mean it's just it's interesting just to look

Through a 2022 lens and like, would we portray that character that way as a comment on people like that? Or would there be, you know, I mean, it wasn't up to me because I wasn't writing it, but yeah. Or, you know, or acting it, but you know,

It's like there's people like that in the mix, you know? Yeah. And that's the reason why I love All in the Family is because that's one of my favorite shows is because, you know, he's clearly telling on himself and the audience is in on this and there are characters around him that are letting him know that,

Bro, this is not how we behave. This is not what you're supposed to be doing. Like, what are you saying right now? And I think, I hope, society is progressing to the point where we... Like it did during All in the Family time, where whoever is taking that at face value and enjoying it at face value and doesn't see the irony in those jokes, I'm hoping eventually they'll just...

I hate to say it. They'll just die out. I mean, they'll just die. Like that way of thinking will die and that kind of prejudice will die. That's, I guess, the hope. I don't know. Maybe that's too positive Genslinger way of looking at it. I hope that idea dies out. I hope they learn. Develop some self-awareness. A lot of people don't grow. They don't. Especially if you're of a certain age. I mean,

You know, I struggle with this sometimes. I'm not saying certainly not this is what we're talking about with my parents, but, you know, people who are of a certain age...

They're kind of set in their ways. Is this ageist? Am I being ageist? Yes, you are. Yes, I am. I'm going to pull out. I'm going to bail out of this theory that I have. Oh, season two, episode 12, Cabin. Yeah. That's the episode. Oh, Cabin. I remember because that was, we had Olivia Munn on that one and David Walton, where we all go to a cabin. That's right. Yeah. We go to a cabin. And do crack. Yeah.

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Well, thanks. You invented podcasts, right? Yes. You're the first one. Uh-huh. Before Joe, even. With Joe Rogan, right? Yes, we were partners. You guys were like concurrent. But I came up with a word. He said we should call it voice casting. And I said, what about, but like when we do it, we're in kind of a pod, a little pod. And-

Like a little baby pod. And he was like, nah, I'm out. He's like, I'm too tough for that. Macho. So I stayed in my little pod to do the show. My brother and I, we do it, of course, at Wondery, as you can see. Clearly. But my brother and I have been doing it mostly out of just where I live. I mean, we have a little kind of a closet studio. You guys live together? Yeah.

We lived together. He's moving out, sadly. But we did. We spent the whole...

Oh, it was the best. I mean, we're, you know, best friends and really love each other. So and laugh a lot. So it's basically just us getting to hang out and laugh. And we do the intro and the outro for the guests. And then we have a guest on that I have a conversation with. And then Christian kind of. Oh, yeah. I didn't meet your brother at all. So it's like he didn't exist. No.

No, I know. He's like the voice. I don't even know him. The voice of God. He'll critique our... Not you. Is he going to critique me? Not you. Watch out. He's very honest with me. Is he going to judge me? No. Okay. He will judge me. And that's kind of part of the fun. Because we're very honest with each other. And we've been doing it for a couple years. We just love it. It's called Life is Short. And I love it. I've always loved doing...

because as you can hear, I like to talk. And I'm curious about people. I like talking to people. And it's been such a blessing during the pandemic, of course, because –

you know, I just, we just weren't going out. And so it was a way to like, Lamorne, when you were on, it was a perfect example of this, like just to catch up with people that you don't normally get to talk to, people that you like from your life. So Jake was on, Max was on. Worst guest on the show. Max. Max? Max Greenfield. Max Greenfield, worst guest. No, no, worst guest. Oh,

We've been really lucky. So I think now that Zoe's been on, and once Hannah's on, we'll have the whole... We'll have collected all the New Girl cast members. So on days where we get lazy, all we have to do is just pull from your podcast, put it on our podcast, and then we've got an episode. Well, yes. And I just love talking about this show. This was such a...

It was such a fun job. And it's a job, your show, that keeps coming up. Justin, the episode that makes me laugh so much, I just have to mention this, where we do the musical at the end with Josh Gad. With Josh, yeah. That one, somebody sent, it was in my mentions on Instagram the other day, and I was like, oh.

This is so... I was like, oh, I forgot about this. This is so funny. Well, it was wolf. Remind me, it was like something wolf. You're a gay wolf. You're a gay wolf who no one understood you. You are gay. Oh, right. You were misunderstood. Oh, right. A gay wolf. And wolf is a word that I can't really say properly, so it's always tripping me up. And Josh Gad's doing a show called Wolf Like Me. Someone change the poster.

to be gay wolf like me I think maybe is it was it you that was the wolf or was it Josh I can't remember I don't remember I was just talking about Josh Gad with uh at work yesterday because we were talking about a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from this year where Josh plays a guy who wears like tattered underwear haha

Have you seen this? No, I haven't seen it yet. Josh, he's playing a doctor. He's really funny. He's playing a doctor and he bends over to pick something up and Larry notices that he has like kind of holes, tattered underwear. Josh was the gay wolf. Josh was the gay wolf. Yeah. Anyway, we're talking about it because Vince Vaughn calls it, but I'm working with Vince Vaughn now and he, so he's been,

His voice has been in my head. He's just been around. And on Curb, he refers to the underwear as being – he goes, well, I suppose it was a little rustic. He calls it rustic. The idea of old tattered underwear being rustic. I guess it was a little rustic.

So, Justin, thank you. Thank you very much for being a part of this podcast. We're not going to let you off the hot seat just yet. Oh, no. We're not going to let you off the hot seat. I don't want to go. I have nothing to do. We're having too much fun. I know. This is fun. So what we're going to do is we're going to play a little game.

It's a game called Nick's Box. It starts with you slowly taking your shirt off for the fans out there in Listonville. And then slowly leaving. Slowly leaving. Put the shirt back on, Justin. And then quickly leaving. Okay. So I leave twice? You leave twice. Well, yeah, because first you have to leave as slowly as possible. Then you have to leave as quickly as possible. Okay. All right. And then you have to hit your foot on the door. Okay.

Okay. Make it look like it was your head. I haven't done that bit since because I'm afraid now. And it's my toe is still a little. I'm going to show Brock. I haven't sat on a couch since. So there you go. Oh, wow. Only sectionals. Only sectionals. Welcome back to this segment where we crawl into the back of Nick's closet and we pull out the memories that the cast and crew of New Girl have kept hidden for years for obvious reasons. Justin Long,

What's your favorite memory from your time working on New Girl? Oh, man. You know, it's got to be, I know we talked about it, that it's got to be that sex, it's weird to call it a sex scene. A love scene? An erotic love scene. An erotic. I just remember laughing so much that day. And it was so weird. And it was just so weird and fun to like commit to.

I love that. You know, there were moments I actually felt bad. I love playing around, Lamar, with you and Max and Jake so much that I remember trying to stretch out scenes that were meant to just be filler scenes. You know, like Zoe, I remember we had one where I basically just go to pick you up. It's like the scene is just like it's meant to get from like you in the room to like us on a date or whatever. And it's just me at the door being like, let's go. And...

And I, the three of you, Lamorne and Max and Jake were behind, like they were, you were in the background on the couch when you used to sit on couches, Lamorne. And, um, and I remember kind of like leaning around Zoe cause, cause I was like, are you ready to go? And she's like, yeah.

And then just say hi to you guys. You made a lot of bits that weren't in the script that became recurring bits that you just carried through. Every time you'd see the guys trying to impress them, it was almost at a certain point you liked them. Yeah.

More than me. You were like trying to impress them. Yeah, it was great how you'd carry those through. It was a real commitment. To something that is in an unprofessional way because it's something that you knew wouldn't be used as someone who had been doing the show long enough. Well, we knew a lot of it was going to get cut.

Yes. And the indulgent part that I do have some regrets about was that I should have known that too. And there was something – I'm a guest star. I'm like – I'm coming in just to like, you know, for a limited time and it's your show. But it was only because I loved playing around with you guys so much. But I remember, Zoe, you started – at one point, you started kind of like –

Kind of opening the door more, you opening the door less. So I couldn't like reveal them all. So you couldn't see them? So I couldn't see them to throw lines at them. Oh my God, that's so funny. I just love it. I was definitely messing with you back. So, but we always enjoyed having you on the show. It was always so much fun and we knew that we would have a great time. Yeah.

When you are around, bring in the funny. Oh, man. I love it. A lot of folks are calling for a reboot, and they don't give a goddamn about any of the other characters but you. It's only Paul. They just want to see Paul. Yeah. Well, if Liz is listening, Mary, whether we should do a spinoff. And then you guys could...

We could guest star. Yeah. And then we're the ones who are going to have to like curb our toes, break our toes and curb our improvisations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But to get back at me, you won't. No, I it's it's a it's a show that comes up all the time. Obviously, it's so popular. And but but whenever people come up to me about it, mention it, they always seem so

They seem like good, like nice people, you know? And I know that New Girl fans are the best. New Girl fans are the absolute best. Yeah. Yeah. I always enjoy them. I enjoy those interactions so much. So if you're listening and you see the, you see the Gens out on the town, um,

Yeah, say what's up, Ken. Say what's up. Yeah, I loved it. And you guys were so fun to work with. So it's fun to talk about. And the fans out there love you. They love you so much, man. Oh, yeah, everybody loves you. We love you. Yeah, thank you so much for being on our show. You guys, thanks for having me. I'm glad I got to do this. We so appreciate it. Tell Hannah, sorry.

I just got a text from Hannah. Will you read it verbatim? Well, it's a photo. Do you want me to show you the photo? Oh, no. That Hannah just sent? I can show it to you right now. Yeah, let's see it. Hannah just sent this photo. Oh. Oh, it's a middle finger. It's a middle finger. It's somebody's middle finger. Yeah, I don't know why she did that. I'm calling her.

Oh, I'm calling her right now. She may have changed her number. Hello? Where the F are you? Hi! I kind of got really shit out of the podcast today and my feelings are a little hurt. Oh, well. What? A lot of hurt feelings because my feelings were hurt that you weren't here and I got paranoid that it may have been something that I did and then Lamorne made a joke and I didn't know if he was being serious about. It wasn't a joke.

He's so bad. That's his whole sense of humor is making people feel like everybody hates them. That's like his whole vibe. Zoe is saying... Wait, we're on. Wait, can you hear me? She can't hear me. Can you hear Zoe? Yeah. We asked if you wanted to be on and you were like, if it's additive and we're like, up to you. And then I thought you were going to be on and then you weren't on. And so we're like, okay, I guess we're doing that with Hannah.

Your feelings were really hurt? That's the vibe. This is why texting is terrible. I was like, oh, I guess the vibe is it's as much. Yes, this is why texting sometimes doesn't work because the tone, this is why emojis come in handy to create a tone. Well, listen, you are on the show now, so problem solved.

Well, I thought it would give us the opportunity to have episodes off. Like when Hannah interviews Stephen Amell or whatever, then I don't have to be here. Zoe's saying she thought it would give you an opportunity to have – you guys could like take episodes off and not all have to be on at the same time. That's true. But, Hannah, it's so nice to hear your voice. I missed you in this chat. It was so fun. But it's so fun talking about the show. I missed you. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll come on your podcast and we'll talk about it there. Let's do it. Truly, because I was just saying I've had everyone on. Life is short except for you. So I'm going to text you and figure out a date. Perfect. That would be great. Thanks, pal. Okay. All right. I'm glad we had this conversation. It's nice to hear your voice too. Okay. Bye. Bye.

Thank you, Justin. Problem solved. Now we know. Thank you for being here. Hello? Hey. Hey, Hannah. Oh, my God. Just...

Yeah, you're on the podcast right now. Justin hung up and said, oh my God. Not true. I'm so glad she wasn't a part of this. And I was like, yo, do you guys have a history or something? Because you didn't want to do it. I said I'm so glad she was a part of this. Oh, I heard you wrong. I'm sorry. Well, you know, I have a soft spot for...

Yeah. I like all Hannah's because my pet, this is quirky, our like family pet growing up was a rabbit named Hannah.

Yes. And even more quirky, when Hannah passed away, we had her for a long time. When Hannah the rabbit passed away, I went to the pet store to get another rabbit and I picked one out, like the smallest one, the runt of the litter, because I identified because I was the shortest and smallest. And I took it home and

It started hopping around in a strange way, like its front paws were kind of splayed out. And I picked it up and I looked underneath it and I realized it had no hind legs. It just had little nubs, little nubs. This is why you hate it?

And so I took it back to the pet store and the guy, the kind of surly pet store owner was like, I said, sir, there's no, you know, I'm 12 years old. I was like, there's no, this rabbit has no legs and has no feet. And he said, all right, you'd pick out another one. And he took it and he tossed it in a separate tank than the other ones, a separate cage. And I said, well, what's going to happen to that rabbit? And he said, one of the pythons is going to get lucky.

And, yeah, so of course, you know, my little animal loving heart was I couldn't let this thing be eaten by a python. So I said, well, OK, I'll I'll take it. I said, well, can you knock off? Can I get like a discount or something? He said, I'll take five. I'll take five. But no, five bucks. And at the time, I was like a twenty dollar discount.

And so he took $5 off. And I called him Nubs. And I had that rabbit. I took it to college. I had it like all throughout my freshman year. It lived for quite some time. For a rabbit with no feet. So that's kind of a Genslinger story.

Hannah just said this is why she didn't want to be on the podcast. Guys, I have to go. You gotta go. Zoe, thank you. Thank you so much. I love you guys. Thank you, Justin, for being on. And thanks for having me on your show, too. Thanks for being on. And thanks for having me. Love you guys. Miss you guys.

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