And That's What You REALLY MissedThe fan Q&As continue with an OG Gleek, who happens to be a bank teller by day and a theater actor by night!
Jenna and Kevin get blown away when Gleek of the Week Emilee admits the first dance at her wedding was to a Glee tune! She also reveals her go-to Glee song when she needs to work up tears on stage, pitches a Tina storyline that impresses our dynamic duo, and gives her hot take on Marley.
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So we have Emily Carrol and she is a receptionist a teller at a credit union by day, but she's a theater connistore by night.
So this this track, this makes sense.
She enjoys working on all aspects of theater at a local theater with some of her best friends. So we just you know, bringing the passion in. She's bringing the passion in. Yes, Hello, Emily, Hello, how are you?
I am so good? Were you?
We're good? Thank you?
Bye?
Everything? Oh god, no, how official looks.
How are you doing today?
Good?
I'm doing great.
How are you great? Thank you so much for taking the time to join us.
Me take the time. Thank you for taking the time. Oh my god, this is crazy.
I love talking to you guys.
So great.
So tell us Okay, we hear that you're a receptionist by day, but a kind of theater condi store by night.
Please I elaborate.
So, my true loves in life are theater and glee. So I used to go to school for theater and then I was like, you know what, I love this as a hobby. So now I kind of have like my persona by day and then my love of theater at night. So yeah, well you know, this world's over here. No, it's really my true love, my passion. So I love to perform.
Oh that's amazing. I think also a really important thing for people to remember that it doesn't have to be your career. It can be a hobby and you can love it and it can be very fulfilling if it's not the thing paying your bills. I think that's great that you've kept up with the love the day and night version, you know.
Yeah. Yeah, And I have a really great community. A lot of my best friends we all work in this theater together, so we do the theater. I work with us about ten shows a season, so I get to yeah, so like last season, I get to work on like six shows on stage and off stage.
So wow, yeah, how exciting.
Yeah, yeah, I want to do that for fun.
Yeah, it's great.
You know what I mean?
Where do you What area are you in?
I am in Wisconsin. You'd be right in the mid so I'm I'm about forty five minutes south east of Green Bay, so right on Lake Michigan on the very eastern side. But I've lived in Colorado before as well Denver area.
So iving theater community love to hear it.
Yeah, it's a little, tiny, tiny town and we have a really great community. So it's it's awesome.
It's wonderful.
Okay, So tell us about your leave for Glee. How did you find Glee? Did you find it when it first came out? And what drew you to the show.
Yeah, so I am a day one o g Glee fan. I've been with you all since day one. So oh yeah. I my friend Mat fewter friends was kind of like, hey, you would really love this show. I started watching it and I'm admittedly the same age as Jenna, so I am. You know, I was just starting I was in college and I was starting a new major and new school. So all the seasons of Glee kind of happened like during different parts of my life as I became an adult and different things. And I got my husband into it, so now he's seen all six seasons.
Oh my god, up with me.
Our first song at our wedding was even a Glee song?
Oh my god?
What song?
So we did. Our first dance was the season five just the Way You Are with the group from the new York group. So so I did it. Yeah, I did it. We got married in New York. We did a non traditional wedding and instead of you know, I didn't walk down in asle or anything like that. But I would have probably made all of my wedding songs flee songs because that's just who I am.
So we had a lot of weddings too, you know, there's a lot to pick from.
I did pop songs.
We did pop songs for our wedding too, for mine and David studying too, like why not, right yeah heh.
Yeah, heh yeah yeah, so I and I've just loved it, right, I found my own community. I've been on Gleek of the Week a few times, high hand. So yeah, it's it's just a great community, right. It's just we all love it so much, and it's so fun to watch you guys kind of see it through your eyes and the way that you guys rewatch because how weird is that? Right, like to watch all your friends and watch yourself. I as a performer, I hate watching myself, right, hate it. But it's really fun, right because you're like, oh, yeah, I remember this and I remember that from this.
Yeah, you know, you know what's nice though, is like people like you and Andrew with that community who is so supportive and positive and real about it, is that I feel like when we do maybe get things wrong or different than how you guys see it, which I think is the most important opinion. Yeah, it's been so that's my favorite part of this. Yeah, our memories and connect you to it are obviously so different and swayed and biased in a number of ways, and so to have people like you who have been so supportive of this podcast and also not afraid to speak up and be like, well at this thing, Yeah, totally.
I know.
It's funny. On Andrew's podcast, I always talk about all the hot takes I have, so I'm like, I'm always like, well, wow, My biggest one is Marley got what she deserved in Katie or a Gaga. Blame the fire here, let me flame the Okay, that what she deserves now. The reason is because mister Shoe said, hey, we're doing an assignment. You're going to be who you really aren't. Everyone else did that right. Everyone else was like, I'm going to be a Gaga. I'm gonna be a Katie even though I'm really the opposite in real life. But everyone's like, oh he he susplended her because she didn't wear an outfit or didn't want to dress in a swim suit. No, no, she still wore a pretty revealing outfit as Katie Harry and she just didn't do the assignment.
That's fair.
I suspended her too, That's that's my big hot take. And everyone's always against me, and I'm like.
Okay, I feel like a detention for a little bit would have sufficed. But I understand what you're saying.
Some sort of punishment, right, Like she didn't do the assigning.
She didn't. Yeah, you fail if you don't do the assignment, Like that's that's on you. And that it was very revealing.
That's so revealing. That's actually a really good point. Who was your favorite characters?
Who are like who did you seasons? Yeah?
Yeah, well see, I I do love I love me some Tina and already together. And I mean not to anything, but I mean I am a really big I really love all the seasons, but I I really the first season is really special, right, you see these relationships really start, which is why I'm a big Finn and Rachel fan too. You know, just to see the through line and everything like that. I really am kind of original, you know. Yeah, So that's why I think I like Tina and Artie also because it's kind of you see their whole full circle, you know, throughout all the seasons and they go apart and then they come back together. So those are kind of my favorite couplings and to see them through.
But right now we're at the part of the show where we're in New York now pretty much exclusively. What are your feelings about New York or when you were watching it when that shift happened or New York started? Did you love it? Do you miss going back to McKinley. Are they seeing everybody grow up? Yeah? What are your thoughts on that?
Well?
I think that I kind of wish that season four would have encapsulated the whole year. I wish it would have been like the other three seasons where it ended, because then I would have loved a whole season of this back half of season five that you see right, because there's something really special about it, and it's a really cool shift out of McKinley. While it is really kind of jarring and different, Like you said, Jenna, you don't get to see it every day. It's kind of sad where it's like, you know, you're not back in that place, but the dynamics of the people who are in New York is it's so phenomenal and there's so many more story lines that could have come out of that that once they shift back to McKinley in season six, then it's like, you know, Okay, we got our full season of just you know, kind of the spin off within the series. But that's that's how I would have liked to see it. But it is really cool to be able to see there is life after McKinley, and yeah, I wish that could have been explored more. But yeah, I don't hate any of it. That's why I'm here, so that you know, it is what it is, how it came out, and I know, obviously season five was a very changed a lot of how it was supposed to happen, but yeah, that's what I would have liked. I would have liked it. Always seemed weird to me to have that last season at mckinlee be broken up.
But yeah, long long at school year.
Ever, Yeah, sure, I'm sure that was weird, so strange to film that, Yeah, for sure.
What are your favorite We were asking some other some other fans on like what are your favorite songs to you like go to playlist likely if you're or do you have different songs for different moods you're in or what you're looking for?
Yeah, definitely. I I really love so again. I'm a Rachel fan, So like my Man is like my like go to and I like need a two minute like I need to actually anytime I have to get into a character where I have to cry, That's what I listened to. Just go to my Man and I'm like, got it, two minutes done. I was in Steel Magnolia's last year and I had to like sob at the end of the show and I was like, Okay, Rachel, do your thing where I need to go. So I love that. But I really do love you know, It's really hard. I could just pick so many I love. You know. Cough Syrup is when that comes to mind, Paradise by the dashboard lights. I just love it. Yeah, it really is. That kind of has grown on me because I was always like a cool moment, but really grew. I also really love one that I've been listening to a lot is My love is Your Love? Oh yeah, it's one that I kind of forget about, and I'm just like, yeah, so vocals good one. Yeah so no, I just kind of listened to it all. So I I helped manage the the Apple podcasts for the remaining song list on Andrews Podcast of the Week. So I'm always listening to like what's left in the podcast or like for the in the rounds. So it's it's kind of all over the place. I kind of listen to things I might not love, but it's it's just I don't know. Lee is always playing on my.
Yeah.
True.
Wow.
Do you have a favorite storyline?
Wow, that's a good question.
I do.
So it sounds terribly and depressing, but my like my so, my favorite episode is the breakup in season four. Yes, so I kind of like how they all go apart their own way and then eventually some of them find their ways back together. My big thing is that Tina and Mike were robed from that storyline. They should have been every funny.
I think that's so funny.
And I I have a song that you should have sang Jenna in the breakup. So this is my picture picture at season four, We're going We're going back. Tina and Mike are in the breakup instead of Will and Emma, because Will and Emma can actually break up Tina. Tina gets her Rachel solo moment and she sings Sarah Brellis's Gravity while Mike does a number at Juilliard and they're doing the right can you right?
I know, yeah, I sing that song, I do ring.
Okay, good, let's go honestly.
On board with that one.
Very let's go here, very good. Wow, that's what's missing right for me at that episode.
The breakup is like Tina and Mike missing out, Like it wasn't one of the things that I was like bitter about.
Yeah, but you think about it because they broke up before, right, they broke up before the season has done it. But they feel so much like an afterthought that they were such a big part of season two and three. We were the longer standing couple on the show, and you literally were just like, Okay, they broke up, that's it, like done, see you later. Yeah, La justice, justice was deserved.
Well, I appreciate that. Thank you for justice for Tina.
And now I'm serious that didn't happen right too?
And every time I hear it, I'm just like, damn it, Brian.
Well, you can find Jenna singing that song online. What is the feeling that Glee leaves you.
With Glee leaves me with? I would say nostalgia. It really reminds me of who I was back then and how much I've grown. Like I said, every oh this is dating me. Every CD I had of Glee that was my burned CD, Glee's, Glee CD's Everyone reminded me of a different time. I was driving in my car in a different state, going to different places, doing different things, and so it really brings me back, but it also keeps me present because I've found this community and get these amazing opportunities like meeting the two of you through this this right, the silly little TV show that so many people have connected through. So I would say nostalgia and just happiness.
Oh that's beautiful, thank you.
I like that, Like it's like the journey of you learning about yourself through this show over a time and still to this day.
I mean, the theory of the shows, the power of music and through the storylines of the show, and then how we all interact with music in our real lives because it is. I feel like it's like music and scent are like the things that can bring me back and memory. I mean, we do it too.
You know.
We heard songs like oh remember where we were when we filmed that, but even songs before, so I think that's really beautiful.
Or like when we were doing the pilot, there were like all these like hit songs happening in LA and I was like, I were in the music industry and I was like, oh my god, that's when we were shooting the pilot, like viv alone, Yeah, sure, sure, Well, thank you so much for being such a devoted fan and then of the podcast too.
We really really appreciate it.
Thank you both. I really appreciate it. This has been so fun. So thank you so much for taking time out of your busy, busy lives to meet with litl O me. We appreciate it. We we as a community appreciate all you do for us.
Oh thank you. You guys make it worth every second.
Really good work at the theater. If you want to shout out of the theater or anything.
It's called it's called the forest in in uh Tish Mills, Wisconsin, Little Old Tish Mills, So come see us. We have a really good season lined up there, opening with a musical called Alice by Heart. If you've heard of The Ring Awakening two point zero, yes, I have absessed with it.
So you guys really do good production.
Yeah, yeah, I was in when last year we did we did Young Frankenstein. Last year we did a whole bunch of really cool stuff.
So you know, that's incredible. It's so nice to get to spend some time with you. Thank you for taking time to speak to us.
Likewise, thank you guys.
Bye bye. Oh these fans are amazing.
You know what's always I know it's not It shouldn't be surprising because I think when you're online what you hear is a lot of JAA and the care that people have for this show, what it means to them. But the characters, the storylines, the music, it just means a lot. It's nice that you know, we go about our lives. We don't we're not thinking about Glee all the time. Yeah, And it's nice that that people I don't know are taking care of it and are like keeping the legacy, I guess, going on, keep it alive. And you know that it meant something and means something to them. Still, it was really special and of course something that we could have never have predicted when we did the show. So truly, it's very sweet.
If you thought, like if you like, if you told us in a few like when we were on set in the choir room shooting and like a scene like you guys are going to do a recap podcast ten years after the show ends, and rewatch it and all these people are going to watch it again and there's gonna be new fans.
I would have been like, you crazy, I never show.
I would like, no, people are sick, that's yeah.
Yeah, no, it's pretty amazing. It's really really great to connect with people, and.
There's such devoted theater people outside of it, which I think is great. It's the point of the show. Yeah, thank you so much, Emily. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.
