Welcome back to our show! The whole gang's back to recap "Injured." This is the third episode that was filmed, Zooey, Hannah, and Lamorne discuss why the series had to ear this episode, Jake Johnson's decision to run into the ocean, and how the saddest song in the world came into being. On that note, this week's True American has our hosts guessing the titles of the saddest songs ever written.
Ring Ring Ring Ring. May I please speak with Zoe. Oh hello, Lamar, Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot what it was like working with you guys. Hello, and welcome to our show. Welcome to our show. Welcome dogs, not like, not in a negative way. I'm not calling you guys dogs, but you know it's fine. You mean like D A W G exactly ks. Nobody says that welcome cats. Hello cats, Hello, kitty cats. Here we are welcome. Do I say that you do? Now? Okay, So guys, we're going to talk about an episode called Injured, one of my favorite episodes of all time. You know what time it is, It is recap time, Episode one. Injured, one of my favorites. So, after Jess brutally tackles Nick during the game of football, he is so wounded he can barely drive. Winston's vehicle is also a casualty of senseless violence and possibly neglect. The mechanic declares that it can no longer be called a car. Of course, our buddy Nick doesn't believe in doctors, or insurance or money, so Jess has to take him to see her doctor, Dr Sady the O B G U I N and she gives him Med's her menstrual ramps. After Nick takes the pills, Sadie sees that his s thyroid is swollen, and she suggests that he gets it looked at. This sends Nick and the rest of the gang into a tailspin. Fearing the worst cancer. Over drinks, Nick tells Jess that she doesn't know how to be real, and so she fires back, saying, well, you never do anything. Nick then confesses that he wants to know the outcome before he dives into things that are serious, but the cancer scare bolsters him to be brave and he runs buckets naked into the ocean. The entire crew falls asleep on the beach. The next morning, Nick goes the doctor and learns that he is cancer free. The gang splits his medical bills so he won't have to worry. You're welcome. Unfortunately, no one has enough money to pay for Winston's used to be card, so he leaves it behind. We actually filmed this episode really early in the season. I think we filmed it third or something, and there was some controversy around it right about airing it that quick. Yeah, they decided it was too early uh in the season, like it was season one and we hadn't earned a semi serious episode, not that you know, of course, it has lots of jokes and comedy in it, but it deals with the serious subject matter. And they felt like we needed to, you know, have a few more um strictly comedic episodes under our belt, um, so that we could earn this semi serious episode. Right. Yeah, I mean it makes sense if you're going to do it makes cancer scare episode, you want the audience to be fully invested and in love so they can do it. But it is funny because you and Schmidt in that episode are it seems like you're just still flirting when in reality c C and Schmidt had been hooking up for a while by the time this episode aired, but it was like you're back to just kind of having a subtle undertone of yeah, it's interesting. It was all kind of papered over because it was done out of order, right, This one was shot obviously way before, and so it threw a lot of different things off. Relationship stuff was off, the introducting new characters were off. Um. But you know, the fans didn't catch on, so we're good. An island of an episode there was a moment in the um in Sadie's office. You can hear it clearly, a d R line of June going like nice to see you again. Yeah, just really camera just kind of I didn't even I caught that line, thinking that's kind of weird, but I didn't, um it's but it definitely caught my ear too, because I was like, wait, what is the and that I remembered that drinking you never do anything. There was one previous meeting, but they caught it, and they caught it and did a little band aid fix on it appropriate for an episode called Injured. So J. J. Philbin wrote this wonderful writer um, and I always thought she was really great at marrying the comedy with the drama in in episodes and was great at writing like more meaningful episodes I think. And then we had the wonderful Lynn Shelton direct this episode, who sadly passed away last year. We were all devastated and was she was just such a talented person and so um incredibly kind um and wonderful to work with. So she was like being I remember that because it was so beautiful. Yeah, it was early on we shot this and so for me I was still very very um nervous. I got, you know, to shoot an episode and it's a brand new director, and I just remember her being so open hearted and kind, and she was like the epitome of a safe space. Like you just you could ask her anything, um, and she was just you know, she was just warmth. That's what she exuded all the time. So now I think all of us were devastated when she passed away so suddenly. Um, but so is so much of the film community and TV community. You could just feel it. Everybody felt like such a huge hole had been created. So, um, we miss you, Lynn, Yeah, we miss you Lynn. Let this episode be um in her honor and her memory. Um we loved her. Yeah, much love, much love. Well, let's dive in, y'all, yes, into this great Yeah. And I was actually going to say that Lynn had such a great She had like a a great back ground in you know, indie filmmaking. So I'm not sure how much episodic TV she had done before this, but it was so awesome to have her point of view. Um, you know, I think I always found that there were a lot of similarities between shooting episodic TV and shooting indie movies because you have to shoot fast but still find the truth and and um, you know, kind of be scrappy about how you're you know, how you're making everything because you don't have the time, you know, the luxury of time. Um, so I thought it was it was wonderful to have her perspective. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely absolutely the special episode for many reasons. And so we'll dive in. So obviously this cold open was super easy for you. So because you play like football all the time, so good nice burn. Um, you're right, I am not a sports person. I know. I know nothing. Well, actually I know a little bit about baseball because I grew up watching baseball with my dad, but not playing it and not playing definitely not playing football grown men. To that I was like getting I was like petitioning to get dance credit for pee pretty early on. So yes, I knew nothing about that. But it was kind of funny in the fact that we were playing tackle football as as a loft um is funny. Was it tackle? I don't even know if it was supposed to be tackle for I don't think it was. Maybe it was just just trying to like prove herself. It was the same way from the pilot or the second episode when you were dribbled in the basketball and then you end up breaking something. You break the television and yeah, break Nick Miller every time. I feel like we all have a friend that refuses to go to the doctor and is hyper suspicious of modern medicine. Oh yeah, yeah, I can tell you everything has that that one persons paper rub that's all I trusted. Chris Roxy rubbed some robot testing on it. Yeah. So I remember filming in those two locations, and then at the beach by the Santa Monica Pier, which is a famous place. Do you remember filming with that car and everything and um on that night and on the beach because um, Jake did not want to was very grumpy about having to get in the water, which I would be too. You know what's interesting what I do remember though about that particular moment um folks, if you remember he at some point towards the end of the episode, he runs and he jumps into the ocean. Now, Jake did that? Jake did that? However, I remember being an option. Do you want someone else to be the one to jump into the water and Jake won't jump off of a two ft like ledge. He won't do anything. He will always have the stunt double, you know, go and make that money. He's like, we gotta stunt double here. We may as well use that person this. It's October, by the way, when we're shooting in the in the ocean, and the Pacific Ocean with you. Pacific Ocean is not it's not known for being like a warm ocean. Like it's in the middle of maybe in August, and that's it. In the middle of the night. It's October. Yeah, And he decides, and I do remember it being a choice, and I remember Jake saying, no, I'll do it, and that confused me. And he did it, and I was just laughing because I thought, what, what kind of idiot is that? Maybe he's just very body confident. He was just sort of like, I've worked hard for that's right. You're gonna see someone's, but it's gonna be mine. I don't think he was for he was wearing like some underwear, he wasn't. I remember everybody kind of like turning and looking away to kind of give him a little privacy. I don't remember that being tidy Whitey's is still uh naked. It's still white revealing completely naked, especially in the Pacific. Yeah, especially in the cold Pacific. When I jump in the Pacific. Yeah, we all do. We all corduroy bathing suits for everybody. I just remember going like, Wow, we really have to do this. It was one of those things where it started to be like this episode was like the Wizard of Oz moment, like pulling back the curtain on TV and filmmaking. I mean, so you've been in the industry for a really long time, but for me this was like learning, like, oh, this man really has to go jump in this ocean in the middle of the night to get some stuff she can't fake. That's exactly I was like, Oh, okay, and we're all here because we had to shoot like stuff afterwards, I guess, or I don't know why we're so I feel like that was the last shot of the night, so maybe not. I don't know why everybody was still hanging out then, but I do remember him going to do it, and I was like, wow, Um, I'm gonna pay attention to what they write for me in future because I may have to actually do some of this insane stuff. Anyone who knows me and I have a reputation in the industry is being to like, yeah, it's anonymous. However they're like Tom Cruise, Lamore and Morris anyone else. I can't think of anybody else. And honestly, and this it sucks too because I stay busy and I don't want to be I just want to be home at times, you know what I mean. But but then, but then, if, if ever the stunt was to jump into the ocean, that's the one thing that I would be like, hold on, now, hold on, I think we got somebody else who can do this, right, I just won't do it. I would outsource that one to thank you well bye. I feel like this was also this episode. It's so funny. There's so many things in this episode that I feel like people have like held onto um. And the other is that this one is too of the Nick Schmidt kisses, the establishment of maybe the true love story of New Girl. Yes, so so funny. Yeah, Max really just crushing those Fraido kisses, so so hilariously, very committed as as a performer. That was one of the first watching Max do. That was one of the first. It's when I saw a true commitment obviously when we do on the show. You know, we were characters, were all comedic, funny people, and we do bits and we go there and we commit to certain things, launching Max do those bits. Sometimes. I don't know why. I just felt like a full commitment from him, and I thought I gotta elevate my performance ability because he doesn't care. Max just goes for it of the time, no matter and what, and in those particular moments, and then watching Jake always commit to the bit no matter what, We'll just stay in character. That was something in the beginning that was hard for me to do and you'll see it later on in other episodes where I can't, like I can't stay committed to the bit when it's an extreme bit because I'm always laughing. No, but I think, like everybody's energy is different, you know what I mean. Like I think what makes Max a great actor is different from what makes Jake a great actor, or you a great actor, or Hannah a great like a great actor. I think all of these things have like In fact, I think like Max's ability to like fully commit uh is like his It's like his stamp, you know what I mean. Um, But sometimes the not fully committing can be just as real, you know what I mean, like can be just can come off just as true and real as an actor. It just kind of depends on the circumstance. But I do think like that's kind of his Max's hallmark, and then Jake's reactions to Max are kind of equally committed in a aggressive way. So yeah, no, I mean that is obviously one of the things about their dynamic that is really funny. Yeah, you be committed, Mr Lamar, No, I could be, especially when you're falling off a building. Absolutely mission impossible. Seven eight, just call me. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember all of them. Um. Also, this one thing about this episode I that I um that we get to see is more of the It's kind of more of the will they won't they stuff the energy between Nick and jess um with how we're all kind of dicking around with this news we're having fun with obviously we're a little emotional about it. But you your character is you know, more maternal and more um truly engaged with what what's going on with him, and that to me, you know, kind of lays the foundation for the audience a little bit in the beginning, Yeah, which I thought was which I thought was pretty cool. Even though we switched episodes around a little bit, it was fun to see a little later on. Yeah, I definitely think there. I think his kind of criticism of her and her reaction, the fact that it act hurts her feelings rather than makes her mad, it shows like that there. I think there's a you know, it seems like there's a connection there, and especially in this this episode, I mean, it was one of my favorite just moments I feel like of the season is you get to see um it's not so perfectly sweet side of her. You get to see her her, you get to see her lash out, you get to see her do something that's not very kind and then have to recover from it. And I think that's the I don't know, the beauty of this show is that it's you know, you get these very three dimensional characters. Um, maybe you will throw into a little break and when we come back, we can talk about the impressions and the songs in this episode welcome, all right, we're back, We're back, We're back. I keep saying that you love doing that, and you know I support it. I'm like, M not me. If you go back far enough. I'm sure, yes it's true. If you go back to historically, you are correct. So can we talk about this song that the incredible editor um Steve Uh well yeah, um yeah to a masterpiece, this sad song, because I have to share something because it brought it all back when I was rewatching this episode. Oh my goodness. So talking about an episode where you realize, oh, I really have to do this stuff like Jake jumping in the ocean. I remember they came and knocked on the trailer door and they were like, you know, ten away and I looked at the scene and it was like, okay, we're doing this song and it's like c c raps and she has to do it. Well, that's that bit of it is that it's surprising she actually can do it. And y'all that's that my forte not something I can do. It's not not a rapper. I thought you were a rapper. And I just remember like walking down my three little steps of my trailer, walking two steps, took over to Lamaren's three steps up his trailer because we shared a trailer, banging on his door and I was like open up and he was like yeah what and I'm like um, so help help me. I need your help. Did you help her? Did you coach her? Yes? And I was like We've got I said, I don't know, Like there has to be like a rhythm to this. There has to be like a beat to this, and Lamard was like beat boxing. He's like, well, I could beat box and you could say like the but I'm like, but how am I just gonna speak it? Like what are we doing? And they're just sort of like five away and I was like, oh my god. And it was just like this freak out I had, because that is part of being an actor. You're scared you're going to go on set and suck right, and everyone's going to be like this bit doesn't work. So's he's supposed to be great at rapping and this chick cand pulled this off. And because my like whatever, little Stanza kind of goes right into Lamourin's too, and it had to work and make sense. I just remember being in like a full sweat and him and I are just like locked in this trailer trying to work this beat out, trying to make it makes sense. The difficult part about doing something like that is like it's like imagine Zoe having to sing songs that someone who's not a songwriter wrote for you. That's what you said, this makes sense like these Yeah, it doesn't work. And I was like, well, we have to make it work, figure it out. And I do think that we dropped a word from it to make it flow better. Like I do think you're like, just take this bit out or something to make it work. I think we did some fine. I have done that. That's the like, uh, just writing music and then sometimes I've had to write stuff with other people's lyrics and um, and then sometimes it doesn't flow and you do have to drop I mean that's just how It's just how it works. That's got to drop a word. What would you guys? But I'm proud of you guys. You guys did a really good job with your rap. What would you all the folks at home, what would you rate the scale of one wrapping? Don't open don't open up? I actually thought you guys sounded great. I'm talking about for the whole thing, not just not just your part. Whole thing though, is a credit apparently to Steve Right, because that was like the story that came to our editor. Well, because and I remember too, is this like we were covering there were a lot of people and they were all you know, in this sat scene in the bar, and we're all around the room. So we're covering everything separately. It's not like, you know, there wasn't a flow and they had like you were doing your your Aaron Neville impression or something, right, that's what Okay, that's what That's what I got from it. I was like, oh, he's doing he does a good brothers um and then that was funny and working. And then you had everybody separately doing like little bits of things and some of it was like improvised, and some of it was written in the script and when we were shooting it, none of it was really it wasn't necessarily meant to together like a complete song. I remember being very piecemeal and it wasn't really written that way. Was like, it wasn't like that. I mean, it wasn't really written as one long thing. It was like, oh, one person said one thing and then maybe there was some dialogue and you know, but it ended up being cut as like one kind of song rap sequence and it worked really well. And I would say salute to you, Steve. I would have to ask. We could ask Steve, I'm sure, but I feel like the story was that he had to put that scene together and it didn't really work, and so apparently he had like a bottle of whiskey and stayed up all night and just like worked on it and he made that scene what it is and he made that song. Yeah, they all were like, man, Steve's a genius after the song, because I think it wasn't working only because is uh, it was probably too long, you know, because we had um, you know a lot of times for network television. Now it's totally different for like a cable show or a show for a streamer, and now network TV like isn't really necessarily like what you know, It's like it's like just a portion of what we watched now. But back in the day, like pretty much everything was network TV, UM and network TV. Everything has to fit commercials in it, and it has to be a really specific length. So our episodes were twenty one minutes and thirty five seconds. They had to be exactly that, and maybe they'd give us thirty seconds more if it was some really really special occasion, but generally everything had to be that length. And now if you watch an episode of another show that was you know, on HBO or on you know, like Netflix or something that was made for you know, a streamer or a cable network. Um. Those shows could be like, you know, a half hour show could be anywhere between twenty and thirty five minutes, um, whereas ours had to be exactly a certain length and we didn't have any wiggle room so um, or very little wiggle room. So like a lot of times if something wasn't working, it was because there was a length issue or they wanted to cut in more space, you know, and they couldn't and they needed, you know, to take stuff out. So there had to be so much creative editing. Um. And well I will say this, and this is for the folks at home. I want you guys to put this little tidbit in your back pocket. Although Steve did edit the crap out of that scene, I played the piano myself, get out. I didn't know that. Yeah it was you playing piano. Yeah, I remember that, but there weren't any real notes. Did you hit a chord? Oh? Somebody playing in my mind? You had so no, I was no, I was playing it, but they weren't. Like if you pay attention to the song. It's not exactly I'm not like playing playing. I'm just hitting like one chord after I say something, or another chord after. Yeah, No, I know that, um and um. So technically I am a pianist. Technically I'm not mature. So when you're on tour, when you're out there on tour, something's going down with the piano. You know you have, I should call you you, Okay, I'll give you a call. I'll be like la mouren um. Tell me what do you know about world? It sirs everything, everything and person? Can you can you? Can you tune it? How do you tune a world? Its? Honestly with faith and hope, That's what I mean. And belief. Actually, you solder it. Yeah, everybody solder it. Everybody knows that you knew that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right, I'm going to call you next time it's out of tune. You just come pick me up in your private jet. I don't have a pray to chet um. Oh yeah. Also, so you tapped in a little bit about the Aaron Neville impression. More impressions in here. There's a there's a first rock impression, and there's also a Daffy Duck impression. Yes, the Daffy Duck impression is very sweet. I have to thank you. Thank you a very sweet way to do it, because I forgot that that was in the episode. And then when Jess says like, oh, this is what my mom used to do for me. I thought it was gonna be some like big, over the top kind of bit. It's actually like a really sweet little Daffy truck. It was very endearing. What was funny is I remember that it had to be a Looney Tunes character. I think because of write what we could reference really um but Daffy Duck was something that I, as a kid, would do Dabby up Duck impressions to myself, not to anybody else. But I remember sitting in my room and being like, I got it. I have this impression. It was like not that great, but so you got to pick that character. That wasn't the one in pick it. I think it ended up in the script, but I was like, I got perfect in your wheelhouse. Perfect, it's in my wheelhouse. And Lamarne, you're the comedy at the funeral. That Chris Rock. That was a Chris Rock and that was a semi Chris Rock impression. I had never done it before, and I just thought when I thought of stand up, I immediately thought of Chris Rock. And the script may have said it just says he does a stand up. I think he said he does like a Chris Rock like impression, because Chris Rock, if you know when when he's when he's if you look at any Chris Rock special, he paces the stage a lot to make emphasis, walk fast across the stage to say one thing and then fast across the other part. And to do that at a funeral I thought would be funny. Um, it was real. It was great. You did it, You did it. That was a fun That was a fun bit to do. I used to do a little bit of stand up back in the day, and so obviously not on the Chris Rock level, but it was just not at funerals. But I would, I would. I would. If somebody wants like a tight tent at a funeral, you're you're there, call me worse than the feeling they're already feeling. Speaking of literal impressions, UM, I do remember reading the script and it talked about how there was an impression of my butt in the sand and is that what is that your butt? U near? Like? It was a funny things. I wasn't there right when they did it. They weren't sort of like, let me tek at your butt and then carve this out, so this is accurate. So I just remember watching the episode for the first time, and I was like, those are two large watermelons that have been pushed into the sand. Like if anybody's butt left that impression in the sand, that is a very pronounced but don't don't. That's right, that's too large impression. It just seemed very aggressive. It was so funny because I was like, whoa, okay, well, hopefully people don't seem large. It seemed like narrow, but like predated. It was injected and not like yeah well like not like somebody with hips. It seemed like somebody with like no hips who just had like two watermelons. Also, there's no there's no like hay end print next to it to push yourself up out of the sand. So I just stood up with that big booty with my legs and then you do so much apparently I do glutes but all whole day. But also like you lavitated up because there's no there's nothing it's just in the sand. I just dropped down with my butt and bounced out and that was it. I really like. I was like, there's so many questions. It's like you're bent fully in half. That's right, and then your button up, you were craned down and that's right out we're solving. I really do have a question though, for props of like what did they use because it's just such a perfect specific scoop into the sand. Um that's really I mean, I know this is like a heartfelt episode of you think crops that did that? That feels more like set that well, maybe, said Dick. I don't know. They walked around with these perfect little scoopers and I was like, wow, I just have a lot of questions, man, that's all. Do you think that was like maybe it was like an un acknowledged fantasy sequence dream ballet. Um uh. In Schmidt's mind, that is the most logical explanation my creamed butt into the Booty dream ballet Booty lasted. We would like to name the injured episode Booty Dream Ballet. That's not the name of the next She and Him album, Booty Dream Ballet. I don't know if I could buy it. Here's the thing, I was kind of a little apprehensive about doing the podcast because I just immediately immediately thought, because this episode deals with a cancer scare, that this, you know, when we sat down to talk today, that we were kind of going to go deep and heavy. And the fact that we have just spent forty minutes talking and where we're at is talking about a booty dream ballet really warms my heart, you guys, really warms my heart. This is when I wanted to be an issue. It's the podcast is for. We have to answer these questions. We now know it's a dream sequence and he's just seeing what he hopes her what looks like, but also but actually realized that, you know, obviously cancer is a very scary thing. But Nick, you know, and he has all these thoughts run through your mind of what it could possibly be because you're you're searching the internet. You're trying to figure out what dr Google? Dr Google? Also what is that app that's like with the cross skull and crossbones on it and crossbones and just as death, like go back and find another site. It's also like the font tells me that that app is not accurate diagnosed. Just the back of a bleach bottle, like it's not it's not even the thing. Well do you so? Well, I'm not obviously you forget what websites look like in two thousand and eleven. I mean website, website, that's what they were. Very basic, great beta like websites. Um, it was yeah, well I don't think it was that much. But he but but you know, he realizes quickly after his his ocean visit and after a long night on the beach, after the booty ballet on the beach dream booty ballet on the beach, that he indeed does not have cancer. It was what he doesn't know. He just there was something there could have possibly, But what is it? He says he thought it was assist but that he kind of blanked out after they said it was a cancer. I think we had to after school specialists. Um. This episode is a commentary on American healthcare because he can't afford to pay right um And to the Hannah's Canadian, So, do you want to tell us something about Yeah, I think it's bonkers. I think that's so crazy that to decide whether or not to take yourself, you know, your child to the hospital, to a doctor. To get something checked out, you have to check your bank account first. I think that is so crazy and scary and said that that's um it is determined to make everything's okay. But it's a good thing. Nick Miller had rich friends, who pays super rich friends. And then the other part of the after school special, I feel like the moral old teacher, out of work basketball player. Everybody pushing quarters together is that go check it out. Man. If you've got something that you're concerned about, check it out. It's probably nothing. Then you get peace of mind, and that is worth everything. Check it out. Always check it out, Yeaco. If we jump into Winston's car a little bit, yeah, yeah, absolutely, well Nick and your car are both injured. That's very true. But also both Nick's car and Winston's car looked like a bag of what the fuck? And find the way all of our cars like in in a few episodes, there's a whole thing about my car breaking down. We're all driving cars that are on their last legs. Maybe a nice car, beautiful car, which also makes no sense because I live in an apartment with a bunch of other people, Like you're spending all your money on your car. I guess you remember people that I was friends with, like in my twenties that would live in a like, you know, not a super nice place, but they would drive a really really crazy nice car. And I was like, why are you driving a BMW? That was always the guy picked you up in a BMW and then takes his take you back to like a studio apartment where seven people live. Yeah. I was like, that money elsewhere or save it? And I'm curious guys will pick you up in a BMW and then take you back to their junkie apartment. No, it was just like other people. It is it is I feel like that. It was a lot of people would just spend all their money on their car, right, that's right. Oh yeah. When I first moved here. When I first moved to l A, I lived in a small apartment in North Hollywood and one of my neighbors really nice guy. Every time every time I would see him in the parking lot walking to one of his cars. He had a bunch of cars. It was always like a g Wagon or range Rover or a Ferrari. And this apartment complex was very cheap, second very cheap, and I just thought, holy crap, this guy could have just those cars alone, you could buy a nice house with and uh yeah, the drug dealer a little more, maybe showing out to Daniel, who was the my neighbor's name is Daniel? Daniel clear, your good nights is just throwing shade at I don't afford it. They don't talk less say less Daniel the drug dealer. Oh my god, um um okay. As we wrapped this episode up, my friends, where's the Bear? Hannah? Okay, So I've kind of been avoiding it because I looked long and hard and it almost reminds me of the wedding episode for the Where's the Bear, where the big stretch was the bare feet. The closest I can get to it on this one is that's right, That's right, right, Miller's boot. That's all I got, you, guys. And it's a stretch. And I know Zoe does not accept things that are not Actually I don't, but you know what, I like the creativity. I gotta be. I gotta be. You know I like the creativity. Um, all right, let's play True American where the rules change sweetly and you leave more confused than when you showed up. This week we're playing Eldest Blues where we'll try to guess some of the saddest songs in the world. Um, I guess our engineer Daniel is going to play some of those songs for us love songs. And I didn't mean to cut you off, but I just joking and I did that though that's what you were thinking about. You were thinking like great minds, bro. I'll take it a bit. Okay, let's try this. This is song number one, and don't cheat by using Shazam. Don't cheat, know chasaming and I'm just sharing computer sounds. We're gonna try to stat Okay, let me know if you can hear this one. Okay, Oh yeah, I know. Eric Clapton. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton the saddest song. It is the saddest song ever. Genuinely the saddest song, the saddest song ever. I don't even want to it's too horrific. I can't even hear the song it actually know it is actually a horror song. That's a horror song. Listening to it as equivalent to reading like one of the current headlines and then your that's right, okay. With Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. I can't even talk about it because it feels like a curse for our songs. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a horror song. It's very sad. I don't want to cry, so I'm not going to talk about it. Thank you. The next one, everybody's tears and terrified. Right, yeah, it was ready for the next one. Here, we can do it. We're ready. Lamour on the Keys. Is that Gloomy Sunday? Is this Nina Simone? You gloomy Sunday? Nor Nina? Oh god, it's just strange indeed, But hold I mean, this is another horror song. That's the saddest song I need here. Oh my god. I thought the songs are going to be like he's cheated on me and broke my heart, And now I thought I'm gonna have to got to go with therapy after this game. Damn. Yeah. Okay, first of all, I don't know what to say. It doesn't get any better, though, better than listening. Can we get like crimea River by Justin Timberlake or something? Can we just get something that's just like innocuous? So I guess not, what in thee were you thinking? You strange? There's there's three more and I think, oh god, I gotta laid down. Okay, all right, next, I mean this is hard. I feel like I'm gonna throw up. The next one, windows opening, it's spins. Yeah, this is right, this is oh know, nothing compares to you nothing? Yeah, also very sad. What's that about? That's my Prince, our friend prince and um, this is shand O'Connor singing nothing compares to you. Also a very sad song, not on the level of the other two sad Like it feels that narrating song is very depressed. Right, that's where her mom passing away, Well, Prince's mom passing away. Yeah, it's about a mom's passing away. Oh god, well then now, yeah, that's I guess thanks a lot. I thought it was just about a breakup, alright. When we know the context of all these songs, it makes them just like I feel like puking. Right, God, that was a kind of a great music video, though she was phenomenal in that music video. That's and gold Tier with Joel You and in a mood when you pick these songs, I'm still going back to strange Fruit really yeah, dark dark Strange Fruit takes the cake. This is a Halloween episode of True America. Okay, yeah, let's just get through it. I guess over the coals. It only continues. I can't even think of songs on this loft. But I mean starting with tears at Kevin. Yeah, yeah, I think I think now that we know the theme, I'm having a trauma response. Here we go. Here's number four, the needle. Oh my god, listen, Johnny Cash just yes, yeah, heroin addiction, nails hurt. Okay, that was one of and wasn't it right after he covered that song right after June Carter Cash passed away, right, Okay? I mean it's like one of the most like hauntingly beautiful cover songs that I can't because it's so sad. Yeah. I think Trent Roseman has said that that is no longer uh nine inchnail song that is now a Johnny Cash song, Yeah, which I appreciate. He's yeah, I appreciate that. Oh my god, alright, just one more, just hold onto something more white knucklet let's go everybody by Aria. I mean, you know that that song, the song I said, here's how that song I'm gonna go ruined because it's a beautiful song is don't they play a song and like nine o two and no, when uh Tori Spelling finds out that she's being like cheated on or something, well, they play it. They used it. So the thing about that song is they in the nineties and the early two thousand's, that song got abused by MTV. They always use it in like the real world and like then like shows like um the Hills and stuff like that. Um, you feel like anytime somebody was sad, they played that song. And it's an amazing song. Arim is an amazing band. Um, but it got you so much that then when I hear it, I start thinking of music cues from reality shows, mainly in the late nineties. Yeah, Dylan and Brenda's breakup song. That's right, that's right, that's what. And I was like, oh, God says that, well that one at least, and I just for us, that's ending our producer making us all go on this emotional roller coast. No no, no, my day's ruined. Whisper in. Yeah, she really shamed in. You really leaned into this. We didn't know what we were getting into, but somehow we won the game. So did I say about us the game within three seconds were like, we know that, you know the game. You know who didn't win the game, all the victims of those songs. That's right. I consider myself one now, to be honest with you. But isn't it The thing is is like, isn't it important that these songs were written? Have I never heard Tears in Heaven again? I would be just fine? Yeah, me too, me too. It's like that movie Dancer in the Dark. I can't ever see un see that movie, but I will never see it again because I was traumatized by it. But it was a very good movie and I'm happy it was made. But all these songs, I'm like, well, they were great expressions of tragedy um and expressed through music, and I'm happy they were written. Do I want to listen to them ever? Again? No, as part of it, because they post said on a comic dep podcast. Okay, before we wrap this episode up, I have a little bit of unfinished business with you, um Zoe and I have also been what is this this whole episode? Like, why do I talk about to talk about it? But we're at the end of the episode, y'all, and I can't hide anymore. So I sent a little massage to Dave Finkel, who's close friends with Um Walpert. Okay, David Walpert who wrote the episode that had Snap out of It and the reference with the Moonstruck reference, And I said was obviously has to be Moonstruck. Will part um you must agree? So here was the response. I will read it out loud. You already smile. You seem like very vindicated, So I'm assuming that you're you are or no, I don't know. He said it starts one way and it takes a turn Hannah or let Hannah know I'm on her side. So I was like, great, this makes sense. That's all I wanted to hear. That said, don't like this part. I don't recall having Moonstruck on the but pretty sure Crescent Moon was in my pre list draft and I do like Moonstruck, So possibly an unconscious homage. This is not going to settle anything, is it. Oh gosh, the kind of I'm vindicated. Yeah, it sounds like you know, I I love how much you love Moonstruck like that is so awesome to me, Like, I just like love you more for how much you love Moonstruck, like and that you think it's like in Awe in everybody's thoughts and on their minds and and and living in their hearts. Um. I remember a few things about Moonstruck, but like almost none of the dialogue. Um, I see it everywhere. It's like that number twenty three things, you know what I mean? Well, I just see it in everything. Great movies influence everything, and then people a lot of times don't realize they're being influenced. But it's the same with music and everything. I mean, that's like it's a great movie. Everybody saw it, you know, and it had a lot of things. I'm sure that we're unique to it at the time that then everybody ripped off without realizing it. And then those people ripped you know, not ripping it off, but like we're influenced or inspired by it, and then other people were inspired by you know, and then things become tropes and they become part of the fabric of our entertainment. And I think that's a testament to that movie. I will say right now, you're being very um generous, and I'm just gonna have to on this podcast give one point to Zoe d one point. It'll come around again on something else. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm not a very competitive person, so it works for me. This is a great episode, you guys. Yeah, this was fun, except for the listening to terribly sad solids part. Thanks everybody for listening. Good Bye for now you will see next week. Bye. You've been listening to Welcome to Our Show, a New Girl recap podcast. Welcome to Our Show is a production of I Heart Radio, hosted by Zoey Deschanel, Lamour and Morris and Hannah Simone. Our executive producers Joel Monique. Our engineer and editor is Daniel Goodman. 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