This is the one where Jess gets a job offer at the children's museum and must decide whether or not to quit her job by 6:00 pm. Luckily, the whole gang is there to help her make the right choice. Lamorne tells how he broke his finger on the New Girl sofa. Hannah talks about transitioning behind the bar.
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Clavado and unbar?
What does that mean?
I don't know.
You didn't look it up? No, okay, clevado un umbar. Because I am a silver tongued pugilist, I am a wordsmith, Hannah. Anybody who knows me knows that I speak the most fluent of Spanish. Right, So when you say clevado un um bar, the question you have to ask yourself is do we know what it means? Right? And the answer is obviously right, and the answer to your question would be nailed in a bar.
It took you seventy two seconds to google that, which is kind of embarrassing.
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't google it.
You just you just stretch that to not google it.
No, I was trying to I'm trying to talk to the people. The people love hearing my sultry voice.
Clavado. Okay, okay, and bar.
Let's go okay.
What does it mean it's nailed to a bar, pin to a bar, madly in love in a bar?
We've all been there. You have a clevado in a bar?
No, but I did at once, like a very good kiss in a bar.
Oh, with Kanye.
You can't switch Kanye with someone else for this joke.
No, you beat a joke. You beat a joke till the end of its life. Ye okay. So the guys, they are having a very fun scotch tasting situation on a non rainy day when Jess bursts into the bar. She needs the guys help to decide whether or not she's gonna take the job at the children's museum and quit teaching. Nick tries to give her advice, but is vetoed because he's a bartender. Schmid thinks she should take it because it pays more. Winston tells her to leave, and she's no longer loving the gig, but soon realizes he's never made a decision in his life. Meanwhile, Ceci reminds Jess of how she taught her when they first met and forged a lifelong friendship. Jess decides not to take the job and makes the best of her chaotic classroom. When the other teachers see what she's accomplished, they encourage her to become the school's principle.
Written by Berkeley Johnson, directed by Eric Appel. Yes, this is a great episode, like these episodes that are flashback episodes, because we really get to learn these people.
That's right, that's right. I can't wait to talk about this. Okay, but anyway, let's let's get into it. Go ahead, let's get into it.
The whole thing is said in the bar, which is also great. No loft moments. This is a bar episode, storytelling, spinning yarns. I love the guys altogether. At the top, trying to describe the Scotch absolutely amazing.
And you know it, till this day, till this day. Winston's response is something that I use when we're out when people say how is it? If I'm at a bar and we let's say you go to one of those places where they have the cool mixologists and you order something we never had before, and they go, oh, how is it? I always say boozy. I always do it. New Girl has influenced me.
That's really funny because in this episode at the end, CC's like, I'll have a big old glass of booze water and I have definitely used that before too.
If you strike me as a whiskey and water person.
No water, okay, no water? You but water or ice in your whiskey?
No? No, you strike me as.
Wow on strike it.
It's neat.
Striking me over here, it's neat. This is our ven diagram. We're the same on this one, thank you so much.
It's a little bit of ice. Scotch on the rocks, no ice. That's what I used to order that as a when I first started drinking.
Hold the ice.
Yeah, I used to go Scotch on the rocks please, no ice.
That's actually a very good pickup line. It was a female bartender that would make me laugh.
Okay, so where are we now?
The guys are just loving that. There's no drum, it's placid, it's chilled. They're slowly slipping their scotch. Nothing's going on, just an easy day. And then Jessica Day burst through the doors, high drama, high energy. She needs something done immediately. They all have to help her now, and the clock is literally ticking.
I love the fact that she just downs all of their just all of it. These are very expensive glasses here, and you know, I think, is this the first time we've seen her do something like that where she's just like.
I feel like we've seen a few party scenes with jess where she slams it all. Yeah, but that's true, and usually there's an instant effect, which is funny that she just consumes that much alcohol quickly and then yeah, she seems pretty put together. She seems kind of fine for the rest of the episode in terms of it's not like tipsy or anything.
Especially because last episode she took three bites of the fish yeah and immediately started hallucinating.
Lost their whole mind.
Yeah, yeah, all right.
I also love the fact that she assumed this is such a girlfriend thing to do, to be like you guys know about Candace right in my situation with the Children's Museum. I'm sure Nick told you all about it.
Oh my gosh. So so my sister does that, Alicia, she does that all the time, you know, my good girlfriend. Blah blahlah blah blah. Anyway, so and I go, wait, what, I don't know this person. I don't know who this person?
What are you talking about? We don't know what you're talking about.
You know, Sarah been going through these trials and sibulations. Let me, I don't know this one.
That's such a mom thing to do too. You remember you remember Sharon who lived on the corner. Do you remember when you were eight months old? She's dead?
She died, just dead. Now, yeah, kill Why don't you look sad?
It's so sad. She used to come around sometimes, you know, when we ran out of napkins and you're like.
What's the story. I'm sorry you're doing We don't know what you're.
Talking about, all right, So they start to This is also the sweetest thing, and I love it so much is coaches love for timing things that it's so stupid you and like Winston and Coach in this episode, by far have the dumbest things, yes, and you keep there's one when you start to tell when you realize you've never made a decision in your whole life. At the end of your flashback and soft focus is Max Greenfield and the grin on his face is a Max smile, not a Schmidt smile, and he keeps his eyes keep going from you doing that little monologue, to Jake off camera going to people, to having him saying can you believe this? And it's the greatest moment when you can recognize you're like, this is just Max sitting back going like they've really just gone full dumb with him right now, full completely dumb. So yeah, Coach is like psyched because there's a six o'clock and it's a really fun way to keep the pace. I feel like in this episode because you're doing like a countdown for these so great, what a great great grade structure.
Love a great countdown. Much like the cinematic adventure of a film called Saturday Night where Lauren Michaels has to figure out if this show is going to make it to air or not. The ticking clock is the antagonist. So please make sure you guys go and get it right now. It's available everywhere anyway.
What were you saying, plug plug plug plug, plug plug plug everybody. Yes, you should go see it. It's great. It's also a similar construct and it works. So let's go into our first flashback. So everybody's trying to talk about how they came to the decision about their jobs and where they are and those big lessons. Winston decides to share the story of how he made the decision to quit playing basketball professionally. The star he stored six seconds after he was born, and someone handed him a basketball. So the clock is ticking. When you got it, you gotta jump.
Yeah. So I love the fact that he he didn't even decide to play basketball because someone gave him a basketball. And then the story keeps getting it gets funnier and funnier and worse and worse. About his upbringing. I remember having so much fun, even though it wasn't actually playing shooting because of the haircut.
The Dens talk about this Rodman haircut, talk about it. How did they do.
It with love and care? Honestly, I think they so we It wasn't a die so it wasn't like a bleat situation. They just kind of added a little bit of color to it and made their their weird designs.
But it's got to be paint at that point because you can't.
Yeah, it was like dark hair. Yeah, that's what it was. It was because my haircut. My hair is naturally low and so it was easy to just spray that thing on and was washed right out and came.
Right out painted painted.
But I would love to here's the thing. I was always wanted to do something like that with my hair, just as a little whatever. But as an actor, you can't walk around with leopard hair.
You know, you have a long off season if you're gonna actually bleach it, and it also will ruin your hair exactly, And I not a fun growout situation.
Now, not at all. Paint and now the uphill or the downhill basketball.
I can't. It was so funny.
It was one of the funniest shoots. I just I just remember stunts being like, be really careful. I was just like, guys, this is ridiculous. Oh man. To this day, people still remind me of Downhill Basketball. I get comments, tweets, I get d ms all the time whenever Latviia is mentioned in whether it be the Olympics or some sort of Latviia player gets drafted. People always tag me in certain things saying Winston would be proud, or ask or ask me how I feel about are you invested? And I'm like, listen, if the Latigan team invites me out to a game, I will be there, fly to lat Fia, I will go hang out, I will enjoy the culture, and I will go sit courtside at a basketball game.
Wow, you can be like honorary coach.
I mean, if they would, if they would allow me, that'd be so cool. And me get a two game contract. You know what I'm saying.
That would be amazing.
Put me in the game.
Yeah, in the game there.
If you guys want to, if all my lot Fian fans, please talk to your local government and your uh your what do you call it, the uh the travel what do you call it? The tourists, the tourism board. Talk to your tourism board and see if they're they'll bring me out there anyway.
I mean, that would be amazing. You can we talked about last episode that you're going to go to Amsterdam for the Mayo. You can't just fly straight to lat Fia. So you're going to go through them so you can get like a hit of Mao on the way, and then you can go straight to lot. Well, we're playing your whole trip.
If I take Zoe's private jet, I can go straight there. That's a fact.
Okay. So he's talking about his decision to quit basketball, but as the flashback reveals, he just like snapped his ankle and his career was over.
Yes, which happens a lot. Injury injuries happened injuries, you know, that's the that's the age old Tail.
His narrative in his head. He goes, Jess walk away the moment you stop loving it, That's what I did.
It's like, no, bro, one, you weren't playing two, you broke your ankle.
You can't do this anymore. It's over for you.
And then that's when he gets a little bit confused.
Well, I uh see, I that's so hard.
You know, when you have told yourself something for so long and then you have to like re examine it and you're like, wait a minute. Like every it's like that weird like momento or end of usual suspects a moment you're just like, hold on, the whole reality is shifted, Winston.
You know what I had that feeling in my personal life. Tell me when I realized it's not gonna happen between me and Zoe Kravitz.
I just don't think have you had that moment yet, because it feels like you're still hanging on loosely.
No, No, I had it. I had it. I had it. I had She's.
Like single now, like she's now single, and that's the when you give up.
Yeah, because you know you gotta let her. You gotta let her be single. You know what I'm saying. You don't want to you know, you don't want to slide in there as her hero, you know, as her hero. I can't beat that. I can't be that for her.
You know, they'll hope in your voice. I'm sorry, I don't believe this.
That's not hope, that's congestion.
Do you want one of my allergy bills?
I need one. I'm battling. I'm battling right now.
All right, So next flashback up? Oh man, come on, Schmidt, Schmidt in the candy striper being everyone's dream candy striper.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I didn't realize it was.
That's like a real thing, but I guess.
So we didn't do we didn't do that in our neighborhoods.
Yeah, well I've never seen it in a hospital either. But it's a real thing, and it makes sense that sweet little Schmidt like that's who he used to be, but he then couldn't get the girl of his dreams.
He saw the well because he realized it wasn't in volunteering, it was in marketing, right, it.
Was in marketing. That's that we chose his career to get a girl, which I think is like a lot of people, you know, a lot of boys are like, what gets the girls?
Yeah, this is the.
Job for me.
That's the only reason why I'm an actor for sure. Yeah, that's the only reason I'm holding out. You know what. I just had a realization. Oh I think there's a shot betwe Zoe and I.
And we're back, and we're back.
Boy. Oh man, Okay, So I love I love his I love I love his tree sales been days. Yeah, I love the facts.
Not selling trees, selling sex.
Which is such a funny conversation between him and the short guy, but it's but it's also you know, it could be true. It could be true. You know, if you know you put up a nice Christmas tree. You know, you bring a lovely, lovely young lady to your home. You know, you get put on some boys to men. You know, let it snow, You get some hot you get some hot coco, you know what I mean, and before you know it.
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas and Christmas Christmas Tree.
He also talks about the wisdom that old man m great name olted, which seems to be a lot of cliches done wrong, yeah, which calls just later she goes like, are you sure you heard him correctly? Are you sure that he wasn't just fully senile if this is what he was impartying and you have now lived by this wisdom, which is highly flawed.
Yeah, Uh, the wisdom is great, though to be to be quite fairy. It's it's great wisdom. It's it's it's incorrect wisdom, but it's still really funny. Uh. He said, where you die, you're not gonna want to see your family.
You're not going to wish for more days.
It's like, it's the money. The money is what matters. You can take it with you.
Oh and then he's dead, clearly not taking anything with him. And then he I think assaults the sweet nurse, the nyl Yeah, just just grabs her, kisses her.
Which was so wild wild. But but I gotta say that's probably the fourth or fifth time we've seen his character do that on the show.
Usually it's with Nick, and somehow that doesn't feel so wrong.
Well, he did it with what he when when Jess was trying to get him to move on from CC and they're sitting at the bar and he just says, just straight up just this, kiss you in your mouth.
Yeah, that's true. There's there there's a strange entitlement there that's going on that feels problematic.
Yeah, mouth kissing, you know, Yeah.
No, you can't be doing that. They come back to the bar and Schmid think just should take the job of the paycheck is higher because the reward is the destination, not the journey. Meanwhile, Winnie Dabish is a spiraling because he's realizing his entire career path, not only just basketball but now sports radio and on and on and on, has all been defined by as we see in the flashback. By the way, Schmidt is the one who also is like it was these candy stripers are the ones that like hand out the basketball. So the babies.
Oh that's right.
Yeah, I mean it couldn't be Schmidt because whatever, but a different candy striper. But it was that profession.
That candidate him, the good old basketball. I gave my football when Lily was born. I thought it'd be cute to give her a basketball. I literally put one in her crib. She hates basketball, she loves watching it. She watching it, hates it, but loves baseball.
So cool that you have a basketball quarter house, then that your child will never go and play on that.
Pissed me off so much.
I was like, you, basketball court, I'm giving you the childhood of my dreams. And it was like, I'm gonna drive my little pink car around here, and that's this is a parking lot.
Yes, that's essentially what it is, trying to ride a bike and drive in her car.
Oh oh, now we are back to I love that Coach's real name is Ernie. I love it so much.
Ernie.
It's a great name to read me for a cat. By the way, you're looking for a cat, Ernie.
Ernie, Ernest, oh, Ernest. I don't know if people called him Ernie or not. I doubt it. No, they used to call him junior. Oh, because he's a you know, he's a junior like Damon.
So it's also a really fun flex where he says he's so good at his job that he's like named after his job, and Schmid's like me too, and they're like, people call you marketing and he's like, yet hysterical because that's terrible, terrible name.
Yeah. So then Nick he asks her about he asked Jess about her first day as a teacher. Yeah, you know, I till this day when I I this has been stuck in my brain and it wasn't until that I rewatched this episode that I realized that this was the episode that he came from. Was the Go Rhododendrons. That's every time I see like high school related movies where there's like lockers and football teams and cheerleaders, that that line from her always pops in my head. And it wasn't it. Literally, it wasn't until rewatching this episode that I was like, Oh, that's the that's where it's from.
That's wild because it's not like you're in that scene or it was said, that's so funny that somehow that's stuck with you.
That stuck with me.
But anyway, So she has this romanticized story of like her first day teaching, she has some killer bangs, by the way, and how she like saved a kid that was being bullied and hopefully then set them off on a great course. And she's meant to be a teacher. Cut back to them googling. Nick tries to save her feelings, but now he's turned into baby made off and the FBI is looking for him for fifty three counts of embezzlement.
Embezzlement, So the math, their math tutoring definitely paid off for sure.
Sorry, that's such a good one. And then we go to Nick about how he decided to not be a lawyer. Also, by the way, a great great hair choice in the flashback, not oh yeah, yeah, and become a bartender. That hairdo we're talking that's.
That's listen, it's a pretty slick hairdoo. You're talking about that one.
I'm talking about the one where he looks like with.
Dred when he's in class. Oh and he's studying in class. Yes, yes, yes, guy with those he does.
Gnarly heads that were like very hot in the nineties.
That was very hot in the nineties.
Yeah, do you remember that guy from Counting Crows dated every single stunning woman.
So appropriating Jamaican culture worked for him. That was not hot. It was a few idiots who did it.
I agree. I agree a few idiots did it. But I'm just telling you what's like the I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?
I know exactly what you're talking about.
Is that his name Listen.
I ain't got no problem with the man, but I'm just saying that that haircut. I bet he could if he could take that back. Probably, I bet we could take that with bag. Maybe he was.
He was with Winona Ryder. This isn't in the nineties. He was with Courtney Cox, he was with Jennifer Aniston, Mary Louise Parker.
Like he just like it had nothing to do with his hair. I gotta say it had everything to do with his of.
His hair in spite of in spite of it, Okay, all right, it's gotta be got. It was wild. I never understood. I was like you, I love Counting Crows, but I was like.
The hair, Yeah, that's that's talent. That's all it was for me.
All right a while. And then the slicked haircut, though, was the wonderful look very good on Nick Miller.
That wasn't astute haircut? I remember that haircut. Max wore his hair like that at our first Golden Globes and I thought that's yeah. I was like, that's a cool hairstyle, Maxick. And then Jake went ahead and copied him.
So I know a slick one. Let's do Max at the Globes. Let's do that.
Yep, Okay, where we're at.
So he decided that he hated who he was in law school. He's at the bar, the bartender, right pasted out, Yeah, exactly right, yeah, And so he takes over and then he likes who he is in this job, in this position, so he makes that choice to become a bartender. A bartender, that's right, Yeah, So he makes that choice, and because he likes who he is in the job. There's only one minute left and then does Cec comes running in and they ask if she likes her job, and she says she's a thirty one year old model. She's always questioned her career. Her last job was for a phone sex ad and she was the one calling.
Yeah, that's so crazy to me because I've never had like I've done plenty of phone sex. I've never had them call me, uh to offer me anything. That's the first.
No, I think she's saying she's the one calling like she's the pathetic one where her life is like I need to call the number to help.
Really, that's what I asked. You got from that.
That's what she's saying. She's like, she's in such a bad state that she's not the one. She's not the sexy girl answering, she's the one like my life's I need to call somebody to talk sexy to me. That's what she's saying.
Oh said it was an ad though, So.
She's saying in the there's always the person making the call. I found that's having a crisis.
I could, man, I read that, I miss I love that.
I look so cute in that episode. You're like, that's not there's no way my brain could compute it.
What. No, that's not what I was saying. I was saying that you like, it's like a telemarketer. Yeah, like you were cold calling random people to pay you to see Yah.
But I was still like the sexy sex worker and it cold calling.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's no way your brain was comprehending that I was like the sad, down and out person being like I need to call like a stranger and pay them like nine thousand dollars.
That's what I thought you were. That's what I thought you were saying. And don't say sad and pathetic, because there are plenty of people out there who were lonely and they're just looking for a connection.
I think it's like a scam and they're taking your money.
Of course they are, what I'm saying, like, of course they are, but you can't take it with you. You can't take it with you.
What we can't, he said, you can, you can take it with you. So she sits there and she says like, don't look at my life choices, like my life's a mess. The phone rings, Coach picks up, yells she has one minute left because he has been very specifically timing this whole thing. Turns out it was in Candace. It's just his mom aka Jamie Lee Curtis and says she's a mass. Hangs up on her.
And she's doing weird stuff. But what was she doing? What do you say? Your mom?
But dialogy, just his mom is kind of wild.
So she was getting it in, but well he was out de yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
It was a quick hang up. Whatever it was, it was a quick hang up.
I've been there, have you. I've had somebody just before you keep move on. I've had somebody but butt down me while in the throes of passion.
No.
Yeah, then Shannon Sharp did it on his uh Instagram Live Shannon Sharp once when on ig love he was making in love. No, making love, that's right, aggressive love.
Oh y'all, how does not everyone like doesn't know about like I don't know about that. I think everyone in the world would know about that.
Everybody does know about that except for you, because you literally live in the.
Last person on planet Earth and I just found out.
Now yeah, okay.
So now we have CC. She has like the clock is ticking, she's got seconds basically to tell the story of No, that weird baby made off was not your first student. Your first student was me. And it's the sweetest flashback of the most wonderful actresses who are showing that little love story between Jess and CC and how Jess didn't care what anybody thought and taught CEC when she was going through Also like a very like hard time. Her dad had just passed, she's struggling at school, and Jess is the one who got her on track like emotionally and academically, and it's really really just like the most loving thing. And that gives Jess the clarity that she needs. Also, all these wild male stories or they're having their own like illuminations of the truth of their life, and it just takes her best friend to talk for sixty seconds to be like, Oh, you're great. What are you doing. You're doing your calling, You're fine.
Yeah, yeah, I taught you how to read. How's that feel that she taught you how to read? As as a teenager?
It was very sweet. I love it. Any of those slashbacks with those young girls, I love them. They were so sweet.
Hey, let's go to a quick break, shall we.
Let's go, we come back. We're gonna do a little League of their.
Own life, and and we are back back. Nick and Jess debate whether or not A League of their Own is a sports movie. It's about sisterhood and the war. It's about a sports team scrapping it out. You know what's funny. I don't remember I remember the movie, but I don't remember the movie.
You remember you don't remember that line? I know it's hard, but the heart makes it good.
No, but I heard it before.
You know.
What I'll say is I feel like we're gonna get roasted for this.
Who's gonna get roasted for it?
I don't feel like I remember the movie either. I remember Madonna. I remember Rosie O'Donnell.
That's I remember. I remember Rosie O'Donnell.
And Madonna being in a movie was really cool, like at that time. Yeah, Madonna's in it, man, man, and she looks so cool in it. Like, but that's all I remember.
Yeah, Madonna, fine actress, fine, fine, fine asking.
That's really seeking Susan, great movie. I remember that movie. Ooh, I love Kevin ninety seven, Love Kevin Ny, Love Kevin ninety seven, Love the flashback of Kevin ninety seven.
Not to be confused with Mike ninety seven.
No, No, another character, another show, another day, another life. It's Kevin Kevin ninety seven and Nick is concerned about him over drinking, so he makes him teawater aka t T And this is I remember this. I remember them pitching me this and saying, uh CC is going to start working at the bar. And I remember Jake Johnson saying to me, this is great for you, And I said, why, what's the great part of like doing scenes at the bar. He's like, well, because when you're behind the bar, because previously when CC would show up at the bar, she's always like on the drinking side. What the great part is is that you know what I'm going to say, right, is that you can put your sides down, you can put your lines down behind hidden behind the bar, and it's wonderful so that if you have to look down and be like, what are we saying? What are we doing? Right before they roll? You could just lay all of your your words out. Which is really funny that he was like, this is the greatest this is the best job to have as an actor on this show. And I was like, and he was not wrong. They were always laid out.
Oh yeah, I I never got the opportunity to do that because, as you know, as as an actor who prides himself on being prepared, I always make sure I'm off book totally no matter what.
Yeah, it's like the couch, the couch. I feel like when I got the couch, you just left up all the couch cushions, and there was like thousands of sides shoved into the couch seats from all of us over the years.
Just fun fact, I broke my thumb on your couch, just putting it out there.
What when? Why? How?
I now? When was at your house? When it was on set? As I was getting up from a chair from the couch in a scene we had. Who was the director of the episode, I forget who she was, but she kept telling me to do the scene faster. She's like, I just want you to get out of the No it was it was I think it was Steve Welsh. Yeah, and he was like, yeah, editor. He was like, just just I hate to do this, just quicker, and so I thought. So I was like I was gonna be a little asshole to him and just bolt out the door, like do a justin long and just fly. So I pushed my hand down on the couch and there's a dead spot in the cushion. So there's a cushion and there's like a little lack of cushion in one little area, and that's why I put my hand down and like, and you can hear it. You could hear it in the they obviously cut it out of the actual thing, but one of the editors sent me a clip while editing on on Snapchat once and you just hear it. It goes, it just pops so loud, and I sat their light. I started sweating, and I'm like, I gotta go to the doctor. I love. It was fucked up.
The amount of injuries you've incurred from the most most like low stake situations, and the amount of a trauma. I'm realizing that this couch has incurred I need to like sage this couch.
You should sage the couch or I should sell it to me.
I should see Okay, so we go back. Let's talk about Jess, because now she realizes she wants to say being a teacher, even though it's chaotic and crazy. She's also realizing how completely in app doctor or doctor Foster is the principal and her true true calling is to be a principle. So it's kind of cool for CC and Jess. So CC decides she's going to work at the bar. She's clearly terrible at it. By the way, that happened to me in my real life. I was hanging at the bar. I needed a job. They hired me, I was clearly terrible at it, but I worked there for fourteen. I was fourteen, and I worked there for a very long time. She realizes she can do better. She comes to Principal Winston right quits his job. Yes, there's a lot of wild stuff, so a lot of people going down memory lane, I feel like made them realize what they truly want to do. And then the last person standing in this is Schmidt wanders by Christmas tree.
Which reminds me, I gotta go get one of those. Sorry, you don't have one up yield. No, I've never been a I've my whole life, we never celebrated it. So it wasn't until I had Lily where I started doing it. But she was so tiny that I would just do like small little trees in a corner because it would just be us two. Literally, Christmas Morning would literally be just Lily and I and so and so unless she unless she then went to ten to see her grandparents on that side, and they would do a whole big thing. But it was always such a in and out time. And I know this year, you know, new house and everything. I keep saying, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it, but I've been so tied up that i haven't done it. And I'm gonna help you figure this out.
I'm going to help you figure it out because I'll tell you this. I have four Christmas trees in my house so much and like everything is, I mean, we are full Christmas. And I put it up in November, oh gosh, for Thanksgiving.
You know, I should have done that. I should have done that.
I do it so early because I feel like all of a sudden, something happens, like in the time warp of super speed, like around the holidays, and it just jumps from Thanksgiving to Christmas. And so I put my Christmas stuff up before Thanksgiving. I'm so sorry. I know in America this is like that's an abomination, but like I'm not American, so whatever, I'm gonna put my Christmas tree up when I want.
Neither was Jesus.
So Schmid walks down and he it's got his mojo Back's got his mojo back, which is funny because in the script I read the end of the episode, it's actually he goes there and he doesn't. He goes to the Christmas tree lot and he's trying and it's like not hitting the same but in his mind it is like he's actually high from it, but he's like crashing and burning. But they gave us a happy ending on this episode. Such a fun episode. Also, I think freed the writers from a lot of things that had been going on. They finally got Winston out of this sports radio thing, they got CC out of the modeling thing. They got to do a new trajectory for Jess, so I think that was also very cool for them. We also learned that like Nick Miller is a lawyer, he actually did make the choice. He passed his barring Sam all that kind of stuff. I think in a way that wasn't like heavy, like these big life choices being made. They found a really fun way to then really kind of alter everything and set a new track for comedy in season three. So love this episode.
I always tell folks this is the season that I truly started to feel comfortable on the show. And this is an episode that whenever there's highjinks, wh there were their flashbacks, whenever there's silliness stupidity. That's why I shine the brightest.
I will also say, baby, whenson is so cuted, He is so cute remever that baby was you're probably twenty five now, but you're so cute back.
Yeah, he's a grown up. Now.
When we come back, we are going to mess.
Right, don't tell your husband's ladies, and we are back, baby, yeah, babe. Yeah. Have you ever quit a job or an activity? How did you make the choice if you did? Oh?
Yeah, I've quite a lot of things.
You're a quitter for sure, man. Oh.
I can very clearly identify when I'm like, this isn't working for me anymore, I'm done.
Huh. You know, I've never been a quitter, I feel I take that back, there are I haven't been a quick quitter like I have to. I have to just exhaust every option in that thing and just see and just see. Am I missing something before I pulled the trigger on walking away? And and yeah, I think a job. I did quit a job. But this doesn't really count a sixteen, I want to say. And I was working at Walmart, And if I can get that back, I would, because I do feel bad about my exiting the company. But I there was a basketball game going on at the park and me and my buddies were going to go plays pick up and I had a shift dad Walmart. So I told that my manager. I tried to get the shift covered and he said, no, you're not covering you. You're not getting your shift covered. And I was like, but you don't get it. There's a park and there's a pickup game and I must be there. I have to. He said no, and I said, hey, a couple of things. One, shut up. Two, you can't tell me what to do. I was like, you can. You can suggest that I come in or i'd be fired, but you can't tell me you ain't going. And I'm like, right, what? So I felt I felt rebellious against this man. Sure, and I just said I'm gonna go play basketball. You do what you gotta do, and then he fired me.
Sure. So I don't know if you actually quit.
Yeah, yeah, I knew that. I knew that, I knew the repercussions. So I chose, I chose I quit. I quit.
Well, it seems like it's worked out an a couple of relationships.
Yeah, I think it worked out just fine.
Yeah, I think you're okay.
Although Walmart called me. You know what I'm saying, I'll come back. I'll become a paper goes Chemicals.
You're going to Latvia. You're this, this is a new direction for you this episode. You're also going to go work a shift at a Walmart.
I'm a man of the people.
Yeah, you're figuring it out.
A man of the people. I like this for you. Let's see answered just this question. How do you know when you're on the right path?
Oh, I think it is, I do think, man Bartender Wisdom. I do think you do know if you feel like good and right when you're doing something. It doesn't mean it's always easy. It doesn't mean that you're always getting the rewards of it. And maybe it's just that when you're in the wrong thing, it feels that feels so clear. And that's why I do think it's important when you're young to try a lot of different jobs of your at university. Don't just like study one thing, like study an array of things, because the things that are wrong will almost hit quicker and faster. Yeah, and you can eliminate it, and that's what makes the right feeling then feel so right. It's kind of like dating, right. I think also like when you're like, oh, I definitely know what I don't want that way when the right person walks in and you're like, oh great, because I've already learnt myself a little bit to know the situations that were not comfortable. So I think that's how you do it. It's through experience, through trial and error and learning specifically what you don't want so you can kind of hone in what feels good to you.
I know, it's like, is it Louis Armstrong who said you're smiling when you're smiling. If you're smiling, you're having a good time. You're on the right path. I think life was about happiness and if you're not happy, reevaluate some things. You know.
That's right.
You know, we all got to share this planet. Let's just be happy while we do it.
Also, this is the thing too, I will say I'll never forget. Like a friend of mine, he did this whole big thing. He was going to France to like study French. He wanted to be a French professor. It was this big thing, and he left university, went to go to this French school to go do that. And he got there and it was like all built up. Everybody knew about it, his family, you know, like all his friends, and we had a big send off. This was like in our early twenties. And he got there and it was awful, right, it was awful. The whole situation was bad. He didn't feel comfortable and he called his mom and he was just like, this is I just like I'm in it now. I see what this track is, Like, I'm doing the thing. It's not what I want to do at all, whatsoever. But I feel terrible because we spent this money. Also, there's all this expectation and pressure now from everybody who's like, this is great. And she was like, who cares, what a great lesson, wonderful leaf. Let's figure out what you want to do. And I was like, man, that is like yeah, that thing of like not that. Also, that was early on in my life where I remember when that happened. And I think that also gave me that comfort in quitting, to be like, oh no, I just learned something. It's not like quitting. It's like, oh yeah, I learned something about like this is not for me.
Great.
I'm not just gonna say that I was swimming in this wrong like life is short, swimming in this wrong lane for so long and wasting time. Let's now onto the next thing. And that might not work either, but that's okay.
Yeah, you know my mom was My mom is very similar to that. I think too much though. I could be like, so I want mom, it's just long day at work. She's like, oh yeah, and I'm like, yeah, it just a pretty tired guy headache. And she's like, just quit, you know, you don't have to. Don't stress yourself out for this job.
But I go, wow, yeah, but that's really sweet and loving because she's like, look, your wellness is more important. I think that there's a balance in there, but I do think I know a lot of people whose parents were kind of like, we've paid for it, we've done it, you stick it out. We don't quit. There's no quit in the thing.
We te of respect to for sure.
I think there's a balance in there, but I think sometimes it's so much on that side where I'm like, if you know it does not feel good, walk away and take the lesson. Though, you got to take the lesson otherwise you start to repeat it. And then it's because behave right, you have to start taking the lessons to build to something. Well, that's the episode, man, that.
Is that is and uh and I enjoyed it.
I did too, I forgot how they. I always remember that I ended up working at the bar. I didn't remember how CC got there, and it was this episode her being a terrible bartender, which I do think stems from me telling Liz Mary other the story of how I became a bartender and was terrible, and everybody kind of all the other bartenders kind of fixing everything behind me. But they were my friends, and they were just sort of like, she needs to be doing something different. And I eventually got better, and I was very beloved by the customers, But wasn't my strong suit in the actual bar tending.
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