Gleek of the Week Alicia
And That's What You REALLY Missed
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Willkommen to this week's Gleek of the Week!
Alicia from Germany first discovered "Glee" clips on YouTube as a teen in 2011, which sparked her curiosity. Soon she was stealing (borrowing) her dad's iPad to binge-watch the show at night while everyone was sleeping! Alica opens up to Jenna and Kevin about struggling with anxiety, bullying, and coming to terms with her sexuality, and how the show provided a lifeline and safe space during that tough time in her life. Now an English Literature major, she is considering writing her thesis on "Glee" and runs an Instagram account focused on the show's cultural impact!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:08.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:12.6 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:16.0 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:20.5 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.9 | And that's what you really missed with Jenna. |
| 0:39.2 | And Kevin, an Iheart radio podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to, and that's what you really miss podcast. |
| 0:46.5 | We have Glee of the Week of the Week this week. |
| 0:47.7 | It's Alicia. |
| 0:49.1 | Alicia is from Germany and discovered Glee in 2011. |
| 0:54.1 | Alicia has a really wonderful, vulnerable story on what glee, how glee impacted them and what, |
| 1:02.5 | you know, just, I guess the way that they connected with it. |
| 1:08.0 | So it's really beautiful. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.1 | And she's now an English literature major. So listening to her speak about this is just wonderful. Mm-hmm. So this is Alicia. Hello. How are you? Hi. Good. How are you? Good. Thank you. Thanks for coming on the show. Likewise. Thanks for you're in Germany? Yes. Thanks for staying up later to do this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're good. Okay. Great. Well, that's, I would be in bed. Yeah. That's late for Jenna. Welcome to for the show. We're so excited to chat with you. We're so grateful you listen to the podcast and that you've, |
| 1:45.5 | you know, integrated glee into your life in all the ways that we want to kind of talk to you about. |
| 1:50.3 | Can you tell us how you found glee or how glee found you or when you first watched it? |
| 1:55.9 | So for some reason, I remember this very vividly. But it was one night that like I'd already seen |
| 2:01.8 | Empire's state of mind and don't set believing on YouTube and I was in choir and a theater |
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