Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - 801: My Jerks

Episode Date: February 14, 2023

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Last week's show, you screamed at everyone the whole time. I was trying to listen. I was like, the audience is going to turn this off. He's yelling at everyone. And yet, it's one of our greatest reviewed. It was very funny, by by the way I have to say After you stopped yelling I was laughing my butt off

Sorry I didn't yell the whole episode No once I said Dude can you You're like literally Your body was standing And yelling down into the mic I was like Can you please calm down

I want the audience at home To know that Donald As you know Just moved into his house He has a giant bookshelf behind him With the library ladder, as we mentioned, and he has one book so far displayed, and I believe it's a Star Wars sideshow collectibles book? Correct, sir. Amazing. Wait, can I tell you guys who I talked to today?

Who? Tony Gilroy. Oh, shit. I know. Let's have a conversation. I'm sorry if I yelled just now Let's let the baby latch Latch back on

Baby latch Donald let the weeds settle in To a more peaceful place I also have to apologize last week If you notice my audio is a bit off It's not Daniel's fault Some of you might be thinking Nobody cares Zach

Let's get to the Tony Gilroy of it all Okay sorry I am the engineer It is my job to say Is everybody recording properly Nobody cares Daniel Nobody cares Daniel It's important we all take responsibility Alright so you spoke to Tony Gilroy

Tell the people who don't know who Tony Gilroy is Yeah Tony Gilroy wrote Your favorite action movie And mine the Bourne Identity Original trilogy Incredible writer and he also is the showrunner and creator of andor um so he is up for a bunch of awards this award season as is his production designer luke hall yeah it's beautiful sacrament the production

designers what's their guild called i don't know aga i can't remember i'm not sure but they were very kindly invited me in to talk to both luke and tony about and or and their experience working together and i learned a lot and it was very beautiful that show i have to say i voted on mom the dga the wga and sag i'm not going to tell you who i voted for but i did and i asked you donald you definitely didn't vote for sagG because that would have involved you knowing that the SAG Awards deadline was coming up. And if Casey didn't tell you and put it in front of you, I don't think

it happened. I only vote in November. Okay. That's a good answer. Even if there's no election, he just makes sure to vote on something in november i gotta tell you um so our super bowl ad is out did you guys see it i did and i love it what i love it i love it i love it and where it plays i'll watch it i'll watch it i'll watch it this

is going to be air after the super bowl, obviously. I'm so glad that blank team won. You guys want to pretend like we know who won? But we're recording this on Thursday before the bowl. Yeah, these days the ad companies release the ads on the web a little bit early just to kind of gain some momentum. But then it'll play for the first time on TV on the bowl on Sunday. Wait, tell us what happens in it because we didn't see it. Oh, my God.

Look at this. You haven't seen it, Joelle? You might want to watch it now. It's 60 seconds. Let's take a quick break and we're all going to watch the trailer. Do you want me to link it to you, Joelle? There's a people article about it. It's on the YouTubes.

Go to the YouTubes and watch it. It's better on the YouTubes. There's a link to the YouTube video. It's better on the YouTubes because it's a link to the YouTube video. There's a link to the YouTube video. It's better on the YouTube because it's not cut rectangular for reels. And this is a... So we're gonna take a break, guys, and we're gonna watch the Super Bowl commercial. No, we're not gonna take a break. We're just gonna give you...

We're gonna talk about meaningless shit while you audience take a moment to look at the T-Mobile commercial where we sing with John Travolta. Oh my freaking God. And I'm pressing play right now. All right, good. Share screen.

Donald, well, let's let them digest it. Pretty fun, huh, Donald? Joelle's face right now. I think that's called she shook. I think that's called she shook. I think she shook. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Guys, it's so cute. Isn't that great?

Why did it end this way? Y'all were children when Grease came out. What was it like singing with John Travolta? That's crazy. It was so cool. He was so nice. Donald and I had a chat beforehand. We were like, bro, you know we're not great around really famous people. You need to be chill.

Listen, I have a hard time. Donald, and keep in mind, it's not like we were drunk at a party. Donald, super sober. We're like, yeah, we got it. We're locked in. Ten seconds in, I go over. He's in travolta's face talking about face off wow i can't listen man he's one of my favorites you know what i mean

like even before we did the commercial like i've seen pretty much all of his movies and he's always been great you know and you know saturday night fever is one of the dopest movies ever made if you're a young actor and you want to see you know just good movie making put that on i promise you it still holds up and it's about disco too but it's also about more than that you know just if you get the opportunity anyway he couldn't have been nicer. He was so cool. It was fun.

And we got to dance with him. There's an extended version that I guess since this is airing Tuesday, will probably be out. It's not out yet. But there's like a 90-second version where we. There's a two-minute version. There's a two-minute version. There's a two-minute version.

There's a 90-second. There's longer versions where we really dance. I mean, it's too bad they couldn't air the 90s. I feel like the longer the version, the better the commercial. I'm just going to keep it 100. No, it's so funny. We dance with him. There's a whole nother section that obviously they couldn't fit into a 60 second ad for the Super Bowl.

It's so expensive to advertise the Super Bowl. And I'm so happy the 60 seconds exists. But if you're a fan of us, obviously you're listening to this uh check out the long extended version because it's pretty funny i was like there's no way they could play this man this is like the length of the halftime show you know it's two minutes no it's two minutes it's two minutes well it's so good there's a two minute one which has a little dialogue moment with me and donald um and that's funny and but the 90 second one has a whole dance sequence. It's funny. Yeah, I love it.

I'm so happy we got the opportunity to do this. Yeah, it's so fun. I mean, it's cool to be in a Super Bowl lab, but it's also just like, you know, dancing and singing Grease with Travolta. That's just like life goals, you know? Yeah, shout out Klugman, Panay, T-Mobile. Yeah, thank you, Brian Klugman,

who we've had on the show, as you know. He's the Don Draper of it all, and he's just such a good man and a funny man. He wrote that whole thing himself, and it's hilarious. We never thought they were going to get Travolta. They approached Donald and I about it. We're like, yeah, that sounds awesome, but Travolta's not going to do this. And then Travolta loved it. He thought it was so funny.

You guys are shooting your shots everywhere. That's what they were saying about Harrison Ford coming on, shrinking. It'll never happen. You shoot your shot. That shit happens, dude. You got to ask. I never thought Allie Portman was going to say yes to Garden State. You got to shoot your shot.

You got to try. You got to ask. You know, I'm going to keep it 100. I never thought KC Cobb would say yes to sex this morning, but she did. And that shit was fucking awesome. Did I go too far? I went too far. You went just far enough.

I went too far? I went too far. No, you went perfect. Although, it was funny. I thought you were going to say, it's funny because I thought you were going to say, I never thought KC Cobb would say yes to marrying me or dating me because she said no a bunch of times. Yeah, she did. And then she wouldn't, she, you know, she infamously said, doesn't he have like nine kids?

She did. But then she fell in love with you and you're married, but you turned it into having sex this morning, which was funny. Yes. You know, it doesn't, listen, you know me. You know why she gave you morning sex? Because, you know, that T-Mobile accident. That T-Mobile dropped. That T-Mobile dropped. You know why she gave you morning sex? Because, you know, that T-Mobile. That T-Mobile dropped. That T-Mobile dropped.

You know what's up. She was like, all right, I got my new floors in my house. Matter of fact, do you want her to come down here? No, don't get her. Don't get her. Don't get her to come down here? No. We don't want Casey to come down here?

I love Casey, but let's stay focused on topic. We have so much to talk about. It's the beginning of season eight. You're right. Season eight. Season eight. We're running out of episodes, guys. I know. We don't have that many left. Yeah, we need to come up with an idea for the show. Let's just slow

down. We're going too fast. It's like we're going too fast, Donald. Like you probably were with Casey this morning. You have to slow down. No, no, no, no, no. You have to slow down and save her. Save her. Now I gotta go get her. No, don't go get her. You were talking about you talking about the coochie. No, I don't want

us to get her. Hey, Donald. Oh my God. You know the real reason he goes and gets her? Is he so incredibly clingy and pee-whipped that like the 90 minutes we do the podcast is too much time apart. He has to go get her. Oh, I feel like we're interrupting whatever she's minutes we do the podcast is too much time apart he has to go get

her i always feel like we're interrupting whatever she's trying to do while donald is busy she's literally she's probably so stoked that she gets a solid 90 minutes to do some shit without him bothering her Oh, God. And now Zach keeps talking about it. Oh, Zach's talking about it. Zach's talking about it? What the fuck is he talking about? Okay. All right, play the theme song.

Casey, come down here. I don't know nothing about raising these fools. So tell me what to do. I don't know nothing about raising these kids. And that's what it is. Well, this is embarrassing. No, listen. Yeah.

Get down so we can see you. Your husband, I thought he was going to say, I thought he was going to say, we were talking about how, you know, you have to, when you're trying to get an actor for something, you can't give up. You have to keep trying to get them to be in your show, if it's Harrison Ford or whatever. Persistence. Be persistent, exactly. And Donald started to say, well, I couldn't believe that K.C. Cobb,

and I thought he was going to say, married me after, and then he said, was willing to have sex with me this morning. Well, you know, I take one for the team, guys. I just do what i do no but then zach said you know why she had sex with you because that t-mobile dropped yeah yeah the t-mobile had dropped he got he got congratulations yeah see i told you yeah he got some congratulations sex he got congratulations sex and you know what i can't have him on cloud nine and then all of a sudden fall to the gutter because, you know, I didn't perform. But I will humble his ass tomorrow morning.

I'll be like, you had your day. Yeah. That shit's over. Yeah. Now we need to put more books in the bookcase. Yeah. Super Bowl Sunday. Now we need a backyard.

So Casey, then Donald made some comment because. Yeah, now we need a backyard. So Casey, then Donald made some comment because I said, you know, I hope that you didn't rush things. And we were talking about this podcast and how it's going so fast and we need to slow down and not rush. And I said to Donald, I hope that he savored this morning and didn't rush too fast. And he said, well, now I— No, you said, just like I rushed this morning. I said, oh, no, no, no. Yeah, and then he said, I got to go i rushed this morning i said oh no no no yeah and then he said i gotta go get casey because he wanted i assume he wanted you to say what a wonderful lover he is with them everybody wants to hear the honest to goodness truth out there babe

that shit was long why you gotta be shit though why you gotta be so Dawn you cautiously slow down to savor some this one savors every fucking second there are times that I have to like snap and be like hey come back come back sir Come back. Come back, sir.

Oh, my God. This is hilarious. Oh, my God. They're both cracker. She doesn't do drugs, guys. I do. I have to bring it back to reality. Sometimes I'll look back and he's like dreaming.

I'm like, oh, my God. No, not dreaming. He's in his happy place. He in his he's deep in it no pun intended oh my god she said sometimes i have to look back she said she had to look back she looked back like yeah she has to look back because yeah she has to look back Because, yeah, she has to look back And see that you She says that you're sort of lost in a dream world And she has to snap to bring you back The over-the-shoulder look Stop

This is great right here We're gonna win an award I gotta go, I'm about to wipe my hands Alright, we gotta start the show Casey, thank you for your sexy anecdote. Bye, Casey. Hope your floors are okay. I'm so tired.

You wanna give me a kiss? That is amazing. You good? Okay, there it is. You guys are hilarious. I would watch that reality show. I love that woman. I know, you're so in love and adorable. Dude, it's like, you know, it's great, but we're here to talk about Scrubs. Yeah, we're going to focus on Scrubs.

I just wanted to say one last thing. I recently started watching The Boys again. It is so good because I had paused. I had paused for some reason, and now I just finished season two, and that is one of the best shows on TV. And it's a shame that Donald doesn't watch things because, man, he would love that. Donald, you're not watching The Boys?

I watched season one of The Boys and I guess I watched season some of season two. It's so crazy. Do you know about the crazy shot in season three? Don't ruin anything in season three. Please. No, you don't have to. Don't ruin anything.

You know, it's good. i like the show you know superhero shows i don't know man superhero shows get a little boring to me because i don't know man after a while they just they just it's i can't take the bullshit I want to see the action and I want to see the comic book stuff. I don't necessarily want to see like the drama of it all. Well, this show is a lot of social commentary, which is brilliant. I mean, there's so many things. That's cool. There must be people watching this show who don't know that they're rooting for the bad guy.

Oh, they definitely are. They definitely know their root. Listen, man. It's horrifying're rooting for the bad guy. Oh, yeah. Oh, they definitely are. They definitely know their root. Listen, man. It's horrifying. That's the crazy thing. You know, that's the crazy thing. America thinks we're Superman, but we're really fucking that dude. Homelander.

Homelander. We're really Homelander. But there must be people out there. I was watching it. And the end of season three is particularly poignant about social comments. Sorry, end of season two is particularly poignant. I mean mean there's literally an attack on the capital in the show and i i said i wonder if just people watching this rooting for homelander and it must be yeah for sure yeah season three top season two zach and i can't wait really interesting okay but season one was season

one was really good i thought season two kind of fell from season one, but that's just me. I love it. Listen, listen, put it this way, put it this way. I'm not a person who ever watches superhero stuff for the most part,

as you guys all know. And, but this one is just, the writing is so incredible. It's so funny. And then at the same time, it's so R rated. Like,

I feel like it's the most R-rated thing i've ever seen on tv yeah like the gore and the sex stuff and yeah when those two had sex and when those two had sex in the sky yeah like above the couch and everything like that y'all are not ready and that shit and they bang so hard but like she was like for real for real about it that she was bang did i go too far? No. Okay. You just talked about having sex with your wife.

So lots and lots of people. You're fine. All right. Should we get into season eight, everybody? Let's count us in, Donald. Five, six, seven, eight. I've got some stories about a show we made. About a bunch of doctors and nurses in a Canada who love me. I said here's a story That we all should know

So gather round to hear our Gather round to hear our Scratch Rewatch Show with Zach and Donald Well, it's a whole new world, everybody. We're on ABC now. Now, just one thing I didn't know as a piece of trivia, as you know, throughout seasons one through seven, I have said that this show was shot on 16 millimeter film

and it always had the standard square aspect ratio. But I'm guessing, well, not guessing, I can tell starting in season eight, it was finally up-res'd, the film was up-res'd to HD for the first time. So you'll notice that it's actually finally 16 by nine. Any other time. Full screen.

Yes. Any other time you've seen the show, seasons one through seven, seemingly fit your whole square 16 by nine television. It's been cropped by whomever is broadcasting it. But this is finally a full HD television show, because I'm assuming back then is when the switches were being made to making everything HD. I want to just say something really quick before we start. Go ahead.

I found myself more fascinated with who was on the show this time around more than what was happening in the show. Yes. Which was really interesting because this is the first time I've ever done that. And we've had some amazing guest stars before. But this was the first time where I was like, wait a second. Holy shit, that's and holy shit that's and wow this is before they and oh my god we were so you know what i mean like well aziz ansari of course and eliza coop are two uh people that really and taron kill him taron kill him um three

people that really uh broke out from this I mean Taron was known a bit before but I don't think Aziz and Eliza were look Taron was on Mad TV and Nickelodeon stuff like that you know what I mean he hadn't necessarily had his big you know not ready for prime time

moment breakout yet yeah breakout moment but Aziz was pretty unknown right maybe he was a stand-up no but aziz had like some maybe he was on the internet or something like that i remember walking with aziz in the parking lot and being like giving him the hey kid you stick to it you're gonna be really you're really funny fucking idiot i fucking shot myself in the foot this motherfucker goes on to be aziz ansari you know You know what I mean? Like, come on, bro.

Like, but you know, but we knew back then you knew back then he was going to be good. And you knew Eliza was going to be good. Yeah. They were all great. I mean, think about it.

Like I think Bill's strategy, I assume was like, I want to, you know, Bill always said that he thought there's no reason that this couldn't be like an ER where ER type show where he keeps it going. And I think the idea, this again, another thing is we, this is the first episode we moved to ABC. So we'll talk about some of the jokes that were in there because of ABC.

So keep in mind what had happened was NBC, the ratings weren't, you know, big enough. And they were like, you know what? Seven seasons is good. That'll be the end. And then the show is owned by Disney, as we've told you, and ABC is owned by Disney. So Disney said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not done yet. We're going to put it on ABC. So I think Bill's thinking was, as any smart showrunner would, like, you know, maybe I should start introducing some new young blood because

this could be like er it just keeps going for 20 years with new comedians yeah he was trying to bring in sam yes like for those of you that know a different strokes reference he was trying to bring in sam i could break dance and play the guitar mr d anyway so uh that's what's going on with them and um and then of course we have the stunningly beautiful uh Courtney Cox coming on the show you know Bill was on to something it I think this would have worked if it if if he could have kept the original cast for the whole series and if he would have stayed on the show, you know what I mean? Like I,

you know, I, I don't remember season nine. I know we shot a season nine. I don't necessarily remember it. I think how stoned you must've been. Well, Bill was gone.

You know, we, at that point I was freaking out of control stone, man. Like I was, well, we joke about season nine and we're going to watch season nine, which will,

which will be fun because I definitely Donald and I have not seen a single episode of it. But Bill, you know, it's worth noting that Bill wasn't the writer of that sort of spinoff. It was a whole new writer's room. Bill went on to do Cougar Town with Courtney Cox. This was kind of like the testing ground for their, you know. Yeah, this is where Bill got to know Courtney and became friends with her and really liked writing for her. And so then they went off to make Cougar Town,

which interestingly enough also started on ABC. And then when ABC tried to cancel it, they moved that show to TBS and kept it going. So Bill's probably in the Guinness book of world records for shows moved to other networks. I'm sure Dick Wolf and I'm sure he's done it before. He said Dick Wolf. When you find that bright spot to help you get through your day,

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on your free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. He's a dick and wolf. So, yeah, that's some backstory about this. The opening joke starts right off.

With you being beard face now. Well, I have a beard. By the way, I was so bummed about how brown, there's not a single gray hair in that beard. No, it looks weird.

I love it. What do you mean it looks weird? It looks weird. I look like Kenny Loggins. I was like, look at the glow up Zach has between seven and eight. My God. The glow up, right? The hair was whipped. The hair was flying.

Zach had some success. He came back with some money. I look tan. I look tan. He was like, let's go. I look tan. I got a fucking fully brown, not one gray hair beard. I think. The hair was on point.

Didn't we go to St. Bart's that summer? Weren't we in St. Bart's that summer? Whatever happened, I looked my best I've ever looked. You were skinny. Look how skinny you are. I was skinny. I don't know if I'll ever look that good again. Not a single fucking wrinkle under my eye.

Dude, shit, man. That was where I peaked. I peaked with that Kenny Loggins beard. You didn't peak. You look good in a T-Mobile commercial, baby. Oh, thank you, girl. Your eyes are so blue in that commercial, bro. Yeah, they are blue.

That sweater really brings out the blueness in my eyes. It pops. It's like it pops. Hey, that wasn't an accident, Donald. I got to tell you, I picked blue. I knew you did. I knew you did. So anyway, so what I wanted to say is the very first joke that JD makes won't come across in certain places where you're watching it.

But if you recall, he points down to the bottom right-hand portion of the screen and he goes, huh, that's new. That's because that's where the ABC had a little button, a little ABC identifier tag on the bottom of the screen. And then Bill did a joke on that and then revealed that in the show he's pointing to, I guess, the janitor's watch or the gum that the janitor's? No, the watch. Which one?

The watch. Okay. So the janitor says, oh, you're talking about my watch, so we do a little joke about that. But that was sort of, there's some meta jokes in here about moving to ABC throughout the episode. Well, definitely in credits. Of course.

Which we'll get to. Which we'll get to. Written by the very talented Angela Nissel and directed by the legendary Michael Spiller. Michael Spiller. We should. I mean, we had him on the show before, man. But let's just for you guys that don't remember.

Spiller has directed so much television. He directed Sarah on Firefly Lane. He directed so many episodes of Scrubs. He's directed like, you know, so many things. But Sex and the City is his like, was like the beginning of it all, right? Am I right? Yes, because he started as a cinematographer. Yeah, he was a DP on it and then moved over to... Some cinematographers aspire to move on from being the cinematographer to being a director and some are quite successful. And Michael was that.

He shot, I believe, most of sex in the city and then started directing sex in the city and then now he's a very big and beloved uh tv director you know your path is your path and now he's back with sarah chalk with firefly lane although that's over now i think yeah anyway so because spoilers uh sar, you know. Spoilers. All right. So the janitor says that I have a prepubescent Miami vice. And I say that I look like I say there are some who think I look like a young Kenny Loggins. And he says, who?

And I say, me. Away to the danger zone. You know you wanted to sing that. I didn't, especially not that loud. But let's let the babies latch again. Let them suckle. And they're latched. I was so far away from the mic.

I was so loud. Well, if you get the baby on the areola and someone screams out loud, you're going to jostle the baby. I wish I had video of that baby jostle when it happened. That's so cute. It's like, ah! All right right so let's just go through that we meet all the new interns um as we mentioned ed is played by aziz denise is played by eliza coop and we learned that um he i think he has it speaking of t-mobile i think he's got like a sidekick because he's i couldn't tell if it's actually a t-mobile sidekick but he's got that

flip up style like definitely has to flip up i wish t- actually a T-Mobile sidekick, but he's got that flip-up style. He definitely has the flip-up. I wish T-Mobile would bring back that sidekick. That phone was great. That phone was so good. Listen, I miss... Do I sound like an old man when I say I really still miss a tactile keyboard? No.

No, not at all. Not at all. Not at all. I don't know why anyone doesn't... Why is no one... This is what you should do, right? You have an iPhone, right? And they don't change the thickness.

Or maybe they make it a little bit thicker. But then you pop out your fucking little keyboard. Why not, guys? Come on. I see it. Also, if I could just slap a phone shut again, I would really appreciate it. I miss being able to just click it. Kids don't know, but it's a very tactile phone experience.

They don't know. They have that out there. I found one of my old flip phones here, an old Motorola. I was playing with it, flipping it closed. They have it, but it's dual glass, and I don't feel comfortable. You can't get a proper snap on that. You know what I'm saying? Right.

You can't get that click, bye, bitch, click. Yes, bye, bitch. You get it. I just don't understand why no one, like the BlackBerry held on as long as it could for people who love the tactile keyboard. But now that it's gone, why no one creates something like this? I don't know. It could even be an aftermarket like case of something.

Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you this. They're definitely trying to sell distraction, right? So there's no way anybody's going to sell you a phone where all it does is just flip open unless that's what you're looking for. Yeah, yeah. Plenty of people sell flip phones if you don't want to. Well, the assistant editor I had on my film, an awesome guy named Elliot Eisman, and he was in his 30s and had a flip phone. And I always made fun of him because I was like, dude, I really hate that my texts go green to you. And we would laugh about it, but he's like, I just never went down the smartphone wormhole.

I saw how many, how it took over everyone I know's life. And I just, I just held myself back and never went down the wormhole. I was impressed. He's the only person I know like that. Yeah. I can't text on that shit though. That's the only problem. No, no, I know. But if it's like a sidekick or a, but even a sidekick yo even the set the reason why the sidekick was so dope was because it did it had a lot of functions same thing with the freaking sky pager but it was just so cool how it flipped out though this the no doubt how you could it's almost like star trek

yeah paris hilton made that famous right that's almost like star trek yeah paris hilton made that famous right that was like at the height of paris hilton's uh well at the well t-mobile at the time it was charles barkley and duane wade were the sidekick dudes oh really i just mean that uh paris was everywhere uh in the in the news and i remember she always had a sidekick right bedazzled pink joint yeah it was like bedazzled. Captain's log. Stargate supplemental. You probably knew this, but you can put a... I'm trying to tiptoe off these addicting, addictive apps.

And on your phone, you can put a time limit on specific apps. I need this. What is this called? What? What is this called? What is this time? It's built into my phone? Yeah.

If you go in your, if you go in settings, audience, you're going to love this. This is going to help you all. It's going to help you wean yourself off crack cocaine. You can go in and like select Instagram, for example. Disclaimer, dude. Disclaimer. This is not going to get you off of crack cocaine. No, I'm saying, I don't mean crack cocaine.

I mean the crack cocaine that is social media. So you can say, okay, Instagram, you can see how much time you're spending on a day and then you can go, okay, I'm gonna, that's embarrassing. I can't believe I'm spending that much time on Instagram a day. And then you can go set timer for one hour.

So, and then a second you reached an hour, it locks you out of the app. And that setting is called screen time. Screen time. What if you got to post something? Well, you can, you can override it.

If like for work, you need to post something, obviously, but also schedule your posts. Like if you're posting for work, just schedule it. So that way you're not tempted to be on the app. But what if you just found the dopest ham and cheese sandwich you've ever had in your life?

And you want to take a picture of it. You could just undo it. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. First of all, where's this ham and cheese sandwich? Because now I want one. Right. But anyway, what you can do, just like someone weaning them off drugs is, and I started to do this.

You go, you start like, say, in an hour, right? And then you get locked out. You go, okay. And then like the next day you do 55 minutes and then next day you 50 and little by little you just you're not it's not using the app as much anymore i like there you go the more you know dan i'll play them the more you know music please okay back to the tv show scrubs um everyone at this hospital has been flirting with someone on the web called Hot Girl 99. Okay.

We should also, we should give a little bit of a story about these new interns because that's what this show is pretty much about. So Katie is a kiss ass. Denise has horrible bedside manner. Yes. horrible bedside manner yes ed which you're talking about right now tricks a catfish to come to the hospital so he gets catfished and then catfish is the catfish to come to the hospital yes and he says um beholding a red balloon but he's aziz's character is is playing hot girl 99 and he says carry a red balloon so i'll know and then jd says wait you're hot girl 99 and he walks away like he's he's been chatting to her too and then

throughout the episode as a runner you see lots of men holding red balloons including colonel colonel doctor yes and ted yes Ted Ted's is That's a sad story Sam Lloyd This is This is the saddest Sam Lloyd Has ever been on the show I know

It's really dark too Like you would definitely Not make These jokes In 2023 No But Not at all

But It was It got a little dark But I love I love I love Jimmy The over touchy Touch How do you say it The overly The overly touch love I love Jimmy the over touchy touch

how do you say it the overly the overly touchy orderly yeah the overly touchy orderly I love Jimmy the over touchy orderly oh my god

when Sam breathe on my face when Sam falls out of his chair and Ted falls out of his the wheelchair because he was cold and needed a seat

and then and then he's on the ground and then that was the's on the ground and then that was the funniest shit of the episode when taryn is like a groping him and he's like okay he's like he's just like okay okay i slow slow smooth slowly don't do i know you yeah he's like do i know you and he's like move slowly don't rush anything he okay, breathe on my face. That was hilarious. That, yeah, he was, that was, I laughed the hardest at that.

Yeah, me too. At that part. So Courtney Cox gets the beautiful, beautiful woman entrance that we always do on Scrubbish. But then we do a play on the joke. We joke the joke by having it go on too long and jd's like all right come on hurry up the sexy music yeah but also jd's not attracted to her yes he is yeah you see yeah it didn't seem like no he says he says because she was he says something like because she was a babe of course i had to do this and And then the, but then Courtney and Courtney does, there's no one who doesn't think Courtney looks sexy.

Let me tell you, let me tell you in those videos, those entrance videos, she's a knockout. Let me tell you something right now. Yes, Donald. Courtney Cox is,

you know, on the top 10 list, right? At least with my top 10 list. She's in the top 10 list. Yeah. She's a babe. Oh, my gosh, man.

Forever. All the way back to Family Ties. Yeah, she was the second love interest on the show. Well, I go all the way back to Bruce Springsteen, right? Mm-hmm. Kelso's replacement, we said, is Cordy Cox, and Cox doesn't want to smile so badly because he knows he's going to hate her because she's at the hospital

that he defibrillates his head he blows his brains out with a defibrillator yeah that's not recommended to defibrillate your head I would not do that I would not do that I don't know if that I don't think that's the right way no you definitely don't want to defibrillate your head

to use that kids don't defibrillate your head, guys. To use that. Damn, put the You More You Know music again. Kids, don't defibrillate your head. But anyway, it gets a smile off of him. And now this is actually this story with J.D. being so nervous not to know what to say to Courtney Cox's character. And they're talking about their babies and he says did you deliver vaginally i did and he goes big girl must have hurt

now i just recently was reminded this is a real story from matt tarsus one of our favorite writers jeff zucker who told you was the head of NBC, the one that Donald noogied. Matt Tarsus nervously was talking to him and they were talking about their kids. This all happened in real life. And Matt was nervous and didn't know what to say. They were exchanging stories about having a newborn. And Matt said, so did your wife deliver vaginally?

No! What did Zucker think about what was happening on this show? As it comes out, as it comes out of your mouth. I know, but you know when like, do you have anyone in your life that like, is this just me or like there's certain people like, you're just kind of nervous around and you always say something stupid? Every, every. If I've seen you in a movie ever in my life, that's me.

I just can't help it. I have certain people who I, and every time I'm like, all right, dude, you got this. Like, Donald's right. It's often someone I admire or someone I think is really cool. And then what comes out is just so stupid, like out of a movie. Yeah, so Donald and I both have this problem, and it's usually around people we admire. We both call each other the next day and cringe and go,

dude, I didn't know what to say. I said something so stupid to so-and-so. JD comes in and Cox is ranting about how he finds so many people annoying, and JD does a walk by and goes New freckle That means JD is keeping track of Cox's freckles I'm gonna say That

The facts of life jokes I don't know if anyone gets them Who isn't our age I thought that shit was hilarious How she was How Denise is Joe and Katie is Blair. But then when Ed is like, you can call me Tootie. I won't think it's racist.

That shit happened real quick. That was funny. That was great. But a facts of life joke is a deep cut for some people but um for those you don't know it's because the sitcom sitcom we all loved very much when we were growing up and i had such a crush on joe like who didn't have a crush on no some people were blair people i was a joe person i was a joe me too she was i was a joe and i was a tomboy and i was a tootie oh my god was i a tootie was i a tootie let me tell you something right now man oh man you want to talk about

that that her mom actually chip fields kim fields mom kim fields played tootie chip fields little known that when i first moved out to Los Angeles and I was doing Clueless, the television show, they hired her to help me learn how to do sitcom with my sitcom timing. So she would, unbeknownst to me, one day I walk in my trailer and Chip Fields is in there. And this is the mom from Good Times who beat Penny, Janet Jackson, right? And so I walk into my trailer and she's sitting in there and I'm like, oh, shit. You didn't know you were going to have a coach? No, I didn't know.

She was like, they hired me to work with you. And I was like, oh, okay. And she would, for like almost a season, she would come to set and run lines with me. Did she help you? Yeah, she helped tremendously. Like, she's a great coach. That was what she did at that point.

But that's the one time. But TARDIS wasn't a sitcom, right? No, it wasn't. It was a multi-camera thing. But I was playing the whole thing. Like, I was trying to play the whole thing like this and talk. Everything was very natural. Right.

You weren't used to being in a film. You weren't used to the sort of heightened reality of a comedy, right? Right. And so I'm playing this. And everybody else is really big. And I'm trying. It's a great story, man. Because, like, it was me before I learned how big I could become.

Like, now I go so big that directors and shit will be like, hey, could you just tone it back a little? Bring it down, buddy. Bring it down. By the way, I saw that Alicia had a Super Bowl commercial as well. With Alicia Donovan, both of them from Clueless. It was very nice. Since she was one of my biggest crushes,

I was very happy to see her back in the yellow outfit. They looked amazing too. They both look beautiful. And Alicia is so funny and I like her a lot. Yeah. Okay. So let me take a break and we come back. We're going to talk about how Ed,

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okay so um everyone puts their hands in because jd is going to give the he needs a break from the interns he says hold down the ic floor. I'm out of here. And they put their hands in, and I say, somebody has soft hands. And Aziz says, I sleep in gloves. And then we put our hands up and say, nobody die. That's our cheer. So nobody dies. um that's our that's our cheer so nobody dies and then um okay we should mention also that carla and um elliot's storyline is that elliot's uh carla's trying to be honest with elliot and say that she's

whiny and self-involved well elliot is uh elliot notices katie and They call her mini Elliot. And Travis calls her mini Elliot. And that's what the whole hospital is saying. Right. And Elliot's like, wait a second, I'm not self-centered. And Cox is like, actually, you're very self-centered. You're probably the most self-centered person I've ever met. Mm-hmm. And it strikes a nerve with

elliot and she you know her and carla go to dinner and at dinner she can't believe that cox said that and she expects carla to back her up and instead of backing her up carla agrees with cox yeah and that's that's their storyline sometimes sometimes that's the storyline for the whole show sometimes the truth isn't what you want to hear you know right and the people that you are close to you and respect you will you should be open to what they have to say well yeah there's a saying like if enough people tell you you're drunk sit down that's what's up and so this episode is yeah the theme is sort of telling telling hard truths to people so carl is is like yeah you are look what you did to keith look what you've look what's been going on in

your life you are self-involved and elliot is not having that um we see that Kelso is perched up in coffee bucks, and that's where he's going to be every single day, he's announced. He doesn't want to leave the hospital, I guess. Well, he comes there for the drama. He loves to watch the show. Right. That's what we established, that in retirement, he likes to sit there and watch the soap opera of the hospital unfold.

Why is Turk in the ICU all the time? Like, what the fuck? He's a surgeon. Like, why is he always hanging out in the ICU? I'm sure he has to do consults and decide if someone's going to go to surgery and what have you. I don't know. I'm a fake doctor. But also it's because it's a comedy and we like Turk.

That is true. That's one of the main sets. where's bestie and his wife are too i'd be like yeah let me just stretch my heels out over here yeah it's a big hospital everyone's sort of based in the icu because they that's sort of the main one of the main sets that's where we do rounds what's crazy is that 99.9 of shows you all listeners watch, that would be a set. But that's a real ICU. I know we forget sometimes that we were shooting this in an abandoned hospital, but that was really the ICU of a hospital. I mean, what's crazy is we shot a comedy in there,

and think how much happened in that room. Let me ask you a question. Can you say you visited every room in that hospital no yeah me neither i can't say but i definitely explored every inch of it because i explored a lot of it i never you know what when it got to like the children's ward and like the and like the the morgue and stuff yeah i didn't fuck around but we shot in the morgue but stuff. Yeah. I didn't fuck around. But we shot in the morgue, but I would never go in the morgue alone. I remember being down in the basement alone, and I could never go in the morgue alone. But I would explore.

Eventually, they turned some room into the gym down there. Yeah. I think it was the morgue. That wasn't the morgue. That wasn't the morgue. I don't know what that room was, but it was a big room in the basement they converted to a gym that line where turk says carla has spies everywhere yeah that is my wife yo really she has spies everywhere oh my god i can't do nothing i take a shit in the forest my wife is like you know that squirrel told me about what you did in that forest.

She don't play. She just don't. I don't know, man. She knows everybody, man. At one point, like I forget this all the time, but at one point, my wife was really fucking famous. You know what I mean? And I forget that. Because she was on the context. She was on the newlyweds, right?

Is that what it was called? Yes. Jessica Simpson and her husband had a reality show, and Casey was her best friend. Jessica Simpson and her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, had a reality show, and Casey was her assistant. Did you watch the show, by the way? I had never seen the show in my life.

So you didn't know that she was reality TV show famous when you had a crush on her? I had no clue. All I knew was that she would be at the club shaking her ass all the time. I thought she was cute. That's it. That's all I knew. And you must have known she was Jessica's best friend because she was always next to

Jessica. Right. Right. And I knew that she was Jessica's best friend. I remember asking somebody, looking at a picture, yo, who is that? And the person going, that's Kasey Cobb. Like, yo, you don't know who that is, dog? And yeah. somebody looking at a picture yo who is that and the person going that's casey cobb like like yo you don't know who that is dog and yeah so she was also very popular because she has an amazing

personality so everybody she knew a lot of people right but she got spies everywhere because of her connections like because of the people that she knew back then i go to a gym and people are like, I'm not known as like, I tell this joke all the time. I'm not known as Donald Faison ever. I'm always known as somebody else's something or the name of a show. So I was known as clueless. I was known as freaking Petey to all football players. I'm known as freaking black scrubs to a lot of scrubs fans or turk to scrubs fans

yeah crazy right and then to like the hollywood world and stuff like that i'm known as casey's husband like that shit is just how it goes dude i walked into a gym and somebody was like oh yeah you're casey's husband i was like what what the fuck i went to she's got spies everywhere. I went to breakfast at Salt's Cure for brunch, and a woman came in wearing a UCLA sweatshirt. And she said to me, oh, I saw your buddy at the game the other day. I guess you went to a UCLA game. I did. Yeah. Yeah, your buddy.

Do you know what they say? You know what they say when they see me? Oh, shit. You know what? I just saw Zach Braff at. No, they don't. I'm sure they see your buddy. They never say your buddy.

It's always Zach Braff. Dude, you know the joke? I'm going to tell the joke. I got to tell the joke. You know the joke. So here's the joke. Wow. No one said joke that many times in one sentence ever.

Cut that down, Daniel. Cut the jokes down. No, leave it, Daniel. I first moved to Hollywood and I do a show called Clueless and no matter where I go, I'm known as Clueless. Then I get

scrubs and I meet Zach and I'm taking Zach out to clubs and people will be like, oh shit, there goes Clueless. And Clueless bought his friend. Zach does Garden State. Yeah, his friend. Zack does Garden State. Yeah, no bullshit. Zack does Garden State. It then becomes, oh shit, there goes Zack Braff.

And look, he's with Clueless. That's my fucking life, yo. That's how it goes. That's how it is. And now you said they call you T-Mobile guy. They do call me T-Mobile I'll take it too bro I'll take it somebody said to me the other day

yo man you look so familiar where do I know you from I was like oh I'm an actor I was on a show called Scrubs you know I did a movie called Clueless and he was like oh no that's not it T-Mobile I came out of a restaurant in LA called Craig's which is a really good Italian place.

And this paparazzo guy took my picture as I was getting in my car. And when he was done, he turns to me. He's like, yo, yo, should I really switch to T-Mobile? Yes, please continue to let me get paid, sir. Wow. That's funny. Like as though we're like, as though I have like a pamphlet in my pocket. Probably.

I should start carrying it around. Yeah, here are the plans, sir. All right. So again, JD doesn't know what to say to her. And so he says he doesn't want to say that, you know, she's hot because he's just nervous. And he says, you look like a well-built, sturdy woman. She's like sturdy? She says like a shed.

And I go like a naughty. She goes, I like that. I go like a naughty structure. Structure. And then she walks away. And then she asked the janitor. She finally has a showdown with the janitor because she's not down with his shenanigans. And she sees that his name tag says the janitor.

And then she fires him. Yeah. I mean, the janitor gets fired. But he doesn't leave the hospital. No, he has no intention of leaving. By the way, when she finally says catches him later he's like he's holding a screwdriver to nothing he's just he's on the ladder and it's like you know those drop ceiling like whatever they are asbestos panel things that are in a

hospital he's just holding a screwdriver to it just trying to look busy he's not doing it um okay so we also learned that keith is really still devastated i mean he's he's trying he's hurt he's trying to act like he's not hurt then they dropped this line which was which was which was good writing um ted oh, he has to take an anti-anxiety pill to be able to talk to Elliot. And he waits for it to kick in. Oh, God. And he says, no one wants the person who hurt them to ever see how badly they've been hurt. Yeah, I had that reaction, too, to Ted dropping knowledge on Sarah. Yeah, that's a tough one right there bro so so keith is hiding his pain because he's trying to act normal and okay and then we cut

to jimmy but do you want to let me ask you a question this is the do you want to see how hurt that person is no i don't think anyone if you're the person who's doing the breaking up you don't want to see the pain you're person who's doing the breaking up, you don't want to see the pain you're causing anybody. Oh, you're saying, what are you saying? The opposite? No, I'm saying, so nobody wants to see how, nobody wants the person who hurt them to know how hurt they really are. But if you hurt somebody, do you want to see how, if you unintentionally hurt somebody, don't you want to see how you've hurt them hurt somebody don't you want to see how you've hurt them you know what i mean so that you can correct that well i i hear you're saying i don't

think anyone wants to obviously be see that they've nobody wants to be the cause of hurt but you're saying but you're but you're saying unless you see they've hurt then you can't then you don't have the fork in the road to make it right yeah right right and uh and so you she but i mean it's so hard with with breakups and couples i mean she they work at the same place it's so tricky you know because then all of a sudden all of those things that you guys used to do now is inappropriate you know what i mean all of a sudden also it's just it's not only inappropriate but it's like now i mean it's so cringe you have to work together and you have to see each other then you have to see that person start dating and it's in your face okay how about jimmy the touch overly touchy um orderly massaging courtney's face that was funny that was hilarious it's a lot of i don't know if i would allow a lot of the

things that the over touchily orderly did he couldn't get away with doing no now no this was 2000 what nine joelle eight uh yeah i think we're 2009 now yeah i don't think he'd be touching my breathe on my face would get you fired well breathe on my face is like post-COVID. No one's saying that. That'll get you fired. But he's also like fully molesting Ted on the floor. Yes. Ted got a case. Ted got a case.

But the chief of the hospital is probably not going to have their face massaged by an orderly. Well, he got fired for doing that. Oh, he did get fired? But he's in more's right he must get rehired i think everybody i think the janitor is gonna well obviously the janitor spoiler alert i forgot i didn't remember the janitor getting actually fired so the janitor's made a key she says give me your keys and he holds up one key and she goes where are all the other keys and he said i got tired of holding them all so i made everything work off this one key. And then he starts a motorcycle.

Is that not Sasha? No, it's Sasha. He starts Sasha. It's not. It's a real motorcycle. Sasha's a little blue Vespa wannabe. This is a real motorcycle. But then the janitor comes in with the freaking files locked in his suit, in his briefcase.

And he's like, I had the files. I had the stuff for the patient in my briefcase, but I locked it in there. And then she takes said key and opens up his briefcase. It opens everything. It opens everything. Even a tiny briefcase lock, a motorcycle, every door in the hospital. How did he do that? How did he do that?

How did he get all of those locks and install them? Well, I guess in the real world, you'd have to change every lock, including the blue cycle. But in Scrub's world, he just had to make a magical key. And by the way, that's not a fantasy. That is real life. He made a magical key. So Cox has a heart to heart with JD

about how he's handling his uh great scene yeah that was a good scene I like that scene both scenes the Keith and Elliot scene very touching and then the Cox and and JD scene very touching yeah thank you you know we've been waiting for this moment because it's bound it was bound to happen we We were waiting for this moment. And it finally happened where Cox looks at JD as a peer and not just as someone who's beneath him. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. He looks at him as a competent doctor.

And it's not a lesson. The lessons that are coming JD's way now aren't hard lessons anymore. Now it's more of a conversation. And if JD hears it in the conversation, then there it is. But for the most part, Cox is no longer going to coddle JD. And that's what that scene meant to me. You know what I mean? I'm not going to fucking do all of that other shit that you... You want the hard truth? That's not coming anymore. What's coming your way is, motherfucker, I'm scared too. I'm over this shit too. This is what life is though.

You know what I mean? I think we were all trying to be, find something new. And I think these new actors brought something fun and new and Courtney brought something fun and new. And you know, it was- Aziz definitely brought something fun. But keep in mind, we were all like, it wasn't like we're on a backlot

where you're going to mingle and meet new people. It was, Aziz definitely brought something. Keep in mind, we were all like, it wasn't like we're on a backlot where, where you're going to mingle and meet new people. And, and you know, we were, we were all in this abandoned hospital in the Valley. Yeah. So. We met no one.

Like we, we would see no one. No one. No. Cause who the hell would visit? I mean, fans aside, like nobody,

nobody's when you're on a backlot, you like run into other casts, you meet other crews when you're in an abandoned hospital, you like run into other casts, you meet other crews. When you're in an abandoned hospital, like no one comes to visit you. At all. The executives didn't even come to visit us. No.

Like, why would they want to come to an abandoned hospital? But, I mean, don't get it twisted. I realized then, and realize now, but I realized then,

how lucky I was to be on a television show but at this point i remember being like burnt out yeah you know yeah and again you start to question like i i don't want to you want to go out on top you don't want to like you don't want to like drive it into the ground where you're like oof this is we're jumping the shark kind of fonzie stuff you know fonzie jumping the shark on his skis. No, motorcycle. No, he was water skiing. Oh, he was water skiing, that's right. He jumped over the shark.

You can't jump a shark. I guess you could jump a shark on a motorcycle, but you'd have to. Evel Knievel did, didn't he? No, I don't know. I don't know. But Fonzie was wearing a leather jacket when he was on his water skis.

I don't know if you know that. It's also the downfall of Happy Days. Do you know that trivia? That when F fonzie does jump the shark in happy days he's still wearing his fonzie leather jacket that's how popular that show was that show was so popular that at its demise when it when it finally reached its worst moment people were still like it jumped the shark well they were kids well no jump the shark didn't become a term until much later but i remember you know for kids it was i didn't i didn't know anything about something becoming stale i was like fonzie's gonna jump a shark yeah oh no doubt no doubt no doubt he's so cool shit no doubt but but it's a it's it's is it not in the dictionary it should

be if it's not no it became someone someone i forgot i don't know the genesis of it daniel maybe you do but someone eventually said uh called it like uh made it made it a term for when a show is has reached its limit and now it's gone beyond how great it used to be. Yeah, it peaked, and now you're on your down. And so, and the example of Fonzie jumping a shark on water skis was like... With a leather jacket on. Yes, Dale, go ahead. Got an answer for you.

Yeah. The idiom jumping the shark was coined in 1985 by John Hine in response to the 1977 episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie jumps a shark. Shit. Happy Days was 1977? Mm-hmm. Oh, then we were watching reruns.

We were watching reruns, bro. Yeah. Wow. That's true for a lot of shows we loved. There's a lot of shows that we loved growing up that I thought were being shot at the time, but we were watching the syndicated reruns. Well, I knew The Honeymooners was an old show. No, Honeymooners.

I knew that was an old show. And I knew Beaver and the Brady Bunch and all that stuff. I'm not talking about The Honeymooners, dude. I'm talking about stuff like Three's Company. Those were in reruns. As a kid, I thought those were new. All right, let's wrap it up. The janitor is fired, we learn.

There's a new janitor hired who couldn't be a sweeter old man. He's just a nice, let me know if I can help you. Yeah. And then we have end credits. Oh, wait, before we get to that, just the final thing that we learned, that Courtney Cox's character is, in fact, just a bit stereotypical hospital executive. She wants all the money she can get out of this patient. He has great insurance.

Killmonger was right. Okay, I'm not exactly sure what that reference is, but there you go. She's trying to get all the money she can out of him. And then, yes, as Donald said, there's a new thing on ABC. Instead of them playing the theme music and going through stills of funny stills from that episode,

there's now like a little coda, a little tiny scene over the credits. And in this particular one... Which was really weird. And this one, we talk about Dr. Shalhoub. We talk about the Nielsens. And they're all plays on like, Monk is Dr. Shalhoub we talk about the nielsen's and they're all plays on like monk is dr shalhoub

yeah because every yeah shalhoub would win every award every emmy every year he would win the emmy and then the nielsen's little i mean we don't talk about it all the time on the podcast but scrubs was never a big hit yeah you don't know what the Nielsens are, it's the rating system. It helps you extrapolate how many people are watching the show. And so we do a joke like, even though the Nielsens seem to differ, then we cut to a couple that's named the Nielsens. And they disapprove of – They're shaking their heads. They're like, we don't like you guys. Two things I learned on Scrubs Wiki about this.

Two things I learned on Scrubs Wiki About this There's a moment where Sarah flashes In a bar, a flashback And she says, oh what's the worst that can happen And then we see that it's made into a Girls Gone Wild type It's like a Girls Gone Wild type flashing DVD

And I learned on Scrubs Wiki that The stars that are over Sarah's breasts, ABC demanded that they be made bigger. And when Sarah heard that, she claimed that it made her very happy that the stars needed to be made bigger. Love Sarah. She apparently tells that story on the DVD. And also, a little interesting bit of trivia,

because of Courtney Cox's schedule, all of the scenes involving her in the show were shot towards the end of season eight. So we shot all the episodes, all the stuff that didn't involve Courtney Cox, and then saved Courtney Cox's scenes for the end of the season. Now, how did we do that?

So she never has scenes with Aziz then? Why do you say that? Because Aziz only lasts about three episodes on the show this year. Oh, that might be true. I don't know. We'll see. But I know that I just read that, and I remember there being a thing with Courtney, like she wasn't available until later, so we just would shoot everything except Courtney Courtney scenes and then we circled back and um and picked up uh Courtney

stuff so there you go there's uh the first episode of season eight everybody um I hope you enjoyed that Joelle do we have some submissions for today yeah we can do some submissions okay and we're gonna take a break and when we come back are going to listen to some submissions for new podcast ideas, which we need, and a new TV show idea. We'll be right back after these fine words. When you find that bright spot to help you get through your day, it's powerful. That's where The Bright Side comes in. A new daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that's bringing you a daily dose of joy. I'm Danielle Robay.

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Fuck your sound effects machine. Why gotta be, why gotta be so aggro with it? Zach and Donald are gay newlyweds in house arrest. Alright, it's time to hear something that could possibly beat that. Zach and Donald are gay newlyweds in house arrest. Alright, it's time to hear something that could possibly beat that. Zach and Donald are gay newlyweds in house arrest. I don't know how you can beat

that. Yeah, no chat GBT today. I have no idea if people are enjoying that or not. Daniel and Joelle, do you know if anyone likes those things? I've seen a couple of comments being very positive, but let us know, guys. Also, if you have suggestions for what we should put into the chat box that you would like to hear more. Yeah, I'm not on Twitter anymore, but Joelle and Daniel are. And so let them know if you like the chat GPT thing.

We want to serve you. I thought Sarah was fabulous last week. So funny. I think the chat GPT thing is funny. Fabulous last week. So funny. I think the chat GBG thing is funny. And I usually find is a good barometer.

If we laugh at it, then other people will laugh at it. So I don't know. We'll see what people say. Daniel will look on the Reddits and the Twitters. I still laugh at Zach and Donald, the gay newlyweds and house arrest. Yeah, I don't know how you beat that. But we're not allowed to play gay. We're not allowed to play gay, Donald. allowed to play gay donald i'm sorry all those days are over well some people are allowed to play gay it's confusing but um okay but it's what hold on yeah so if you're not gay anymore you cannot play gay in a movie well there's a debate about that

what's that is a debate. It's a complicated debate. Let a member of the queer community weigh in. But there is a debate. I've spoken to some gay show creators who side on the other side of some of the gay community and say that they don't believe in that. But Joelle, as a queer representative, can you tell Donald the debate? Sure. So the debate is that frequently, particularly people who present as gay, just as they show up, have difficulty getting cast outside of like stereotypical gay roles, even if they have the range, right? So the thought, and I think it's a beautiful thought, is, well, let's leave gay roles to gay people. let's leave gay roles to gay people.

To me, the issue with that is sexuality is not a concrete thing. People fluctuate. Some people learn about their queerness through their art and performing and trying different things. And so to leave out people who are not currently out of the closet, I think limits what the queer experience can look like on screen. And I think that's dangerous. What I really like is what Craig Mazin did in The Last of Us. In it, you know, you have one actor who's gay and out and one actor who's straight and married to a woman. But Craig made sure that the director was gay and that the writer was gay and that

there were additional gay people on the crew and he also went to a bunch of gay people to read the scripts before they went into production and by doing that he allowed a full queer experience on screen without you know having anyone default to you know stereotypical lists or you know catty fights or whatever it felt like an authentic relationship um my stance is if you can involve as many queer people as possible, and if you have an actor who respects the queer community, then I don't see a problem with expanding beyond that in your casting. I hear you, but there's not, there's, there's plenty of people as well said,

Joelle, I do, we should mention there's, there's, there are plenty of queer people I believe who disagree with you. That is correct. Yeah. All right, Joelle, what do you have for us? Okay, well. Before you get into it, I want to make sure I'll give one person a shout out. Donald and I had the privilege of speaking to a gentleman who donated to an amazing cause, Wounded Warriors, that Jake Tapper does a, Jake Tapper, the CNN anchor man, does a charity every year for Wounded Warriors.

And one of the prizes, an auction off, is a 30-minute FaceTime with Donald and I, which was fun. It went for $20 million, people. That's how famous we are. I don't know how much it went for, but I want to give a shout out to Ari Namotin, who's a radiologist who gave the donation to Wounded Warriors. And Donald and I had an awesome 30-minute chat with him, and it was a lot of fun. He listens to the podcast. He's listening right now. And he also had a good, really funny idea, kind of like, it was almost like a multiverse idea of Scrubs,

like saying, taking the characters and putting them into, in his particular pitch, it was the world of theater, putting them into, in his particular pitch, it was the world of theater, like keeping the same relationships between the characters, but make them all like they're putting on a production of Dr. Acula. Right. He was like, put them in different, and then we turned it into something like completely different where it was like, look, what if they're characters, they're always the same people from the show, but now they're playing in different scenarios. So like, like, like,

like, like quantum leap. Right. So instead of a hospital, it's a, it's a law firm or a police station, one episode, and they're never the same people,

but they're always in the same relationships. The relationships are the same it's almost like quantum leap quantum leap meets uh what was the uh uh marvel tv show and then it goes to yeah it's almost like it's almost like wandavision meets quantum leap where the characters are all the same they have all the same, but they're jumping between different television styles. So one time we're on a spaceship and Cox is like the tough captain and Kelso, you know, owns the ship and, and, you know, you know, that kind of thing. You know what I'm saying?

And then you could jump and we're in a sitcom and then it could jump and we're in like a legal drama. It was amazing. It was a really cool idea. That's what Donald and I riffed off of Ari ari's idea so that was fun i love it so now we're gonna hear somebody else's idea yes let's hear it zach and donald are gay newlyweds in house arrest perfection this is from caleb hello zach donald joelle and twitch.tv slash DJ underscore Daniel. Wow. This is Caleb calling from Shreveport, Louisiana.

Long time, first time. Unfortunately, I don't have an Australian accent, so I feel like I gotta, you know, I'm working against the current here, but I've listened to every episode you guys have had so far, and gotta tell you, keeps me happy, keeps me entertained, keeps me laughing, you know, gets me through my workouts and my runs uh and i'm really sad to hear you guys are coming to the end of the episodes for scrubs but i'm really excited about the new direction you guys are thinking about taking and i really want to suggest a new idea it's a baking podcast donald's mentioned a couple times that he's been really into baking lately uh talking about his pies and some other stuff he's made the best part of this idea is the name and that's bakerid tart you guys can

can go buy bakerid tart good fucking guy you're making these dishes i feel like he started with that and worked backwards you can bring on celebrity chefs even i know there's a lot of shows about baking like the great brit British Bake Off and Cake Boss. I love British Bake Off. Like Cupcake Wars and probably a bunch of other ones that I'm forgetting right now. But no podcast that I know of. You guys can maybe participate in God's Lettuce. Maybe make it a little bit more interesting.

Maybe a category of best dish overall, and then best dish while partaking in God's Let i don't know something like that god's lettuce yeah happy to hear from you guys love that you guys are continuing the podcast and thinking about bringing it forward even beyond scrubs thanks hope all is well thank you what was his name again? Shout out Caleb I think Caleb May have been high when he came up with You think so?

I feel like he came up with Baker Tart and then worked his way backwards into a Baking show Donald's ears perked up When he said baking show thinking it was going to be About getting baked Well he said baking show and God's lettuce in the same fucking sentence. He freaking had me, had hello.

He had me right then and there. Caleb. I love to bake. I don't necessarily watch baking shows. That's too long. I prefer like the TikToks or the Instagram posts that, you know. Yeah, that's what the kids prefer like the tiktoks or the instagram posts that you know yeah that's what the kids are calling it right do you watch tiktok are you on tiktok though no i don't think so but anyway i like to watch like you know there's this one guy who's like let's do some

cooking and then there's this other guy who's like uh and as always, Nam Shulah. And I like him. There's this other dude. There's like, there's a couple of people that are out there that do Instagram cooking. And if you follow the recipe, because they give it to you really well, you can make it. And it works. And my kids eat it. And that's really how I learned to cook cook by watching videos on instagram or on the thing that they call the tiktok well um i'm not really interested in baking caleb thank you for your suggestion zach don't cook i i don't want to do a podcast about cooking but you don't cook

i don't cook but you seem like a really nice fellow and um and i thank you for your suggestion joelle what so it's not even making it to the whiteboard let's put it that way all right let's move on joelle what is the idea for a tv show for donald and i here we go this Zach. Oh, we like him already. Zach with a self-submission. Hey, Joel, Daniel, Donald, and Zach. My name is also Zach, and I have a pitch for a TV show for Zach and Donald. Go ahead.

Homie Spumoni 2. Spaghetti and lots of balls. No. No, don't do that. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Here's the real pitch. Donald is a very famous, successful actor working on a big-time project, maybe a film in L.A. or a show on Broadway. Unbelievable. In the middle of filming or rehearsing for this project,

Donald does something to get himself canceled. Nothing terrible or egregious, but maybe something absurd, like someone filmed him gambling on a fart and shitting his pants during a rehearsal. That goes viral, and it attracts some negative attention to the project and its producers, which gets him fired. Does he shit his pants during a rehearsal that goes viral and it attracts some negative attention to the project and its producers which gets him fired after that no one will take his calls and then his work dries up his life falls apart and he's forced to move in with a relative maybe a mom or a sister or a cousin back home in small town little lass colorado a few weeks of sulking around the relative's house drives his host crazy, and they encourage him to get out and look for work.

He notices a flyer for a local community theater production of something, and scoffs at first. But once encouraged to check it out, he recalls his early career fondly, before the money and attention, when it was about fun and art. He decides to check it out. And then he sh he his pants upon entering the theater or more probably a high school gym he meets the local community theater director an egotistical self-important tyrant played by zach perhaps part of the reason zach's character

is so arrogant is because he has what he thinks is an ace up his sleeve an authentic british actor hey brett goldstein unable to say no to having a big name in his productions that casts Donald but the two constantly buttheads Donald has a very clear inside knowledge about acting and directing that small time Zach cannot allow his ego to appreciate meanwhile Zach whips the rest of the local actors all of whom are terrified of his authoritarian style of directing it's not ridiculous acting exercises and warm-ups and so on. Conflict between Zach and Donald ensues. They eventually find common ground in a very heartfelt, scrubsian way,

and finally put on a performance that they're excited about. The play opens up for the local community theatergoers in Little Lass. It's awful. The audience is not receptive. The production choices are weird and silly and ridiculous. People hate it. But for Zach and Donald and the rest of the cast and crew, it's a formative experience in getting back in touch with the heart that goes into theater and in connecting with people again.

Let me see if I can call back my guy, Stephen Brandon. Zach and Donald are rival thespians in Everybody Loves a Little Ass Play. If you guys are looking to have some whiteboard dreams come true, I've always wanted to work on writing and breaking stories.

So say the word and I'll draft a manuscript for this pilot right now. It would be a dream come true to learn that craft from Bill and from Brett Goldstein. I'm just putting that out there into the universe, shooting my shot. I love everything that y'all do and I can't wait for what you do next. Thanks for listening. Wow, that was great.

Really well done. Well, I got to say, what's his name? Sorry. Zach. Oh, yeah. How could I forget that? Zach, very well presented. So for someone who has aspirations of getting into the business, I thought you did a really

good job. I thought that was a good, quick pitch. I like that I'm the star of this that was a good quick pitch i like that i'm the star of this one too i don't like that my character is an asshole that i already hate well no but we get together at the end and we make something special at least to us it's like high school musical meets like fame no it sounds like guffman yeah it meets guffman yeah it sounds like the mighty ducks too like you know what i mean i'd say the area i like i like i would like i like the area of you know kind of like ari's idea that we're we switch

to like doing a play like the world is of like putting like you know behind the scenes of putting on something i like that area um i think that's funny for for donald and I to do. I think the world of small-time theater hasn't really been lampooned better than Guffman. That's probably the best version of it ever. Yeah, it's pretty hard to beat Guffman, but we wouldn't be that tone. That's sort of a mockumentary. We wouldn't be that tone.

But I don't know. I'm open to... I think that's... I don't know. I know it to, I think, I don't know. I know it was also good, Living in Oblivion. Is that what it was? Amazing. Amazing. Love Living in Oblivion.

That's spoofing the world of making independent movies. Tom Tichela. Shout out Tom Tichela. Amazing movie. If you like indies and you like behind the scenes stuff, watch Living in Oblivion. It's the funniest spoof of how hard it is to make an independent movie do we have a lock-up do we have a real lock-up that shit i use that on everything look dude when we've been doing scrubs i would say that shit do we have a lock-up

because sometimes the lock-up fails do we have a real lock-up and then every single morning they put the mic under him. He'd go, sound, this is my level. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. We're off to a start with season eight. We appreciate you. We thank you for listening.

If you haven't yet, please check out the trailer for A Good Person. It's on the YouTubes. Coming out March 24th at a theater near you. Also. Yes. Donald. If you get the opportunity, go ahead.

Check us out on T-Mobile. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Watch the commercial. If you haven't seen it, if you didn't watch the Superbowl. Um,

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