Speaker 1: Hey, there he is.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 3: Babe.
Speaker 4: Well, what's up? Guys who listen to you?
Speaker 1: Oh, Halsey, that's what that is?
Speaker 3: This song that that song is like eight years old.
Speaker 4: And I don't always find things like everyone else does.
Speaker 3: Donald, I would tell you it's fire. Listen, you don't
Speaker 3: think that song is fire.
Speaker 4: I'm late to the Halsey party.
Speaker 3: Like seven years ago.
Speaker 4: It's better late than never to the Halsey party. Donald,
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 3: Why are you yelling?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: Calm down.
Speaker 4: I know I'm taking on. I'm taking I'm so rusty
Speaker 4: with this podcast. I'm being you. I become you. I
Speaker 4: am so excited to see you guys and to talk
Speaker 4: to our audience that I've become Donald Faison and I'm
Speaker 4: screaming off the top.
Speaker 3: Speaking of fire records, you know it's fires that scissor
Speaker 3: record man. Yeah, from front to and it's old too.
Speaker 3: You guys can clown me if you want to.
Speaker 4: I only I only know the song I just killed
Speaker 4: Kill Bill is a great song.
Speaker 3: There's so many great ones on that album.
Speaker 4: Not the best idea.
Speaker 3: There's a song called special. Oh my gosh, I missed
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 4: I miss you too, bro, I really really missed you.
Speaker 3: Did you see Guardians at the Galaxy?
Speaker 4: No, but I'm told that people are crying. Bill Lawrence
Speaker 4: even told me he shed a tear.
Speaker 3: It's very hard not to cry in this movie. You
Speaker 3: have to have a you have to have a heart
Speaker 3: of stone and hate.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't have a heart of stone or hate.
Speaker 4: I will guess I'll cry too. Oh, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go, Joelle, did you love it?
Speaker 5: I did really enjoy it. It's it was a really
Speaker 5: fun ride. It was a wonderful Like if you go
Speaker 5: back and watch the first two Guardians, you're like, man,
Speaker 5: this story for Rocket really pays off.
Speaker 3: It's okay, I'm I mean, everybody's story kind of pays
Speaker 3: off at the right.
Speaker 5: I have that underground story where you were kind of like, oh,
Speaker 5: I know a little bit about his past but not
Speaker 5: a lot, and what's really going on? And then this
Speaker 5: whole beautiful arch about like where he came from and
Speaker 5: how he came to be the guy, you know, and
Speaker 5: then such redemption and it's really good.
Speaker 3: It's so great. It was. It was a lot of fun,
Speaker 3: and it was hard not to cry. And I tried
Speaker 3: my hardest. I tried my hardest.
Speaker 4: Why do I tried not to cry? I don't understand
Speaker 4: this like this, I know.
Speaker 3: Because it makes it feel better. It feels better when
Speaker 3: you try.
Speaker 4: It's like edging. You're edging.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. It's like it's like
Speaker 3: it's like right when you go, you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: So I got my colonoscopy a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and I remember.
Speaker 4: Did you come?
Speaker 1: What a transition?
Speaker 3: So hard?
Speaker 4: But don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of what happens.
Speaker 4: Happens in the doctor's office. He can't tell the one
Speaker 4: he's not tell anybody.
Speaker 3: Well, let's just put it this way. I said to
Speaker 3: the doctor. I said, listen, because somebody told me a
Speaker 3: friend of mine who who unfortunately has cancer and had
Speaker 3: it for a really long time, it has to get
Speaker 3: colonoscopies a lot. It was like when they give you
Speaker 3: the sedative, the thing to knock you out, tell them
Speaker 3: to tell you before you get it, so you know,
Speaker 3: and you can feel the difference.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, and then oh so you tried to hold
Speaker 4: onto it so you can enjoy the drugs.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Yes, So it's the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: I just had to have a prostate exam. I guess
Speaker 4: that's what I meant, because I guess you can't really
Speaker 4: have those feelings unless you're awake. And it didn't It
Speaker 4: wasn't really for me.
Speaker 3: You didn't like them.
Speaker 4: No, I'm glad to have it done to make sure
Speaker 4: my prostate is correct. But while it was happening, I
Speaker 4: wasn't like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh god, So no, comm then that's.
Speaker 4: Checked that on his chart. He was like, did you come,
Speaker 4: I said, not checked it on his chart? All right, Sorry,
Speaker 4: We've already made Joelle cover her face twice and we
Speaker 4: just started. I really did miss you, guys. It's been
Speaker 4: too long an audience. I'm so sorry it took us
Speaker 4: so long. Donald was making a new what's soon to
Speaker 4: be I'm sure a giant comedic hit.
Speaker 3: I totally hope. So we were in the middle of
Speaker 3: we were in the middle of an episode when things
Speaker 3: changed in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are in a strike. For those who don't know,
Speaker 4: the Writer's Guild has put their pencils, their figurative pencils
Speaker 4: down until they get a fair deal from the studios,
Speaker 4: and so nothing new can be written. People are still
Speaker 4: doing shooting things that have been written, but that may
Speaker 4: come to a halt if the Director's Guild goes on strike,
Speaker 4: which will know eminently and then he need any moment,
Speaker 4: right joelletly.
Speaker 3: You guys, there isn't the negotiations is up today? Is
Speaker 3: it today?
Speaker 4: I don't know when it's up. I think they're at
Speaker 4: the table now. What's interesting is that the writers aren't
Speaker 4: even talking to the A m TP. Is that it
Speaker 4: too well a belief whatever it is the Producers Association
Speaker 4: of all the studios, it's not a producer associating, it's
Speaker 4: all the studios collectively, because the writers aren't are on
Speaker 4: strike and they're not even negotiating with with with this
Speaker 4: with the streamers and the studios because they're now trying
Speaker 4: to negotiate with the directors. And by the way, whether
Speaker 4: directors get a deal or they don't sag. The Screen
Speaker 4: Actors Guild is up in June.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: So this is going to be a waterfall.
Speaker 3: And uh it is like the perfect storm, dude.
Speaker 4: It's in the worst, in the worst, in the worst scenario.
Speaker 4: Nothing's getting made this year. That's that's that involves Union Writers,
Speaker 4: Directors and Actors d g.
Speaker 5: A is at the table right now the d GA.
Speaker 4: It'll really be interesting to see what happens with the
Speaker 4: d G a UH. That will be a bell weather
Speaker 4: for things to come, because you can still continue to
Speaker 4: film things now if they're if they've been written. But
Speaker 4: if the directors go on strike, you can't make anything right.
Speaker 3: Well, didn't they what about the UH like Grips and
Speaker 3: Electric and all of them, didn't they go?
Speaker 4: They're not.
Speaker 3: Isn't their contract up to their's.
Speaker 5: Is coming up shortly and they're marching. A lot of
Speaker 5: them are marching with the writers right now.
Speaker 4: So I went that.
Speaker 3: I went.
Speaker 4: I went in and walk the picket line around Disney
Speaker 4: with Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence and the and the
Speaker 4: shrinking UH writing team. It was really cool. And by
Speaker 4: the way, if you want to support people, you don't
Speaker 4: need to be in these guilds to go march with
Speaker 4: them and strike with them. There's no requirement if you
Speaker 4: just want to be I saw someone posted something like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I'm a writer, I'm an aspiring writer, but I'm not
Speaker 4: in the guild yet. Am I allowed to? Of course,
Speaker 4: you're everyone is welcome. They want to make as much
Speaker 4: of a I should keep saying, Hey, I'm in the
Speaker 4: Writers Guild. We want to make as much a ruckus
Speaker 4: as as possible. And if you're confused about what this
Speaker 4: is all about, I really want it in the shortest form.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say that obviously everything has changed
Speaker 4: in the industry, but the way that writers are paid
Speaker 4: has not been changed at all. And I wanted to
Speaker 4: mention that this.
Speaker 3: Actually, it's actually been it's actually it's actually gotten harder
Speaker 3: for writers to get paid because of the way the
Speaker 3: format has changed so rapidly. Actually within the last ten
Speaker 3: to fifteen years.
Speaker 4: The last writer's startup since the launch of Netflix, making
Speaker 4: content that wasn't just sending out DVDs was really the
Speaker 4: first big.
Speaker 3: Right, But that if you remember, the last writers strike
Speaker 3: was about DVDs actually and getting residuals on DVDs. What's
Speaker 3: interesting to me is this, And I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: be political, I'm not trying to to start up.
Speaker 4: Speak your mind, friend, this is your podcast.
Speaker 3: But look, okay, So when the DVD thing was coming up,
Speaker 3: the studios knew that in a few years the DVD
Speaker 3: would be the way of the DODO and nobody would
Speaker 3: be using DVDs anymore, right, But they still held out
Speaker 3: for ninety days, dude, for ninety days.
Speaker 4: Well, in a lot of ways, you know, the cynics
Speaker 4: would say, in a lot of ways, they have nothing
Speaker 4: to lose, They have plenty of content. They can just
Speaker 4: you know, force the writers to wait it out. And
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's really a big mess. It's not
Speaker 4: an easy solft. I wanted to recommend a podcast that
Speaker 4: really explains it very well if you're curious. It's the
Speaker 4: New York Times podcast The Daily, which is just a
Speaker 4: wonderful podcast. But I even I, who know a lot,
Speaker 4: because basically, Bill, who's mister know Everything, explained it to
Speaker 4: me very well. But even this was clear than Bill.
Speaker 4: It's the title. It was six days ago on The Daily.
Speaker 4: It's called how Streaming Hurt Hollywood Writers, And it really
Speaker 4: breaks down the whole strike and the whole conundrum and
Speaker 4: quagmire of it all if you're curious as to what's
Speaker 4: going on. And also I want to just say, don't
Speaker 4: conflate this strike when you think of celebrity, famous writers
Speaker 4: like Bill and Shonda Rhymes and JJ Abrams. This is
Speaker 4: not about those people. This is about the young people
Speaker 4: coming up and people who live check to check on
Speaker 4: being a writer, and it certainly it's certainly about the
Speaker 4: next wave of writers and whether this will be a
Speaker 4: viable career path where someone can make a decent living
Speaker 4: wage doing it, you know, And let you know, Bill
Speaker 4: said it in a really good way. He goes, unless
Speaker 4: you've got rich parents, they're going to help you out,
Speaker 4: this won't be a viable career path for young writers
Speaker 4: at all. Right, And I think you got to think
Speaker 4: of it like that, right, Joelle.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. I mean, we've already seen this sort
Speaker 5: of happen in the entertainment writing space. So if you
Speaker 5: give your magazine or newspapers, et cetera, if you look
Speaker 5: into a lot of the people who are working and
Speaker 5: have made a career, a lot of them either had
Speaker 5: partners who were willing to support them through lean time
Speaker 5: so they can sue a career, or were born into
Speaker 5: wealth and had enough money that you know, they could
Speaker 5: pursue their passion. And it really sucks if you're born
Speaker 5: outside of that circle and this is your passion and
Speaker 5: your drive, and you have the talent and you just
Speaker 5: can't do enough to make you know, it's expensive to
Speaker 5: live in la And I think a lot of people
Speaker 5: when they see the numbers, they're like, oh, that's so
Speaker 5: much money. I could you know, live very well off that.
Speaker 5: And you have to got to look at real estate
Speaker 5: out here, got to look at what groceries cost.
Speaker 4: It's it's also just like being just like being an actor,
Speaker 4: a starting out actor, not someone's who's been successful. Everything
Speaker 4: is in fits and spurts. So you might make a
Speaker 4: you might make a big check because you sold a script,
Speaker 4: but then that's gonna last. That's gonna last to you
Speaker 4: a year.
Speaker 3: And so well, what was great about the old days
Speaker 3: was if you did have a show on the air.
Speaker 3: Let's say you had a show that ran for two
Speaker 3: years or three years and it's sold into syndication, you
Speaker 3: would get residuals on the show. Now, because of streaming,
Speaker 3: there's no such thing as resi. So you you get
Speaker 3: paid up front, and so whatever it is that you
Speaker 3: get paid upfront has to last after the show is gone,
Speaker 3: when you're swimming back out into the ocean trying to
Speaker 3: catch that next wave.
Speaker 4: We were when we were coming up on Scrubs, the
Speaker 4: television show. It would then when you had a hit show,
Speaker 4: like we were lucky enough to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: You would then get syndicated. So when you saw it
Speaker 4: in reruns, remember reruns on like actual television, that was
Speaker 4: that was extra residual money for for the cast. That
Speaker 4: doesn't exist anymore for writers or actors.
Speaker 3: So what if you only had one show ever in
Speaker 3: your life, one show, and it was a span of
Speaker 3: three years, and let's say you didn't see the incoming
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, that at least helped out. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, look next year when the show runs for
Speaker 3: wherever it is on w p i X in New York,
Speaker 3: I know, I got a little bit of money coming
Speaker 3: my way while I hustle and try to make it
Speaker 3: to the next thing. Right now, it's like, once the
Speaker 3: show is over, you have to get another job in
Speaker 3: order to sustain whatever it is your living space is,
Speaker 3: however it is you're living.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The other problem on the studio side is that it's
Speaker 4: not really I mean, both Daniel and Joel please correct
Speaker 4: me if you know more about this than I do.
Speaker 4: The streamers seem to be out of humans. I mean
Speaker 4: they anyone who's going to sign up for their product
Speaker 4: has kind of signed up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My understanding is that a couple of things have happened.
Speaker 5: So one, everybody has a streaming service now and so
Speaker 5: it's no longer the like, you know, oh I have
Speaker 5: Netflix in Hulu and that was enough and I'll pay
Speaker 5: my like twenty bucks a month or whatever. And so
Speaker 5: there's been a lot of like people dropping out of
Speaker 5: one to join the other, or they're only coming on
Speaker 5: to watch that one show they really love and then leaving,
Speaker 5: and so it definitely seems like they've sort of there's
Speaker 5: not much more to offer. He knows exactly what you're
Speaker 5: getting out of streaming service. You know what shows, you
Speaker 5: know what their brand is, and so yeah, there's and
Speaker 5: you know, they didn't build in a revenue source to
Speaker 5: keep growing, unfortunately, and so that's been a real struggle
Speaker 5: for them. And while why you'll definitely see more ads
Speaker 5: coming in, Like I think, yeah.
Speaker 4: Someone told me that Wholo's showing ads even if you
Speaker 4: have a subscription. Someone told me, yeah, you got I
Speaker 4: have like what I do too. But this person must
Speaker 4: have had had a plan, were they.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's like a third one in between, and I
Speaker 5: know Hulu and Disney just announced they're going to go
Speaker 5: into one one service by the emerging Yeah, what.
Speaker 4: About HBO MAX calling themselves Max is like the great brand?
Speaker 4: Why do you ship that out of the title?
Speaker 3: I don't want to Max and Max is associated with Cinemax,
Speaker 3: which is associated with Skinemax, which is also like Max.
Speaker 3: Come on, like for real, HBO was straight up like
Speaker 3: that was forever, that was forever Home Box Office, yo'
Speaker 3: they have.
Speaker 4: I heard the reason I heard the grapevine was that
Speaker 4: they want to expand and be for all ages and
Speaker 4: that John Q. Citizen thinks of HBO as an adult brand.
Speaker 5: Right, which is fair. I mean, they got Harry Potter,
Speaker 5: they have Sesame Street. I still think it's foolish. If
Speaker 5: you had wanted to find a space, you have Discovery
Speaker 5: right there. Yeah, Discovery Kids, which is a channel A
Speaker 5: lot of children are familiar with it. If they're not,
Speaker 5: you can absolutely branch it out.
Speaker 3: Aren't those all Disney products? Now?
Speaker 4: They're Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, yeah, so it's Warner Brother's Discovery now, and
Speaker 5: so they have like Geral Discovery right everything. You have
Speaker 5: an endless like space, and you could have left the
Speaker 5: thing that was working well because as a person who
Speaker 5: likes HBO, you know there's many of us. It's weird
Speaker 5: to be like, okay and now they'll be kids. Content
Speaker 5: makes me that's a confusing landscape to try to navigate
Speaker 5: when you already have something clean that was working.
Speaker 4: That they have all the testing and they have all
Speaker 4: the data. But to me, it's like you losing your
Speaker 4: like legacy amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you got to go after all of the money, man,
Speaker 3: I mean, let's let's keep it one high. It really is.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, it is all about
Speaker 3: the money. The reason why they're picketing outside of Disney,
Speaker 3: the reason why you got on that line. It's all
Speaker 3: about the money. And the only way you can make
Speaker 3: more money is if you can find more subscribers, and
Speaker 3: so you gotta Now.
Speaker 4: I get it, Like I said, this is this decision
Speaker 4: wasn't made outside of nine thousand test audiences. I'm sure,
Speaker 4: I just think. But I'm sure you thought, why would
Speaker 4: you get rid of the name we all grew up on?
Speaker 3: Like I thought that was crazy too, But I get
Speaker 3: I mean, I totally get it, but I thought I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't believe they chose Max, Like, isn't there
Speaker 3: another version of HBO that could you know what I
Speaker 3: mean like there was HBO Go, there was HBO Max, there.
Speaker 1: Was h went Away, HBO Go, HBO Gone.
Speaker 4: I'm the HBO Gone. That's funny.
Speaker 3: Yah.
Speaker 4: I like the HBO brand. I think he's a great brand.
Speaker 4: I love their shows. I think they make great shows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you really think about it, if you really
Speaker 3: think about it, in order to launch a successful streaming service,
Speaker 3: you have to have a good show. You know, Disney
Speaker 3: had the Mandalorian. I don't know what HBOS was. Uh.
Speaker 5: If you're the back half of Dragons to launch games
Speaker 5: right right?
Speaker 3: Apple Plus had all of those shows that signed Oprah. Right,
Speaker 3: you have to have something great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Apple take.
Speaker 3: Off right now that you change your name to Max,
Speaker 3: what is your launching what's your launching platform? Now? What's
Speaker 3: it gonna be?
Speaker 5: Series?
Speaker 4: They they'll have everything. I mean it's Warner Brothers and
Speaker 4: I mean they're gonna have extraordinary stuff. I just don't
Speaker 4: understand the name change, but I think we understand it
Speaker 4: on paper. It's just we grew up with HBO.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I remember the music did it?
Speaker 4: Sometimes?
Speaker 3: The long opening was it?
Speaker 4: You never knew when they were going to drop the
Speaker 4: long open open, right, But the long.
Speaker 3: Opening was stop motion animation, too amazing, dropped through the
Speaker 3: freaking whole Nabors.
Speaker 4: For those of you listening who are who are too young,
Speaker 4: go I'm sure it's on YouTube. Go up, look the law.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it would be under, like the
Speaker 4: old school long HBO opening, and you never knew when
Speaker 4: you chose something. You just you didn't actually didn't choose.
Speaker 4: It was just on. When it was on, you didn't
Speaker 4: know if you were gonna get short or long. But
Speaker 4: when it was long, like, oh, this must be good,
Speaker 4: this must be a banger.
Speaker 3: This is gonna.
Speaker 4: They chose.
Speaker 3: Long open. It's the premiere.
Speaker 4: It's the premiere premiere.
Speaker 3: It's premiere in the night on HBO.
Speaker 4: You guys watching Succession.
Speaker 3: My wife loves it.
Speaker 1: We just started. Stephanie and I are fire.
Speaker 3: That opening, that opening is fire. That fire is.
Speaker 4: Mitchell's who wrote the theme? Mm that theme is It's
Speaker 4: so good. I want to I want to listen to
Speaker 4: on a remix with like.
Speaker 3: I was sitting there just go like this yo, yeah,
Speaker 3: nig us kick it like all day long.
Speaker 4: I really think that someone needs to put a beat
Speaker 4: on that on that theme song because it's fire.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: That that's out there on that's go on TikTok hip
Speaker 1: hop Succession.
Speaker 4: Oh really, I'm sure, but.
Speaker 5: You know, fans, if you want to send us your
Speaker 5: remix versions.
Speaker 4: Fans, please send us your Succession theme song remixes. I
Speaker 4: don't go to the clurb, but if I was at
Speaker 4: the clurb and that came on, I'd scream with you
Speaker 4: DONALDA check you.
Speaker 5: Off before we go too far off the strike. Can
Speaker 5: I just drop? Uh? There's something called the Entertainment Community
Speaker 5: Fund used to be known as the Actors Fund. If
Speaker 5: you want to support writers that are striking, but you
Speaker 5: don't live in LA and can't join the picket line,
Speaker 5: you can donate money here. Just go drop down TV
Speaker 5: and film. They help out of work folks, help folks
Speaker 5: buy groceries. Is a really beautiful organization. And also drop
Speaker 5: the link in the show notes.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, before you say what you're gonna say, Zach,
Speaker 3: I just want to say real quick, I'm sorry to
Speaker 3: cut you off. First of all, sorry, very sorry for that,
Speaker 3: but you're absolutely right, Joelle. You know, people see actors
Speaker 3: on television and it's a very glamorous job, and it
Speaker 3: seems like it should pay the bills and pay for
Speaker 3: everyone to live. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of actors that are on your
Speaker 3: favorite shows that still kind of live. Check to check,
Speaker 3: you understand, and so and and and and it's I
Speaker 3: know it's hard to imagine that, and I know it's
Speaker 3: hard to to it's hard to fathom and understand that.
Speaker 3: But this isn't This is a reality. And it's the
Speaker 3: same thing with writers, and it's the same thing with directors.
Speaker 4: There's a guy on I'm gonna interrupt you back. There
Speaker 4: was a guy who's a writer on The Bear and
Speaker 4: he wrote a tweet thread that was like, I was
Speaker 4: nominated for writing The Bear and I was applying and
Speaker 4: rejected from a job at Target.
Speaker 5: That's real, child, man, this is negative account balance. When
Speaker 5: he accepted his.
Speaker 4: Award, yeah that's what he said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's real talk. This is but people don't know
Speaker 3: this because you look at television and you think that's
Speaker 3: it's glamorous. You know, there's lights.
Speaker 4: I think what you're trying to say, and I agree with,
Speaker 4: is that please don't conflate the stars you know, and
Speaker 4: the super successful people you know with these people who
Speaker 4: are striking even though everyone's in the same guild. This
Speaker 4: is about the future of these professions being a viable
Speaker 4: option for creative people. And also if you live in
Speaker 4: places where they shoot, you go join. You can go
Speaker 4: support these people, even if you want to bring them
Speaker 4: some pizzas or you want to go join the picket line.
Speaker 4: You might even be your future partner. Obviously, New York
Speaker 4: l A. Atlanta is where most of it's happening.
Speaker 1: Bottled water is a big one because they can bring
Speaker 1: it water next day, bring bottled water. It's hot out there,
Speaker 1: people are walking. They need that obviously, haunt your horns
Speaker 1: and support.
Speaker 3: I want where you're going, where you go. I'm going
Speaker 3: to the picket line for.
Speaker 4: What they did a singles one by the way.
Speaker 3: Zack told me I might, I might meet my.
Speaker 4: Yeah by the way by the way. And if you
Speaker 4: go there, you tell them that Zach and Donald's and
Speaker 4: Joel and Daniell sent you. By the way they did.
Speaker 4: They did. This is how they're trying to make sure
Speaker 4: everyone goes. You suppose you're required to go, but they
Speaker 4: try and give you incentives. So they said there's a
Speaker 4: singles one at Universal Studios, and it's like it's like
Speaker 4: a singles picket line.
Speaker 1: Walk around all day? Great first date.
Speaker 4: No, I just thought it was a funny concept, like
Speaker 4: they're just trying to make to make everyone turn up.
Speaker 4: They're like, okay, Wednesday at noon at Universal Lot is
Speaker 4: the singles picket line.
Speaker 3: If you if you listen, man, if you're a writer
Speaker 3: and you're just in the room all day.
Speaker 4: No, if you're gonna be, if you're gonna be, if
Speaker 4: you're gonna be strolling around in front of gates trying
Speaker 4: to stop trucks from going in, you might as well
Speaker 4: meet the love of your life.
Speaker 3: Or the love of the night. WU tak forever night.
Speaker 4: I never heard you make that up.
Speaker 3: Just now, baby, that's fun.
Speaker 4: That's good, that's funny. Donald, that's a good lyric for
Speaker 4: a song. You want to be the love of my life,
Speaker 4: but the love of the night.
Speaker 3: Bars.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy to be back on my computer. I
Speaker 4: have to thank Daniel who told me I had to
Speaker 4: put my computer down. I'm sorry you guys. Do you
Speaker 4: guys feel this with it? Your computer? You're so loyal
Speaker 4: to it, Like so much has happened, so much life
Speaker 4: is happening. I wrote a good person on it. I've
Speaker 4: written so many other things on it. I've done the
Speaker 4: entire podcast on it. And my assistant told me that
Speaker 4: the computer repairment and said that it has to go.
Speaker 4: And I was like, no, I'm asking Daniel. Daniel knows
Speaker 4: everything about computers, and I'm gonna call Daniel. We are
Speaker 4: not putting this down. And my assistant inamed Daniel talks
Speaker 4: and he gave them all the all the information, and
Speaker 4: Daniel texts me he's like, yo, dude, that computer from
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen, it's gotta go.
Speaker 3: Long ago.
Speaker 1: No, yes, in computer years.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it is okay, but this is what I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Don't got to put it down. Computers.
Speaker 3: I've seen people with older laptops, older laptops that's newer.
Speaker 4: No, but I can't get Daniel, I can't get the
Speaker 4: latest operating system because they won't.
Speaker 1: It goes like this, As your software gets newer, its
Speaker 1: ability to run on old hardware gets worse. So it's
Speaker 1: like it demands more and your computer has less, and
Speaker 1: it just like becomes this thing where it's like it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: upgrade to the new operating system and it's just making
Speaker 1: your computer run slower. Okay, So these are my last
Speaker 1: three computers right here. I keep them forever, never getting
Speaker 1: rid of the data he's got, by the way, audience.
Speaker 4: He's holding like drives that are the size of playing cards.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to do that, Danel, So I
Speaker 4: just keep the whole computer.
Speaker 3: Somewhere same here. Yes, can you please come over and
Speaker 3: pull them out of all of my laptops.
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like it's like remember short
Speaker 4: Circuit Donald. I feel like it's number five and I'm
Speaker 4: trying to live. Yeah, I feel like I'm trying to
Speaker 4: kill number five.
Speaker 3: Johnny five is a lie.
Speaker 4: Five is a lie.
Speaker 3: Johnny five is a line? Is a lie? It's like,
Speaker 3: that's like the it was the freaking roboty t.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was roboty T. Hey guys were guys and gals.
Speaker 4: We're doing our our very first live show in Seattle
Speaker 4: on the one almost exactly a month. It's almost sold out.
Speaker 4: I mean all of the I think all of the
Speaker 4: assigned seats whatever they call it, are sold out already.
Speaker 4: There is a general admission area that still has some
Speaker 4: tickets left, so please come if you're there.
Speaker 3: Ain't no party like a general admission party. That's where
Speaker 3: the real stuff happens. Yeah, that's where they be cooking
Speaker 3: the sausage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where you can you could probably you could
Speaker 4: probably work on someone in the general mission.
Speaker 3: Okay, not only not only not only that, you could barbecue.
Speaker 4: And we don't want you. We don't want you.
Speaker 1: We don't think the thrilling. It's not a tailgate, it's
Speaker 1: not no we forgiveness than as week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we don't want you. We don't want people.
Speaker 4: Bring a habachies please. It's it is a show.
Speaker 3: It's get hungry.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a really good show. The four
Speaker 4: of us are going to be there. There's lots of
Speaker 4: surprises planned.
Speaker 3: There are. I'm surprised that you said there are.
Speaker 4: Well I'm gonna tell you what some of the surprises, Daniel.
Speaker 4: You can bleep them.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to we all want to know.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, Dan will bleep this. The first surprise
Speaker 4: is that.
Speaker 3: Just how are you going to bleep that Outnel? Leave
Speaker 3: that out? Daniel?
Speaker 4: One long, deep, one long beep.
Speaker 3: The first one is.
Speaker 5: The second one.
Speaker 4: The second one isn't confirmed. Do you want me to
Speaker 4: tell you? But Daniel, I have to keep it of course.
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 5: Uh, Oh my god, what a wonderful thing that could
Speaker 5: happen as surprise.
Speaker 4: I need to know this is all just potential, So
Speaker 4: don't get too excited.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'm gonna tamper it down.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 5: Right now I'm excited and I wanted to happen.
Speaker 3: If that happens, this would be oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Anyway, the point is audience, it's gonna be fun. And obviously,
Speaker 4: if this works and we feel like we did a
Speaker 4: good job and the audience is happy, we're brainstorming about
Speaker 4: doing more of them. Right, we're brainstorming.
Speaker 3: How about this? We're brainstorming about the possibilities of what
Speaker 3: would come next? How about that?
Speaker 4: Where do you want to go?
Speaker 3: I have always wanted to take the podcast to Australia.
Speaker 4: I know we haven't in Australia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always wanted to do that ever since always
Speaker 3: dream Boy went on that television show with the with
Speaker 3: the fake doctor's real friends Onesie with the bald head.
Speaker 3: Oh Mitch, yeah, when Mitch, Yeah, Life's of Mitchy Mitch.
Speaker 3: I knew they'n and there. We need to go to Australia.
Speaker 4: It could be a lot of fun. But we'll start
Speaker 4: with the United States of America because that's easiest. I
Speaker 4: don't think the tour bus with our faces on the
Speaker 4: side is going to be doable.
Speaker 3: But what about the UK? Can? Can?
Speaker 4: That's all possible because you know what.
Speaker 3: My favorite cities are. I have two favorite cities. London, Yeah, hm,
Speaker 3: it's great city. Toronto, that's one of my favorite cities. Donald,
Speaker 3: We'll meet some Toronto.
Speaker 4: The truth is is that we elarny know it's a
Speaker 4: draw because it's close to being sold out and we're
Speaker 4: a month and we're a month out, and hopefully people
Speaker 4: in Seattle hearing that there's still a few tickets left
Speaker 4: will sell it out when they hear this on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: But what if you live in New York, would you
Speaker 3: travel all the way to Seattle to see it?
Speaker 4: There are people traveling. I've seen people right on my
Speaker 4: socials people that are traveling.
Speaker 1: I've gotten some Instagram dms.
Speaker 3: Have you gotten anybody from like the UK that was like, yo,
Speaker 3: fuck it, I'm.
Speaker 4: Going No, But I had no.
Speaker 3: Imagine what are you getting your visa for? I need
Speaker 3: to go see.
Speaker 5: A question we asked during the shows, like who figure
Speaker 5: out who came from furthest away that.
Speaker 4: Would be how we should do that. By the way
Speaker 4: we're doing it, We're gonna do a Q and A
Speaker 4: as part of it. So uh, those of you who
Speaker 4: are coming, think of good questions. It's gonna be fun
Speaker 4: and it will always be fun because it's our first
Speaker 4: time doing this, and I just think it's gonna We're
Speaker 4: gonna have a blast. Donald and I. I've never done
Speaker 4: stand up and doing this show is kind of like
Speaker 4: our chance to do our own. It's the closest thing
Speaker 4: Donald and I are going to get to being a
Speaker 4: stand up comedian. And we're doing the musical episode. Some
Speaker 4: of you asked, why do it again, because we don't
Speaker 4: want to invite eighteen hundred people to a theater and
Speaker 4: and uh and do like just whatever episode happens to
Speaker 4: come up. We want to do one of the great episodes,
Speaker 4: which we both love. And also there's a chance we
Speaker 4: might sing a tune or two that you can be unbelieved.
Speaker 3: Donald, Yeah, there's a there's a there's a there's a
Speaker 3: chance that what Zach said could happen.
Speaker 4: The facts about.
Speaker 3: No, no, you can't do it now, I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just warming up. You can't do it now?
Speaker 4: All right, let's get into the show. Let's I'll kind of.
Speaker 6: Say we made about a bunch of said he's a stormy.
Speaker 3: So ya.
Speaker 4: Ya.
Speaker 1: It's so good to be back. You honored me.
Speaker 4: I really just missed you, guys.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time.
Speaker 4: It has been so long Donald you were doing your show.
Speaker 3: Do you know how long it's been.
Speaker 4: We did two shows without you. You probably didn't listen
Speaker 4: to them, but we did two shows without you.
Speaker 3: About a good person.
Speaker 4: Yeah. We did a one with Florence Pugh, the legendary actress,
Speaker 4: and we did one with my therapist, doctor Fader, who.
Speaker 3: Was, uh holy you got episodes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a good one. They were both.
Speaker 1: Doctor Fader was a legend.
Speaker 4: Doctor Fader was great. Right, we should have him back Florence.
Speaker 3: Of course he's not the Penis doctor though, right.
Speaker 4: No, I do need doctor Penis back, though, Joelle, can
Speaker 4: you book him? I have some penis questions?
Speaker 5: Have Penis?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 4: I have prostate questions because uh, just get an expert
Speaker 4: on his book, Doctor Penis, and say, just mentioned to
Speaker 4: doctor Penis that the area is going to be well,
Speaker 4: all areas, but but the prostate. We're going to focus
Speaker 4: on the prostate.
Speaker 1: Focusing on the prostate, an area that he made not
Speaker 1: be expert.
Speaker 4: You know, he is urologists. That's the prostates, their thing,
Speaker 4: is it?
Speaker 3: I thought it was only the shaft that was their thing.
Speaker 4: No, you think their job stops at the shaft?
Speaker 3: I thought, doctor, I thought, just right, that's right. I thought.
Speaker 3: I thought there was a young doctor, and then there
Speaker 3: was a tip doctor. Then there was a big ball.
Speaker 1: A cubist mons doctor, my job, My job was a doctor.
Speaker 4: All I do is I just do tank. That would
Speaker 4: be a boring job. It's not enough taints enough work.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: The doctor was just all I do is shaft. When
Speaker 4: second you get to pubist mons balls, I'm out.
Speaker 3: What about tip? No, just shaft.
Speaker 4: I once had to have a camera. Did I say,
Speaker 4: this stuck up my down my shaft?
Speaker 1: How was that?
Speaker 4: And the door? The doctor said? The doctor said, I
Speaker 4: know the tip. I was like, what about the rest?
Speaker 4: It's horrible, And I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't
Speaker 4: recommend it. It's horrible. Imagine a camera, and this is
Speaker 4: not a small camera. This was like a VHS camcord.
Speaker 1: It's like they're filming a nineties music video.
Speaker 4: Say still talking about your willis Sorr.
Speaker 3: It's like a whole group of people that are like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck is a VHS?
Speaker 4: VHS is so large? He said, I don't know our
Speaker 4: audience is that they.
Speaker 3: Know there are people that don't know what a fucking
Speaker 3: floppy disc is.
Speaker 4: I know these two didn't these two all right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: I really got dragged for that on Twitter because I
Speaker 1: posted a picture. They're like, Daniel, you didn't know what
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 4: I was like, your mister computer guy, bro, I know
Speaker 4: what it is.
Speaker 1: I just never used them alas, I'll take my dragging.
Speaker 1: That's fine, all right, take it.
Speaker 4: You can drag down when the Techi computer guy doesn't
Speaker 4: know what a floppy all right? This was written and
Speaker 4: directed by Bill Lawrence, and it's called my ABC's and
Speaker 4: it's the It's the Sesame Street episode of Scrubs.
Speaker 5: So good.
Speaker 3: Now I have a question I didn't get a chance
Speaker 3: to open.
Speaker 4: I didn't even open Scrubs Wiki, so I gotta open it.
Speaker 3: Are there are two versions of this? Is there? The
Speaker 3: Sesame Street and then the Muppet version? Did we have
Speaker 3: one where Piggy and Kermit and Fozzy were on the show? Also?
Speaker 4: I think that was a special we did. I think
Speaker 4: we did, like as we did a Muppets movie. We
Speaker 4: did cameos in a Muppets movie. Is that right?
Speaker 3: What it was? I wasn't in that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were.
Speaker 3: All of you guys were except for me.
Speaker 4: Why didn't you do it? You don't like them?
Speaker 3: Now? I think I was doing a movie at the
Speaker 3: time or some shit.
Speaker 4: Oh. I think we got asked to do it and
Speaker 4: it was, you know, an ABC sort of crossover thing. Maybe.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is but this is the Sesame Street episode.
Speaker 4: Yes here, I'm pulling up scrubs wikie for some from data.
Speaker 4: This is episode five of season eight. It aired on
Speaker 4: January twenty seventh, two thousand and nine, and it has
Speaker 4: all the interns. Azz plays a very big part in
Speaker 4: this episode. Oh, Josh Rayden sings the acoustic can you
Speaker 4: tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
Speaker 3: He sings the melancholic version of it will kick you
Speaker 3: in your heart?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it was.
Speaker 3: It's like I lost old ass motherfucker who wants to
Speaker 3: just be a kid again. Yes, can tell me how again?
Speaker 4: Okay? Here it is Donald in two thousand and two
Speaker 4: most most but not Donald Faison of the main Scrubs
Speaker 4: cast appeared as their Scrubs characters in quote, it's a
Speaker 4: very merry Muppet Christmas movie.
Speaker 3: How come THEYDA and asked Black Scrubs to be in that?
Speaker 4: Oh my yuess, well it sounds like you were doing
Speaker 4: a movie.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll see two thousand and what two thousand and two? Yeah,
Speaker 3: let me look that up.
Speaker 4: Zach Braff and Donald Faison appeared in episodes of Sesame Street.
Speaker 4: Faison held a recurring role in the early nineties I did,
Speaker 4: and Braff appeared in a twenty fifteen episode explaining the
Speaker 4: word anxiety. It's very funny. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 4: go on the youtubes and look up my name Anxiety
Speaker 4: and Sesame Street.
Speaker 3: This episode was It had some moments. I don't think
Speaker 3: anyone has ever seen the Muppets this way before. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we want they were one well other than Oscar to
Speaker 3: Grouch who was in the trash. Can I mean that
Speaker 3: joke about I know what's wrong? I think I figured
Speaker 3: out what's wrong with you. Give it to me straight, Doc,
Speaker 3: you gotta hand up you.
Speaker 4: Go inside of you. Well, this makes sense. This bit
Speaker 4: of trivia makes sense because I was confused about the
Speaker 4: story sequencing because this felt like it was going back
Speaker 4: a little bit, and.
Speaker 3: This felt like it was the first episode as.
Speaker 4: It does Donald. And also there's a pun in the
Speaker 4: my ABC's because this is the first year we were
Speaker 4: on ABC, so that was my ABC's, but also the
Speaker 4: pun being its sesame street. But here we go. This
Speaker 4: episode was originally planned to be the first episode of
Speaker 4: season eight, which explains some inconsistencies in the story, such
Speaker 4: as JD being surprised that Denise's abrupt bedside manner or
Speaker 4: her being or her being surprised at being called Joe
Speaker 4: despite that nickname already having been used, and everyone in
Speaker 4: the hospital commenting on JD's new beard. In addition, JD.
Speaker 3: A through story through the whole episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah chicks digging his beard making more sense as he's
Speaker 4: meant to be dating Elliott again at this point. That
Speaker 4: was I was confused by all that, But this is
Speaker 4: this is.
Speaker 3: It's it's well, it's not out of order. It's the
Speaker 3: order that they decided to air the show. You know,
Speaker 3: that really fucks up the show sometimes, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? I know that I know that Bill was
Speaker 3: saying that Scrubs. He tried to make it So Scrubs
Speaker 3: was one of those shows where you could tune in
Speaker 3: whenever you wanted to, and it didn't you didn't have
Speaker 3: to follow any storyline. If you tuned in, you could
Speaker 3: easily be caught up in it right because there was
Speaker 3: no linear story line through the whole thing. And I
Speaker 3: feel like with certain seasons, especially like this season and
Speaker 3: you know, the season that Keith and Elliott break up
Speaker 3: and everything like that, when it was out of order,
Speaker 3: it kind of fox up the rhythm of how you want,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And so this definitely felt
Speaker 3: really weird. It was like, why is everybody so caught
Speaker 3: up on his beard? I just remember the whole Joe
Speaker 3: sequence coming this way, starting this way, and then us
Speaker 3: going into Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 4: Because it's already been discussed, like we've seen we've seen
Speaker 4: this Joe is Cold thing before. It's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, did you hit record on your quick Time? Donald?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Did you hit record?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You said you've been recording. Wait, yeah, because he records
Speaker 1: on the zoom, he's not using quick Time?
Speaker 4: Did you record on your zoom?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I fucked up, Daniel. I got so excited to see
Speaker 4: you guys. I didn't hit it, hit it before you
Speaker 4: hit it.
Speaker 1: Is the quality set too high or maximum?
Speaker 4: I'm so disappointed, dude, I'm rusty. I got so excited.
Speaker 1: If you want my changing it to maximum, that would
Speaker 1: be great.
Speaker 4: Daniel, I really let us down.
Speaker 3: It's okay, you totally let everybody down. America so mad
Speaker 3: at you right now?
Speaker 4: No, but Daniel, I feel sad about this.
Speaker 3: I know what they're really upset. They're upset in Australia.
Speaker 3: Australia is like this.
Speaker 4: Listen, audience, audience, you're gonna notice that my sound quality
Speaker 4: is going to get good.
Speaker 3: Right the UK is pissed, audience.
Speaker 4: My sound quality is gonna get good right now. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I was so excited to see these guys like a
Speaker 4: little fucking kid that either faces their face.
Speaker 3: Got no kids, like a little fucking.
Speaker 1: Kids, like someone who does have kids.
Speaker 4: And when I saw them, I was bouncing and I
Speaker 4: didn't hit record on my quick time down. I feel
Speaker 4: like I let you down. I let the audience down.
Speaker 4: But audience, don't sound much better now?
Speaker 1: You sound great, silky smooth.
Speaker 4: Now, Dann, will my sound effects have come through or not?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, good? Yes, all the show all right, so Kelso
Speaker 4: doesn't work again. This is reintroducing something we already know
Speaker 4: because guess what it was supposed to be the premiere episode.
Speaker 4: Kelso gets muffins every day at the hospital and doesn't
Speaker 4: um it doesn't He gets free muffins for life and
Speaker 4: hangs out every day at.
Speaker 3: The coffee Bucks. Yeah, coffee Bucks. And and he's still
Speaker 3: he still is a mean person.
Speaker 4: He's not. This is what we know about Kelso. He's
Speaker 4: still mean. He has no life outside of the hospital. Still,
Speaker 4: he gets free muffins from a guy named Donnie, and
Speaker 4: that's his existence. At the beginning of season eight.
Speaker 3: We learned that Cox hates Deal or No Deal. Yes, wow,
Speaker 3: now I have no clue. I'm just he starts the
Speaker 3: episode off Dealer No Deal in turns raise their hands,
Speaker 3: get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 4: I assume it's because the show must have been very
Speaker 4: hot at the moment, and I don't think Cox likes
Speaker 4: things that are culturally very zeitgeisty. I think he hates that.
Speaker 3: Why does he hate Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 4: I think he hates Hugh Jackman because Hugh Jackman at
Speaker 4: the time and obviously still was such a popular movie
Speaker 4: star and he was good at everything, that that Cox
Speaker 4: is an alpha male, was jealous of the fact that
Speaker 4: Hugh Jackman could do anything and everything. He could be
Speaker 4: the star of a musical, he could be a tough
Speaker 4: guy in the movies.
Speaker 3: And do you think Hugh Jackman took offense to any
Speaker 3: of this?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure he didn't love it. Who the hell
Speaker 4: wants to have a joke on the show be like
Speaker 4: I hate that person?
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, except everybody on the show was like, you're
Speaker 5: crazy for that opinion.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, but I still think you're not, like, yay, yay,
Speaker 4: the character on a TV show that's popular hates me.
Speaker 1: Look, nobody likes catching strays on TV.
Speaker 3: It's just like, yes, you know what, we all know
Speaker 3: this for a fact.
Speaker 1: That's just true.
Speaker 4: We called it straight. I was watching the Emmys and
Speaker 4: Family do we talk about this? The Family Guy characters
Speaker 4: were hosting the Emmys. They were doing the opening monologue.
Speaker 4: Obviously it was a it was an animation video. But
Speaker 4: I'm like Donald and I like tune in, like time
Speaker 4: for the Emmys. Here we go and they're singing a
Speaker 4: song and and the lyric was one of the It
Speaker 4: was dissing. It was like a roast, but it was, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was dissing me. The song was. And on NBC
Speaker 4: we have the lovable Zach Braff who reminds us that
Speaker 4: a sitcom doesn't have to make us laugh. Come on.
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, I just sat down
Speaker 4: to watch the Emmys.
Speaker 3: That is like straight up shot.
Speaker 4: And I remember, like, WHOA do I watch the rest
Speaker 4: of the Emmys.
Speaker 3: God, yeah, he wasn't a fan. Ude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, McFarlane wasn't a fan. I mean he he did
Speaker 4: that whole white Scrubs, black Scrubs thing.
Speaker 3: It's got some great He's cool outside, it's cool outside.
Speaker 1: But he was so nice.
Speaker 3: It's so nice when I'm.
Speaker 4: Well, I think, I don't know that he ever even
Speaker 4: watched the show. I just knew that we were popular
Speaker 4: and he loved taking digs at us.
Speaker 3: That's all right.
Speaker 5: You caught a positive stray on The Great North, which
Speaker 5: is a new Fox animated like family sitcom style show,
Speaker 5: where one of the characters was describing something they were like,
Speaker 5: I can't remember the exact quote, was like it's luminescent.
Speaker 5: They're like, like, Zach brast smile. I was like, that's.
Speaker 3: So so sweet.
Speaker 4: Second, another positive stray I caught was on thirty Rock,
Speaker 4: which at its height, which I loved, And Kenneth sneaks
Speaker 4: on to Conan's set and pretends and when no one's there,
Speaker 4: and he's sitting on the couch like he's and he's
Speaker 4: imagining he's a guest, and he does this whole thing
Speaker 4: about why, yes, Conan, my career has taken off. My
Speaker 4: roommate Zach Braff and I love Ta da da Da
Speaker 4: da da. And this fantasy was that we were roommates. Amazing, amazing,
Speaker 4: all right, So a these this, this is Azas is
Speaker 4: big introduction I think into the show, or I know
Speaker 4: he's has he appeared another one. I forgot.
Speaker 3: He has appeared in other ones, but this is the
Speaker 3: this was meant to be meant.
Speaker 4: To be his introduction. Yeah, and he says wah, which
Speaker 4: I don't really get, but that's like he's saying.
Speaker 7: Wah when whenever, Yeah, whenever an intern because the intern
Speaker 7: got because Katie got roasted by doctor Cox.
Speaker 3: He swah because he was sick of her being the
Speaker 3: know it all in turn.
Speaker 4: Right, I didn't think it was did you think it
Speaker 4: was funny?
Speaker 3: Well, it's to pay off for the end of the
Speaker 3: it's to pay off for the end of the show.
Speaker 4: So when I know, but I think, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: I think he's is funny. I just didn't think, whoa
Speaker 4: it was funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I mean Cox was pretty hard
Speaker 3: up on you Stone.
Speaker 4: Were you high when you watched it?
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, bro.
Speaker 4: I thought you'd take a weed break. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Nigga were on strike? You forever? Forever?
Speaker 4: You ran to that fucking men's store, isn't he?
Speaker 3: There was like we strike and I was like, we striking?
Speaker 4: Did Donald? Donald ran past seven picking lines to get
Speaker 4: to the weed.
Speaker 3: Store, walked right up and well, were on strike?
Speaker 4: Sorry, honey, we're on strike.
Speaker 3: She's like, what you're doing today? Striking?
Speaker 4: All right? Maybe is funny if you're baked. I wasn't baked.
Speaker 4: So we're all assigned interns. No, we're gonna sign. We're
Speaker 4: taking one under our wings.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're you're you're choosing of the from the bunch
Speaker 3: of interns. You're choosing one to mentor so uh uh.
Speaker 3: Elliott chooses Katie, Cox chooses Ed, and j D chooses
Speaker 3: Denise better known as Joe.
Speaker 4: He calls her Joe, which is for some reason, he
Speaker 4: thinks she reminds him of Joe from Facts of Life because.
Speaker 3: She because she's kind of like tough and a.
Speaker 4: Tomboy, a tomboy butchy tomboy.
Speaker 3: And she says, you know, she goes, you called me Joe,
Speaker 3: and he said, I thought you might like it from
Speaker 3: the Facts of Life. She goes, yeah, it's kind of butchy,
Speaker 3: which is weird because you know, I like banging dudes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she talks like that and she has no I
Speaker 4: mean almost to a cartoonish level. It bothered me a
Speaker 4: little bit, like is she even a human being? I
Speaker 4: mean she she had absolutely no I'm talking about bedside matter.
Speaker 4: She had negative bedside manners.
Speaker 3: Zero.
Speaker 4: She rudely admonished someone.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that have been a lawsuit to talk to someone
Speaker 3: that way?
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you're allowed to sue. I'm
Speaker 4: sure that any logic person would have complained, And I
Speaker 4: mean it was It was upsetting to watch. I know
Speaker 4: that that's the reaction Bill wanted from the audience, and
Speaker 4: it worked, but it also felt like whoa Like what
Speaker 4: a fucking bitch?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Who is say that?
Speaker 5: As how she's going to be redeemable at the end
Speaker 5: of the episode, because I was like, I don't like, obviously,
Speaker 5: Denise is a fun character and we enjoy.
Speaker 1: Her as a show goes on, but like Eliza.
Speaker 5: Cooper, yeah, at the end of this year, like I
Speaker 5: really don't want to see this woman again.
Speaker 3: That's so mean.
Speaker 5: This one's losing her husband.
Speaker 3: But that was that actually turned into her character trait
Speaker 3: that lasted all the way up until season nine. I
Speaker 3: don't think she's that way in season nine, but for
Speaker 3: all of season eight.
Speaker 4: But this was like, this was like so, I granted,
Speaker 4: I understand that Bill is setting her up to have
Speaker 4: an arc of redemption and everything, so you got to
Speaker 4: start off at like a really low point to give
Speaker 4: her an arc. But I was more shocked than JD was.
Speaker 4: I was like, who would ever telling a patient to
Speaker 4: turn someone off life support like that? It just felt like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, bizarre.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when it happened, it was like that's not realistic.
Speaker 3: Thought automatically, I was like.
Speaker 4: No, no, it's like it's like, yeah, to me, it
Speaker 4: felt like one step too far, like yeah, make her
Speaker 4: make her cold, but she was like mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: So the janitor pushes in Oscar the groud.
Speaker 3: Wait wish it right. Let's start having We're going back
Speaker 3: to the beginning.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool Janitor pushes in Oscar the Grouche, which begins
Speaker 4: the the the sort of template, if you will, that
Speaker 4: that the Sesame Street characters are going to be worked
Speaker 4: into JD's fantasies in this particular episode. And j D says,
Speaker 4: I grew up on the street, not the hood, the
Speaker 4: Sesame He.
Speaker 3: Goes, no, not the hood.
Speaker 4: How about how I walk into the how about I
Speaker 4: walk into the breakroom and I'm like, oh, is he's here?
Speaker 4: I wanted to watch? And then I see that you're
Speaker 4: watching Sesame Street. I'm like, oh, yes, like that's what
Speaker 4: JD plans to watch. And then Turk goes, it's a
Speaker 4: good one. The letter's J No a curly or a
Speaker 4: letter J.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna be honest with you. So when
Speaker 3: I was on Sesame Street, I actually did watch Sesame Street.
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but Sesame Street worked for a
Speaker 3: really long time. Maybe it was the music. Maybe I
Speaker 3: want to say it was the music, and also the
Speaker 3: comedy of the Muppets. If you watch the Muppets, or
Speaker 3: if you watch Sesame Street as a parent and have
Speaker 3: to sit with your child. The jokes that they do
Speaker 3: on the show fly over the kid's head and hit
Speaker 3: you right in the face, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And it's so good and it's and it's so clever,
Speaker 3: and I wish, you know, there's some footage out there,
Speaker 3: but I wish you could see what it would like
Speaker 3: working on the set with characters from these shows being
Speaker 3: on Sesame Street, just in between takes, when the actors
Speaker 3: were waiting for you know, whatever it was for sound
Speaker 3: to catch up, or for the lighting, the lights to
Speaker 3: be shifted, whatever it was. The entertainment was the puppet,
Speaker 3: the puppeteers and the puppets, and they would make you
Speaker 3: laugh so hard and would never break character until they
Speaker 3: left from under you know, until the curtain was pulled
Speaker 3: back and they left from under it. And that used
Speaker 3: to be so much fun to be a part. So
Speaker 3: when we did this and everyone got to experience that,
Speaker 3: it was really cool. And it was also good to
Speaker 3: see Carol, who's recently who passed away a few years ago.
Speaker 3: But Carol played Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird, and
Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff that I did on Sesame
Speaker 3: Street was with him, and so it was great to
Speaker 3: see him.
Speaker 4: I agree with what you said, Donald, It was so
Speaker 4: fun to watch these amazing puppeteers. And they they stay
Speaker 4: in character as the puppet once once and even when
Speaker 4: like yeah, but in between takes, they just keep chatting
Speaker 4: away in the voice and the style of the character,
Speaker 4: and you kind of forget sometimes you're just sitting there,
Speaker 4: like during downtime and just like having a conversation with Grover, like,
Speaker 4: wait a second, I'm talking about puppet.
Speaker 3: But that's what happens, man, It's so amazing. It's so amazing.
Speaker 3: And we had Grover on the show. We had Oscar
Speaker 3: and we had Grover, and.
Speaker 4: We had Elmo, and we had and I don't know
Speaker 4: who the oh the woman, well the woman, the puppet,
Speaker 4: the puppet that has the hand inside her.
Speaker 5: I don't I think she was just a Their name
Speaker 5: is x ray, which I thought was hilarious. I had
Speaker 5: to look it up because I didn't know them up either,
Speaker 5: But it's x ex space ray R A y amazing funny.
Speaker 4: That's that's a really funny joke. I'm so Jad mentions
Speaker 4: Neil and Garrett, who who are two who are two
Speaker 4: interns that are always inviting him to go rollerblading.
Speaker 3: And one of them is Kip Kroger. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys know this. Kip Kroger started off,
Speaker 3: You guys definitely don't notice. He started off in the
Speaker 3: editing department in Scrubs.
Speaker 4: As like a PA. Now one of Bill's main producers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, freak. He jumps up on stage at the freaking
Speaker 3: Golden Globes with everybody and at the end, yeah you
Speaker 3: see his head, his bald ass had and this he
Speaker 3: freaking uh lair for last.
Speaker 4: For last and tricking. He's he's Bill's company. He's like
Speaker 4: one of the top producers that a douser, and he
Speaker 4: started with with Bill when he was a PA. And
Speaker 4: now but anyway, this is his cameo. He plays one
Speaker 4: of the roller blading maybe gay.
Speaker 3: Interns, maybe gay interns, maybe.
Speaker 4: Get that's you what they're called, the maybe gay interns.
Speaker 5: His name is Neil and his writing partner right because
Speaker 5: one of them was Neil.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Part of it, sorry, there's a second part of
Speaker 4: it in that there was a writing duo who wrote
Speaker 4: some of our best episodes and they were Neil and
Speaker 4: Garrett and.
Speaker 3: Going on to do I mean, Neil is going on
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 4: Neil is one of the head writers of Shrinking with
Speaker 4: Bill and I was on the picket line with him.
Speaker 4: Neil Goldman, very very funny man. I think he occasionally
Speaker 4: listens to the podcast, do you think so? Yeah, he talks.
Speaker 3: He's gonna love that shout out you just gave him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Neil, you are so funny and talented, and Shrinking
Speaker 4: is very funny, and a lot of it is due
Speaker 4: to your genius brain.
Speaker 3: Neil. I've been saying this to you for a really
Speaker 3: long time. If the script stars, if our stars ever collide,
Speaker 3: I would love to make a show with you. Bro.
Speaker 4: He's already taken. He's the head writer of.
Speaker 3: Shut the fuck Up. I'm shooting my shot. Let shoot
Speaker 3: my shot, well shot.
Speaker 4: The scripts for Shrinking have been written already, Donald. So
Speaker 4: you're not going to be in season two?
Speaker 3: Why not? Why you saying ain't no black people and
Speaker 3: Shrinking too, ain't no guests black people?
Speaker 4: People who are the stars of the show. You should
Speaker 4: watch it. It's good tell you telling me.
Speaker 3: You're telling me, you're telling me that there ain't gonna
Speaker 3: be nobody else coming in.
Speaker 4: Do you know which one of your scrubs cast members
Speaker 4: did a cameo on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, who Bob clandessin.
Speaker 4: First of all, it's Bob clintnnon and no, Neil Flynn
Speaker 4: does it. Neil Flynn plays one of Harrison Ford's patients.
Speaker 3: And oh I saw that. Yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna take a break because I have
Speaker 4: to pee. Donald thinks that a urologist is only in
Speaker 4: charge of the shaft. Yeah, he thinks it's a different
Speaker 4: doctor when it switches to the.
Speaker 3: Balls and the tip and the tip.
Speaker 4: Oh between you think between balls and tip is is
Speaker 4: eurologists and the tip has its own specialty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the tip doctor, the shaft doctor, and the balls doctor.
Speaker 4: Listen, if you ever have to get a camera put there,
Speaker 4: if you make sure he numbs more than just the
Speaker 4: tim because I can tell you it was horrible. We'll
Speaker 4: be right back.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Zach and Donald newlyweds in house arrest.
Speaker 4: I love that guy. So it says Elliott and jd
Speaker 4: are dating again? Is I lost track? Are they dating again?
Speaker 3: Not in this episode? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, because to me the first episode they were back
Speaker 5: together at the top of the season briefly, remember you
Speaker 5: all started dating for a little bit and then get
Speaker 5: that whole right.
Speaker 3: No, No, they just was saying they were going to
Speaker 3: hang out. They were going to hang out more.
Speaker 4: I know. But there's a line in this episode where
Speaker 4: someone we or someone says Elliott and JD are dating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was confused. It's hard to keep track, especially when
Speaker 4: they're out of order. All right, And now now a
Speaker 4: Zesu's character, Ed says syphilis, syphilis when.
Speaker 3: He does the turntable spin.
Speaker 4: He used to be a DJ.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he does a simplest simpling and then does
Speaker 3: the spin, simple and simplest. That ship was fucking dude.
Speaker 4: See I wasn't high, so I was kind of like
Speaker 4: not getting it. But it was meant for stoners. I think.
Speaker 3: You don't think of Jesus comedy is meant for stoners.
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying the exact thing I'm saying. I thought
Speaker 4: these Ed slashes, these jokes were very stonery.
Speaker 3: And man, come on, you ever see a DJ doist thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen a DJ do their thing right.
Speaker 3: It's like this, fuck your sepuck yourself right, But you
Speaker 3: ever see them try to throw flares? In there. He
Speaker 3: threw the flare and with the spin simplest, simplest, simplest simple,
Speaker 3: and then he did the spin around and everything. That
Speaker 3: was hilarious.
Speaker 4: Dude, all right, little beat juggle, A beat juggle. Daniel
Speaker 4: knows the lingo because he's a DJ.
Speaker 1: I have to DJ Danel that simply must.
Speaker 4: What are your twitch in these days? Daniel? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, by the time that this comes out, I'll be
Speaker 1: twiching the new Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when is that cut?
Speaker 3: When does it drop?
Speaker 1: It comes out Friday, May twelfth, but it releases nine
Speaker 1: pm on Thursday, May eleventh, which is today. Oh shoot, when.
Speaker 3: We're recording mine, Rocco's about to lose his.
Speaker 4: Are you playing the Star Wars game? Donald?
Speaker 3: Hell? Yeah, I'm playing jediur.
Speaker 4: You said you weren't going to play, and then I
Speaker 4: saw Billboard and I brought it up to you and
Speaker 4: you're like, I'm not playing. And then my nephew, who's
Speaker 4: a video game slash Star Wars fanatics, said it's off
Speaker 4: the hook, and I said, Donald, apparently the game is
Speaker 4: off the hook, and now you love it.
Speaker 3: No, So what happened was in between the time and
Speaker 3: that I had said that, and now I had started
Speaker 3: playing Jedi Fallen Order.
Speaker 4: You hadn't been the first game.
Speaker 3: I hadn't played the first game, and so you know,
Speaker 3: Jedi Fallen Order is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It's real good.
Speaker 3: It's actually really good. The one thing that I disagree
Speaker 3: with with all of it is is that you're blocking
Speaker 3: should be able to last for really long. It shouldn't
Speaker 3: be something that's depleted. And so if you've got it
Speaker 3: on slide, yeah, yeah, but if somebody's attacking you with
Speaker 3: like major combos and stuff like that, as these characters,
Speaker 3: as the bosses do in the game, you know, it's tough. Tough. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it gets between blocking and dodging. It makes it really Difficult's.
Speaker 4: Grid to the show because no one cares about this
Speaker 4: except video game You good the one that brought it up.
Speaker 4: Please don't call me fu face. And I just want
Speaker 4: to say that I think with the video game talk,
Speaker 4: everyone likes it, doesn't mind a little sprinkle like salt Bay.
Speaker 4: But then when y'all go deep.
Speaker 3: Doesn't put a little salt on that motherfucker salt a
Speaker 3: fistful of salt.
Speaker 4: Listen. The way I feel about video games with our
Speaker 4: audience is that there's definitely a percentage that loved the chat.
Speaker 4: But we got to just do a sprinkle sprinkle of
Speaker 4: Salt Bay get out. Well, look and all five of
Speaker 4: them are going to come say hi to me.
Speaker 3: Let's get this ship out the way. We didn't talk
Speaker 3: about the Mandalorian yet, whole seasons off the series.
Speaker 4: I couldn't watch it out. I couldn't watch it. And
Speaker 4: Or ruined everything.
Speaker 3: For me, and Or ruined a lot for a lot
Speaker 3: of people.
Speaker 4: I got to say, and Or was like, oh, it's
Speaker 4: like that, and then I went back and I tried,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't for me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I disagree with you wholeheartedly, Joelle.
Speaker 4: Do you disagree with me? You're another Star Wars megafan.
Speaker 5: I don't disagree with you that and Or has set
Speaker 5: a new bar.
Speaker 3: Certainly, thank you for Star Wars. I was different.
Speaker 5: But I do think that the Mandalorian is a very
Speaker 5: man If you watch The Mandalorian like you would watch
Speaker 5: say Gun Smoke Children, that is an old Western show
Speaker 5: that was meant to go on forever. The story didn't
Speaker 5: really connect to much else. It was just like, here
Speaker 5: are these characters. They don't grow Revolve. They face similar
Speaker 5: challenges every episode. But you love that ship because it's
Speaker 5: a Western get into it. That's Mandalorian, and that has
Speaker 5: made it more enjoyable for me to watch.
Speaker 3: But once you geta once you get passed. Once you
Speaker 3: get past that, and Or is a special type of
Speaker 3: Star Wars and that, uh, it could alms. It could
Speaker 3: almost be construed as else World's you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: because of there's cursing, there's a bunch of things in it. Anyway,
Speaker 3: once you get past all of that, Star Wars is
Speaker 3: still enjoyable. It will always be enjoyable from from for kids,
Speaker 3: from kids to adults. I just always be able to find.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's not quality, and there's tons of talent, obviously,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying it just felt way more aimed at
Speaker 4: children to me after consuming and Or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's fine to say. I'll agree with that.
Speaker 4: I don't have any of them kids style. My dog
Speaker 4: Billy doesn't want to watch.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you need to put it on that. Billy
Speaker 3: like that ship, all.
Speaker 4: Right, I'll give it. You guys are so passionate. I'll
Speaker 4: give it another chance. When Joe says, I like banging dudes.
Speaker 4: JD says, I've heard that's nice. He's heard, he's heard
Speaker 4: through the grapevine that that's a nice thing. Chicks dig
Speaker 4: the extra fuzz regarding his beard, which is we now
Speaker 4: know meant to be a new thing, this glorious beard.
Speaker 4: And Grover appears and says, tell me about it, and uh.
Speaker 3: And it's four paws, four hands up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he says that's only two percent of your body.
Speaker 4: And then what happens. Grover gets oh oh, then he
Speaker 4: asks for a hive four, a high four and todd
Speaker 4: high foursm across the ICU.
Speaker 3: Now, this is a play on This is a play
Speaker 3: on Grover doing Hey Froggy Baby and running up on
Speaker 3: Kermit the frog and hitting him in the back and
Speaker 3: Kermit falling off the wall. Do you remember that?
Speaker 4: No, what's that from?
Speaker 3: It's also a play on Super grow Over where Grover
Speaker 3: would fly and always crash land. So back in the day,
Speaker 3: in early sesame street days, there were there was Kermit
Speaker 3: and Grover always had like a segment together and it
Speaker 3: always would start off with Kermit sitting on the wall
Speaker 3: and Grover would come running from behind, Hey Froggy Baby
Speaker 3: and run and smack Kermit in the back, and Kermit
Speaker 3: would fall off the wall and they'd have to climb
Speaker 3: back up right. So it's a part of a play
Speaker 3: on that, and it's part of the play on super Grover,
Speaker 3: who later on in light they created this character super
Speaker 3: Grover who wore a freaking spartan helmet.
Speaker 4: I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: You don't remember super Grover with the gold helmet, and
Speaker 3: the helmet would fall over his eyes sometimes. Anyway, so
Speaker 3: they create the stick.
Speaker 4: He's my favorite. Grover is my favorite.
Speaker 3: And when he would land, he could never land on
Speaker 3: his feet. He would always crash, like the greatest American hero.
Speaker 3: So that's funny. And so that was a play on
Speaker 3: both of the things, one from his long run and
Speaker 3: then him crashing from.
Speaker 4: The Remember Grover's book the monster at the end of
Speaker 4: the book where the story.
Speaker 3: No, you remember that kid's book where here's the monster
Speaker 3: at the end of the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like, it's a great kids book. He's like,
Speaker 4: he's like so afraid that there's a monster at the
Speaker 4: end of the book. He's like, stop turning the pages,
Speaker 4: are you crazy? There's a monster at the end of
Speaker 4: this book. And obviously the kids laughing and turning the pages,
Speaker 4: and he's like, are you out of your mind? I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, Nasa, it's really cute.
Speaker 1: That's really cute.
Speaker 3: Well, and then yeah, go ahead. At the end of
Speaker 3: the book, the Monster's Grover.
Speaker 4: Spoilers, donal spoilers. Okay, so is He's first Pooh in
Speaker 4: the potty? We all have flip phones, which is which
Speaker 4: is just funny to see. But uh, Turk gets a
Speaker 4: text of Isy's first Pooh in the potty and he
Speaker 4: hands it to j D, and j D says, I
Speaker 4: can't take my eyes off of it. It's gorgeous, and
Speaker 4: he accidentally hit sends, which is confusing because who is
Speaker 4: on this text chain? Because when he hit the whole hospital,
Speaker 4: the whole hospital gets this Pooh. The janitor sees it
Speaker 4: and he says they're back, yeah, meaning the he thinks
Speaker 4: that is he's poo is an invading species.
Speaker 3: I guess so it looks like.
Speaker 4: And Ed says my new screensaver.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay. So Elliott has a great story about someone
Speaker 3: named Gina who gets watched taking a whiz through a hole.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, do.
Speaker 3: You remember the movie Porky's Back in the Day, saw Porky.
Speaker 3: You can never. Yeah, it could never. It could never
Speaker 3: come out now, but no.
Speaker 4: I know, but I remember, I remember, like I was
Speaker 4: too young at the time, and then I just never
Speaker 4: got around to it.
Speaker 3: So this it's a movie. There's three of them. It's
Speaker 3: a movie about a bunch of kids who want to
Speaker 3: go party at the adult bar across the river, Porky's,
Speaker 3: but along the way. The most famous part of the
Speaker 3: movie is them looking through being freaking a bunch of
Speaker 3: peeping toms and checking out girls in the shower at
Speaker 3: school through a peephole, right, So that was the poster.
Speaker 3: It was their eye.
Speaker 4: Crazy, it's crazy. That was the poster.
Speaker 3: That was the poster. Yeah, their eye looking through the hole, right.
Speaker 3: So that's where all the nudity comes in. But at
Speaker 3: the end of the day they go to so they
Speaker 3: go to Porky's and it doesn't go well for them.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Porky comes out and fucks
Speaker 3: up their car and all of this stuff and then
Speaker 3: sends them on their way. The cops are involved with it,
Speaker 3: and they plan their revenge on Porky and that's the that's.
Speaker 4: The of these three of them. Are there any known
Speaker 4: now actors whose names we know they're in them.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a couple of them. Some of them
Speaker 3: are in like movies like The Wanderers, and like there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of people. You know.
Speaker 4: It's Porky's has escaped me. But I think I'll skip it.
Speaker 4: I think I'll skip it, all right, what else, Donald,
Speaker 4: we spoke about the hand that's inside of you joke.
Speaker 4: So again, mister Fremont is my patient that is dying
Speaker 4: of cancer. He has an eight year old son. Jad
Speaker 4: gets the scans back and it does not look good
Speaker 4: at all, and and he thinks that this is going
Speaker 4: to be a lesson for Denise slash Joe, to teach
Speaker 4: her about bedside manner, to teach her about giving bad news.
Speaker 4: And that turns out not to be the case at all,
Speaker 4: because she is very rude and disrespectful, disrespectful to this
Speaker 4: woman's telling her that she needs to take her husband
Speaker 4: off life support.
Speaker 3: Immediately because she's going to wind up doing it anyway.
Speaker 4: Yes, and so that's meant to Meanwhile, JD has tears
Speaker 4: in his eyes because he's just such an empathetic, loving
Speaker 4: doctor with the giant, giant heart.
Speaker 3: Well, all of all the three of you guys have dilemmas.
Speaker 3: So Elliott is trying to get Katie into Turk's intern program.
Speaker 4: It's certainly I think you're writing, you're writing a paper
Speaker 4: or something, and she's trying to help. She's trying to
Speaker 4: help her be the one chosen to help you.
Speaker 3: And then, uh, Cox can't figure out why he hates
Speaker 3: Ed so much.
Speaker 4: Somebody Ed makes it obvious he's not a very likable guy.
Speaker 3: No, well, you know, he's joking and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But all of that's acceptable if you're a good doctor,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like JD was clingy. J
Speaker 3: D was always trying to get a hug out of
Speaker 3: But you don't think that's annoying.
Speaker 4: I think I think Ed as an audience member, I'm
Speaker 4: going this guy's annoying. I mean, at rounds he's listening
Speaker 4: to the Da Vinci Code Book on tape.
Speaker 3: Oh it was that guy.
Speaker 4: All right, Look, it was that guy. Some people love it,
Speaker 4: some people don't. I don't know. I I guess I
Speaker 4: felt annoyed by him. I was like, he's not taking
Speaker 4: this seriously at all. This is such a huge opportunity
Speaker 4: and he just seems so you know, checked out like,
Speaker 4: aren't you excited to be a doctor. You're finally you're
Speaker 4: finally in a hospital working, and he's just so vacant absent.
Speaker 3: Well, it turns out that's that's his character flaw. That's
Speaker 3: his At the end of the episode, we learned each
Speaker 3: intern's character flaw. You know. Uh, Denise's is when you know,
Speaker 3: straight up, when somebody tells you who they are, you
Speaker 3: need to believe that shit right away. And she told
Speaker 3: you straight up who she was, and you try and
Speaker 3: I mean she told JD straight up who she was,
Speaker 3: and JD tried to fix it and it's all for
Speaker 3: not at the and when it all comes down to it. Uh,
Speaker 3: same thing with Cox. Cox finds out that Ed is lazy,
Speaker 3: and Ed's question is, well, you know, am I doing
Speaker 3: a bad job? And Cox is like, you're better than most,
Speaker 3: but you nailed it. He wasn't there, He's not there
Speaker 3: for Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Cox sees like, hey, you're you're actually
Speaker 4: a really smart guy. Why aren't you showing up? What
Speaker 4: the fuck is this? You're like half You're like half here.
Speaker 4: You got to be present and you have talent, you
Speaker 4: have skill. Why aren't you Why aren't why are you
Speaker 4: phoning it in? You just started?
Speaker 3: And he's like, well, is me phoning it in? Is
Speaker 3: it a bad am? I doing a bad job? I
Speaker 3: mean that sucks. I mean that that that's that's one
Speaker 3: a gift and it's a curse. You know, if you
Speaker 3: get easy for him, Yeah, if everything is easy, you're
Speaker 3: never going to get the same satisfactory that you that
Speaker 3: you're searching for. If I remember kids, is too easy.
Speaker 4: I remember kids at Northwestern that would party like crazy,
Speaker 4: and they were pre med and they would drink like
Speaker 4: ship faced every night and they were just getting fucking
Speaker 4: straight a's and meds in pre med. They're just it
Speaker 4: was it was easy for them.
Speaker 3: It comes to that. It's you know, look at acting
Speaker 3: for look at acting for us, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: look at look at directing and writing for you know,
Speaker 3: it might be difficult for you, but it looks easy
Speaker 3: to you make it what it looks easy. You make
Speaker 3: it look easy to everyone else.
Speaker 4: None of it's easy for me. Maybe it's easy for you.
Speaker 4: I'm not. I don't think in regards to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think any of this ship is easy.
Speaker 3: I don't think any of it is easy. But I'm saying, dude,
Speaker 3: you've been working for a very long time. You've been
Speaker 3: lucky enough to have a job for a very long time.
Speaker 3: There are people that look at that and think of
Speaker 3: it as it's something that come came naturally to you.
Speaker 3: They don't. There aren't a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 3: there are. I'm sure there are a lot of people
Speaker 3: that are like, oh, he worked really hard for it.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, the world America believes acting
Speaker 3: is an easy job that anyone can do, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. But it's only because the greats make
Speaker 3: it look easy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm just trying to follow your train of
Speaker 4: thought with regards to Ed, because.
Speaker 3: So Ed is one of those cats who, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure he had to do some type of study
Speaker 3: and to get to the level that he's at right now.
Speaker 3: So he did. He definitely studied and he retained a lot.
Speaker 3: But now he's on the he's on the other side
Speaker 3: of it where he's like, well, I know what I
Speaker 3: got to do to succeed. I know what has to
Speaker 3: be done to be successful in this career. It's show up,
Speaker 3: do my job, and that's it. I don't need to
Speaker 3: go the extra mile.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see it with any of these interns evolve.
Speaker 4: Because I don't honestly remember what there are.
Speaker 3: I can tell you everything that happens, well.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember, but don't spoil it for me,
Speaker 4: because I'm gonna watch it fresh because I have no
Speaker 4: memory of the season. It's very and I'm not even
Speaker 4: in season nine barely, So I'm really gonna.
Speaker 3: If you're like in half a season nine, shut the
Speaker 3: fuck up and half of it.
Speaker 4: I never watched a single episode of season nine. I
Speaker 4: will be genuinely watching that for the first time, Zach.
Speaker 3: I've only watched like five episodes of Scrubs until this.
Speaker 4: No, but nine is gonna be surreal for me because I,
Speaker 4: at least these I vaguely. Of course, I remember big moments.
Speaker 4: I remember the obviously, I remember Sesame Street characters being there,
Speaker 4: but I don't remember so much of it. Which is
Speaker 4: this particularly surreal exercise for you and I because we
Speaker 4: we we we are these characters, but this many years later,
Speaker 4: we get to watch back and and see ourselves doing
Speaker 4: things we barely remember.
Speaker 3: You know, I yeah, it's it's you know, maybe because
Speaker 3: we had this break and I went away and I
Speaker 3: did something else that this is the crazy thing. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we had this break, I went away and did
Speaker 3: something else in a couple of years. I'm not going
Speaker 3: to remember that I did that unless the show's the success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it might be a big hit and you'll still
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 3: That'd be from your mouth. That'd be a wonderful thing. Right.
Speaker 4: Did you enjoy doing it?
Speaker 3: I had a great time. I had such a great
Speaker 3: time working with John Cryer, Abigail Spencer, michael'malley. So when
Speaker 3: you're doing it, Clark came in.
Speaker 4: When you're doing it, yeah, you're you're having a blast.
Speaker 4: Did you have a live audience because it's a traditional
Speaker 4: sitcom and from an audience, right, yes, we had.
Speaker 3: A live audience. It was a you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: really interesting because I did a show before where we
Speaker 3: had a live audience, and with a live audience, that
Speaker 3: would be the day that you turn up, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. If you were at A five on
Speaker 3: Monday when the show's when the showtime, in front of
Speaker 3: a live audience on Friday, you're out of twenty five,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean twenty five out of ten. And
Speaker 3: this one they were like don't lean into the audience.
Speaker 3: The audience is there to be the you know, to
Speaker 3: help with the timing and to help with the you know,
Speaker 3: to help move the story along.
Speaker 4: But don't don't milk it.
Speaker 3: Don't try and get laughs just to try, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like that, I would be so bad at that, seem such.
Speaker 3: Because I'm such a laugh whore. Well you're such a
Speaker 3: laugh whore.
Speaker 4: You're a clown, and I'm a clown. And when you
Speaker 4: have all those people laughing at shit you're doing, it's
Speaker 4: hard not to lean into it.
Speaker 3: It's really hard.
Speaker 4: It's I remember remember doing your show the Exes and
Speaker 4: in between Donald's and the audience like singing, dancing, like yeah, man,
Speaker 4: Donald Donald's putting on a whole show in the audience.
Speaker 4: Did you do that this time?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I never went into the audience, but I definitely talked
Speaker 3: to the audience quite a bit. Right.
Speaker 4: They must have loved that.
Speaker 3: They did. They do. It's interaction, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So you had what you're saying is is an actor
Speaker 4: got direction to be like, hey, this in this show,
Speaker 4: just don't.
Speaker 3: Don't play for the laugh, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Don't play for the audience's laugh. The joke is fun,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like scrubs. We didn't play in for
Speaker 3: the audience laugh because there was no there was no
Speaker 3: studio audience there to laugh at our jokes.
Speaker 4: We would try, we try to make each other laugh,
Speaker 4: and we tried the crew laugh.
Speaker 3: Right, but they couldn't laugh during the take. That would
Speaker 3: be that would suck up the take, right, So you
Speaker 3: try to. So you do that in rehearsal, and then
Speaker 3: when you're shooting it, it all of a sudden became grounded,
Speaker 3: you know. And so in doing this show, and uh,
Speaker 3: they were like, listen, let's try and keep this grounded.
Speaker 3: When we did the exes that we went.
Speaker 4: Off the rail, off the rail. That was a much
Speaker 4: that was a much broader comedy right way broad I
Speaker 4: remember being on what I remember being on what's his
Speaker 4: Name's back? What's his name?
Speaker 3: David Allen Base.
Speaker 4: David Allen Base, he's very funny. I remember being on
Speaker 4: his back, supposedly giving him a massage, just milking the
Speaker 4: fuck out of it.
Speaker 3: It was milking it, milking the moment, milking the moment.
Speaker 4: They must they have to cut the audience down because
Speaker 4: otherwise the show will be an hour long because the
Speaker 4: audience is laughing so fucking hard.
Speaker 3: Well, you know who did it the best was Married
Speaker 3: with Children? Married with the audience was a part of
Speaker 3: the show. Was married with children, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like they would you would kiss on married with children
Speaker 3: and the audience?
Speaker 4: Don't they do that on ever? Reason? Come? They?
Speaker 3: Oh? It was just well, like if they're doing it
Speaker 3: on your sitcom.
Speaker 4: You're doing something wrong. Yeah. If then you kiss, the
Speaker 4: audience goes, oh right, or it might not be on
Speaker 4: the right show.
Speaker 3: Right. You got to earn that. You got to earn that.
Speaker 3: Like when it happened on Friends, it was earned. It
Speaker 3: took time.
Speaker 4: Oh did they do it on Friends? Oh?
Speaker 3: Everybody and their mama went nuts when Ross and Rachel
Speaker 3: kiss for the first time. The freaking if there was
Speaker 3: a studio audience that remember that, didn't.
Speaker 5: It sounds like the sanding of like it's very loud.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, for sure?
Speaker 4: Uh, because they'd edge the audience for so many years.
Speaker 3: Imagine you're shitting, Imagine you're sitting at home, right, sounds
Speaker 3: that sounds like a standing ovation. They got to.
Speaker 4: It's a standing ovation. That's so funny. That's so funny.
Speaker 4: People are invested.
Speaker 3: We all were.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch frends either. But I've seen it, and
Speaker 3: I want to watch it.
Speaker 4: I want to watch.
Speaker 3: Watched it so much that it's look, I don't I
Speaker 3: don't watch Succession, Succession. I don't watch any of these shows.
Speaker 4: You watch anything if it doesn't say Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Pretty much or some type of super you watch.
Speaker 4: You watch a bachelorette, Bachelor.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what I just got into. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: Vander Palmer Dance Moms Dance.
Speaker 4: Because your little girl wants to dance. Your wife's gonna
Speaker 4: become a dance mom.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. That show is the funniest ship. It
Speaker 3: is a wild life. Look. First of all, First of all,
Speaker 3: these kids are all grown now, so I can talk
Speaker 3: shit on the parents and stuff. But holy well, I
Speaker 3: don't know if it well, yeah, I guess it is.
Speaker 3: I mean. The lady who was the star of the
Speaker 3: show was in jail for a bit. She just got
Speaker 3: financial troubles.
Speaker 5: She stopped paying studios like dance studios where she was
Speaker 5: practicing and holding events, and that got.
Speaker 3: Up to it. She listened man at first when I
Speaker 3: first watched the show, I was like, man, who does
Speaker 3: this woman think she is talking to these mothers like that?
Speaker 3: But then as you watch the show, you realize, oh,
Speaker 3: she knows what she's talking about, and these mothers, yeah,
Speaker 3: these mothers are crazy. And then when that switch happens,
Speaker 3: When that switch happens, the show becomes the best show
Speaker 3: on the planet. Like it's like they find reasons just
Speaker 3: to like, they'll win, They'll win first place. I've never
Speaker 3: seen anything like this before in my life except for
Speaker 3: one time. And I don't want it. It's a long story,
Speaker 3: but don't tell I'm gonna tell it anyway. They'll they'll win,
Speaker 3: They'll win first place, and then start arguing about how
Speaker 3: they won first place, like you just won this ship,
Speaker 3: you won the whole thing. And they're like, but you know,
Speaker 3: next time, I think Missy needs to dance solos in
Speaker 3: the motherfucker. You know, they go in. I played basketball
Speaker 3: with this kid. We won a game. We won a game.
Speaker 3: He scored twenty five points, had nine rebounds. We're all
Speaker 3: in the locker room, right, We're all in the locker
Speaker 3: room after cheering and going around and circle, like you know,
Speaker 3: it's the playoffs. We're talking about what needs to be
Speaker 3: done for the next game. This motherfucker says, next game,
Speaker 3: y'all need to pass me the ball more Oh shit,
Speaker 3: And we were like, what you'd had twenty something points
Speaker 3: in nine read like you did your thing. That's what
Speaker 3: you want to say to all of us, Pat, give
Speaker 3: you the ball more granted? Yeah, sure, dude, whatever, Dude,
Speaker 3: you got it. You you got the neck. But that's
Speaker 3: what you want to say. And that's what it feels
Speaker 3: like when you watch Dance Moms. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 3: you want to lose. There's a complaint behind it. And
Speaker 3: I think that's great teller.
Speaker 4: I think Zach. I think Zach and Donald's this new
Speaker 4: show should be a rewatch of Dance Moms.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, please please, please please.
Speaker 4: All were take a quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 4: we will finish the show. We love you. Let's hear
Speaker 4: what this button does.
Speaker 2: Everybody likes little as you know, and we're bad.
Speaker 3: Speaking of being back Chico artist, dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we would put her out of a job. She
Speaker 4: hasn't been producing.
Speaker 3: In a while, been putting a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh really, she's not tagging me, Come on, cheek, artists.
Speaker 4: I need to see that ship on my Insta tags.
Speaker 4: What she what she do?
Speaker 3: She she's just putting like a bunch of behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Now she's doing shorts. Now she's doing short.
Speaker 3: But you know what, you know what her famous one,
Speaker 3: one of her favorite ones is what to do is
Speaker 3: whether it be a poop?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a finger?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I love cheeko artists. She's so funny. All right, let's
Speaker 4: finish up the show for the audience, guys. So none
Speaker 4: of these interns are really that that that nice because
Speaker 4: we find out that not only is Denise so cold,
Speaker 4: but she's playing.
Speaker 3: She's playing.
Speaker 4: Katie is playing Elliott. Turns out that Katie used Elliott
Speaker 4: to get Turk to pick her to use her for
Speaker 4: the research paper. Yeah, and we find that out because
Speaker 4: we learned that Katie was the very first person to
Speaker 4: say meanwhile, she told Elliott, I don't have the courage
Speaker 4: to sign up. And we know that Ed signed up
Speaker 4: solely because he had one of those pens that you
Speaker 4: can click down three different colors and he wanted to
Speaker 4: use it.
Speaker 3: And that's why Turk wanted to pick them.
Speaker 4: And picked him because he thought that was cool too.
Speaker 3: So this is so these are this is something else.
Speaker 3: There's an undertone in here that's very misogynistic as far
Speaker 3: as the way Turk uh. The reason why Turk doesn't
Speaker 3: pick Katie is because you know, the surgical department is
Speaker 3: the surgery department is a boys club. The reason why
Speaker 3: uh uh? At least this is what I got. I
Speaker 3: thought that, and then it changed up, and then it
Speaker 3: changed up on me. But I thought that the reason
Speaker 3: why j D was chose a girl was because he
Speaker 3: could find someone who would be more in touch with
Speaker 3: their feelings than a boy would. And I thought, that's
Speaker 3: why JD chose a girl, which is a little massage
Speaker 3: andistic also you know what I mean in some way,
Speaker 3: just to assume that that would be the way. And
Speaker 3: so the great lesson in the episode was don't judge
Speaker 3: a book by its cover, because he chooses Denise, and
Speaker 3: Denise turns out to be completely opposite.
Speaker 4: A sociopath.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what she is.
Speaker 4: She has no conscience, no emotions, she's cold as ice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And Elliot chooses her intern because she looks like
Speaker 5: her yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And Elliot's always dying for female friends. So she's like,
Speaker 4: she's like, you know, the vibe is like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: also going to have a cute new buddy.
Speaker 3: I just thought that was very interesting. I thought that
Speaker 3: And at the end of it nothing gets resolved either.
Speaker 3: That was also something that I thought was, you know,
Speaker 3: really usually at the end of every episode, you know,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you know.
Speaker 4: Right, But I think this again, this was meant to
Speaker 4: be the premiere of season eight, so it's setting up
Speaker 4: the you know, these main lead interns who are going
Speaker 4: to be the interns for the season, thought.
Speaker 3: Dot dot, you know, right, And then Elliot, you really
Speaker 3: don't like the interns at the end of this episode.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't like any of them.
Speaker 3: They're a bunch of little shits. And and I get
Speaker 3: that that's supposed to be like, you know, hindsight being
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, so were j D. Elliott and Turk when
Speaker 3: they were interns and stuff like that, But we like
Speaker 3: but the story, Yeah, but the story is told so different.
Speaker 3: You know, they're they're they're they're uh.
Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you're saying. I think I get
Speaker 4: what you're saying. You're saying, we're now seeing it from
Speaker 4: a different perspective. We're seeing it from the doctor's perspective.
Speaker 4: When when when Scrubs audiences first met our characters in
Speaker 4: one on one, they were seeing it from the interns perspective.
Speaker 4: Perhaps Bill specifically made them annoyings because we're experiencing them
Speaker 4: from the now jaded doctor's perspective. I don't know, well,
Speaker 4: I did get goosebumps in the end as Josh Raden
Speaker 4: sings the Sesame Street song and JD says, always play nice,
Speaker 4: always try your hardest, and it's okay to cry.
Speaker 5: This is such a classic Bill episode, like, oh my God,
Speaker 5: like I didn't check to see he wrote and directed
Speaker 5: it first, so whoever wrote this is a genius. But
Speaker 5: all the set up was so great and it gets
Speaker 5: like the heart of Bill Lawrence, which is always like
Speaker 5: past your torch of knowledge, because I feel like the
Speaker 5: through line of all of his work is about like,
Speaker 5: how do you pass like love and knowledge down to
Speaker 5: the next generation and what does that trouble look like?
Speaker 3: This the number one lesson, Joah tells Luke Skywalker before
Speaker 3: he passes away, pass on what you've learned. That is
Speaker 3: why we are here.
Speaker 5: Gospel m m.
Speaker 4: Mm feeling well, I miss you guys, an audience, We
Speaker 4: are back. We are going to be doing this now
Speaker 4: because our town is on strike, so we certainly don't well,
Speaker 4: we'll not have jobs for the foreseeable future. What are
Speaker 4: some announcements. If you're going to be in the Seattle
Speaker 4: area on June tenth, please buy a ticket. You get
Speaker 4: them on ticket Master by putting in fake doctors, it'll
Speaker 4: come up. There's a few seats left, and hopefully if
Speaker 4: that goes well and we don't totally embarrass ourselves, we'll
Speaker 4: do more of them. Thank you all. I just want
Speaker 4: to say about a good Person. Thank you all for
Speaker 4: who've watched so far and for all the love. I
Speaker 4: really really really appreciate you. You can rent it on
Speaker 4: iTunes or Amazon or any place you rent movies. And
Speaker 4: two important dates that are coming up May sixteenth, which
Speaker 4: is when is this episode air? Joel, this is air?
Speaker 5: Stay May sixteenth.
Speaker 4: Oh well, guys, guess what today you can buy? You
Speaker 4: can officially buy a Good Person if you want to
Speaker 4: own it on iTunes or Amazon or any place you
Speaker 4: buy movies. And then the next important date is May thirtieth,
Speaker 4: when the rental price will come down to whatever the
Speaker 4: low normal rental price is. I realized the rental price
Speaker 4: is still high. It goes without saying I don't control
Speaker 4: any of this, but I just want everyone to know
Speaker 4: the dates. May sixteen so you can own it, which
Speaker 4: is today, and May thirtieth is not only a rental
Speaker 4: ble day where the rent officially drops to the lower
Speaker 4: probably five dollars price, I'm not sure what it is.
Speaker 4: Also on May thirtieth, if you're someone who likes to
Speaker 4: buy physical discs, that's when they officially go on sale.
Speaker 4: The blu ray of a good person, so those are
Speaker 4: a good person.
Speaker 3: There's another date that we didn't talk about. We did
Speaker 3: talk about it, but it doesn't have to do with
Speaker 3: a good person. But on June tenth, I don't want
Speaker 3: you all to forget we're going to be in Seattle.
Speaker 3: Y'all need to come out and see us. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: got you the tickets left. There's only a few left.
Speaker 4: Talking about that, you know, and you know about it
Speaker 4: in the beginning.
Speaker 3: We talked about it in the beginning. I'm just reiterating
Speaker 3: everyone they were.
Speaker 4: Did you do a bong hit? Did you do a
Speaker 4: bong hit? Below the screens because within these end announcements
Speaker 4: I mentioned probably less than two minutes ago yes, literally, guys,
Speaker 4: weed not even once.
Speaker 3: Listen, guys, yeah, if you want everything to always be
Speaker 3: like brand new, like you just like yo, live like Memento.
Speaker 4: We don't know that a good advertisement. Would you like
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Speaker 4: are here's some stories I'm.
Speaker 6: Not sure we made about a bunch of talks and
Speaker 6: nurses and.
Speaker 3: He said he's a story net.
Speaker 6: No, soa around you here, hobby yead around you here, hobbit.
Speaker 1: Suppose we watch rubies and no, mm hmmm