Speaker 1: Somebody specials here. It's just one of those days. There
Speaker 1: he is. Are you wearing your sweatshirt that looks like
Speaker 1: it has stains, but that's part of the design. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a fling. Are you wearing a necklace made out
Speaker 1: of candy? No, this necklace was given to me by
Speaker 1: my friend. It's crystals that supposedly are good for your
Speaker 1: soul and your heart. Um and um. You can make
Speaker 1: fun of it, but I'm trying to see if it works.
Speaker 1: So far, I don't notice anything. I wasn't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: making fun of it. Hi, everybody, Hi Joelle, Hi Daniel,
Speaker 1: Hi Donald, are you recording right, I've been recording. Let
Speaker 1: me do a little test of our sound machine right there.
Speaker 1: It is Everything's tank forever, Wu tang forever. Everything's working.
Speaker 1: That is true though, Wu tang is forever. That's one
Speaker 1: thing that is that is true. Donald's sent me a
Speaker 1: meme the other day and I thought of it and
Speaker 1: it said something like, why do all of US African
Speaker 1: Americans do this? And it was the guy um putting
Speaker 1: on a movie, hitting start and then turning around to
Speaker 1: go to sleep. The other way. Yeah, an entire vibe
Speaker 1: and I and I was doing that myself. I was
Speaker 1: like putting on the TV that I knew I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to watch and starting something and then getting all
Speaker 1: cuddled up and turning the other way to fall asleep.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that. It wasn't why do Africans? Why do
Speaker 1: black people do it? Is? It was black people do this,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't. Also, what it doesn't say is that
Speaker 1: a lot of people that aren't black also do it
Speaker 1: like white people do it. Do it like the washcloth
Speaker 1: thing where it's a stereotypical black thing. No, I think
Speaker 1: everybody turned on the TV. Come on, buddy, you know
Speaker 1: you know, you know what my wife does it. You're right,
Speaker 1: my wife's like, turn next shit off. Please. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to bed and not turn the TV on.
Speaker 1: That's just right. My sister just me. She had to
Speaker 1: have it going all the time, but her like Home
Speaker 1: Shopping Network. What an episode that doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: at all. Donald, I'm happy we have a guest today
Speaker 1: to lighten things up a little bit. We are going
Speaker 1: to do the show today with a friend of ours
Speaker 1: named Brian Klugman, who's very fascinating guy. He well, let's
Speaker 1: bring him in and then we'll talk about him and
Speaker 1: um and uh, and then he's gonna help us make
Speaker 1: this episode that was not that good even better? Right?
Speaker 1: I like this episode? No, and I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about why you apparently did I'd laughed once,
Speaker 1: I laughed more than once. When did you? Wait? Wait?
Speaker 1: When did you laugh? I don't want to ruin it yet.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Brian. Brian is a big Scrubs fan,
Speaker 1: and he is a big Scrubs podcast listener. There he
Speaker 1: is thunderous, surprise, motherfucking there. He is that every time
Speaker 1: I get on a call, every time Brian meet Daniel,
Speaker 1: who's our engineer and video game expert, and um, what
Speaker 1: else do you do? You edit? You provide fun and laughter.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that little buffet lifestyle over here a little bit.
Speaker 1: And Joel had to turn off for camera because she's
Speaker 1: having some issues, but she's our producer and hello. I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring Brian Klugman on because for so many reasons. One,
Speaker 1: he's a fan of Scrubs, he's a fan of the podcast,
Speaker 1: and he also is a very funny gentleman. I thought
Speaker 1: he could help make this episode, which I didn't find
Speaker 1: particularly funny, funnier as we discussed it. Although I'm just
Speaker 1: learning now, Brian that Donald found it funny. I found
Speaker 1: it funny. And the other thing about Brian is, Brian,
Speaker 1: had you had such an You have such an interesting career,
Speaker 1: unlike anybody else I know you. You not only act
Speaker 1: and direct, didn't you? Weren't you Frasier's son? No? I
Speaker 1: I was. I was the intern at the radio station
Speaker 1: there for a while. I had a long run of
Speaker 1: playing real, real dumb characters and one other one of
Speaker 1: the what was that character's name on Frasier Kirby Kirby.
Speaker 1: I never watched an episode of Frasier, so I wouldn't know,
Speaker 1: but I think you had a big sort of jiufro
Speaker 1: when you did it right, very very big. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: had that for a while. And were you on any
Speaker 1: other notable roles people might remember you from an can't
Speaker 1: hardly Wait with our friend Donald over there? Yeah? I, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I did a million different things. Uh was
Speaker 1: on Felicity when that show started together around the same
Speaker 1: time too, yep. And I was up until recently was
Speaker 1: doing Bones as kind of one of the interns squinterns
Speaker 1: whatever they call them, and had a great time with that.
Speaker 1: Brian such an interesting career because not only do you
Speaker 1: still act and you directed some films, but you're a
Speaker 1: very funny writer. And I'm tom about to tie all
Speaker 1: of this in is that Brian will Well. I'd love
Speaker 1: you to tell the story of how it happened. But
Speaker 1: Brian had a big change of life and became a
Speaker 1: very very successful He's kind of Don Draper. And because
Speaker 1: Brian loves Scrubs and because Brian loves us, he is
Speaker 1: the reason that we landed the T Mobile the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl commercial, and he's the one who wrote that fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't take I can't take all the credit
Speaker 1: for writing it. I wrote it and created with Andrew Pinney,
Speaker 1: who's my partner on this journey, who's an incredible producer.
Speaker 1: And then the guys up at T Mobile, my Cats
Speaker 1: and Peter de Luca, they're huge fans of you guys.
Speaker 1: So it was like it was a kind of a
Speaker 1: universal decision. Now, Brian before not to toot our own horns,
Speaker 1: but if we can't toot our own horns on our
Speaker 1: own podcast this, Yeah, if we can't toot our own horn,
Speaker 1: I would say that in meetings, I'm like, not to brag,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to sell myself to you. So if
Speaker 1: I can't brag in this meeting, what's the point? Um?
Speaker 1: But but Brian, um is it? It's true in fact
Speaker 1: that the that your creation and our genius talent um
Speaker 1: made it the second most searched for ad after scholar Johansson.
Speaker 1: It was it was. It was on fire people and
Speaker 1: such universal I mean, it's what you do. I think
Speaker 1: we all know when you put something out into the world,
Speaker 1: especially in that kind of form, people love to hate,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I thought, by putting something
Speaker 1: out publicly is always a scary and arduous thing. But
Speaker 1: you guys, it was so you guys were so universally
Speaker 1: loved and it was so warm. I think it was
Speaker 1: just incredible to see that reception. And you know, I know,
Speaker 1: you guys we were talking after the game, like to
Speaker 1: watch it just continue and to pick up steam. And
Speaker 1: you know, there was no lead time on any of that.
Speaker 1: You know, there was no lead time. We didn't like
Speaker 1: pre release anything. It just it hit and it was
Speaker 1: a nun We had so much fun that day, Brian,
Speaker 1: because it truly is me and Donald's dream, Like if
Speaker 1: we could fantasize, like in a Scrubs fantasy, it would
Speaker 1: be that we live next door to each other and
Speaker 1: sing pretty close. At one point we were pretty close,
Speaker 1: we were I'm saying, like I I well, I think
Speaker 1: I told the story in the podcast, but like, if
Speaker 1: I had my dream, I would go on my front
Speaker 1: porch and have my morning coffee and look over and
Speaker 1: see Donald probably smoking a blunt and and just be
Speaker 1: like morning hits. You want to us sing something from
Speaker 1: sound to music or this is what I've this is
Speaker 1: what I've learned. But this is what I've learned. Bong
Speaker 1: hits are so much faster than smoking a blunt. It
Speaker 1: took you forty eight years to realize that Brian has
Speaker 1: a brand new baby. By the way, um, that is
Speaker 1: very beautiful, and Brian, your life is so good. And
Speaker 1: also I just want to say that you're a beautiful wife.
Speaker 1: Beautiful wife, beautiful wife who's so cool and smart and
Speaker 1: has as a singer, and and you're such a mensch
Speaker 1: who If you don't know that expression, I believe it's
Speaker 1: German for Man. Brian you would know, but it's it's Yiddish.
Speaker 1: Yiddish yeah, but it just means just a just a sweet,
Speaker 1: really sweet human being. And I'm sorry to be sincere, audience,
Speaker 1: but you really are just a lovely person and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that we're friends. Wow that I feel exactly the
Speaker 1: same way. It's funny you said the word mench when
Speaker 1: I when I first moved out to la you know,
Speaker 1: leaving my family, leaving so far. I said to my mom,
Speaker 1: you know, I was getting to the plane and said,
Speaker 1: anything you need to tell me. Last thing she says
Speaker 1: is I get on. She goes, if you ever meet
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg, tell him he's a mench. That was Ian
Speaker 1: had the opportunity yet not yet, not yet, but uh,
Speaker 1: we can probably count into the show. We forgot to
Speaker 1: do that about show we made never get around, yeato around.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. So Brian, real quick before we
Speaker 1: get into talking about the episode, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really weird and I didn't laugh that much, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad you you did, so you can set me straight.
Speaker 1: The fuck what do you hold on? I have? I
Speaker 1: have really because this had some pretty funny moments in it,
Speaker 1: and to think that you didn't laugh at this shit,
Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes it's your mood. I'm not in
Speaker 1: a bad mood, but sometimes it is one's mood that
Speaker 1: that affects how you watched the episode. Maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 1: not in wasn't in a particularly giggly mood. Can I
Speaker 1: go down to listen? Let's see if you laugh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you can't waste it. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: the one thing I laughed at when kelsos as you
Speaker 1: call Al Green because he forgot Skids tickets. It took you.
Speaker 1: It took you all the way to the end of
Speaker 1: the show to laugh. Dude, hold on, hey, no, no,
Speaker 1: because you can't. We're gonna go through the show. You
Speaker 1: can just list the things he's trying to start at
Speaker 1: the beginning. I'm gonna start to get the cold open.
Speaker 1: You didn't laugh at the fact that Ted has a
Speaker 1: granny fetish. Yeah, but it's weirder than that. It's not
Speaker 1: just a granny fetish. He's he's kind of into his mom. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a mom granny fetish. It's it's it's trippy. I
Speaker 1: really liked it though, too. It took me completely by
Speaker 1: surprise because it kind of a revealed itself like a
Speaker 1: little bit at a time, you know. And at first
Speaker 1: he's eyeing the granny. Yeah, okay, he won. And then
Speaker 1: you're like is he why is he? And then he
Speaker 1: kind of does a thing where he tries to touch her,
Speaker 1: like like she's hot. He does a thing with his finger,
Speaker 1: and then and then later he brags about having seen
Speaker 1: his mom have sex. Yes with a man. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: a man, Yes with the man. Okay, So let's just
Speaker 1: start as a point of pride for for him and
Speaker 1: the things with a man. The show is called Road
Speaker 1: to Nowhere. It was written and directed by Mark Stegman.
Speaker 1: Mark was a very funny writer on our show, and
Speaker 1: I think this is the first time, other than Bill,
Speaker 1: a writer on the show was given the privilege of
Speaker 1: directing an episode. Um JD lives in a tent on
Speaker 1: his half acre. Um that half acre, making it back
Speaker 1: to this show half Acre's facts, and he still own
Speaker 1: that shit. He still owns that ship. Yes, I bought
Speaker 1: it with Manny Moore. I wonder if I bought her out.
Speaker 1: I must have bought her out of her she ain't
Speaker 1: around no more. He wants to split it, but um,
Speaker 1: I'm stealing power from the next door neighbors. And you
Speaker 1: didn't laugh at that. Well, I didn't laugh at the
Speaker 1: fact that you were stealing power from the next door neighbor, didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did, Yeah you did. Party laughed that I
Speaker 1: sounded that. It sounded like they were having sex like
Speaker 1: a baboon and the guys like I wasn't home last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I like that you brutalize him, and she
Speaker 1: was like a stunt woman she was, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't remember much about this episode except there are
Speaker 1: a few key things, and I think I remember her
Speaker 1: being like she was almost like an MMA fighter. She
Speaker 1: was big. Why did she beat your ass? And and
Speaker 1: for telling on? And why did he stand there and watch?
Speaker 1: Why wasn't automatically Why wasn't it automatically? Baby? I don't
Speaker 1: know what the heck fuck he's talking about. Why didn't
Speaker 1: it go to their Why was it killing the messenger? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm caught. I'm ana fuck him up for that. And
Speaker 1: he stands there, and he stands there and watches, But
Speaker 1: we don't know. They have a weird sex life. So
Speaker 1: I don't mean to say weird. They have a unique
Speaker 1: sex life. So they have their sex life. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have to beat some PC these days, Brian. They have
Speaker 1: their sex life, right, Joel, there's nothing odd about it.
Speaker 1: They have their sex life. They have their choices, is
Speaker 1: that right. Never we need to whenever we need to
Speaker 1: say sex things correctly, we go to our verbal specialist, Joel.
Speaker 1: It's not weird. It's just their choices. Yeah. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: don't cheat on your spouse, you know, and you got
Speaker 1: you gotta be like cooler than whatever she was trying
Speaker 1: to pull off, because it was her that was doing
Speaker 1: the cheating, right yeah, and she got caught and beat
Speaker 1: up j D for it. Right, should have been like,
Speaker 1: that's it, I'm out. I knew it all. I knew
Speaker 1: it all along. He should have bounced. Okay, So this
Speaker 1: is that he watched his wife beat the shit out
Speaker 1: of another man. Maybe maybe that they may be. They
Speaker 1: may be like our couple friends beyond on the show,
Speaker 1: have some sort of arrangement. I don't think he likes it.
Speaker 1: He didn't see. He didn't seem to like it. Think
Speaker 1: he likes it. I know you you brutalized. Um as
Speaker 1: we know. UM this is the RV episode. UM A
Speaker 1: very weird thing, right, It's almost like I like the RV.
Speaker 1: I liked the the idea of the RV. I was wondering,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is Kelso? That was the first question
Speaker 1: I asked, why is Kelso introducing his camper, like what
Speaker 1: is the well? I love RVs. I want to mention
Speaker 1: as a kid, we used to take r V trips
Speaker 1: and my father always always would get ones that would
Speaker 1: break down. He was always he wouldn't spring for a
Speaker 1: good one and uh and they and it was so humiliating.
Speaker 1: I remember, without fail, they would break down and we'd
Speaker 1: always be in the shop, and for some reason he
Speaker 1: would he would always go back to the same company.
Speaker 1: I think he was. My father was a very loyal man.
Speaker 1: And even though even though he would go to the
Speaker 1: shop that would rent us piece of shit RVs that
Speaker 1: would break down, he would go to the same one
Speaker 1: every year. And I can remember be like stuck in
Speaker 1: like a toll booth, like everyone honking, like I always
Speaker 1: loved RVs. I always grew up and and to this day,
Speaker 1: I even during the pandemic, like so many people, I
Speaker 1: think after maybe Nomad Land inspired it or something. But
Speaker 1: then I went down the wormhole of like tricked out
Speaker 1: sprinter vans. Those things are insane to this day. My
Speaker 1: Instagram is is like seventy percent tricked out couples who
Speaker 1: have tricked out their sprinter vans and like live on
Speaker 1: the road. I so cool. But these guys had a
Speaker 1: freaking bus. Yeah, these guys had a monster RV. This
Speaker 1: thing is huge in the back and it has a
Speaker 1: rack of kimonos that are used for Kelso's masseuses. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: we need to discuss this because we kind of touched
Speaker 1: on it before, but we didn't. Yo. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of shit in this that's kind of like, I mean, nowadays,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, hmmm, a lot of questionable. Well.
Speaker 1: Joelle mentioned that there is in the Asian community discussion
Speaker 1: of being fetishized as right, the female um, female Asian
Speaker 1: women's well, the Asian community as a whole, sick and
Speaker 1: tired of it being a joke. And this was something
Speaker 1: that was a recurring joke with Kelso. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, and I'm not defending that at all, but
Speaker 1: but but can't you Joel answered this for me. Can't
Speaker 1: you also have a character that his thing is that
Speaker 1: he's attracted to um Vietnamese Asian women. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: hope that, Like, I mean, it kimonos are not Vietnamese
Speaker 1: or Japanese, so that's like iffy, And I think I
Speaker 1: think it's okay as long as you're like that guy's
Speaker 1: an effing asshole, and also as so long as it's
Speaker 1: not like a prolonged joke like in um licorice Pizza,
Speaker 1: which recently got a lot of flak from the Asian
Speaker 1: community for having weird dialogue about that. It was a
Speaker 1: very weird term, which is such a weird choice, like
Speaker 1: like when did you write this eighty seven? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, Kelso is firmly in that camp.
Speaker 1: I think most people look down at Kelso. We've seen
Speaker 1: him be a slack writer's job and it's not a
Speaker 1: celebrated thing. And I it was offensive. I mean, did
Speaker 1: you did you? Did you? Joel? I don't want to
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to tip to around this because
Speaker 1: I don't I can't speak for the Asian community. But
Speaker 1: when we last week and we talked about the officer
Speaker 1: and a gentleman thing that wasn't even in the Vietnamese,
Speaker 1: that wasn't even Vietnamese. The song wasn't even sung in Vietnamese.
Speaker 1: It wasn't no what was it Sunging. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but somebody DM ME was like, yo, that wasn't Vietnamese. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like the Mandarin conversation from it was the
Speaker 1: Moon Night. That's happening too. We gotta do better by
Speaker 1: the Asian community as a whole. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: That's horrible that it wasn't even in Vietnamese. They probably
Speaker 1: just found an Asian version of the song and played it,
Speaker 1: lapped it in there, yeah, and played it. It's horrible. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not our fault. We didn't create the damn thing.
Speaker 1: We just acted it. Um Anyway, it is a true
Speaker 1: fact that Kelso is attracted to Asian women. Whether that's
Speaker 1: um appropriate or not these days, Uh, we we're just
Speaker 1: we're reviewing an old show. It is funny when everyone
Speaker 1: is wearing them for warmths later, right, I like that.
Speaker 1: I like a couple of the runners on the show.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the idea of changing like the
Speaker 1: word wrong to Dorian right at the beginning. I think
Speaker 1: there's I think there's fun I had a desire at
Speaker 1: one point to try to get the word Sigourney weaver
Speaker 1: to be like an expression like Sigourney weaver. That's good coffee,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, so I like replacing
Speaker 1: words with words that we choose. I think there's something
Speaker 1: fun about how about JD chetches on right away? And
Speaker 1: yeah it's kind of surprised, and how did that catch
Speaker 1: on so quickly? And and something else jumped out at me,
Speaker 1: like when you guys, I love I love the Michael
Speaker 1: Knight beata. It was fucking hilarious. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've spoken a lot about our love for night Riders,
Speaker 1: so the Little night Rider Fantasy wasn't. But then then,
Speaker 1: but Kit, the version of Kit the Computer and our
Speaker 1: show tried to kind of like hook up with got
Speaker 1: a little dirty dirty, which I think is funny. And
Speaker 1: I liked they got you in the leather jacket and
Speaker 1: everything in that little fantasy sequence. I was I was
Speaker 1: all in on that man, because that was That's really
Speaker 1: true about that though, hold on, hold on now, brag wow, wow,
Speaker 1: that really went different. That's true though. Think about it.
Speaker 1: When Kit would get beat up, Kit would be like,
Speaker 1: oh that shit hurts. Oh fuck, I'm hurt. He would well,
Speaker 1: you know, it would be like Michael no, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that was always sad. Yeah, got hurt. So how
Speaker 1: come when Kit got touched in a nice way, holcome,
Speaker 1: Kit couldn't be like, oh shit, Michael. He was. He
Speaker 1: was like that, Michael. Why didn't that? Why didn't why
Speaker 1: didn't that happen? That would be we didn't bring something
Speaker 1: that wasn't programmed into Kit in the foundation of law, Governor.
Speaker 1: Maybe I wasn't hitting the right spot. I should have
Speaker 1: been yanking on the tailpipe. That could be it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fall with the banana and the tailpipe, not gonna
Speaker 1: fall for the banana. The tail um. Take these here,
Speaker 1: Take these bananas. Take these bananasana, Go ahead, the buffet.
Speaker 1: I have peaches plums. One of the reasons I love
Speaker 1: hanging out with Brian is he will You can name
Speaker 1: any movie reference and it He'll pick it up and
Speaker 1: start running with it. Um. All right, listen, let's make
Speaker 1: try so we The RVs introduced Kim's having an ultrasound.
Speaker 1: For those of you haven't watched the episode of Road
Speaker 1: to Nowhere, Jad's missed so so so is what in
Speaker 1: Jordan's happening also having an ultrasound. And they decide they're
Speaker 1: gonna take They're gonna steal Kelsel's RV they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: rowdy and they're gonna do a road trip to Tacoma.
Speaker 1: Cox sabotagees Turk because Turk told Jordan that Cox told
Speaker 1: him that they liked to cuddle, right, want anyone to
Speaker 1: know that she likes to cuddle. She got livid. So
Speaker 1: Cox screwed over Turk, and Carlo said, I'm going on
Speaker 1: the road trip right instead makes it so Carlo's like,
Speaker 1: I gotta get give the baby to Turk. I'm going
Speaker 1: on the d I mean I didn't, I thought, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought. I know that obviously the writers wanted to
Speaker 1: give Cox and Turk's storyline together, but I think the
Speaker 1: road trip would have been funnier to have Turk on
Speaker 1: the road trip, absolutely. I mean Turks and a kimono
Speaker 1: on the on the on the on the dancer pole
Speaker 1: was a missed opportunity. Well, I learned another thing about
Speaker 1: Turk and Carlo. Though they do some freaky shit. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's got she's from one, very very flexible and very
Speaker 1: very bendy. Yeah, and j knows the name of the
Speaker 1: of the of the day because that was funny. So
Speaker 1: you know that you know that Turk is like yo
Speaker 1: can we practice some of these moves that you seem
Speaker 1: to know from back in the day. Did you ever
Speaker 1: question that Carla wasn't naughty in bed? Carla feels like
Speaker 1: she's naughty in bed. I feel like Turk appreciates the
Speaker 1: naughtiness that Carla is in bed. Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: never thought that Carla the character was just um oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's no way. Nobody's just one thing. Zach, Yes, but
Speaker 1: I think Carla, in my estimation, is probably fun in bed.
Speaker 1: I bet you Turk is too, though. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: learned that Turk falls asleep right after he finishes. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. None of these none of these things tracked.
Speaker 1: None of the stuff tracks. None of none of the
Speaker 1: none of these storylines track. They're all jokes, kind of
Speaker 1: like Family Guy in a lot of ways, where it's
Speaker 1: funny at the moment and then the next you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's something different. By the way, Donald, I know
Speaker 1: you don't watch TV that's not Star Wars. But Brian,
Speaker 1: are you watching um the Great at all? With uh?
Speaker 1: I watched the first season and I want to watch
Speaker 1: more and it it is so good. It's so late
Speaker 1: to the party on the show me too. I'm way behind.
Speaker 1: I'll tell your wife because she'll love it. She likes
Speaker 1: TV shows that aren't about star wars um and Joelle, Joelle,
Speaker 1: you love it. Yes, Imagine if like Season one of
Speaker 1: Bridgerton was more focused on like a power couple, and
Speaker 1: that power couple hated each other. It's that sort of
Speaker 1: vibe like sometimes it's kind of steamy, it's I also
Speaker 1: love that it's sop thing. Yeah, it's so it's so edgy.
Speaker 1: I think and like X and and and and it's
Speaker 1: so so falling asleep right now this Okay, T give
Speaker 1: a system tank forever, wo tank forever. All right, he's back,
Speaker 1: he's back, all I go on, all right, anyway, I
Speaker 1: recommend you all. It's on Hulu and Nicholas Holds, who
Speaker 1: the hell knew? He was so funny. He's fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should get a hussah as a drop, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: drop for you, ok yeah, um, okay, So they steal
Speaker 1: counsel's RV. Ted comes back to talk to them while
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be driving. I thought that was that
Speaker 1: was very funny. Who's driving the RV? Oh my bad?
Speaker 1: That was funny. Okay, Elliott is confiding in someone, and
Speaker 1: then we that her father Um did hug her in fact,
Speaker 1: but not with his arms, with his mind. Yes, And
Speaker 1: we learned and we revealed that she's confiding that in Rowdy,
Speaker 1: we revealed, as we said, we learned that Ted has
Speaker 1: watched his mom have sex. Then the janitor were has
Speaker 1: been a sewere and he steps out of the RV,
Speaker 1: not knowing it's moving, and when he falls out, he
Speaker 1: hurts his head and doesn't remember that he has. You
Speaker 1: guys didn't check the back into RV to see if
Speaker 1: anybody was in there. So we were, but we were
Speaker 1: in the first of all, this RV is not that big.
Speaker 1: We were back there doing the pole dancing. Right, there's
Speaker 1: not multiple bedrooms in this RV. He could have been
Speaker 1: sleeping under the bed I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 1: He's a very large man. Neil Flynn, I don't know
Speaker 1: where the geography of where he was that he missed
Speaker 1: us back there pole dancing, I don't know or that
Speaker 1: you missed him. Anyway, he walks out, he hits his head,
Speaker 1: and then he we stopped and he forgets that he
Speaker 1: knows that he knows any of them, right, But also,
Speaker 1: for the first time in the show's history, he's kind
Speaker 1: to JD. Not only is he kind to j D,
Speaker 1: he's very passionate about JD's quest that wants to join
Speaker 1: him on it, and at the act break the JD
Speaker 1: thinks he can make it through a tunnel. I remember
Speaker 1: when we shot this that it was you didn't laugh
Speaker 1: at this, You didn't I could totally make it into
Speaker 1: the black. Yeah, that was funny. I remember that we
Speaker 1: didn't do it green screen because we did a rear
Speaker 1: projection and and it actually looks better than I think
Speaker 1: green screen would have because green screen and cars still
Speaker 1: to this day does not look good for some bizarre reason.
Speaker 1: I also like the choice that it was not big
Speaker 1: enough with wise as opposed to height wise, which is
Speaker 1: kind of like the obvious choice, Like you know, you
Speaker 1: get the RVA haircutt and all of a sudden, No,
Speaker 1: I like that you took the side. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that was funny. I thought that was a funny choice.
Speaker 1: They bought V I remember, I remember that they bought
Speaker 1: the RV because they had to destroy it. He just
Speaker 1: bought like a really like the cheapest RV you could
Speaker 1: buy um and then ripped the side off of it.
Speaker 1: Do you remember you weren't there? You weren't there. But anyway,
Speaker 1: for those of you film geeks, it's it's not green screen,
Speaker 1: it's rear projection. They're projecting the road onto screens the
Speaker 1: old school style away and I didn't take a look
Speaker 1: that bad for what it's worth. So then then we're
Speaker 1: all wearing kimonos to stay warm. Now I want to
Speaker 1: talk a bit about what's happening back at the hospital. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a scary um thing with with Jordan's ultrasound. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: but Cox, why does he want you in the room?
Speaker 1: He doesn't, He doesn't seem to because he's not allowed.
Speaker 1: He's not allowed in the room because he's family. Even
Speaker 1: though he works at the hospital, he's not allowed in
Speaker 1: the room. But he wants Turk in the room to
Speaker 1: make sure that everything goes well with the surgery. As
Speaker 1: far as his wife is concerned. He's already made up
Speaker 1: his mind, seems like that, oh, this means the baby's
Speaker 1: going to have problems, now, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right and so, But but he's never really respected you
Speaker 1: as a surgeon. And even though audience, yeah, you think
Speaker 1: he's just being a dick. Yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think this is telling about that.
Speaker 1: I think he does. I mean, this is the most
Speaker 1: intimate kind of thing. And he's like, I want you
Speaker 1: in there. And that's about as hard truth as there
Speaker 1: is right there, right, because he could ask doctor, when
Speaker 1: he could ask so many other people to be in there, right,
Speaker 1: instead he asks he does hell ask Beard for say,
Speaker 1: to turn his foot at the right angle so he
Speaker 1: can bowl your cell phone down. Though you didn't like that,
Speaker 1: you didn't like that cell phone toss off the foot,
Speaker 1: she was hilarious. Yeah, and then you didn't like the
Speaker 1: mickhead coming down the hallway with the cell phone. Mickhead
Speaker 1: tried to steal your phone, right, But then you're summing around,
Speaker 1: You're coming around. You guys are convincing me was funny
Speaker 1: than it was. But do you remember when I like,
Speaker 1: I did like and you go, um, oh, really do
Speaker 1: you have do you have Carlo on your phone? He's like,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, you're like, oh I haveond I got Tyra Banks,
Speaker 1: Tyra Banks, Star Banks. Before Beyonce, it was Tarra Banks.
Speaker 1: Halie Berry is still up in there, though Hallie Berry
Speaker 1: is still up in there. Were you able to um
Speaker 1: to pick which beautiful woman um Donald or was it
Speaker 1: written into the script that it was Tyra Banks? Tyra,
Speaker 1: I mean Tyra Banks after Chris Rock said her name
Speaker 1: as little Penny Tara Banks. It's probably the funniest name
Speaker 1: to say. And so just so if you mean, because
Speaker 1: it's a unique name and she's so beautiful. It was
Speaker 1: a good punchline. Absolutely, And it's got the it's got
Speaker 1: the classic, it's got the hard see the hardy comedy
Speaker 1: writers like like Plugman love a hard k sound. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, tom tomatoes not funny, Banks, Chicken funny. Chicken's funny.
Speaker 1: Tomato's not funny. Everybody, you're getting out right, those of
Speaker 1: you write comedy, aspiring comedy writers. You're from one of
Speaker 1: the top uh advertising creatives in the country. Right now
Speaker 1: you're getting a secret Tomato not funny. But don't don't
Speaker 1: let that out. Don't let it out. Okay, now it's out, Bunny.
Speaker 1: You know everybody knows an now you're ruined. Everybody case
Speaker 1: sound it's funny. A little bit of trivia for you. Brian.
Speaker 1: I hope I can reveal this, Brian. If not, we'll
Speaker 1: cut it. But Brian is the voice of of T Mobile.
Speaker 1: Whenever you hear all of those T Mobile ads, it's Brian,
Speaker 1: A lot of them, a lot of them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hear you all the time when my TV's on. I
Speaker 1: hear you like T Mobile, and I hope it brings
Speaker 1: comfort to you. It does a lot of you know what,
Speaker 1: we should bring this up too, so you know everybody
Speaker 1: loves to talk about my uh Neil Diamond, and yes, yes,
Speaker 1: bring this up. Brian's Neil Diamond impersonation is twenty times
Speaker 1: like if you want to talk about another level, his
Speaker 1: level is like, it's like twenty levels above my Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1: Don't know. Let me just give, Let me just give.
Speaker 1: I would give them my Neil Diamond. Do the same sentence,
Speaker 1: Do the same sentence. What are we going with? Can
Speaker 1: we sing the Transformers? Oh? You want to do a
Speaker 1: non Neil Diamond song as Neil Diamond, Donald, you go first,
Speaker 1: because everyone's heard this the Transformers more than meets the eye.
Speaker 1: Here we go, same sentence. Whatever you want to do
Speaker 1: Transformers more than meets the eye. I'm a little stuffy today,
Speaker 1: you're a little reover rusty. But Brian, we briefly tell
Speaker 1: the audience, um that you. Brian is so in the
Speaker 1: Neil Diamond that he as a hobby, not as a
Speaker 1: money making venture, puts on full well Neil Diamond concerts
Speaker 1: And I'm my biggest fear of my whole life has
Speaker 1: been to sing in front of an audience. Right. And
Speaker 1: about fifteen years back, a friend of mine says, when
Speaker 1: you sing, you sound like Neil Diamond, and I said,
Speaker 1: I know. My whole life, I've been told that. And
Speaker 1: he says, you should do a show. And I said, okay, great,
Speaker 1: you put a band together and I'll do a show,
Speaker 1: because who the hell is going to put a band together?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Next day he calls me,
Speaker 1: he says, We're booked a hotel cafe. I've got a
Speaker 1: huge I got a huge band for you. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh well, I said I was going to
Speaker 1: do it. And I was so nervous that I actually
Speaker 1: peed in my pants on the night of the show.
Speaker 1: I was really I thought people just did that in
Speaker 1: the movies. They really know. It was crazy. I never
Speaker 1: thought it would happen, and it happened. And how wait,
Speaker 1: how did people spot like in the movies? No, No,
Speaker 1: it's before right, before I went on, and I changed
Speaker 1: my pants before I went on, but they were still tight,
Speaker 1: like Neil Diamond's very very like a second skin. And
Speaker 1: then I went out there and I did it, and
Speaker 1: now I've done it. I did it like every five years,
Speaker 1: and I have a huge band and incredible group, and
Speaker 1: it's it's like a weird cross between I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a kind of like a performance art or something,
Speaker 1: and but do you sing? But you do sing well
Speaker 1: as Neil Diamonds, so it's kind of like a Neil Diamond. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's weird. It's like somehow a cross
Speaker 1: between performance art and a real show. But everyone seems
Speaker 1: to have a really good time. They've all been sold out,
Speaker 1: and like, I mean, it's so bizarre. I know you're
Speaker 1: very busy with your career and your new baby, but
Speaker 1: why haven't I been able to see well to go
Speaker 1: to the next one? Got up? Can Donald come up
Speaker 1: with the next one and do Transformers? I don't want
Speaker 1: to do transform but I'm want to do love on
Speaker 1: the Racks. I'll tell you what. I want to come
Speaker 1: up and do Wickhount and do America. And then it
Speaker 1: sounds like I don't have to do anything, which is great.
Speaker 1: I want to do a duet, Donald, but can you
Speaker 1: you and I could do you don't bring me flowers
Speaker 1: and we both diamond singing to each other. Who sings
Speaker 1: the female part? Streisan? But you could take her down?
Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, no, you do it as diamond, Papa.
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? It's oh no, no no. But
Speaker 1: that's another idea. Another idea would be to do a
Speaker 1: Yental cover. Yeah, I was gonna say a Knight of
Speaker 1: Yental a night Oh my god, Brian, will you help
Speaker 1: me produce? Can we call it a night of a
Speaker 1: thousand Yentals? Oh my god, Donald, if you and I
Speaker 1: did a Knight of Yental, we would sell the fuck out.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't need we didn't need a hotel cafe. We'd
Speaker 1: need we'd need the what do you call the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, people are clamoring for this. I can
Speaker 1: you know, Oh boy, oh boy, coming, it's coming. Yental
Speaker 1: was such a like my father's wet dream. It was
Speaker 1: like it was so Jewish, and it was Barbara streisand
Speaker 1: and it was a mute was the goal, and it
Speaker 1: was about a rabbi. It was about someone whose desire
Speaker 1: to be a rabbi was so strong that she had
Speaker 1: to hide her sex to be to be to be
Speaker 1: a rabbi. And my father was like, this is the
Speaker 1: greatest movie you ever ever made. It's got everything anything
Speaker 1: I could ever want. The last time you've watched gentle guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but my father made us watch it
Speaker 1: four thousand times. Can you hear me? By the way,
Speaker 1: brilliant Manny Patinkin, Mandy Petenkin, that's right, amazing. Watch it.
Speaker 1: That's how a Yental watch party. That's what we should do. Sure,
Speaker 1: movies like that that people have forgotten about. What such
Speaker 1: you stars never watch Gental? I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: you should. Well, you're gonna need to watch it when
Speaker 1: you prepare for the show. I would imagine for your
Speaker 1: Yental extravaganza. So yeah, at the Hollywood Bowl. I would
Speaker 1: love it if the Hollywood Bowl, If anyone works for
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl and wants the host, Donald and I
Speaker 1: perform Yental and we do all the parts. I see
Speaker 1: that as something that's gonna happen, not just something we're talking.
Speaker 1: And what do you think we should do? The running
Speaker 1: out of episodes we're running out of episodes of Scrubs. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you do when you run out of episodes?
Speaker 1: We have, but we have a very large fan base
Speaker 1: all over the world, and you're a very creative guy.
Speaker 1: There's been I think you guys are really good at
Speaker 1: analyzing films and all kinds of content. Why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: just say, Hey, today we're gonna pick we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Today, we're gonna talk about Gentle Yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 1: that would be so great to talk about movies like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like to talk about movies
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe lot a lot of people haven't seen.
Speaker 1: We have a very young audience also to introduce them
Speaker 1: to we could bring that. We could surely get someone
Speaker 1: relevant to the film to come on. Stan would totally
Speaker 1: do the Like if we do Beverly Hill's Cop. We
Speaker 1: might not get Eddie, but we might get Rosewood Met
Speaker 1: the Past. I think so. I think so. I think
Speaker 1: so could probably get Rosewood. Maybe we could get Searge
Speaker 1: Bronson Pinchow. If we get Rosewood, we could also ask
Speaker 1: him about the Phoebe Kates um most glorious moment in
Speaker 1: cinema history. So there you go. That's clearly a way
Speaker 1: you could keep. And you could also do a version
Speaker 1: where you pick a movie preef beforehand and Donald picks
Speaker 1: a movie and then you're like, okay, Ferres Peeler's Day Off?
Speaker 1: All right, what is Everybody's seen that movie? I know?
Speaker 1: But do you want to do movies? You know? I
Speaker 1: think we'll do an occasional obscure one like Gentle and
Speaker 1: introduce our fans to the Majesty. You don't have to
Speaker 1: figure you don't have to figure it out right now though,
Speaker 1: how I figure it out? Back to the show. Should
Speaker 1: we take a break? Joel back? Wait, Wait, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break. We're gonna talk about what a beach
Speaker 1: Kim is. When we come back, We'll be right back
Speaker 1: back Bay. I mean, Kim is the worst person in
Speaker 1: the world. She may be mad. She made me mad. No,
Speaker 1: I don't remember hating her. I don't remember hating the
Speaker 1: character as much. But this is fucking sinister evil. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She even they even go and have conversations about you know,
Speaker 1: what it would have been like if they were together
Speaker 1: and you know, a pizza. Yeah, yeah, all I mean
Speaker 1: she's a sociopath. Yeah, that's that's really I mean, I
Speaker 1: wrote down when I was watching, I was like, that's
Speaker 1: pretty dark twist at the end there, like I didn't
Speaker 1: see it coming at all. I'm like, whoa what I mean?
Speaker 1: How could no human being who's not evil or as
Speaker 1: a sociopath with no conscience could do this? I think
Speaker 1: just a little yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So I
Speaker 1: get what Kim is trying to do in that She's like,
Speaker 1: I don't want this person to be with me out
Speaker 1: of obligation. I want you to be here for I love.
Speaker 1: Where it becomes misguided is g D is like show
Speaker 1: genuinely showing up because he wants to be there, right,
Speaker 1: he wants to get to know this kid, right, but
Speaker 1: not enough to like move to another city this quickly,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the conversation, they're basically like,
Speaker 1: how but how do you put somebody in that situation?
Speaker 1: Right then? And there also it's like, all right, look,
Speaker 1: we're not going to have this baby. Maybe in two weeks,
Speaker 1: you maybe in a week or something. You discuss it,
Speaker 1: but you don't say, okay, so these are the things
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you. We're not going to have this baby.
Speaker 1: They offered me the job. I'm gonna stay Do you
Speaker 1: want to stay with me? How the fuck is he
Speaker 1: supposed to say yes to that? Shits? And you don't
Speaker 1: have to lie, you don't have to lie. You can
Speaker 1: say I'm not sure how this gonna work out? What
Speaker 1: is her plan for the rest of eternity. It's a
Speaker 1: terrible mistake. I'm sorry I ever disagree with you because
Speaker 1: you are a queen. But there's no defense, no defense.
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't. I don't understand it. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. I just don't understand the miscarriage. Yeah, it's twisted.
Speaker 1: So happy and excited and and and they sit on
Speaker 1: that bench, and and the actor who played GD was
Speaker 1: really good in the scene, and he was amazing, and
Speaker 1: he saw how heartbroken he was. Yeah, and that woman
Speaker 1: had the audacity did not just do like a quick lie,
Speaker 1: a full night's worth of lying. No, it was a lie, lie.
Speaker 1: It was like it was a full on. It was
Speaker 1: a full on. You know. At some point during that
Speaker 1: night her story had to get a little freaking twisted,
Speaker 1: and she found a way to bring it back to
Speaker 1: make him believe, like, there's no way you can hold
Speaker 1: up a lie for twelve hours talking about you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, she's gonna have to hold it up
Speaker 1: for the rest of her life. Well literally, well it
Speaker 1: all comes back. It spoilers. But this song at the end, Now, Brian,
Speaker 1: we recently learned we're allowed to play thirty seconds of
Speaker 1: a song if we talk, if we analyze it. Okay,
Speaker 1: we used to think we weren't allowed to ever play anything.
Speaker 1: But this song at the end by Ron Sexsmith called
Speaker 1: Hands of Time. I thought it was very great, is
Speaker 1: very very sweet. Yeah, you know, Donald, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the song is about. I can't. I can barely
Speaker 1: hear it, but it sounds very melancholic. All right, we
Speaker 1: analyzed it. It's a pretty song. Check it out Ron Sexsmith,
Speaker 1: Hands of Time. Um, that's the song that ends the episode.
Speaker 1: So before we go into the Caller and everything like that,
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about the Kelso situation and
Speaker 1: all of this, you know, with him talking about Al
Speaker 1: Green and Turk knowing who Al Green is because he's black,
Speaker 1: and the whole Asian fetish thing. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think they're trying to tell us that this is a
Speaker 1: bad guy, you know what I mean, for all of
Speaker 1: these even though he's part of that Algreen thing that
Speaker 1: he goes she has calcoma? Is that is the is
Speaker 1: the implication that you're gonna sing is Algreen? Yes? Yes, terrible.
Speaker 1: He's a terrible. He's a terrible, terrible, terrible person. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think Donald's right there. I'm not gonna lie, though.
Speaker 1: I laugh at some of this shit, man, Like a
Speaker 1: lot of this shit. I laugh at a lot of this.
Speaker 1: A lot of his racism fucking makes me laugh. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna Archie Bunker. It's like Archie Bunker. I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't it. You're you're you're you're laughing at someone who's
Speaker 1: so delusional and old and often an asshole. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean like yeah, but I don't know, man, there's humor.
Speaker 1: I don't know there's humor in it. Like he bought
Speaker 1: that RV to take Edith. He was like, oh, me
Speaker 1: and Edith, they're gonna like retire in this and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: is it will she accessible? He's like, well, no, she's
Speaker 1: gonna be dead in three years. And if she's not,
Speaker 1: I'll come to that bridge. What I like. Horrible human
Speaker 1: be terrible. The Comodo closet in the RV and Edith
Speaker 1: has au coma and he didn't get al Green tickets,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna have a green. Yeah. Man, it's a
Speaker 1: mess your al Green impression. I don't. My al Green
Speaker 1: impression is horrible. Okay, I also have an al Green show.
Speaker 1: I do once every time. It all right, we'll be
Speaker 1: right back with a collar and all right, Joel, bring
Speaker 1: in this collar. I can't wait to see what you've
Speaker 1: brought us. Joel always brings us wonderful callers. Everybody, we
Speaker 1: got a call, you know, like a bottle maybe talking
Speaker 1: about the episode. So come on, ladies and gentlemen, give
Speaker 1: it up for mcla. Hello, Belcolm, he's still going, um, MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: That's our friend Brian. He's joining us for the show.
Speaker 1: And you know, of course the legendary DJ Daniel who
Speaker 1: is often twitching the new show a new game, Elden ring.
Speaker 1: Is that how you say it? You nailed it? And
Speaker 1: I put him on a put him on a text
Speaker 1: chain with my nephew who now they can geek out.
Speaker 1: Did you connect with Henry? Oh my god, we talked
Speaker 1: for like a solid two hours straight about video games.
Speaker 1: It was really were you like, do you would you
Speaker 1: tell him which spelled to use on which feature? He's
Speaker 1: telling me he's farther. He's way farther than I am.
Speaker 1: He's so much better. I think I made a real
Speaker 1: nice bromance there, and there's our Queen Joel is it?
Speaker 1: And yes, hello to say hello to the queen. Oh, hello,
Speaker 1: Queen Joel mar Yes, Casey's not here, but if she were,
Speaker 1: she'd say this, Yes, Donald, what is it? Shut the
Speaker 1: fuck up? Um? Daniel? Um? Yes, Daniel. Is it like
Speaker 1: Red Dead Redemption too? But with wands and swords? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's closer to Zelda. Wow. That that was a
Speaker 1: long pause in between. Well, all I know is both
Speaker 1: DJ Daniel and my nephew Henry love throwing. What do
Speaker 1: you call um spells? Kids? You like to cast a
Speaker 1: spell on a on a on a What do you
Speaker 1: call the guy at the end of the at the
Speaker 1: end of the level? Boss? There you go, Daniel. Daniel's
Speaker 1: idea of a dream day is beating a boss with
Speaker 1: a spell ell yet perfect, perfect Sunday. That sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: Were talking about I really need to get into video
Speaker 1: games one day. Alright, MICHAELA, tell us about why Joel
Speaker 1: chose you? Why you're here. Um, it's hard to get
Speaker 1: past our bouncer, Joel. Somehow you did? What what's your story?
Speaker 1: Your story must be great. Well, it's pretty exciting. But
Speaker 1: um I tag Joel in a post that I made
Speaker 1: on Instagram last week. Um, as I was about to
Speaker 1: go into surgery. Um. Because last November, you guys did
Speaker 1: a podcast with a guest who talked about how she
Speaker 1: donated her kidney. And because of that episode, I immediately
Speaker 1: took the quiz on the National Donor Registry, and last
Speaker 1: week I donated my kidney. Oh my whoa, I just
Speaker 1: got every piece of my body. Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: want you guys to know that, like you have saved
Speaker 1: a life. Like I know you've you know, you've made
Speaker 1: a difference in a lot of people's life. But like,
Speaker 1: because of your podcast, I was able to help someone
Speaker 1: save a life and it was only because of you. So,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm speechless. Jo I literally have goosebumps
Speaker 1: on every cell of my body. You're incredible. So so
Speaker 1: for those who do who missed that episode, MICHAELA, let's
Speaker 1: go through it. Um. We had someone on who said
Speaker 1: they they looked at the registry and um, Joel you'll
Speaker 1: look up tell me I want to reference it again
Speaker 1: with the registrates. But you and you can see if
Speaker 1: you're a candidate for this, right and if they're looking
Speaker 1: for someone. How does it? How does it work? I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm trying to figure out, MICHAELA. How
Speaker 1: does it work? Sure, there's a on like the National
Speaker 1: Kidney website. There's a potential donor survey that you basically
Speaker 1: go on and fill out. It took me about an hour.
Speaker 1: It was kind of expensive but kind of about your
Speaker 1: lifestyle things like that. And from there, we don't want
Speaker 1: people to take bong hits some with their one morning coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining. So you're not a really candidate. Wait, hold up,
Speaker 1: we'd effects the kidney No, yeah, I didn't think so Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think you can be like a
Speaker 1: serious like user like maybe every day might count. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't use it, Okay, I
Speaker 1: smoked smoke. Okay, all right, So I don't use it.
Speaker 1: So you took like an outlook, it takes you about
Speaker 1: an hour to fill out the paperwork and then then
Speaker 1: what happens? Yeah, from THERETT really snowballed kind of quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: They a center in my state contacted me and they
Speaker 1: set up just a bunch of tests. I started doing
Speaker 1: blood tests and from there I did some urine screens
Speaker 1: and they took me in and did a full day appointment,
Speaker 1: like a head to toe medical screen. UM, a bunch
Speaker 1: of scans and stuff. I spoke with surgeons and nephrologists,
Speaker 1: kidney doctors and all these people, and they determined that
Speaker 1: I was a good candidate. And uh, you can say
Speaker 1: no at any step in the process. Um, but I
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of just felt like it was
Speaker 1: meant for me. So that's incredible. No, no, no, have
Speaker 1: you how long ago did you have the surgery? A
Speaker 1: week ago? She said? Yeah, last Friday? Jesus? But you
Speaker 1: look are you okay? You look perfectly like like you're not?
Speaker 1: I mean to me, you look like you could do
Speaker 1: you feel okay? You look great? Chewie says, you look
Speaker 1: strong enough to pull the ears off a gun. Darn understand. Sorry, No,
Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty well. Um. I was in the hospital
Speaker 1: for about three days. Um, and then now I'm at home.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm living on this reclining um chair. But
Speaker 1: they say, a couple of weeks and I should be
Speaker 1: up and back to doing things like normal. I'm taking
Speaker 1: three weeks off of work, but other than that, I'm
Speaker 1: starting I'm starting to get an appetite back. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: a lot more like myself. So can you save someone's life?
Speaker 1: I'm in awe. I'm in awe. I feel very, very
Speaker 1: fortunate to be able to be someone's life. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get to live with that, mitzvah, your entire life.
Speaker 1: My god, Now, are there any I think the answer
Speaker 1: is no, But are there any restrictions that you now
Speaker 1: have to live by only having one kidney? The only
Speaker 1: thing is I have to make sure I drink a
Speaker 1: lot of water, more than I would normally drink, probably
Speaker 1: like up to like eighty ounces a day. But it's
Speaker 1: not terrible, Like I drink a good amount of water.
Speaker 1: And then you just have to make sure you can't
Speaker 1: take a lot of medications that are processed in the kidney,
Speaker 1: like advil or astron or things like that, or like
Speaker 1: antibiotics either than really huh, like an antibiotic could kind
Speaker 1: of fuck you up? Huh. Yeah, I'm certain pain meds
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, like they had to be for
Speaker 1: particular pain meds that I was given in the hospital
Speaker 1: and things like that. But for the most part, within
Speaker 1: a couple months, I can go back to living my
Speaker 1: life like normal. And I'm pretty young and healthy and
Speaker 1: so I don't think it'll have too much of an
Speaker 1: impact on my life. Did they tell you or is
Speaker 1: it secret who you saved? Well, this is actually pretty cool. Um.
Speaker 1: It was anonymous. UM, so I gave anonymously. But they
Speaker 1: did tell me that the person that got my kidney
Speaker 1: happened to be at that same hospital, which is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: And they said that the person that wanted to donate
Speaker 1: to them couldn't. They weren't a match. So that person
Speaker 1: donated to someone else and I donated to them. So
Speaker 1: it was a bit of a chain that you were
Speaker 1: the piece of a puzzle that needed to be put
Speaker 1: into place for two people to get kidneys. So did
Speaker 1: they I know you didn't do that. I know you
Speaker 1: did this for totally philanthropic reasons. But did they give
Speaker 1: you any financial help with work or compensation at all? Um?
Speaker 1: There's a fund um that can reimburse up to four
Speaker 1: weeks of lost wages, which is awesome. UM, and I
Speaker 1: live in a state where there is a transplant center.
Speaker 1: But they can also reimburse you for traveling expenses if
Speaker 1: you have to travel for an appointment or something. So
Speaker 1: they're paying me my lost wages for a three weeks,
Speaker 1: which is great, um and incredible human Brian, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that person. I mean. I can't, I really can't. Brian,
Speaker 1: you were a fascinating guest until MC. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: put it out there. I'm just gonna put it out
Speaker 1: there stage. You're just a funny writer. Wow. Wow you guys.
Speaker 1: Well I I love that you say that, and and
Speaker 1: it makes me very moved. I I I really have
Speaker 1: to from to be totally sincere the idea that gosh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we we hear all the time at
Speaker 1: this show and we see the numbers that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are listening, and we can't believe it, but
Speaker 1: we um, we we just think. We hope, we hope
Speaker 1: we're brightening people's day, you know, just being ourselves and
Speaker 1: hopefully you know that's all we all, all me and
Speaker 1: Donald can do. And what Brian does is is is
Speaker 1: hopefully make someone giggle. Um, that idea that our guest
Speaker 1: would would and do inspire you, and that could, for
Speaker 1: all we host inspire somebody else. I mean, that is
Speaker 1: just so moving to me. I mean you and you
Speaker 1: get to live with the with the honor that you
Speaker 1: saved somebody's life. I just think that's incredible. And I'm
Speaker 1: so impressed by you. I'm so impressed by you. And
Speaker 1: you're a young woman and you So what do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do? I'm a microbiologists Like she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm an assassin. Really balances out CIA and I can't
Speaker 1: discuss anything further. Um, well, sorry, what do you do? Um?
Speaker 1: I'm a microbiosologist at a hospital here, so I right
Speaker 1: now I do a lot of COVID testing. For about
Speaker 1: the last two years, I've done a lot of codes.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of work in that, I hear, um
Speaker 1: and um always busy. Wow, my goodness. I assume you
Speaker 1: liked the show because you wouldn't have been listening to
Speaker 1: this darn thing. You didn't do you do you have
Speaker 1: any I feel bad moving on, but you're here. Do
Speaker 1: you have any questions for us? Do you have anything
Speaker 1: you want to ask? We can we fix your life,
Speaker 1: like in any possible way? Sure? Well, one of the
Speaker 1: questions I've always had for you and Donald is just
Speaker 1: kind of how you guys maintain such a good friendship,
Speaker 1: you know, through all of life ups and down, through
Speaker 1: marriages and moving and being on different sides of the country.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a best friend who I'm really
Speaker 1: close with, but I feel like every time we go
Speaker 1: through major life changes, it's so hard to figure out
Speaker 1: a new balance or stay close. And I love your friendship.
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest reason why I love the
Speaker 1: show and this show. So I'm curious what you guys
Speaker 1: do to make it work. I say, can I be
Speaker 1: honest with you wife? My wife is a strong, a
Speaker 1: strong part of it. But in all honestly, we have
Speaker 1: this we have we have even though we grew up
Speaker 1: in different parts of the like he grew up in
Speaker 1: Jersey and I grew up in New York. It's very
Speaker 1: close and similar, but we have kind of the same upbringing.
Speaker 1: We did kind of the same things as kids. Uh.
Speaker 1: And when you find somebody who's a lot like you know,
Speaker 1: it's Hollywood and you meet a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are very similar in that way. But a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that we did as youths are very very
Speaker 1: similar and it's really weird, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he has he has things that he did, Like
Speaker 1: I don't want to bring up the forum, but like
Speaker 1: that's something that you know, you know, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that id a lot ideologies that we
Speaker 1: have that are similar as well. And so he can
Speaker 1: put up with he can put up with who I am,
Speaker 1: and I can put up with who with who he is.
Speaker 1: And we could say that shit to each other and
Speaker 1: it and and uh and know that after this we're
Speaker 1: gonna drop this shit and we're still going to be
Speaker 1: friends like now. And also we had a very unique
Speaker 1: experience that that that who else would ever really have
Speaker 1: have UM, and that is that we spent ten years
Speaker 1: um not you know, we had breaks through the year,
Speaker 1: but for ten years every day together, every weekday together
Speaker 1: making each other laugh. And our our job was like
Speaker 1: crack each other up. Our job was like say these
Speaker 1: lines and then also come up with new lines to
Speaker 1: make to be funny. And we just bonded and we
Speaker 1: have UM. I've seen, we've we've seen each other through.
Speaker 1: We've been with each other through thick and thin, and
Speaker 1: we do get in fights and it's often Casey who
Speaker 1: helps us make up. Um, she's our she's our our
Speaker 1: couples therapists and um and um and sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: by the way, we wouldn't this podcast has been wonderful
Speaker 1: for our friendship because we wouldn't. We wouldn't talk every
Speaker 1: week necessarily this much. So it's kind of like you
Speaker 1: and your your friend, if you if you, if you
Speaker 1: promised and you had a hard commitment that every you know, Thursday,
Speaker 1: at one o'clock, you were gonna do an hour and
Speaker 1: a half FaceTime catchup. Um, we've done that. We've committed
Speaker 1: to that and UM, and so that keeps us in
Speaker 1: really good touch and UM. And I just love him
Speaker 1: When I see his face, I just smile. I really do.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I really I you know, like
Speaker 1: your dad, your mom, my mom, Like you know, I
Speaker 1: would say my dad, you know, be he's a bit
Speaker 1: of a loaner. But like even when they met each other,
Speaker 1: it was it's it's I feel like it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like there's some form of family that
Speaker 1: we have. It's also interesting too that are both of
Speaker 1: the sets of our parents, well not my mom, but
Speaker 1: your parents and my dad were both fairing in the theater,
Speaker 1: and they were just very similar, even though Donald lived
Speaker 1: in the city and I was out in the suburbs.
Speaker 1: You know, we've said this before. We just we just
Speaker 1: we just had the same sense of humor. And it
Speaker 1: all began when I saw him at the at the
Speaker 1: table read for Scrubs and he was early at the
Speaker 1: bar getting a drink at Bill's in Christa's house, remember,
Speaker 1: and he turned around, Hey, and You're like, hey, I
Speaker 1: was like a famous guy, He's famous, And then we talked.
Speaker 1: I remember, I just remember being like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: for the table read to see how he's gonna do this,
Speaker 1: and everybody left. You didn't think I could bring it.
Speaker 1: We're using I was so nervous, dude. Look I bought
Speaker 1: a lot of money riding on this fucking guy. Dude,
Speaker 1: think about it. You had every line in the fucking
Speaker 1: script pretty much. And I remember thinking, I have no
Speaker 1: idea who this guy is. He has zero from my
Speaker 1: from from my point of view, he has zero credentials
Speaker 1: to be able to pull this off. Let's see what
Speaker 1: he within Within two within two minutes of the table read,
Speaker 1: he had won not only myself but everybody in the
Speaker 1: room over everybody walking out of that ship was like,
Speaker 1: I feel good about where we are with this, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was a great we know
Speaker 1: that we'd go well the show would go nine years
Speaker 1: or eight? Um, you have another question or a fix
Speaker 1: your life for us? Um. So a bunch of TV
Speaker 1: shows will do like crossover episodes like you know in
Speaker 1: the Arrowbirth or one of my favorites is a New
Speaker 1: Girl in Brooklyn My nine by those, I knew you
Speaker 1: were going to say that, yes Tomorrow, Legends of Tomorrow. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you were going to bring that
Speaker 1: up with the crossover episode of Legends of Tomorrow. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about it. Pick the show
Speaker 1: off CW Okay, sorry MICHAELA go ahead, Well you kind
Speaker 1: of answer, but I'm cerious if the Scrubs characters were
Speaker 1: to do a crossover with another TV show, which would
Speaker 1: you have wanted to do? But I think the fans,
Speaker 1: I think the fans would want to see us in
Speaker 1: Psyched together. Yeah, that's with that type of crossover. I
Speaker 1: have to admit I've never seen an episode of Psych.
Speaker 1: I've never watched one episode of Psych, but I love funny.
Speaker 1: It's really it's funny. It's yeah, it's well. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because I have a little mild resentment
Speaker 1: that they took our shack and ran with it, but um,
Speaker 1: and then they took Sarah Chalk, who had the fucking
Speaker 1: down on Sarah the fucking trader and trader fucking trader
Speaker 1: was a trader and she was on how I Met
Speaker 1: your mother making out with Josh Radner hussy, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, there's your answer, MICHAELA. I'm I'm speechless. But um,
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about one more thing before
Speaker 1: we end the show, and that is Brian. Brian wrote
Speaker 1: a beautiful Brian as a new Baby, and Brian is
Speaker 1: an incredible writer, and Brian and Brian that book is amazing.
Speaker 1: But you wrote a beautiful, so beautiful, beautiful children's book,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about and I hope that
Speaker 1: you'll tell us all about it, called you are you
Speaker 1: tell us just about the which you can get on Amazon,
Speaker 1: you can get anywhere. It's it's not one of those
Speaker 1: self published things. It's it's Simon and Schuster, as I believe,
Speaker 1: so it's really everywhere. Tell us about the impetus and
Speaker 1: I imagine having a new baby. Tell us about it, Brian.
Speaker 1: You know, I've always been interested in children's books, but
Speaker 1: especially a certain kind, the kind that kind of spoke
Speaker 1: to adult as well as like younger. You know, someone
Speaker 1: gives you all the places you'll go when you graduate,
Speaker 1: you know, high school, or they give you the giving tree,
Speaker 1: some kind of adult themes. When I was growing up,
Speaker 1: they didn't have a word for it, but I was
Speaker 1: undiagnosed bipolar, right, and that's been a journey for me
Speaker 1: of like self acceptance, of self love, and you kind
Speaker 1: of go through these hard fought lessons, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to see if I could kind of take those thoughts
Speaker 1: and make them kind of elementally boiled down to like
Speaker 1: that elemental level where you could speak to a children,
Speaker 1: speak to children of all ages. So this book really
Speaker 1: was my attempt to be like I wish someone had
Speaker 1: handed me this book when I was a kid, something
Speaker 1: about something about loving yourself in this way, and you
Speaker 1: know also kind of you know, all these things you
Speaker 1: might want to change about yourself can actually be like
Speaker 1: your greatest strengths and putting that into there. So I
Speaker 1: wrote the book. All the proceeds from me are going
Speaker 1: to mind Up, which is an incredible nonprofit association that
Speaker 1: really teaches tools to children so they can adopt and
Speaker 1: cope with stress. And mental health for children really is
Speaker 1: where this book lives. But I hope it's something that
Speaker 1: can talk to like emotion, feel like it talks to
Speaker 1: every everybody really, you know, I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like you know, when reading it, I was just like
Speaker 1: you said, I wish somebody had talked to me this
Speaker 1: way when I was young, because you know, we all
Speaker 1: have our insecurities. I wrote, I wrote down that the
Speaker 1: book is very uh it's it's a confidence booster and children.
Speaker 1: If children could hear what you're saying to them in
Speaker 1: this book every day, just imagine how confident they could
Speaker 1: feel going out in the world, being comfortable with just
Speaker 1: being themselves. Yeah, I mean, And I think The Giving
Speaker 1: Tree is a great example in that your child is
Speaker 1: going to appreciate it on one level and you, the
Speaker 1: adult reading it, are going to appreciate it on a
Speaker 1: whole other level. And I think it's very hard to
Speaker 1: write like that. The book is is very simply written,
Speaker 1: So your child will, I imagine it will. It will
Speaker 1: start a dialogue with your with your child too as
Speaker 1: reading into them because it's so inspirational. But I had
Speaker 1: like tears in my eyes when I was reading it.
Speaker 1: And I also have to say the illustrations were amazing.
Speaker 1: Who who did those? Oh, Brian, It's done by a
Speaker 1: guy named Alex Stephen Martin, And I just read him
Speaker 1: with him because you could you could pick anybody because
Speaker 1: you're you. I you know, I just randomly was connected
Speaker 1: with him and I looked at some of his art
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is very whimsical and kind
Speaker 1: of has that feel that I wanted. And you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the shel Silverstein stuff. I love
Speaker 1: those line drawings, those simple elegant drawings, maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of watercolor, and he just brought that vibe and
Speaker 1: I just fell in love with it. Yeah. I love
Speaker 1: that everything in the book is characters too, like just
Speaker 1: different types of characters. Yeah, Becau. Isn't there like a
Speaker 1: cactus at one point? That's right? Yeahoint like my my
Speaker 1: super cactus. Yeah yeah, really really sweet drawings. Brian. For real,
Speaker 1: it was such a great joy to read. Oh, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. It's something, you know, it's like something
Speaker 1: that I'm so proud of that. I really, I really
Speaker 1: hope can some of those books that you were talking about,
Speaker 1: like they made a difference to me. And I hope,
Speaker 1: you know, not just about raising the money for mental health,
Speaker 1: but like drawing some awareness to that in the space
Speaker 1: for children. I think it would be an incredible thing
Speaker 1: to be a part of. I really hope people buy
Speaker 1: the book and buy this book. It's you are you,
Speaker 1: and it's putting put up by Simon and Schusters, So
Speaker 1: you know, it's no bs, It's not one of those
Speaker 1: our friend wrote a book. It's it's um, it's I
Speaker 1: actually think it will come out the day this is
Speaker 1: right now, there you go, it's coming out today, and um,
Speaker 1: Amazon or any imagine we'll be in bookstores for real,
Speaker 1: because yes, correct and get it. Because not only are
Speaker 1: you supporting a good cause, um, all the all Brian's
Speaker 1: proceeds go to mind up a friend of mine. Uh
Speaker 1: these are by the way, hearing you guys talk about
Speaker 1: it and saying that stuff and feeling how heartfelt it
Speaker 1: is very very touching to me, to be honest, this
Speaker 1: is something I've been working on a long time. So
Speaker 1: now that it's coming out into the world and hearing
Speaker 1: the response. It's really touching. A friend of mine gave
Speaker 1: it to his kid the other day who's seven years old,
Speaker 1: and the kid read it with his dad and he said,
Speaker 1: this book makes me feel calm, and I think, yeah.
Speaker 1: And when he said that, I said, that's the only
Speaker 1: blurb I want on the book. You know what I mean, like,
Speaker 1: this book makes me feel calm, seven year old. Mind
Speaker 1: up dot org is the website if you're curious. I'm
Speaker 1: Brian just mentioned it's Goldie Hawn's charity. If you're curious
Speaker 1: about that. All of the proceeds from Brian go to
Speaker 1: mind up dot org and just get it because it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful story to read your kids and make them
Speaker 1: feel confident. MICHAELA. I sorry that Brian tried to steal
Speaker 1: your limelight. I really didn't. I'm in awe. It's like
Speaker 1: a battle. It's like a battle today. Man, It's like
Speaker 1: having MICHAELA upstage Brian and then Briankael was I go, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I raise you a kidney. Brian was yeah, well, I hell,
Speaker 1: I'm donating my proceeds from the book and both of
Speaker 1: my kidneys. You don't want to do both, right, I'm
Speaker 1: sure As a fake doctor. I advise you not to
Speaker 1: do both. Don't do both, all right, that's our show, guys, MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: I I'm speechless. You are such an inspiration and um,
Speaker 1: and I think you're an incredible human being. And if
Speaker 1: you are ever down and having a shitty moment, as
Speaker 1: we humans are, I want you to remind yourself that
Speaker 1: you saved someone's life and maybe put that on a
Speaker 1: giant whiteboard in your in your house, because I write
Speaker 1: inspirational things on whiteboards all around my house and uh, yours,
Speaker 1: yours trumps any of mine life. Um, and then remind people,
Speaker 1: um where to go if they want to do a
Speaker 1: similar thing. What's the website, MICHAELA? Do you went to? Um?
Speaker 1: I grew a National Kidney Registry and I think that'll
Speaker 1: pretty much take you there. There's a button that says
Speaker 1: donate and they can tell you all about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you are a saint on earth like MICHAELA, go
Speaker 1: to the National Kidney Registry or searched for that on
Speaker 1: the interwebs and you will find it. That's our show, Donald,
Speaker 1: anything else you want to say, what a great show.
Speaker 1: It was a great show. Two really awesome guests. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you for having Brian Brian I am. I want
Speaker 1: to thank you for uh you know, mentioning Zach and
Speaker 1: I for this whole team Mobile thing, because that's probably
Speaker 1: one of the coolest moments of my life. To you
Speaker 1: were in the super Bowl. Super Bowl. I feel like
Speaker 1: we played in the game. I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: we won. I feel like Spectacus even though she came
Speaker 1: in one for most search. She's the biggest movie star
Speaker 1: in the world, so we need she's the black widow.
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, down's biggest movie star in the world.
Speaker 1: And then technically we won. We won. That makes you
Speaker 1: the second biggest movie star in the world. Guys, congratulations,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so take that, okay, right, We love you all,
Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in, and uh we see you
Speaker 1: next time. Five, six, seven, eight. Stories about show we
Speaker 1: made about a bunch of doctor nurses in Canada who
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