301: My Own American Girl with Sarah Chalke

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why do you want so concerned? You have a furrowed brow.
Turn that furrowed brow upside down. She was an American
girl raised on promises. Who fire real talk, yo. So
I don't know how we're gonna cover all that I

(00:21):
have to say in this episode. Plus have the genius
guests that we have, the one and only Sarah Chalk.
We have so much to cover. Season three begins right now. Yeah,
season three, Welcome, everybody, Welcome. Made three. We made it
to season three. This is going so fast. We're gonna
be done with this show too soon. I know my

(00:43):
heart needs to re up. Well, no, I heart's clearly
gonna re up to me. I don't know what my
fucking gift basket is, but I think it's pretty clear
they're gonna re up. But um but um but I mean,
you know, someone wrote me on my social media that like,
if you guys keep going at this rate, you'll be
done in this many weeks, and I was like, oh shit,
that's kind of fast. Well that's a great to think

(01:05):
about what we're gonna do when we're at a Scrubs episodes.
I think we could keep going with watching movies or
or or like pads of favorite TV shows or something.
I like that idea. That sounds great. I mean, what's
gonna happen, obviously, is eventually the world to reopen and
we'll be going back to doing what we do for
a living, acting and directing, and maybe we'll slow down

(01:25):
and do one a week instead of two week. I'm
just speculating. Listen, man, anything's possible. That's the beauty of
that's the beauty of this podcast. It's called Fake Doctors,
Real Friends. It's not necessarily called the Scrubs rewatch Show. Yeah,
that's just smart. That was smart. We could have called
it the Scrubs Rewatch Show and then it just would
have been that. Right. No, but that's not what this is.

(01:47):
This is a This is a tale of two fake
doctors who are actual friends, real friends. Yeah. So you know,
we could take this on to something else. Maybe we
watch other doctors shows. I'd preferably do I want to
do that. I do. No. I want to say since
we talk so much about movies, and I do think
that the listeners like the discussion of pop culture and

(02:09):
episodes of TV, we could literally go, Okay, this week,
we're doing back to the Future this week, we're doing
an episode of What's Happening, Like we could just I
think we could just like pick whether it's a TV
episode or a movie, and like that's the topic of
discussion that week. I would love I would love to
do the Back to the Future one. Now, could we
do that? No? Already did? We already did La Land.

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Although I think when we switched to this mode, we'll
have to do a more in depth La La Land. Oh,
I can't go way deeper with my lad You know,
we turned a lot of people onto Lala Land. I
had a lot of people on my feeds being like,
you know, I never actually watched it, and I did,
thank you so much. I'm crying my eyes out. Really, yeah,
I would think that people would just be pissed off

(02:51):
at the end of La La Land. I don't necessarily
think people would be. I didn't think people would be
crying and stuff. I cried my eyes out at the
d laaand you didn't. We was sad you cried at
the end of La I'm a big sucker for love.
That cannot be if you strategically and do a good
job in your script of setting up two people. I'm
dying to be together, and then you throw at me

(03:14):
that they can't be together. I mean, even if like
we always we've not always we've used the example of
Whoopee being separated from her sister in color Purple, Oh
my gosh, or or or feel the dreams, the father
having the catch, but he's got to go back to
the field. Like you give me, you give me two
people that love each other and they can't be together.
I'm fucking done. I hear that out of Africa. Come on, buddy,

(03:37):
Bridges of Madison County. Come on home, buddy. When she
reaches for that handle and her hand is shaken, come o, buddy.
Spoilers WHI she's about to commit infidelity and she's about
to cheat on her husband. So come my own buddy.
Are you watching um Raised by Wolves Us? No? Is
that the Mowgli story of Tarzan? No, it's a jungle

(04:02):
book in Tarzan in one reverence. No, it's it's Ridley Scott, dude,
and it's sci fi. So I know you'll love it.
And it's really good. Joel, you must be watching this.
I freaking love it was there you go, I don't
want to it's cool. I think you really like it.
Donald because it's like sci fi, it's all the stuff. Really,
Scott's been exploring with the Alien franchise for the past

(04:23):
couple of years, and what I'm really interested it's like
the story of a mother and son. Mostly Ridley Scott's
son takes over the series after episode three, so really
Scott directs the first three episodes. Yeah is it, Jake?
I think so? Look it up. He's got a few songs.
I'm actually I'm actually represented by the Ridley Scott's Company
as a commercial director. And um, oh, a little bit

(04:46):
of trivia for you. When we cut my short film
that I made with Alicia Silverstone and Florence Pew, the
one that you all should go watch if you haven't
watched it called In the Time It Takes to Get There. Um,
that was in the whole edit suite where they cut
this show. So they like loaned us one of their
bays and for like a few days and we cut
our short in there, and I didn't know what it was.
It was like, oh, yeah, we're we're gearing up to

(05:07):
cut this epic series called Raised by Wolves, And I
was like, I don't know what that is. And now
I'm and now I'm watching it and it's so good.
I was like, oh shit, I was cutting on their avids.
So there you go. Donald, you'll love it. It's sci fi.
There's spaceships, there's androids. Oh that's the one where like
the Android is like got a bunch of kids and
it's yes, yes, yes, it's really good. Luke Scott oh yah, well,

(05:31):
Jake Scott's also a really amazing director. But Donald, you'll
love it. Um should we talk about Peloton? Did you
spend today? I did not spend to damn Gonna? I did.
You could probably tell by how sweaty I am. Are
you gonna try this woman? Leanne Haynesby, She's my favorite?
Right now, I'm telling you try Cody's. I did try Cody.
I did try Cody. Did you laugh your ass off?

(05:52):
He's funny, but he's a little he has I love
how you all have catchphrases. Cody. Cody has some catchphrases, right.
He says some shit that's like they're all trying to
find there. What you're talking about, willis what was coded? What? God?
He said one phrase over and again. But Liane's is
done and dusted because she's British and I didn't know
that was done and she goes, okay, okay, sit back down,

(06:14):
that section's over done and dusted, and I didn't. I
was like, did she make this shit up? And then
I asked Florence, It's like, is that like a British expression?
She's like, yeah, don and dusted. I never heard dunn
and dusted before Don dusted. Do you know what my
favorite British saying is bits and bobs? What is that?
Penis and balls? No bits and bobs? Like, just like
bits and bobs doesn't refer to penis and balls. Why

(06:36):
would it refer to penis and ball? I don't know.
Penis is willing forgot, for fuck's sake, just stop talking
about willis. Sorry anyway. Yeah, so I want to incorporate
I might even try it in this podcast the expression
don and dustted. Okay, dude, I'm getting skinny though, Dude.
I just want you to know I'm pushing myself. You're

(06:59):
looking good. I'm not gonna lie you're looking good, man.
I'm kind of wait. I'm gonna I'm gonna not not
ready to reveal my my abs yet because it's only
been a week, but I'm I'm going hardcore. I can't
wait for the Abberville as Health like everybody, and that's
my goal. Hey, speaking of cover of Men's Health, did
you see Ryan Reynolds on Twitter? What do you didn't

(07:19):
see that? Oh my god? Oh he's been blowing us
up all morning. He wants to come on the show.
He's like, go check Twitter right now now on your phone.
Not do you have Twitter on your phone? Yeah, he missed.
He missed his opportunity. Man, it's really we're not gonna
The funny thing is, what are you gonna we don't
have an episode, We just do it. He's gonna be

(07:40):
like our first, like episode. Yeah, he's gonna be our first,
just like shooting this ship with a on a very
special episode. Though doctor's real fra. He don't be funny
to get episode. It'll be funny to get up to
watch an episode he has nothing to do with. And
he's like, all right, Ryan, you're gonna wait it on
three zero two? Right? What do you think about this one? Er?

(08:00):
So wait? Hold up? He liked he Somebody obviously reached
out to him and was like, why did you diss
a fake doctor? No? No, I was very tactful when
I when I posted I made I made a joke
saying right today on the podcast, Ryan Reynolds asterisk down,
then put on the asterisk is a great actor we
talk about and um, people really reply to that. I'm
sure people. I know people were tagging and left and

(08:22):
right and uh. And then today he responded like I
want to be on this show. Like and then everyone
started weighing in and he was like and I was like,
we love you, Ryan, bring gin And He's like, I'll
bring what did you write you like, I'll bring empty
bottles and all the gin that's already in my body
or something. But like he's already. He's like he's, uh,
he's coming. He wants to come on the show. Okay,

(08:43):
that's why do you have that face on? Why do
you have that face on? It's like you're like pouting? Better?
Are you? Are you pouting? Oh? You me? Yeah, you
don't seem excited that Ryan wants to come on the
show of a sudden. No, I smoke that's sativa today,
So like you can't get high and come to work.
I'm not high. I just smoke that. I just said.

(09:06):
I smoked that said today. We are so opposite I'm
like I like did the peloton and chugged the Red Bull,
and Donald's like like fucking sitting pulling bong hits in
his living room. Come on, buddy, this is work. I
can't see these people. I can't do bong hits in
the living room. I got the kids in the living rooms,

(09:27):
all right, Well whatever in your garden, I got a
little escaped deck. Oh yeah, um, all right, Well everyone,
should we get into the show. A lot to talk about.
To bring in Sarah's Sarah here, Sarah's here, bring her in. See,

(09:47):
let's see everybody if she can figure out of her tech.
Oh jesus, she's on her iPad. That's always a bad sign.
Remember when Remember she had music playing one time? Yes,
but she could only hear it, right, we couldn't hear it? Yeah,
she always Let's see everybody, let's see listeners. If Sarah
Shawk can join a zoom call without issue? So far,

(10:08):
so far, so far, We've got We've got Sarah's iPad
is connecting to Uh that's soundproofing. Oh she doesn't know.
Oh she's got fancy soundproofing, probably because of Rick and
Morney or something. There she is what happened? Did I

(10:29):
do it for the work? You did? It seems are recording?
Are you recording? Oh boy, for real, these guys, you're
not even oh god, oh god, it's gonna be oh
my god situation already. And then and then what happened?
The dogs ate my other dog and my dad. This

(10:51):
was actually a dog's ate my homework situation. I so
prepared and I watched the episode and I couldn't find
my sheets, and I was like, fuck it twe o'clock
where I wears everything I wrote down? And so I
retraced my steps and look where I found it. The
wind had blown it in between the decks. And it's like,
oh my gosh, so so how much you care about

(11:16):
Sarah's holding up Sarah's holding up a paper that looks
like it's been through the washing machine. This is the most.
But I'm glad the audience is seeing this, because this
is what every single morning of we ever saw. Sarah
was like, you, guys, you're not going to believe this.
The note that I made of the show fell in
the gutter, and then just as I was reaching for it,

(11:37):
a raccoon picked it up and ran off with it.
And then I chased the racco going down that I
actually prepared, and that time code three point five two.
Kelso made a great face, Sarah, it looks like you
have a fancy sound booth, but is that a makeshift thing?
Because you do Rick and Wardy and other fun voiceover work.

(11:59):
So I can't remember if I told you guys this story,
but I um when I first the pandemic hit and
I was recording cartoons, and I was grabbing every duvet
and pillow on the bottom bunk bed and making like
a sound cocoon for as you know, good acoustics as
we could get. At that point, we were just kind
of doing pickups and it was fine. And then they
wanted better sound quality. So I took seven moving blankets

(12:21):
and duct taped them to my four year old's play
tent and I was like crawling there. And then so
then I I did like this deep dive into building
my own sound booth, and I learned more about like
green glue and clips and bass traps and like than
I could ever want to know. And so then finally
I decided to just order like a proper vocal booth

(12:43):
from Oregon and it was shipped up in a crate
and then we had to assemble it. So I like
the real deal. Wow, it's big, Sarah. I like that
you got it from Oregon. It's big, guys. Sarah has
like a legit professional audio. It's about time, though, Sarah,
because I feel like you do a lot of awesome

(13:04):
vo work. And I can understand that people were probably like,
all right, come on, Sarah, Well, especially since you guys
all know how technologically inclined I am. Yes, our listeners
have all heard and act he goes down before this one.
I'm like, I'm going to have I'm gonna have everything ready,
and I at the last minute, I was like, oh,
they prefer earbuds, not you know, headphones, And I thought

(13:29):
I was so organized, and then I went to go
grab my papers and I was saying, well, I'm so
glad you're here, Sarah, going to see you. We miss you.
I'm so glad you're here for this one, because um,
it's just an incredible Elliott episode and um we've been
talking so much and this isn't just to blow smoke.
And I know you probably don't listen to the podcast,

(13:49):
but we are not men of lip service. Let's keep
it on oh, I spent nine years. I know, I know,
if we know, you're not feel like no, but Sarah,
even though it's it, and this is coming from the
bottom of my heart. Donald and I are watching these episodes,
and almost every episode we're like, holy shit, I wasn't

(14:10):
paying enough attention to how good Sarah is in this show.
That is so nice and so um not true. I
find the beginning episodes very difficult for me to watch
because I'm so bad. I feel so much. As this
show went along, I feel like, great, I think you're
so funny Sarah, your comics. I think I was so
in my own bubble and trying to do a good

(14:31):
job my own thing. And of course I noticed occasionally
when I thought you were being funny or or or
your dramatic work was great. But now I'm just sitting
here twenty years later watching and Donald and I are
both like, holy shit, Sarah is funny as hell, and
of course you're dramatic stuff too, but but you're just
high hilarious well for their dramatic stuff. I've got my
Josh Raid and the iPod you know, play soundtrack. Remember

(14:53):
I used to go with my iPods and have my
crime playlist. I think that's a good to move for
a lot of people putting on the sad music winter.
Are you gonna say Donald and you find as hell? Girl?
Holy shit? Oh there it is there. It is talk.
We just watched the episode where you when you're naughty
nurse outfit making out with Donald and that got us

(15:13):
all riled up. Oh my god, I remember that day,
and it was like, you know, when you're on a
show and you are somebody's love interests from the beginning,
and you kind of meet and you're already kissing, But
it's so different from when like you become such good
friends with somebody and you're just buddies, and then all
of a sudden, it's like and now you will be
on all fours, crawling on top of them, and you'll
be wearing very little clothing. Right. Zach was like, Zach

(15:36):
kept asking me. He was like, wait a second, and
you didn't get like excited, And I was like, dude,
at this point, we were hanging out so much and
we were so tight as friends that it was like, Yo,
it's like I'm kissing my sister, dude, And then oh
my god. But when you look at the scene, it
looks really good, like we had good chemistry, you have
good chemistry. You're jealous. I'm not gonna lie. I can't

(15:58):
lie and tell you that and jealous I twenty years later,
I was like, get your fucking hands. I love it. Wait,
we never we never counted in Sarah. And since uh,
since you're you're our favorite Canadian. Ryan Reynolds is going
to be coming on the program, so he's gonna be
our second favorite Canadian. But since you're our first favorite Canadian,

(16:21):
I thought, wait, wait, wait, Tom Cavanaugh also Tom Kavanaugh
also okay, okay, I can't believe, are you? And then
we're gonna have Michael Jay Fox I hope. So that's
the top. He might just play Sarah. No, no, no,
if he's Sarah Michael J. Sarah, but I think Michael J.

(16:41):
Fox might briefly maybe just for the week, move Sarah down. No, no,
it would be Sarah Michael J. Fox, Okay, Tom Cavanaugh
and then Ryanka and when Ryan comes on, Donald and
Ryan I've done the exact saint that scene I just
did with Donald like on all fours, cryling on top
of him. Also I've done with Ryans So really that

(17:01):
could be discussed that or we have done it, you have,
I have, I have what what was that? I don't
know if you guys remember when we were I can't
remember Canadian porn? Sorry, did you do Canadian porn? You know?
It was? It was? It was. There's a lot of
here work here now. It didn't used to be that way.
Um so Ryan right, I don't know if you guys
remember we could get you know, Ryan and I. Ryan

(17:24):
and I were young. We had to take what Canadian
work we could get Canadian something you hear a lot about.
But okay, it's very tame, very They politely kiss each
other totally all right before we count in, Sarah tell
us the story you mounted Ryan Reynolds. So, I don't
know if you guys remember. I can't remember what season
it was on Scrubs, but I remember I was. I

(17:46):
was like, oh man, I gotta put on braun underwear
and for this movie. And there's pretty much my only
couple scenes in the movie, and one or two of
them were in like just pull brown underwear, like push
Ryan Realms on the bed, crawl on top of them,
much like the Donald scene. And so so I was
like trying to do I think I asked you, Zach,
you had that amazing delivery food service that was like

(18:08):
super healthy, and so I tried doing that and I
was like trying to be all healthy. What happened? And
what was the scene you mounted him? Was awkward? Was
there chemistry like there was between you and Donald in
your naughty outfit? Hells? Yeah? So I was, I was.
I think I got there to say. And my first
scene was that scene with Ryan. So it was kind

(18:29):
of like, Hi, nice to meet you again, kind of
because we'd known each other through friends when we were younger,
but I didn't know him well at all. And yeah,
that was literally the first scene as I like a
garter and heels and like this one movie is this?
How can watch this movie is? Let's say, I wanted
to quickly watch it this evening. Uh. It is directed

(18:52):
by Marcos Siega, starring Ryan Reynolds and Emily Mortimer. And
the name of it is coming to me. I'll count
us in. You guys will go to break. I'll think
about it all right, hold on and Sarah, you will
now count us in. Got girls an we only bestow
this un certain people French or English. By body, I
mean we're in Canba with French do French, French French? Thanks?

(19:13):
He said, world, you like, how would you about? Would
you prefer stories about show we made about a bunch
of nurses? Said, he's stories? So dado around here? Are

(19:35):
yadoo around here? Sarah? So what was the movie called?
Joel helped you out? Joel helped me out? Thank you Joel?
Chaos theory? Chaos theory? All right, everyone? This is this
is obviously before he like blew up and became like

(19:57):
the Ryan Reynolds that he is today. Was he already
ripped in stuff like that? Donald wants to know if
Donald wants to know if you had a chance to
see the abs live in person? Were they Doe and
was he where they listening? Where where they? Or was
he like ripped enough to be a character in magic? Mike?
I mean, I just he was ripped. I just remember
being ripped. I don't know the degrees of rippage that

(20:17):
you guys are referring to, but well, you know, Sarah,
you were, you were on top of them. I'm sure
you know they were. I feel bad that you were
coming from me being your love interest and then uh
and then going to Ryan Reynolds with his abs and
had to come back to Mike Joey physique. But anyway,
this episode, I really I have to say the first
shot of me, I instantly saw that I had a
little little fopa happening. I had a little bed and

(20:40):
that is one of my favorite shots in the episode.
I mean, when you're dancing, it fucking kills me. Okay,
I don't too far. We're going too fast. We're going
too fast. Let's just do the recap real quick so
we can get this out of the way. Recap. All right,
hold on, I don't have my phone, Dan, I need
you to time, no problem. And yes, I have been

(21:02):
listening to the podcast. I am behind, but I haven't
listening and I do nobody nobody else say I did
hear you ask Scarlett your hands about Ryan Reynolds aapp
so I know that that happens. Yes, okay, all right,
here we go. All right, you ready ready it's forty
seven seconds now, forty seven seconds? Ready go. Season three

(21:24):
begins with a pal Doctor Cox punches Doctor Kelso in
the nose. Things in the hospital seem to go back
to normal. Well, there are a few changes. J D
stopped using moose when when the progression of change doesn't
move fast enough. Some people take matters into their own
hands and try to help change with its pace. Unfortunately,

(21:45):
change is stubborn as fuck and moves at its own speed.
It's like it likes to take its time. Change is
so slow that things always seem to be the same. Okay,
changes so slow, things always seem to be the same.
Thirty nine seconds. Thank you Donald for that beautiful summation

(22:06):
of the themes. My first impression was what the hell
did I do during this hiatus? Because I have a belly,
my hair is too long, I seem a little fat
in my face, like I've been over indulging in alcohol. Um.
That was my first impression of myself. What did you guys,
thick when you first saw your season three selves? When

(22:28):
I first saw you, I was like, oh shit, this
is the season. Zach came back comfortable, like he cares.
He came back, but it's true he went away that
summer and sincerely was like, you know, hey, I'm the
star of a hit show and I'm gonna be on
Thursday nights and he ate some freaking ice cream. Like
you noticed, I looked a little chubby. I don't like that.

(22:49):
But see, see when you guys say that you don't
blow smoke and you yeah, I mean you, you mean it.
You can tell it like it is. No, we don't,
we don't, we don't. We don't mince words here. I
want him to be honest with you. I tell him,
and he looks a little Tubbins. Will you tell me
that all the time? Tubbins? I like it sounded like

(23:10):
it sounded like Mary Poppins with Tubbins for paper and
your own set of wings. What's up? You know what?
I remember? We were? We were, We were bona fied
hit at this point. Season two was our was our
was our biggest season ever. And I have to look
up when I did that hetus. I'm sure I may
have made a movie me he was Last Kiss or something.
I don't know, but I came back a little Tubbins. No,

(23:33):
I think it's garden I think at this time it's
Garden State. I think Garden State had come out. You're
right jumping timeline and no, it didn't come out. I
think I probably shot Gardens. That it had to be
this year that you shot Garden State, because the year
before you had just sold it and everything like that,
So this is the right, right right. The year before
I had done Shakespeare in the Park in New York,

(23:55):
and then I had set it up with Natalie, and
this would have been one year later, is what I
had probably made the movie. Sorry I'm bad with time
like that, but you're probably right. So anyway, I come back.
I remember that we were we all three of us,
were kind of like, the show is such a hit.
Are we gonna get a little pay raise? Because you
know that sometimes happens. After two years, we had heard
that the Willing Grace casts had all been given boxers.
Do you remember that This was like when the Porsche

(24:16):
boxer was a boxer. Yeah, just get just come out.
And they had given all four of the leads of
Will and Grace boxers. And we were like, oh shit,
we'll be gonna get what's going on? And we didn't
get anything. And then the first episode opened with you
Too the song, and I never turned to Donald being like,
I guess that's where our raised. Oh my god, that

(24:42):
you two song. I mean, just hearing it in this episode,
like does it bring you guys right back to the pilot.
I can't hear that song without it like being twenty
four again and shooting that pilot. Why did we play
the song a lot that was in the pilot was
in the pilot episode when Danald Joel am I correct, Yeah,
I think so. It wasn't when you walk in like
the song. I think in the pilot up it probably

(25:03):
is less unless it was that we tried to put
it in and then when we it was just in
the pre cut and when we aired, we didn't get
it till three years later, but I think we had
it in there, and I just remember that it was
very expensive, and I think we were told at the time,
like someone was like, you're not gonna believe how much
we spent on getting that you two song, and we
were all like, great, that sounds great, gonna be really

(25:25):
good because you know, because Bono needs a new house. Right,
Oh my god? Did did you guys? Was that the
year that you got your new car? Speaking of boxers,
it wasn't a Boxer, but when you went from your
ZDR Porsche and Bill put the license plate on, No,
I didn't go right to do I didn't get that
cocky I got I got a three fifty Z the
year that the three Nissan three fifty Z came out.

(25:47):
My father's fanciest sports car was a Nissan two eighties X,
and I thought it was the coolest car. It was
the first, one of the first cars where that would talk,
that is to say, like if you left your lights on,
it would be like your lights are on. And I
was like, holy shit, we have night Rider. We have
fucking night Rider. And I would talk to it. I
would talk to it. I would sit, my dad would
be inside obviously like I wouldn't have the keys, but

(26:09):
I would like open the door and like flip the
lights on it and I'd be like, hey kid, and
everything okay with the car, and it would be like
your lights her own, and I'm like, thank you, kid,
And I was just in heaven. So I always loved
Nissan sports cars. And then Nissan Kim came out with
a three fifty Z and I was so excited. And
I actually my car that I bought for five grand
when I moved to La my parents low me money,

(26:31):
was a Nissan two forty SX super used barely, you know,
I fixed it up so it was fine. And then
when I got to when I got scrubbed and there
was a bus boy who worked at the French Vietnamese
restaurant with me, and he barely spoke English. I don't
know any Spanish, but we were like best friends. And
he loved my Nissan two forty SX. And when I

(26:54):
got Scrubs and then I bought the Z, I gave
him the car for like a dollar because you have
to like do some money exchange or something, so he
like he got the car for a buck and it
was pretty cool moment. And so yes, my first fancy
car with scrubs was that I didn't get to portion
until I made a little more money. Hold on, I
remember what happened. You bought the Z and everybody clowned

(27:15):
you for buying one person one person clown, one personal
who is that? One person? You? You? Okay? You also,
but also Bill who put TV doc on your license
plate and then he didn't tell you that he was
doing that. I don't know if you've discussed this on
the podcast or maybe you want to cut this out
because it's too much. We don't cut. Don't cut. We

(27:37):
don't cut embarrassing things out, Sarah, Bill had the prop Department,
unbeknownst to me, put a California license plate on my
new car that said TV doc and I didn't know
about it or see it. And I was driving around
fucking la for how long? For how long? Probably like
like a week with a flashy sports car with TV doc?

(27:57):
I want to so embarrassed. That inspired me when I
was working on a show called Mad Love with Jason
Biggs and Tyler Labine and we were rapping the next
day and I thought what it would be a fun
thing to do for the cast, and Judy Grew was
on him. She was like, I can't do it to
Judy because she wouldn't have loved it. So I asked
the props department, who are always so amazing, like in

(28:19):
twenty four hours, I was like, can you get me
two license plates? And so they made me these license
plates and they TechEd them down to make them look old,
and I was like, what would be the douchiest things
that they could be driving around with? So for Biggs,
I did Biggs and the S was a dollar signum.
For Tyler Labine, I just did, like actin ACTI n

(28:43):
apostrophe at acting for my fellow. I've known Tyler since
we were sixteen. We were in a robin Hood takeoff
with Joshua Jackson, josh Jackson and Devin Sawa when we
were like fifteen. So all you Canadian kids stick together. Man,
there's a whole Canadian community up there. There's only like
fourteen of them. They all know each other. No, there's
no way more than that. Dude. I used to think

(29:04):
like you, Zach. I used to think like you. But no, no, no,
I learned when I did I did a French Canadian
film in Montreal, and I learned that there's a whole
community of French Canadian stars that watch French Canadian cinema
like they have their own star system. Because when I
did the movie, there's amazing actress I worked with. She

(29:26):
was like a big star in Montreal. And interestingly enough,
I said, oh, these movies must must transfer over to
France and they said no, they really, they rarely ever
become popular in France. It's like just this community. They
have their own like movie stars. So what was the movie?
I want to see it? It's called The High Cost

(29:47):
of Living. It's a super super, super good but also
sad movie. It's the movie I made with Deborah Chow.
We've spoken about Debor Chow on this podcast. She's become
one of the hottest directors in town. She's one of
the directors of Mandalorian and she's directing m the Obi
Wan TV show. Anyway, her first feature that she wrote

(30:09):
and directed UM was was there and it was called
The High Cost of Living, which I was going to
say reach. The reason I would imagine, the reason why
I wouldn't translate or in France. In France is because
it's two different French us close enough. I mean you
can sound like this different, right, Sara, you would know
better than us. Isn't that sounds like you can understand

(30:30):
each other. That's like saying Haitians and montreal people speak
the same French Man, it's a different I don't think
it's that different. Let's ask the people, the person who's fluent, Sarah,
is it that different? I mean, they definitely are different.
I feel like there's sort of like a definitely people
from France would like to definitely think so, like when

(30:51):
I go to France and I'm so excited to speak
French at the market. Since um I was learned speaking
you know all my my teachers, growing friend Canadian Hello Milo,
Still good radio. They Callmedian Radio the radio because we

(31:13):
would be like chatting all the time. I don't even
know what she said, but it shifted. But that's French
Canadian right there. That's French Canadian. That's right now, Sarah,
as I recall what they no, it's a big difference
between that and freaking regular French. She just said it

(31:34):
was different, but Donald saying they can barely understand each other.
You can go there and they think you have an accent,
but they understand you. I mean, they were the words
are all the same. Yeah, I just say, that's it
real hard though. It's like it's like you're saying it
like that instead of plus some motherfucker, because that comes
up all the time. Fish. It's been like it's sad

(31:59):
of being like poissons le poison. I feel like they
said we like this, Sarah, Wet, they go wet. What
I remember is that they're going wet wa um. So sorry.
Joel has told us that that song didn't make the pilot, Sarah,

(32:19):
So maybe it was in the cut. You heard it
in the cut, and it probably was too expensive. I
have to ask Bill now because I don't know if
I'm making that up, but I thought it was in
the cut of the pilot. But yeah, maybe we had
to wait till season three for our boxer money to
go to. Bill doesn't do the ask Bill section, No,
he does. You misunderstood Donald. It's not that he was
giving up doing the segment. He said he just wanted

(32:40):
to be more proactive in his contributions. Isn't that right, Joel? Yes,
that is correct. Okay, can we let's get back to
the show. Okay, But I just have so much to
talk about. How about that news article about us that
was in Sarah did you see that? I saw it
and I read it and congratulations and I agree, and
I mean just the just the like in headline. Yeah,

(33:05):
it was like the podcast of Quarantine. How how Fake
Doctor's Real Friends became the hit podcast of Quarantine. Everybody,
if you haven't seen it, US says that we're all amazing,
and we agree, and it is such a it's such
a beautiful relief in the midst of all of the shit.
Like I find there have been stressful moments obviously over

(33:27):
the past seven months, when someone gets sick and you're like, oh,
good now that every symptoms on the docket. There's not
really a moment of relief if you're sick of wondering
is is it is? It's not it? And I have
played I remember one time I was really stressed. I
played it and it was you guys and Neil Flynn
and I laughed my ass off, And it does it
just like takes you out of all of the things.

(33:49):
It's it's so great. You know what takes me out
of you know what takes me out of thinking about
shit too? Is watching you on vacation with your family, Sarah,
and you trying to the motor boat with the motor
boat trying to get the motor out of the water.
That is Sarah. Will you explain? First of all, you
should follow Sarah Chalk on the social media, but oh

(34:12):
my god, what was going on with this with this video?
Can you explain to people that didn't see hilarious? So
it's a long video of my butt trying to pull
up a motor I I'm just trying to So the
motor is very heavy and for some reason, why were
you trying to pull the what do they call those motors?

(34:33):
The it's outboard? Why are you trying to pull the
outboard motor out of the water, Because so it's an
outboard motor, it's like a twenty five or something, which
is the horsepower, and it's big and it's heavy, and
it's on the back of a tin boat. And so
basically when you beat it, you can't leave the outboard
down or the prop will get totally damaged. Doesn't just

(34:54):
tilt up. So this is a skill that my sisters
have learned um and because I lived in la and
I just for seventeen years whatever, I just there's some
skills I was missing. So this summer I was like,
I'm learning to drive the boat. I'm learning to pull
out the motor. The motor is very hard, so you
pull in, you got to kind of time it out
that you you know, kill the motor, and then as
you're coming into the beach, you don't want to kill

(35:15):
it two earlier you'll be out to see and then
you have to quickly grab it and pull it up.
But there's a way that you can kind of like
push down on the handle to give yourself some you know,
umph to get that motor out. And I didn't know
that I was doing it till Piper, my sister, had
videoed me trying for about fifteen minutes to pull this
motor out. And then she played it back for me afterwards,

(35:38):
and finally I got up. I did bail and have
a couple of Scrubs esque pratfalls. But what I didn't
notice so I watched it back, was every time I've
always tried to pull up that motor, I make the
jd um. I like it, just like for summer. It
was so funny watching you try and pull an outboard
motor out. I mean it was like it was it

(36:00):
was like watching an episode of Three's Company. It was
just I wish it was set to music. It's just
I mean, I can't. I'm gotten telling you. It's heavy.
It's heavy. I pictured this is how you get around
in Canada twenty five Yeah, just in your little ten
twenty boat with your twenty five horse power. Speaking of Canada,

(36:24):
are you guys watching the show called the vale on
um Hbo Max. It's so good. I haven't seen it.
I've heard it's so great and we can discuss it
at our next reunion. I've heard it's amazing. I'm just
behind y'all watch the way too much television. Man. It's
like y'all need to get some get them kids, some kids, kids,

(36:47):
some kids. You'll never watch television again, Well, Donald, what,
I don't watch that much TV. I watched TV. We
watched TV like for a few hours after fuck are
you got a new show every day? It's like, Yo,
have you guys watched the Perception? Well you watch You're
you don't watch it sounds TV after you have dinner,
like like many do, we do. We try and get

(37:08):
into a few good shows betwixt dinner and bedtime. Yeah,
I don't. I don't have the I don't do that.
I get to watch, I watch a little bit of sports.
Then then I you know, that's it. I go to bed.
I think that you're I think that you're unique in
that area. I think, especially during quarantine, there's there's a
lot of brilliant television right now to consume. Anyway, The

(37:31):
VA on October and October, and I'm very excited for October. Anyway,
The VOW on HBO Max. I highly recommend you check
it out. It's really fucked up and very well told,
and it's about a cult and a lot of it
takes place in Vancouver. That's why I brought it up. Sarah,
I'm so glad you didn't get recruited into this sex
cult because they pulled in a lot of actors' real

(37:52):
it's a real Is it based on nexium? Yes? It
is nexium? It is. No, it's a documentary, Sarah. They're
they're They're showing all these beautiful young Canadian actresses that
got recruited into this thing, and I'm like, I'm so
glad they didn't get my Sarah, it is I feel
like it went it went down. I think like right
after I moved to la If, I'm right, Alison mac right,

(38:15):
she's the one that she becomes like one of the
fucking leaders of the ship's branding them. I listened to
I haven't watched Boilers, but they brand boilers. They brand
them vagina adjacent. Yes, they brand them next to the vaginas. Sarah,
you're ruining the show. I just have a couple more things.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What is the name
of this show. It's called The Vow. It's on HBO Max.

(38:38):
It is so fucked up, Daniel, you watching it? Let
me write them down and watch it. I'm so Sarah.
Did anyone ever come up to you and be like,
I have a really wonderful class. I want to take
you to let me show let me just show you
my branding. Oh my god, she's she's lifting up her shirt.
She's branded everybody, she's branded. And right at that moment
the lad Lightning package went out. There we go. I

(39:00):
don't mean to make a joke out everybody. It is
really fucked up, but I but you just can't believe it.
You're watching it with your jaw on the floor of this.
It's not only is it such a fucked up story,
but the documentarians did a really amazing job telling it.
Because you're just like, holy shit, I wonder if it's
the same documentarians that did they So they did a
podcast which I've listened to all the episodes about Nexium.

(39:21):
I think it was on the CBC a couple of
years ago. We don't talk about other podcasts. Yeah, I
get that. I just realized as it was coming out
of my mouth, guys listening my mouth, and I realized
that it might be a competitor. Um. I was wearing
my tu sarring my two and I just broke in
my garberator. All of a sudden, I pulled out of

(39:41):
the parcade. Sarah say the most Canadian sentence you can
I think that was it that involved two which is
your hat, your garbade, which is our garbage pulls in
your parkcade, which is a parking structure, and then you
say suri suriy and then you say I'm just off
to have you guys, anyone seem like Gilda tuk No,

(40:02):
what's that? What? OK? Yeah? It was It was a
It was a yes, a movie that we were forced
to watch in French class every year growing up. Um,
all right, Donald, you on your phone right now? What
the fuck are you doing? I'm waiting to get into
the show. You guys are so you've checked out of
the show. You're on your phone right I'm not really

(40:25):
social media looking at animation videos on YouTube right now.
I'm not big anymore. Dude, that ship was fucking like
a half an hour or a time? Did you stay?
Oh you got a high a half hour ago and
you're not still high? What has we been we've been
doing We've been doing the show for over a half
an hour, so it can't be a half hour ago. Wait,
I didn't know that, Donald, I missed the beginning. Yeah,
he's hot, we've lost that. I didn't know that I

(40:48):
was underneath the death by the way, Sarah, it's a
perfect now and dude, we all came back for season
three feeling ourselves. I got a little Tommy phoning it in.
I'm cocky. Donald comes into season three the podcast Big
in his phone. Listen, hold on, time out, Time out,
Time out, Buddy, listen. I am not high right now. Okay,

(41:08):
so let's yea. I am worn off. It's worn off.
It's completely worn off. I am. I seen some of
this quick wear off weed because if I get high,
it's been hours. It's been about it's been hours. My
point is that should be one of our products, quick
wear off weed by fake doctrines, real friends. Oh my god,
we make so much money. You can you can be
you can be high, but it lasts, it goes away

(41:29):
after a half hour. All right, all right, let's show
the thank you. All right, thank you. Forty three minutes in,
we've finally gotten to this. Okay, So we talked about
your hair already, we talked about your weight and everything
like that. Talk right, George Michael in the beginning. Yeah,
so what's the difference. You can you can sing, George Michael,

(41:51):
and as long as it's not the actual music and
George Michael singing and doesn't cost any money. But if
you know, I'm sure too. We had three songs in
this episode. This is how much Bill was feeling our
budget after on season two. Uh, Tom, Petty, George, Michael,
you two. I imagine it was a very expensive song.
I think we shot probably half the half the show's

(42:12):
music budget in the first episode. But um but uh yeah.
So I'm dancing and Donald says, what's the rule about
white boys dancing in public? And I go, not allowed
unless you're gay. And then this amazing guy comes in
and dances like crazy and does this move and we
go Morning Stephen, which we then name our dog, our

(42:38):
second dog. Um. But the funniest right off the bat
would You're like, if I could touch your body like no,
not you, sir. Yeah, if I could touch your body,
not you, sir. And then let's get let's get to
the basketball game. Smack talk, yeah, smack talking, Omaja Butler Omoja.

(43:03):
I want to say it right, Omoja Butler? Yeah, uh
it has Probably that's that joke made me laugh, probably
the hardest out of all of the jokes in the show,
where he's like, I'm gonna toast you so bad your
mother is not gonna recognize you. And you go, oh, yeah,
well I heard just just have started drinking again. And

(43:24):
then you're like and then his face just true and
he starts crying and right, and then you go, oh,
it's not supposed to be true. Yeah, you're all out. Yeah, yeah,
you go like let him flow or something, and then yeah,
and it's just your delivery. Yeah, well I heard your
sister started drinking again. And I love that JD doesn't

(43:49):
have a smack talk. He's like, oh, it's it's not
supposed to be true. And then also, this is this
is the episode that Frick started. Yeah, two forty three,
everybody a mom Avery, First Frick. What's the genesis of Frick?
I wish I remembered. I don't remember. I don't know.
I don't remember. I don't know if it was me
your bill. And then then it developed went to double frick,

(44:13):
and then frick on a stick with a brick, No,
it was frick, double frick, frick on a stick on
a stick with a brick. It became one of Sarah's catchphrases.
She finally got her What you talking about? Willis? I
got it? In season three season season three, she got
her frick. I didn't get a box there, but I
got a frick. Yeah, but I did. I did get

(44:35):
that pink Cashmere juicy jogger set that I wore in
that frick scene. I remember they let me take that home.
Oh yeah, girl, Do you remember Juicy? Do you remember
that I juicy, Juicy Cashmere? Yeah, man, Juicy with the
gym everybody had, and it was sweatsuits. It was a
bunch of sweatsuits and everybody was paying three hundred dollars

(44:59):
for sweatsuit. Yeah, juicy, they figured it out. Juicy. Um,
So you know frick comes from you can't You know?
On TV shows and network you're always trying to work
around places where you'd actually curse. Some shows like Do
It and Beep It, which which I guess it is
easier if you're more documentary style, like like The Office

(45:19):
or Modern Family or something. Um. Some shows The Good
Place very creatively made it fork because they were in
like this supposedly in this like heaven type setting where
where it just automatically changes all your curses to better words.
But so Frick allowed Sarah to say fuck without saying fuck.

(45:42):
There's one more. There's one more place that they changed
the word and so you wouldn't say fucking. That was
Battlestar Galactica, and they said frak and that became are
you frakin kidding me? Are you frakin kidding me? Right now?
But that they never explained it, or they just just
did it. They just did it for the whole the
whole run of the show. It would be like, what
the frack are you talking about? Oh, frack, I'm gonna

(46:04):
frack you up. You can say friggin um, which I
always thought was which was a comfortable alternative. Yeah, but
some people don't like friggin It doesn't have the power
that buck has or frick or frick. You need the k,
you need the k frick. You know that to make
a movie PG thirteen, Uh, you're allowed one fuck in

(46:26):
a PG thirteen movie and it can't be as sexual. Fuck.
You can't be like, oh, I want to fuck her,
but you can be like what the fuck? Oh I
didn't know an old trivia for you. So you have
to pick your fuck. If you're if you're directing a
PG thirteen movie, they're like, all right, pick your fuck,
what do you want? And then next rating you can do?
Are you consider? Yeah, okay, so there's some I'm sorry,

(46:50):
go ahead, go ahead ahead. I'm trying to think of
the other oh PG thirteen rules they've probably changed there
used to be like, um obviously sex, um, there were
some other other ones. Forgot drug use. Maybe I don't know.
All right, go ahead, Donald, Uh Kelso's nose squeaks the
entire episode before we get to Kelso's Nose. What about
Sarah losing her car door? I mean that was hilarious.

(47:13):
Further and then carrying it around the hospital with Mesa
doesn't get stolen. Now, this is something that this is
something that goes on. This joke continues through other episodes
because you you later on have like a taxicab door
like a yellow on your car and everything like that.
So this is a joke that continues with your brand

(47:34):
new card. Am I right? Or am I wrong? Yeah?
That's right. I forgot about that. I think that's right.
Yeah she did. She didn't get the matching colored door.
She just got it was the same door of her car,
but it was yellow. Um. Yeah, so that I thought
that was very funny. Um and then yeah, so sorry Donald,

(47:55):
go to go to Kelso's squeaky nose, which is very funny.
For the whole episode, Kelso has a squeaking knows because
of the punch he received from doctor Cox, and that
shit is left. Yo. Every time KI would uh inhale,
it would squeak. It's only on the inhale. Though it's
not on the exhale, It's only on the inhale. So
every time inhale. I love how people hate him so

(48:18):
much that even though the room was packed, He's like,
miraculously no one was. Sorry. Sammy, Sammy in the background
going like ceting now my dive under the gurney. I
replated it a few times because I thought it was
a cowboy switch. Sea. I couldn't figure out if it
was or not. I was not a cowboy switch. I

(48:40):
feel like it was. I feel like you came running
up in the hallway and from the back, then it
was cowboy switch, and then you popped up. I know,
but it was so seamless. That good. That so for
those of you who don't remember a cowboy switches when
the actor who's not a stuntman is hiding and the
stuntman does something sane and then kind of goes off

(49:01):
camera and then the real actor pops up. So JD
does this insane sort of slide under a gurney and
then I pop up. I'm pretty I'm like, I'm pretty
sure it's a cowboy switch, but man, it is seamless.
You cannot tell. It's so like the timing of me
coming up was so brazy. It's over. And I mean,
you did always, for the most part, try your own

(49:22):
falls always, so it's very pausible. I did. I did.
I did a lot of them. But when when when
when you know? The thing about a stunt man is
there is when there's a real chance, like, okay, you
could get hurt doing this one, Like like when I
exit the room, that's clearly at it takes a really
hard fall on the gurney tipping over. So you don't
want your actors breaking anything because then you can't fucking

(49:43):
make the show. So a lot of these actors, also,
stunt people often don't get paid well. They get like
one rate to show up, but then often they won't
get more money unless they do the thing. So sometimes
I feel for stunt people who are like, oh, come on,
you know you want to show off and do it yourself,
but let me fucking do this stunt and right, and

(50:04):
so I often tried to do them, but but but
some of them were I could like break a hand.
They were like, no, you're not doing that. I would still,
even not doing my own stunts. Come once a season
two scrubs on crutches with having torn the ligaments in
my left ankle. I think it was about once a year,
and I'd be like, Randall, I'm so sorry. So they
would like they would have me like standing behind beside

(50:25):
the bed and standing in a lot of scenes and
not walking a week. How many times did you get
injured making this show? I feel like it was it
was always my ankle, and it was never doing anything fabulous.
I would come to send people like how'd you do it?
And I'd be like, I was walking Lola, and I
tripped on a pine cone on the sidewalk, and then
it was yeah, it was. It was basically the first
time I did it. I was in college and my

(50:46):
leg was crossed and my foot fell asleep, and I
was in like a five hundred person lecture hall and
I got up to ask the professor question and I
went down, like I went over my ankle. I rolled
my ankle and it swole up to the size of
a grapefruit and they X rayed it. And I was
nineteen years old and I had a growth plate that
hadn't closed because I haven't finished growing. But they thought
it was a hairline fracture, so by mistake, put me

(51:07):
into a plaster cast up to my knee and I
went to go film an episode of The Rosanne Show
and she was like. Roseanne was like, it doesn't make
sense you would have that get that taken off, and
so I did, even though like that's like a kid
who has like, you know, a potentially don't even what's
wrong take that cast. So they asked me to take
the cast off, so I did, and the doctor down
there was like, you're it's actually a blessing in disguise,

(51:30):
because this is like a growth plate that hasn't closed.
It's not a hairline fracture. If it's not broken. You
just sprained it really badly and that's why it swole
up so much. So Zan's coldness actually helped you. It
was it was such a it was a gift, man,
It's all for you. I want to tell everyone about
Lola Sarah's seven thousand dollar dog, and we'll explain it
right after these were and were bad and bad. I

(52:02):
know I'm allowed to join it on that. I just
I was inspired. You're just not allowed to read the
producer notes as you would call. Oh wait, okay, hold on, Donald,
still no, but you're not hot, You're not high at all, right, Sarah,

(52:23):
tell everyone who's listening about your seven thousand dollar dog.
And before you judge everyone, No, she didn't go buy
some boutique, fancy expensive. That was. That was a big
evening for us too. What what was the evening? What
were we doing? Where were it was a charity, Sarady.
You remember what the cause was. It was the Help Group.
It was for autism with children with autism, and it

(52:43):
was m Jeff Zucker, who was the boss at NBC.
Well you remember that Donald infamously gave the noogie two
that our first part, Please Donald, no, please Donald? Know. Uh.
So we were there and we were excited. I think
it was like season two, um and season one or
season two, and we went and Jeff Zucker was our
boss and the night was to honor him and his

(53:04):
contribution to the Help Group as well. And so there
was this little chocolate lab that they were having as
part of the auction to raise money, and I really
just paused there. Let me pause there. Did they have
one dog or several? It was just one, all right?
So I recall it was an auction obviously to raise
money for for autism, and they geniusly brought in this

(53:24):
puppy that was the cutest chocolate lab puppy you've ever seen.
It was like tiny, you fit in your palm in
your hands, and it was probably I don't know, I'm
guessing ten weeks old. And the idea was, you know,
we're gonna get They wanted everyone, and then you got
everyone like buzzed on alcohol, and then the idea is like,
all right, who's you guys are gonna bid on who
gets to take home this dog? And they brought they

(53:46):
brought her around, like you're saying to like to get
everybody super excited. It brought her around and I was
holding her, this little chocolate brown nugget. She was yeah,
she was like tiny, she's ten weeks old. And I
was wearing a chocolate brown dress. I remember it was
my was my bride's made stress from my sister's wedding,
and so I'm falling in love with this dog. And

(54:08):
then the bidding starts in the room, and I'm bidding
on her, and the whole I fall over the soul's
rest froom. Everyone's going crazy, Everyone's bidding on it, and
so finally I just gave up because it was insane.
It got too high. And then the whole cast around
the table, you guys all whispered to each other. And
then when the bidding came to write before the ending,
you all like stood up and put your arms up
and and got her for me, and and we all

(54:29):
split the costs each play a thousand dollars? How long?
How long did it take for me to pay you
the thousand dollars? Did you ever pay? I did pay her, Okay,
how long? I don't remember her I don't remember. But
it just was the most sweetest, thoughtful, touching thing ever.
And she obviously like became her Scrubs mascot and came
to Scrubs to work every day. And I loved her

(54:50):
so much. She was very I think I paid for Lola,
like season eight or nine, I finally gave the money.
In life, I remember whenever we had group things to
chip in on, like Crew gifts or or or getting
getting something for the crew, or in this case giving
money to charity for Sarah's dog. Johnny c would pay
you like an hour later. He'd be like, fast money

(55:12):
makes fast friends. That was one of his Johnny seisms
would be like fast money makes fast friends. And then
Donald was the polar opposite. Donald would be like eight
years later, he'd be like, yo, did I ever pay
you for the dog? And then I remember I was
the one who I was so disorganized. I just would
never catch the check. And Ken would be like, Sarah,

(55:33):
you haven't cashed the check yet. I hate those people. So, Lola,
when you went into Sarah's dress room, I know we
brought this up another time, but it was like the
it was like if you ever seen the show Hoarders.
It was like that, but worse. It was like it
was sort of as idious. There was like a soup
There was like an open soup can from two seasons

(55:53):
ago and like like looked like exploded. It kind of
is like as if is that this pages of notes
was my dressing room, right? As if if this kind
of like raining notes. So p Ken Jenkins is trying
to manage his check book and Sarah just throws a
check for a thousand dollars in there somewhere. This can

(56:13):
of soup from two seasons ago is true. But my
nickname was Super Breakfast because I would always have soup
all the time, and you guys would be like, oh,
it's super Breakfast for breakfast. I love I love soups.
I mean, I have my hot tea right now. There's
always something hot in my hands. It's like either soup
or tea or yeah. But that's guys, you run cold.
That's only that's the run cold. That circulation us. She

(56:35):
was fourteen. Oh she died, Lolla died. She did She
literally she was fourteen years old. That's pretty dumbn good
for a lab it was. It's been over fourteen years,
I guess, Holy shit, wow, it's it's it's been twenty one. Yeah.
Um yo. This is the first episode that I that

(56:57):
orange Google Googo, So I think this came from um.
Like this was at the height of the Jomba juice
craze um, which I don't used to drink. I don't
drink anymore because someone told me that there's like so
much sugar in them, and why are you drinking Jomba Juice.
But it was probably Harley Pastor Neck that told you, yeah,
yeahs not just not the disc Jomba Juice. If you

(57:18):
love it, it could be a nice treat for you,
but it's a sugar retreat. Did you know that Johnba Juice? Later? Uh,
Harley Passion Neck and Johnba Juice got into a partnership
together and he started selling smoothies at Jomba Juice. Really
have to remember he used to did we could cut
this out? But remember he used to tell us all
the time, Uh, you know, don't drink Johnba juice. It's
got a lot of sugar in it. He then had

(57:39):
his own smoothies at Johnba Juice. Yeah, but maybe, but
maybe he made a low sugar one to prove his point. Sure, sure,
Um Sarah, Sarah, Wait everybody, Oh I'm laughing at everyone. Um. Second,
Oh Jesus, is this the grease to Face episode? No,

(58:01):
it's not. Yes, this is no, it's not. Did you
watch the episode? But then no, I did. Come on, man,
this is you don't say grease to face on the show.
Because the grease to Face episode was when Sarah had
to come in looking like like really distressed and bad.
She doesn't have that moment she comes in with a makeover.
She never has a moment where she looks bad. Well,

(58:22):
they did give her playing Jane hair this episode, Like
everything is accented for the reveal at the end. There's
no moment where she was supposed to look sweaty, and
we teased her saying, come on, look worse than that.
But there's no moment in this episode where she like
was supposed to look particularly bad. And I want to
hear your thoughts on your makeover, big makeover in this
I want to know what your thoughts are run on

(58:42):
this dramatic, choppy Bob Janitor. I still like what that's
one of the greatest scenes in the episode. I'll let
you answer the question, but that scene I wrote that down.
I really want to talk about the Elliott and Janitor.
We're gonna get in then, but I just want to
know what in the macro, what did you think of
this big makeover? Because it's always a lot of pressure

(59:03):
when they're like, oh my god, it's a character makeover
and the todd as hell, don't get me wrong, coming
in and your eye makeup and your bob. But I
just like, I don't know. I guess I just liked
you with your little you know, your your before hair.
I mean I remember being I remember at the time
being very excited about it, because like I remember that
they had me leave at lunch and I raced over

(59:23):
town and this guy in Beverly Hills cut it and
then had me race back and and I got to
wear my first pair of True Religion jeans, which was
very exciting to me. M and that was like a
fancy brand at the time, I think, very fancy and
um and then Darla Albright are awesome makeup artists, put

(59:44):
all this like smoky eye makeup on me, and I
remember having fun and enjoying it at the time, and
looking back, I mean, I just, yeah, I guess I
feel like, you know, there was a line in one
of the episodes when Bill liked to put truisms into
our dialogue that was short hair gives me pig face,

(01:00:06):
and so yeah, so that sometimes I always sometimes I
feel like with short hair gives me pig face. I
don't think you looked beautiful. You looked got Don't get
me wrong. I just maybe I'm just not into Bob's
is a personal thing. I don't know. I mean, don't
get me wrong, you looked gorgeous, but I, oh, I am.
I just today my Amazon scissors. I like, now with

(01:00:27):
your with your with your like your dreadlock hair. It
really looks amazing. I think Damil and Joe Hell can
weigh in. It's pretty dancing. So I just you know,
we're in a pandemic, and um, I ordered hair cutting
scissors from Amazon, and I just was overly excited. And
so I just tried to cut my own hair this morning.
And I literally like have only had one person who
lives in LA when I've gone back for recordings or whatever,

(01:00:48):
I've had a gout my hair. And so I just
kind of was like, I think Gregory goes something like this,
and he does this. And then my niece was like
on YouTube, if you just put your hair in a
ponytail and then you just like kind of cut the
top kind of, So I did it. I don't know,
I don't see when we'll see it's dry now, so
I don't know. I haven't take it. We'll see it
looks a little bit longer. If that fails, you can

(01:01:09):
always get the dude, the prover, the one cut that
works for everybody. You get a bowl and you put
it over your head and you just cut on the
outline of the bowl. I didn't know this trick. So
if I'm not happy with it's called the mo, the
MO from the Three Stooges. The mo the mo. Okay, Donald,
if I'm not pleased with the results when this dry is,

(01:01:31):
I'm going to do that? You get when not? When
Ted turns to Carlin says, so you're engaged to that
surgeon guy, she goes, yeah, He goes, is it serious? Serious? No?
We swing yes. So so Ted first hit on Sarah
last episode because Sarah and the last episode you were

(01:01:51):
crying and he's kind of like want to get a
drink and uh. And in this episode he's trying the
Carla angle. He's just really he's really clutching a straws here.
She looked so beautiful in this episode, by the way,
Yeah she did. How about when she she goes to
seduce the uh or at least blackmail the doctor that
she hooked up with, and you're waiting out the outside
and she kind she comes out and she lowers her

(01:02:13):
top like she just hooked up with him. Yeahs like,
how is that funny. Let's get to the Elliott and
the janitor in the men's room. Yeah, so funny. This
is the first time we established that because we don't
know his name, that Elliott decided she's going to call
him janitor. And it's always high pitched. And it got

(01:02:34):
more in my high pitched by the episode, Like this
was the first one that we did that, and then
by season eight it was like Hiro and Iron and
sometimes we do takes where it was not even audible
and be like they're probably never going to use this,
but how high can we possibly? I love that the
janitor doesn't even flinch. He's just like, yeah, as though

(01:02:56):
you said his name, yea, yeah, yeah, Oh my god,
Neil in the scene. For some reasons, things like this
scene I remember like we shot it yesterday. It feels
like so recent. I don't know why. Um and oh
my god, he made laughed so hard when he's talking
about my grandmother that was actually my mother and my mother,
my sister who was my mom or my grandmother thought
she was my mother, my sister was my mom, and

(01:03:17):
my brother dad dad, not just that when you well,
when you say to him and you're like you're like
you know, and my life's turned pretty much turned upside down.
Do you ever feel like that he goes, nah, because
I'm a winner. Just the fact that the janitor, the

(01:03:42):
janitor of the hospital's reply is no, because I'm a winner.
I wonder if, like I wonder if the janitor with
you know, because we never know when he's telling the
truth or when he's lying. If maybe because he fancies Sarah,
that he is telling the truth, Like we have no
idea when he says this brother dad, if any of
it's true and he's just if he's just a fucking
total liar. I feel like with Sarah, maybe maybe with Elliott,

(01:04:07):
he was like, you know, truthful. I mean, I'm just
thinking that for the first time. Well I don't know
what it was. I like to think he was. I
like to think a lot of this is a lot
of what the janitor tells us is true, Like when
he brings out the cage at Turk and Carla's baby shower.
When he brings out the cage for the baby is

(01:04:29):
because he had one when he was a kid when
they wanted to you know what I mean. But we
never know, you know, unless you're cutting to his house
like when he has a squirrel army and you actually
see the squirrel army. You know, you just never know.
It's so fun to watch Neil in these scenes though,
because he always throws in like obviously the dialogue and um,

(01:04:51):
you know how the writers would write or whatever Neil says,
and he would come up with something insanely funny on
the spot. Um. But like even the stuff he does,
like on this scene where he just like talking to
me and he randomly smells the urinal cake just like
in the middle of the line. It's a good year.

(01:05:12):
I laughed out loud when when you see Scott Fully
in the smoothie place and uh, he says, I thought
you hated this place because the time you got sick
here and you go you remember that, and he goes,
you've got sick on my face? Is the master? I

(01:05:33):
think Scott Fully is coming on next episode because yeah, yeah,
that's the Sea World episode and I and he's down,
but because that's when dolphins but uh but um, but Sarah, Uh,
he was your scene partner, so you can speak to
this even better. But god, no one delivers a straight

(01:05:55):
man line like that guy. Just you got sick on
my face? And he he doesn't break. Ever, Yeah, he
doesn't break. It doesn't break, no matter what, he just
doesn't break. He doesn't break, doesn't crack up, yeah, oh
my god, all over the floor. And then in front
of his new hot girlfriend and you're like, and he goes,

(01:06:16):
it's okay. It happens. That is really funny. So you
think you're like, oh my god, this Sean, this is fate.
And then in walks like the pretty new girlfriend and
you just look at it and take one look at
her and you bugle on the floor. You know. I
found it really interesting that they after that, they go

(01:06:37):
outside with the two of them, with Sean and this
new girlfriend for the dialogue, so that you understand that
he still kind of has feelings for Elliott. I found
that very interesting that they did that, you know what
I mean, Well, they go outside just to see the
joke of her with the door in her car. Yeah,
but there's this whole setup for that, and then she
drives by, and you know, like he's he's sticking up

(01:07:00):
for her when she's like that girl is such a loser.
He's like, I don't know about that. You know, she's
she's she's she's a sweetheart. He's saying nice things about her,
and then Elliott drives by with the no door right
the smoothies on the roof, and he's and you could
see then right there and there Scott Alie again. Sean
goes again Elliott like he he's he just he just
finished sticking up for her, and she's already blown that.

(01:07:23):
But he has to tell her that he has the
smoothies on her roof or she's gonna be driving in
traffic and hit the brakes and that's gonna scare the
shit out of her. And he knows it's gonna cause
an accident, so he gives the Elliot, you left the
smoothies on your roof. She smashes on the brake like
they're meant for each other, they're perfect for each other,
and then ans google all over. Then you lose the

(01:07:44):
other door with That was fucking hilarious. I laughed, Yeah,
I laughed at Sarah, You're very funny. Sarah's Sarah's cool guy.
Like try Sarah Elliot's mustering everything she can to look
cute and cool in front of the new girlfriend, random
point with no door and the smoothies on our roof.

(01:08:08):
Double freaking and then and then like Scott Foley's delivery
when we're in that scene with the with the smoothies
and I give some random, long explanation of some dream
that I had and he's like, yeah, I'm doing about
the same too. Yeah, he's so funny. He's good. We
gotta do a show with him, like when we make
our Space Janitor TV show. Um, whatever the next thing is,

(01:08:31):
we gotta we gotta pop Scott. I want to do
something with Scott Foley nobody. That was so funny. What
do you want to do with Scott foy buddy? I
know we should we should go to break. We should
go to break, We should go to break. Do we
need to go to break? To all? And what about
the guest? We have a get we guess this here
we can know. But it's so with Sarah Chalk here,
it's so exciting. We have so much to talk about.

(01:08:52):
All right, we're gonna go to break, guys, and we
come back. Not only were we gonna have more of
America's favorite Canadian Sarah Chalk, we are going to have
a guest. And it's very hard to top last episodes guests, Joel,
because people really, really love the guy who had sex
at a funeral while sitting on a toilet. Um, So,
I hope that this guest can top that. We'll be

(01:09:14):
right back. All right, here we go, everybody. We're back.
We're back, We're back. We're back with the delightful Sarah Chalk,
the wonderful Sarah Chalk, the glorious. And here is Adam Burger. Hi, Adam,
Adam Burger. You got a full house today. You got

(01:09:39):
a full house. You got three interns, the King and
oh my gosh, Hi guys, Hi man, Welcome to the program,
Fake Doctor's Real Friends. We really appreciate you being here.
You must be an extraordinary guest because we had such
a memorable guest in the last episode that Joel has
really upped her game. And I know she wouldn't follow

(01:10:00):
last week's sex on a toilet at a funeral with
someone who wasn't worthy of following the story that you
wrote in to get on the show. Yeah so, Um.
I teach musical theater at a an arts high school
here and I've been a Scrub super fan since it aired.

(01:10:22):
I'm your Guys's age on forty five and I've been
watching it since it aired. And in two thousand and eight,
my class, my advanced class of high schoolers, we decided
to do the Scrubs musical episode. Oh my god, that's what.
And so I was obviously I knew the episode really,
really well, and I didn't, you know, being a teacher,

(01:10:43):
I'm very cognizant of you know, rights and royalties and stuff.
And I'm like, well, I don't want to even work
on this if I don't have permission. So I sought
out Jeff Marks, who's one of the composers of the songs,
and he didn't have a new queue as well, and
I found his website and I emailed him and and
he I didn't really expect to hear back, but he
wrote me a very long email, very friendly, basically saying,

(01:11:06):
you know, I didn't write everything. Deborah Fordham was the
episode writer and she wrote a lot of the stuff too,
but she said, you know, he said, you're not charging
for it, are you? And I said, well, no, I'm
it's just like a class project that we're doing. He said,
then don't worry about it. Nobody's going to carry So
we didn't even publish the music from it or anything.
So I'm a pianist and a musician, and I arranged

(01:11:26):
all the songs. Oh my god, bought under the just
so happened to have like the exact right students that year,
like the right demographics to do that too. And I'm like,
I don't know if you guys know scrubs, but I'm
obsessed with it. We're going to do this really weird project.
And I cast it from the class and we presented it,
uh just for some like as a class assignment. People

(01:11:46):
came in to watch, and it was a number killed
the most though, oh gosh, probably guy love that's I mean,
I love classic. Did you have to censor? You're the
only man who's ever been in the side of me? No.
We lucky. I'm very very lucky that I work at
an art school where we could push the boundaries pretty well.

(01:12:07):
I don't have anybody really watching over my shoulder to
censor me on stuff. We've done some like edgy shows
and stuff. But I imagine this, I imagine the teenager
probably didn't hold up his fist, though I would. I
would have thought that the number that killed would have
been the Pooh song. But that's just me, Like that

(01:12:27):
was a hard one to make it as funny, I think,
because you know we're on a stage. We didn't. It
was very hard to stage a TV show on a
on a theaprical stage, so it was a lot of
the humor I think was lost in that. But you know,
seeing two guys up there singing, well, that's so great.
You know there is there is a Scrubs musical in development,
a real one. Oh I didn't. I don't even know

(01:12:49):
if I'm supposed to say that, but I'll ask. I'm
sure I can say that. Randall Winston, who we've had
on the show and was one of our main producers,
our line producer, I think he was taking the lead
on developing a Broadway musical, taking some of the songs
from the from the Scrubs Musical episode, and then of
course that's not enough to build a two and a
half hour show around. So then you know, and of

(01:13:11):
course you know, figuring out what the story of it
would be. But I know that it was in the works.
For those of you who interested in that, Oh my gosh,
that's wild. You could take so many of the stories
and then turn them into the Scrubs Musical, like the
story of the story where we sang I'm waiting for
my real life to begin. We could add that in there.

(01:13:32):
We could you could add you could add so many
moments where we where we sang into the musical. Also,
I think I think it'd be cool is JD going
into fantasy in a musical world set. It could be
so fun because you get so much cool stuff with
set design and numbers everything like that. Yeah, yeah, I
like that. Yeah, um, well that's cool. And I'm so

(01:13:52):
glad that you seem like a really fun teacher. Ad him.
I went to a high school where a public high
school in New Jersey, Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey,
and it wasn't cool to be in plays. And I
did have a great drama teacher who I liked a lot,
but I, you know, I was a self conscious team
and I was doing all of this, all of my

(01:14:13):
theater stuff outside of school. I was going to theater camp,
I was doing, you know, participating in sort of community
theater stuff. But I was too self conscious. I regret
to be in the school plays. And so I know,
you're at an art school, so it's it's a different world.
But I just loved I love it when I hear
about great teachers like you who are inspiring kids to perform. Well,

(01:14:36):
I'm really lucky because, you know, like I said, we
get to do some really cool stuff there. I really
try to think outside the box and do do weird
stuff that no other school would do, so that we
don't have that problem of like students only wanting to
go out and do community theater stuff that they want
to do our shows every year. So we've, like I said,
we've been able to do some really cool edgy things
over the years without really anybody intervening. And you know,

(01:14:59):
one of the things we ourselves on as a school
is that, you know, the whole student body or kind
of the outcasts, you know, they're kind of you know,
the coolest kid at our school is you know, might
be the star of the musical instead of the star
of the football team. That's why That's why I flourished
in theater camp. That's why I was like, oh, because
I was like I was good at being in plays,

(01:15:20):
so I was like the cool kid. I was like, finally,
I want to go back in time and come to
your high school at him. Oh, I get that a lot, Sarah.
You do plays. I mean I know you were a
kid actor, you were working, But did you participate in
any school plays? I did. We actually did get to
do really pretty cool musicals at our high school. And

(01:15:40):
I was an Annie and they didn't They didn't seem
to mind that I was tone deaf unlike some other Yeah,
but you got rhythm though. You can dance. We've seen
you dance. All you're dancing turns very sexual quickly? Can
you dance in a non provocative manner? I can't do
the robot. That's a very non productive provocative That's true.

(01:16:02):
That is true. Sarah always starts off. It's always like
and a robot, booty, booty booty. I've known Sarah for
twenty years, and when she starts dancing, it's about five
seconds before there's like acid like backing up in. Oops,

(01:16:23):
I dropped something that just comes from my like grade
twelve parent teacher. I mean, I'm grad parent of a
night where we all did babies go Back. It just
sort of like it just comes out of nowhere. Just
kind of feel like if Sarah had TikTok, Like if
we were all teenagers with TikTok, she'd be one of
those people doing like the provocative TikTok. She would be
doing the savage. She'd be like, I'm a savage snacky booty. Okay, okay.

(01:16:49):
One of my favorites I was born at the wrong time, guys.
One of my favorite things from the from the series
is the clip show where they do the entire runner
of all you guys dancing and different episode. I mean,
everybody on that show. I don't remember that having we
did have a clip show. I've never seen the clip show,
but I know we had one. I only know because
the thing that's great about a clip show is I
think you still get paid for an episode, but you

(01:17:11):
don't don't work you guys. They did a runner of dances,
they did a runner of like I think they did
a runner of um you crashing into things, and they
did I think they did a runner of Doctor Cox's
Insults too. I'm not sure, but they was. Yeah, it's funny. Well,
Sarah and Donald did most of the dancing, because the

(01:17:32):
two of them are very very good dancers. I I'm
good at running into stuff and falling number stuff. I
wish I could sing. I loved it and I was
in musicals as a kid. My sister and I went
to UM a musical theater kind of school outside of school,
and UM we auditioned for it and they called and
they said, to my sister, we love you and we

(01:17:53):
want you to be the lead. And they said, she said,
what about Sarah And they were like, yeah, no, we
don't want her. And so she said, okay that I'm
not I'm not going to do it, and she hung
up and they called back five minutes later and they
were like, okay, we really want you, so we're gonna
take your little sister as well. So Natasha was the
lead and she was wearing this like turquoise shiny thing
with this long blonde hair. And I was one of

(01:18:15):
three tigers at the back that was wearing UM all black,
and I had a tiger mask and we were just
like in the background, kind of side to side with
our claws, didn't have any lines, and I was in heaven.
I was like, I'm doing it. I wanted so badly
is that it gets to New York to see bullets
over Broadway when it was because I'm a huge fan.

(01:18:36):
I'm a huge Scrubs fan. I just was And of
course my celebrity crush is Betsy Wolf. Wow. That's a
good celebrity crush to have. I know, I saw her
in the Last five Years and I me too a
second stage right, maybe we were there the same night.
Oh my god. You can listen to that album if
you like musicals. It's a wonderful show called Last five
Years and there's a recording of Betsy Wolf in it.

(01:18:57):
Um I'm Bullets Were Away was one of the most
you know, I was a theater geek kid, as as
we're discussing, I went to theater camp and I did
plays out of college and off Broadway. But being in
a full blown, like big budget musical with a twenty
five piece orchestra, I literally my entrance was literally rising

(01:19:18):
through the stage playing a ukulele. It was such a surreal.
It was like a total kid dream, fruition, bucket list
thing happened, and I want to do it again one day.
It was just it was just too much fun. Did
you ever mess up coming up on the stage when
you were coming up playing n get song? Did you
ever come ain't well? A couple of things. First of all,

(01:19:42):
if for most of you who didn't see the show,
the show is happening, and it begins with with with
another number and then I enter rising. So I would
go down underneath the stage before the show because I
was nervous as hell, and every show, no matter how
many we did, and I'd say loaded the conductor and
sort of waved to the orchestra because they were down there,

(01:20:03):
and then I'd go over to where my lift was
and i'd sort of talked to the crew guys and
shoot the ship. And then a light goes on, which
means the lift is about to go. And I would
always get so nervous because you don't it's such a
crazy way to enter the stage. Most of the times,
in a normal budget world, you're just entering from the
wings of the stage. But here we are a big
budget musical show, and the light goes off and I'm

(01:20:25):
riding and I start rising, and then you just see
like twenty five hundred people watching you. And so of
course there were times when I would totally fuck up
the ukulele because I'm not a musician, but I learned
to play this one song on the ukulele. What I
later learned was there was a guy in the orchestra
pit who was also playing the ukulele and defending how
not how much I was sucking, they would kind of

(01:20:46):
bring up his mixer on environment, Like if I was
really fucking off that day, they would just bring up
the orchestra pit on ukulele. Oh that's amazing, Donald. Did
you ever do theater nice school? I did high school theater. Well,
not high school. I went to the professional children school.
So everybody that I went to school with was like
already on Broadway and doing shit like that, So we

(01:21:08):
didn't really have a theater at the school. But yeah,
you know, when I graduated, I did shows with a
theater for a new audience. I did shows off off
off Broadway, Off Broadway, I did show There was a
I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York, and on
forty second between ninth and tenth Avenue, there was this
whole theater comp like this theater thing called Theater Row,

(01:21:30):
and it was a bunch of different Yeah, that was
there too, but it was a bunch of different, uh,
play playhouses and stuff like that. It's no longer there
now there's like a building and stuff like that with
tenants and stuff. But I remember when I was a kid,
I'd be like, one day, I'm gonna do a show there.
I wound up doing two shows there, you know what
I mean, Like it was. It's one of those things

(01:21:51):
where if you grew up in New York City like
I did, and you weren't doing plays, then you weren't
really trying to be an actor, because that was all
that was there, you know what I mean, that was
all you know. It was either that or it was
the one you might get lucky and get on a
New York undercover. But for that, they were like two
thousand people auditioning for one line, you know what I mean. So,

(01:22:13):
uh yeah, did I do plays? I did quite a
few plays. I came up in a theater. My parents
were a part of the National Black Theater in Harlem,
and so instead of a babysitter, I used to have
to sit in the audience with, you know, while my
parents performed on stage. And I remember one of the
actors started complaining because, you know, put me in an

(01:22:35):
audience with a bunch of people. I'm part of the show. Now,
I don't give a fuck what you said, you know
what I mean. It started off, It started the first night,
I was fine, But once it got to the point
where I was there every night, I was like, oh,
I'm in this ship too, baby. I can't imagine you
was like sitting there quietly. That's not it was impossible.
Like I would get involved, Like I would get up

(01:22:56):
out of my chair and help the actors, and you know,
like at one point they would sit me down next
to one of the actors in the show and I'd
be having a conversation with the actor while the show
was going on. And one time he missed his queue
because he was fucking with me, and he got in
trouble for that shit. Like at that point, I knew
right then and there, And I was very young. I
was like five four or five. I knew right there

(01:23:17):
and now I was like, I'm going to be an actor, dude.
This is this is If it wasn't four plays, I
wouldn't be an actor, you know what I mean. I
knew right then and there. This is the life I
want to live. I want to be able to do
this because one I have a lot of fun and
two this doesn't seem as hard as everybody says it is.
And you know, well, I mean, in fairness to yourself,

(01:23:38):
it seemed that way to you because you had your
parents were doing it, you had a natural instinct for it.
You know. It's well, of course his nature nurture you.
You then nurtured that ability, but you obviously had it
in you as a child, right. Well. You know, some
people are I honestly believe that some people are born.
Everybody's born to do what they do. Some people find

(01:24:01):
what they do later on, some people find what they
do early on. But you're born to do what you do,
you know what I mean, whether it is to be
an actor, whether it is to be a politician, whether
it is to be whatever. You're given a certain set
of skills. It just sound like Liam Neeson I have
a certain sort of skills. Some people are assassins, right

(01:24:24):
but no, But I feel like you're given a certain
set of skills and it's up to you to take
it as far as you want to go with it,
you know what I mean. Sometimes the gift that you
have isn't the gift that you want, you know what
I mean, And you have to come to grips with that,
and that's usually what happens. But for the most people,
some people aren't blessed enough to know what their passion

(01:24:46):
and thing is for a long time. I mean, you
were you were so blessed because it happened to be
the thing that your parents were exposing you too. I
was the same way. My father, you know, was doing
community theater as his hobby, and I kind of like
was like, this is a job you can have, Like
this is something you can do. But I mean, there's
so many people and I feel for them. I mean
I talked to college kids or getting out of college

(01:25:08):
and they still haven't found like their thing, and they
haven't they haven't dropped into something that excites them. And
so I always feel really really blessed and lucky that
I was, at a young age exposed to something that
so lit me up. Yeah, oh absolutely, man, And and
people like Adam, dude, you're you're if I have, I
have fond memories of all my drama teachers, fond memories

(01:25:31):
like there was Kurt, there was you know, uh, there
was uh mister oh Man, what was this dude's name?
There was Kurt, there was oh Man by my blank
and now. But I have fond memories of the people
that taught me how to be an actor, you know
what I mean, who I went to classes with, who
taught me through uh, whether it was a workshop or

(01:25:54):
a or a play that I did, Like, I've worked
with people that a lot of people people didn't have
the operation I worked with, like Elizabeth Swatos who recently
passed away, God Rest her soul and everything like that.
But I worked with people that did Broadway shows that
were freaking iconic and stuff like that. And uh and

(01:26:15):
and I was looking at it as I need a
fucking job right now, and not looking at it as
I'm like, I could be learning so many great things
right now from these people. And so, Sarah, to answer
you a question, Yeah, I did a lot of theater
when I was growing up, but it was because I
really wanted to get the hell out of New York
City and be an actor in la um Adam. Do

(01:26:39):
you have a question for us? I do. I have
got a million of them, but I'll start with well,
pick one because we were running very long today because
you know, the Canadian is a little you know. So
my question is this, Uh. I my all time favorite
episode of Scrubs and probably my all time favorite episode

(01:27:01):
of any television. So it is the series eight finale,
which is just a perfect, perfect episode of television for
US fans for the way that it repped up Adam,
I wrote it. I wrote it, Adam, thank you. I
don't think that's first. It was interrupting film. It was
interrupting film. But my question is, you know what what
other shows I wanted to hear from all all of you.

(01:27:24):
What what other shows in your you know, in fandom
that you that you've enjoyed. Do you feel like the finale?
Absolutely first, I'll go first. I call first season in
the history of television. And as Donald's seemed to be
dissing me for early in the broadcast, I have watched
a lot of television, and in the history of television,

(01:27:45):
there is no contender for best series finale. Ever, don't
at me, don't do well, don't frown. Six Feet Under, Yeah,
there's applause. Dan, I'll turn your key. I will, I will.

(01:28:06):
I will turn my key, only because I've only seen
the last episode of Six Feet Under. No, are you serious?
Are you serious? I'm dead serious? That was a pretty
the only one, but they didn't see. I've learned the
same thing with Breaking Back. We learned that he only
watches finales. Yeah, I understand, and I know where it

(01:28:27):
came from, though, So check this out. Raiders of the
Lost Dark. When I first saw Raiders at the Lost Dark,
we walked into the theater at the very end when
he's coming down the stairs and he's like, those stupid fools,
they don't know what I what they got in there,
And then she turns around to him and says, well,
I know what I got here. Come on, let me
buy you a drink. And then they go off and
they leave, and then they show the arc being put

(01:28:48):
into this big ass hall. Right, that's the first scene
I saw from Raiders of the Lost Dark. Now, in
doing that, I still had no idea what the movie
was about, right, And so I went and watched the
whole movie, and then that scene comes up again, and
I was like, oh, so, knowing the ending didn't necessarily
hurt the story for me. So from that point on,
if the ending is dope, I'll go back and watch,

(01:29:11):
I'll go back and watch the rest of the show.
But if it's some lay mass ending, buck your show, okay,
but your your story doesn't really hold because you loved
both the Six Feet Under finale and then Breaking Bad
finale and never went back to watch any other episodes.
I was just too many episodes, too many episodes. Okay,
I'm confused, but okay, um somebody else goes Six Feet

(01:29:32):
Under if you haven't watched, it as an incredible show
and the finale is just a masterpiece. Sarah, you want
to go, I want to go. Um I agree with you.
I thought Six Feet underd was bonkers. I feel like
The Office, both British and American versions had incredible finaleesum

(01:29:52):
er was a million years ago, but I remember thinking
that one was awesome. Um and and I I agree
with you, Adam. The Scrubs form Now was one of
my favorite Scrubs episodes that we got to do. It
was so cool for us to get to make that
episode because Bill had this really cool idea of having
every person who would ever guest start on the show

(01:30:15):
come back. So like that day, everybody was so emotional anyways,
because it was the last episode and then to have
every guest star and then Zach walks down that whole
way and we got to go down while you're filming
that scene and like just see everybody lined up from
the past eight years, and you know, there's a couple
of people that couldn't make it, but for the most part,
I mean all those people made an effort to get there,

(01:30:36):
and people flew in from New York and from wherever
they were living or shooting at the time, and it
was so special. It's very emotional. And I don't know
if you know the trivia, Adam, but it's but it's
Bill Lawrence playing le Janitor who pulls down the sheet.
You go okay, Joel, go ahead, favorite Sarah. Sarah changed it,

(01:30:58):
morphed it and started making five or six. So Joel
the game is when he says, best finale, what's the
thing that pops to your brain? Because that's what happened
to me with six feet under Boardwalk Empire Watch. I
think it's five seasons of it. It's so concise. In
the final scene, it's like heart like the whole thing.

(01:31:19):
The whole shows about being in the twenties. And right
at the very final scene, there's the introduction of like Nickelodeon,
which is an early movie thing that you could like
pay a nickel and watch a movie and it's like
very small or whatever, and it like totally changes the
game for this old cat who thought he would never
see anything new. And then there's a post and I
will tell you what it is. But no spoilers please.

(01:31:40):
It's so freaking good. Martin Scorsese produced it. It's like
mid two thousands. Martin Scorsese directed the pilot as well,
Yes he did. He should definitely such a good series.
But the finale is really good. I will give no
spoilers for six Feet Under finale other than to say
that you got to listen to the sea a song
breathe me because it's in my friend. Holy shit, is

(01:32:00):
that a great song? Okay, dan'l go um, the one
that instantly pop into my head as the Sopranos. Yes, okay. Now,
there was a lot of talk about people having interpretations.
Do you have your interpretation? I mean, I think that's
kind of the goal. That was the goal. I think
it was David Chase, right, David Chase is yeah, so

(01:32:21):
David Chase, that's what he wanted to have happened, kind
of with the ending of Lala Land, with the twist
top at inception. You want to defy the convention of
putting a very concise, nice bow on and allow people
to keep the story just in their heads for so long.
And I'm certainly of the people who think, again, no spoilers,

(01:32:42):
but I think the ending is relatively clear. I think
we all know what happened, but I like that that
is left to left to the imagination. And I will
also never forget watching the finale with my father being downstairs.
We were both just like gripping the couch, counting down
the minutes, being like, this show is going to be
over shortly, this show's gonna be over shortly, like what's

(01:33:05):
going to happen? And then in those that final minute
of whatever the show is trying not to spoil or
both of us just like I think you can spoil
the I mean, yeah, I guess the ending doesn't happen,
but not just cut it just cuts, hard cut, don't stop,
hard cut for thirty seconds of just black screen, and
both of me my dad are just like, do the

(01:33:28):
cable go out? And then I love a hard cut
to black. Don't fade out your show? Love it? Yeah,
produce the whole thing. H No. I mean, I'm just
a sucker, whether it's whether it's theater or or or
or film and TV. I don't like a fade like
blackout or hardcuts of black like and that shit. U. Now,
I'm gonna be cynical and say the reason I think

(01:33:51):
he's alive is, uh, there's no way that they didn't
have plans to make films eventually. Unfortunately, James Gandelfini died
in real life. But I don't think there's any scenario
where they didn't daydream about making films. So I'm just
I'm just gonna throw that out there. I totally can't
tell you something. I totally accept that as a like,

(01:34:14):
but you know how it really goes kind of studio
thing like with um when people were talking about Avengers
and how like are they really dead? Like are they
really gone? People like, no, they're not gone. They have
more movie deals like obviously Spider Man's not gone. Blah
blah blah. I mean, you know, obviously that changes now
too because of you know, you know, r I P. Chadwick.
But like, I think it's very reasonable to look at

(01:34:35):
that and say, you think they were really going to
end the show there. You think they were really going
to end it there, whether or not the movie deals
coming afterwards would have been prequels or whatever, blah blah blah.
I think that's totally fair. But I still love that
finale for this exact reason that we're talking about it
all right, Donald, you're up. I'm embarrassed by my shows
because you guys, don't you guys, I don't watch the

(01:34:55):
same type of television shows you watch. But my favorite,
my favorite finale so far. Wow, in television shows, that's tough.
That's tough for me. I'm sorry. Uh, you can could
be sports like the last game of the Knicks. I'll
tell you what. In terms of television moments, those are
some of the greatest of all time. Any like, yeah,

(01:35:17):
any any any last second seven buzzer beaters are just like,
you can't be that particular game seven buzzer beater you like, Donald, No, no, no, no, no.
I I you know, I'm one of those cats who
is really heavily into a certain genre. And so I'm
sure my favorite episode finale has got to be like

(01:35:39):
the Rebels. For the Rebels finale was pretty dope actually,
And yeah, Joel agrees, you gotta woo and uh now
that Clone Wars has come to a finale, I like
that finale. That was pretty good too. Uh, But yeah,
you don't have to be embarrassed that it's animation. You
seem like you you're like, well, you guys are all
sitting here like you guys just sitting here like six

(01:35:59):
feet on and the Sopranos and oh god, Boardwalk Empire.
Oh and let me tell you something that's Scrubs finale.
And then I come up and I'm like the rated
for teenest shows. Well, you don't want you You've said
you don't watch so much narrative TV. So there you go.
There's I don't. I don't. All right, it's time for

(01:36:20):
America and Canada's favorite segments. Sarah, you haven't participated in
this yet, so we're really gonna need you to represent.
You're gonna need to represent your nation. It's time too.
It's your life, all right, Adam. We've helped a lot
of people here. Um, and by a lot we mean
no one, but anyway, I have helped people people, Um, no, no,

(01:36:47):
but I but I have heard you know what I
have heard. I've heard people say on my social media, Um,
hey that advice you gave so and so actually really
helped me with something like the white board stuff or
our stuff of trying to lose weight, or even even
helping um last week's last episode's guy with issue with
his kids. So I don't, I don't know, maybe not,

(01:37:09):
but this goes to so many people across the world.
I like to think that something we say might register
with a few people and they go, oh, maybe I
will try that. So Adam, Adam, you're robbing. Okay. So
the you know, the last six months have been crazy
for everybody. And you know, I had two really fantastic

(01:37:31):
jobs in the arts. I was so lucky to do
exactly what I want to do, and you know, I've
got a great wife and three little boys and just
everything is you know, great, and then the pandemic hits
and the theater that I work at shut down, and
my classroom is gone, and I'm doing it online and
all of my little boys are doing their schooling online,

(01:37:52):
and it's just, you know, I'm in perfectly good headspace.
You know. I know there's people suffering a lot more
than me who are not getting paid or who are
not you know, uh, they have you know, they have
severe mental health issues because of this. But what but
it is very tough and I've never in my life
kind of experienced these moments of like, oh my gosh,

(01:38:13):
I can't you know, keep it together. What is what
is anybody's advice for just staying saying with the country
being where it is right now and uh, no end
in sight. How old are your boys? I have three
of nine, the my oldest just turned nine, and I
have a five year old and a three year old. Wow,

(01:38:34):
you guys have your hands full. I mean to be
at home all day. Everybody's home, yep. Sarah, do you
have any advice for um? What do you? What do
you do? I think the best name of advice is
to say what works for you. So, Sarah, you've been
in a very similar situation she for a while and
if you're still doing it. She was cohabitating with her
sister and their kids. So how do you stay seeing

(01:38:57):
Sarah with all the mayhem of co and having to
help your kids with homeschooling and all that. Well, I
don't know. I don't know if you would say I'm
staying sane. I mean, I just cut my own hair
with my scissors that arrived in the mail, So that's debatable.
But I think I think the best advice I was given,
and it's really hard to take. The advice is just
take it day by day, because I that you can

(01:39:19):
do that's totally doable. It's when you go, like I
find myself bargain hills. I went, oh, yeah, I can
fully do this for six months. Okay, okay, fine, fine,
I can do it for a year, but just not
too okay, two years, but that's fucking it, not a
day more. And so I think, like, if there's a
way to try and find ways to stay in the
moment in the day, only what's in front of you
that has helped. I think, like especially with kids. I

(01:39:42):
mean we I have a ten year old and a
four year old and I am officially homeschooling them, which
is brand spank and new. I've never done that before,
and we made the decision to do that. The schools
haven't have opened up here now, but we're keeping them home, um,
so that everyone can stay safe and healthy. And so

(01:40:05):
one thing that, um we found that's really cool that
someone recommended to me is something called outschool dot com
And you can go on there and do like anything
your kids are interested in, like if you just need
a break. It's like sign language class, or like sketching
DC or a debate class where you debate like Marvel
versus DC characters. Um. And so we're doing that. Another
thing we're doing is trying to like farm out a

(01:40:26):
few things. So like, you know, have my uncle portal
in and do a class on something. Um, I can
come in and teach a class on something, Sarah. Yeah,
I'm you're just you're gonna be doing that. Yeah, I'm
taking hit me. I'm hitting up on that now. And
Danel and Joel and Donald I'm an eating class. Also,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rest. I'm

(01:40:47):
gonna respectfully decline and say, I don't I know you do,
but Donald, you need to teach us to stop motion animation.
Your stuff amazing. I appreciate that. I appreciate that, but
I'm gonna respectfully decline. I don't want to teach nobody
else's kids but my own right now. I shouldn't. I
shouldn't be have to teach my own kids right now,
to be honest with you, but I'm helping with them. Well,
I'm just you know what I want to Why don't

(01:41:09):
you Why don't you go and say, first of all,
first of all, I want to give a shout out
to all the teachers out there to be and all
with all respect and all kidding aside, let's give a
shout out to all the teachers out there who are
actually teaching their kids online and teaching their kids. The
teachers that are actually going into schools and teaching there
and teaching students there too, Let's give a shout out

(01:41:29):
to them, because you're absolutely right. You are on the
front lines and you are doing work that is very important.
You are teaching tomorrow's leaders, and you're doing it with
a fucking really bad handicap, you know what I mean.
And so shout out to all of you out there
who are doing it. Um, what are we doing to
stay safe? And I mean to stay sane, to stay

(01:41:52):
sane one stay safe to Uh, that's really difficult, you know.
Living We live in the vall and in the Sherman
Oaks area, and you know, Los Angeles was hit really
hard with COVID, and you know, for a really long time,
I kept the kids inside and all we did was

(01:42:12):
watch television and stuff like that, and that really wasn't
that wasn't an ideal thing for us to do. But
recently we've found ways to go to parks. We've potted
with a couple of families so the kids have friends
to go play with and stuff and Uh. The way
for us to stay safe is try to be as
normal as possible in these abnormal times without crossing the

(01:42:37):
line and being uh and and and and not being safe.
So that's how. For example, I see you know on
your Instagram, you got your kids into golf, um, which
is something you like and they like. So that's like
a thing you can do outside of the house together
as a group. That's fun for everybody. That's something you
do right right. Well, yeah, I mean there are very

(01:42:58):
few sports that you can do where they there's no
contact or your or the or or you can socially distance.
And so as a family, yeah, we got into golf.
We go over to Zach's house when he's not home
and we swim, you know what I mean. But it's tough, Adam.
I'm gonna be honest with you, man. This is a
This is one of those things where it's like where

(01:43:18):
you can find your happiness and where you can find
your joy. You grab onto it and you freaking hold
it tight and you and you and you live in
that space until this is over. Because it's not like
that we can go outside and just do whatever the
heck we want right now. That's not something we can do.
I like, think you didn't curse because he's a teacher.
That was really cute, my respected coming. Yeah, he was like,

(01:43:40):
first of all, when do you ever not curse? But
because he's like a high school teacher, like heck, heck, um,
I'm gonna Adam, I'm gonna say something that might be tricky,
tricky for you because you have kids and um, and
that is that meditation has really helped me. Um. There's
a lot of different apps that are out there. I'm
just gonna shout out heads space because that's the one

(01:44:01):
that's worked for me. And if you're listening and you go,
I'm not gonna fucking meditate, what the hell is he
talking about? I guarantee you that if you all you
need to do is find twenty minutes. They actually even
have shorter ones if you can only find ten or fifteen.
But I think twenty minutes is what I've noticed. I
get the most out of it. So I know, out
of my respect, I don't have kids. I know it's tricky,

(01:44:23):
but if you can have your wife take over for
twenty minutes and you go hide, even in your car, wherever,
you can get your bedroom, wherever, you can be and
just sit and listen to this app and they have
different programs. It can be for anxiety, it can be
for insomnia, it can be for relationships. They have like
the theme theme packs, and I have found when I

(01:44:44):
do that every day twenty minutes in the morning, it
really does keep my anxiety and my stress levels lower.
It's it's noticeable. And if you do try this, don't
go try it once and go, oh, my brain was
wandering all over the place. Fuck that thing. No, like anything,
it takes practice. It's like you're not gonna go and
try and play golf with day one and suck, and
it takes practice to but little by little your mind

(01:45:07):
does quiet and then ultimately you're kind of sitting there
and of course it wanders a little bit, but you
bring it back and you focus on your breath and
it's it's it's made a noticeable difference in my life.
So there you go. You're welcome, Adam, You're welcome, Adam,
You're welcome. Thunderous applause for us, Dan thunders applause, Adam,

(01:45:27):
thank you so much. Thank you for being an educator,
thank you for thank you for being there for young
people and for inspiring them. And I'm sure the kids
don't tell you enough, even though you might have nice kids.
But I hope the kids, I hope that you get
that you're making a difference in their lives. Well, if
I could say one more thing, I hope you guys
understand how important in your podcast is. I mean, I

(01:45:49):
I this came about almost right as covid started, as
you know, and I've started taking walks in the morning
before the kids are up, just to you know, get
a little bit of exercise and just to get out
of the house. And so I've been taking walks and
I listened to the podcast, and I never really understood
the expression that something brings a smile to your face.
I always thought it was kind of a metaphor. But

(01:46:13):
when your podcast comes on and that theme song kicks in,
and like a smile comes to my face, I don't
even realize that I wasn't smiling until it happens. It's
it's like Pavlov. It just it comes up and bam,
I'm smiling on my walk every single time. Entertainment is
our savior right now and makes so happy and you know,

(01:46:34):
e news, the very fancy entertainment station agrees with you.
I don't know if you said that you heard that
we were a very very popular podcast. Oh no, but
thank you. I have to confess to you that you know,
Donald and I and Joel and Dan, and we listen
to the episode back and make edits, and so I
sometimes listen to it while I'm walking my dog, and
I've seen people right on our social media is like,

(01:46:56):
oh my god, I'm laughing out loud so hard. People
are looking at me. And there's time where I'm listening
to the to our early version, the draft before we
edit it, and I'm walking my dog and I'm sitting
there fucking laughing out loud at us. And I know
that's shameless because I'm laughing at us, But anyway, it
makes me so happy to hear that it's making a
difference in people's lives. So thank you, Adam, and we're

(01:47:16):
going to let you go now, but thank you so
much for coming on the show. Thank you, bye, guys,
Thank you, thanks so much being well. Oh Joel, that
was such a wonderful guest in a different way because no,
he wasn't banging on a tarlet at a funeral. Good,
but he was a wonderful teacher who inspires the youth
of the youth, inspires the youth. Your musical Yeah, it's

(01:47:40):
really that's really cool. And the fact that he like
wrote the music to it and figured it all out
on the piano because I didn't exist, that's so cool.
Let's talk about first of all, Laddie the X ray
tech to the Caribbean. He's compared to the Caribbean. He's
the one that hangs out with the dude whose eye
keeps popping out. He's true. Yeah, it's true. When Sean Whalen, Joel,

(01:48:01):
will you double check out? Do you know where I
know Sean Whalen from? This is a really good piece
of trivia. Do you remember one of the best ads
of the of the last however many years when the
guys had too much peanut butter. And he's like they
call him from the radio show and he's got his
his his his room is surrounded with trivia and memorabilia

(01:48:24):
about Aaron Burr and and they and and and the
radio show is calling him and they go they go,
um for for one thousand dollars, who is the man
who shot Alexander Hamilton? And he was like his moment
to Sharne because he's like his whole life is dedicated
to Aaron Burr and he and he calls and he

(01:48:46):
just eat peb and they're like, we're sorry, sir, we're
gonna have to let you go anyway. Hilarious ad. You
can watch it on YouTube. That was Sean Whalen. Was
he also in Pirates? Um Joel, he's he's an all three. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure that's him, but it's sorry Sean Whyland

(01:49:06):
spelled different? W h a l een like a whale okay, Laddie.
And then of course the my machines, guy, My machines,
my machine. They used to play that over and over
and over again where on set man sound used to
play that these are my machines over and over. Yeah,

(01:49:29):
just like out of nowhere, these are my machines. Because
he says it's so good, like if you listen to
way the way he says it, it's a great read
of a yell that's not really like he's yelling, but
he's not, you know, out of control yelling. It's a
controlled yell like it's running Anyway, he loved it. He's
very funny and um and that was a funny bit

(01:49:52):
and then um, Sarah, I love the montage of you
getting you know, tearing your your your kitten post, your
off wall and then then putting your back up and
put it back up up, like I'll destroy my room,
but that's like one step too far. But not only

(01:50:13):
the cat poster back up, but you're destroyed it. You
like ripped it up and then you tape it with
like black duct tape and ship like put it back up.
I love it. That's like Elliot's room. Yeah, I know
your room was so bubble gummy, curly, I know, just
hugging a Teddy Bear. Where did you get the money
from the half all of that when your parents cut
you off and stuff. Remember, like all of a sudden,

(01:50:36):
I feel like that's from when they had me back
still on I was still on the That's like it's
like frozen in time. It's like Elliot's things from when
she was twelve, right, all of the all of the yeah, yeah,
I guess she took all of her chatch keys from
her from her youth she got cut off. Well that
was that was really fun. And it's cut to Tom
petty American girl and m raised on promises Oh yeah,

(01:51:02):
I join nobody, finally get her hot sexy scrubs chick
entrance down the hallway, the classic from the feed up
Smoky smoke SloMo um, and then um, how about alone?
I thought. Another funny thing they made me laugh was
when um, when everyone's you know, everyone's kind of just
doing their own thing because they can tell when Kelsel

(01:51:24):
is coming because it was nose squeak and and now
now Cox is fixed the nose squeak, but they don't know,
and they cut to everyone just being lazy, and the
janitor is giving a lomo on the I didn't know
until this moment that the janitor and and Uh and
Nurse Roberts were close enough her choppy chop, or when

(01:51:54):
Alma says to me, I'm going for advice and she goes,
it's also because you're very white. She goes, why do
you call me marshmallows it because I'm solved and sensitive
or something. She goes, sure, it's also because you're very white. Um,
And then Shan comes in at the end, Oh heartbreaking,

(01:52:16):
and you're like, damn, damn, I didn't I didn't see,
like I didn't see. I'm at the point now where
I don't see j D and Elliott getting together though
on the show, even though I know what happens at
the end. It feels like at this point in the
show that the two of them getting together isn't isn't

(01:52:38):
the possibility. They don't, They don't. They're not on the
same page anymore. So at the end when Sean when
he says to her, you look beautiful, and then Sean
steps out, I didn't see that coming. I didn't see
JD reacting to her the way he reacted, and I
knew Sean would come back, but I didn't see that happening. Well.
I mean, it's interesting because not only is JD attracted

(01:53:00):
to Elliott a new obviously because she's done, she looks
great and she's done this makeover, but it's also because
he's he's turned on by seeing her be a badass.
She's so finally fucking being tough and standing up for herself,
and he's like, holy shit, this is this is this
is a new woman. Who's this woman? I'm intrigued. Then
all of a sudden, fucking Scott Foley, nobody cares sweater, Yeah,

(01:53:22):
when did nobody cares? Shan come in? It's in his
first episode that he's nobody cares when we're at this. Yeah,
is that when we're at the uh? Where? Where where
are we? When you say that? No, it's his very
first episode. He's in Nobody. I forgot when by do
we just to clarify something? Um, the My Machines guy

(01:53:43):
is Lee Aharnberg. That's the guy who's in Pirates. Um.
I was talking about Sean Whalen and that's the Aaron
Burr commercial guy who plays Laddie who's a different X
ray tech. He's the one I lie on top of
naked because he wants to get an X ray That
looks like he's X ray to time. He's twin. That
guy is hilarious. He's in so many commercials. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything. Yeah,

(01:54:08):
absolutely a lot of commercials. Okay, but Lee Ahronberg is
the one you're thinking of who's in Pirates. Another funny
moment is Johnny C when he's like with the prison
inmates and he's asking him to keep the photo of
his son. So rap But I never said, why is
Johnny showing people with pictures of his son? And why
would he not he bring the picture? He has it
out like he's he's showing every prisoner he's getting a

(01:54:30):
physical too, is his kid. I do have to say,
I got um goosebumps when when we finally figure out
that it's familial Mediterranean fever. Yeah, I'm such a sucker
for those moments where where we as young doctors go Eureka,
we got it, like we figured it out. Like, I mean,
it's funny I'm watching us, but I gave myself goosebumps.

(01:54:52):
I love the fact that doctor Cox takes the credit
for it at the end too. Yeah, yeah, says it
was all you guys. Yeah, right after he says that shit.
But yeah, I didn't understand. That's the one thing I
didn't understand the whole episode. He's telling you not to
rely on him, but he's relying on us the whole episode.

(01:55:16):
He's saying to us, don't rely on me. I'm not
going to be here for you all the time. Don't
rely on me. But he's relying on us to come
up with this diagnosis so that he can go into
the room at the end and take all of the
credit for it. Well, I think maybe that's sort of
what Bill's doing in the writing in season three, is
like it's gonna start being a tip for tat ying
Yang if you will, situation where there's gonna be times

(01:55:38):
where we're helping him look good and he's going, of course,
going to be saving our asses still and we're getting
we're getting a little more experience where we can become
a little more closer to being his peer. No, I
totally understand that, but it's just it was just it's
like a it's a great psych out because you know,
here you are thinking that we need this guy, we
need this guy to help us, we need this guy,
we need this guy, and at the end of the show,

(01:56:00):
we didn't need him at all. He actually needed us
so he could go tell these people the next day,
this is what's going on with your patient. This is
going on with my patient. You know what I mean. Uh,
I just thought I thought it was I just thought
it was That's a great I like I like fake
I like when shows do things like that, when it's
like you think that you know, the mentor is there

(01:56:21):
to support the obviously he's there to support the cast,
but really in the grand scheme of things, he doesn't
want to do it because he doesn't want to do
the paperwork. And I mean, not the paperwork. He doesn't
want to do the work that it takes to to
diagnose the patient. He just wants to credit at the end.
He doesn't have the time. I mean, he's got so
much on his plate, and he kind of, you know,

(01:56:41):
he's still keep in mind, he's still even though he's
aggressive and confrontational, he's still our teacher. So he's like,
you guys got to do the work. You guys got
to stay late and figure it out. And then of
course he he you know, gives them love good work.
That was a good get. And then he goes and
takes credit for it because that's him, you know, right,
because it's his and it is the big cheese. Did
we ever go? Do we ever recap that? Like? One

(01:57:03):
of the funniest parts of this show is when you
go in at the beginning and you're like, I know
everybody so well, I know what they're gonna say, and
then you're like replacing Donald's and twoties and and Johnny
sees dialoged you put your earbuds in. I love that part. Johnny,
thank you sir? What's that? Donald? You did a good Johnny,
You did a good Johnny. You honor me. I'm sorry
to steal Dan's what you're talking about willis again, but

(01:57:24):
I really like to take it. You honor me by
taking it. I'm gonna take it down. I won't use
it on the podcast that much, but I'm gonna start
using it in my real life because brother, I hope
you do. UM do I honor you by taking it
most certainly listen, you were deserving pec Donald and I
have a special announcement just so y'all know who are listening.
Because the DMVs are all closed and or I think

(01:57:46):
most of them are, a lot of them are, UM
and other reasons. Because of COVID, voter registration is very
far down, apparently over two million down from what it
normally is in a presidential year. So Donald and I
are teaming up with a cause called Headcount. Now what
I want you to do is want you when this

(01:58:06):
podcast is over, you can go to our social media
is where we will have links to this. But if
you don't want to go to social media or you're
not on social media, you can go to headcount dot
org backslash Zach and Donald. Now what's going to happen?
You are going to register or just check your registration.

(01:58:29):
If fifteen hundred of you do this, drum roll Dan,
a little drum roll there, I'll do it in my mouth.
Let me do it in my mouth and take this
action that is either registring for the first time. Sorry, sorry,
thank you, either registering for the first time, or just

(01:58:52):
checking that you are in fact registered because a lot
of people get purged every year. Fifteen hundred of you
do it, Donald and I will do a video where
we teach you how to make an apple tini. Y oh,
and then we will drink said apple tinis. You don't
even like Apple's that you didn't even like it. I

(01:59:14):
don't even like it. I don't mind vodka, but I
will drink them for America. Wait, hold up, I think
we should make a like a real apple tiny, though
not the generic where you get the freaking the puckers
and you just pour the puckers into the Theay what
you want to get gourmet? I want to I think
we should get freaking straight up mixologists on this bad boy. Well,

(01:59:37):
we have Flow who's a chef. She can help us
with that. Okay, she knows how to mix drinks too.
Oh yeah, does she ever? Let me tell you something,
you guys. I got inspired by Flow actually because she
did one of these. And she said to her followers
on Instant and Twitter, a five hundred of you register
or check your registration, I'll cook a Sunday roast, which

(01:59:58):
is a big traditional British meal. She registered seventy five
hundred people. Damn what, and you guys, I'm competitive and
I need you to help me beat my girlfriend. Okay,
so all Donald and I am asking is for fifteen hundred.
If it ends up being more than that, then that
will be great and we'll all feel wonderful about it.
This is nonpartisan, so don't get your panties in a bunch.

(02:00:21):
This is just trying to get people to register, okay,
and trying to tell people to vote. Right, don't get
don't get all political with this bullshit and be like,
you guys are so political. No, we just want you
to vote. We want you to vote, We want you
to vote. Seven Katy, It's just sc dude, it's your
American right. So no, now, okay, if you're listening to
this wherever you are, you're gonna either go to our

(02:00:42):
social media on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook if that's
easiest for you. If not, go to headcount dot org
backslash Zach and Donald. Don't do this somewhere else, because
we want credit for you checking your status or registering.
We want credit. I did it just now, super easy. Okay,
thank you, Daniel, We have one, Gotchad. We are a

(02:01:04):
halfway there. Well, no, we are, we are, We're not
on there. What's the address again, headcount dot org, backslash
Zach and Donald. Or if it's easier for you, go
to our social media's on Instagram. It'll be in our
bios on Twitter. I we'll both be tweeting it out

(02:01:24):
and please help us. UM beat Samuel Jackson did it.
We want to beat him too, Josh Gad just did it.
So we are going to teach you how to make
an apple teeny that's just the most perfect one. And
then he and I, because we're in the same pod
at this point, we can be together and share a cocktail. Okay,
we're going to share cock tails. It's sounded dirty, no matter, Look, dude,

(02:01:53):
we are going to share. Listen to me again. I'll
make it. I'll make it even more sexual. We are
going to share some cock tails. I am so much
excited to share some cock tails. I cannot wait to

(02:02:17):
just have some of your cock tales. All right, Sorry,
Joel's getting schemed out. You know you know what's gonna
you know it's gonna taste great going down my throat
your cock tail, Joel, I think they could just keep

(02:02:39):
doing this for another forty five minutes. I don't think
you are laughing, so don't tease. I don't I know
this episode nine and a half hours. We haven't saw
Happy Birthday to Joel yet. Oh. Also, it's Joel's birthday
is today next October one, so a week from yesterday. Okay,
and John, we have to talk about Wells present. And

(02:03:00):
also we never got Daniel the president, so we need
to stop that. No, I reminded myself when I was
looking online Wells Present. We can totally give them some
cock tail tale. How about? How about? I don't feel
comfortable making this joke with Joel, it's in approvent, but Dan,
I will give you so much cock tale. All right,

(02:03:26):
we gotta go. We love you, everybody, Please do the
head count thing. I want to crush everyone. I want
Sam Jackson to say to his publicist, holy shit, Sam
Taxans say robbers, holy shit, you all these motherfucker's. Okay,
good head Count Slow did seventy five. I'm sure it's
higher than that, but I would love to be able

(02:03:47):
to say, ha ha flow we did seven five oh one.
But I'm not aiming that high. That's that's that's that
might be too high. But let's all I want for
now is fifteen You get the prize of the video
of cocktails. If you do fifty fifteen hundred of you
a registration or register for the first time. Come on, everybody,
I want to do it. I want to try and
do my Sam Jackson one more time. How did these

(02:04:08):
motherfucker's beat me? No better? Yes? Yes, I like No,
I'm not kach. I just don't dig on swine. This
is a tasty burger, great scene. Um all right, head
count dot org, backslash, Zack and Donald, we love you all.

(02:04:28):
Nice stories about shore we made about a bunch of
docs and nurses and Jannan, who I said, he's the
stories so yetto around you here are yato around you here?
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