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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I'm Donald Fason and I'm also Donald Faison. We're
here to announce that we'll be doing our first ever
live version of our podcast, Fake Doctor's Real Friends on
June tenth in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We'll be rewatching a musical episode of Scrubs, my musical.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
So bring your partner, bring your friends, bring your kids.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Maybe don't bring your kids, but bring your dog.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I don't think they can bring their dog.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, it's Seattle. Who knows what goes on up there?

Speaker 3 (00:18):
We gonna find?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, we will. Click on the link in our bios
or click on our show description to get tickets to
the first, and who knows, maybe only, ever live version
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ticketmaster dot com. Search Fakedoctors at ticketmaster dot com. There
we go. I'm confused. Whenever you're punctual, I'm confused. So
good to see you. Wait, here's your new theme song.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I don't like my new theme song.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Don't I'm limited in what I have? Do you like
this better?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes? Wait? Oh yeah, way better? That's yoursabboy, game showy,
that's yours baby. The other one sounds like an interlude
in between.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
You could also have this this single.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, this is labeled monk, do you want this? Do
you want this?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
One?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I thought that was when we came back from you.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, I know, we're still figuring it out. Baby, Come on, man, hey,
let's tell I got to say, I haven't watched my
musical in so long. I've only seen Guy Love nine
jillion times. And not to pat ourselves in the back,
this is fucking one of the best episodes of TV
comedy ever. Yes, I think it's brilliant. And we can

(01:37):
say that because we didn't write it. And I want
to give kudos to the writers right off the bed,
Jeff Marx, Robert Lopez, Paul Perry, and I'm sure a
few others I don't know about. Obviously, Deb Fordham, who
wrote the episode, wrote a lot of the lyrics, with
the whole writing staff Will mackenzie, brilliant director Bill Lawrence
of course overseeing the whole thing. But it is so

(01:59):
tight me. First of all, it's so short, and and
to think of all those songs and all that in
what is it? Twenty twenty twenty two minutes? And Donald,
you are particularly amazing in it too, every time, I mean,
because because you really are a sing singer and a dancer.
You shine so bright in this.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Thank you man. That's very nice of you to say.
You know who really shined in this for me was Judy? Yeah,
because I know she broke her back or yeah, her hip.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
But I found this trivia for those of you. Here's
your first bit of tribute. Wait, we get in the
show five six.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Stories about show we made about a bunch of n.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I said, here's a story.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
All so YadA ra here, yeada here.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, tell us about the trivia.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
There's some trivia I learned on on Scrubs Wiki, which
is that Judy Reyes had a broken hip. Yes, and
other than the tango that she did what does with
Donald which was shot two months after the fact, they
had to come back and shoot it. Remember that you'll
notice that she's always sitting.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yep, We're gonna miss your Carla.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
The whole woman. I'm gonna miss your Carlo. She's sitting
in a wheelchair, I believe, right, Or no, why would
she be in a wheelchair.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
No, she's sitting in a regular chair.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, But anyway, there is some mega trivia for you
trivia buffs out there. Judy Reyes spent the whole time
in sitting, except for the tango, which was shot two
months later.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
She was also out for a bit while she healed
because she uh so we we didn't see her for
a while when.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
She do you remember how she broke her hip? Was
it sexually related?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh? I wish, I wish it was.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
By the way, her voice is, first of all, I
don't know, I don't even begin, okay, And I'm sure
if you're a mega Scrubs fan and you're listening to
this podcast, you probably feel the same way because I
haven't seen it. I don't think i've seen it in
twenty years. It is so good. And Judy Rayes's voice,
first of all, amazing. Everything you do Donald and this

(04:19):
is amazing. But the tango I hadn't seen for the
last time. Turk, I'm Dominican. That is so fucking funny.
And the dancing is so good.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
She's great.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Do you remember, like you guys, wused have rehearsed a
long time for that.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh, don't rub it in for us. Non dancing.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
She was hurt, were hurt for ten minutes. We had
like half a day of rehearsal. So we could get
the blocking and everything down, but for the most part
she was I mean she had to come back and
like kudos to her man because she had to come
back and learn it really fast. Where we rehearsed for
a week or two before we even started blocking this show.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
This episode, this was huge for us.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean, this was just one of the biggest things
we ever did. We pre recorded, so not only did
these genius writers that I mentioned write all this music
and then it was orchestrated, and then we had to
go and pre record all the songs so that we
could sing and dance to them, you know, and have
them be filmed. And so we had never done anything

(05:23):
this epic. I mean before this was by far the biggest.
I'm sure this and maybe the Princess bridewe were the
most expensive ones ever. But this was so fun. And
Will McKenzie, I mean, he's such a talented director. I mean,
he loved musicals, and he had a Broadway background, and

(05:46):
he's directed a zillion episodes of television and he just
was the perfect man for this assignment. The way this
is photographed, the way it goes in and out of
every time. Stephanie de Bruzzo I believe she was in
Avenue Q and she's been in a lot of broad
Way things, and she's wonderfully talented. But you know, we
only sing when she's around. And then it also takes
on this little sort of heightened glow of like a

(06:09):
technic color musical, you know, little little things like that.
And and just all the camera moves, I mean, the
camera is dancing too, and those.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Overheads, the lights are dancing in this bad boy.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, john in would we got to give a shout
at the Johnny one who shot it beautifully. I mean,
it was nominated for five Emmys. Now Scrubs barely ever
won Emmys. No bitterness, but.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I have no I have no hate towards anyone.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I do. We should have won, We should have won
all five.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
But I get we lost to Dick in the Box.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
No, we won one Emmy for this episode. Do you
know what it was? What the Emmy was for?

Speaker 3 (06:46):
No, ha to look at it.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sound mixed, sound mix, just kind of because.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
He lost to Dick in a Box. I just want
you to know that guy Love lost to Dick in
a Box.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh for song, Well, Dick in the Box is a
it was was more scene.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Because these enough to know in a gift needs given,
and I got just the one to let her know
that she's second to none. It's my dick in a box,
My dick in a box.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Girl.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well you shouldn't be singing this song that beat us.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Well you know I'm not a sore loser. It was
years ago.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
So yeah, sound mixing, that's the way. That's the end
movie won So there you go. The open the opening
dance number. I mean that took a long time to shoot.
They have those overhead beautiful. What do they call those
swimming shots?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Crane?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, no, no, Red, No, you guys aren't talking about
buzz buzzby Berkeley. What's that expression? Do you know what
I'm talking about? Berkeley's top shot technique, buzzby? I guess
it's buzz Berkeley, buzzby Burkeley. What's Berkeley's first name? Joel?
Can you find that? So he would do those top

(08:06):
shot down things and then an elaborate dance move so
you'd see it. So that's what that's what will.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Is is they do it Indiana Jones and the Temple
of Doom in the opening number. It's done in blazing saddles.
When they are busting through all the sets and stuff
like that at the end of the movie.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
But I'm talking about in a moving dance sort of
seeing the beautiful choreography.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's what it's done, That's what it's us for.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
What's the Coen Brothers movie where where Scarlet Johansson rises
out of the water? Yeah? Wow, nice, Paul Joel.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
They found Han Solo. They did the new Han Solo.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
What are you talking about in Caesar?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do you like him as Han Solo?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah? Why not? Man?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Look man, other than you, Do you think that there's
a better choice for Han Solo out?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I do, But no, just and no disrespect to him,
because I think he did a great job. But I
think the person who should got the Han Solo character
as a dude that was in What's that story, Ansel
elgret Yeah, no, I think it should be Ansel el
Greck is a better Han Solo. I promise you, dude,
he's got.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I would have liked.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Andrew Andrew Garfield really really really really yeah really really yeah.
I went to some of the Oscar parties, saw lots
of famous people. I brought my friend Presston and we
when we left, I high fived him and I said,
I think we didn't embarrass ourselves in front of anyone,

(09:36):
you know, because Donald told that story of we've both
definitely embarrassed ourselves in front of.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Celebrities several times. I've done that.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
But there were lots of cool actors and it's cool.
You know, you go to these parties and you get
to walk up to people you really admire and say, hey,
I just you know, sometimes you know them, sometimes you don't,
but you can say, like, hey, I you're That performance
was incredible, and that's the thing I like about it.
It's cool and I didn't How.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Does it feel to be doing that stuff again, that's
the question.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I felt great, it was a break, It felt great.
It felt great. I mean, yeah, obviously I have done
any of that since COVID, and it just felt cool.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'm literally I still feel like the little kid in
the room who can't believe he's invited to the party.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
So that's what's so fun about it is to look
around the room and go, oh my god, it's so
and so and so and so, and then you know,
my agent would like sometimes introduce me to some mega
person and that was cool, and we just had We
just had some good laughs, but mostly we were excited
that we escaped the party without embarrassing ourselves.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Biggest name you ran into that you were like, holy shit,
conversation be on point.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
What I did see Leo? I did see I did
see Leo. But we didn't. We didn't have a long conversation.
We had a more of a fist bump, a fist doc.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
If you will, you guys docked.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
We didn't. Yeah, we had a we had a fist doc.
I spoke to Andrew Garfield, who I know a little bit,
and I and I went on on about of tictic
boom and I but I made sure Donald, I didn't
embarrass us. I know, I know, I know. I could
picture you over my shoulder being like, okay, buddy, back away,

(11:17):
but I did. But I did give Andrew Garfield some
love because I did think, truly that that performance was
fucking unbelievable and I think he's one of the best
there is. And I told him, anyway, let's get back
to our musical, Donald. Let's open with So we talked
about the opening number, which is incredible and just so
well written. Then we go into our Pooh song, which

(11:40):
is just so funny, and the choreography is so funny.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, we had kicking our heads in.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hey, miss Miller, we just need a stool sample. So
if you think I'm just a nut, my.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Dear, you.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
See, everything comes down to pooh.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
This show really mean, should.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Really just be me and Donald singing all the songs.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
For you guys, whether it's a tumor or a touch
of the flu.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Please, won't you pinch us off a big fat clue.
Our number one guess is your number two.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
If there's no preestlide on match, please.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Everything comes down to do do do do Do Do
do do.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
So there's a moment in that song that's very funny,
and that's the breakaway goes Mike check the pool, Yes,
Mike Schwartz as homeless guy through Pooh in my eye.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Check the check the poo. Minor his first him then
you ven you. But the way that the way that
Mike Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Because if he doesn't have anything in his poo, you're
gonna be fine pretty much.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
But the way that Mike Schwartz asked Minor his so
funny first is then you it may may gross it.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You know, you may see it used to be Originally
it was it may seem grows, it may be crass,
but we need to see what comes out of your Yes.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Some of the lyrics before that, it was a curly
or a letter J, as long as.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's due yes, everything of that.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
NBC put their foot down on describing fecal matter as
a letter J.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Or curly, curly, curly or a letter J.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's just so funny. It's so funny what they allowed.
But they didn't allow a curly or a letter J.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
How many letters js have you had?

Speaker 6 (14:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's the truth though, think about it. I guess so
because it was in the song at one.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Point curly or a letter jay, as long as it seduced, yes,
and then we cheer. It was a bummer when we
get while we were when we get lyrics and they
were so funny. And then by the time we recorded,
we had to change some of them because NBC didn't
approve them.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, this episode is completely chopped up also, man like,
there were so many storylines that had.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Or it's amazings that had to go.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, that had to go because they wanted to get
all the songs in.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
There's really only two plots. There's Carlos deciding whether she's
going to be a working mom and come back to
work or be a stay at home mom. And and uh,
Sarah's moving into her new house and doesn't want me
and doesn't want me to move in, and then and
then the woman of course who has a who has
an aneurysm that's causing her to hear people singing.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
But but the thing that's taken the plot, that takes
over most of the shows we could is the music, obviously,
because we wanted to tell that story.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Are you okay? Are you all right? Now? There's a
they all have like a little bit of an homage
to a genre.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I was gonna ask you this.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, I see some more than others, but there you.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Name them where I will see how I do.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
I wrote down some thoughts on it, so the blanks.
We're gonna miss your Carla, I don't know what do
you think that's an homage to? It's sort of like
a it's like a song from Greece kind of thing.
But there's a clear grease song later, but.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm not exactly sure what that is. We're gonna miss
your car maybe barbershop, barbershop quartet? Ish, you know what?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I mean right, that's such a good tune. I had
forgotten about.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
We haven't gone.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
It kind of sounds like a barbershop quartet.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Now when you come here, baby, it made the choice
to be at home and not at work. You that
was your entrance, dude. I had to like rewind and
watch it again.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
It was so good, Thank you very much. A little
homage to uh, you know, what was your image? You know,
the king of pop back in the day?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Right, Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah you did that. You
did that later when in Guy Love. But I know
it's not probably gonna happen. But I wish you'd do
a Broadway musical because.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
They don't want me. Man, Ain't nobody offering me. No,
damn Broadway musicals.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
They don't want me.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
If they did want me, I would have done one
by now. Listen, man, you could talk, we could talk.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I auditioned from the one I did. They're not gonna,
they're not gonna do.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
You auditioned for Bullets over Broadway? Yeah? Hell yeah, nice,
I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you something.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Those go ahead, hold on, hold on? Is it? Is
it something that's really.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Let me ask you a question. When you auditioned for it?
Did you audition against other Broadway performers and stuff?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
What I did was I didn't go to the actual audition.
I had to leave town and I was very terrified
to go in an audition, and so what I did
was I had a piano player come over my house
and we videotaped me singing the songs. That was the
first audition, was singing this song. And I then forgot

(17:16):
about it, like every actor should, because the best way
to get a part is to is to submit your
audition and never think about it again. So they call
you and I said, I'm never going to get this.
And then they called me and said Woody and Susan Stroman,
who directed it, really liked you now when you read
the scene. And then I had a second audition on

(17:37):
tape from LA and I read the scene and they
said they're going to do a workshop of it and
they want you to play the John Cusack part. It was,
you know, because it's based on a John Cusack movie,
Woody ol movie. And so I did the workshop and
then officially got the part. After the workshop. Did you
listen to any of that?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
I did.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
All I heard was you had like a boutique audition
and then another boutique audition.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
No, I just videotaped myself, right, And then they were like,
it's no different than you videotaping yourself for a role
at home. I just didn't go in.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Now, Ain't nobody called me and asked me to videotape myself?
And this ship is what I'm trying to say. You
sitting here saying you should be a part of a
Broadway thing. They gotta want you to be a part
of the mother.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Things have to have. I can't just be like, you're right,
I'm now on Broadway everyone. It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Listen, do you have your agency has a theater department? Okay, yes,
you're gonna go to your theater agent and you're gonna say, hey,
theater agent, Zach Braf, the amazing actor, the amazing man
that he is, the amazing actor, director, singer, dancer says
star Broadway star says, I should do Broadway? Can you

(18:50):
can you if a musical that's right for me comes up,
can you flag it?

Speaker 7 (18:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Because here's a problem, Because then all of a sudden,
Shrek comes up and they're like, they want you to
play donkey, Donald, That's how it works. I see how
this shit happens. I see how this ship works. Zb
I know how this ship works.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I know how.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
They don't call me and say, Yo, what.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Allen has the next freaking uh part in Bullets over Broadway.
They go, Donald, we want you to play Mufasa in
the Lion King.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's how it goes. I know how this shit works.
What we can all be so lucky to play with.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'd be there every night.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
If you were a Mufasa, I would have to learn
how to fucking work puppets.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Man, I'm not good at that ship bro teers.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
We're only they only audition puppeteers.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I mean, I saw the show. It was magical, like
it was. The puppetry was amazing. That was really the show.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Let's keep it out. We know the music we've seen
in the movie.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Right, we're gon gonna break.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'm just saying I'm and when we come.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Back, we're gonna talk more about the legendary episode than
I'm so hot are proud to.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Be a part of.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
We'll be right back and we're back. Go Donald, Go Donald, go, Donal.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I gotta I gotta tell you, man, I was very
happy to watch doctor Cox rap.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
You know, that was kind of.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
So that I believe is Gilbert and Sullivan, if I'm
not mistaken, that's sort of that. That's like Pirates of the.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Penzance, Pirates of the Penzance.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, that was awesome. He killed it.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
He did a great job.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
And what about it all started with a penny There
was that I have never found before. Amazing, amazing, and
then he calls me a moose haired something.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
I loved it. I loved it.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
A lot of it was a lot of it was.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Very like there's no way she could yell at you,
and all of a sudden, you're he's going to give
her the surgery or the MRI that she wants, you know,
she yells at you to shut up, and then all
of a sudden she gets the MRI.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I well, I think you can complain. I mean I've
I've definitely like I had my back problems in there, like, oh,
you don't need a MRI. And I'm like, please for
the for the for the for the safety, for the
comfort of my mind.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
But you pay for it though, no, it's.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Covered by insurance. I'm lucky enough in this country that
has a very messed up health system to be one
of the insured there. So anyway, yeah you can?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
You can.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
You can say, I mean your doctor economics, I'm sure
say no, but I've had a doctor say yes. I
think she could convince him and say please, for my
peace of mind, can I can you do the cat scan?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I did that with my colonoscopy. I was like, he
was like, you're too young, you don't need it yet.
I was like, please do it. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
You wanted you wanted that ship. And then while you're
doing it, you were like deeper he said, we don't
go any deeper and.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
I was a sleep idiot. I was asleep. I got
the real deal, holy Field. You were like, deeper, listen,
everybody likes a little ass play. And anybody likes a
little ass play.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
He was like, this is the girth of the camera.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Like you don't like a little ass play?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
They were like, this is the girth of the camera tube,
and you're like, got anything girth?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Heer right now, everybody likes a little ass play. Don't
even act like you don't.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Can I have that? Daniel as one of the new
sounds sound and I'm gonna I'm gonna mark that one down,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Please, do they do, whether it be taking a poop,
whether it be a finger, whether it be a tongue,
whether you know everybody likes a little ass play.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I need all of that, Daniel, for the my sound sake,
Just stop talking about your will is. We're talking about
what you're trying to get, what you're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
All right, we've already established what.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, what you're trying to get into. Okay, so
do not ok yeah, that's true, Yoda. I read something
online that I'm sorry I got excited about all my buttons.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
You've read some line and what.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
On Reddit they had this thread I always send you guys,
you and Joel these threads that I'm sure you don't read,
but it's like read. It had this thread that was
like what's your most unpopular Star Wars opinion or something
like that, and someone said, Yoda barely did the backwards
talking in the beginning, and then it became like out
of control.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Hm, oh wow, that's pretty good. I see it.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
You see it. Joel's going through dialogue.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
What do you say?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yes? So when the song when the truth comes out
is sort of a lame is homage. Mm hmmm, hmmm, which.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I saw you?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yes, it's that end of act one. Do you hit it?

Speaker 9 (24:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Actually it's a one more day end of Act one,
one more day but one. Yeah, the same thing, same
lame is big full company number, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
But I thought it was so well done. I mean,
did you get excited? I got so excited. All right,
this is the song I was talking about. I'm sure
you must be scared, not knowing what this test will
bring ahead. It could prove that you are crazy. Do
you still hear people sing?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's best to know the truth of that. I have
no doubt.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
But you'll have to face the future when the truth
comes out. That's it's a waste of our time. But
at least you'll accept that she's medically fine.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
You'll admit that she's.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Nuts, or I'll have to say that's thirty. Oh, it's
so good.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's really good.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Can we play thirty of each songs?

Speaker 4 (25:12):
You will, as long as you guys are analyzing the
song and talking about it specifically.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yes, okay, well I'm learning something, but most importantly i'm
learning let's say the facts about me and you. You
specify it's a bop. No, I'm proud to call you
Chocolate Bear. The crowd will always talk and staff.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
I feel exactly those feelings too, and that's why I
keep them inside fire. This can't bear those girls to
stay and sometimes excuse me, you're too high and explain
our guy love.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's so beautiful now, mine, there's some funny ass ship
in that.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
I mean, you're the only man who's ever been inside
of me, right, And I hold up my fist.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I took it, yeah, meaning insinuating that I fisted your butthole.
But I'm saying, I'm saying, dude, I just took your
stitches out.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I just put stitches.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah. But I like, I like, I go and I go.
I like that I go. There's no need to clarify.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
And oh no, are you sure cause you put your
fist up.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
That ship was so funny. And my other favorite thing
is that when we go let's go and do this,
and we just go.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
To the end of the bed, we go right to
the end of the bed.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I love how I point you guys were with that.

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Also, the facial expressions you give, like both of you
throughout is so fun really selling.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
The moment I love.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
I hate to tell you this, but we were really
trying to sing the ship out of this song too.
Like we're sitting there like everybody looks at it like
it's a joke, because it obviously is a joke, and
we are making a joke, but we're sincerely trying to
fucking sing. Okay, this shit is real deal, holy Field.
This wasn't no fucking let that.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Was a pre record though Donald wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, it was a prerecord, but we weren't in the
pre record.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
They had bet they had mics on us too. So
when we said, like when Donald did his like and
then and then and then when I go when he
when he puts his hand, I go, no hands.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dude, I still use no hands. I still use that
no hands baby, huggs.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Huggs.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Now, this is a much underappreciated, not talked about song
in this particular episode.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
I've had it to hear, so let me make it
very clear, because I swear I'll never win again every
time that you profess that.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Come from Puerto Rico. Yes, for the last time, I'm Domitigan.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
Don't make a big to do.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
I was simply testing you.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Then why did you tell jd our.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Baby's blaxakany you know about me or no sex again?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh my god, that ship was amazing.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Your name is Carla. You're done that day? Yeah, I
sent you.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
I emailed you all the lyrics, by the way, if
you wanted to reference them.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
I love that song. That song.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I laughed so much when I first read that song
and we sang it, like, why'd you tell J d
our Baby's Blaxican?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Then? Why do you tell J d our Baby's Blaxican?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think that's a great way to describe ethnic children.
What are you?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
You know right away, I'm Blaxakin, half black, half Mexican.
That's a Blaxican baby, right there. Baby, that's a Blaxican baby.
That shit is hilarious to me. I laughed, So I
fed that ship.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
It was so funny. It was so funny. And the
lyrics I want to I think it's Deb before them.
I don't know, of course, it's all the writers, but Deb,
you are the head writer on this episode. The lyrics
are so funny and and you guys are just amazing,
Like I would you know? There's there was talk of

(29:16):
making a Scrubs musical.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, Brandon was trying, Randall Winston.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Was trying to develop it. I'm sure there'll probably be
one one day and we can go see it, and
I would, I would cheer.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
You know, they made it clueless musical.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Uh and Dove Cameron played Chaer and did a wonderful job,
you know what I mean. Like Amy Heckling was involved
and directed it in everything, you know, I don't see
why they couldn't do a Scrubs musical.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And it doesn't even have to be this musical episode.
It could be any episode you.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Could well you would, you could have to.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
It was only that's right. I get you.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You'd have to add a lot more songs because there's
not enough.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
But you could create a whole brand new episode. Doesn't
necessarily have to be about someone hearing thing, even though
that works, and you know, make a I totally see
this happening, or see a version of this happening. I
don't necessarily see us in it, but I see it happening.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
We're not gonna be in it. We're too old. There
has to be about young people.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Like if they did Screw, Like, that's what sucks if
they did Scrubs.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now, how many fingers. Do you see call nine one emergency.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'm not used to sing.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm really notice you'd like to hear thirty seconds?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Is there someone here with you?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Someone that we could talk to?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
I said them by myself, saying.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
That she would really be doing.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
What the fuck is everybody saying? What the is going on? Saying?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
You know, it'll be funny if the character hated musicals.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
That'd be even better. Oh no, not another one.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Another one? No hands? All right? Then we get this
classic hold on, remember this one, Donald, hold on?

Speaker 3 (31:23):
We need friends, never friends forever. We will always be true.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Friends. We gotta be friends forever. I'll always be there
for you.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Were rest close as the and the order.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
We're best friends. Just like, why are you trying to
Sarah singing?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
She sounds like a grimlin when you sing.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I love Sarah. Oh there's our girl. I love Sarah,
But I have to say, amongst her many talents, and
she has many talents, she's a phenomenal actress. She's beautiful,
she's so kind, she's an amazing mom. Singing is not
in her top six things.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
No, I would say it's sports and singing that she's
probably well.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
She can snowboard. I know that she's a good snowboarder
because she's keeting.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
You know, Sarah was looking for a school sport when
she was younger and had to settle for shotput.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Can you imagine Sarah didn't shotput?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
No, and the only reason why she got shot puts
because there wasn't enough interest.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Shotput is the dumbest sport.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
No, I disagree, I disagree.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I'm sorry if you're into shotput, but can you imagine
putting that much time into shotput?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's a technique that is yeah, and it goes nowhere.
The thing is, it comes after you after.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
You've become the best shot pudder in the world.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
This is not throwing with the ball where you spin around.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Come on, you want to take someone out from far away? Though?
Right right? An attack right right? There wasn't attack.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Maybe if they added an element to shot put, like
hit a dude right.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Moving targets is a good idea, that's well, then it's
no longer.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
What's another what's another funny one? Throwing the hammer then
throwing the hammer. Is that the same one or is that.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
A different that's different?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
There's javelin javelin Okay, Jain's is one's still in the Olympics.
And I've always and I've always discussed this. Oh that's
another dumb one. I'm sorry. Discus players heavy frisbee.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, what about what about Hackey Sack. That's an Olympics
on the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's just stoner.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Hacky Sack is in the Olympics. Hold on, Hackey Sack
has been in the Olympics before.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Look it up, No Jo, Yeah, it's not look it up.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
But you know what I've always you know, who I've
always been jealous of is those people who can do
the stick thing. Hi ja running stick, running stick.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
There you go, Oh my god, running stick.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I think pole vaulting is cool.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh yeah, v Coop Olympics twenty ten, Hacky Sack foot
it's crazy skills for Cooper Olympics.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I think this is simply at the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I don't know if this is the street Hacky Sack.
I played it in the video game, dude, I know it.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Well, maybe in the video game it was.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
And he was.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Wait, Joelle, I'm seeing a lot I digress. I'm seeing
a lot of love for the new Star Trek video game.
Dan and Joel and Dan Star Trek video game. There's
a new Star Trek video game out. I don't know
on which console, but for some reason it keeps coming
up in my feed saying it's getting good reviews.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Interesting, I have not seen a trailer.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Let me see star reviews. I said, said the best
video game ever to be made? About the property the
ip definitely? Are you intrigued? Yes, a little bit. And
the article I saw had had a image of the
spot character Soft surgeons friends and yeah, yeah, all right,

(35:51):
all right, well can you ask our friends at Ubisoft
to send me this bock game? Because I want to.
I think I might need to get into video game.
I have a little downtime.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Donald, come on, you want to get into dude, you
didn't want to fucking listen to me Zelda.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
I don't think Zelda's gonna be my thing. I don't
want to have a I don't want to. I'm weigh
into more than natural, like like Hitman or the Cowboy
one you mentioned.

Speaker 7 (36:12):
I like.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I Liketion too, Yeah, I just.

Speaker 11 (36:15):
Do that on it was the story of that game
is so gripping, it's so so good.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, I think that's more my speed. Now, I do
have the latest hit man and it made me really scared.
I was, I was, I really it was so realistic
that I I was frightened.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
I was.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I panicked.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Okay, it hasn't been in the Olympics, but okay.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Okay, that's just drived by the way. Okay, we're gonna
let the guest in in a second, but I want
to give a shout out to that you're going to
be Okay, that was more like a rent song. That's
what's going to happen everything.

Speaker 12 (36:54):
Okay, five thousand, six hundred and ninety five thousand, because.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
I got a little emotional.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Scaring so pretty, it's really lovely. This would not have
worked at all if all of these creative groups didn't
come together.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's all I kept thinking about was how many of
these dancers were in La La Land.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
A lot of those dancers are all the background people
were professional dancers, and well, keep in mind, this is
twenty I don't know if it's twenty how many years ago.
It was two thousand and six. I'm bad at Matthew
sixteen years ago. So some of them may have retired
but were in La La Land.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Okay, don't yell about some of them even sang in
La La Land. Listen, Candice sang, well.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
I'm gonna say that Donald found Donald's connection to this
was trying to figure out how many people from this
may have been in Lalla Land.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
That's right. I think about that day because this is
this is the opening number all over again. I met.
I left him at a Grayhound station western Santa Fe.
We were seventeen and he was young, and it was true.
I knew what I had to do.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
I'm telling you didn't even give him a chance to
come to Paris. Give him a chance. There was jazz
clubs in Paris, jazz club jazz in Paris. Yeah, why
can't why not invite us?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Is huge in Paris?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, z we have we have this insane connection. Why
don't you come work?

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Did you ever watch the Aristocrats? Did you ever watch
the Aristocrats?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Or freaking Cruela Deville the one hundred and one Dalmatians
jazz was huge, Cruella.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Over Okay, that's a weird reference, but I just want
to say that there's no reason that he couldn't have
gone to Paris. All right, let's go to break and
when we come back, we're gonna have a guest, and
they better have a good musical question Joelle or I'm.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
He could have went to Paris with them. Yeah, we'll
be back. We got We're bad. We're back. Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
All right, kids, we're back. Let's bring in the caller.
I'm so excited we did. We missed a caller last week.
I apologize. It was my fault. And now we have
a caller. Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
We can talk to you know, like a bather, smoke
some maybe talking about the episode. So come on, let's
get the show on, ladies.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
And gentle amount. Giving up for Ryan and.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Jenny before you even say anything, I just wanted the
audience to know that they couldn't have a more perfect
background for this podcast. One is a poster of Star Wars,
and one is a poster of Cosette and lay Misrob

(40:26):
And you get us. You get us. You guys should
just come before you even speak. You should just join
the show as regular co hosts because you understand us.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
OK. Care if I should die now she goes across
the sea. Life without Cosette means nothing at all if
I were to fall.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
All right, Hi, guys, welcome to the program. We obviously
have shared interests. Tell us about yourselves and how Joel
chose you. What did you write? You must have written
something juicy.

Speaker 8 (41:12):
I don't know about juicy. You know, we've been fans
of the pump.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
He sound like Elvis Man.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
He came in smooth, and it didn't he he came
in real smooth.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
But okay, Ryan, I don't know. I don't know about it.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I don't know about all that. But I'll tell you
I did have a I did have a brief call
with Joel and how much I.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
Was You want to get get that?

Speaker 7 (41:43):
Get that recorded for me and so I can play
my students and up my street credit a little bit.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
That because.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Send an email, I asked Joel to hop on the phone.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
So now I've got and I've gotten, you know, with
the beard. It's a bit different, but a lot of
my life I've been given the You look a little
like Zach Braff, and now I've got Nack doing an
impression of me.

Speaker 8 (42:07):
That's pretty surreal.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Well, you're going to have it because this podcast will
be out there for all the world and you can
make it your ring tone. Right, all right, guys, what's
your question? Go ahead and tell us. Tell us about yourself.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
So we we wrote in because you know, asides from
being great fans of the show, we thought it would
be really neat if you had a couple of music
teachers on too.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
For the my musical episode.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
It's one of them, is good? All right, Joe, I'm
not going to have to flip the desk, thank god.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Thank god, thank god.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
You're both music teachers.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
And for what?

Speaker 1 (42:40):
For what grade.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
It?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Or I guess what ages?

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Yeah, I'm a middle school teacher. I teach band and
orchestra and jazz, and I do a.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Choir with six through twelve grade six through twelve.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
My god, is it as fun as it seems on
Glee because it just looks like they're having such a
good time.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I can't stand Glee because it's so not real. I
love the music. The music of it is really really great.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
And I've done some of those arrangers arrangements and with
my groups before, so there's that's.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Always You must have a kid, both of you who
you I imagine this is exciting when so many of
the children have good talent and average talent, and it's
exist they're they're living their best selves because they're expressing
themselves through music and song. But it must be so
thrilling when you go, oh my god, we got one
on the hook. We got a kid that's extra special.

Speaker 8 (43:33):
Got a few of those.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
And the really rewarding part is when that that creates
a feedback loop with other kids and they see that
passion and it becomes contagious.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
They get inspired. They go, I want to be as
good as so and so right very much.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
It's fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Oh, I want to I want to be a teacher.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Donald, you are a teacher.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
I occasionally would go to Northwestern where I went to college,
and uh and and give a try and give you know,
speeches and give back to the to the college kids
in some way, which I should do again because I
got so much out of it. It's so fulfilling. But
but you're doing this at such a young age where
you really shape your These kids who are in your classes,
they must love it. This is probably their favorite class, right.

Speaker 8 (44:17):
For many of them.

Speaker 7 (44:18):
Yeah, for for so many it's the reason that they
choose to come to school, you know, particularly now when
we're all going through various struggles over the last couple
of years. If you can tell a kid, hey, you know,
we'll get you out of a textbook and we'll get
you out of, you know, all the rigors of your
typical subjects, and you can come in and create and
and be who you are and be accepted for who

(44:39):
you are.

Speaker 8 (44:40):
And that's that's mostly mostly what everybody needs.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
How are you as a teacher? Are you able to
teach any instrument? I mean, how does that work?

Speaker 8 (44:52):
That's a good question.

Speaker 7 (44:53):
So we actually the short answers, Yes, we compliment each
other pretty well. Part of our CLUDI training is learning
how to play all these instruments, so we can be
effective instructors. But whatever I don't play, she plays, and
vice versa. So it's sort of just it worked out.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Are there kids in your class that play any of
the instruments better than you?

Speaker 8 (45:15):
That's the end goal, That's what I would like.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah, they will eventually, eventually, they will eventually. I just
wondered if there's anyone who's like a mega standout.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
They definitely have a few. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I love that you're sharing music because it can be
taught in so many ways. There's so many instruments, there's
so many ways to use your voice, there's so many
ways to be musical and you know, just opening the
door for someone like you guys are talking about. Yeah,
sure there's standouts, but there's going to be somebody that
takes what you teach them and take it to a

(45:52):
level that you guys never expected to ever ever see.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
And the impact you're going to have on these children
because of course some of course a few may pursue music,
but also the skill sets you're giving them to stand
in front of an audience, to have the courage to
put themselves out there, to perform, to work with each other.
I mean, think of all the different skill set you know,
you think about all the bullshit. There's an old pul

(46:18):
Simon lyric. When I think back on all the crap
I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can
think at all. And you know, there's a lot of
stuff you learned that you're like, why the fuck did
I learned that? I would have rather learned how to
fix my car. I'd rather learn how to do my taxes.
I'd rather learn how to play a fucking instrument, for
the love of God. So my point is is that

(46:42):
you're teaching them a skill set that isn't just singing
and or playing an instrument. It's collaborating with their peers,
having the courage to stand in front of a group,
you know. So that's so important anytime.

Speaker 8 (46:56):
You want to come on by and give the pitch man.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
We learn a lot of She's like, you guys are
doing good on your own. It's where are you?

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Where are you? Where?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Where is this happen?

Speaker 7 (47:06):
We live in a very little town called Burn, Indiana,
near the Fort Wayne area.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
And I teach him fore and she's here in town.

Speaker 9 (47:13):
He's from Chicago and I'm from Ohio, and we kind
of ended up in the middle Fort Wade, Indiana.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
In the middle.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
We have a friend that was on a show about
the middle Indiana, Neil Flynn Neil Flynn Indiana. To consider
the middle well.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
That's what that's where the show takes place, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Oh, I guess it's a middle class that they're talking
about in that one.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Why I think, Yes, I think they're referencing being.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
But not in the middle of the country, because the
middle of the country isn't I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I don't know, all right, So you guys have a
question for us?

Speaker 7 (47:56):
Yes, absolutely, We kind of had a thought we'd start
with a fun one, you know for my musical.

Speaker 8 (48:02):
You guys turned the sitcom Scrubs into a musical. What
musical would you then try to turn into a sitcom?
And who would be cast?

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Oh shit? Wow? If I could turn a musical into
a sitcom, that's a tough one. They do it a lot,
you know, uh he ish if.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Okay, so let's go Disney musicals because that's probably ones
that are easily viewed. Like they did Cinderella and they
made it so it wasn't a musical and that worked
kind of. I guess any of those fairy tales could work,
uh not as musical, but if you like talking traditional Broadway,
that's way more verse than that.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yeah, Donald just knows Disney musicals. I'm trying to think
of what would be a good What's a Something Rotten
was a great musical that I really loved. I know
this is sort of a weird reference because most people
won't get it unless you're a Broadway geek, But I
think that could make a good That would have made
a good series.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Noise Bringing the Funk would be a great live action series.
Just take out all the tapping and all the music
and just have people talk.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
Oh my gosh, he's down.

Speaker 7 (49:33):
Well, then what if you were to take you know,
something that's been on TV, you know, if it was
mash or Cheers or I Love Lucy or you know,
something like that and put it on Broadway.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
What would you what would you pick there?

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Well, that's I mean, you could do anything with that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a great Broadway show. All
of these things, Like, when you really think about it,
any any any television you could turn into into a
musical because you're adding an extra exciting element.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
And the Buffy I didn't see it, but Buffy did.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
It's one of the best. It's one of the best TV. Yeah,
it's one of the best TVs ever. It's like this, uh,
this witch or not a witch. It's like a demon
comes to town or something like that and makes it
so everybody has to sing. The ship's scary too. It's
not like some there's a silent episode. Yo. You want
to talk about dope television. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Yo,

(50:22):
that's some dope TV.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Joel is furiously gnawing her head.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
I've never seen that, dude. It's good. Then, it's good,
like straight out of.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
A vampire guy. As soon as you say vamp, I
don't have to get started.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
This is the show that started it all though, you
know what I mean, Buffy the movie started all of
that ship and then and then the telephone.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Other than doctor Acula, I'm not much interested in in
anyone else's Doctor Acula.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Would be a great music doctor musical, great musical.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Jackson, the musical Alabama Jackson that I'd love to make
that musical.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Don't swim, Let's make it all right?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
What's your next question?

Speaker 7 (51:08):
We we love watching shows repeatedly and tracking character development
and evolution, you know, through those shows sometimes JD and Turk,
as you guys have said, are indistinguishable from Zach and Donald.
In what unexpected ways did these characters evolve during the show?
And I guess, in what unexpected ways did portraying these
characters change you as people?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
It became it's a great question, and it became more
and more me and Donald because Bill would, like you know,
run out of storylines and he would just be like,
what did you and Donald do this weekend?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
In the next episode?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
No, we really, you know, because the characters. I think
one of the reasons we got the parts was we
were we were similar to the characters, really.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
I mean and.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
And then and then we leaned into it, and Bill
evolved the characters around us and around our strengths and
around what we found funny and thank god, you know
Bill and and we? Is that the way you say it?
We and Bill, Bill and Bill and us have the
same have the same sense of humor.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
I'm not going to get upset about it.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
I don't think that we here's a great question I'm
gonna build off of yours. Donald, Is there any way
any way that you're nothing like Turk?

Speaker 3 (52:31):
No, I mean I'm not a doctor.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Like no, I'm I mean, I mean other than the obvious,
I mean, like personality wise, I think you're pretty.

Speaker 12 (52:43):
I mean he is a family man, a family many
everything that I played in.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
I don't like Appletini's and that upsets people. So I'm
sorry to have to tell you that I love sports
like I tweeted that. I once tweeted that, and every
someone wrote everything I believed is a lie.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
That's a little.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, I mean I I think that.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
I think I think as you see from as you
hear from listening to the podcast, we are we are
quite similar. I think to the to the to the characters.
That's probably why the reasons this has been so popular
for people, because it's kind of like just chilling with
with with Jad and Turk in a lot of ways,
except we're allowed to curse now and and we we

(53:35):
sometimes get explicit, like when we had that couple on Jowell,
we're due for them to come back. We need to
check in see if there's been any evolution.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Mention them every single episode.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
No, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
We don't. Fascinating maybe fascinating situation.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Maybe once a month. It's it's the most Jerry Springer
we ever got, and we're kind of not.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Don't don't, don't don't.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
I don't think it's Jerry Springer. It's just the fascinating situation.
We both are into what they were talking about, and
so we want to hear more.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
We're curious. They're very good guests, but you guys are better.
All Right, it's time for Fort Wayne, Indiana's favorite segment. Donald,
It's time to fix your lie. We have some new
sound effects to go along with that one you just heard.

(54:26):
I might try this one or I might try this one.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
All right, that's Jerry, that's Jerry sprigger. That one is.

Speaker 9 (54:38):
Listen to the last episode that you posted like this morning,
like whatever came up this.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Okay, so you've heard some of these sound effects.

Speaker 8 (54:48):
Sound?

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yeah, pretty much. My whole desk is sound pads. Now,
all right, go ahead, how do we fix your life?
We're good at this. We're all rusty. You haven't had
a guest in a moment, so we're ready, Donald lean forward.
Here we go go like Donald lean foring like this, So.

Speaker 7 (55:04):
Art fix your Life is on behalf of fine arts
teachers and students everywhere.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
We feel that, you know, a lot of our students
are stressed and drained.

Speaker 7 (55:13):
Mental health is suffering in our schools and the arts,
as we said earlier, give students and communities a creative
outlet and an escape.

Speaker 8 (55:21):
But nationwide, a lot of these programs are facing cutbacks.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
You both clearly had meaningful arts experiences as part of
your education. Drawing on those, how would you advocate for
fine art programs in schools or help us advocate?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Tell all? I mean, tell us, first of all, you've
got a whole fuck ton of people listening right now,
so tell us and them what to do. I know
that this is a problem. I know that schools are
cutting back on these programs because of budget cuts, particularly
public schools.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
That's where the hits are really taking it, you know,
go to private because of all of the budget cuts
that are happening in the public schools. Which is it's
it's it's you know, for people that are in public
school and have to deal with some of these cutbacks,
it's very very scary. Like you know, the schools in
La there's a nurse that comes once a month, you
know what I mean, there's no nurse stationed in schools,

(56:19):
So if your child has a nut allergy, or if
something happens and a nurse just doesn't happen to be
there that day. You know, it's like there's so many
there's so many things, Jim, that's that's that's on its
way out the door, you know what I mean, Physical
physical education that's out the door, you know. And music
that you know, we've been fighting for music for how
long now and and and it still can't you know,

(56:42):
the bill still can't get passed to keep music in
all schools. It's such a it's so it's draining, especially
for someone who's in the arts. You guys are in
the arts, and you're trying to teach the arts to kids.
I can't imagine all of the barriers, you know, Like,
I don't know what your school is like, but how
do you get music into the school like it? Maybe

(57:03):
if you tell people you know about the problems that
you're dealing with, maybe that'll help people.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Maybe that'll make people I want to invest.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
What comes to my mind is is getting people to
show up to these these meetings, these budget meetings where
these decisions are made. I know they're all gone. Those
meetings or can get pretty wacky.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
But if you have.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
If you have people that come and can add, if
you can rally the people in the community whose children
have been affected positively by this, and especially not and
probably bizarrely not even just like, oh my god, these
amazing teachers made my son an incredible pianist or guitarist
or horn player. That that they've changed him. He's got confidence,

(57:54):
he's got he's got this, He's got that he has
friends who that he's never made before. Talking about the
impact little that rant I went on before, and having
people advocate for the budget appropriation towards towards that I
assume would be the best route, right I mean, unfortunately,
we trying to fix your life. But you guys know
the world of this better than we do.

Speaker 9 (58:15):
Yeah, it's just it's it's so much more than just
I go to class and play an instrument for forty
five minutes and then leave like That's how a lot
of people see it. Even the other teachers sometimes see
it that way. But but the kids will tell you
also that that's not the case. And it's really hard
to convince anyone in the community sometimes or in communities

(58:37):
that it's it's not just that it's so much.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Well, well, these things get decided, you know, there are
I guess it's the school board or it's the city council.
I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm naive in this area,
but I would. I would. I would rally. If you're
facing this in your town, you're listening to these two
amazing music teachers, it would be about rallying people to
show up at those hearings and and and and give

(59:01):
testimonials and and I really discussed why it makes such
a difference. The other thing I know the public school
in my neighborhood does is they they fundraise to augment
the program with the parents because it just wouldn't. I
don't even know if it would exist without without hardcore

(59:22):
getting sponsors, getting you know, you know, that's why the
the school is outside is covered with like ads for
realtors and and and things because they've they've given money
to have their giant I'm a realtor in the neighborhood poster,
you know, anything like that that that's outside the box

(59:43):
that that raises, that helps raise the money. So the
program that's the only.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Way, that's the only way things are getting done is
parents have to get involved. Even though you're going to
a public school, you got to treat it like a
private school and put the money and invest back into
the school in order to get some of these programs going.
That's that's the honest to goodness truth. You can have
a you can have an ain't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Gonna do it. They're trying to stop public broadcasting. Yo.
I'm just saying, man like, I don't want to get political.
I'm gonna shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
You can have you can have a fundraising a fundraising
concert where where you know, maybe you guys play a
little bit, maybe the kids play a little bit. Maybe
some of your adult friends who are like uh, you know,
really talented play and and and and then and then
the the children play, maybe some particular standouts have solos

(01:00:35):
and that kind of things just to just to and
then maybe even at the fundraiser, the kids share why
the program has meant so much to them. And then
you do, like you know, you do let you auction
off things like a personal piano lesson from one of
you guys, or you know, things like that, things that
are in the community. Thing you get people that you
get parents to donate things, and I don't know, I

(01:00:55):
know these are these aren't like like revolutionary ideas, but.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
It's just tough when you don't have the instruments and
stuff like that to put on somebody shows. I know
that that's what happens a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
Also.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
You know, well, I bet they could get a local
place to to donate some amps and some new instruments
and we're lucky. Yeah, they could say this this event
is sponsored by so and so's music rental place.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
That'd be great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
That's actually a great idea, But it doesn't happen that
way all the time.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Sometimes kids have to share instruments. Yeah, right, and that sucks.
You don't want to share a recorder with somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I don't want to share it. I don't want to
share all. We have to remember those sticks with the grooves.
Do you still have the sticks with the grooves on them? Yeah?
I remember that from my childhood. That was the first
thing they gave us with two sticks.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
With the grooves of them. Oh yeah, like the rhythm. Yeah.
I was like, this is fun, this is well so
much by Daniel. What are you going to say? What
do you go?

Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
It's I mean, it's it's a it's a you know.
I think playing to these strengths of things like social
media can also help. Like I see so much kind
of advocacy happen on things like TikTok right now because
people take in so much media and listen to so
much stuff via that and sharing the powers of music
and music teaching through things like TikTok and just you know,
I hate to put it this way, but like going

(01:02:22):
viral with teaching people about music is a way to
really show the power of teaching music in public schools
and how underfunded it is. So I think if you can,
just if you do a fundraiser, put videos of it
on TikTok, if you see kids that are, like, you know,
espousing the values of music teaching. Throw that on TikTok
as well, and just create a presence for yourself in
a social media that people are taking in all the time.

(01:02:43):
It's it's free, it's on your phone, and I think,
you know, that's a way that you can get yourself
out there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
That's smart.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Dale. And I also think, you know, not to be
a dead horse, but to really highlight because some parents
will be some parents will be like, Okay, great, I'm
glad he's having a good time, but he needs to
get a job. He's not gonna be a guitar player.
You need to highlight the ways that these classes are
are shaping them and and and and and making them

(01:03:10):
better young men and women, boys and girls whatever, in
ways that aren't even related to the instrument. You know,
I think that parents who aren't who are like, oh great,
I'm glad he likes it, but he's not going to
be a trombone player. You know that you're you're you're
explaining like, no, you don't understand the value this child
is getting out of his class. You know, Yeah, all right,

(01:03:30):
you're welcome, You're welcome. I don't know how well we
did that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
I mean, we didn't really help that much.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
They helped us, they educated if anything.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Like I feel, I I I know, I know what
you're going through, and I I don't understand how this
is such a uh why this not how but why this.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Is such an issue? Music opens up so many doors
so much.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
It's mathematical, there's so many things that you can teach
through music, and for some reason people don't think it's
it's it's useful at least a government doesn't think it's
useful as far as educational goes, and that just makes
no sense to me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
For me, most of most of my education was in
theater camp, but that's no different. It was a teacher
teaching me and I it's where all my self confidence
for public speaking and being in front of people came from.
All of it. I didn't learn that in a math class.
I didn't learn that in a in any other class.
I learned it from from having the the waivos to

(01:04:33):
get on stage in front of people and and have
a great teachers push me and encourage me, and and
it made me someone who could perform and speak in
front of people, which is an incredible skill to have
for whatever you're going to be in your life. You
know those aren't. That's not a skill set you're going
to learn in any other class, you know. True, I

(01:04:57):
don't say preachm.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Chuch.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
You know what my favorite instrument is?

Speaker 9 (01:05:10):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Nobody gives a fuck what your favorite instrument is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Nobody cares, No, one gives two jackass ships.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
You honor me, You honor me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
I really like the obo?

Speaker 8 (01:05:26):
Okay, yeah, yes, beautiful and done well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
It's beautiful when done well, Yes, yes, I I like
you hear it and scores a bunch, and I like
music movie scores and a well placed obo is it
is beautiful. Let's go out on that note. How can
you beat the sentence? A well placed obo's so beautiful?

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
I think, I think? What do you want to say?

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
I was just wondering.

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
I wondered if either of you play any instruments at all,
because I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
I don't play the skin flute.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
She's kind of open.

Speaker 8 (01:06:02):
Should open that door.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
And on that note, passic seminary ras about show we.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Paid about a bunch of dots and nurses in Canada,
who knowing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I said, here's the stories next all should know, so
gather round you here, up, gather round you here up.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Stuffy Show is at mm hmmm