Dear Chelsea - Aggressive Politeness with Sarah Chalke

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

Sarah Chalke joins Chelsea to talk about men with fish pics, the politeness of Canadians, and time-traveling back 25 years on the new Scrubs reboot.  Then: A baseball mom tries everything to help... her kid succeed.  And a Winnipegger wants to escape the cold… and break her boycott.  * Check out Jamie Greenberg’s episode of Dear Chelsea here! * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at DearChelseaPodcast@gmail.com * Executive Producer Catherine Law Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert * * * The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the Podcast author, or individuals participating in the Podcast, and do not represent the opinions of iHeartMedia or its employees.  This Podcast should not be used as medical advice, mental health advice, mental health counseling or therapy, or as imparting any health care recommendations at all.  Individuals are advised to seek independent medical, counseling advice and/or therapy from a competent health care professional with respect to any medical condition, mental health issues, health inquiry or matter, including matters discussed on this Podcast. Guests and listeners should not rely on matters discussed in the Podcast and shall not act or shall refrain from acting based on information contained in the Podcast without first seeking independent medical advice.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:56 I'm doing Netflix as a Joe. Festival. I will be in Los Angeles. May 15th, Saratoga, California, May 16th, Monterey, California. May 17th, Modesto, California. And then June 4th, Portchester, New York. June 5th is Boston Mass. And June 12th is Portland, Oregon. And then Seattle is June 13th. I'm doing a second show at the Paramount Theater in Denver on Saturday, December 5th. So suck on that, everybody. Go to Chelsea Handler.com for tickets. Hi, Catherine. Hi, Chelsea. Hi, hi, hi. I'm good. I'm in Los Angeles. I'm happy to have in person. Oh, thank you. Thank you. We were going to do it up my house, but I had to replace
Starting point is 00:03:38 my downstairs air conditioning. I know. There's always something. Just with... I just when my house is finished. My house is finished. Everybody. It's finished, finish, finish, finish. But then I saw all these articles in the newspaper. Well, I didn't read the newspaper, but my publicist send me a roundup of like stuff. And apparently it's all over the news that I bought my toxic house from RFK Jr. because I must have said it. I think I said it on this podcast. Yes, several times. But, you know, we need the Etsy witches to know that it's not his house anymore
Starting point is 00:04:02 because I think they still keep cursing it over and over and over again. Okay. So Etsy witches? Yeah, it's like you can hire a witch on Etsy to like, you know, help you get with your guy. Okay, well, I'm going over to Kimmel, so I'm going to make an announcement there about my house and be like, please bless my house. Everyone, give me, send me your good energy. I will spend $7 on Etsy to have a witch bless your house.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Okay. Okay. Thank you. I think. I think. I added a second show in Denver. I'm coming back in the winter because I didn't want to do any two-nighters. So I'm doing a second show at the Paramount Theater in Denver on Saturday, December 5th.
Starting point is 00:04:36 And the pre-sales starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. Okay, so go get a ticket if you missed out for my show in Denver, which is this Friday. Anyway, we have a very cutie-pituity Canadian guest today. She's from, you know, are from Scrubs and Roseanne and Rick and Morty and more. Please welcome actress Sarah Chalk. Oh, there she is. Look at that beautiful face. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Technology. Is it working? Can you guys hear me? We is. We is working. We be working and shit. We be jamming. I talk like this now that I'm back from Jamaica.
Starting point is 00:05:10 I have so many different accents to pull from. I want to hear all about Jamaica. I can't believe the headphones, the link, the link, it's all working. It's all coming together. I'm allergic to technology. Baby, I'm allergic to technology. We're at the same age. We're both allergic to technology.
Starting point is 00:05:26 I want to die before AI comes out. I just want to euthanize. I want a group euthanize. Do you want to do it with me? I'm in. We'll do it in Whistler, which is I can see it's where you are. It's my favorite place in the whole world.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Before you say another word, please, I'm going to interrupt you because I just learned this morning that you have a house in Whistler. How is it possible that I didn't know that? How are we not skiing together? Right. Well, how are we not skiing together? It's already love at first sight.
Starting point is 00:05:52 I want to ski with you. I grew up, I learned to ski in Whistler like 45 years ago. Oh, my God, that's what I dreamed. That's where I dreamed to have grown up. All my friends that grow up here learned how to ski here about 45 years ago. So you probably know some of them. I probably do. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:06:12 Yeah, I grew up in Vancouver and so we would go up to Whistler on the weekends. Yeah, it's my favorite place. That's my favorite place too. I love, especially right now we're having a winter one. underland moment. We're about to get 50 centimeters tonight. I heard. I can't believe it. I'm actually in LA and I'm in hotel as you can see. And I have like, and obviously this season has not been ideal yet. And so finally the snow is coming. I'm so jealous. So are you going to go like straight after this podcast? Literally out there, I'm wearing all of my bottoms that you can't see. My heated socks are on. I have my ski pants on.
Starting point is 00:06:50 And I am going to, yeah, we're going to run out the door and ski. I have a couple of friends that are visiting. So it's, I haven't been here for a few weeks. So I came back and I'm like, oh, good, there's snow. Because as you know, we have all this rain problem now where it rains to the top of the mountain and then ruins all the fucking snow. But I just want to talk about, first of all, aren't you so grateful to be a Canadian? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:12 Yeah, I am. I mean, I'm actually dual now because I lived in L.A. 17 years. So I got my American citizenship when I was here. Well, you might want to reverse. that right back to Canada, sister. I might just want to... My friends were out. We went over to my friend,
Starting point is 00:07:24 Angie's house for dinner last night, and so there was a bunch of Canadians, and my American friends, we left, and they go, my God, these Canadians are just so nice. It's so weird. And I'm like, I know. And they're like, and their children are so lovely
Starting point is 00:07:40 and engaged and sit at dinners and talk to the adults. I'm like, I know. And they're like, this makes us feel like shit about our own kids. And I'm like, I know. I understand every year I come to Canada and I'm around my friend's kids. And I'm like, wow, these kids could give all my friends in L.A.'s kids a real run for their
Starting point is 00:08:01 fucking money. It's because we just say the Americans are coming. This is what you have to do. Just pretend to listen. Pretend to be polite. We've got to live up to this. Just apologize a lot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Yeah. Be a good listener. There's just a level. It's a very civilized society. And I really appreciate that, especially. as an American and especially in present day, everything that's happening. I really appreciate the civility. And my friend goes, sometimes she goes, do you ever get bored by how nice everyone is?
Starting point is 00:08:29 And I was like, that's a very interesting question. Do I get bored with people being like? No, because we're also not just like, Canadians are fucking funny. Canadians like to have a good time. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah. All the good stuff is in Canada. Believe me, that's why that's another component of my ability to stay here. So you're combining two things.
Starting point is 00:08:48 people who like to party and people who are nice. So it's a jackpot situation. And there's like off in snow. Yeah, there's often snow. I just saw a picture of you. Here's something that I am not looking forward to ever happening in my life. So let's focus about it happening in yours. I saw a picture of you and your new, newish lover.
Starting point is 00:09:05 You've had a boyfriend for about a year, right? Yes. Yeah. I met someone fantastic, which was so fun and so unexpected. I love that. I love what everyone. Yeah. Every woman always says whenever we meet someone, we're like,
Starting point is 00:09:18 it was so unexpected because we're so not expecting to ever meet anyone that we would fall in love with. Totally. And I had, I kind of just started to try. Like I, it was like, I think I'm ready to meet someone. I said to my friends, like, set me up with someone. And I would just be on dates and be like, is this? I had no frame of reference.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I'd have been 20 years. I'm like, is this what it's supposed to feel like this can't be right? And then I met my boyfriend and I was like, oh, oh, this is what it's supposed to feel like. How did you guys meet? Do you mind my asking? Yeah, yeah, I got set up by my two best friends. They're both named Jen and my gens were like, you're doing a terrible job of this, so we're going to take this into our hands now. Like, they were like, you just have to try it. Like, energetically, you got to put yourself out there, just go on the apps. And I was like, I don't want to go on the apps. That's way too terrifying.
Starting point is 00:10:10 And so I had a small stint trying on the apps. Didn't go on one day from them, but just like, I'm not, as you can see, super technologically inclined. get on the app. And Bumble has this feature that is like a privacy one where nobody sees that you're on the app unless you swipe on them. So I was like, okay, that feels kind of like a nice, gentle, easy way to start. I'll just do that. And when you buy that feature, you get a couple of other features, one of which is called a super swipe. Have you heard of the super swipe? I think I can deduce what that might mean, but why don't you spell it out for us? Well, I don't even know. Like I guess if when a swipe just won't suffice and you're just like, I'm going to super swipe on.
Starting point is 00:10:48 this person. Unfortunately, a super swipe, you don't actually have to swipe, just where your thumb naturally rests on the bottom corner of the phone. You just hit it by accident. And it's like, you've just super swiped on John. And you're like, what did I just do? And so then you've told this random stranger that like a swipe just wasn't enough and you wanted to super swipe. And so I'm like, this is my first time I'm logging on and I'm Googling like, how do you get rid of the super swipe? And you can't. And then I find this like long thread on. that was like the only way to get rid of a super swipe is just like delete the whole account. So then I just deleted the whole thing. And I was like, I'm not meant to do this.
Starting point is 00:11:27 And so the gens were like, okay, we're going to take this into our hands. And so they called someone they know on the East Coast. And they were like, do you know anyone on the West Coast who is our age, who wants to date someone who is our age and who's great? And then we met. And I had kind of like thought about it. And I was like, I know that you can't ask for. everything. So what would be like, I mean, turns out you can. I feel like this person actually does have everything, but I didn't know that. So I was like, I feel like the thing that's like the most important to me is I want someone adventurous. I want someone who's up for it and wants to do shit with me and wants to like have adventures. And I like way overshot that manifest because he is
Starting point is 00:12:09 so much more adventurous than I am. Like we'll go to do something. He's like, okay, so we'll also bring like the avalach beacons. I'm like totally, totally. So it's like my comfort zone's here and I'm like way over here. Right, right, right, right, right. Which is great. I mean, that's how it should be. Yeah, totally. And that's so fun though.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Like that is such, I mean, that's a total necessary thing for me too. Like I'm all about adventure and it can be any sort. It doesn't even have to be outdoorsy. It just has to be adventure us in spirit. You know what I mean? I love to travel. I want somebody who wants to bounce around the world. I want somebody who can afford to bounce around the world.
Starting point is 00:12:45 So I'm not bouncing them around the world. You know what I mean? I want someone who's got their shit together enough to be able to be like meet the moment. So it is like, it's, it's amazing that you think you can't ask for everything. But why can't you? We can always ask for everything. It doesn't mean you're going to get everything. But it sounds like you've gotten a lot and more than you asked for, except for this fishing.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Why? Do you like fishing? Okay. I actually, so my son got me into fishing. I mean, do I like fishing? I think that's the answer right there. I mean, I think you gave us the answer. The answer.
Starting point is 00:13:20 There's a lot of like, I get really motion sickness in, I get motion sick in boats. And so if it's like fishing, you're not moving in the boat. You're just sitting. So then you're riding the waves. Is that worse? It's like a calm. It's much worse. If it's a calm day, I'm okay.
Starting point is 00:13:37 But otherwise it's hard. I like the excitement of the moment where you catch a fish. That's like very exciting. But obviously there's hours where you're often not catching. but I like the snacks. I like the hanging out. There's like all these fishing rituals and superstitions. Like, you know, if there's a certain song playing when you catch, then, um, you have to keep playing that song. So I've been in a boat with my son where we have to play. Can I kick it by Tribe Call Quest for four hours straight? Because that's, you know, the last song that there was a fish cut. It's meditative. There's definitely meditative aspect to it. There's like, I feel like it teaches patience and. Yeah, a little too much. for my, my, I need more patience, but that's like beyond my, I can't even with fish. I just can't. I mean, I don't oversell myself as a fish.
Starting point is 00:14:28 Like, I don't fish often. Like, I probably go fishing once a year. Well, it's so funny is that the picture that I was looking at when I was like looking at our notes for you, I was looking at this picture of this guy, you standing there with a fish. And I'm like, that's so funny because if you took your head out of there, this would be a guy's dating app picture. Like, you know, when you go on these, half of them are holding fucking giant bass.
Starting point is 00:14:47 And you're like, wait, what are you trying to attract? Like another fisher woman? Because good luck with that. There's not many of us out there. It's like, unless you're in the Arctic Circle, maybe. I don't know who's into that, you know? There's always a fish. Or there's obviously a puppy who's usually not theirs.
Starting point is 00:15:05 But there's one with the dog. There's a borrowed puppy from a neighbor. There's like the picture with their ex cropped out. Like you can see just like a shoulder. I know. I love that one. That is so funny. And maybe they're going like this.
Starting point is 00:15:17 Like, they're half-fitting pictures out of frame. I've seen pictures of myself on people's dating sites. Like, I, like, random people that I don't know that have had a picture with me. I've seen once before. Like a meengrate photo? Like something like that where somebody asked me for it. And then they put it on their dating profile. You're definitely not clicking on them.
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Starting point is 00:16:11 I said, hi, Dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen. She says, I have some cookies and milk. This is a badass convict. Right. Just finished five years. I'm going to have cookies and milk them all. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:18:48 decade. We've talked about it a bit, but I don't think any of us thought that it was going to come back and we were going to do it in this way as a show again on primetime on ABC. We talked about But like, oh, if everybody's schedules collide, it'll be kind of like psyched. They did like a movie. And so when we started talking about doing it like this, it was so fun. Obviously, the hospital we shot in was this like old abandoned hospital in the valleys, been torn down. And so they rebuilt the sets.
Starting point is 00:19:13 And we thought, like, oh, they'll build it. Like, it'll look kind of like the old ones. They built it exactly the same. So it was such a trip. Like, I spent my 20s in that ICU and that cafeteria and the first day, like, stepping back on to these sets. that were built so beautifully and exactly the same. It was like it was just such a trip.
Starting point is 00:19:32 I felt like a step back in time, like the same people and the same character and the same writing and the same sets. Yeah, it's like a total reu narce. Like how fun to get everyone back together again. Yeah, it's been so fun. And we all loved each other and we still hung out and went on ski trips
Starting point is 00:19:49 and went for dinners and since the show ended. And so, you know, to kind of go back to that dynamic, on a set. Like we, I think you can, like, you can hope when you start on a new job
Starting point is 00:20:01 that you'll all have chemistry, but I think you can't manufacture is history. And we actually have 25 years altogether. And then they brought in five new kids. They're not, I mean,
Starting point is 00:20:11 they're not kids. We call them, Donald and Zach, and I call them our kids. But we call them our kids. They're, there are, there are,
Starting point is 00:20:16 between 25 and 35 years old. And they're like so fucking funny and such good people. And so that's been like a whole new addition to the, dynamic and we had we shot up in Vancouver which was so insanely lucky and we had Saturday night dinners every week with the whole cast and it was super great I mean to do a comedy there's nothing like it being on a comedy set like I love doing all the different things but there's something so
Starting point is 00:20:43 specifically great about being on a comedy set that's just like not replicable well that's how you started out on Roseanne right that was your first big show and that was how many years of your life that was four so i joined in season six um oh right right right you kind of replaced the other sister right okay yeah Becky she went away to college so I replaced her so when I joined I was I was 16 years old when I auditioned and she had left to go to college and so I got this audition I like put myself on tape and like put a VHS tape in the mail and it was for this like new series filming in 1994 and they didn't want to say what it was and then you know you get a call back and then another call back and finally they said what it was for and they're like we're going to fly you down and the whole
Starting point is 00:21:27 audition was making out with Glenn Quinn who played Mark who was Irish and gorgeous and eight years older than me and I was like how am I going to remember anything that I'm supposed to talk about as a 16 year old you were doing that? Making out with him for hours? The whole, no it was the audition was like probably 20 minutes and because we did it a few times they had it on the set they wanted to put in all the factors to see if you could keep your focused. So they had four cameras and they were calling out camera numbers. They had a laugh track. They had like someone directing it, Gail Mancuso, who's now one of our main scrubs directors.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Oh, she's the best. Gail Mancuso. I've worked with her before. She's so, she's a legend. She's a legend. She's a legend. And she directed, you know, a ton of our OG scrubs and came back this last season to direct more scrubs. And she's the one that gave me my first job, you know, 100 years ago. So I'm doing the scene with Glenn. And the whole scene is like, baby, baby, come here and I'm like, get a job at the gas station. He's like, baby, come here. I'm like, get a job at the gas station. And we're just making out. And that's like the audition. And then they were like, we'll tell you in seven days. And then the night before they were going to tell us, they said, okay, it's down to four of you now come back at audition with Roseanne.
Starting point is 00:22:34 And so I did. And the audition was like on the couch. And then you had to make out with Roseanne. You're like, all right. This is too much. This takes a turn. This height was not signing up for this. Whoopsie doodle. And she was like, how old are you? And I was like, I'm 16. and all the other girls were 21. And she was like, no, how old are you really? And I was like, the idea of lying about my age would never have occurred to me. I was like, I'm 16. And they were worried that, you know, because Sarah and Lisa had both left to go to college,
Starting point is 00:23:02 that I would also, since I was the youngest, they were auditioning, that I would do that. So, Arnold called me at my house after the audition. And he's like, so, college. Like, what do you think about, what do you think about college? And I was like, no, no college. No, thank you. Gross, none for me. And even though I knew I would go eventually, I wasn't going to do it then.
Starting point is 00:23:18 I could do it later. And so I found out that I had the job. And then the craziest thing happened. I went to a party that night. And I told a couple people, it sounded like the weirdest lie. Because it's a time when there was like nine shows on television. And, you know, it was the number one show at the time. And it was like saying, I'm going to go be on that show and play that person. I mean, it made no sense. And then it spread around our high school. And then on Monday morning, I guess, a call from the Roseanne show and they're like, we're having cold feet about doing this. We don't know if we're going to do it. If we do it, it'll be you. But we're going to put you on hold for four months. And I thought, oh my God, my ass is grass at high school. If this doesn't happen,
Starting point is 00:24:02 I'm forever going to be like the weirdo who lied about going to be Becky on the Rosanne show. That is so funny. I actually did that for real when I was in elementary school. I lied to my whole class in order to gain some more respect for my peers because I didn't feel like they respected me enough. And I told them that I was going to be in the sequel to Private Benjamin playing Goldie Hawn's daughter as her daughter. I wrote about this in my very first book. And I was like, oh, yeah, I had a screen test with Goldie Hawn. We have so much chemistry. I was like, you guys better start respecting me now because I'm going to be famous and then you're going to regret that you weren't nice to me. And it went all around school and everyone was coming up to me asking me
Starting point is 00:24:37 all sorts of questions. And then like, yeah, obviously nothing ever happened. So I just had to keep like postponing and I'm like, oh, it's going to be a summer shoot. I had all the lingo down. And then finally I was like, oh, they decided to go in a different direction. Meanwhile, there was no fucking sequel to Private Benjamin. So eventually I just had to transfer schools. I was like, this is too humiliating. So we had a girl in our grade do that too. She lied about being part of the mini pops.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I don't know if you've ever heard about the mini pops. The minipops were this like kids cover band in Canada that were so fucking cool. It was like everybody wanted to be a mini pop. they would release records that were just covers of like awesome 80s songs. And so this girl came to school one day and she was like, I'm going to be a mini pop. And we couldn't believe it. We were floored. It was the most exciting thing.
Starting point is 00:25:28 And then she wasn't, like it wasn't true. And I just remember when this whole Becky thing happened, I was like, I'm going to be exactly like the minipops. You're going to be minipop, girl. This is I going to be minipops. How was Tom Arnold? Oh, my God. He was great to me. was very, I think ever since that kind of phone call, like he was always really supportive of me.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Oh, sorry. I didn't mean Tom Arnold. I met the father that played the, your, John Goodman. Sorry, I didn't mean to ask about Tom Arnold. You cares. I mean, I know Tom Arnold. I don't need, yeah, I want to know about the dad because he seemed awesome. He was, I mean, that was like crazy. He was one of my idols at the time, obviously. And like now I was working with him and my dressing room was right beside him. And I was, I mean, I had no business being there. I had. had literally never worked except for on a couple of Canadian productions where I would like answer the phone in a movie and be like, mom, phone. And that was like the totality of my body of work before having gone onto that set. And then it was like John Goodman, Lori Metcalf,
Starting point is 00:26:29 Sarah Gilbert, Johnny Galecki, Sounder Burnhard, like Martin Mall, Fred Willard, like the craziest group of coaches sit there and watch. But John Goodman was so kind. Like he was, he went out of his way to kind of like make me feel okay, you know, like he'd be like, hey, kid, how you doing? And he didn't do that. And then obviously just to like watch him work and what he would do with a script from the Monday morning table read till the Thursday night, tape night and try different things. And I would just kind of watch him. And he's one of the most, yeah, he's just so talented. So that was a great preparation for you for Scrubs, right? I mean, that was kind of like college for Scrubs. It was college for Scrubs, but it's like such a different experience.
Starting point is 00:27:16 Like, I feel like on Roseanne, I was so young and so new and so, and it's different, such a different experience that I hadn't even really prethought of replacing a character and you're trying to like fit into that mold. And luckily I was kind of young and naive and didn't really understand it. Like I didn't really think about the expectations maybe that would be put on like filling those shoes. But then in Scrubs. it was when it felt like it was my first experience of like it feeling so creative because I got to really create the character like Bill had written this character that was I read it and I was like
Starting point is 00:27:55 fuck this is so good I want to be a part of this so badly the character description said moves and talks at a faster pace than normal humans and that was something that I'd always struggled with like everyone's always like slow down in life in speech me too me too me too and it's hard you just want to We're busy. We've got to get all the information out. And so I thought, okay, this is like my part. And then Bill ended up like tailoring our parts and adding all of our own quirks and selves. Like, Elliot wasn't written as a disaster who fell and hurt herself all the time. And then that was just woven in very early on when they realized that I still had not figured out where my body was in space. But that felt like the comedy master class, like getting to work with Bill. He would come to set. every rehearsal, which is super rare from my experience.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Like, I've never had that happen where the showrunner comes every single rehearsal and comes up and goes like, okay, you know, try this differently. Try these two alts instead of that joke. See which one, you know, works the best. He was super collaborative and gave us so much freedom that is, you know, we get it once exactly as written. And then he'd be like, oh, if this line says, I told you so if you want, you can just do like, and I told you so song and dance instead if you feel like it.
Starting point is 00:29:12 And so I feel like I got to learn, like, so much about comedy just from watching him work and how he would take a scene. And if it wasn't working, he'd be like, okay, let's try this, try that, try that. It was so lucky and so fun. And because we were shooting in this, like, abandoned hospital in the valley, we felt kind of removed from everything. And so it created this interesting dynamic of feeling like a very collaborative space. And there was also, like, a real, I think my favorite. part about it was there was a real feeling that you could fail, like just try anything, which obviously in comedy, I think that's the only way it can really work if you're not
Starting point is 00:29:51 thinking about what you look like while you're doing it, what you're just like any of the other factors, just try it. If it doesn't work, they won't use it. And so we really were freed up to try anything. That's awesome. I love to hear that. That's so like creatively fulfilling. I mean, you know, to just be able to spread your wings and fly and have somebody just show you. because that show was original and it's like it had used devices that we hadn't seen before on those kinds of shows. Yeah, it did. And I remember thinking that when I read the script. Like I, I was like, oh, I haven't seen anything like this. And I had just moved to L.A. with my best friend and we didn't know anybody and we never had plans. Was it one of the gens? It was one of the gens.
Starting point is 00:30:32 It was one of the gens. She'd gone to film school at UBC in Vancouver and wanted to produce and I wanted to act. And so we packed up her truck with the most random shit. It was like Steve Martin and the jerk when he's like, I just need this mug and this thing. Like we had like, I packed a guitar that I didn't know how to play. And like we were going to go for like a six month sublet. And then I stayed 17 years. But, you know, Jen and I had plans to go to a concert. And I got two auditions for the next day.
Starting point is 00:31:01 And normally I would just be like, okay, I've got to work on these auditions. I was like, I'm not cancel on Jen. We're going to the concert. I don't care. and I come home to this envelope, these two envelopes for these two auditions, and it's midnight. And my audition for Scrubs is at 9 a.m. and I open it. And I start reading it. And I'm like, turning the pages. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Oh, this is so good. Shit. I like, now it's, the audition's happening in like eight hours and 59 minutes. And I'd ever opened the other
Starting point is 00:31:29 envelope. I have no idea what that audition was. And I just worked for a couple of hours and then got some sleep and went in red for casting. And they were like, can you come back in a few hours and read for Bill. And, but yeah, I remember reading the script thinking like, oh, this is so different. And like you said, using devices we hadn't seen. And I love the pace of it. And, and I laughed out loud reading the script, which was so rare. I love it. I love that. I love that. I mean, like, who would have ever thought, like, all of these shows and all of these successful series would be rebooted? Like, if someone told you when you were doing it the first time, you're going to be doing this again 25 years later, nobody would be, you'd be like, I'm not even going to be alive then.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Like there's no chance. Totally. Totally. Who's 50? Like that sounds like what? Yeah, exactly. What about, okay, let's talk about being 50. Let's talk about like that age because it's not what I expected at all.
Starting point is 00:32:21 It's like so much better. It's so much like, you know, I feel so much of younger than I ever thought I would feel. I feel younger than I felt when I was in my 30s. But let's talk about advice that you've been given good or bad that has had an impact on your life. Yeah. First of all, I completely agree with you. Like I'm turning 50. this coming August. And I mean, if you were to say, like, how old are you? Like, I feel like I,
Starting point is 00:32:42 my brain stopped at like 33, I think, is the age that I always think I am. And yeah, to have had this lucky career I'm very grateful for because it has allowed me to be able to raise my kids. You know, like when you're, when you're working, you're working hard, but then you have these chunks of time where you're off and you can be totally present and, um, and do that. In terms of advice that I've been given that's been good. Or bad, or bad. We like bad advice too. We like bad advice.
Starting point is 00:33:10 Okay, I'll start with good. My dad's favorite expression was the best time to plant an apple orchard was 25 years ago. The second best time is today. And I feel like that he told us when we were little. I think about it often because it's like any time I'm like, okay, it's too late. Like I think through your whole life you always feel like, oh, fuck, is it too late? Is it too late to do this? And it's like never too late.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Like it's actually never too late. We just had this conversation, me and three girlfriends. We were just talking about this. And like the idea of ascension. Like we are always ascending. Like just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's going to happen. It's not going to happen because of your age. Your age is not preventative of what your desires are.
Starting point is 00:33:51 It's actually an enhancement. It makes it more likely to happen because it's still on your mind. And like, oh, I was going to do that and I didn't do it before I turned 50. That means it's going to be even better when you do do it after 50. not that it's not happening. 100%. And exactly. When you do it,
Starting point is 00:34:06 you're like really going to do it. And you're going to do it at a time in your life that you're ready to do it. Like I was like, I want to learn how to play an instrument. I'm like, no, it's not too late. Yeah, exactly. We were just talking about this. And I was like, God, you know, oh, if I don't do this by that time I'm 30 or the time I'm 40 and that's like such backwards thinking.
Starting point is 00:34:22 It's like, oh, now that I'm this experience and I'm this much wiser and I'm this much smarter, I'm not going to even fuck this up when it does happen. You know, like I'm tuned in now. Totally. And I feel like even with like skiing, you know, like I was like the other day, I was like, I want to go take some more lessons and kind of like bring my skiing to the next stage. Because like I grew up skiing. My first job, I was a ski instructor.
Starting point is 00:34:47 And then I took my kids are six years apart. So I feel like I spent like, you know, they were in between my skis when they were one and a half. And then on the harness and then kind of like everyone else is going off and doing the real runs. And you're like on the little ones for. And then I had another kid and they did the end. So I feel like I took such a. long chunk off of like really skiing. And when I went back to it, I was like, oh, I feel like I'm skiing with the technique of like the old equipment and the old technology and the skis
Starting point is 00:35:11 that weren't shaped. And so. Right, right. Yeah. I get that. Yeah. I just feel like having like a just in general open mind to like it's never too late. It's never too late to try anything. I feel like in so many aspects of my life, I feel like things are just the best they've been or taking off, like in the relationship that I'm in, has been so fun and so fulfilling and so interesting to, you know, we have so much in common. And so like, yeah, I feel like in all aspects, it feels like 50 is amazing. Yeah, it's like you're peaking. But I don't even believe in peaking either because we're ascending. That's what we're calling it. We're ascending. Until we die, we are in a sense. And that means we just keep getting better and better and better. Like,
Starting point is 00:35:55 it is a refined, beautiful thing. Like, I am totally down with that. I can't believe the garbage we've been listening to our whole lives or are absorbing just kind of this narrative that's just not true anyway let's move on to callers before we run out of time katherine sorry we got caught up in this lovely conversation i'm going to think of that about ascension that's going to be my new yes please yes do it let's spread that spread that messaging women need to hear this celebrate your pride with the station that's as bold vibrant and diverse as you are i heart pride Canada. From dance anthems to pop icons and hits from 2SLGBTQ plus Canadian artists.
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Starting point is 00:39:14 It's a question about struggling through setbacks. So Elle says, Dear Chelsea, my son is 16 and struggles to process setbacks and perceived failure. He's at the top of his class, takes multiple AP courses, and thrives in academic environments, even though he claims his classes are boring.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Many things in life come easily to him, except baseball setbacks. He's been playing baseball since he was about five, and even after entering high school, he was often the strongest player on his team. He's currently on a competitive travel team, so the level of play is higher and he has to work harder. In theory, this should be a healthy learning and growth experience, but in reality, any perceived poor performance sends him into an intense spiral of self-criticism and frustration that can last for hours. But baseball doesn't allow hours to process emotions. The game continues, and he's expected to stay mentally present for his team. He becomes angry with himself, his performance suffers, and this only reinforces the cycle.
Starting point is 00:40:07 We currently have him in therapy, though he doesn't have buy-in. He views his reactions as normal teenage emotions, which to some extent they are. Our goal isn't to pathologize his feelings, but to help him develop coping strategies so that setbacks don't derail his mood, confidence, or performance for the rest of the game, and beyond the field. We've tried a gratitude journal, which he didn't take very seriously, and his therapist has given him strategies to practice in the moment, but the cycle persists. Do you have any suggestions for helping him process these emotions in a healthier way?
Starting point is 00:40:34 Are there any strategies you'd recommend that we might not have tried? With gratitude, Elle. Hi, Elle. Hi, how are you? This is our special guest, Sarah Chalk. Oh, nice to meet you. Hi. Hi.
Starting point is 00:40:46 I have a friend who's staying with me right now in Whistler and her daughter is in the same situation that your son is. Very successful athlete, young, had a bad day playing and was devastated by it. you know and I think those are all really natural emotions but for kids to like if they want to take them like they have to get into like a championship mentality right like if they're going to really be successful at this they have to outsmart themselves and like there's got to be a lot of books on this Jamie did you say you knew about a book about this she's I'm going to have her come upstairs because we literally just had this conversation about her daughter last night and she's like it is what
Starting point is 00:41:26 it is she didn't have a good day today she's just going to have to deal with it that's the like the mentality of a champ. Like if you're, you're going to have to deal with your emotions and you can't spiral every time. And that's something that he's just going to kind of have to learn. This woman's calling in with the same thing we were talking about yesterday. Her son, like, flip, like spiraling out when he has a bad play and stuff. Do you want to hop on and give her some advice? Here, this is my friend. She just happens to be in town. Hi, beautiful Jamie. Hi, gorgeous. Hi. So her son is struggling with feelings of self-criticism and especially when he's playing baseball. And so, like, he needs tools to, like, quickly process those emotions.
Starting point is 00:42:03 How old is he? He's 16. Okay. I have the same thing. I have a 15-year-old superstar softball player. So what I've learned from this journey, I also played sports in college. And I wish I had this information when I was in college because I think it would have made me a better competitor is it's all mental.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Everything is mental. Has he hit home runs before? Has he made double plays? Yes. Well, he's gotten triples before. He's ever hit it over and out of the park. Right. He's made double plays.
Starting point is 00:42:35 He's a really good player. Yeah. But he's a perfectionist? Yeah. Yeah. And he just criticizes himself when he doesn't perform. Mm-hmm. Right?
Starting point is 00:42:45 So, like, I think the most important thing an athlete can do is work on their mental game. Does he journal? No. I tried having them, like Catherine said, I tried having to write a gratitude journal. This was last summer. And we would go through what he would write in there because at first, like, he, he thinks he's a normal teen. He doesn't think that anything that is happening with his emotions is out of the ordinary.
Starting point is 00:43:10 And, and again, it's not. It's not. But it's how you can train your brain to, it's really a mental thing. So, like, my daughter, what she started doing, I mean, she wants to play D1. So this is all her journey. I don't push her. This is her thing. But she started journaling.
Starting point is 00:43:27 So before she'll do hitting lessons, before a group practice, before any sort of work she's doing, she'll put what her expectations are for the practice. And then after the practice, she'll put in, did she accomplish that? What did she need to work on next practice? And so it's always just like looking at what you've done and what you need to do, right? Now, it sounds like it's all a mental thing. So that's what he should be focusing on. There's a book called, I think it's called the champion mind, be the champion mind or something like that.
Starting point is 00:44:01 She started reading that. She talks to a mental coach now. I mean, it's so different from when I was growing up. We didn't have anything. I was just like, if I sucked, I would just be in like a dark hole. But, you know, and all the high-end coaches all tell if you watch any TikToks or Instagram, they all tell the players like what we're watching. We don't care if you're a baller. We don't care if you have 100% batting average.
Starting point is 00:44:24 we care about your body language. So if you strike out three times in a row, do you go in the dugout and bring everybody down with your energy? Or do you, you know, come in and just realize what you did wrong and move on, turn the page, you know? Yeah. And it's hard for them to pull back and look at themselves, but you're on a team sport. If you want to go torture yourself, go swim, go golf, go tennis. But this is a team sport.
Starting point is 00:44:48 So bring the good energy even when shit is bad. And what's great about all this is it's such a good lesson for life. Yeah, it is. I've done my work here. I'm going to go warm my toes for the Whistler Hill. Here's your host, Chelsea Handler. Thank you, Jamie. I really had to put her on the spot there, you guys, and she delivered.
Starting point is 00:45:11 That was great. Drop on the heat. That was awesome. I think what she said about, like, being a perfectionist is so true. Like, and I was a perfectionist as a kid and experienced, you know, really trying to figure out how to go back to a growth mindset. Like I think I had one initially. And then as you work, going back into the auditioning process, I really got out of that. And in terms of like, you know, because I was a kid who like, if I was doing a project on Sri Lanka, I was cutting every
Starting point is 00:45:39 page out into the shape of an elephant. Like, don't do that. Just travel later. That makes no sense. And I, you know, in terms of team sports, like, it's all I want it. I just want to be on a team. Like I would take any fucking team. I was like, I tried out for basketball, volleyball, the track field team. I was like, whoever will take me, nobody would. So I got used to a level of rejection that I think actually is why I ended up being able to go into acting. But I think like for your son and for the times of days that doesn't work out, I actually think it's really true that you learn so much more from failure than you do from your successes. So every, like if you're going and you're hitting a home run every time, like actually it's incredible, but I don't think you're learning
Starting point is 00:46:19 anything that's going to help you grow. And so, because the reality is like, I don't know if the goal for him is to become like a professional baseball player or if it's just to do it right now with his buddies. But if he's out there and he's failing, it's obviously not failing, but I mean if he's not doing, let's say it doesn't go the way that he wants, he's going to come out of that. And right now, like you said, he's working through it and he's trying the gratitude journal. You're trying therapy. You're trying all these different things. Those are all tools that are going to serve him in every area of his life. No, because none of us are going to, no matter what we do, we're not going to go out there.
Starting point is 00:46:51 and it's not going to be a successful day, all of the days, most days. And I think, like, if you can, like, just the fact that you're and him are aware of it and trying to work through the tools. I guess the other part of it is what's the goal for him in terms of, like, does he want to take this the whole way? And if not, what is the best spot for him? Like, my niece played professional, or not professional, she played field hockey at a high level. She was on Team Canada.
Starting point is 00:47:19 And when she stopped her enjoyment, of the game went like through the roof. She's an incredible field hockey player. But sometimes I think when you're a kid and you're a teenager and you're dealing with all of the elements of being a teenager and the pressures of school and all of that, like to take the pressure cooker out of it and they can actually just really enjoy the sport can be really cool too. I mean, obviously that balance with, you know, them pushing through the heart is probably
Starting point is 00:47:46 the most important part. But also, like, I think what Jamie said is like, like, first of all, of course, The Gratitude Journal, like most adult men are not going to do that. You know, so like if you could, if you pivot and make a journal about journaling, like about his expectations, about before practices, about what he expects, and also emphasize that team component aspect, like you want to be a leader, you want to be a champion, then you need to actually get into like, kick into a different gear when you're disappointed in your own performance. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:48:14 You can't bring other people down with you. I think that will have an impact on him as well. Do you have any advice for when he. He's in the moment when something doesn't go. Because like in his mind, even if he hits a pop fly, that's a horrible hit because pop flies are at his level of play now, 99% of the time caught. And he's just like now done for the game essentially. Like he was even ejected out of a game by the umpire for arguing a call.
Starting point is 00:48:41 It's just in the moment. Like I can get him to do, I think like the, because two hours after a game, he's like totally fine. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm good. I'm like, but I need you to be good like in that moment because now you're just hurting your team. I don't know if you can get buy in on this, but meditating on a daily basis, even if it's like five, 10 minutes can help slow him down in those moments. So he's not like just having this super like fast reaction.
Starting point is 00:49:07 It really does help you have a more measured response when when stuff like that happens. And it doesn't even have to be like woo-woo meditations. It can be simple box breathing or counting to 10 with his. breaths or even just doing, you know, really short basic meditations on headspace or an app like that. I think your role is just to really be a guide for him when he is looking for answers that you can help him to find those answers. You guys will work together to find those answers. If he's disappointed in his own behavior and his reaction, then that's an opening for you to go, okay, we can figure this out together. I can help you. This study says all we have to do is
Starting point is 00:49:46 meditate five minutes a day. He's not going to like that either, but you can do it with. with him. You can sit there and say, this is going to help your brain regulate so that when you are in that moment and you are feeling super reactive, you can pull back and just be quiet and think of your team instead of thinking of yourself and your reactivity. And like, just taking all those moments without being too kind of officious, because of course you're his mother and you care more about him than anybody in the world. But just to be like this calming force around him so that he keeps coming to you when he wants answers. So that you're the calm. And, he's the storm and that he knows where the calm is going to be. And then just one more thing I want to flag L before you go is if he is being really self-critical and irritable, especially irritable outside of practice, I would keep an eye on that because that can be a sign of depression in teenage boys. So just keep an eye on that like outside of baseball too. Yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:50:40 You know, we're very aware. Like he's putting a lot of pressure on himself. My husband and I tell him like, you don't have to play. Like we're cool if you don't want to play. but he loves the game and he wants to play and he wants to do really well. And it's like, oh, but it's hurting you. I know, but you know, that's something he's going to have to figure out for himself.
Starting point is 00:51:00 Like there's nothing you can do. He's going to have to decide if it's worth the feelings that come with, you know, not always succeeding. Like, is it worth it? Are the wins like worth it with the losses? And that's not something you can make happen for him. You can only be supportive at every turn and be like, okay, you want to do this. We're going to support you.
Starting point is 00:51:18 If you don't want to do it, we'll totally support you too. I know I mentioned, so we do have them in therapy. Do you think finding a new therapist is that something to do? Because the guy he goes to now, I mean, he's very nice. And my son says he likes them. But then when we drive to his sessions, he's like, yeah, I don't really think I need this. So, like, I feel like his buy-in isn't there. That's everybody.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Everybody feels that way on their way to therapy. Like, I don't need this today. And then it's your biggest day. I would keep him in therapy. And, like, if you can look for maybe some, like a sports therapist or something that's a little bit more gear to what he's into in the interim. But don't take him out prematurely. Just leave him in so he has some sort of sounding board. But also in the meantime, look for somebody that you can gear towards more what his interests are. All right, Al. Well,
Starting point is 00:52:01 keep us posted, okay? Okay. Thank you. All thank you. Bye, Al. Thanks for calling in. Wow, that was like a triage moment, you guys. Truly. Oh, God, you guys. And Jamie, stepping in. All hands on deck. That was serious. Oh, my God. I wanted team sports so badly. Like, I finally. said to the coach, I'm like, I just want to get on the bus. What's nobody signing up for? And they were like, nobody does racewalking. And I was like, great, I'm in. And so I was
Starting point is 00:52:27 racewalking, just so that I could get on the bus. And were you race walking all by yourself? Because nobody else I know. It was like a few kids from other schools in the province. So I came second in the province because it was probably only two people. Yeah, yeah. We'll finish up with our one drink question here. So Nikki says, I'm a 35-year-old Canadian,
Starting point is 00:52:47 passionate about boycotting U.S. travel and products when possible in the wake of the current administration threatening to invade Canada and all this 51st state bullshit. The problem is that I live in the frozen tundra of Winnipeg and my husband wants to take a vacation somewhere hot while it's still cold. My husband is a wonderful partner and dad that works incredibly hard. He's in his first year of being an attending doctor after 14 years of training. We have two young kids and can only manage to get away for a long weekend and there are not many direct flights out of Winnipeg. He was love to go to Phoenix, Vegas, or Palm Springs, since it'll be hot and we can fly direct. He agrees with boycotting U.S. travel, but also feels like we need to live our lives a bit.
Starting point is 00:53:27 So my question is, do I make an exception to my boycott to go on vacation with my husband, who absolutely deserves it? Nikki. No, no, find somewhere else to go or go to a sauna. Like, forget about it. Your boycott is a boycott. I don't know temporary boycotts. Like, you cancel things to cancel them.
Starting point is 00:53:43 It doesn't work if we're not serious about it. So if you care about the state of the world, you have to care about boycotting things altogether. And believe me, I'm doing it in my own life and I'm doing it with all the people that I work with and the people that work for me in my house, everything. This is a consideration that we talk about all the time. It is serious business. So, yeah, I mean, also, I joined Noble Mobile. I got off of AT&T Verizon.
Starting point is 00:54:05 That's one good thing you can do. You can join Noble Mobile. They encourage you to stay off of your phone. They incentivize you to stay off of your phone. My phone bills have been like $35 a month. and I travel internationally all the time. So that's a great first step. Cancel chat GPT.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Please be on the only ethical. Anthropic is the only ethical like AI system that is available. So try to down, get rid of chat GPT. Like these steps mean things. These people are making money and profiting off of our prison system, off of these detention centers. They are making money off of this. All of these AI guys.
Starting point is 00:54:39 So if you want to have an impact, you have to be serious. And your husband can go without his vacation to Prom Springs for the year. Yeah. Yeah, go to, go to B.C. Go to Whistler. Yeah. Yeah. Go to Whistler. I guess that's cold. Yeah. By the way, it's hot here. So you can come here. I'm sure it'll be hot. It's like, hot, cold, hot cold. So by the time you get here, it could be sunny. Exactly. Exactly. And I say this. I know that you're listening to this. And people are like, well, it might be easier for you because you have more, you know, privilege and I have more money. It's, listen, it's hard for all of us. So I use all of those things all the time. And I have to be disciplined. I never go on ChapT. Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. I barely use Anthropic. I don't want to even get into that. And I know Sarah, we've already discussed, our limited technology abilities.
Starting point is 00:55:22 So it's like, it's hard for me. So those things are kind of not even that difficult. But I've canceled streaming services. I stopped using Amazon. Like, we're doing everything we can to make sure that you make a dent in these people's bottom lines because that's all anybody cares about is money. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:55:38 So get them where it hurts. Yeah. So we'll take a break and we'll be right back to wrap up with Sarah Chalk. The newest tracks. New music. And the next big thing. Always on the new music first. Your first place to hear it all.
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Starting point is 00:58:36 On ABC on Wednesday nights and streams the next day on Hulu Disney Plus. Yeah. And Hulu Disney Plus is a perfect example of somebody who did the wrong thing and then corrected it and did the right thing. So I canceled that prescription and then I redownloaded it when they did the right thing. So you can reward the subscription. Subscription. Was it, did I say prescription?
Starting point is 00:58:53 You did. We did. That's a perfect way to go out with our scrub star. Thank you, Sarah. We're going to have to stay together at some point. Okay? Yes, I would love it. Yes, keep in touch.
Starting point is 00:59:06 I was up last week and there was, yeah, there was like no snow or, you know, rained on snow. So I'm so excited it's coming. And apparently it's like 100 centimeters in the next couple days. I know, I know. I have to leave on Thursday, but I'm going to be back in the beginning of April. So I'm going to hit you up and see if you're around too. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:21 I would love it. I want to hear about Finland. Okay. Yeah, I can't wait to tell you. It was awesome. It was so beautiful. Yeah. Okay, have a great day, Sarah.
Starting point is 00:59:29 Thank you so much. Okay, have the best time skiing. Thanks for having me. The word of the week is officious. Officious, adjective, intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner. Used to describe someone that acts more official than they actually are. Volunteering one's surfaces where they are neither asked nor needed. Used in a sentence, the man's.
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