Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - 412: My Best Moment

Episode Date: March 11, 2021

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Hi, guys. Good afternoon. Hi, friends. What is happening? Hi, friends. Joelle, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I am well. Just checking on you, Mama.

Yeah, yeah. I had Donald and I were supposed to record yesterday and I texted him early in the morning and he'd be like, I woke up with a fever and body aches. You know me. You know me. I was like, yo, get tested. He's like, get out of here. Donald was probably thinking like, can I get COVID over my

headphones? My heart immediately went to the queen of all things fake doctors real friends joelle to make sure that she was okay are you okay how are you feeling i'm much better today i think it was just i i am a person who has an anxiety disorder i think i let myself get too stressed uh it's made me sick before i've been hospitalized for it before so i you know use all my toolbox stuff and i was like you know let me just take a few hours to calm down and then get back in it and so i did and i felt much better by like mid-afternoon and no signs this morning so i

think we're good still scheduled to test anyway just to be safe but i think we're fine is there anything donald and i can do to lessen your anxiety nope y'all are great okay as long as that's a me and my therapist thing i just i just i know it's a personal thing and you don't have to share it with the world but i'm just but i want you to know that if there's anything at all that's contributing your anxiety that comes from donald and i uh we can we can change it that's very sweet. Donald could be kinder. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Right out the gate. If I'm any kinder, I am Stan. Then it's dangerous. I missed you guys. I missed you too. You know what, man? I'm going to tell you something right now buddy the world has been set ablaze by

Meghan Markle and Harry set ablaze dude I only watched some clips I didn't watch that dude all I had to hear was the baby's skin color and that was a I was like dude I don't give I could care Dude, all I had to hear was the baby's skin color.

And that was, I was like, dude, I don't give a, I could care less about everything else. That's the one thing that I targeted on right away. Like, wait, say what? Hold on. What? They said what? Right away, dude. Right away.

I don't know about y'all yeah but it seems like it helped for being suicidal was definitely a trigger for me right away okay that was another one that was another one where i was yeah that was really frightening actually to hear her say that she she was suicidal and wanted to seek an in-treatment program somewhere. And they were like, no, we're sorry. That's insane. I mean, that's crazy. Yeah, the fact that she recognized it and was like, yo, I need help. Yeah.

And wasn't given it. That's the hardest part. And then they were just like, no, that was nuts. Tyler Perry gave them shelter. Oh, my God. That was crazy to me. What nuts tyler perry gave them shelter oh my god that was crazy to me what do you mean tyler perry gave them shelter well he freaking put them up for a bit right didn't they stay at his house or something like that so when they left they didn't get anything from the palace you know like they don't have real jobs and so um luckily harry's mother left him what amounted to being 40 million after like incurred costs and all of that. So they were able to get out of the country, but then they couldn't go anywhere immediately.

And so Tyler Perry is like, here's a house. Stay in it. It's mine. Just chill. Get back on your feet. And Tyler Perry's like, I don't even know which, it's one of my mansions. No one's even in it. It really is an interesting story.

You know, if they, if here's where it gets crazy, they thought this was the end of it. This is definitely not the end of it. You know what I mean? Well, they're going to, I haven't been following it. You want to be, they're going to have to make a a statement or something i'm dying to know what their side of the palace the palace did make a statement they made a statement already and it was a positive statement from what i heard pretty good one yeah pretty pretty they were very much like yeah well

at least they're hiding out somewhere nice in santa barbara near oprah truly and 40 40 million should cover a nice uh style of living for them agreed i'll take i'll take 40 million should cover a nice style of living for them Agreed I'll take 40 million They can just chill with their chickens and Oprah You give me 40 million What are you going to do? We learned you're going to build a submarine

a submergeable That's with the money of forever So with 40 million you wouldn't build a small sub, like a little pocket sub, like one of those ones James Cameron's always looking for shipwrecks in. That's how he drives, too. He drives like this.

I would like one of them. With a shipwreck. Man, that man loves it. The only thing that guy loves more than making a giant movie is finding a shipwreck. There's treasure in shipwrecks. That's like his hobby is getting in a sub and looking for shipwrecks. He's probably made his treasure in shipwrecks that's like his hobby is like getting in a sub and looking for shipwrecks he's probably made more money finding shipwrecks than he did

with any of his movies including you and i go you and i play tennis you and i go play tennis he's like all right babe i'm gonna go find a shipwreck i might want one of those subs because if i said to you dude i got a sub do you want to go find shipwrecks do you remember come on let's fucking go yeah dude if you know how to drive the? Do you remember? Come on, let's fucking go. Yeah, dude. If you know how to drive the sub. Do you remember Octopussy? Of course, man.

It's the best James Bond movie ever. I don't know if it's the best James Bond movie ever. That's kind of sacrilege. When I was a kid, when I was a kid, that was the best James Bond movie ever. You know why, brother? Because we're close to the same age and that movie came out and we were of the age, because I remember it was one of my very first, I don't know if it was R, but one of my very first movies I attended where I needed a parent to go with me. Yes. And I didn't really know James Bond.

I don't know how old I was, but I was of the age. It was when, it was whatever year. Actually, Joelle, can you look for me? What year did For Your Eyes Only come out? Sorry. Octopussy. Sorry, I'm combining two things. I loved Octopussy, but the one I'm talking about is For Your Eyes Only, which was the first one I saw in the theaters, and it was right around. Did you ever see Never Say Never Again? Not Say Never Again. Is that what it is? Never Say Never Again was the movie that wasn't officially a James Bond movie, but it was a James Bond movie.

And it was after Sean Connery left. And he came back and played 007 one more time. And the movie was called Never Say Never Again. I know the title, but I don't know if I saw that one. My brother was obsessed with. It was either Never Say Never or Never Say Never Again. All right, 81. So that would make me six.

That's insane to think that I was at six years old seeing Free Rise Only, but I guess I was. When did Octopussy come out? I just like saying octopus. Are you drinking? That's my grandmother's favorite word too. What are you drinking, Donald? Apple juice. I worked out heavy today.

I don't believe you're drinking apple juice. It's a little early for whiskey, though. It's afternoon. It's one. And by the way, what happened to our health kick? It's one, and COVID is retreating. I worked out already. I got up this morning.

Hold on. You got to give up the Tuesday whiskeys, bro. I got up early this morning. That's some COVID shit we're, bro. I got up early this morning. That's some COVID shit. We're pulling out. I got up early this morning. You drinking Red Bull? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. You trying to get high, too? You on the same shit? Don't even try it, though. I ain't fucking drinking a one. Don't put that shit on me drinking a 1 p.m. whiskey. Motherfucker, you trying to get high, too?

I think Red Bull's okay. That's right. That's right. You trying to do it, too. Don't trip. This is. That's right. That's right. You're trying to do it, too. Don't trip. This is my funny juice. Yeah, exactly. This is my funny juice.

Exactly. Exactly. But what were we talking about? We were talking about how brilliant for your eyes only is. Octopussy, 1983. Oh. Octopussy, what year?

1983. 1983. That's when I saw. I think that's my first James Bond movie. And when I was a kid, what year? 1983. 1983. That's when I saw. I think that's my first James Bond movie. And when I was a kid, I thought that was so dope. And then people were like, you should see Moonraker. And I watched Moonraker. Like, all of the Roger Moore movies were my introduction into James Bond.

Yeah, well, we didn't know as little kids that Roger Moore wasn't the jam until our senior people in our life were like, you need to know about Sean Connery. He was the second jam. He was the second jam. Sean to know about Sean Connery. He was the second jam. Sean Connery was the first jam. He was the second jam. I think there was somebody in between them briefly. Yeah. One movie. One movie. The jam was

those guys. I'll tell you this right now. I think Timothy Dalton did a great job as James Bond. I just think some of his movies weren't that good. I think Pierce Brosnan, when Remington Steele was over, should have been James Bond. Or when Remington Steele was...

After that one year and it wasn't really that dope and they didn't go... He should have been James Bond back then instead of being James Bond when he was an old man. You know what I mean? And I think Daniel Craig by far has the best James Bond movies out of all of them. By far. Well, of course.

Now they're made with like, you know, Sam Mendes with a zillion dollars. I think they're really fucking great. But Sean Connery, dude, was the man. Sean, you can't compare anybody to Sean Connery. Absolutely. But this was a different type of James. He was a different type of James Bond. I know. He was very rough on the man. You can't compare anybody to Sean Connery. Absolutely, but this was a different type of James. He was a different type of James Bond. I know.

He was very rough on the ladies. You know what I mean? He was very abusive. When I say rough on the ladies, he would smack ladies around and shit. What do you mean in his real life? Do you mean in the movies or in his real life? He did it in the movies, too.

In the movies, too, buddy. In the movies, too. My point is, I think Daniel Craig has the best ones I would love it if James Bond is a number and a code name and not a person and these aren't

all the same dude because I feel like we might have missed the boat already and this was a big deal but I feel like Idris Elba would have been the best James, would have been a great James Bond. And that should have happened. And it didn't happen. Well, why do you know that it won't happen in the future?

He's not too old to play James Bond. They've said pretty explicitly that they weren't going to do that. Yeah. Which was frustrating. An African-American man? Yeah. And then they said pretty specifically that they weren't going to do Idris, which was like, y'all are crazy. You're bugging.

You make so much money. You're bugging, dude. You want to talk about box office appeal to so many people? Idris is a great example. You know who would have more fucking box office appeal than Idris Elba? Who? Donald motherfucking Faison. No, no, no.

I don't want to. No, no, no. Let's be honest about it. Come on, man. You need to put that shit on your whiteboard. Fuck this Star Wars nonsense. You want to be James motherfucking Bond. You got to be British to be James Bond.

James Adeyashun Bond. It would be dope if James Bond was a Nigerian. Hell yeah. I mean, there are a lot of Nigerians in the UK, baby! I'm just putting it out there. A lot of West Africans out there, y'all. I'm just putting it out there.

Should we get into this, baby? Why don't we count in? Okay, 5, 6, 7, 8! Funny episode. I cried at the end of this episode. I was very moved. My wife cried at the end of this episode. I was very moved. My wife cried at the end of this episode. Oh, I'm clutching my pearls. Who directed this, by the way?

Who do you think? Fucking Chris Koch. The fucking Mac Daddy. Wow. He did such a great job. Speaking of directing accolades, did you hear that I'm nominated for a Director's Guild of America Award? Shut up. Congratulations.

You didn't hear? No. I did not hear about this through all of the emails and texts and stuff that I saw. I did not hear about this. Turn my key. Thunderous applause. I got to tell you guys, to be sentimental for a second, I really, really, really was moved by this. I,

you know, for those of you not in the industry, the Directors Guild of America, the DGA, is the union for directors in both directing television and film. And not just the director as the leader of the film set, but all of the assistant directors that work with the director to execute everything. And so it is the ultimate version of an acknowledgement from your peers. So I certainly didn't think when I directed the second episode of Ted Lasso that it would have the reaction it did. And I just assumed, oh, if they nominate Ted Lasso, they'll nominate the pilot because it's the first episode.

But my episode sort of kind of showed the show would have some heart and emotion and drama and heartbreak. And I don't know. I was very truly shocked. But I haven't been able to wipe this smile off of my face. I'm so happy about it. It's so amazing, buddy. It's so amazing, dude. The fact that your peers are the ones that nominated you too yeah

really awesome man and i got really awesome uh texts from directors i really love and and just awesome support from from the community and yeah i just i don't know i'm very i'm just very proud i'm so proud i always told you i always told you buddy you're a really good actor but you know what you are you know what you do best you know what you do best, you know where you shine best, is when you're directing, man. You're very, very, very good at storytelling. You're very good at it. And writing, too. You shine there, too.

You're very good at storytelling, man. And this is a fact. And I am so happy that the DGA has stepped up and said, you know what? Donald Faison is right. Jack Rapp does tell great stories. Thank you.

You know what I mean? Thank you. Thank you. All I truly ever wanted to be was a director. I'm so thrilled and blessed and grateful that I had this acting career, but not but. And to be able to work as a director and not alone, let alone have the DGA say, hey, we chose five directors who we thought made the best comedy episodes this year and you're one of them. That's just really fucking cool. And younger me wouldn't even believe that it happened. So there you go.

There it is. Fairy tales can come true true it could happen to you that's if you're young at heart i am young at heart yeah you are i don't look about turn 46 do i look that no i look like kid you remember when casey turned 30 when she was walking around telling everybody when we went out that we were i forgot she was like i just turned 30 and i look like i'm 26 so i'm fine uh the show is very funny and very moving and uh for those of you playing along at home it's episode 412 my best moment and um you know the structure of this is the classic Bill Lawrence structure in which you're there's all these seeds laid through the episode about the theme being what was your proudest moment as a doctor? What's one of your best memories?

And we cut lots of people's favorite memories and then only to find in the end when they save the day that this this saving of this one patient on Christmas has become their favorite moment. And they all tell it from a different perspective. And it was really moving. You know, just by the end, I had goosebumps all over my body. And Donald, you said you cried. I cried. My wife cried. Like, I wasn't uncontrollably crying, but it was like, wow, this is, I am fucking emotional right now because of this and it you know it and it has

so many i think what helps is that it has so many funny moments in it yes like even when we start off uh you carrying jd carrying turk and talking about and turk telling him about how he has to do surgery in front of the family members and how you turn it into a movie where the white family isn't saying anything. They're just staring. But the black family is like, oh, you're going to find a tumor back there. I know you're going to find a tumor. Oh, there's a tumor. And then we address the fact. And then you go, did you go to the black family watching a movie stereotype in your fantasy? And I'm like, like a bear to honey.

Yeah. All right. I'm going to say one thing. What? I've been to so many movie theaters before in my life. I'm a connoisseur of watching movies. Right. And you've also been in movie theaters like

in time square which is probably quite an experience and i grew up in time square that i that's my actual neighborhood is time square where i grew up so i got us that the stereotype has basis in reality or not no it's real this is true you know it's definitely true this it's not a stereotype this is that i've honestly never at least i'll take it back i'll take it know it's definitely true that's it's not a stereotype this is that i've honestly never at least i'll take it back i'll take it back it's fact for at least when i was growing up and experiencing going and seeing movies in african-american uh communities like the apollo theater like the apollo movie theater in harlem and and all of these other i went and saw school days at the apollo movie theater in harlem And let me tell you something right now, when they were doing the

step shows, people jumped up from the audience and there was like this little stage on the side and we're doing step shows with school days. The Spike Lee joint, by the way, y'all were doing the steps with the people in the movie with Lawrence Fishburne andne and Giancarlo Esposito and Tisha Campbell and Kyme and all of these people doing it, you know what I mean, doing it on screen and in the audience. It's an experience and it's a lot of fun. And it's easy to make fun of. But I have a question. Do you have to be in the mood for – I mean, I haven't not had this experience. Do you have to be in the mood for, I mean, I haven't not had this experience.

But I imagine if it was the right movie, I would be laughing my ass off at people participating in the audience. The wrong movie, I'd be so annoyed. I'd be like, please shut the fuck up. Absolutely. Go ahead. I'm just saying, like, listen, if you're going to a certain movie theater where you know that's prominent, even if it's a movie where you shouldn't be doing that i saw precious on the south side of chicago that's not a movie where you're supposed to react but would i tell you like the whole audience was it like we hear you girl now run run like somebody brought harold's chicken in and so when she goes to kfc they were really blown out like also dream girls which is a

movie you absolutely should react at it was great like people singing with jennifer it just it's it's it's a different way to watch a movie so if you're in the mood because you know i go to film festivals and stuff and sometimes you're like i just want to sit and like absorb this movie this is a different form of entertainment it's like you're there as much to see the movie as you are to see the audience and that's what makes it like a fun experience. I went and saw back to the future. Yes. And let me tell you something right now.

I never laughed so hard at the commentating on how stupid George McFly is, dude. This is a guy who goes on to make millions of dollars after his son saves his freaking marriage. He goes on to make millions. I've never seen more people freaking laugh at his stupidity in my life. When freaking he can't put together what, when he finally puts together what the plan is between him and Marty and freaking what they're going to do to Lorraine at the dance. And he's like, you're going to go and you're going to touch her. You're going to touch her. And somebody in the audience finally yelled,

her nipples, George! And the whole studio, the whole audience laughed so hard. I imagine if the people yelling out shit are genuinely funny. I mean, it's just, I don't know. it's a bizarre i mean this is such a like uh of an experience i i've never had and i would like to have but i imagine

if the people who are yelling shit out are funny then it would be a good time it's the best it's the best but you got to be the right movie though you got to pick the right movie because it can be it can be any movie you just have to be in the movie well it can't be in a movie that you know a drama that you want to like get lost in right don't go to freaking don't go and watch a movie that she said she watched pressures but that works though that works for that that works man these look think about it man tyler perry has made millions offered plays that really have great audience participation it might not be them on the stage and stuff like that but they feel like they're living what's offered plays that really have great audience participation. It might not be them on the stage and stuff like that, but they feel like they're living what's going on stage, man.

And he went and did it. And the way he did it was he took it to small venues where he could pack the audience with African-American church people and they can listen to one, the gospel two. So they're learning so they're learning a lesson, two, they can listen to things that they, you know, they can experience situations that they can relate to. You don't get that when you go to the movies and you're black and you see all of these white movies, man. That's all that's out there, man. You don't get that shit in real life. But Tyler Perry provided that and so people so because of that that's why you have these

medea movies and stuff like that because we can relate to stuff like that he started something and we were like oh shit that's funny now now i want to be as rich as tyler perry i wish i would have gotten on board back in the day. I'm sorry I didn't. Kudos. I wish I would have... Not being in this stuff, but I wish I would have... He's a zillionaire because not only is he prolific...

I wish I would have seen his vision. I wish I would have seen what he was trying to do. He's employed. Absolutely, he's employed so many African-American actors. It's ridiculous how many he's employed. He's employed more than Hollywood has, I'd say, by now. You know what I mean? He's put so many people into great positions, and now some of them are movie stars.

Real talk. Real talk. Am I wrong? No, I just can't fit a word in edgewise. Where's the lie? I know, because I'm so passionate about this nowadays. I know can't fit a word in edgewise. Where's the lie? I know because I'm so passionate about this nowadays. I know. I never knew you were so passionate.

Where's the lie? That whiskey, though. I never knew you were so passionate about Mr. Perry. I appreciate what he's done. As an African-American actor and not being able to see all, you know what I mean? Yeah, I hear you. Not being able to see people like me in movies growing up. I appreciate him.

I agree. And I think he's a very inspirational story because you know, everyone was passing on his shit. No one wanted to make it. No one was, would give him a dime and he built a fucking empire empire on his own. And, uh,

and, and now has his own studio in Backlot. And he's just incredible. Incredible inspiration. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right.

Let's get back to the episode. It's crazy how this all stemmed from African-American people in movie theaters, man. I know. I know. Listen. Everyone admires how on topic we stay. Listen, everyone admires how on topic we stay. I laughed when I'm lecturing these med students and you think I'm giving them medical advice,

but no, I'm just telling about which product of hair mousse I use. Yeah, I wrote that down. Ruben with your JD special hair. Yeah, and then they cut to Ruben and I toss him the gel or whatever it is. And when they cut back to him, his hair is just perfect like mine. It starts off, he needs a haircut real bad. I didn't know the gel trimmed it down to the perfect height and everything. I didn't know the gel miraculously also gave him a haircut, but we'll take it.

We should mention that this is the Christmas episode also. Yes, it is a Christmas episode and has a very warm Christmas message at the end. I'm bragging. What is this bragging about having sex with a grandma? Oh, so then there's this flashback where I'm there's like a what do you call a gilf? A hot grandma? Yes. Well, yeah, that would be a gilf. Yeah. A gilf. A hot grandma? Yes. Well, yeah, that would be a gilf. Yeah, so there's this gilf, and JD is bragging that he delivered a baby,

but it's actually Mickhead who did the delivery. Yeah, no, it was his best moment. What are you laughing at, Dale? You never heard gilf before? No, it's just funny. Ah, yes, a gilf, of course. There are a lot of young gilfs out there. There are.

I don't think I've ever encountered a gilf. Maybe I have. I've met several young gilfs. I've met women who had kids at a young age or had a kid at a young age. And then their kid had a kid at a young age. And that made them a gilf. Because when you look at them, you were like, oh, snap, you a grandma? Right.

I'm sure there's plenty of gilfs. I'm sure there's plenty of gilfs. I just don't know that I've met a gilf yet. Oh, my goodness. I'd hit. Really? So you've encountered gilfs? Absolutely, yes.

Okay. All right. I can't wait. I can't wait. Daniel, have you encountered a gilf? Yeah, I've encountered a gilf. No, you've never encountered a gilf, Daniel. Look, there are beautiful women all around the world.

I don't say they're not beautiful. A gilf means you want to have sex with that woman. You desire her sexually and she's a grandma that has not happened to me yet i'm sure it will i look forward to it i look forward to it right now there are a lot of young women out there who are grandmas just put it out there a guilt doesn't have to be a guilt doesn't have to be look let's put it this way it's not saying it's not saying that's a beautiful woman it's saying i want to put my penis in her oh i don't want to put my penis and i'm that's what fucking gilf stands for ass neck

i thought it dick lick hold on dick lick hold on oh no the ilf is you know you calm down gilf is not oh what a pretty older woman gilf is i want to lay my peep beside her i want to drape i want to drape my peep on her it has to be in oh i didn't know the in part that's new let me write that down i don't okay i take that back let's get off this topic I have not met a gilf yeah I didn't think you met a gilf I have not met a gilf I'll take it back

I'll take it back hey listen we're 46 we're probably gonna meet some gilfs along the way but I haven't yet I have yet to meet a gilf I take it back

I thought we were talking about hot grandmas that's what I thought we were talking about alright let's get back on topic here my bad let's get off

we're still on the same we're on the same. We're on the right topic. This has everything to do with the show. JD had sex with a guilt. Oh, yeah. And then I do sort of a victory punch. I don't know what that was about. Did you see that?

I did a little like. Yeah. Oh, I know what it is. It's a gif that I've seen. I'm at the lectern and the gif of me doing sort of like a victory punch. I've seen that before. So that's why I wanted to point it out. I don't think that's the first. I don't think that's the last time you do that either,

though. No, but I mean, that particular one, I think there's like Christmas decorations and I'm standing in a lectern. I've seen that one before. It's like a good gif if you need to say it. You are using lectern really well. I just want to put it out there. I like the word lectern. Do you remember in your school, like um maybe you were a theater techie geek like i was but your school would have that thing right it was a it was a speaker on a cart and then this part would flip down to make a lectern and it had a mic and i was on the av this is how fucking dorky i was you guys i was so proud to be on the av squad now you, you might be like, what's an AV squad?

Yeah, I was about to ask you. Do you remember when someone really fucking cool would roll into your classroom, like a film strip or one of those machines that would go beep and you'd change the fucking slide? Or even a TV with a VCR. Remember these people? Oh, yeah. That was me. I was part of the AV team. So cool.

My hero. That's how badly I wanted to be in film. I was like, oh, so I get to wheel. I get to look like fucking Fonzie wheeling this projector into the classroom. The girls are going to think I'm so cute. I thought it was just because you wanted to get out of class. No, no, no, no, no. This was not it.

Dude, I thought when I was setting up a bit of AV gear that I looked really cool. I figure if you said I'm on the AV squad, you could use it to get out of class a couple of times. Like if your teacher was like, if your teacher was ever like, if your teacher was ever like, Mr. Braff,

you missed class. You could be like, well, Oh, Mr. Patterson, I had an AV assignment. I had to take care of in such and such as class in gym or,

and you could lie. And it would take a while for that lie to catch up to you. You're describing a different child. I'm telling you that I was like, look how fucking cool I'm going to look wheeling in this VCR. You are absolutely right. You were a dork. You were a dork. But it's a specific type of dork.

Because I wasn't like a calculus dork. I was a fucking theater techie geek dork. But it's a specific type of dork. It's like a – because I wasn't like a calculus dork. I was a fucking like theater techie geek dork. But that's a good dork. Okay, that's a good dork. I'll tell you even one more level. I've never even told anyone the story and maybe it's not even interesting anymore. But do you remember the old school giant like public school lighting boards? They weren't – nowadays they're all computers.

But like the giant levers. And I just thought that was the coolest fucking thing I'd ever seen. And I would like, I would sneak into the theater. Like some kids are cutting class to go smoke cigarettes behind the fucking school. I was sneak in the theater. And when no one's looking play with the giant lever,

with the fucking lever. I was like, yes. I was like, I bring this giant lever up and all the lights come up on the stage. Like, is this a career path? This is my job. At William J. O'Shea IS44, that was the only place where I've ever experienced an auditorium. After that, I was in private school, and the gym was the auditorium. Right. This was the only time in public school, IS44 in New York City on 77th Street in Amsterdam.

I used to sneak into the freaking auditorium behind the stage and fuck with the big ass. But they were only on the stage. There were none in the audience because the freaking auditorium was so big, right? The freaking thing is so big. So there's the projector at the top of the big light, the spotlight at the top, and that's it.

That one person got to operate, and then there were all of these set lights that you could freaking push. Yeah, different colors. I remember this! Oh my god! There'd be a lever that was like a push. Yeah, different colors. I remember this. Oh, my God. There'd be a lever that was like a full stage wash of blue, and I would just be like, is this what ecstasy is? This might be the one thing that we have in common from high school. I mean, from junior high.

I did it in junior high school. This might be the one thing that we have in common. I just think it's so funny. I've never told the story, and it's hilarious that you were doing the same thing. But while other kids were like cutting class to go do like real like trouble like get into trouble. I was like

sneaking into the theater to play with the theater lights. And I was like I hope I don't get caught turning on the blue. The fact that we've never had this conversation before either. I did it as a kid because my parents were a part of a theater the national

black theater right uh and they had this whole lighting system there too and i used to sit in the freaking booth and watch the light guy do the light cues and stuff like that and there were times where i would have to be the light cue guy because like you know there would be uh a uh um like they would do stand-up nights so like the uptown comedy club all of these things that made it to television started at my uh theater that my parents uh were a part of when i was growing up uh and so i remember uh messing with having to do the lights there and so when i went to school at a very young age i thought i'm so fucking dope because i to do the lights there. And so when I went to school at a very young age, I thought I'm so fucking dope because I can do the lights at the theater.

I can do this shit at the school too. You're making fun of me, but you were enjoying being a light board operator too. That's the best. You missed out on the thrill of wheeling in a projector, bro. I didn't want to do that. It looks like the board looks, the things look like you're pushing the Millennium Falcon into light speed. That's why you like the trailer.

I was waiting for this to circle around to something Star Wars. The light board handles reminded you of the Millennium Falcon. It did. I do remember that. That was really cool, man. You know, it's funny. Nowadays, you know, theater lighting is all programmed into a computer. And literally someone just sits there and hits a button because it's all been programmed.

And that's fine. It's 2021. But there was such an art to doing it back in the day when you were literally adjusting different things live on the fly. And it was kind of like I imagine being a DJ in a sense that you had to be like at the right moment. This had to happen. Then you had to not forget to do that. And like, it was, it was, I don't know. I fucking loved it. Anyway, we're going to go to break and we will talk more about the television show

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And we're back. And we're back. Todd's, I think Todd's storyline, his, his, I think his is the best one. I think him and Cox have the best one. Yes. So Todd Miracle 5's A Patient Back to Life. Yes. In his mind, he does.

Or he thinks he does. Well, is it in his mind or is it real? See, one thing I don't understand about all these memories everyone's having is like, they're, they're supposedly real stories. Yes. It happens. Sarah rides a pony to work and it's not a fantasy. That's not a fan.

That was very weird too. Like they literally walk into sacred heart hospital. Yeah. Front door. But yeah, she's not even tying off the pony outside of the ranch. No, no,

no, no, no. She's riding it in the, in she's not even tying off the pony outside at the ranch no no no no she's riding it in the in she's riding it inside she's gonna ride it all the way to icu because she has to do rounds what is her plan with this pony when she gets to work i don't understand i guess she's gonna do rounds with the pony i had a little trouble with the fact that todd both todd high-fived someone back to life and and Sarah rode a pony to work as part of her commute, and they were not fantasies.

Yeah. Yeah. But everybody's fantasy. But Todd's was funny. Todd's was very funny, man. Yeah. But everybody's fantasy was kind of like, what was Kelso's fantasy?

He's on the- Oh, right. He's on the, he's on the, the, the vacation. I don't know. You know, it's a funny little tidbit, you know? So, um, you know, sometimes when you're an actor, you're doing a scene, they'll be just be like, all right, before the lines, just we need you guys to chatter. You know, you're just, you're just shooting the shit and, and wait until the camera lands and then we'll get into the scene. So Ken in this moment is just chatting up some beautiful ladies. he's at a retreat for Plomox, the pharmaceutical company.

And what you hear Ken, I'm assuming improv to these two women is, well, I can't do this all on my own. Really? Is that what he said? Did you notice that? I didn't notice that. He couldn't. And there was three of them, too. He could have called somebody.

No, but I mean, he says the fucking theme song. Yeah, no, I get what he says. But it's appropriate because he's saying, I can't do the three of you ladies. This old man can't do the three of you ladies on his own. Oh, I didn't even think of that. I just thought of it as like, I don't know if bill or someone said you know add this line or what but it's of all things that he's flirting with he's using the pickup line i can't do this all on my own because he knows where it's going well that was very funny and

i love the running gag of plomox being like the pharmaceutical the evil pharmaceutical company that's just sending as they do sending doctors on trips to the Caribbean. I laughed at Elliot being scared of tiny hands. That made me laugh. That was very funny, that shot of her looking down at the tiny hand. That made me laugh really hard. What about Deontay with his dreads? I didn't see Deontay.

Is that who? Oh, yeah. Deontay, Donald Stand stand-in slash our friend, always makes cameos here and there. And he was an orderly with newly discovered beautiful dreads. Oh, good for him. What about the flashback? One of the funniest LOLs in the episode is-

Oh, you getting mono? Me getting mono? Yeah. It was so well done. It looks like Super 8 film. And it's like you're panning around the room you're panning around the room and everyone's making out everyone's making out and then you get to the couch and i'm sitting there with the most glorious mullet and this girl turns from her man that she's make boy that she's making out with and just sneezes in my face and

then comes goes back to making out yeah and someone's like mono i thought the only way to get that was from kissing and they showed the fantasy and they cut back and i go no there there are other ways this will pay dividends when jd has a child with uh elizabeth banks in the future. This joke comes back around. I want to talk about something else. You mean because of there was, what was it like? There was fire, friendly, well, no, there was.

Let's just say there was, I don't remember. It'll come back. There was fire in the outer. In the general area. Outer regions or something. Yeah. That speech is fucking hilarious i can't remember i remember laughing so hard trying to why trying to deliver the line i remember that

i think i'm saying it to you and judy right and you're cracking that's all three of us it's all three of us you guys are like and you guys like yeah yeah yeah oh you did you said you didn't do the such and such and you're like are you telling me me that you got her pregnant and you never had intercourse? Yeah, something like that. This is something I want to talk about. This joke didn't make sense, and this is the first time it's ever happened.

Elliot asks Laverne, what are you doing this weekend? And Laverne says, minding my own business. How about you? Shene says, minding my own business, how about you? She wasn't really minding her business if she asks, what if Elliot's doing? What's Elliot doing? I think she might be

overthinking it. I think she's just being classic Laverne sassy. Why did she... Okay. I'm just saying. Minding my own business? If you minding your own business, you know what you do after that? You keep it moving. Real talk. Laverne is mean sometimes.

Elliot was just being friendly. But so was she. It was clear that Laverne, that's just her thing and that's how she is with her friends. Unless I'm going to see my nephew play Pippin. Who's he playing? Pippin. But I'm not even doing it right because you gotta have the face of like how dare you even ask you

think my nephew is in the ensemble right he's pippin motherfucker he's pippin that was my one of my favorite uh Aloma reads that she just goes Pippin Our first beard for say Oh this is the big one This is the inaugural It's beard for say We hadn't said beard face yet either though

I know is this his first line beard for say This is his first line This is the first time we ever addressed it. There's a character named Beardface. Yes. And then he says, no, it's pronounced Beard Fosse. And then for the rest of the show, we call him Beardface. It's the stupidest slash funniest joke.

Now, I think we've settled in that Beard Fosse may be... I've had some feedback from people on my Instagram account because I've been really troubled by the fact that Beard Fosse is so often in the pharmacy. And someone commented that an anesthesiologist might often be in the pharmacy, but also in and around all of the other many rooms of the hospital. So, and then when I saw Beard Fosse your room i thought oh maybe he's an anesthesiologist okay well i want to say this then if we're going to talk about beard for say go we once had a trivia conversation or not a trivia but we were wondering what beard for say was in and i thought

it was a james bond movie no i know what it I know what it is. And it turned out to be a Fincher movie. A girl with a dragon tattoo. That still starred the star of James Bond. Oh, you're bringing it around in the initial conversation? Absolutely.

It all comes back to Daniel Craig. It all comes back to Daniel Craig. I wonder if Beard Fosse got to hang out out with Daniel Craig or if he was just like too shy to approach him on the – I remember exactly where it was too. It's on a plane. I don't think Beard Fassé is that shy in real life. No, I remember he was a gregarious fellow. I remember he was a very good artist. He was a cartoonist.

Okay. He would draw. I believe he had this thing, I think, where he would draw cats in cartoons, and he would call it cat-toons instead of cartoons. Oh, wow. You're too careful. And they were good, too. He was a good artist. He is a good artist.

I still every now and then talk to Mick Head, Frank. You should ask him about Beardfusse. He talks about Beardfusse. Beardfusse has all of, like, he listens to the show. And it would be a great, I think it would be a great pleasure to have him, Frank. Yes. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg, Manly. i think we should have them on the show

can you organize that please we've been talking about that could be not an episode will be a conversation with background performers who became foreground performers on the show scrubs and we'll get like the the three or four that the core dion Deontay Deontay, um, manly who was a Snoop dog, um, beer for say his name. I forgot. I'm so sorry.

Um, and we should try to get, we should try to get, we should try to get, I'll, I'll talk to Frank, but we should really try to talk to, uh,

Katya, Renee, Rabidu and Deontay also, because they lived the exact same lives that we did, but it never got filmed. They did the exact same things. Just to remind everyone, those were the stand-ins that the four of us had, and we spent a lot of time with them. They would have to do all of the walk and talks and everything that we did, but it never got put onto film in any way. And they were an awesome group

because we spent all the time with them and we had so many fucking great laughs with those people. Yes. I think that would be really awesome. All right, well, that's another show. Yeah. We could do an episode that's like a conversation with our stand-ins

and we can bring in, like you said, Rene, Katya, Scott Rabidu um and if they and if they turn out to be and if they turn out to be duds then we'd never hear them it's that simple it's that simple they won't be duds they're funny i remember laughing our asses off with those guys yeah i always laugh with dionte i i laugh a lot with frank too how about how jd comes into the um icu with an ice cream cone um i mean like like what how JD comes into the ICU with an ice cream cone I mean like what doctor is coming into the ICU with an ice cream cone

and then when someone's like oh give me I think it's Judy she's like oh you brought that for the little boy and I'm like yeah sure and I give it to him and I go it's a waffle cone like so forlorn so forlorn that I've given away my fucking waffle cone to a child.

And what's really crazy is that you're not, J.D.'s not sympathetic about it either. After he watched the kid come in with his dad who's sick. The kid probably gave me the idea that I wanted an ice cream cone. That you wanted the ice cream. And then I come into the room all cocky. Like, I got my ice cream cone. And Judy's like, Carla's like, oh, that's so sweet. You got him an ice cream cone.

I'm like, yeah. It's a waffle cone. Like, it's almost to say, like, I spent extra money. I spent a little extra money for that waffle cone. That was plus 50 cents for that waffle cone. Oh, boy. All right. What else we got?

We got stealing the old woman's dentures and wearing them around my neck. That's gross, dude. So gross. That's gross, dude. Now, this weird gum thing. I gave you her gum. I read on Scrubs Wiki that there's, I guess there's a deleted scene where we, the gum has a totally different storyline.

Like I thought it was something else and it turns out to be bad tasting gum. And then, I don't know, we changed what the gum was about in post-production, I think. Oh, well, that was very interesting. Because you notice that the gum has Asian writing on it. Yeah, I did see that. Apparently there's a deleted scene on one of the DVDs, well that was you notice that the gum has asian writing on it yeah i did see that apparently

there's a deleted scene on one of the dvds which we should we should get into those too how funny would it be to look at that shit with joelle joelle we should have an episode called zach and donald look at deleted scenes okay i love it i have here we go hold on let me just tell you what this says here um the denture gum that j tries to tempt Turk with has Chinese writing on it. This is explained in a deleted scene available on the DVD, which shows that it was originally intended to be what JD thought was eggnog gum. Remember, it's Christmas.

And he bought it in Chinatown only to realize that it was in fact egg gum. That's hilarious. I wonder why it didn't fly. i don't know but um i want to say i want to ask this question to the three of you go ahead because we never meet this character but this character is always talked about kelso's son yeah he's he's definitely definitely He's definitely an out gay man Who could have played Kelso's son If you had to choose

Andrew Reynolds Who's Andrew Reynolds Oh Andrew Reynolds you know Andrew Reynolds Um Am I saying his name right He was the star of Book of Mormon Which broke him. Oh.

He's in the prom recently. I know who you're talking about now. I don't know. Do you want me to show you his picture? I know who you're talking about. I don't know his name, though. Let me show you his picture. He's very talented.

He was on Girls. He was in Girls. Yes, he was on Girls. This guy. Yeah, I know exactly. name is andrew reynolds yeah oh rannells andrew rannells rannells yeah sorry sorry i'm sorry i heard i first saw him in book of mormon on broadway with dad you took me to see that show i did yeah you took me the funniest shit i've ever seen in my life and then i this this guy and, Andrew Reynolds, who I know a little bit and is a sweetheart has the sickest voice and is so

talented. And you know, I, I just, I just think he's so talented. That was the first person that came to mind. We flew to New York because you were like, we got to see, you were there already and you, you were like fly to New York. I got tickets for this play. I flew to New York with Casey. This is back when we were making money. I flew to New York with Casey to watch Book of Mormon with you. And we had a night out on the town after and everything like that. And it was, I think it was like theater appreciation week and

everybody was trying to raise money. And so at the end of the show, after the bow, Josh Gad, this was my first time being like- No, no no let me stop you not let me stop you not theater bridge they do this um campaign for for aids uh um okay thank you they fundraise money for aids and uh it's a certain time every year the theater community after the bow all the shows compete who can raise the most money for this aids charity and they and they they stop after the bow and say okay we're to come around with buckets. This is for a great cause. We want to win.

That's not right. Sorry. This is my first, this is my first, uh, experience of how cool of a person Josh Gad was in front of the whole theater. He campaigns for the money and he did it in such a great way. After this really freaking funny show,

he did it in such a great way after this really freaking funny show he did it in such a great way that i wanted to give money uh to uh the cause and so when he did wish i was here all like my first time meeting josh that was the one thing i could think about was wow this dude knows how to command a room. I just remember going to see that play with you because you were like, you have to see this play. It's so good. It was life-changing, man. It was one of those things where I was like, Broadway can do that?

I didn't know that Broadway could be that because they do some outrageous stuff. Have you guys seen the Book of Mormon, Daniel? Yes. Joelle? Yeah. Did you see it with Josh Gad and Andrew? No. No. Unfortunately not. I laughed my ass off on that show. seen the book of mormon daniel yes joelle yeah did you see it with josh gad and andrew no unfortunately not i laughed my ass off on that show dude let me tell you something it's rare that you do this there's i can name the shows where i went out and bought the soundtrack right after five guys named moe the book of mormon and that's it those are really the only ones that i've ever done it with five guys named mo and the

book of mourning and oh and serafina when i saw serafina i went and bought serafina and so those are the three can you remember yours or did you buy all of them oh and i bought the moulin rouge right after we saw the Moulin Rouge. When we went and saw the Moulin Rouge, I went and bought that new one too. That shit is fire, dude. That shit is fire. Listen, for all y'all who... You're talking about the theater soundtrack?

Yeah, when me and you went and saw... This wasn't too long ago. Yeah, it was slow. I went and bought that the next day. I bought it because of my favorite number. There's two numbers in it that I love. One, freaking chandelier. And two, royals.

The two best performances in the show, my opinion. Yeah. That was a great show. I think that might survive COVID. A lot of people from that show got COVID. Did they? Yes. A lot of people from that show got COVID Did they? Yes Well I'm really

Hoping that When Broadway comes back I'm hoping that Some of those big shows are able to survive A handful of them just had to close And I'm hoping that Some of those ones like that one Are able to survive

It would be great if Broadway can come back stronger. Yes, we all miss it. Those of us who love it miss it, and maybe we'll need to support it more than ever. If you're a theater lover, in order to help resuscitate this precious industry, we're all going to have to go see lots of plays, which I will do.

I wanted to say I got full body goosebumps at the it's embarrassing that i gave myself goosebumps but i did um when my character right before the commercial break goes why are you sick there was just something about it that was um goose bumpy that's good the mystery of the mystery of these people who have such good intentions, who are just sitting there trying to solve the mystery, like all of these amazing real-life heroes do every day. And I just, I don't know. I found it.

I found I was moved by myself. I have a question. Go. Did you remember this episode? Anything in this episode at all? Did you remember anything in this episode at all did you remember anything in this episode at all not much no I didn't remember one ounce of this episode not an ounce of

not even a smidgen of it and that's why I think and that's why I think like I thought we didn't do any more themed episodes like Christmas or the Thanksgiving or those type of episodes anymore after the third season. Yeah, I don't really remember. I think I remember the weird lady with her with her dentures of standing me through the Venetian blinds. I didn't remember any of it.

I think that's why I was so moved at the end, because it caught me off guard. Let's talk about how fucking funny it is when Sarah slams the door on the crying med student. I laughed out loud. Me too. I laughed out loud. She's giving the little kid a tour, and she's like, I used to hide in here. And she opens it up to reveal the brand new med student crying

because he's watched the death or something. She's like, hang in there. Hang in there. And then she slams the door closed she's like suck it up i'm trying um and then um that funny sequence where cox's favorite memory is the double heimlich yeah that's that like i said the todd and cox have the two best the double heimlich is pretty awesome. Because he's missing the jump shot. Yeah. You know who the first Heimlich

was? Jared. One of our PA's, office PA's I believe was his job at first. He probably got promoted. I think he's an executive now or he produces shows. I'm sure he does. But back in the day he started as an office PA and then worked his way up.

But that's the guy Cox's first Heimlich King. Then the gum goes into the gum. Yeah, it was gum. Goes into jumps from his mouth to another random woman's mouth. Then he runs over and gives her the Heimlich maneuver. And then that goes into the garbage. Swish into the basket over the garbage can, which he's missing when he's shooting it with his hands. He's missing with the paper, but he does it with the Heimlich maneuver and the gum.

How about when fucking Sarah is talking to you in French and you go, and you're French, I have an Eiffel Tower in my pants. And then she goes, she says something else and you just go, pomplamoose. Pomplamoose. Grapefruit. Yeah. Grapefruit. That's all you know is, that's all you know is, I have an Eiffel Tower in my pants

and grapefruit that was very funny and then Kelso with a heart Kelso has a heart that was one of the first times Kelso has a heart not only that

it was so offsetting that even Kelso has to comment. You know, the person that he's talking to is like, is this really Dr. Kelso? He goes, yes, it's really Dr. Kelso. Yeah. That little kid warms his heart and he decides to let his father stay in the hospital even though he doesn't have insurance. Well, his kid reminds him how much he loves his son too. You know, he loves his gay son.

Yeah. As much as he makes fun of his son. son yeah as much as he makes fun of his son yeah as much as he makes fun of him the little boy reminds him of the goodness look at that face of my little puppy he's so cute all right we're gonna go to break and then we're gonna have a guest we'll be right back bring a little optimism into your life with the bright side a new kind of daily podcast from hello sunshine hosted byed by me, Danielle Robay. And me, Simone Boyce. Every weekday, we're bringing you conversations about culture,

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I'm excited. With you at Fake Doctors, real friends. Let's welcome Natalia Ortiz. Magdaglia. Did I say it wrong? That's definitely not her name. Sorry. Magdaglia, Magdaglia, Medaglia, Medaglia. Let's welcome Natalia Ortiz Medaglia.

Ortiz Medaglia. Ortiz, Ortiz. What is it? Ortiz. Natalia. Natalia. Ortiz Medaglia. All right.

How are you, Natalia? Welcome to the program. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Joelle, for Welcome to the program. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Joelle, for picking me this week. Thank you. You made it. You made it. You made it.

By the way, Joelle, has there been any incoming mail so far to the DateJoelleMonique Gmail? Yeah, there's a couple of letters in there. I haven't opened them yet, so I don't know. The contact. You're eyeing them, Joelle. You're just eyeing them right now. Well, listen, I want to remind everyone on the live show, which is going to happen March 26th. Right, Joelle?

That's the date? Yes. March 26th. And we are going to have a segment called I Want to Date Joelle Monique. And if you'd like to apply to be one of Joelle's suitors, you send an email to datejoellemonique at gmail.com. That is correct. And her name is spelled J-O-E-L-L-E-M-O-N-I-Q-U-E. So slide into her email and write a very romantic and appropriate message. And maybe you'll be selected to be one of the candidates on Date Joelle Monique.

But enough of that, Zach. Let's get to Natalia. Okay. Natalia, how are you? Welcome. Good, Joelle. I actually might have someone for you. Oh, my goodness.

I'm sorry. I actually might have someone for you. He's my, my goodness. I gotta put his hat in the ring because he's just like the most awesome human being in the world. He loves Star Wars. I love it. I have like movie quote,

like, you know, trivia. How does he feel about jazz cabbage? Does he smoke that shit? He does. Oh, well,

love it. First inhale. We've set the bar so low do you like star wars game over well i'm sorry that that'll get you the first date listen listen listen you gotta have some common there's levels to this there's levels we gotta have common interests the guys gotta love puppies star wars and weed or it's or the guy or gal sorry or there's just a gotta have common interests the guy's gotta love puppies star wars and weed or it's or the guy or gal sorry or there's just a non-starter so we just need to know the basics and natalia you're saying you may have a candidate well let's get him let's get him into the into the website i mean let's get him into the uh email box give him the email address all right all right um natalia do you have a question for us? Go ahead.

I do. I actually have a couple of questions. Well, you get to pick one. You get to pick one question. I'm going to. OK. You don't agree. I'm of the school, just audience, that we should.

The calls are getting. No offense to you, Natalia. This is before we met you. The calls are getting a smidgen long and we should do one question. And Donald might be on the fence and say, no, I prefer the two question thing. Right, Donald? Yeah. Well, we'll let the audience decide.

If the audience says, you know what, guys? You fucked the whole show up. Go back to two questions. We will. But Natalia, you're going to be our pilot program of one question. You're going to get to it. Okay. All right. So I guess I'll go with the most important one. we will but natalia you're going to be our pilot program of one question you're gonna get okay all right so uh i guess i'll go with the most important one so yes i love film since i was eight years old

i've been actually studying it since i was eight so like i studied steven spielberg kubrick and like all these other directors and i just have a question for you zach how did you uh like when you first started directing did you have like insecurities you first started directing, did you have, like, insecurities about it? Like, when you started, you know, when you directed Scrubs, were you like, oh, even though I know these people, I'm a little bit, you know, scared about it? I have insecurities when I direct now, and I've been doing it for a long time. How do you overcome that? For a long time. How do you overcome that?

Well, the way I overcome it is being super prepared, being the most prepared person on the set. I have to know more about the script I'm making than anybody else that's there. And also having the humility to know that you're not always going to know the answer, that you surround yourself with a team of people that are your brain trust, that you can rely on. I can't do this all on my own, right? So it's about bringing on a cinematographer who knows way more about photography than you do, and bringing on an actor or an actress who knows way more about acting than you do, surrounding yourself with amazing people. And they're your support system. You're like, I can't, you know, not every shot will be amazing, but I can't fail with this cinematographer. Look at his or her work. It's amazing. This actress, oh my gosh, she's incredible. If she's saying these words,

so what you do is you get the best team together that you possibly can. And this could go for a big ass movie or a little short that you're going to make with your friends as you build your reel and your resume. It's about bringing on a group of people that will support you in a positive way. And this goes for obviously any endeavor people take on, it doesn't have to do with just filmmaking, but if you're going to be the leader, I would say, um, getting to know the material as, as, as, as well as you possibly can. And then, and then having the humility to, when a question comes up, turning to your team and going, I don't know, does anyone else have ideas? And let's all brainstorm together. You know what I mean?

Yeah, no, I got it. Yeah. But insecurity doesn't go away. You know, I'm telling you, like, you're always going to, I said the other day, and it's true. I get nervous when I'm dialing in to do this podcast. I, cause I want to do a good job. I want the show to be fun. I want everyone to enjoy it.. I want the show to be fun. I want everyone to enjoy it who's listening all around the world. But then you sort of channel it.

You just step up and do it. I'm willing to bet that LeBron James, before he plays basketball, still gets nervous. Yeah. I'm willing to bet anybody. I'm willing to bet any surgeon willing to bet anybody i'm willing to bet any surgeon before they going to surgery go into surgery even though they've done it several times still gets a bit nervous you know i think that's i think that's a part of you know uh who we are as humans i think that's you know the fear of failure or the fear of success can be debilitating

sometimes and the fear of the unknown you know yeah the fear of the unknown can be debilitating sometimes and it's up to you natalia to say yo you know what i'm to step up and I'm going to conquer this. Whether I fail or succeed, I'm still going to give my best. Zach's way of doing it is perfect. I'm going to prepare. I'm going to prepare as much as I possibly can. Not only am I going to prepare, when I get there, I'm going to be willing to accept more information so that I can get the best from everybody. That's a big thing to do. A lot of people can't do that. A lot of people feel like because I'm the director, I'm the boss,

and therefore it's my way or the highway. Yeah. It never works. Yeah, I don't find that's a very effective way to inspire people. You know, as a director, I think one of the main jobs you have is inspiring people to do their best work. You know, you don't want a set of people phoning it in like, oh, I got to fucking work on Natalia's movie this weekend. You want a group of people that are like, oh, shit, did you read Natalia's script? It's really good.

Yeah. Oh, where are we shooting? We're going to shoot on that bridge. Oh, that's going to be so fucking cool. You want to surround yourself with people that are as stoked as you are. Now, when you're starting out and you're working on smaller projects, that will be your friends and your classmates and whoever else is in there. And as you get into the professional world, you don't want to just hire anybody. You want to hire people that really believe in your project and are stoked about it. It doesn't feel like just a check to them. Of course the check's important, but they're passionate about it and they, and they want to, and they want to do their best. They're inspired to do their best. And one of the main jobs of a filmmaker is to

inspire everybody is to get everyone riled up and, and be a, be a, be a cheerleader. up and and be a be a be a cheerleader right I mean I yeah I I get what you mean I actually I work as like a freelance assistant director and also like a COVID compliance officer and I've seen so many times like the director kind of like yell at the AD or yell at me you know and it's just like you know I take it as like okay he's he's, he's stressed out. So I like, I already know my job is to like kind of cool him down. But I mean, I don't want to say it's unpleasant to work there because like, I understand that like the amount of work that carries on to them, you know? But it's also like, sometimes it's like, Oh my God,

I have to go into this disguise. Well, one of the best, you know, yelling go into this disguise well one of the best you know yelling fit natalia one of the best things one of the best things i can say that you're already doing that i recommend anyone that wants to be a filmmaker is as soon and as early as you can work on sets in whatever capacity you know you're working as a covid compliance person i i've told everyone on the here before i was a pa on music videos and commercials and the best education you know four years at Northwestern Film School didn't teach me anything compared to what I learned peeing on on music videos at the end of the 90s in Manhattan for like 24 hour shifts. That's the education.

I think Natalia, since you're an aspiring filmmaker, one of the things that's going to happen is when you're on these sets, as it happened with Donald and I on Scrubs, I would go, oh, I don't really like the way that person's talking to the crew. I'm not going to be like that. I don't really like the way that that producer is dealing with everyone. When it's my set, that shit's not going to happen. So you're digesting all of this stuff. And on Scrubs, it was amazing. We had a different director every week so i would be like oh i love this director i learned so much from oh this director i don't like the way he talks to the actors i don't like the way he talks to the dp i'm gonna i'm not gonna be like that so it was all learning all learning

learning learning and digesting right right yeah definitely that actually that helps a lot um thank you so look at it even you're welcome. And even when you have a shitty day and someone's being a jerk, just kind of, I mean, obviously if it's crosses the line, you fucking report them to HR. But as long as it's like just somebody being a jerk on set in a normal way, people are jerks at any job, you know, just, just look at it. Like I'm learning, I'm digesting.

That's not the way I'm going to do it when I'm running my own sets. You know, just look at everything as a learning experience. Well, I graduated last year in May. Like I had a COVID graduation and like, you know, even before like, like working on my little student films, I saw the way that people were, you know, the way the personalities and the way that they were. And like, I'm like, okay, I have to kind of learn, like, kind of learn how to deal with these personalities. You know, that's how I kind of work with it. And I mean, and in my head, I'm like, oh, my God, if I was on if I was like the director, and I keep this, I would have been like, no, no, don't do this. No, I had, I had someone who was, who was, you know, booming, and like,

they were talking in the middle of shooting. And I was just like, I had to take them to the side and be like, I was like, Look, I know you don't want to be here. But you know, this is our assignment. And, you know, we kind of have to, you know, just trying to be neutral, you know, not be bossy, because it's hard but but it's hard because like there's a there's like a line between being bossy and being like say it you know being afraid to say being what being nice there's like a line between my hands you have to be a leader you have to you have to be a leader at the end of the day, a leader isn't always a nice person, though, too. You must remember that.

A leader is somebody who can motivate people to do what is necessary to fulfill a task. That's a leader, right? So you don't necessarily have to be all freaking happy-go-lucky to get the task done. It's preferred that it's that way. But if somebody's having a problem getting the, understanding the message that you are sending and is not getting the job done, if all is exhausted, then sometimes you have to be a little bit aggressive with how you explain things that doesn't mean put your hands on them obviously but it definitely means raising your voice and it definitely means being a little bit of an authoritarian on that part to that yeah think of

it like a think of it sometimes um sometimes the job is being a coach in a sense that think of the coach giving the impassioned stern fucking fucking pep talk at halftime. That's what you call it, right? Halftime? Yeah, you got it. You got it. The halftime speech. You got it.

Yeah. So there's times where you as a filmmaker, Natalia, will need to give people that impassioned, you know, pep talk. Bring a little optimism into your life with The Bright Side, a new kind of daily podcast from Hello Sunshine. Hosted by me, Danielle Robay. And me, Simone Boyce. Every weekday, we're bringing you conversations about culture,

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it like i could lift look at joelle's face i went to film school too so i know i have a ton of women who are especially you know you're very petite and like petite women are often like you're like they go to lift something like oh don't don't i got it no mother effort get off of my stuff do my job like order it's what i'm doing holy shit joelle you telling me it took a woman's right situation for you to freaking say mother effort instead of saying motherfucker. Are you kidding me right now? All of a sudden you're going to get PC when now is the time to be as passionate as a motherfucker. You went effer.

To Natalia's point, you're trying not to swear at these people because they're your colleagues, right? And Natalia, the best advice I got from a woman on set was like, remember their names and just do your job. Eventually, you'll be in a hiring position, right? If you're going to be the director, you're going to be approving your crews. You're going to be hiring people. Just remember their names. Just go about your business. There's nothing you can do about it.

If they don't do what you tell them to be like, all right, well, I'm find someone else to do it. We have to keep moving. You know, you can't you can't force someone to do the work work but you can absolutely not hire them when it's time to do that by the way i love it when i see female grips and electrics that's they're so the most badass crew members ever when they're all geared up with their tools and their belts they look like badasses yeah that that and camera operators too yeah fire i love i love i love it i love it yeah i'm working on a show right now that has hired so many women and it's very diverse and i'm really happy to be a part of it that's so cool and and and and so to to see that is so freaking awesome because all we're doing is telling stories and anybody can tell a story.

Am I wrong? Where's the lie? Where's the lie? You're not wrong. All right. But in terms of all our other genius advice, you're welcome. You're so welcome. You're welcome.

You're welcome. And we wish you luck. And please hire us all one day. By the way, this fan drew a fan art picture of us that Donald and I both put on our stories. And it was a really good drawing, really talented artist. But then I zoomed in on Donald's groin. And I don't know if it's a crinkle in the art. It's accurate.

In the scrubs. It's accurate. But it just shows that the artist chose to give Donald quite a bulge and did not give any of that attention to my scrubs. Wasn't there a story about some type of CGI around the growing area of a young Donald Faison from what I heard from Randall? Randall didn't bring that up. Randall didn't bring that up.

Randall didn't bring that up. Randall brought that up. I just want to say that this artist, if you zoom in like I did on Donald's area, really probably did you – what's the opposite of did you dirty? Did me justice. Did you justice. Oh, no. But he or she did me dirty.

No wrinkle. I. No wrinkle. I got no wrinkle. Anyway, anyway. What movie is this? No dogs. No chopper. Oh, this is the best movie ever. Down and Out Beverly Hills.

That's the late, great, the late, great Little Richard. Little Richard plays their neighbor in this Beverly Hills neighborhood, and he feels like he's getting treated like shit because he's black. No choppers. No dogs. The white family calls the police, and there's dogs and choppers and a SWAT team. And Little Richard comes out.

He goes, I had a burglar in my house. There were no dogs. No choppers and like a SWAT team. And little Richard comes out and he goes, I had a burglar in my house. There were no dogs. No choppers. Joelle, you seen that movie? I have not seen that movie. You've never seen Down and Down Beverly Hills, Joelle? No. I've seen the slums of Beverly Hills.

No, you guys got to watch Down and Down Beverly Hills. And I remember the dad's, Richard Dreyfuss is the father and he's amazing. And he's made his money off hangers. And he has this monologue where he screams at his son because his son's being ungrateful. He's like, it's hangers that clothe you. It's hangers that feed you. It's an amazing movie.

I highly recommend it. I laughed a lot at that movie and Little Richard's it's Bette Midler too right Bette Midler yeah Bette Midler and Nick Nolte Nick Nolte Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss Little Richard Little Richard and the dog and the dog and the little dog no chopper no choppers

alright you can stay on Natalia because I think we did it. We did the show. We did it. We totally did it. Don't forget to email Joelle if you want to be a contestant on Date Joelle. And don't forget to buy a ticket to the live show, which is March 26th.

Where do they go, Joelle, to buy a ticket? Oh, boy. Why won't I remember this? Because it's such a difficult way to say it. We've got to make it simpler. Onlocationlive..com it's too much can it be like fake doctors live show is there a way we can make it so that they just type fake doctors live show and that's how to get there i'm sure if you google that it will pop up but

the address is on location live.com slash product slash fake doctors real friends that's a lot okay listen it is but i put it in the show notes every week. It is what it is. Every episode. Well, can't you do like a link tree thing? You can do like a bit.ly or something. Okay, listen. I will put a link tree on my Instagram so that you guys can find it. We'll put links on our Instagram.

Joelle, send us links to put in our Instagram headers. Okay. Alright, everybody. We love you. Thanks, Natalia. Thanks for coming on and we'll see you all next time. 5, 6, 7, 8 Stories about a show we made about a bunch of docs and nurses

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