Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - 902: Our Drunk Friend

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

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Is that grease or is that your sweat? I'm not greased up. Don't act like I put oil on. It looks like you're greasy, man. That's just a shimmer of sunlight coming off my shoulder muscles. You're greased up shoulders. I didn't put grease on.

I didn't want you to stop saying that I put grease on. Grease is the word, baby. Don't be mad. I don't want you to think that right before the podcast, I apply oil to my body. Well, I mean, they can see us now, so. Well, they can see us. Eventually, they're gonna be able to see all of it. Whoa.

I'm so scared. Danel is the only one and Joel with a really great looking camera. My camera has doesn't look good. Look at, look at how good Daniel's camera is. This is what I'm telling you. They're like, like we're trying to make this show highly produced and you and I still have the old fucking camera from the monitor. But Joel's camera is looking great too now. Yeah, Joel's. That's what he said. He said Joel got the good camera, Daniel got the good camera. I saw a new thing you and I might

like. I bought it and I thought we could test it because one thing I don't like about having an external nicer camera is that I'm not looking at you guys. So this is a thing I don't like about having an external nicer camera is that I'm not looking at you guys. So this is a thing I saw online that it's a 4k camera but it sort of drops down like the cord kind of like hangs over the screen a bit. So we're still looking at the people but it's a higher quality camera that comes in the computer. That sounds nice. Yeah, I thought I'd try it out. And that way Donald might be more apt to upgrade as well

because- Well, I am going to the pet store today. What does that mean? Exactly. You gonna upgrade your pets? Yeah, while out, perhaps I could stop by a Best Buy or a- Oh, okay, okay, I see. Something like that.

No, this thing's on the interweb. Donald, I don't think it by a Best Buy or a something like that. This thing's on the interweb, Donald. I don't think it's at Best Buy, but I don't know. I'll try it out and see if it looks as good as Daniel's does. Because as the audience knows, we were given cameras as good as Daniel's, but you started using yours for animation and seem reluctant to reset it up in the podcast setting.

It was a little bit of a tricky setup if you recall how we had to set it up. There was an HDMI cable involved. There was a different type of setting on the camera and you know my mental capacity is just that's bandwidth if I'm correct. I didn't have it at the time and might not have it right now, but eventually, because I know how important this podcast is. Well, we have to be clear with each other. Now that we're gonna be putting these on YouTube,

do we want it to look good or not? Because- I definitely want it to look good. But the thing is- I look at some of these podcasts of people who take it seriously and they're so beautifully shot. Now, granted, most of those people are in studios and they're in person with their guests and ours

is all over Zoom, but still you look at people and they have a nice camera, they have nice lighting, they have a backdrop. I don't know if we're ever going to get to that. I don't know if we're good like that. Okay. I don't know if that's our thing, you know what I mean? I think our thing is this is our thing. I mean, I think this is way more raw-er than- It's not a big difference, Donald. It's just about changing your camera to a camera that looks as good as Danel's.

I don't like Danel's camera, and I don't like Joelle's camera. I'm just gonna be honest with you guys. I like the look, I'm just bullshitin'. I'm just bullshitin'. I'm just bullshitin'. I'm just bullshitin'. I'm just bullshitin'.

I'm just bullshitin'. I'm just bullshitin'. I don'm just full of shit. I'm just full of shit. I'm just full of shit. I'm just full of shit. My god. I don't have the bandwidth for this conversation. It's goofing. How are you? How are you, Jewel? You look very pretty today. Thank you so much, Zach. That's very kind of you.

What are you guys up to? What have you been doing? I've been animating. I don't know about you. What have you been doing? I know you've been animating. You post a lot. You've been posting up a storm I see

on the Instagram. Lots of stories. Trying to get nice with it. But you know what? I have been posting up lots of stories. It's just I got nostalgic all of a sudden. I went through my Instagram for the first time and I saw all of these things. And I was like, how many? In my head, I was like, how many golf? there was a golf phase, obviously. I didn't realize my golf phase was that fucking big. You really went deep on golf. I went deep into golf. And it was so big that after a while I was like,

all right, this might be way too many golf story posts for a day. I didn't know what was happening because you really, you put as many posts up as one possibly could. Yeah, and you know. I thought maybe he's high and nostalgic, was I right? Somebody, absolutely. Somebody asked me, have you been hacked?

Yeah. It's like, no, no, I'm good. I know you well enough to know that you were probably stoned and. Out of my mind, out of my mind. By the way, I ran into Seth Green and Breckenmire, your buddies. Where'd you run into them at?

Asa Nabal. Would you, motherfucker, you went to Asa Nabal? Yeah, Asa Nabal, for those of you who don't live in the Los Angeles area, is a really, really good sushi restaurant. And I went there and I saw them on a double date together. They were there with their wives? Yeah.

And they didn't ask you, they didn't invite you. They know better. They know I don't go out. They know that you don't leave your house to go to restaurants. They know. They were like, he's probably at home animating. But I haven't seen Seth in a while,

so it was nice to see him and say hello. Yeah. How's the house in Nebo? I haven't been there in a while. Have you guys ever go there, to Weller Danel? Never been, but now I'm regretting it. I haven't been there yet. It's in the valley next to CBS Radford

and it's in a strip mall and you wouldn't think that it doesn't from the outside look like it's gonna be an amazing sushi restaurant, but it really is. It's one of my favorites in LA. It was, I used to go there all the time and I would stand and wait because I would never have a reservation. That used to be my jam.

Bill Lawrence introduced it to me actually. He introduced it to all of us actually. Yeah. Early on in Scrubs too, really early on in Scrubs. Yeah, well it was one of Bill's favorites too. Were you going to ask, Daniel? What was your bite of the night? Oh, it's hard to say.

They just do, they do this blackened miso cod. That was the first place I ever had that too, I think. What is that crab roll? What is that crab roll that comes with the tiny little crabs on the plate and you can eat them like fried and you can eat the whole crab itself. Like it's like a little Like a soft crab. No, that shit is not as it's like a little tiny baby crab and they fry that shit. And then you put that shit in your mouth and you're eating a whole crab.

It's delicious. I don't know, but they also do these like lettuce cups of Chilean sea bass. It's really, really good. If you're into, if you're into raw fish or cooked fish. Yeah, they have everything. From what I remember, Asa Nable was amazing. I've been catsuiting a lot. They used to have a Michelin star actually.

Really? I guess Michelin stars come out every year because they have some plaques. They have plaques on the wall from having Michelin stars, but they're not the current year, but they had one. Interesting. I wonder. That must be such a bummer if you get a Michelin star and you're so geeked and then someone takes it away. Like what if we didn't change anything? It's the same restaurant. Yearly. Is it a year? It's a yearly thing.

It's an annual list that Michelin, yes, the tire company, drops of their global favorite restaurants and stars rank from one to three and a joy of living in the LA area is we have so many. It's one of my favorite pastimes. I think I read that the reason, because I was wondering why is the tire company have this mega list of restaurants? And I think it began to inspire people to travel and thus wear out their tires and try new restaurants.

That's brilliant. Yeah. I'm all for a Michelin star restaurant. Hell yeah. Now ones are rare, but like they get more rare as you go up, right? Like a three is super rare. Yes.

Yes. I want to eat at a three. Have you ever eaten at a three? I don't think I have ever eaten at a three. I've never eaten at a three. Maybe I have. What's a three. I've never eaten at a three. Maybe I have. What's that super fancy restaurant in like-

My mouth is watering. Anoma. We're not even talking about the food. I know what you're talking about. What's her name? It's a famous female chef. Joelle, are you looking it up? I'm trying, yeah.

Not Renee Rezepi. No, it's in like the Bay Area. And if you say the name, I'll know it. She's a very famous female chef. I'm going to talk tomorrow for Amanda's birthday. Nice. Oh, that's exciting. Are you surprising Amanda?

Does she know you're going to be there? Amanda knows I'm going to be, it's her birthday show on the talk. They always make a big deal out of that. And I'm going to go talk to Amanda and give her love. And I'm going to plug the French girl. Nice. All right, there's no doubt.

And you're gonna plug fake doctors, real friends. I'm gonna plug fake doctors, real friends. Cause we're rebranding people, we're rebranding. Well, no, it's the same show. We're just gonna run on the scrubs episodes. By the way, speaking of that, I have to say that I'm shocked to say I laughed a lot watching this episode.

Of course you did. Of course you did. This is a funny one. Of course you did. I just wanna, I feel like I should eat crow because I gotta tell the audience I laughed a lot watching this episode. And Joelle wrote in her notes

that Donald was very funny in this episode. I didn't know why she didn't say I was. I'm sorry, Zach, you were also very funny. I highlighted some very funny moments for you as well. Joelle, the note specifically said, I didn't know why she didn't say I was really sorry Zach. You were also very fun Well, the note specifically said and you know Donald doesn't read these I do No, specifically said Donald is very funny in this episode I was it was funny because usually you don't see Donald as like a secondary character It's a room to just constantly popping up and just landing joke after I was like this is so a new space for him and it's very funny.

And I could have watched you just be a teacher in the background for forever, it's hilarious. Thank you, Joelle. I'm gonna say something. I did not think the show was funny at all. Oh, no. Controversy. Oh, wow.

I like the fact that we're in the show and stuff like that, but it just didn't. It was like. It just didn't connect. What the fuck is Kelso doing at the bar? What the like? There's just so many moments. Kelso not at the bar. What?

No, but it just didn't. It didn't make any. I don't know, man. It was an alcoholic and he. Yeah, I know. You I'm sure you can piece it together logically and stuff like that. It just seemed like everything was really convenient in this episode.

And I've seen this episode before with, you know, Sandy Chapman doing this character. It just seemed like the same shit over again. And it's not like we got new people watching Scrubs. So when Rewa, I've seen this episode maybe four times now in the whole entirety. And so in that, in saying that, no disrespect to anybody in it and everybody,

it just seemed like the same show. All right, well, much like the people that Joelle has debate at the end of the show, whether it's season nine, it's good or not, we will get into it. Five, six, seven, eight. Eight stories about a show we made About a bunch of docs and nurses

And a Canada who loved making acid Here's the stories that people should know So gather round to hear our Gather round to hear our Spurs Rewatch show with Zach and Donno. One thing I noticed is that the show, this is for you film geeks out there, the show is moved to video and to compensate,

they've added this grain effect to make it look like film, but it's way too much. And for those of you who notice that kind of thing, this was in the early stages of HD video, and they've really added a fake grain effect to the whole show to make it seem like it's 16 millimeter film. Anyway, I noticed that for the first time today. This is season nine, episode two.

Directed by Mike McDonald, who I love. Directed by Mike McDonald, who's a very funny man. So Drew is forced to wear a number one at all times on his chest because Dr. Cox is obsessed with embarrassing him, but also he's decided to go all in on Drew being his favorite intern. Did it feel weird that Dr. Cox still called JD Newby in the beginning?

No, I think that's a brand forever. He's been branded that way forever. Okay. You didn't laugh when I say you're dangerous, aren't you? I bet you listened to rap music. I didn't. Well, you did because you wrote it in your notes. I liked it.

I did. Yeah, Drew is dangerous. He listens to rap music. And I noticed that this college is called Winston University after Randall Winston. Did you notice that? I was wondering what kind of college is this and how and if there is a like, this is the thing. Scrubs went from totally believable to this ultimate fantasy world, it seems like, out of nowhere, and then all of a sudden, we're thrown into it. There is no college like this in the history of colleges

where you freaking are in the classroom, in the quad, and then you're in the hospital, a working hospital. There's all on the same campus. I don't know that that's accurate, Donald. I do think that there are university hospitals. Not like this, not like this. Rush Medical is like this. I will say it all looks like it's happening,

if not in the same building, very close. And I do think medical campuses tend to be more spread out. Well, let's just use UCLA as our closest example. The UCLA hospital is within a hundred yards of dorms and quads and classrooms. It feels like a fantasy world. It doesn't feel like medical school. It feels like even inside the OR,

like scrubs had this feeling of realistic and everything like that. This feels glossed. This feels- No, I agree. I mean, you're definitely switching from, I think you're right. And it's a lesson in sets versus the real locations.

I mean, we were shooting in a real rundown hospital and now these are glossy sets and it feels modern and new. It doesn't even feel like an old university. It feels like a brand new university. Cole pushes a guy's, a patient's leg aside to sit on the bed and hit on Joe. Cause Cole has moved on from Lucy and now he wants to get some of Denise.

Yeah, but Cole is sexually harassing. Yeah, he absolutely is. On a level that is like. This dude could go to jail. Can he go to? Can you go to? Can you get locked up for talking to people? Or you can certainly be fired from or let go from this program for

sexually harassing all these women like this is like next level harassing. It's a picture alone last episode. That could have been a legal situation, for sure. And while he says to Denise, the only way to get rid of old King Cole is to sleep with him until he gets bored with you. What a douche, yo. Even Joelle is sitting there like,

Joelle is sitting there like, I fucking wanna kill him. I hate Cole, which is a shame, because I love Dave Franco. I'm like, Dave Franco is so adorable. Dave Franco is such a good actor that you really believe that he's this horrible person. Yeah, he really does crush on the show, man. He does a good job, man.

And he's so handsome, for God's sakes. He's a handsome man. Definitely. He really plays a jerk so well. He's like an old school 80s movie villain. Mm hmm. Who would that be like back in the day? What's the dude's name from that played Ultron?

Spader Spade. I was thinking of like in high school movies, like, you know, like, yeah, so I'm talking about James Spader. Yeah, Spader, that's him. He was the ultimate dick in those movies back in the day. I look in and I see Turk teaching a class and JD says, in this light, you look like Denzel in the- The Great Debaters.

I don't even know what the Great Debaters reference is. It's a movie with, I believe Kiki Palmer's in it actually. Indicius. Yeah, it's a Denzel movie where he's a teacher and he's teaching these kids how to debate. And I think it might even be based on- Real events, yes it is. Real events, yeah.

This is classic black cinema. Every black person saw this movie when it came out. This came out after Remember the Titans too. This is when he was in on his, I'm gonna make history movies pretty much. He was doing his thing. And it was all, and he was going through it finding young talent.

I remember Denzel's tour of, let's make historical movies and bring out, like there was the one where he was the boxer and he goes to jail and the young man is the one that fights to get him out. And then there's the one Antoine Fisher story. There's this one the great debaters. I remember the Titans I remember this moment in time where Denzel was doing this is a nice 10-year span and I never saw the movie. Does it does it hold up? Is it a good movie?

And kiki's fire at it too man, he's got Journey Smollett, isn't it? Who's also fabulous. Glenn Powell randomly has a role in here really early for him. I'm going to put that on my list. The great debater. I didn't know. I usually know a Denzel reference. I didn't know this one. Let's take a break. We'll be right back after these fine words. the light and you're going to shine it all over the world and it makes me really happy. I never imagined that I would get the chance to carry this honor and help be a part of this legacy.

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Listen to Queer Chronicles on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your most fabulous shows. Joe's losing wood in the closet. Yeah, I mean, and Denise says that she's losing wood because Drew isn't hooking up with her fast enough. That's not a term I've ever heard a woman say. Never heard a woman say this either. Can a woman gain wood? Like this is a question.

Can the clitoris, doesn't that get hard when horny and. Yeah, I think she was saying it more closely. She was saying that Clitoris was dropping. She was to say Joe doesn't have a big clitoris. She's probably just talking about her libido. I don't want to talk about it. You don't think she was talking about the clitoris. I don't. It's going.

Oh, she was talking about her libido. She was like, oh, my clitoris. I don't. It's going, hey! She was talking about her libido. She was like, oh, my clitoris is going down. I think she meant that her libido was dropping. Donald, I came out with you, oh my God. Why can't that be what it is? How come that can't be what it is? So Amir freaks out during Donald's class

and grabs a kidney and runs out. And that's not even a fantasy, I don't think. No, that really happens, I guess. And Turk says you can't be running out of here with? With kidneys. Kidneys. So the class hates that Cox has a favorite student that is Drew and wow, Cox's teaching is pretty wild.

He's again, talking about sexual harassment, he's really, really burning this Nikki Whelan who plays the very attractive Australian student. He's really, really crushing her in the class, saying that he lists the things that he hates about her. That shit was wild. He's a little out, like, he made, he called Elliot Barbie a lot. Well, he called JD girls names too. He called, you know. He's a little out. He called Elliot Barbie a lot.

Well, he called JD Girls' names too. He did. He did. He did. But being like, you're too attractive to ever be taken seriously as a doctor. What is she supposed to do about that? That's just her face. I know.

It definitely felt like something that would not be on television today, him saying the things he says to her. Yeah, this is not that long ago too. That's the crazy thing. It's like this is. Yeah, but we've had a very big evolution since. It was a big, it was a big. What year is this, Joelle? I don't have it in front of me. Are we 2010 now? Yeah. So we've had a big evolution in 12, sorry, 14 years.

14 years. It feels like it's been 12 years, doesn't it? When somebody says 20 years ago, don't you automatically go 1980? Yeah, it's crazy. Yes. 20 years ago is 2004? That's insane. Yeah.

Oh my God. That's very insane. Yeah. Getting old, Donald. Yeah, man. Teacher Tainment made me laugh. I'm stuck up here. Listen, I did laugh at that. Listen, this whole sequence where JD's trying to teach

from the tree and he calls it teacher tainment. And he says, tell Turk I'm stuck in the tree again. But this time there appear to be many bees. Yes. Until the hospital campus security shows up. And then I'm like, what fucking show is this? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we watching?

They're trying to replace the janitor, obviously. With a freaking dark, a tranquilized dart shooting security guard. Yeah, I didn't get this. And a golf cart. With a gun named Megan Fox? Come on. Come on.

With a gun named Megan Fox, and he says that he cuts the, the trunk with diet soda, so it's not too strong. Ridiculous. Barry. What the fuck happened, dude? Like, come on, yo, in the words, in the words of Chris Rock and Beverly Hills Cop 2, what the fuck is this?

I think it's a broad. It's a broader, cleaner, digital with added grain version. And this is meant to be the janitor's replacement character characters, characters. And they're definitely they have a train gun. I mean, they're going to shoot JD out of the tree. And we've never we haven't been introduced to these characters before. They just automatically show up

Yeah. in the second episode of season nine. I think it was a bit of a hat on a hat, if you will. The one guy would have been plenty. Wendell Middlebrooks plays the security guard. He has passed away. He was a very funny man. I think he was doing a huge campaign at the time, right?

Donald was- Yeah, Miller Highlife. I'm sorry, Miller Highlife. That's how we probably found him. No, I think that came out after he was on Scrubs. It was going at the same time. I remember we aired and that aired at the same time, right around the same time, which was really cool.

Was he a standup or something? Joelle, will you look that up? I wonder what his background was, but he was very funny. He's an actor and singer. Our younger viewers might remember him from the Suite Life on deck. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He was only 36 when he passed.

That's crazy. He was very young. Yeah. He might have been younger than us. That's the crazy thing. I did laugh out loud when he said, come on little white baby, jump into my arms. And then you jump into his arms and you're like, it's like I'm being held by a big car, but in your big caramel, a giant piece of caramel or something. Yeah. That sequence was very broad, but funny. And I liked the idea that when Turk runs

over, he's like, again? Yeah. And then the new opening. Yeah, the new opening again. I'm sorry, I just have- You're upset. And at this moment in the show, as I'm watching it, I was asking myself, what is this?

This is not what we did before, obviously. The tone is off. But it doesn't necessarily have to be off, but what is the tone? What are we trying to establish here? Definitely broader. I mean, even Carrie Bichet is playing the straight moments constantly broad.

She, you know, with JD, obviously I was, could be super broad, but like I would drop in and play real moments real. I think Carrie is playing, and it's not her fault, it's just real. I think Carrie's playing and it's not her fault. It's just what what was created. She's playing a heightened reality at all times, I think. Right. Well, because well, the reality now is very heightened also. But yeah, she's just playing what the world that was created for her.

It's not it's not. She's a wonderful actress. And I believe in Northwestern, which makes me like her even more. But it's a heightened reality all the times. But okay, I noticed all the blackberries. Did you see everyone's got a blackberry? It's before iPhones. I didn't record, I didn't, I wasn't paying,

I didn't see that. Well, whenever a Cox holds up his pictures of number one that he's forced to send, it's on a blackberry. Yeah. So Cole is at the ribbon cutting of the hospital. There's a picture on the wall. And so he says, you know, you can't do anything to me, Denise.

My mom is lactose intolerant. It just made me laugh. And he says that she's my wing mom. Now, I had this really, I thought that fucking wing mom fantasy was crazy and so funny. I had this moment, I thought that fucking wing mom fantasy was crazy and so funny. I had this moment just laughing because I was like, I don't remember that fantasy at all.

And it's a very surreal experience to watch a fully produced bizarre fantasy of yourself that you have no memory of doing. But JD in bed waiting for the wing, the wing mom to come in. That made you laugh. I giggled. Yeah. My hair, my hair was like slicked down. Do you laugh. I giggled. Yeah. My hair, my hair was like slick down. Do you know what I giggled? I giggled at the

I say, sing to me wing mom. Sing me to my dreams. So weird. It's like American angels almost. I was trying to catch if there was like a reference happening in here. It was so strange. You mean angels in America? Angels in America. Yes. Yes. Yes. It wasn't if there was like a reference happening in here. It was so strange. You mean angels in America? Angels in America, yes.

Yes, yes. It wasn't that, but it was. It was not angels in America, but just the scene where dude's in the bed and the angel comes down is like hovering over him just visually from that moment. I'll say this. The other fantasy made me laugh way more

than that fantasy made me laugh. The fantasy with the Antonio Sabato junior. Yeah, you're jumping ahead, but that was very funny. That was the highlight of the show for me, where I laughed my ass off. I was like, wow, that's fucking hell. They found the level of cheese and the level of... It felt like a novel, right? Anyway.

It was supposed to be like a lifetime movie or meets a romance novel. Novel, yeah. Yeah, and Antonio Spada Jr. was very funny. He nailed it. Yeah. All right, we'll get to that. We'll take a break, okay?

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I used to have so many men. How this beguiling woman in her fifties. She looked like a million bucks. With zero qualifications. She had a Harvard plaque. Tricks her way past a wall of lawyers and agents. She's got all of these Maseratis and Bentley's all in the driveway. Is it like a mansion?

Yes, it's a mansion. That this queen of the con uses to scam some of the biggest names in professional sports out of untold fortunes. About six million. Approximately $11 million. Nearly $10 million was all gone. Employing whatever means necessary Nearly $10 million was all gone.

Employing whatever means necessary to bleed her victims dry. She would probably have sex with one of her clients. Hide your money in your old Richmond because she is on the prowl. Listen to Queen of the Con, Season 5, The Athlete Whisperer on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do or do not. There is no try. Agreed. Sound exactly like him. I do. You're really good like that. Force is strong with that voiceover. Anyway, so let's get back to the show that everybody calls.

What is this show called again? Scrubs Med School. Yeah, let's get back to Scrubs Med School. He, Cole makes this really weird mouth noise when he's horrifying a top three hateful sound. What can he not be in like this? How does this get like, didn't somebody get Harvey Weinstein get punched in the face?

Like what the fuck? Yo. Well, this is a different era. You see why she didn't get punched in the face? Like what the fuck, yo? Well, this is a different era. This is before all of the world had a giant change. Regardless. Obviously he was supposed to be a guy. Regardless, this is still douchebag material, man. Like this is- You know, you're supposed to hate him,

obviously, but now we watch it and go, well, he'd be fired. He'd be kicked out of the school. Regardless, that's fucked up, bro. Was this the same place where he said, you need a little hole in your slaw? He makes like a weird noise with his mouth. He goes, that dude is dead. Dead. His family dead.

I want them put in the ground dead. Oh, my God. Good fellows. We learned that Lucy has never seen herself nude. She says she's been nude, but she never looked down. The logistics of that are so tough. It's very tricky. And it sounds like something Elliot would say. And JD's like, wow, that's weird for a doctor, but okay.

And then Todd is able to sense when a couple is doing it. Not only is he able to sense that they're doing it, but he's able to sense which clothing they have on. I mean, there's not even noises in the hallway, but he's like, he closes his eyes and he's like socks off, pants on. He knows. He knew.

He's got like the ability to sense. He's the force. It's the force. The sexual force. I sense someone having sex right now. Socks off. Pants on. on. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

It's the sexual force. The sexual force. Oh my God. Of the Todd. Snoop Dogg resident makes an appearance and he's not down to help Carrie Bichet with her mission. She's trying to help an alcoholic patient. We should just get back to a little bit of the storyline. Lucy's trying to help an alcoholic patient. We should just get back to a little bit of the storyline.

Lucy's trying to help a patient, but she's too naive to know that the guy is a really horrible alcoholic and Cox is saying, oh, there's no hope, he's gonna be right back here. Just you wait. Donald's right, it's a little bit like the Sandy storyline in Old Scrubs where he's always trying to steal pills. Mm-hmm. Right, Donald?

That's the exact storyline. But this time JD's a part of it because JD also thinks that she needs to learn the hard lesson. I did like that and I saw that, I mean, I didn't necessarily see that part coming where JD's actually in on it, but I knew the outcome of the story.

And I was like, if they change the outcome of the story, this isn't, then they're really fucking up the way Scrubs is supposed to be made. But when JD came in at the end and was talking about how he likes his money, how he likes his winnings, and he does it in her face too. That was an interesting character change for JD that we haven't seen before that he's he's become as cynical as Cox in that regard and he's doing it in her face like you said and it's

a bet that she was wrong for helping him. He was part yeah he's I'm gonna let's set this girl up. She is let's get her like literally they had a pow wow and cox is all. JD does give her the chance to try, but she, he feels that she needs to learn the lesson that he learned that, that odds are that you can, of course you can root for people, but you can't invest in thinking they're going to turn their lives around every single time. You just, you won't be able to continue. It's, it's too hard as a doctor to think people are going to make the right choices. to continue. It's too hard as a doctor to think people are going to make the right choices. Right. My wife always says to me when something happens, and statistically it always happens, she always says to me when I'm acting all surprised, I can't believe you're so surprised

by all of this. To be emotionally invested in people the way she is invested in people at this early stage is very dangerous. And I think the fact that Cox and JD do this to her is in a lot of ways a great lesson, but it's very unrealistic. I don't think anybody would ever, it's television, I know, but I don't think anybody would ever go through this much to where she has a car wash and she had, you know what I mean? And, you know. That was a bit heightened too. Like let's put on a car wash.

And then the car wash turns into like an R rated 80s movie. Yeah. And it's like, all right. I don't know, man. Storytelling, I get the premise cause we've seen the story before. It's just, and it, for me as a fan now of watching Scrubs, to see this, and I'm not dissing any of the actors, I'm not dissing any of the writers, it was a swing at

something, but I could see why you would get upset watching this after knowing everything that came before. You're empathizing with the fans who went, wait, you've missed the tone. It's a very hard tone to nail. And I think when you don't have Bill doing it, it can go off the rails. It's a big swing and it's a big ask. Tone is so tricky to nail. And with the width of a hair,

you can fall one way wrong or one way right. And I think that all the things you're sensing are, there's funny things in this. I definitely laughed out loud a few times, but your sensing is like, oh, but it's shifted. It's, there's something off with it. Car wash was another thing that wouldn't be in a TV show today.

Like let's get Nikki Whelan in a bikini and shower her with a hose. But it's a dangerous lesson. That's getting back to it. It's a dangerous lesson that she has to learn and the way they go about it. Although the lesson lands at the end is really cavalier and for these older professionals to, I don't know.

Can I ask you, so do you feel like this is an appropriate evolution for JD, who we've seen struggle under Dr. Hawks for so many years to just be like, I just want to hug, I just want you to acknowledge that we do have like this positive relationship that I mean something to you. But then the first student who sort of takes him seriously and confides in him to pull a joke on her. Personally, I understand from an experienced veteran at this point to be like, hey, you have to experience pain because it's coming at you no matter what and you have to toughen up. You can't be this vulnerable all the time. But I also was like, man, I'm not sure if this is how I feel the JD I've known for eight seasons would handle teaching this lesson.

But I don't even think Cox would handle it this way. Wrong. You know what I mean? That feels very Coxian. Well, I don't know. Cause he kind of did the same thing with the guy with the pills, right? With JD, he was like.

All he did was let him go do your thing. You know what I mean? He never was like, no, all he didn't know all he did was let him go for go do your thing You know what I mean? He never was like he never was like, you know, do a car wash do a such-and-such You know what I mean? It just got really It got bigger than the hospital is what happened and that's when it kind of You know, it's like all right, you know She's now on it on her college campus, the security guards from the college campus is helping out, like all for a patient.

It just, I don't know, man, it just, it got real big in a story that has been told before. And this didn't need to be the A storyline, this could have been the B storyline, and the A storyline could have been Joe and fucking Fonzie. I thought that shit was fucking hilarious. The fucking, you know, if Joe and Fonzie had a television show together, how much, you know what I mean, I like that.

Well, I would watch a show with Fonzie and the Gremlin. That was funny to me. You know what I mean? Y'all improv singing was brilliant. Yeah. Let's do it higher. That shit was fucking hilarious. This part, this is just for me. If we're going to explore new characters and we're going to explore new things,

we can't do old storylines with the same, with new characters and stuff like that. I feel like that's what we're doing. I think we've all done this enough. French Laundry was the restaurant I was trying to think of. Oh, that's the obvious one. Yeah. Okay. all done this enough. French Laundry was the restaurant I was trying to think of, y'all. Oh, that's the obvious one. Yeah, okay, all right.

Yeah, French Laundry, great. Gotcha, gotcha. JD and Turk didn't meet over a Bloomin' Onion. Everyone who knows Scrubs knows they met in the dorm room when JD had a mullet and Turk had a flat top, what do you call it? Fade? High top. High top fade.

High top fade, yeah. There was a wizard hat involved, I believe. So this really breaks lore saying that we met over a blooming onion and I don't like that it was said. Someone needs someone, whoever wrote that should have done a rewatch of all eight seasons of Scrum. The lore master on hand. Okay.

So Kelso's, as Donald said, is at the bar, and he gives a little bit of advice to Drew, saying you can't wall yourself in, you gotta look for a partner, you shouldn't isolate yourself. He says that while trying to bring a cougar home, he's on a hunt to find some ladies. I did laugh at, eat it Mr. Nickerson, and R.I.P. I did laugh at Eat It Mr. Nickerson and R.I.P.

I did laugh at that. I laughed a lot at that show. Then we have the very elaborate fantasy Donald mentioned with Antonio Sabato Jr. and it's a lifetime movie. You were looking pretty ripped in that. By the way, when I, did you like my, I mean, what's it called? I'm being Fabio. I've got long freaking shirt on. By the way, did you like my, I mean, what's it called? I'm being Fabio.

I've got long flowing hair on. The nacho bros. That was funny. Yeah. You like him because he gave you nachos. That's what we like. Right. That's what we like.

That's why your friends, because he gave you leftover barfers. And the episode ends with Kelso is about to hook up with Cole's mom. Perfect revenge. Yeah, that's nice revenge. I hope that plays out. How not? No, it's not. He needed that in his life.

The perfect revenge is Cole getting kicked out of that fucking school. Yeah. But he has to evolve and by the end of it, I'm sure Cole is going to be a loved character. Yeah. But right now he's the most hated person in the history of school. He's more hated than it's like a baguette. Yeah. Well, that guy was just an ass kisser.

He wasn't sexually harassing anybody. All right, let's go to break. And when we come back, Joelle, do we have some callers to listen to? We have a voice mail to listen to today. That's pretty great. Great. We'll be right back after this commercial break. 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, the latest trends,

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Thanks, Dan. Here we go. Hi Fake Doctors and Joelle. I watched episode two of season nine for the first time and I am pleased and surprised to say I did not totally hate it. I am going to try to get this into two minutes or less. I've got highlights and the lights for you. First highlight was Kelso's cameo, perfectly crass, definitely would have got him canceled in 2024,

but I still loved it. Cox is back to being himself in a way that wasn't egregious. I'm aware that Cox is an egregious human being, but in episode one, it felt like he was doing Cox, like shouting, you know, this is my character. And in episode two, he was back to being Cox. All of the interactions with JD and Turk are always great. JD is back to calling Dr. Cox either Dr. Cox or Perry Cox. He's not calling him Perry, which I did not like in episode one. And the last highlight, surprisingly, is Drew. Very surprisingly, because I don't like these interns, but Drew still feels like a developing character. He's also a conventionally handsome,

confusing white male. And the 22-year-old in me will always find that attractive and appealing. But because he's still developing, he's still interesting to watch. So those are my highlights. Lowlights, essentially the other interns. Cole, I like Dave Franco as an actor, so it's not him. It's this character. Sadface Girl, whose name I just can't remember, and Denise. Sadface Girl, I've decided that all three of them are not characters. They're caricatures of the missing cast members. Sad Face Girl is Elliot. She's the people pleaser in Elliot without the snark or the humor.

She literally said, what the French, when scared. And Elliot would say, what the frick? But that was way funnier, and Elliot's delivery was always better. Cole is obviously the overtly sexual bonehead part of Todd, but Todd was dense and self-absorbed in a way that was clueless and not mean. Cole is mean.

And Denise is, she's like the wall that Carla puts up, but she's missing the friendship that Carla is able to extend. Denise is the girl who's like, I can't be friends with girls because girls are super catty and then proceeds to be catty to every girl she meets and shotgun beers at a party to prove that she's cool with boys. They feel like caricatures that are being shoved down our throats to make up for the cast members that we're missing. So that's why I think I don't like them and why I still think I'm not going to enjoy the rest of the season, even though now I am going to finish watching it. I'm over my two-minute time limit. I do apologize.

I hope you guys are having fun. I love the podcast. And Joelle, you and I are officially besties. Bye. Obviously, I love Tamika. That was so great. Yeah, Tamika's a teacher and she had only ever watched episode one. I missed her initial voicemail for episode one. So I wrote her, I was like, please watch episode two, your first voicemail is so like, she's such a great analyst.

And I was like, could you do that for episode two? She was like, I have to show, I think it's her Spanish class, the episode in Spanish, so she could watch it in enough time before she had to go on a trip. That's hilarious. So she did that, she got a good job. She should do it, we should have it now to Tamika.

And we have Tamika analyze such a good job. She should do it. We should have that now to Tamika. And we have Tamika. We have Tamika analyze each episode of season nine. I like everything she said. I agree that the characters are a bit extreme caricatures and not as lovable as the original squad. That's true. Well said. Thanks Tamika.

You're great. Well, I really enjoyed, I really enjoyed what she said because she said what I was thinking. Yeah, in a really articulate, smart way. So thank you, Tameka. Yeah, in a very smart way. Jowell, remind people, we need your submissions, guys. Well, there's another submission, isn't there? No, no, there's just one this week. Just one this week.

Tameka's so great. She gave us positives and negatives, and I thought I wanted to highlight an example of what a pristine, epic voicemail sounds like. She did it in two and a half minutes. Technically, it's supposed to be under three, so she hit it. No need to apologize, Tomiko. You did great. You can send your voicemails to us at scrubsihart at gmail.com.

If you can put the episode number in the subject line, that's really helpful for me. It'll help us spot you. We are listening to everything that comes through, but just so we can get you guys organized in a neat and orderly way, that'll be helpful. But yeah, hit us up at Scrubs. I hire a why you love or hate an episode of season nine, preferably one that's not already aired,

because I can't do anything with that. Yeah, amen. Well, thank you, Joel. This was a great experience. Donald, we know how you feel. Like, and the way Joel. This was a great experience. Donald, we know how you feel. Like, and the way, but I don't wanna, I don't wanna, listen, I know a lot of you out there

gonna be like, Donald, all you did was hate on this show today. I want you to understand, I enjoyed the time with the four of you. I'm sorry, with the three of you. The audience will be happy to know that Donald is in his classic Mickey Mouse hoodie. You will see it, I'm sure. Listen.

And I get to see your faces, Zach. You look like an R&B singer like John B right now with your shoulders out. I'm waiting for you to sing a freaking a song or two. John B. Who's John B? Yeah. I don't know. John B. Sexy R&B singer from the early 70s. He was an R&B singer, a sexy R&B singer from the early 70s, right? He was an R&B singer, a white R&B singer who would sing songs like,

Don't say that you'll never do it. You know you'd be the first one. He sang that one and then you're my angel. He was a babyface artist, actually. Somebody who babyface would write music for. And he had a few hit songs back in the early 2000s. And that's what you look like. You look like you're about to dance with NSYNC, baby.

It's a beautiful day outside. So I'm going to go enjoy some sunlight. Donald, tell the audience when to watch your hit TV show. You can watch it every Tuesday. Same day that our podcast comes out, Extended Family airs on NBC at 8.30, 7.30 Central. Amen. And then you can stream it the next day on Peacock.

And please check out my new film, French Girl, everybody. It's out. You can get it wherever next day on Peacock. And please check out my new film, French Girl, everybody. It's out. You can get it wherever you get on demand movies like Apple, Amazon, whatever service you like. It's available. It's very cute and funny and romantic. And I know you'll love it. Guys, if we get online right now and each watch the French girl.

We can put that shit to number one on iTunes, on Apple TV. Let's freaking band together as a group of freaking listeners and we've been together for how many years now people? How many years have we been together for? Boy. Four. Four years, Four years. Now is time to freaking show up.

And let's make this movie. Listen, Donald, I know you don't watch things, but you will actually really love this movie. You'll laugh out loud. Right on. Well, let's get let's get it going. Let's get everybody on board to freaking watch the French girl. Zach's movie. Just French girl.

Know that there's no doubt, believe it or not. French girl. So watch the French girl, Zach's movie. Just French girl, no that. There's no that, believe it or not. French girl. It's all right. French girl. Vanessa Hudgens. Like Facebook. Zach Braff.

You'll love it. Sounds great. Oh, I have one more announcement. I'll insert the website later, but we have a sweepstakes for the backpack giveaway. That's how I Heart says we should do it. We should do a sweepstakes. So there will be a website. I Heart Radio dot com do it. We should do a sweepstakes. So there will be a website. IHeartRadio.com. FDRF. So the initials of this show, fake doctors, real friends, F as in Frank,

D as in Doctor, R as in Richard, F as in Frank. Again, IHeart.com. FDRF. You must enter before the last day of April, I believe. So just go to iHeart.com slash F as in Frank, D as in Dr. R as in Richard, F as in Frank to win the Sleep Stakes. Get yourself a Scrubs backpack today. Go to that website and you can enter for a chance to win the backpack. It looks amazing.

It's got Zach and Donald's face in front of it. It's beautiful. It's sturdy. I love my backpack. Well made. It's sturdy. I actually want one of these, but I'm gonna give this one away to the fans.

Yeah. How funny would it be if I wore this around town? It'd be very funny. That'd be the weirdest thing ever, bro. That'd be the weirdest. You guys gotta go back to Disney and wear matching backpacks with your faces on it. All right, love you guys.

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