308: My Friend the Doctor w/ Gabrielle Allan Greenberg

On this week's episode, Dr Cox throws out his back, Elliot doubts she a "real" doctor, and JD realizes he's still in love with Elliot. In the real world, Zach and Donald are joined by first writer (after show owner Bill) to the podcast, Gabrielle Allan Greenberg!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Okay, I love you Biebo. Hi. Hi guys, wait, I
gotta plug my headphones in like a responsible podcast. Yes, yes, yes,
everybody has all their everybody has all their everything plugged
in recording Hi everybody. By the way, we got to
state the obvious to our listeners before we even say

(00:27):
a word, that it is Friday at one pm on
the West Coast when we're recording this, So we're Dan,
you'll have to keep your TV on and let us
know if anything gets declared because we are waiting. You're
waiting for a declaration. Well, I don't know that the
declaration is going to come in the next hour and
a half, but I do want Dan to have something

(00:47):
on that he can watch to go. You guys, I'm
not gonna believe what just happened. MBC News on right here,
but we all can you fix your camera so I
can see your beautiful face. I don't want you to
look at me right now. Why this kidding? I'm just kidding.
This is far from over though. Let's just be honest

(01:09):
with everyone who's listening. By the time you hear this
will still probably in my opinion, I don't think Donald
Trump's gonna freaking right. So with that being said, I
don't think this is gonna be over until after all
of the count is done, first of all, and then

(01:29):
all of the suing and lawsuits get underway, and then
after that, when we find out what's gonna stick and
what's gonna recount and everything like that, then it's gonna
be a while until we find out who's president. I'm
hoping it's before freaking inauguration. He's got something to say,
go ahead. I was just gonna, I was just gonna

(01:49):
offer that. In certain states, it definitely seems like there
is some sort of legal precedent to actually do a recount,
like Georgia and Wisconsin, But in places like Pennsylvania and
Nevada and Arizona where the count is still happening and
still active, the only ballots that have been counted so
far are the ones that were received on or before
election day, So so far, all the votes counted in
these states that are super battleground that people are really

(02:11):
aggressive about, there's no legal ground to stand on for
a recount or or a lawsuit. So all of the
lawsuits that he will try to push for those places
he already tried in Michigan, and failed. All of these
other states will also just like be like, you want
to do a lawsuit here, you can't. So but isn't
isn't isn't Wisconsin still growing though? Isn't that one still

(02:32):
or was it Michigan that's still growing? What do you
mean growing in that way? Like yeah, in his in
his distancing himself from and Biden distancing himself from Trump.
Oh sure, yeah it is. But it's Georgia. I mean,
Georgia just has a lot of extra ballots that are
hanging by the wayside, like military ballots that still have
been counted yet, and I never in Wisconsin, but not

(02:54):
just that, but other like provisional ballots haven't been counted
in in uh, Georgia yet, And so we got to
get into that, you know what I mean. There's something
like I don't I don't know the exact number, so
please us of A don't quote me on this, but
there's something like six thousand provisional ballots that have been
accepted and will be counted. What's so frustrating to me

(03:16):
is that a lot of these states said to their legislatures,
this is going to be crazy. We can't count all
this on the day, we need to start counting early,
and Republican legislatures said no, they were trying to suppress
the vote. Dude, right, But what I'm saying is I
saw someone's expressed it so articulately on Twitter. He said,

(03:36):
these were actually the first votes in. They just were
never counted because because they weren't allowed to be counted.
And so now that they're all being counted, and people
were like, stop the count You see the people praying outside,
stop the God. And it's like, well, you guys, they
should have been counted for a week ago, but because

(03:57):
you vote, your people said, no way, they've just been
sitting there in boxes. Yeah, and and and and that's
what's going on right now. And we will have a winner,
and it could be Joe Biden and it could be
Donald Trump right now about about that's not true, Zach.
That's what they were saying on election day, that there's

(04:19):
no way it was going to be Biden. That's what
Trump was thinking. So let's just let the let the
let them, let the democracy play its part in all
of this, and let's sit back and watch. Please let
the soap opera play on. Everybody's getting so everybody's getting
so excited about it, though, Man, let it play on.
We all wanted this shit. This is what everybody wanted.

(04:41):
Everybody hoped for this, everybody hoped for this, and now
it's pulling this This election is pulling at your heart
strings and everyone's freaking freaking out. Calm the fuck down
us of A. Well, it'll be Tuesday by the time
they hear this, so maybe they'll be all of this
will be antiquated noon, right, But we have to trap
at the four of us, not get together and vent

(05:03):
because it's just fucking nuts. Yo, Biden security better be
beefy dogs as fuck. Do you know the airspace over
his house more secret service. Actually, the very first step
they do, which is kind of cool when they start
to see the winner, is they fucking block the airspace
over your house. That's so baller. So they fucking shut

(05:25):
down the airspace over his house today because they were like, Okay, Biden,
I see you, yeah, you think it's you think Trump's
like here, where the fucking it did? Where's my air space?
Set he's in he's in the White House. They always
get the airs. But Biden, wherever he is, it's like, oh,
those fucking planes are gone. Pretty choppers are gone. I

(05:50):
wish I'd still got a round my house. Have you
noticed starting COVID how many fucking leaf blowers there are?
I mean, come on, people, enough with your fucking leaves.
Just leave the leaves, leave the lip. I was like
a Seinfeld, but lave the leaves. Episode ten of The
Mandalorian came out. I didn't see it. You watch Have

(06:10):
you watched episode one? I mean I really liked it.
I really liked you like nine? Did you like Timothy Olaphant?
You know that I loved Timothy Eldaphant. You know that
I made a movie with Timothy Eldphant. I know, and
I send it. I send it. Joel on Twitter that
he I definitely felt my kinsy scale shift. I felt
both my kinsey scale and my penis shift just gently.

(06:33):
He is a handsome man. Not only is he a
handsome man, I'm getting water, he's getting hotter. Yeah, well
he's got that. He's got that Pierce Brosnan, uh freaking
with the gray gray get for him. Where he gets
more distinguished as he gets older. But let me tell
you something right now, he has graduated to a lot
of Star Wars fans. Most favorite character in Star Wars

(06:56):
or one up there like he's top he's top ten
all of a sudden, really that fast, dude, the character
was so I didn't know. Forgive me and I because
I'm not you and it's not even and it's a
character that they made in a book. They wrote about
the character in the book. That's all you know about him.
I didn't know that it was Boba Fette's actual armor. Yeah,
that's what made it fire, dude. I didn't know that

(07:20):
until someone explained it to me. And that's why it
was in what's what are those people called their big
in the Jawa ship And that was Boba Fett at
the end too, who turned around? I thought that was
jangle Fett. No, jangle Fett got his head sliced off.
That was his clone Boba. I can't keep track of
all this bullshit. But anyway, watch watch it was. It

(07:42):
was really well done. Watch. I mean shout out to
you know. So, like so Flow hates the side show
Collectibles Baby Yoda. She thinks it's really freaky and he's
gonna have to move down to my office because I
was keeping him in the living room. I think another
reason that she wasn't liking it is I was hiding
him around dark corners and every time she would come around,

(08:05):
he'd be standing there on the ground, and after like
three screams, she was like, put this fucking thing away appropriate.
I just really wish you would watch your mouth when
you talk about Star Wars. I love that you curse
so much, but when we're talking about your favorite it's
like you're like a religious person. It's like we're talking

(08:26):
about Bible characters. You're like, don't curse around the Bible. Well,
it's just that I know what it's meant for. And
anytime I'm talking about this, if it's going to be
listened to, I don't want people to I want everybody
to hear my Star Wars message when I talk about it.
I don't want it to be censored for anybody. That's
how much I love Star Wars, and I would prefer

(08:48):
it if that's how everybody else treated it too. The
only way that any of your your in the in
the only way that any of the stuff that you
say is going to really affect the people that Star
Wars is made for, if you take some of the
profanity out. I'm just putting it out there? Who's your
least favorite character like all the movies? If you were like,

(09:08):
you know what, the motherfucker I hate the most is
this guy? And don't say Jargar Banks because that's easy. No,
I actually liked it. I think jar Jar Binks is
a character that needs to be revisited, to be honest
with you, Okay, so then and then who who? Who's
your answer? Well, well, I wish the audience could see
you Well's face. It's so serious. It's like it's a

(09:30):
hard one. Well, you know, that whole diner sequence in
Attack of the Clones was a little weird, even though
they introduced a character with four arms, which was really awesome. Uh,
but you could tell, but you could tell that that
dude had been in some type of battle and you
know he had fought. He wasn't just a cook. He

(09:52):
had skills. So I can't even say I don't know, dude,
I don't know whom I can't That's hard, that's very
difficult the audience. I worry we're boring the audience. We
should move on to the show scrubs, because that's why
they're here. Oh, I know, I know, I already know.
Out of all of it. Yeah, the Knights of Ren No, okay,

(10:13):
new topic for the show because and this is why,
and it's my least favorite character because they did nothing
with it. They really did nothing with it. And we're
back on the same page. We're back on the same page.
God damn it. Okay, okay, I really did not. For

(10:33):
those of you who are titilated by this, if your
nipples are picked up one day, Donald and Jibbell are
going to have their own Star Wars podcast. By the way,
do you know about this ESPN radio show Slash TV
show with Dan LeBatard and Stu Gatsts. You don't even
know who those people are? Those producers follow me on Twitter,
it's say Bill, Yeah, shout out. Bill told me that

(10:56):
this is a very big sports thing that you would know. Oh,
I know, Libertardi is yeah and uh and apparently some
of them are our big Scrubs fans and even listen
to this podcast. Shout out Roy and man, yeah who
is Roy? Who? I'm just kidding, I'm just to name.
And also they've been having Bill because Bill now is

(11:19):
like you know, now he likes podcasts because he's got
his like his palette wet. So apparently Bill has been
going on their podcast? Has he been going five six
seven eight? No, But they literally he told me we
were just as you saw. We were just FaceTime me.
And he goes, they literally had him on a few
days and they were like, they were like, we've been
trying to get you on and and he was like
really and and the producer goes, yeah, like five six
seven eight times. Well, apparently that's a big I wouldn't

(11:46):
know it's a sports thing. But I thought you wouldn't
know what that's about. Donald, Why don't you count us
into America's favorite plas seven eight about a bunch of
domes and nurses stories. So gather around here, are gather

(12:12):
around here we watch Oh Mabby and listen on Fridday.
Oh my god, there she is. Everybody so ronick that
we record on Friday. I wonder if Gabby's gonna listen

(12:36):
this Friday because all the the days she does. All right,
now we're to explain everyone what the hell that's about.
So you guys, as you know, Bill Lawrence shamed us
for doing a podcast about Scrubs and not having one
of the writers on other than him, and uh, and

(12:56):
we are so blessed to have our first non bill
hilarious comic writer Gabby Alan Greenberg. Hi, there thunderous applause.
Then turn your keys back. Yes, it's thunderous applause. Now
Donald was just singing the song before we do anything.
The writer's rooms, if you if you're not involved in

(13:19):
TV writing at all, you wouldn't know. But TV writer's
rooms are very silly, and there's lots of inside jokes,
and ninety percent of the time is spent joking around,
and then occasionally they write something for the show, and
so there are lots of jokes and a song. I guess, Gabby,
you'll have to tell us why this song was written.
But someone wrote a song called Gabby doesn't listen on Fridays.

(13:40):
I mean, you know, a lot of these bits there,
the foundations very thin. I'm not gonna lie, you know.
So you know, you say something once and then it
becomes lower. I think it's one Friday, you know where
I just didn't listen. I mean, it just might be
a simple azett. It might have been I was pregnant

(14:04):
a lot, I feel like during scrubs, so I like
maybe I was had a little bit of pregnancy brain
and but yeah, I think I didn't listen on Fridays
or one Friday. And then Mike, who would pretty much
write a song about anything, right, Mike Schwartz. Mike Schwartz. Uh,
we just took it and ran with it. It's such

(14:24):
a hooky song. We are twenty years later. I know
the melody and we're still singing. And then there was
also the other sorry, the other thing, that non sequitor mondays.
What was that? I don't remember. I don't remember not
I remember. I actually remember more words to the Gabby song.
Gabby doesn't listen on Fridays, Gabby only listen to for

(14:45):
this Sorry the six days. I don't know if you're
accounting weekends. I didn't know. I don't know if you're
accounting weekends or the accounted weekends. I think it was.
I mean, we have to ask Schwartz, Gabby only listen
to the Then there's some harmony. I mean, we really
went for it. We spent a lot of time on that.

(15:06):
We have there's a whole album. I have to say
that if I wasn't an actor, I think one of
the most fun jobs in Hollywood. And you're going to
correct us if I'm wrong. But being in a writer's room.
Being in a comedy writer's room with First of all,
you can be in one that's horrible where everyone's looking
around going, oh my god, this sucks. But when you're
in a good one with a group of people that

(15:27):
you find hilarious, it's the greatest job in the world,
isn't it. It is the greatest job in the world.
It really is. Yes, there are rooms that are no
fun or tense, and but the scrubs room in particular
was really fun. We loved each other. I mean, you
are together a lot. Does every day does feel like

(15:48):
a dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner with your family because you're seated
around that table and you get to know each other
so well, Like you certainly get on each other's nerves
after a while. Yeah, but in a loving way, the
way you are with family. But it is one of
the most fun jobs. The first time I ever was
in a room, I remember a friend of mine asked

(16:08):
me if I wanted to sit in because I'd written
a pilot and I was messing around with looking into
maybe doing it professionally, and he was running a pilot
and he said, well, do you want to sit in
on my pilot and just see what it's like sitting
on the room and back then that we're not as
many women in rooms, back in the old days, and
I wonder I was coming up, and so so I

(16:34):
walked in and it was a bunch of guys in sweatpants,
eating Chinese food and farting, and I'm home. I did,
and I said to my friend, this is a job.
This is a job I could get paid for. What
was your first what was your We always whenever we
have people related to the show, and we always talked

(16:55):
about how they started and everything. And I know for
a fact there's a lot of people that to the
show who aspire to be all sorts of entertainment writers,
particularly a TV comedy writer, which, as I just said,
is a pretty dope job. So so tell people. And
also you're a woman, which, like you said, was very
is still very hard, but also but much harder twenty

(17:17):
years ago. So tell everyone about how it happened. How
did you how did you get break in? Because you've
had this amazing well, I mean it's just sexual favors.
I want to I just want to be honest about
what I took and to I mean, because of what
I had to sacrifice. I opened the door to women

(17:38):
who don't have to do that. Now, that's what I did.
You want to say, you want to tell? Yeah, okay, ladies,
is Bill Lawrence a gentle lover? It was Bill Lawrence
a gentle lover? Again? Why didn't I didn't have to
do with Bill? Uh? Yeah? Which was kind to him. Yeah. No,
he just hired me based on my talent. I think,

(18:00):
I mean you did him? He did? Actually, actually he
he loves you very much, as you know, and and
he was bragging about you. And I want to talk
about all the show of fancy shows you've been writing
on since. Tell people who and keep in mind a
lot of people, most people listen to show aren't in
the business at all. So, so how does one become
a working, successful TV comment writer? Like? What? How did?

(18:23):
How did you? But it's different for lots of people, obviously,
what was your what was your process? Journey? Well, before
I answered that, I just want to say that it's
really nice to see you guys. It's good. Thank you
for having me on. Oh no, thank you for coming on.
Thank you for being our first non Bill writer on
the show. I'm honored and flattered and it's really nice
to see your faces. And that's Joel, Hi, Joel, nice

(18:45):
to meet you right there. Dude dance, the dude dancing,
and and the one that seems like he's not paying
attention and he's freaking and doing a bunch of things. Yeah,
if you're gonna do random shit, can you at least
turn off your kid. You're dancing in the fucking I
don't drop the don't drop the eed during the show, bro,

(19:06):
it's gotta be it's and if you know, it's gotta
be fucking house music because of the way he's he's like, no,
I bet it's election. Relate something happened. It's like dropping.
It's like he's he's waiting for that ship to drop away. Gabby, Gabby,
just you know, Daniel will be We'll be watching while
we're doing this, Daniel, we'll be watching if there's anything
he needs to tell us. He's going to give us
the breaking news, giving me a job, and then accusing

(19:29):
me of paid attention to something else, the election. But
I'm just saying, if you could refrain from while we
have a very fancy guest doing what appears to be
some sort of MDMA dance drop. It's okay with me.
Do you want to appreciate that? All right? All right, Gabby,
back to you. How did I break in? I always

(19:51):
wrote as a hobby. I love to write, I have
My grandfather was a writer, and so that was something
even as kid, I would write stories for fun and uh,
So that was just always a hobby. And I was
an actress, uh for a bit, and I would mostly

(20:12):
do comedy. I was in a sketch comedy show. I
would write my own material and we did that for
a while, and and then I started to move more
into uh, writing only and moving away from auditioning. So
I wrote a pilot. I gave it to a friend

(20:35):
of mine to see if it was anything, and he
thought it was something. He didn't say it was good.
He said it was something but U but he was
encouraging and then that he that's when he asked me
if I wanted to sit in to see if it
was something I wanted to pursue. He thought that there
was some potential and uh, and I think, oh, well,

(20:57):
what the h this is a I don't know if
this would help anybody, because it's probably a unique, I
mean to me, but but I had gone to Network
for a pilot as an actor. I went and it
was there was a lot of improv involved in the audition,
and I kept improving and they brought me back like

(21:17):
six times, and then they didn't give me the job.
They kept bringing me back. Every time I would go back,
there would be like another shiksa Goddess. I was like,
I'm not gonna just one after the other. So anyway,
but I started punching up my own stuff and giving
it to the writers and saying, can I try this
joke if I go into this show? And so that

(21:38):
friend who was doing that show said, well, do you
want to just try this instead? After I didn't get
the job, and like, yeah, you know, maybe it's time
to just parlay into that. So what was the first
show that you sat in on the writer's room for?
That was? I think it was a pilot called Youth
and Revolt. I don't think it went to series, but

(22:02):
that was the pie that I sat in on. And
then the first job I had was I was doing
punch Up just a couple of days a week for
the Polly Shore sitcom that he had on Fox. He
had a show, he had a sitcom. It was about

(22:22):
him living with his dad and super hot step mom
he lusted. I can see. There were a lot of complications,
a lot of situations that happened that lent itself to comedy. Yes,
uh so I did that a couple of days a week.

(22:43):
Some of my favorite jokes on that show, I bet
were written by you. Oh yes, Polly, No, you just
said you didn't see. You didn't even know there was
a show that was my first job. My second job
was a show called Ask Harriet about a cross dressing
advice columnist like TuS Kind. It was a TUTSI TWITSI yeah,

(23:08):
it's exactly he had to dress up as a woman
to get a job. Okay, yeah, yeah, I didn't after
school special once where I had to dress up as
a woman in order to get a job. Wait, what
was it? What was It was called The Brilliant The
Brilliant title was and you can google this if you
think I'm lying, just put my name and quote my

(23:28):
summer as a girl, and quickly what was the job?
This was? You know, a job that you had to
dress up as a woman for. They basically just robbed
the plot of TUTSI accepted in not being entertainment. It
was the last job on this little island. It was
meant to be like a cape cod kind of thing.
Was as a chambermaid. And Barbara Barry, if you remember her,

(23:51):
the actress Horse She she was running the inn and
there was a really hot girl that my character had
a crush on and she there was only one left.
And it was to be a chambermaid, which I guess
is like a housekeeper type maid. And and so I
had the idea and I went full TUTSI. And you know,
the aftrical specials are always trying to teach you a

(24:13):
lesson the kids. So the lesson in this one was
that my character had to learn what it was like
to how to how to respect women because he was
going to be mistreated by men when he was dressed
as a woman or girl boy because we were supposed
to be teenagers. But it was It's a masterpiece if
you ever get a chance. I can't wait to watch that. Yeah,

(24:35):
the story had to be told. I hope we can
find it somewhere. I don't know's you'll find it. Well,
there's probably YouTube clips, but but you can find the picture.
You can find it. I was kind of hot, although
some people said I look like Heather Moderazzo, who I love,
but I thought that I don't know if I agree
with that. When I dress up and put lipstick and
stuff like that on, I just looked like my mom. Dude, really,

(24:57):
I think you'd be really by the way he started,
I grasped for a second and don't think any I
hope you don't find this disrespectful. But your wife, no, Donald,
Your wife posted a picture on Instagram that was like fire, dude.
Oh she broke the internet, dude. Yeah, listen, man, she's
what is going on over there? Dude? She broke the

(25:19):
internet a little bit. And I love how she tried
to make it about the baby because she's like it
a bikini and she knows her body's obviously fire and
she's holding her baby and she's like it's still warm
in LA and everybody's like, holy shit, Casey, do how
many kids do you have now? Eleven? Eleven? Shut up?
How many? I have six kids now? But oh my god,

(25:41):
four of my kids are they're grown. Okay, okay, got
two littles. I have two little ones and so but anyway,
do you have a comment on Do you have a
comment on your wife's thirst trap because I fell for it.
I fell for it. I actually wrote, damn Donald, Yes, Uh,

(26:01):
it wasn't thirst trapt wasn't Yes, there wasn't it. Yes, yes, yeah.
Well you know we talked about you talked about it
a few times on the podcast. Peloton is a big
thing in our house now and she you know where
I slack one commits? Did you spend today? By the way,
I did not spend today. I did spend today, but
guess who did? She did absolutely and I did too.

(26:24):
By the way, I'm using that guy you recommended, what's
his name, Cody. He's fucking funny. She's hilarious, right, I
love that Cody makes me laugh so hard. Dude, He's
my new favorite. I was using the British gal for
a while, and now I'm onto Cody because he makes
me laugh a Right, we should probably get into the show.
We gotta talk about the show. Gabby. Wait, Gabby, right, sorry, Gabby, sorry,
we if you've ever heard the show, we we don't

(26:45):
really follow any linear I heard the show and we're
talking to a writer and we don't follow anything linear
in here, So just talk to us. So, how did
what was the job with Scrubs your first big break. Yes, yes, okay,
okay it was. And then and you did how many
seasons of Scrubs did you before you were stolen away?
I did four seasons of Scrubs. Now did you leave

(27:07):
or were you stolen? Were you like, I'm out? What
happens is what happens is they start throwing money. When
you're on a hit show and you're a writer, they
start going, you know what they're paying you that bullshit?
You know it will pay your It was a combination
of having a baby that you know, hours on sitcoms
are long, and yeah, so I did. I left to

(27:28):
develop my own stuff, but I ended up coming back
to do I think a couple episodes after I had
had ted my son, my first sborn son, so I
would say all at all. Then I did some Park time.
I was in and out. I did like five seasons,
five or six seas And then what shows were you

(27:49):
on after you said you say Parks? No, I was on.
I didn't write on a show for a long time
after not a long time, but for a few years
because because of the baby. So I was writing movies
with I partnered up with Jen Crittenden. We started writing
movies and then the first TV job we came back
to do was we were We wrote on Divorce, The

(28:12):
Sarah Justis Parker Show, first bio, and then we wrote
on Veep. And that's the last staff I've been on
with Veep, which, well, that's a pretty darn good show
to be on. That's one of my favorites. Wow, that
was really fun. If you haven't watched Freep, you need
to watch Freep because I think the humor overlaps with
that of Scrubs and you accept it's like it can be.

(28:36):
It could be so much more r rated, not in
terms of sexuality, but in terms of language, because there's, yeah,
we had there was a lot of language. There was
a curse every other word. And it's fucking hilarious and
every single cast member is so talented. And I highly
recommend Veep too, now more than ever because it really
spoofs politics. Well you know, I mean everything that they

(28:58):
did on the show before we were there and then
while we were there has happened. I mean everything everything
this whole in Novent. I mean, yeah, the counting they
stopped the count wait continue counting. Thing I saw people
were posting this was a stick on VAP they did.
That's one of the best VAP episodes. I wasn't there
when they did that episode that so that was one
of the best VAP episodes ever. That one killed me

(29:20):
and that's very relevant. I mean so many. I mean,
we had an episode last sea our last season where
Jonah had went around getting everybody sick. He was horribly
contagious while he was campaigning, right, I mean he did
like a daylight say. I mean, it's just on and
on and on every everything. But I really really highly
recommend that show and everybody. It's very very funny. We

(29:40):
have to start talking about the episode of Scrubs because
that's what people come here for. All this other stuff
that's just for us. Okay, now, people people really want
to hear other than the casey looks fire on Instagram?
Is they want to hear us chat about the show? Yeah, dude,
why why? Why? Man? Why? I'm just seeing you married well? Bro?
You married well? I did all right, man, Okay, she

(30:02):
loves me. I'm a lucky man. Okay, Abs, you can
wash your clothes on them. Abs, I'm gonna start talking
about your girlfriend's ass. Now, how about that. Would you
like that? No, I'm uncomfortable, but it is ridiculous. Oh
my god. Okay, listen, man, my wife is doing a
thing and I'm and and it's not It's not me

(30:24):
doing that shit, So you talking about it to me
is irrelevant. Tell her congratulate her, alright me, she's putting
in the work. Just saying separately from our friendship, I'm
also really good friends with Casey and I'm impressed with
how fire she looks. So Kate, right right, that's a
great This is a great way to do it is
to talk. But you know, she hasn't listened to the podcast,

(30:46):
so she's never here. I know. I'll send her at something.
Let's take a break. We'll be right back after these
fine words. Do you want to do the recap over here?
So sorry, I forgot all right, So, Gabby, as you
know from being our number one fan, Donald does a
thirty seven second a recap of the show. Donald, are

(31:09):
you ready, I'm starting the timer? All right, here we go,
Here we go. Go. Jd and Danny are really starting
to get to know each other. Turk and Carla are
talking about children. Doctor Cox and Jordan aren't having sex
because of just having children. Turk and j D both
have big wins in the hospital. Elliott wants her big
win and jumps out every opportunity to get it, Doctor

(31:30):
Cox hurts his back, and Carla wants children. These events
lead doctor Cox and Carler to one inevitable conclusion. They're
getting old. I couldn't really pinpoint just one overall theme
in this episode, but I identified with so much Cox
getting old. I feel like him more nowadays than I
do Turk. We all have dreams of hitting the proverbial

(31:52):
big shot, not recognizing that it often comes with consequences
for someone else. But let's get past all that. Let's
say you finally get your chance at the big show.
Can you bounce back when it doesn't go your way?
M That's great? You know what, even though that was
like nine minutes long. I know because I kept, I kept.

(32:12):
We're not editing that because I want I wanted to
get PSA for kids, not to smoke weed. But listen,
I'm not talking about marijuana. I just was telling that
you your emiss. We're not editing that out. But I
like to use the word bounce because it all started
with basketball. Now I should make but I was gonna
say that. Also, it starts off with it starts off
how do you bounce? You know? The show starts off

(32:35):
with a basketball scene and he hurts himself, and throughout
the show he shows I'm not gonna let my back Cox.
That is, I'm not gonna let my back distract me
from having to do all of these things that I
want to do right. And throughout the show, Elliot's playing
a game where she wants to win, just like Turk

(32:57):
and JD do. And when she gets her opportunity, when
when finally it's there, it looks like she's not gonna
get it, and then j D's like, no, you know what,
here's your shot at it. And she does everything right
and it still doesn't go her way. Like Cox in
the beginning, can you stand up tall even though you

(33:19):
have all of this weight on your shoulders keeping you
down and hurting you, can you stand up tall and
continue to push forward? Well, Gabby, you wrote the damn
thing when you did? Yeah, I don't. Your name's on
the your names? Did you watch the episode Messed Up? Gabby?
Did you watch the episode? You didn't watch the episode?

(33:42):
Oh God? We try and give the guest homework here, Gabby,
it's all right, but we'll tell you all about it
and you can weigh in. Yeah, the episode. The episode
opens with well, first of all, I think that's well said. Donald.
I also wrote down that one of the themes up
of the episode is holding on to your youth and

(34:04):
or at least the passage of time, in terms of
Cox wanting and lamenting being old, Carla lamenting her age,
whereas Sarah wanting to step up and be a grown
up and be an adult and be a real quote
a real quote unquote unquote doctor. And it's about those
new chapters of life as we as we age and grow.

(34:27):
So I don't know, well, yeah, I mean it's it's
about you know, there are a lot of there are
a lot of things that I identify with this, you
know Cox Cox's storyline, and it says and it's not
just the back thing, it's also the whole sex thing
with the wife when it's not necessarily you know what
I mean, him just thinking about himself and not thinking
about you know, what his wife is going through, and
thinking that offering himself up as a solution to anything

(34:53):
is is is enough at that moment in time, you
know what I mean. So like I I I I
very much identify with Cox in this episode. I try
to hide when I'm injured. Now I try, you know,
I try, and you probably can't play. You stopped playing basketball,
I do. I have stopped playing basketball, not just that.
Not well, yeah, I have stopped just playing basketball, but

(35:15):
not just that. Uh. You know, I'm working on this
partnership of marriage, you know, as far as as far
as what's appropriate and you know what, my how my
wife likes to be treated. There was a there was
a time where we were young and things were accepted.
And now it's like I say shit, and she looks
at me like you're like a school on Saturday, you

(35:37):
know what I mean. No class, no class, that's right,
no class, no class. Filling that in the accident, the
episode opens with a green screen the car that it's
so bad it's almost looks like a spoof. I thought
it was great. I looked back at that like that
was a great moment for me because I remember we
were I remember shooting that. Oh I remember that. I

(35:57):
remember that. Yeah, I remember the accident, and do you
remember that. The stock footage of the car accident is
from Vanilla Sky. Bizarrely, the Cameron Crowe movie with Tom Cruise,
does somebody fall out of Nobody falls out of the car. No,
the car. If you remember in Vanilla's Sky, the car
goes off a bridge and then hits a hits a

(36:17):
wall beneath the bridge. Okay, I think it's Cameron Diaz, right,
and and I guess that footage is just available to license.
And whoever edited this episode was like, oh, there's that
that that car accident looks like a good thing for
us to cut too, not knowing that everyone would be like, well,
that's a very famous car accident from Vanilla's Guy. I

(36:39):
didn't know. I didn't. I you know, I didn't know
that you might have to go a little deep and
look on scrubs wiki, but I didn't know that without
looking at it. But I thought I thought it was
really interesting how the background in the car, because that
was clear that we were shooting on the green screen
right when I fall out, When I jump out of
the car and I'm rolling in the street, the cars
in the background react. She says, like twenty years ago, dude,

(37:01):
So you know that CG wasn't on point to where
they could make cards look real. So I wonder where
they got that footage from. Well, it was it was
definitely a two thousand and two effort, but it wasn't horrible,
which means it was a great effort. I thought it
looked great personally. What about bearded Elliott Gabby? You remember
that Elliott Elliott decides that she's she's not taking her

(37:24):
birth control pill for a full How long was it?
I forgot how it was like she forgot while she
was on vacation. So when she got back, she she
took them all. She took them all. Yeah, and asked
her how it went. And then she said, and it
cuts to her in the mirror looking like George like

(37:44):
with the hat, but she even has a hat on
and everything, dude, she even has a hat on. The
costume was amazing. It was very eighties. But she also
she has a full beard. And it's it's homecoming and
they're knocking on the door, going, honey, your homecoming dates here.
She's like, tell them, I'll be right down now. She
still stall them Stallo shaving cream. Hey, guys, I'm sorry

(38:06):
my computer is getting taken over. It's wild. I don't
know it's happening. Bill he's interrupting. Interrupting bit that's strange.
Costs a billion dollars for your podcast. Hey, Hey, Gabby, Zach,
Hey Donald, Hey, Daniel, Hey, Joel Hey five six seven eight. Look,

(38:35):
I think my podcast is going great. I'm happy to
have Gabby, Donald and Zach on it as a guest.
I'm happy that you guys are finally having a writer
on the show. I got two questions for you. One
is a question one. I want to force Gabby to
tell the story of how she was put on maternity

(38:55):
right now. It's just okay, yeah, you want me to
tell that right now? Okay, why were you on interning leave?
I mean, I know why you're putting the tree what
it's talking about. Yeah, the circumstances were that. So I
was incredibly pregnant towards you know, I was in my
eighth month, and I would waddle into work every day

(39:15):
and go right to that disgusting couch. Do you remember
that disgusting couch that we found a possum in. Yeah, yeah,
I did not know about. Oh yeah, there's nothing glamorous
about a TV writer's room. It looks and smells in
an abandoned hospital. Yeah, so I would every day. I
would waddle in and then go right to the couch

(39:37):
and fall asleep and so, and the couch was sort
of behind Bill's chair. And then I don't remember how
many times I did that, but it was I finally
attested Bill's patient was one too many times for Bill.
And I walked in. I'd driven all the way there.
I walked in, I waddled in, I got in the
couch and he turned around. He swiveled in his chair

(39:59):
towards me, and he said, go home. You're officially on
maternity leave. I do not want to see you again
until you have a baby. All right. So I just
got my stuff and I waddled out, and then I
didn't come back for months, and that was that. That
was my maternity leave. He could take away. He's like,
he's like, you can't just come in here and go
to sleep on the couch. I can't look at you anymore.

(40:22):
And it was too uncomfortable for everybody. So that was
my maternity leave, all right, Thank you Bill, Thank you Bill.
Go ahead, Okay. I hope she used the word waddle
because she would waddle in and then get on the
couch behind me and immediately go to sleep. That's how
it will work, circle to square bell and two. Here's
the question for you. Can you tell me why the

(40:46):
storyline of having Neil Flynn's character be an actor that
was in the movie The Fugitive made different people's head
explode as far as the janitor's name goes, Yes, because

(41:06):
if Neil Flynn is the person credited as being the
cop at the end of Fugitive, and he admits that
he's the cop at the end of The Fugitive, then
the janitor's name is Neil Flynn. That is correct. Donald.
So many people then started contacting me and saying that

(41:26):
we had written ourselves into a corner because that meant
that the janitor's actual name was Neil Flynn. Because in
the credits of The Fugitive, it says that that cop
that gets shot Kimbo, is played by Neil Flynn. But
I maintain that if you watch this episode, the janitor
lies constantly and Neil Flynn was simply the janitor's fake

(41:51):
actor name and still is because the janitor is a
real miss. You guys keep having writers on there. I
love you, uh, thank you for doing my show. Please
send the checks directly to my house because because you
know what, Bill needs guys cash more money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(42:13):
I feel bad for it for them. I hope it's
to be okay. I hope they're gonna be okay it. Yeah.
When I watched it today, they cut the scene out
where we're watching the fugitive at the end and you
look and see his name and the credits. Was it
in your version at all? Uh? No, I didn't No,

(42:34):
I never saw it. Didn't we go it wasn't there
a scene where we go to the credits and it
says in the credits janitor as it's going, No, we
may have shot that. I don't think that's in the episode.
Oh okay, Well that's let's ask Bill that all right?
All right? The problem it's a great question. Donald. I'm
gonna be honest. You carry this show. You carry it, Donald,
and I'm grateful for you guesting on my show. The

(42:56):
we did not record a scene, have you guys watching
the credits and seeing Neil Flynn's name, But you and
me and Zach and other people we on set, we
goofed and bandied about we were that that idea because
we were a little ahead of it. And I remember
distinctly talking about the fact that people are going to

(43:17):
think they know that the janitor's name is Neil Flynn now,
and they did. They reacted with an uproar, but they're wrong.
They're wrong. His name is Glenn math Hoof. I feel
terribly that I didn't watch the episode. Yeah, you're supposed
to watch the spot but it's okay, But you know,
I supposed. I didn't know that, did you, Guys? I
didn't know. I'm sorry. Well, I do want to say,

(43:38):
even though I care about you a great deal, that
you're not the you're not really crushing the assignment as
best first writer because you didn't watch an episode of
the show that you yourself wrote. Well, I didn't know
I was supposed to, but you said you listen to
the show though you know it's a rewatch show. Gabby,
I'm gonna quote the lyrics to America's favorite song Scrubs
Rewatch Show with Zach and Dan h terrible. I feel

(44:04):
like gonna know, well, every other writer will be told
what we will now. I bet you Neil will be
better prepared to call them the we will tell them,
we will use, we will use what we'll from here
on out, be called the Gabby example about how you
need to watch the episode. I'm not gonna lie, Gabby.

(44:26):
I'm just happy. I'm just so happy. We're just happy
to see you. I'm going to I'm sorry, I'm failing
you guys. No, no, no, you're not. You're doing such
a great listen as a fellow member of the tribe.
As a fellow member of the tribe, I don't want
you to spiral a weekend about this. You are amazing
kind you And what we'll probably do is what we'll
probably do is hire a sound like and and that

(44:47):
edits some some knowledgeable things from the episode in okay,
and I don't have to grow myself. All right, Look,
we're gonna go to a break. Yeah, we're gonna break.
And when we come back, we have a fan, Gabby,
you don't listen to show, but we have a fan.
The next question and I'll bet you the fan watch
the fucking episode. I'll be right back and we're back. Gobby.

(45:17):
What show are you doing now? I hear you have
a new show. Oh, thank you for asking, Zach and Donald,
thank you for asking. Uh my partner Jen Krittenden and
I are creating, are running a show called Housebroken. It's
a comedy. It's an animated show that will be on
Fox May seventeen, twenty one. We created it with Clea

(45:39):
Duval deep uh oh yeah. And it is about animals
and group therapy. So it's about a dog who has
group therapy for the neighborhood pets when her owner goes
to work for the day and all the pets come
together in her living room and bitch and moan about

(45:59):
their own nerves and each other, and this poodle voiced
by Lisa kudro uh takes some through their therapy. You know, Gabby,
I read for your pilot, like I read for like
five different characters. I didn't get one. Oh you know, Gabby,
I know I did a poor I know I did
a poor job, but damn I read five character, not one,

(46:21):
and I was one. Listen, I was. I'm literally fucking chicken.
Little Chicken, Little can't be one of the You guys
are both gonna be on it. I don't know if
you know, but I know the shows can star Wars
for a little bit for Disney. I mean, I'm just saying,
you guys don't have to audition. Donald. I'm sorry that
you had to go through that. You're both be on it.

(46:42):
I'm not. I would be honored if you had both
read for a dog. You know what. I want to say.
This is terrible and I'm sweating in my closet. That's
because that's because the air doesn't go in the closets.
I just can't wait for there to be a call,
like they really want Chicken Little to come on this
animal therapy show. What I'm gonna say, no, No, Chicken

(47:05):
Little's fucking saying no. I'm gonna say yes. I'm gonna say, Donald, Donald,
I appreciate that. I'm sorry, Zach. Can I tell just
you know, we're actors, Gabby. Anytime we hear about anyone
getting a job, we have to be like, why didn't
you give us that job? I'm sorry. I mean, Lisa
Kudrow is great, but come on, Donald, Oh, she's not

(47:26):
really awkward. And it's all right, you're doing great, You're
doing great. Let's let the guests in because this will
this will be. Now is your time to shine, Gabby,
because the guests always has a problem and we're gonna
help fix their life. All right, Let's okay, I can
do that. Yes, you're probably good at giving advice a mom. Alright,
both guests, Oh, both guests, Joel, what do you have

(47:47):
cooked up here today? What's going on? Oh, it's a couple.
They have a sweet story. And oh my god, Oh,
Lauren McCormick and Sam welcome to show. Oh my god,

(48:10):
you're fucking I've altered up out your head. You remember
in Peebe's Big Adventure in Large March, goes like that.
That's what happened to Donald. You guys, welcome to the program.
In addition to Daniel and Joelle and Donald and I,
you have one of our all star writers, Gabby Greenberg
right there and Gabby Alan Greenberg. Sorry, I married hyphen

(48:31):
it and tell us we hear you guys have some
special story involving your love. Yeah, let me guess you
guys are on two different coasts and are married. I'm
just going off the top here. I'm thinking it's just
me coming up with that idea. It's like a Sleepless
in Seattle type but only over zoom. Am I correct

(48:55):
that kind of I tell you, tell us, tell us
what the story is, guys. So yeah, go ahead. Yeah.
So we're both doctors and we met at university and
so we did a degree before we did medicine, so
we met her on that and I had never seen

(49:18):
Scrubs beforehand, and very very to say that, but Sam
was absolutely obsessed from like really yeah, so yeah, we
just we watched a lot of Scrubs and the early
days of Gone On, and he bought me the DVD
box sets and Scrubs just became like our thing. So

(49:40):
whenever we got into medicine, it was it was really
good because we were able to like answer some of
the questions and yes, we watched Scrubs and like all
of our study breaks and yeah, basically got us through you.
So it's been a really really big part of our stands.
And now you guys are married. Yeah yeah, yeah, you
look like you're at at at work because you're in

(50:03):
the scrubs. Yeah. Just I just finished like half an
hour ago. I just finished whips. And where are you
guys based? So I'm the Ulster Hospital. So we're in
Northern Ireland and so my hospital is just right side
Belfast and Sam's is two hours away from there. Oh no,

(50:24):
I'm not wrong about you guys together. It's not a
big country, but so usually when couples come on the show.
They're sitting right next to each other and everything, and
so how often do you get to see one another?
It sort of depends. So I live. We live quite
close to where I work, so I'm home pretty much

(50:45):
every night. And obviously it's not sustainable really for sand
the driver U from down to yours yours one way
twice a day, and so really just whenever we're off together,
which really doesn't happen very often. So next weekend I
am on and Sam's off and not just really, wow, well,

(51:05):
how long do you want to be doctors? For? Retire?
Or hopefully's married to last longer than the Men'll already
through your zoom vibe, but you're gonna be together for
a while. He was already ahead, Baby, whatever you want,

(51:27):
you say, it hurt and it'll last a long time. Yeah,
that's true if you want to each other. But I
feel sad about it. It made me think of that
song from American Tale, Somewhere out there and need the
pebbly night singing it, Someone's thinking of me and wishing
me good night somewhere out there. Go ahead, someone singing

(51:53):
a prayer that will find one another, and that great
somewhere out even though I know we are something we
might say Brad Star And when the night wind starts

(52:13):
to sing a lonesome lullabye, it helps to think we're
sleeping underneath the same big sky, oh somewhere for Sam
and Lauren. Can she see us? Love? Love can see us?

(52:37):
All right? All right, enough we get sued. We're about
to get sued by the Dawn Bluth movie American Tale.
I just think of this. I always think of star
Cross lovers at least going at least we're looking at
the same moon. So that's why I think of you guys. Look,
you know, when you say star Cross lovers, that reminds
me of another thing. I hate to do this to Lauren,

(52:59):
but it also reminds me Taylor Swift, because that's what
I thought she said, got a long list of ex lovers,
I thought she said. I thought she said something like
star Cross lover. Is this too? I'm going to Yeah,
that's the weed, the weeds kicking in. Now. You guys
don't have probably legal weed in in Northern Ireland, but
Donald really partakes. And they're also doctors, dude, they're doctors, man, doctors.

(53:22):
Now you can get an abortion now, right, So that's good.
Bring it to person, would rather get high, but whatever.
Victories where we all? Right? Do you guys have a
question for for any of us? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, sweet

(53:48):
honey in Disney Worlds last summer. So we're big Disney fans,
big sweet Disney world where Orlando, Florida, Florida. Yeah, okay,
I'm sweet. If there was any kind of steam park,
attraction or area you could create, what would it be? Oh,
if you could create your speaking of the right guy, Tom,
what would you create? And you can't say Star Wars?

(54:09):
Because please? Can's? Okay? I guess you can. Sam's a guest,
He says it can. Sam. Are you a big Star
Wars fan as well? Yeah? Okay, so what are you
gonna already? Man? Have you been watching it already? Yeah?
I lost the first episode? Have you seen the se
You haven't seen a second one? Right, don't blo the
fans on what world? Are you going to create? A

(54:30):
theme park? First of all? Fuck you? Second, if I
had to build a world and it was a theme park,
I would want to build an a very very immersive
world in like some type of future reality type thing.
It doesn't necessarily have to be Star Wars, but just
something something different. I think if we go future, you

(54:52):
can go heavy roller coaster, you can go heavy simulator,
you can go heavy you know, or I mean, because Westworld.
The only way that works is if it's all like
you know, if you can you know, get if you
could get that deep into a universe, that would be great.
So but I would personally want to do something futuristic

(55:12):
and you know, something that's a little bit of a
darker future for us. We're you know, we're cybernetic or
you know, like a ready player one kind of thing.
Sounds like what you're saying. I like that idea, but
I also like the idea of like Elysium or what
was the one with the District nine. I like that type.

(55:35):
Those are those are some really dope sci fi movies
to me, And that seems like that could be our future.
With all this pollution that we're doing and all of
these you know, all of this, uh looking into cloning
and looking into cybernet you know, we can build legs now,
we're working on arms. I feel like that would be
more of our future. So I would want to build

(55:55):
something that I think would be close to it. And
see if I was right. Like Back to the Future
was pretty close to the Cubs winning the World Series.
I would want to be close to something like I'm
gonna go the opposite way and say, I would build
the Goonies. Oh yes, and you would go on the
Quest everything chester Copper Pot. It would be you would

(56:17):
be trying to find Chester Copper Pot with your group.
It would combine. Oh, you would actually do like a
real like the real Goonies movie. You would just go
Scavenger Hunt and now make it sick and no, it's
the size of Disneyland, but it's Goonies. If that's the case,
I would do total recall. Okay, if you gotta go

(56:38):
on movies, Okay, Next question, guys, Next question, Did playing
doctors ever make you want to actually be a doctor
or no? If anything, playing a doctor made me realize
I did not want to be a doctor. Well for
me made guys. You guys have a very difficult job
that requires saving people, and there's a lot of pressure

(57:01):
in that and sometimes you're going to fail and I
don't know how well I could handle that. And you
have to have a lot of stamina and a lot
of constitution to be able to do such things. I
actually did CPR on someone and they did not survive. Yeah,

(57:23):
are you serious? I never told you that story. Are
you serious? Act? Yeah. I was a part of a
rescue squad team in high school. I was the junior person,
so don't get me wrong. They were paramedics, there were EMTs,
and I was like the cadet. You know, they had
a cadet program to train. It was kind of the
show seventeen eighty year olds, Would you want to pursue medicine?

(57:44):
That's how I saw it. And I went on I
don't know about one hundred calls, and only maybe five
of them were super serious. Yeah, And then on one
of them, I was one of the people participating in
doing CPR, obviously with paramedics and EMTs next to me,
but we all took turns with the compression and that
person did not ever come back. And I think early
on I was like, Wow, I don't know that I

(58:06):
could have this be a regular part of my life.
I've always always had such admiration for people that could
could do That's that's some hero stuff right there. Man,
that's true hero stuff. To the other aspect of it
is is that I think Donald and I would both
admit that we're not academics and the amount of school
and well, you're more acade. Your your academic level is

(58:28):
way more than mine. You graduated Northwestern, right, I graduated
my professional children school, and then a lot of that
ship was on favors from my teachers. All right, well,
I can say that neither one of us had the
commitment to studying that you guys needed to have. And
so we applaud our medical heroes for that and for

(58:49):
being able to do CPR and sometimes not bring someone
back and go Okay, onward, here we go, and I
think we all applaud that. All right, what kind of
medicine are you guys? And before we move forward? And
so over here we do like, yeah, foundation training and
then you decide sort of what you want to do
after that and specialize the we're still within the like

(59:10):
foundation training, so we haven't actually subspecialized yet. But yeah,
there's a lot of choice for nature of where the
characters are in scrubs. Are you guys are very you
guys are like internship? Yeah, Well, I think you guys
need to have your lives fixed because we got to
solve this this separated thing. Gabby, we do a segment

(59:32):
now called fix your Life, and it's time. Donald's ready,
it is time to fix your life. And I don't
know if you're going to bring up this separated lovers thing.
But how can we help? Okay? So my wife asked

(59:53):
me pretty much every day when we can? Yeah, when
you can have kids? Yes, you know about Laura. There
she is. There's our girl, and I am great idea,

(01:00:13):
definitely her feature. But I also I also think with
the being an alp side of the country and very
difficult schedules, it's still right another. But I guess no, Donald,
I'm Donald? Or does both you guys? Is there ever wait, Daniel,
you're a dad? No? No, Donald's resident Donald resident dad.

(01:00:36):
I'm normly dad on yeah, do you panic? I love
how Daniel's face was like, hello, all right, what's your question?
How how can we help? Is there ever a good
time to have what to have kids? Yeah? Or do something?
Ma good time? Uh? Wow, Gabby, you could totally talk

(01:00:58):
about that. Let's give I'll be a chance to talk,
because this is something Gabby can speak to speak to you. No,
you can speak on so many things. Look, when it
happens it happens, no matter when it happens. If you
want it to happen and it happens, it's always a
great thing, you know. And sometimes a surprise is a

(01:01:20):
great thing too. I'm someone who's had several surprises in
his life and so uh and they all are the
most amazing things that I've ever experienced, over and over again.
And so if you guys are into it and you
want to do it, it's always a good time. If

(01:01:42):
you're not into it, it and it just so happens, Yeah,
you have a decision to make, but that's a good
time too, you know. Uh. And you're never ready, You're
never prepared, and so it doesn't matter. Gabby, what about you?
What are your thoughts on it? Uh? I think if
you want to do it, you do it, and you

(01:02:04):
just make it work. You know. It's one of those things.
Is it ever a good time? I mean for me personally,
I really felt and I know it's different for everybody
and everyone's situations are so different, but for me, I
really felt like I was ready. I really wanted to
have children. I felt ready to have children, and you know,

(01:02:25):
life is always going to throw your curveballs and things
you're gonna shift and change, and you just I think
you just have to have the attitude that you'll make
it work no matter what. And you do we have
to do if that's what you want, and h you know,
but nobody knows better than you, guys, if it's the
right time. And I will say, you know, it's the

(01:02:45):
most annoying, hardest job ever ever, but you know it's
it's one that you will you never regret. I mean,
you were always you're always happy. You can't imagine. It's like,
it's like you can't imagine your life without it, and
you don't want to. But man is it. It's hard.

(01:03:05):
So I'm not going to sugarcoat it. You know, it's hard.
It's great and it's great, Donald, I mean like it's
great and it's and then when you're bitching and bitching
and bitching and bitching about it all the time, then
you miss every phase terribly. Like my kids are not
thirteen and sixteen. I'm desperately miss like having the littles
and the cuddle time and I'm watching them, you know,

(01:03:30):
you know, have autonomy and they don't want to hang
out with me anymore, and it's horribly heartbreaking after bitching
for years about how I had no free time. So
you know, it's it's just uh, but it's it's the
greatest thing. If you want it, it's the greatest thing.
So I guess my advice would be, just make sure
you really want it, and then you'll make it work

(01:03:50):
no matter what. I guess. If you know, we never
really get huge, ringing endorsements for having children. Everybody who
anybody who comes on, it's no, but you know what,
because what you get from people is the truth. Though. Man,
that ship is the hardest thing you're ever gonna do

(01:04:11):
in your life, man, and and and Gabby's right. Kids
are so fucking annoying. Man, It's ridiculous, man, Like so annoying,
like to the point where you want to strangle them,
like you want literally you want to grab them and
choke them. But then you're like, but then I won't
have this anymore, and I have to have this forever. Absolutely,

(01:04:32):
It's like it's like it's uh, it's such a I'm salivating,
that's how much I love my children. I think, like
everything in life, you just have to go into it
knowing that. And I think that's what people don't talk about.
And that's why I like to talk about it honestly,
is that there's there's your it's you gain so much

(01:04:54):
and that's the part that you know is amazing and
you'll never look back and grab it. You know, you
lose something too, and I think you always have to
weigh those things with every big step in life. You
know you're gonna you're you're gonna game while you lose,
and it's complicated, and you just kind of I think
you would go in with your eyes open. Then it'll
it's it's it's awesome, but it's definitely not for the

(01:05:16):
faint of hurt. But you're right about that. You are
gonna you are You do lose something, but you're gonna
get it back. But when you get it back, it's
just like you said everything. That's why maybe you know,
having this podcast is like birth control. Yeah, bros, Oh

(01:05:39):
oh no, we lost her back? Get her back? Yeah?
Can I say something really quick? Yeah? Yeah, this want
to thank you guys for making this podcast. So like
when when the COVID started the first time, in the
first left one, the news was depressing. To be honest,
I stopped listening to the news. It was hard to
go to work every day and one the kisses we're

(01:06:00):
coming in. So I started listening to the podcast every
day on the way to work and I still did.
It's the perfect length of them are and I'll have
to get me to from home to work. Yeah, thank
you so much for making this. You're very sweet. That's
very nice. You're a very nice man. And thank you
for dedicating your life to helping people. We really really
thank you and we love doing it. And the fact

(01:06:22):
that people feel that way, especially especially people in the
medical field, it warms our hearts. So thank you, all right,
And I hope one day that I'm as soft spoken
as you are. I don't think it's going to happen.

(01:06:43):
I'm a loud mouth. I can be obnoxious, but one day,
when I grow up, I want to be soft spoken
and maybe an Irish act. I really hope you've got
to get to spend some more time together. Yeah, can't
you get a job at this one hospital? Can Donald
make a call? I mean, how do we get you
cloud in Ireland? I'm gonna tell you right now. They Loveland, Ireland?

(01:07:05):
It Yeah, one day, one day, one day, all right, guys,
we gotta go. But thank you so much and good luck.
Thank you so much. Send us pictures, Send us pictures.
When you do decide to have a baby, we want
to see it. Hi, guys, very sweet people. My computer froze.
Did you watch the episode real quick? And your time away?

(01:07:27):
Were you able to watch the episode? Look, you guys,
you know I don't listen on Fridays. Oh, hopefully have
a new verse of the song. Gabby doesn't watch episode
she's supposed to watch on Fridays. You knew what you
were getting into. It's Friday. I told you, all right, looks,
let's get gammy. You know something that I remember, just

(01:07:47):
to go back into this, Yeah, you're a big Star
Wars fan. I ain't a big Star Wars fans. I knew.
I knew that. I remember. I did remember that because
I remember being blown away and being like, I remember
we were outside and we were filming outside. It was
one of your shows, and I was like, and you

(01:08:08):
said something about Star Wars. And I was sitting at
Video Village and I turned around and I kept trying
to have conversations with you guys about it, but there
was work to be done. But I was staying in
Video Village and I said a few things and you're like, oh, absolutely,
and then you ran off with something else. I was like,
holy shit, she's a real Star Wars fan. This isn't
this isn't just you know, I'm a real Star Wars fan.

(01:08:31):
I'm not as big a fan as you, because it's
definitely it's it's way, you know, just I don't watch
The Mandalorian, but you should. As someone who's not into
Star Wars. It's the thing I like most, to be honest,
Oh really yeah. I find it very very entertaining, and
it's incredibly executed. And as a film geek, they're they're

(01:08:55):
doing things. The way they're shooting and technologically is like
brand new and interesting and probably the future of the
way they're going to do visual effects. And so it's, uh,
it's John Favreau is just you know, uh, killing it,
and and I just think it's really well done. It's
just crazy when you talk like when you say that,

(01:09:16):
when you say John Favreau doing this, that's one of
those who knew, you know what I mean. He's kind
of like George Lucas who knew that they're his tech
and the things that he experienced while doing Lion King
and all of that stuff would be at the forefront.
He's not just making cinema and television and movies and
stuff like that. He's in he's reinventing it. And yeah,
but it's even more than the tech he learned on

(01:09:37):
all that stuff they're doing with Lion King and Jungle Book.
It's like, you know, there's no there's no green screen,
like if you you know, I know, if you want
to geek out, if you want to geek out, watch
behind the scenes of the man. No, I'm telling the
audience first of all, it's all everything you see there.
Like I'm just as an example, the Stormtroopers with Jason
Sadikas in the middle of the desert. There's no desert,

(01:09:59):
there's no it's all on stage. There's no exteriors. I mean,
if there's an ex series, it's contained in a very
small area. It is all and there's no green screen.
It is it is unbelievable technology. And and if you're
a film geek, it's something you should watch because it's
definitely going to be how more and more things are made.
We should probably we should talk about Scrubs for a second,

(01:10:20):
probably right this episode. Yeah, yeah, let's get into a
shafts Donald Fazon doing a big Shaft number. Who is
the doc that bon't cop out when no attendants are
about turk? Damn skippy. I've never seen a Shaft film,

(01:10:40):
not even the ones with Sam Jackson. I don't know
if that's controversial or not. No, I've never seen I've
never seen the one with Sam Jackson, the one, the first,
The first Shaft movie with Sam Jackson is everybody's introduction
to Jeffrey Wright. I suggest you go and check that
shit out, The one with Sam Jackson in it, the
first JAFF movie. Jeffrey Wright plays the bad guy. Kristen

(01:11:03):
Bale's in it too, Jeffrey Wright, and and and uh
what's the old man? Oh? Such a great actress? How
could I forget her name? Vanessa Williams? No, no, no,
but I'm saying, did you watch as a child? She
might be in it too, though she had such a
great actress? Did you as a child? No? But I

(01:11:24):
know Richard brown Tree is but did you watch Joelle
or Daniel or I'm assuming not you, Gabby. Did you
guys watch these sort of No? I wasn't allowed to.
I wasn't allowed to watch some of them because of
the content as a youth, but as I got older, Yes, absolutely, yeah,
my dad did not bother with ratings or anything. We

(01:11:47):
watched all of the action movies, like, starting at six,
watched Stormship Troopers when it came out, So he definitely
watched a lot of shaft. Yeah. Similarly, after the fact
rose a little bit older, my dad was like, let
me show you some other stuff. I was like, okay,
let me show you the good shit. Like I like,
I had to convince my parents to let me watch
the A Team. Dude, like that ship was tough. Oh really, Yeah.

(01:12:09):
I had to tell him. I would be like, no
nobody dies in the A Team, Dad, It's just a
bunch of people getting thrown out of cars and stuff
like that. By the way, it's funny in the eight Team. Yeah,
they specifically made it so no one everyone's firing machine guns,
but no one gets hurt. No one ever gets shot.
No one's like g I Joe the cartoon. They're always
like a plane blows up and then you see everyone
jump out. You see the parachute last second. Collette, Yes,

(01:12:35):
Tony Colette, great actress. I laughed about the janitor and
his multiple characters that he plays around the hospital. There's
this to talk about German, there's the British guy. I
want to talk about this also, because that's one thing
that we don't go into a lot, the janitor storyline.
We kind of gloss over it every day. This was

(01:12:56):
one of those storylines though, where it was like this
could have been in This could have been an a
storyline and everybody would have been into it. It was
one of those very funny him him talking to you
and then the guy coming up today all right, Nigel,
good night and him going good night. That shit fucking
had me laughed so hard, dude, And I don't mean

(01:13:16):
to laugh at people who stutter, but that shit was
a great transition from him ragging with ragging on you
guys are so say dude. So I thought that was funny. Yeah,
I don't know how much we explored that as the
show went on, but the fact that everyone and no
one in the hospital really sees this same person he plays.
He plays at least four people amongst the staff of

(01:13:40):
Sacred Heart. It's like Nigel the stuttering guy, Klaus the German,
and then there's a British guy, right, something like that.
How about when night when I, oh, no, wait, but
it is Nigel. Nigel is the is the is the
British guy? Classic Nigel, Classic Nigel, who says classic Nigel.

(01:14:08):
I thought when I take there as a flashback when
I took an I'm bragging about saving an old man's
life and I bring him to a party and this
actor must be nine years old, but he goes. I
thought you said there'd be some bitches here, and I go,
we just got here, man, look around. It's always funny

(01:14:29):
when old people swear yes, it's easy, it always works.
I remember thinking this guy should not be like out
and about like this man. This man, this man needs
to be at home in bed. I mean he was
so old. How about Doc from the Love Boat but yeah,

(01:14:51):
Doc from the Love Boat Bertie Copel, Yes, yeah he was, Yeah,
yeah it was. That was cool. And Sarah I thought
was was very good in this episode when she she
loses him but she kind of hushed around. I thought
it was interesting contrast from the pilot us running when
there's a code and hiding in the closet to now

(01:15:15):
running to compete to who can get the glory for
trying to save somebody's life. It was you know this.
Many episodes later, I noticed that they had to find
a way to get Elliott back to one in a
lot of ways, because when we last left off, Elliot's
on the come up, right, So she has a boyfriend,

(01:15:37):
her job is, she's doing great at her job, her
confidence level is at it's all time high. Right, And
then we stopped talking about her for a couple of
only a couple of episodes. We now focus on JD's
new love interest for two episodes, and when we come
back to Elliott, now she's starting to unravel again and

(01:16:00):
she talks about it in the show too, but she
she puts it off on JD, like, all of this
is happening to me because of how you reacted to
our breakup. Well, she's saying, she's saying, you're not over it.
You're just using Tara Reid's character Danny Ash trying to
make me jealous. Right, You're clearly just being a dick
because you still have feelings for me and you're mad

(01:16:23):
at me, and you're being passive aggressive, that's what she's saying.
But this goes back to what we were talking about
in the last episode, where she was teasing you where
she was, where she was doing all of these things
like bending over in front of you and smacking your
ass and yawning in front of you. And we asked
the question whether that was on purpose or by accident,

(01:16:43):
if she knew she was doing it, or was she
playing with j D. And now we come to this
episode and it definitely feels like she was fucking with
j D back then and she's doing and now and
now now all of those things that worked aren't working
because his focus is on uh, Danny, it's it's on

(01:17:04):
tera Ree's character. I don't really think he likes Danny
that much. I think that, you know, obviously, I think
she's I think she's absolutely right, But I think TERA's
about I mean, I'm sorry, I think Elliot's absolutely right
about what's going on with JD. This is what makes
the show so fucking dope, you know what I mean?
Like you come back to it now and you can
recognize all of this stuff in your life or you've

(01:17:24):
seen it in your friend's life and everything like that.
When we were going through this, I didn't I couldn't
see any Like I watched the doctor Cox character and
the Jordan character, and that that really entertains me, not
so much with the with Us anymore, like Turk JD
and Elliot's fun to watch, but really, where I get
my where I get my meat, and the things that

(01:17:44):
I can relate to now are with the Cox character
and with the you know, the mentor character and having
to and maybe it's because I'm getting older, but it
just shows how you're going through that stage of your life.
But it just shows how great this show is. It's like,
all right, everybody can find something in here, whether you're
a beginner or you're a veteran, you know what I mean.

(01:18:05):
There's something in here for everyone. There's comedy and life
lessons in here for everyone. It's easy to find. And
that's what makes this show so dope. What about when
Todd says I'm not allowed to call you vagina face? Right?
That should have me roll? Oh wait, hold up, so
he could call it right? He could go Wait, I
broke those down. He's all, wait, so he could call

(01:18:26):
you smell it, but I'm not allowed to call you
vagina face. And she's like getting different Todd. I love
the Todd so much. He holds a special place in
my heart. He really gets a lot of laughs. I
gotta tell you that it's always funny. The high fives
are always funny. Yeah, another thing I was thinking about,
and this is just food for thought for all of
the fans out there. It would have been interesting to see,

(01:18:51):
you know, we talk about JD's joining and this is
how JD you know, and at the end he finds
Elliott and they go off together and live happily ever after.
Another version of this show is her side of the story,
you know. And I know we tried to do it
with the uh with the spinoff and everything uh and
and and and carry Bische's character on the show and

(01:19:13):
trying to show somebody who was a lot like JD.
But Elliott in so many ways. You know, that inner
monologue would be crazy to listen to. Uh And So
I within watching this show. I'm really looking forward because
of this show. I'm really looking forward to when it's
her story. Yeah. Yeah, and you're gonna get that coming up.

(01:19:34):
It's coming up, people. I think we did it, guys.
That's oh one last thing. Yeah, the Naked Rule? Did
you not? Did you did that skip over you guys?
Did you guys not catch the Naked Rule? So Carlo
says something that said something to Turk and it was
like a It was like, I'm gonna help you. I

(01:19:56):
need you to help me move some stuff. But she
was naked when he when she said it, and he
was like, oh yeah, absolutely, no problem. He said. Yeah.
He's like, so from here on out, the naked rules
and effect, you can't ask me to do anything when
when when when when you're naked. And she's like all right, fine,
he goes, I love the naked rule that he used
to retroactively. Yeah, and right, I'm gonna use it so

(01:20:18):
I can use it retroactively. Right when you said, Donald,
you said this woman was the young Carla Espinoza when
you call the nurse you said she was you were
you were saying you said about carl like she's the
young Carla Espinoza about some other woman. Yeah, he's trying
to explain, like put you you had the hospital. He

(01:20:39):
thought she was attractive or something like she's the young you. Right,
that's the true that's a true story based on Rob
my husband telling me that this girl that he thought
was attractive was the young Gabby Allen and thought that
that sounded like a compliment. He's like, but she's the
young Gabby Allen. Oh that was spripped from the headlines

(01:21:01):
of My Life. Does your husband play? Does your husband
play golf? No? He does not? He does it interesting? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you should really get him into it right now. Okay,
you'll never see him again. I'm Gabby. Next time you
have to watch the episode. Yes, obviously, again, it was

(01:21:24):
fun to have you because you're but we always we
always record on Friday too. Yes, okay, well, if you
guys give me another chance, we will in the world
everything and I will do we can let the fans vote.
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no. Okay, I'll take notes
and I'll be so perhaps such a good student, I

(01:21:45):
would be prepared. All right, this was really fun things
always good to see you. It's great to see you,
see you guys, good to see you. And and hey, fans,
thanks for tuning in to the program. And uh we
we appreciate you for listening. We we love to hear
that you're you're liking it, especially like our guests who
said he it's perfect timing for his commute. Let's just

(01:22:08):
let's before we before we close out. I just want
to put it out there, man, our frontline workers are
back in the hospitals once again, all throughout the world.
Throughout the world, we're seeing spikes in COVID, and our
doctors and our nurses, and our everyone who works in medicine,
and our frontline workers who work on the streets and

(01:22:32):
in stores to support all of our you know, glorious
habits and stuff like that. We need to really shout
them out and give them a lot of love because
we're going right back into this dangerous territory and they're
on the front lines facing it head on. So shout
out to all of the frontline workers, whether no matter
what it is you do, if you are an essential worker,

(01:22:52):
if you are in somebody's face and you have to
worry about them coughing or breathing on you, shout out
to you. God, bless you. I'm bless you, and please
be safe everybody, and we love you. Thank you to Daniel,
thank you to Joelle, Thank you to Gabby Alan Greenberg.
And and now we sing this song. Donald do it.
My six seven night stories about Shure we made about

(01:23:17):
a bunch of docs and nurses and the janitor who
loved me. Here said he's the stories. Netel should no
so gathering around you. Here are gathering around you, Here
are respect for you, Watch your wisd