Hollywood Shuffle: ER edition

Can Ben and Krystina convince Skin to watch the current ER drama - the Pitt?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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time for this moves hot God, stay on top in

(00:21):
the shovel shut all right. The other day, Christina mentioned
a TV show that totally, uh caught my fancy. I
had not heard of it prior to that, didn't know
anything about it. And it's called The Pit, and you
referenced it in a way that it sounded like it
had started taking up a lot of your time because

(00:42):
you were so into it. Is that fair?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I yeah, the the events that unfold in it, all
the characters, they're just really intriguing, and I loved it.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I loved that show. Did you end up watching that
with Black Nitro or was that a solo mission? No?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I watched it with Black Nitro, and then I got
my mom to watch it as well.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, yeah, okay, So I heard her say the Pit
and I was like, I don't even know what that is.
I thought it was maybe some sci fi thing like
I watched this thing on Apple TV called The Silos'
is what it's called. And I was like, oh, I
wonder if it's like that. You know, Hollywood starts making
things that are very similar to one another. I did.
I really didn't know anything about it. And my wife

(01:18):
and I are trying to find things that we can
watch together, and it's really hard because all she watches
is like The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Herpes Island, Senior Citizen,
Herpe's Island, like all those things, young people banging in
corpus yep. Like those types of shows are all she watches.
And so my wife only watches International House Hunters. That's it.

(01:39):
Or she was like, she was like what do you
what do you I was like, let's watch the show
together and she was like, well, what do you want
to watch? And this was Friday night and I go, well,
Christina's been talking about this show, The Pit and she
goes Pit, like is it about Brad Pitt? Like what
what is it? And so she looked it up. She
goes it looks like it's like about a hospital. I

(02:00):
was like, oh really, I had no idea, and so
we just started watching it. And we watched the entire
season by the end of the weekend. Really nice. We
watched it, and I think it was fifteen episodes or so.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It was a lot and each episode's about an hour long.
So yeah, good for you guys. It's HBO, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I believe it is HBO, but you know, we didn't.
We watched it, I guess on Max SBO Max. So
it's like I didn't really watch it on HBO necessarily whatever.
But anyways, yeah, I never know where show comes from
these days, you know, you just watch it when you
watch it. Yeah, but I was like, okay, I was like, man,
this is very similar to the ear to ER I think,

(02:40):
although I never watched R ER ran from nineteen ninety
four to two thousand and nine. It regularly had twenty
to thirty million viewers. At one point was doing a
twenty two household rating, which means twenty two percent of
households in America that own a television. We're watching ER.
Was that George Clooney's first thing, That's what blew him up? Okay,

(03:01):
And you want to hear something funny about that show.
And Noah Wyley, the Star of the Pit, was on
that show, Yes, but something funny. So that was you know,
mid nineties when it got going. I was kind of
dating a girl.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
It wasn't serious or whatever. Different era, No DVR, no,
nothing like that. I didn't have a cell phone. I
didn't even have a pager yet. I don't think I
called her on a Thursday at seven point thirty when
ER was on. She was really upset with me. And
this is again there's no DVR. You don't tape things

(03:36):
and watch them later. Different era. It pretty much ended it. Yeah,
like she was because she had gone to medical school.
Oh so pretty much that was the end of I
was like, man, what a bitch. All right, I'm good
because she was so into ER. It was such a
pervasive thing.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh and you should call her up about this show
as well, because I know a lot of doctors and stuff.
They're saying, this is like the closest thing they've ever seen. Yeah,
like a real life emergency room.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It is incredible. So it's it's and Noel Wiley wrote
a couple episodes for it. He's very involved in the
writing of it. And he was of course in the
Er and now he's in this. He's a totally different role.
He was the young guy in R now he's the old,
crafty veteran in charge in this one. But it is this,
you know, it's this emergency room in Pittsburgh, and it
happens in real time, and so their shift from whatever

(04:24):
their shift is, six am to six pm, whatever it
may be. Each episode is another hour within that all
takes place in one day. Oh cool, and it shows
you just the mad house that it is to work
in an R and how there's constantly injuries and crisis
is coming in and it's just total chaos and the
stress that it puts on these people is almost unimaginable.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
And it also shows like the the corporate aspects of
it as well, like they don't they can't pay these
nurses enough so they can't keep it fully staffed. And
then it's going back and forth on all that part
of that side of things as well. So it's just
it's really really good.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Cool. Yeah, it's really good. But I was sitting there going, man,
what a great thing to do a TV show on
because it's constant drama. And but my wife struggled with
it initially. She was like, it's not going anywhere. They're
just showing all these people coming in and out. I
was like, what are you talking about? You can feel
this underlying thing happening, But because they did it in

(05:20):
real time, it's hard to like, I don't know, get
these big, rich, deep things in one hour at work, right, Yeah,
so it kind of develops over the course of the day.
And you know what you guys are describing it sounds
to me in the way you just talking about the
crumbling of our health system. Y, yes, and you know

(05:41):
to me, that's like, that's what the wire was. And
one of the criticisms of the wire was that it
took so long to develop, but it was layer upon
layer upon layer, because that's how structures crumble. They crumble
under the weight of everything that they can't support. They're
dependent on the satisfaction store score from patient, but the
patients are forced to wait because they can't hire enough

(06:03):
nurses to get to all them quickly. Yeah. And also
like you know, a lot of times is the insurance
worked out because they're not going to see you if
the insurance isn't there exactly yep, man, what a mess. Anyways,
highly recommend the pit Thank you for that recommendation, Christina.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Then all right.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Coming up next, we're going to keep the ball with Christina.
It's time for Christina's cookie jar. Where are you going
to take us? Uh?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, Ben, I am officially a part of a Denk
couple and I'll explain next