Episode 11
Zach Braff
He looks like Dax Shepard, but he's not Dax. His mix of drama and comedy gets him mixed up with Dax more often than not. He comes by the attic to stare at himself deeply in the eyes. No, wait those are Dax's eyes. The confusion and rock hardness in their groins as they look at each other is awe-inspiring.
What's this all about?
Zach mostly touches on his early beginnings and how he got involved in acting. There is a tendency to talk about masturbation and how both Dax and Zach dealt with there hormones during their teen years. Whether it’s Dax humping a rock or Zach trying to score a sweet lantern battery from his hot babysitter. This episode is a coming of age tale about two young men that will eventually look eerily similar. Listen to it here.
What did they say?
- @3:39 “Let me tell you what hurts my feelings when they find out I’m not you.” Zach talks about the career similarities both of them share, and how Zach’s lack of a wife is always the giveaway when someone thinks he is Dax.
- @7:56 “I was dating one of your co-stars, Bonnie Somerville.” Zach was dating Bonnie Somerville while she was filming “Without A Paddle” with Dax in New Zealand.
- @9:38 “I mean the dude is ripped.” Zach’s doctor likes to point out to him how good Dax looks in Chips. Sounds like Zach needs a good workout routine.
- @18:26 “You could maybe not say ejaculet.” Dax talks about his “Mr. Fantastic” style fathering techniques. It consists of telling his kids how babies are really made.
- @29:39 “I did learn to adapt by becoming the class clown.” Zach discusses how he was able to still attract ladies in high school by becoming a class clown. Dax attracts the ladies with his dance moves.
- @30:29 “Like Justin Timberlake, he’s doing OK.” Dax airs his grievances with Justin Timberlake since he has successfully married both dancing and comedy.
- @34:50 “Did you read Siddhartha as a kid?” Dax mentions the book Siddhartha again.
- @39:08 “There’s nothing worse than having to write and there’s nothing better than having written.” Bill Lawrence tells Zach how he feels about writing. Dax mentions the Lawrence Kasdan quote again.
- @40:53 “I give myself permission to write something terrible.” Dax tells himself to keep writing no matter what comes out onto the page. Words of wisdom for any writer.
- @47:53 “These coats are rated to -65 degrees” Zach finds out how cold it gets in the Lake Michigan area while attending Northwestern University.
- @50:20 “I would see this porno at like ten years old, and it looked like a homicide to me.” Dax recalls seeing a porno when he was ten years old and it wasn’t pretty.
- @50:38 “I remember a babysitter taking us to see Revenge of the Nerds” Zach remembers seeing Revenge of the Nerds with his hot babysitter. Dax, Monica and Zach point out how wrong the movie is when it comes to treatment of women. Zach tries to impress his babysitter by wanting a lantern battery for his birthday.
- @54:22 “You fucked a rock.” Dax tells the story about how he used to have a dream where he humped a rock.
- @57:27 “I wince a lot at old stuff I’ve done.” Zach goes over his old classwork from college and talks about the how pretentious it was. He mentions movies Amelie, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children.
- @59:37 “I got cast in a production of MacBeth” Zach is cast in a production of MacBeth. The cast consists of Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Liev Schreiber and Michael C. Hall. It was directed by George C. Wolfe.
- @1:04:53 “My parents loaned me $5,000 to buy a car.” Zach buys a car when he gets to Hollywood. It’s a Nissan 240SX. Dax says that Nissan made a Japan only version named the Highline.
- @1:10:13 “I was vindicated.” Zach talks about the struggle he had getting “Garden State” made, and how its success gave Zach some extra confidence, which became dangerous. Dax talks about M. Night Shyamalan. Zach brings up why he thinks “The Last Kiss” didn’t do well in the America.
- @1:18:16 “Brad Pitt is talking to you!” Dax talks about one of his biggest highlights to date from his career in acting and directing. Brad Pitt tells Dax at an award show that he loved his movie “Hit and Run”. Of course this means Dax was grinning ear to ear during the in memoriam.
- @1:25:42 “You met Natalie Portman at an Arby’s.” Zach talks about meeting Natalie Portman at The Newsroom Cafe (not Arby’s) to discuss doing “Garden State”.
- @1:29:45 “I’m rock hard don’t get me wrong.” Dax and Zach discuss what it’s like to be looking at one another. They marvel at how much they look alike and their similar expressions.
- @1:31:56 “It was that moment in Shaun of the Dead” Dax tells the story about the first time he met Zach and how Dax’s booth at the restaurant mirrored the same configuration of Zach’s booth. This is the moment that Dax mentions from Shaun of the Dead.
- @1:45:43 “I’ve been watching the Ron Howard Masterclass.” Zach promotes Masterclass, and Dax says everyone should get in their Nissan 240SX and go to a Masterclass.
These are the facts...
- @1:53:13 The Fact Check begins
- Monica has a brat streak
- Frozen made $1.276 Billion Worldwide
- Monica and Dax mention Merch for the first time. The infamous left handed mugs are mentioned.
- Garden State and Without a Paddle came out July and August of 2004 respectively.
- The Groucho Marx quote mentioned by Zach is “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.
- 72% of women would want to date Justin Timberlake. At least according to Monica.
- The Power of Habit is a book by Charles Duhigg, and possibly the one Zach was talking about reading.
- Landmark Forum is a 3 day long seminar.
- Northwestern does not have a good rowing team. Harvard’s rowing team is ranked 16th.
- Rob Lowe has sex with his friend’s mom in the movie “Class”.
- In “Revenge of the Nerds” they say “We got Bush”.
- Shiksa is a disparaging term for a Non-Jewish woman.
- Punk’d came out in 2003. Dax was 28.
- Nissan Skyline was the Japanese only version of the 240SX. The Sylvia is also mentioned here.
- Zach was 26 when he got Scrubs, not 24.
- Keyser Soze is from Usual Suspects.
- Monica thinks there should be more discussion about female masturbation.
- Dax tries to get Monica to reveal her masturbation habits. She doesn’t tell.
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