Feb. 25, 2026

Nate Bargatze’s ‘Greatest Average American’ Premieres, and Scrubs is back!

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac hosts Daily Comedy News and focuses on ABC’s TV night featuring the Scrubs reboot and Nate Bargatze’s new game show The Greatest Average American, premiering right after Scrubs.

He shares the show’s premise (contestants predict how everyday Americans think and live), the $67,920 “average American salary” grand prize, and Bargatze’s comments about creating the show, doing challenges without advance knowledge, and hoping the prize tracks changes in the economy.

Johnny compares the concept to an older Jim Breuer/Jeff Foxworthy bit about being “in touch,” and jokes about his own trivia night plans and possible jury duty.

He also runs through Chowhound’s ranking of John Mulaney’s non-alcoholic beers (Classic Pale third, Belgian Wit second, Original Pilsner first), mentions Ready Steady Cut’s 3.5/5 review of Taylor Tomlinson’s new special (including discussion of religious trauma and coming out as bisexual), and reports that Russell Brand pleaded not guilty to charges in London with trial expected in June.

00:00 Daily Comedy News Intro
00:21 Scrubs And Nate Game Show
03:08 Out Of Touch Game
05:45 Prize Money And Format
08:58 Mulaney NA Beer Ranking
11:13 Taylor Tomlinson Review
12:23 Russell Brand Court Update
12:57 Jackie Kashian Special Plug
14:38 Scrubs Reboot Reviews
19:16 Dr Cox

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy

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comedians in the comedy industry. How about that State of

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the Union. Huh, We'll talk about that one tomorrow because

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we have so much to talk about today. Plus I

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went to bed big TV day. We have the Scrubs reboot.

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I have lived long enough that Scrubs came back. Well,

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don't chink yourself, John, If nothing horrible happens today, well one,

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if two things are gonna happen, I'm either gonna watch

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the Scrubs reboot or this is the final episode of

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Daily Comedy News. Hopefully there'll be an episode tomorrow. You

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know what I'm saying. Oh wait, No, I record earlier

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in the day, so it's possible that I record Thursday's episode,

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then something horrible happens, and then Thursday is the final episode.

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So if there's not a show Friday, call my wife.

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I digress. Scrubs is back, and Nate Brigatzy's Game show

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is around.

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Now.

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I was thinking I was gonna be coy and say that.

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A friend of mine said, there's no way this thing's

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going to be good, right. But then I realized Nate's

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never doing the show. And I say that because when

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he announced his book, I reached out six months before

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the book came out, and this is before he really popped,

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and the agency types that run Hollywood and run show

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business decided Nate was it. Before any of that, I

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reached out and I still didn't get him, So there's

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no chance of him doing the show now. So I'll

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just say it. There's no way this thing's gonna be good, right.

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A press release from ABC shared a description of the show,

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The Greatest Average American, which premieres today on ABC right

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after the Scrubs reboot. You don't even have to get

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off the couch. You can just sit there, we are told.

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Each round is packed with laugh out loud challenges and

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trivia as contestants try to guess how every day Americans

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think and live, which reminds me I have a debate

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tonight because Wednesday night is trivia night. But I already

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told the guys I still don't know if I have

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jury duty. I can't call until five pm today, so

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I can't even tell the boys until after five if

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I can go to trivia or not, because if I

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have jury duty tomorrow, I have to work tonight and

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record some shows, which again leading into the horrible option

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there maybe I record a show at seven thirty and

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then something horrible happens and I don't live long enough

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to see Scrubs return. But because I've recorded early, there

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is a Friday show, so you might have to wait

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till Saturday to find out if you need to call

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my wife or not. Boy, it is this morbid. I'm

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just trying to have fun. We've had so much ridiculous

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with the politics that I'm just trying to fund with

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the show. Where were we? Oh? Yeah, we were on

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the couch, still alive watching Scrubs and then Nate Pergatzy

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come on if he didn't go to trivia. And of

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course I have the complication of my wife wants to

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watch Scrubs with me. So if I do stay home tonight,

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do I grab her and go, hey, can we actually

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watch Scrubs? Because you know, I host this comedy podcast.

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I'd like to actually talk about it. But if I

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go to trivia, I won't get home to nine twenty,

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and then even I won't want to watch it tonight,

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So who knows? Who Knows? Stay Focus? John The Greatest

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Average American premieres tonight after the Scrubs reboot. Nate Pergatzy said,

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each round is packed with laugh out loud challenges. I

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challenged that premise laugh out loud challenges or snicker? Okay,

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that was kind of cute. Challenges Who Knows? And trivia

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as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans think and live?

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Can I tell you something? Pete Corielly the Gator did

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this with Jim Brewer and Jeff Foxworthy a million years ago.

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Cori Elly called it the out of touch game. Foxworthy

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was in at I think the clip exists, Yep, yep,

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I have found the clip, So let's play it here. Now.

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I've cut this down a little bit. But also I

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want you to pay attention to case you're like Johnny

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Mack just makes up crap. He doesn't know any of

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these people. If you listen to the very beginning here,

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you'll hear Jim Brewer say, what's up, John? What's up? Jeff?

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I'm the John, what's up?

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Job?

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What's up?

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Jeff?

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How are you?

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Can I say one thing? Jeff? Go ahead? Last time

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we had you on here, it was so cool to

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meet you, and how you just you really are a

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regular dude. And then I always say brew because Bruce's

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a regular guy too, but you know he's got a

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movie theater, he's got in ground pool, and I know

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you got this stuff too, So I always say to him,

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you really used to play this game with no how

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really in touch at you with being a regular guy.

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And I would make up this stuff. And though I

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wrote some stuff because you were coming in, I'm always like,

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your best one, this is I'll give you the best one.

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So you gonna do like what you do to me?

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What Yeah, I want to do them with both.

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Then I will tell you this and you gotta bat

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me up being the redneck guy. People get like disappointed

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that I don't live in a trailer, you know. You know,

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I was like, oh, you have a regular houseow.

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Man, you know, like you ain't nothing like THEMN jokes.

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Yeah, but god knows, I spent many a night in

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a trailer. It's just when you're making a little money,

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you're like, you know what, screw this corrugated metal around

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the bottom. We're getting a house, you know.

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And here's what you guys, tell me, what do you

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think cours Moore, A John dea right on lawn mower,

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cheapest one. Right now, we went on the site that

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you could buy or a bottle of crystal at the

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forty forty club jay Z's Club in New York City,

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a brand new ride on John expensive a bottle of crystal.

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A jay Z's the bottle of crystal.

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I'm gonna say that to you only because if it's

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jay Z, it's gotta be bling bling.

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They're right, a touch nine hundred dollars. Forth bottle of champagne.

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Low Moow is fifteen hundred dollars cheapest one.

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Does this put me more in touch? If I actually

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own a John Deere tractor?

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Let's see attractor. No, it's the attractors we got lowmows.

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It's my poor event, Georgia.

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I got a tractor you own, George.

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That's what I'm trying to say. I have digressed again?

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Where were we? Abraghats? He said? Each round is packed

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with laugh out loud challenges, a notion which Johnny Mack challenges,

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and trivia as contestant to try to guess how every

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day Americans think and live. In the end, one lucky

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player will be crowned the greatest average American and get

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the chance to win the ultimate grand prize, the average

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American salary of sixty seven twenty dollars. Okay, let's talk

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about sixty seven thousand, nine twenty dollars. Is that a

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lot of money? Sure? Is it? Almost definitely less than

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ABC's charging for one thirty second commercial during the show. Yeah,

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And how much do you think Nate is being paid

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for this? Let me see if I can find that.

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I can't find that. Now. I get that they're probably

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saying sixty twenty dollars is a funny amount. But everybody's

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making money on this thing except the winner. We're told,

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with his signature dry wit and clean humor, comedian Nateperghancy,

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he's stepping into the game show spotlight. Nate told Pause Rewind,

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I travel all over the country. I would jokingly always

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call myself the greatest average American that I know all

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the average American things, and so I wanted to make

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a game show that kind of celebrates that. It's fun,

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it's silly, it's weird, little questions that you wonder. I

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kind of came up with the idea and then got

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paired up with John Quinn, who's a producer who actually

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knows how to make the game. So then we created it,

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and yeah, I'm excited for it to come out. As

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for the prize money, Nate says it could change each

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season as the economy fluctuates. It should be going up,

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so you hope goes up. Everybody. He's going to know

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the average American salary, so you hopefully will get to

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see that go up, and we will go up with it.

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We are sold Nate brigets. He doesn't just stand on

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the sidelines. He jumps into the hilarious challenges himself without

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knowing what's coming. Nate explained, I don't know what the

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challenge is before we go in. I was like, I'd

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rather just go in and not know. Don't tell me

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what it is. I need my natural reactions. So if

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my first answer is probably gonna be the dumb one,

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let it be the dumb one. Here's one of the

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hilarious segments. We put shopping carts into the cart return station.

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You see if you can make it into the railing

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of the parking lot. And so that was one I enjoyed.

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I was better at it than I thought. Nate hopes

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the game show becomes destination worthy. He said, it's like

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when you see people want to go on Prices, right.

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I like the idea of creating something that people want

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to be part of. If you get to come to

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the show, there's a great chance you're going to be

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shown on the show and you play a big part

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in it. Boy, I am excited about this one. Nate

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also caught up with ABC thirteen dot Com. Nay were

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curious if he watched game shows growing up. Nate said,

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I did. I watched Pressure, Luck, Prices right, all that

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kind of stuff. I was a big game show fan.

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You could tell because he named two game shows. But

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nothing's so crazy that I imagined I'd be hosting a game.

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We've got some more details in the second round. They've

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got to get into my mind. I do a challenge

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like one was naming state capitals. How many state capitals

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can I name in sixty seconds? Then they bet the

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over under and someone picks a number to see who wins.

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I do free throws and other challenges, so they're betting

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on me and the last one is betting on the audience.

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ABC thirteen asked Nateprigetzy if we asked your family what

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the most average thing about you is. What would they say?

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Nate said, it's going to be food. It's gonna be

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McDonald It's my fast food. I love fast food. Nate

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BERGATZI the Greatest average American Tonight, nine pm Eastern, right

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after the Scrubs reboot on ABC. Are you excited? I am?

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I know you guys are like John, Can you please

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talk about the state of the Union and get all

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political on the show? Stop having fun? Well, no, nope,

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We're gonna keep it fun today. Boy, are we really this? Wow?

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I just checked the clock. We're pretty foreign already. All right,

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Maybe I should hold on to this one. I'll tell

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you what it is. From chowhound dot Com, I tried

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years John Mulaney's non alcoholic brand of beers, and this

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is the best one. Maybe I should do it because

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I can kind of do a half assed Milleni today. Okay,

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they reviewed John Mulaney's non alcoholic brand of beers. Choehound writes,

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non alcoholic beers usually don't taste like actual beer. Some

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come pretty close, as I found when comparing brands of

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NA beers to their alcoholic counterparts, but there was always

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something a little bit off, not to say they're all bad,

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just different. I'm kind of nailing that today. Mike Biggley

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is gonna write my name down and pass it to

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John Mulaney, isn't he? And they have been ranked coming

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in third at number three. The classic Pale. We're told

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the classic pale tastes like a bright, authentic pale l which,

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as you know, is similar to an ipa, but with

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less hop content. It builds gradually inside your mouth and

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leads up to an aftertaste that sort of punches you

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in the head in a good way. It's worth knowing

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which NA beers are worth buy and which ones to avoid,

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because many NA beers have an aggressive aftertaste, and not

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in a good way. Beer number two is the Belgian Wit.

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We are told. The Belgian wit is very pleasant. It's

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very drinkable. It's softer and hazier than the others, just

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does it? Are you sitting there going? You know we're

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doing well, But these trivia guys are gonna ask the

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to you, old guys, is that what it feels like

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when you drink? Sorry? Sorry, I went off on a

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tangent there. It's trivia Night, Bestmantrivia dot Com. Check them out,

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know how far they go. Will they go to San

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Diego to do your trivia show? Ask them? And the

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number one non alcoholic beer beer Number one, the original pilsner.

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bit burger, but fruitier. It tastes like a classic German

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style pilsner. The tastes seest of beers, which quite frankly,

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is a tiny miracle. Okay, Johnny Max getting long in

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here today because we're silly. What do I need to

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tell you about? Tell you about Bill Martin? But see

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that's political that going for tomorrow. Now, let's do this

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a vibe spoiler for Taylor Tomlinson's new special, new content spoilers,

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but Ready Steady Cut gave it three and a half

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like tweeted Pete Holmes and tell them to do daily

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comedy news. I'm trying to get Peed Homes on. I've

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last night alone we had Taylor and Pete Holmes and

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the State of the Union and the Knicks. That's a

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at eight pm East on YouTube. It is the YouTube

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when we come back. The rest of the episode will

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be about Scrubs. John, you did a Scrubs preview on Sunday,

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I know, but I didn't do the Scrubs reviews, all right,

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So if you have no interest in Scrubs, you might

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as well bail now. If you're excited for Scrubs, come

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back after the break. I will be talking about some reviews.

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So if you don't want to know or you don't

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care about Scrubs, I'll catch tomorrow. Everybody else, hang out.

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I'm having fun today, all right. Scrubs tonight, eight o'clock

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Eastern ABC. Case you missed it, I did a preview

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of this on Sunday, That entire episode of Scrubs. In

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case you can't tell, I like Scrubs even when we

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are fighting off fascism during the summer. You will remember

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I didn't just sit there and push that green Hulu

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button on my Roku remote. No, I went all the

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way upstairs to get the DVDs in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel.

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You remember that, right, yes? TV Insider reminds us where

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we left off spoilers ish picking up with JD returning

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into Sacred Heart, Scrubs awkwardly attempts to settle back into

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familiar rhythms. It speeds through significant updates with all the

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show's main characters while introducing us to a scattering of

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underdeveloped new ones. For fans who are tuning in since

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two thousand and one, they may recall that Scrubs technically

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at two finales, one in season eight and another in

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season nine. But as we get ready for the new season,

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forget about season nine never happened. Don't ask questions, Just

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watch season eight and then skip to this. I've seen

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good reviews and bad reviews. This one's a bad review,

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but stay around. Most of the reviews I've seen have

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been pretty good. This one says most of the show

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lives in the shadow of JD returning to his past

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while taking on a new role, one that Zach Brath

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lacks the comedic range to ever live up to. Ouch.

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It's so centered on him trying that it leaves a

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shallows sense of how the medical field knows in it

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of change, beyond many eye rolling asides about how the

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youths are too sensitive. Now, oh, I'm going to eye

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roll that later in this episode. I know what I

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have in my script. Now, any want to know who

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wrote this? Megan Doorwish for TV Insider, I'm going to

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guess Megan Dorwish is not a fifty six year old man,

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TV Insider says. Megan Dorwish is a senior writer for

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She has worked with the team since twenty sixteen, and

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that took me to this. She is a class of

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twenty seventeen from her particular college, So someone who graduated

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college in twenty seventeen is probably around thirty one years old,

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around thirty one. So all I'm saying here is this

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cranky fifty six year old man recording a podcast's basement

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relates to doctor Cox like a lot, whereas someone who

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is thirty one years old may have a different perspective

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like I lost my mind on Sunday with people getting

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mad about the Todd. They missed the point of the

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Todd character. As I said Sunday, even in two thousand

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and one, we knew the Todd was ridiculous and you

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can't do that kind of thing. But that's where the

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fun comes from. It's a sitcom, the review continues. Instead

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of bringing the same self facing humor and sharp jok

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them into pacing that define the show decades ago, the

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reboot is trapped in the shadow of its better days.

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It's like an adult going to a college party, silly,

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though mostly just sad. What are you saying? Hmm? And

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then there are some more spoilery type things that I

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won't ruin for you for here, I just ruined it

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for myself. But that's why I didn't do this on Sunday.

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But I'm up against the clock now I gotta hand it.

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In a podcast, Seattle Times said the Scrubs reboot is

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missing its heart and brain. Oh no, they write, Zach

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Braff's character still loves his apple Teeni's, but his shell

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just leaves a sad, sour taste in the mouth. Oh no.

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Variety writes the revival airing on ABC feels so off.

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In the warm glow of nostalgia, Scrubs is inoffensive, and

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the harsh light of the present its age begins to show.

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Oh No. In the series fifteen year absence, the medical

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show is progressed where Scrubs has not. John, I thought

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you said there were positive reviews. No, I have some,

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my promise now. The rap got smart people over there,

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like Jennifer kelsh and Armstrong who writes Scrubs review or fresh.

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ABC reboot feels like a medical miracle skipping around there.

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lose his edge, while also making a touching case for

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JD to do so. The main cast slips right back

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into their roles effortlessly, with the chemistry of the original

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these roles again, with Rays as commanding as ever and

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Chalk having grown into her authority as I've been doing

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