| 2.15 ELLIE |
| JOSH: What time is it in Tokyo? TOBY: 14 hours ahead. JOSH: I thought it was 13. TOBY: Eastern Daylight. JOSH: So it’s 14 hours ahead. TOBY: Yeah. JOSH: Are we sure it’s ahead and not behind? CJ: Guys, their clock’s on the wall. JOSH: Okay, so it’s 11:00 in Tokyo. I’m sorry – 11 in the morning, 11 in the afternoon-? CJ: It’s 11 a.m. SAM: The Ulman Brothers? TOBY: Keep reading. JOSH: So if it’s not a story ‘til tomorrow morning they’re not gonna have it ‘til tomorrow night so we bought a day. CJ: We bought two days. TOBY: How? SAM: Plane ride. JOSH: When’s he leave? CJ: 7 p.m. Thursday. JOSH: Tomorrow? CJ: Yes. JOSH: Local time? CJ: Which local? Theirs or ours? TOBY: It will be 7 p.m. in Tokyo when he leaves. JOSH: And he lands here when? SAM: Okay, the plane ride’s thirteen hours long… CJ: This isn’t happening to me. SAM: He’s gonna travel eastward from Tokyo leaving at 7 p.m. so when he crosses the international dateline – TOBY: He’ll have traveled back in time to when? SAM: 3 a.m. CJ: Which puts him down in Washington 6 p.m. Thursday. JOSH: He’s gonna land an hour before he took off? SAM: Yeah. JOSH: And that’s not a story that beats the Surgeon General? JOSH: Those clocks should be in military time. SAM: Yeah, ‘cause that’s less confusing. SURGEON GENERAL: Just because the white supremecists didn’t kill you doesn’t mean the crap you eat won’t. You eat like you’re still in college. JOSH: I was in great shape in college. SURGEON GENERAL: You were 19 in college. You could eat Tupperware and your body’d deal with it. POTUS: I gotta hand it to you guys, you pulled off a political first: You managed to win me the support of the Christian Right and the Cheech and Chong Fanclub in the same day. TOBY: What’s this note? SAM: It says we should stand by the Surgeon General. TOBY: Actually it says we should stand by the Sturgeon General. SAM: Does it? TOBY: Yeah. SAM: I meant Surgeon General. TOBY: I think we should stand by her, too. I just wanted to make sure we were in agreement that smoked white fish was pretty much on its own. MARGARET: Lemme ask you something. Red meat has been found to cause cancer in white rats, maracino cherries have been found to cause cancer in white rates, cellular phones have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Has anyone examined the possibility that cancer might be hereditary in white rats? SURGEON GENERAL: Y’know, I’m not 100% sure we’ve ruled that out. POTUS: You get down here okay? ELLIE: Yeah. POTUS: You take a plane? ELLIE: No. POTUS: Helicopter? ELLIE: No, the Agents drove me. POTUS: That’s ‘cause you go to school at Johns Hopkins, right? ELLIE: Dad. POTUS: And Johns Hopkins is in Baltimore. I’m asking because Baltimore’s a 45-minute car-ride from Washington, D.C., and we hardly see you anymore. So I thought you went to a different medical school, they moved Johns Hopkins, or they moved Baltimore. Is any of those things true? POTUS: I hear you’re thinking about opthamology. ELLIE: Oncology. POTUS: Why do you wanna look at people’s feet? ELLIE: That’s podiatry. POTUS: And what’s children’s medicine? ELLIE: Pediatrics. POTUS: I thought it was obstetrics. ELLIE: That’s pregnant women. Dad, you’re not gonna make me laugh. POTUS: Hm? (Pause.) The only thing you had to do to make me happy was come home at the end of the day. (Pause.) So endocrinology would be what? Disorders of the gall bladder? ELLIE: Thyroid. POTUS: I’m pretty sure you’re wrong. I think endocrinology is just some specialty of internal medicine dealing with the digestive system. ELLIE: That’s gastroentorology. POTUS: Are you sure it’s not nephrology, cardiology, or dermotology? ELLIE: Would you stop? I’m trying to watch the movie. |