Give me an S. I'm doing a ta-da. Give me a U. Give me an I. T. S. Ow. I pulled a muscle. I pulled a muscle giving you the T. Hi. Hi, friend. How are you? Do you want to introduce yourself? No, I'm too excited. I'm having like, my tail is wagging so much. I can't even speak, which doesn't really work in this medium.
First of all, let's actually introduce ourselves. Hi, I'm Patrick J. Adams. I played Mike Ross on the show Suits. And I'm Sarah Rafferty. I played Donna Paulson. Sarah, can you tell us what the name of this podcast is that we're doing? The name of this podcast is... Sidebar. What a great name. Love it. Why are we calling it Sidebar? We are doing Sidebar specifically inviting our listeners into Sidebar with us. But in the courtroom, it's something that's like out of earshot.
We're like... in earshot so that's what it means in a courtroom is i want to do this not for other people to hear when where the jury can't hear you and yet we're doing it for the entire world well we would like everybody to join us like we're like hey let's talk over here all together we're having a sidebar with the world yeah let's let's like it's like a group hug it's like a huddle i mean that's what a podcast is isn't it to be more quiet like away from the
The maddening crowd. So welcome to Sidebar. This is our Suits Watch podcast. A watch podcast because we've never watched this show and we want to. I'm scared to, but I'm also excited to with you. Yes, I think since we're doing it together and since we're doing it with our listeners, it's a safe space. This is a safe space. Do we need a safety worship? until we read any internet comments whatsoever, and then it becomes not a safe space.
Keep it to yourself, Internet. You know what? That's what we have our friends for. We have Kimmy, Cassie, and Kristen. Who will read those things and then tell us only the good ones. And gently steer us. Actors protected from the world. opinion. I love it. Anyway, I'm so excited to be here with you, Patrick. Me too. To sidebar our way through 134 episodes. It's daunting. Of Suits. Looking up that mountain right now.
Right. Well, it forces us to be present to each one. It's a good exercise. Yeah. Take our time. One step at a time. One day at a time. One episode at a time. Why did you decide to do a podcast? What made you come up with this idea? If you want to know the truth. Well, this was a thing. This is a thing. These rewatch podcasts. This isn't the first one. We're not breaking new ground here. I thought you made it up. We are not pioneers because I have avoided for so long watching Suits.
I'm one of those actors. I think we share this, which is as if I've just directly worked on something or shot it, I can't watch it right away. I just couldn't do it. It puts me in a spiral. And so I've avoided this thing that was ultimately the largest job I've ever had in my entire life.
And it's changed the direction of my life and my career in every way. And I've just avoided it. And I did notice I had caught clips of it online. That was a big thing that was starting to happen on the old TikTok. which was i think responsible for this renaissance that we'll talk about in a second but i noticed that when it came on i was suddenly able to watch it and be like oh my god that was a really remarkable thing that happened
So you can look at the younger you with kinder eyes. Yeah. You know that thing like when you someone takes a picture of you and you look at it right away and you're just like, I can never I can't believe that's what I look like. And then you could look at that same photo in like two or three weeks even.
Maybe longer. Maybe for me it's years. You can look at it and go, why am I being so unkind to myself? I look great. I think that's the same thing that started happening with suits. And so I got excited about the idea. I'm still nervous. to do this but ultimately it felt like an amazing opportunity to kind of get to the bottom of what this whole experience was for me and you know what's clearly like captured the attention of the entire planet
What about you? I think one of the reasons why I'm excited to do this is that this was also just like a wild privilege, just an amazing thing that happened to all of us. I didn't have time while we were doing it to be present. I didn't have the skills. I'm not saying I have the skills now, but I didn't have time to be really present due to kind of the madness of it all. I feel like...
Well, now, if I want to feel the depth of gratitude, the place to do it is in connection with you and, you know, hopefully with Aaron and the directors that come on and our castmates and the fans and the people who watched it and made it. so that we could do what we love. And to be able to actually connect with them in a real, meaningful way, I feel like this...
might be a great route. I think that's a great way to put it, the gratitude. I love that. And I'm so happy to be here with you. And I'm so happy to be here with you. So are you ready? Should we do this? You want to talk about suits? Should we do this? Let's talk suits. Okay? Tell me stuff. Can I tell you things? Yes. The pilot aired on June 23rd, 2011. That was my wedding anniversary. Thank you so much. Is it really? Yes. Wow. Look at this. Fun facts already right from the beginning.
Aired on USA Network. Let's see who are some of the heavy hitters of the cast. We've got Gabriel Mox. As Harvey Specter. We have you. We have Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross. We have Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt. We have Sarah Rafferty as Donna Paulson. We have Gina Torres as Jessica Pearson. And of course, Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane.
Among many other cast members. We have the best guest cast and recurring cast in the world. We can't wait to bring them onto this show and talk to all of them. Let's talk about what we're actually going to be doing week to week here. Well, we're going to watch the episode every week, right? Wait, what?
Hard now. Yes, we are going to watch the episode every single week and we are going to come in here ready to talk about it armed to the teeth with not only our opinions and our ideas and our questions and our memories. but also our friend Kristen here and our amazing producers here at Sirius are going to help us with facts from the week. We're going to have guests. We're going to talk to...
All of our collaborators. We are going to have as many collaborators. In front of the camera and from behind. Yeah, we're going to have everybody on the show as much as possible. And we really can't wait to speak to our viewers. And maybe answer some of their questions. Yes. really hope you come with us on this journey and we're excited to see where it takes us. Sidebar is out now. When is it out? Now. Now? One more time. Should we do it one more time? Now.