Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - 123: My Hero With Brendan Fraser

Episode Date: June 25, 2020

On this week's episode, Dr. Cox struggles to support his best friend through Chemotherapy. In the real world, Zach and Donald are joined by Brendan Fraser! Brendan reveals his love of photography, that time.he worked with Mos Def, and what it's like to be stopped by Scrubs fans nearly 20 years after his first appearance on the show.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I don't have butterflies when I'm just shooting the shit with you, but this is a big deal. Yeah, we got A-list celebrities. A-lister. This is the type of shit that freaking shows when they're getting launched and everything like that. They hope to get a guest like Brendan Fraser. When Fallon launched, he wished he got a guest like Brendan Fraser on that episode.

Same thing with Kimmel. When they launched, they were like, if we could get somebody like Brendan Fraser. By the way, we've been saying it wrong. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I got yelled at on the internet. It's Fraser. We've both been saying Fraser. It's Fraser? Fraser, like Fraser. Like laser both been saying Fraser. It's Fraser? Fraser, like

Fraser. Like laser. Like laser. Fraser. Fraser. Okay. I'm just saying, someone was like, love the podcast, Zach. You're both saying Brendan's name wrong. Sorry. Sorry. Do you know how many times I get

Donald Faison? Faison? Faison. What's the other, oh, there's another Faison, but he spells it differently. There's Faison Love. Faison Love. And then there's Frankie Faison, who spells it the same way. Right.

There's a Faison North Carolina. I've never been there. White and black Faisons. How are you guys? How's your week going? By the way, Donald, did you know that Dan's nickname is Danil? I thought that that was just kind of a Joel joke, but it really is his nickname in life, Danil. It's a nickname or is that your name? My name is Daniel.

His name is Daniel, but it's a very long story he doesn't want to go into. But Danil. Happy to do it another time. Happy to do it another time. No, but I'm starting to wonder if we on the podcast should be calling him daniel because i like to use nicknames it makes me feel like i'm close to someone well i would be honored if you would call me daniel i might just do that there it is daniel i'm gonna see i'm gonna see i'm gonna see if it flows because you can't force a nickname like like you know i hate it when you say someone's nickname and you feel like, oh, it's just not flowing out of me, right?

Yeah, when I was a kid, my mom was like the, not the leader of a camp, but like the creative director at a camp. It was a camp that had a boy's season and a girl's season. The name of it was Camp Atwater. It was in Massachusetts, right? And I remember she went around a table with all the counselors because she had to be there early to meet all the counselors and stuff. She went around a picnic table. We were outside. I was there because I'm there with my mom.

And she's like, all right, everybody just give me your first, your name, and then, you know, a nickname that people give you. So people was going around, I'm Terrific Tasha or I'm, you know, nickname that people give you so people was going around i'm terrific tasha or i'm you know stunning steven and they got to this dude named daryl he was like they call me delicious daryl and i remember i remember being like wow and i and then later on cedric the entertainer has a joke where you know what grown man wants to call another grown man delicious so much better than my nickname what was your nickname uh my father called me the great destroyer the great destroyer yeah be like oh here comes the great destroyer i was uh i had my head was constantly in the clouds and i had a tendency to just break things

running into them arms like gesticulating wildly, knocking over cubs and stuff. Wow. It stuck. The great destroyer. My nickname was Biz because it's my initials backwards. I love that. Braff, Israel, Zach. Zach, Israel, Braff.

So when I was a kid, so I grew up with Terrence Howard, right? He and I, I've known him since he was like 12 years old. As a matter of fact, my first, I took him on his first audition. He crashed and auditioned with me, and it wound up being like the Jackson's special, and he became, you know, he's Terrence Howard now. Anyway, when we would hang out when we were kids, there was this dude in the neighborhood who didn't necessarily like the fact that two acting, you know, teenagers or, you know, young men were walking around hanging out together.

So he was called Showbiz and I was Hollywood. So when we come outside, it'd be like, here comes showbiz and Hollywood. I'm going to start calling you Hollywood. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. How are you? How's your life, Donald Faison? It's good.

You know, I'm bored in the house, and I'm in the house bored. You know what I mean? Same old, same old. Yeah, man. It's the same old stuff. Yeah. Well, you got a birthday coming up. I do.

I'm going to be 46. That's fucking... It'll literally be 20 years since we started Scrubs. When we started Scrubs, I had just turned 26, so it'll be 20 years. This year, Scrubs will have been... We will have been making Scrubs. Like, it was the first... The first episode came out when I was 26 years old. I bought you a present.

No. My wife bought me a present. I bought you a present for both Father's Day and your birthday. So did my wife. What did you get me? I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell all these fine folks listening. Is it a donut machine? No.

Are you going to keep the donut machine, though? By the way, we haven't heard the update on the donut machine. I think I might keep the donut machine. Yeah, of course you're going to keep the donut machine. Will you post pictures on your Instagram so our listeners can see it? Absolutely. I made ice cream yesterday. I made a raspberry ice cream

yesterday. It was delicious. Do you have an ice cream maker? There are a lot of things that you can use to make ice cream. But I have a little attachment that goes on my little Belleville. And it's a mixer. And it took me two days to make ice cream. But I made ice cream. And then I made some fudge.

So it was raspberry ice cream with a little chocolate fudge underneath. Let me tell you, they went crazy in this household for my food. They lost their mind. So this is a new phase for your quarantine. You become a dessert chef. Yeah. You know, a lot of people thought I would phase off when it came to cooking. I decided to phase on.

You know what I'm saying? I decided to phase on. I think that the best solution for your diet is to start becoming a dessert chef. I think it'll be great for my cholesterol. Yeah. It'll be great for my diet. You know what I mean? I am a dessert man.

I love sweets. I love cakes. I love sugar. I love ice cream. Well, dude, I made fudge yesterday. To make fudge brownies, you got to make fudge first. I made fudge first. Oh, let me tell you something right now.

Ain't nothing like some homemade fudge. Oh, let me tell you something right now. Ain't nothing like some homemade fudge. Oh my gosh, that shit is good. Listen, that shit is good. The people loved Scott Foley. Great reaction to Scott Foley. Scott Foley was a great guest, man. He did such a good job. Yeah, he was a great guest. Everybody loved him

on there. Yeah. My whole timeline was nobody cares, Sean. I'm talking about 99% of the comments were nobody cares, Sean. whole timeline was nobody cares, Sean. Like I'm talking about 99% of the comments where nobody cares, Sean. Some people said nobody cares, Zach. Yeah. Well, I said that a couple of times. Oh, that was you? That was you commenting? Yeah, that was me. Oh, I thought you meant on my Instagram. I'm good. You know, I don't know how do you answer that these days? You just, everyone just goes, yeah, I don't know how do you answer that these days. Everyone just goes, yeah, I don't know, staring at the wall. I think it's crazy.

You know, the cases are all rising. You know, somebody wrote on Twitter, I thought it was really appropriate. They said, like, so we're all just kind of got bored and just said, fuck it. Because people are just going out there. It's rising. Fauci said something like, you you know people are saying like oh it's the second wave fauci's like what are you talking about this is still the first wave yeah you know and it's spiking everywhere it's spiking in la it's spiking in so many places and spiking

in the south hardcore yeah i know so i don't know man it's crazy it just feels like people went fuck it i'm over it and they're just gonna they're going out um i don't know if you've seen all these videos of people out out and about with no masks on i think it's i think it's crazy yeah you know um everybody's gonna live their life i'm sure you know how they're gonna live their you know and i can't i can't stop anyone from i can i can beg and i can plead and i can you know you can say, that's all we can do. Please don't go out. Please think of your fellow man.

There are other people that won't be as lucky as you are if you are one of the lucky ones that this virus does nothing to. But what are you going to do? Are you going to arrest people? Are you going to jump on people and stop them? but um i can't i can't what are you gonna do you're gonna arrest people what are you gonna do jump on people and stop them i have we haven't we haven't we haven't spoken too much on on about our friend nick on this podcast you know donald and i have a very good friend nick cordero you may have heard about him in the news he's about as sick as someone can be and he was had no pre-existing conditions and he is uh 40 years old and it he was he was staying in my guest house and he's one

of my best friends in the world he's an amazing actor broadway star play together we did a play together he's a wonderful actor a wonderful singer um he's uh just incredible like you know people always say this about people but like honestly he's the nicest person I've ever met. Like, like there is not a malicious, weird, competitive, angry cell in his body. He's an angel of a human being. And, uh, he was, he was here. He was living in my guesthouse. He and his wife bought a new house in LA. They were, they were making the move from New York to LA. They have a, they have a one-year-old baby. They were just living the in LA. They were making the move from New York to LA. They have a one-year-old baby. They were just living the American dream. They literally bought their first house,

and he went back to New York to pack up his apartment and got COVID so bad that he's been staying alive with the help of machines. And no one knows if he's going to make it. He's lost a leg due to complications, clotting and such. His lungs? His lungs are just Swiss cheese, they said.

The COVID just fucking destroys the lungs. So not to be a Debbie Downer on this show, but I haven't been talking about it because we're here to hopefully entertain you and take your mind off things. But if you're headed out and you don't have a mask on, I want you to think about my friend, Nick, maybe just think about it because I think people take comfort in going, well, worst case scenario, I'm 40. What's going to happen? This guy, he was healthy. His wife's a trainer. I mean, he's a healthy guy and he could die. I mean, he's a healthy guy, and he could die. So I don't mean to preach, and I wasn't even going to bring this up, but I just felt weird all of a sudden not mentioning it. Yeah, so while you think it's, while everybody's out there just, you know,

about to, or for all the people that are sick of this virus, just know that this virus isn't sick of us. Exactly. And just know that, you know, don't have in your head, I think it's a shame for people to have in their head, oh, worst case scenario, I get it. They say it's like a really bad flu. That's bullshit. That's some people. But there's also some people like Nick who are totally healthy and have a one year old baby Who just started walking

Who just started walking today actually And he could die I mean we don't know It could go either way So I'm sorry to open the show with that Donald help me change the tone of things By being jovial And leading us in song

5, 6, 7, 8 helped me change the tone of things by being jovial and leading us in song. Five, six, seven, eight! I said stories about a show we made About a bunch of docs and nurses And a janitor who loved to hate I said here's the stories That we all should know So gather round to hear our Gather round to hear our Gather round to hear our

Scrubs Rewatch Show with Zach and Donald Let's bring in Brendan, everybody. Let's bring in Brendan Fraser, Donald. Don't say it like the... Oh! Brendan Fraser! There he is. Hi, brother.

Hey! How are you, sir? It's so good to see you. I'm happy to see you, too. Oh, man. Right on, brother. Hey, how are you, sir? It's so good to see you. I'm happy to see you, too. Oh, man. Right on, dude. Look at this. Donald and I both admitted to each other that we have butterflies because we don't have fancy movie stars on our podcast. No offense to our other

guests. They're great actors. No offense. They've all been great. But they're not like Brendan Fraser level. We just kicked it up a notch. Like Emerald used to say, bam, kick it up a notch. Flattery will get you everywhere. Brendan, we're giddy that you're here. Not only have we always both been fans of your work,

but when you came on the show, it was really cool because you were by far the fanciest guest star we had on the show. And then you became like people's favorite storyline. And I don't even know if you know this, but the episode where you, where you died is a lot of people's favorite episode of the whole series. And so we're just, we're thrilled you're here and we want to talk about all of it.

Thank you. You helped launch our, you know, I don't think, I don't know if it, it definitely wasn't on purpose, but our buddy Josh Radin, who gets spoken of every freaking episode, his song was played at your character's funeral. And because of that, his career, I mean, he travels all over the world now and performs to packed houses, but this was the first song that he ever wrote. And somehow Bill used it in this episode.

No, the somehow is me. I said, you need a sad song. Try my buddy's first song. He had never written a song. And we played it during your uh funeral episode and it launched his career but anyway let brendan talk well that's really nice i mean look the music's important so much in in the across the arc of the whole whole show i mean the choices were always spot on they made you feel the internal conflict even though there was you know this comedy that

that um was juxtaposed against what's a very serious environment i mean how do you make a hospital funny yeah and you guys did it um for many um, I'm, I'm so pleased when I've been going to comic conventions the last two years or so. That's a similar thing that everyone says. They're very, um, they're moved by that episode. Now look, thanks for the nice things you're saying to me, but you're only as good as your company, the company you keep and how well it's written. And some camera things too. But I just, I should say a belated thank you, like what,

17 years later now for including me in that cast and pulling me into the fold. Well, how did we get you? Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. That's okay. I was thinking about that today too. Let's take a walk back here. I had just finished a run of my west end debut in london in cat and hot tin roof and i um came back to la and my former wife afton and krista miller

are longtime friends and i had not met bill before but i did get on the phone with him. And I recall saying something like, he's asking, how are you doing? We want you to come and do this. Let me see the script. I mentioned something about feeling a little tired or jet lagged, or I needed to get back to the gym. And he said, all right, well, I'll send it over. So he sent the script over and he sent a bunch of gym shorts. I mean, like nice ones too so i thought all right i'm in when one man sends another man his shorts

there is no other love you know when you're trying to get an actor to do something there's always the the go-to thing which is write a nice letter but i'm gonna take i'm gonna take bill's cue on this and get more creative he sent you uh clothing well he just showed he was listening listen man i'm tired i gotta get back to the gym let me help you out here's some shorts and the script that's true are you uh are you in town right now or are you out of town i know know you're doing the show, the superhero show. Doom Patrol. Doom Patrol. How could you not know that, Donald?

I know Doom Patrol and you're Mr. Superhero Guy. I was just watching the trailer for season two where you guys are miniaturized and everything like that. I'm very excited for it. I was really excited when the show started. I watched Titans and then when they introduced doom patrol through titans and uh beast boy i was really excited to to watch the show and the cast is phenomenal you got such a really dope cast you matt bonner uh what's his name uh timothy dalton like it's a sick cast dude diane guerrero ipa bulby uh season two let's get out of the way june 25th on hbo max the new one

check it out everybody excited um hey donald did you actually watch the i read the uh the comics before i mean this is the first time a live action thing's been no i i had not read the comic before but i knew it existed but i i had i had never i had never that's because it's really an obscure property it was really an obscure property it was really kind of it was orphaned it was done like seven different incarnations on real print yeah and they didn't they killed everybody off at one point they brought them all back um and then grant morrison did the run that this that inspired the show so it the word surreal gets bandied about very much in the way we speak but it actually

borrowed from dadaism and you know the what dolly was up about surrealism in the way that this show is inspired a lot of the the set pieces are direct key art from um the graphic novels wow and it and it and it did keep the sense of uh i don't know if I want to call it, people like to say dark where it's serious. I think it just didn't, it doesn't shy away from going to the places that motivate brooding superhero characters and explaining really why and often in white-knuckle detail. Yeah, you guys do. You guys are very – it's a very – I would say it is a dark show. Like each and every one of your origins comes from a dark place. You know what I mean?

Just from your character alone, your character was a race car driver who was like cheated on his wife and really didn't give a shit about anybody but his daughter you know what i mean and yeah he was i don't think he won all those races fair and square either to make him so famous you know right just a bad bad dude and he dies and gets put into a robot and he's led to believe that his daughter is i don't want to spoil the show he's dead there i said it he's and and so he's he's struggling to reconcile how to be um a better man except now he's trapped in this steampunk robot body and strangely he's a better human being as a robot than he was as a man. Right, right, right.

And he's there for his teammates. He's like, in every episode, he's the one character who's there for his teammates. He's there for the girl with all the personalities. He's there for everyone. That's Crazy Jane. Crazy Jane, yeah. As she's known with her 64 different personalities.

All with superpowers too that's a dope superpower that's dope you could 64 different powers that's pretty dope anyway i'm a fan of the show brendan did you read um comic books when you were a kid i had a anthology of superman i uh i tried to get into into Batman because all the cool kids did then. And I've got to be honest with you, they kind of were formidable and they sort of scared me a little bit. It was like

listening to heavy metal music and you're not ready for it to me. And so, I mean, I like them for sure. But my speed was more like Dennis the Menace and Richie Rich. Yeah. I would read Archie.

Little Archie. Yeah. Little Archie. Yeah. So I guess in short, no, not really. But then, I mean, when this came along, it's kind of a, yeah, I would want to be a part of this because I'm not sure if risks like this get taken that frequently. And I'm no aficionado, you know, in the world of comics and that kind of thing. But I know that it's a piece, and Donald just touched on this, that's like everyone comes from some horrible accident that occurred to them prior to them being introduced to our audience.

And that's the reason why they have to build better lives through it, although they bicker with one another and they hate one another, but they can't be apart and they don't function without one another. Kind of like Scrubs, I should say. Yeah, the very theme song is, I can't do this all on my own. I can't do this all on my own. Yeah, it's about the camaraderie. You know, you had the most epic career. I was just scrolling your IMDb page just before you came on because I wanted to just kind of glance at everything. I mean, you have the kind of career that actors dream of having from really cool artistic indies to the biggest tentpole movies ever.

tentpole movies ever um i i mean do you when you look back on things is there is there a favorite or is it all kind of like i mean for us i mean donald and i look back at scrubs we haven't had a fraction of the career you've had but i mean we look back and go okay we've had lots of fun experiences but scrubs was like one of the best experience of our lives is there a project that you look back on that and go you know i've done a lot of cool things but this one in particular was like holy shit that changed my life, or this, or I'll always remember. If I had to name something that really changed my life,

for better or worse, I'd have to say it was around 2000, or sorry, like 1999, it was the mummy pictures. Everybody saw those. And still, they have a resonance. I guess it's just, you know, my dumb luck that the the the

the lore of an egyptian mummy wrapped up for several thousand years looking for his girlfriend is an enduring theme that we just love to do and over and over and over again so yeah you know i had that i had that going for it but um if i think of a film that made me feel like it changed, I worked with Michael Caine in Vietnam on a picture called The Quiet American. And it was a pretty good adaptation. Christopher Hampton wrote it, of the novel. And we shot in Vietnam. And at that time, no Western film had been made in Vietnam. I mean, if you saw a movie that was a war picture or something,

it was in Malaysia or Thailand or doubled somewhere else in South Pacific or the jungles. But we had the good fortune to actually be there. And it was exciting for the reasons that it really pushed back at, as the novel did, that American foreign policy was, you know, blessed in the world. And the reality is, no, it's not. And the reality is, no, it's not.

The picture itself, I can say confidently, was put on the chopping block by Miramax when it came out. September 11th had transpired. And I don't even want to say his name, but the boss of that company said, I don't want to do anything wrong for the American people. Wow. And we never really knew what that meant. And, um, Michael took the picture to Toronto, uh, international film festival and gave it in an audience there. And that's when it, um, really started to take off in the Washington post wrote a piece called let the quiet American speak.

And, um, you know, in other words, you, you, you don't need to sugarcoat this. You don't have to treat us like children. We, we should know. We, I mean, these are things that, that, that we do have to discuss that, um, has not changed then. And it had, it can't change now. I mean, so to be a part of that, I guess I felt I was in good company and I felt like I had a chance to be a part of a picture that would, you know, in its own way, change the world. Now, movies do or they don't. and that's the hope and the aspiration,

but it did fulfill something for me that was meaningful. And if it didn't find its audience at that time, there's always the notion and feeling that it will do in the future. And I think it still holds up. You're going to have a lot of people watching it now because it's one of yours I haven't seen. And I'm definitely curious. And we have a handful of people listening to this.

I'm sure we'll check it out. I loved one of your early films, School Ties. Yeah, I was about to say that. Oh, man, that movie hit me at the right age, man. Especially being a young Jewish man that you are. Of course. And I didn't feel like I looked like Brendan. You know, I was like, there I am.

Look how handsome I am being represented by. But I mean, your performance in that movie as a young actor, I mean, I think everyone in the world was like, you know, everyone who loves movies was like, oh shit, look at this new guy. I thought you really, really were great in that movie. Well, thanks. It was sort of the diner casting yeah

of uh it's day in a way ben affleck uh matt damon right uh the list is ridiculous uh so many people anthony rap like just ridiculous we um at that, had no idea what we were doing. We had an abundance of enthusiasm. Probably the most important thing to us is getting the producer to provide us breakfast in the morning before we had to play football all day. Although they did not, you know, I mean, and still at that time, I look at it and I think, I really don't know that much about that guy anymore. at it and i think i don't i really don't know that much about that guy anymore i i you know i just see um i i i see i see a cast who are very hopeful but but at the same time we all have this sort of tenuous is this it kind of feeling right as you do when you're first starting out yeah in in this industry yeah um so but for that rather than turning inward we

just swung for the fences and hoped for the best for whatever the film would result in well it was really great Donald and I both remember that film fondly we've talked about it before and Donald you also began your career in a football film

yeah I did it was called Remember the titans have you watched it yet uh no it's on my to-do list you're an asshole i'm gonna watch quite an american before i have to tell you these are the that's fine and and that's fine but these are the issues that i'm having now let me tell you what happens don't fight in front of our guests don't fight in front of company let me finish let me finish is this because Is this because I didn't fucking read Garden State when you gave me the- Yes. That's one of the reasons.

I was in the shower, and I was thinking, you know, I've done some projects, and Zach's never seen any of them. No, I've seen a lot of them. I wonder if you've seen- Dude, you've seen- What was the movie you were in where the famous rapper was a postman? He was a postman. He was a postman. It's called Next Day.

First of all, it was Next Day Air. Yeah, I saw Next Day Air. Second of all, the only reason why you saw Next Day Air is because I invited you over for a screening at my house with all the producers and everything. Yeah, that was a good one. I liked that one. Oh, boy. Who was the rapper? I forgot.

He was really good. Mos Def, man. You know who Mos Def is. Mos Def's a good actor. He did a good job in that movie. I worked with Mos Def. What's that? I know who Most Def is. Most Def's a good actor. He did a good job in that movie. I worked with Most Def. What's that? I worked with Most Def once in a really obscure movie that's shot in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

It was called Journey to the End of the Night. And he played a Nigerian dishwasher who gets roped into running a huge suitcase of cocaine in this sort of impossible scenario that he just can't win from. He was so good. I mean, he was. What was the name of the movie? Journey to the End of the Night. Journey to the End of the Night.

I'm going to watch that too. I'm going to watch. Yassine Bey in Journey to the End of the Night. I'm going to watch that too. So sorry, but Titans got moved down another rung because I've got two more films. Let me tell you what happens in my house. You have dinner. What are we going to watch tonight, right?

I don't know if this happens to anybody else. Donald Tays on and remember the Titans. Now, let me tell you, I just want to know if this happens in any of your houses. You have a list of like 1,000 classics you want to watch. You have a list of like your friends' movies you want to watch. You've got a list of movies you read online that everyone's talking about. And then you get out there and you're tired and you had a glass of wine

and you're like and it's hgtv time yeah right top chef top chef i watch top chef listen i could be a cook now because i watch so much top chef hold on you said it's friend movies that your friends are in and you look at the classics and everything like that. Dude, you can knock two out with one stone. It's a motherfucking classic. One. Two, your friend is in it. So, dude, let's get to the—

What are we waiting for? We're going to do it. I'm right after Quiet American. I'm going to do it. All right? I promise you, this is a commitment. You're lying, but okay. You've been saying this for years.

I just want you to know that. For years. Listen, we don't have... Go ahead. We don't have Brendan forever because he has to feed his children. So I want to move quickly. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back and then we're going to go through the episode because I want to talk...

This episode has so much in it. And Brendan, you probably don't even know this, but there's so things in this particular episode that that became through lines for the whole series including when you picked me up and I yelled eagle um uh the the the acapella group um uh Bob Zeltzer your cancer doctor I mean Bob Clendon all right we'll be right back. the bright side. You guys are giving people a chance to shine a light on their lives, shine a light on a little advice that they want to share. Listen to the bright side on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the bright side. Hi, this is Shannon Doherty, host of the new podcast, Let's Be Clear with Shannon Doherty. You may know me from, let's see, 90210, Charmed, Mallrats, Heathers. Probably also know me from my stage four cancer diagnosis and sharing that journey with so many of you.

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Brendan, did you know, by the way, I assumed you knew you were doing two, but then what's the story of you came back not till season three? Did Bill, he couldn't have possibly seeded, hey, we're going to build your character and come back in two seasons. what how did that come about yeah i got it i got a bill knows the answer to that one i mean i had such a great time with the two to be continued to you

know two-hander right that came on in the first season that i was in and then when he called up to do it again i I was like, absolutely. It was because I had such a great time working with you guys. Right on. You brought something to the table that went on for a really long time also. Your camera, when you brought your camera to, look at this. Look, Zach has a camera just like that now. I'm holding up my Polaroid 110A that I would not have purchased without Brendan.

So I want you to know, Brendan and I are both – Brendan, Chris DeMiller and I are all camera geeks. We all collect them. But I was never into old Polaroid cameras until I met Brendan. And if you guys are watching the episode and you see him shooting all these Polaroids, they, that was inspired by Brendan. Those are all his pictures you're, you're looking at. And I got so into, to, uh, to Polaroid photography because of you, Brendan. And I, I, I've not like free for the 20 years since I've seen you, I can't tell you how many different Polaroid cameras I've bought and collected. And Donald was saying on another podcast, he goes,

why do I have so many like professional quality Polaroids of myself? And I'm like, that's because of Brendan, because Krista and I both got so into it. We've taken so many pictures of them. Yeah, I have a lot of them. Sit in a closet or on the shelf right now, because the film's so hard to find. I know, you can get it online if you buy it. Actually, knowing that you were coming on, I haven't used it in a while,

but knowing you were coming on, I was like looking online to where I can find it. Fuji still makes the film. Fuji still makes a good pack film. Impossible Project's another one. Yes, but for those of you who want to get into this hobby, Fuji FP100 is the go-to, right, Brennan? That's like the last one. Let me just geek out. I'm going to put into this hobby. Fuji, Fuji FP 100 is, is the go-to, right?

Brennan? Or that's like the last one. Let me just geek out. I put my glasses on. Yeah. Fuji FP 100. I just gave him a shout out. This should be a sponsor.

Um, so Brennan, when you pick me up at one 33 in this kid's room now I can't imagine you even could could know this story but the fans I've watched eight seasons know when you pick me up and spun me the first thing I say that made me laugh was I go faster because the whole the whole gag is that JD is such a nerd that at first he's like, no, no, no, no, no. And then he's like, as a kid. And then you're spitting me, you're spitting me. And on one last take,

I thought, oh, it would be extra dorky if JD pretended he was soaring like an eagle. And then I just went, eagle! Which became, bizarrely, a huge runner

throughout the whole season of the series of the show. Don would pick me up and I'd yell Eagle. And it became a running thing. It became his. What you talking about? Willis.

It became my, what you're talking about? Willis became my catchphrase. You, you lifted me in to my, it's like in dirty dancing, doing the lift. You lifted me into my catchphrase.

Eagle. Well, thank you. Thanks very, very much. No, everywhere. I particularly liked your shower shorts, if I remember correctly. For the man who has nothing to hide but still wants to. And it did have a wallet, and then you hold it out.

You let it go, and there's this sort of like sound off camera, and you just wince a bit. Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, everywhere I go in my life, and I've been traveling all around the world, I will have people yell eagle at me as I walk down the street. It's forever. It's forever.

Yeah. All because of this moment at 1 minute 38. And then Krista goes for a spin. I wonder if Krista liked that. I have a feeling Krista wasn't too fond of the spin part. I bet she liked it because it was Brendan. If it was anybody else, she would have been like, get the fuck out of here. She'd be like, get the fuck out of here.

There's no way. There's no way. I can't imagine Bill writing an episode. If Bill put any other character, picks up Krista and spins her, she would have been like, no, fuck that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Tingle and my giblets. What?

I laughed out loud at that. I don't like too much freedom out there. It makes me tingle in my giblets. I think I may have made that one up because I don't think Bill would have written giblets. Brennan, you found a way with this character to bring out something. You know, Johnny C had yet to really warm up to anybody. His character, Dr. Cox, is playing. He's such a tough alpha guy.

And then with your character, we see the friendship that J.D. and Turk have mirrored a bit. We see, oh, there is a guy out there who's silly and who's goofy and is out there who's kind of like his JD, if you will. Do you know what I mean? Like you brought out the silly side of a guy the audience has only known as someone who's so serious and aggro. Right. He was just like Johnny C. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Although Johnny's a smidgen nicer. Right.

Absolute heart of gold. Yeah. Did you know Johnny before this? Had you guys worked together? No, we had not met before. I'd seen him in films that he'd made and um but i think i met him on the day to tell you the truth the day uh there was a nail in my hand yeah a board right yeah that was the first episode before this one correctly i think we met like maybe three minutes earlier than that but um wow wow it's because he doesn't take much time in the makeup chair, I learned. He just kind of walks in, scrubs his head. Yeah. And then makes, like, these sort of animal grunt noises.

Yeah. And then puts product in it and does it again. Yeah. And then, like, does, like, elaborate clicking and snapping with his fingers. And then he takes off. He's good to go. I had to show up, like, you know, an hour early with Krista so we could, you know, get our strand by strand done. Just perfect. Donald went through.

Donald went through. Donald. Colin Farrell was on the show. And I think it was him, right? Donald, you didn't want any makeup. Oh, yeah. Because he looks like Colin Farrell. And then Donald was like, you know what?

I'm going to start doing that. I don't need makeup either. If it's good enough for Colin Farrell, it's good enough for me.? I'm going to start doing that. I don't need makeup either. If it's good enough for Colin Farrell, it's good enough for me. Yeah, and Donald was like showing off, like, I don't need makeup either. And then like we did one episode and the next week Donald was like, I'm going to go back to the makeup room. I'm going to go back to the makeup. I'm going to go back to the makeup.

Speaking of makeup, is that you in the costume all the time or do they have a stand-in for you or do you have to do makeup every day like that? Which costume? I've had a lot of weird ones and I've had some that weren't even a costume at all.

Oh, for Doom Patrol. Oh, no, that's voiced by Riley Shanahan. I mean, I'm voicing the character. Riley Shanahan wears the suit. He is a wonderful comedic performer with fantastic timing. And he's full on playing the character through a mask. Yeah.

And he does the heavy lifting there. I mean, I show up in an episode or two wearing pieces of that because, like I said, it breaks a lot of rules and makes its own. The way the show unfolds. But otherwise, no, I'm it's like I got no, it's like I got to be clear with you. It's like a dream job. Somebody else wears the thing, shows up for you. In recent months, I don't even go inside the studio like we all do. You're sitting in your closet right now.

I've been doing ADR on a cell phone. It's weird days for our business. But on the other hand like don't tell anybody this is actually primo i know i think that's the case i'm not wearing pants i think that's the case with it'd be so great i think it's the case with mandalorian too um you know because that's all stuntmen right yes yeah yeah and so mean. Do they tell you not to talk about it, though? Do the producers want you to be like, no, Brendan's in the suit. No, no way.

I would never do that. That's not fair to Riley. I mean, and I'm 51 now. This guy is, like, built like a tree. And that thing is that those robot suits and all that, like, you know, DC comic and Marvel comic, those outfits, those super suits, they're heavy. They really are. Suit performers are really unsung heroes. I've worked with many of them.

I've worked with them on, I'll say the titles, George of the Jungle. The guys in the gorilla suits are amazing. I mean, they really take simian behavior seriously. And, I mean, it's a dingbat comedy but at the same time no they were they were quite specific about what they needed and how they would move as a troop and yeah i mean can you tell donald and i how to get uh in that kind of shape um if we ever wanted to try because uh you're pretty ripped in uh in that movie yeah go back in time and eat nothing but like broccoli and styrofoam. Lift weights until you puke.

Yeah. And then go wash your mouth out and keep doing it. You know, I was once in the gym and a gym and Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym to sort of inspect it. I guess his friend owned it or something. And he was still the governor. And he walked over to me. I was on one of the benches. And I don't know if he recognized me as an actor or if he was just sort of like talking to me as a citizen. Like, hello, what's your goals with your workout? And I was so starstruck.

And I was like, oh, well, I guess I just kind of want to look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. And he goes, you need to eat a lot of carrots. That's all carrots. So for like the next two months, I was just like fucking pounding carrots. And it never happened. Did you get ripped? No, I mean, it never happened. I never looked like Brad Pitt in Fight Club.

Orange skin. Yeah, you definitely got orange, that's for sure. Eats a lot of carrots. And then he just moved on to somebody else. You eat a lot of broccoli. You. You eat a lot of kumquats. And you eat the squash.

You. He's walking around to each person in the gym being, for you, broccoli. For you, carrots. Chickpeas. Bring a little optimism into your life with The Bright Side, a new kind of daily podcast from Hello Sunshine. Hosted by me, Danielle Robay. And me, Simone Boyce.

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limitless answers. limitless answers how long would you train how long when how long would you train for something like that i mean the mummy too i mean i know you're in sick shape like did you did you would you go through big training uh periods yeah i think i recall it was i mean all in it's like a year if you're gonna you know and then you do maintenance and blah, blah. But, you know, I haven't asked about this frequently over the years. And I really don't know the answer because everyone's body is so different. And I almost feel reticent to say, well, this is what I did because then people want to emulate or do that.

And it might not be right for them but i guess if i'd be honest it's just uh just uh just just get it over with and lift weights i guess if yeah but the thing is that there's wear and tear on your joints your spine i i became really proficient with ice bags like really talk about nerdy camera geek. I was like nerdy ice cube geek. And, um, and, uh, you know, it's a lot to keep, it's a lot to keep up. It's a lot to ask of, of your body. And I, I have to say with confidence that I felt a sense of relief when it wasn't something that was expected of me. That wasn't exactly what, you know, I'm known for or i i was happy to say that's someone else's job right now you know like um and uh and just you know pound back the milkshakes yeah yeah and focus on paul rudd said something very similar to me he was like you know i felt

great when i was doing it but i'm gonna tell you something right now i'd love to drink a milkshake right now i'd love to eat something you know what i mean like you're absolutely right it's like when you're doing it you feel great and there's a purpose somebody's paying you a lot of money to do this stuff but really you know living is a lot of fun too you know what i mean and you know i gotta I got to say something psychologically, if I'm honest, I can look at those images now and think, I really tied up with a single thing, and that's confidence. If you have that, it doesn't matter how often you go to a gym or don't go to a gym. I really learned that it's about the person who you are. And the rest is just decoration.

Oh, I agree 100 i wish i you know i wish i had that confidence uh when i go places like the beach and stuff like that like i i feel great in my skin at home i could prance around naked in front of my wife and stuff like that uh and i'm confident that i you know i still feel i still feel and look sexy to her uh when you go to the beach though and and there's a and there's a you know uh stigmatism of how everybody's supposed to look and you don't necessarily fit that type it's like wait a second you know i don't necessarily want to take my shirt off and jump into the water now you know what i mean i have i have i have real issues when it comes to that um i remember working so hard to get in shape and look a certain way

you know when like just like you said when it was time for the big reveal i felt like i didn't reach my goal you know what i mean right then i look back at it now and i'm like holy shit i looked like holy look at that but it never back remember, we talked about this on the podcast. I just wish I could have been present when I, you know what I mean? Like, there were so many things on my mind when all the projects that I've made before, I wish I could have just been, just experienced every moment. And I didn't. I was too worried about this or too interested in something else to really focus on, you know.

And now the age that we live in, everybody has a camera right in their pocket. And we're all privy to one another's physiques. And it's, you know, it's a macabre pastime that is available to everyone and and you know depending on where you are in the world or what country part of the country somewhere in the back of my mind i always wonder is there somebody with a long lens you know they're a sniper right where are you yeah did you want you that happened a lot in la for sure but you moved out of la is that one of the like tell us a little bit about the reason i felt relief i mean for that reason alone that you know because it's it's uh it's a place that's that's that's uh that's myopic in that sense yeah and you know with distance you

can get some perspective yeah um which was which was helpful to me yeah for sure you know uh my wife always says she'll say something to me like you know i'm just bigger than everybody and i'm like in la you know what i mean you're bigger than everybody in la and you go anyplace else and people will be like damn girl eat a sandwich or something you know what i mean but i think it's good when actors um get out of new york and in la i mean you have to have reached a certain level of of stature in the business as you have where you can kind of be anywhere you want um but um i i fantasize about that sometimes i don't know about you donald about about being able to be somewhere that's not uh in in the heart

of of the industry i think well yeah you'd get more for your buck first of all you get more you know what i mean the two million dollars that you spend in los angeles gets you a room with the window you do that shit in montana and you got a ranch you know what i mean like it's a huge difference i would i would you know i can't picture you on a ranch would you like a ranch i could pick i could picture listen i could picture myself in a lot of you on a ranch yeah no but wait donald i never asked you this question this shit doesn't have to have animals on it it just needs to know i never asked you this i never asked you this if you could live anywhere in the country that's not uh new york or la and and you could have you know you could you know money's no

object i don't mean like some stupid epic mansion. I mean like, you know, you have all the money that you want to spend. What would you choose? Would you choose the Montana ranch or would you choose, I don't know. I can't picture. I never asked you what that would be for you. I'm a city boy, so I'd have to live in the city. But if I could live any place, there's two places that I would love to live.

One, Toronto. I love the city. It's one of my favorite cities of all time. If I could live anywhere and have – if money was no object, which it always is, but if it wasn't an object, dude, I would live somewhere in Toronto that was freaking, you know, wonderful and great. Either there or I, you know, I am a huge fan of London. You know this. It's one of my favorite cities. I do like that area.

And you're very popular there. You're like, you know, Denzel Washington of the United Kingdom. No, I disagree. There's people like John Boyega. There are a bunch of people from the United Kingdom. No, but they do love you. The United Kingdom. They do love you. The people that are listening

in the United Kingdom can attest to loving Donald Faison. Alright, how about this? If y'all love me in the United Kingdom like you love Denzel or more than you love Denzel, hit me up on Twitter and Instagram and say that shit. I'm going to send it to Denzel and be like in your face, Denzel! In your face!

Let this week's... I got the UK on lock! I got the UK on lock! You're going to make Brendan have to pull out his earphones. Don't yell with our guests. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Brendan, I know you have to go. We don't want to keep you longer than we promised we would, but

we just wanted to really tell you that we love you and that the fans love you. And then I hope if this wasn't too horrible, I hope that you'll come back when we get to season three for that very special episode. Because whenever fans talk about their favorite episode, it's either that one or the musical usually. Right, Donald? Yeah, absolutely. More that one, though. That's everyone's it seems like that's the universal number one episode for all of the scrubs fans it's rare that

we get anything else it's always the one where where uh your character passes away and cox has no idea where he's at at the end well you, you guys are really kind, and you were so kind to me then, and I'm really grateful for that experience. And it means a lot to me that people still are finding it today and that you included me on the show. Thank you. Included you? Dude, we were so happy that you were doing it.

I remember when we found out you were doing the show. We couldn't believe it. I was like, holy shit! Yeah, we got a real star we got a real star we got it's like you're fishing we got one on the line um thank you so much and everybody check out uh doom patrol when is it when is season two premiere june 25 june 25 on hbo max guys check it out. And Brendan, thank you so much. We love you. We'll see you. Bye for now. Bye for now. Oh my god.

What a sweet human being, huh? That was so awesome, dude. I can't believe we had him on. But he's just like, you know these people, they just, and you're so happy when they come into your life, they just kind of glow peace and kindness. Even though we're over to your life they just kind of glow peace and kindness you know i even

though we're over zoom he's just he's just he's just fire hosing his heart at you you know what i mean he's got that et heart light he's got the et heart light you said it better than i do he's got an et glowing heart light you feel it you feel it i'm glad that um i'm almost glad that he couldn't stay the whole time because I was looking at all my notes about turning, talking through the episode and I'm like, I don't want to bother Brendan by talking about Dr. Zeltser.

Right. Like Brendan, Brendan sitting there being like, I don't, I don't know anything about it. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't care that,

that, that Rob had a big bit of medical jargon. What the fuck do I give a fuck? I got to go feed my kids. Well, you did the whole, we'd skipped over the whole Tony Shalhoub situation. Yeah, go back, go back. Now that Brendan's gone, I can relax.

I can breathe. I was so nervous. I wanted to do a good job. Now it's just me. Now it's just us four. I can talk about Zeltser. I can talk about anything. This whole Tony Shalhoub thing,

this was before he started winning all the Emmys, huh? Yeah, before he started beating me every single time. Beating you? He beat everyone, dude. He beat everyone. I know. Everyone! Okay.

Okay. Do you know what that's from? No. Do you know what that's from? No. You never saw The Professional? The Professional? Gary Oldman.

Oh, yeah, of course. With Natalie Portman. Yeah, Gary Oldman. We've got him upstairs. What do you want? Bring me everyone. Everyone? Everyone!

I'm sorry if you're listening to this podcast on earbuds. I apologize. I will try and counterbalance it with this soft podcast voice I have. You don't remember that? Do you remember that SNL sketch where they were doing like a, it was like the sweaty balls one where they were doing like this. Oh my God. I can't wait to get those sweaty balls in my mouth. Yeah.

But that was when Alec Baldwin was the guest star, but the normal show was like, yes, they talk like this. That's fun. That's really fun. Oh, it's great.

It's a Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor now. Sweaty balls? I want to say it's like balls of peanut butter. Oh man. I was hoping it... What's your favorite Ben & Jerry's? We should try and get them as a sponsor so we can get buckets of free ice cream. Dude, Ben & Jerry's rocks, yo. Listen, I will pay money for Ben & Jerry's from here on out,

especially after the whole Black Lives Matter situation that's been going on when they straight up said, yo, Black Lives Matter situation that's been going on when they straight up said, yo, Black Lives Matter, anyone say anything else? Pretty much, go fuck yourself. Good for them. I love it, by the way. I'm not just saying that. I can't have Ben & Jerry's in my house

because I'll just snort it like it's fucking cocaine. Whoa. Do we need to have a conversation about your cocaine issues? No, I'm just saying, imagine people that have a coke problem I think you have a problem if you're snorting ice cream like it's cocaine. Like you don't snort your ice cream, Donald.

It's the only problem when you get a particularly chunky flavor and a peanut butter pretzel gets stuck in your nose. Oh my gosh. You need to chop that shit up better. Is Chubby Hubby your favorite flavor, Zach? I like Chubby Hubby a lot. Wow, Daniel is freaking out over there.

He likes that too. It gets no play. I can never find it, but it's my favorite flavor. It's so good. I love Chubby. I like anything, basically anything with peanut butter because I like peanut butter and chocolate in my ice cream. I see that.

The milk and cookies is the best flavor. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't eat a lot of Ben and Jerry my ice cream i see that the milk and cookies is the best flavor i like i'm gonna be honest with you i'm gonna be honest with you i don't eat a lot of ben and jerry's ice cream that is the honest to goodness is there another brand that you would have the audacity to choose because we're trying to get them to be our sponsor so don't fuck this up for us there isn't another brand that i would have the audacity to choose i'm just saying i it hasn't been something that i have been getting a lot of oh because, because you're trying to stay thin, but then you go home and make the shit yourself. I prefer to make my ice cream. So if Ben & Jerry's wants to become a sponsor and teach a motherfucker how to make some of these flavors.

Yeah, so that's what Ben & Jerry's is going to do. They're going to come on and teach you how to make their top secret ice cream. I wouldn't give it away. I would keep it for myself. There are a bunch of things that I wish the owners of the company would be like, all right, look, we're just going to give you the recipe, keep that shit to yourself, but you can make it at home. Krispy Kreme, hello, teach me how to make a donut.

What about those Salts Cure pancakes? The Salts Cure pancakes? Yeah, my restaurant in Los Angeles, Donald. I'm trying to get myself a plug. I've never had your Salts. Oh, my bad. Oh, yeah, and then there's the Salt Secure Pancakes, which are very, very tasty.

But you know where I really like the pancakes is DuPars. Dear DuPars. No, fuck DuPars. Listen. No. No, you fuck yourself, motherfucker. Fuck DuPars.

Hold on, goddammit. Hold on. I am now going back to my podcast voice to counterbalance Donald's loud voice And then And then Mastro's If you could teach me

How to make that butter cake Yo That butter cake That butter cake Mastro's You remember You remember Mastro's Where we used to go

For steak night Yeah Yeah Do you remember steak night I know you don't eat meat anymore But do you remember steak night Of course We used to legit

Go to steak night It is the world's best meat. It is such a treat. We're going to steak night. Yeah, we're going to eat it right. Donald and I made that song up, I Want the World to Know. That was another. In addition to our theme song, with the help of Charlie Puth, Steak Night with No Help from Charlie Puth is an original song by Donald Faison and I. We gonna steak night. We gonna eat. We gonna eat it right.

Steak is the world's a treat. No, steak is such a treat. It is the world's best meat. Steak night. And then we did the fucking this dance, the fucking Brady Bunch dance. Yeah, yeah. Do you remember when the Brady Bunch would perform?

It's like a band. In the later episodes, they became like a band. And that was their move. Like, when it's time to change, you've got to rearrange. Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. Sha-na-na-na-na. Yo, let me ask. Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

What was happening at the time? What was happening at the time? That's when Peter went through puberty. Remember when he went? He was like, if you remember that episode, if you're old enough to remember, he was going through puberty. Remember when he went, he was like, if you remember that episode, if you're old enough to remember, he was going through puberty. And when he was singing his song, he was like, when it's time to change, you've got to rearrange. And they were like, oh, no, what are we going to do?

Peter's going through puberty. What the fuck happened that all of a sudden the Brady Bunch were in a band? Like, out of nowhere, it was like season one, the Brady Bunch, they're having a hard time coming together as a family. Season two, the Brady Bunch, they're going to school now. Things are great. Season three, they're in a band? Like, what the fuck? I don't know if it was season three. I don't know either. I'm just

guessing, but out of nowhere, it had to be when they were young. Can you find out how many seasons in the Brady Bunch became a band? It's the same shit, Donald. It's jumping the shark. It's like red-haired Sam coming in at different strokes. You gotta shake shit up. They went to fucking Hawaii and jumped the shark. Remember the Hawaii? Well,

of course you remember. I mean, we'd use it in scrubs. We got to sell those tiki necklaces on our merch shop one day. Oh yeah. One day when I heart gets our, our, our merch shop going.

Okay. Someone said that, um, wait, can I fucking finish a sentence for the love of God? Listen for, for, listen for the love of Yah going. Okay. Someone said that, wait, can I fucking finish a sentence for the love of God? Do what you gotta. Listen,

for, listen. For the love of Yahweh, can I finish a sentence? For, only for Yahweh, let's go. Someone told me

that we had a good merch idea. Oh, that they thought, I mistakenly said sports players instead of athletes. Someone said, please pick a t-shirt that says sports players on it.

I like that. I'd wear the fuck-shirt that says sports players on it. I like that. I'd wear the fuck out of that. Sports players? What's your last thing? Let's talk about Ted's band. Ted's band. Okay, thank you. See, man, this is why I should just say what I want to say,

because now it looks like I'm jumping on your coattails. That's what I wanted to talk about. Let's talk about Ted's band. Okay, Ted's band is introduced in this episode. You get to see for the second time what a ridiculously beautiful voice our Sammy Lloyd had. And it's so tragic to use the word had, but it is accurate to say had. This was real. This was his friends.

All those men, those three men are his buddies. And they all sang acapella with him. And so we gave them, Bill gave them jobs in the hospital and formed an acapella group. And as I read on Scrubs Wiki, it was originally supposed to be the Superman theme, but they couldn't get the rights. Yes. So that's how underdog came about. I remember, uh,

that would have made more sense because there's a whole Superman motif, but they couldn't get the rights. Sam, uh, and his, we can sing it on here because we're not going to, I don't think we'll get in trouble for it. And if we will,

they'll cut it out. But it was like three bullets of speed left behind. Two powerful trains turned around. One able to leap. Buildings tall. In a run, all in one, single bound. Superman, Superman, where is Superman? Superman, Superman, calling Superman, human of Steve. Superman, Superman, where is Superman? Superman, Superman, calling Superman

human of Steve. Superman, Superman, Superman. These lyrics were written by Sam and his band. You made me think that the theme song had lyrics. John Williams wrote this. John Williams wrote this. Right, so it was just...

Right, and so they sang the whole song with words... So it was just... Right. And so they sang the whole song with words. I have it on my iPhone. It's something that's stuck. My kids know it by heart. Those guys wrote it. They wrote the lyrics. As I recall, Paul, one of the members of the band,

wrote a bunch of the songs from the musical did he not write the guy love oh i don't that i don't know well you look that up for me too i think this is a great bill this is a great bill lawrence question okay hey bill talk to us about ted's band ted's band and paul from the band um whose name i can't quite remember right now, but we will say it in this episode. Didn't he write some of the musical, including the song Guy Love? Because I feel like that's a bit of trivia. That's true. Also, where did you come up with the idea?

I mean, it's obvious, but- Oh, I got it, Paul Perry. Sorry, guys. It's Philip McNiven or George, George, forgive me if I don't say your name right, Miserless and Paul Perry. I believe it was Paul Perry and Bill will tell us who wrote a bunch of the musical songs. Bill, tell us now.

Hey, guys, it's cool talking to you. Look, Paul Perry, who is part of Ted's band, who are known as the Blanks in real life, this is how Sam Lloyd came into my life. He was on Spin City back in the day. He's Chris Lloyd's nephew. He played basketball with us. Donald, you played ball with him. And he had this super talented acapella band

that wrote the lyrics to Superman, made them up, and used to do it at parties and stuff. And they were just so darn talented. And Paul used to do all the arrangements for them. So we just started using them on the show as kind of a Greek chorus with commercials, theme songs, and TV theme songs. So fun. And Paul ended up writing a bunch of the songs for Guy Love

and a musical on his own as well. And more importantly, too, the Blanks ended up touring as the Worthless Peons, Ted's band, after the show wrapped, doing songs from the show and the theme song. And their version of the theme song in the finale is one of my favorites. Super talented group, top to bottom. And man, just even talking about it makes me miss Sam. Thank you, Bill. Finally, where we're in the hospital, where the three of us get the hospital overnight

and ted's band's performing and they do charles in charge yeah that was a great moment to new boy in the neighborhood lives downstairs and it's understood he's there just to take good care of me Like he's one of the family Charles Charles in charge of our day And our night I love that show. Didn't you love that show? I did.

I did love that show. Nicole Eggert. Nicole Eggert. Nicole Eggert. A moment of silence for puberty. All right. let's talk about Zeltser. Bob Clendenin, this is his first appearance. He's pretty normal

in this episode. Zeltser doesn't really get that wacky yet. He doesn't really fly his freak flag. Yeah, I noticed that. How about Rob Macchio with the medical jargon? I know, man. Most impressive.

He really killed that. And then, by the way, another thing that came up, there's a lot of, in addition to Eagle and Ted's band premiering in this episode, this was a thing that we always joked about, was that Rob is the best surgeon, according to Dr. Wen, right? Because he does, what does he say?

He goes... Well, everybody else is thinking about what they... This dude's just thinking, has nothing in his brain or something like that. I don't forget. Yeah, he's like... Oh, I know what it is. It's...

Tiny scalpel. Yeah. Rob, I say this every is. It's tiny scalpel. Yeah. Rob, I say this every episode that he's in. Man, he really does knock it out the park, man. It was funny. By the way, we go into your head at 1421. That was like out of character for the show. We go into your head, and we hear what your thoughts are,

and that's how we camera spins around to see by the way and you had jargon but I imagine you just read that shit I read that shit off a piece of paper man I'm pretty sure of it I heard you say that medical jargon I was like Donald read that shit he didn't remember you know he read that shit right you know I read that shit

dun dun dun dun dun the Chinese okay so when he's smacking the ass of the nurse, did you notice that the nurse got her ass a little perched up high enough so that the gag works? Yeah, of course. That's how you make the joke funny. I don't know what she's doing. She doesn't appear to be doing anything.

No, she's just sitting there doing nothing. That's Lynn, though, by the way. Yeah, that's our friend Lynn. I'm just going to scroll because I have the episode open. I'm just wondering if she at least is pretending to do something. Cause as I recall, she just looked like she was bent over a season three, episode 16 of the Brady bunch,

the kids, the kids, they covered Casey and the sunshine band. It looks like it was a ploy for a paramount records. They were like, did it for three or four seasons. I told you it was season three. See, I have my shit right and everything,

man. Did you guess season three? How the hell did you know your Brady Bunch lore that way? Of course I guessed that shit. Do you do the Brady Bunch wiki? I should do the Brady Bunch wiki. I should. You're so funny. You're like, you don't remember the fucking most obvious shit in

our relationship. And then you'll be like, the Brady Bunch kids started singing in 1972 it was episode 16 of season 3. Alright want to talk about the choreographed move, should we talk about that? Yeah, that was cool, do you remember

doing that? No, I don't. All of us are doing the exact same movements and it's a split screen and we're all thinking and it's all the exact same choreography and then I read on Scrubs Wiki that for some reasons, Judy's was backwards in terms of right, left. And so they flipped her. And that's why if you look, Judy's name tag is on the wrong side because in post her choreography wasn't right. So they flipped her. I did not. I did not know that. I'm going to be honest with you.

I thought this episode was going to have way more Brendan Fraser in it, to be honest with you. I thought it was like a whole episode about what happened to the character. I didn't know that other shit went on in the hospital. So when watching it, I was like, I don't remember any of this. I know. That's why I felt weird. I wanted to talk to Brendan, but I was like, I feel bad. I want to talk about the episode, but I don't remember any of this. I know. That's why I felt weird. Like, I wanted to talk to Brendan, but I was like, I feel bad.

Like, I want to talk about the episode, but I don't want to put fancy Brendan through, like, talking about the fact that Johnny sees wearing his actual Oakleys when we do the real world spoof. Right. That was such a hilarious. That real world spoof was so funny, right? Did you see my hair? Dude, your hair, dude. My hair is amazing. I took a picture of it to show my girlfriend. It's so funny. right? Did you see my hair? Dude, your hair, dude. My hair is amazing. I took a picture of it to show my girlfriend.

It's so funny. That shit was crazy. And Johnny's wearing those comedic Oakleys, but those are really his Oakleys. Johnny sees the kind of guy that really would rock those Oakleys. He probably still wears them, those like wraparound Oakleys. They're perfect for athletes who are on the go. Like if you're jogging and you have the wraparound Oakleys,

no sunlight gets in and they don't fall off your face. I don't care. I love Johnny, but I'm not wearing those Oakleys, Donald, and neither are you, no matter what sport you're playing. Dude, you are a – let's tell everybody what you are. You're more of a – Amazing? Amazing.

Well, dude, you know I love you, and you know I think you're amazing. But you're also – when it comes to sunglasses, you're very much the aviator. You're an aviator guy. I'm more Ray-Bans or, yeah, that sort of vibe, yeah. Ray-Ban aviators. But I wouldn't rock a colored glass wraparound Oakley. That's not my vibe. If you're playing tennis, why not?

I just think they look – I know Johnny listens. Johnny, I love love you it's just not my style let me let me just start off by saying johnny listens johnny listens i love you johnny listens while he's weightlifting and i know he's like oh like pumping iron right now i don't want to be like fuck you brad i love my oakley's i probably got him on right now in the gym no i want to talk about how not only does the janitor um pick a lock wouldn't that isn't locked did you notice that no i didn't like no one took the time to find lockers that would have even like a fake lock it's like so clearly not locked and he takes

a screwdriver and like pretends to to pick a non-locked locker. Did you think that it was weird that you were writing all of this stuff in a diary? Like out of nowhere? Like just out of nowhere? I forgot. All of a sudden the show's Doogie Howser. And does that imply that all of JD's voiceovers are going into a journal?

I never even, I mean, I certainly didn't play it that way for eight and a half years. Right. So when I saw that, I was like, wait a second. So there's data, there's information of everyone who like somebody could go back and in a time capsule or wherever,

you know, you pass out, passed away. There's freaking stacks and stacks of diaries of everything that's ever happened to JD. I, I never really understood. And it seems that this is the implication,

because it's a voiceover that goes right in the diary, that all the voiceover you're hearing is J.D.'s journal. Now, I do remember that I had a journal that had a unicorn with a sword on its head, and he's there to protect my hopes and dreams. And I want to show that this, I want the record to reflect this journal did not have a unicorn with a sword on its head. So no one is protecting my hopes and dreams record to reflect this journal did not have a unicorn with a sword on its head, so no one is protecting my hopes and dreams right now in this journal. That's why the janitor is able

to get in there. But I thought it was funny when he said theater camp, because you know, that was me. Yeah, but that's I mean, I know we went to Bill already, but that's another great question for Bill. Are these J.D.'s memoirs memoirs are we living in present

time when we watch the show you know what i mean is this something that took place in the past we'll ask him go ahead and ask him formally donald we can do it too biller uh bill is scrubs jd's memoirs is is it like a bunch of stories that j.D. has compiled in a bunch of books? Or is this, are we living in the moment from moment to moment when we're watching? Yeah, because we're seeing in this episode, Bill, that J.D.'s writing a journal and voiceover goes right into the journal. Was this a Doogie Howser moment, Bill? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- People just go with it. We made it an omniscient voiceover because we were always caught in his head and his thoughts. And people just go with it the same way on Modern Family.

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locations! Hi, Alex and Corey. Okay, welcome to Fake Doctors, Real Friends. We're so happy that you're here. Thank you. We're thrilled to be on with you guys. Oh, thank you. Tell us about yourselves. We just heard a little bit.

Our producer, Joelle, said that you've been watching the show in quarantine, and you're in different locations. So tell us what's going on. And I see Corey has a piano right next to him. Corey? Yes. Corey, are you a piano player? Are you a pianist?

Are you going to play us a little something? I don't think so, but I'm a piano teacher mostly. Okay. But I'm a composer and a piano teacher. So since I can't give lessons in my living room on my grand piano, I have to give them in my office on my electronic piano over Zoom. I truly wish you knew the theme song to our little rewatch show. I love the theme song to your rewatch show.

I think you guys did a fantastic job thank you singing it thank you thank you really fantastic i'm not so crazy about the count in but uh you know you don't like the last thing are you saying we're off tempo uh cory no i'm saying that you're covering up the first couple words because there's a there's a there's a pickup you know there's a a story so you say five six seven eight when you're saying seven eight there's a story it's kind of covered yeah but you know it's a it's a shtick now and so there's there's no way you can change it from here no you know what i'm gonna change it when we finish this when we finish this i'm gonna change it just for you just for this just for this

podcast i never imagined we'd be i'm gonna go one a go a one, a two, a one. No, no, no. You want to go five, six, seven. There's a story. Right. Or I can go a five, a six, a five, six. You can do that. That's it. No offense, Corey, but I think the fans will revolt because they really love Donald's five, six, seven, eight. They do.

They love everybody's, yes. So, like I said, it's probably ingrained and there's nothing to do about it. But every time it happens, it just kind of bothers me. It irks you. They do. They love everybody's. Yeah. So like I said, it's, it's probably ingrained and there's nothing to do about it, but it's, it's just every time that happens, it just kind of bothers me. It irks you. All right. Well, I'm sorry, Donald. I'm doing it for you. I'm doing it for you, Corey. Now, Corey, Corey, tell us how you and Alex started watching the show. And was this your first time through Alex? Why don't you tell us since Corey's getting all the screen time? Yeah. Oh no, it's, it's okay. Uh, I mean, the, the reason why I wanted us to come on is because father's day come is coming up. And I said, for dad, for a gift, come on the show. But, um, so you didn't have to pay for anything. I see how you do it. I see how you, she's still

going to get him a card. She's still going to buy you nothing. I said to Joelle, I'm the favorite daughter now. Here we go. Um, no. So I think I can't remember who started watching the show first if it was my dad or myself um this is not our first time in quarantine i would say i've seen every episode of the show multiple multiple times and i think the same is for my dad but we really bonded over our love of the show i think we watched it separately and then came together and realized we were both watching it and um we like quiz each other on little Scrubs trivia facts a lot. And it's just something that we've really bonded over is our love for the show and for you guys.

We love that. We love families that watch together. And also people finding it. What's been crazy about this new era of streaming, the show used to be on Netflix, now it's on Hulu, is that more generations keep finding it. And I think that's really cool. It kind of keeps on going.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I watched it when it first came on. What year was the first season? Do you know what year? 2001. 2001.

2001. I was going to say 1999. No, I don't know, but, but I do own the complete collection of DVDs. So I'm hoping that you guys got a little bit of money for me purchasing that one. It's a sore subject.

It's a sore subject. We don't talk about it all. Well, we don't talk about that, but I can tell you that if you listen to the DVDs, you'll have all the exact real music. You won't have any weird... Only people with DVDs are the ones with no musical replacements.

Yeah. It was a real good purchase for me. Great. Thank you so much. All right, do you guys have a question for Donald or for I or for me? Alex is going to go first. I'm going to go first. Well, let me just start by saying I'm so thrilled to be here, you guys.

I am shaking. I'm like very excited. We're very happy to have you. I know. Huge fans of you guys. Donald, I just have to mention that last night my fiance and I rewatched my favorite of your movies, I think, which is Remember the Titans. Oh, boy.

For your PD. Yes. Okay, yes. Amazing. Thank you. Thank you. You know what? You know who has never seen Remember the Titans?

Is it Zach? Don't tell me it's Zach. It's Zach Braff. Zach. I'm going to watch it. We had a conversation at the – Thank you for bringing this up, Alex. You're killing me, PD. You're killing me. Thank you. We had a conversation. Thank you for bringing this up, Alex. You're killing me, Petey.

You're killing me. Thank you. We had a conversation at the beginning of this episode, and Zach's like, it's on my to-do list. It's on my to-do list. Listen, man, I've seen every one of his projects, even the ones that didn't come out in theaters, even the ones that went straight to video. I've seen everything that Zach Braff has been in. I can count them all on this hand right here.

All of them on my one hand. I thought it was about sports players and I didn't think that I would like it. But I love Donald. I love Denzel and I love Rudy. So if it's anything like Rudy. Do you like Ryan Gosling? Yes, I think he's wonderful. He's in it? Do you like Wood Harris?

I think of it as Rudy. He's in it? I feel like it's Rudy with Donald Faison. Is it like that? No, it's not. Listen, motherfucker. Are you like Wood Harris? I think of it as Rudy. Rudy's in it? I feel like it's Rudy with Donald Faison. Is it like that? No, it's not. Listen, motherfucker. Are you the Rudy? I'm going to kick you in your freaking... Are you the Rudy?

Because if so, I'm fucking watching that shit tonight. I have a Rudy moment. I have a Rudy moment. Watch the damn movie. Okay. Don't ruin it for me. All right. Let's just put it like this.

Let's put it like this. What? Let's put it like this. Ryan Gosling is effing up the whole time, and I save his ass. Let's just put it that way. Okay. I'm going to think about it. All right, go ahead.

All right, all right. So my question is- Thank you for watching, Alex. Of course, of course. So one of the things that's just so incredible about the show in general is the way that you can mix the comedy and the silliness of the show with some of these like more dramatic or serious moments that sort of center around the theme of loss. Right. And I know you just had Brendan Fraser on and that's a really big sort of plot point in the show for Dr. Cox. But of course, with the loss of John Ritter, too. but of course with the loss of John Ritter too.

So I'm wondering if you guys could talk a little bit about what it was like to go through the experience of acting on a really highly comedic show and then have to sort of transition to these pretty serious storylines where the characters are experiencing death and loss of some pretty important people in their lives, including patients as well. Well, I'll tell you, there were times

where I didn't think it was gonna work. There were plenty of times where I thought, this is like a hairpin turn in a car. How are you going to go from me doing something so silly, and then I walk into this patient's room, and I'm just dropping in for this dramatic moment? And I really have to say, it's a testament to the writing and to Bill. He found a way to make it work. I mean, there were only 22 minutes without commercials. So sometimes you'd read them and go, how can you be in this weird fantasy and then drop in for this moment where we have tears in our eyes and um i think we just always tried to play it real um

obviously the fantasies were heightened and some of the some of the physical comedy was heightened but we always tried to deal with the patient moments like they were completely played straight. And I think of the show MASH a lot because when I grew up, we were watching MASH and it had a laugh track on it. But when they went into the surgical room, when they were operating on the soldiers, there was no laugh track, even though there'd still be some humor. It was just sort of a choice they made. And I often think of that in Scrubs. It was almost like there were moments when the silliness stopped and we just dropped in to play totally straight how a doctor would be

with a sick patient. So I don't know. I think, what do you think, Donald? I think it was just a matter of really good writing, to be frank. Absolutely. That, and thank goodness that there were, you know, that we were able to cut in between scenes

and stuff like that. And it wasn't, you know, if this were a play or something where there aren't any cuts in it, it would be very you're absolutely right. It'd be very hard to be funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, and then switch on it, you know, turn on a dime. And now we're going to be serious. Thank goodness that we had cuts, you know, uh different scenes edited together for that because uh this would have been a way more challenging show if this if everything was done on one in one take and you having to ride that emotional roller coaster i think you know as any actor will tell you those are the most difficult scenes where you're starting like because usually you work

yourself up on days when i have like a dramatic scene i'll work myself up and i'll get to the point where you know i'm on the verge of crying and so now i don't have to act that much to get to the tears if i had to be funny and laugh and and and joke around and everything like that and then move into the uh dramatic and uh the sadder side of the scene without a cut, I don't know how I would be able to do it. It would be such a challenge for me. So thank goodness for the takes and editing also. It all comes down to good writing.

I mean, you can make, you know, there's a movie, Once, I really love. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Oh, yeah, great movie. But one thing about Once is, like, Once is the ultimate example movie, Once, I really love. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Oh, yeah, great movie. But one thing about Once is like, Once is the ultimate example of like, if you have a great script, you don't need, that movie looks like it's shot on an iPhone. No disrespect to the cinematographer.

I mean, it's brilliant. But I mean, if you have a great script and great actors, you can make anything work. And, you know, it all comes down to great writing. Is that? Thank you. Falling slowly. Da-da-do-do.

That one? Yeah. Love that movie. You should check out Once, everyone. You have suffered enough. We have a lot of movie recommendations. Quiet American, Once, and Remember the Titans. All right, Corey, do you have a question for the legendary Donald Faison? Or Zach Braff? Recommendations. Quiet American. Once. And Remember the Titans.

All right, Corey, do you have a question for the legendary Donald Faison? Or Zach Braff? I do. So for me, I love the fantasy sequences in the show. I mean, right from the beginning, they were such funny. And I think my two favorite ones are when the character Alex says, how would you feel if you know i told you i was ready now to have sex and the marching band comes crashing in your mouth with the monkey and the monkey with the symbols oh my god and i also love memorable it's in later seasons when uh somebody

is trying to teach elliot and tasty como wife a dance i get. Alex told me it was the rewind dance. No, the rerun dance. Oh, man. And Elliot is so bad at that dance. She does such a fantastic job of being horrible at that. Flapping her hands and kicking her leg at the wrong time. Oh, very funny.

Anyway, so I was just thinking about, I wonder if there were any fantasy scenes that were pitched or written or even filmed that just didn't make it into the show that you remember. That's probably pretty tough. It's been a long time. That's a very good question. I don't know, Donald. You know, that might have to be our third Ask Bill.

I think we're going to have to ask Bill a third time on this episode. This is like, you know that show Millionaire when you get, you should only be allowed a certain amount of like ask a friend, call a friend, blow the audience. No, I think you're okay. I would give you a pass at calling Bill. All right. So we're going to ask Bill a third time. I hope he can squeeze in a third one. Were there any fantasies, Bill, that didn't make the cut?

Do you have any memory of anything we shot in a wacky fantasy that, that was never in the show? Uh, you guys are watching these shows again. I can't remember any, I'm so old. I can't remember any fantasy scenes that were cut except one that, uh, Gabby Allen always wanted to do a fantasy about newsies, you know, extra, extra read all about it. And I think we shot that and cut it because no one understood it. It wasn't a huge fan of musical theater. Miss you guys. Love you both.

Thank you, Bill. I don't, one thing I, you know, often the fantasies took a lot of time and money. Yeah. So I, so I, I feel like they were rarely cut because it was kind of where budget was getting thrown. You know,

sometimes they would be really elaborate and take a lot of time and money. So usually they probably wouldn't be unless something went wrong with them and they weren't funny. And I could see that some of them took a long time to make and it was like eight seconds. Oh, yeah.

That's all it was, just eight seconds. But you had to spend all day at makeup. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Some of them were so elaborate and they would take forever to do and then it would be really quick. But they're just the laugh outout-loud parts of the show,

and I love a TV show that just makes me laugh out loud, but also has that serious – all my favorite shows have that. The laugh-out-loud stuff. What are some of your other shows that you love? Well, Freaks and Geeks is probably one of my favorite shows of all time. Yeah, great show. Judd Apatow. Yeah, and also Gilmore Girls is that way too. They dealt very serious subjects,

but there's some really good laugh-out-loud stuff from that show. Yeah, and also Gilmore Girls is that way too. They dealt very serious subjects, but there's some really good laugh out loud stuff on that, from that show. They talk really fast on Gilmore Girls. They do, I love it. I love it. They're both incredibly witty. All right, well, thank you guys. You're our very first father-daughter call-in,

and we're very happy that you guys are bonding through our show. Ladies and gentlemen, give a big round of applause for Alex and Corey. Oh my God. Oprah does not sound like that. You sound like Oprah

on fucking crack right now. No, I don't sound like Oprah on crack. Yes, you sound like if Oprah took a fucking, hit a crack rock. All right, bye you guys. Thank a crack rock. All right. Bye you guys.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks. You're making us argue in front of all the guests. We argued in front of Corey and Alex. We argued in front of Brendan.

What the hell is wrong with you? I'm trying to see what it sounds like. I'm trying to in my head. If Oprah did crack, how? Sounds like that. Although, listen, there's one commercial and Oprah got it right. Well, she gets a lot of things right. But it's one of them Weight Watchers commercial. It's my favorite commercial ever.

It's your favorite commercial ever. It's an Oprah Weight Watchers commercial. Yeah, because she starts off like this. This is the joy for me. I love bread. My favorite commercial. Dude. Yeah, but who doesn't love?

Listen, I spent a lot of time in quarantine. Yeah, you love bread. Do you know what I love more than anything right now I'm noticing? Let me guess. Bread. Yeah. Bread. I love bread. I love bread. Do you know what I love more than anything right now I'm noticing? Let me guess. Bread. Yeah. Bread. I love bread.

I love bread. She doesn't do it like that. She goes down with it. It's not bread. It's bread. All right. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. We've done it.

We went through the show. We had wonderful guests. What? I have one thing. Underdog. Great song at the end of the show we uh had wonderful guests what i have one thing underdog great uh song at the end of the show one uh ted's band that's on their record also underdog yeah uh and then i feel like we tied the story up really quick in this episode you know what i mean in a good way or a bad way i think we ran out of time to be honest with you it feels like we ran out of

time on this episode at the end of the episode, things tie up really quick. We don't even go through the whole chemo process with Brendan's character. We go right into, oh, you know what? The chemo worked and the cancer went into remission. It feels like we had to tidy up a little bit so we could move on with the story. I understand. It's a lot. First of all, he was only signed on for...

Two episodes, it looks like. It's 22 minutes with credits. You gotta hurry. Thank you, guys, for being our listeners. Please tell your friends about the show. Please subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Zach Graff has 1.4 million followers. Donald Faison, myself, who I am, I do not have 1 million. But you don't have to bring this up every episode. People are going to think you have a hang-up about it. They're going to be like, I don't want to follow that dude. He's got a hang-up about this shit. You know what? To spite him, I'm going to

unfollow him. If there are people out there that are like that, then that's understandable. And I'm not going to hold you at fault for that. But my goal is to one day reach the legendary status of Zach Braff on Instagram and have

1.4 million followers. Yeah. Well, thank you to all my followers and thank you to everyone listening to this podcast. We said it before, but we'll say it again. We never imagined this would be listened to all over the world. And Joelle gets lots of emails from you guys. So thank you. Feel free to continue to email Joelle and us to be on the show,

like that lovely father and daughter at scrubsiheart at gmail.com. Big shout out to Daniel. Big shout out to Joelle. Big shout out to Will. Yeah, follow Joelle and Daniel. Joelle, tell them your Twitter handle. She's very popular on the Twitter. You can find me on Twitter at Joelle Monique.

It's J-O-E-L-L-E-M-O-N-I-Qi-q-u-e all one word yeah and daniel do you want to tell us your twitter handle sure you can find me on twitter at dj underscore d-a-n-l dj daniel that's me there you go guys and uh and actually i had a lot of people asking for the video of your dad talking to fox news so you can find that on daniel's twitter. Thank you, guys. Be safe. We love you. Wear a mask. Count us in, Donald. Here we go.

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