Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - Real Friends Classic: 111 - My Own Personal Jesus

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

In this week's episode, Turk questions his faith after a particularly difficult Christmas in the ER. In the real world, Zach and Donald recount the inspirations behind one of the best dream sequences in Scrubs' history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Does your wife keep track of what you ate? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. She doesn't keep track of what I ate. I don't mean like, I don't mean like, keep track of what you ate? Oh no, no, no, no, no. She doesn't keep track of what I ate. That's great. I don't mean like, I don't mean like keep track of what you ate in terms of like, hey, you're eating too much.

I mean like the good shit in our house. She's watching like, hey, hey, hey, you had the last M&M packet, that's mine. Yeah, we do fight over M&Ms, the peanut kind. We fight over candy a lot, my wife and I. Yo, we should talk about this because a lot of people don't know. Go ahead.

But it was Cinco de Mayo yesterday. Yes. You were fasting, so you didn't participate in Cinco de Mayo. No, what did you do? What did you do? So Casa Vega is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in the Sherman Oaks area.

Right. And nobody can go to restaurants right now, but they had a little drive through going on where you can get, you know, tacos and and beans and rice and and, you know, whatever was on the menu and Margarita's and Margarita's. How do they how do they give you the Margarita? They put it in. They put it in a half gallon pitcher. That doesn't seem not even a pitcher. It's like a half gallon, you know, like we put milk in it. You pitcher. That doesn't seem reasonable. Not even a pitcher.

It's like a half gallon, you know, like you put milk in it. You know, you get milk and it's a half gallon bottle, jar, whatever it is. They put it in that. Wow. And we got three of them. Oh my God. Did you get hammered? We only have one left.

You guys had a party over there. We drank a gallon of margarita yesterday. Oh my God. Wow. Delish. I'm so jealous. I literally, this fast thing we're on, it's like all you eat is this thin soup. It looks like gruel.

Remember that thing that Oliver wanted more of? That's what it looks like. Yeah. It looks like, or like what they'd slop on a pirate ship, what they'd serve you for dinner. That's what it looks like or like what they'd what they'd slop on a pirate ship what they'd serve you for dinner That's what it looks like right does it have like a little bit of celery and like a little bit of carrot It looks like cartoonishly watered-down soup. That's what we're allowed to eat, but it's it's white colored No, it's the color of whatever flavor. They think it is It's like tomato is like tomato colored, but it's just got little specks of crap in it Wow

But just you wait, Donald. You're gonna check in when we record on Friday and you're gonna say, wow, you look even thinner. I wanna fast, but I wanna fast. Should we sing? Should we sing? Yeah, sure, why not? I'd like to count in today

because I realize I haven't counted in in a long time. I've been giving it to you, I've been giving it to Bill Lawrence, our guest, giving it to Judy as a present, and I just feel feeling left out. Well, Zach, I want you to give it to you, I've been giving it to Bill Lawrence, our guest, giving it to Judy as a present, and I just feel left out. Well, Zach, I want you to give it to me. Go ahead. Okay, Dan hit it.

I like a little... Wait, before you hit it, Dan, you know, I always thought it was so cool when DJs on the radio do the thing they call talk up. Like, they know exactly when the words come in and they stop talking right at the... I believe DJs call it talking up a song. Right. Right? So they, I'm sure they have it labeled somewhere, like the lyrics start at five seconds in or something.

And I always thought it was so smooth. So I'd like to talk up this song. Go ahead, do it. Okay, here we go. So I'm not gonna count in, Dan. I'm just gonna talk it up, okay? Here we go. I'm nervous now.

I'm nervous now. I'm nervous now. There's a lot of pressure on you. Here we go. Welcome everybody to Fake Doctors, Real Friends. We're so glad you're joining us. And here's a song written by Charlie Booth, Donald Faison, and Zach Brown. Coming at you. Here's some stories about a show we made, about a bunch of doctor nurses and a janitor who loved to hate. I said, here's our stories that people should know. So gather round to hear our, gather round to hear our, Scrubs Rewatch Show with Zach and Dono. Mm-hmm.

Hey, lots of talk on the social media about, you know what I means, and you. Wow. Is it that bad? Hey, lots of talk on the social media about, you know what I mean, and you. Is it that bad? No, it's just, people just need to accept it. It's part of your way of speaking. It is part of my way of speaking. I'm just concerned though about those who are doing it as a drinking game

that we're gonna turn people into alcoholics. I'm of the, I think we should keep the dings, but if you don't wanna keep the dings, we could remove the dings. And also I heard by the way, Dan, that you missed some. I saw on Twitter, some people were like, the dings were hilarious, but you guys missed like four, you know what I mean? Dan, what was the total?

I mean, of the ones you caught, what was the total? Nine. That's not a lot for an hour, dude. By the way, that's when you were trying not to say it dude but but I was also it was me not it was me using it as Slang though at that point. It wasn't me just saying, you know what I mean after everything I said somebody brought to my attention that you say, you know a lot. I'm just gonna put it out there really Oh, you're trying to shift this shit on me. Listen Listen I do I listen we all have we all if you record

someone for multiple hours you're gonna hear some of the things that they say when they speak I'm sure we all have our own tics yeah I'm sure you listening right now judging us you probably have some vocal go-to's the ones that the ones that kind of get on my nerves. Yeah, or like when people say I mean all the time before they say anything I mean, it's like no I get it. Or like I mean I hear you say like a lot. We all say like a lot. I know but the young folks really use like a lot. Yeah. That's the one that gets me. I mean, I mean... I mean... I mean... The wrong use of literally is also a bit of a pet peeve. Really? That's abused.

You literally don't like that. I literally... We literally get annoyed when people overuse literally. Should we get into the episode, Donald? Let's do it. I love it. Merry Christmas, everyone. What an episode. I'm just going to jump right in and say, holy shit, you are so good in this episode. I forgot how Turk-centric it was. It is a Turk episode. It is a Turk episode.

It's a very Turk episode, Donald. It's some great moments. I'm not just saying this because I love you so much, but I do. But holy shit, you are so good in this episode. And I, multiple things, there's the, we could spend a whole episode of this podcast on that gospel fantasy. We're gonna spend plenty of time on it, don't get me wrong. But also, your dramatic acting at the end when you're all upset, the scene with you and Judy on the roof, you running to the park. I just thought you did really, really good work in this. Oh, you're all upset, the scene with you and Judy on the roof, you running to the park. I just thought you did really, really good work.

Oh, you're a sweetheart. You know, thank you, first of all. Second of all, this was one of my, this isn't necessarily one of my favorite episodes, but there's so many really cool things that happened in this episode that I got to be a part of. One was obviously the gospel choir thing. That was a lot of fun.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Coming to America. Me too. And also Which Way is Up. And of my favorite movies of all time is Coming to America. Me too. And also Which Way is Up. And in Which Way is Up, Richard Pryor plays a reverend in a church. And in Coming to America, Arsenio Hall's portrayal of the reverend is amazing as well. And so if any, if I was doing anything in that scene, I was stealing from the two of them. Well, let's just get right to them. Because they're so amazing. Let's get right to it.

You are so fucking funny in that. And I watched it like multiple times just because that scene, I think it's one of the, I honestly, I know we just started this, but I think it's one of the best fantasies in Scrubs history, solely because of your performance. And I know that you're doing an homage to one of our favorite movies coming to America,

but you really made it your own. I mean, I just was dying laughing. The jerry curl, the swinging of the arms, the padding of the forehead. We gonna, we gonna, what are you gonna do? We gonna cut them open and then we gonna stow them right back together. I remember that day genuinely cracking up and you were just going for it man. You were literally sweating your ass off because it was hot as I recall. And you were just being

But I wasn't sweating my ass off so you kind of used literally in the way that you hate it. Okay, you're right. Because I was literally sweating but my ass didn't fall off. You're right. Okay, there it is. I stand corrected. It is literally not possible in literal sense for someone's ass to be sweat off.

I believe, I believe that's true. Joel, please look that up. I had a lot of fun doing that scene, man. One of the great things was looking out into the audience also and seeing, you know, how background really enjoyed themselves. And then also seeing familiar faces in the background. Colonel Doctor for the first time is in this episode.

Wait, before we, you're jumping around. Let's just stay focused on you. We can't go to Colonel Doctor. But he's in the background. I know, but yes, okay, sorry. But I didn't even want to go to Colonel Doctor yet because it is his first appearance in a Scrubs episode. He shows up in the background of Sarah's scene first.

Also Neil Flynn in the background of this episode clapping. Yes, that was funny. It was hilarious. And what about me when I get the spirit? And then you catch him in the Holy Ghost. Dude, that freaked me out the first time I ever saw that. I'm going to be honest. You mean in real life when someone-

In real life, my first time ever seeing someone- Oh, you saw it in real life. I saw. Listen, I going to be honest with you. You mean in real life when someone... In real life. My first time ever seeing someone... Oh, you saw it in real life. Listen, I went to church with my babysitter. It was like a midnight mass type thing. And we went to church and we saw... First of all, people around us are catching the spirit, right? Catching the Holy Ghost. And they're losing it. And I was like, all right, I'm safe. I'm here with my babysitter. I know she's not going to catch the Holy Spirit. Last cut to she catches the bad boy. And I was like, all right, I'm safe. I'm here with my babysitter. I know she's not going to catch the Holy Spirit. She got it.

She catches the bad boy. And I was like, yo! So how did she start acting? She just out of nowhere, she just started dancing, right? Like you did, like your character does, like JD does. She started dancing. And then she started praising God, which is what, as a youth, when you don't see stuff like that, like my

grandmother was Pisgapalian, so we had to go to Pisgapalian church and stuff like that. And it wasn't like that. You know what I mean? Right. Even though it was all black, it wasn't a Baptist church. You know what I mean? And when you go to a, when you go to a Baptist church, you know, they, they put

it in, that's some, that's some- I'd love to do that by the way. I- Oh, it's amazing. The choir, everything. church. They they put it in. That's some that's I'd love to do that by the way. I I oh it's amazing. The choir everything. I would love to have the

experience of going to a church like the one we're representing in this show. I just think it would be amazing. I've never seen that in real life. Obviously, I've seen it on on TV and in on video of people speaking in tongues and and and

no judgments. I'm not I'm I'm whatever works for you. That's amazing. I like you said as a child, I was always like, oh my God, what is happening? And it was so shocking to see someone reacting like that. To get touched by the spirit of God. I like the idea that JD got the spirit when you were such a good minister that it just came to him.

Right, the music got into him and praise got into him. Was that scripted or I just improv that? I don't recall, do you remember? I don't know if it was scripted. I think you might have improv'd it to be honest with you. I think I just thought I said to Bill like, oh my God, I should get the spirit. I think that was funny.

Yeah, amazing, amazing. What a scene, man. A great scene, the choir was great. The choir was amazing, although we do have two of them that spiked the lens and wave at the camera around 8.16, I don't know if you caught that. They may have caught the spirit too and decided to wave to the lens. But they were amazing.

By the way, am I mistaken or did you, when you were just riffing? One of the things that was, you were so great when you would be in your element and they would just tell you to go, whether that could be the famous dance you did that everyone always talks about or so many things. But in this moment, when you were just riffing and being that preacher, you just got lost in it. And it was so amazing to watch you do that. But I remember that when you went, what's the name of the song we sing in? Yeah, because I couldn't remember the song. You couldn't remember the name of the song. I couldn't remember the song.

And they kept it in. I thought that was so funny. It was supposed to be something like, let us bless the congregation with the song, Christ the Lord. Right, right. And I remember getting there and being like, what's the name of the song we're singing? But you stayed in character. It was so funny. It was such a good lesson early on in Scrubs that if we stayed in character, a lot of that stuff could, if it was funny, would stay in. Right. And that was a perfect example of you doing that and Bill going in the edit room like, oh, that's funny.

That's staying. Yeah. Yeah. So this whole episode, it was written by... Deb Fordham. Deb Fordham, that's right, who also wrote the musical episode. Right, was one of the main writers on the musical episode

and I think actually participated in writing a lot of lyrics for the famous musical episode. That's right. And Jeff Melman was the director and I just learned a little trivia that he directed some of the sitcom you did, The's. Yeah I did I did I did you not put two and two together? I did not remember that. Do you remember? I do know who Jeff Melman is but now that you have said that. Well he only directed one episode

of Scrubs and it was 20 years ago so you're okay for not remembering that but I don't know if you put two and two together that you also directed your sitcom the X's. I think we even talked about him directing an episode of scrubs when he directed the episode Right the X's anyway, yeah, and Kristen Johnston who you did the X's with I bought her house That's where I live. Yeah, not only that but you guys also did Twelfth Night together we did Twelfth Night together in Central Park at the Delacorte and You and that's when she said hey, I want to move out of LA. I'm over it.

Do you have any interest? I was just at the time when I was starting to think about buying my first house. What's funny is that she was quite an entertainer. She threw a lot of bashes at the house. Over the years, when I've told people that I bought the house from her, they're always like, ooh, I've been so fucked up in your house. Wow. Wow.

Well, she's now sober and she's written a wonderful book called Guts, which is out on the market right now. And if you guys are listening and want a good read in the voice of Kristen Johnson, she also does the audio book. Check it out. It's very, very, very revealing and she's very open about her addiction. And so you get the opportunity. I've read the book and it's amazing and you should get it.

And when you're hearing about some of her partying, just know it was happening in my bedroom. Where you live now. Yo, somebody got mad. Oh man, somebody got mad that I ruined that joke. Or that not the joke, the bit of trivia. I know. On one of the last episodes, I said

I was going to do a trivia for Donald involving the Breakfast Club, and he ruined it. And some guy wrote on Twitter, I was legit excited for a bit of trivia, and Donald did indeed ruin it. We got to filter in some more trivia to the show. Yeah, absolutely. So okay, Deb Fordham, Jeff Melman, it's a great episode. I got to say, you know, they're not all this good.

This was a darn good one. And first thing I wrote down was Nurse Tisdale at 35 seconds in, which is a homage to the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Now some of you younger folk might not know that movie. You should watch it, because it's a seminal 80s film. And I remember watching it at someone's house far too young to be watching it.

I should not have been watching that movie at the age I was. And I remember feeling like, don't move, because I don't want any adult to notice that I'm here and I'm watching this, and I probably shouldn't be watching Phoebe Cates reveal her bosoms. Yeah. Do you remember when you saw that movie? I do remember when I saw that movie.

And you know, the one thing that stuck out from that movie for me was Sean Penn, totally awesome. And here's Jeff Spicoli. Yeah. A little bit of trivia for you, do you know who wrote that movie? Yes, it was Amy Heckerling. No, Cameron Crowe. Amy Heckerling directed it? Absolutely. Okay, Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed Clueless? Wrote and directed Clueless, yes. So it's Six Degrees of Donald Faison is what

you're saying. Six Degrees of Donald Faison. Forrest Whitaker is also in that movie. He directed Waiting to Exhale and I was in it. And I remember going on the audition for Waiting to Exhale. At the same time, I was shooting Clueless, the movie. And I was, you know, Forrest and I had a little conversation about his experience with Amy. And the reason why I got Waiting to Exhale, because I'm sure there were a bunch of people

who auditioned for it. But Forrest told me, he was like, you know, I went with you because, you know're working with Amy and Amy gave me my start and there was something was a form of nostalgia in it for me that's really cool so I got to be in wait and exhale with Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lila Brashon I got to oh man I got to meet several actors from Michael Beach to one of my favorite all time performers, Gregory Hines. That's what I've never seen the movie.

I've got to be honest with you. But you're never seen waiting to exhale. No, but I'm going to write it down because we're looking for quarantine movies and I do love your work. You should watch waiting to exhale. It's a lot of fun. It's a good pardon it or should I need to just

fast forward to your scenes? No, you should watch the movie. The movie is actually very entertaining. It's it's it's and the soundtrack is amazing, by the way. Holy cow. Baby face. You put your foot in it when you made that one. I don't know what that means. It just means he puts him. He puts them. He did a good job. He put a little struzy on it. You know what I mean? Baby face. He's still doing his thing. Oh, I just haven't heard about him his name in the public lexicon in a long time Anyway, we digress. Let's get back. Sorry. We digress nurse tisdale

She's coming down doing an homage to fast times the ridgemont high by the way If you haven't seen fast times ridgemont high you should because it perfectly I think encapsulates a period of time in in the 80s and And it's a really really I mean it was written by Cameron Crowe.s. And it's a really, really, I mean, it was written by Cameron Crowe. I mean, it's a great movie. 58 seconds, Snoop, you know, showing up. Snoop's in a lot of this episode, Snoop Dogg intern.

Snoop Dogg was in a lot of this show. I know, it's funny, if you guys start looking at the background, you'll see the- And not Snoop Dogg, real Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg intern. If you guys look at these episodes closely, you'll see that basically they're just moving around the same 20 background folks. There's times where it's like there'll be one scene and Snoop's in the background and then we're upstairs and Snoop's in the background. I'm like, guys, come on. I just saw Snoop.

Yeah. Well, he worked a lot. But now we're starting to introduce new characters. So you'll see Colonel Doctor. Yeah. So at 1.51, a momentous moment. Colonel Doctor, first appearance in the background, as Bill told us on the last episode, named because everyone thought he looked like Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders, right? The Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials. And is he still alive or did he pass?

I believe he passed away. I believe he passed away. Well, he was an older fellow when we were doing this 20 years ago. Right. By the way, someone clarified for me on the social media interwebs that the Beard Fosse film I was trying to remember was Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I knew it was a Fincher movie. Oh, it was Fincher.

You're right. Holy cow. So I was right about it being Fincher. It's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Daniel Craig is on a plane, and the camera sort of just dollies past a close-up of Beard Fosse. So thank you for the listener who helped me out with that. All right.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We watch your Wizards and Donald. And we're back. Hey listen, I occasionally, season one, would go out partying with you during the week. Yes, occasionally, yes. I was feeling myself, I had never had a dollar in my pocket,

let alone some fame. A hit television show. A hit television show. And you and I, I can't, I mean, it's 45 years old, you can't imagine you would ever do this, but in our 20s, we would occasionally go out the nights of filming. Occasionally.

I remember we would say things like, all right, look. Just one. We're just going to do one shot. How about just one? I'm sure everybody out there can relate to your friend going, how about just one? Yeah. We're going to do one shot.

Hard cut two. Hard cut two. At 6 o'clock in the morning, if we're gone by midnight, we could be home by one, and then we still have a good five hours of sleep. Right. Hard cut two, like at six in the morning We're in Orlando Jones's swimming. Oh my god. It wasn't even six. It was like 445

Right and it was the night You had to be at work at six and I had the did you have to go in or just me you didn't have to go No, I had to go in but I didn't have to be in until like oh man This was this is this if you looked at a graph of me being irresponsible at work, this was the high point because I think I was in Orlando Jones's pool hammered at 4 45. Yeah. And that day I had to shoot this Fonzie fantasy at 3 41 that starts at 3 41. So when you see that Fonzie thing, not only am I hung over, I'm still buzzed. Right. Not only am I hungover, I'm still buzzed. Right.

Right. I'm still buzzed from partying with Orlando Jones. Dude, to this day, that's still one of the most epic nights. I know. We've had some pretty epic nights. But well, because we were so young and fresh in the game. And I hadn't met that many stars. And I was just like, I can't believe.

Are we going to Orlando Jones' house? Yeah. He was fresh off of doing a he had already said goodbye to the 7 Up commercials. And now he had the movie that had just come out with him and David Duchovny and Sean William Scott called Evolution or something like that. And we were all hanging out. I don't know, but I was excited to be with any star. I was excited.

I was just excited. I felt like I'm living the Hollywood dream. I'm not waiting tables anymore. I'm partying with Orlando Jones and Donald Faison in a pool. And Deontay Gordon with us too. And Deontay Gordon, Donald's stand-in slash our friend. And then I went and did this fantasy. So I was just watching it because I remember that being in pain. And it's a very funny fantasy. So I was grateful. This many later, I didn't ruin a moment for the fans because that's a funny fantasy.

It's hilarious. He's not going to make it. Then you come in and you turn more like he's the jukebox. But those of you who are too young to remember the Fonz, who I'm spoofing here, pretty much had magical powers in Happy Days. When it came to jukeboxes and women, yes, the Fonzies- Maybe in the beginning he was just jukeboxing, but then as I recall, in Happy Days. When it came to jukeboxes and women, yes, the Fonzie... Maybe in the beginning he was just jukeboxing, but then, like, as I recall, in later episodes of Happy Days, he would literally, he could, like, work magic with his tap.

He could snap and women out of nowhere would show up. Yeah. Fonzie had to move out of Milwaukee because he had dated every woman in Milwaukee, as I recall. That was a subplot. He had been on a date with every single woman in Milwaukee, so he had to go out of city for that. Right on. Such a funny scene, though.

Such a funny scene. And that's how you know we all believe in miracles. Well, that's what starts off your really cool arc about testing your faith. And so was it dropped from you? You mentioned earlier that it was your, was church's religiousness dropped from here on out? Like did it ever come up again?

Did you stop wearing that cross? The cross is so prevalent. By the way, I love how you never see this cross ever before, but in this episode, because you're supposed to be religious, the cross is in every shot. Well, we shot it in another episode also, but the cross is, it was, after this, you don't see the cross anymore, I believe.

And we don't talk about Turk's faith really anymore. Which is bizarre because at the end of the episode, your faith is restored. I mean, you literally have a sign from God to go save a pregnant woman in the park. Right, like I just knew she was in the park. Yeah, how did you just know? Did you even know, does Turk even know Sarah's storyline

about her having a pregnant woman? I think the whole hospital knows about it because she's escaped and everybody's on the lookout for her. So you're on the roof. By the way, how funny is it that Judy trying to cheer you up wants to bang on the roof of the hospital? I know. I thought that was a funny plot line.

Like, here, baby, I'll cheer you up. Let's have sex on this gravelly dirty rooftop. Yeah. I look back at that and I'm like, Turk, what were you thinking? I love how I'm watching it going, ugh, it's going to be so gross. And you're like, ugh, what was Turk thinking? Right. I mean, I don't know.

I think having sex in, like, really awkward places is always so, like, such a thing you only see in movies. Have you had sex in awkward places before? Well, I'm not gonna go too into my sex life for everybody, but I think I have hooked up on the beach with someone and thought, this looks way better in the movies. There's, like, sand in my creases. Yeah, no, I have never had sex in really any awkward places.

There you go. We're giving the exclusive here on Fake Doctors, Real Friends, Donald Faison, never having sex in an awkward place. Like I know people that have done it in some crazy places. I'm like, you're out of your mind. There's people who are into that. They're like, they think of it like notches on their belt,

like, well, you're not gonna believe where we banged, the hospital roof. it like notches on their belt like we you're not gonna believe where we bang the hospital roof yeah turk and carla aren't that couple what about those people who brag about having sex on in airplane bathrooms i always thought that would be humiliating to to come out of the bathroom and everyone's looking at you and so obvious what you did it's not well the the thing is not a lot of people have the opportunity to have sex over a mile above the earth. Right. And so I get the allure. Yeah, you do get the allure.

Yeah, I get the allure, but I'm not real. I'm not jealous of it. Like you just said. I can't picture you doing that. It doesn't sound like a very Donald Faison thing to do. I mean, you never know. You know, so you might. I mean, you never know. So you might. I mean, if it's a private jet. Oh, a private jet doesn't count?

I'm talking about a commercial airplane. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, especially now after what we're going through right now with this whole quarantine thing. I don't think anybody's. Oh, before the quarantine, you would definitely bang it about. Before the quarantine,

I think a lot of people would be like, yeah, that's a possibility. But now I think after the quarantine thing, it's like, oh, there's a little too much germs. I can't picture of people would be like, yeah, that's a possibility. But now I think after the quarantine thing, it's like, ah, there's a little too much germs. I can't picture Casey Cobb being like, all right. There's no way, absolutely not. I would be like, babe, let's do it. And she'd look at me like I was stupid.

She'd be like, come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. That's funny. All right, so the park's called Miller Park. I couldn't help but think that might be for Krista Miller. Okay. Right? Yeah, sure.

The park's called Miller Park. I mean, Bill said he's not great at naming shit, so. Speaking of Krista Miller, she's back! She's back! And she looks beautiful and she's funny as shit. And 633 is the first time I say banana hammock. Yes, and I. What is a banana hammock?

Is it the thing that Rob, aka Todd, wears? The tiny... Yes. Yes, and it's called a banana hammock because obviously... It's like laying your banana in a hammock. Okay. Now, I guess there are people, men, that wear these for real. Strippers? Yeah, I mean, I think if you're comfortable, if you don't have problems with your thighs rubbing together, banana hammocks are very

comfortable. Do you, could you ever consider, would you ever consider? No, because. Wait listen, before you answer, if you knew you weren't going to be photographed by a paparazzo, by the way singular of paparazzi is paparazzo, I don't know if you knew that. Okay. If you knew that you weren't gonna be photographed and it was just be you on the beach and wherever, Brazil, would you rock one of those? If I had no worry about anyone ever seeing me in this, then why not go nude, right?

No, I'm talking about you're still on a beach. People are like around. No, then no, I would not rock one of those. If people are around, then no, I would never rock one of those. If people are around, then no, I would never rock one of those. I sometimes think it would be fun to wear a Speedo. Again, I don't want to wear it and have people look at me and judge everything going on, but I just think sometimes when I see people wearing them, I go, I think that might feel nice, have a Speedo on the out and about.

Yeah, I don't know. I prefer to... I have issues with like chafing with my thighs and stuff like that because- Oh, you don't have a thigh gap. Yeah, no, I got quads and I got some thigh gap. I think I might have a thigh gap, let me see. Yeah, I have a little thigh gap. I don't have a thigh gap.

Yeah, we have big legs. My inner thigh touch. Yeah, they clap. They thigh gap. I don't have a thigh gap. Yeah, we have big legs. My inner thigh touch. Yeah, they clap. They clap. That's the worst. Oh, you want to talk about feeling, running with the chafe after a while, and then having the burn in between is the worst.

So you can't jog because of your thighs. I can jog if I put on something like compression shorts, but I can't wear like, I can't wear tighty-whities. Like I don't wear tighty-whities because even just walking is an issue with tighty-whities. Yeah, I don't wear tighty-whities anymore either, but I used to be quite loyal to them. The janitor is for no reason at 940 punching the balls by a little girl, and both the little girl and the mom acknowledged the janitor. So Bill, since you hold fast to the idea that the

janitor only reacted with JD in season one and may have been a figment of his imagination, why is it that a little girl randomly punches Neil in the balls and he reacts? Yeah, when the janitor got hitting the balls by that girl, like the nine and a half minute mark, you want me to explain how the janitor can only interact with JD. If this actually happened, that's easy. Five, six, seven, eight. You know, Bill, seven, eight! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Yes, but then afterward, after the fantasy was over, we did it again, where the person who did the voiceover for the fantasy is now in the room with you. Right, and then he brings up, like, communism communism as though he's still back in the 50s. Right. And then looks he's looking off into the distance, I guess, into nowhere. And then you look at him to see what he's looking at. Right. And then you exit that direction. I think he was trying to be one of those like, you know,

picture like a 1950s announcer guy who was like looking off into the distance. And thus we will fight communism. And so, and then he's sort of frozen like that. And then, but it was sort of a JD sort of head look. So then I kind of did a look to him like, are you doing my thing or what are you looking at? And then I tried to look where he was going. But that's pulling out of a fantasy and still being,

you know, this is another example of that. That's not something that happened too often. No, this is like the second time it happened. Well, we talked about the guy who was frozen after, the orderly who was frozen after everybody else was frozen. It's not something, I think Bill, I think he said that he started phasing that out. But I thought it was clever, very clever.

Same here. I... I have a couple of things. We shaved the baby. Okay. I laughed out loud. I laughed out loud. I shaved the baby. Yeah.

Shaved and haircut. Two bits. Yeah. I laughed out loud. That was JD's JD's improvisation for solving the problem. We shaved the baby. You shaved the baby. Yep.

Shaved the baby. Shave and a haircut. Long pause. Two bits. Bill told me early on that one of the things he loved about Michael J. Fox working on Spin City was that Michael J. Fox, and everybody, when you think about this, when you hear this, you'll think about family ties and some of the amazing timing he had, was that he knew how long he could milk a pause before that punchline.

Like Michael J. Fox was fucking genius at, you know, I'll just use this as an example, how long he could have the audience, especially if the audience got ahead of it. Right. He knew that you still, I mean, it's even better with a sitcom live audience, but he knew that you still... It's even better with a sitcom live audience, but he knew that

shaving a haircut, two bits, he could just milk it. That's pretty good. Even if the audience started, and a sitcom started giggling because they were ahead of it, he could just milk that. And Bill said... And I think that landed in my head in some of my scrubs timings because I wanted to impress him like Michael J. Fox. But I always think of that when you watch some of Michael J. Fox's amazing timing, how he just was a master of how long to hold it.

Even let the audience get ahead of it, it's fine, and then say it, and it would be so much more gratifying. Right, I mean, Michael J. Fox is one of our best when it comes to just, you know... I mean, Family Ties. Did you watch Family Ties? Of course I watched Family Ties. He was amazing in that. And also Back to the Future. You know, the first... I talk about Back to the Future a lot because it's one of my favorite movies, but the first Back to the Future, I know there's some plot holes in it that a lot of people can't get over,

but to me that movie is almost flawless. You know what I mean? As far as time travel stories are so difficult to do, you know what I mean? Or I shouldn't say difficult to do. I should say they're just doing a time travel story. It's been done so many times before. And so you have to be pretty creative to make it feel like, oh, this is a, you know, people say, another time travel story, but if it's as good as Back to the Future was, you accept it and you're willing to go on the ride.

Otherwise it's like some cheese shit and you, you know, theory gets in the way of a lot of stuff. And I, they, it's just one of those movies that, you know, you make a, it's just, it's in my opinion, it's one, it's just one of those movies that, you know, you make a, you, it's just, it's, in my opinion, it's one, it's a perfect movie. And wasn't it amazing that a movie could turn out that good and it was a film that they started over because they recast the lead. Right. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you mentioned this, you mentioned this before, but for those of you who didn't hear that or didn't know,

it was originally Eric Stoltz. I don't know how long they shot. You read the book, do you remember? They shot half of the movie, so they shot all of this stuff in the 50s. That's incredible. They shot half of the fucking movie? Yeah, so they shot everything in the 50s. They talk about the movie, like, you know, Michael J. Fox is very athletic, obviously. What's the name of this book? Do you remember for people that want to- I don't remember it. The dude tweeted me-

Joelle's gonna look it up. She's the name of this book? Do you remember for people that don't remember it? The dude tweeted. Joelle's going to look it up. She's on it. But they shot half the movie and they said, you know, Michael J. Fox is very athletic, but they said Eric Stultz on a skateboard was magic. He just seemed way more at home on a skateboard than Michael. Probably was a skateboard. Yeah. Right. Then Michael J. Fox did. And you know, the rock and roll side of things they say in the book, you Stoltz has that very much grunge rock appeal to him. You know what I mean? And Michael J. Fox is, he is what he is. He's, when you look at him, you're not like,

yo, that dude just listens to rock all the time. Even if he does, you know what I mean? He doesn't have that Look to him and they said Eric did it just didn't work out. Yeah, I mean how humbling can you imagine you're I mean? Thank God Eric Stoltz went on to have this incredible career and holy shit in mask if you haven't that we mask and that's the thing So they talk about that in the book the reason why he was put in the movie was because he had mass the mass coming Out you know what I mean and so they were banking on him getting nominated for an Academy Award for that movie, but then being in this blockbuster action-adventure time travel movie. The name of the book is Back to the Future.

I got a click on that. The Ultimate Visual History. Yes. Back to the Future, the Ultimate, visual history by Michael Clastorin. Yeah. So if you're a fan of the movie, like as much as Donald is, you might want to check that out because it sounds fascinating. I'm always fascinated in these production stories where someone's recast or they start over. I mean, I don't know if it's true, so don't hold me to this, but I heard that American Beauty, which is one of my favorite movies, they shot like, not as much as this, but they shot like a week of, and the director said

to the producers, I didn't get the tone quite right. You know, the tone of American Beauty is so specific. And as the rumor I heard goes, he said, I just didn't quite nail it. I need to scrap that week and start over. And the DreamWorks producers, including Spielberg and the other fellows, let him do it. That's interesting, because Spielberg's very much involved in Back to the Future as well. So maybe he's the kind of producer that if you're little let's, it was Sam Mendes, sorry, Sam Mendes' first film.

And I love American Beauty. Please see that if you haven't. But again, it might be Hollywood lore. But I heard that they sort of started over again on that one. So these stories where some movie is so incredible, it has such an impact, and then there's something that happened where they recast it and they started over. Well, it happens all the time. You know, some Star Wars movies, they did that with some of the Star Wars movies,

like Rogue One, apparently there's a whole, you know, they shot almost all of Rogue One and went back and reshot a lot of the stuff in it. Really? Yeah. Same thing with Solo. You remember, you know, we talked about Bill and Chris. Well, of course, that's changing the directors. That's even crazier.

Yeah, but there's a whole cut. There's a whole movie. According to lore, there's a whole movie that they made that you can actually take all of the special effects and all of the things that they did in the Actual solo movie and you can put it into what they shot and it's a completely different movie, but it still all fits What do you think happened? They were obviously my guess is they were just doing their hilarious improv-y comedic thing and then Kathleen Kennedy, that's her name. Did she just not like that style? She's saying that's not star wars

No, I don't know if it was her. I don't that's not Star Wars no I don't know if it was her I don't know if it was I don't know if it was the writer of the movie who's gone on to write some incredible movies Jonathan Kasdan it's Jonathan but his dad wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark yeah Lawrence Kasdan yeah he wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark the Empire Strikes Back and they both teamed up to write solo I don don't know what happened. I'd love to know that story. Right. If we could reach out to them and they want to be on the podcast and right here they want to talk about... I don't think, even if we were to get Chris and Phil on the podcast, I don't think they're gonna out their whole Solo story. No, not Chris and Phil. Let's ask Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan.

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And it seems to me not as someone who's has dialed into the Star Wars universe as you but when I think of Han Solo I think oh, let's give him some jokes. Let's have him be quippy and funny. It seemed like a perfect marriage. But obviously they were doing- It would be a real interesting, it'd be very interesting to see that side of things. And I love Solo. You know what I mean? There are a lot of people out there that really like that movie, and I'm one of those people. It's a fun Star Wars movie. So then Ron Howard came in. And you know, he's an amazing director himself.

Right. You know what's one of my favorite Ron Howard movies? His Parenthood, the movie. If you haven't seen Parenthood. Great cast. Great movie. Amazing cast. They went on to make a very popular TV show,

starring my doppelganger, Dax Shepard. I'm going to say something right now. That movie has one of my favorite actors. I am a huge fan of Rick Moranis Yeah, where's Rick Moranis been? He's amazing. Yeah, he's on his way. I guess he's he's agreed to do another project I don't know what it is, but he's- Honey, I shrunk the kids maybe he's coming back for that. That would be so awesome. I know they're redoing that with Josh Gad and I think that he might be joining him.

Oh, that would be so cool. Joelle's nodding so that means yes. Yeah, Rick Moran has tragically lost his wife at the height of his career. So he quit to raise his children. And now his children are grown and he's coming back. I'm so excited. God, he's so talented. I'm so, I'm so happy he's coming back because he's a funny, funny man. All right, let's get back to the show. Let's get back to the show, Donald. One of my favorite fantasies, and I still use it to this day, I Ain't Buying It, trying to sell somebody the book on the kid getting hit, the baby with prenatal lice.

And Christa says, Jordan says, I ain't buying it at the checkout stand. That's funny. And you passed something that I want to say still about shaving the baby's head. That was funny. Oh, when Johnny sees mad that I didn't correctly tape over the... And by the way, for those of you young, that's a VHS recorder. So there used to be these giant tapes called VHS tapes. But I was laughing when Johnny C is yelling at me because I fucked up the tape. And I go, I was there. I could jot down some of my feelings and impressions.

It's a very Woody Allen meeting. Very Woody Allen, yeah. I could jot down some of my feelings and impressions. What am I going to do? Write down, and then the head emerged. Let's talk about Johnny C. McGinley as the Grinch. That was really funny. He nailed that. Yes, he did. And the words that he's saying, are those words from Dr. Seuss's nursery runs?

I think they're supposed to be Dr. Seussie, but they're not real Seuss words. But they're not real Seuss words. Yeah, but they did a great job on his hair and makeup. I thought he looked really cool and he was funny looking. I wonder how long he was in hair and makeup for. I could tell from being on the show, that was hours and hours and hours. He had hair, like green hair, glued to his face and stuff.

Yeah. Sinner Man by Nina Simone, which is, they really must've rolled out the bucks for it to pay for Nina Simone on this episode, as you run to Miller Park. To Miller Park. You know, that was what I was talking about when we were talking about the platform shoes and

having to run. Oh, that's when they made Deontay run? They made Deontay do all of the things that you saw me do in that episode in 12-inch platform shoes, however much shorter he is than me. By the way. So eight inch, whatever it is. Why are you running like a cartoon character? Do you notice that?

It's like this really dramatic moment. And then you're taking corners. You know how when cartoon people run, they like skid at the corners and they have to like catch up. You're doing that shit. Well, it all comes from Michael J. Fox, man. Speaking, we spoke about him earlier.

It really is true, man. Michael J. Fox had some of the best running moments in the history of running. In Teen Wolf, when he's running through the halls and the guy's mopping and he's like, it's slippery that way. And Mike runs through and then slides all the way through camera, all the way through the hallway and then comes running back.

But as he's coming back, he's trying to keep his balance on the slippery floor. So you're saying that moment, you're running in this was inspired by that? Everything, everything I, you know, everything I've done in Everything I do, I do it for you. I do it for Michael J. Fox. Well, no, but every there's a, you know, whether it's a run or a walk or, you know, a facial expression.

A lot of these come from my favorite actors. So like Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Michael J. Fox, Rick Moranis, Robin Williams, Bill Murray. All of these people did something that I saw and I was like, I'm going to try and do my best. I wrote down in 1918, Turk runs like a cartoon character. Right. That all came from me trying to run like Michael J. Fox.

Yeah, so Turk gets a sign, he's on the roof again, right? You're on the roof again? Yeah. And you're just up there having a moment, and you have a come to Jesus moment, if you will, that there's a pregnant woman about to give birth in the park. And you run like a cartoon character

to Nina Simone's Sinner Man, beautiful song. And then you run to the park and you deliver a baby. Now, Turk probably hasn't delivered that many babies. Well, he's a surgeon. I imagine he's done. Yeah, he's probably done a fair amount. I imagine that. He's not a gyno, but I know he's probably assisted.

Oh, I wanna go to something that Joelle, speaking of gynos, we're jumping around, but in the very beginning of the episode, Kelso is being sexist and saying to Sarah that she's gonna become a gynecologist, OB-GYN, and then Joelle found this thing. According to an article by the American Medical Association, the breakdown of specialties dominated by women in 2019,

83.4% of OB-GYNs are women. Wow. And 72% of pediatricians are women. Am I reading that right, Joel? So Kelso had it right. Well, I mean, I was offended by Kelso. I was like, fuck this guy. And then Joel handed me this and you know I guess but I understand that like I

I was your was your have your obgyn's been been female or male uh first one was a guy I was asking Donald Joelle but please oh my god Joelle I can't have an answer to this question like for his wife Joelle doesn't have an obgyn OBGYN. Oh my god, I'm laughing so hard. Joelle got so lost in the episode, she started answering. You're totally asking Joelle. Wait, Joelle, sorry. I want you to answer. Don't get me wrong.

But you go first then, and then we'll call on Donald. Donald has had 11,000 children, so I wanted to know what. Go for you. Joelle, have your OBGYNs been? Mostly. I'd say mostly, yeah. Three Mostly I say mostly yeah three women one guy about you Donald my life Casey's is a male. Mm-hmm And you and your other other baby mamas. Do you remember? You don't remember it's okay not to remember. I don't I feel like if I was giving birth like and I had a vagina I'd want a woman, but maybe I'm maybe that's ridiculous to say. I just, what's my gut response?

Okay, well here's a good survey we should do. And we won't use that as an example. Let's use massaging as an example, okay? Yeah, yeah. Because that's pretty intimate and it's harmless. Right, what do you get, a man or a woman? Exactly, what do you get, a man or a woman? I always get a woman.

Same here, Joelle? Strongest hands? Who has the strongest hands? That's what you say you say you say who's got the best hands so when they say manner female male or female you say Strongest hands absolutely. Oh the end. I thought it was funny that Sarah was You're holding Judy like in front of you, but Sarah's holding me in front of her right in front of the Christmas tree. Yes buddy, I also there was one other part that we should talk about and that's Sarah's holding me in front of her, in front of the Christmas tree. Yes. That's funny. I also, there was one other part that we should talk about and that's when Cox and Jordan are fighting each other

about their haircut shaving and everything like that. And then you jump in the middle and then they automatically turn on JD. And that's a lesson that I've learned at a young age. I guess JD was never, you know, I didn't have friends that had brothers or sisters or anything like that, but never get involved in a couple that's fighting. You stay out of it.

Unless they invite you into the argument, stay away because that thing will turn on you so quick. It's hard sometimes because you want to weigh in, but you can't. But you can't, you gotta keep it to yourself. You gotta keep it to yourself. I had friends growing up, the Rogers brothers, there was four of them, right?

And they would, you know, when they fought, they would fight viciously, punching and grabbing and choking, and you know, they would beat each other up. And you'd be like, you guys are brothers, stop it! And you'd get in the middle of it, and then their anger all of a sudden went from them wanting to kick each other's ass to now them kicking your ass.

And two on one ain't fun dude or three on one, four on one ain't fun man. And it would be, so when JD did that to Jordan and Cox, I was like, that's a rookie mistake. That's the dumbest move ever. Never get involved in couples arguing. Right, right. Well, I definitely try and stay out, but in your head you're thinking like, you're judging and you're saying like,

but aren't you also happy when you're out in public and you see a couple fighting and you're like, yes, it's not me. Yeah, absolutely. That's the one thing that my wife and I try not to do. It's always like, wait till we get home. Wait till we get home. Oh, really?

You do the wait till we get home. Well, I don't do that. That's what she does to me. Oh, really? We're going to talk when we get home? We go, right? And I know right then and there, I'm not going to sleep tonight. Oh, it's the worst.

And then you have to drive home and just like in silence. Yeah. And then you walk in and it's on. Oh my God. And my wife's the type of person that's like, I don't like in silence. Yeah. And then you walk in and it's on. Oh my God. And my wife's the type of person that's like, I don't like going to bed mad. Well at least she has it out. You know, I think that's way better to have it out, even if it's like impassioned rather than just sitting on it.

I hate that. And I don't think you should go to sleep mad either. I think that's a good habit to have. Dude, I've been damn near sleeping where I'm just in, where I'm passed out, my eyes are closed and I'm just agreeing now, just so I can go to sleep. The path of least resistance. And she'll be like, so what did I say?

And I'll be like, oh, God, there you go. See, you weren't listening, I was listening! Don't go to bed angry, everybody. That's a lesson here from fake doctors, real friends. Oh, one last thing I forgot. Let's ask Bill about this also. Go ahead. Before we go in- You're going to get Bill too this week.

Okay, go ahead. Yeah, okay. So there was an alternate ending to this episode. Right, but that's so dark note to end the episode on. It's so dark. It was so dark to end the Christmas episode. I wasn't even bringing it up because we were being so giddy and it's a bit dark, but that's, ugh, it's a dark note to end the episode on. It's so dark. It was so dark to end the Christmas episode. I wasn't even bringing it up because we were being so giddy and it's a bit dark, but okay, go for it.

Yeah, there was a dark ending to this episode and I'm sure the fans wanted hope. Was it an ending or was it a subplot that was woven through? I think it was a subplot. It might've been, let's ask Bill. Bill, I know at the end of this episode there was a moment in between Jordan and,

we almost forgot about the call. There was a moment with Jordan and Cox where they said something different when they were looking at the baby, when they finally went to visit the baby. And it made sense. There was a subplot. Do you want me to tell you what it is and then have Bill talk about it? Sure.

It was a subplot that they, when they were together, had lost a child. So that was some of the dramatic undertones of them and dealing with their friends having a new baby. And that's why they didn't want to go to the room. Right. Or the nursery where you see kids. And I believe that Bill had an argument with the network about cutting that out.

So Bill, tell us about that and what your struggle with the network was, please. You know, it's interesting, I don't remember specifically the struggle with the Jordan Cox losing a baby thing, but the one thing that we were always dealing with early on in Scrubs was that we would pitch the network stories that weren't specifically comedies you know and it didn't sound like hey three patients come in and one of the three of them is gonna die but they all three die

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How are you? Brian O'Malley! Oh my god, Brian, you got the- I have to record that somehow. You should. I am recording it, actually. You know what, Brian, that can be your new ringtone. Donald giving you an open-

Brian O'Malley and wife O'Malley! That is definitely gonna happen. Speaking of ringtones, I digress for a moment. The good people at iHeart are putting together the ability for for folks to have our theme song be your ringtone. We're working on it. And that's in the works because I've gotten been getting a lot of love on the social media for our theme song, especially Wilder's version. And Wilder's version will not be available. That's not going to be available.

Wilder's version will not be available for ringtone. Although I did hear a lot of people say that should be the new version forget your version, but those people are wrong But pretty sure I what you're drinking man. What are you drinking Brian? This is beer. Oh, what kind of beer you got there? It's like a hazy IPA juicy 8% I like stuff that's strong. Okay. I got myself a little margarita. Oh Awesome, is that just like lime juice tequila? I don't know what they use at Casa Vega I like stuff that's strong. Oh, okay. Well, I got myself a little margarita. Oh, that's awesome. Is that just like lime juice, tequila? I don't know what they use at Casa Vega. There's some restaurants in my neighborhood that they...

Oh, you're still drinking out of your gallons there. We have so many. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Hi guys, where do you live and what's happening? And Brian, introduce your girlfriend, wife, friend. This is my partner. This is Dr. Ellen Acri. Hi there.

Hi, Doc. Hi, Doc. And we live in Evanston, Illinois. Oh, I went to Northwestern. Right, yeah. So we both worked here, actually, too. She works at a hospital here, and I own a small business on Central Street, right down

from the stadium. And so yeah, we do that. And Ellen is eight and. Yeah, almost nine months pregnant. I'm almost at the finish line. Congratulations. Congratulations. You guys know what you're having? A boy. Nice person.

But yeah, a person. Yeah. Good. Congratulations, guys. That's cool. Way to go, guys. Yeah. So we're you know, it's definitely Anxiety causing you know, I we neither of us have had kids before I used to be a teacher But it's not quite the same when you know, you can send them home at like three o'clock and just be done with them So now it's like they're here for good. Okay, Brian. I'm gonna give you a little bit of you're talking to the right man, Brian Donald I know, that's what I heard. Nine, right? Yeah, something like that. He doesn't even

remember. Something like that, right. That's a great story. How many kids you got? Something like nine, I think? Six that I know about. So the first year, Brian, there's not much you can do. Nice. That's the honest to goodness truth. Except be supportive, change diapers, but there's not much you can do because the baby's not gonna- Can't you say, honey, can I get you anything? Absolutely, you better say that.

You have to. You better say that. That's supportive, right? Yeah. That's being supportive. So there's not much you can do the first year. It's after that where you are hands on and in it to win it or she's going to leave you.

Yeah. Remember that. Yes. Yeah, Brian, write that down. Yes. Yes. She is basically keeping us comfortable, so I'm not going to play with that at all. Right on. Well, I'm so happy for you. That's exciting. Thank you.

And do you have any names in mind like Zach or Donald? Yeah, I wanted Jennifer Dylan or something like that. That'll work. It's a boy. So we went with Ellen. We're going to name him Gabriel and call him Gabe. Beautiful. I love it. Beautiful name. Beautiful name. Gabe Finn O'Malley. Oh, Finn's a good name, too.

Now, Finn from Star Wars or just Finn because... Everything is Star Wars, Donald. Sometimes it can be. I couldn't... Honestly I was thinking more Huck Finn from Mark Twain to be honest. Oh yeah there's that Finn too. Way more literary, Donald. Come on. There's that Finn too. Alright Brian, go ahead with your question for the legendary Donald Faison or... It's for both of you, yeah. Oh, fine, I'll answer. It definitely relates to what we were talking about, but I was curious, which character between

you and Donald and maybe Dr. Cox do you think was the best dad overall? And then kind of a follow-up, but what do you think their kids would be like now, like 15, 20 years later? Wow. But like what do you think their kids would be like now like 15 20 years later? Wow good question. Well, I do think both characters were very excited about their children and and I think we saw from a flash forward as I recall that don't they end up getting married They do and we can we lose it. Oh, I think that was like I think I saddest episode. I think I faint As I recall I I did this. I wiped my... The fan, the fan. I fanned my eyes and fainted.

Yeah, that's a GIF I see all the time. I don't know, I think we'd be great parents because we're both characters who are, again, not afraid of showing emotion, not afraid of being affectionate. My father was a very affectionate man and gave me hugs and kissed me and I always thought that that was important and I loved that he did that. And I think that both Turk and JD would be very involved. They're the kind of fathers that would

want to be all over, not one of those people's like, all right, to the woman you handle it, that would want to be all over it, not one of those people. It's like, all right, to the woman, you handle it. I'll coach sports one day. That was not my experience. What about you, what do you think, Dal? I think Turk and JD co-parented too. You know what I mean? I think they helped each other out

as far as raising their kids went. They say it takes a village to raise a child. And I think their little village, I think the hospital, or wherever they wound up when the show ended, I believe they still lived in the same proximity of each other. I think it was a communal raising of the children. Even, I think, even, I think.

Yeah, I think JD and what was what was Elizabeth Banks' character's name? Kim was Kim. Him. You didn't know that. We thought the fuck off. You didn't know. I was waiting for Brian. No, I was waiting for Brian. I was about I was like, I was like this. I was like, I'm not to say I like pretending that my mouth was opening and then Brian said I'll say yeah Kim

I was waiting for Zach. Sorry, so my baby mama my baby mama, right? So I think both kids the one that he that JD had with Kim and the one that he had with Elliot and then Turks kids as well, I think they They were raised together and they grew up together That's a nice I think in one of the episode you try to like I think they got raised together and they grew up together. That's a nice thing. I think in one of the episodes you tried to like, I think they got, you were trying to set them up, right? Like it was one of the series finales, maybe. That we were trying to set the kids up? Yeah, weren't they like they met or something? As babies. I remember doing an episode in the park where we're both trying to get them to talk. And we're treating them like ventriloquist dolls like dumb. Do you have another question?

I mean, one of my other questions was just, you know, advice for being a dad, but you kind of already covered that. You got this, dude. You got it. Yeah, I mean, it's listen, my advice and I'm going to be honest with you, my advice ain't shit. I'm going to keep it 100 with you. You know, it's it's how you two decide to do the thing. You know what I mean? My advice, all I can say is just show as much love as you can to your boy. That's so important. I like what Zach was saying too.

I mean, me and Alan were joking, but I was like, I think like the fact that JD was a sensy, you know, like being sensitive is like an important thing to impart in kids early, especially boys nowadays. And so I think that's one of our big focuses for him. And just let them be whoever they are. A testament to my father was he was so into sports, my dad, but he wasn't trying to make me a jock.

He wasn't, fortunately he was also into theater, which is what I took to. But I mean, just like my advice, and again, I have no kids, So don't listen to me. I have dogs and I can highly recommend crate training Try that but um with the kid. Yeah, that's what I that's what I always say to dog When I say that but I'm with Donald and his kids are misbehaving I'm like, why don't you just put him in the crate dude that works great for my puppy My daughter looked at me and she was like you're gonna put me in the crate Yeah, she's like you're right now. She's like, you're in that crate right now. She's like, but I'm not a dog.

But I mean, just let them, one of the things I really cherished about my relationship with my father was that he was so accepting of whoever his kids were. And I just, you know, you're obviously, it's nature nurture, you're gonna be shaping a part of who they are, of course, too. But let them show you who they are and then and then and then celebrate that and let that flourish again that's coming from someone with no children but it is

coming from someone who who had a great dad and and and was really appreciative that he was like that well can I ask one more thing sort of related but did you guys you know I didn't like look up biographies. Do you guys have siblings? Yes, I have several siblings. I have four brothers, two that I grew up with, and two that I did not grow up with. But we were a big family. I think that's why I have such a big family now. I feel like it's the more the merrier.

I have two, I have three, sorry, let me start again. I had four children total in my family and I'm struggling with this just to be honest, I lost my sister two years ago. So I'm like literally trying to- Oh, I'm so sorry. It's okay, but I'm trying to answer this question honestly and it's like I'm having to recount. There were four children in my family and then my parents got divorced and remarried and I gained three stepsisters. So two stepsisters on one side one step sister on the other side so we we're we were a huge family and and yeah so I also think

I should have more so sorry sorry guys but you're gonna have to have more kids so they can well that's what I was thinking because we only have the one and that's probably gonna be it so you know the whole only child especially nowadays when I don't even know when he'll be able to hang out with other kids, you know, or if he'll be able to go to preschool or stuff like that, daycare. Right. Right.

I think you got it some years before you have to worry about that. So you'll be fine. Right. Hopefully vaccines or something like that will be invented and we can all go back to a new normal sometime within a year or two. Yeah. That would be awesome.

Is the keg still open in Evanston, the bar? No, keg is closed. That's where we used to go and try and sneak in with our fake IDs. Yeah, we're like, I actually- That's probably why they closed. We're in like a bar, beer shop type place. What's the name of your place?

It's called Beer on Central. It's not very inventive because we're on. You want us to do an ad for it right now? We're going to do an ad for it. Donald, but I'm in Evanston, Illinois and I want a beer. You know where I go? Where do you go, Zach? I go to Beer on Central. Beer on Central? Is that a place? Oh, it's a place and it's in Evanston. And if you're going to buy beer, it's the best place to buy beer. It's called Beer on Central. Is it on Central? It's on Central. It's called Beer On Central. Is it On Central? It's On Central and it's called Beer On Central.

Oh, awesome. And you know, a lot of Northwestern students are always looking for a place to buy beer. Do you sell kegs, Brian? We don't, but I mean, after this I can. Yes, Brian is gonna change his whole business model to offer kegs to all you college kids. For this advertisement, I'll do that.

Yes, this is worth millions of dollars in free advertising. Yeah, no, this is insane. So, Donald, what's... Beer on Central. Beer on Central. The next time I'm in Evanston, Illinois, I am going to check out beer on Central. Yeah, and you know what, Donald?

You know what, Donald? I might even just go to Evanston to buy beer from Beer on Central. You know what? If you do, just tell them Brian O'Malley sent you. I will. Brian, what's a beer that you recommend? Oh, Brian's the only one there, so it'd be like, Brian! Right now, during everything.

Brian, for those of people who are listening who like beer, can you recommend one of your micro brew or fancy beers that people should try that you highly recommend? You know, right now, like what's really popular is like I was drinking earlier these like hazy IPA's there tend to be like kind of stronger very juicy not bitter very popular this one's from st. Aaron they're great hot butcher there's a bunch of really cool ones in the city so so see here's amazing so st. Aaron is the brand this one yeah that's what I'm having now is a St. Aaron.

Can I get that anywhere? Can I get that in Los Angeles? No, like right now we only do local stuff. Oh, so you're only doing local. That's even cool. One of the other things I like about Beer on Central, Donald, is it's all, it's all local beer. Oh my, you're talking about beer on Central?

Yeah, one of the things that I, one of my favorite things about beer on Central in Evanston, Illinois, is that it's all, all stocked with local breweries. That sounds delicious. I like IPA a lot, by the way. And this is gonna sound really lame in Hollywood, but I'm gluten-free, and there are some really good gluten-free IPA beers.

Yeah, we have some too. There's one called Omission. I'll give a shout out to. We have Omission. And there's one I think called Gutenberg, not Steve Gutenberg, Glutenberg. Glutenberg, yeah, they'd have gluten in the title. So there you go.

I'm giving those beers a shout out and they should advertise with us because we're giving such a wonderful advertisement to beer owners. I can throw you guys out a box. Give me an address and I'll send you out some beer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not giving you my address. The thing is- That's fair. Give me a P.O. box. Give me an address. I'm not giving you my address. Give me a PO box.

I know we don't want to take your wares. We don't want to take your wares. We want you to you need to make that money for this baby. That's right. It's true. She's making it right. Really. So that being said, if you're ever in Evanston, Illinois, the place to go for a great local beer. Beer on Central. Beer on Central, everybody. Beer on Central.

And listen, guys, thanks for coming on. Thanks for the good questions. Thanks for telling us about Beer on Central. And have fun in Evanston, Illinois. I spent four years there and had a great time, although it's too fucking cold for human beings. Ladies and gentlemen, big round of applause for Brian O'Malley! And Beer on Central! Oh, wow, you gave Beer on Central the Oprah treatment.

Yeah, why not? What's the name of your partner again? Alan, Dr. Alan Acri. And Dr. Alan Acri! Thank you. You're blowing out the mixer here, Donald. I'm not, it goes out, Dan got it. Oprah doesn't go that loud.

Sure she does. Okay, well she has the mixer at the Oprah show, it's like, here she goes and he's fucking ready with it. She's about to do it. Hand over the button. You can just see the mixer in the back of the Oprah show going, oh shit, she's gonna yell. And putting his finger over.

I hope Dan does that when you're saying hello to guests. All right, bye guys, thank you so much. Take care. Bye, thank you so much. Be healthy, congratulations. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you.

Wow, Donald, what nice folks, Donald. And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna frequent beer on Central. Next time you're in Evanston, Illinois, you should. Do you drink beer? You don't really drink beer anymore, do you? I'm a huge beer drinker. I just, you know. It's so fattening.

Yeah, I find that it's a little heavy for me. That's the only thing. It just feels like shit when you're working out and trying to stay thin and then you go have a fucking big ass thick beer and you're like, I might as well have a milkshake. Right. I like hard liquor.

Yeah, I know. I like, I actually- Oh, I know. Oh, you're an asshole. You like tequila. Well, no, I, you know, it was Cinco de Mayo yesterday, so, and the last time I had tequila was the last thing that I had in the cupboard. But what I truly like, I like a good bourbon or scotch.

What about Corvassia? No. What is Corvassia? It's a drink. It's a brown liquor. For a while I was a- Joelle, what's Corvassia? She's looking.

I was a Hennessy drinker for a while. E and J. I liked E and J back in the day. I don't know what any of these drinks are. You don't know what Hennessy is? I've heard of Hennessy, but I don't think I've ever tried it. You don't know what Hennessy, you've had an Incredible Hulk before

and you don't know what Hennessy is. Do you remember the Incredible Hulk? Oh, we used to play poker and you would make, oh, it's Cognac, she says. We used to play poker and you would make a drink called the Hulk. Was that a real drink or you made it up to him? I didn't make that up.

But when you mixed Hennessy and not Alize, but hypnotic. Hennessy and hypnotic mixed together. Sounds horrible. Oh, but it would turn Hulk green and you'd only need one. It was so sweet, right? But you'd only need one to knock you on your ass. And we would play poker and the crew would come over. Calvin would come over. Ethan would come over. You would come over. And we'd drink that all night and freaking be hammered until

like four o'clock, five o'clock in the morning. Yeah, playing poker. Have you ever had a cement mixer? What the heck is that? It's fucking nasty. It's two different things. You guys can google it if you want to puke. I remember doing this on my 21st birthday and I puked. But it's two different alcohols you put in your mouth and they solidify when they react with each other and it feels like a cementy oatmeal thing. That's disgusting. It's so gross. That is disgusting. It's so gross.

That is disgusting. It's the kind of thing that college kids do, shots of like, Jägermeister. You ever do shots of Jägermeister? Yeah. I'm proud to say that at 45 years old, I can't drink like that anymore, nor do I want to. My hangover's like four days.

Yeah, I've learned a little thing called Pedi-a-life. Do you remember we did that thing in Scrubs? Yeah, Pedi-a-life. We did that thing in Scrubs that has become so relevant in my life. I don't know what episode it was, but we went around the table of all the different ages of women having, who was the, was Mandy the young one?

It was Mandy, Sarah. It was Mandy Moore and then Sarah, and then Judy, and then Krista. And they were all hung over and the camera went around and showed all the different levels of how a hangover affects different ages Yes, yeah, and then by the time it got to Christa she had sunglasses on and was asleep. It just blacked out. Yeah With a smile on her face. I think of that fantasy over not fantasy I think of that moment all the time because

Man a hangover at 45 is not a hangover at 25. No, it's not. Listen, I miss you. Do you? It's always so nice to touch base with you. Do you really miss me? I really do, man. If the world were open, I'd have you over. We'd sit by the pool. We'd have a margarita.

I'd bring my picture of margarita to you. You'd bring your picture over? I'm supposed to write today, but I would scrap writing and just join you by the pool for margaritas That's what would happen today. You're working right now, huh? I am I'm writing look. Do you want to see I'll show you Look at this. This is just showing that shit ain't fucking around. This is the first draft Wow You're for real about it. He just pulled out a two finger. That's about an inch of yeah It's way too long right now a typical. A typical screenplay for those of you not in the know is roughly 120 pages because they say roughly a script

works out to a page a minute and you don't want your movie typically to exceed 120 minutes. And this first draft is 144 pages, so there'll be lots of cutting to occur, but it's happening, Donald. The wheels are turning. Good for you. Yeah. Good for you.

Aren't you gonna ask what you usually ask when I write a screenplay? Are there any black people in it? There are black people in it, and there might even be a part for you. A good part? Or you just gonna throw me a little bone? You'll probably have to audition.

When I gave Donald my first draft of Garden State, he said, are there any- No, you said to me, I really want you to read my script. I really want you to read my script. Right. It was a big thing. It was my first screenplay. He was my new best friend. I said, I'd really like you to read this.

He said, are there any black people in it? I said, there's one or two. One you're not right for because he's an African man that's been adopted by Natalie Portman's family and the other is being- Plath. At the time you had given the part to Mos Def is what you said to me. No, I didn't. Yeah, you did.

Really? That was always Method Man. It was, okay, so then it was Method Man at the time. You said, yeah, and then the other part I gave to Method Man. Yeah, and I knew right then and there that I would never read that script. And so Donald in protest because I had given the role to Method Man never read the script. It's great movie though. Thank you. Thanks for checking it out. Very very well received also. Thank you. And you're in, you know, I

thank you. Oh, Dan's giving thumbs up and Donald I mean I didn't make the same mistake twice and I made sure to put you in wish I was here. Yeah And I was very happy to be in that movie as well great movie Mandy Patinkin. Holy cow Yeah, and you were very funny in that movie. You only had many potential. Let's get this kiss Mandy Patinkin Josh Gad. Holy cow Mandy Patimkin, Josh Gad, holy cow. Yeah. Kate Hudson, holy cow. Yeah, there's some great performance in that one. Jim Parsons is funny as shit in that movie.

Let's give a shout out to the film, Wish I Was Here, which you can see. I think it's on Netflix. You know how I know it's on Netflix, at least in the United States, is Joey King, who plays my daughter, has become so famous. Joey King, holy cow. Joey King steals the movie and has become so famous that Netflix has redone the poster, so it's just Joey King's face. Even if you don't watch the movie, do me a favor and go to your Netflix

and look up Wish I Was Here and you will see it's a picture of Joey King's head because she has become such a big star, and particularly on Netflix with Kissing Booth, which was like one of their most watched movies ever. And I just thought it was funny that Netflix was like, no, we don't need Kate Hudson, Zach Graf, Josh Gad, and Manny Patancin on the poster,

just a shot of Joey's head. But much deserved, she's a superstar that channel. She is a superstar. Thank you so much for listening to Fake Doctors, Real Friends, I'm your cohost Zach Graf, along with my friend Donald Faison, here make you laugh here to make you smile with a touch of nostalgia Have a great day. Take him to church!

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Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend. I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi. And what's the way to find a missing person? Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Listen to the hookup on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. I'm Emi Olaya, host of the podcast Crumbs. For years, I had to rely on other people to tell me my story. And what I heard wasn't good.

You really f***ed last night. It felt like I lived most of my life in a blackout. I was trapped in addiction. You had to grab the lamp and smashed it against the walls. And then I decided I wanted to tell my own story. Listen to Krumz on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King.

This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. This podcast is based on my co-host Mark Seale's best-selling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Cobola, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire, and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.