Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - Real Friends Classic: 117 - My Student

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

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So this podcast, we recorded it the same day after everyone found out George Floyd getting murdered. First of all, I do not necessarily know what to say to everyone out there. Truthfully, I wish everything and everyone could be happy right now, but that's definitely not what's going on in the world. For me, this is a time where I feel like, I don't know, I wish that I could sit here and say we're making progress, but we want to make you laugh here. I will say this, I am very, very supportive of the people out there fighting the good fight that are protesting right now, and I

stand with you. We also wanted to let you know that the next few podcasts were recorded before all of this has reached such a fever pitch, and we didn't want you to think for a second that we were being callous about that and not dialed in to what's happening. So we just wanted to let you know the next few podcasts were recorded prior to things being as they are currently. That being said, I hope we can distract you from the madness that's going on right now for just an hour and a half. For just an hour and a half, Sit back and enjoy this with us. Here we go. So, darling, you're five, six minutes late. Well, you know, this is how we do it. No, this is how we do it. Five minutes late. My wife hot boxed me. Yo, she took a shower right

before the podcast and the shower is connected to the closet, like not the shower itself, but the bathroom is connected to the closet. Right. So it itself, but the bathroom is connected to the closet. Right. So it's like 200 degrees in here right now. Well, you're wearing a long sleeve shirt. It feels like, well, I had this on for the view today, man. Which looks great on the view. We were on the view today. Yeah. Donald looked very handsome. And thank you very much. You changed your shirt. You did. I put on a night. I did. I wanted to look good for, for, for the ladies. and I put on a nice black shirt. Anyway, my wife hotboxed me. So it's like the Amazon jungle up in here right now, man.

Okay. Well, I want to change. Why don't you switch to a tank top? We can watch it happen live. Listen, man, she's mad about something right now. I don't know what the fuck I did wrong. I don't know, man. I don't know what I did wrong. So sometimes you never know sometimes. She's just mad. She's just mad. I don't know what the fuck I did wrong. I don't know, man. I don't know what I did wrong. So sometimes you never know sometimes. She's just mad. She's just mad. I don't know. I bet if you brainstormed, you could figure out what you might have done. In this moment right now, I can't figure it out. In other moments, I've been able to put it all together and be like,

oh, that was, I bet it's because of this. That's the worst when you can't figure it out. You're like, what did I do? Dude, I have no idea. I've been good to the kids. I fed them. You fed them. I ran them.

I done all of that stuff. I just don't know. Well, listen, I think we were really good on the view. It was hard because there was a big delay. Yes. And, um, and more so than normal zoom, it was like a second or two delay. So it's always tricky to be funny when you're stepping all over each other. Well, I will say this. My mother, who does not listen to our podcast, watched The View.

She does watch The View. She said we are great together. She was like, I'm going to tell you something. She was like, you and Zach interview so well together, it's ridiculous. Oh, that's nice. Oh man. Listen, we wanna cheer you up. If you're frustrated with the universe and you're frustrated like Donald is,

we're here to entertain you. We're here to take your mind off things. You might be on a hike, you might be walking your dog, you might be breastfeeding, you might be doing the dishes, you might be tugging one out. We are here to make you laugh. Donald, count us in. I'm going to say one thing before we begin. If you're tugging one out while listening to us, thank you. We would like you to finish as as dial counts down do it five six seven eight That people should know So gather round to hear our

Gather round to hear our Sprugs we watch your with Zach and Dono Mmhmmm I'm not sure if the good people at iHeart are gonna approve that, but uh They don't give a shit about that They're not even listening They're not even listening They don't care anymore

You know, they- when we first signed with iHeart they were like, you know You know, you guys can just do whatever you want And we'll give you notes and thoughts and take them or leave them. We haven't heard anything from them. I think we're doing well enough that they just let us do our thing. I love the people over at iHeart. Let's just put it out there. Let's just put it out there now. Wherever you're listening to your podcast right now, iHeart has been so awesome to us. Yes. And Will, we got to give shout out to Will Pearson, who's the guy who we first met. And he's really come through with all his, he pretty much said you guys can do whatever you want. And he's let us do our thing. Yeah. Well, you know, he didn't promise a

lot at the first meeting we had with him, but he was definitely like, this is a no brainer, guys. we had with him, but he was definitely like, this is a no-brainer, guys. Yeah. Well, it is. I mean, look at this comic gold here. Plus, we met Dan and Joelle. Yeah, I know. It's serendipitous if you really wanna look at it. So I wanna thank Joelle, I wanna thank Dan, I wanna thank Will. I wanna thank all of you out there listening right now. Thank you so much. So far, this has been a blast. We're so grateful. We're so grateful for you. Neither one... Donald and I always talk about how we never thought this would be this much fun. We thought, okay, that'll be something to do. That'll be a little fun side project. But we are having so much fun, and we know that you are.

We see that you're listening, and please tell your friends. Now we're invested. Now we're like, let's fucking go for it. We hope one day when the world opens up that we can tour the show. We'd love to, we know that some podcasts come to cities all over the world and do it live. We'll do it live. And Donald and I... We will do it live.

Donald and I would love to do that. We'd love to come to your city and we'll show the episode first and then we'll come out and we'll do this exact show with Q&As and audience participation. We'll bring Dan and Joel, of course. Maybe we'll come out and we'll do this exact show with Q&As and audience participation. We'll bring Dan and Joelle, of course. Maybe we'll have a tour bus, Donald. We'll get to finally live that tour bus life

we've always dreamed about. I would love to have a tour bus. With Joelle and Dan on the bus? Well, they get to come inside from the bus, but yeah. No, I want them to, you know how your band always travels in the bus? We'd be a four person band, oh my gosh. We'd be a four person band.

I come with a couple of groupies though I got a couple no you're not rolling with your kids and your wife I can't tour with my wife and kids after after all of this No, you can't but they're in a separate bus if you're gonna start bringing family Joel and Dan and I are me partying in The party bus I like that and you and your family can be in the family bus. I'm gonna be on the party bus I want to shout out some exciting just to remind some of you. Donald mentioned this, but we have coming up, Krista Miller. We have Sarah Chalk coming back on the show.

We have Scott Foley coming on the show. Yeah. We're hoping to get Neil Flynn. We're still working his dates out with him. We have Shea Serrano, who is an amazing writer who wrote his own self-published book about Scrubs and he's an amazing bestseller and he's the first, he will be the first official Scrubs mega fan to be on the show because he's... Well, we have mega fans call in so... No, I'm saying as a guest, as a guest. No doubt, no doubt.

And then we're going to get Brendan Fraser on episode doubt, no doubt. And then we're gonna get Brendan Fraser on episode 123, My Hero, and then we're gonna close out season one with Bill Lawrence and Krista Miller on at the same time. Hopefully they'll bicker and it will be hilarious. I just, I hope they argue. I'm not gonna lie. They will argue. You know, they always go on Howard Stern together

and they bicker and tell dirty stories from their marriage and it'll be great. Bill and Krista have dirty stories? Oh yeah, I think there was a story where they had sex in a bathroom at someone else's wedding. Oh my god, Bill and Krista are freaks like that? Yeah, and I hope they're not just sharing that naughty stuff for Howard Stern. I hope they're gonna, they better not come on here and be too PG. You know, people go on Howard, myself included, and you want to be like, oh, I'm gonna tell

my most outrageous tales. Well, I hope they come on and talk about banging in a bathroom at someone's wedding. I can't get over that. Oh my gosh. Also, Howard Stewart. And for those who are tugging, you're welcome. You should be done tugging by now, please. The show has started.

You were supposed to be done by five, six, seven, eight. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Do you want to get into the show or do you want to talk some more? I just kind of, I'm having so much fun talking to you, but we can start the show. It's an odd show. I'm not going to say it's one of my favorites.

Okay. Okay, I know that's crazy talk, but it's not one of the best. Okay. There's a couple of cool things in it. Mm-hmm. The show begins with an epic one-er. This is the one-er that we talked about a couple of cool things in it. The show begins with an epic oner. This is the oner that we talked about a couple of times on the podcast.

Now just to reiterate for those of you who are like, what the fuck's a oner? I know some of you know the film jargon, but for those of you who don't, a oner is where the camera never cuts. That is to say there are no edits. The whole thing is filmed and the camera is mounted to Charles Papert, All Balls and No Shaft. All Balls and No Shaft. Charles Papert, All Balls and No Shaft. And Charles Papert, All Balls and No Shaft slid into my DMs, by the way,

and said that he should come on the podcast. I'd love that. Oh, that would be so awesome. Yeah. I think we should have him on. As soon as we can get him. He wanted to come on for the well We're kind of full as I just told the audience we got a full plate, but maybe for season two

We have absolutely man. He should totally be on The show it would have been smart for us to have him on this episode because there's this epic steady cam Warner that opens the whole show, but he did Charles Papert isn't a very big man and He's one of in my opinion He's a great steady cam operator. He's a great camera operator, but he's a great steady cam operator also Yeah, and I remember this being very taxing on his body one because I missed the jump shot so many times Bill here's an opportunity for you to clown me.

Oh, you're already getting him in here. Here we go. How many times did I miss that jump shot? Look, I don't want to exaggerate it at all, but I would have to say that Donald missed that jump shot at the beginning of that long one or take. I want to say he missed it at least 70 times in a row.

But to Donald could play ball, he actually played my basketball game a bunch, but I do want it now committed to public record. Donald's older brother Dada is much, much, much better at basketball than Donald is. And Donald has to live with that. I mean, his older brother can ball the guys are rock star on the court So Joel is gonna put it on our show notes and you can click the link to the video and I believe it's a it's a behind The scenes of doing this epic Warner and you can see how many times Donald misses the jump shot anyway, so we do that We finally hit it and there are a couple of times where Charles didn't do something

right and we had to go back to the beginning again. But anyway, while watching this episode and watching this infamous oner, as we get closer to the end, if you notice, our energy just keeps picking up. If we start getting more and more excited. If you look at, really, the person to watch is Sarah, because Sarah is going nuts inside. You can see her like, we're going to do it. We're going to do it. You know what I mean? As you can see, you're right. As you can see, when you watch the shot, there's so many moving pieces. There's a lot of background. There's us, there's Donald hitting the jump shot. Then we go in the hospital, we get on a working elevator. We actually got in the elevator.

Do you recall the person that was working the elevator for us? I wrote it down. Norm. Norm! That's right! Norm was sort of an all-around utility guy on the scrub set. He would work the air conditioning tubes, move them around, and he dressed up because we needed someone to actually operate the elevator. So we get in the elevator with Kelso, then we come out, we strut down the hallway, we go into the ICU, the camera whip hands to Johnny C. Still without having cut, it comes back to us. And then we come around the corner and we were joined by Carla and

then it whips around again and we see all the new med students. So that took, I think we rehearsed probably a full half day maybe? Yeah, it took a while to, it took a while just to set the shot up, I remember that. Yeah. And then to get, I remember we were supposed to get the shot done before lunch and we did. And then, but like by the skin of our teeth,

if I'm correct, I'm not exactly sure. But I know that there were so many, other than me missing the jump shot, there were so many things that were involved that had to go right for it to work, and sometimes it didn't work. And what Donald, I agree with you, what you're saying is,

so by the time we made it to the second floor, and we were kind of, then the hard part was over, we did Donald's jump shot, and we did the choreography of the elevator. And then we were strutting on all... All three of us were like, oh shit, we're making it. We're gonna make it to the end on this one. We're gonna do it. And you can see it. Sarah is the most excited, you can tell. So when I go, give me some hungry chicken and you guys are eating, watch her. She's like... She uses both hands. It was originally supposed to be one hand. She's using both hands and she's pounding my hand. And that's why I said

to you, you're not hungry enough. You were getting cocky too. You made it to the end. You started improv-ing. You're like, you're not hungry enough. Yeah, absolutely. That was improv-ed. Absolutely. That's cute. Well, I got to tell you, that was really cool. And I wanted to say that if you're looking for, there's a lot of famous oners, you can Google it online and find some in some of your favorite movies. But one of my favorites is in Goodfellas, if you remember that iconic shot that goes down into the restaurant when he's bringing her on the first date and

through the kitchen and up into the restaurant. And they're just really fun. The filmmakers and actors love them because it's so challenging to pull it off well. And I think this was the biggest one we did in all of Scrubs. Yeah, one of my favorite movies is Swingers and they talk about slow motion shots and oners. And yeah, I think Scorsese's Goodfellas Wonder is probably

one of the best wonders in the history of movie making. Yeah. And it's just, I think it introduced me as a young film student to how cool they could be. And there's an epic one in Orson Welles' film, Touch of Evil, that opens the film as well. There's dozens of one in Orson Welles' film, Touch of Evil, that opens the film as well. You know, there's dozens of them. So this was our homage. The Nutty Professor has one, and not the one with Eddie Murphy, the one with Jerry Lewis. Oh really?

Where he's, before he walks into the club as Buddy Love, you know, he's walking down the street and people are stopping and looking at him like, you know, and you don't know what to expect when you see him. You're thinking that the Nutty Professor is, you know, it you don't know what to expect when you see him. You're thinking that the Nutty Professor is, you know, it's a Jekyll and Hyde story, and his Mr. Hyde is like this grotesque thing. And when he walks into the bar, and finally you get to see what he looks like, the reaction from everybody, it makes sense, but it's like, wait, hold up. Y'all were acting like this was the scariest dude on the planet.

And really, it's just Buddy Love walking. Have you ever seen the 90s? No, I've never seen the night. Oh, my God. Listen, let me tell you right now. Jerry Lewis in that movie. I know he said some questionable things on television and stuff like that, but you want to talk about switching it up when he plays the nerd and then he plays Buddy Love. I gotta watch it. He says some of the monologues in that movie are amazing. He says some of the most amazing, like he is a true pimp in all sense of the word in this movie. All respect. All respect. All respect to him in this movie.

Buddy Love? What's his name? Buddy Love? Buddy Love. Not to mention by the, yeah, I'm going to check it out. Not to mention the fame, now there's been some famous uh, Warner movies, including Birdman and uh, what was the one that just came out that everybody loved so much? 1917. Oh, but that's CG too though, isn't it? No, they, they, they, they no they they they well they didn't do a one or movie they Hit a bunch of cuts that but it's but they're still doing like eight minute scenes with 500 extras and incredible stuff Things exploding if you are if you are a film geek like I am go go watch a behind the scenes of 1917 and you'll see just some extraordinary filmmaking. Anyway, so we-

I just wrote that down, dude. 1917, need to watch. Yeah, go watch behind, you've never seen the film? I have yet to see the film. Oh, the film's beautiful, but more importantly- But I was told I needed to watch it, I was told I needed to see it in a theater because of the scope.

Yeah, but now you can't. But I saw a screener, because we got it for awards season, and I thought it was so beautiful, I went to the theater, I said, I gotta see this, and I went and saw it at the Dome, here in Hollywood we have a big dome theater, and it was just gorgeous, and amazing acting by everybody involved, and it's beautiful. Great directing too, I heard.

Yes, yes sir. At 132, we start strutting, I mean, we are strutting. Yeah. That's like a George Jefferson strut. It's like, yeah, it's like the straight up, well, we're moving on up. Yeah. Strut. We were very sick. Look, I'm trying to tell you, man, we were so excited.

We were so excited. And then on Scrubs Wiki, it was pointed out that at 152, you can see my mic cable. Now, nowadays, we would just, visual effects are so much easier, you would just paint something like that out. They just go in like Photoshop, but moving video, and just paint a little mic cable out. But back in the day, we certainly weren't gonna scrap

finally making it through because you saw a little mic cable on it. But you see, I gently lift up my shirt a little bit and you can see where the hidden mic cable is on me. So there you go. The little Scrubs Wiki guy coming through. Is this the first appearance of the hungry chicken at 2.15? I think this is the only appearance of the hungry chicken.

No, no. Yeah, when do we do it again? I feel like hungry chicken has been in other episodes. Hey, Joelle, have we set it up with our Scrubs Wiki guy to answer questions? Do we ask him if he might be down for that? Yes, he's very down to do anything for the show. We're going to have him on as our fan caller, not this week,

but next week. And then, yeah, we can ask him questions. Well, let's audition him now. Let's audition him. What's his name, by the way, Joelle? I just call him Scrubswiki. What's his name? I would have to look it up. Okay, we're gonna look it up. Okay, so as of right now, he's Scrubswiki. Okay, Scrubswiki, thank you for all your hard work. Is this the only time that the hungry chicken ever appears in nine seasons of Scrubs? And if not, when does it appear

in other episodes? Yo, Trevor from Scrubs and if not, when does it appear in other episodes? Yo, Trevor from Scrubs Wiki here. According to our records, the episode My Student is the only appearance of Hungry Chicken. Donald, at 314 you say something like, what is this thing we're doing? Baby girl. So do you, okay so. I know we had a lot of songs but this has no explanation. You don't remember the song?

I do, but I don't I don't buy vaguely but before you go into the song What there's no context for it in the episode at all. No, there isn't but this was You and I arguing about R&B music right and you were like dude. All it is is dudes and girl a dude saying, baby girl sugar darling, baby, baby girl, my loving girl, mating girl, right? And so when you said that, I remember laughing so hard because pretty much every song that's R&B, keep it 100 y'all. Baby, girl. Yeah, you're gonna hear the word baby, definitely.

You're definitely hearing baby. If it's a male artist, you're most likely hearing girl. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, Donald, at the time you were listening to a lot of those kinds of songs. And I still do. I still do. Trey songs, I still listen to all of that stuff.

I love them to death. Listen, we had some great guest cast. We had DJ Qualls. Remember him from, well, the most famously, Road Trip? Yes. He was from Road Trip, yes. That was, at the time, that was the most famous thing he had done. One of my best friends on the planet, Breckenmire, in that movie as well. I remember DJ Qualls told me a story when we were shooting this episode that he had made a bunch of money and he was working a lot and he walked, and he doesn't do credit cards at all,

wanted to just pay cash, didn't mess with credit cards, and he walked into a BMW dealership to buy a fancy car and he couldn't, a lanky young kid like him, he couldn't get anyone's attention. They just totally ignored him. And it was totally the pretty woman moment where he was like, what the hell? You worked on commission? Yeah.

And he walked across the street to the Mercedes dealership where someone finally gave him attention and he bought a Mercedes with cash. Wow. Wow. He had it like that. He got it like that? Yeah. He had the it like that. He got it like that? Yeah.

He had the money like that. And he was like, and he just remembered, he was telling me the story of his pretty woman moment where like no salesman was even talking to him. And he was like, fuck these people. And he walked across the street and bought them from the competitive dealership in cash. Adrian Wenner played Sarah's med student. He's a Northwestern grad, so we know that he's a good actor. And I thought he did a great job.

He did such a great job. I remember I looked at this. I didn't remember, you know, it's me. So I didn't remember the episode. But I thought our guest stars were so good in this episode. In particular, I have to say Kelly Williams, who played Johnny C's love interest and was part of your story.

Absolutely. She was great. What show was she on at the time, Joelle? Do you know? I was looking up. She's been on all sorts of stuff since because I was kind of curious what she's been up to and I was IMDb-ing her, but she's been working nonstop. Well, yeah, but she was on a show, I think, at the time.

And it was a great pull. You might be confusing her with a different guest star But in any event, she was very good and she and Johnny were good together. Can we talk about Turk as a wingman? Yeah Turk is the best wingman ever. Yeah You were you really didn't want to do it until he was like you idiot I'm obsessed with your girlfriend He was like, you idiot, I'm obsessed with your girlfriend, help set me up with someone else. Right.

Well, right. That was the thing. I think Turk really enjoyed the fact that Dr. Cox, that Perry Cox was in love with Carla and couldn't have Carla. You know what I mean? I think he loved the fact that I have something on you that you will never get. And then when he threatens him and says, you know, I'll be sitting here waiting, Turk knows I'm gonna fuck up eventually.

And when I fuck up, this dude's gonna pounce. So- You don't want this guy in the wings. Right. You know when you're dating someone and this is more back in the day, it's not really like a- Oh dude, I got a great story for that, dude.

No, but the dude, the friend who's in the wings like always just sitting there just waiting for you to fuck up My dude my friend my friend my friend. I I dated someone and when we broke up I remember her calling me like dude, you'd be surprised at all of these guys that you know were So tight with us as a group, like you'd hang out with them, she's like, you'd be surprised of who's hitting me up.

I'd be like, I don't wanna know, man. It's, you know, we're no longer together, do you? But holy shit. Yeah, but you still got mad about, that's so sketchy, the dude's in the wings like, oh, y'all broke up. Come on, get some number. It's like a better off dead, I heard you broke up with Beth. And if I give her a call?

Yeah. Ha ha ha ha. That's a great movie, too. That shit is great. When Barney, he's watching the Flintstones, and Barney's like, hey, Lloyd, I heard you broke up with Beth. Can I ask her out?

Yeah. That movie's amazing. Better Off Dead. Check it out. Better Off Dead. John Cusack. What about at 5'11 when Kelly's character says to Todd that he is a lap pinky? I've never heard the term lap pinky before. What is a lap pinky? A tiny penis.

Oh, right, when she calls him that. All the machismo. She uses the word machismo! You said you hadn't heard that word before. She in the show I've heard much she's mo I said it in something and you were like what wow Donald with the much he's mo Kelly was on the practice you were right about that thank you told you yeah she's a very good actress and I thought she did a great job lap pinky I think we got to put that into our lexicon because that's a nice term for having a small penis a Lap pinky. Yeah, I just don't I don't I don't get it, but I get a pinky in your lap Now you get it I totally get it now, oh it took you a second it took me a second I was off a little bit. Yeah, maybe it's the scotch. Anyway, lap pinky. Yeah. Don't come around here with that lap pinky. I don't got a lap pinky. We know, we know, we know you have a lap baby forearm.

On that note, we're gonna go to break. We'll be right back. All we do is talk about wieners on the show. I know. I know. I'm getting a lot of notes from my girlfriend's mom about about our willies. Oh man. She calls it the Eel Cast. The Eel Cast.

Alright dude, you turned into the fucking Hulk, yo. You turned into the Hulk. Yeah. You know, I was so happy that Joelle wrote in her notes, was that really you, Zack, when you turned into the Hulk? Joelle, that is a giant stunt man with a lot of, with much bigger muscles than I could ever grow. I just love the fact that this is before like all of the, like, Avengers movies have come

out and everything, like all the Marvel stuff. And you turned into the Hulk, like, back in the old days. Old school. Yeah, like the cheesy, incredible Hulk. Don't call it cheesy. That show is amazing. Come on, buddy. You didn't watch that show when you were a kid?

Everybody watched the Hulk, but come on, buddy. Like when you look at the Hulk now, compared to the Hulk in the TV show. Of course, but you're not putting it in the context, dude. When we were kids, 18, Hulk. Yeah, all of those shows, man. No, Six Million Dollar Man. Remember that shit? Yeah, but when you look at, at least the motherfucker jumped over shit in The Six Million Dollar Man and could see- Remember that noise? Dan, can you put in that noise of when The Six Million Dollar Man would

jump? I love that show. I did too. The six million dollar man, we can rebuild him. We can fix him. By the way, nowadays it would be like the one billion dollar man. We have the technology. We can rebuild him. Right.

Oh man. He only cost six million dollars to fucking become a robot man. To become a freaking cyborg pretty much. How come no one's remade that we should remake the six million dollar The six million dollar man, but it's a comedy That would be hilarious Let's do it the bionic man and the bionic woman. No, oh my god. We both get special powers No, no, no one of us get special powers. The other one is the freaking dude on the computer

Oh, but I know which one of us is gonna want. The other one is the freaking dude on the computer. Oh, but I don't know which one of us is gonna wanna be the dude on the computer. I guess you have short. I don't give a shit. You won't mind, cuz you go home to your kids, you'll work like an hour a day. An hour a day. You'll be in the set. What do I gotta do? Right, what do I gotta do?

You'll care to be on the set at the computer being like, I'm enhancing the picture. I'm moving in. Yeah, he's got a bomb in his left pocket. And then you just go home. One day work, one day of work. And then I'm out there fucking 16 hours a day doing fucking leaps over buildings. Love it. I think this is a great idea. I think this is a show we should make. All right. Well, if you're a producer out there in Hollywood and you want to make a $6 million man's TV show with Donald and I, we're ready. No, not

a TV show, a movie, the movie. No, I think it should be streaming on Netflix. Oh my gosh. And it should just be super silly. The powers they gave me only work sometimes. Do you remember the greatest American hero? My powers are faulty? Yeah, I heard they were remaking that, of course. I don't know what happened with it, but I heard they were... Greatest theme song ever.

Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. I never thought I could feel so free. Flying away on a wind and a prayer. Who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me. Da da da da da da. Da da da da da da. Now you're trying to say that show doesn't hold up anymore?

That was magic. It really does not hold up anymore. If you watch that show, you'll be like, oh my gosh, what about 18? I Mean no one ever got shot. They're all firing AK 47s at each other and no one ever gets hurt That's one thing we could say about our show. At least people died on our show When they would do the When they would do the... And then they'd do the sequence where they'd build shit, and I would be like, oh, what are they building?

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dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun They'd be like, here, sip this, Mr. T. What is in this strange concoction? What did you put in my banana? Right. I'm going to eat a banana right now. I hate you, Hannibal.

Damn you, Hannibal. Hannibal. You put that secret flying juice on my banana. But you turned into the Incredible Hulk, dude. Oh man. I'm sad to say... You know, all those Marvel movies you love, they fucked up our childhood classics. Now everyone looks at the Hulk TV show and they say, that sucks. I thought it was a masterpiece.

Okay. You should go back and watch it. I know. I probably should try. Aloma. Hold up. Aloma. Very funny. So you turn into the Hulk and then Aloma, you're like, you say to her something like, he was horrible. I'm sorry. And she goes,

you don't got to apologize to me, but you will have to apologize to Jesus. Yeah, hilarious. Whenever Aloma did her church going woman preachy stuff, she was so funny. Always. Always. She's one of those people that just could sell the shit out of any line. That was hilarious. You would like to apologize to Jesus. If you watch this episode, every one of her lines is a punchline.

You know what I mean? Yeah. And they're always drive-bys. She's always walking by. Every one of them. Yeah, and she crushes it every time. What about you pulling out your- We need to get her on the show. We need to get her yeah, she crushes it every time. And what about you pulling out your... We need to get her on the show. Oh we should. We're a little bit

full up with guests but season two, Alama Wright. Okay, here we go. Joelle, put it in the notes please. You pull out your booty at 1248. I do and it's to show... What? What is it to show? It's to show you what they love, you know what I'm saying? So what you're saying, and what Turk and you are both saying is, when all else fails, you just do the slow sag down

and the woman see your juicy shelf butt, and they're sold. They're sold. I'm gonna tell you something right now. Yeah. Women aren't the only ones that can have a nice booty. Okay. Right. Yeah. Go ahead. That's for real, for real. So are you feeling yourself when it comes to booty? Like when you're in the mirror and you check yourself out, you're like, look at my ass. No,

it's a different ass now. It's got a lot of, it's got a lot of wrinkles and cellulite on it now. Is it saggy? Maybe you should do some squats. I squat a lot. It doesn't look like it did when I was 26 when we made this show. You could do lunges. You could do lunges. I do all of that, Zach. There's no reason why a 46-year-old man can't have a tight ass. I'm gonna explain something to you right now. Don't blame it on your age. Joelle's falling off her chair. That is not an excuse for you, man. You could do lunges. I'm going to explain something to you right now. With age comes sag. And you can work out as much as you want. Look at Johnny C the other day on Zoom.

You don't think Johnny C got a little bit of sag in him? No. I'll bet you he's tight as fucking hell. As mutton? It looks like mutton? You could bounce a quarter off his abs. Yeah, mutton. I think that was my joke. It's firm like mutton? That was your joke. That was me. Yeah, that was me.

I don't even know if mutton's firm. It just sounded funny. I think mutton is supposed to be very tender. What is mutton? It's lamb? Yeah, it's lamb. I think it's supposed to be very, very tender when you eat it. It's tendu.

Yeah. But you go, it's firm like mutton. It just sounded funny. I think I stole it from Princess Bride because when the mutton is lean, remember that? Billy Crystal. Yeah, except for like a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich. When the mutton is lean. Do you remember meeting Billy Crystal?

Yeah, where? In Hawaii? We were on a plane. Oh, where? And we were traveling. It was me, you, Case. I don't know where we were going, but we were on a plane and we sat with Billy Crystal the whole trip. And then we saw him at the hotel too. Did we bother him? I think it was Hawaii. It was Hawaii, no?

It had to be Hawaii. And we were all... He was just as much into us as we were into him. He was very much into you, and you were very much into him. Yeah, he was very complimentary of me, and that made me feel good because I love him, and I grew up on him like we all did. And yeah, Mutton from Princess Bride. Mutton from Princess Bride. When the mutton is have fun storming the castle. Have fun storming the castle in the castle you think it'll work it would take a miracle Right he said to blade Which we all know is true love Speaking of crushes

Robin right in that movie was just about the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Yes, I love that movie. That's one of my favorite. I used to watch that movie all the time. I remember introducing it to my friends in the neighborhood who didn't see the movie and being like, you guys haven't seen The Princess Bride. I remember having a movie night at my house, just so my friends who had never been introduced to The Princess Bride could watch The Princess Bride. And we watched it on VHS, obviously, in my room. And I remember getting just such joy out of watching my friends laugh so hard at something that was like... It wasn't something that they would have gone to see normally. Did you think you did that more often because you were dialed into

all the theater world? Were there other times where you were introducing your friend group to movies they might not have seen? Yeah, that happened a lot actually. Some of the movies, I grew up with a bunch of people who loved movies though too. So some of the movies that I was introduced to at a young age, like a lot of the horror movies and stuff, I had a lot of friends who loved horror movies growing up and I have an appreciation for them. I don't watch them,

but things like A Nightmare on Elm Street, I would have never seen if it wasn't for Jessica Mccardo. You know what I mean? Like, and you know Jessica, you've met her a couple of times. If it wasn't for her, a lot of the horror movies that I watch now, well, I don't watch them, but that I watched as a youth,

I would have never seen them, and I would have never known about that genre like the way I know it now. Mm-hmm. And I was thinking just randomly, my father, back when, before I was introduced to the world of independent cinema, I didn't know that there were movies

that didn't come to every theater. And a movie came out called The Gods Must Be Crazy, masterpiece. And this did not come to, you know, South Orange, New Jersey. And my father said, we're going to go into New York to see a movie. And I was like, why are we going to New York to see a movie? And he said, well, not all movies come to our town. And there's a movie that everyone's talking about, we're going to go see. So he took me a little independent cinema cinema in Manhattan and we saw that movie, which I believe was a South African movie. Where the Coke bottle falls from the sky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was

one of the funniest, most brilliant movies I'd ever seen. And it was, it's still a really good memory of my father introducing me to an early version of independent cinema. Did you ever see A Brother From Another Planet? The Brother From Another Planet? No. If you ever get a chance, go see that one. We're giving our listeners quite a good list of movies this podcast. There are some good ones out there, guys. Listen, if you get a chance, go see A Brother From Another Planet. It stars Joe Morton, okay? And he literally is

a brother from another planet, the brother from another planet. And I remember one scene when I was a kid. So before Harlem was gentrified, which is very much now, all the white people used to get off at 96th Street if you were on the train, right? No matter what line you were on, if there was a 96th Street stop, all the white people would get off because after that you were in Harlem, right? So there's this dude on a train. Right. So there's this dude on a train doing like tricks or something like that, doing magic. And the brother from another planet, he doesn't speak that much, you know, he doesn't speak English or anything like that. You know, when people ask him where he came from, he just points to the sky. And so the dude's trying to do all these tricks and the brother's just not feeling it. And then finally he goes, you know, you hear the

conductor say, next stop 96th street. And the white guy says to the brother, he goes, you want to see me make all the white people disappear? And everyone gets off at 90s. All the white people get off at 96th street. And I remember as a kid, I used to, I remember getting on the train and getting, I was very young when the movie came out and at 96th Street, if you were going downtown, all the white people got on at 96th Street. If you were going uptown, all the white people got off at 96th Street. I remember this very much as a youth, man. Wow. So crazy. Great joke. That's funny. I gotta see it. You've just sold it to me, Donald.

I'm watching it. If you get a chance, Joe Morton, brother from another planet. I was laughing at 1350 in the fantasy where I'm teaching DJ Qualls to ride a bike, because I was laughing going, I'm spoofing me at the age I am now. Right. Right?

That character I'm playing is probably like a 45 year old dad, like, you got this. Right, pushing his kid along. It's also, it also goes back to now you're Dr. Cox. And it goes to the grainy shot of you teaching a kid how to ride a bike, where he's teaching you how to throw a baseball. Yeah.

Then we do that one early on. So it's full circle. Yeah, I'm trying to be Cox. I summoned my inner Dr. Cox in this episode, so much so that we mirror the pilot where he fought DJ's character finally has a moment of success and I go, I cheer him on and then he leaves and then Judy says, go ahead and I put my arms up in celebration just like the pilot. Right, and then you're like,

can you fix that for me while I'm gone? Yeah, that's funny. I gave him a pep talk and then he still fucked it up. He never comes back, that's what's crazy, he never came back after this episode. Well, none of them do. Other than- Other than-

The love interest. Than Kelly, the love interest, none of these characters came back. I think DJ Qualls at the time, his career was on fire and he was just kinda coming by to do a quick guest star role. Then you convinced Johnny C to show his ass. Right. And...

John C has a nice ass, I'm not gonna lie, but it just didn't fit the character. So you like Johnny C.'s ass, though? It's not that I like Johnny C.'s ass, it's just that, you know, when you work out that much... Right. I mean, you could bounce a... You could... John C. used to say that shit.

You could bounce a quarter off his ass. You know that Johnny C.'s not the kind of guy who skips leg and ass day. Hell no you know he doesn't. No. That's the and ass day. Hell no, you know he doesn't. You know for a fact he doesn't. Right. He got this. Look, man, when I started getting serious about working out, I remember getting a text, a call from Johnny C. I was doing the Santa Monica stairs and I guess he drove by because

Santa Monica and Malibu are very close to each other. And I remember getting the call, Donald, have you taken your workout to the next level? Did I just drive by the Santa Monica stairs and see you going up the Santa Monica stairs? I'm very proud of you, Donald. I'm very, very proud of you. You got to work the legs. You got to work the legs. Well, Johnny C told me that he listens to our podcast as he's working out Tuesday and Thursday morning. So Johnny, if you're listening to this, don't skip those squats, buddy.

Keep that- You know he doesn't. Keep that ass, keep that ass firm, Johnny. Do a couple more reps. You could bounce a quarter off of it. Yeah, can you still bounce a quarter, Johnny? Or is it now just a penny? Solely a penny will bounce. Also clueless.

When I saw the pants drop, I thought clueless right away. What is it with the pants load thing? Okay, so this is where it's a cultural thing. So in prison, they don't give you a belt, they don't give you shoelaces because they're afraid that people will hang themselves in their cells and stuff like that or use it as a weapon, right? So you have a bunch of people in prison walking around with their pants sagging and their shoes not necessarily, you know, flipping, flip flopping off their feet. So when we did Clueless, this had become a fashion statement in the inner city.

So a lot of youth in the inner city were wearing their pants, sagging, just copying what they saw from the OGs. You know what I mean? And so this became a thing. And Turd did it. I think the fad's gone away, right? Or no? Do you still see people doing it? Well I'm an adult now. I still did it. Yeah, I think the fads gone away right or no. Do you still still see people doing it?

Well, I'm an adult now. I still see it. I'm an adult now I'm gonna grown man now, so I prefer if you were to pick I don't want to see your underwear Yeah, but when I was a youth I was like, oh shit this you know, this is I did it all the time So I know from an adult point of view though. It's a pretty ridiculous style Absolutely, but you have to be an adult to be like, I don't like that style. Of course. As a kid, you're like, look at all the OGs did it. You know what I mean?

Then there was somebody who came to me and was like, you did it. Of course. And I'm sure that I subscribe to some style that I would think is ridiculous now, very low V-necks. Dude, I've seen you with your pants sagging low too. So you can't- Not like your character did in the show, dude. Well, no, not like that, but I've seen you with your pants sagging low too. So you can't- Not like your character did in the show, dude. Well, no, not like that, but I've seen your pants-

But I had some embarrassingly low V-necks. Did you really? Yeah, I went through a low V-neck phase. You like a V-neck? Did you? Well, now you can't, because there's certain things that I used to do. Cargo shorts, I guess, are done. My girlfriend said, no way.

Can I wear those cargo shorts? You know when I wear cargo shorts when I go are done. My girlfriend said, no way. Do you fucking can I wear those cargo shorts? You know when I wear cargo shorts, when I go to play golf, that's it. I think most women and Joelle, if you wouldn't mind speaking on behalf of all women in the world are pretty are pretty over cargo shorts. They're not they're not attractive on anybody. So, you know, just like a leg. This is when you knew cargo shorts was a wrap. When Adam Sandler stopped wearing cargo shorts, you knew, okay, I guess cargo shorts is over.

Well, it's funny. It was for years. It was like, I don't know if the grip and electric guys are still wearing them, but that was the go to uniform was cargo shorts. Right. Even in freezing weather. Yeah. And I had a bunch of them. And I recently tried to pull out a bunch and showed Flo,

and she said, do you have to take those off immediately? Yeah, I agree. So they're done. But I can't throw them away. Do you have stuff in your closet you cannot wear anymore? Well, obviously, we're looking at your closet. But you cannot wear anymore. You're like, I can't wear those anymore.

But you just can't throw them away. You have nostalgia for them they might come back too yeah and I'll be I'll be fucking locked and loaded when cargo shorts come back all right do we need to take a break Joel or what we're gonna take a break and when we come back we're gonna have a fan caller enjoy these beautiful words Dude, you can make that sound. I'm not Sarah, man. That's the noise.

We used to, Donald and I used to make this noise whenever Sarah was like, it was like late and we were all going stir crazy. We'd go, and it would crack, it would crack her up and no one could hear it. Like the director or the producer or Randall, no one could hear that we were doing it and she'd be like stop doing that and she'd be cracking up. What are you talking about? We're like Sarah everyone's tired they want to go home stop fucking up and then she start her line and we go Oh I miss that crazy girl she's coming on. I missed her too. She's coming on Wendell, Friday, right?

No, Friday's Krista. Oh yeah, next week we got Sarah Chalk, the legendary Canadian. All right, B.J. Mendelsohn. Okay, before we get into B.J. Mendelsohn, I'm just gonna say this out loud. A lot of people are getting pissed off at my Oprah shit. Why?

Because some people are mad that I'm saying doing the Oprah stuff. No, fuck that. You're reading too many comments, dude. I know, I told you in the beginning of the show you gotta stay away from the comments. You're doing too deep a dive. You're doing too deep a dive.

I engage with a little love, I engage a little, especially with the nice people, and then you just dismount. You're like getting in your head. Oh, your Oprah voice is one of the reasons I come to work every day. Well, in that case, give it up for BJ Mendelson. Hey, how are you?

Hi, BJ. How are you? I didn't know this was going to be a video thing, so I'm wearing my trashy shirt. You look great. I got to like the... Things are good. We're going to apologize to our listeners that BJ doesn't have the ideal setup, because he has a microphone that's a little wacky. But we're going to fix it in post.

Are you a gamer? I am. That's what that is. What do you play? What do you play, BJ? Cod. I'm embarrassed to say Fortnite. And I can tell you, it was my niece's and nephew that got me into it.

Cause I was, let me ask you a question. Do you default dance? I do. Okay. Do you use Donald's dance? That's the default dance. Oh, okay. Sorry.

Now, now, now, why are you embarrassed? PGA? I don't really know much about gaming these days. Is this Fortnite just meant for children? No. Then why is he embarrassed about it because I've made a big stink about how much I do not like fortnight because they stole my dance but I don't give a shit to be honest with you I'm very very very I'm very very happy that they stole my dance I think you were I think you were misquoted when you caused a little

controversy you were sort of joke you you caused a little controversy. You were sort of joking, and then there were people who were like, if they take off that dance because of you, fuck you. Dude, I've never had more 12-year-old boys mad at me in my life. Yeah. Well, you threatened to take away their dance. I didn't threaten. All I did was say, they jacked it, and of nowhere, like, it was a bunch of kids like, Fuck you, you has-been! It's because nobody watches your shit anymore, you suck anyway!

It's because, look, you didn't get any money making scrubs? You didn't get any money making scrubs? They got all riled up because you made a joke about the Fortnite dance. And I'm fine with that, you know what I mean? And I'm fine with it being the default dance. What are the other dances that BJ could use? Well there's the Backpack Kid's one where it's like... Oh yeah, Backpack Kid. And then you need to pay more money for that? I don't know. I don't know if that's something you unlock or not. I'm still new to it. I am still like brand new to this thing. As long as you do the Turk dance, it's all good. Yeah, I do. How can I not? Do you find yourself, DJ, in Fortnite, do you talk to other people?

No, I try not to. That was my big thing was I'm kind of just, you know, I'm an author, so I don't socialize well with others. So playing like these online games where people are talking shit to you is like a new experience for me, especially when you're 37 and have never played these things in your life. So do you choose to not engage with angry 12 year olds? I try not to. Okay, it's probably a good, probably a good.

I think I would get upset. I think personally if I did it, if somebody was like, fuck your mother and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm just trying to fucking save the world here. Everybody calm down. It's the worst thing in the world to hear a kid yelling it you're trash pvp me pvp me pvp me. What does that mean pvp me? Like play me like versus just you and me one on one. Okay. Player versus player. BJ do you play any other games besides Fortnite or is this your? Right now it's Final Fantasy 7. I can't. Oh, you're a role player.

Hold on. Did you play Dungeons and Dragons growing up? No, I was in Magic the Gathering kit. Same shit, same shit. Yeah, it is, it's true. But it's cards, yours was, that's cards though, right? Yeah, yeah, that was the big difference. Don, we got very addicted to

the Star Wars role-playing game, Don. What was that one you played? Oh, I remember that. Yeah, when I was, it was the Star Wars game. I game, Don. What was that one you played? Oh, I remember that. Yeah, when I was, it was the Star Wars game. I don't remember what it was called, but there were a bunch of different ones. I even DM'd it for a little bit. Oh my God, Jedi Fallen Order, Donald, is that?

No, no, no, no. Jedi Fallen Order is a video game. We used to play it like it was Dungeons & Dragons. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what I mean, okay. But what I'm talking about, in our adulthood, during the time of Scrubs, you were playing a Star Wars. Oh, Star Wars Galaxies.

Yeah. Star Wars Galaxies. When that came out, I remember that game. I wish they didn't cancel it. Because look, it started off just as a role playing game that you would play on different planets. And then they introduced being able to fly in ships, right? And I remember at one point I got to talk to one of the head developers of the game. And I was like, you should make it so that you could jump in ships on the ground and fly in atmosphere. And then from atmosphere, take it to space. And then the game freaking failed eventually. But how can a Star Wars game fail?

It just doesn't seem like it's possible. You know, you change it enough times and then people lose interest. You know, what happens is that it starts off and it's pure and then you start adding things. And once you start adding things, you know, people lose interest after a while, you know. Perfect example, George Lucas with the original series,

with the original trilogy, it was shot a certain way, and he wasn't happy with it, so he started adding things. And the more he added, it seemed like the more fans were like, I don't like that, I don't like that, you don't need to add. Now for me, I like the adding, I like that he added, it seemed like the more fans were like, I don't like that, I don't like that, you don't need to add. Now for me, I like the adding, I like that he added things because it made it cleaner and it made it faster and it made it, you know, if you watch the original

A New Hope, it's not as, the special effects in it aren't as glorious as they are now when you watch it on Disney+. That being said, there are a lot of people that don't like, that do not like him going and retouching. I for one do like the retouch. I think there are certain movies that still, like people got mad when they retouched ET,

you know what I mean? I for one wasn't that mad at it. I'm going to be honest. All right. Well, we should probably ask BJ some of his thoughts. This is a rarity. I usually everyone I encounter hates the touch ups to the original trilogy. I don't mind them at all. The only one I freak out about is the one everyone freaks out about with Greedo shooting first. Right. That's bullshit. Come on. Yeah, right. Like that's the all the rest of it. I really and I remember getting in line at the theater when they reroll Please there because for me I wasn't old enough for the original Star Wars.

So when they you're pretty close to it though, right? You said you're 37. I just yeah, I just turned 37 So nine years younger than us or so. Yeah, so my like my first Star Wars is the Phantom Menace, which is okay I'm ashamed to say that out loud dude. You shouldn't Wars is the Phantom Menace, which is okay. I'm ashamed to say that out loud, dude. You shouldn't be because the Phantom Menace has new energy behind it. Thanks to Dave Filoni, but okay. True, true. And plus it had the great odd racing and 64 game, right. Which was amazing.

Uh, but I liked all the touch ups at the alley. Cause to me it was like, all right, it looks like everything else. Cause when I remember watching on VHS, I kind of fell asleep. Right. Cause it didn't look, you know to me it was like, all right, it looks like everything else, because when I remember watching it on VHS, I kind of fell asleep. Right. Because it didn't look, you know, when I was little, it didn't look as crisp as some of the other things that I was used to seeing at that age.

Right. Where do you live, BJ? I'm up in Monroe, New York, which is, if anyone knows what Woodbury Commons is, it's a large tourist trap. Okay. And you said you're a writer, are you an anomalous? Yeah, so I'm the author of a book called social media is

bullshit. I wrote it in 2012. So I was a little ahead of its time. I'm happy to give the way for free. If anyone wants a free copy, all they have to do is just hit me up on Twitter. It's like I said, it's an older book. I wrote ironically, they're gonna have to hit you up on social media. Right. So that was the thing. That was the thing that I got a lot when it came out was it was like, oh, hey, well, you know, you've got this big presence on Twitter, but you wrote social media is bullshit. And when I said people was it not the tools to tell you use it. And

that's the part that where you get friends all this bullshit. Yeah. Big, I feel like you'd be a guest that we could just talk to for hours about. Yeah. As long as you guys don't go down the Star Wars route every fucking five minutes, because I see, I see Joelle like nodding again, like she's like, as long as you guys don't go down the Star Wars route every fucking five minutes because I see I see Joelle like nodding again like she's like as though she's yelling preach when you guys start to talk. Yeah, she's got her head up in the air like you preach. I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you for the scrubs. Yes, please be I have never felt so old. And now, you know, knowing that you guys are older than I am, I can only imagine how you could feel. I was pitching this TV show and I can't, you know, can't say too

much about it. But what I can say is that is about the $6 million man because we just pitched it live on this show. So don't steal that. All right, go ahead. It totally should be. It totally should be that is due for a remake. Although with inflation, I think you might have to adjust it slightly. We said you wouldn't get very far with rebuilding him for six months. Maybe his feet.

Yeah, you would get the feet. Maybe like the kneecaps, you just fall over a lot. So but this kid, the kid, the kid that would star in the show is only like 20, 21. And so as I was going through with him and explaining like the look and the feel, I was like, you know, it's a lot like scrub season one, scrub season eight, where it's a little goofy, but it's also got like a little bit of darkness to it. And I, he was humoring me. He's like, Oh yeah, yeah, I remember Scrubs. And then, like, I got off the phone and the producer calls me right back. And he's like, he has no idea what the fuck Scrubs is.

How dare he? Like when Scrubs was on, he was maybe two. Oh my God. Is this kid a successful actor? He is a successful TikTok star. Oh, wow. And for me, like- Is this kid a successful actor? He is a successful TikTok star. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, right.

Like, yeah. So- By the way, Donald, if TikTok was out when you were young, you would have been a TikTok star because you- We all would have been TikTok stars. No, but I can't dance. Like, you can do those moves, dude. These-

No, but you would have figured out a way to freaking... Look, man, you did Garden State. You would have figured out a way to make a fucking movie on TikTok that everybody loved, even if it was like only however long TikTok allows it. You would have figured out a way. You're a very bright boy. Thank you. You're a very bright man. Do you ever see that video of the girl on TikTok?

She went viral. She's sobbing, but she's still doing her TikTok dance for the song. And some comedian, I forgot, I don't know who it was, but they wrote like, maybe wait till you're done with your breakdown until you do the dance. But she's trying to make a point that like, I'm still going to dance through this sad moment. And she's doing all the choreography, but she's bawling. I've never seen this. BJ, have you seen that? I have, I gotta tell you I tried like hell to avoid TikTok and Snapchat but it's Denise's nephews, you know they're that age group where that's all they're on. Oh I don't even look at that.

My daughter that's all she watches. My daughter, not my, not my, not my five-year-old but my 21-year-old just walks through the house dead, you gotta check this out, and it's nothing but TikTok shit. Like it's so much, I would would get my daughter up my five-year-old up here right now but my 21 year old daughter has corrupted Kaia has corrupted Wilder so much that Wilder is now doing the savage challenge I'm a savage classy bougie ratchet can you get her up here? We gotta hear it. Hold up Wilder This might be worth it BJ. You're about to get a special treat. I love it. Oh, let's do it

She's warming up because she used to not she used to not perform on cue, but We're gonna turn her into a we going to turn her into a child actress if it's the death of us. That's fantastic. Zach, I have to tell you, just real quick, the Garden State soundtrack for my college radio station was all that they would play when it came out. So I feel obligated to share that with you. Oh, thank you.

Welcome, Paul. We're waiting for Donald to come back. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, it was Donald jokes that I want a Grammy for a mixtape, but he's right. It was just the music I was, me and my friends were listening to and it felt really appropriate for the era that the film was about. And then with the help of my editor, Myron Kirstein, he really gets all the credit for putting them in the right spots. I just made a giant playlist and then I'd let him go attack some scenes and then he'd come back and he'd go, dude, I've just put the Paul Simon song on this

moment and you got to see it. And I would watch it and get goosebumps up and down my arms. Like, yeah, we're never going to be able to get that song, but that's a keeper. Oh, here she is. Oh, there's Rocco. No, that's Rocco. There's Rocco. No, Rocco. No, here she is. There's Rocco. Hold on. Come on, guys. All right. Wilder. Perform. Back up, boozy, ratchet. Sassy, moody, nasty.

Hacking, stupid, well, that's happening. That's happening. I'm savage. Ha ha ha ha! Thunders applause, Dan. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? All right.

Okay, so now I got, look, I'm going to show you who's all in here now. I got the whole family in here just to see her do. Oh, everybody's here. What? I'm a barbie. Okay, Rocco. Okay. Alright.

Alright, get them out. Pull them out. Back to the bouncy. You guys wet this whole room up, huh? Pull them out. Back to the bouncy. You guys wet this whole room up, huh? Back to the bouncy castle. I don't know this song, but it doesn't seem that it's necessarily appropriate for a five-year-old to sing. I hope I have a 21-year-old who's watching TikTok like 24-7, and so because of that...

Can you talk me through the lyrics of this song? It's Meg the Stallion. Right. And she now has a remix with her and Beyonce. Okay. Beyoncé as Hal would say. Beyoncé, rest in peace my father. And the chorus is I'm a savage.

What is it? I'm a savage. Classy. Classy, bougie, ratchet. Now what does ratchet mean? Ratchet is like when you're like, that's ratchet. Yo, your ratchet isn't necessarily. Joelle is typing out the lyrics for you, Donald.

Sassy, muddy, nasty. Moody, nasty. Acting. Acting? That's ratchet yo your ratchet isn't necessarily well is typing out the lyrics for you Donald sassy body nasty moody nasty acting stupid What's happening? What's happening? I don't know how I feel about my little god daughter saying sassy Marty nasty moody moody moody Oh, sorry. Well, it's Joelle's typo. Not mine I thought modi was a new word. No moody sassy moody Ratchet no acting stupid was happening savage classy bougie that

Beaches like what did I get into? Going through right now. So we had this song, Lowlife. Olivia, she's five, is really into it. And the lyrics are probably not terribly appropriate for a five-year-old. So we had to amend it and say, no, no, the song is called Lowlife.

So I know this whole thing very well. BJ, are there any questions you want to ask? BJ, do you have any questions? Yeah. So I don't know where to start because just to give people contact, yeah, I know it's, it's, I've got the fan going. So hopefully you guys can't hear it too much. I can't feel the fan, PJ. Can you turn it a little towards the camera? So just for, just for context. So going through, so I used to be married and going through, we got married just as the recession started.

So we didn't have a lot of stuff, but we did have scrubs DVDs. So that was pretty much all we would watch. Did you give him or her when in the breakup, did you give him or her season nine? I actually like season nine. I know that that's fun. Donald does too.

You do? Okay. Can I tell you my, I noticed his attention. I think it's- We do it all the time. Okay, great. So I know this has been said elsewhere by other people like had it had a different title. It would have been successful but I think because it was still scrubs. Should have been called Dave Franco. Yeah, it was a little too much Dave Franco. Donald Faison as screech.

Right. But I like it. It's very solid. The show holds up really well. Season 9 holds up, I feel pretty well. There is probably a little too much Dave Franco for me. He was like to me, the more like annoying character. Oh, that's who he was meant to be. That's who Donald Mike is. Right. Right. But so to me, like the big question I feel like is how do you think this show has held up because today the episode that we were Going to talk about there's a whole sequence with dr. Cox and the And the doctor the young doctor and I feel like today. I don't know if you'd be able to do that story Well, yeah, you know there are a lot of things that don't necessarily Hold up with what's going on Today with the show, you know Cox calling JD a girl's name all the time might be, you know, offensive to some. Yeah, you could catch offense to that.

Zach and I had a conversation about that. We were like, you know what? We know where the show has its moments where we're like, oh boy. But maybe, you know, if everybody's true fans of the show and was watching it back then and didn't have a problem with it back then, I don't necessarily think it behooves us to continue to talk about what, you know, the past, you know, it was made at a certain time, you know what I mean? I don't know how to, I don't know how to explain it.

But to your point, I don't know that, again, who knows that someone might find offense to Dr. Cox flirting with a coworker. I don't know, I think it was done in a pretty clearly consensual way. She was flirting right back with him and Donald was- Well, and Turk even says, Turk even says, you know, this is highly inappropriate and you shouldn't be doing this. And you know better than this, Dr. Cox. And, and, and,

and to the, and to his intern. And if you're supposed to say anything to, you're supposed to be, uh, worshiping me and, you know, the knowledge I have and not being love struck with this, you know, senior I have and not being love struck with this you know senior Resident in the house for what it's worth He then doesn't have the courage or or whatever and he's still obsessed with Judy I guess and he walks off and that's she that shows up at his door Remember that no. Yeah, I think he told I think BJ totally gets it, but yeah, I'm saying it to you She she's the she's becomes the aggressor

And then he gets up and says something no man would ever say to a woman He says, uh, I'm using you to get past another person That was fucking nuts that any human being would say that to someone but then she's like, I don't care. Let's hook up That's not why I'm here. Right? Yeah My whole deal is you know, you have to look at things with the time that they were produced. And that doesn't excuse like, like really egregious stuff. We had a title come out, cereal boxes recently called box, which deals with a lot of the HP Lovecraft, you know, the dark and mysterious tentacles and enemies from other dimensions. And so

the way I describe it to people is, you know, it's H.B. Lovecraft without any of the anti-Semitism. You know, like it's thinking the, it's thinking like the best parts of it. And so, you know, if you look at his stuff in that context, you can't excuse like the blatant bigotry that's... Well, you're, BJ, you're, you said you're an LGBTQ activist. So there's plenty of stuff that I imagine some would find offensive in nine years of the show, the calling of JD, this sort of, it was considered derogatory to be called a girl's name. I mean, how does, how does something like that? I thought that held up to me. I thought that held up because it's within the character that it works. That makes sense that he, it's just the characters that set up belittling JD in any way that he can. And in his mind, in Cox's mind dead set on belittling JD in any way that he can.

And in his mind, in Cox's mind, that was belittling. Exactly. And it didn't come off as malicious in that he meant it as a gay slur. He just meant it as, I'm just going to chip you down. I'm just going to keep chipping away at you. So I think it really comes from the character. And as long as the character isn't blatantly racist or something something which in the case Dr. Cox is, it's fine. I know that I know that there's there's certainly people that would be offended by it and I understand that

but to me if as long as it fits within the nature of the character I think it's okay. All right all right do you have another question for the legendary Donald Faison? Or Zach Braff. Classy, sassy, bougie. Ratchet, what's happening, moddy. You sound like Rocco. So Rocco doesn't like the song at all because he doesn't like the dance

or anything like that, right? So he'll be like, I'm a savage. Ratchet, acid, dookie. Rocco's at a stage where if you just want to sabotage something, say poopie or kaka, right? Kaka, anything, anytime. Look, man, you've heard my son. I've taught him some words that I should never have taught him. Yeah, man.

It's like a parrot. You never want to teach a parrot a curse word. I taught him some words and now I'm like I should have never done it and when he goes back to school I'm so worried. Yeah well for now it's your problem. Yes BJ go ahead. Yeah so you mentioned in the divorce did they get season nine I was actually going to give them season seven for the writer's strike and I was just always fascinated by that whole thing with you guys having to stop mid-season and just trying to adjust. I don't remember, maybe you guys can provide the context on that. So

the season shut down and then you had to go back and finish the episodes. Was that sort of the deal on that? I don't really remember. I know that Hollywood was shut down for the writer's strike and we didn't work. Then we went back. Are you saying that you can notice a difference in the quality because of that crazy time? Yeah, I think that if those episodes were done in any other context, they would have been great. But there's something that feels off to them

as you're watching them. I mean, that could just be going in with the context of, oh, this was done when the writers weren't there, or this was sort of just done under. Nothing would be done without the writers being there. You know, this is a really good Bill question. Oh, great! We can do our Ask Bill. This is a really good Bill question. So, BJ, why don't you direct it directly to Bill Lawrence, the show's creator. You ask him. It's a good question. Yeah. So, Bill, season seven, if you had a do over, would you

feel that it would come out differently than the way it did being produced during the writer's strike? Great. That's a good way that that is good. And then Bill will will he'll answer it knowing Bill knowing Bill he'll answer the start with a joke. Let's all let's all see if he does this. He'll open with a joke. Then he'll give a very heartfelt serious answer. And then he'll end by yelling five, six, seven, eight.

We'll see, we'll see. I hope I live up to that. Do I think season seven would have been different without the right, yeah. Because you gotta remember, not only did the strike muck everything up, so much so NBC even rejiggered the order of the episodes. I think they aired that Princess Bride homage

like it was this show's finale, just homage like it was the show's finale, just in case it was the show's finale, when it wasn't supposed to be. I mean, we were heading, the finale was always gonna be that end of season eight episode that was already written in my head. And we just never got to do it that year.

It was such a drag. Also, you gotta remember, man, during that whole lead up to the strike, it was such a weird writer's room because we were all hustling and worried about losing our jobs and worried about not working and all that stuff. So it was definitely screwed up. I wanted on record that I didn't do the number Q for the song because it'll get stale if I do it too often.

But I'm coming back with a vengeance. See ya. I remember when the writer's strike happened and I remember the one thing that I remembered the most about the writer's strike was thinking, holy cow, we're not going to work for a while. And does this mean this is the end of the show? Because you know, at this point, you know, studios were studios weren't necessarily behind writers striking and everything like that. And I worried at that point, does this mean that Scrubs isn't coming back? Or, you know, and I remember I remember marching with Bill

all the way to Universal Studios. Yeah, we all went and marched on the line with everybody. And thinking, is this something that the studio's gonna look back at and be like, well, we're not gonna bring back Scrubs because they were a part of the writer's strike. We're not gonna bring back Brooklyn Nine-Nine because they were a part of the, you know what I mean? Like now, by the way, you know,

shows are dropping because of COVID and Broadway shows are closing because of COVID because they know they can't survive. Right, Frozen is done because of COVID. Yeah, and others. And shows are getting canceled. Emergence, an amazing show, Emergence, starring- Well, I don't know if Emergence got canceled because of COVID or if Emergence got- You know, ABC doesn't have to give a reason for why they canceled the show.

BJ, have you watched Emergence? I have. It didn't take for me. Ah, BJ, you're done. And that's it. Bye, BJ. No. I'm't it didn't take for me. BJ you're done. No, I'm just joking. I'm just don't hate on BJ. I'm not. Hey, it didn't take for me. I love the cast. Great actors. Great actors. Yeah, I find out I find out a lot of TV shows that come out of broadcast networks that usually the cast is great. But for

whatever reason, there's just something that doesn't click for me the way that I feel. Well, I think what happens is that just sort of stereotypically, there's a lot of chefs in the kitchen on broadcast, and now more and more, the showrunner and directors are given long leashes on streaming platforms, and there's a voice to be had. They want a voice.

What was the voice behind the show? That's what they're interested in. Especially all these sort of comedies we all love on things like, you know, the perfect example is Atlanta for me. It's like so clearly someone's taste and voice. And that's what- That's hard to find on broadcast television.

Of course, because there's 9,000 people weighing in and it just becomes a fucking muddy stew. Oh, I feel that way about Dave on FXX. You like it or you don't like it? I love it. Oh, good, good. I did a whole ad for Dave on here. It's so good. Davis, I can't get Donald who would love it more than any of us to watch it because he's too busy

fucking doing whatever he's doing. I'm raising kids, yo. No, I'm raising kids. You got your hands? Yeah, but then going to sleep at what time? 7 730 and then I want to go to bed, buddy 30 you do go to bed early. What time you gonna bed? What time it's lights out 830. No Yeah, man, you turn out your lights at 830 839 o'clock. I'm most likely on my way upstairs to go to sleep It's crazy dude. Listen man, man, as much as as much as I'm a as I'll tell you right now, I love my children. I love everything about being

a dad and and all of that stuff. But I said it before, I miss waking up at noon and not having anything to do other than hang out with my wife. You know what I mean? I miss that shit. Every week Donald makes having children seem less and less appealing. Now, wait, hold up. Now, I don't want to go back to that. I don't want to, you know, the grass is always greener. I would prefer to wake my son walking in my room at 530 in the morning every day saying can I have cinnamon toast crunch I prefer that over being at Orlando Jones's pool till 430 in the morning right exactly till 4 o'clock in the morning but you know it's it's I do miss that moment in time where it was just I didn't have to

Worry about a lot of things, you know what I mean? And I worry about everything now Well, you're in a new chapter of your life down. This is this is 46 Yeah, you know and when I was a young dad it seemed a lot easier it seems way more difficult now, man I don't know BJ you have kids right? No, I'm child free He was talking about Yeah, I love kids. I love my nieces and nephews more than anything in the world. I think kids are just the best. But for me, I decided, you know, I want to be environmentally friendly. And I know it's goofy as it sounds. So I took that, like

reduce your carbon footprint thing really seriously and just decided, you know, I've had kids, I don't know what kind of world they would get into. So I decided not to do it. It's a little too deep and serious. So let me ask you like a fun question. Yeah, go out with one night. Go with a happy question, BJ, because we're going long here and we've got to wrap it up. You've been a great guest.

I got to say, Donald, hasn't been a great guest? BJ, I'm going to be honest with you so far, favorite call in ever yeah I think I'm gonna I'm gonna think for a second yeah I think BJ is definitely top two or three two I'm gonna give them the number one you know what no before you give it to them before you give it to them let's see what the final question is yes no I think you guys because I like I said I spent crap ton of time with DX watching you. So it was cool just being able to experience a few minutes hanging out.

So my last question for you is, in a world where even the most microscopic show, if you remember, gets a movie, you've probably gotten this a lot. But do you envision a scenario where there might be more scrubs? And I know that it's such a fanboy question to ask, but I had to ask it. No, it's a great question. I think there's a world.

It was we did the view today and Whoopi Goldberg said, you know, Oscar nominee Whoopi Goldberg, well, he got, oh. He got winner, he got winner Whoopi Goldberg. I'm sorry. She has the four of them together. I didn't know she was an EGOT Yeah, she she that's the reason she she's got the Tony the Emmy the Grammy and the Oscar What does she have an Oscar for? Ghost color purple. Oh ghost ghost. Oh

Yes, you are doing it goes. Oh, wow. Don't get us going on color purple. We did a whole we did a whole episode Oh, wow. Don't get us going on color purple. We did a whole we did a whole episode Listen, we love us some whoopee go. Yeah, don't get don't don't don't get good Donald doing Oprah's monologue again because she was giddy in for me. You know, I grew up with her Yeah, she was great on that too. Did you ever see her one woman Broadway show that you can know that's what she won the Tony for I think it was 1985 That's what she won the Tony for. I think it was 1985. It was Whoopi Goldberg's one woman Broadway show. And she does all these characters.

And I'm telling you, find it. It is a fucking masterpiece. She is by far, like she is a treasure. I don't mean to diss The View, because The View is The View and it's like the most popular daytime show. But I wish that Whoopi was still acting because she's so incredibly talented. She's one of the, she's one, in my opinion, she's one of the best ever. Anyway. You made me want to go back and watch Star Trek The Next Generation now because I used to watch that show.

Great show. Did you watch it, Donald? I did. Great show. You remember the episode where Picard is being tortured and he's like there are four lights Yeah, by the Borg is he being told by the Borg. Yeah. Yeah. Fuckin um anyway She was like whoopie was like look I'm a huge fan. I was a huge fan of the show. I think y'all should make a scrubs movie. Yeah So we talk about that, you know, because I point to Psych, who's

now made two successful films, and it would be fun. I think it would be fun for us to all do something like that. We just have to get Disney to be into it and Bill Lawrence to be into it. And I think it'll happen. The fans, the fans seem to really want it to happen. The fans wanted a rewatch show and they got that. So yes, we're giving the people what they want. BJ, you've been an outstanding guest. You're Donald's favorite guest of all time. Favorite call-in, call-in guest. Favorite call-in, favorite call-in BJ.

We gotta qualify it. You have bigger and better, I have no doubt. No, I think you asked smart questions. You seem like a very intelligent man. You gave thoughtful discourse. What else Donald? And he knew about Star Wars. Yeah, you know about Star very intelligent man, you gave thoughtful discourse. What else, Donald? And he knew about Star Wars. Yeah, you know about Star Wars.

That's why Donald likes you. And you had Joelle waving her hands like she was saying preach in the background. Thanks for coming on, man. Have a great day. Stay safe. Appreciate you. Stay healthy, brother. And Donald, I think I successfully cheered you up.

You started a little bit sour today, but I think that we really brought you around. You know, I'm going to tell you something. Go ahead. I, it was a great distraction today, man. It was a great distraction to sit here and talk with you today. I needed it. Well, that's why we're here for the people, Donald. We didn't think that this would be a quarantine show, but since it is, we hope that we're helping you stop thinking about nonsense in your life for an hour and a half or so. Yeah, but just on a personal level today, I was very, very, very, you know, and I'm going to go back into it after we wrapped the episode, but I was very, very, I don't know, I wasn't having a great day. You're melancholic

Yes, I was very melancholic. I The melancholy was if I could play a song it would be a Josh Raden song right now. I hear you Well, listen now you're gonna now that the episodes over and you've had so much fun You're gonna go on something. I'm gonna go out and play with the kids You're gonna play with the kids on the water the water bouncy house I'm going to go out and play with the kids. You're going to play with the kids on the water bouncy house? Yeah. And then...

And your daughter's going to do sassy, muddy, nasty. She's going to sing a little Meg the Stallion. And I'm going to sing, this is how we do it. This has been Fake Doctors Real Friends. We hope you had a great experience with us today. Follow Donald on Instagram. He's got envy of my followers and I am an envious of your followers men Listen, you have one point something well, I can't share them It's not like monopoly where I can just give you some properties

Dude, you you talk your followers. Listen, just tell all right come over to if you're Follow Donald Donald underscore a son. That's probably why they can't find you got some weird spelling I was drunk. Okay, the truth behind it. Oh, geez. The day I created my Enter my my instant handle. Yeah my handle and I thought I was hitting F and I hit underscore Only kids don't try to handle a son or drink and create a handle. Donald underscore Aizon. Or drink and create a handle. Who cares? We hope we left you happy. We hope you left you smiling. Thank you to BJ. Thank you to Joelle. Thank you to Dan. Thank you to Will. Thank you to Will Pearson at iHeart. And tell you what, email us at scrubsihart.gmail.com. Joelle will sift through your questions and see if you're as worthy as BJ was.

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