Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - Real Friends Classic: 118 - My Tuscaloosa Heart with Christa Miller

Episode Date: April 19, 2025

In this week's episode, Turk and Eliot learn about Dr. Kelso's secret talent. In the real world, Zach and Donald are joined by actress Christa Miller.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, normally we wait to bring on the VIP guests, but I just have to jump right in. I am so taken by how ridiculously breathtaking you are in this episode. Thank you so much. I'm not going to lie, Donald. I texted her while I was watching it and said, you know, I don't mean to be super- Keep it classy.

Keep it classy now. I know. I'm not going to get in trouble with Bill. I just want to say I am not to be superficial and just talk about looks. She's also a very, very, very funny woman. But holy crap, are you beautiful in this episode. And I can say that because you're being sexual

and luring Johnny C. into the bedroom. So I'm allowed to comment on that, Donald. But she's doing it in such a, that's the way it's supposed to be when you're booty calling with your ex, right? Right. She comes over, she says, yo, let's do this. And you say, yeah, let's do this. And then that's it. That's the rule. By the way, Krista, I used to say that all the time to Casey when I would have her come over at like, you know, 1030 at night, them's the rules of the booty call, baby. I used to say that

shit to her all the time. Really? Yeah, absolutely. Christa, I love how in control Jordan is. She just... I think it's a good... I mean, not that we were the first show to ever do this, but I think it was a good message for women. It was kind of like, hey, you can be... If you want sex, no shame. Go get yours. Go be in charge of the booty call. Go get yours, make it happen.

Make it happen for yourself. I always tell my friends this on a different note. You know, know how to make it happen for yourself and follow through. Yeah. And why are you taking shit off anyone? Yeah, and Jordan was like, you know what? I don't want to hear you talk.

Like just shut up. Take your fucking clothes off. First of all, how are you? Sorry, how are you? I got excited. I was just watching the episode and I got excited. I miss you. And it was so sweet to hear from you guys for my birthday. So I really appreciate it. Thank you. No doubt. How's your quarantine going? You know, it's my wet dream to be quarantined. There's people like Krista, I know, I'm sure if you're listening, you know, who like, wait, you're telling me I don't have to leave the house and no one will give me shit? I mean, you know, it's, it's not as easy for, uh, your friend, Bill Lawrence, who

wants to be around people all the time. You know, did he tell you that I put him downstairs? Yeah, tell us about that. He told us that you said that's your office. What's that story? Well, I anticipated that quarantine would be a disaster for our marriage and we would ultimately end up divorced if there weren't certain rules followed. Because Bill left his own devices, would follow me around the household day, want to see what I'm doing, fame, interests, and things he wasn't interested in. And so I put a desk in our downstairs guest bedroom. I set it all up, made sure there's a big TV in there. I set

it up as a little pied-a-terre, like one might have a little studio apartment in New York. And he can come out for lunch. By the way, Bill is so afraid of Krista. This is a funny thing that Donald and I have witnessed. When we did this show for nine years, Bill was the boss, and he was the big brother, and he could be scary at times. And then the second he was around Krista, it automatically switched, and he was like, yes, Krista, yes, Krista. And Bill was like, this isn't a joke, Bill's like, no, no, I have to go to the office. I'm like, what do you mean, we're in quarantine? He's like, no, no, Krista made an office for me and I have to go there.

It's very much, it's very much like, uh, Cox and Jordan know. Like I've never seen Cox slump his shoulders like that, like in Defeat, like he does at the end of the episode. Sad body. I know. Sad body. Right. You've never seen that in the show. But here comes Jordan, and he's like, and Bill walks around and his chest is all out. And Krista comes around and he sinks down like, okay, you got it. He submits. I think that's very healthy for your relationship. I'm sure you do too, Krista. But like a guy, I mean, talk about that

because I think a guy like Bill, and I know other men and probably women and vice versa like this, when they're at work, they're kind of the boss, they're the alpha, and they come home and they need the yin yang of someone being like, no, you're not the fucking boss anymore, okay? There's your room, go to your room.

Yeah, I don't work for you. But... But I will say this, at work, because I think Bill is so talented at his job and his takes on jokes and how they should be done is so spot on. He also has the quality, as you guys know, is that if you say, I wanna try it this way, he'll say, try it, if your way's better, he'll say, you're right, your way's better.

So I have a lot of trust in him. So at work, actually, I was quite, you guys didn't notice it, but that for me was deferential to Bill. You couldn't tell. I saw it, when you switched to work mode, you were always like, hey, can I try it this way? Or, you know, you can tell. No, I know, I saw it. When you switched to work mode, you were always like, hey, can I try it this way?

Or, you know, you totally switched. But I just love, because I'm so close with you guys, and I've spent so much time with you at your home, it was always fun for me. I mean, now we're all best friends, but back in the day when I didn't know you as well, it was always so much fun for me to see Bill under Christa's thumb.

Wait, Zach has witnessed you, I don't know if you want to talk about it now, the stop hug that Donald's never seen. What is the stop? Oh, you have to tell this. Bill is so pussy whipped, if I can say that Krista, I hope it's not too jarring. Well, they go on to Howard Stern all the time, these two, and talk. You can say pussy whipped. So everything is going to be tame compared to what these two talk about to Howard Stern all the time, these two, and talk. You can say pussywhip. So everything is going to be tame compared to what these two talk about on Howard Stern

together. But Bill is so pussywhip, but Christy, you tell the story, but I feel it's so adorable and my heart goes out for him, but Christy, tell him. No, but you were on my side by the end of the summer. No, I never was. I love you, but I felt the guy just wants to hug his wife. The poor guy just wants to hug his wife. Maybe I'll have Donald.

So Donald, what happens is I'm a way to be doing something. I'm working, I'm organizing, I'm writing, and Bill, or I'll have my hands full of things and Bill goes, stop hug? And then he wants, he needs to, and he needs a stop hug? And I would say to Zach, do you see, I don't want a stop hug. Wait, you're not explaining it.

Stop hug, stop hug meant that she would have to put her things down no matter what was happening and give him a long, tight embrace. And Krista, we were staying on Long Island together and Krista's like, no, what the fuck are you talking about? We're not stop hugging right now. We'd be out at the boat and I'm tying up the boat or trying to get the anchor up and Bill would be like,

stop hug, no, no. It's so fun for Donald and I because, I mean, when I, it doesn't hurt. They didn't hug us. Do you know how long it took for him to hug us? I know, he couldn't even hug us. We had to, now he's a hugger. We, it took a decade, but we turned him into

a male on male hugger, but in the beginning, he'd be like, high five, we're, I don't know, we're huggers. He would tap you on the shoulder, hey buddy. beginning he'd be like, high five. We're not, we're huggers. He would tap you on the shoulder. Hey buddy. Yeah. Hey buddy. No, he would, he will say now I'm not speaking out of school that he would

like to have an adult baby Bjorn for me to climb into, wear me around the house during quarantine. That's why I had to get him the office. But by the way, I have to say... Listen, I would like that. That sounds amazing. It's so... There are so many husbands and wives... How long have you been married? 20 years. There are so many husbands and wives who are so over each other, sadly, after 20 years,

and Bill is so incredibly in love with you. I mean, it has not turned down one cell from the day you met, and I think that's so sweet. So my heart always goes out to him sometimes when you're like, Bill, go to your fucking office, no stop hugs. Right, but Zach, you have to remember that, no, I love him so much, he gets plenty of sex,

he gets plenty of cuddles enough's enough I mean you feel sorry for someone who's gets a lot of things that's a lot of attention yeah well listen I forgot this thing by the way I was about to say I was about to say that's a great way to start the show yeah Bill Lawrence gets plenty of sex everybody five six seven eight stories about show we made about a bunch of doctors nurses and a janitor who loved the hate i said he's got stories that we all should know so gather round to hear our gather round to hear our scrubs we watch show with zach and donald We're our scrubs, we watch your Whizzeck and Dono.

Krista, we gotta go back to the beginning. Now that we've sung ourselves in. All right. Tell us... Donald, no, Donald, I'm gonna lead this. I was gonna... Okay, go ahead, man. Go ahead. I know you're excited.

I am excited. I was told to turn the gain down on my mic. I was so excited by Dan. Right on, right on, right on. Dan had an intervention and said, turn down your mic, you're too giddy. Krista, tell us, we're gonna go way back to the beginning. Whenever we have our co-stars on, we like to start at the beginning.

Even before you met Bill, you were in New York, you grew up in Manhattan, and tell us about going from modeling to acting, like that section of your life where it was working as a model and then into Drew Carey. Well, I always, I went to acting class at night in high school. I went to American Academy of Dramatic Arts and then the neighborhood playhouse, and I would ride my bike.

I had a 10-speed bike in New York. I would go to school and then I would play in some varsity sport that I was in, like basketball or volleyball. And then I would ride my bike down to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and take acting classes. I always wanted to be an actor, and modeling was just a way to make money.

And I originally came out here because I got an audition for a league of their own. When David Ansperod was first directing it, and then when he was doing it, you had to pass and they knew I was, you had to be a real baseball player. So you had to go down with one of the head coach for one of the baseball teams for like this three hour baseball audition before you were even allowed to read. And so I did that. I got the part David Antzpot ultimately got fired from the movie and Penny Marshall took over. And I ended up dating him and but staying out here, and starting with doing acting.

And what happened is I got an episode of The French Prince of Bel Air. That was your first job? No, it wasn't my first job, but it was one of the first few ones. And it was so fun. Will Smith, he did this, first of all, there's loud music playing,

anytime they cut, loud music would be playing on stage. He was so lovely. And he would do these speed throughs with everybody. And just, it was such a fun thing. And I thought, why am I doing this drama? Painful memories of childhood, I don't want to do it. And that was what got me started to want to do comedy. Well, and also you're funny.

And I think that one thing that Hollywood really embraces, you know, there's plenty of pretty people, but a pretty person who can be hilarious like you can be, it was no doubt that you were going to have a big career. Well, I was going to say, I I was gonna say later on in the conversation, but I think I wanna say it now. We watched this show back, and it's been such a long time since we've seen the show that we tend to forget a lot of things.

And one thing that I forgot was how funny you are, Krista. Like every one of your jokes lands every time and the sarcasm and the sass, it all shines through. And so when I'm watching these episodes, I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, of course they get back together. They mirror each other so well. You know what I mean? And you know, John sees characters put into the show to be, you know, this sarcastic mentor for JD. It's only right that he has a sarcastic wife, you know, or ex wife or love interest on the show.

And so when, when, when, when watching this, it's like, it's like you guys are playing tennis, you know what I mean? And he's hitting it to you and you're spiking it back and he's like, Oh shit. Let me are playing tennis. You know what I mean? And he's hitting it to you and you're spiking it back. And he's like, Oh shit, let me spike it back. You know what I mean? It's so great to watch. It's a lot like the banter of Bill and Krista. I mean, they, they do that sparring back and forth and the sarcasm back and

forth and, um, and can be quite biting. I once said to them, did you guys meet at mean camp? Donald, that's so sweet of you to say thank you. You know, when I watch, my boys have been watching, going through and watching Scrubs, all the episodes, anytime I go in the kitchen, I'll watch. And I think, see how good you guys are, and you see how like every show, you guys get more and more in the groove,

better, and Donald, your physical comedy is so strong, and you allow it. I think it was, maybe because it was in a hospital and everyone was there together, it was like this very safe place to kind of bring your A game. That's what I felt on that show. You would step in and also that you would want

to be friends with everybody. From the crew to the cat, to everyone that was there, but you just step in and you're in a safe place to do that. That's so true. The show would not have worked at all if there wasn't this environment of there's no wrong answer. Right.

You know, actors can, were so neurotic. You can get in your head and go, oh, I'm not making anyone laugh or I don't want to do that because it's, if it's, they don't laugh, I'll feel stupid. Bill and the crew and everyone and us, we created this environment where like, go nuts. Like there is no wrong answer. Like if you, if you go too far, don't worry, we'll choose a take that that's that isn't as broad. But like it gave all of us the freedom to just fucking go for it. Right. And doing, and doing this rewatch right now, it's really, what's really fun to watch is

how, when we first started, how tight we all were. You know what I mean? We were all so tight and now we're starting, we're, what is this episode one, what? 17? 18? 118? We're all starting to really loosen up now, you know what I mean? And everybody's starting to spread out and you can feel that the nervous energy is gone and we're starting to play on camera and yeah, but my point was when you came in, you were already there, you were already ready to play. And I think that has a lot to do with you doing Drew Carey at the time and being on television for what? It was like seven years at this point, eight years at this point?

Yeah. Well, also because it's a live audience. So you're used to it., I was tight because I wasn't used to the medium of single camera comedy, which is different than doing a sitcom. But I remember Bill said to me, and it might have been on this episode, he said, you know, when it's not your coverage, and I don't know if you wanna explain, when the camera's not your coverage, and I don't know if you wanna explain, you know, when the camera's not on you,

you're doing broad, funny, crazy things, and I want you to do at least two of those takes when the camera's on you. And I was like, oh, I am having a disconnect, I'm so much freer and looser when the camera's not on me. You're doing genius shit off camera. Right. You're doing genius shit off camera. Right. You're doing genius shit off camera.

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chunk of your life. You're one of the, you're one of the lucky actors in the, in the world of Hollywood that can go from one successful show to another. We talked about how Neil Flynn did that after Scrubs. He then went and starred on, on The Middle for forever. Yeah. 11 years or some shit like that. Yeah.

So what was the, obviously, just reminding audience that don't know the difference, sitcoms are filmed like a play. They're done in front of a live audience, that's why you hear the laughs, and they set up four or five cameras and they shoot it like a play and they cut in between them. Whereas when we shoot Scrubs, there's no audience,

we're shooting it like a movie with one angle at a time or two angles at a time. So talk a little bit about Drew, Krista, and what that experience was like and again transitioning to Scrubs from that. You know, it was so unusual. I mean, you know this, that you're not working and then you're all of a sudden you're on a show. You know, it was just, and doing 26 episodes and you're on a show. It was just, and doing 26 episodes

and you're on this big show. And I had so much fun and it was also a great learning experience because it was so foreign to me, that particular medium of doing it like that. Because you realize, when you're doing a sitcom, the audience, and we've all done them, the audience becomes on show night

another character in the scene. And so it's really about listening and being able to change your jokes and not being married to a joke that you might have done funny in the table read or sometime during the week. It's really about listening and being organic. Because if you're not, you're gonna get stuck.

It's just everything's gonna be flat. They also give you such a high though, don't they? Like when I do a- You could never go to sleep. I would come home, I would take a bath. I would do, you have to do everything. Talk about booty calls after show night. Show night.

What you doing? What you doing? Well, I just finished a show. I'm on my way, I just finished a show. I'm on my way. I just finished a show. I'm on my way. I know what that means. Yeah. Because you can't go to sleep.

Yeah. I remember I did the X's for three, four years after Scrubs. And I remember show nights were the hardest nights to go to sleep. Every other night you could pass out, no problem. But you're just so high from doing the show. And you know, and it's hard to come down when especially when show felt like it went good. And like you said, the audience gives you all of this energy. And you could be tired going into the show. But then after you're like, dude, where are we going? What are we doing?

No, I have a good, I can mix Drew Carey and Scrubs in a story. So Drew got into improv, which I think is the work of the devil. And I don't like doing improv and I don't like watching improv. So Drew wanted to do these, and Ryan did improv, and you know, blah, blah, blah.

So he wanted to do these episodes live, one a year on Drew, that would be a live episode already, which would be nerve wracking, because it's live. And then secondly, have it be improv. So while you were doing the show, they would press a button, and then you would have to change the line. Oh my God.

Okay? Oh my God. I was like- That's nerve-racking. I'm getting anxious hearing about it. Yeah, so I was like, fuck that noise, because I'm not a writer. I don't want to do it.

So this became the most fun thing ever, that we would go, I would take my script into the Scrubs writer's room, because it started when we were at Scrubs, and every line I had, all the Scrubs writers, and we would stop for the day, and they would write all the alt jokes that were really funny.

Like they're no better writers ever than that Scrubs writers room, right? So they're writing the funniest alt jokes. But Drew didn't know. And so then on show night, and I remember this one particular night, all the Scrubs writers came and they were sitting with Bill and they're all excited because they know the button's

going to be passed and I'm going to say one of their jokes that I've memorized. So it's not anything improv about it. You have to, I'm going to have to send you this one show because you'll die laughing. So I am doing it and Drew's getting so mad that he keeps pressing the button for me to do. But I have locked and loaded.

He got locked in the whole writers room right here. I got so many locked and loaded that I had an applause break on my jokes and Drew had a fit. He was so mad. He was like, but that's not really improv. I'm like, but I don't do improv. So what difference does it make? And I sold it to you. You know how you can sell improv?

Like you're looking like you're trying to think of something. You do the little shit. Oh, look up. Yeah. You got to sell it to the audience. You got to sell it. What episode is this? Cause maybe our listeners want to go back.

Your listeners are going to want to check this. I know. I got to sell it. What episode is this? Cause maybe our listeners want to go back. Your listeners are going to want to check this. I know. I will, I have to find out. I'm sure if they Google Drew Carey improvisational episodes, they'll find them. Yeah.

And so did Drew know that, I mean, he must've known that Bill was, because he knew Bill was a famous TV writer. So. Well, yeah. Well, he knew when he saw all the, and also, you know, when writers hear their own jokes, they're hysterical. Right. Right.

So I had already sold it by looking up like I'm just coming. And then there would be this huge laugh, which I would have never gotten because I'm not that funny on my feet live. I'm here to tell you, oh, okay. I've seen you live before and you're wonderful. Donald, I love you. Thank you. So yeah, they were all hysterical, like just more hysterical than normal people. So Drew just knew, he just knew it was all the scrum writers and I had

memorized a hundred jokes. Drew looks up and he's like, why is the entire scrum writers right here at an improv, at an improv teeping of Drew Carey? Yeah. Why are all the writers here? I've done a guest on Donald's sitcom and we did our Scrubs one, but I've never really had a role on one.

And what I always love is going and standing next to people like Bill, because when a joke, for those of you who don't know, when a joke doesn't work, or doesn't get a big laugh, then all the writers sort of huddle up on a non, on a traditional one, not on an improv one like Chris is talking about. And then they kind of come up with a better or an old joke. And I've had times where it's so much fun where I'll whisper in Bill's ear like a joke pitch. And then some actor I've never met before says the line,

gets a huge laugh and I'm just like celebrating. Like, well, that was more fun than anything I've ever done. But didn't you used to do that a lot, Zach? Come into Undateable and be Bill, always used to say I'm wanting Zach to come down to pitch jokes. Yeah, I did it on Undateable, I did it on some of his other ones. And I would come on show night just for that fun

because I love pitching jokes. And when yours gets on and it gets a laugh, and especially when I've never even met the person saying it and they kill, I'm like, that felt good. It's like broadcast news. Remember when Albert Brooks calls Holly Hunter and he says, I say it here, it comes out there. And it was just like whispering it into Bill's ear and then all of a sudden some random, not random, but an actor on the show I'd never met says it. It was a good feeling. Yeah, when you came on to X's, I remember that happened too.

Like they had a whole different idea for what they wanted you to do. And you were like, no, you know, guys, don't you think it would be funny if I came in and I just wanted to fuck Beish? Yeah. Yeah. Funny episode, man.

I try and always balance. I don't want to be the guy who's like trying to write too many of my jokes, but if they give me a little bit of rope, I'm like, alright, well, I'm gonna change the character now. My character wants to have sex with that guy. Ha ha ha ha! That was, I remember being like, holy cow, dude, we're actually gonna make an entire episode about how Zach Braff's character wants to bang David Allen Bashe. And it all came from you going up to the creator of that

show saying, dude, yeah, that's funny, but wouldn't it be funnier if I tried to fuck this dude? Yeah, wouldn't it be way funnier if I was trying to bang one of the leads of the show? It was great. It's a good episode. Great episode. You guys should check that out. Check out me guest starring on The X's with the legendary Donald Faison. So, wait, Chris, talk a little bit. We're gonna get into the show, but we just have,

I feel like we could do an hour and a half just asking you questions. We could do an hour just on asking questions, right? Thank you. I wanna know about you meeting Bill Lawrence. Well, I wanted to know that too. How, I wanna know how, I mean, I've heard versions of this, but I wanna hear.

I've never heard this before. Listen, the guy was a swinging bachelor in Manhattan. He had a hit show, Spin City. They didn't shoot a lot of shows in New York at the time, and so Bill was a big deal and he was feeling himself. I think he had bleach blonde hair for a while. And I want to know how was his game? How did he hit on you?

How did he land a beautiful, talented woman like you? Well, do you want to hear the weirdest thing? Is that, you know, Bill was married before. And his ex-wife had one line on Drew Carey as a bartender when we first started the show. And I remember that she had the most beautiful engagement ring on. And then one day this very handsome man came to visit her

and I was like, I couldn't understand it that she had this handsome husband. And I was just like full career, you know, I was so far away from, I was only booty calls. I was just like on the career thing. Anyway, and that was Bill and that was his ex-wife, but I didn't know it then. So I went to New York, they do the up fronts in New York

where they announce all the shows. Yeah, that's what we've told the famous story of Donald Noggin, Jeff Zucker to the people. Right, so I went to go to the up fronts and I was dating someone at the time who had some beef with ABC, an actor, but he flew with me to the upfronts, and then he didn't wanna, oh.

And then I happened to go on Howard Stern with Drew Carey, and they made fun of this actor on Howard Stern. And at that time with Howard Stern, they had the, it was on E, so you were also on camera. And what they did is put up a picture of this actor that I was dating. I mean, I feel bad for the guy. That's horrible.

But also, I was, now I'm on Howard, who's, Howard supersedes everybody, so I was laughing. and they bring the picture, and then they cut to me, and Drew is laughing so hard that he's pounding, when he laughs really hard, he gets this high-pitched laugh, which is so contagious. He's pounding the desk, and I'm laughing. I came home, and this particular actor

was nowhere to be found. He was on the plane back to LA. Oh my God. But I mean, in his defense, can you imagine? Your girlfriend's on Howard Stern and they're all making fun of you. Well, he had made a bad choice in career, but anyway. Okay. So he declined that night to come with me to the ABC party.

I'm not going. And that decision changed the course of his life and your life forever. Yep. So, and I remember it was pouring rain. I was like, and they started late and Jamie Tarsis was throwing it, my friend Jamie Tarsis, cause she was the president of ABC at the time.

And I had to go down to this party at the Mercer Hotel by myself. And when I- Which is a horrible mistake on this boyfriend's- Horrible. You don't leave your beautiful girlfriend to go to a fancy party alone, because you're pouting.

I mean, that's a recipe for disaster. Recipe for disaster. This is like a Catherine Heigl movie plot. I mean, I've seen this movie. Yeah. So I walk in, it gets better, and this actor's friend was friends with Alan Ruck. I knew Alan Ruck because of this actor boyfriend that I had. And Alan Ruck stood up and said, Krista, hi, come meet everybody on my show. And Alan Ruck was one of the stars of Spin City. Yes, he was one of the... and said, Krista, hi, come meet everybody on my show. So-

And Alan Ruck was one of the stars of Spin City. Yes, he was one of the- And also Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Right, a very funny actor, lovely man. So I walked over to their section, Spin City section, and Bill Lawrence stood up in a really cute suit right away and said, hi, nice to meet you. And my first thing is I was like,

what am I doing with this stupid actor when there's people like this in the world? There's guys like this that are so cute. And also, they're like, what? Did he ask for a stop hug? Did he ask for a stop hug? No, but so I ended up, I think, just hanging with them the whole time. And then Bill said, I just bought this loft. Do you want to go see it? Now I had grown up in New York and I was like,

By the way, there's no more power move in the world than do you want to come see this loft? I just bought a new loft. Do you want to see it? And I, of course, was like, a loft? Sure. Like, I had never seen one. What's that? What's that? A loft? But this is where it went bad a little. So we go to his apartment and there was a girl that came over, it was like six of us, and I said to her, unbeknownst to me, she had a crush on him. And I said to her, who's this Bill Lawrence? He's pretty cute. And she said, oh, he's this Bill Lawrence? He's pretty cute.

And she said, oh, he's a player. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, wow. Yeah, and so, and then when we went up, because we went up to his apartment and because it was the up front, he had had a party in his loft the night before, so there was like cigarettes.

And it was just, he had a whole party where his boot, and I thought, oh, oh, he's just a player. He's trying to get on, you know, forget it. And when I was leaving, Bill said, can I get your number, can I call you? And I was like, if you can find me, you can call me, which he did. And that was in May.

And then we didn't start dating until, cause he was in New York and I was in LA. We spoke on the phone and then Thanksgiving, I was back in New York and I was in LA. We spoke on the phone and then Thanksgiving, I was back in New York and I was walking by his apartment and I thought, I wonder how that cute Bill Lawrence is. And I called him and he didn't call me back, but he called me back two days later and he was in Jamaica, but I didn't know this.

And he called me back and said, you better be single. And I said, I am. And he said, okay, I'm gonna fly out on Saturday and take you to dinner. Wow. Yeah. Bill Lawrence.

What a power. Donald and I never got to, we love this guy. He's so important to us. And we never got to see the legendary single version of him. We've heard tales, but what a good technique. I'm going to fly out to take you on a date, Donald, right? Yeah. Listen, man, if I had the bucks, that's exactly what I would do too.

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So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeart Video app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Should we get into the episode, you guys? I think we should at some point. I, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind wouldn't I mean I could literally do a full show just on Krista Miller, but I love you guys are making my my year. Well, I Think you're a great guest and I have a lot of things that we wanted to talk about one Yeah, because you have are the creator of the show that we both became very famous on

are the creator of the show that we both became very famous on. You have his heart. We love to hear insight about him and how you guys met and everything like that. And so forgive us. But I'm not saying- Especially things that are mildly embarrassing, like stop it. Yeah, like- Wait, but is the funniest, have you told this story yet on this, how Bill used to say to you guys, Chris didn't like?

No, I haven't told that story. Oh God, yeah! You know Donald. I ran that joke by Krista and she was like, it's not funny. The director first does a cut of the episode and then I would show it to Bill and I'd choose, let's say, a particular joke that maybe was improv or something

that I thought was hilarious and I'd put it in my cut and Bill would be like, and then I'd see Bill's cut. And as the director, I'd be like, oh, why did you take out that moment? That was so funny, why did you do that? And he'd go, what are you talking about? No one understands that joke.

And I'd be like, really? We were all cracking up in the edit room. And he'd go, yeah, I showed it to Krista and she was like, what the hell was that joke? She didn't understand it. And then I'd see Kristaista and she was like, what the hell was that joke? She didn't understand it. And I understand it. Then I'd see Krista and I'd be like, Krista, you didn't think that joke was funny? And she'd be like, Zach, do you really think that I'm watching rough cuts of...

In what world? He was such a fucking liar. Yeah, dude. But he would do that also with the music too. I remember him telling, you came up to me one time and said, this song would work perfectly here. Why can't you let me do this one song? You're perfect.

I was like, I don't even know what you're talking about. I don't even know. You have no idea how often, I'm sure not just with me, but with all the entire staff, how often you were used as bad cop. Yeah. Kristin doesn't understand it. You know, I just showed it to Kristin and she just didn't like it and she didn't get it or she didn't like it, she didn't get it, she hated it.

And then everybody would drop it right then and there and it would be like, oh, okay. Oh, all right. Yeah, well how can you, you know, Kristin didn't like it, what are we going to do? He did that, he did that all the time. Another funny Bill thing, a technique that I've since stolen, that a couple of them, one for you aspiring directors out there, it's considered bad form for a director to tell an actor how to say a line.

It's called giving them a line reading. And, and it's, you're supposed to use your skills and your communication and your articulation to steer them to say the line the way you want to say it. But sometimes they're just not doing it the way you envisioned or the writer envisioned, and this can be frustrating. And Bill had a way around it where he would go, he'd go, you know, he would say, let's say to a guest star I'll make up named Tim, he'd go, Tim, you know, at the table read, you did it so funny.

You had me laughing so hard. You did it just like this. You were like, we gotta get out of here. And whatever. And the guy, the actor would be like, I did? That is funny. I did it like that? He'd be like, yeah, that's what you did at the table read,

and it was hilarious. And the actor's ego is all glowing and like, OK, I'll do it just like that. He'd be like, yeah, that's what you did at the table reading. It was hilarious. And the actor's ego is all glowing and like, okay, I'll do it just like that. And the actor had never done it like that. Bill totally made that shit up. Right, Krista? Oh, he does it all the time. But I also love that we all got, because when everyone started on Scrubs, you'd be like, I don't, you can't give me line ratings, that's not what you're supposed to do. And then by season three, everyone's

like, Bill, just tell me how you want me to do it. Just tell me how you want me to say it. Just tell me how you want me to say it, dude. I'll do it. Yeah, tell me. Yeah. I love it. As a director, I love it when people do that, because you're just trying to be so tactful. And if someone's just like, just tell me how you want me to say it, like, oh, thank God. Another trick Bill would do in the same vein would go, he got it in his head that if you didn't say words,

it wasn't technically giving a line reading. So if the line was like, we gotta get out of here, and he wanted it like that, he'd be like, could you do it like, da-da-da, da-da-da? Yeah. I mean, like, well, you're just giving a line reading with noises now. You know, like that. I remember, also, well, you're just giving a line reading with noises now. Mm-hmm. You know, like that. I remember also Bill gets so mad.

Well, he got the most mad over the first time that Zach directed. It was the first time Zach directed and I came home like the third day and I said, Bill, oh my God, with Zach directing. It's like being on a movie set. He's so good. And his training as an actor and his direction is so incredible. It's so amazing. And he's like, really?

Is it like being on a movie set when Zach is there? You have to understand that Bill and I, my relationship, was so big brother, little brother. And whenever Christa, I mean, the compliments big brother, little brother, and whenever Krista... I mean, the compliments were genuine, I think, and thank you, but whenever Krista would compliment me in front of Bill, I would be like, oh God, this is... It was just like JD and Cox, I'd be like, oh God, this is not gonna be good for me. You really need to stop complimenting me in front of him, please, because something was gonna happen to me.

But you know what's funny though? I will say this, because Bill showed me everyone's audition tapes for Scrubs, and with every single one of you, I was like, oh, well, that's the person. That's the person that has to do it. And I remember the whole Bill's, the rest of the time was finessing, and that's what he's so good at, to make sure that he got to pick, and there was a whole math equation of how to do it, of like, I'm gonna bring in these other two people, you know, because I really want Don Obler-Zach,

with everyone. And it was, but you guys- And most people, if you don't know, getting your choice, even if you're the showrunner of the show, through to a network, there's a strategy to it. You can't just go in and say, I want Donald Faison and Zach Braff, thanks guys. And Bill is very good at that.

He's like, well, if I want Zach and Donald, I have to say this, I have to act like this, I can't be too excited about it. There's a whole strategy to it. I've experienced it as a director and not gotten the person I thought was clearly the best, but then you've got to go shoot the pilot. And you're shooting the pilot with someone you think is good and talented, but not necessarily as good as the other person. You don't always get who you want.

And Bill was really skilled at knowing the strategy, like, oh, if I, I'm gonna, you know, he gave us a couple extra jokes, and he would, you know, when we came in the room, you know, it's so intimidating, he would make all these jokes to make everyone already start laughing. So by the time, he's like a warmup comic, by the time it's time for your audition,

they're already giggling, you know? Yeah, but it's also interesting, because sometimes on a pilot, I remember with Scrubs, sometimes on a pilot you'd go, on this part, I'll give in, I'll let them choose, or you give in on that so you can have the other people that you like. And on Scrubs, Bill wasn't willing to budge on anyone.

You know, he really knew who he wanted. And so he had to do that with all of you guys. But it is also a good lesson in casting, or if you're up for a role, you guys, right at the beginning, because I saw the producer sessions, I wasn't even watching to the network test switch where you guys were really on a roll by then,

it was so clear that all of you should have those parts. You know, it's just interesting. I remember wanting it so bad. I wanted it so bad. It was like, and I've said this story before, I went up against my friends that day and some friends of mine. And I remember being like,

they don't want it as bad as I do, dude. Nobody wants it this bad. So what was your story? Have you talked about it? Like did you? Oh yeah, absolutely. We about we've we've told it before but uh, so what happened you read the script. Can you tell me quickly? Yeah, I hadn't read the script. I just auditioned for It's me. I just I had audition for I remember auditioning for Bill and Danny Rose That's what I really remember for some reason Danny Rose was in the room. He was Bill's assistant Rose, that's what I really remember. For some reason, Danny Rose was in the room.

He was Bill's assistant. He was Bill's assistant. Yeah. And I remember Bill laughing at everything. And so my confidence was through the roof. And he was like, all right, let's meet again. My agents were like, you got to call back for it. And I went in and he called back and it was Bill once again.

And he was like, so I I'm gonna bring you in front of uh the network and everything you're gonna test for this but I just wanted to rehearse this with you so you had so you were ready to go when we go into the audition and I did and we rehearsed it and I went in on the audition and I blew the audition and never in my life has anybody ever come up to me like within the half hour that we're all there testing after everybody went in. I never had anyone come up to me after he called me out in front of everybody like, Donald, come on, come here, let me talk to you. And I remember all of them making faces like, oh shit, I guess he got the part. But I was thinking, oh shit, I'm the first one going home.

And he takes me into the hallway and he says, you blew the audition, you know you fucked up the audition, right? You do know you fucked up, right? Right, it was sincerely, it was clearly, it was just like Bill Duke in Minister Society when he's talking to a dude at the police station, see now you know you done fucked up now, right? And I said, I said, I did. And he said, yeah, you know, you were very big

and very, you know, I needed to come in there and do it like you've been doing it before. All of the stuff that you talked about, Zach, you know, you did it at the table read, you know, you did it at the rehearsal this way. Yeah. I mean, everything that you guys just talked about. But you actually had in this instance, he had made you progress so far because you were doing what he loved. And when Bill told this story, he said, he gave you some bit of direction and you were nervous and it made you go just to volume 11. And he was like, bro, bro, bring it down, bring it down.

Well, yeah. When somebody says, make sure you're talking to the back of the room when you're doing your stuff. You can't tell that to Donald Faison. Don't tell me that. No. Don't tell me that, man. By the way, Johnny had a similar tail.

Wait, wait, so with Donald, so then you went in and did you kill it? I don't know if I killed it, but I definitely got the part. I'll tell you that. Like, I know that Bill, whatever they were thinking about me, Bill convinced them that I was the right person for the part. You know what I mean? And I know that because after

the audition, you know, the call came in and I got it. But I remember leaving and not necessarily feeling like I got the part even though they'd sent everybody home. And Sarah and I and this other dude with their you know, we know Sarah said something like, Well, I guess we all got them. I guess we got the part. In my heart, I was like, I didn't get you know, we, you know, Sarah said something like, well, I guess we all got the, I guess we got the part. In my heart, I was like, I didn't get the part, dude. I kind of fucked up. And he told me I fucked up. You know what I mean? And then when I got, when my agent called and told me that I got the part, that's when I was like, oh shit, he somehow made this happen. Like if he wants it to happen for you, he's going to make it happen. And he's done it several times before. You know, there's times where, you know, I've, I've

done pilots with Bill. Like I was, I did the pilot for undateable. You know what I mean? He was like, Donald come in, there's a role. I want you to do it. The network doesn't necessarily, NBC doesn't know that you're coming in. You come in and you just read with Chris D'Alea. And I was like, all right, bet. And I did it. They were like, we can't have Donald Faison, who was just on your last show in your next show, dude. That's impossible. We can't do that. But, you know, it was great to see him. And then, you know, he did another pilot called Spaced Out. And at the time I wasn't working and he was like, Donald, I got a role for you then. Why don't you come and play this role on Spaced Out?

So like when he, and I didn't have to test, I didn't have to do anything for that one. And this was one of the stars of the show. And so when Bill wants it to happen, if he wants you to be in something, he's gonna do everything that he can to get you into that. Yeah, well, I think it's clear, I think it's safe to say that he's a big fan

of Donald Faison. I agree. He is. I agree. He loves all you guys. I mean. I think it's safe to say that he's a big fan of Donald Faison. I agree, I agree. He loves all you guys. I mean, I think all you guys are gonna be having to work with Bill for the rest of your lives. Well, I love it. You know, I went and directed his new show that he's doing with Jason Sudeikis when I was in London.

And I had an amazing time with working with him. I missed it. We fell back into this groove of just sitting next to the monitors and pitching jokes and coming up with cool stuff. And I really, I really love collaborating with him so much. All right, let's get into the episode. I know, but now you took us down a nostalgia lane and I'm feeling all like, like, like, my heart is glowing.

We've been talking for 49 minutes and we haven't talked about the episode yet. I know, but we have the legendary Krista Miller, bro. Chill out. Like I said, we could talk for days about stuff with her. You know, a lot of people on my Instagram write, Zack, stop saying that you're going too long. We love it. And that's fine. There might be other people who are like, bro, my run is an hour and a half. Keep it two and an hour and a half. You know, somebody told me that, I told you this, that they didn't like me doing the Oprah voice. Yeah, but I told you that...

That's like someone saying they don't like, you know, Caddyshack. Like, shut the fuck up. It's genius. Yeah, it's genius. Thank you! We've got Krista Miller! Lawrence! Oh, good. I was hoping Krista would get her Oprah voice. Yeah, it's genius. Alright, so we start the episode with... I was hoping Krista would get her her Oprah voice. All right All right So we start the episode with now a JD and Elliot our friends again That was a pretty quick bout of a couple not talking to each other, right?

They're just back into like being BFFs again. Well, I think after what happened in the episode where your teacher died Things changed were two episodes out and after that aren't we? uh, things changed. We're two episodes at and after that, aren't we? Um, I don't know. I was just both my, I had this first reaction after introducing the Hey, number one, Hey, number two guy, um, uh, that like, wow, we're just bantering. Like we're old buddies. There's no, uh, there's no awkward, awkward blood between us. Now I remember the number one, Hey, number two guy. Do you remember his name? Because we hung out with that guy after work one night just the just you me and him. I looked it up we did. Yeah. I remember. We don't remember. I remember and I remember that was the

first I remember that was one of the first people that guest starred on the show that we hung out with. His name is uh I don't know I hope I'm pronouncing it right Eric Saet and he did a fantastic job by the way with a tricky part. I think you know it's it can be very cringy if someone is playing a handicapped person and doing it in an awkward or disrespectful way. I remember thinking at the time this is tricky, you want to do justice to someone who's mentally handicapped but also this guy has jokes and I remember thinking even at the time, and even watching it now, that he did a really, really good job,

didn't you think? Yeah, absolutely. Do you know what that story's from? No. I do remember that it was some real life story. Do you remember? Yeah, I do. Don't sit too far away from your mic though, darling.

Sorry, sorry, Bubba. Bill was married before, and when he went to meet his new wife's family, his new wife had an older brother who had special needs, and his name was Bill, and he was so bummed that Bill was coming in and that there were two Bills. He didn't want to talk to Bill, it was a whole thing, that Bill was coming in and that there were two Bills. He didn't want to talk to Bill.

It was a whole thing. And Bill said to him, how about you'll be Bill number one, because you're the main and I'll just be Bill number two. And Bill said, which was great. He thought he was the hero. It was fabulous. He goes, but then from then on, every eight seconds, hey, number one.

And Bill would say, hey, hey, number two. Yeah, eventually it's like, Hey, hey, number two. But it's so sweet. I don't know how you get, but at the end when you make up with them, it's so sweet when you go in. It's very sweet. And, and, and again, I think he did a, I, I, I would be, I wouldn't want to do that part because I were, I would just be in my head that I wouldn't do it justice. And I thought that Eric, Eric did a great

job. Um, at 58 seconds, a couple of things, not only is there another janitor, which you've in the background, which you've very rarely. I saw that. Not only that he's in a different color uniform. He's wearing tan. Yeah, it's tan. And did you notice that he's sweeping the air? I did not notice that he's sweeping the air. Very often, for those of you who don't know, when background performers are doing their thing, they don't want them to make any noise, which can be tricky if you're tasked with sweeping.

Did you see this or did you get this from Scrubs Wiki? No, I got some other good stuff from Scrubs Wiki, but this dude, if you stop, if everyone wants to appreciate this at 58 seconds, this gentleman is sweeping the air. Maybe the air. Maybe the air was dirty. But I didn't know what was going on with that guy.

I don't know who put him in... If we know one thing, we know that the janitorial staff wears gray. Gray. Gray. I wonder how that happened. I wonder if they were like, we don't have, we don't have Neil today and we need somebody in the background sweeping.

Like who, whose idea was it? Cause Neil's always dressed up as the janitor in the show. And you never, and you never ever saw, I don't remember ever seeing janitorial staff in the background that weren't Neil, do you? No, I don't. No. Maybe I'm wrong.

I don't know. Very interesting. That's a Scrubs Wiki question. So Krista, we have a new thing now where, you know, we do the ask Bill thing and Bill will audio tape himself answering the question, but now there's a guy who runs a Scrubs Wiki fan page that just knows every single little bit of Scrubs trivia and he's down with us asking him random trivia questions when we don't know them. who runs a Scrubs Wiki fan page that just knows every single little bit of Scrubs trivia. And he's down with us asking him random trivia questions

when we don't know them. I wonder if we'll ever get to stump him. Oh, we're gonna stump him. That's gonna be one of our tasks. I wonder if we'll ever stump him. We should think of what the sound effect's gonna be. There should be like a siren or a bell, some sort of prize noise if we stump Scrubs Wiki guy.

How about the look Judy gives at 113 when that guy calls her Nurse Fahita? Yeah. Yeah. Ah, ah, ah. Judy's look is so fucking funny. She just does a slow turn like, I will kill you. She's not having it.

I will fucking kill you. But you know, it's a- You guys. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, man. There's just a whole runner on this show. I'll fucking killing you. But you know what's it- You guys. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, man. There's a whole runner on this show. I'll fucking kill you. By the way, this delay is not that bad. We were on The View for this podcast,

and the delay, I worry we fucked up because the delay was like a solid second and a half, and it's very hard to be funny and talk with people when there's a serious delay. We have a slight one on the Zoom thing, but Donald and I did our best, but we were on The View, everyone's going, eh, what, no, no, no, no, well, you go, oh, sorry, right?

But Donald's mom finally watched, she doesn't listen to the podcast, but she does watch The View. She loved it, she was like your energy on The View, you guys interview very well, by the way. We finally got Donald's mom, we finally got Shirley to pay attention to us, and all we had to do

was go on the view. Yeah. All right. What I was gonna say is that there's this sub, there's this plot of this episode, which I'm sure is a very real thing for medical professionals. When, what happens when your patient is a fucking dick?

And you still have to give them the same level of attention and affection and commitment. And JD and Carla are both trying to take care of this guy, but he's racist and he's a jerk. And JD is really, they're both challenged with how do we do our best with a guy who's saying shit like Nurse Faheeda. Yeah, that's a tough one. I hate racism and I hate racists and I hate bigots and I hate all of that shit. To watch something like this and to still have to... It would suck to go to work and have somebody say things to me that made me so angry that I wanted to explode. And I imagine for people that work in the hospital, whose jobs, where all it is,

your job is to take care of the patient and save lives. And you get that one person who is just, you know, who's like, this guy is. How do you, how do you commit to doing your best at that moment in time for that person? How do you bury that energy? I'm sure sometimes you have to bite your fist. My mom used to be a, listen to this, the night nurse, the head night nurse on the mental health ward of a VA hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

And she had the most insane stories. Now, granted, these men and women are very mentally ill, some of them, and it was always her job to not take it personally and to take a deep breath and to give them the best care that she could. And my mom was an incredible, incredible nurse. But this story made me think of that, that you can imagine some of the treatment she had to endure and she had to always suck it up and let it just wash off her back. Right.

But you're going to get extra good attention if you're lovely as a patient, I would imagine. Yes. Oh, absolutely. You just are. I hope so. You are. My father was a surgeon, so I know. But I mean, you just are going to get that extra attention. Why people aren't savvy enough to really realize that. My father was, when my father was dying, he was in the hospital and he used every technique he got. I mean, hey, he was the most, you guys know.

He's the loveliest. He was the loveliest, most charming guy, but he was also the biggest Scrubs fan in the world. So anyone who came in, whether it was the janitor cleaning the garbage can, he'd be like, hey, my son, Zach Braff, Scrubs, how you doing? Good to see you. Morning. I must have signed a Scrubs headshot for every single person in the New Jersey healthcare

system. Oh, Bill drops scrubs pretty much instantaneously, you know, on doing anything. He just had to get a root canal thing. He was talking about scrubs. Yeah, he was right away. Oh, I use it all the time. I use it all the time. Whenever we have like, when we take our kids into, you know, urgent care or something like that,

or the kids' pediatrician does a lot of golf tournaments and stuff like that for charity. And I'm always using my scrubs, just to, and playing golf obviously too, but- I love it that you're like, you started this though. You started out to make sure his kids got good healthcare. And then it became to play golf with fancy golfers. Well, there's that.

There's that too. But for sure, man, like I just know, I just know that, you know, you, especially in that profession treat somebody like you want to be treated. It's like the same thing when you go to a restaurant, right? What asshole sits there and says, you know what, I'm going to treat this waiter like shit and doesn't expect their food to get fucking spit on or something. I know. I was a waiter and I never understood the people that were assholes because there are plenty of people that will fuck with your shit and do not ever be mean to women.

When I leave this area, I'm going to go and tell all these people what a dick you are. So when watching this show and this guy's saying all these things, I'm like, this dude wants to die. He must want to die. There's no way that you could be that insensitive. Go get me my fucking thing. Go do this for me Shut the fuck up you I don't understand how you do it. Yeah nurse fajita. I mean, come on

Come on, you're gonna get punched. Yeah, listen, how about Kelly Williams as Kristen Murphy sucking on her finger? In a in a manner similar to fellatio in order to lure Johnny C over to her house But I was watching I gotta, I don't like being... I wouldn't want someone sucking their finger and then touching my face. I don't like that. Yuck. That didn't work to turn you on, Crystal. It did.

It was like, yeah. You had to smell spit. You can smell it. Smell it like, yeah. We need to smell like spit. You can smell it. Smell like, oh, I don't want it. You know what's crazy is that there's no way that was written. So I'm just trying to figure out how that came about. Like did Kelly, she must have improv that.

There's no way it's said in the script and then she sucks her pointer finger in a seductive manner and touches his nose. Yuck. I really want to know how that moment came about. I don't know. Johnny T really resists that woman. She comes on so strong. And says a lot of that's what she said jokes and everything.

It's like a single man's wet dream right there, dude. Right. She's giving you all of this energy and he wants to go lift a dresser with Carla. Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! By the way, I had totally forgotten, I know he's talking about this.

I had totally forgotten how fucking obsessed he is with Carla and this episode brought it to a new level. He's got this beautiful woman sucking on her finger, telling him she's coming over and she's going to help. She said to him, she said to him, you're going to be, he said, he said, girl, you got to slow down. And she said to him, you're going to be saying that tonight. Dude. Right. Yeah.

All right. Listen. Can I just pause for a second? Did anyone notice how adorable I look in this episode? We're getting there. Of course she doesn't care about Kelly Williams. I love how Chris is like, guys, I don't, yeah, guys, I don't want to, I don't want to say the obvious reason. But look who's about to vote. But Chris, this is before you come into the picture. Yeah, but he knows that there's a possibility that I'm coming over.

You texted him earlier, like, what you doing later? Yeah, what you doing? What time you get off? Yes. He is so pussy-whipped from- I just finished the Jerry Carrey show. Let's go. What's up?

But he's so pee-whipped that he's going to help Judy, Carla move a dresser and in his Porsche, by the way, which is not a very good car for moving a dresser. They're gonna strap it to the roof. Who would ever strap a dresser to the roof of their Porsche? But- Somebody who's desperate for that, anyway, go on. Yeah. All right, our guest is here.

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um, that's because I usually use them to play D&D. So it's my D&D name. Oh, D&D is becoming a running theme on this podcast. We're getting a lot of D&Ders. Donald, you're not going to go off on some crazy long dice tangent. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, well, Joel, don't steal Donald's Oprah voice, but introduce Austin to us. Hey, guys, we've got Austin in the house. Big fan. Austin, you want to tell the guys a little bit about why you're a fan of Scrubs? Yeah, sure.

So I got into Scrubs when I was a kid. I'm only like 29. So I got into Scrubs when I was- Only 29. I don't think you can say- I'm only 29. I don't think you're allowed to say 29 and only in the same sentence.

That's not the way it goes. I think only is sort of done at 20. Yeah. Damn it. Right. I'm only 45 sort of done at 20. Yeah. Only 45. And I'm just. Sorry. You're only 20. No, no, it's super chill. But my mom was a big fan of the show.

My mom was into a bunch of the doctor shows. I just watched it all the time with my mom and got really into it. Kept watching it forever. That's what we and yeah, I got really into it kept watching it forever Well, we're great. Wait, you got your headset on you a gamer too. I am I'm a gamer and I like streaming junk So I got these like big big big they are big and what do you play? What do you what do you stream and or play the most cuz Donald's a gamer and or EC used to be before you had? kids so many kids to deal with. But what do you play? Donald will probably know what it is.

The game? So I mean right now I play the most Animal Crossing. Okay I don't know anything about Animal Crossing. Krista your kids probably play Animal Crossing. I don't know from video games. Okay but what can you Donald do you know Animal Crossing? I have no idea what animal crossing is. Austin can you tell us what what the basic idea of Animal Crossing is? Yeah, so the basic idea of Animal Crossing is you're a human and you have a bunch of anthropomorphic animal friends and you all live on this in this game it's an island sometimes it's a town. They task you the human with like making the town nice. And that's kind of it. You just you design this like town to look how you want.

You just like have a simple life. You can invite friends over right? Yeah, invite friends over. It's like the Sims, but you can invite, can't you go visit people and really talk to strangers? You can if you want to. You can invite friends over, you can go to other people's islands It's it's really like it's a lot like the Sims but like if you wanted to let like a six-year-old play the Sims unsupervised like Animal Crossing is a pretty safe bet. They can't get into too much like weirdness

Yeah, I remember when my sim died. I got really upset You don't just animal crossing things. Yeah, see you can kill kill your sim I don't know if you guys ever killed a sim. I've never killed it. I've never killed us Did they build the graveyard in the backyard? That's what the graveyards are for. That's what the graveyards are for Well, you're smiling. Have you ever killed the sim? Yeah, actually instead of getting animal crossings My brothers and I have been obsessively playing sims 4 and he built a basement that they could not get out of built a basement that they could not get out of. It was great. It's why I thought I was shocked. I was like, you can kill a sim. Yeah, you can clear your sim. Don't lock them in the basement.

Also, where you where you call it from, man? I am in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Moe Michigan in the house. Right on. Austin, do you have a question for the legendary Donald Faison or Krista Miller? Or Zach Graf. Or you can ask me too. I do have a question for Zach and Donald.

I was just curious what y'all miss the most about not being on Scrubs anymore. Like not being on a project together that's like in person filming all the time. This, what you're hearing, Austin, it's the easiest question to answer and it's this. It's like if you just, you weren't on before, but just sitting around with Krista and Dalton and cracking up, that's what we would do every day. And just so happened that we'd also be making a TV show.

But we were just like, it was our group of friends, not just the cast, but the crew and the writers. And I don't know that I'll ever be lucky enough to have a job where the assignment is to go and laugh your ass off all day. And I really missed that. It was like a natural drug. It was like an all natural drug that is gone from my life.

I mean, just cracking up five days a week. And because we get the opportunity to do this podcast, we get to relive it all again, you know what I mean? And it's really awesome. Before you came on, Austin, we were talking to Krista about things that had nothing to do with the show. And we're just pretty much catching up. Even though we talked to Krista recently,

we're still on, now that we have mics in our face, we're like, let's talk some's just, let's talk some more. Let's talk about some of the great times we had. So don't you miss that? Krista giggling. I could do this podcast every day. Is to be talking to you guys. I'm very excited.

No, but Krista is the first guest in fake doctors, real friends, history. That's been, was booked twice before she even came on. Right, before she even came on once. She's gonna, she and Bill Lawrence are gonna be on the finale of season one together and I predict mayhem. I hope that Bill asks for a stop hug during the show. Oh, he will.

You know what it was is that Scrubs, also I don't know if that I worked on a job before where we were truly friends. And truly friends, you're all in this hospital and you're not seeing any other people, so you're in it. You're doing this funny work, which you know when you're doing it is really funny, right? And all the people around are funny, all the writers were talented, all the actors are talented, and you could go and be stupid if it didn't work out. That was fine because everyone was doing it. I just felt like my work got so much better every time I would work on that show. Because everyone would elevate you.

There wasn't the weak link that you didn't want to be with. It was such a special time. We would finish the show and then hang out on weekends. When has that ever happened again? I don't know. Maybe if you're on location somewhere with someone. But yeah, it was just a once in a lifetime. I hope it's not a once in a lifetime experience. I hope I get to experience something especially again, but I just can't imagine that I'll ever have such a group as we did. Yeah, we were very lucky. Awesome.

And the tone was of like comradery and support. If anyone did something, you know what it was? It wasn't the person there that wanted to have all the jokes or was trying to steal focus or doing all, everyone was happy for everyone else to be funny. Yeah. And you got a sense like this is this person's time to shine. Like don't get in their way. Let them, let them crush it.

And we were, we were like rooting each other on. Yeah. You got another question, my friend? I do have another question. This one's from my mom. Cause like I said, she got me into the show. So when I found out, I had to give her a call. You're almost as big as a mama's boy as Donald and I are.

My mom just wanted to know what was everybody's favorite episode to film. Krista, you want to go first as our special guest? Favorite episode? I love that scene that I tell everyone off and ruin everybody's life. You have that big monologue and you just destroy everybody. life. And ruin everybody's day. You have that big monologue, you just destroy everybody. Yeah, and then I tell everyone off.

But I also will say this, the moment that I wish I could do over is I don't feel like I took good advantage of being able to have a proper makeout session with Zach Braff. Oh my god. You know what I mean? It just got really uncomfortable. I just feel like I didn't investigate that as thoroughly as I wanted to. Oh my gosh. By the way, she says this shit in front of Bill. Can you imagine how fucking-

Dear listeners, imagine how awkward it is when she says this shit in front of Bill. And she'll be, we'll be standing there, it will be like a dinner and she'll be like, you know, Bill, I just, I wish I just didn't save her the time, the making of Bill. And she'll be, we'll be standing there, it will be like a dinner and she'll be like, you know, Bill, I just, I wish, I just didn't savor the time, the make-up scenes. I didn't savor, I didn't say one more take, I didn't like get into it, I didn't, you know. I should have said one more take.

And Bill's just standing there shaking his head and I'm like, Christa, shut the fuck up. And I was like, Zach was a little nervous, maybe we could revisit it now. Yeah, what do oh my god, it's so awkward right now Did you guys get off the zoom call for me? My Donald do you want to go I know what my shirt my favorite episode to shoot was the musical episode I really enjoyed that there are a bunch of things that I got to do on this show that were bucket list type things. Like I've always wanted to be in a Star Wars and I got to do that very early on in this show. One of my favorite actors in the whole wide world

is, well, I should say characters in the whole wide world are characters that Harrison Ford has played and Indiana Jones was one of them and I got the opportunity to do that as well. But I really most of all I enjoy doing the musical episode and having to dance and sing. You know, I front like I tell people ask me are you a fan of musical theater and I'll lie and I'll say to them absolutely not I hate musical theater you don't say that anymore you say that I still say that to people I'll be like why what I say that a lot yes Donald get in his car without his kids and play frozen I will do I would do that not only frozen I'll play like I'll play I play Les Mis in the

car I play five guys named Moe in the car. I play five guys named Mo in the car. Like I go all in, but I really enjoyed dancing and singing and with these guys. It was a lot of fun. My favorite episode is the one we've mentioned before. It was my first episode directing and it was one of the most epic episodes we've ever shot because Bill wanted to give me something that was quite literally impossible to

execute in five days. But I was living my dream. I was working on the show that I was so proud of and excited about. The episode was huge. It's the one where Donald and I go on a quest over the course of one night to find Heather Graham's character, Molly, to give her the permission slip from Sarah that says I'm allowed to have sex with her. And Johnny's storyline is that he has to go do a ride with in an ambulance as part of his training.

And Molly Shannon was the guest star. And I don't know. I just really... It turned out really great. And as Donald reminded me, I at some point said... Oh, do you say it? I was treated by a coyote, Donald? Or was it me? Yeah, no. You said, I was treated by a coyote. Where have you been? I was treated by a coyote. No, I go to you, how the hell did you get up there? I was treated by a coyote. No, I go to you, how the hell did you get up there? I was treed by a coyote. Yeah.

I love it when Donald does his Woody Allen version. I was treed by a coyote. I was treed. So that was a really great episode. And I just felt really proud of it. And I pulled it off. And it was one of those things where it's one of my favorite episodes.

We'll give you one more question if you have it. Yeah. Okay, well, that was Justin, guys. Thank you. No, we didn't tell the guy he was going to have three dogs. How are people staying sane in this pandemic? What'd you been up to? You know, this is an escape for us, to be honest with you.

This is how we stay sane. If I didn't have this outlet, my wife said to me actually this morning, she was like, you don't understand, man. You have a outlet. You get to talk to your best friend and you get to talk to the people that you worked with for over 10 years. You get to talk to them once or twice a week. I don't have an outlet like that. So she's going insane right now, you know what I mean? And she's with the kids while I'm doing this right now.

But this is an escape for me. And I wish I could bring my wife up in here so she could enjoy this too, cause she would have such a great time doing it. She should come on one day, I just realized. She would love to come on. That would be hilarious. And she would be so funny. She's very funny. But she would also embarrass the shit out of me too, by talking about me. Talking about things that I don't necessarily want. We should one day, if we keep doing this, we should do the significant others guest on the show.

Right. And how they dealt with- Well, test it out with Bill and Krista on the season one finale and see how it goes. But awesome. That's how I stay sane. Me too. Me too. I'm the same way, man. I look so forward to this and especially seeing the reaction to it and people loving it so much.

It's just, it's mind boggling to us. And so it is. It's like therapy. We come here and we laugh and giggle and act stupid. And I'm really loving it. Krista, how are you staying sane? How are you staying sane over there? I've been writing with someone.

I've been, you know, all my kids are here. It's, you know, in LA we have a good setup. You know, we have croquet in the backyard. We play croquet every afternoon. We had a very rousing game of code names last night, which was very fun. I'm happy just doing my thing. By the way, as we started the show Austin, you weren't here, but there are certain people that are so happy that the world has given them permission to not have to leave their house.

Christa's one of those. She's like, oh, no one gets to tell me that I have to go do things? I'm fine, thank you. Yeah, I'm totally fine. What about you, Austin? How are you staying sane? You know, a lot of video games, a lot of, I picked up like a bunch of extra tabletop gaming besides D&D since this all started.

What's one you can recommend to our listeners? That's not too hard, because I know some of these tabletop games are very complicated, like D&D. But if someone who's listening, including myself, wanted to kind of get into the world of tabletop gaming, what is one or two that you recommend? One I really recommend is Bubble Gum Shoe. Bubble Gum Shoe, I'm running that down. Oh, okay.

It is... Can kids play it? Kids can play it. You play as a teenage detective. Okay. So you're a teen detective and the rules are pretty simple. The character sheet, I have mine right here. It's like a single page.

There's not a bunch of complex rules you have to remember, a bunch of math you gotta do. So there's- Okay, there's that one. What about another one? Bubblegum shoe, I wrote that down. Another one is, no thank you evil, I believe is the name. No thank you evil, okay. Can my kids play that too? Your kids can play that one too.

It is an all ages tabletop RPG game that scales the rules depending on how old the kid is. And that's so smart. We should be writing this down. Fucker, you are right there. Because Donald could have like 40 players at his house. Oh, fuck you, man. All right. There's not that many of us. Listen. Casey got pregnant like while we were on this podcast.

What about Settlers of Catan? I always hear about that. It feels like that's the most famous for us non-board game people. That's the most famous one you hear about. Do you like that one? I don't like Settlers of Catan. Nothing against the artist who worked on it

or the team who made it. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt, but. Holy shit! Both of our producers went crazy just now. I want you to know! Both of our producers- Both of our producers went crazy just now! I want you to know that both of our producers sometimes have their cameras off. They both flip their cameras on to show how fucking living-

Dan! You gotta come back! Dan is walking away. Dan, you gotta come back! Dan walked away. Jewel almost fell off her chair. Uh... Dan is- I'm just a humble fan.

I mean, I love settlers. No, it's fine. I just want you to know, you gave both of our producers a heart attack. A big fan of settlers. Oh my God. Say it again. So everybody knows entirely. I know.

Now the show, Joel just, Joel just left the room. She had to go off. Um, yeah, not that big on settlers, all right I'm here to tell you I'm here to tell you everyone I don't know sellers with can but I can tell you that are very strong opinions on both sides of loving or hating Austin we got to go because we've already run so long. Thank you so much for coming. Thanks for being a fan and And and thanks for the recommendations on the games. Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

Do you want to mention your Twitch stream? Oh, sure. Yeah, I stream with Welcome to the Party RPG every Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, where you can watch me play Bubblegum Shoe. Well, there you go, guys. I think Krista will be definitely tuning in and, um, yes. No, but, uh, I'd love to watch you play and I can't wait to tune in to watch, uh,

you and Joel and Dan play settlers of Catan, uh, and have them, have them change your mind on it. Thank you everybody. You all have a lovely day. Bye Austin. Nice to meet you. You too, Austin. Um, wow. I've now, I've been all have a lovely day. Bye, Austin. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. You too, Austin.

Wow. We've been doing this for 18 episodes. I've never seen Joel or Dan get that worked up about anything. They got very worked up just now. Joel gets worked up when we talk Star Wars. I know, but I got to tell you, that was the best Adversary of Quintan I've ever seen. Yeah, ever in the history. I know, but we're going to get them as an advertiser now because our producers flipped out. All right. When the janitor says, this stethoscope is mine, and then he says, into the stethoscope,

it's getting hot, Red Bird, pull me out. That shit was funny. I laughed. Yeah, I laughed at that too. That's clearly a neo-improv because there's no way that was written into the script. I like that I do. I did love the C story because I have Donald and Sarah finding out about Ken Jenkins musical past, but I do love Donald and Sarah together. The chemistry with with the two of them is very unique. I wrote I wrote at the end of this, I wrote I really enjoyed watching Sarah and I together.

And we didn't get to do a lot, I don't recall us doing a lot together while making the show. So going back and seeing this, it was like, holy shit, we had a good little dynamic duo thing going. Yeah, and it's kind of an unusual chemistry. It's, it's definitely different in a way. Like you're both kind of silly. Like there's some bumbling element to it. That's very funny.

Like you have a line reading when you're, you're still holding onto her finger. Cause she swore to you that she wasn't going to do the thing. And then a second she sees Ken, she's, she says, I heard you did the music and you went, you swore. I didn't notice that they were still touching pinkies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're still holding each other's pinkies. And then I pulled away, you swore.

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Going back and looking at this, who knew Ken Jenkins was that good of a guitar player, dude? I know. I knew he had a great voice. I forgot that he could play the guitar like that. Dude, it sounded like he was bluesin' out, man. He was goin' hard. Was that actually him playing?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clearly him playing, yeah. Oh my gosh. You know, it's funny, most of the cast, with the exception of Sarah, when we did the musical, could really sing. Yeah, had some exception of Sarah, when we did the musical, could really sing. Yeah. Had some form of musical talent. Although Sarah does dance in this episode. Sarah can dance. Her dance in this episode is very adorable. Her I Told You So dance.

Yeah. I told you so. I remember that went a lot further, but they cut it for the episode. She gets into the full splits when we would, and when we would play the, the gag reel and they let that thing go. At one point she got all the way down into a full split, but I guess for the show they felt it was going too far. Oh really? So if you're interested, you guys can watch the, uh, the blooper slash gag reel of season one and there's probably video of Sarah doing, extending

that dance for a long time. I told you so. I told you so. All the way down to the split. Yeah. She's so adorable when she dances. Yeah. She's so adorable in general. I know. I miss her. We don't get to see Sara that much because she's often in Canada, but when the world's not closed down, we see Krista and Bill and obviously Donald and I see

each other. We don't ever see Chalky, as we call her. Yeah, I do miss her. You know what I missed this year was the Easter celebration that you guys do at your house every year. Krista often has a beautiful Easter party with bunnies. With bunnies. With bunnies. Everyone was sad and I thought we would do it this summer, but we can't. So we're just going to have to wait until next year. And the Easter book this year is amazing. And I was just thinking, as I was talking to you guys, I have to send you some of the pictures because I have pictures of you and Zach and Johnny C.

That are so sweet. Like you just have your arms, like really sweet pictures. I love that part of you have. And every year that I'm going, I'm like a little kid because I'm like, I'm excited to see everyone. But then in my head, I'm like bunnies. My kids love that party so much. They can't, you know, there's the Easter egg hunt.

There's, you know, there are bunnies, there are goats, there are a bunch of different animals. Baskets. oh my gosh. They love it. And for the adults, alcohol. Yeah. Alcohol, but also everyone knows each other. It's kind of a great group.

Yeah, it is a great group. Diana Ross comes, it's just all good. You guys throw a really good party. I think when the world opens up, you should throw a bash. Yeah, okay. Throw a bash for the world. I'll tell Bill. Let's throw a bash for the world. I'll tell Bill. Let's throw a bash for the world.

So Krista Miller booty call is at 735. It's a great entrance, Krista. You walk right in, you're like, you don't even knock on the door. You're like, let's do this. Hey, honey. Honey, I'm home. That's what she says, honey, I'm home.

She goes right to the bar, starts pouring herself a drink. And he says something stupid. She's like, if you're going to talk like that, I need to pour me a bigger drink. Yeah. Oh my God. That's so boring. So boring. You know, we never learned about Jordan's other love interests. I mean, clearly Jordan was, I'm sure not solely using Dr.

Cox as a booty call, or maybe she was. I don't know. What do you think? I don't think so. No, no. You don't think so? Well we saw you you were one of the booty calls. No I was never your booty call well yeah that's true. Yeah you were. Yeah sorry sorry sorry I was I was I was um yeah so I think she's having her way with lots of men probably right? Yeah. But does she think in the back of her mind did Jordan think in the back of her mind that she was gonna get back with Cox

eventually? I don't I don't know. It's always crazy people that get divorced and then get remarried that's such a... Also did and Johnny C also had like four or five vasectomies and then reversed vasectomies too. For you though? Yeah, for me. Yeah. Yeah. Can you really reverse a vasectomy with, I mean, you can, right?

That's what the doctor said when he did mine. He told me, don't worry, we can reverse this shit. Really? Oh yeah. And anytime, and when Casey starts getting itchy again, we might have to do it. That's all I know. Oh snap. Now I'm bullshitting.

We're not going to have no more kids. You crazy? I think it's a shame that you snipped yourself, Donald. You make such beautiful children. You do. They're so beautiful. Thank you very, very much. And I know it's expensive, but next time you get some big ass job, you're going to be like,

I need to plant my seed. No. Donald, how many kids do you big ass job, you're gonna be like, I need to plant my seed. No. Donald, how many kids do you have? Like, 47. 47. Yeah, it's up there now. I mean, I see like 12 of them at Easter, which makes me happy.

Yeah, and then the other 30 something. Yeah. Now Donald, tell us about Holy Son of a Cracker because I... That, that, that, I remember when I had to say that, and you know who gave me that was Bill Lawrence. Bill Lawrence came... Yeah. There's no way Bill wrote Holy Son of a Cracker. Bill Lawrence on set came to me and said, say Holy Son of a Cracker. I was like, what? Say Holy Son of a Cracker. I was like, okay. Did George Jefferson used to say Cracker all the time? Yeah, man. It's a derog... Okay. So look, for those of a cracker. I was like, okay. Did George Jefferson used to say cracker all the time? Yeah, man.

It's a derogatory. No. Okay. So look, for those of you who don't know and think cracker doesn't mean anything when somebody says that a cracker is somebody of the opposite, uh, race who cracks a whip on black people. That's where the cracker comes from. That's where cracker comes from.

I never knew that. And you are below other white people because all you are is a whip cracker. I see. So that's what you're calling JD? JD is called a su- Just checking that that's what you're calling your best friend? I'm just putting it out there. So when Bill said that shit, I was like, really? He was like, say it.

I was like, OK. But don't you think, isn't it the most fun part in Scrubs when Bill would, you'd be doing a joke, and Bill would whisper something in your ear, and he'd say, don't say anything. So you haven't told anyone that you're going to change the queue line for them, and then you say something like son of a cracker

and then everyone laughs. It's the best feeling. It's the best feeling. You know who would never laugh though is fucking Neil Flynn. You could never say anything where he'd be like, I didn't think that was funny. You caught me off guard.

He would always be right away ready to go again. Krista, was it Stuff or Maxim magazine that you were on the cover of? I was the first Maxim magazine cover girl. Okay. That is awesome. That's amazing. Bill said he used to walk around town

holding the magazine talking about, this is my girlfriend. Have you seen a new Maxim? This is my girlfriend. Have you seen a new Maxim? This is my girlfriend. Yeah, that was really fun and cool. Yeah. So Holy Son of a Cracker. And I remember also that day you were there. We were doing the scene and we tried to convince Lawrence Trilling, who directed this episode,

to put lotion on the side of the bed. So when Turk rolls over and says to Carla, hey, so you know, since we're up and she goes, no, no, no. Instead of him going back to sleep, we tried to make it so that I rolled over and then squeezed lotion into my head. We definitely shot that. We definitely shot that. Yeah, we definitely shot that. Bill didn't put it in. Bill didn't want it. That was hilarious. That was one of those things where he was like,

I showed it to Krista and she was like. Yeah, that's probably exactly. Krista said, that's inappropriate. Krista didn't like a masturbation joke. So speaking of that, 1023, when I come in and my parents are playing Wheelbarrel, and that's me, the voice of my own father, being like, go back to bed, I'm fixing mommy's back.

Which is very interesting, because the very next episode, John Ritter. Yes, John Ritter. John Ritter. It's such a shame that we can't, I didn't even know who to have on. I actually thought about having his son on, but then I thought, I don't know if Jason even watched an episode of Scrubs, but we're going to have to turn that episode into just

a beautiful memorial. Krista in bed with Johnny C. He's ripped, Krista. So if you're going to have a scene partner, at least you get the very muscular Johnny C. Yes. And I imagine this was one of those days where you're like, dude, if you put all of that fucking grease on your body, I'm going to kill you. I can't do that.

He would also do lots of push ups, right? Yes. Yeah, one secret for you young actors out there is that if you do lots of push ups right before your scene, at least makes you look a little bit more ripped. But not that Johnny needed the help. He's pretty damn ripped. But Johnny would always bang out a whole bunch of pushups. But I did notice that this is one of those episodes where the Crisco was light. It was light.

It was light. Light on the Crisco. You guys will have to have me on when you, when we, when you get far way farther down in seasons, what I had to come in after giving birth to Will. Two weeks after giving birth to Will and roll slide around with John AC in bed with just lubed up. Oh my gosh. That's for another show. He would make his muscles glisten or no, I think it was supposed to be post sex.

It was supposed to be sweaty, right? No, his muscles glistened, dude. That was his thing. All right. Well, he, the man likes to glisten or no, I think it was supposed to be post sex. It was supposed to be sweaty, right? No, dude. His muscles glistened, dude. That was his thing. All right. Well, he, the man likes to glisten. If you have those pectoralis majors, shine them up. Yeah. Let's see it. Donald, I laughed when you said, have you guys ever stopped to think that maybe bunny is just a real bunny? Turk is so dumb. That was like a toddler.

Yeah. He's so dumb. I remember watching that, I was like, what? So Krista, do you think that she was jealous, but then was the last thing in the world she was gonna do is let him think that she was jealous? Of course. Well, this is my motto in life also. Right.

So that was sort of method acting. Yes, it was. Right on. That's so funny. And also speaking of very Christa things, when you're in the cafeteria at 1609 and they get into a fight and you go, I should leave. And then you stare. When Christa hears a good bit of gossip, she'll often like

kiss her fingers like she's licking off the juices. It was so delicious. I swear to you. So delicious. She'll do this face, John, when you put your fingers around her. I don't know. I'm kidding.

I literally wrote down in my notes, that is so Christa, being like, I should leave, but not leaving. Not leaving at all. All right, how did they do the sweat thing on you, dude? There was like a little hidden hose, tiny little hose in my hairline. And I think that's how it was done. And then it just drips, it just opened it up

and it just dripped all over my face. That was crazy. That was well done. Yeah. Also, when you got on that elevator, this is an argument in Bill's favor where maybe the janitor is in JD's mind, because I think this is the one time where he gets,

hey, hey, killer, how you doing? After you're very, very distraught because you feel like you didn't do enough for the patient who just died, and you walk onto the elevator and the janitor is there and he's like, Hey killer. And it may send you even further down the road. But how would he know that? Right. And that, that too.

And then you walk out. See you later killer. That's true. Krista makes a good point. How would he even know that I lost a patient? He just knows everything. He's all knowing that janitor. He is all knowing.

He, he, he's, yeah. But, um, But we've already proven that time and time again, Donald. I'm just saying this is one of those moments where... This is one of those moments where... Bill doesn't even have defenses anymore. He just yells, five, six, seven, eight. Right. Krista, I don't know if you know this because I don't know how much you're listening to this, but Bill yelling five, six, seven, eight to start our theme song has become a fan favorite joke. On my Instagram, every other comment is just 5678, which is a shout out to your husband. He wanted me to do that today and I said,

no. We made a rule. We made a rule that you're allowed to count in. I think you should count in when we're done with the show. We decided in the world of the podcast, Bill is the only one, because he's the creator of the show, with the power to start the theme song without our permission. Right, Donald? Yeah. He's the only one. I don't even get the power to do that unless it's for the show ending. Right. Yes. If it's not at the end of the beginning. Yeah. Bill has magical powers and can always start the theme song. He's the only one that can do that. That didn't look like a firing squad either, but that joke was hilarious as fuck.

Uh, I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. And then they catch to the firing squad, you know, the putting the blindfold on you, it looked like a comedy club with the spotlight on you and everything.

And so when you go, I'm okay, that shit had me, I laughed so fucking hard at that, dude. That was very funny. I'm a K. I think the brick backdrop was a mistake because you're right. It looked like a comedy club. You need a different backdrop for the, I don't know what the correct backdrop for firing squad is, but brick wall is not it. I don't think so or whatever. But I thought that was hilarious. So then Ken sings and it's very beautiful. And, um, and he's the song of the, he's the song of the episode in this. I don't know if that song is a, is a made up song or this might be a good question for,

should we ask Bill, have Krista ask Bill? He's not going to remember. He's just going to say five, six, seven, eight, but should we be, it might be fun if Krista asked Bill a question. Do you want me to, I can intercom him in his office. Oh yeah. Let's see if he'll answer. In his, get a tear.

Here we go. All right. Let me see. What is it called? What have I named guests? Just let me scroll down my mansion buttons. Billiards, billiards, indoor pool, outdoor pool. Bill, we have a question for you.

We're on the podcast. We're on the podcast right now. You're on the podcast. The song that Ken Jenkins sings at the end of 118, is that a made up song or is that a song? It was Tuscaloosa Heart. Tuscaloosa. Are you taping me now?

Yeah, we're taping you now. Tuscaloosa Heart. Tuscaloosa Heart. Tuscaloosa. Are you taping me now? Yeah, we're taping you now. Tuscaloosa Heart. Tuscaloosa Heart. It was a made up song and we were just goofing around with it and he helped us come up with it because he always used to fiddle his guitar and it was a Broadway thing. And the second that I asked him to do it, he's like, should it be something like this? And then he went, five, six, seven, eight! Oh my god, see? Hang up on him.

Hang up on him, please. All right, goodbye, bro. Hang up. Dave, turn it off. This fucking guy. He's out. No matter what you do. This fucking guy.

No matter what you keep, you keep, you keep giving, how many chances can we give him? How many chances? You know, I feel like, it's like Lucy and Peanuts with the football. I mean, how many chances are we give him? How many chances? You know, I feel like it's like Lucy and Peanuts with the football. I mean, how many chances are we going to give this guy? You never learn. We never learn. We never learn.

Great episode. Great episode. I did find it funny that Johnny C. has just had sex with Jordan twice, and then he's looking for boobs on TV. I mean, this guy's... I didn't understand that either, like boobs. I didn't understand looking for boobs on TV. I mean, this guy's- I didn't understand that either, like boobs. Like, I didn't understand looking for boobs. I think it's good to say that he's lonesome

and that he's, this booty call is you, but you guys aren't getting back together. And so you've sabotaged his chances with this woman. And now he is just back on his couch alone, trying to look for boobs on TV. But my brain went like, dude, you just had sex twice with Jordan, who's such a babe. And you're like, now you're on his couch alone trying to look for boobs on TV. But my brain went like, dude, you just had sex twice with Jordan, who's such a babe, and now you're on your couch looking for boobs on TV?

That makes no sense. Yeah. Unless you have Donald's libido, it makes no sense. Well, even with my libido, after three times, I'm good for a while, dude. At least for a couple of hours. An hour? Yeah, for a few hours. Hold on. Charlotte, you're being,

Charlotte's being a little loud outside my office. Charlotte can make a cameo if she wants to finish. Hey, Shar. Bart, come here. We'll give her a chance to plug her music. Yeah. Come say hi to Zach's podcast, to Zach and Donald. Are you guys on it right now? Yes,

we're on it. Yeah, I look like a booty hole. We're on right now. Hey! What's up booty hole? What's up? There's no video, Charlotte, so you can look all the booty hole you want. Oh, incredible. Can you guys hear me properly? We can hear you. Absolutely. You know I follow you on Instagram and I love your music. Thanks, Donald. I follow you too. Charlotte, Charlotte, like millions of people listen to this. So you have to tell them where to find your music. Look up Charlotte Lawrence, guys, and have fun with it. Charlotte Lawrence on Spotify, Apple Music, everywhere. We knew this girl when she was a baby. I would be on Scrubb's sets when I was little.

Wait, do you know what people might not know that's a little fun fact? Yeah, I see what's a little fun fact. At the end of every Scrubb's episode, when it says dozer, when it's like the end credits, you hear bye bye, and it's me from when I was two years old on set. Wow.

Uh huh. Take that Scrubb wiki was two years old, on set. Wow. Uh huh. That I remember that dad. Take that scrub wiki. Take that scrub's wiki. Yeah, scrub's wiki, you didn't know that. Ha ha ha. And Charlotte, didn't you do a cameo when you were like a little bit older,

like as a little girl, didn't you dance? Yeah, I just posted it for mom's birthday. It was like Jordan had a flashback and she imagined she had her own talk show and then she was talking to some girl and was like, you're boring as hell. Just watch me dance with a little girl who looks just like me instead.

So I came on and I remember I got to skip school for it even. I was like the happiest I've ever been because my school had like really serious uniforms that you had to follow and I showed up to school like in makeup and hair and a full outfit. I was like, yeah, guys, I was working. I was acting. Don't probably.

That was probably the beginning of you wanting to go into being a performer. Like it was. Oh, definitely. It was too happy being in front of the camera dancing. I was like, please just keep filming me. I never saw you guys were doing the running man. Yeah. It was so fun.

No, but it was so funny. My mom was like, OK, I brought your uniform so you can change in the car when you went back to school. I was like, no, no, no. I'm acting. I'm an actor. And everyone needs to know that I'm an actor now. Right on.

Right on. Well, we miss you. We miss your whole family, Donald and I. We wish we could come over and hang out with you guys. I miss you guys so much, my uncles, my family. I was so sad when Easter came along because we always have the most fun at the Easter party. We talked about it on the podcast.

I missed the parties. It's the party of the year. Party of the year. And bunnies. And bunnies. And bunnies and goats. In my mind, the bunnies are always at your house, so surely.

Always. They're just underneath the house. We let them out only on Easter. All right, darling, put your mom back on so we can close this show up. So good to see you. Thanks for letting me interrupt. We love you. I love you guys.

Bye. I love you, mama. I love you. We have one evening. Will you take the doggies out? And Krista is such an amazing momager. I want everyone to know that she's wearing a Charlotte Lawrence hoodie. Yes, of course.

Represent, represent. Krista, this was so fun. We went, I think, the longest we've ever gone. Ever. But the fans seem to love that. And thank you for coming on. I have more stuff to ask you, but I'll wait until the season finale.

I worry that Bill is going to just hog all her airtime. So Krista, make sure that you lay down the rules. There's room for you to speak. I will. I will tell you that he said before I came up, he goes, make sure to tell them that that outfit, you know, like men's pants and a tank top is my favorite sexiest outfit. And I was like, I will. And he goes, well, I'm also telling you, do you remember, you know, that men's pants and a tank top? I'm like, no, I got it. We're

in quarantine. I'm in sweatpants. I'm wearing my daughter's hoodie. Cool it. Yeah, cool it. That's funny. So we know that. A little trivia about Bill. He likes a white tank top on his gals. Yes, that's what he likes. All right. Thank you guys for listening. Krista,

get ready because you're gonna five, six, seven, eight us in. If you have questions, go to scrubs, iHeart at Gmail. Tell us on Instagram, anything you want to tell us. That's the last thing, Donald and I, I think you're still reading these days. We really appreciate you all listening. Tell your friends because this thing is blowing up and we want everyone to know about it. We're having so much fun. Yeah. And you know, haters got to hate and we understand that. Yeah. And if you're the person telling Donald to stop doing his Oprah voice, you really are getting to him. And so stop trolling his ass because we love it when he does his Oprah voice. He's not getting to me or she, or she's not getting to me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith.

That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, d***less version of me. And that's the name of our podcast, Beardless D***less Me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. It could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress.

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