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

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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

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

they launched they were like, if we could get somebody like Brendan Fraser. By the way, we've been saying it wrong. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I got yelled at on the internet. It's Fraiser. We've both been saying Fraiser. It's Fraiser? Fraiser like Fraiser. Like laser. Like laser. Frazer. Frazer, like, Frazer. Like laser. Like laser, Frazer. Frazer, okay. I'm just saying, I got someone was like,

love the podcast, Zach, you're both saying Brendan's name wrong. Sorry, sorry. Do you know how many times I get Donald Faison? Faison? Faison? What's the other, oh, there's another Faison, but he spells it differently. There's Faison Love. Faison Love.

And then there's Frankie Faison, who spells it the same way. Right. There's a Faison North Carolina. I've never been there. White and black Faisons. How are you guys? How's your week going? By the way, Donald, did you know that Dan's nickname is Daniel?

I thought that that was just kind of a Joelle joke, but it really is his his nickname in life, Dan It's a nickname or is that your name? My name is Daniel his name is Daniel, but he's been there's a very long story He doesn't want to go into but it's happy to do it another time happy to do another time No, but I'm starting to wonder if we should call on the podcast should be calling him down because I like to use nicknames It makes me feel like I'm close to someone Well, I would be honored if you would call me Daniel. I might just do that. There it is Daniel I'm gonna see if it flows because you can't force a nickname like like, you know

Yeah, I hate it when you say someone's nickname and you feel like I just it's not flowing out of me, right? yeah, when I was a kid when I was someone's nickname and you feel like, oh, it's just not flowing out of me, right? When I was a kid, my mom was like the, not the leader of a camp, but like the creative director at a camp. It was a camp that had a boy season and a girl season. The name of it was Camp Atwater. It was in Massachusetts, right? And I remember she went around a table with all the counselors because she had to be there

early to meet all the counselors and stuff. She went around a picnic table. We were outside. I was there because I'm there with my mom. And she's like, all right, everybody just give me your first, your name and then, you know, a nickname that people give you. So people was going around, I'm terrific Tasha or I'm, you know, stunning Steven. And they got to this dude named Daryl

and he was like, they call me delicious Daryl. And I remember, I remember being like, wow. And I, and then later on, Cedric, the entertainer has a joke where, you know, what grown man wants to call another grown man delicious? Wish you a better than my nickname. What was your nickname? My father called me the great destroyer. The great destroyer.

You know, be like, oh, here comes the great destroyer. I was I had my head was constantly in the clouds and I had a tendency to just break things running into them arms, like gesticulating wildly, knocking over cups and stuff. So, yeah, it's stuck. My nickname was Biz because it's my initials backwards. I love that.

Braff Israel Zach. Zachary Israel Braff. So when I was a kid, so I grew up with Terrence Howard, right? He and I, I've known him since he was like 12 years old. As a matter of fact, my first, I took him on his first audition. He crashed an audition with me and it wound up being like the Jackson's special and he became, you know, he's Terrence Howard now. Anyway, when we would hang out when we were kids, there was this dude in the neighborhood

who didn't necessarily like the fact that two acting teenagers or young men were walking around hanging out together. So he was called Showbiz and I was Hollywood. So when we come outside, it's like, here comes Showbiz and Hollywood. I'm going to start calling you Hollywood. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Yeah, man. It's the same old stuff. Yeah. Well, you got a birthday coming up. I do. I'm going to be 46. That's fucking... It'll literally be 20 years since we started Scrubs.

When we started Scrubs, I had just turned 26, so it'll be 20 years. This year, Scrubs will have been... we will have been making Scrubs. Like, it was the first... the first episode came out when I was 26 years old. I bought you a present. No, my wife bought me a present. I bought you a present for both Father's Day and your birthday. So did my wife, what did you get me?

I'm not gonna tell you, I'm not gonna tell all these fine folks listening, but. Is it a donut machine? No, are you gonna keep the donut machine though? By the way, we haven't heard the update on the donut machine. I think I might keep the donut machine. Yeah, of course you're gonna keep the donut machine though? By the way, we haven't heard the update on the donut machine. I think I might keep the donut machine. Yeah, of course you're gonna keep the donut machine.

Will you post pictures on your Instagram so our listeners can see it? Absolutely. I made ice cream yesterday. I made a raspberry ice cream yesterday. It was delicious. Do you have an ice cream maker? There are a lot of things that you can use to make ice cream, but I have a little attachment that goes on my little Belleville, and it's a mixer and it's been, you know,

it took me two days to make ice cream, but I made ice cream. And then I made some fudge. So it was raspberry ice cream with a little chocolate fudge underneath. Let me tell you, they went crazy in this household for my food. They lost their minds. So this is a new phase for your quarantine. You become a dessert chef. Yeah. A lot of people thought I would phase off when it came to cooking. I decided to phase on. You know what I'm saying? I decided to phase on.

I think that the best solution for your diet is to start becoming a dessert chef. I think it'll be great for my cholesterol. Yeah. It'll be great for my diet. You know what I mean? I am a dessert man. I love sweets. I love cakes. I love sugar. I love ice cream. Well, dude, I made fudge. To make fudge brownies, you got to make fudge first. I made fudge first. Oh, let me tell you something right now. Ain't nothing like some homemade fudge. Oh my gosh, that shit is good. Listen, that shit is good. The people loved Scott Foley. Great reaction to Scott Foley.

Scott Foley was a great guest, man. He did such a great job. Yeah, he was a great guest. Everybody loved him on there. Yeah. And my whole timeline was nobody cares Sean. I'm talking about 99% of the comments where nobody cares Sean. Some people said nobody cares Zach. Yeah, well about 99% of the comments where nobody cares Sean.

Some people said nobody cares Zach. Yeah, well I said that a couple of times. Oh, that was you? That was you commenting? Yeah, that was me. How you doing, man? I thought you meant on my Instagram. I'm good.

I don't know how do you answer that these days. Everyone just goes, yeah, I don't know. Staring at the wall. I think it's crazy. The cases are all rising. Somebody goes, yeah, I don't know, staring at the wall. I think it's crazy, the cases are all rising. Somebody wrote on Twitter, I thought it was really appropriate, they said, so we're all just kinda got bored and just said fuck it.

Because people are just going out there, it's rising. Fauci said something like, people were saying, oh, it's the second wave. Fauci's like, what are you talking about? This is still the first wave. And it's spiking everywhere, it's the second wave. Fafri's like, what are you talking about? This is still the first wave. Yeah. And it's spiking everywhere. It's spiking in LA.

It's spiking in so many places. It's spiking in the South hardcore right now. I know. So I don't know, man. It's crazy. It just feels like people went, fuck it, I'm over it. And they're going out. I don't know if you've seen all these videos of people

out and about with no masks on. I think it's crazy. Yeah, you know, everybody's gonna live their life. You know how they're gonna live their, you know, and I can't stop anyone from, I can beg and I can plead and I can say to, that's all we can do. Please don't go out. Please think of your fellow man.

There are other people that can't, you know, that won't be as lucky as you are if you are one of the lucky ones that, you know, this virus does nothing to. But I can't, I can't, what are you gonna do? You gonna arrest people? What are you gonna do? Jump on people and stop them from doing it?

We haven't spoken too much on, much about our friend Nick on this podcast. You know, Donald and I have a very good friend, Nick Cordero. You may have heard about him in the news. He's about as sick as someone can be, and he had no pre-existing conditions. And he is 40 years old, and he was staying in my guest house. He's one of my best friends in the world. He's an amazing actor, Broadway star. We did a play together.

We did a play together. He's a wonderful actor, a wonderful singer. People always say this about people, but honestly, he's the nicest person I've ever met. Like, there is not a malicious, weird, competitive, angry cell in his body. He's an angel of a human being. And he was here. He was living in my guest house. He and his wife bought a new house in LA. They were making the move from New York to LA. They have a one-year-old baby. They were just living the American dream. They literally bought their first house and he went back to New York to pack up his apartment and got COVID so bad that he's been staying alive with the help of machines. And no one knows if

he's going to make it. He's lost his leg due to complications, clotting and such. His lungs? his clodding and such. His lungs. His lungs are just Swiss cheese, they said. The COVID just fucking destroys the lungs. So not to be a Debbie Downer on the show, but I haven't been talking about it because we're here to hopefully entertain you

and take your mind off things. But if you're headed out and you don't have a mask on, I want you to think about my friend Nick. Maybe just think about it because I think people take comfort in going, well, worst case scenario, I'm 40. What's going to happen? This guy was healthy. His wife's a trainer. I mean, he's a healthy guy and he could die. So I don't mean to preach and and I wasn't even gonna bring this up, but I just felt weird all of a sudden not mentioning it. So while you think it's, while everybody's out there, just, you know, about to... for

all the people that are sick of this virus, just know that this virus isn't sick of us. Exactly, and just know that, you know, don't have in your head, I think it's a shame for people to have in their head, oh, worst case scenario, I get it, they say it's like a really bad flu. That's bullshit, that's some people. But there's also some people like Nick,

who are totally healthy and have a one-year-old baby and- Who just started walking. Who just started walking today, actually. And he could die. I mean, we don't know. It could go either way. So I'm sorry to open the show with that. Donald, help me change the tone of things by being jovial and leading us in song. Five, six, seven, eight!...stories about Joe we made, about a bunch of docs and nurses and a Canada who loved me.

I said, here's the stories that we all should know. So gather round to hear our, gather round to hear our Scrubs. We watched Joe with Zach and Dono. Mm-hmm. Let's bring in Brendan, everybody. Let's bring in Brendan Fraser, Donal.

Don't say it like the... Oh! Brendan Fraser! There he is. Hi, brother. Hey! How are you, sir? Oh, it's so good to see you.

I'm happy to see you, too. Oh, man. Right on to see you. I'm happy to see you too. Oh man, look at you. Look at this. Donald and I both admitted to each other that we have butterflies because we don't have fancy movie stars on our podcast. No offense to our other guests, they're great actors. No offense, they've all been

great. But they're not like Brendan Fraser level. We just kicked it up a notch. Like Emerald used to say, bam, kick it up a notch. Flattery will get you everywhere. Ha ha ha ha. Brandon, we're giddy that you're here. Not only have we always both been fans of your work,

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

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

No, the somehow is me. I said, you need a sad song, try my buddy's first song. He had never written a song. And we played it during your funeral episode and it launched his career. But anyway, let Brendan talk, Donald. That's really nice. I mean, look, the music's important so much in across the arc of the whole, whole show.

I mean, the choices were always spot on. They made you feel the internal conflict, even though there was this comedy that was juxtaposed against what's a very serious environment. I mean, how do you make a hospital funny? You guys did it for many, many episodes. And I'm so pleased when I've been going to comic conventions

the last two years or so. That's a similar thing that everyone says. They're very, they're moved by that episode. Look, thanks for the nice things you're saying to me, but you're only as good as the company you keep and how well it's written and some camera things too. But I just, I should say a belated thank you like what? 17 years later now for including me in that cast and pulling me into the fold.

Well, how do we get you? Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean that. That's okay. I was thinking about that today too. I let's take a walk back here. I had just finished a run of my West End debut in London in Katnohot, Tenerife, and I came back to LA, and my former wife Afton and Krista Miller are longtime friends, and I had not met Bill before, but I did get on the phone with him, and I recall saying something like, he's asking, how you doing? We want you to come and do this. Let me see the script.

I mentioned something about feeling a little tired or jet-lagged or I needed to get back to the gym. And he said, all right, well, I'll send it over. So he sent the script over and he sent a bunch of gym shorts. I mean like nice ones too. I actually can't use them. So I thought, all right, I'm in. When one man sends another man his shorts, there is no other love. You know, when you're trying to get an actor to do something,

there's always the go-to thing, which is write a nice letter. But I'm gonna take Bill's cue on this and get more creative. He sent you clothing. Well, he just showed he was listening. Listen, man But I'm going to take I'm going to take Bill's cue on this and get more creative. He sent you clothing. Well, he just showed he was listening. Listen, man, I'm tired. I got to get back to the gym. Let me help you out. Here's some shorts and the script. That's true. Are you are you in town right now? Or are you out of town? I know you're doing that the show the superhero show.

Doom Patrol. Doom Patrol. How could you not know that, Donald? I know Doom Patrol and you're Mr. Superhero Guy. I was just watching the trailer for season two where you guys are miniaturized and everything like that. I'm very excited for it. I was really excited when the show started. I was actually, I watched Titans

and then when they introduced Doom Patrol through Titans and Beast Boy, I was really excited to to watch the show. And the cast is phenomenal. You got such a really dope cast. You, Matt Bonner. What's his name? Timothy Dalton. Like, it's a sick cast, dude.

Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby. Season two. Let's get out of the way. June 25th on HBO Max, the new one. Check it out, everybody. Very excited. Hey, Donald, did you actually watch the, I read the comics before, I mean, this is the first time a live action thing's been done.

No, I had not read the comic before, but I knew it existed, but I had never read the comics before. That's because it's really an obscure property. It was really kind of, it was orphaned. It was done like seven different incarnations on print. Yeah. And they didn't, they killed everybody off at one point. They brought them all back. And then Grant Morrison did the run that this, that inspired the show.

So it, the word surreal gets bandied about very much in the way we speak, but it actually borrowed from Dadaism and, you know, what Dolly was up about surrealism and the way that the show's inspired. A lot of the set pieces are direct key art from the graphic novels. Wow. And it did keep its sense of, I don't know if I want to call it's, it's people like to say dark or it's serious. I think it just didn't, it doesn't, it doesn't shy away from going to the places that motivate brooding superhero characters and explaining really why and often in white knuckle detail.

So you guys, you guys, you guys are very, it's a very, I would say it is a dark show. Like each and every one of your origins comes from a dark place. You know what I mean? Just from your character alone, your character was a race car driver who was, who was like, you know, cheated on his wife and really didn't give a shit about anybody but his daughter. You know what I mean? And yeah, and he was, I don't think he won all those races fair and square either. Right, just a bad, bad dude. And he dies and gets put into a robot. And he's led to believe that his

daughter is I don't want to spoil the show. I said it. And so he's struggling to reconcile how to be a better man, except now he's trapped in this steampunk robot body. And strangely, he's a better human being as a robot than he was as a man. That's so good. Right, right, right. And he's there for his teammates. He's like, in every episode, he's the one character who's there for his teammates. He's

there for the girl with all the personalities. He's there for everyone. That's Crazy Jane. Crazy Jane, yeah. As she's known with her 64 different personalities that you get to know. All with superpowers too. That's a dope superpower. That's dope. You could, 64 different powers. That's pretty dope. Anyway, I'm a fan of the show. Brendan, did you read comic books when you were a kid? I had a anthology of Superman.

I tried to get into Batman because all the cool kids did then. And I got to be honest with you, they kind of think they were formidable and they sort of scared me a little bit. Like it was like listening to heavy metal music and you're not ready for it to me. And, and so, I mean, I, I liked them for sure. Um, but my speed was more like Dennis the menace and Richie Rich. Yeah. I would read Archie. Little Archie, yeah. Little Archie.

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

to our audience. And that's the reason why that they have to build better lives through it, although they bicker with one another and they hate one another, but they can't be apart and they don't function without one another. Kind of like scrubs, I should say. Yeah, the very theme song is, I can't do this all on my own. I can't do this on my own.

Yeah, it's about the camaraderie. You know, you had the most epic career. I was just scrolling your IMDB page just before you came on because I wanted to just kind of glance at everything. I mean, you have the kind of career that actors dream of having. From really cool artistic indies to the biggest tent pole movies ever.

I mean, when you look back on things, is there a favorite or is it all kind of like, I mean, for us, I mean, Donald and I back on things, is there a favorite or is it all kind of like, I mean, for us, I mean, Donald and I look back at Scrubs. We haven't had a fraction of the career you've had, but I mean, we look back and go, okay, we've had lots of fun experiences, but Scrubs was like one of the best experiences of our lives.

Is there a project that you look back on that and go, you know, I've done a lot of cool things, but this one in particular was like, holy shit, that changed my life or this or, or, or, if I had to like name something that really changed my life for better or worse, I'd have to say it was around 2000, or sorry, like 1999, it was the mummy pictures. Everybody saw those.

I mean, and still they, they have a resonance. I guess it's just, you know, my dumb luck that the, the, the lore of an Egyptian mummy wrapped up for several thousand years looking for his girlfriend is an enduring theme that we just love to do over and over and over again. So, you know, I had that going for it, but if I think of a film nerd that made me feel

like it changed, I worked with uh I worked with Michael Cain in in Vietnam on a picture called The Quiet American and it was um a pretty good adaptation um Christopher Hampton wrote it um of the of the novel um and we shot in Vietnam. And at that time, no Western film had been made in Vietnam. I mean, if you saw a movie that was a war picture or something, it was in Malaysia or Thailand or doubled somewhere else in the South Pacific with the jungles. But we had the good fortune to actually be there. And it was exciting for the reasons that it really pushed back at, as the novel did, that

American foreign policy was, you know, blessed in the world. And the reality is, no, it's not. Um, the, the picture itself, um, I can say confidently was put on the chopping block by, um, Miramax when it came out, September 11th had transpired. And, um, in the, I don't even want to say his name, but the boss of that company said, I don't want to do anything wrong for the American people. Wow. And we never really knew what that meant. And, uh, Michael took the picture to Toronto, uh, international film

festival and gave it in an audience there. And that's when it, um, really started to take off and the Washington post wrote a piece called let the quiet Americans speak. And, um, you know, in other words, you don't need to sugarcoat this. You don't have to treat us like children. We, we should know. I mean, these are things that, that, that we do have to discuss that, um, has not changed then and it had, it can't change now. I mean, so to be a part of that,

I guess I felt I was in good company and I felt like I had a chance to be a part of a picture that would, you know, in its own way, change the world. Now, movies do or they don't and that's the hope and the aspiration, but it did fulfill something for me that was meaningful. And if it didn't find its audience at that time, there's always the notion of feeling

that it will do in the future. And I think it still holds up. You're gonna have a lot of people watching it now because it's one of yours I haven't seen, and I'm definitely curious. And can have a lot of people watching it now, because it's one of yours I haven't seen, and I'm definitely curious. And we have a handful of people listening to this. I'm sure we'll check it out. I loved one of your early films, School Ties, was...

Yeah, I was about to say that. Oh, man, that movie hit me at the right age, man. And I thought you were... Especially being a young Jewish man that you are. Of course. And I didn't feel like I looked like Brendan. You know, I was like, there I am. Look how handsome I'm being represented by

But uh, but I mean your performance in that movie as a young actor I mean, I think everyone in the world was like, you know, everyone who loves movies was like, oh shit Look at this new guy. I thought you really really were great in that movie. Well, thanks. It was sort of the diner casting Yeah It's day in a way Ben Affleck Matt Damon Right. The list is ridiculous So many people Chris. Oh, no Anthony rap and grass ridiculous

we At that time had no idea what we were doing. We had an abundance of enthusiasm We, at that time, had no idea what we were doing. We had an abundance of enthusiasm. Probably the most important thing to us is getting the producer to provide us breakfast in the morning before we had to play football all day. Although they did not, you know what I mean? And still, at that time, I look at it and I think,

I really don't know that much about that guy anymore. I just see, I see a cast who are very hopeful, but at the same time we all have this sort of tenuous, is this it? kind of feeling as you do when you're first starting out in this industry. But for that, rather than turning inward, we just swung for the fences and hoped for the best for whatever the film would result in. Well, it was really great. Oh, thanks man.

Yeah, Donald and I both remember that film fondly. We've talked about it before. And Donald, you also began your career in a football film. Yeah, I did. It was called Remember the Titans. Have you watched it yet? No, it's on my to-do list. See, you're an asshole, man. I'm going to watch Quiet American before I have to tell you.

That's fine. And that's fine. But these are the issues that I'm having now. Let me tell you what happens. Wait, hold on, hold on. Don't fight in front of our guests. Don't fight in front of company. Let me finish.

Let me finish. Is this because I didn't fucking read Garden State when you gave me the... Yes, that's one of the reasons. I was in the shower and I was thinking, you know, I've done some projects and Zach's never seen any of them. No, I've seen a lot of them. I wonder if you've seen... Dude, you've seen... What was the movie you were in where the famous rapper was a postman?

It was a postman. It's called Next Day Air. First of all, it was Next Day Air. Yeah, I saw Next Day Air. Second of all, the only reason why you saw Next Day Air is because I invited you over for a screening at my house with all the producers and everything. Yeah, that was a good one. I like that one.

Oh boy. Who is the rapper? I forgot. He was really good. Mos Def, man. You know who Mos Def is. Mos Def's a good actor. He did a good job in that movie.

I worked with Mos Def. What did you Mos do? I worked with Mos Def once in a really obscure movie that shot in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was called journey to the end of the night. And he played a Nigerian dishwasher who gets roped into running a huge suitcase of cocaine in this sort of impossible scenario that he just can't win from. He was so good.

I mean, he was. What was the name of the movie? Journey to the End of the Night. Journey to the End of the Night. I'm gonna watch that too. I'm gonna watch. Yassine Bay in Journey to the End of the Night. I'm gonna watch that too.

So sorry, but Titans got moved down another rung because I've done two more films. Let me tell you what happens in my house. You have dinner, you get, all right, what are we gonna watch tonight, right? I don't know if this happens... Donald Faison in Remember the Titans. Now, let me tell you, I just wanna know if this happens in either, any of your houses. You have a list of like 1000 classics you wanna watch. You have a list of like your friends' movies you wanna watch. You got a list of movies you read online that everyone's

talking about. And then you get out there and you're tired and you had a glass of wine and you're like... And it's HGTV time, yeah. Right, right. Top Chef. Top Chef. I watch Top Chef. Listen, I could be a cook now because I watch so much Top Chef. Hold on. You said it's movies that your friends are in and you look at the classics and everything like that Dude, you can knock two out with one stone. It's a motherfucking classic. Yeah, one. Yeah, two your friend is in it, right? So dude, let's just get to the what are we waiting? We're gonna do it. I'm right after quiet american. I'm gonna do it

um All right. I promise you this is a commitment. You're lying, but okay You've been saying this for years. I just want you to know that for years. Listen, we don't have... Go ahead. We don't have Brennan forever because he has to feed his children. So I want to move quickly. We're going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and then we're going to go through the episode because I want to talk... This episode has so much in it. And Brennan, you probably don't even know this, but there's so many things in this particular episode that became through lines for the whole series. including When You Pick Me Up and I Yelled Eagle, the acapella group,

Bob Zelzer, your cancer doctor, I mean, Bob Clinton. All right, we'll be right back. My husband has a secret son from a past partner. Hold up, Sam, how do we know how we've done the DNA test? Well John, luckily it's Mother May I Have a DNA Test Week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, My husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father of a five-year-old.

Whoa! At first he didn't remember her, but then he realized they had a one-night stand right before we started dating. Wait, but do we have proof he's the dad? Well, the author says there's no confirmation the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting

with her lawyer soon. I think she's going after our money. If the kid is actually my husband's, she would be entitled to it too. So what's a husband gotta say about this? This could be his kid. Well, apparently he broke down in the middle of the living room apologizing,

but this is what scared me. His first instinct, if the kid is his son, is to pay the child support, but not be an active father in the kid's life because he only wants a family with me. His wife. Oh, this is a mess. To hear the explosive finale, follow OK Storytime in the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose.

I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama. To whom much is given, much is expected. The guilt comes from am I doing enough? Me, Michelle Obama, to say that to a therapist. So let's unpack that. Former First Lady Michelle Obama and someone who knows her best, her big brother, Craig. We'll be hosting a podcast called IMO.

What have been your personal journeys with therapy? We need to be coached throughout our lives. My mom wanted us to be independent children and she would always tell me, stop worrying about your sister. Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country and the world. I couldn't afford to have that kind of disdain. What would you say has been the most hardest recent test of fear? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the MeatEater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck. This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser-known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best-selling author and meat-eater founder Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here and I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were

here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday May 6th where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI-fuelled nightmare. Someone was posting photos.

It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on, my body parts that looked exactly like my own. I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting this series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography.

This should be illegal, but what is this? This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.

Find it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We watch your wisdom and I know. And we're back! And we're back! So this episode's called My Hero, and it's the second of Brendan's three episodes he did. Brendan, did you know, by the way, I know you assumed you knew you were doing two, but then what's the story of you came back

not till season three? He couldn't have possibly seeded, hey, we're gonna build your character, you're gonna come back in two seasons. So how did that come about? Yeah, I gotta, Bill knows the answer to that one. I mean, I had such a great time with the two, to be continued, two-hander her right that came on in the first season that I was in and then when he called up to do it again I was like absolutely all right

you know you it was because I had such a great time working you guys right on you and you and you brought something to the table that a lot of that went on for a really long time also uh your your camera when you brought your camera to, look at this, look, Zach has a camera just like that now. Sweet. I'm holding up my Polaroid 110A that I would not have purchased without Brendan. So I want you to know, Brendan and I are both,

Brendan, Chris DeMiller and I are all camera geeks. We all collect them. But I was never into old Polaroid cameras until I met Brendan. And if you guys are watching the episode and you see him shooting all these Polaroids, that was inspired by Brendan. Those are all his pictures you're looking at.

And I got so into Polaroid photography because of you, Brendan. And I've, for the 20 years since I've seen you, I can't tell you how many different Polaroid cameras I've bought and collected. And Donald was saying on another podcast, he goes, why do I have so many professional quality Polaroids of myself?

And I'm like, that's because of Brendan, because Krista and I both got so into it. We've taken so many pictures of him. Yeah, I have a lot of- And so many of them sit in a closet or on the shelf right now, because the film's so hard to find. I know, you can get it online if you buy.

I actually, knowing that you were coming on, I haven't used it in a while, but knowing you were coming on, I was like looking online to where I can find it. Fuji still makes the film. Fuji still makes a good packed film, Impossible Projects, another one. Yes, but for those of you who want to get into this hobby, Fuji FP100 is the go-to,

right, Brendan? That's the last one. Let me just geek out and put my glasses on. Fuji FP100, I just gave them a shout out. They should be a sponsor. Um, so Brendan, when you picked me up at 133 in this kids room, now I can't imagine you even could, could know this story, but the fans that I've watched eight seasons know when you picked me up and spun me, the first thing I say

that made me laugh was I go faster. Because the whole, the whole gag is that JD is such a nerd that at first he's like, no, no, no, no, and then he's like, as a kid. And then you're spinning me, you're spinning me. And on one last take, I thought, oh, it would be extra dorky if JD pretended he was soaring like an eagle. And then I just went, eagle! Which became bizarrely a huge runner throughout the whole season of a series of the show. Donald would pick me up and I'd yell Eagle and it became a running thing. It became his what you talking about, Willis.

It became my what you talking about, Willis. It became my catchphrase. You lifted me into my, it's like in Dirty Dancing doing the lift. You lifted me into my catchphrase. Thank you. Thanks very, very much. I particularly liked your shower shorts, if I remember correctly. Yes. For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to. Did it have a wallet and then you hold it out. You let it go and there's this sort of like sound off camera and you just rinse a bit. Yeah, exactly. But I mean, everywhere I go in my, my life and I've been traveled all

around the world, um, I will have people yell eagle at me as I walk down the street. It's forever. It's forever. Yeah. All because of this moment at one minute 38. And then Krista goes for a spin. Yes. I wonder if Krista liked that. I have a feeling Krista wasn't too fond of the spinning part. I bet she liked it because it was Brendan. If it was anybody else, she would have been like, get the fuck out of here.

She'd be like, get the fuck out of here. There's no way. There's no way. I can't imagine Bill writing an episode. If Bill put any other character, picks up Krista and spins her, she would have been like, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no spins her, she would have been like, no, fuck that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I think I may have made that one up because I don't think Bill would have written giblets. Brendan, you found a way with this character to bring out something. Johnny C. had yet to really warm up to anybody.

His character, Dr. Cox, is playing. He's such a tough alpha guy. And then with your character, we see the friendship that JD and Terkav mirrored a bit. We see, oh, there is a guy out there who's silly and who's goofy and is out there, who's kind of like his JD, if you will. Do you know what I mean? Like you brought out the silly side of a guy

the audience has only known as someone who's so serious and aggro. Right, he was just like Johnny C. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Although Johnny's a smidgen nicer. Right. Right. Time like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, huh?

Absolute heart of gold. Yeah. Did you know Johnny before this? Had you guys worked together? No, we had not met before. I'd seen him in films that he'd made. But I think I met him on the day, to tell you the truth. The day there was a nail in my hand.

Yeah. A board, right? Yeah. That was the first episode before this one. Correctly. I think we met maybe three minutes earlier than that. Wow. It's cause he doesn't take much time to make a chair.

I learned. He just kind of walks in, scrubs his head. And then makes like these sort of animal grunt noises. Puts product in it and does it again. Yeah. And then like does like elaborate clicking and snapping with his fingers. Like.

And then he takes off. He's good to go. I had to show up like, you know, an hour early with Krista so we could, you know, get our strand by strand done. Just perfect. Yo, do you, do you- Donald went through, Donald went through, Donald, Colin Farrell was on the show

and I think it was him, right? Donald, you didn't want any makeup. And, you know, cause he looks like Colin Farrell. And then Donald was like, you know what? I'm gonna start doing that. I don't need makeup either. If it's good enough for Colin Farrell, it's good enough for me.

Yeah, and Donald was like showing off, like I don't need makeup either. And then like, oh, we did one episode in the next week. Donald was like, I'm gonna go back to the makeup room. I'm gonna go back to the makeup. I'm gonna go back to the makeup. Speaking of makeup, is that you in the costume all the time, or do they have a stand-in for you, or do you have to do makeup every day like that?

Which costume? I've had a lot of weird ones, and I've had some that weren't even a costume at all. Oh, for Doom Patrol? Oh no, that's voiced by Riley Shanahan. I'm voicing the character. Riley Shanahan wears the suit. He is a wonderful comedic performer with fantastic timing and he's full on playing the character through a mask.

Yeah. And he does the heavy lifting there. I mean, I show up in an episode or two wearing pieces of that because like I said, it breaks a lot of rules and makes its own the way this show unfolds. But otherwise, no, it's like, I gotta be clear with you. It's like a dream job. Somebody else wears the thing, shows up for you.

In recent months, I don't even go inside the studio like we all do. You're sitting in your closet right now. I've been doing ADR on a cell phone it's weird days for a business but on the other hand like don't tell anybody this is actually primo I think that's the case I'm not wearing pants haha I think that's the case with I think it's the case with Mandalorian too, you know, cause that's all stunt men. Right, yes.

Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, Did they tell you not to talk about it though? Did the producers want you to be like, no, Brendan's in the suit. No, no way. I would never do that. That's not fair to Riley.

I mean, and I am 51 now. This guy is like built like a tree. And that thing is that those robot suits and all that like DC comic and Marvel comic, those outfit, those super suits, they're heavy. They really are. Super performers are really unsung heroes. I've worked with many of them.

I've worked with them on, I'll say the titles, George of the Jungle. The guys in the gorilla suits are amazing. I mean, they really take Simeon behavior seriously. And I mean, it's a ding-back comedy. But at the same time, no, they were quite specific about what they needed and how they would move as a troupe. But yeah, I mean.

Can you tell Donald and I how to get in that kind of shape if we ever wanted to try? Because you're pretty ripped in that kind of shape if we ever wanted to try because you're pretty ripped in that movie. Yeah, go back in time and eat nothing but like broccoli and styrofoam. Ha ha ha ha! Lift weights until you puke. Yeah. And then go wash your mouth out and keep doing it.

You know, I was once in the gym and a gym in Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym to sort of inspect it. I guess his friend owned it or something. And he was still the governor. And he walked over to me on one of the benches. And I don't know if he recognized me as an actor or if he was just sort of like talking to me as a citizen,

like, hello, what's your goals with your workout? And I was so starstruck and I was like, oh, well, I guess I just kind of want to look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. And he goes, you need to eat a lot of carrots. That's all carrots. So for like the next two months, I was just like fucking pounding carrots.

And it never happened. Did you get ripped? No, I mean, it never happened. It never happened. I never get ripped? No, I mean, it never happened. It never happened. I never got in fight club. Orange skin. Yeah, you definitely got orange. That's for sure.

He eats a lot of carrots and then he just moved on to somebody else. You eat a lot of broccoli. You eat a lot of kumquats. And you eat the squash. You. He's walking around in each version of the gym for you, broccoli, for you, carrot. Chickpeas. My husband has a secret son from a past partner.

Hold up Sam, how do we know how we've done the DNA test? Well John, luckily it's Mother May I Have a DNA Test Week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, my husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father of a five-year-old. Whoa! At first he didn't remember her, but then he realized they had a one night stand right before we started dating.

Wait, but do we have proof he's a dad? Well, the author says there's no confirmation the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting with her lawyer soon. I think she's going after our money. If the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting with her lawyer soon I think she's going after our money if the kid is actually my husband's she would be entitled to it, too So what's a husband got to say about this? This could be his kid Well, apparently he broke down in the middle of the living room apologizing But this is what scared me his first instinct if the kid is his son is to pay the child support

But not be an active father in the kid's life because he only wants a family with me, his wife. Oh, this is a mess. To hear the explosive finale, follow OK Storytime on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, my name's Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama.

To whom much is given, much is expected. The guilt comes from am I doing enough? Me, Michelle Obama, to say that to a therapist. So let's unpack that. Former First Lady Michelle Obama and someone who knows her best, her big brother Craig will be hosting a podcast called IMO. What have been your personal journeys with therapy?

We need to be coached throughout our lives. My mom wanted us to be independent children and she would always tell me, stop worrying about your sister. Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country and the world, I couldn't afford to have that kind of disdain. What would you say has been the most hardest recent test of fear? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

Hosted by me, writer and historian, Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck. This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian, Dr. Randall Williams, and bestselling author and meat eater founder

Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here and I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

On November 5th, 2018, at 6.33 a.m., a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in a ditch out in Sleephole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found, except for a cassette tape lodged in the player. On that tape were ten vile... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 10 vile, grotesque, horrific stories that to this day have been Until now. No! No! You feeling this too? A horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app.

Apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. How long would you train? How long would you train for something like that? I mean the mummy too. I mean I know you're in six shape. Would you go through big training periods? Yeah, I think I recall it was I mean all in it's like a year if you're gonna you know and then you do maintenance and blah blah but you know I haven't asked about this frequently over the years and I really don't know the answer because everyone's body is so different.

And I almost feel reticent to say, well, this is what I did because then people want to emulate or do that and it might not be right for them. But I guess if I'd be honest, it's just just just just get it over with and lift weights, I guess if yeah But the thing is if there's wear and tear on your joints your spine I became really proficient with ice bags like really talk about nerdy camera geek I was like nerdy ice cube geek and and

You know, it's a lot to keep it's a lot to keep up. It's a lot to ask of your body and I I have to say with confidence that I felt a sense of relief when it wasn't something that was expected of me that wasn't exactly what you know, I'm known for or I Was happy to say that someone else's job right now, you know, like and And, you know, like, um, and, uh, and just, you know, pound back the milkshakes. Yeah. Yeah. And Paul Rudd said something very similar to me. He was like, you know, I felt great when I was doing it, but I'm gonna tell you something right now. I'd love to drink a milkshake right now. I'd love to eat something. You know what I mean? Like,

you're absolutely right. It's like when you're doing it, you feel great and there's a purpose. Somebody's paying you a lot of money to do this stuff. But really, you know, living is a lot of fun too. You know what I mean? And you know, I gotta say something psychologically, if I'm honest, I can look at those images now and think, I see a guy who is still insecure, who still felt like, I don't know, a certain part of your body didn't look the proportion that you were hoping for. Or I learned from that, that our self image is just really, um, tied up

with a single thing and that's confidence. If you have that, it doesn't matter how often you go to a gym or don't go to a gym. I really learned that it's about the person who you are and the rest is just decoration. Yeah. Oh I agree 100%. I wish I you know I wish I had that confidence when I go places like the beach and stuff like that. Like I feel great in my skin at home. I could prance around naked in front of my wife and stuff like that. And I'm confident that I, you know,

I still feel and look sexy to her. When you go to the beach though, and there's a, you know, stigmatism on how everybody's supposed to look and you don't necessarily fit that type, it's like, wait a second, you know, I don't necessarily wanna take my shirt off and jump into the water now, you know what I mean?

I have real issues when it comes to that. I remember working so hard to get in shape and look a certain way, you know, just like you said, when it was time for the big reveal, I felt like I didn't reach my goal. You know what I mean? Then I look back at it now and I'm like, holy shit, I looked great. Not bad. Like, holy, look at that. But it never back.

I remember we talked about this on the podcast. I just wish I could have been present when I, you know what I mean? Like, there were so many things on my mind when all the projects that I've made before, I wish I could have just been, it just experienced every moment and I didn't. I was too worried about this or too interested in something else

to really focus on, you know. And now the age that we live in, everybody has a camera right in their pocket and We're all privy to one another's Physiques and it's you know, it's a it's a it's a it's a macabre pastime that is available to everyone and and you know Depending on where you are in the world or what country part of the country somewhere in the back of my mind. I

Always wonder is there somebody with a long lens? You know, is there a sniper? Right. Where are you? Yeah. Did you move? That happened a lot in LA, for sure. But you know.

You moved out of LA. Is that one of the, like, tell us a little bit about the reason you moved. I felt relief, I mean, for that reason alone, you know, because it's a place that's myopic in that sense. With Distance, you can get some perspective, which was helpful to me. For sure. My wife always says, she'll say something to me like, I'm just bigger than everybody.

I'm like, in LA. You know what I mean? You're bigger than everybody in LA and you go anyplace else and people will be like, damn girl, eat a sandwich or something. You know what I mean? But I think it's good when actors get out of New York and LA. I mean, you have to have reached a certain level of stature in the business as you have where you can kind of be anywhere you want. But I fantasize about that sometimes. I don't know about you, Donald, about being able to be somewhere that's not in the heart of the industry. Well, yeah, you'd get more for your buck. First of all, you get more, you know what

I mean? The $2 dollars that you spend in Los Angeles gets you a room with the window. You do that shit in Montana and you got a ranch. You know what I mean? Like, it's a huge difference. I would, you know. I can't picture you on a ranch. Would you like a ranch?

I could picture, listen, I could picture myself in a lot of things. I can picture you on a ranch. Yeah, I know. But wait, Donald, I never asked you this question. This shit doesn't have to have animals on it. It just needs to be a fucking... No, listen, I never asked you this. I never asked you this. If you could live anywhere in the country that's not New York or LA, and you could have, you know, you could...

You know, money's no object. I don't mean like some stupid epic mansion. I mean like, you know, you have all the money that you want to spend. What would you choose? Would you choose the Montana ranch or would you choose... I don't know. I can't picture... I never asked you what that would be for you. to spend, what would you choose? Would you choose the Montana ranch or would you choose, I don't know, I can't picture, I never asked you what that would be for you. I'm a city boy, so I'd have to live in the city. But if I could live any place, there's two places

that I would love to live. One, Toronto, I love the city, it's one of my favorite cities of all time, if I could live anywhere and have have and if money was no object, which it always is But if it wasn't an object dude, I would live somewhere in Toronto. That was freaking, you know Wonderful and great either there or I you know, I am a huge fan of London, you know this It's one of my favorite cities. I do like that area. And you're very popular there. You're like, you're like, you know, Denzel Washington of the United Kingdom. No, I disagree. There's people like John Boyega. There are a bunch of people from the United Kingdom.

No, but they do love the United Kingdom. They do love you. And the people that are listening in the United Kingdom can attest to loving Donald Faison. All right, how about this? If y'all love me in the United Kingdom like you love Denzel or more than you love Denzel, hit me up on Twitter and Instagram and say that shit. I'm going to send it to Denzel and be like, in your face, Denzel. In your face.

Let this week's- I got the UK on lock. Oh my God. He's yelling. I got the UK on lock. You're going to make Brendan have to pull out his earphones. Don't yell with our guest. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Brendan, I know you have to go. We don't want to keep you longer than we promised we would, but we just wanted to really tell you that we love you and that the fans love you. And then I hope if this wasn't too horrible, I hope that you'll come back when we get to season three for that very special episode, because whenever fans talk about their favorite episode, it's either that one or the musical usually, right, Donald? Yeah, absolutely.

More that one though, that's everyone's, it seems like that's the universal number one episode for all of the Scrubs fans. It's rare that we get anything else. It's always the one where your character passes away and Cox has no idea where he's at at the end. Well, you guys are really kind and you were so kind to me then. And I'm really grateful for that experience. And it means a lot to me that people still are

finding it today and that you included me on the show thank you. Included you dude we were so happy that you were doing it. I remember when we found out you were doing the show. I was like holy shit! Yeah we got a real star! We got a real star! It's like you're fishing, we got a real star. We got a real star. We got, it's like we're fishing. We got one on the line. Thank you so much.

And everybody check out Doom Patrol. When is it, when is season two premier? June 25. June 25 on HBO Max, guys. Check it out. And Brendan, thank you so much. We love you. We'll see you.

Bye for now. Bye for now. Oh my God. What a sweet human being, huh? That was so awesome, dude. I can't believe we had him on. But he's just like his, you know, these people, they just, and you're so happy when they're coming to your life.

They just kind of glow peace and kindness. You know, I, even though we're over zoom is just, he's just, he's just fire hosing his heart at you. You know what I mean? He's got that ET heart light. He's got the ET heart light. You said it better than I do. He's got an ET glowing heart light. You feel it. You feel it. I'm glad that I'm almost glad that he couldn't stay the whole time because I was looking at all my notes about turning talking through the episode and I'm like, I don't want to bother Brendan by talking

about Dr. Zeltzer. Right. Like, you're gonna have Brendan sitting there being like, I don't know anything about... I don't care that Rob had a big bit of medical jargon. What the fuck do I give a fuck? I gotta go feed my kids. Well, you did the whole... We skipped over the whole Tony Shalhoub situation where Tony Shalhoub is... Yeah, go back.

Go back. Now that Brendan's gone, I can relax. I can breathe. I was so nervous. I wanted to do a good job. Now it's just me. Now it's just us four. I can talk about Zeltser. I can talk about anything. This whole Tony Shalhoub thing, this was before he started winning all the Emmys, huh? Yeah, before he started beating me every single time. Beating you? He beat everyone, dude. He beat everyone. I know. EVERYONE! Okay. Do you know what that's from? he beat everyone I know what everyone

okay okay you know what that's from no you know what that's from no you never saw the professional the professional Gary Oldman oh yeah of course with Natalie Gary yeah Gary Oldman in the yeah we've got him upstairs what do you want bring me everyone everyone Everyone? Everyone! I'm sorry if you're listening to this podcast on earbuds. I apologize. I will try and counterbalance it with this soft podcast voice I have. You don't remember that?

Do you remember that SNL sketch where they were doing like a, it was like the sweaty balls one where they were doing like the soft. Oh my God, I can't wait to get those sweaty balls in my mouth. Yeah, but that was when Alec Baldwin was the guest star. But the normal show was like, yes, they talk like this. That's fun. That's real fun. Oh, it's great.

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

from here on out, especially after this whole, the whole Black Lives Matter situation that's been going on when they straight up said, yo, Black Lives Matter, anyone say anything else, pretty much go fuck yourself. Good for them. I love it, by the way. I'm not just saying that. I can't have Ben and Jerry's in my house because I'll just snort it like it's fucking cocaine. Whoa. Do we need to have a conversation about your cocaine issues? No. I'm just saying imagine that when people that have a coke problem- I think you have a problem if you're snorting ice cream like cream like it's like you don't snort your ice cream, Donald.

It's only a problem when you get a particularly chunky flavor and that like a peanut butter pretzel gets stuck in your nose. Oh, my gosh. You need to chop that shit up. I like Chubby Hubby a lot. Well, Danil is freaking out over there. He likes that, too. It gets no play. I can never find it, but it's my favorite flavor.

It's so good. I love Chubby. I like anything, basically anything with peanut butter because I like peanut butter and chocolate in my ice cream. I see that. The Milky Cookies is the best flavor for sure. I like the- I'm gonna be honest with you.

I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't eat a lot of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. That is the honest to goodness. Is there another brand that you would have the audacity to choose because we're trying to get them to be our sponsors, so don't fuck a lot of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. That is the honest to goodness. Is there another brand that you would have the audacity to choose because we're trying to get them to be our sponsors, so don't fuck this up for us. No, there isn't another brand that I would have the audacity to choose.

I'm just saying it hasn't been something that I have been getting a lot of. Oh, because you're trying to stay thin, but then you go home and make that shit yourself. I prefer to make my ice cream. So if Ben and Jerry's wants to become a sponsor and teach them a buck of how to make some of these flavors. Yeah, so that's what Ben and Jerry's gonna do. They're gonna come on and teach you how to make their top secret ice cream. I wouldn't, I wouldn't,

I wouldn't give it away. I would keep it for myself. There are a bunch of, there are a bunch of things that I wish the owners of the company would be like, all right, look, we're just gonna give you the recipe. Keep that shit to yourself, but you can make it at home Crispy cream. Hello. Teach me how to make a doughnut. What about those salt's cure pancakes? The salt's cure pancakes. Yeah my restaurant in Los Angeles Donald. I've never had your so my bad Oh, yeah, and then there's the salt's cure pancakes. Oh, you're a dick are very very tasty But you know where I really like the pancakes is DuPars dear DuPars Oh fuck DuPars listen no no listen. No you fuck you fuck yourself motherfucker Hold on god damn it. Hold on. I'm now going back to my podcast voice to counterbalance Donald's loud voice

And then and then Mastro's if you could teach me how to make that butter cake Yo, that butter cake that butter then Mastro's, if you could teach me how to make that butter cake. Yo, that butter cake, that butter cake Mastro's. You remember Mastro's where we used to go for steak night? Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember steak night? I know you don't eat meat anymore, but do you remember steak night? Of course.

We used to legit go to steak night. It is the world's best meat. It is such a treat. We're going to steak night. Yeah. We are going to. Donald and I made that song up, I want the world to know. That was another, in addition to our theme song,

with the help of Charlie Puth, a steak night with no help from Charlie Puth is an original song by Donald Faison and I. We're gonna steak night. We're gonna eat it right. Steak is the world's best meat. No, steak is such a treat. It is the world's best meat.

Steak night. We's best meat. No, steak is such a treat. It is the world's best meat. It is the world's best meat. Steak night. And then we did the fucking this dance, the fucking Brady Bunch dance. Yeah, yeah. Do you remember when the Brady Bunch would perform as like a band, like in the later episodes, they became like a band and that was their move.

Like, when it's time to change, you've got to shana na na na na na na shana na na yo let me know what the what was happening at the time what was happening at the time went through puberty remember he went he was like if you remember that episode if you're old enough to remember he was going through puberty and and when he was singing his song he was like when it's time to change you've got to rearrange. And they were like, oh no, what are we gonna do? Peter's going through puberty. What the fuck happened?

And all of a sudden, the Brady Bunch were in a band. Like out of nowhere, it was like, season one, the Brady Bunch, they're having a hard time coming together as a family. Season two, the Brady Bunch, they're going to school now. Things are great. Season three, they're in a band? Like what the fuck?

I don't know if it was season three. I don't know either, I'm just guessing, but out of nowhere, it had to be when they were young. Can you find out how many seasons in, the Brady Bunch, Bikini Band? It's the same shit, Donald, it's jumping the shark. It's like red-haired Sam coming in different strokes. You gotta shake shit up.

They went to fucking Hawaii and jumped the shark. Remember the Hawaii, well of course you remember. Do-da-loo! Do-da-loo... I mean, we'd use it in scrubs. We got to sell those tiki necklaces on our merch shop one day. Oh yeah? One day. When I Heart gets our merch shop going.

Okay. Someone said that... Wait, can I fucking finish a sentence for the love of God? Do what you got to... Listen. For the love of Yahweh. Can I finish a sentence? For... Only for Yahweh, can I finish your sentence? Go for it. Only for Yahweh, let's go. Someone told me they had a good merch idea. Oh, that they thought, I mistakenly said sports players instead of athletes.

Someone said, please make a t-shirt that says sports players on it. I like that. I'd wear the fuck out of that. Sports players? I wish the sports players would get this. What's your last thing? Let's talk about let's talk about Ted's band Thank you. See man. This is why I should I should just say what I want to say because now it looks like I'm jumping on Your coattails. That's what I wanted to talk about. Let's talk about Ted's band

Okay, Ted's band is I said it first is introduced in this episode you get to see For the second time what a ridiculously beautiful voice our Sammy Lloyd had. And it's so tragic to use the word had, but it is accurate to say had. This was real. This was his friends. All those men, those three men are his buddies, and they all sang acapella with him. And so we gave them... Bill gave them jobs in the hospital

and formed an acapella group. And as I read on Scrubs' Wiki, it was originally supposed to be the Superman theme, but they couldn't get the rights. Yes. So that's how Underdog came about. I remember... That would have made more sense because there's a whole Superman motif, but they couldn't get the rifles on. I remember Sam and his, we can sing it on here because we're not gonna, I don't think we'll get

in trouble for it if we will, though, cut it out. But it was like, three bullets of speed left behind. Two powerful trains turned around. One able to leap. Two powerful trains turned around. One able to leap buildings tall. In a run all in one single bound. Superman, Superman, where is Superman? Superman, Superman, calling Superman human of steel.

Superman, Superman, Superman. Now wait, are these lyrics, were they real? These are written by Sam and his band. The band would... Oh, so the song, I mean, you made me think that the theme song had lyrics to it. John Williams wrote this, John Williams wrote this. Right, right, right, right. Right, so it was just...

Right. And so they sang the whole song with words. I have it on my iPhone. Like it's something that's stuck. My kids know it by heart. Those guys wrote it. And Paul, as I recall, Paul, one of the members of the band wrote a bunch of the songs from the musical.

Did he not write the Guilev? Oh, I don't, that I don't know. Will you look that up for me too? I think this is a great don't know. Joelle, will you look that up for me too? I think Paul- This is a great Bill, this is a great Bill Lawrence question actually. Okay, hey Bill, talk to us about- Ted's band. Ted's band and Paul from the band,

whose name I can't quite remember right now, but we will say it in this episode. Didn't he write some of the musical, including the song Guy Love? Cause I feel like that's a bit of trivia. That's true. Also, where did you come up with the idea? I mean, it's obvious, but- Oh, I got it. Paul Perry. Sorry, guys. It's Philip McNiven, or George, George, forgive me if I don't say your name right, Miserliss, and Paul Perry. I believe it was Paul Perry and Bill Will Tellus,

who wrote a bunch of the musical songs. Bill, tell us now. Hey guys, it's cool talking to you. Look, Paul Perry, who is part of Ted's band, who are known as the Blanks in real life. This is how Sam Lloyd came into my life. He was on Spin City back in the day. He's Chris Lloyd's nephew.

He played basketball with us. Donald, you played ball with him. And he had this super talented acapella band that wrote the lyrics to Superman, made them up and used to do it at parties and stuff. And they were just so darn talented. And Paul used to do all the arrangements for them. So we just started using them on the show as kind of a Greek chorus with commercial theme songs and TV theme songs. So fun. And yet Paul ended up writing a bunch of the songs for Guy Love

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

That was a great moment to, new boy in the neighborhood lives downstairs and it's understood. He's there just to take good care of me. Like he's one of the family. Charles. Charles in charge of our day. And I love that show. Didn't you love that show? I did. I did love that show didn't you love that show I did I did

love that show Nicole Egger Nicole Egger mmm Nicole Egger a moment of silence for puberty all right let's talk about zeltzer Bob Klindenen this is his first appearance he's pretty normal in this episode zeltzer doesn't really get that wacky yet. He doesn't really fly his free flag. Yeah, yeah, I noticed that. How about Rob Martio with the medical jargon? I know, man.

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

He goes. Well, everybody else is everybody else is thinking about What they this dude just thinking has nothing in his brain or something. Yeah, I don't forget. Yeah, he's like he's like done Oh, I know it is. It's done. Then then then then then tiny scouple Yeah, Rob, I say this every every episode that he's in but he really he really does knock it out the park, man. Yeah. He was funny. By the way, this is... We go into your head at 1421. That was out of character for the show. We go into your head and we hear what your thoughts are. And that's how we... Camera spins around to see... By the way, and you had jargon, but I imagine you just read that shit.

I read that shit off a piece of paper, man. I'm pretty sure of it. I heard you say that medical jargon. I was like, Donald read that shit. He didn't memorize that. You know he read that shit, right? And you know I read that shit. Dun-dun-dun-dun, the Chinese cowboy. So when he's smacking the ass of the nurse,

did you notice that the nurse got her ass a little perched up high enough so that the gag works? Yeah, of course. That's how you make the joke funny. I don't know what she's doing. She doesn't appear to be doing anything. What is she doing? No, she's just sitting there doing nothing.

That's Lynn though, by the way, guys. Lynn? Yeah, that's our friend Lynn. But she doesn't... I'm just going to scroll because I have the episode open. I'm just wondering if she at least is pretending to do something because as I recall, she just looked like she was bent over. Season three, episode 16 of the Brady Bunch, the kids, they covered KC in the Sunshine Band.

It looks like it was a ploy for Paramount Records. They were like, did it for three or four seasons. I told you it was season three. See, I had my shit right and everything, man. Did you guess season three? How the hell did you know your Brady Bunch lore that well? Of course I guessed that shit. Do you do the Brady Bunch Wiki? did you know your Brady Bunch lore that well? Of course I guessed that shit. Do you do the Brady Bunch wiki?

I should do the Brady Bunch wiki. I should. You're so funny. You're like, you don't remember the fucking most obvious shit in our relationship. And then you'll be like, the Brady Bunch kids started singing in 1972. It was episode 16 of season three.

All right. wanna talk about... The choreographed move, should we talk about that? Yeah, that was cool. Do you remember doing that? No, I don't. When all of us are doing the exact same movements and it's a split screen and we're all thinking and it's all the exact same choreography. And then I read on Scrubs Wiki that for some reasons, Judy's was backwards in terms of

right left and so they flipped her. And that's why if you look Judy's name tag is on the wrong side because in post her choreography wasn't right so they flipped her. I did not know that. I'm going to be honest with you. I thought this episode was going to have way more Brendan Fraser in it to be honest with you. I thought it was like a whole episode about, you know,

what happened to the character. I didn't know that other shit went on in the hospital. So when watching it, I was like, I don't remember any of this. Like, I know, that's why I felt weird. Like I wanted to talk to Brendan, but I was like, I feel bad. Like I want to talk about the episode, but I don't want to put fancy Brendan through like talking about the fact that Johnny C's wearing his actual Oakleys when we do the real world spoof. Right, that was such a hilarious, like stuck to. It's so funny, right?

Did you see my hair? Your hair, dude, your hair, dude. It's amazing. I took a picture of it to show my girlfriend, it's so funny. That shit was crazy. And Johnny's wearing those comedic Oakleys, but those are really his Oakleys. Johnny C's the kind of guy that really would rock those. He probably still wears them.

Those like wrap around, like wrap around Oakleys. They're perfect for athletes who are on the go. Like if you're jogging and you have the wrap around Oakleys, no sunlight gets in and they don't fall off your face. I don't care. I love Johnny, but I'm not wearing those Oakleys, Donald. And neither are you, no matter what sport you're playing. Dude, you are a, you, you, let's be,

let's tell everybody what you are. You're more of a- Amazing, amazing. Well, dude, you know I love you, and you know I think you're amazing, but you're also, when it comes to sunglasses, you're very much a, what's the one that the, aviator, you're an aviator guy.

I'm more Ray-Ban, or Ray-Bans, or, yeah, that sort of vibe, yeah. Ray-Ban aviator guy. Yeah, I like it. I'm more Ray-Bans or, yeah, that sort of vibe, yeah. Ray-Ban aviators. But I wouldn't rock a colored glass wraparound Oakley. That's not my vibe. If you're playing tennis, why not? I just think they look... I know Johnny listens. Johnny, I love you.

It's just not my style. Let me just start off by saying Johnny, I love you. Johnny listens while he's weightlifting, and I know he's like, oh, like pumping iron right now. I don't want him to be like, fuck you, bruv, I love my Oakley. Probably got him on right now in the gym. No. I want to talk about how not only does the janitor pick a lock that isn't locked.

Did you notice that? No, I didn't. Like no one took the time to find lockers that would have even like a fake lock. It's like so clearly not locked and he takes a screwdriver and like pretends to pick a non-locked locker. And I did-

Did you think that it was weird that you were writing all of this stuff in a diary? Like out of nowhere, like just out of nowhere. I forgot, all of a sudden the show's Doogie Howser and does that imply that all of JD's voiceovers are going into a journal? I never even, I mean I certainly didn't play it that way for eight and a half years. Right, so when I saw that I was like wait a second so there's there's data there's information of everyone who like somebody could go back and in a time capsule or wherever, you know,

you passed away, there's freaking stacks and stacks of diaries of everything that's ever happened to JD. I never really understood. And it seems that this is the implication because it's a voiceover that goes right in the diary that all the voiceover you're hearing is JD's journal. Now I do remember that I had a journal that had a unicorn with a sword on its head

and he's there to protect my hopes and dreams. And I wanna show that this, I wanna the record reflect this journal did not have a unicorn with a sword on its head. So no one is protecting my hopes and dreams right now on this journal. That's why the janitor is able to get in there. But I thought it was funny when he said theater camp

because that was me. He really... Yeah, but that's a... I mean, I know we went to Bill already, but that's another great question for Bill. Are these JD's memoirs or are we living in present time when we watch the show? You know what I mean?

Is this something that took place in the past? Well, ask him. Go ahead and ask him formally, Donald. We can do a two, Biller. Bill, is Scrubs JD's memoirs? Is it like a bunch of stories that JD has compiled in a bunch of books? Or is this, are we living in the moment from moment to moment when we're watching it? Yeah, because we're seeing in this episode, Bill,

that JD is writing a journal and VoiceOver goes right into the journal. Was this a Doogie Howser moment, Bill, when... Do do do do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do The voiceover originally was conceived as JD keeping stuff in his journals, but we ditched that and just kind of made it, people just go with it. We made it an omniscient voiceover, you know, because we were always caught in his head and his thoughts. And people just go with it the same way on Modern Family. No one ever seemed to ask who was interviewing that family and who was doing that documentary.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we are back. And we're back. We had Brendan Fraser on the episode earlier. Nice pronunciation of Fraser. You didn't mess it up for the first time. We have Alex and what's your dad's name? Corey! Alex and Corey are now on the show from two different locations!

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

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

I don't think so, but I'm a piano teacher mostly, okay But I've been I'm a composer and a piano teacher. So that's Since I can't give lessons in my living room on my grand piano I have to give them in my office on my electronic piano over zoom I truly wish you knew the theme song to our little rewatch show. I love the theme song to your rewatch show. I think you guys did a fantastic job singing it. Thank you. Really fantastic. I'm not so crazy about the count in, but you know. Are you saying we're off tempo, Cory? No, I'm saying that you're covering up the first couple words because there's a there's a there's a pickup you know there's a story so you say five six seven eight when you're saying seven eight

there's a story it's kind of covering it up but you know it's a it's a shtick now and so there's there's no way you can change it. From here no you know what I'm gonna change it when we finish this I'm gonna change it just for you just for this just for this podcast I never imagined we'd get notes. I'm gonna go a one, a two, a one. No, no, no, you wanna go five, six, seven, there's a story. Right, all I can go a five, a six, a five, six. You can do that, that's it. I know offense, Corey, but I think the fans will revolt

because they really love Donald's five, six, seven, eight. They do, they love everybody's, yes. So like I said it's probably ingrained and there's nothing to do about it. But it's just every time it happens it just kind of bothers me. It irks you. All right. Well I'm sorry Donald. I'm doing it for you. I'm doing it for you Cory. Thank you Donald. Now Cory tell us how you and Alex started watching the show and was this your first time through? Alex why don't you tell us since Cory's getting all the screen time.

Yeah. Oh no it's okay. The reason why I wanted us to come on is because Father's Day is coming up, and I said for Dad, for a gift, come on the show. So you didn't have to pay for anything. I see how you do it. She's still going to get him a card. She's still going to get him a card. I said to Joelle, I'm the favorite daughter now. Here we go. No, so I think I can't remember who started watching the show first, if it was my dad or myself.

This is not our first time in quarantine. I would say I've seen every episode of the show multiple, multiple times. And I think the same is for my dad. But we really bonded over our love of the show. I think we watched it separately and then came together and realized we were both watching it. And we like quiz each other on little scrubs trivia facts a lot and

It's just something that we've really bonded over is our love for the show and for you guys. We love that We love families that watch together and you know, also people finding it what's been crazy about this new era of streaming You know the show used to be on Netflix now It's on Hulu is that more generations keep finding it. And I think that's really, that's really cool. It's kind of keeps on going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I watched it when it first came on.

What year was the first season? Do you know what year it was? 2001. 2001. 2001. I was gonna say 1999. I don't know, but I do own the complete collection of DVDs. So I'm hoping that you guys got a little bit of money for me purchasing that one.

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

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

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

Yes, okay, yes. Amazing. Thank you. Thank you. You know what? You know who has never seen Remember the Titans? Is it Zach? Don't tell me it's Zach. It's Zach Braff. Zach!

I'm going to watch it. We had a conversation at the... thank you for bringing this up Alex. You're killing me, sweetie! You're killing me! Thank you. We had a conversation at the beginning of this episode and Zach's like, it's on my to-do list. It's on my to-do list.

Listen, man, I've seen every one of his projects, even the ones that didn't come out in theaters, even the ones that went straight to video. I've seen everything that Zach Braff has been in. I can count them all on this hand right here. Well, listen. All of them. All of them on my one hand. I thought it was about sports players,

and I didn't think that I would like it. But I love Donald. I love Denzel. And I love Rudy. So if it's anything like Rudy. Do you like Ryan Gosling? Yes, I think he's wonderful. He's in it.

Yeah. Do you like Wood Harris? I think of it as Rudy's in it. I feel Do you like Wood Harris? I think of it as Rudy. He's in it. I feel like it's Rudy with Donald Faison. Is it like that? No, it's not. Listen, motherfucker.

Are you the Rudy? Cut you in your fricking. Are you the Rudy? Because if so, I'm fucking watching that shit tonight. I have a Rudy moment. I have a Rudy moment. Watch the damn movie. OK, don't ruin it for me.

All right. Let's just put it like this. Let's put it like this. What. Let's put it like this. What? Let's put it like this. Ryan Gosling is effing up the whole time and I save his ass. Let's just put it that way. Okay.

I'm gonna think about it. All right, go ahead. All right, all right. So Mike, my question is. Thank you for watching, Alex. Of course, of course. So one of the things that's just so incredible about the show in general is the way that you can mix the comedy and the silliness of the show with some of these like more dramatic or serious moments

that sort of center around the theme of loss, right? And I know you just had Brendan Fraser on and that's a really big sort of plot point in the show for Dr. Cox, but of course with the loss of John Ritter too. So I'm wondering if you guys could talk a little bit about what it was like to go through the experience of acting on a really highly comedic show and then have to sort of transition to these pretty serious storylines where the characters are experiencing death and loss of some pretty important people in their lives, including patients as well. Well, I'll tell you, there were times where I didn't think it was going to work. There were plenty of times where I thought,

this is like a hairpin turn in a car. How are you gonna go from me doing something so silly, and then I walk into this patient's room and I'm just dropping in for this dramatic moment? And I really have to say, it's a testament to the writing and to Bill. He found a way to make it work. I mean, they were only 22 minutes without commercials.

So sometimes you'd read them and go, how can you be in this weird fantasy and then drop in for this moment where we have tears in our eyes? I think we just always tried to play it real. Obviously the fantasies were heightened and some of the physical comedy was heightened, but we always tried to deal with the patient moments like they were completely played straight. I think of the show MASH a lot because when I grew up we were watching MASH and it had a laugh track on it. But when they went into the surgical room, when they were operating on the

soldiers, there was no laugh track, even though there'd still be some humor. It was just sort of a choice they made. And I often think of that in Scrubs. It was almost like there were moments when the silliness stopped and we just dropped in to play totally straight how a doctor would be with a sick patient. So I don't know. What do you think, Donald? I think it was just a matter of really good writing, to be frank. Absolutely. That, and thank goodness that we were able to cut in between scenes and stuff like that. And it wasn't, you know, if this were a play or something where there aren't any cuts in it, it would be very, you're absolutely right. It'd be very hard to be funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, and then switch on a, you know, turn

on a dime and now we're going to be serious. Thank goodness that we had cuts, you know, and different scenes edited together for that. This would have been a way more challenging show if this, if everything was done in one take and you having to ride that emotional roller coaster. I think, you know, as any actor will tell you, those are the most difficult scenes where you're starting, like, cause usually you work yourself up. On days when I have like a dramatic scene, I'll work myself up and I'll get to the point where, you know, I'm on the verge of crying.

And so now I don't have to act that much to get to the tears. If I had to be funny and laugh and joke around and everything like that, and then move into the dramatic and the sadder side of the scene without a cut. I don't know how I would be able to do it. It would be such a challenge for me. So thank goodness for the takes and editing also.

Yeah. It all comes down to good writing. I mean, you can make... You know, there's a movie, Once, I really love. I don't know if you ever seen there's a movie, a once I really love. I don't know if you ever see it. Oh yeah, great movie. But one of the things about once is like, once is the ultimate example of like, if you have a great script, you don't need, that movie looks like it's shot on an iPhone.

No disrespect to the cinematographer, I mean, it's brilliant. But I mean, if you have a great script and great actors, you can make anything anything work and and you know it's all it's all it all comes down to great writing is that thank you falling slowly that I don't know that one yeah I love that movie check out once everyone suffered we have a lot of a lot of movie recommendations quiet American Once and remember the Titans. All right, Cory, do you have a question for the legendary Donald Faison or Zach Braff? I

Do so for me. I love the fantasy sequences in the show I mean right from the beginning there were such funny, you know, and I think my two favorite ones are when The character Alex, you know says how would you feel if you know? I told you I was ready now to have sex and the marching band comes crashing Symbols oh my god, and I also love memorable. It's in later seasons when Somebody is trying to teach Elliot and Tasty Como Wife a dance. Alex told me it was the rewind dance. Oh man and Elliot is so bad at dance. She does such a fantastic job of being horrible at that. Flapping her hands and kicking her leg at the wrong time. Oh very funny., so I was just thinking about I wonder if there were any

Fantasy scenes that were like pitched or written or even films that just didn't make it into the show that you remember That's probably pretty tough. It's been a long time. That's a very good question I don't know Donald's, you know, that might have to be our third ask bill I think we're gonna have to ask bill a third time on this this is like um You know that show millionaire when you get we should we should only be allowed a certain amount of like ask a friend call a friend the audience Like no, I think you're okay. I would give you a passive calling bill alright, so we're gonna ask bill a third time I hope you can squeeze in a third one were there any fantasies bill that

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

Miss you guys, love you both. Thank you, Bill. I don't, one thing, often the fantasies took a lot of time and money. Yeah. So I feel like they were rarely cut because it was kind of where budget was getting thrown. Sometimes they would be really elaborate and take a lot of time and money. So usually they probably wouldn't be I feel like they were rarely cut because it was kind of where budget was getting thrown.

Sometimes they would be really elaborate and take a lot of time and money. So usually they probably wouldn't be unless something went wrong with them and they weren't funny. And I could see that some of them took a long time to make and it was like eight seconds. Oh yeah. That's all it was, just eight seconds. But you had to spend all day at makeup. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. Some of them were so elaborate and they would take forever to do and then it would be really quick. But they're just the laugh out loud parts of the show. And I love a TV show that just makes me laugh out loud but also has that serious, all my favorite shows have that. The laugh out loud stuff. What are some of your other shows that you love?

Well, Freaks and Geeks is probably one of my favorite shows of all time. Yeah, great show. Judd Apatow. Yeah, and also Gilmore Girls is that way, too. They dealt very serious subjects, but there's some really good laugh out loud stuff on that from that show. They talk really fast on Gilmore Girls.

They do. I love it. I love it. They're both incredibly witty. All right. Well, thank you guys. You're our very first father, daughter, Colin. And and and we're very we're very happy that you guys are bonding through our show, because- Ladies and gentlemen, give a big round of applause for Alex and Corey!

Oh my god, Oprah does not sound like that. You sound like Oprah on fucking crack right now. No, I don't sound like Oprah on crack. Yes, you sound like if Oprah took a fucking, hit a crack rock Thank you Argue in front of all the guests we argued in front of Corey and Alex we argued in front of Brendan the hell's wrong with I'm trying to see what it sounds like. I'm trying to in my head, if Oprah did crack, how like...

Sounds like that. Although, listen, there's one commercial and Oprah got it right. Well, she gets a lot of things right, but it's one of them Weight Watchers commercial. It's my favorite commercial ever. It's your favorite commercial ever? It's an Oprah Weight Watchers commercial? Yeah, because she starts off like this. This is the joy for me.

I love bread. My favorite commercial. Dude, yeah, but who doesn't love? Listen, I spent a lot of time in quarantine. Yeah, you love bread. You know what I love more than anything right now I'm noticing? Let me guess. Bread.

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

We had wonderful guests. What? I have one thing. Underdog've done it. We went through the show. We had wonderful guests What I have one thing underdog great song at the end of the show one Ted's band. That's on their record also underdog Yeah, and then I feel like we tied the story up really quick in this episode You know what I mean in a good way or a bad way? I think we've ran out of time to be honest with you It feels like we've ran out of time on this episode at the end of the episode things tie up really quick We don't even go through the whole chemo process with Brendan's character we go right into oh, you know what the chemo worked and it went right and the cancer went into remission

It feels like we had to tidy up a little bit so we could move on with the story I it's a lot. It's a lot. it's a lot, it's a lot to, first of all, he was only signed on for. Two episodes it looks like. Yeah, and you know, it's 22 minutes with credits. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta hurry. Thank you guys for being our listeners. Please tell your friends about the show.

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