520: The Live Show!!

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Joel, Hey, where I don't see you? Well? Where are you? Oh?
My god, you did not Joel? Where? Yeah? Are we
not meeting at the hospital? We who told you we
were meeting? I'm at the hospital. Where's everybody else? We
are in our homes where it's safe during your homes.
I've just set the camera thing up outside of the hospital.

(00:29):
For goodness sakes, don't we're doing this whole thing like you.
We had briefly talked about what are cool? Alive? Even no, no,
but listen, I admire your commitment, your dedication. Thank you.
This is why we love you here. That's amazing. OKAYI Hi,

(00:49):
how are you? I'm so excited for a second live show.
I am thrilled to do our second live show. It's
gonna be great. We have a what a banger of
a show we have planned for. Listen, the guys have
been cooking for y'all, made some important phone calls, got
it going. Yes, it's gonna be amazing you guys, yes,
And we were like yes, and now we're here and

(01:14):
it's happening, and I'm so excited you guys in the chat. Listen,
y'all already know fans or what makes the show move,
It's what gives us our life blood. So we want
to hear from you guys about You can ask questions
in the chat look right above the chat screen. There
should be a place for you to drop your questions.
And we've already gotten so many great ones. So I
wanted to start off. Oh can I find it? Oh? Yes, okay,

(01:37):
so here it is. Mike s asked right there, what
was both Joel and Daniel's history with Scrubs and what
brought y'all to the podcast? Okay, um, I can tell
my story really really quick. I was in the office
very early one day because I'm an early riser, and
our boss, the fabulous Jack, said, Hey, are you Scrubs fan?
I said, I'm a human, so yes, of course I

(02:00):
love Scrubs and so I had to check it and
he was like, okay, well, we've got a really important
call with Zack and Noneald today. Could you come on
and talk to them? I mean, guys, I was six
weeks maybe into my employment. I I was like, fresh,
what is this what we're doing? Oh my gosh. So
we sat down they started pitching the show, which is

(02:20):
pretty much all the core elements we talked about in
that conversation didn't make it to the show, and I
was I was hooked up. I was like, I have
to be the one to produce this show. And so
I got really lucky and I was excited and I
loved it. Daniel, how'd you come to be a part
of it? Got you? Jil friends Well, in very similar experience,
I was. I was the only engineer at the office
that day. No, you know, at the time, my position

(02:44):
in the office was basically to be the person who
starts the recordings, who make sure that every recording goes smoothly,
everybody is equipped properly and is good to go when
an actual recording starts. And same kind of thing where
Jack was like, hey man, we need we need someone
to you know, set up the Scrubs recording. And I
knew that high school me who watched Scrubs every single

(03:05):
episode was a huge fan and actually sang guy love
at a high school performance. It was like, I, oh yeah,
I was like, I got I'm I'm in. So I
dropped off some equipment for the boys and here we
are a whole live show. Two live shows later, Oh,
oh my gosh, We're so lucky. That we've got to
be a part of this show. You guys, the fans

(03:26):
are incredible and we're not gonna make you wait anymore.
You the main attractions are coming up right now, right now, guys,
welcome seven dotle. Hello. I can't hear our music. Play
our music play loud? Yes, Donald, you picked this jam.

(03:58):
This is a banger. I know this banger. I don't
know if you know this. No, I need to get
to know the bob. What are you doing, Pop and
a half? What has happened in your life that you
are not listening to the radio. We don't. We are
down with iHeart and you don't know popular music? That
is that his new jam? That Bruno's new jam. Not
only Bruno, it's Anderson Pack Like it's freaking silk Si.

(04:21):
You're stilk sonic baby. Hi, everybody, we're dimes. You wouldn't
be a hundred dollars. Donald waved everybody. Donald waved everybody. Helloha,
Hi everybody all over the world. I'm so glad you're here.
We're so excited. We had so much fun doing this
last time. That put on put on Gucci for y'all,

(04:43):
and Donald's in his closet and his daughter just took
a shower, so he's it's very hot in there. He's
wearing little little mist it's a little I'm wearing. I'm
wearing corduroy in Manhattan on the summer for you guys,
because I wanted to look my best. I only I
only have suits. I don't have summer suits. I don't
have summer suits either. Yeah, summer suit is like remember

(05:06):
when Obama wore that suit and got all that flak.
That's a summer suit. Yes, it's light. I don't have
any light suits anyway, everybody, All I got is winter suits.
I'm so glad we're here and donald don't feel bad.
You can strip layers as the show goes on. I
would like to because this is really hot. I know
you have a hand towel for your forehead because you

(05:27):
like rappers. You're you know, like they keep up on
the stage and they go like this, yeah dat yeah
yeah you got have to do that. Yeah, because it's
warm in this room. Yeah, you look sweaty as fu already.
Plus the light, the light is really really hot. You
guys like, no, I like to take the jacket off
now yet, Okay, okay, come on at least let us
welcome our first guest, but not just yet. I just

(05:48):
want to say I'm so excited. I didn't really know
which episode we were doing, and I just watched it
and we picked one of the saddest episodes, Scrubs this Street.
You like, you were like, yo, you should do a
rap recap for this. And then I watched the show
and I was like, you gotta be out of your mind.
There's no way. It's just like every like everything that
could happen. Did you think you could happen? Did you?

(06:11):
I got a little okay, well, show us where you
started and where where where would have gone? And then
you realized that it was a very depressing episode. Okay,
it's pretty quick, but it goes like okay, but it's
the intro. I imagine, hey, hey, hey, it goes like this,
okay your head yeah wait, hold up, yeah, it's back
that fire recap. You could tell by the Swell client

(06:32):
tell we you tract that me, DJ Daniel, Joel lind
Zach All, the real class act. It's a well known fact. Yo,
I come through with the good news to kill your blues.
And then I watched the show and I was like, wait,
hold up Goode very name. That was so good, So

(06:57):
I love it in my mind. You like wrote in
intro and you're like, this would be awesome, and then
you watch the show and you're like crying. You're like,
I can't rap about this ship. There's no way, there's
no way, there's no way. It's so sad. The shining
bright spot of comedy in the show. We'll get into
his Rob Rob Maso. And by the way, it's, by
the way, the funny thing about Scrubs, the ultimate the

(07:19):
ultimate example of you can have the crazy, sad things
that happened in the show, and then the other main
story is the silliest fucking thing with Rob with Rob,
with Rob. Can't see his name, Rob Mashio. You see
Mashio or Mashio. I say mash I call him mash
Rob Mashi, I say Mashio. All right, we'll find out
maybe one day what it is. All right, Listen, we

(07:40):
have a I have so many surprises. Donald doesn't even
know about some surprises. I don't know who's on the
show tonight. Yes, I wanted to keep it from my
from my lover. Now Joel, we have a pole going
just because we want you to to know we do polls.
How's the going so far? Guys? We asked everyone what
their favorite podcast song is, Daniel, can you give us
an update? All right? Well, when this pole comes up again,

(08:02):
I will be able to give you a full on update.
But right now the chat is flying so fast. Are
people happy in the chat? Different? Oh, they're thrilled. Okay,
to make sure you, guys, make sure you have them
to look directly in the lens. You Jim, Carol, Michael, Carl,
Stephen Doan, Jabari how Ling, Lisa. Yeah, you say your name.

(08:32):
If we hadn't said your name, I'm talking to you.
Make sure you ask the questions because Well is going
to look through them and look for good questions. Okay
to me, without further ado, I can't waste any more
time bringing Donald focus. I'm sorry, I was just talking
to all the girls. I love you. I'm around the
way yo. Okay, I'm hyped, I'm ready, I'm ready. I know,

(08:54):
I know this is very exciting. We don't normally if
we were naming people and then all of a sudden,
I got into Lisa, Angela Pamelo, Renee, I love you
from around the Way. You remember that ain't Daniel my
I around away girl El cool jeez the one, but yes,

(09:18):
totally I listened. Guys, we have a jam pack show.
We can't waste it on all cool j No offense
to mister coolja hell, I love you man for life.
I love that you always think these people are watching Hello,
it's watching the hell No Hello, please don't tell Hello
watching the live show. I love you for real. I
always always talks to these famous as though they watch

(09:40):
like no offense, Hello, But that's true? All right? Listen? Uh,
why don't we count galling into the theme song and
then bring in our guests? Sounds great to me about
show me about a bunch of talks and nurses story?

(10:04):
So getata around here? Are yet around here? M h?
Shut up now. The question in the pole is, of course,
what's your favorite song? I thought after that, maybe Joelle,
we could do what's your favorite sound effect? Noise on

(10:26):
my pad? No? Please, god, no, no, no no no.
Why Why are you worried? Are you worried it's gonna
idea it is? Are you worried it's gonna be? That? A? Right?
So Joel, when we're done with this poll, can you
switch it to my most common sound effects noises. Dani
will know them. Do you want to check in with
the pole right now? Yes, check it out. We'll bring
the pole up. So uh, the question was what is

(10:48):
your favorite fake doctors? Can we show the pole? Um? Um? Kayla? Kayla?
Is our tech rep today? Kayla? Is it possible to
show the poll? Or is that weird? Get? We could
get the mainscreen up, it would show, it would show
the tire, it would show the entire live stream. Okay,
we'll be kind of small, but I'm happy to read
it to you. Are you reading the meantime? Wait at
the bottom? The Caller song by Travy Webby Okay, no offense,

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Travy great song. Offense. Fourth place. Zach's ice Cream Song. Oh,
I'm glad that's pulling because sorry, Dale, I'm glad it's
pulling because it's brand new and um and I gotta
I took a recording. Sorry, I can't digress for one moment,
you guys, I want to play. I went out there

(11:31):
today to the ice cream team, and I wanted you
to hear what I hear non stop, NonStop my recording. Um,
you'll there's a man that the ice cream truck parked
and blocked the corner, and a gentleman an electric wheelchair
couldn't get by, And so you'll hear him complaining, rightfully
so about this freaking ice cream truck. Okay, this is

(11:53):
what I hear all day long, story all day Donald
It's it's really that perfect, like slightly off pods, fucking

(12:17):
eyes creamy, come on your eyes all right? Well, I'm
glad that's ok when we say come get your eyes
creamed off cream Okay. Third is Casey, come down here higher.

(12:38):
I do know what it pulled higher, it's a bomb.
Well in second place, another Travvy Wavy classic Joel Monique
is down. I mean, I really think that's the finest
song that's ever been written by Travy Labby Well, according
to our audience, the number one most favorite song on
Fake Doctor's Real Friends. Did you try to get the things? What?

(13:04):
Is it? All right? All right? Without further ado, without
further ado, um our special guests, one of the greatest
actors in the world. Uh. If you don't believe that,
watch this fucking episode. Holy shit is he good? Ladies
and gentlemen, Mister Johnny ce McGinley, there is exactly sir, Johnny,

(13:32):
how are you, sir? I'm good. We're back at school.
Everybody's Kate just came home from soccer match's here. We're
We're in full effect. We're in full effect. Um, Johnny,
I gotta tell you, when I picked the episode, I
didn't know that it would be one of the saddest
episodes ever. Um. And also I read online that it's

(13:53):
one of our highest rated episodes, you know, in terms
of there's I guess I AMDB or other or other
metacritic they bolt or fans or I don't know, maybe
fans and critics they rate each individual episode somehow. And
I'm told this is tied with another one for people's favorite. Wow.
And you know why that is, Johnny, because I'm just

(14:14):
gonna die right And this one, this is uh, it's
build a tad Quill tad quill with Bill obviously all
the writers, but Tad's name is on it. Believe, so
John Michelle shout him out, dude. Our editor John Michelle
directed this episode. Our editor John Michelle did a fantastic
job directing this episode. But Johnny, C I just gotta
go right to it, holding shit, your performance in this

(14:36):
episode is incredible, and I just want to know, how
did you, How did you prepare for this? How did you?
What did then? Actor doesn't just dive into a performance
like you give at the end of this show. What
did you? What was your process? Especially after five you know,
as you know, I keep these, uh and I had

(14:56):
three I had three notebooks for this season because the
twenty four episodes, so we were we were fully into it.
And by the time we did this, I wrote down
that in September we went to the Emmys together, that
the spring, the fall before this would have been in
March or so, because it was towards the end of

(15:16):
the season. In November, I went up with my girlfriend
at the time who would become my wife, Nicole, and
we went up to see Fritz San Francisco lose to
the Giants in the NFC Championship, and so a lot
of things were happening in This was season five, and
I wrote in my notebook, I was obsessed this year.

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In the front of the notebook, I put show up,
tell the truth, compassion, and give love, and I thought
that was and I didn't even know that Billy was
going to write this episode, but that's what I was
obsessed with this year, I was obsessed with compassion. And
about four years before this, I went down to to Southport,

(16:01):
North Carolina, and I did an okay baseball movie called
Summer Catch. And one night I was driving to Wilmington,
which was about thirty minutes from where we were Wilmington,
North Carolina, and on the way home from Wilmington, I
heard the song on the radio by a group called

(16:22):
kick Ki KTA and I pulled over and it was
this women's ensemble. You can play it if you want, Daniel, Daniel,
you hadn't I think we do a night And I
pulled over. It's it's suffered talking over, so it's okay.
But I pulled over, and I've never heard anything like it.
I'd always it's a it's a women's Oakland, California vocal

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ensemble group that goes mostly Eastern European like harvest songs.
I came to find this out. I didn't know any
of this. I just pulled over. The next day, I
called the radio station and I asked them what they
were playing and they filled in the information and I
just told you, And I felt like this, this women's

(17:10):
choral ensemble was sticking me, and then when we did
this episode, I pulled it up and it was what
was going through my mind when you and I were
doing the third act of this episode, of the whole time,
And what it reminded me of was the isolation I
felt when Max was born and we were in the

(17:32):
neonatal intensive care unit for those two or three weeks,
and it was very confusing, and what's Down syndrome? Anyway,
and I always felt like I had done something wrong,
and so this blame, this blame game happens in the
special needs community where you surely you did something wrong
and it turns out you had nothing to do with it.

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And it's kind of an arrogant thing to think anyway.
And so I just want to pause. I want to
pause you there so you guys can turn the music off.
It's beautiful, but I just worry it's distracting for people,
um Johnny, I just for people that don't know Johnny
has a son with Down syndrome. And so you're saying
you tapped into that experience because Cott what Cox is saying,

(18:16):
somehow making what happens in this his his fault, his doing.
That's the connective tissue, and it had nothing to do with.
I didn't know if Billy would render this storyline. But
I'm familiar being an Irish person, I'm familiar with blame
and guilt, and I that was all very accessible to me,

(18:43):
immediately accessible, as well as the posture when when you
come in and we're in that doctor's room, that that lounge. Um.
I remember, I remember holding my stomach for two weeks,
two or three weeks while we were down at the
hospital with Actually, I just kept I don't even know why.

(19:03):
I don't have any stomach issues. I don't I don't
suffer from from throwing up and stuff. I just felt
like my insides were gonna burst. And that's that's what
was accessible to me in this episode. Yeah, well, god,
it was so beautiful, and I'm sure I speak on
half of everyone watching. Thank you for tapping into that,

(19:25):
because you know the magic of this show, Johnny, as
we always say, and as we said before right before
you came on, is that Bill Lawrence could create something
that could have I mean, I got goosebumps while you
were talking. I got goosebumps about five times while watching
the show. And then the other storyline is Todd Um
just pretty much deciding that he's coming with his sexuality. Yes,

(19:49):
he's what Joel, what goes beyond fluid? He will have
sex with any Isn't that queer? Isn't that what you
can You can use a term queer or polyamorous, whatever
best fits your situation. Yeah, fold how do you fold
an age there? Because at the end he reveals he's
also very tracking the seniors. I mean, all you're open whatever,

(20:14):
you're still that about time? Yeah, I too, this is
but he's walking down that fucking hallway at the end, dude,
and he's like that. I like that. What does these
things like? I like that. I like that. I like that.
I like that. Can you do that storyline in two

(20:35):
thousand and twenty one? Could you do that in two
thousand you could go further up further? Yeah at Italian sausage.
No no, no, no, no, no. He can't be a
sexual harasser. Yeah, he certainly can't be. He what is
he doing to the women's breast. He can't be doing
the motor boating. Motor boating, that's not a lot a lot.

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I have a question to ask. There's a little behind
the scenes thing. What if I just press record right now? Oh,
I didn't press record either, DWN. You never told us
to talk about it a little. You never mentioned it,

(21:22):
and I forgot. But it's wrong. Now for those of you,
for those of you that's all listen, for those of
the audience knowing, for those of you in the audience
wondering what we're talking about. We're supposed to be audio
recording this for the for the eventual real audio podcast,
and Daniel, our engineer in charge, never told us to

(21:42):
do that. Daniello, let's start from the top. Can we
take it from the top. Yes, let's start off. Let's
start all over from the very beginning. This is why
we have backup recording a very good in our defense,
you never told us to audio record that. For those
of you who are listening to the audio recording, UM, sorry,

(22:05):
I don't know what's going on with my mike either, man, Like,
this is not good right now, I'm not an audience
watching the show. Just focus on you. I just wanted
to say, I just wanted to make it clear that
I forgot to do that. I'm sorry. Okay, listen, it's fine.
Let's go to the top of the show, guys, because
we are here to do a Scrubs Rewatch podcast. It's

(22:27):
called My Lunch, and all JD wants is to go
to lunch with his mentor his hero, uh, doctor Coxon.
He's got an angle for it, and Johnny, you want
nothing to do with it. I think it's genius when
you go. When you go because it's ludicrous, it's just

(22:49):
because it's ludicrous. It just seems like you're telling your
absolute truth. Yeah, there's no way, there's no I don't
think JD's putting on it in his mind. There's no way,
there's no way. You don't want to. And interestingly enough,
you know, Cox doesn't give JD many inklings that he

(23:12):
truly cares about him. He doles them out very sparingly.
But he but he does in this episode at the end,
he really does say hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I
want to give you you need to know this about
blaming yourself. And it's the writing is so genius because,
of course, unexpectedly, it's the setup of the it's the

(23:32):
setup of well it's unexpected to Johnny, but to the audience.
I was like, this is such a setup to it.
He's going, yeah, but you're watching it from an actor
writer perspective. I saw any of that coming. Well, I've
seen this episode quite a few times now too, but
I will I will say this from the from my perspective,
it was like, oh, he just set himself up. When

(23:55):
he when he's giving JD this speech about how you
know you can't blame yourself and he has these three
patients in the hospital hanging on by a thread. It
was like, dude, you are you are you are jinxing yourself.
You do what Cox hates to do, you know what
I mean? When like the episode when he's pitching the note,

(24:16):
when he's throwing the note hitter in the hospital with
all the patients and somebody's and everybody's trying to keep
it down because they don't want him to know it's
the exact same thing here. But he crosses the line
and says, you know this is you know it's it
can't be your fault. Don't don't blame yourself, right, and
then it kicks him in his But this is where
it kicks him in the button. This is where it
got me, because when the first two passed away, it

(24:36):
was like, oh, okay, they were gonna die anyway. But
when the dude with deliver was it deliver of the kidney.
Kid with him. It's a kidney. Dave Bradford is, Yeah,
with the kidney. He wasn't supposed to die. Cox says
he had another month. He had another month. Yeah. A

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dear friend of mine we went to NYU Grad together,
Dave Allen Warshovski, who is now the dean of the
grad Acting Theater program at USC. Wow. Oh, he's one
of the finest actors on the planet and also an
acting coach that I use. Used him for uh for
to get ready to go to Glen Darry Glen Ross

(25:20):
I was Jackie came to see I did a revival
of Glen Garry with Al Pacino and Abi kana Vali
about five years ago, and I went that I was
commuting down to USC to use David as my coach.
And wow, so there's a lot of history there before
or after, before or during while you were doing the play.

(25:42):
Did you go before to get coached or during? Yeah?
Two months. I spent two months community back and forth
to USC from out here in albou And it yielded.
It yielded all the dividends that I wanted it to.
I felt I was about to say because so you
went in there just ready to go. Then, yes, did
you start off book, Johnny, when did you start? When

(26:02):
you when you start off? Yeah, that's for those of
you who aren't familiar with theater. You it's very you know,
you start the rehearsal process and then as you're rehearsing
you begin to memorize it. And it's such a ball
or power move that few men or women would do
other than Johnny c McGinley. Just show up on day
one off book, because what's genius about that? If you

(26:24):
can do it, or have the wherewithal to do it
is then you're just there. Then it's about exploring and
not worrying about memorization. You're not in your head. You're
not paranoid like we all are about getting the memorization
down for a play. You're showing up on day one. Okay,
let's find this character, let's find these scenes. Let you
work with the legendary Paccino and the legendary Bobby kind

(26:46):
of volume. It was a great Kyndamit cast, Dynamite cast
that was bucket list stuff. And to me, it felt
like even if you put that to be with Al
Bobby and and and Richard and everybody on Broadway. Even
if you put that on your bucket list, it would
be fucking folly because you're never going to get to
do it. And so when I got to it, it

(27:07):
wasn't lost on me. So I said, I set up
a theater boot camp out here, and I had some
young kid from Pepperdine come over and just say the
off lines. Just I said, if you fucking say a
word to me about coaching or any input, I'm going
to punch in the fun. Just say the fucking lines.
And I put a metronome. I have a rehearsal space

(27:29):
out here. I put put a metronome in the rehearsal space,
and so that I would go at different cadences. I'd
be really quick, and then sometimes I would go slower
because I wanted to be ready for fucking everything. I
wanted to be ready for the cell phone to go off.
I wanted to be ready for the purple hairs at
the matinee. And I fucking well was. I was ready,

(27:50):
and it was the most exciting goddamn thing I've ever
Listen you actors, who are you, actors who are aspiring
actors who were watching Johnny C. Puts the work in
he had. You know, people are like, how does he
do these monologues? You don't just you don't just show
up in the morning and go, oh, I have a
monologue today. Johnny C has a rehearsal space. He would
videotape himself. He would look what he's telling about the metronome.

(28:13):
I mean, man, Johnny, you put the work in and
and man, does the metronome is genius? Man, that's how
you find Yeah, wow, that's amazing. I've never thought of that.
That is amazing. Um. Also, they were late, so it's
so a syncopatent. But weren't there times when al Pacino
just totally forgot his lines and you're all like, oh no, no,

(28:40):
we're out in the theater. When you forget your line,
it's called going up. And whenever I would go up,
he would start to put put the front of hair
forward and he would say, and the dua. There was
the dua. I went through the dua and everybody knew
Owl's up. The second most scary thing is when one

(29:12):
of the people that you're with on stage forgets their
lines and you're like, oh no, oh no, oh no,
I gotta help them, but how do I help them?
And then the scariest thing is when you're like, oh, no,
I and then you start getting panicky and you're like,
I don't know what any of my lines in the
next scene are. Either I get chilled, I get chilled.

(29:32):
I did Romeo and Julia as I did Romeo. When
I first gott of college and regional theater outdoors or
it was like a park in Connecticut, three thousand people
would come, and I knew that when I started, I
would start at the back of the park, like three
thousand people on blankets and my entrances Romeo was weaving
my way through them, and you know, I had a
mic on and I knew the second I started talking.

(29:54):
Romeo speaks for pretty much two and a half hours
with a few interruptions, and I was like, I I'm
nervous now thinking about it. And this is when I
was fresher in college. And so what I would do
is I would every single every single show Johnny before
I would get there early, and there was a church
that was part of our dressing rooms, and our dressing

(30:16):
rooms were in the church, and I would go into
the chapel and I would recite my entire show in
the church, because it was the only thing that would
calm me down is I would sit there and recite
the entire Romeo performance alone in the church before because
and then I would stand at the back of three
thousand people and go, Okay, here we go, and I

(30:38):
would just start calling, Oh my god, I don't know
if I could do it anymore. I don't know if
I could do anymore. It was I don't know that
I have a memory like that. Now you still have it.
You forget, That's the amazing thing about That's the amazing
thing about place. Within a month, you forget everything. But
if it's put in front of your face and you've
done the show before it's you, you jump right back

(30:59):
in rather fast. Uh. You know, that's that's very interesting
that you used you used to do that. I I
used to wait right before, like ten minutes before I
would go on stage. I would speed my lines through
the entire play. I would speed as fast as I could, Yeah,
as fast as I can, and then go on stage

(31:21):
ready to go. And there's no safety net, you know,
for those of you who aren't in theater, there's not.
You might think there's someone who whispers like it's that
that that person, that person doesn't exist anymore. Um, you know,
you're just on your own, You're and now in the
contemporary play, your fellow actors could be like you probably
want to be asking who's on the phone, don't you

(31:43):
You know in Shakespeare that is nobody. All right, get
back to let's get back to the episode, Jill Tracy. Um, yes,
you can't, you can't, you can't. We Sibermash's first entrance

(32:04):
because sorry, sorry sorry with with two orders and and
and and a part of a community that doesn't abide
any bullshit anymore. Um, when he came in and said
Italian sausage, I was really proud of Rob for Connadian
doing it, but I thought it was really fucking offensive.
I did. Yeah, dude, oh dude. Uh, the Todd is

(32:25):
the most offensive character in Scrubs history. The Todd is
very most offensive. Is this was Hall of Fame shit,
Oh yeah, this is this is the Todd. This is
coming out party too. That first of all, even the
Todd doesn't ever touch women, and then this episode, right
does he does? He does motor Boat two two of

(32:46):
our lead cast women, which is uh, certainly not appropriate um,
but but I laughed out loud, Johnny when you when
I say I got a ride from a friend to
the supermarket, and then we were that I'm white nuts on?
Was that the first? Was that the first eagle not
the first eagle, but it might be the first eagle

(33:08):
that's not riding a human being. Brendan Frasier was the
first eagle, and then there were many donald eagles and
then we just saw me eagle a patient. Uh, what
do you call a patient's family member? Um, now you're
eagling on the top of a porch. By the way,
how am I holding onto the porch? She's I'm like,
I got my hands. Like, Johnny, do you remember if

(33:31):
that was green screen or if we or if we No,
we went right behind the hospital on the other side
of the river, that neighborhood, and you got up on
top of the car. Maybe I was strapped to something. No,
I no, I had. I had some sort of stunt
rig that was strapping me to the top of the car.
I was doing it. I have a question ahead, where
the heck is the supermarket set at? Because it's clear

(33:55):
that it's a set. Obviously, No, it's not a set
that was the actual practical location. No, No, they found
they didn't want to deal with a big corporation, so
I think they found a mom and pop store. You know,
it's a pretty small looking store. They must have been pissed.
How many days did you spend their blocking their what
do you mean pissed? They got they got paid, they
got a location. But they could probably make you in

(34:16):
that food. No, are you new to the industry. They
do a calculation by how much they're gonna lose, and
they charge you more than that. Hey, I don't like
the condescending tone. That's car I will I will say that.
I thought. I thought when Nicole Sullivan, who plays the
gal at the deli, who had been on the show
quite a few times, and she's such a good actress,

(34:38):
so you're fixing you, she just drives. I'm gonna shed
sorry everybody, I can't fuck it's it's too hot for
Cord getting hotter in here. Yeah, I'm gonna just keep
taking it off. There we go. We need more talk
on me I made. I wanted to make a good
first impression. All right, she shows up, I can't show them.
I can't show she shows up and she just drives

(35:00):
that you and I have nothing to do, and she
just drives it. Yeah, yeah she does and she doesn't
and all the riffing. He's like, oh no, no, no,
no way, but I shouldn't have That's just that's just her.
She's so good at that kind of time. I remember
the first time I ever saw Nicole Sullivan ever do anything,
and it was mad TV. I had never heard of it,

(35:22):
and they parodied Clueless and she played Share she played Alicia.
I wasn't in it. There was like some dude something.
It's all right, But when I say, she crushed like
she was doing such a great Alicia Silverstone. And I
remember being like, yo, this woman is amazing. And so

(35:44):
when she came on the show, I was, I was.
It was. It was an exciting moment for me because
I I watched her for a really long time, you
know what I mean. Her and Michael who also was
on the show. Yeah, um, what do you guys? Graze
um the supermarket raising Um it seems to be controversial.
I've never been a Let me try this pretzel. No,

(36:06):
I don't think I'll buy any today because it is
steel it. Yes, I was gonna say it's gross. Like
people's hands in food and then your mouth and then morph.
I I just think about how many times like I
touch a tomato or a freaking U pair at the supermarket,

(36:28):
you know what I mean when I respected exactly, so exactly.
That's my point right there, that's my point. I'm gonna
take it. But there are people you can't do that.
I'm not talking about that. The section that we're in
with like the yogurt covered pretzels and the little things
that you can fill a bag with. There's lots of
people that consider it fine to just do a little
like taste tester. No, I'm not feeling it today. Noah, man,

(36:51):
that's gross. Take your hands off. I didn't even do that.
When there's there's Costco, there's Costco where you walk around
and take samples, all do it different. But now when
you put your hand in that thing, when you put
your hand in the whatever it is that dispenses the
nuts sort of pretzels, whatever that is. Yeah, yeah, now man,

(37:16):
that's looks nasty. It's nasty. That's nasty, man, that's nasty.
You know another thing that Bill, the other thing that
Bill did so well was really make her so lovable.
I know she's annoying and living together? What is that there?
And working together? We're working together and together, working together,

(37:42):
and we have to weather any storms because we're living together.
We're Christie, I can't get and we're living together. What
is happening? What is happening? Someone's welcome to our podcast. Welcome, Welcome,

(38:05):
I'm welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome to our podcast, working
together and living together, working together and living together. Sleep
on hijack to where we're wearing so arnt swag. Yeah,
as always, I'm here with my wife Kristin Miller. I
can tell you Cristal Lawrence. Yeah, freme answer every time. Well,
you know, we worked together on Scrubs, on Cougartown. Christ

(38:29):
is also the music supervisor on all my shows. You
can ted Lasso. Um hey, look, you guys all know
how this works. If you live with someone in a
relationship we also work with, you can text Joel see
where you work together and hit us up with the question.
Yeah christ podcast say that. So we got some cool
guests today. Our first guest you know, from Scrubs, from

(38:52):
like every Ali our Stone movie from Broadway, so many
t shows, including Brooklyn nine nine right now, say had
a John, see you again with a little time. Thank you, buddy. Thanks,
you'll be on here of course. Funny and look the
next guest. I want to bring one right away. You

(39:12):
know from Scrubs, tons of great TV shows, movies, clues,
remember the Titans waiting to exhale Donald Phaison. Let's bring
on Donald Faison. Thank you for having me on the show. Yeah, yes,
from Chicken Little Zach. Yes, so we have some questions

(39:35):
if we want to start with but the uh, this
is real, like one of the weirdest things for me.
I can't believe you hijacked our show. Hey, your question
eventually one of the things that first time I was
working together because I fired to be I can use.
I really enjoyed the spending time all of you too.
But one of the weird things about it for me,

(39:56):
list on Scrubs, John, you've done constant you know, movies, tchats,
we had romance scenes and sex scenes. It had to
be a little weird getting to know me as a
friend when you were doing romantic scenes with Krista. Does
it change the biball for an actor if you kind
of are friends with the spouse, is there and we're
just around all the time. What are you doing? Because

(40:18):
I told you I told a story on one time
Zack and Donald had a show and I told the
story and there, oh my god, Jo, don't carry into
this one time. Don't stan to really make out? And
you had instructed her or you diabolically told her to
kiss me with her tongue and I and she did,

(40:40):
And I came up to your room up on the
up on the fifth floor, fourth floor, and I told
you you did it, and then you waited one one
thousand you and you leaned in and you go, how
did it feel? Which is just hard. Anything I can
do to help the act process right the well. But

(41:02):
the real question I was that because Johnny and I,
you know, we've both been doing this for a good
one while. And that went down the first season the show.
You had to have a sex scene with christ Was
it weird? It with me being there and just being
on set and said, oh, she looked smoking hot during
that stup. I was so attracted to Christa Miller and

(41:25):
my my new boss wrote a scene where I had
to make out with her, and I being I truly
remember being very very nervous and um and I definitely
kept my lips very very close. I kept them pursed.
But then and then, as we got to know each
other and become closer, I was I was hoping that
I might get another opportunity, but I never did. No.

(41:47):
Well that's for incessor. You said you met a question, Um,
why why didn't I get to do a love scene
with Donald? Yeah? Said that he didn't want to do that.
He said, no, I would never I would never say that.
I would never say that a sexy vibe I heard. Yeah,

(42:21):
I did hear that you're about to start working on
a movie if you're awesome, gal Pal, I said, gal Pal,
And I want to hear you know about that really
honestly for a second. But first, as we do every week, Well,
we've got a question from the audience. Yea, oh cool.
Me and my wife both work at a bank. I
love it and she hates the job. I know I
should be okay with finding a new job, but is
it normal for me to be upset too? Yeah? I

(42:44):
think I mean, Look, I'll answer first. I think it's
just probably a product of you missing her and cherishing
and finding you. Guys spend together at work, so it
probably needs that you guys actually work well together, and
you're gonna have to find a way to fill that.
I will tell you right now, when christ I work together,
tell him you treat me. It's the only time that
you Bill at work. But I listened to him at work,

(43:05):
not at home. And really, I think your wife she
hates it. She should she should be able to find
a new job. You'll be fine. We hear at home,
all right, to ask about Zach and flows movie. But
I'm afraid that's all we have time for. You know,
we have time. We have time, don't remember plays out

(43:28):
back up, Charlie plays out? Whoa dann know? Dan leaves?
Can you stay for a little bit longer? Yes? Absolutely, Yeah,
it's not a good it's gonna say. Guys. Man, everybody,

(43:50):
calmed down, Calm down, Zack. This is a moment. I
am back to the I am back to being the
host of the show. Geez. By the way, I know
you guys, let me joke. I want to sincerely thank
you for allowing me occasionally come on my podcast. You

(44:12):
guys are nice enough to let me come on here
and talk. This is super cool. Let me love you
guys that I'm so happy that you're here. Don't play
his bad anymore because we're wait, wait, all right, no
more song, bring them back? Everybody, everybody calmed down. Um,

(44:33):
I'm so happy you guys are here. Um, this episode,
Bill is I think the ultimate example of your ability
to do something so dramatic and something so silly simultaneously.
You've got this tragic death of Jill Tracy alongside Rob
discovering that he's sexually attracted to everything that's a human

(44:54):
being that you guys were at first of all to
prove that I listen. Um, I am proudly a grazer
even today. I have plenty of money to buy yoga pretzels.
If you're in a grocery store and you're seeing that
I've had a handful of those presses, well, you're also
the type of person that everybody could have a slurpie

(45:18):
in their head, and you're the type of person that
would be like, oh, let me get some of that.
He does it. I don't share marriages. Nothing better in
the world than the first fire of somebody else's meal.
Bill would. Bill would walk up to a crew member
and and and be like, can I get a sip
of that coke? Addus is the first time he worked.

(45:45):
Bill lent into the Buyer's turkey sandwich office plate the
lessons don't leave your sandwich. That's a lesson. Billy, tell
us about Nicole Sullivan, because you guys are friends. Were
there were just you do you heard backstage Sunday. We
were just talking about how talented she is and how

(46:07):
eugeniously made. Even though she's supposed to be annoying, she
is lovable and you root for her and then and
then of course she dies and it's so sad. So
just tell everyone who's listening. I was watching. How did
you guys get to know Nicole? And how did she
come to the Scrubs world? She was Nicole was friends
with Christian she can go. Yeah. No, we lived. We

(46:28):
lived in the school um place in Laurel Kaye. And
if there's all these houses kind up and apartments, Jennifer
Anderson lived up there like all these actors. Nicole was
in there. Gabby Allen, who was a writer on Scrubs,
lived in my house, and so Nicole moved into the
middle floor and we became friends. She lived underneath me
and we both always thought she was you know, especially

(46:49):
the world that you guys were all in scrubs where
you had to be able to switch on a dime
between comedy and gooping around and drama. We need Nicole
could act, but we both knew her first and format
as a female Neil Flynn type, in that there is
almost no better female improviser when you can go to
the grocery store and say, hey, can you just make
up some stuff about what you're eating and maybe you

(47:10):
want a few more nuts, and she's she's so quick,
but much like Neil and our whole cash, she can
turn the corner and crush your hat. One years. That
was so amazing just watching her do that, a little
bit like, no, I shouldn't have it, Well I will,
but I wanted the backup for the turns was so amazing. Yeah,
I'm working with Nicole now actually on an m trip back.

(47:37):
I hope to make a reprieve. Yeah, come on it, bro,
Where's Donald's part was already in the script? Yeah, numerous times,
so I know that he's a perfect Johnny And I
have a question for you. Have you ever run into
Hugh Jackman? Yeah? What's going on? Yeah? Okay, I need
to know the story. Is this something that you wrote, Bill,

(47:58):
or is this something that no Hugh Jackman, But that's
a billy quick. I can tell you a real story
is that I wants And I don't know if it's
the s or not. On the internet read a real
sounding thing that said Hugh Jackman had a kid that
got shit at school because of scrubs, saying, um uh,

(48:21):
you know the doctor Cox saying of that about Hugh Jackmans.
I reached out to his agent and I wrote in
a note which is the truth of this. It said
we were trying to pick somebody. Wrote the agent a
note that said, please pass us on to Hugh and
his son if he wants. And I think the guy
said that it wasn't a big deal. It's just somebody

(48:42):
trying to get quicks or whatever quicks were back then.
But a letter is saying because of the reds are
what we truly try to do. It said it would
be fun for John mcginwiy to hate somebody that is
otherwise unhatable, for doctor Cox to love someone, I mean,
to hate someone because he's just too darn talented and
good at everything and accessible and kind and seems to

(49:02):
have no flaws. We felt that that human being would
bother doctor Cox. She was very cool. Oh, it was
like it was like an alpha male competition thing, like,
oh my, he's good at everything. What's the honest right now?
The guy can sing, he can dance, he's a leading man,
he's a Broadway start, he's gonna be a music man.
Bill I will be their opening night. It's gonna but
doesn't annoy on some level? Well, this is a bigger

(49:24):
question for christ Donald, johnny See, and Zach. Everybody has
a different thing when they see other people that are
very talented. Okay, so when I went and saw a
Book of Mormon that Trey and Matt wrote, and they
run to that before that really are done kind of
south Park and south Park Movie Team America. And I
saw it and saw that they were able to do that.
I went from really enjoying it and then to getting

(49:47):
furious that it was so good and then hating them
because I couldn't do it. And so that's how I
look at other talented people. That's how you can't do that.
It's probably healthy. So it probably makes you healthy that
you're like the top you're under in town because you're
you don't have that many people to hate like, if
you had this problem and you were not successful, you'd
have to hate so many people. Yeah, problem, it's still

(50:07):
fun ways to do it. But the real question is
for you all, do you do you get blown away?
I'll ask you because you're you get going away when
you see an actress do something that you're just like,
oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do that,
or you just do you go like, oh, I can't
do that. No, feel it's inspiring really yeah, And then
there's an article that actress is done. I want to

(50:27):
read it like, I'm really inspired and interested. It seems
like about you, John, you see something, I'm just I'm
interested for all free on that. If you see someone
while you're doing to get it, I get inspired. I
get really inspired. That's too healthy answers. I'm sorry, I
sweat everybody. I'm sorry. I can't help it. Virtual I

(50:53):
help it. I can easily recognize that, uh, that a
great performance. I didn't get salty and and and upset
because part of it is me realizing I'll probably never
be able to do what I just saw. One and
then fury, yeah, and then fury. Then the anger comes.

(51:17):
But at the end of the day. I'm always a fan.
I hate nobody, I love everybody and so hate I
would like to take in my heart that people would
take his respect. But like Chris and I saw Betrayal,
Harry Pinchers Betrayal, I'm huh and uh. You know, guy
that inspired dating man inspired so many different writers. And
I was just sitting there and digging on the performances

(51:37):
in the play and they just got more and more annoyed. Hey,
that's something you inspired you. I'm like that guy. That
guy I'm I'm never like that, but I do get
mad with every time I leave a Marvel movie or
something like that. Not because I hate the movie. I
love the movie so much, and I'm like, that's never

(52:00):
gonna happen for me, you know what I mean, That's
how I feel. And so yeah, he went to see
the premiere Black Widow and Kevin Figgy introduced it and
I was with Donald like, oh no, he's gonna go tackle.
I would have would have been like like hold him,
like on his knees, like Kevin, you need this, I
need this. I got I got from my wife and

(52:20):
from Zach, don't you. Yeah. On one side he held
his arm and on the other side. I held his
other Honest, there's a different version of zafter. Do you
guys ever use it as ball border material? Like for me? Yeah,
sometimes I do go, oh my god, help my game. Yeah,
I get inspired. I also get humbled sometimes I go,
I go, I can't. I don't think that I can

(52:41):
do that. And I and I. You know, when I
saw like bo Burnham's special inside, I thought, like, I
am good. I'm very lucky to work in this industry,
and I'm proud of what I do. But I'm not
like that could that was incredible? You know, I like,
I get someone times it makes me humble. I go,

(53:01):
I think, I'm okay. You know, I'm proud of the
work I do, but I might not be that good.
You know. Yeah, it's you guys all have healthier responses.
I'll try and get there. You know. The other thing
I've been focusing on about this is a true admission
before we have to swick. It's kids, it's teachers, parent
night school. I'm parch because you can tell the true story.

(53:22):
My wife I has sow here, My wife has a suted.
My wife has here and was taken away from me
before because apparently Burke Bill with work forty seven times
and okay, guys, guys, don't pick her. That's what it's like.

(53:47):
That's what it's like. Looks like when you go on
vacation with them. That's what it's like. That's what it's
not going to go on vacation with them. And that's
what's happening on one side of the table. And then
you cut to me and I'm like, oh way, I'm
so far. You just see your mom and dad. Stop fighting,
Stop bickering. I'm good sports. Can you fightless? You know

(54:09):
how many times I've been in the back seat and
we're racing somewhere and they're in the front seat and
they're driving, bickering, and I'm just like, guys, And then
she'll be like, Zach. And then she'll be like, Zach,
will you tell Bill that he's a bad driver? And
I'm I'm not going to tell that he's a bad driver.

(54:31):
He's like, look look at what what what are he's doing?
And he doesn't he's a slicker and he's not paying attention.
You know what Johnny see does Zach because he just
sits back and watches it like a tennis match that
they used. Look I think he gives him joy. He doesn't.
He doesn't get caught. John likes it. He likes Okay.
We love you, guys, We love you. Thank you for

(54:54):
away her show. Yeah, hey, come on, Donald, Johnny Ce,
come on leaving to get I'm working together. Anytime you, guys. Yeah,
thank you so much for doing our podcast. Thank you.
It's one of my most successful podcasts. Yeah, anytime, anytime, Bill, anytime,
no problem, Thank you, guys. Oh my god, that was exhausted.

(55:23):
Ye yo, I'm so tired too well. I need it
now so much. By the way, By the way, when
you go on vacation with them, I'm not lying, that's
that's it. It's like that the whole time, and you're like, guys, guys, guys, guys,
just let's just all not talk for a secondly. It's

(55:48):
fun man, I like, they're very funny, but they're I
love them, they're my best friends. But they are so intense. Johnny,
you know, you spend time with them for the summer.
H Chris and Billy running a place run around the
corner from here, and they came over and the two boys,
Will and Henry were with them, and uh, they started

(56:11):
talking about summer camp, boys summer camp, and they all
got into summer camp mode, which grosses christ out. It
grosses her out the whole everything about it, the dirt,
the filth, the things that go on in boys summer camps.
And they were clear on that and they just pummeled.
It was like they were giving her a root canal,

(56:32):
and it was they pick up on Billy and Christa's
way of attack, and they just there was three against one.
It's three against one, and christ of course I teamed
up with Christian did to protect her. But it's brutal. Yeah,
they're they're there. They make it work. It's you know,

(56:55):
by the way it goes without saying audience that they
are clearly the inspiration for Jordan and doctor Cox. I
think it's safe to say. I think I think catch up.
I think you're safe to say that. Let's take a break.
We'll be right back after these fine words. Um is

(57:16):
surprise guest one here, Yes, now, the way we're gonna
do this, Johnny, close my eyes, no, john Johnny c
as well, you're gonna cover your eyes or close your
eyes and okay, now surprise you're gonna oh my god,

(57:52):
you're gonna give me a heart attach quietown, quietown, quietown.
Everybody come down, Ken, but you have to be quieter

(58:13):
because you're not the host. You have to be a
little quieter. Oh man, all right now, quietown? Now, Bill,
your guest, yes, all right, let me cover my eyes
a right, cover your eyes? Bill, You cover them too.
It's surprised. Guest one here. Oh no, Guest one is frozen.
No this one. Oh, Guess two is here. Okay, let's

(58:38):
start with guests two. You're gonna start with guest two. Okay,
cover your eyes, guys, Bill, cover your eyes. I'm serious,
no cheating. Let's bring any guests two. Guests two, please
don't say anything. Don't say anything. Okay, now, guests to
say something that will reveal to these three men who
you are. Let's take it after the banana ham now match.

(59:12):
I'm glad to have you here because this episode is
really mostly about you and Johnny C but at polar
opposite sides of the drama comedy spectrum. Guests one is
back for now, I know. But Guess one is gonna
wait while Joel and Dan'll figure out her tech issues
his or her tech issues. Um first, Bill, Yes againy

(59:33):
haven't seen him a long time, Doctor Cox, haven't had
a chance to tell you that shit your name rocks
this year up. Robert questioned about the banana hammocks because

(59:54):
I was in the Central Park a Chief's meadow, Johnny,
see you know it well, Bill, you norwell. And there's
a lot of gay men and European men and perhaps
straight man although stereotypically not their things wearing speedos and
their penises are held pretty tightening, I think against their bodies,
whereas you in the show. I've now watched five seasons.

(01:00:17):
There's a lot of bounce. Why is there's in your
in your hand? Why is yours not held like the
men in Central Parks? It's got a lot of swing
to it, like an elephant trunk. Well, listen, I should
get older. There's even more swing and sway to it.
Guesham balls familiar worth it. Oh yeah, it's not your balls, Rob,

(01:00:41):
it's the actual trunk. If you see, I've studied five
episodes of the show. There should be a separate podcast
on the hog a tempeg beans, the fiddle battle, the
wham Bam boom ten hog joke. Said one thought, all right, listen,

(01:01:04):
what's the anaconda joke Donald Um. Someone says that Judy
who says, is that the one? Someone says I went
to see anaconda? And and then someone I think it's Carlos, says,
is that the one with the giant snake? And he
pops up and goes no. And he pops up and
says what Rob go no, this is the one with

(01:01:25):
the giant snake. I went back there for an hour
for a setup. My back is killing me, but I
nailed it. It's about commitment, which is just th lines
from the show all the rest of the podcast. Remember
all your lines, I remember, remember them all. By the way,
if you ever wonder what it's like to have an
erection in that last nine hours, asked me in twenty minutes.

(01:01:50):
Though these are all bills, all come from the mind
of Bill Sir, all the comedy. So I'm gonna I'm
gonna be semi trying to keep us on the episode
a little bit. So. Then we cut to a series
of people who say that you lie robbed the character
Todd has lied about having sex with them. And the

(01:02:12):
first two are Sarah, I've been on the show before, Renee.
Who's Sarah standing? You remember that she was a bartender
at a wedding was it Donald? Where she serves him
a drink? And then the next is Katia, who was
Judy's standing and says, god no, and then another woman
says are you kidding me? And then we cut to Gloria.

(01:02:34):
She goes, is that the big, tall black security guard
with the hook hand? Yes? They go no, Well, then no,
I have not seen with him, which means that, which
which means that not only is phill it means not
only is Glorious sleeping with Leonard, but she hasn't learned
his name yet. Do you guys want to know? By

(01:03:00):
the way, I'll tell you something that is interesting because
I heard you guys ro it in the show. So
it could be argued that some of the Todd's jokes
across the line into inappropriateness and uh and by the way,
I'm going to throw out big words and being Fancy's anachronistic.
I think back in the day, you know shows would

(01:03:23):
have you know, jokes like that dropped all the time,
even on six and seven o'clock syndicate shows. It was
just you know, part of the lexicon and gags. But
you guys started to talk about I think this is
the episode that it becomes fairly clear that Todd maybe
was overstating, you know, in a turn in a way

(01:03:44):
of overcompensating, and he is kind of attracted to all
hotness in any gender. And uh and I can try,
but I can tell you the way writers Jon's evolved,
it's because people go as much fun as it is
for the men and women in this writers room to
obsess about writing these jokes. I did not write in Urendo,
but I remember whoever it did was proud of it

(01:04:05):
for a month, you know. Indo, I think in Urendo
is probably the best one of all of them. But
the point being, um that this is where we decided
that Todd should be an equal opportunity offender. He shouldn't
be obsessed with all hotness. It should obviously be indictative
of the overcompensating that young you know, kind of alpha

(01:04:27):
male jockey surgeon males do. And we kind of adopted
one of the reasons that Todd exists in the first place.
You guys talked about that air hammock is as we
were showing the women of this show scantily clad in
brawls and nightgowns. Including my wife. We said we have
to always match that the two or just male nudity,
and you gave it was our guy. By the way,

(01:04:50):
nobody wants to see it now A little long no
no no no no no no, A little freight around
the edges now and it met that just be there.
Let's now, so I gotta say, funny, a funny bid?
Here is that? Uh so Bill's trainer? Uh yes, here again.

(01:05:16):
Jurgen DeMay, he wrote wrote that book that that the
Todd is reading called The Action Hero Body, which I'm
sure you can buy, we'll give you're gonna plug ye,
And that's actually Jurgen uh in the photos that Rob
is looking at for no reason. Okay, can I ask

(01:05:38):
a question ahead, Donal. Did y'all laugh when Neil does
the face while he's spying on j D and the
Big Guy like that? If you watch the end credits
for this show, like just the end credits alone, you
will laugh so hard because Neil Flynn has the perfect
sitcom face. You know when the name bounces under, you

(01:06:01):
know when it's under. So it would be like Donald
Faison and I'll be like at my locker and then
I'll look at you and be like, yeah, yeah, he
has the perfect when he sees you rubbing the oil
on the guy's pectorals, yeah, and he pops up. Just
look at that. For those of you who watched the
show with us, rewind, go back to the credits and

(01:06:22):
just look at it. And then I laughed, So I'll
understand that moment though. So the janitor, they're they're gossiping
about whether the todd is gay. The janitor, Pipes said,
the janitor assumes talking about me. That was absolutely yes.
And of all the things you and your writers came
up with, is that I am painting oil on muscular

(01:06:42):
man so you can eat it off from later. Yes.
And then I say that actor was a football player
from usc was he He was in very good ship.
He was ready, he was He became a broadcaster, a
good color for a little while for a local fox,
killing you and I don't know what happened, but he was.

(01:07:02):
He was an aspiring television journalist. Well that's the body
I have in my mind, Johnny, that's the one I
have in my mind now. I laughed out loud. When
Sarah and Elliott says her brother Barry used to dance
and leather jeans for sorry, sorry, he used to dance
for Japanese business man. Yes, And then there's a couple

(01:07:25):
of sentences and then she says, sort of wistfully, Barry
used to dance and leather jeans. He'd come home and
they'd be stuffed with Yeny had a good brother, Barry,
which I love because of her. You know, her parents
were so conservative. Yeah we have been. We didn't get you, guys.

(01:07:48):
Such a sad thing that, uh, that great actress played
Sarah's mother passed away. Yeah. I used to love her
on Nike where I grew up with Nike. It as
a favorite show, and uh, that was one of the
ones I used to watch regularly. And she was like
all the people who respond to because you guys are
talking to Cole. Isn't it fun when you think of

(01:08:09):
guest stars that show up on the show are just game,
you know what I mean? And she was someone that
just showed up and you know, I was like, you're
the worst mother in the world. You say, short, thanksgiver
pad face, and you should just be awful and not
have a sympathetic phone in your body. And she was like, gotcha,
and she was just awesome. Um, hey, there's another guest here.

(01:08:31):
Should I close my eyes? Wait? No, the guest guests
too is having technical problems and no they're ready to go.
Hold on, let me guess this one is out. Yeah, Donald,
you think I'm not like im managing the problems. I
don't want the audience to know about our technical issues.
Um so then we steal this podcast earlier. You can
come on to my other podcasts if you want to

(01:08:52):
talk to you good and movie it has less technical
problems in this one. Oh my god, let me Randall
Randall Winston. Randall Winston, our line producer. Making out with
Gloria was very funny. Yeah, by the way, one of
the cool things that you guys should point out. And
I'll go back with a little tribute question for John

(01:09:12):
and Donald and Rob if they remember so. Um, if
you're a crew member on one of our shows and
we all can't family and friends, I'm sure you guys
still talk to and see some of those the gang
around town. Um got talked to a lot of them
more than most shows. They appear in our show and
have huge funny moments. Katy were this one, you guys

(01:09:34):
remember all? I mean remember all the different whether it
was Sean or Ethan. We talk about it. Yeah, we
talked about going on the podcast Bill. You should tune in.
It's a good part. Unt. I didn't say that though
I could buy the way I can hit them. Do
you want me to hit the button that allows along

(01:09:55):
the internet, don't. I think I just did it down
the face. I just didn't jam the reaction. God, let

(01:10:16):
me let me call everybody. Calm down, calm down. So sorry,
letter letter, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I was
so unintentional. I wanted to say special guests, and I
forgot Donald Donald. I'm surprised. Let a lumber in. Yeah,
y'all better catch me while you can. Ridiculous. You know

(01:10:45):
you can't trust all people. With this electronic check, you
can catch all you want. Yeah, it was so beautiful.
It is so good to see you, and it's good
to see all of you guys too. As much as
I could hear, it was horrible. I'm like, I'm in

(01:11:05):
a nightmare. Oh I was watching. We had this in
a chat. I'm not doing. Oh, we're so glad to
see you a Loma. We've been on the podcast. A
Woman's so good to see your fair boy on your podcat. Yea. Literally,
the only reason I say was I wanted to apologize

(01:11:25):
in front of God everyone for killing you when I
thought they were done to see you. Yeah, it was

(01:11:48):
Zach by the way out of Love. I'm gonna let
Zach tell this story because I so ruined the surprise
by accident. Zach, It's one of my favorite stories. You
have to you have to tell it. It involves a car.
Oh I watched. I knew that Alma was gonna die
in an episode because Bill thought that the show was
coming to an end um and he thought, well, we
gotta go out. Was something dramatic, like Nurse Roberts is

(01:12:09):
one of the most beloved characters. Let's we gotta you know,
that's what you do. Show's ending. We gotta kill somebody else.
So I pulled in in the driveway in the parking
lot of the hospital and I see a Looma in
this brand new, beautiful like escalade and I'm like, I'm
I because I because I was close to like to Bill,

(01:12:32):
and I knew inside scoop, I knew this episode was coming.
And Aloma is like meet me, and I'm like, oh no,
oh no. So then so then Bill kills off alone.
Oh yeah, I'm like, no, why you might want to

(01:12:53):
tell Alma because she just got an escalade. Yeah, that
would have been real nice. And then I would still
be driving the Santa Fe if I'd known that, you know,
just say well then, but Loma, it is a testament
to build that. When the show got it got picked

(01:13:13):
up again, he went, oh shit, I feel bad. I
gotta bring a Loma back to life. I go, I go,
how the fuck are you gonna bring a Homa back
to life? He goes, She's gonna have a twin sister,
and oh, I'm cut up. Oh my god, the truth
comes out. I thought this was Bill's brilliant idea, all right,

(01:13:38):
I was. I felt so bad because I wanted you
there at the very end, you know. And uh uh
that was when the show was supposed to end all
that stuff, and uh like, no, I go ahead and
do one more season. I'm right back, yeah, and I'm yeah,
and I'm like this. But the part was the network going, hey,

(01:14:02):
who's this new nurse? Truly? Uh, you know, like when
they started seeing when they started seeing dailies, they're like,
did that character die? Right? It's all good? Yeah? Yeah,
when I walked in my dressing room and Bill came in.

(01:14:23):
I was like, oh no, this can't be good nothing.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, they don't show up
in my dressing room. Okay. Ever, my ass was going die.
I knew. Do you know what my my absolute favorite
thing is. It's a different episode, but I've watched it

(01:14:44):
a hundred times along it and you and Judy over
the years were so good together. And she is doing
her goodbye to you, you know, and your brand dad
and the phone plug, and she wants to say goodbye
before you go, and she's given this amazing speech. And
in a couple of the dailies, I could see you

(01:15:05):
getting emotional and crying. Lawyer, Yeah, man, I remember, and
I touched my heart so much, you know what I mean,
and made me I'm not only about the show about
YouTube and how special that it was nice when people
talk about really emotional moments in the show. You know,
obviously this was an episode, and of course the Brendan
Frasier episode, but they so often talk about that episode

(01:15:27):
of Loma with the connection that you and Judy had
and how how beautiful your performances were together. Then you
got to talk off John to see in that episode. Yeah,
it kills one of my favorite as well. I must
say it was awesome. We couldn't on the top, but
I don't think it would have been as emotional for people.
But Ianway's been funny. If you had his twin brother
come back and he's like the most respectful person. I'm hey, Alma,

(01:15:53):
because we haven't had you on and we've had these
other guys on. Do you remember your audition story or
how you came about getting the landing the Rule of
Nurse Roberts. I remember the audition. It's one of my
favorite stories. How I went in because this was a
four line role and I go into this audition. I'm
totally unimpressed and I'm like, okay, let me get in

(01:16:16):
here and say these four line go and get the
hell out of here, falling out of the chair, laughing
and shit. And then I'm like, what is his problem?
And then the casting director said he told me later,
he said, boys, she better get this partner. She's gonna
kill me. And then I go home. I you know,

(01:16:38):
my agent says, oh you got the part, and I
was like, oh, that's great. And then she calls me
and says, they want you to do a table read.
I said for four lines, and she said yeah. So
I was like, all right, all right, So she gives
me the address. It's up in some deals somewhere. I
have a raggedy Jaguar. She always liked nice carars, and

(01:17:01):
it's got bad breaks that I'm trying to get to
Bill's house and I'm like, what the hell. I get
up there and all you guys know each other. The
only person I halfway know is Donald. Yeah, because we
did trimping together. Not one scene together, not one scene.
That's what I'm saying. Halfway new him, you know. And
I'm like, why, you know, having a great time, you're

(01:17:25):
all getting, you know, off having I'm like, I'm ready
to go. So wait. I'm sitting here reading the script
and I get ready to say the first two lines,
and some girl over there says them, and I'm like,
oh lord, I move up here for two lines. I
couldn't believe it. I was floored. So I get in
my car and I'm like, I have two lines in

(01:17:47):
this series? Two lines, Carol, Can you believe it? I
had four? Okay, fast forward, I'm doing an interview and
the and the person interviews me says, um, I heard you,
Um did the pilot Force Scrubs And I said, oh yeah.
She said it got picked up, and I said, wouldn't

(01:18:08):
it be funny if they picked me up with that show? Well,
it turned out to be the best job I have
ever had. I was like, God, so Bill, thank you
from my retirement. It's fabulous because I'll tell you why.

(01:18:31):
I can tell you exactly why you have to go
to that table reading our heads. Everyone here will tell
you what it means to be a home run here
and this weird thing of table reads for networks, which
we have to do to get that show picked up.
In the first couple of episodes is one person coming
in and just body slamming a scene with one line

(01:18:54):
can literally change the vibe when you you guys all leave,
and that when people go, oh that sucks. Oh that
was great. And I don't know if you remember, but
everybody at the network level thought that one of the
core lines of the pilot was can you just pronounce
him dead so I can go home? Don't expect it

(01:19:17):
to be poignant and funny at the same time, because
it also said what the difference was between the dude
on the first day and the woman that had been
there for a couple of years, you know what I mean,
And it was a huge kind of building block in
the show. I'm so grateful you stayed around and he
didn't get so pissed that he just refused to come
back truly and alone back the sheet. She gotta work now,

(01:19:43):
you don't know alone You're You're so funny and we've
been watching the show for five seasons now, and you
would make Donald and I laugh so much. We just
crack cup. You are so funny on this show. Yeah, well,

(01:20:06):
you two were scandalous on the show. I'll never forget
the time that you mooned Sarah and I was next
to her. Sorry by the way, speaking of party, Speaking
of which, Rob, Rob has a hilarious picture, Rob, can
you hold it up? Or is that just digitally? But
it was. It's a picture of of both Alma and

(01:20:30):
Judy looking at you and your banana hammock banana hammockue.
I never saw such hungry looks in their eyes. Yea,
holding up? No, hold it up? Put it in focus, Rob,
looking at the eyes and look at what they're looking at.

(01:20:51):
It's hard. I never saw two women so hungry in
my life. Anybody ever asks you what being actors like,
you just show them that picture. Let's just get right there.
I just take it down to the banana hammock and
let the magic Happensten No, I mean, I don't know

(01:21:12):
about you guys. I know, Rob, you've been very, very
very nude on the show. dB you have, Johnny, I
know I have. It was something that we kind of
as the men on the show, we kind of had
to do it, though you spoke about it earlier, Bill,
But it was like we got really, we got really
really nude, Like I got all the way because I

(01:21:34):
think a whole forever and on shows, but it's so
far for a movie or whatever, and women go down
to underwear night gowns and ship and the dudes don't
do jack And so we knew we were being inappropriate
a lot of ways. So we thought, when I'm watching
back now, I when I'm watching back now, I'm walking
into Rob's body and Johnny's body, and I'm just like,

(01:21:54):
oh my goodness, dude, do some fucking push ups? Like what? Yeah, Well, Johnny,
Johnny set the bar, you guys, Come on, yeah, Johnny,
do I remember I remember lunch time and Johnny would
just get fuel. He didn't get lunch, he just got fuel,
That's what he would say. We had him down the
basement there was that we could go lift down and

(01:22:15):
the more dude, you put him exercise bike into your
dressing room and would literally read your script and do
exercise for hours, giving all those rewrites. So I had
to I had to figure out a way to learn.
I am. So I'm still out there, by the way,
and even everything in the last second. If that makes
you guys happy as a group of tents, really all

(01:22:38):
you do that too, Jason and I both kind of
It's true. Johnny, you remember getting scripts when when when
when they weren't done yet, and you'd be like, um,
why are we um standing on the table and he'd
be like, oh, oh, oh yeah, yeah, you guys, um
we're still writing that. But there's a reason you guys

(01:22:58):
end up on the table later. Let Johnny Goad. Johnny Goad.
Dressing rooms were all up on the fourth floor, as
well as administrative at the hospital. Whenever I say a hospital,
people think I'm being all method. We shot in a
defunct hospital and dressing rooms were up on the fourth floor,

(01:23:20):
Baku and Wardrobes, and Billy would do these rewrites. I'd
memorize whatever he sent here on Sunday and Sunday night
and Sunday morning, and then I'd get to the hospital
on Monday, and the poor ads and second and thirds
they wouldn't knock on my door anymore. I'd just see
them slide the pages under the door. They didn't want

(01:23:43):
to incur my wrath. I want to share with you
one quick memory about Johnny C if I can. Yes.
It was season nine, one of if not the last
days of the series, and he had a page long
monologue and I was in the scene and he nailed
it in one take. And I couldn't believe after nine

(01:24:04):
years he was working this hard and doing this well.
And they shot it one more time just in case.
But I just will never forget the work a hook
of John C McGinley, and I just want to share
that with you guys right now. Yeah, Billy's rewrites that
you memorize the first and second and third draft and
then god damn at the fifth draft is really freaking good. Bill.

(01:24:28):
Would you ever be nervous to go tell Johnny like, Hey, um,
I know you memorized every nervous it sucked if it
was exponentially better, even though he'd get mad and he'd
read it, and he'd always be like, it's better. I'm sorry,
I gonna go back downstairs and dude, bye bell brother.

(01:24:56):
All right, listen, we have a question here. Yeah, let's
say question here. John c McGinley speaks often of living
life with gratitude. Yes, this is from Eric Weiss. How
could each of your characters incorporate that philosophy philosophy into
this episode? Um, how could each of our characters? Well,

(01:25:22):
I wanted to say on a serious note, you know,
this episode is about missing clues. I mean, we all,
you know, I have people in our lives that we
assume are fine and aren't. And I think that m
j D really struggles with the fact that he found
this woman annoying. Uh you know, she had been suicidal before,

(01:25:43):
I believe, and he's just like, uh, you know, both
Cox and and and and JD are just want to
get away from her. And I think there's a there's
a really serious conversation about missing clues with the people
we love in our lives and um and and not
checking in on our on our people, and of course

(01:26:05):
in terms of gratitude, being grateful and being filled with
gratitude when you are feeling mentally healthy and not and
thank God that you don't have a mental health problem
that would that would make you consider taking your life.
You know, my daughter wakes up every morning, she's twenty

(01:26:27):
two now, right, and I go and I say to
her when I see her in the morning, hey, how
are you doing? And she always goes, I'm alive, dad,
And you know what I mean, and that is I
am so grateful that she understands the moment that she's
in right now, and that she's living at this young

(01:26:50):
age and understands that tomorrow isn't promised. So I gotta
go get it today and I gotta go live it
today and go make it happen today. I'm so grateful
for that. I'm gratefu for her mother and putting that
in her and I'm grateful that, you know, I get
to witness it. And so living with gratitude, I am
so grateful for my children and my wife. I totally

(01:27:12):
get it, man, I totally understand m that just that,
just that quote living with gratitude, I'm so grateful for
you guys. I'm so Alma, I'm so grateful to see
you right now. Like I mean, it could be the
weed wearing off. I don't know what it is, but
I just like I told you not to get high.
What's wrong with you? I smoked a little bit like
you promised to show my badum Aluma with a question

(01:27:36):
for Alma, go ahead, um now, Alma. A lot of
times on the show, they referenced all the hygiens that
happened at Nurse Robert's above ground pool party. Do you
remember this at all? No, I don't remember the above
ground pool parties because my pool was in ground as
well as Jagoozy, so clearly I put that out in

(01:27:58):
my mind. I'll go into those parties. Well, yeah, the
above brown pool party was actually something that was I
think it's mentioned in season one or two. Uh, and
there were a lot of them. There were a lot
of references to like and we never go there. There's
never a scene there, like there was a fight. There

(01:28:21):
was a fight one time where Johnny chokes out where
where Cox chokes out, uh ted the lawyer like apparently
apparently a lot of fans are on the on the
on the chatter asking what does Aluma think may have
gone down at those above ground pool parties? And I
just wanted if you, yeah, she would only be thinking
about it, because clearly you guys talked about it. I

(01:28:45):
probably never had a line about it, so I'm like, yeah,
And also I only read my scenes, so I don't
know what's going on. That's hilarious. Um okay, well put

(01:29:05):
that question up. What was the scariest something about stunts? From?
Put that one up? All had to do on scrubs.
I told you LLL watched the show cool Jo. Okay,
from LLL cool J. What were the scariest stunts? That's
not in my mind, Donald, it's um um, So what

(01:29:29):
were the scariest stunts? Um? Rob. I imagine for you
it might have been that bungee jumping through your underwear. Yeah,
the four story atomic wedger was the scariest because I
was hanging from the roof and then they dropped me
and I had a harness around my like upper inner
thigh and it like it was it hurt. By the
way you guys talked about why was I wearing a

(01:29:50):
bespeckled banana hammock in that scene? A couple of weeks
ago on your podcast, and the reason was if they
made a speedo to cover the harness. And it was
not quite that my go to banana hammock, I see,
but it was really big and thick because there was
a harness and I was strapped in it. It left
the bruise. Yelled that commitment. You yelled like it did too.

(01:30:12):
It hurt, It hurt, but it hurt in a good way.
Mine was being mine was being on mine was being
on fire in that in that scene where episode I directed, actually,
um Jad catches on fire and I didn't do the
full burn. We switched to a stuntman who did a
full body burn. Um but I had to have my

(01:30:36):
back catch on fire and they put me in a
suit and they covered my hair with the anti flame
stuff and they gave me this like pep talk and everything.
But I was legitimately on fire, which I couldn't believe
they were letting me do, but they did. And I
definitely remember that that being the scariest thing. Don't you

(01:30:56):
had to put me out? Do you remember that? But
I don't know if that was really you. That's the thing, like,
I don't know if that was a switch I don't
know a cowboy switch. So what happens is I, Well,
that was a different part when I popped up smoking,
But when I first ran into the bathroom, I was
legitimately on fire on my back. And then Denny had

(01:31:17):
the guy come out and he was fully on fire,
like no, no effects were at it. He was. It
wasn't fucking insane. And then he went down and you
and another stunt man off the camera put him all out.
And then I popped up smoldering, and I'm like, whoa,
that was a doozy or something. I do remember. I
do remember. I remember this, the stunt man saying to me,
when he goes down, you gotta put him out. Donald,

(01:31:38):
I do remember that. Donald. Do you remember your scariest stunt?
Did you have any super scary stunts? No? I don't
think did a lot of scary stunts? No, not on this,
not on this one. At least it wasn't scary for me. Oh,
I see, because you're so darn manly. I wanted to
talk about your chiropractic adjustment from the janitor, which is hilarious. Wait,

(01:31:59):
so this is what happens Elliott and Carla. I feel
like they need to nurture relationships in the hospital. And
so now now that Todd is no longer this you know, uh,
he's no longer the straight sexual harassmer, They're like, well,
he could be our new gay best friend. Yes, they're
excited to have a gay best They're they're very excited

(01:32:20):
to hang out with Todd as a as a gay
man because they they're excited to have a gay best friend. Right,
But this, this happened before in some way where the
janitor had dreams of being a chiropractor, and the girls,
wanting to nurture that relationship, somehow convinced Turk to play

(01:32:42):
guinea pig for the janitor's adjustments. Right, and Turk gets
his neck almost broke, and it's hilarious. Dude, Donald, I
don't know what it is about you screaming in a
high pitched voice. It started, we all know it began,
and clueless, but I didn't screaming a high pitched voice
and clueless. Okayluss I scream in a low Okay, well, okay,

(01:33:02):
I take it back. Then there is something about you
screaming in a high pitched voice that makes me crack
up every single time. And the way that that John
Michelle shot there where you turned to the way you
turned the camera and the sound effect and then you
scream that was fucking hilarious. But then sells it. He
does a dead sailor drop and then dead sailor drop

(01:33:26):
is when you drop like a plank. Yeah, Johnny, you
always fall like that in the show. It's my favorite.
And Donald does a dead sailor drop and Zachie, you
did it perfect out of the bath when you're in
the ice you get and that was a big fall
dead sailor drop scene. Yeah. Um, okay, so that that

(01:33:50):
was amazing. Now Todd, um, the Todd is so confused. Okay,
he says he's dead in his gay on and um,
but it's I don't think he's confused. Well what do
you think, Rob? I mean, it's funny to talk about
this seriously, but like, okay, so you mostly were heterosexual

(01:34:11):
and then the women sort of talk to you because
they think you're gay, and then you came out of
that meaning like maybe I am fluid whatever queer and
you just really embrace it. I say, hey, hey, mick head,
is that package for me? You know what is? And
then I say to do hey, buddy, we should totally

(01:34:32):
have SEXI maybe totally ruined it, fou. And then you go,
you were really you said as someone else, you were
really impressive. Though, the young handsome guy comes up to
you and goes, hey, um, you were really hute. You
were you were really impressive in surgery and do you
know the line? You want me to say it? And
I go, hey, thanks, And you were really impressive in

(01:34:52):
the shower this morning, you know, dong was to this day.
That's my most requested joke. That's on cameo. Really, Oh,
that's it. Don give me You're impressive. Hey, happy birthday.
I'm really impressed with you. You're really impressive in the shower.
You know, don watch. We should mention that you're on cameo,

(01:35:13):
Johnny c Are you on cameo? Yeah? Sure, so there
you guys go alone. Are you on cameo? No? I
don't know what that is. I told you, Okay, well
we're gonna get you. No, but we're gonna get you
on cameo because it's a it's a fun it's a
fun thing. And uh and and if you're listening, if
you're viewing, you can get both. Johnny Sea, you can

(01:35:33):
send messages to your friends from from Johnny or Rob.
I'm sure Rob has to say don jokes. How many
times a day do you have to say? Don? All
my cameos are in character or in varying degrees of characters.
So it's just, you know, but Jingo's boobs and hogs
bone organ suction. Let's play John Madden football on her xbox.

(01:35:56):
Just keep going, I do like two to three, and
it's of all, you know, it's pure sexual innuendo. Indo
keep ALONGA keeps saying how old she is? But I
swear I got haven't seen you so long? You look
exactly say than that's great? Um we um sorry one second,

(01:36:23):
I just wryed. The other Rob line that made me
laugh out loud was he turns to the girl, one
of the nurses, and he says, admit it, we joint
and she says I was sad because my dad ted,
and he goes, I wasn't you know we watched the
show the other night, Amanda and I and uh you know,

(01:36:46):
she said, still together? Oh yeah, we love We can't
keep wait you're still yeah? Man and I going strong.
Everything's great. Our dog is Max is right here walking
around what Donald's trying to say is we didn't know
if you were together not. But she we just watched
the episode where where I'm flirting with her at the
bowling bowling alley. Yeah right, I saw you guys watch it. Jesus, sorry,

(01:37:08):
guys are animals, Jesus. No, No, she's a very beautiful lady.
What are you gonna do? I don't blame you. I
don't blame you. But we watched the episode and then
the janner is like, what are you? Because I'm checking
out all the people and I'm like, I'm the Todd
And then it cuts to like Johnny C and like
losing three patients, and like she just said that was
so funny and now I'm crying. Yeah, that is it,

(01:37:31):
you know. And I didn't. I didn't get I didn't
really get emotional until the third dude, because that's the
one that hurt, you know what I mean, when the
guy with the with the kidney issue, when he goes
that's that's the one that hurts, you know, because because
he was friends with doctor Cox and and the other
two at least we knew. The writing tells us that

(01:37:52):
they could die at any moment, whereas Cox reveals, Um,
you know he he could have lived another month, right, Johnny.
But I think there's two interesting things there. One that
lands when we turn on to Judy and Duty's reaction
to Cox flipping things and flip it's like a light switch.

(01:38:15):
For me, it's the water work to just go because
it's off a Judy. To me, it's all about Judy.
And then the other thing that was really interesting there
was that we shot it a bunch of times and
the line was he wasn't about to die. Was in
neub he could have waited another month for a kidney,
and we shot it an you're done and Zachie, you
came over and I'll bastardize this. But the operative word

(01:38:39):
was he, not that he was going to die. The
die wasn't the operative word, it was that he. And
so I went over to John Michelle and you were right.
And I hadn't tracked that in my brain. And I
went over to the director, John Michelle, who was also
the editor on the show, and I said, can we
do one more? Because the operative words not die, it's
he that to distinguish this room, Yeah, And it was

(01:39:03):
a note that game, and it was genius. I gave
you a note you absolutely Oh god, I hope that
was appropriate. Now I wasn't directing the episode, it was
appropriate and take to take that's in the show. Wow, well,
I I You've done so much fabulous work on the show, Johnny,
but you your work at the end of this episode.

(01:39:24):
I'm sure there's so many doctor I'm sure there's so
many doctors and nurses and healthcare professionals that have been
in the position that that that you so beautifully articulate,
um with just wanting to fucking trash the room out
of frustration, and um I get goosebumps and tears in
my eyes every time I see it. And then you

(01:39:46):
turn around as you're leaving and I try and go
I'm like, where are you going? By the way, that
with the worst shifts not over? Yeah, and uh and
the tears in your eyes. It's just like You're like,
I'm out of here. And I know. We then go
into a a little bit of an arc of of
you not wanting to come back to work, which is
which we're about to start. Yeah, you get real depressed.

(01:40:08):
The character gets real depressed. Cox gets real depressed. Um.
I thought for some reason that when Brendan Fraser passed.
That was the that was the big one. But this
one that's coming up is a like you don't you
don't want to come back? And then we have the
big party for him, right, and they're welcome back. It
doesn't that happen? Welcome back cox Her. I don't know.

(01:40:29):
Is that it's about it's gonna happen? I don't know.
I wish I still had the T shirt though. Let's
take a break. We'll be right back after these fine words,
joel Um and Daniel, you can come back in for
a second. How's the chat or people enjoying the show?
People are loving it. It is insane in there. Hi,

(01:40:52):
everybody to keep your thoughtful questions and your love. I
love it. Yeah, and everybody has there been an answer
on which sound effect they like the most? Daniel, what's
what's happening with that pole? I bet you what you're
trying to get into. Well, we will have that poll
up shortly. But in the meantime everybody started saying high,

(01:41:14):
over and over all, right, and and we'll get back
to you shortly. Okay, put up the new poll because
we only have about ten minutes left, right, is that
one up yet, I think it should be. It should
be up. Shortly we were. We submitted, we submitted options
for the poll. A little while ago. I had some
good suggestions. Okay, here we go. Okay, okay, you're ready.

(01:41:38):
We're getting results. Any results come in? Oh we got
some results. Okay, let's see at the bottom of the table. Yeah,
tied for last place. Bomb noise and thunderous applause. Whoa
whose adults? How about that? We got about We're we're

(01:42:00):
about about three hundred. We just started, it just started. Okay, okay, okay,
second last. What you're trying to get into a dayo shoon? Okay.
Thought to be closer up in third place, Zach stopped
talking about your willies. Okay, go ahead, second place. We'll
shout out to me. You honor me? Yes, do you

(01:42:22):
hear this? The ship's broken, Dan Dane broke that shit
you broken? In the number one, Zach I love you. Yeah.
Most popular vote by a long shot, Donald, Johnny if

(01:42:45):
you and Alma If you don't know, that's Donald's wife
Casey saying Zach I love you, Zach, I love you.
Very popular sound effect. Um tell us what you're up to? Johnny?
I know that you're doing Brooklyn ninety nine. It makes
me jealous that they get to work with you. Tell
us how that's going. That's great. We shot it right

(01:43:05):
in the middle of COVID. It's uh. They have the
same arc as us. They got canceled. Uh and then
they got picked up like scrubs and yeah, they took
they got canceled, then COVID happened, so they took a
whole year off and then when they were back on,
they said, you want to come in a big arc
on this thing. It was fantastic, So it was it

(01:43:26):
was a great gig in the middle of COVID. Did
you get to work with Andre Brauer? Yeah, he was
a total hercules. I think he's such a fine, fine actor.
He walks on water. It's fantastic. Yeah. And um, Rob,
how's the real estate going? If you want to buy
a house in Santa Monica, Rob is the guy who
will sell it to you. Rob, What's what the heck

(01:43:48):
is going on with these prices? Though? Man? Like, last
year is now three million men, blame me Rob on that. God,
last year is now three million dollars because of COVID.
People want their own castle, so they can be away
from everybody else, And there's this mentality like my my

(01:44:11):
home is my is my sanctuary from the world we
live in. And there's a scarcity of inventory and interest
rates are down. And in the last twelve months, I've
sold like sixteen million dollars worth of real estate in
Santa Monica. So it's just fid for you. I just
did the math. I just did the math on twenty
percent of it. And that's where the big cameo mins

(01:44:35):
where the money is. And Alma, you made a joke
about being retired. I hope that's not true. Ye Did
I just see you on a show recently? Weren't you
doing a Disney show? Or and you guys just got
picked up. She was grooving for a while there. That
was great. He had a damn all right, Well she

(01:44:58):
went out with the bank. We'll never know. Hey, So
you know, I'm tired of this damn thing. So I'm
gonna say very quickly, I am collecting my retirement and
have been since oh nine. But I have not stopped working.
I am still working. I'm doing a show in Atlanta

(01:45:19):
called Young Dylan with a Little Kid was discovered on
The Ellen Show. Yeah, yeah, I play his grandmother. So
and it's for Tyler Perry and Nickelode. Are you living
in Atlanta right now? Are you living on the Are
you living on the Tyler Perry in the Tyler Perry Compound? No, no,
we did do the compound in December. You know, he

(01:45:39):
locked us all in and flew us on a private jet.
I was like, oh, yeah, this is I don't want
to get on the commercial, like no more now. Yeah,
but yeah we were locked in, but now no, we
go and you know, I have a house there, so
I go and stay in that house when i'm there.
And then I hope you never stopped working alone, because

(01:46:00):
I hope you never stopped working because you are a fine,
fine actress and you're hilarious and your drama work is
beautiful and you don't look like you've aged one hour
since we saw you. Ah, well, you're so kind. It
was good seeing a guys. I love you, Guys. I
would give you, but I'm but I'm my machine's broken.

(01:46:21):
Apparently thunder Aplause isn't liked either. No, that's just a
way the pole is gonna have new results. Rob. It
was great to see you. We love you. Um you guys,
go to cameo. If you want Rob to send a
message abouts dong to your friends. Great, Actually I might
do that for Christmas. Into banana hammock. Do you get

(01:46:42):
into banana hammock? No, that's extra. Yeah, that's like, could
you look up an old friend. I wouldn't say Dynamite.
It's extra for Dynamite. It's extra for Dynamite. Hey, it's
great to see you guys. This is a beautiful episode
that there's a nice walk down memory lane for me
and uh and I'm glad to share it with all
of you. All right, love and Johnny Seamen Ginley. I

(01:47:07):
say it every time I see you. You're one of
the finest actors I've ever met. You're one of the
finest actors working. And it's such an honor to be
your friend. Thank you, Zachie. Can I mention that on
November thirteenth, we have our Global Down Syndrome Foundation. We
have our big giant fundraiser that will be virtual this year.

(01:47:27):
It's called the Be Beautiful, Be Yourself Fashion Show, where
all our models usually walk down a catwalk accompanied by
big stars that come into Denver. And that's our big
fundraiser and it's for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation called
Be Beautiful, Be Yourself Fashion Show and it's on November
thirteenth this year. And anybody who's looking for something to

(01:47:47):
do on a Saturday night November thirteenth, please joint us.
Is there a place, Johnny where anyone can donate to
that cause or website for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation,
and from there it's all these Also, if anybody watching
or listening to this does have the great fortune of
having a child or a young adult born with Down syndrome,

(01:48:09):
the Global Down Syndrome Foundation is an indispensable resource that
if you're not aware of, you should be. It's the
Global Down Syndrome Foundation. It's easy to find. Just go
to that website and there's all sorts of tools and
information for you that are limitless, limitless, awesome. Great. And
you're such a good father and you're such a good

(01:48:30):
friend and we love you and thanks for coming on.
Thank you for being on the show. Johnny. It's so
qud to see you, brother, And I'm glad to hear
your golf game is on the level. Bro. Yeah, Johnny
shot par today which apparently is very good. Par Is good, right, Donald. Yeah,
par Is great, you shoot par You're Have you shot
car before Donald a few times? Yes, okay, I've shot

(01:48:53):
par on the mini golf, but you've never shot par
in mini golf. You're lying right now, you're lying. I
got the indmill, I got it in the world. That's great,
but you didn't shoot part I think the show win.
Good guys, what do you think I'm I'm Oh my god,
it was a blast, dude. We did two hours plus. Yes,
I'm just a loma. Oh my gosh, Oh my god,

(01:49:13):
how funny. It was a lomo, the most funny. Oh
my goodness, credible. Well, thank you Daniel and um Joelle.
You guys are the best. I know. We didn't get
a lot of time with you because we had all
these surprises, but we need to shout out Kayla. Also, Kayla,
who did all the behind the scenes tech, Thank you

(01:49:35):
so much. You did a great job. That doesn't mean
get on camera, Kayla, just stay Oh yeah, Kayla, gosh,
I'm down. Kaylor. Um We hey fans, we love you
and thanks for tuning in. Um we do this podcast.
If you're new to joining us, Every Tuesday we release

(01:49:55):
an audio podcast. You can find it anywhere there's merch
only podcast. People really like merch and we have we
puts them out. We put them out. We're talking about
the holiday season right now. Oh yeah, and ugly Christmas sweaters.
You guys, let us know what you think of that. Yeah, Christmas,

(01:50:16):
take doctor's real friends. Ugly Christmas sweaters? Um and uh
and a shout out, of course to all the healthcare
workers on the front lines during this insane pandemic that
seems to be endless. We know that a lot of
you listen to the show because you tell us, and
this is the most sincere thing. Uh we can say,
thank you so much for putting your lives in the line,

(01:50:38):
and for your bravery and for being the incredible human
beings that you are. And that's not just doctors and nurses,
that's orderlies and janitorial staff and people who work at supermarkets.
If you're out there in front of a bunch of people,
you are on the front lines. And we totally appreciate you. Yes, um, Donald,

(01:51:00):
I love you more than you know how love. That's
not possible, it is, it's not possible. But um, all right,
thank you everybody. We'll see you next time. By game five,
six seven. Any worries about you, We me about a
bunch of docs and nurses and a janitor who I

(01:51:22):
said he's the stories. Never should know, So geta around you.
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