Fake Doctors Classic - 123: My Hero With Brendan Fraser

On this week's show, we remember that time Brendan Fraiser spoke to us! What a magical day. 

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He is one sharp dude. Did you actually believe that
I was going to be late on a day like today?
I'm nervous. Are you nervous? I'm a little nervous, dudent.
I have butterflies. I don't have butterflies when I'm just
shooting the ship with you. But this is a big deal. Yeah,

(01:49):
we got a list celebrities. This is the tyle listener.
This is the type of shit that freaking you know
shows when they're getting launched and everything like that. They
hope to get a guest like Brendan Fray. When Fallon launched,
he wished he got a guess like Brendan Frasier on
that episode. Same thing with Kimmel when they launched, it
were like, if we could get somebody like Brendan Frasier.
By the way, we've been saying it wrong. I'm sorry

(02:11):
to interrupt you, but I got yelled at on the internet.
It's Phraser. We've both been saying Frasier. It's Fraser, Fraser
like Fraser like er like Laser, Fraser Fraser. Okay, I'm
just saying I got someone was like love the podcast
sac You're all you're both saying Brendan's name wrong. Sorry? Sorry,

(02:36):
do you know my times? I get Donald Phisson, Pison Pison?
What's the other? Um? Oh, there's another phase on but
he spells it differently. There's phase on love Love, and
then there's Frankie Faison who spells it the same way. Right,
there's a phase on North Carolina. I've never been there.
White and black Phasons. How are you, guys? How's your

(02:58):
week going? By the way down, Well, did you know
that Dan's nickname is Daniel? I thought that that was
just kind of a Joel joke, but it really is
his his nickname in life Daniel. It's a nickname or
is that your name? But his name is Daniel. His
name is Daniel. But he's been because a very long
story he doesn't want to go into. But Daniel, happy
to do it another time, Happy to do it another time. No,
but I'm starting to wonder if we should call on

(03:20):
the podcast. I should be calling him Daniel because I
like to use nicknames. It makes me feel like I'm
close to someone. Well, I would be honored if you
would call me Daniel, or I might just do there
is Daniel. I'm gonna see, I'm gonna see. I'm gonna
see if it flows, because you can't force a nickname
like like you know, I hate it when when you
say someone's nickname and you feel like, oh, I just
it is not flowing out of me right now. When

(03:42):
I was a kid, When I was a kid, my
mom was like the the not the leader of a camp,
but like the creative director at a camp. It was
a camp that had a boy season in a girl season.
The name of it was Camp at Water. It was
in Massachusetts, right and I remember she went around a
table with all the counselors because she had to be
there early to meet all the counselors and stuff. She

(04:02):
went around a picnic table we were outside. I was
there because I'm there with my mom, and she's like,
all right, everybody, just give me your first uh, your
name and then you know a nickname that people give you.
So people was going around, I'm terrific Tasha, or I'm
you know, stunning Stephen. And they got to this dude

(04:23):
named Darryl. He was like, they called me delicious Darrel,
and I remember I remember being like wow and I
and then later on Cedric the Entertainer has a joke
where you know what grown man wants to call another
grown man? Delicious? Was your nickname? My father called me

(04:49):
the Great Destroyer. It'd be like, oh, here comes the
great Destroyer. I was had my head was constantly in
the clouds, and I had a tendency to you just
break things and running into them arms like gesticulating wildly,
knocking over cups and stuff. So wow, that stuck. Yer.
My nickname was BIZ because it's my initials backwards braf

(05:15):
Israel Zach. So uh. When I was a kid. So
I grew up with Terrence Howard, right, he and I.
I've known him since he was like twelve years old.
As a matter of fact, my first I took him
on his first audition. He crashed and crashed an auditioned
with me, and it wound up being like the Jackson's
U Special, and he became you know, he's Terrence Howard. Now, Anyway,

(05:39):
when we would hang out when we were kids, there
was this dude in the neighborhood who didn't necessarily like
the fact that two acting, you know, teenagers or you know,
young men were walking around hanging out together. So he
was called show Biz and I was Hollywood. So when
we come outside and back here comes show Biz in Hollywood,

(06:00):
I'm gonna start calling you Hollywood. No, no, no, how
are you? How's your life? Donald Phazon? It's good. You know.
I board in the house and I'm in the house
board old yeah, man, it's the same old stuff. Yeah. Well,

(06:21):
you got a birthday coming up, I do. I'm gonna
be forty six, that's fucking it'll literally be twenty years
since we started Scrubs. When we started Scrubs, I had
just turned twenty six, so it'll be twenty years this
year Scrubs will have been We will have been making
Scrubs like it was the first. The first episode came
out when I was twenty six years old. I bought

(06:42):
you a present. No, my wife bought me a present.
I bought you a present for both Father's Day and
your birthday, So did my wife. What did you get me?
I'm not gonna tell you. I'm not gonna tell at
least all these fine folks listening, but it did. A
donut machine? No, are you gonna keep the donut machine? Though,
by the way, we have heard the update on the
donut machine. I think I might keep the donut Yeah,

(07:03):
of course you're gonna keep the donut machine. Will you
post pictures on your Instagram so so our listeners can
see it? Absolutely? I made ice cream yesterday. I made
a raspberry ice cream yesterday. It was delicious. Do you
have an ice cream maker? Well, there are a lot
of things that you can use to make ice cream,
But I have a little attachment that goes on my

(07:24):
little Belleville and it's a mixer and it's spit. You know.
It took me two days to make ice cream, but
I made ice cream, and then I made some fudge.
So it was raspberry ice cream with a little chocolate
fudge underneath. Let me tell you, they went crazy in
this household for my food mine. So this is a
new phase for your quarantine. You become a dessert chef. Yeah.

(07:45):
You know a lot of people thought I would phase
off when it came to cooking. I decided to fase on.
You know what I'm saying. I think that the best
solution for your diet is to start becoming a dessert chef.
I think it'll be great for my Celester all yeah,
and it'd be great for my It'd be great for
my diet. You know what I mean. I am a

(08:05):
dessert man. I love sweets, I love sugar, I love
ice cream. Well, dude, I made fudge to make fudge brownies.
You gotta make fudge first. I made fudge first. Oh,
let me tell you something right now, and nothing like
some homemade fudge. Oh my gosh, that shit is good.
Listen that it's good. Um. The people loved Scott Foley.

(08:28):
Great reaction to Scott Foley was a great guest man.
He was a great guest Everybody loved him on there yeah,
and my whole timeline was nobody cares Shan. Like, I'm
talking about ninety nine percent of the comments where nobody
cares shan. Some people said nobody cares Zach. Yeah, well
I said that a couple of times. Oh that was you,
that was you commenting. Yeah, that was me, I thought

(08:52):
you man on my Instagram. Um, I'm good. You know,
I don't know how do you answer that these days?
He just everyone just goes yeah, I don't know, staring
at the well. I think it's crazy. You know, the
cases are all rising. You know, somebody wrote somebody wrote
on Twitter. I thought it was really appropriate. They said, like,
so we're all just kind of got bored and just
said fuck it because people are just going out there.

(09:14):
It's rising. Fauci said something like, what do you you know?
People were saying like, oh, it's the second wave. Fu.
She's like, what are you talking about? This is still
the first wave. Yeah, you know, and it's spiking everywhere.
It's spiking in LA it's spiking in so many places
and spiking in the South. Hardcore Yeah, I know. So,
I don't know, man, it's crazy. It just feels like

(09:34):
people went fuck it. I'm over it, and they're just
gonna they're going out. Um, I don't know, if you've
seen all these videos of people out out and about
with no masks on. I think it's I think it's crazy. Yeah,
you know, Um, everybody's gonna live their life, you know
how They're gonna live there, you know. And I can't.
I can't stop anyone from I can. I can beg

(09:55):
and I can plead, and I can you know, you know,
say to That's all we can do. Please don't go out.
Please think of your fellow man. There are the people
that can't. You know, that won't be as lucky as
you are. If you are one of the lucky ones
that you know, this virus does nothing too. But um,

(10:15):
I can't, I can't. What are you gonna do. You're
gonna arrest people? What are you gonna do? Jump on
people in stop? I haven't. We haven't, we haven't. We
haven't spoken too much on about our friend Nick on
this podcast. You know, Donald and I have a very
good friend, Nick Cordero. You may have heard about him
in the news. He's about as sick as someone can be,
and he was had no pre existing conditions, and he

(10:36):
is forty years old, and he was. He was staying
in my guesthouse. And he's one of my best friends
in the world. He's an amazing actor, broadcast play together.
We did a play together. He's a wonderful actor, a
wonderful singer. Um, he's just incredible. You know. People always
say this about people, but like, honestly, he's the nicest

(10:57):
person I've ever met. Like, like, there is not a malicious, weird, competitive,
angry cell in his body. He's an angel of a
human being. And uh, he was, he was here, he
was living in my guest I'll say. He and his
wife bought a new house in LA. They were making
the move from New York to LA. They have a

(11:18):
they have a one year old baby. They were just
living the American dream. They literally bought their first house.
And he went back to New York to pack up
his apartment and got COVID so bad that he's been
staying alive with the help of machines. I don't and
no one knows if he's gonna make it. He's lost
his leg due to complications clotting and such. His lungs,

(11:41):
his lungs are just Swiss cheese, they said, the COVID
just just fucking destroys the lungs. So, UM, I not
to be a Debbie downer on this show, but I
haven't been talking about it because we're here to hopefully
entertain you and take your mind off things. But if
you're headed out and you don't have a mask on, uh,
I want you to to think about my friend Nick.

(12:02):
Maybe just think about it, because I think people takes
comfort and going well, worst case scenario, I'm forty, what's
gonna happen this guy had had he was healthy, his
wife's a trainer. I mean, he's a healthy guy and uh,
and he could he could die. So I don't mean
to to to preach. And I wasn't even gonna bring
this up, but I just felt weird all of a

(12:24):
sudden not mentioning it. And uh and um, you know,
so while you think, while you think it's uh, while
everybody's out there, just you know, uh about to uh
all the people that are sick of this virus, just
know that this virus isn't sick of us exactly, and

(12:45):
and just know that, uh, you know, don't have in
your head. I think it's a shame for people to
have in their head. Uh, worst case scenario. I get it.
They say it's like a really bad flu. That's that's bullshit.
That's some people. But there's also some people like Nick
who are totally healthy and have a one year old
baby and I just started walking, who just started walking
today actually, and uh and his and he could die.

(13:07):
I mean, we don't know. It's it's it could go
either way. So I'm sorry to open the show with that.
Donald helped me change the tone of things by being
jovial and leading us in some six seven amoris about
show we made about a bunch of docs and nurses.

(13:29):
Said he's a stories should so yadoo around here, A
yadoo around here. Show m. Let's bring in Brendan everybody,
Let's bring in Brendan Fraser. Donald, don't say it like
the oh I'm shu to see you too, oh man.

(14:04):
Donald and I both admitted to each other that we
have butterflies because we don't have fancy movie stars on
our on our pott. No offense to our other guests.
They're great offense. They all did they they've all been great,
but they're not like Brendan Fraser. We're just kicked it up.
A notch like like like like Emerald used to say, Bam,
kick it up a notch. Flattery will get you everywhere, Brandon,

(14:28):
we um. We we're giddy that you're here. Not only
are we not only have we always both been fans
of your work, but when you came on the show,
it was really cool because you were by far the
fanciest guest star we had on the show. And then
you became like people's favorite storyline. And I don't even

(14:49):
if you know this, but the episode where you where
You died is a lot of people's favorite episode of
the whole series. And so we're just we're thrilled you're
here and we want to talk about all of it.
Thank you. You helped launch our you know, I don't
think I don't know if it definitely wasn't on purpose,
but our buddy Josh Raiden, who gets spoken of every

(15:10):
freaking episode. His song was played at your character's funeral
and because of that his career. I mean, he travels
all over the world now and performs to packed houses.
But this was the first song that he ever wrote,
and somehow Bill used it in in this episode that

(15:31):
somehow is me. I said, you need to stud of
the song try my buddy's first song. He had never
written a song, and we played it during Your Funeral
episode and it launched his career. But anyway, we let
Brendan talk. That's really nice. I mean, look, the music's
important so much in the across the arc of the
whole whole show. I mean, the choices were always spot on.

(15:55):
They made you feel the internal conflict even though there
was you know, the comedy that that um it was
juxtaposed against. It's a very serious environment. I mean, how
do you make a hospital funny? Yeah, you guys did it,
um for many, many episodes, and I, um, I'm so

(16:18):
pleased when I've been going to comic conventions in the
last two years or so, that's a similar thing that
everyone says, they're very um, they're moved by that episode. Now, look,
thanks for nice things you're saying to me, But you're
only as good as you're the company you keep and
how well it's written, and some camera things too. But

(16:40):
I just I should say belated thank you, like what
seventeen years later now for including me in that cast
and pulling me into the fold. We get Sorry, Sorry,
I didn't mean that's okay, I was thinking about that
today too. I let's take a walk back here. I
had just finished a run of my West End debut

(17:00):
in London and Catnohats in Roof, and I came back
to LA and my former wife Afton and Krista Miller
are longtime friends, and I had not met Bill before,
but I did get on the phone with him, and
I recall saying something like he's asking, how you doing.

(17:21):
We want you to come and do this. I let
me see the script. I mentioned something about feeling a
little tired or jet lagged or I needed to get
back to the gym, and he said, all right, well
I'll send it over. So he sent the script over,
and he sent a bunch of gym shorts. And then
I mean like nice ones too, So I thought, all right,

(17:45):
I mean when one man sends another man his shorts,
there is no other love. You know, when you're trying
to get an actor to do something, there's always the
go to thing, which is write a nice letter. But
I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Bill's Q on this
and get more creative. He sent you a clothing. Well,
he just showed he was listening. Listen man, I'm tired.

(18:06):
I gotta get back to the gym. Let me help
you out. You're some shorts and the script that's true.
Are you are you in town right now or are
you out of town? I know you're doing uh that
the show, the superhero show, Doom Patrol, Doom Patrol, Superhero Guy.
I was just watching the trailer for season two where

(18:27):
you guys are miniaturized and everything like that. I'm very
excited for it. I was really excited when the show started.
I was actually I watched Titans and then when they
introduced Doom Patrol through Titans and Beast Boy, I was
really excited to watch the show. And the cast is phenomenal.
You got such a really dope cast, you Matt Bonner,

(18:48):
Uh what's his name? Uh? Timothy Dalton. Like it's a
sick cast, dude, Dian Guerrero, Ippa Bulby Season two, Let's
get out of the way, June twenty fifth on HBO.
Man the New One, check it out. So hey, Donald,
did you actually watch the read the comics before? I mean,
this is the first time my live action thing has

(19:09):
been No. No, I had not read the comic before,
but I knew it existed, but I had I had never.
I had never just because it's really an obscure property.
It was really kind of it was orphaned. It was
done like seven different incarnations on Real Prince. Yeah, and
they didn't they killed everybody off at one point they
brought them all back um and then Grant Morrison did

(19:31):
the run that this that inspired the show. So it
the words surreal gets bandied about very much in the
way we speak, but it actually borrowed from Dadaism, and
you know that what Dolly was up about surrealism in
the way that the show's inspired. A lot of the
set pieces are direct key art from um the graphic

(19:52):
novels Wow and It and It, and it did keep
the sense of I don't know if I want to
call it it's people like to say dark where it's serious.
I think it just didn't. It doesn't. It doesn't shy
away from going to the places that motivate brooding superhero

(20:13):
character is explaining really why, and often in white knuckle detail.
So you guys, you guys do you guys are very
It's a very I would say it is a dark show,
like each and every one of your origins comes from
a dark place. You know what I mean, just from
your character alone. Your character was a race car driver

(20:34):
who was who was like, you know, cheated on his
wife and really didn't give a shit about anybody but
his daughter, you know what I mean. And yeah, and
he was I don't think he won all those races
fair and square either to right. Just a bad, bad dude.
And he dies and gets put into a robot, and
he's led to believe that his daughter is I don't

(20:55):
want to spoil the show. He's dead. There, I said it.
He's and and so's he's struggling to reconcile how to
be a better man, except now he's trapped in this
steampunk robot body. And strangely, he's a better human being

(21:16):
as a robot than he was as a man. Right, right, right,
and and and he's there for his teammates. He's like
in every episode, he's the one character who's there for
his teammates. He's there for the girl with all the
personalities he's there for that's Crazy Jane, as she's known,
with her sixty four different personalities the year all but

(21:38):
superpowers too. That's a superpower, that's dope. You could sixty
four different powers. That's pretty dope anyway, Brendan, did you
read um comic books when you were a kid? I
had an anthology of Superman. I tried to get into
Batman because all the cool kids did then. And I

(22:01):
gotta be honest with you, they kind of think they
were formidable, and they sort of scared me a little bit,
like it was like listening to heavy metal music and
you're not ready for it to me. And and so,
I mean, I like them, for sure, but my speed
was more like Dennis the Menace and Richie rich Yeah.

(22:22):
I would read Archie, Little Archie, Yeah, little Archie. Look yeah,
So I guess in short, no, not really. But then
I mean when this came along, um, it's kind of
a yeah, I would want to be at part of
this because I'm not sure if if risks like this
get taken that frequently. And I'm no aficionado you know,
in a world of comics and that kind of thing,

(22:43):
but I know that it's, um, it's a piece. And
Donald just touched on this. That's like everyone comes from
some horrible accident that occurred to them prior to them
being introduced to its audience, our audience, and that's the
reason why that they have to build better lives through it.
Although they bicker with one another and they hate one another,
but they can't be a part and they don't function

(23:05):
without one another. Kind of like Scrubs, I should say, Yeah, yeah,
the very theme song is I can't do this all
on my own, and yeah, it's about the camaraderie. You know,
you had the most epic career. I was just scrolling
your IMDb page just before you came on because I
wanted to just kind of glance at everything. I mean,

(23:26):
you have the kind of career that actor's dream of having.
You from from really cool artistic indies to the biggest
tent pole movies ever. I mean, do you when you
look back on things, is there is there a favorite
or is it all kind of like I mean for us,
I mean Donald and I look back at Scrubs. We
haven't had the fraction of the career you've had, but

(23:48):
I mean we look back and go, Okay, We've had
lots of fun experiences, but Scrubs was like one of
the best experiences of our lives. Is there a project
that you look back on that and go, you know,
I've done a lot of cool things, but this one
in particular was like, holy shit, that changed my life
or this or if I had to like name something
that really changed my life for better or worse, I'd
have to say it was around two thousand or sorry,

(24:09):
in like nineteen ninety nine, it was the Mummy pictures.
Everybody saw those, I mean, and still they have a residence.
I guess it's just, you know, my dumb luck that
the the lore of an Egyptian mummy wrapped up for
several thousand years looking for his girlfriend is an enduring
theme that we just love to do in over and
over and over again. So you know, I had that that,

(24:32):
I had that going for it. But um, if I
think of a filmler that that made me feel like
it changed. I worked with I worked with Michael Caine
in Vietnam on a picture called The Quiet American and
it was a pretty good adaptation. Um. Christopher Hampton wrote it,

(24:55):
um of the of the novel UM. And we shot
in Vietnam, and at that time no Western film had
been made in Vietnam. I mean, if you saw a
movie that was a war picture or something, it was
in Malaysia or Thailand or doubled somewhere else in specific
for the Jungles, but we had the good fortune and

(25:18):
to actually be there, and it was exciting for the
reasons that it really pushed back at as the novel
did that American foreign policy was, you know, blessed in
the world. And the reality is, no, it's not. The

(25:40):
The picture itself, I can say confidently, was put on
the chopping block by Miramax when it came out September
eleventh had transpired it and in the I don't even
want to say his name, but the boss of that
company said, I don't want to do anything wrong for
the American people, and we never really knew what that meant.

(26:02):
And Michael took the picture to Toronto International Film Festival
and gave it in an audience there, and that's when
it UM really started to take off. In the Washington
Post wrote a piece called let the Quiet Americans Speak
and UM, you know, in other words, you don't need

(26:24):
to sugarcoat this. You don't have to treat us like children.
We should know. I mean, these are things that that
we do have to discuss. That UM has not changed
then and it had it can't change now. I mean,
so to be a part of that. UM, I guess

(26:45):
I felt I was in UM in good company, and UM,
I felt like I had a chance to be a
part of a picture that would, you know, in its
own way change the world. Now, movies do or they don't,
and that's the hope in the aspiration. But it did
fulfill something for me that UM was was meaningful. And

(27:09):
if it didn't find its audience at that time, UM,
there's always the notion of feeling that it will do
in the future. And well, I think, up, you can
have a lot of people watching it now because it's
it's one of yours. I haven't seen and I'm definitely
curious and uh, and we have a handful of people
listening to this. I'm sure we'll check it out. I
loved one of your early film school ties was Yeah,

(27:30):
I was about to say that, oh man, that movie
hit me at the right age, man and I especially
being a young Jewish man that you of course, and
we didn't and I didn't feel like I looked like Brendan,
you know. I was like, there, I am, look at
our handsome mind being represented. But but but I mean
your performance in that movie as as a young actor,
I mean, I think everyone in the world was like,
you know, everyone who loves movies was like, oh shit,

(27:51):
look at this new guy. I thought, you really really
were great in that movie. Well thanks. It was sort
of the diner casting. Yeah, it's day in a way,
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, the list is ridiculous, So many people,

(28:12):
Anthony Raps ridiculous. We um at that time had no
idea what we were doing. We had an abundance of enthusiasm.
Probably the most important thing to us is getting the
producer to provide us breakfast in the morning before we
had to play football all day, although they did not,
you know, I mean and and still at that time,

(28:33):
I look at it and I think, I don't I
really don't know that much about that guy anymore. You know,
I just see, um, I see I see a cast
very hopeful. But but at the same time we all
have this sort of tenuous is this kind of feelings
as you do when you're first starting out in this industry. Yeah,

(28:54):
um so. But for that rather than you know, turning inward,
we just swung for the fences and hope for the best,
for for whatever the film would would result. And well
it was. It was really great. Donald and I both
remember that film. Finally, we've talked about it before. And Donald,
you also began your career in a football film. Yeah,

(29:17):
I did. It was called Remember the Titans. Have you
watched it yet? No, it's all my to do. Listen,
I'm gonna watcheman. These are that's fine, and and that's fine,
but these are the issues that I'm having. Now. Let
me tell you what happens. Don't fight in front of
our guests, don't fight in front of company. Let me finish,
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(29:39):
didn't read Garden State when you Yes, that's one of
the reasons. I was in the shower and I was thinking,
you know, I've done some projects and Zach's never seen
any of them. No, I've seen a lot of them.
You've seen, dude. You was the movie You win where
where the famous rapper was a postman was a It's

(30:00):
called Next Day. First of all, it was Next Day Air. Yeah,
I second all. The only reason why you saw Next
Day airs because I invited you over for screening at
my house with all the producers, and oh boy, who
is the rapper? I forgot? He was really good? Most
deaf man the most Def is a good actor. He
did a good job in that movie. I worked with
most Demost. I worked with most Deff once in a

(30:23):
really obscure movie that shot and saw Paula Brazil. It
was called Journey to the End of the Night, and
he played a Nigerian dishwasher who gets roped into running
a huge suitcase of cocaine in this sort of impossible
scenario that he just can't win from. He was so good,
I mean he was what was the name of the movie,

(30:45):
Journey to the End of the Night? Journey scene Bay
in Journey to the End of the Night. I'm gonna
watch that too, So sorry, but Titans got moved down
another rung because I had two more films. Let me
tell you what happened in my house? You have dinner,
you get what are we gonna watch tonight? Right? I
don't know if this happened dayson, and remember the Titans. Now,

(31:06):
let me tell you, I just want to know if
this happens in either any of your houses. You have
a list of like one thousand classics you want to watch.
You have a list of like your friends movies you
want to watch. You got a list of movies you
read online that everyone's talking about, and then you get
on there and you're tired and you had a glass
of wine and you like and it's HGTV time. Yeah, right,

(31:27):
Top Chef, Top Chef. I watched Top Chef. Listen, I
could be a cook now because I watched so much
Top Chef. Hold on. You said it's friend movies that
your friends are in, and you look at the classics
and everything like that. Dude, you can knock two out
with one stone. It's a motherfucking classic one two. Your
friend is in it. So dude, let's get to the

(31:50):
what are we waiting? We're gonna do it. I'm right
after quiet American, I'm gonna do it. Um all right,
I promise you this is a commitment. You're lying, but okay,
you've been saying this for years. I just want you
to know that for years. Listen, don't go ahead. We
don't have Brendan forever because he has to feed his children.
So I want to move quickly. We're gonna take a
quick break and we're gona come back, and then we're

(32:11):
gonna go through the episode because I want to talk.
This episode has so much in it and Brendan. You
probably don't even know this, but there's so many things
in this particular episode that that became through lines for
the whole series, including when you pick me up and
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My Hero and it's the second of Brendan's three episodes
he did. Um, Brennan, did you know by the way

(36:53):
I knew you assumed you knew you were doing too?
But then what's the story of of you came back
in Nautil SS and three? Did? Did Bill? He couldn't
have possibly see, Hey, we're gonna build your character and
come back in two seasons or so? What how did
that come about? Yeah, I gotta I gotta Bill knows
the answer to that one. I mean, I had such
a great time with the to be continued to you know,

(37:17):
to hander right that came on in the first season
that I was in, and then when he called up
to do it again, I was like, absolutely all right,
you know you. It was because I had such a
great time work you guys right on you and you
and you brought something to the table that a lot
of that went on for a really long time. Also,
your camera when you brought your camera to look at this. Look,

(37:41):
Zach has a camera just like that. Now I'm holding
up I'm holding up my my Polaroid one ten A
that I would not have purchased without Brendan. So I
want you know, Brendon and I are both Brendan, Christa
Miller and I are all camera geeks. We all collect them.
But I was never into old polaroid camera until I
met Brendan and all. And if you guys are watching

(38:02):
the episode and you see him shooting all these polaroids,
they that was inspired by Brendan. Those are all his
pictures you're you're looking at. And I got so into
to polaroid photography because of you, Brendon, and I've free,
not like free for the twenty years since I've seen you.
I can't tell you how many different polaroid cameras I've

(38:23):
bought and collected. And Donald was saying on another podcast,
he goes, why do I have so many like professional
quality polaroids of myself? And I'm like, that's because of Brendan.
Because Chris and I both got so into it. We've
taken so many pictures of them, Yeah, sitting in a
closet or on the shelf right now. Because the film
is so hard to find, and you know you can
get it online, um um if you buy. I actually,

(38:47):
knowing that you were coming on, I haven't. I haven't
used it in a while, but knowing you were come on,
I was like looking online where I can find Fuji
still makes um the film extra good pack film impossible
projects another one, you know, yes, but for those of
men want to into this hobby food Fujif P. One
hundred is the go to, right, Brennan, that's like the
last one. Let me just geek out. I'll put my

(39:08):
glasses one one hundred. I just gave him a shout out.
There should be a sponsor, um so Brendan. When you
picked me up at one thirty three in this kid's room, now,
I can't imagine you even could could know this story,

(39:28):
but the fans I've watched eight seasons, no, when you
picked me up and spun me, the first thing I
say that made me laugh was I go faster, because
the whole the whole gag is the JD is such
a nerd that at first he's like no, no, no,
and then then he's like as a kid and I
and then you're spinning me. You're spinning me. And on
one last take, I thought, oh, the extra dorky if

(39:51):
JD pretended he was soaring like an eagle, And then
I just went eagle, which became bizarrely a huge runner
throughout the whole season. On a series of the show,
Don would pick me up and I'd yell eagle, and
it became a running thing. It became his what you're
talking about Willis. It became my what you're talking about?
It became my catchphrase. You you lifted me into my

(40:14):
It's like in dirty dancing doing the lift. You lifted
me into my catchphrase. Thank you, thanks very very much. Everywhere.
I particularly liked your shower shorts. If I remember, yes correctly,
the man for the man who has nothing to hide
but still wants to still want and it had did

(40:35):
have a wallet and then you hold it out, you
let it go and there's this sort of like sound
off camera and you just winced a bit. Yeah, exactly.
But I mean everywhere I go in my life, and
I've been traveled all around the world, Um, I will
have people yell eagle at me as I walk down
the street. It's forever, It's forever. Yeah, all because of
this moment and at one minute thirty eight and then

(40:57):
Christy goes for a spin. Yeah, Christa liked that. I
haven't feel like Krista wasn't too fond of the spot.
I bet she liked it because it was Brennan. If
it was anybody else, she would have been like, there's
no way, I can't imagine a Bill writing an episode.
If Bill put any other character picks up Christa and
spins her. She would have been like, no no no

(41:18):
no no no no no no no no no no no.
Tangle in my giblets. I laughed out loud at that.
I don't like too much freedom now there. It makes
me tingle in my giblets. I think I may have
made that one up because I don't think Bill would
have written giblets. But um, Brennan, you found a way

(41:40):
with this character to bring out something. You know, Johnny
C had yet to really warm up to anybody. He's
his character, Doctor Cox is playing. He's such a tough
alpha guy. And then with your character, we see the
friendship that that that JD and Turke have mirrored a bit.
We um, oh, there is a guy out there who's

(42:03):
silly and who's goofy and is and is out there
who's kind of like um his JD. If you, if
you will, do you know what I mean? Like you
you you brought out the silly side of a guy
the audience is only known as someone who's so serious
and agro right he was and just just like Johnny C.

(42:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, although Johnny's a smidgen nicer, right, absolute Yeah,
did you know Johnny before this? Had you guys worked together?
We No, we had not met before. I had seen
him in films that he'd made, and but I think

(42:45):
I met him on the day tell you the truth.
The day. Uh there was a nail in my hand, yeah,
a board right, Yeah, remember that was the first episode
before this one. Correctly, I think we met like maybe
three minutes earlier than that. Wow. Wow, it's because he
doesn't take much time in the makeup chair. I learned.
He just kind of walks in, scrubs his head, yeah,

(43:07):
and then makes like these sort of animal grunt noises. Yeah,
puts product in it and does it again, and then
like does like elaborate clicking and snapping or his fingers
and then he takes off. He's good to go. I
had to show up, like, you know, an hour early
with Christa, so we could you know, get our Strand

(43:27):
by strand done just perfect? Yeah? Do you? Donald went through?
Donald went through Donald. Colin Farrell was on the show,
and I think it was him, right, Donald, you didn't
want any makeup and uh, you know, because he looks
like Colin Farrell. And then Donald was like, you know what,

(43:47):
I'm gonna start doing that. I don't need makeup either.
If it's good enough for Colin Farrell is good enough. Yeah,
and Donald Donald was like showing off like I don't
even make up either, and then like, oh, we did
one episode and the next week that I was like,
I'm gonna go back to the makeup. I'm gonna go
back to Uh speaking of makeup, is that you in
in the in the costume all the time or do

(44:08):
they have a stand in for you or do you
have to do makeup every day like that? Which costume?
Which I've had a lot of weird ones, and I've
had some that were at all Oh for do Patrol.
Oh no, that's voiced by Riley shan I mean I'm
voicing the character. Riley Shanahan wears the suit. Um. He
is a wonderful comedic performer with fantastic timing. Um, and

(44:32):
he's full on playing the character through a mask. Yeah.
Um and uh he uh he does the heavy lifting there.
I mean I show up in an episode or two
wearing pieces of that because, like I said, it borrow,
it breaks a lot of rules and makes its own
the way the show unfolds. But otherwise, no, I'm it's like,

(44:52):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta be clear with you.
It's like it's like a dream job somebody else wears
the thing shows up for you in recent and so
I don't even go inside the studio like we all thought.
You're sitting in your closet right now, I've been doing
a d R on a cell phone. It's it's it's
weird day. It's weird days for a business. But on
the other hand, like, don't tell anybody this is actually

(45:13):
I think that's the case. I'm not wearing pants. I
think that's the case with I think it's the case
with Mandalorian too. Um, you know, because that's all stuntman, right, yes, yeah, yeah,
so I mean it not to talk about it, though,
do they do The producers want you to be like, no,

(45:34):
Brennan's in the suit. No, no way, I would never
do that. That's not fair to Riley. And I mean,
and I'm fifty one. Now, this this guy is like
built like a tree, and that thing is that those
robot suits and all that all that, like you know
DC Comic and Marvel Comic, those outfitial supersuits. They're heavy. Yeah,
they are superformers are really unsung heroes. I worked with

(45:57):
many of them. I worked with them on On. I'll
say that's idols. George of the Jungle. The guys in
the Guerrilla Suits are amazing. They're there. I mean, they
they really take Sidney and behavior seriously and uh, I
mean it's a it's a thing back comedy. But at
the same time, no, they were. They were quite specific
about what they needed and how they would move as
a troop and yeah, yeah, I mean, can you tell

(46:18):
Donald and I how to get in that kind of shape? Um,
if we ever wanted to try, because you're pretty ripped
in that movie. Yeah, go back in time and eat
nothing but like broccoli and styrofoam, lift weights until you puke. Yeah,
and then go wash your mouth out and keep doing it.
I was once in the gym and a gym and uh,

(46:40):
and Arnold Schwartzeninger walked into the gym to sort of
inspect it. I guess his friend owned it or something.
And he he was still the governor, and he walked
over to me. Um on the I was on one
of the benches and uh, I don't know if he
recognized me as an actor or if he was just
sort of like talking to me as a citizen, like hello,
what's your goals with your workout? And I was I

(47:03):
was so starstruck, and I was like, uh oh um um, well,
I guess I just kind of want to look like
Brad Pitton fight Club. And he goes and he goes,
you need to eat a lot of carrots. That's all carrots.
So for like the next two months, I was just
like fucking pounding carrots and it never get ripped. No,

(47:23):
I mean it never happened and never was like I
never Brad Pitt in Fight Club Orange. He definitely got orange,
that's for sure. He eats a lot of carrots and
then he just moved on to somebody else. You hit
a lot of broccoli, you you eat a lot of
comquats and you eat to squash you. He's just he's

(47:46):
walking around to each version in the gymming for you,
broccoli for you piece? How long would you train? How
long we when? How long would you train for something
like that? I mean the mummy too. I mean, I
know you're in sick shape, Like did you did you?
Would you go through big training period? Yeah? I think
I recall it was I mean, all in it's like

(48:06):
a year if you're gonna you know, and then you
do maintenance and blah blah. But um, you know, I
I haven't asked about this frequently over the years, and
I really don't know the answer because everyone's body is
so different and I almost feel a reticent to say, well,
this is what I did, because then people want to
emulate or do that and it might not be right

(48:27):
for them. But I guess if i'd be honest, it's
just just just just get it over with and lift weights,
I guess if. But the thing is if there's wear
and tear on your joints, your spine. I became really
proficient with ice bags, like really talk about nerdy camera geek.

(48:48):
I was like nerdy ice cube geek. And um, and uh,
you know, it's a lot to keep it's a lot
to keep up. It's a lot to ask of your body.
And I I have to say with confidence that I
felt a sense of relief when it wasn't something that
was expected of me, that wasn't exactly what you know,

(49:09):
I'm known for. Or I was happy to say that
someone else's job right now, you know, like um and uh,
and just you know, pound back the milkshakes. Yeah, yeah,
and focus on. Paul Rudd said something very similar to me.
He was like, you know, I felt great when I
was doing it. But I'm gonna tell you something right now,

(49:32):
I'd love to drink a milkshake right now, I'd like something,
you know what I mean, Like, You're absolutely right. It's
like when you're doing it, you feel great and there's
a purpose. Somebody's paying you a lot of money to
do this stuff, but really, you know, living is a
lot of fun too, And you know, I gotta say
something psychologically, if I'm honest, I can look at those

(49:53):
images now and think I see a guy who is
still and secure, who still felt like a certain part
of your body didn't look the proportion that you were
hoping for. Or I learned from that that our self
image is just really um tied up with a single thing,

(50:15):
and that's confidence. If you have that, it doesn't matter
how often you go to a gym or don't go
to a gym. I really learned that it's about the
person who you are and the rest is just decoration. Yeah.
Oh I wish I you know, I wish I had
that confidence when I go places like the beach and

(50:35):
stuff like that, Like I feel great in my skin
at home, I could prance around naked in front of
my wife and stuff like that, and I'm confident that I,
you know, I still feel I still feel and look
sexy to her. When you go to the beach, though,
and there's a and there's a you know, stigmatism on
how everybody's supposed to look and you don't necessarily fit

(50:57):
that type. It's like, wait a second, you know I
don't necessarily want to take my shirt off and jump
into the water, now, you know what I mean? I have,
I have. I have real issues when it comes to that. Um.
I remember working so hard to get in shape and
look a certain way, you know, when, just like you said,
when it was time for the big reveal, I felt

(51:18):
like I didn't reach my goal, you know what I mean.
Then I look back at it now and I'm like,
holy shit, I looked right bad, Like holy look at that,
But it never back. I remember we talked about this
on the podcast. I just wish I could have been
present when I you know what I mean, Like there
were so many things on my mind when all the

(51:39):
projects that I've made before I wish I could have
just been it, just experienced every moment, and I didn't.
I was too worried about this or too interested in
something else to really focus on, you know. And now
the age that we live in, everybody has a camera
right in their pocket, and we're all privy to one

(52:00):
another physiques, and it's you know, it's a it's a
it's a it's a macabre pastime that is available to everyone.
And you know, depending on where you are in the world,
what country, part of the country. Somewhere in the back
of my mind, I always wonder, is there's somebody with
a long lens, you know, they're a sniper. Where are you? Yeah?

(52:25):
Did you happened a lot in La? For sure? But
gout of La? Is that one of the like tell
us a little bit about relief? I mean for that
reason alone that you know, because it's it's uh, it's
a place, that's that's that's that's myopic in that sense.
And you know, with distance you can get some perspective um,

(52:45):
which was which was helpful to me. Yeah, for sure.
You know, my wife always says She'll say something to me, like,
you know, I'm just bigger than everybody, and I'm like
in LA. I mean, you're bigger than everybody in LA.
And you go any place else and people would be like,
damn girl, either sandwich or something, you know what I mean.

(53:09):
But I think it's good when actors get out of
New York in LA. I mean, you have to have
reached a certain level of stature in the business as
you have where you can kind of be anywhere you want. Um.
But um, I fantasize about that sometimes. I don't know
about you, Donald, about about being able to be somewhere
that's not h in the heart of the industry. I think, well, yeah,

(53:31):
you'd get more for your buck. First of all, you
get more, you know what I mean. The two million
dollars that you spend in Los Angeles gets you a
room with the window. You do that shit in Montana
and you got a ranch, you know what I mean.
Like that, it's a huge difference. I would I would
you know, I can't picture you on a ranch. Would
you like a ranch I could pick? I could pickure Listen,

(53:51):
I could picture myself in Yeah, I know, but wait, Donald,
this doesn't have to have animals on it. It just
needs to know. I never asked you this I never
asked you this. If you could live anywhere in the
country that's not a New York or LA and you
could have, you know, you could you know, money's no object.
I don't mean like some stupid epic mansion. I mean, like,
you know, you have all the money that you want

(54:13):
to spend. What would you choose? Would you choose the
Montana ranch or would you choose I don't know what.
I can't picture. I never asked you what you're what
that would be for you. I'm a city boy, so
I'd have to live in I'd have to find something.
I'd have to live in the city. But if I
if I could live any place, there's two places that
I would love to live. One Toronto. I love the

(54:33):
I love the city. It's one of my favorite cities
of all time. If I could live anywhere and have
and if money was no object, which it always is,
but if it wasn't an object, dude, I would live
somewhere in Toronto that was freaking, you know, wonderful and
great either there or I you know, I am a
huge fan of London. You know this. It's one of

(54:56):
my favorite cities. I do like that area. And you're
very popular there. You're like, you're like, you know, Denzel
Washington of the Kingdom. No, I disagree. There's people like
John Boyega. There are a bunch of people from the
United but they do love you, and the people that
are listening in the United Kingdom can attest to loving

(55:18):
Donald Faizon. All right, how about this. If y'all love
me in the United Kingdom like you love Denzel or
more than you love Denzel, hit me up on Twitter
and Instagram and say that shit. Yeah, I'm gonna send
it to Denzel and be like, in your face, Denzel,
let your face, let this let this week. I got
the UK on Locke. God, I got the UK on Locke.
You're gonna make Brendon have to pull out his earphones.

(55:39):
Don't yell with our guests. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Um, Brendon,
I know you have to go. We don't want to
keep you longer than uh than we then we promised
we would, but we just wanted to really tell you
that we love you, and that the fans love you,
and that uh and then I hope, um, if you're
if you if this wasn't too horrible, I hope that
you'll come back when we when we get to season
three for the very special episode, because whenever fans talk

(56:03):
about their favorite episode, it's either that one or the
musical usually, right Donald, Yeah, absolutely, uh more more that
one though. That's everyone's. It seems like that's the universal
number one episode for all of the Scrubs fans. It's
rare that we get anything else. It's always the one
where where your character passes away and Cox has no

(56:26):
idea where he's at at the end. Well, you guys
are really kind and you were so kind to me then,
and I'm really grateful for that experience, and he means
a lot to me that people still are finding it
today and that that you included me on the show.
Thank you included you, dude. We were so happy that

(56:47):
you would do. I remember when we show, it's like,
holy shit, Yeah we got a real star. We got
a real star. We got it's like a fishing we
got one on the line. Thank you so much, And
everybody check out Doom Patrol. When is it? When is
the season? Two pm, June twenty five on HBO Max. Guys,

(57:10):
check it out? And Brendan, thank you so much. We
love you. We'll see by it now. Oh my God,
what a what a what a what a sweet human being? Huh?
That was so awesome, dude, I can't believe we had
him on. But he's just like his You know, these
people they just and you you're so happy when they're
coming to your life. They just had a glow peace

(57:30):
and kindness, you know. I even though we're over Zoom,
he's just he's just he's just fire hosting his heart
at you. You know what I mean. He's got that
et heart light. He's got the et heart light. You
said it better than I do. He's got an et
glowing heart light. You feel it, you feel it. I'm
glad that. I'm almost glad that he couldn't stay the

(57:50):
whole time because I was looking at all my notes
about Turning talking through the episode, and I'm like, I
don't want to bother Brendan by talking about doctor Zeltzer, right, Like,
if you have Brendon Brendan sitting there being like, I
don't I don't know anything about it. I don't want to.
I don't want to. I don't care that that that's
that's that. Rob had a big bit of medical jargon.
What the fuck do I go? A fuck? I gotta

(58:11):
go feed my kids. Well you did the whole we'd
skipped over the whole tony shalute situation. We're talking, go back,
go back. Now that Brendon's gone, I can relax, I
can breathe. I was so nervous. I wanted to do
a good job. Now now it's just me and now
it's just us four, I can I can talk about Zeltzer.
I can talk about anything. This whole tony salute thing.
This was before he started winning all the Emmy's, huh yeah,

(58:31):
before he started beating me every single time, beating you.
He beat everyone, dude, he beat everyone. I know what everyone? Okay, okay,
do you know what that's from? Do you know what
that's from? No, you never saw the professional oldman. Oh yeah,
of course with now that Gary, yeah, Gary Oldman and
the we've got him upstairs. What do you want? Bring me? Everyone? Everyone,

(58:56):
every I'm sorry. If you're listening to this podcast on earbuds,
I apologize. I will try and counterbalance it with this
soft podcast voice I have. You don't remember that? Do
you remember that S and L sketch where they were
doing like a It was like the sweaty Balls one
where they were doing, like yeah, but that was when

(59:18):
alcohol was the guest start. But the normal show was
like yes, they talked like this, that's fun, that's really fun. Oh,
it's great. The Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor now
sweaty balls. H I want to see. It's like balls
of peat butter. Oh man, I was hoping, what's your
favorite Ben and Jerry's that we should try and get
them as a sponsor so we can get buckets of
free ice cream. Dude, Ben and Jerry's rocks. Yo, Ben, listen,

(59:40):
I will pay money for Ben and Jerry's from here
on out, especially after this whole the whole black Lives
Matter situation that's been going on, when they straight up said, yo,
black lives matter. Anyone say anything else, pretty much, go
fund yourself. Good for them. I I love it. By

(01:00:01):
the way, I'm not just saying that. I really I
can't have Ben and Jerry's in my house because I'll
just snort it like it's fucking cocaine. WHOA. We need
to have a conversation about issue. No, I'm just saying,
imagine that when people that have a coke problem, I
think a problem ice cream like you don't like you
don't snort your ice cream. Donald, It's only problem when

(01:00:22):
you get a particularly chunky flavor and that, like a
peanut butter pretzel, gets stuck in your nose. Oh my gosh.
I like Chubby Hubby a lot. Well, Daniel is freaking
out over there. He likes that too, Like no Play.
I can never find it, but it's my favorite flavor.
So I love Chubby. I like anything basically anything with

(01:00:44):
peanut butter, because I like peanut butter and chocolate in
my ice cream. I see that, I like, I'm gonna
be honest with you. I'm gonna be honest with you.
I don't eat a lot of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
That is the honest to goodness. Is there another brand
that you would have the audacity to choose because we're
trying to get them to be our sponsors, so don't
find them. There isn't another brand that I would have
the our death that to choose. I'm just saying it

(01:01:06):
hasn't been something that I have been getting a lot of. Oh,
because you're trying to stay thin, but then you go
home and make the shit yourself. I prefer to make
my ice cream So if Ben and Jerry's wants to
become a sponsor and teach them up how to make
somebody's flavors. Yeah, so that's what Benjor is gonna do.
They're gonna come on and teach you how to make
their top secret ice cream. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I

(01:01:26):
wouldn't give it away. I would keep it for myself.
There are a bunch of There are a bunch of
things that I wish the owners of the company would
be like, all right, look, we're just gonna give you
the recipe. Keep that shit to yourself, but you can
make it at home. Crispy Cream, Hello, teach me how
to make a donut. What about those salts Cure pancakes,
the salts Cure pancakes. Yeah, my restaurant in Los Angeles

(01:01:47):
donald them. Try I've never had your oh my bad. Oh. Yeah.
And then there's the salts Cure pancakes are very, very tasty.
But you know where I really like the pancakes is Dupars.
Dear du Pause. Listen, no, no, listen, no, you fuck
you fulf motherfucker. Hold on, goddamn it, hold on. I'm

(01:02:08):
now going back to my podcast voice. To counterbalance Donald's
loud voice. And then and then Mastros. If you could
teach me how to make that buttercake, Yo, that buttercake,
that buttercake, Masstros. You remember you remember Mastros where we
used to go for steak Night? Yeah? Yeah, do you
remember steak Night? I know you don't eat meat anymore,
but do you remember steak night? Of course we used

(01:02:29):
to legit, go to steak Night. It is the world's
best meat. It is such a treat. Are you going
a stag night? Yeah? Made that song up. I want
the world to know. That was another in addition to
our theme song with the help of Charlie Booth. A
Steak Night with no help from Charlie Booth is an
original song by Donald Fazon and I Were you going
a stag night? You gonna eat it right? Steak steak,

(01:02:56):
best meat steak. And then we did the fucking this
damp Brady Bunch dance. Yeah. Do you remember when the
Brady Bunch mu did there like would perform It's like
a band. Like in the later episodes, they became like
a band and that was their move. Like when it's
time to change, you've got to real range Shenna na

(01:03:18):
nana nanana yo meanana. What was happening at the time?
What was happening? Peter went through puberty? Remember, and he
went He was like, and if you remember that episode,
if you're old enough to remember, he was going through puberty,
and and he when he was singing his song and
was like, when it's time to change, you've got to
real range. And they were like, oh no, what are

(01:03:39):
we gonna do. Peter's going through puberty. What the fuck happened?
And all of a sudden, the Brady Bunch were in
a band, like out of nowhere. It was like season one,
The Brady Bunch Day having a hard time coming together
as a family. Season two, The Brady Bunch, They're going
to school now things are great. Season three they're in
a band like what. I don't know if it was
season three, I don't know either. I'm just guessing, but

(01:04:00):
out of nowhere all but it had to be. Can
you find out when how many seasons in the pretty
much became it's the same shit, Donald, it's jumping the shark.
It's like red haired Sam coming into different strokes. You
gotta shake shit up. They went to fucking Hawaii and
jumped the shark to remember the Hawaiian Well, of course
you remember. I mean, we'd use it in scrubs. We
gotta sell those tiki necklaces on our merch shop one day, yeah,

(01:04:23):
one day when I heartshits are our merch shop going Okay?
Someone said that, wait, can I fucking finish a sentence
for the listen for listen for the love of yahweh
sentence for? Someone told me um they had a good
merch idea oh that they thought when I mistakenly said
sports players instead of athletes, someone said, please pick a

(01:04:48):
T shirt that says sports players on it. I like that.
I'd wear the funk out of that sports players wish.
What's your last thing? Let's talk about Let's talk about
Ted's band. Man. That's okay, thank you, See man, this
is why I should I should just say what I
want to say, because now it looks like I'm jumping
on your coattails. That's what I wanted to talk about.
Let's talk about Ted's band. Okay. Ted's band is is

(01:05:11):
introduced in this episode. You get to see, um for
the second time, what a ridiculously beautiful voice our Sammy
Lloyd had, And it's so tragic to use the word had,
but it is accurate to say had he Um, this
was real. This was his friends, all his all those men,
those three men are his buddies, and they all sang

(01:05:35):
acapella with him. And so we gave them Bill gave
them jobs in the hospital and and formed an acaella group.
And as I read on scrubs wiki, Um, it was
originally supposed to be the Superman theme, but they couldn't
get the rights. Yes, so that's how Underdog came about.
I remember that would have made more sense because there's

(01:05:56):
a whole Superman motif, but they could, Sam, and we
can sing it on here because we're not gonna I
don't think we're get in trouble for it if we
will cut it out. But it was like three bullets
of speed left behind, two powerful trains turned around, one

(01:06:19):
able to leap buildings, tall, inner run all in one
single bound Superman Superman, where it is Superman, Superman, Superman
calling Superman human of Steve. These lyrics on these are
written by Sam and his band the band. Oh So

(01:06:40):
the song I mean he made me think that this
was the theme song had lyrics. John Williams wrote this.
John right, right, right right. So it was just done right,
and so they sang the whole song with words. I
have it on my iPhone like it's something that stuck
my These guys wrote those. Those guys wrote it. And

(01:07:04):
as I recall on Paul, one of the members of
the band, wrote a bunch of them the songs from
the musical? Did he not write the guy Love? Oh?
I don't know. You look that up for me too.
I think this is a this is a great Bill
Lawrence question. Now, okay, hey, Bill, talk to us about
Ted's band, Ted's band and Paul from the band whose

(01:07:26):
name I can't quite remember right now, but we will
say it in this episode. Um, didn't he write um
some of the musical, including the song guy Love? Because
I feel like that's a bit of trivia, that's that's true. Also,
where did you come up with the idea? I mean,
it's obvious, but oh I got it. Paul Perry, Sorry, um, sorry, guys,
it's in Um it's a Philip McNiven or George George.

(01:07:49):
Forgive me if I don't say your name right, misserless.
And and Paul Perry. I believe it was Paul Perry,
and uh, and Bill will tell Us, who wrote a
bunch of the musical songs Bill tell Us, Now, hey, guys,
it's cool talking to you. Look. Paul Perry, who as

(01:08:11):
part of Ted's band, who were known as the Blanks
in real life. This is how Sam Woyd came into
my life. He was on Spin City back in the days,
Chris Woyd's nephew. He played basketball with us, Donald you
played ball with him. And he had this super talented
acapella band that like wrote the lyrics to Superman, made
him up and used to do it at parties and stuff,
and they were just so darn talented, and Paul used

(01:08:34):
to do all the arrangements for them, so we just
started using them on the show. Is kind of a
Greek chorus with commercials theme songs and TV theme songs.
So fun, and you know, Paul ended up writing a
bunch of the songs for Guy Love and a musical
on his own as well. And more importantly too, the
Blanks ended up touring as you know, the Worthless Peons,
Ted's band after the show rapped, doing songs from the
show and the theme song and their version of the

(01:08:56):
theme song of the finale is one of my favorites,
super talent on a group top to bottom and um
Man just even talking about him makes me miss Sam.
Thank you Bill. Finally where we're in the hospital where
the three of us get the hospital overnight and Ted's
band's performing and they do Charles in Charge. Yeah, that

(01:09:16):
was a great moment to new boy in the neighborhood
lives downstairs and it's understood he's there just to take
good care of me like he's one of the family. Charles,
Charles in Charge. Oh and I love that show. Didn't

(01:09:38):
you love that show? I did? I did love that show.
Nicole Legart, Nicole Leggert, Nicole Leggar, a moment of silence
for puberty. All right, let's talk about Zeltzer Bob Lyndennon.
This is his first appearance. He's pretty normal in this episode.
Zeltzer doesn't really get that wacky yet. He doesn't really

(01:10:00):
fly his his his history flag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know,
I noticed that. How about Rob Machio with I know Man,
most impressive, he really killed that and um and then,
by the way, another thing that came up. There's a
lot of in addition to Eagle and Ted's band of
premiering in this episode. This was a thing that we

(01:10:23):
always choked about. Was um uh that that Rob is
the best surgeon. Um that according to doctor Wynn right
that he because he does um he's what does he say?
He goes, um, Well, everybody else's everybody else is thinking
about what they This dude just thinking, has nothing in
his brain or something. Yeah, I don't forget. He's like,

(01:10:45):
he's like, oh, I know what it is. It's the
tiny Yeah, Rob, I say this every episode, every episode
that he's in. Man, he really does knock it, knock
it out the park man. I'm it was funny. By
the way, this is a we go into your head
at fourteen twenty one. That was like out of character
for the show. We go into your head and uh,

(01:11:08):
we hear what your thoughts are, and that's how we
we camera spins around to see. By the way, and
you had jargon. But I imagine you just read that ship.
I read that ship off the piece of paper. Mat.
I'm pretty sure I heard you say that, Medical Jarre.
Does they donald read that ship? He didn't remember that, right,
And if you know I read that shit, no, no tin.

(01:11:29):
So when he's smacking the assid the nurse. Did you
notice that the nurse got her ass a little perched
up high enough so that the the gag works. Yeah,
of course that's that's how to make the joke fun.
I don't know what she's doing. She doesn't appear to
be doing anything. But no, she's just sitting there doing nothing.
That's Lynno, by the way, Yeah, that's our friend. That's
our friend Lynn. She but she she she doesn't. I'm
just gonna scroll because I have the episode open. I'm

(01:11:49):
just wondering if she at least is pretending to do something, because,
as I recall, she just looked like she was bent over.
Season three, episode sixteen of The Brady Bunch, the Kid
the Kids that they covered Casey in the Sunshine Band.
It looks like it was a ploy for Paramount Records.
They were like, did it for three or four seasons?
I told you it was season three? See I have

(01:12:11):
my shit right and everything? Man, can you guess season three? Ho? He?
How did you know your Brady Bunch lore? Though? Of
course I guess that shit. Do you do the Brady
Bunch Wiki? I should do the Brady Bunch Wiki? I should?
You're you're so funny, You're like, you're you don't remember
the fucking most obvious shit in our relationship, and then
you'll be like the Brady Bunch kids started singing in

(01:12:33):
nineteen seventy two. It was episode sixteen of season three.
All right, um, I want to talk about the choreographed
move Should we talk about that? Yeah? That was cool?
Do you remember doing that? Whenever we all all of
us are doing the exact same movements and it's a
split screen and we're all thinking, and it's all the
exact same choreography. And then I read on scrubs Wiki

(01:12:53):
that for some reasons, Judy's was backwards in terms of
right left, and so they flipped her. And that's why
if you look Judy's name tag is on the wrong
side because in post her choreography wasn't right, so they
flipped her. I did not I did not know that.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I thought this episode

(01:13:15):
was going to have way more Brendan Frasier in it,
to be honest with you, I thought it was like
a whole episode about, you know, what happened to the character.
I didn't know that other ship went on in the hospital.
So when watching it, I was like, I don't remember
any of this, Like I know that's why I felt weird,
Like I wanted to talk to Brendan, but I was like,
I feel bad, Like I want to talk about the episode,
but I don't want to put fancy Brendan through. Like

(01:13:37):
talking about the fact that Johnny sees wearing his actual
Oakleys when we do the real world spoof. Right, that's
such a hilarious, so funny. Right, did you see my hair? Dude,
your hair's amazing. I took a picture of it to
show my girlfriend. It's so funny. And and Johnny's wearing
those comedic Oakleys, but those are really his Okleys. Johnny

(01:13:57):
sees the kind of guy that really would rock those
ok He probably still wears them those like wrap around
like wrap around Oakleys. They're perfect for athletes who have
to who are on the go. Like if you're jogging
and you have the wrap around Oakleys, no sunlight gets
in and they don't fall off your face. I don't care.
I love Johnny, but I'm not wearing those Oakleys. Donald
than either. Are you no matter what sport you're playing, dude,
you are you? You? Let's be let's tell everybody what

(01:14:20):
you are. You're more amazing, amazing. Well, dude, you know
I love you and you know I think you're amazing,
but you're also uh when it comes to sunglasses, you're
very much Uh what's the one that the aviator? Yeah,
like eater guys or ray bands or or yeah that's
sort of vibe. Yeah, ray band aviators. But I wouldn't
rock a colored glass wrap around Oakley. That's not my vibe.

(01:14:44):
If you if you're playing tennis, why not. I just
think they look I don't. I know. Johnny listens, Johnny,
I love you, it's just not my style. Let me
let me let let me just start off by said Johnny.
Listen Ny, Johnny listens while he's weightlifting, and I know
he's like like pump an iron right now. I don't
want to be like, fuck you, Brav. I love my
old glass probably got him on right now in the gym. No,

(01:15:09):
I want to talk about how not only does the
janitor pick a lock, would that isn't locked? Did you
notice that? No? I didn't like, no one took the
time to find lockers that would have even like a
fake lock. It's like so clearly not locked and he
takes a screwdriver and like pretends to pick a non
locked locker. And did you think that it was weird

(01:15:32):
that you were writing all of this stuff in a
diary like out of nowhere, like just out of nowhere.
I forgot all of a sudden, the show's dugie howser.
And does that imply that all of JD's of voiceovers
are going into a journal? I never even I mean,
I certainly didn't play it that way for eight and
a half years, right, So when I saw that, I
was like, wait a second. So there's there's data. There's

(01:15:52):
information of everyone who, like somebody could go back and
in a time capsule or wherever you know, you pass
up passed away. There's freaking stacks and stacks of diaries
of everything that's ever happened to JD. I never really understood.
And it seems that this is the implication, because it's
a voiceover that goes right in the diary, that all

(01:16:14):
the voice over your hearing is JD's journal. Now, I
do remember that I had a journal, had a unicorn
with a sword on its head, and he's there to
protect my hopes and dreams. And I want to show
that this. I want to the record to reflect this
journal did not have a unicorn with a sword on
its head, So no one is protecting my hopes and
dreams right now on this journal. That's why the janitor

(01:16:35):
is able to get in there. But I thought it
was funny when he said theater camp, because you know
that was me he really yeah, But that's a that's
a that I mean, I know we went to Bill already,
But that's another great question for Bill. Are these JD's memoirs?
Are we living in present time when we watch this show?

(01:16:56):
You know what I mean? Is this something that took
place in the past. We'll ask him, go ahead and
ask formerly Donald. We can do a two biller. Bill,
is scrubs JD's memoirs? Is it like a bunch of
stories that JD has compiled in a bunch of books?
Or is this Are we living in the moment from
moment to moment? When? Yeah, because we're seeing in this episode,

(01:17:18):
Bill that JD's writing a journal and voiceover goes right
in the journal. Was this a Doogie Houser moment? Bill?
When do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do do do Do Do do do do do
do do do? Hey? The voiceover originally was h conceived as, um,

(01:17:41):
you know, j D keeping stuff in his journals, but uh,
we ditched that and just kind of made it. People
just go with it. We made it an omniscient voiceover,
you know, because we are always caught in his head
and his thoughts, and people just go with it. The
same way on Modern Family, and no one ever seemed
to ask who was interviewing that family and who we're
just doing that documentary. You know. That's it. Okay, We're

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your dad's name? Corie, Alex and Corey are now on
the show from different location. Okay, welcome to fake doctors,
real friends. We're so happy that you're here. Thank you.

(01:22:52):
We're thrilled to be on with you. Guys. Oh, thank you.
We um tell us about yourselves. We just heard a
little bit. Our producer Joel said that you're you've been
watching the show in quarantine and you're not in You're
in different locations, So tell us what's going on. And
I see Corey as a piano right next to him. Corey, Corey,
are you a piano player? Are you a piano? Are
you going to play us a little something? I don't

(01:23:13):
think so. But I'm a piano teacher mostly okay, but
I've been I'm a composer and a piano teacher. So
that's uh. Since I can't give lessons in my living
room on my grand piano, I have to give him
in my office on my electronic piano over zoom tricks.
I truly wish you knew the theme song to our
little Rewatch show. I love the theme song to your

(01:23:35):
Rewatch show. I think you guys did a fantastic job.
Thank you singing it. Thank you, thank You're really fantastic.
I'm not so crazy about the count in. But you
know I don't like the seven. Are you saying we're
off tempo, Corey, No, I'm saying that you're covering up
the first couple of words because there's a there's a
there's a pickup. You know, there's a story. So you

(01:23:56):
say five to six, seven, eight, there's a story. It's
kind of covered. Yeah, but you know it's a it's
a stick now, and so there's there's no way you
can change it from here. No, you know what, I'm
gonna change it when we finished this is when we
finished this, I'm gonna change it just for you, just
for this, just for this podcast. I never imagine we're
gonna go one two, but one. No, No, you want

(01:24:17):
to go five six seven. There's a story, right, I
can go five six five six, You can do that,
I said, I know, offense, Corey, but I think the
fans will revolt because they really love Donald's five six
seven eight. They do. They love everybody's. Yeah. So, like
I said, it's it's probably ingrained and there's nothing to

(01:24:37):
do about it. But it's it's just every time it habits,
it just kind of bothers. It irks you. All right, Well,
I'm sorry, Donald. I'm doing it for you. I'm doing
it for you, Corey. Corey, tell us how you and
Alex started watching the show, and was this your first
time through? Alex, why don't you tell us since Corey's
getting all the screen time? Yeah, oh no, it's it's okay.
I mean the reason why I wanted us to come

(01:24:57):
on is because Father's Day come is coming up, and
I said, for dad for a gift, come on the show.
But um, so I don't have to pay for anything.
I see how you do it. I I'm the favorite
daughter now here we go. No, so, I think I
can't remember who started watching the show first, if it

(01:25:19):
was my dad or myself. This is not our first
time in quarantine. I would say I've seen every episode
of the show multiple multiple times, and I think the
same as for my dad. But we really bonded over
our love of the show. I think we watched it
separately and then came together and realized that we were
both watching it, and um we like quiz each other
on Little Scrubs, Trevi effects a lot, and it's just

(01:25:39):
something that we've really bondled over. Is our love for
the show. For you guys, we love that. We love
families that watch together. And you know, also people finding it.
What's been crazy about this new era of streaming. You know,
the show used to be on Netflix, now it's on Hulu.
Is that more generations keep finding it And I think
that's really that's really cool. It kind of keeps on going. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:26:00):
um to. I don't know if I watched it when
it first came on. What year was the first season?
Do you know what? Thousand and one, nine, two one?
I was gonna say nineteen ninety nine. I don't know,
but but I do own the complete collection of DVDs,
So I'm hoping that you guys got a little bit
of money for me purchasing that it's a sore subject.
It's a sore subject, but we don't talk about it. Well, well,

(01:26:22):
we don't talk about that, but I can tell you
that you're if you listen to DVDs, you'll have all
the exact real music. You won't have any weird Um
you're you're the only people with DVDs are the ones
with no musical replacements. Yeah, it was a It was
a real good purchase for me. Um, great, thank you
so much. All Right, do you guys have a question
for um, for Donald or for I or for mouse?
Is going to go first? I'm gonna go first. Um Well,

(01:26:44):
let me just start by saying, I'm I'm so thrilled
to be here you guys. I am, I am shaking.
I'm like very excited, UM, very happy. I know, huge
fans of you guys. Um Donald, I just have to
mention that last night, UM, my fiance and I rewatched
my favorite of your movies, I think, which is Remember
the Titans. Say Okay, yes, I mean thank you, thank you.

(01:27:05):
You know what you know who has never seen Remember
the Titans? It's Zach Braff. I'm gonna watch. We had
a conversation at them. Thank you for bringing this up
out a conversation. Thank you. We had a conversation at
the beginning of this episode, and Zach's like, it's all
my to do list. It's all my to do list. Listen, man,

(01:27:26):
I've seen every one of his projects, even the ones
that didn't come out in theaters, even the ones that
went straight to video. I've seen everything that Zach Braff
has been in. I can count them all on this
hand right here. Well, I thought it was about sports players,
and I didn't think that I would like it. But
I love Donald, I love Denzel, and I love Rudy.

(01:27:46):
So if it's anything like Rudy. Do you like Ryan Gosling? Yes,
I think he's wonderful. He's in it. Yeah, do you
like it? What Harris? I think? If it? I think
if it has Rudy's in it, I feel it gets
Rudy with Donald Fazon. Is that? Is it like that? No,
it's not the Listen, are you the Rudy fing? Are
you the Rudy? Because if so, I'm fucking watching that
shit tonight. I have a Rudy moment. I have a

(01:28:09):
Rudy moment. Why's your damn movie? Don't all right, let's
just put it out. Let's just like this. Let's put
it like this. Let's put it like this. Ryan Gosling, Yeah,
is up the whole time and I save his ass.
Let's just put it that way. Okay, I'm gonna think
about it, all right, go ahead, all right, all right,

(01:28:29):
So my question is thank you for watching Alex of course.
Of course. So one of the things that's just so
incredible about the show in general is the way that
you can mix the comedy and the silliness of the
show with some of these like more dramatic or serious
moments that sort of center around the theme of loss.
Right And I know, you just had Brendan Fraser on
and that's a really big, uh sort of you know,

(01:28:50):
plot point in the show for doctor Cox, but of
course with the loss of John Ritter too. So I'm
wondering if you guys could talk a little bit about
what it was like to go through the experience of
acting on a really highly comedic show and then have
to sort of transition to these pretty serious storylines where
the characters are experiencing death and loss of some pretty
important people in their lives, including patients as well well

(01:29:11):
I'll tell you there were times where I didn't think
it was gonna work. There were there were plenty of
times where I thought, this is like a hairpin turn
in a car. How are you going to go from
me doing something so silly? And then I walk into
this patient's room and I'm just dropping in for this
dramatic moment, and I really have to say, it's a
testament to the writing and to build He found a
way to make it work. I mean, there were only
twenty two minutes without commercials, so sometimes you'd read them

(01:29:34):
and go, how can you be in this weird fantasy
and then drop in for this moment where we have
tears in our eyes. And I think we just always
tried to play it real. Obviously, the fantasies were heightened
and some of the some of the physical comedy was heightened,
but we always tried to deal with the patient moments

(01:29:54):
like they were completely played straight. And I think of
the show Mash a lot, because, um, when I grew up,
we were watching Mash and it had a laugh track
on it. But when they went into the surgical uh,
when they were operating on the soldiers, there was no
laugh track. Even though there'd still be some humor. It

(01:30:14):
was just sort of a choice they made, and I
often think of that in scrubs. It was almost like
there were moments when the silion has stopped and we
just dropped in to play totally straight how a doctor
would be with it with a sick patient. So I
don't know, I think, what do you think? Donald? I
think it was just a matter of really good writing,
to be frankly absolutely that, and thank goodness that there
were you know, that we were able to cut in

(01:30:35):
between scenes and stuff like that, and it wasn't you know,
if if this were a play or something where there
aren't any cuts in it, it would be very You're
absolutely right, it would be very hard to be funny funny, funny, funny,
funny and then switch on a you know, turn on
a dime and now we're going to be serious. Thank
goodness that we had cuts, you know, and uh different
scenes edits hit together. For that, this would have been

(01:30:59):
a way more challenging show if this if everything was
done on one in one take and you having to
ride that emotional roller coaster. I think, you know, as
any actor will tell you, those are the most difficult
scenes where you're starting like, because usually you work yourself up.
On days when I have like a dramatic scene, I'll
work myself up and I'll get to the point where,

(01:31:20):
you know, I'm on the verge of crying. And so
now I don't have to act that much to get
to the tears. If I had to be funny and
laugh and and and joke around and everything like that
and then move into the dramatic and uh, the sadder
side of the scene without a cut, I don't know

(01:31:40):
how I would be able to do it. It It would
be such a challenge for me. So thank goodness for
the takes and editing. Also, it all comes down to
good writing. I mean, you can make you can. You know,
there's a movie out Once I really love. I don't
know if you're yeah, great movie. But one thing about
Once is like Once is the ultimate example of like,

(01:32:01):
if you have a great script, you don't need that movie.
That movie looks like it's shot on an iPhone. No
disrespect to the cinematographer. I mean it's brilliant. But I
mean if if you have a great script and great actors,
you can you can make anything, anything work and uh,
and uh, you know, it's all. It's all. It all
comes down to great writing. Is that? Thank you? Alling slowly?

(01:32:23):
D do do that one? I love that movie? You
check out one? Everyone stuff. We have a lot of
a lot of movie recommendations. Quiet American once and remember
the Titans. All right, Corey, do you have a question
for the legendary Donald phase on where is Zach Braff?
I do so for me. I love the fantasy sequences

(01:32:46):
in the show. I mean, right from the beginning there
were such funny you know. And I think my two
favorite ones are when uh, the character Alex you know, says,
how would you feel if you know I told you
I was ready now to have sex in the March
Band comes from Crashing and yourgether the monkey and the
monkey with the symbols, Oh my god. And I also

(01:33:07):
love memorable it's in later seasons when uh, somebody is
trying to teach Elliott and tasty Como wife a dance.
I get Alex told me it was the rewind dance,
Oh man, And Elliot is so bad bad at dead dance.
She just such a fantastic job of being a horrible

(01:33:28):
at that, flapping her hands and kicking her leg at
the wrong time. Oh, very funny anyway, So I was
just thinking about I wonder if there were any fantasy
scenes that were like pitched or written or even filmed
that just didn't make it into the show that you remember.
It's probably pretty tough. It's been a long time. That's
a very good question. I don't know, Donald, you know,

(01:33:50):
it might have to be our third ask Bill. I
think we're gonna have to ask Bill a third time.
On this side, it's just like, um, you know that
show Millionaire when you get we should you should only
be allowed a certain an amount of like ask a friend,
call a friend at the audience like, oh, I think
you're okay. I would give you a passing calling Bill.
All right, So we're gonna ask Bill a third time.
I hope you can squeeze in a third one. Were

(01:34:11):
there any fantasies Bill that um that that didn't make
the cut? Do you have any memory of anything we
shot in a wacky fantasy that that was never in
the show. You guys are watching these shows again. I
can't remember any I'm so old. I can't remember any
fantasy scenes that were cut except one that Gabby Allen
always wanted to do a fantasy about newsies. You know,

(01:34:33):
extra extra read all about it, and I think we
shot that and cut it because no one understood it.
It wasn't a huge fan of musical theater. Uh, miss
you guys, love you both, Thank you, Bill. I don't
one thing, you know. All often the fantasies took a
lot of time and money. Yeah, so I so, I
feel like they were rarely cut because it was kind
of where budget was getting thrown. Um. You know. Sometimes

(01:34:55):
they would be really elaborate and take a lot of
time and money. So usually they probably wouldn't be unless
some they went wrong with them, and they and they
weren't funny. And I can see that some of them
took a long time to make it. It was like
eight seconds you Oh yeah, that's all. It was just
eight seconds, but you had to spend all day and
make up oh yeah, oh yeah, there's some of them
were so elaborate and they would take forever and do

(01:35:15):
and then it'd be fully quick. But they're just the
laugh out loud parts of the show. And I love
a TV show that just makes me laugh out loud
but also has that serious. All my favorite shows have
that the laugh out Wow What are some of your
other shows that you love well, Freaks and Geeks is
probably one of my favorite shows. Yea, yeah, and also
Gilmore Girls is that way too. They dealt very serious subjects,

(01:35:37):
but there's some really good, laugh out loud stuff on that.
For that show, they talk really fast. On Gilmore Girls,
they do. I love it. I love it. They're they're
both they're incredibly witty. Um, all right, well, thank you guys.
Um you're our very first father daughter Colin and um
and and we're very we're very happy that you guys

(01:35:57):
are bonding through our show. Because reason, gentlemen, give a
big round of applause for Alex and co. Oh my god,
Oprah does not sound like that. You sound like Oprah
on fucking crack right now. No, I don't sound like
Oprah and c sound like if Oprah took a fucking
hit a crack rock. All right, thank you, thank you,

(01:36:23):
thank you, thank you. Argue making us argue in front
of all the guests. We argued in front of Corey
and Alex, we argued in front of Brandon, the hell's
wrong with you? I'm trying to see what it sounds like.
I'm trying in my head if Oprah did crack? How
like sounds like that. Although, listen, there's one commercial and

(01:36:43):
Oprah got it right. Well, she gets a lot of
things right, but it's one of them wait Watchers commercial.
It's my favorite commercial ever. It's your favorite commercial ever.
It's a Oprah week starts off like this. This is
the joy for me. I love bread, but veryite commercial. Dude. Yeah,

(01:37:08):
but who doesn't listen. I spent a lot of time
in quarantine. Yeah. Love. Do you know what I love
more than anything? Right now, I'm noticing I love bread
all I love bread. She doesn't do it like that.
She goes down with it. It's not bread, it's bread. Um.

(01:37:30):
All right, thank you everybody for tuning in. We've done it.
We went through the show. We had wonderful guess what
I have one thing Underdog, great song at the end
of the show one Ted's band that's on their record
also Underdog. Yeah. And then I feel like we tied
the story up really quick in this episode. You know
what I mean. I think we ran out of time.

(01:37:51):
To be honest with you, it feels like we ran
out of time on this episode. At the end of
the episode, things tie up really quick. We don't even
go through the whole chemo process with Brenda's character. We
go right into oh, you know what, chemo worked and
they went right and the cancer went into remission. Yeah,
it feels like we had to tidy up a little

(01:38:11):
bit so we could move on with the story. It's
a lot, it's a lot. It's a lot too. First
of all, he was only signed on for two episodes
in this and you know it's twenty two minutes with credits.
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta hurry. Um, thank you
guys for being our listeners. Please tell your friends about
the show. Please subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get

(01:38:33):
your podcasts. Please, what else? Donald? Please? Um? You know
read the word follow us on Instagram? Tell Donald that
you love him. Well, you don't have to just tell
me you love me. You can also follow me on Instagram.
They can do both. They could, they can do follow
us one point four million followers, Donald Fhazon myself, who
I am? I do not have one million. But you
don't have to bring this up every episode. People are

(01:38:55):
gonna think you have a hang up about it. They're
gonna be like, I don't want to follow that dude,
he's gotta hang about this ship, you know what. To
spite him, I'm gonna unfollow him. Well, you know, if
those are there are people out there that are like that.
You know that's understandable. But and I'm not gonna, you know,
hold you at fault for that. But you know, my
goal is to one day reach the legendary status of
Zach Braff on Instagram and have one point four million followers. Yeah. Well,

(01:39:19):
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