123: My Hero With Brendan Fraser

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Punk, Jewel and everything. There he is there. He is
one sharp dude.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you actually believe that I was gonna be late
on a day like today?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm nervous. Are you nervous?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm a little nervous, dude.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I have butterflies. I don't have butterflies when I'm just
shooting the shit with you. But this is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, we got a list celebrities.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
This is the tail lister.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the type of shit that freaking you know
shows when they're getting launched and everything like that. They
hoped to get a guest like Brendan Fraser. When Fallon launched,
he wished he got a guest like Brendan Fraser on
that episode. Same thing with Kimmel when they launched. It
were like, if we could get somebody like Brendan Fraser.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
By the way, we've been saying it wrong. I'm sorry
to interrupt you, but I got yelled at on the internet.
It's Fraser. We've both been saying Fraser.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's Fraser.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Fraser like Fraser, like Racer like Laser, Fraser Fraser. Okay,
I'm just saying I got someone was like love the
podcast act. You're all You're both saying Brendan's name wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Sorry? Sorry? Do you know many times I get Donald Phison,
Pison Pison?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
What's the other? Oh, there's another phaseon, but he spells
it differently.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
There's Faison love, Faison love, and then there's Frankie Faison
who spells it the same way. Right, there's a phase
on North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I've never been there.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
White and black Faisons.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
How are you guys? How's your week going? By the way,
Don Donald, 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.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It said nickname? Or is that your name is Daniel?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
His name is Daniel. But he's been a very long story.
He doesn't want to go into but Daniel.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Happy to do it another time, Happy to do it
another time.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, but I'm starting to wonder if we should call
on the podcast, should be calling him Daniel because I
like to use nicknames. It makes me feel like I'm
close to someone.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, I would be honored if you would call me Daniel.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I might just do that.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
There it is Daniel.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm gonna see I'm gonna see I'm gonna say even
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 I just it just not flowing out
of me.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, When I was a kid. When I was a kid,
my mom was like the the uh not the leader
of a camp, but like the creative director at a camp.
It was a camp that had a boy season and
a girl season. The name of it was Camp 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.

(02:29):
She went around a picnic table we were outside. I
was there because I'm there with my mom, and she's like,
all right, everybody, just give me your first your name
and then you know a nickname that people give you.
So people was going around I'm terrific Tasha, or I'm
you know, stunning Steven. And they got to this dude

(02:49):
named Daryl and he was like, they call me delicious Darryl.
And I remember I remember being like wow and I
and then later on Cedric the entertainer there has a
joke where you know, what grown man wants to call
another grown man? Delicious better than my nickname? What was

(03:13):
your nickname?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
My father called me the great Destroyer.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's a great destroyer.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'd be like, oh, here comes the great destroyer.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I was had.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
My head was constantly in the clouds, and I had
a tendency to just break things, running into them arms
like gesticulating wildly, knocking over cubs and stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
So wow, that stuck destroyer.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
My nickname was BIZ because it's my initials backwards.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Braf Israel, Zach Zach. So when I was a kid,
so I grew up with Terrence Howard, right, he and I.
I've known him since he was like 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
and Special and he became you know, he's Terrence Howard. Now, anyway,

(04:05):
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 be like, here comes show biz
in Hollywood, I'm.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Gonna start calling you Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
No no, no, no no no no no no no
no no no no no no.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
How are you? How's your life? Donald Faison?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's good. You know. I board in the house and
I'm in the house board you know what I mean. Yeah, man,
it's the same old stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, well, you got a birthday coming up.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I do. I'm gonna be forty six.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's fucking It'll literally be.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
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.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I bought you a present, No, my wife bought me
a present. I bought you a present for both Father's
Day and your birthday?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
So did my wife? What did you get me?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to
tell these all these fine.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Folks listening, But is it a donut machine?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
No? Are you going to keep the donut machine. Though.
By the way, we haven't heard the update on the
donut machine.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I think I might keep the donut Yeah, of.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Course you're going to keep the donut machine. Will you
post pictures on your on your Instagram so so our
listeners can see it?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Absolutely. I made ice cream yesterday. I made a raspberry
ice cream yesterday. It was delicious.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Do you have an ice cream maker?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
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 little Bellville and it's a
mixer and it's spit.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
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. I lost some mind.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So this is a new phase for your quarantine. You
become a dessert chef.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah. You know a lot of people thought I would
phase off when it came to cooking. I decided to
phase on. You know what I'm saying, I.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I think that the best solution for your diet is
to start becoming a dessert chef.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I think it'll be great for my cholesterol. Yeah, it'd
be great for my It'd be great for my diet.
You know what I mean. I am a dessert man.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I love sweets, I love sugar, I love ice cream.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well, dude, I made fudge. Yes, to make fudge, Brownie,
you gotta make fudge first. I made fudge first. Oh my,
let me take something right now, and nothing like some
homemade fudge. Oh my gosh, that is good. Listen, that
shit is good.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
The people loved Scott Foley, great reaction to God.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Foley was a great guest man.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
He was a great guest everybody he loved him on there. Yeah,
and my whole timeline was nobody cares Sean. Like I'm
talking about ninety nine percent of the comments where nobody
cares Sean. Some people said nobody cares Zach.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, well I said that a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh that was you, that was you commenting.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, that was me.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I thought you mad on my Instagram. 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 wall. 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

(07:38):
said fuck it, because people are just going out there.
It's rising. Fauci said something like, what do you you
know people are saying like, oh, it's the second wave.
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.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
And spiking in the South. Hardcore.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, I know. So I don't know. Oh man, it's crazy.
It just feels like people went fuck it, I'm over it,
and they're just can they're going out. 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.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, you know, 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
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

(08:35):
you are if you are one of the lucky ones
that you know, this virus does nothing to But I can't.
I can't. What are you gonna do? You're gonna arrest people,
what are you gonna do? Jump on people and stop them?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I haven't, We haven't, we haven't. We haven't spoken too
much on on 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 is forty
years old, and he was he was staying in my

(09:08):
guest house. 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.
He's just ind like you know, people always say this
about people, but like, honestly, he's the nicest person I've
ever met, Like, like, there is not a malicious, weird, competitive,

(09:33):
angry cell in his body. He's an angel of a
human being. And 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 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

(09:57):
with the help of machines. I don't and no one
knows he's gonna make it. He's lost his leg due
to complications of clotting and such.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
His lungs.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
His lungs are just Swiss cheese, they said. The COVID
just just fucking destroys the lungs. So 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.

(10:29):
Maybe just think about it, because I think people take
comfort and going well. Worst case scenario, I'm forty, what's
going to 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

(10:51):
of a sudden not mentioning it. And uh and.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, so while you think, while you think it's, uh, well,
everybody out there just you know about uh, for all
the people that are sick of this virus, just know
that this virus isn't sick of us exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
And 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. Oh 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 are just started walking, who
just started walking today actually and uh and his and

(11:33):
he could die. 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.

Speaker 8 (11:48):
About show we made about a bunch of.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
The stories.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yea Let's bring in Brendan. Everybody, Let's bring in Brendan Fraser. Donald,
don't say it like the.

Speaker 10 (12:16):
Oh I.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Should see you.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oh man, look at this. Donald and I both admitted
to each other that we have butterflies because we don't
have fancy uh movie stars on our on our pockets.
No offense to our other guests. They're great offense.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
They all did they they've all been great.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
But they're not like Brendan level.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
We just kicked it up a notch, like like like
like Emerald used to say, bay him, kick it up
a notch.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
Flattery will get you everywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Brandon. We 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

(13:16):
know if you know this, but the episode where you
died is a lot of people's favorite episode of the
whole series. And so we're just we're thrilled you're here
and we want to talk about all of it.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
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 Rayden, who gets spoken of every freaking episode,
his song was played at your character's funeral and because
of that his career. I mean, he travels all over
the world now and performs to packed houses. But this

(13:50):
was the first song that he ever wrote, and somehow
Bill used it in this episode.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
This somehow is me. I said, you need a sad song,
try my buddies first song. He had never written a song,
and we played it during your funeral episode and it
launched his career. But anyway, let Brendan talk.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
That's really nice. I mean, look, the music is important
so much in the across the arc of the whole
whole show. I mean, the choices were always spot on.
They made you feel the internal conflict even though there
was you know, this comedy that that was juxtaposed against.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
It's a very serious environment.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I mean, how do you make a hospital funny?

Speaker 7 (14:36):
Yeah, you guys did.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
It for many, many episodes, and I I'm so 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 they're moved by that episode. Now, look,
thanks for nice things you're saying to me, but you're

(15:00):
only as good as the company you keep and how
well it's written, and some camera things too. But I
just I should say belated thank you, like what seventeen
years later now for including me in that cast and
pulling me into the fold.

Speaker 11 (15:18):
Sorry, sorry, that's okay. I was thinking about that today too.
I let's take a walk back here. I had just
finished a run of my West End debut in London
and katinahats and roof, and I came back to La
and my former wife Afton and Krista Miller are longtime friends,

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and I had not met Bilby before, but I did
get on the phone with him, and I recall saying
something like he's asking, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
We want you to come and do this. Let me
see the script.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
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 we sent the script over and he sent a
bunch of gym shorts, I mean, like nice ones too,
So I thought, all right, I'm in when one man

(16:14):
sends another man his shorts, there is no other love.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
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 clothing.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, it just showed he was listening. Listen, man, I'm tired.
I gotta get back to the gym. Let me help
you out some shorts. I'm the script that's true. Are
you are you in town right now? Or are you
out of town? I know you're doing that. The show,
the superhero show, Doom Patrol, Doom Patrol?

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Do you not know that? Donald Doom Patrol and you're
superhero guy.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
I was just watching the trailer for season two where
you guys are miniaturized and everything like that. I'm very
excited for it. I was really 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.

(17:12):
You got such a really dope cast. You Matt Bonner,
what's his name Timothy Dalton like it's a sick cast, dude.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Diane Gerrero ippa bowlby season two, Let's get out of
the way.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
June twenty fifth, on HBO Max The New One.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Check it out, very excited, Donald, Did you actually watch
the I read the comics before.

Speaker 7 (17:34):
I mean, this is the first time my live action
things been No.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
I had not read the comic before, but I knew
it existed, but I had never I had never read
because it's really.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
An obscure property. It was really kind of it was orphaned.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
It was done like seven different incarnations on real prints. Yeah,
and they didn't they killed everybody off at one point
they brought them all back and then Grant Morrison did
the run that this that inspired the show. So the
word surreal gets bandied about very much in the way
we speak, but it actually borrowed from Dadaism, and you

(18:09):
know that what Dolly was up about surrealism in the
way that this show's inspired. A lot of the set
pieces are direct key art from the graphic novels Wow
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 or it's serious I think it

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just didn't.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
It doesn't.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
It doesn't shy away from going to the places that
motivate brooding superhero characters and explaining really why, and often
in white knuckle detail.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
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
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.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
And and he was I don't think he won all
those races fair and square either.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
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 want to spoil
the show.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
He's 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 as a robot than he was.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
As a man.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
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 it's Crazy Jane, crazy.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
As she's known. With their sixty four different personalities that you.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
With superpowers too, that's superpower. That's dope. You could sixty
four different powers. That's pretty dope. Anyway, I'm show Brendan, did.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
You read comic books when you were a kid?

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I had a anthology of Superman. I tried to get
into Batman because all the cool kids did then. And
I got to be honest with you, they they kind
of think they were formidable, and they sort of scared
me a little bit. It was like listening to heavy
metal music and you're not ready for it to me.

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And and so, I mean, I I like them, for sure,
but my speed was more like Dennis the Menace and
Richie rich Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I read.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
I would read Archie, Little Archie, Yeah, little Archie.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Look yeah, So I guess in short, no, not really,
But then I mean when this came along, it's kind
of a uh, yeah, I would want to be a
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, but I know that it's a piece of

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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
without one another, kind of like scrubs, I should say.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, the very theme song is I can't do
this all on my own. You can't do this song,
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, you have
the kind of career that actors dream of having. You

(21:56):
from really cool artistic indies too, 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 I mean
we look back and go, Okay, We've had lots of

(22:17):
fun experiences, but Scrubs was like one of the best
experience of our lives. Is there a project that you
look back on that and go, you know, I've done
a lot of cool things, but this one in particular
was like, holy shit, that changed my life or this
or or always.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
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 and sorry, like nineteen ninety nine,
it was the Mummy pictures. Everybody saw those, I mean,
and still they have a resonance. I guess it's just
you know, my done luck that the the the lore
of an Egyptian mummy wrapped up for several thousand years

(22:51):
looking for his girlfriend is an enduring theme that we
just love to do and over and over and over again.
So you know, we had that had that that had
that going for it. But if I think of a
film there that that made me feel like it changed
I worked with I worked with Michael Kane in Vietnam

(23:12):
on a picture called The Quiet American and it was
a pretty good adaptation. Christopher Hampton wrote it of the
of the novel, and we shot in Vietnam, and at
that time, no Western film had been made in Vietnam.

(23:33):
I mean, if you saw a movie that was a
war picture or something, it was in Malaysia or Thailand or.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
Doubled somewhere else in South pacifica for the Jungles. But we.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Had the good fortune and 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.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
And the reality is, no, it's not.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
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 and the I don't want to
say his name, but the boss of that company said,
I don't want to do anything wrong for the American people.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
Wow, And we never really knew what that meant.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
And Michael took the picture to Chroto International Film Festival
and gave it in an audience there, and that's when
it really started to take off, and the Washington Post
wrote a piece called let the quiet Americans Speak, and
you know, in other words, you don't need to sugarcoat this.

(24:53):
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 has not changed then and it had
it can't change now. I mean, so to be a
part of that, I guess I felt I was in

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

(25:38):
that time, there's always the notion and feeling that it
will do in the future.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
And well, I think the still hold up.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
You can have a lot of people watching it now
because it's one of yours. I haven't seen and I'm
definitely curious, and we have a handful of people listening
to this. I'm sure we'll check it out. I loved
one of your early film school ties.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Was Yeah, I was about to say that.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Man that movie hit me at the right man, and especially.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Being a young Jewish man.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's of course, and we didn't and I didn't feel
like I looked like Brendon, you know. I was like, there,
I am look handsome. I'm being represented. But but I
mean your performance in that movie as a young actor.
I mean, I think everyone in the world was like,
you know, everyone who loves movies was like, oh shit,
look at this new guy. I thought, you really really
were great in that movie.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
Thanks. It was sort of the diner casting. Yeah, it's
day in a.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Way, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon. The list is ridiculous. So
many people, right, Anthony rap just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
We at that time had no idea what we were doing.
We had an abundance of enthusiasm. Probably the most important
thing to us is getting the producer to provide us
breakfast in the morning before we had to play football
all day, although they did not, you know, I mean,
and still at that time 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 I

(27:09):
see I see a cast are very hopeful, but at
the same time we all have this sort of tenuous.
Is this it kind of feeling as you do when
you're first starting out in this industry.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
So but for that, rather than.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
You know, turning inward, we just swung for the fences
and hope for the best, for for whatever the film
would would result in.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
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.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, I did. It's called Remember the Titans. Have you
watched it yet?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
No, it's on my to do Listen, I'm going to watch.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I have to tell you these are that's fine and
and that's fine, but these are the issues that I'm having. Now.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Let me tell you what happens guests on fighting on
a company.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Let me finish, Let me finish. Is this because is
this because I didn't read Garden.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
State when you Yes, Yes, that's one of the reasons.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I was in the shower and I was thinking, you know,
I've done some projects and Zach's never seen any of them.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, I've seen a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
You've seen, dude, You've whats.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
The movie you Win where where the famous rapper was
a postman.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's called Next Day. First of all, it was Next
Day Air.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I saw second all.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
The only reason why you saw Next Day Air is
because I invited you over for screening at my house
with all the producers, and that.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Was about boy who is the rapper I forgot. He
was really good.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Most deaf man, Most.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Is a good actor. He did a good job in
that movie.

Speaker 7 (28:44):
I worked with Most Steph.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
I worked with Most Deph once in a really obscure
movie the 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

(29:08):
he just can't win from. He was so good, I
mean he was What was the name of the movie,
Journey to the End of the Night.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Journey to the I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna watch.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Scene Bay, Journey to the End of the Night.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I'm gonna watch that too. So sorry, but Titans got
moved down another rung because I've had two more films.
Let me tell you what happens in my house. You
have dinner, you get what are we gonna watch tonight, right,
I don't know if.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
This happens dayson, and remember the Titans.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Now, 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 up there and you're tired, and you had
a glass of wine and you're like.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
And it's HGTV time.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah right, Top Chef, Top Chef, Top Chef. Listen. I
could be a cook now because I watched so much
Top Chef.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
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 just get to the waiting.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
We're gonna do it. I'm right after quiet American. I'm
gonna do it, all right, I promise you this is
a commitment.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
You're lying, but okay, you've been saying this for years.
I just want you to know that for years. Listen,
we don't have to since I go ahead.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
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 gonna come back, and
then we're 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

(30:51):
and I yelled eagle, Uh, the the a cappella group, Uh,
Bob Zeltzer, you're a cancer doctor. All right, we'll be
right back.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
And we're back, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
So this episode is called My Hero and it's the
second of Brennan's three episodes he did Brendan, did you
know by the way, I know you assumed you knew
you were doing too? But then, what what's the story
of of you came back in? Not till season three?
Did did Bill? He couldn't have possibly see today. We're
gonna build your character and come back in two seasons?

(31:34):
So how did that come about?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:35):
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, to hand or that
came in the first season that I was in, and
then when he called up to do it again, I
was like, absolutely, you know you it was because I
had such a great time working you guys.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
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, Zach has a camera just
like that.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Now I'm holding up I'm holding up my my polaroid
UH one ten A that I would not have purchased
without Brendan. So I want you know, Brendan and I
are both. Brendan, Christa Miller and I are all camera geeks.
We all collect them. But I was never into old
polaroid cameras until I met Brendan and all. And if
you guys are watching the episode and you see him

(32:31):
shooting all these polaroids that was inspired by Brendan. Those
are all his pictures you're you're looking at. And I
got so into uh polaroid photography because of you, Brendan
and I. I've not like free. For the twenty years
since I've seen you, I can't tell you how many
different polaroid cameras I've bought and collected. And Donald was

(32:53):
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 Christa and I both got
so into it. We've taken so many pictures of them.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
It's not of them sitting in the sit in a
closet or on the shelf right now. Because the film
is so hard to find, and I know you can.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Get it online if you buy. I actually, knowing that
you were coming on, I haven't. I haven't used it
in a while, but knowing you were coming on, I
was like looking online to where I can find it.
Fuji still makes the film.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
For a good pack film, impossible projects another one you know.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yes, But for those of you who want to get
into this hobby, Fuji f P one hundred is is
the go to, right Brennan Or that's the last one.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Let me just geek out. I put my glasses on.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
FUJIF one hundred. I just gave them a shout out.
There should be a sponsor, 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,
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

(34:06):
the whole the whole gag is that JD is such
a nerd that at first he's like no, no, 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, be extra doorkey if
JD pretended he was soaring like an eagle. And then
I just went eagle, which became bizarrely a huge runner.

(34:28):
Throughout the whole season of the series of the show.
Donald would pick me up and I'd yell eagle, and
it became a running thing.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
It became his what you're talking about, willis?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
It became my what you're talking about?

Speaker 12 (34:37):
Willis?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
It became my catchphrase. Run you you lifted me into
my It's like in dirty dancing doing the lift. You
lifted me into my catchphrase.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Thank you, thanks very very much, no, everywhere. I particularly
liked your shower shorts. If I remember yes correctly.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
The man for the man who has nothing to hide
but still wants to.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Still want and it had did 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 WinCE a bit.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah exactly. But I mean everywhere I go in my life,
and I've been traveled all around the world, I will
have people yell eagle at me as they walk down
the street.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
It's forever, It's forever.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, all because of this moment at one minute thirty.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Eight, and then Krista goes for a spin. I wonder
if Krista liked that feeling. Krista wasn't too fond of
the spin.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I bet she liked it because it was Brendan. If
it was anybody else, she would have.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Been like, there's no way, there's no way.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
I can't imagine a Bill writing an episode. If Bill
put any other character picks up Krista and spins her,
she would have been.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Like, no, no, no, no no no no no no no
no no no no no no. Uh tangle in my giblets.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, I laughed out loud at that. I don't like
too much freedom down 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 Jibletz. Brennan.
You found a way with this character to bring out something.
You know, Johnny C had yet to really warm up

(36:15):
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 in Turk
have mirrored a bit. We see, Oh, there is a
guy out there who's silly and who's goofy and is
and is out there who's kind of like his JD.

(36:37):
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.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Right he was and just just like Johnny C.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, although Johnny's a smidgen.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Nicer right, absolutely heart of gold.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Did you know Johnny before this, had you guys worked together?

Speaker 7 (37:06):
We know we had not met before.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
I'd seen him in films that he'd made, and but
I think I met him on the day tell you
the truth to day, there was a nail in my hand, Yeah,
a board, right, if.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I remember that was the first episode before this.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
One, correctly, I think we met like maybe three minutes
earlier than that. But it's because he doesn't take much
time to makeup chair I learned. He just kind of
walks in, scrubs his head and then makes like these
sort of animal grunt noises, puts product in it and
does it again and the like does like elaborate clicking
and snapping with his fingers, and then.

Speaker 7 (37:48):
He takes off. He's good to go.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
I had to show up, like, you know, an hour
early with Christa, so we could you know, get our
strand by strand done just perfect?

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah? Do you?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Donald went through, Donnie 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,
I'm gonna start doing that. I don't need makeup either.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
If it's good enough for Colin Farrell, it's good enough
for me.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
And Donald Donald was like showing off like I don't
even make up either, and then like we did one episode.
In the next week, Donald was like, I'm gonna go
back to the makeup.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm gonna go back to Uh speaking of makeup, is
that you in in the in the costume all the
time or do they have a stand in for you
or do you have to do makeup every day like that?

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Which costume?

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Which I've had a lot of weird ones, and I've
had some that were at all Oh for Patrol, Oh, No,
that's voiced by Riley shan I mean I'm voicing the character.
Riley Shanahan wear's the suit. He is a wonderful comedic
performer with fantastic timing and he's full on playing the
character through a mask. Yeah, and uh he he does

(39:02):
the heavy lifting there. I mean, I show up in
an episode or two wearing pieces of that because, like
I said, it it borrowed. It breaks a lot of
rules and makes its own and the way the show unfolds.
But otherwise, no, I'm it's like 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 months, I don't even go inside

(39:22):
the studio like we all know you're sitting in your
closet right now.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
I've been doing a d R on a cell phone.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
It's it's it's weird days.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
It's weird days for a business. But on the other hand, like,
don't tell anybody this is.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Actually I think that's the case wearing pants.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I think that's the case with I think it's the
case with Mandalorian too, you know, because that's all stuntman.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
Right, yes, yeah, yeah, So I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Not to talk about it though, do they did? The
producers want you to be like, no, Brennan's in the suit.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
No, no way, I would never do that. That's not
fair to Riley.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
I I mean, and I'm fifty one now. 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.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
They're heavy, they are superformers are really unsung heroes. I
worked with many of them.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
I worked with them on on I'll say the titles
George of the Jungle, the guys in the gorilla suits
are amazing. They're they're I mean, they really take sime
and behavior seriously and I mean, it's it's a thing
back comedy. But at the same time, no, there, they
were quite specific about what they needed and how they
would move as a troop.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
And yeah, I mean, can you tell Donald and I
how to get in that kind of shape if we
ever wanted to try, because you're pretty ripped in that movie.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Yeah, go back in time and eat nothing but like
broccoli and styrofoam, lift weights until you puke, and then
go wash your mouth out and keep doing it.

Speaker 12 (40:58):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
I was once the gym and a gym and an
arms Schwarzeninger walked into the gym to sort of inspect it.
I guess his friend owned it or something, and he
was still the governor and he walked over to me
on the I was on one of the benches, and
I don't know if he recognized me as an actor
or if he was just sort of like talking to
me as a citizen, like, hello, what's your goals with

(41:22):
your workout? And I was I was so starstruck, and
I was like, uh, oh, well, I guess I just
kind of want to look like Brad Pitt and 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 happened ripped. No, I mean it

(41:45):
never happened. It never. I never had a grapitt fight
club orange skin.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
You definitely got orange, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
It's a lot of carrots. And then he just moved
on to somebody else.

Speaker 7 (41:58):
You hit a lot of broccol league you. You eat
a lot of kumquats.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
And you eat a squash.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
You.

Speaker 13 (42:07):
He's walking around to each verson in the gym for you,
broccoli for you?

Speaker 1 (42:23):
How long you train? How long would when? How long
would you train for something like that? I mean the
Mummy too. I mean, I know you're in six shape,
Like did you did you? Would you go through big
training periods?

Speaker 7 (42:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (42:31):
If I recall it was, I mean all in it's
like a year if you're gonna you know, and then
you do maintenance and blah blah. But you know, I
I haven't asked about this frequently over the years, and
I really don't know the answer because everyone's body is
so different, and I almost feel reticent to say, well,
this is what I did, because then people want to

(42:53):
emulate or do that, and it might not be right
for them. But I guess, if i'd be honest, it's
just just just just get it over with and lift weights,
I guess. But the thing is that there's wear and
tear on your joints, your spine. I became really proficient
with ice bags, like really talk about nerdy camera geek.

(43:16):
I was like nerdy ice cube geek. And and uh,
you know, it's a lot to keep it's a lot
to keep up.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
It's a lot to ask of your body.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
And I have to say with confidence that I felt
a sense of relief when it wasn't something that was
expected of me, that wasn't exactly what you know, I'm
known for. Or I was happy.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
To say that's someone else's job right now, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
And uh, and just you know, pound back the milkshakes.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yeah, yeah, and focus on Paul.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Paul Rudd said something very similar to me. He was like,
you know, I felt great when I was doing it.
But I'm gonna tell you something right now, I'd love
to drink a milkshake right now. I'd love 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, if.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
I feel it.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
And you know, I got to say something psychologically, if
I'm honest, I can look at those images now and think,
I see a guy who is still insecure, who still
felt like 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 tied

(44:41):
up with a single thing, and that's confidence. If you
have that, it doesn't matter how often you go to
a gym or don't go to a gym. I really
learned that it's about the person who you are and
the rest is just decoration.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, oh I agree. I wish I you know, I
wish I had that confidence when I go places like
the beach and stuff like that, Like I feel great
in my skin at home, I could prance around naked
in front of my wife and stuff like that, and
I'm confident that I, you know, I still feel I
still feel and look sexy to her. When you go
to the beach, though, and there's a and there's a

(45:20):
you know, stigmatism of how everybody's supposed to look and
you don't necessarily fit that type. It's like, wait a second.
You know, I don't necessarily 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. I remember working so hard
to get in shape and look a certain way, you know,

(45:42):
when like, just like you said, when it was time
for the big reveal, I felt like I didn't reach
my goal, you know what I mean. Then I look
back at it now and I'm like, holy shit, I
looked bad, Like holy look at that. But it back.
I remember we talked about this on the podcast. I
just wish I could have been present when I you

(46:04):
know what I mean, Like there were so many things
on my mind when all the projects that I've made before,
I wish I could have just been it, just experienced
every moment, and I didn't. I was too worried about
this or too interested in something else, uh, to really
focus on you know.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
And now the age that we live in, everybody has
a camera right in their pocket, and we're all privy
to one another's physiques, and it's you know, it's a.
It's a it's a it's a macabre pastime that is
available to everyone. And and you know, depending on where
you are in the world or what country part of

(46:43):
the country, Somewhere in the back of my mind, I
always wonder, is there's somebody with a long lens?

Speaker 7 (46:48):
You know, is there a sniper right are?

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (46:52):
Did you that happened a lot in LA for sure.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
But out of LA is that one of the like
tell us a little bit about.

Speaker 7 (46:59):
I felt relief.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
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 uh,
that's myopic in that sense. Yeah, and you know, with
distance you can get some perspective, yeah, which was which
was helpful to me.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
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 l A. I mean,
you're bigger than everybody in l A. And you go
anyplace else and people would be like, damn, girl, eat
a sandwich or something, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
But I think it's good when actors get out of
New York and in l A. I mean, you have
to have reached a certain level of of stature in
the business as you have where you can kind of
be anywhere you want. But I I fantasize about that sometimes.
I don't know about Donald, about being able to be
somewhere that's not in the heart of the industry.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
I think, well, yeah, 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
ship in Montana, and you got a ranch, you know
what I mean. Like, it's a huge difference. I would
I would you know.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
I can't picture you on a ranch. Would you like
a ranch.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I could pick? I could picture, but listen, I could
picture myself in Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
I know. But wait, Donald, I never asked you this.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Shit doesn't have to have animals on it.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
It just needs to know I never as I never
asked you this. If you could live anywhere in the
country that's not in New York or LA and you
could have you know, you could. You know, money is
no object. I don't mean like some stupid epic mansion.
I mean, like, you know, you have all the money
that you want to spend. What would you choose? Would
you choose the Montana Ranch or would you choose I

(48:46):
don't know what. I can't picture. I never asked you
what your what that would be for you.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
I'm a city boy, so I'd have to live in
I'd have to find some 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. 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

(49:12):
would live somewhere in Toronto that was freaking, you know,
wonderful and great either there or I You know, I
am a huge fan of London. You know this. It's
one of my favorite cities. I do like that area.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
And you're very popular there. You're like, you're like, you know,
Denzel Washington of the United Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
No, I disagree. There's people like John Boyega. There are
a bunch of people from the United United Kingdom.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
They do love you, and the people that are listening
in the United Kingdom can attest to loving Donald Faison.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
All right, how about this if y'all loved 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.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Your face, let this let this week.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
I got the uk on lock, I got the uk
on lock.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
You're gonna make Brendan have to pull out his earphones.
Don't yell with our guests.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Brendan.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
I know you have to go. We don't want to
keep you longer than then 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 if you're if you if this
wasn't too horrible, I hope that you'll come back when
we get to season three. Uh for that very special episode.
Because whenever fans talk about their favorite episode, it's either

(50:32):
that one or or the musical usually, right Donald.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
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 idea where he's at
at the end.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Well, you guys are really kind and you were so
kind to me then, and I'm really grateful for that experience,
and it means a lot to me that people still
are finding it today and that that you included me
on the show.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Thank you included you. Dude. We were so happy that
you were doing I remember when we I was like.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Holy shit, yeah, we got a real star.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
We got a real star.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
We got it's like you're fishing. We got one on
the line. Thank you so much, And everybody check out
Doom Patrol. When is it? When is season two premier
June June twenty five on HBO Max Guys, check it
out and Brendan, thank you so much. We love you.
We'll see it. Oh my god, what a what a
what a what a sweet human being?

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Huh that was so awesome, dude. I can't believe we
had them on.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
But he's just like his You know, these people they
just and you're so happy when they're coming to your life.
They just want to glow peace and kindness. You know,
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.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
He's got that et heart light.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
He's got the et hard light. He said it better
than I do. He's got an et glowing heart light.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
You feel it, you feel it.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I'm glad that. I'm almost glad that he couldn't stay
the whole time because I was looking at all my
notes about Turning talking through the episode, and I'm like,
I don't want to bother Brendan by talking about doctor Zeltzer. Right,
Like you have Brendan, 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

(52:35):
that Rob had a big bit of medical jargon. What
the fuck do I go? The fuck? I gotta go
feed my kids.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Well, you did the whole we'd skipped over the whole
Tony Shaloup situation.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
We're talking, Yeah, go back, go back. Now that Brendan's gone,
I can relax, I can breathe. I was so nervous.
I wanted to do a good job. Now now it's
just me. Now it's just us four. I can. I
can talk about Zeltzer. I can talk about anything.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
This whole tony salute thing. This was before he started
winning all the Emmys.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Huh yeah, before he started beating me every single time.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Beating you. He beat everyone, dude, he beat everyone.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I know everyone. Okay, okay, do you know what that's from?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Do you know what that's from? No, you never saw
the professional.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Gary.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Oh yeah, of course with now that Gary.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah, Gary Oleman in the We've got him upstairs. What
do you want? Bring me? Everyone? Everyone, every I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
If you're listening to this podcast on earbuds, I apologize.
I will try and counterbalance it with this soft podcast
voice I have.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
You don't remember that?

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Do you remember that SNL sketch where they were doing
like a it was like the Sweaty Balls one where
they were doing like oh my god, I can't wait.
But that was when Alec Baulm was the guest star.
But the normal show was like, yes, they talked like this,
that's fun, that's really fun. Oh it's great.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
It's been in Jerry's ice cream flavor.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Now balls mm hmm, and one of these balls of
peanut butter.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I was hoping, what's your favorite?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Ben and Jerry's. We should try and get them as
a sponsor so we can get buckets and free ice cream.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Dude, Ben and Jerry's rocks, Yo, Ben, listen, I will
pay money for Ben and Jerry's from here on out,
especially after this whole the whole black Lives Matter situation
that's been going on, when they straight up said, yo,
black lives matter. Anyone say anything else, pretty much go
fuck yourself.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Good for them. I love it. By 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.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
WHOA Do we need to have a conversation about.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Your No, I'm just saying, imagine that when I people
that have a coke problem.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
A problem if you're snorting ice cream like.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
You like you don't snort your ice cream Donald's. It's
only problem when you get a particularly chunky flavor and
like a a peanut buttered pretzel gets stuck in your nose.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
You I like chubby Hubby a lot. Well, Daniel is
freaking out over there. He likes that too, Like no play.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
I can never find it, but it's my favorite flavor.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
I love Chubby. I like anything basically anything with peanut
butter because I like peanut butter and chocolate in my
ice cream.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
I see that the milk is the best flavory.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
I like them.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
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.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
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 fund this up there.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
There isn't another brand that I would have the audacity
to choose. I'm just saying it hasn't been something that
I have been getting a lot of.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Oh, because you're trying to stay thin, but then you
go home and make that shit yourself.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I prefer to make my ice cream. So if Ben
and Jerry's wants to become a sponsor and teach them
opfucker how to make somebody's flavors.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, so that's what Benger's gonna do. They're gonna come
on and teach you how to make their top secret
ice cream.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't I wouldn't give it away. I
would keep it for myself. There are a bunch of
There are a bunch of things that I wish the
owners of the company would be like, all right, look,
we're just gonna give you the recipe. Keep that ship
to yourself, but you can make it at home. Krispy Kreme, Hello,
teach me how to make a donut.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
What about those salts Cure pancakes.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
The Salt's Cure pancakes.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Yeah, my restaurant in Los Angeles, Donald Trum.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
You've never had your oh my bad? Oh yeah. And
then there's the Salt's Cure pancakes are very, very tasty.
But you know where I really like the pancakes is Dupars,
Dear DuPonts. No, no, you fuck you myself, motherfucker.

Speaker 10 (56:32):
Hold on, goddamnit.

Speaker 7 (56:34):
Hold on.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
I am now going back to my podcast voice to
counterbalance Donald's loud voice.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
And then and then Masstros. If you could teach me
how to make that buttercake, Yo, that buttercake, that buttercake. Mastros?
You remember you remember Mastros where we used to go
for steak night?

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Yeah? Yeah, do you.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Remember steak Night. I know you don't eat meat anymore,
but do you remember steak night?

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Of course we used to legit. Go to steak night.
It is the world's best meat. It is such a treat.
Are you going a steak night?

Speaker 10 (57:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Donald, I made that song up. I want the world
to know. That was another in addition to our theme
song with the help of Charlie Poof. A Steak Night
with no help from Charlie poof is is an original
song by Donald Faison and I were you going egg night?

Speaker 14 (57:19):
It right?

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Misteak is such? It is best meat.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Steak Night.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
And then we did the fucking this dance Brady Bunch dance.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Do you remember when the Brady Bunch did, They 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 rearrangeaanaa happen.
Peter went to puberty, remember and he went he was like,

(57:55):
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, he was like, when
it's time to change, you've got to real range and
they were like, oh no, what are we gonna do?
Peter's going through puberty?

Speaker 2 (58:09):
What the fuck happened? And all of a sudden, the
Brady Bunch were in a band like out of nowhere.
It was like Season one, The Brady Bunch, they're having
a hard time coming together as a family. Season two,
The Brady Bunch, They're going to school now things are great.
Season three they're in a band like what.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
I don't know if it was season three, I don't
know either.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I'm just guessing, but out of nowhere all but it
had to be there.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Can you find out? When how many seasons in the
pretty much Pcician, it's the same shit, Donald, it's jumping
the shark. It's like red haired Sam coming in a
different strokes. You gotta shape shit up.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
They they went to fucking Hawaii and jumped the shark.
Remember the Hawaii Well, of course you remember, we get
I mean, we'd use it in scrubs.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
We gotta sell those teaki necklaces on our merch shop
one day, one day when iheartshits are our merch shop
going okay? Someone said that, wait, can I fucking finish
a sentence for the what you got it.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Listen for for Listen for.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
The love of yahweh sentence for only for Yah. Someone
told me they had a good merch idea oh that
they thought when I mistakenly said sports players instead of athletes,
someone said, please make a T shirt that says sports
players on it.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
I'd rather the fuck out.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Of that sports players.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
What's your last thing? Let's talk about Let's talk about
Ted's band.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Okay, thank you, say 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 coat tails.
That's what I wanted to talk about. Let's talk about
Ted's band.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Okay. Ted's band is first is introduced. In this episode.
You get to see for the second time what a
ridiculously beautiful voice our Sammy Lloyd had. And it's so
tragic to use the word had, but uh it is accurate.
They say had he This was real. This was his friends,

(59:57):
all his all those men, those three men are his buddy,
and they all sang a cappella with him, and so
we gave them Bill gave them jobs in the hospital
and and formed the Ncpella Group. And as I read
on scrubs Wiki. It was originally supposed to be the
Superman theme, but they couldn't get the rights. Yes, so

(01:00:18):
that's how Underdog came about. I remember that would have
made more sense because there's a whole Superman motif.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
But they can remember Sam and we can sing it
on here because we're not gonna. I don't think we'll
get in trouble for it, and if we will, cut
it out. But it was like three bullets of speed
left behind, two powerful.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
Trains turned around, one able to leap buildings, tall, inner run,
all in one single bound Superman Superman.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Where is Superman? Superman? Superman calling super that human? Steve Wait.
These lyrics on the written by Sam and his band,
the band.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Oh So the song I mean you made me think
that this was the theme song had lyrics.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
John Williams wrote this, John right right, so it was
just right, and so they sang the whole song with
words I have it on my iPhone like it's something
that's stuck.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
So those guys wrote those Those guys wrote it and
the lyrics, as I recall on Paul, one of the
members of the band, wrote all a bunch of the
the songs from the musical? Did he not write the
guy Love?

Speaker 7 (01:01:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
I don't that. I don't know. This is a great Bill.
This is a great Bill Lawrence question.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Okay, hey, Bill, talk to us about Ted's band. Ted's
band and Paul from the band whose name I can't
quite remember right now, but we will say it in
this episode. Didn't he write some of the musical, including
the song guy Love? Because I feel like that's a
bit of trivia. That's that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Also, where did you come up with the idea? I
mean it's obvious, but.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Oh I got it. Paul Perry. Sorry, sorry, guys, it's in.
It's Philip mcnivin or George George forgive me if I
don't say your name right, miserless and Paul Perry. I
believe it was Paul Perry and and Bill will tell
us who wrote a bunch of the musical songs? Bill
tell us, Now.

Speaker 14 (01:02:31):
Hey guys, it's cool talking to you. Look Paul Perry,
who was part of Ted's band who are known as
the Blanks in real life. This is how Sam Woyd
came into my life. He was on Spin City back
in the day. Is Chris Lloyd'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

(01:02:54):
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 to do all the arrangements
for them, so we just started using them on the
show as kind of a Greek chorus with commercials theme
songs and TV theme songs. So fun and you Paul
ended up writing a bunch of the songs for Guy
Love and a musical on his own as well. More

(01:03:14):
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 theme song in the finale is one
of my favorites. Super talented group top to bottom, and man,
just even talking about him makes me miss Sam.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
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
was a great moment to a new boy in the
neighborhood lives downstairs and it's understood he's there just to
take good.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Care of me, like he's one of the family. Charles
e was in charge And I love that show. Didn't
you love that show?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
I did? I did love that show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Nicole Eggert, Nicole Eggert, nic Cole Eggert A moment of
silence for puberty. All right, let's talk about Zeltzer. Bob Clendennon.
This is his first appearance. He's pretty normal in this episode.
Zeltzer doesn't really get that wacky yet. He doesn't really
fly his his his flag.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I noticed that. How about Rob
Mascio with the medical I know, man, most impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
He really killed that. And 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 always choked about, was
uh that that Rob is the best surgeon that according
to doctor went right that he Yeah, because he does

(01:05:02):
he's what does he say? He goes?

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Well, everybody else's everybody else is thinking about uh what
they this dude's just thinking has nothing in his brain
or something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Yeah, I don't forget it. Yeah, he's like he's like
done Oh, I know what it is. It's done the tiny.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Yeah, Rob, I say this every every episode that he's in. Man,
he really does not get to knock it out the
park man.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
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, we hear what your thoughts are,
and that's how we camera spins around to see. Uh.
By the way, and you had jargon, but I imagine
you just read that ship.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I read that ship off the piece of paper. I'm
pretty sure.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
But I heard you say that medical giant. Does a
Donald read that ship?

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
He didn't remember he read that shit, right? And if
you know, I read that shit. So when he's smacking
the ass of the nurse, did you notice that the
nurse got her ass a little perched up high enough
so that the gag works.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Yeah, of course, that's that's how you make the joke fun.
I don't know what she's doing. She doesn't appear to
be doing anything.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
No, she's just sitting there doing nothing. That's Lynn though,
by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Yeah, that's our friend. That's our friend Lynn is she
But she she she doesn't. I'm just gonna scroll because
I have the episode open. I'm just wondering if she
at least is pretending to do something, because, as I recall,
she just looked like she was bent over.

Speaker 15 (01:06:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Season three, episode sixteen of The Brady Bunch, The Kids,
The Kids, they covered Casey and the Sunshine Ban.

Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
It looks like it was employed for Paramount Records. They
were like, did it for three or four seasons?

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
I told you it was season three? See I have
my shit right and everything?

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Man, did you guess season three? How old you know
your Brady Bunch lore?

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Though, of course I guess that ship.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Do you do the Brady Bunch Wiki?

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
I should do the Brady Bunch Wiki?

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
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 nineteen seventy two. It was episode sixteen of
season three. All right, I want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
The choreographed move. Should we talk about that?

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Yeah? That was cool? Do you remember doing that? Whenever
we're all now, I double all of us are doing
the exact same movements and it's a split screen and
we're all thinking, and it's all the exact same choreography.
And then I read on scrubs Wiki that for some reasons,
Judy's was backwards in terms of right left, and so
they flipped her. And that's why if you look Judy's

(01:07:30):
name tag is on the wrong side because in post
her choreography wasn't right, so they flipped her.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
I I did not know that, I'm gonna be honest
with you. I thought this episode was gonna have way
more Brendan Fraser in it, to be honest with you,
I thought it was like a whole episode about, you know,
what happened to the character. I didn't know that other
shit went on in the hospital, so when watching it,
I was like, I don't remember any of this, Like I.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
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 a fancy Brendan through, Like talking
about the fact that Johnny sees wearing his actual Oakley's
when we do the real world.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Spoof, Right, that's such a hilarious so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Right, did you see your hair?

Speaker 14 (01:08:15):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Your hair is amazing. I took a picture of it
to show my girlfriend. It's so funny. And and Johnny's
wearing those comedic Oakley's, but those are really his Oakleys.
Johnny sees the kind of guy that really would rock
those oak He probably still wears them. Those like wrap
around like wrap around Oakley's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
They're perfect for athletes who have to who are on
the go. Like if you're jogging and you have the
wrap around Oakley's, no sunlight gets in and they don't
fall off your face.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
I don't care. I love Johnny, but I'm not wearing
those Oakleys. Donald, and neither are you no matter what
sport you're playing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Dude, you are you you let's be let's tell everybody
what 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 when it comes to sunglasses, you're very much. Uh.
The was the one that the aviator.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Yeah, or ray bands or or yeah that sort of vibe.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Yeah, Ray ban aviators.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
But I wouldn't rock a colored glass wrap around Oakley.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
That's not my vibe if you if you're playing tennis,
why not.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
I just think they look I don't I know. Johnny listens, Johnny,
I love you, It's just not my style.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Let me let me just start off by saying.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Johnny listen. Johnny listens. Johnny listens while he's weightlifting, and
I know he's like, oh, I pump an iron right now.
I don't want to be like, fuck you, brap I
love my old glass probably got him on right now
in the gym. No, I want to talk about how
not only does this the janitor pick a lock when
that isn't locked.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Did you notice that, No, I didn't like.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
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 to pick a non locked locker.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
And did you think that it was weird that you're
writing all of this stuff in a diary like out
of nowhere, like just out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
I forgot all of a sudden the show's doogie howser.
And does that imply that all of JD's voiceovers are
going into a journal? I never even I mean, I
certainly didn't play it that way for eight and a
half years.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Right, So when I saw that, I was like, wait
a second. So there's there's data. There's information of everyone who,
like somebody could go back and in a time capsule
or wherever you know you pass up, passed away. There's
freaking stacks and stacks of diaries of everything that's ever
happened to JD.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
I never really understood. And it seems that this is
the implication because it's a voiceover that goes right in
the diary that all the voiceover you're hearing is JD's journal. Now,
I do remember that I had a journal. I 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

(01:10:55):
reflect this journal did not have a unicorn with a
sword on its head. So no one is pretecting my
hopes and dreams right now on this journal. That's why
the janitor is able to get in there. But I
thought it was funny when he said theater camp, because
you know that was me he really is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
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 the show? You know
what I mean? Is this something that took place in
the past.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
We'll ask him, go ahead and ask him Beforeally Donald.
We can do a two biller.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Bill, is scrubs JD's memoirs? Is 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?

Speaker 7 (01:11:43):
When?

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Yeah, because we're seeing in this episode, Bill that JD's
writing a journal and voiceover goes right in the journal?
Was this a doogie howser moment?

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Bill?

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
When do do do?

Speaker 4 (01:11:52):
Do?

Speaker 7 (01:11:53):
Do? Do?

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Do?

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Do? Ahead?

Speaker 14 (01:12:02):
The voiceover originally was conceived as you know, JD keeping
stuff in his journals, but we ditched that and just
kind of made it people just go with it. We
made it an omniscient voice over, you know, because we
were always caught in his head and his thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
And people just go with it.

Speaker 14 (01:12:22):
The same way on Modern Family, and no one ever
seemed to ask who was interviewing that family and who
was doing that documentary?

Speaker 7 (01:12:30):
You know that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Okay, we're gonna go to commercial. Everybody, and thank you
so much for listening. Thank you for being our listeners.
Our friends are our compatriots, and we're gonna be right
back with a question from.

Speaker 10 (01:12:43):
And we are bad, and We're bad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
We had Brendan Fraser on the episode.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Pronunciation of Fraser. You didn't mess it up for the
first time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
We have Alex and what's your dad's name? Cory, Alex
and Corey. You are now on the show from different locations.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
Okay, welcome to fake doctors, real friends. We're so happy
that you're here.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
We're thrilled to be on with you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:22):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Oh, thank you. We tell us about yourselves. We just
heard a little bit our producer Joelle 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.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
And I see Corey has a piano right next to him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Corey, Corey, are you a piano player? Are you a piano?

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Are you going to play us a little something?

Speaker 15 (01:13:41):
I don't think so.

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
But I'm a piano teacher mostly okay, but I've been
I'm a composer and a piano teacher. So that's since
I can't give lessons in my living room on my
grand piano, I have to give him in my office
on my electronic piano over zoomt it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
I truly wish you knew the theme song to our
rewatch show.

Speaker 15 (01:14:01):
I love the themes on to your Rewatch show.

Speaker 9 (01:14:04):
I think you guys did a fantastic job singing it.
Thank you, you're really fantastic. I'm not so crazy about
the count in, but you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Know you don't like saying we're off tempo, Corey.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
No, I'm saying that you're covering up the first couple
of words because there's a there's a there's a pick up.
You know, there's a story. So you say five six seven,
seven eight, there's a story. It's kind of covering, but
you know it's a it's a stick now, and so
there's there's no way you can.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Change it from here. You know what, I'm gonna change
it when we finished this, when we finished this, I'm
gonna change it just for you, just for this, just
for this podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
I never imagine we're gonna go one two one, no, no, no, you.

Speaker 9 (01:14:45):
Want to go five six seven there's a story.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
Right, I can go A five, A six, A five six.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
You can do that, I said, I no offense, Corey,
but I think the fans will revolt because they really
loved five six, seven eight.

Speaker 15 (01:15:01):
They do. They love everybody's Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:15:03):
So, like I said, it's it's probably ingrained and there's
not something du about it, but it's it's just every
time that habits, it just kind of bothers.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
It irks you. All Right, Well, I'm sorry, Donald. I'm
doing it for you. I'm doing it for you, Cory, 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, no,
it's it's okay.

Speaker 12 (01:15:23):
I I mean, the reason why I wanted us to
come on is because Father's Day come is coming up,
and I said, her dad for a gift, come on
the show.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
But so I don't have to pay for anything. I
see how you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
I see how she's get a car.

Speaker 12 (01:15:37):
I'm the favorite daughter. Now here we go. No, So
I think I can't remember who started watching the show first,
if it was my dad or myself. This is not
our first time in Quarantine. I would say I've seen
every episode of the show multiple multiple times, and I
think the same as for my dad. But we really
bonded over our love of the show. I think we

(01:15:58):
watched it separately and then came together and realized we
were both watching it. And we like quiz each other
on Little Scrubs Gervia Facts a lot, and it's just
something that we've really bonded over. Is our love for
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
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.

Speaker 9 (01:16:26):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I watched it when
it first came on.

Speaker 15 (01:16:31):
What year was the first season?

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
Two thousand and one, one, two thousand and one, I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Was gonna say, nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 9 (01:16:38):
No, 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 way.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
It's a sore subject. It's a sore subject, but we
don't talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Well, well, 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 You're the only people with DVDs are the ones
with no musical replace.

Speaker 15 (01:17:01):
It was a it was a real good purchase for me.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Great, Thank you so much. All Right, do you guys
have a question for for Donald or for I or for.

Speaker 15 (01:17:09):
Going to go first?

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
I'm gonna go first.

Speaker 12 (01:17:12):
Well, 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, very I know huge fans of you, guys.

Speaker 5 (01:17:22):
Donald.

Speaker 12 (01:17:22):
I just have to mention that last night my fiance
and I rewatched my favorite of your movies, I think,
which is Remember the Titans.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Yes, okay, yes, thank you, thank you. You know what
you know who has never seen Remember the Titans. It's
Zach Brath.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
Well, I'm gonna watch.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
We had a conversation at them. Thank you for bringing
this up out. We had a conversation thank you. We
had a conversation at the beginning of this episode, and
Zach's like, it's on my to do list. It's on
my to do list. Listen, man, I've seen every one
of his projects, even the ones that didn't come out
in theaters, even the ones that went straight to video.
I've seen everything that Zach Braff has been in. I

(01:18:03):
can count them all on this hand right here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
All of them. I thought it was about sports players,
and I didn't think that I would like it. But
I love Donald, I love Denzel, and I love Rudy.
So if it's anything like Rudy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Do you like Ryan Gosling?

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Yes, I think he's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
He's in it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Yeah, do you like it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
What Harris?

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
I think of it. I think of it as Rudy's
in it. I feel like it's Rudy with Donald Fazon.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Is that? Is it like that?

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
No, it's not the Are you the Rudy? And freaking
are you the Rudy? Because if so, I'm fucking watching
that ship tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
I have a Rudy moment. I have a Rudy moment.
Watch the damn movie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Okay, don't run for it, all right, let's just put
it up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Let's just put it like this. Let's put it like this.
Let's put it like this. Ryan Gosling is fing up
the whole time and I save his ass. Let's just
put it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Okay, I'm gonna think about it, all right, go ahead,
all right.

Speaker 12 (01:18:57):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
So, like my question is, thank you for watching Alex
of course, of course.

Speaker 12 (01:19:01):
So one of the things that's just so incredible about
the show in general is the way that you can
mix the comedy and the silliness of the show with
some of these like more dramatic or serious moments that
sort of center around the theme of loss. Right, And
I know you just had Brendan Fraser on and that's
a really big sort of plot point in the show
for Doctor Cox, but of course with the loss of

(01:19:22):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Well, I'll tell you there were times where I didn't
think it was going to 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

(01:20:02):
read them and go, how can you be in this
weird fantasy and then drop in for this moment where
we have tears in our eyes. And I think we
just always tried to play it real. Obviously, this fantasies
were heightened and some of the physical comedy was heightened,
but we always tried to deal with the patient moments

(01:20:22):
like they were completely played straight. And I think of
the show Mash a lot, because when I grew up,
we were watching Mash and it had a laugh track
on it. But when they went into the surgical when
they were operating on the soldiers, there was no laugh track,
even though there'd still be some humor, it was just

(01:20:43):
sort of a choice they made, and I often think
of that in scrubs. It was almost like there were
moments when the silliness stopped and we just dropped in
to play totally straight how a doctor would be with
a sick patient. So I don't know, I think, what
do you think, Donald? I think it was just a
matter of really good writing, to be frank.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Absolutely that, and thank goodness that there were you know,
that we were able to cut in between scenes and
stuff like that. And it wasn't you know, if this
were a play or something where there aren't any cuts
in it, it would be very You're absolutely right, it'd
be very hard to be funny, funny, funny, funny funny
and then switch on a you know, turn on a
dime and now we're gonna be serious. Thank goodness that

(01:21:21):
we had cuts, you know, and different scenes edited together
for that. Uh, this would have been a way more
challenging show this if everything was done on one in
one take and you having to ride that emotional rollercoaster.
I think, you know, as any actor will tell you,
those are the most difficult scenes where you're starting off

(01:21:42):
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 you know, I'm
on the verge of crying. And so now I don't
have to act that much to get to the tears.
If I had to be funny and laugh and joke
around and everything like that and then move into the

(01:22:02):
dramatic and uh, the sadder side of the scene without
a cut, I don't know how I would be able
to do it. It would be such a challenge for me.
So thank goodness for uh the takes and editing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Also, it all comes down to good writing. I mean,
you can make you can.

Speaker 7 (01:22:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
There's a movie Once I really love. I don't know
if you have ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Yeah, great movie.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
But one thing about Once is like Once is the
ultimate example of like, 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

(01:22:46):
it's all, it's all. It all comes down to great writing.

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Falling slowly love that movie check out once I suffered.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
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 Faison?

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Where's Zach Braf? I do so for me.

Speaker 9 (01:23:13):
I love the fantasy sequences in the show. I mean,
right from the beginning there were such funny you know,
And I think my two favorite ones are when the
character Alex you know, says, how would you feel if
you know I told you I was ready now to
have sex? And the marching band comes from crashing in
your other the monkey.

Speaker 15 (01:23:31):
And the monkey with the cymbols, Oh my god.

Speaker 9 (01:23:34):
And I also love memorable it's in later seasons when uh,
somebody is trying to teach Elliott and Tasty Como wife
a dance.

Speaker 15 (01:23:44):
I get Alex told.

Speaker 9 (01:23:45):
Me it was the rewind dance, then therun oh man.

Speaker 15 (01:23:49):
And Elliott is so bad bad dead dance.

Speaker 9 (01:23:53):
She does such a fantastic job of being horrible at that,
flapping her hands and kicking her leg at the wrong time.

Speaker 15 (01:24:00):
Oh, very funny.

Speaker 9 (01:24:01):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
That's a very good question. I don't know, Donalds, you know,
that might have to be our third ask Bill.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
I think we're gonna have to ask Bill a third
time on this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
This is like you know that show Millionaire when you
get we should you should only be allowed a certain
amount of like ask a friend, call a friend at
all of the audience like, oh, I.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
Think you're okay. I would give you a passing calling
Bill all right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
So we're gonna ask Bill a third time. I hope
you can squeeze in a third one. Were there any
fantasy's Bill that that that didn't make the cut? Do
you have any memory of of anything we shot in
a wacky fantasy that was never in the show.

Speaker 14 (01:24:50):
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 Gaby Allen always wanted
to do a fantasy about Newsy's you know, Extraxter read
all about it, and I think we shot that and
cut it because no one understood it that wasn't a
huge fan of musical theater.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Uh, miss you guys, love.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
You both, Thank you, Bill. I don't one thing. You know,
Often the fantasies took a lot of time and money. Yeah,
so I feel like they were rarely cut because it
was kind of where budget was getting thrown.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
Sometimes they would be really elaborate and take a lot
of time and money. So usually they probably wouldn't be
unless something went wrong with them and they weren't funny.

Speaker 9 (01:25:30):
And I could see that some of them took a
long time to make and it was like eight seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Oh yeah, that's all.

Speaker 15 (01:25:36):
It was just eight seconds, but you had to spend
all day at bakeup.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Some of them were so elaborate
and they would take forever to do and then it'd
be really quick.

Speaker 9 (01:25:45):
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.

Speaker 15 (01:25:54):
Laugh out loud.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
What are some of your other shows that you love, well, Freaks.

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
And Geeks is probably one of my favorite shows.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Yeah, great show.

Speaker 15 (01:26:00):
Yeah, and also Gilmore Girls.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Is that way too.

Speaker 9 (01:26:04):
They dealt very serious subjects, but there's some really good,
laugh out loud stuff on that.

Speaker 7 (01:26:08):
For that show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
They talk really fast on Gilmore Girls.

Speaker 15 (01:26:11):
They love it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
They're both there incredibly witty. All right, well, thank you guys.
You're our very first father daughter Colin and and and
we're very we're very happy that you guys are bonding
through our show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Because ladies and gentlemen give him a big round up.
Applause for Alex and cor Oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
God, Oprah does not sound like that. You sound like
Oprah on fucking crack right now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
No, I don't sound like Oprah on crack.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
I sound like if Oprah took a fucking hit, a
crack rock.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
All right, you guys, thank you, thank you, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
You God making us argue in front of all the guests.
We argued in front of Corey and Alex, We argued
in front of Brendan. The hell's wrong with you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
I'm trying to see what it sounds like. I'm trying
to in my head if Oprah did crack?

Speaker 8 (01:27:04):
How like.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Sounds like that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Although listen, there's one commercial and Oprah got it right. Well,
she gets a lot of things right, but it's one
of them weight Watchers commercial. It's my favorite commercial ever.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
It's your favorite commercial ever. It's an Oprah week.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Yeah, because she starts off like this, This is the
joy for me. I love bread, my favorite commercial. Dude. Yeah,
but who doesn't listen. I spent a lot of time
in quarantine.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Yeah, you love bread.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
You know what I love more than anything? Right now,
I'm noticing bread. I love bread.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
I love bread.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
She doesn't do it like that. She goes down with it.
It's not bread, it's bread.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
All right, Thank you everybody for tuning in. We've done it.
We went through the show. We had wonderful guests.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
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. And then I feel like we tied the
story up really quick in this episode. You know what
I mean. I think we've ran out of time. To
be honest with you, it feels like we've ran out
of time on this episode. At the end of the episode,

(01:28:25):
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 it went
right and the cancer went into remission. Yeah, it feels
like we had to tidy up a little bit so
we could move on with the story.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
It's a lot, it's a lot. It's a lot too.
First of all, he was only signed on for two
episodes of this and you know it's twenty two minutes
with credits. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta hurry. Thank
you guys for being our listeners. Please tell your friends
about the show. Please subscribe on iTunes or wherever you
get your podcasts. Please, what else? Donald? Please? You know,

(01:29:05):
read the word follow us on Instagram? Tell Donald that
you love him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Well, you don't have to just tell me you love me.
You can also follow me on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
They can do both. They could, they can do follow.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Us one point four million followers Donald Faizon myself, who
I am? I do not have one million.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
But you don't have to bring this up every episode.
People are gonna think you have a hang up about it.
They're gonna be like, I don't want to follow that dude.
He's got a hangout about this ship. You know what.
To spite him, I'm gonna unfollow him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Well, would you know if those are people out there
that are like that. Then 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.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Well, thank you to all my followers, and thank you
to everyone listening to this podcast. We we we said
it before, but we'll say it again. We never imagine
this would be be listened to all over the world.
And Joelle gets lots of emails from you guys, so
thank you. Feel free to continue to to email Joel
and us to be on the show like that lovely

(01:30:07):
father and daughter at scrubs. iHeart at gmail dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
And shout out to Daniel Big. Shout out to Joel Big.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Follow follow Joel and Daniel Joel, tell them you're your
Twitter handle. She's very popular on the Twitter.

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
Can bet me on Twitter at Joel Monique. It's j
O E ella E m O n i Q.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
Yeah. And Daniel, do you want to tell us your
Twitter handle?

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
You can find me on Twitter at DJ Underscore d
A n L DJ Dandel that's me.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
There you go, guys, And uh and actually I had
a lot of people asking for the video of your
dad talking to Fox News, so you can find that
on Daniel's Twitter handle. Thank you guys, be safe, we
love you. Wear a mask.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Count, I said, don here, we are you ready, five
six seven, Here's story.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
It just doesn't have the same magic to it. It
feels it feels, it feels wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
I know you're right, Corey. I'm sorry, Bob six have
nice stories about show we made about a bunch of
talks and nurses.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
F Janitor who love me.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
I said, here's the stories next.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
All s know, so gather around you here, up, gather
around you here up.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
Stuffy was show wizard.

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