0:00

Donald Donald. If you're not recording, I

0:02

am going to squeeze your balls.

0:05

Well I've been recording since for like

0:07

three minutes in seventeen seconds, so there,

0:09

okay, no ball squeeze. Here we go, Sorr, hello

0:12

to me.

0:13

Hello everyone?

0:14

Three? Wait, three two.

0:16

Here's some stories about

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Shure. We made about

0:22

a bunch of you

0:26

said, here's a story, so

0:31

YadA YadA.

0:34

Here Hello

0:41

everyone.

0:41

My name is Zach braf Hi, I'm Tonald

0:43

Faison.

0:44

And I can't believe it. But guess what, guys,

0:46

We're gonna do a scrubs rewatch podcast.

0:49

Yeah, that's exactly what we're doing.

0:51

Dude, your voice changed completely all of a sudden.

0:53

We were all talking normal, I know my podcast

0:56

started. We're like, hey everyone, it is I.

0:58

I got nervous and I I felt like I should

1:00

sound like a radio broadcaster. But no,

1:03

okay, I'm back to me.

1:04

There we go. This is pretty exciting,

1:07

IM.

1:08

I gotta tell you, I'm very excited that we've been

1:10

talking about this for a long time. We've

1:12

been trying to figure it out. I've been teasing

1:15

social media, as have you been.

1:18

Oh, you've been teasing social media

1:20

a little bit more than I have.

1:21

But I know because I wanted to get people

1:23

tittilated. Donald, I wanted to titillate the

1:26

masses.

1:26

Well, let's thank iHeartRadio first of all

1:28

for putting this and helping us Pat Desault.

1:30

We had to figure out who to do it, and we found a perfect

1:32

partner with iHeart, and we want to thank

1:34

them. And also we want to thank the fans

1:37

across the universe, because I

1:39

just think it's to be crazy for us not to start

1:41

with saying we wouldn't be doing this if

1:43

it weren't for the just incredibly

1:46

loyal, amazing fan base we have around

1:48

the earth, right Donal.

1:50

Thank you very much, all of you who watched

1:52

the show and who are listening to this podcast

1:54

right now. Wow, we appreciate you so much.

1:56

Thank you so much.

1:57

Yeah, thank you. I mean, this has been

1:59

so many years of love for this show. And

2:01

you know it's funny. I'm sure Donald, you have this experience too, where

2:03

people come up to the street like I'm sure this is so

2:05

annoying, but I just want to say I love the show, and I'm like I'm

2:07

always like, it's not annoying. Are you kidding me? That's

2:09

like the best comment you can give us.

2:11

So.

2:12

Well, it's annoying when you're eating food, maybe

2:14

eating food, and somebody comes up to you and they're like, sorry

2:16

to bother you. You know, at first, why

2:18

are you saying sorry to bother you? You're not sorry

2:20

to bother me. You meant to bother me at that

2:22

moment, you know what I mean?

2:24

Yeah, Well, just guys, if you're gonna see Donald in public,

2:26

don't do it while he's eating.

2:27

Maybe just or with my kids. I don't play that.

2:29

Oh yeah, all right, we'll just wait outside the restaurant

2:31

for me in a dark in

2:33

a dark alley.

2:36

Yeah, that's how I prefer people

2:38

to approach me, in a dark galley.

2:40

I also, my only request is not online

2:43

at the pharmacy because I'm usually sick

2:45

and I don't want to. I

2:48

once had a guy ask me to sign his box

2:50

of condoms at a pharmacy, and uh, I

2:52

just no. I was like,

2:55

dude, this is weird. I don't want to sign it.

2:58

Anyway. We've already digressed. We love

3:00

our fans and we're so glad you're listening. So the

3:02

rough plan is that we're just gonna talk

3:05

through episodes of Scrubs. We're going to

3:07

start with with season one. Obviously, today we're

3:09

gonna talk about the pilot and we're going to

3:11

just kind of tell stories and go through it

3:13

scene by scene and just kind of

3:16

tell anecdotes and stuff, and then eventually we want to have guests

3:18

on we're going to Today we're going to take a very first fan

3:20

question, which is thrilling. Joelle

3:22

figured out how to do that. She's amazing.

3:25

We're really excited about this. We should

3:27

start. Do you remember the name of the pilot

3:29

what the first episode was?

3:31

No?

3:32

Wait, I just want to tell them one more thing. So we were

3:34

going to do this in person, but then, of course, because of

3:36

this COVID insanity,

3:40

the good people of iHeart have figured out a

3:42

way for a donalin Us to do it remotely. So we're

3:44

he's we're looking at each other over zoom,

3:46

and he's in his closet, which is freaking hilarious

3:49

because I guess that's what the only place you could hide from your kids.

3:51

Yeah, well, yeah, they're downstairs. We put on Captain

3:53

underpants so they'll be quiet for a bit. But if

3:55

you hear someone yelling or screaming,

3:58

it's probably going to be my on Rocco

4:00

or my daughter Wilder.

4:01

I'm going to take a picture of this to post on the

4:03

interwebs because it's very

4:05

adorable.

4:06

Right, well, let me get my let me get a fresh pose.

4:08

Then, oh my god, you're so cute. All right, So

4:10

Donald has children and

4:13

a wife and everyone's in quarantine.

4:16

So he's in his closet recording

4:19

and we're looking at each other. So we're gonna

4:21

do it like this, and for the foreseeable

4:23

future, every week we'll be coming to

4:25

you talking about the

4:27

next episode of the show, and we'll hope that you'll watch it

4:29

along with us, because that's kind of the idea

4:31

if you if you watch that episode,

4:33

and then we'll shoot the shit about

4:35

that episode. I just watched it. I

4:38

got very nostalgic. Did you did you feel

4:40

nostalgia?

4:41

Well, yeah, just how young we were.

4:43

First of all, Oh, we were so young.

4:45

Were so young. I didn't remember how

4:48

young I was.

4:48

I was twenty six at the time and

4:51

I'm forty five,

4:53

turning forty six this year, and it

4:55

was that was twenty years ago. So you

4:58

know, watching a pilot for the first I really

5:00

felt like it was brand new, Like I remembered

5:03

some things but other things, I

5:05

was like, I don't remember any of

5:07

this, you know. I

5:09

remember certain poses that John

5:11

c McGinley made, like when he put his hand on the

5:13

back of his head and stuff like that. I remember

5:16

being like, Wow, that's interesting that he chose

5:18

to do that right now, and

5:20

as the show goes on it became his doctor

5:23

Cox stuff. But while we while watching

5:25

it for the first time, I was like, Oh my god, this is where

5:27

it all originated. This is where this

5:29

is where this came from.

5:31

There were so many moments I had while watching it too where

5:33

I was like thinking, first of all, we

5:35

can't start off even even five minutes

5:38

of this without talking about Bill Lawrence, who is

5:40

the creator of the show, the reason we're all here

5:43

talking. And I was just amazed

5:45

watching it how much Bill got

5:47

it it's like twenty three minutes long, and how

5:49

much he was able how much storytelling

5:51

and character introduction. Pilots are always hard

5:54

because you know, you have the showrunner

5:56

creator has such a hard job to introduce

5:59

so many characters and do it in twenty

6:01

three minutes, and it's just amazing how

6:03

much how many characters are introduced,

6:05

how many storylines and like love

6:07

interests, are introduced. How much is packed into one episode?

6:10

Yeah, that's some of those. I have questions

6:12

for you, as a matter of fact, just on you

6:15

know, how the whole pilot

6:17

came together and everything.

6:18

Well wait, let's start with that. Sorry, I don't interrupt

6:20

you, but let's start with cal I feel like we should

6:22

tell our stories about auditioning because that's.

6:24

Well, yeah, that was my first question for you.

6:26

So when we first started the pilot, I

6:29

had already done quite a few things,

6:31

Like I was in clueless. I had done

6:34

remember the Titans already waiting to exhale. I

6:36

was guest starring on Felicity at the time,

6:39

right, and this was a pilot that came up for me, and

6:41

I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go out for it. I'd love to go out

6:43

for it. Anybody wants to be on a show. And

6:45

it wasn't until after I auditioned for it and got

6:47

it that everybody was like, all my I remember

6:49

all of my agents being like, this is like the number

6:52

one pilot of the season. Everyone wanted

6:54

to be a part of this, and you booked it. And now

6:56

I remember being like, holy cow. I was just looking

6:58

at it as let me get another job because I got

7:00

kids to feet, you know what I mean. You were completely

7:02

different. You were like I mean, I know

7:04

you had been in some things and stuff like that, but

7:06

you hadn't even really popped yet.

7:08

Yeah. I'd done little things, you know. I'd been in an indie.

7:11

I was in an indie, A couple of indies, one called the Broken

7:13

Hearts Club that went to sun Dance, but I was

7:15

still waiting tables. I directed that, by the way, a

7:17

now superstar famous person named

7:19

Greg Borlani. It was his very first film

7:23

and he he gave me one of my first

7:25

early big breaks being in that movie.

7:27

And I was a waiter at a French Vietnamese

7:29

restaurant in Beverly

7:31

Hills, com and people

7:34

who you know, if you saw Garden

7:36

State, my film, I'm kind of spoofing

7:38

that in the beginning when I'm working with a tunic on

7:40

and waiting on horrible people. But

7:42

anyway, I was waiting there and people would come from having

7:45

Broken Carts Club was in the theater, and

7:47

people would come from the theater and they'd say

7:49

for dessert to the restaurant and they'd be like, we just

7:52

saw your movie, and I'd be like, oh,

7:54

cool, thank you, thank you for going, and they'd be like

7:56

you were great, and I go, oh, thank you, thank

7:58

you so much. Let me tell you about our specials.

8:02

And it was like, only in Hollywood can you go

8:04

see a movie and then have the star of the movie

8:06

wait on you for dessert.

8:07

But how did you feel about that? Were you ever embarrassed

8:10

by it?

8:10

Oh?

8:10

I was so embarrassed. I remember I would go to like a general

8:12

meeting in Hollywood, of these things called general meetings

8:14

where you kind of go and like you're like bragging that, oh

8:16

my my career is going so well and we should

8:18

really work together, and you're just kind of schmoozing. And I

8:20

remember I did one of those and like it really

8:23

went well, and I came out feeling so good. And

8:25

then that night I looked down at one of my tables

8:27

and the guy was at the table, and

8:30

I didn't I had left out the part how I was still,

8:33

you know, hustling and waiting tables. But

8:36

so you know, I got the audition.

8:39

I was waiting tables. I got the audition. Now

8:42

my story is a little funny because I went out

8:44

first for it in New York. I happened to be in New

8:46

York and I didn't prepare. It went

8:48

so poorly. I hadn't read

8:50

the script. You know, not every audition do

8:52

you go in killing it. And I didn't

8:55

do a good job. And when I

8:57

got back to La, my agent

8:59

said, look, they still can't find this guy

9:02

for the show. And it's really, like you said, everyone's

9:04

talking about it. This is like one of the hot new shows of the season. You

9:06

you I think you could just go back in, like they

9:08

won't even know, like your audition, I don't even They

9:11

were like, I don't even know if your tape made it from New

9:13

York, like because no one was no one, no one even responded

9:16

to whatever the fuck you did. So I

9:18

this time, I took it seriously. I memorized that

9:20

I worked on it. I practiced a lot, and

9:22

then when I went in. I remember the

9:24

cast director Brett Right.

9:27

I was yeah, he looked up at me like, oh

9:31

okay, like with a smile. And then it

9:33

was off to the races. And then I met Bill and

9:36

I worked with Bill, and

9:38

and then you know, I literally auditioned six times

9:41

before I got it, and finally my final

9:44

audition was for the network and

9:46

it was down between four of us, and

9:48

I read with Sarah

9:50

and I you know, I

9:52

had comitten six times. I wore the exact same outfit

9:55

every single time because I was so superstitious

9:57

and and I could really tell that Bill was rooting for me.

9:59

He he made it known to me that he

10:02

wanted me to get it. But there were a lot of you

10:04

know, people that were more famous than me, that were that were

10:06

I mean that were famous, that were up for it. So

10:09

I couldn't I couldn't leave. I got it. But anyway,

10:11

so tell me, tell me about your audition.

10:12

Brother. So I auditioned for it. The first

10:14

time I auditioned for it. I don't know who was in the room,

10:16

to be honest with you. I just auditioned and

10:19

they were like, they want to bring you back. And then

10:21

I came back and I auditioned again, and this time

10:23

Bill was there. And I remember

10:25

being like, okay, you

10:28

know, at this point in my career, it

10:30

was like, I'm just going to audition for things as

10:32

many times as I can until they say yes, you know what I

10:34

mean, or till they say no. And

10:37

I remember they were like, all right, look, you're

10:39

going to test for this, but they want you to go in for one

10:41

more audition before that, just to run

10:43

lines with Bill and work on the jokes and

10:45

stuff. And I was like, yeah, absolutely.

10:48

The one thing I remembered to this day

10:50

he still liked this, if

10:52

Bill wants the joke to work, he'll

10:54

laugh. Even if it fell flat, He'll

10:57

still laugh. To give you the confidence of

11:00

yo, dude, that's the joke. That's

11:02

where the joke lands. Right.

11:03

Yeah.

11:04

So we went into the room and we're working

11:06

on it, and he's laughing at everything, and

11:08

I'm like, oh, I'm crushing it. And then after

11:10

every take he'd be like, all right, now, let's work on this

11:13

beat. And I remember it was him and Danny Rose

11:15

at the time. Danny

11:18

Rose was another one of At.

11:20

The time, he was Bill's assistant, but then he rose

11:23

up in the ranks and became a producer

11:25

on the show.

11:26

Right, And so we did it,

11:28

and then he was like, all right, good luck tomorrow.

11:31

And I was like all right, bet. And so I went on the audition and

11:33

I saw a bunch of friends of mine auditioning,

11:36

and Sarah was there, and

11:38

you know, we were there for about an hour

11:40

and a half, all of us testing in front of

11:42

the network, and I

11:44

remember at one point,

11:47

you know, we're all sitting out there for a while and

11:49

they hadn't come out in a bit, and Bill

11:51

comes out. It's like, Donald, I need to talk to you real quick. And

11:53

I was like, oh, well, I guess I'm the first

11:56

person to go home. And he says, so,

11:59

look, your audition you

12:01

probably could tell already, but you you kind of

12:03

fucked it up. So and

12:08

so you know, I want to give you another

12:10

shot because the things that I've seen

12:12

you do, you just didn't

12:14

do that time in the room, And so if you

12:16

could just bring it down a little bit, and do

12:19

you.

12:19

Agree with him? Did you think you did you agree

12:21

with them? And think like, oh shit, I was so nervous, and He's

12:23

right.

12:24

No, I thought I was crushing it. I was

12:26

doing everything that we I thought I was doing everything

12:28

that we had done in the rehearsal right.

12:31

So finally I go in there and I remember

12:33

toning everything down and

12:36

him being like perfect and

12:38

then leaving and he sent everybody

12:40

home except for Sarah, myself

12:43

and one other person. And

12:45

that night I found out I got the job. Wow,

12:48

you know what I mean? And you know

12:50

when I went in on the audition. I expected to see

12:52

the guy that he had kept.

12:55

You know, it was me, Sarah and this one guy, and we were

12:57

like, holy cow, I guess we got

12:59

it right. And uh, I

13:02

expected to see the guy at the table read and

13:04

you walked in. I was like, that's not the same dude.

13:08

Wait, so I knew who you were, obviously,

13:10

but because.

13:11

I loved I had not seen anything

13:13

you were in.

13:14

No, No, you wouldn't. I

13:17

didn't mean to say that you'd seen my two little

13:19

indies. I just mean, like, I

13:21

guess I don't know what my question is. I mean like you even

13:23

seeing a picture of me, you didn't even know anything about me.

13:25

You just knew nothing about you. You knew what you knew.

13:27

An unknown guy got the part at least right.

13:29

I feel like I remember what you wore to a table

13:31

read, though, I feel like you wore corduroy brown

13:34

pants. I couldn't believe

13:36

that you would remember this and a T shirt.

13:39

And we met at the bar. While I remember

13:41

this, I.

13:41

Remember I was writing this down in my notes. First

13:43

of all, it was that Krista Miller's

13:46

and Bill's old house.

13:48

And Charlotte Lawrence had just been born.

13:51

Charlotte Lawrence was a baby, and

13:54

we walked into I remember it was a sunken

13:56

living room and there was a bar in

13:58

the corner. And then you turned her and

14:00

were like, gave me this big smile and we

14:02

were like yeah, body

14:04

like, and I was like, it literally was love

14:07

at first sight, right, I just felt

14:09

I was so nervous. If understand, I mean, I knew you

14:11

were obviously I knew John McGinley was. I

14:13

had met Sarah at my audition, but

14:16

like I was, you can imagine. I mean, we're all nervous

14:18

no matter who you are, but I was because because also people do

14:20

get fired after the table read, so you know

14:22

you're like, You're like, I mostly have

14:24

it, but I really got to make sure I keep it. And

14:27

uh and then I saw you and you were so warm

14:29

and and and I think we hugged.

14:30

I think the first time, I know, we did.

14:32

Hug Yeah, the first

14:34

time we met, we hugged.

14:35

Well that's that's that was the That was the crazy.

14:37

The craziest thing was I remember not

14:40

knowing who you were and being like, all right, they were

14:42

and Bill was like, let's start the table read. And

14:45

I remember being nervous for myself.

14:48

And then you started reading, and

14:52

all of a sudden, the jokes that I didn't see

14:54

in the script when I read it, all of

14:56

a sudden started to appear because

14:58

you were knocking out knocking it out of the and

15:00

everybody was laughing and you know,

15:03

really excited. So when it was my time

15:05

to come and I was like, yeah, the energy was

15:08

there, and you know what I mean. I just remember being

15:10

like, holy cow, this kid is amazing.

15:13

And I remember being like this could

15:15

actually turn into something. This is

15:18

at the table read. I remember being like, this could be

15:20

something special. My agents weren't

15:22

lying when they told me this was

15:24

the one.

15:25

Yeah, yeah, man, I remember that special feeling

15:27

too. I also wanted to say that I

15:30

when I drove home from my test, I had

15:32

a star Tech. I had the Motorola star Tech.

15:34

You remember that, Yeah, yeah, the two

15:36

ways.

15:37

No, No, the star Tech was the little flip phone, the little

15:39

black flip phone back in the day.

15:41

Oh I don't know.

15:42

Anyways, I had my little I had my little I had

15:44

my little flip phone and I put it on the passenger

15:47

seat as I was driving home from the network test,

15:49

and I'm just waiting to see if it was gonna ring, and

15:52

like, is my life about to change substantially

15:55

or not? And the phone rang. It

15:58

was Bill. He told me I got the part. And

16:00

I was just flipping out. I mean, I had no money.

16:03

I didn't have a dollar in my name. I you know, I was

16:05

living.

16:06

Oh dude, who are you telling? Man? I

16:08

had kids. I bought a house with all

16:10

of this clueless money that I had, And you

16:12

know what I mean, I thought I was going to be a baller.

16:15

And I remember having to call home and beg

16:17

my mom for money so I could get gas

16:19

to go on these auditions.

16:21

Oh you know what I mean. Because I was broke, my

16:23

parents loaned me five thousand dollars

16:25

to buy a car out in La so I bought a car.

16:28

I bought a Nissan to forty SX. I

16:30

remember that, which did me really really well.

16:32

And and then I was just, you know, living

16:35

off my waiters salary. But I

16:37

got the call from Bill. I freak out.

16:39

I called my mom, I called my dad, and then I called

16:41

the manager of the restaurant, who was amazingly

16:43

supportive of me, and she was she was an actress herself,

16:45

and she was like, I'm so happy for you congratulations

16:48

and I was like, well, I quit and she

16:50

was like wait, wait, wait,

16:54

I'll never forget that. She was like, work

16:57

tonight. I was like what now. She's like, you

17:00

have to work tonight and I was like I do. She's

17:02

like, babe, you can't leave me hanging like that. You gotta work

17:04

tonight. I was like, I was like, oh, I'll work tonight.

17:07

And I just got I like I had hammered. People

17:09

were like waiting on me, like, you know, because it was one of those restaurant where

17:11

people were like really do shee and like sir, and I'd be like,

17:14

just wait your turn, you know.

17:15

I was like.

17:17

Everybody, everybody calm down, all

17:20

right, Yours Vietnamese

17:22

food is coming right on.

17:24

I remember after we shot the pilot, just

17:26

to jump ahead and having to wait for so

17:28

long for the show to get picked up, right and

17:31

running into you at a club and

17:33

you being out of your mind blitzed.

17:36

Yeah, yeah, that's probably what happened.

17:39

I could never get into the club, like I went like

17:41

and the classic thing with like the red velvet ropes

17:44

and like I can't even picture like

17:46

me being on line at the club being like all right, I'm going

17:49

out to a nightclub tonight because I got some

17:51

money in my pocket and was like, I picture, I

17:53

see like Donald going in, like the guys, like the bouncers,

17:55

like part the red velvet ropes is Donald.

17:57

Then his posse gets gets led into the club,

18:00

and then I get in and I saw you. I remember, I remember

18:02

the first night I saw you, like out in the

18:04

real world, and I like screamed because I was like,

18:07

dude, you.

18:07

Was so loud and he was so drunk. It was so

18:09

funny.

18:10

Well, I had to celebrate.

18:12

So let's get let's get back to the Let's get back to.

18:13

Let's talk about the pilot now. The first thing I want

18:16

to see about the pilot. The first thing I noticed

18:18

is that that's not the hospital

18:21

right that the pilot for Scrubs was

18:23

filmed. We filmed technically

18:25

in three spots. The pilot was filmed in

18:29

a Burbank hospital, and this one that

18:31

they show it in the exterior is actually

18:33

not even that. It's just a different hospital. But then

18:35

we shot the bulk of the series at a hospital

18:38

in Valley Village, which is

18:40

now apartments. And then season

18:43

nine, which we'll have plenty of jokes about,

18:45

was shot actually on a back lot on

18:48

stages, But the bulk of the show,

18:50

the one that that you all know and love,

18:53

was shot all inside a real

18:55

hospital. And I'm sure not everybody knows that.

18:57

It was a real hospital. Remember

18:59

the sound man saying something about,

19:02

you know, I think when we did the pilot, I'm not

19:04

sure if I'm not sure if

19:06

it was the pilot or the actual series, but I

19:08

think it was the pilot saying, you know what, I'm gonna

19:11

set up in this room because this is the room that my

19:13

father died in or something. Really, yeah,

19:16

that's so dark.

19:17

Our dressing rooms, you know. You know you've seen

19:19

a lot of times on sets that people have trailers their

19:22

dressing rooms. Well, our dressing rooms were hospital rooms.

19:24

For for eight and a half years

19:27

that we worked at this hospital, we

19:29

lived and did everything inside

19:31

this hospital. I mean, our dressingrooms were in

19:33

the hospital, the makeup rooms in the hospital, offices

19:36

were in this hospital. The editing, the writer's

19:39

room, everything, all the other sets,

19:41

like you know, whether it was the inside of a bar or

19:43

our apartment, all those were built into

19:45

this really disgusting

19:47

ancient hospital.

19:50

Okay, so I want to talk about

19:52

the first scene where you wake

19:55

up and it's time to that.

19:57

Was that a reshoot?

19:58

No, it was not reshoot. I think it was

20:01

done like after the fact. Thing is probably one of the last

20:03

things we did. I do remember thinking that I didn't think

20:05

this was funny, this this whole shaving

20:07

cream thing.

20:08

It turned out to be really funny.

20:09

Well that's Bill. Bill turned it into

20:11

something. I remember thinking like, what, why would

20:13

I be doing this? Why

20:17

would I, on my first day so nervous, be

20:19

making a shaving cream bra.

20:20

Or being like a warrior,

20:22

a warrior.

20:28

Like how young I am. I'm just scrolling through

20:30

because I like to just reference it. But anyway,

20:32

I didn't think it was funny at the time, but then I

20:34

saw and I remember thinking, yeah, that was that.

20:35

Was clever, okay. And then the scene

20:37

where you walk into the hospital

20:40

and the lady gives you all of this energy

20:43

about what's gonna happen today, et

20:45

cetera, et cetera, and then you

20:47

not really knowing where to go.

20:49

Yeah, I mean, this was one thing

20:51

I'll hear me say over and over again was and Bill

20:53

always said this was like, there's no person

20:55

better to play someone young and in over their

20:57

head than me. Because here I was. I

21:00

didn't know anything of I mean, it was all method acting. I

21:02

didn't know anything about starring in a TV

21:04

show. I didn't know anything about like I mean,

21:06

I knew I had some experience, but every

21:08

time I was playing the wide eyed guy walking

21:10

around, I was just being mean because I couldn't believe that

21:12

this was happening to me. You know, it was the exact same

21:15

life that I was living.

21:16

You know what, speaking of wide eyed. Before

21:19

we started the pilot, they wanted us

21:21

to all go on rounds with doctors and stuff

21:23

like that. Right I did that, But right I

21:25

did not. I opted out. I was like, get the fuck out here. I'm

21:28

not doing that shit. I don't want to see any of this.

21:31

But meanwhile I'm like, I'm like the diligent

21:33

student who's like, all right, send me out right.

21:35

I remember getting on the phone with the

21:37

young lady who was my contact

21:40

that was going to take me around on rounds, and her being

21:42

like, so you're coming down to night, and me being like, yeah

21:44

about that. No, I don't

21:46

see myself ever doing this. If

21:49

you could just tell me some anecdotes, i'd be great.

21:51

But yeah, I was the exact I was like the good student.

21:53

I was like, did you see anything crazy? No?

21:55

But I remember thinking was really inappropriate actually

21:59

that she was having me like go around, like to

22:01

visit patients with her, Like she she put a stethoscope

22:03

around my neck so I would look

22:06

like legit, like I

22:08

know, it's kind of fucked up in hindsight, like I should not

22:10

have been doing that. But did she ever refer

22:12

to you like, no, not, because she she was just

22:14

treating me like I was like I

22:16

was a medical student, and she wasn't

22:19

doing what she should have done, which is being like, hey,

22:21

is it okay there's someone who's an actor researching

22:23

apart. She wasn't doing that. I was just going

22:25

in and being like, hey,

22:28

how's a guy's going. And she'd kind of like

22:30

and the people would be like looking at her, and then they

22:32

like they nod to me, and I'm like I would just be nodding.

22:34

I remember, I was just I was just kind of had

22:37

like a serious nod on my face, like I was listening

22:39

and understanding what's going on. I

22:48

want to talk about the title sequence because that's

22:50

the next thing that comes up.

22:51

I was gonna ask you about that too, man, dude,

22:54

how much did you hate that until you saw it.

22:56

That's one of those things where I was like, this is sucks.

22:59

Man.

22:59

It took for those of you who don't know, it's

23:01

a motion control camera, and it really took

23:04

a long time to do that, and

23:06

at the time we didn't know how cool it would look, so it

23:08

was like it took like a full day to do it, and

23:10

I remember we were all kind of really over

23:13

it by the end. Then it came out and it

23:15

was really fucking cool. And then we've

23:17

heard this for many times our whole

23:19

scrubs existence. But the X ray

23:22

at the end is backwards, and every

23:24

every doctor wanted to point that out, and

23:27

we used to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's

23:29

on purpose. Get it because they're like med students.

23:32

Yeah, and they're med students and they don't fully get it.

23:35

We're like, no, it wasn't the fucking prop guy fucked up the ship

23:37

backwards.

23:37

We did. And but we got lucky with that too, because

23:40

that kind of set the tone for this offbeat,

23:42

wacky show of ours. You know, I know, I know.

23:44

But early on in like in like commentary,

23:47

I remember everyone being like, the X rays backwards

23:49

and we were like.

23:50

Yeah, we meant to do it

23:53

and do it again when we do it next

23:55

time.

23:55

Do you remember when we a few years in they

23:58

tried to redo this sequence.

23:59

With Neil wanted to add Neil.

24:01

They wanted to add Neil and Neil.

24:04

Yeah, and and then so they aired it a

24:06

few times and the fan base was like, what

24:08

the fuck is that open?

24:10

Right? No, they weren't having it.

24:11

They were not having They were like season

24:13

nine.

24:13

How they weren't having season nine either. But

24:15

anyway, all right, we.

24:16

Digreg um you we have one hundred and eighty

24:18

episodes.

24:19

To get before we digress. We digress.

24:20

Wait, and then I want to say that the song was It

24:23

was a song I found from a band called

24:25

laslow Bane that I was friends with, and

24:27

I.

24:27

Because originally we wanted five for fighting, but

24:30

that was yeah, that was the original

24:32

theme song. It was something like, uh, I'm

24:34

more than a bird. We

24:37

can never use this. I'm more than a plane.

24:39

I think you're allowed to sing a few lines.

24:40

More than some superman

24:43

beside a train. However it goes anyway,

24:46

so I can't stand a fly.

24:48

My friend, I'm not

24:50

that nie, right, all right?

24:53

My friend Chad Fisher was in this band, and I thought the lyrics

24:55

were perfect because it's not only was it a great

24:57

song, but it's like what the show's about.

25:00

You know, I'm Superman.

25:01

Donald, get it, Well, that's the same thing

25:03

the fire for Fighting song was about. You just found

25:05

somebody who wrote something kind of similar to it.

25:07

I can't do it all, Donald, I couldn't do it

25:09

all on my own. I needed my friend. I'm moving a

25:12

bird. Oh my god, you

25:17

have such a pretty voice.

25:18

Though. I just remember how

25:20

perfect the song was when

25:23

they sang it, and we didn't really necessarily

25:25

know that it was going to be the theme song until

25:27

I remember you playing it for me and being like dude

25:29

and being like, oh, yeah, that's cool. But

25:32

I didn't realize it was going to really be the theme song until

25:34

we had that first cookout

25:36

before we started shooting the show and

25:39

he sang it with the

25:41

with the bullhorn and his boy playing

25:44

the guitar next to him and being like, oh, I remember

25:46

that.

25:46

And then we made a music video. If anyby never

25:49

saw it, it's kind of cool. I shot

25:51

a music video for the song, and I

25:53

shot all this kind of cool footage of us. I'm

25:55

sure it's on YouTube all.

25:57

Right, Okay, so let's talk about the first

25:59

scene with you and I.

26:00

I'm gathering my notes because I did a lot of prepper

26:03

I want the fans to know I did a lot of prep for this

26:05

right on.

26:06

So the first scene with you and I, where we're talking

26:08

and Ted the lawyer

26:10

is explaining to us, you

26:13

know, legal procedure in the hospital.

26:15

Yeah.

26:16

I remember him making

26:18

up the line and if your pay if your patient's

26:21

dead and and you're sure,

26:23

and you're sure, And

26:26

I remember that was when I realized, oh wow, Bill's

26:28

gonna let us. He's gonna let us improv

26:30

a little bit. Yeah, and opportunities

26:32

to be funny.

26:34

Yeah. I think that's one of the things that made Scrubs

26:36

really special is that Bill really

26:38

let everyone kind of make it their

26:41

own. I mean, his running rule through through

26:43

the whole series was, you know, please

26:45

get it the way that it's written first, make

26:47

sure we've got it good, and then you guys can play around

26:49

and improvise, and if you have some

26:52

wacky idea, you can do it. And that was

26:54

from the get go. And then he had and he hired all

26:56

these amazing people like Sam Lloyd,

26:59

who plays lawyer.

27:00

Who played Ted the lawyer and a.

27:02

Little trivia who's Christopher Lloyd's nephew,

27:05

you know, just hilarious

27:07

character actors like that that could that would just

27:09

bring all their own and no matter what the size

27:11

of the part, you know, from from from

27:13

our sized part all the way down to people who

27:16

had you know, would have one line an episode, there

27:18

was so much freedom to just kind of riff around

27:20

and make it funny. Yeah, and we should

27:22

give a shout out to Adam Bernstein who directed

27:25

the pilot. A pily director. Yeah,

27:27

a pilot director for those of you who don't know, really

27:29

sets the look of the show and the

27:31

style. You know, Scrubs has a very specific style

27:33

with the whippans and the flashing, the flashbacks

27:36

and fantasies.

27:37

And even the color of the show to make how

27:39

it looks so much like a hospital and

27:42

isn't overly saturated

27:44

like a lot of TV shows that deal

27:47

with hospital life. They you know, they

27:49

want their actors to

27:52

pop on screens. So the

27:54

blueser bluer, and the eyes

27:56

and the you know what I mean, Scrubs

27:59

it looked dingy and dirty in the hospital.

28:01

In that first episode, I noticed a lot.

28:03

I noticed that it was clearly the thing I noticed, you know,

28:05

the whole idea was that it was a it was a hospital

28:07

that was had very little money. And I noticed there's a lot

28:09

of stuff. You know, I haven't watched the pilot in how

28:12

many years? Twenty years, but I

28:14

remember I was looking at the ceiling tiles. There's

28:16

all these like missing ceiling tiles. Yeah, and it

28:18

was and Bill and Adam really made it feel

28:20

like a dingy you know, it was not supposed to be a nice

28:23

hospital. Also, the show was shot on film, which

28:25

a lot of people probably don't know. This was

28:27

the entire series was shot on sixteen millimeter

28:30

film. That's why there's no blu ray

28:32

and there's no if you look at it normally,

28:34

how it's meant to be seen. It's a square because

28:37

it was before high def video

28:39

and sixteen by nine televisions,

28:42

and no one ever like upres it. So

28:45

this is all we got. I watched the iTunes version,

28:47

which has the original music. Do you want to explain

28:49

to them about the music thing?

28:51

Hulu doesn't have the original music.

28:52

Well, just you know, just because of a question we get

28:54

from a lot of fans at times on

28:56

social media, all this music that was

28:59

put on Scrubs and a lot of people love was

29:01

licensed before streaming. So

29:03

these days, a lot of times if you watch

29:05

it on Hulu where it's currently playing, or wherever you're watching

29:08

it, it might have some of those songs

29:10

that you love replaced because they

29:12

weren't licensed for streaming rights. iTunes

29:15

is the only place or owning the DVDs obviously

29:17

is the only place where where all of the original music

29:20

would be there. Let's talk about your teeth for a second,

29:22

because I don't think we can just let this go.

29:24

Oh, I had

29:26

baby teeth when we started shooting the show. I

29:28

don't have baby teeth. And if you spent a lot of

29:31

money on new teeth there it is.

29:33

If you freeze fames, if you freeze frame.

29:35

There was there was a saga of Donald's teeth

29:37

because he used to have he had fake braces

29:40

famously in Clueless.

29:41

Yes, because they were trying to hide my small teeth.

29:44

Go on, oh is that really why?

29:46

Absolutely?

29:47

Oh, we're getting an exclusive here, so

29:49

you're selling.

29:49

They shave my head and they shaved my

29:52

head and Clueless because my hairline was receding

29:54

at eighteen you know what I mean? That By

29:56

the time I was twenty one, I had this hairline right here

29:58

that you that I'm well, you guys can't

30:01

see it, but I had this.

30:02

Uh, by

30:04

the way, I feel like we're breaking news. You're

30:06

famous.

30:08

They called me George Jefferson, Okay,

30:10

because of my hairline?

30:12

Are

30:14

you happy?

30:15

Are you happy?

30:16

But I never knew that the clueless braces

30:18

were because of your fucked up chick lit teeth.

30:21

Yes, and then the and then the

30:23

hats that I wore and clueless was because

30:25

of my hairline.

30:26

Oh my god, Like I have.

30:28

A baby face. I have a baby

30:30

face. It's a baby right, Like I have a baby face,

30:33

but I don't have a baby's hairline.

30:35

Right, I had baby teeth.

30:36

I had baby teeth.

30:38

Who called you, George Jefferson? Your parents?

30:40

No, some like dickhead that I grew up with

30:42

my parents. You're an asshole. That'd

30:44

be hilarious, George, all.

30:47

Right, let's go forward with your chicken teeth. Oh

30:49

and then and then well, by the way, funny story. So then

30:52

one season Donald

30:54

chose up. He decided on his own.

30:55

We could talk about this some other time. We don't need

30:58

to talk about this now.

30:59

Well, can I just tease it for later.

31:00

It tracks, it'll track, all right.

31:02

Donald turned up with braces on the inside of his teeth and

31:04

had a lisp, and Bill was like, take your fucking braces off. What the

31:06

hell you guess?

31:07

All right, But there's like six episodes

31:10

where I'm talking like this.

31:12

The whole and Donald chowse up.

31:13

But he's like, I don't Bill, I don't think anyone's gonna

31:16

notice. And Bill's like, no

31:18

one's gonna notice. What the fuck are you doing? What'd

31:20

you do? And Donald's like, well,

31:23

it's cut brief of but you can't see him

31:25

because they're on the in FIVEE in my mouth.

31:27

Okay, all right, I don't

31:29

even think that's a funny story, dude.

31:30

I think it's hilarious. All right, let's talk about

31:32

Sarah Chalk's entrance into the lounge

31:35

room.

31:35

Absolutely done, dun.

31:37

Duh, the brilliant and beautiful

31:39

Sarah Chalk.

31:39

So I remember at the audition

31:42

saying Sarah and being like that's the girl

31:44

from Roseanne. Holy cow, yeah

31:47

second Becky, and thinking

31:50

she's definitely gonna get this part because

31:53

that was the girl from Roseanne, you

31:55

know what I mean?

31:55

Yeah, Now, I didn't know I knew she was second

31:57

Becky was as she jokingly called

32:00

herself, and people called her because she had replaced

32:02

the original Becky, But I wasn't

32:04

until I read with her in front of Bill and

32:07

then I read whether at my final Studio

32:09

Network test that I got to meet her,

32:11

and I was just smitten. I

32:13

just thought she was so funny and so

32:16

beautiful, and.

32:18

That was one of my notes. Actually, you guys had such

32:20

great chemistry in the pilot,

32:22

and it showed on screen that, you know. I

32:25

think that worked for the

32:27

remainder of the

32:30

show because of you

32:32

know, it's hard to tell a will they

32:34

won't they early

32:36

on in a pilot, you know what I mean, Like

32:38

you can say one person has

32:40

a crush, but you both kind of

32:42

had a chemistry for each other in

32:45

the pilots, and it was undeniable, you

32:47

know what I mean. So like right away, you

32:49

knew that at some point

32:52

you guys had to get together, you know what I mean.

32:54

Even if it didn't work, you knew it. You guys

32:56

had to get together.

32:57

And then there was that scene where we're in the staircase I'm

33:00

supposed to be looking at her butt going up and

33:02

saying it looks I never understood why two pringles,

33:04

which is what I say, But your butt looks

33:06

like two pringles hugging.

33:08

I never knew that a curve because it's

33:10

a little Okay, so a pringle isn't.

33:13

I don't know if it's a compliment for a butt though, is

33:15

it.

33:17

Was trying to tell me you don't appreciate a

33:20

round booty.

33:21

No, I love a round booty. But I just don't know.

33:22

What the hell are you talking about.

33:24

But bro, you think you think I would

33:26

say, like it looks like a juicy peach, I

33:29

wouldn't say it looks like two pringles that are

33:31

like sharp and breakable.

33:36

Okay, let me ask you a question.

33:38

How would you describe a nice bottom like

33:41

to a piece of food? You choose pringles?

33:44

Well, I mean, I'm going, okay,

33:46

do we need to get into this. Well, you can into

33:49

this.

33:49

You can say it in a nice correct

33:52

For a really.

33:53

Long time, people

33:55

of Caucasian colors didn't

33:57

necessarily like to have big,

34:00

round booties, and so a pringle

34:03

being a tiny curved

34:07

chip, if you put them together, they

34:09

looked like a little tiny booty.

34:13

You're saying because she had a tiny white

34:15

girl booty. It was pringly right.

34:18

Nowadays because of certain

34:21

actresses and Instagram

34:24

models or whatever influence, everyone

34:29

and their mama likes a round booty, now a

34:31

big round. So you're

34:34

starting to put fake booties that

34:36

are starting to put fake stuff in

34:38

the buttocks area to make the booty

34:40

round. Now, I've heard that some women really

34:43

round booties already and decided,

34:45

yo, you know what, it ain't round enough

34:48

and took more to make

34:50

it bigger.

34:51

I have a question for you about this, yes, Now,

34:54

is your theory that certain famous

34:56

influencers have influenced

34:59

women to to add not

35:01

just.

35:01

Exercise, not just women, men too. Men

35:03

too.

35:04

Now they exercise it. You can choose to exercise

35:07

and build up your booty. But you're saying that people

35:09

really do put put fake

35:11

implants into their bottoms.

35:13

They not only put it into their bottoms, they

35:15

put it into their chest area, They

35:18

put it into their abs, they put it into

35:20

their arms. There are so many

35:22

people out there where you're like, Wow, that dude works

35:24

out, or wow, she must really work

35:26

out and it's all enhancements.

35:28

Do you think men get ass implants?

35:30

Absolutely?

35:31

You love a number for a doctor who does.

35:33

That's

35:36

true because you got a little two buffo behind that's right.

35:38

I know it's small, it's very small.

35:40

I was thinking the other day that was the.

35:42

Other thing that I noticed about you, that when the first time

35:44

I met yours, like my butler, really small booty.

35:46

Oh you noticed that at the table?

35:48

Read absolutely when you walked

35:50

away anyway, gone, Yeah.

35:52

I just wrote down because there was a shot of her butt at

35:54

which I thought looked beautiful, And then I

35:56

kind of thought about the line pringles and I didn't fully understand

35:59

it. Alright, let's move on from Sarah and

36:01

her glorious.

36:02

Let's talk about John C. McGinley. Yes,

36:04

let's doctor Cox.

36:07

Wait before you get to Cox, I want to

36:09

talk about just I think Matt

36:11

Winston is first. So Matt Winston

36:13

is the guy who's saying I'm a tool, I'm a tool, lum a tool.

36:16

And I always thought he was so friggin funny.

36:18

In fact, I put him in my film which I was here

36:20

and a little bit of trivia

36:23

for the trivia buffs out there. He's Stan Winston's

36:25

son, the late great Stan Winston.

36:27

Did you know that, Donald, I did not know that.

36:29

Yeah, wow, So his dad

36:32

he wasn't used a ton a Bill sort of phased

36:34

him out, although he did have a hilarious line where

36:36

he goes, it's like a baguette. Yeah, I think when

36:38

he was talking about Kelseo's penis all right, So

36:41

Johnny c McGinley, I mean, where do

36:43

we begin the legend?

36:44

The legend that I remember

36:46

when we after the table read. When

36:48

I saw him at the table read, I was like, I'm gonna stay clear

36:50

of that guy. He's a little intimidating.

36:52

Yeah, he's a little scary.

36:54

And then we did the rehearsals

36:58

at the hospital and I remember watching

37:00

him and I was like, I remember telling

37:02

myself focus on him right

37:04

now because we're all, you

37:07

know, kind of wide eyed and don't

37:09

necessarily know what it is we

37:11

want to do. He came into the game

37:13

already with Cox like he was like, this

37:16

is how I'm going to play him. This is how he's going to

37:18

be, you know what I mean, he knew right away

37:20

what he was doing. And I remember I was like, focus

37:23

on that guy because he seems to be already

37:25

out the gate, you know what I mean. He seems to be running already

37:28

where we're you know, getting a slow

37:30

start. He's already off and running, so focus

37:32

on him and try and match that energy that he has.

37:34

And he nobody worked harder. I mean, Johnny throughout

37:37

the course of the season had those endless, really

37:39

hard to do monologues, and he would sometimes get

37:41

him the night before and he

37:44

would work so hard. I mean, this

37:46

is not a guy who ever phoned in. I don't

37:48

think Johnny ever flubbed a line in nine years.

37:50

I mean, true, he flubbed lines.

37:52

Well, I'm saying most rare, the

37:55

least often of any of us. And

37:58

he was just so on it, and so he

38:00

so made it his. You know, there's a thing in acting

38:02

where you say, like, oh, I don't want to just do it a generic

38:04

way that anyone will do it.

38:05

I want to.

38:06

I want to. I want to make it specific to me

38:08

and make it mine. And a lot of actors

38:10

I think forced that, and so they put all this shit onto

38:12

it that isn't necessary. They're just trying to be different,

38:14

whereas some actors just do that and it's natural, it

38:16

feels right. And I think Johnny's the ultimate example

38:19

of that. He's someone who all these characteristics

38:21

and all the things, the gestures, the hands on the

38:24

back, of his head, the touch in his nose,

38:26

like that's all just Johnny, that's all stuff that's

38:28

so specifically him that he brought to that part,

38:30

you.

38:30

Know, absolutely, and he stayed consistent

38:33

with it the whole time. Everything

38:35

he did, he was like, we all

38:37

evolved into

38:40

different characters as the show went on. If you watch

38:42

the show, we're very you know, you

38:45

and I would it were you know, it's not

38:47

as broad as the show goes on.

38:50

Johnny stayed consistent from the beginning. He

38:52

was the same level the whole

38:54

time, right, and you really

38:56

see it in that first scene where

38:59

he comes into the break room and

39:01

is doing his thing, you know what I mean.

39:04

It's really interesting, you know, to go

39:06

back and watch now because when making

39:08

it, you know, I paid attention

39:11

to him specifically because of who he

39:13

was, but to

39:15

see how I evolved, to see how you evolved,

39:18

to see how Sarah evolved, to see how you

39:20

know what I mean, Judy evolved. It

39:23

really and all from this pilot,

39:25

you know what I mean. It's like the pilot

39:28

is a tame version of what Scrubs

39:30

became.

39:31

You know what I mean, Although there's things about it, you know,

39:33

I don't know if you noticed, But there's things that are

39:35

in the pilot that you can see both Bill and

39:37

Adam Bernstein and the director are figuring out

39:39

like that. We eventually phased out like all the

39:42

I mean like there's like whip noises

39:44

when Johnny turns his head and there's like there's

39:47

little there's like way more sound effects

39:50

early on. I think in the show that they eventually toned

39:52

down. I mean that's a digression

39:54

from Johnny. So Johnny's just amazing and people

39:56

always ask what he's like, and I say, he literally

39:59

is this intent, but he's just the

40:01

most nice person you've ever met. It's just like

40:03

he's like, picture that intensity of a human

40:05

being, but he's a super

40:08

sweet nice nothing.

40:09

But love though that intensity with nothing

40:11

but love.

40:12

And when he shakes your hand, he puts out his hand

40:14

and goes, there's five good ones for you, meaning

40:17

his finger. Yeah, there's five

40:19

good ones for you.

40:20

Grab it and squeeze.

40:22

Yeah. He's got all sorts of sayings, but I'll never forget

40:24

there's five good ones for you.

40:26

Yeah, that one, and there's a mammo in that.

40:28

Oh yeah, we'd finish it. We'd finish

40:31

a scene in one of our editor's names

40:33

was Jean Michelle, and he'd go, I think we gave Jean

40:35

Michelle some mammo, all

40:41

right, so let's go. The next thing I wrote down on if you have anything

40:43

before this, but was the sitcom fantasy

40:46

I have where I where I'm with Sarah

40:48

on this.

40:49

The man You to the Man.

40:51

So I don't even know what this was. A sitcom must

40:53

have been on on NBC

40:56

or something or maybe ABC, because but

40:58

I don't remember. We borrowed some Actually,

41:01

people out there might who know the sitcom might

41:03

recognize who said it is, but we just went

41:05

to an actual set and shot

41:07

the scene there because we didn't, you know, it was the pilot.

41:09

Was it like good Morning Miami or something like that.

41:12

That could have been it. I don't know. It probably was a

41:14

pilot of the of the same season,

41:16

right or something. And I remember

41:18

this was just surreal. We were in like on a real sitcom

41:21

stage. And now, granted I have a huge crush

41:23

on Sarah and I'm doing my best to like hold

41:25

it together, and then all of a sudden

41:27

we're doing a scene where she rips off

41:29

her top and mounts me and we make out.

41:32

Yeah, you know what, back in the day, I was like, Wow, she

41:34

ripped off her top. That's cutting edge. Now

41:36

I look at it and I'm like, oh,

41:39

whoa did she have to rip off our

41:41

top?

41:42

Well, I mean I think the show. You have to look at it in the context

41:44

of the year. I mean, everybody forgets

41:47

now because we have all this everything streaming

41:49

and cable and everything's

41:51

so much more risque, and you go to you

41:54

seek out whatever you watch. I mean,

41:56

from the Show Girls, the crazy

41:58

show they would do on there, to everything

42:00

and anything that's on Netflix now.

42:03

But back in the day, you know, I think Bill

42:05

was trying to push the envelope. The show was on at

42:07

nine or nine thirty. He was trying to push

42:09

the diamelo of what you could do on network television.

42:12

So both with being politically

42:14

incorrected times, both with sex

42:17

with language. I mean, he was trying to

42:19

say, like, hey, network, you can compete

42:21

and be a little bit you know riskee,

42:24

And so this for the time was pretty risque. I

42:26

mean it was. There was a lot of sex

42:28

in the show. You know, it's funny. I have I'm sure you do. You have people

42:30

who go, hey, I'm showing my kids scrubs

42:33

and I can't be in the same room. It's so awkward

42:35

because it's because there was a lot of sex in the show.

42:37

No, I don't you know, I don't let my

42:40

kids watch Scrubs.

42:41

Well your kids are your kids are too young. But I'm saying,

42:43

like.

42:43

I got a six year old and a four year old.

42:45

No watch No, I didn't

42:47

mean your kids. I mean like like Matt Tarsis,

42:49

who was one of the writers, he told me that his son, who was

42:51

a teenager, was watching the show and he's like, I had to walk out

42:53

of the room. I was like watching like you and Sarah

42:56

have these sex scenes, like that episode where we're

42:58

eating pizza and we're like banging

43:00

all over the place.

43:01

Okay,

43:06

you know

43:11

that's that is true. Sarah did

43:13

have to take her top off. But I'm gonna be

43:15

honest with you. I think the guys on the show

43:18

were way more naked than the females

43:20

were on the show. You know what I mean. Between you

43:22

were naked so

43:25

much.

43:25

Your body looks fierce.

43:27

Thank you, like Tay Diggs, baby, like Ty Diggs.

43:31

You know you know. Funny bit of trivia. Rob Maschio,

43:33

who was often only in his banana Hammock

43:36

and worked very hard to maintain that physique

43:38

would do all sorts of push ups and stuff. When

43:41

the show moved from whatever season

43:43

from NBC to ABC, which is owned by Disney,

43:46

they made a rule that we could no longer film him

43:48

from the waist down when he was in his banana Hammock,

43:50

did you know that bit of trivia?

43:52

I didn't know that bit of trivia. I also,

43:54

I remember, and we'll discuss this later

43:57

on, but there were times where we were actually

43:59

really naked because it had to be

44:01

that way for the camera.

44:03

Wait, you didn't have like a sock on your penis.

44:05

I did one time. I did have a sock on my penis,

44:07

And I remember having to walk into parking lot with a

44:10

bunch of people which a sock

44:12

on my penis. I remember not only that, not

44:14

only that I had a I had also a very

44:17

big leaf, very big leaf.

44:18

It was a big leaf, first of all, a large

44:20

like an overleaf.

44:21

It was like it was like a maple leaf, like

44:23

a huge maple leaf.

44:25

It wasn't like one of those thin like bamboo.

44:26

No, no, no, it wasn't like it wasn't like an eucalyptus

44:29

leaf. It was a It was like a maple leaf

44:32

to cover my job.

44:33

No one has ever bragged about their sexual prowess

44:35

through leaf sides, so that's a first for our podcast.

44:38

I do want to say that. I once there's

44:40

a scene where I was dancing in front of Tara Reid

44:42

and I was supposed to be naked and

44:45

they were shooting me from behind, and so I just I

44:48

packed everything I had into a sock and

44:50

I was doing the dance in front of Tara Reid. Remember

44:52

that? And then and then the sock came

44:54

off, and then I was like, what a surreal

44:56

experience. There's Tara Reid just staring

44:59

at the junk.

45:01

Oh my gosh.

45:03

Yeah, Oh,

45:06

I mean, what am I gonna do? I apologize

45:08

and all right, So we got a caller

45:11

on waite, why are you interrupting? I want to

45:13

I just want to say that it was a tube sock, much like

45:15

your leaf analogy.

45:16

It was not it wasn't It wasn't a dress sock.

45:18

It was you know those little those little socks people

45:20

now where they're just like.

45:21

Go for There wasn't an ankle sock. It was a tube

45:23

sock. Did they call those things that just go ankle socks.

45:25

Yeah, it was ankle sock.

45:26

It was a tube sock.

45:27

It was a tube sock.

45:29

Got to say, we're basing your boys.

45:31

It was a tube man, a long

45:33

one.

45:33

So we got a collar.

45:34

It was a woman's thigh.

45:35

High Okay,

45:37

okay, So

45:42

I don't mean to interrupt yourzac, but we got a caller.

45:44

This is exciting because I I daydreamed

45:47

when we said we were going to do this that we should take fan

45:49

questions from all around the world, and

45:52

it's really happening. So go ahead, Donald,

45:54

and.

45:54

So I'd like to introduce Chris

45:57

to the podcast. Chris,

46:00

how are you hi.

46:01

Chris, how's it Cohen?

46:02

Guys, I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on.

46:05

Very first guest. So we really want to nail

46:08

this. We want to give you the best answer to your question.

46:10

That's that's ever been given to any

46:12

question throughout the history.

46:14

Okay, gotcha, that's heart

46:16

that no pressure exactly,

46:20

all right. I guess the question I'll ask you all.

46:23

This one comes from a buddy of mine named Andrew.

46:25

I have a question about the soundtrack. I

46:27

think that's something that was such like an iconic part

46:29

of the show just across all

46:31

the seasons. You introduced so many people to so many

46:33

awesome artists over the years. Was that

46:35

something was there someone that spearheaded that did

46:38

you guys just have great taste? Like, how did you come up

46:40

with this soundtrack?

46:41

It was all me? It was all me.

46:42

Donald had nothing to do with it. Let me just sorry.

46:44

I literally had nothing to do with it.

46:46

Yeah, because I mean, did

46:49

you ever get a song on ever?

46:50

No, because I was listening to songs like Jo tosy Uh.

46:54

I was listening to you know uh songs

46:57

by Wu Tang Clan, you know what I mean.

46:59

Things like yeah, great,

47:02

Donald didn't take the music.

47:04

As a matter of fact, a lot of the artists

47:06

that were on the show, I was introduced

47:09

to for the first time while

47:11

watching the show. So who

47:14

do we have on a show?

47:15

Keen?

47:15

All these people, I had no idea who they were,

47:18

you know what I mean? And some artists that were well known.

47:20

I just didn't listen to that type of music at the time. It

47:22

wasn't until Scrubs that all of a sudden started

47:24

listening to Indian folk rock,

47:27

you know what I mean?

47:27

Yeah, I think that you know, first of all, it was a lot

47:29

of people. It was definitely Bill Lawrence obviously

47:32

created the show, and his wife Krista Miller,

47:35

who played Jordan, and myself.

47:38

I think we were the three probably the

47:40

main people, but also a lot of the writers in the writer's

47:42

room. A lot of times when it was their script, they'd go with

47:44

a lot of people, but and of course the editors who would

47:47

who would you know? The editors would get like

47:49

ten ideas and they'd be the ones to try and

47:51

and and shape it to see what would work the best.

47:54

So there was a bunch of us, but Christa Miller

47:56

definitely did a lot of song

47:58

choosing, and I got a bunch on myself that

48:00

I'm excited about.

48:02

Our best friend, uh got.

48:05

Joshua Joshua Rainead and.

48:06

Got his start really before

48:09

Scrubs. What was josh doing?

48:10

He was sleeping on my couch, was

48:12

he really? Yeah? I mean he didn't even have a job,

48:14

and he had written the song Winter, which

48:16

we played in the episode where Bretton

48:19

Fraser's character dies spoiler,

48:21

And yeah,

48:24

when Winter was so popular that

48:27

that had launched a career for josh and everyone

48:29

was like, what other songs do you have? And He's like, that's the only

48:31

song I've ever written, and so he had to

48:33

like frantically make an album.

48:35

Yeah. I remember going to watch

48:37

him at two concerts with like me,

48:41

Zach my girlfriend at the time,

48:43

Zach's girlfriend at the time, and that was it.

48:46

Yeah, and now he sells out,

48:48

you know, he does.

48:50

He does really really well, So that's it.

48:52

It was a lot of fun, you know. I think Bill

48:54

was early on in putting music

48:57

at the you know, now it's become very

48:59

popular and very common to sort

49:01

of end your episode of TV with

49:03

an emotional piece

49:06

of music and then cut around in a montage

49:08

and watch how everyone, you

49:10

know, what they learned from the episode. And

49:13

and I think Bill was at the forefront of doing

49:15

that definitely, because you

49:17

know now now it's pretty commonplace. But I think Scrubs

49:20

was kind of one of the first shows to do that.

49:21

You know. I like to think The Wonder

49:24

Years was, Yeah, he would was

49:26

a was a early version of

49:28

what single camera comedy.

49:31

I mean, mash obviously, but the

49:33

Wonder Years really took

49:35

it's the time that it was in and

49:38

use the music of that time to help tell

49:40

the story. And Scrubs

49:43

I feel like it's the next thing to do that,

49:45

and then.

49:46

Yeah, and Alan mcbial also Ally

49:48

McBeal. I think Bill would say that. I remember the

49:50

show Ali mcbeil had they cut away

49:52

to wacky shit. I mean, I think Scrubbs meets

49:55

Scrubs is sort of Alan McBeal meets Mash

49:57

meets Wonder Years. Right, all right,

49:59

so we answer your question.

50:00

He did. That was awesome.

50:01

Thank you so much.

50:02

Do you have another one? We'll give you another one.

50:04

Yeah, we'll give you another question.

50:05

All right. I've got a two part question.

50:08

It's kind of common knowledge now that the Janitor

50:10

wasn't supposed to make a past season one.

50:12

He was supposed to be a fig man of JD's imagination.

50:14

Yeah, so two parter here.

50:16

One, How is that supposed to

50:18

be written in? How is it going to come to be known that the

50:20

Janitor was, you know, just a figment of the imagination.

50:23

And then the second part of that is is there any

50:25

plotline that didn't come to fruition that

50:27

you really wish did?

50:29

Yeah? I know that, but wait, I just want to say, we're

50:31

gonna have Bill on for everyone. Bill will

50:33

probably be our first guest because he can

50:35

answer all sorts of questions

50:37

about what his plan was for the writing and

50:40

such. But I do remember that Neil Flynn.

50:42

First of all, I was going to talk about this when we got to Neil

50:44

in the pilot. But Neil was supposed to just have a

50:46

small part. He wasn't. Bill wasn't

50:48

even intending that he was going to be in the show beyond the

50:50

pilot or maybe a few episodes. But

50:52

he was so hilarious that

50:54

Bill just kept adding him and adding him and adding

50:57

him, and to the point where

50:59

he was one became one of the stars of the show. And

51:01

Neil is a hilarious improvisational actor,

51:04

and so a lot of times he would just make up

51:06

his own line throughout the whole run of the show. And in

51:09

fact, it got to a point where and sometimes in a script it

51:11

would just say like and then Neil makes up something

51:13

funny like it wouldn't even have align for

51:15

him because Neil was just so

51:18

gifted and hilarious.

51:19

Well, that whole scene was that whole scene improved

51:22

with you and him with the penny in the door.

51:24

Well, the penny in the door was all written. But I'm saying, like

51:27

right off the bat, everybody could tell like, this guy,

51:29

Neil Flynn is really funny, and he's got to be more in

51:31

the show. And you know, Bill

51:33

would kind of try people out, and when they killed it, he'd

51:35

keep using him, you know, just like you like all the

51:37

people that fans grew to love, like

51:40

you know, Phil Lewis Hooch, Like we'd

51:42

all thought he was so frigging hilarious. We just kept

51:44

putting him on the show whenever we could. So

51:46

anyway, long story short, if

51:48

you I think throughout season one, the

51:50

janitor only addresses me if I'm not mistaken

51:53

now, So so Bill

51:56

kind of had the idea, like, oh my god, if this doesn't

51:58

go too long, it might be funny. Need to do a

52:00

big reveal that the janitor is totally in

52:03

in uh in JD's imagination.

52:05

But then how crazy and would that have made j D?

52:08

Though? You would have been like a freaking psycho,

52:10

dude, you would.

52:11

Have been look at my, look at nine years of wacky

52:13

fantasies, remember when you were a goat?

52:15

Yeah, dude, but it was a fantasy.

52:17

These were fantasies. If if

52:19

you actually had somebody that you an imaginary

52:22

friend that you talked to and would talk back

52:24

to you, and you're a

52:26

doctor.

52:29

I know, I think it could have been cool, but but anyway, the

52:31

point was that that the show kept going and Bill. I

52:33

remember Bill. I heard Bill say like I had to, I

52:35

had to have this guy interact with other people because it was

52:37

like, you know, and then it became you know, he

52:39

wanted to. I think fans also wanted to see

52:41

the character of the Janitor interact

52:44

with people, although you never knew his name or

52:46

did you name was Janitor or

52:48

was it Glenn Matthews.

52:49

Did we answer the second part of the question.

52:51

Oh, storylines, we did. We

52:53

did a medicinal marijuana long

52:56

before it's time. We did a medicinal

52:58

marijuana plotline and start shooting

53:00

it and then the studio told

53:02

Bill to shut it down.

53:04

It happened.

53:05

Yeah, it's funny because of course, now marijuana's

53:08

legal in California and so many other places.

53:10

Well, it had just I remember, it had just

53:13

started becoming legal at the time

53:16

when we Yeah,

53:18

I remember, I do remember that because there

53:20

were a lot of people that were smoking

53:23

weed.

53:24

Well, we probably shouldn't bring that up in the in the first episode

53:26

of this, let's get to how high everybody was. In

53:28

future episodes with the tease something.

53:30

I'm just saying I was a tease.

53:32

Okay, In future episodes, Donald will

53:34

out people for who was baked twin. All right,

53:37

thank you, Chris.

53:39

Thank you Chris, Thank

53:41

you Chris.

53:42

Thanks for being our first guest.

53:46

That would

53:49

be so funny. That would be so funny if

53:52

that's how we did it. If in that scene

53:54

he's high.

53:56

I think you need to come clean. When we get to

53:58

scenes where you were.

53:59

Baked, that'll be like the whole series

54:01

run.

54:02

Okay, great, How

54:04

long into the series did you stop memorizing

54:06

your lines?

54:08

Uh rt.

54:14

We'll talk about that in future episodes to

54:16

come as well. Oh, I wanted to say

54:19

the scene with Johnny in the in the in the lounge with

54:22

with the woman that that was my audition scene

54:24

where Johnny comes in with the woman he says

54:26

is dead and he's telling me to throw tile

54:29

in all her face. That was one of the main, I

54:31

think one of the three scenes that I auditioned with. What

54:33

was your audition scenes?

54:34

Do you remember My audition scene was

54:36

I'm really scared. I'm

54:39

so happy that I get to wear a surgical mask,

54:41

a mask because if I

54:43

didn't have it on, my face would look like this. And

54:45

then I make the scared face. Yeah, that

54:48

was one of my auditioned scenes. And

54:50

then and did you improv I

54:52

love you?

54:53

Or is that in the script?

54:54

No, we improv that. Bill came up to me. It was like

54:56

telling me you love him at the end.

54:57

That was funny and I was.

54:58

Like, what is to say it? And then

55:01

laugh when you are.

55:01

And then Lonnie, by the way, everyone that's Lonnie.

55:04

Lonnie's playing the pizza delivery guy.

55:07

I had no idea that was him until watching the pilot.

55:09

So Lonnie Lonnie exists. It's

55:12

one of the few people that exists as two different characters

55:14

in the Scrubs universe.

55:15

I feel like it's three different characters. But yeah, okay,

55:18

why.

55:18

There's Lonnie, there's pizza delivery guy?

55:21

And who was a was Lonnie also the guy that

55:23

played basketball? I don't remember.

55:25

Okay, anyway, Scrubs fans will answer for us.

55:27

But yeah, that was very funny. I love that when you say

55:29

I love you, he looks. We both look at

55:31

you like.

55:32

What I

55:35

say to you all the time.

55:36

In this scene, also with the

55:38

woman was supposed to be really dead, and

55:41

I remember the network pushed back against

55:43

Bill and said no, you can't have her

55:46

really genuinely pushing around a dead woman. You

55:49

have to have her at the end go I'm not really dead.

55:52

So that was a rewrite forced by the network because

55:54

Bill thought it was funny if he really was just pushing

55:56

around a corpse.

55:57

Very funny too. I want to talk about

55:59

Ken Jenkins or second yes, because

56:01

I feel like he was the MVP of our show,

56:04

you know what I mean, in so

56:06

many ways, like, uh,

56:08

it's really difficult to be

56:11

on a show with such a huge

56:13

ensemble cast where everyone is

56:15

likable, from the lead all

56:18

the way down to the guest stars. Everyone's

56:21

likable. I think the hardest

56:23

part, the hardest person to

56:26

play in all of that would be the bad

56:28

guy, you know what I mean. And

56:30

he made it so that the bad guy you

56:33

didn't like him, but you still

56:35

loved him, you know what I mean. And

56:39

I felt like he was literally the MVP.

56:41

Him and Judy Rayis actually were the MVPs

56:44

of the show because Judy had to tackle

56:46

all of the dramatic stuff, you know what I mean, Her

56:48

character felt everything. She was the nurse,

56:51

she was the mother of the hospital. And

56:54

Ken Jenkins, his character

56:56

was the evil dad or the you know what I

56:58

mean, the grandpa who was

57:01

just over it all and was like, I just you

57:03

know, I want

57:05

this hospital to make money. We're broke,

57:08

and all that matters is if their insurance

57:10

is going to pay for it. If it's if they're not, get

57:13

them out of here, because we're we're

57:15

broke. We got no dough.

57:17

And I thought to make

57:19

those two to make that character lovable

57:22

is a really, really, really hard thing

57:24

to do, and he did it effortlessly,

57:26

it seemed like in my eyes. And

57:29

and same thing with Judy, you know what I mean. Judy

57:31

would played a role that was

57:34

definitely needed in this band of misfits.

57:36

She played this character that was just

57:41

motherly and took

57:43

care of you know, Bambi came from that.

57:46

That's that that stuck throughout

57:48

the whole show. You being called Bambi.

57:51

Yeah, I noticed that. Her very first line that comes

57:53

out of her mouth is calling me Bamby. I didn't I didn't

57:55

know that. It's I didn't remember that. But that's

57:57

stuck for the whole run of the show. And of

57:59

course will still call me that on the street when I'm

58:01

past them. But uh,

58:03

her very first line is calling me Bambi.

58:05

Yeah, you know what I mean. And it was it was

58:07

just we knew what we were there to do. We're here

58:10

to be funny, and we're here to make everybody

58:12

laugh, and you know, and and at

58:14

times we're gonna get dramatic and everything like that.

58:17

But Judy and Ken had the tough

58:20

roles. In my opinion, you knew Judy

58:22

was supposed to make everybody feel safe. Ken

58:25

was supposed to make everybody feel anger,

58:28

you know what I mean, in this in this crazy

58:30

world. And they did it so perfectly.

58:32

And and Ken had a lot of the you know, social

58:34

commentary that Bill was trying to get in there about how

58:36

fucked up the healthcare system is and how how

58:39

how fucked up it is that hospitals are like

58:41

no insurance, get him out of here, like you know,

58:43

what do you like right away in the pilot.

58:46

Of course, these issues are so relevant today

58:49

more than ever. But right away in the pilot

58:51

you have them going, look, I don't care

58:53

that you know nothing. Let me tell you a couple of things. If they

58:55

don't have insurance, get him out of here, and

58:58

uh and and and and Bill

59:00

geniusly found a way to make that

59:02

and of course, Ken Jenkins is an actor.

59:04

Together, they found a way to make that character so lovable

59:07

even though he was he was

59:09

the antagonist.

59:10

Yeah, I want to.

59:11

Talk about thirteen minutes and thirty eight seconds.

59:14

I'm looking at a still of you making out with Judy Reyies

59:16

right, and Todd in

59:18

the frame I have up. Todd is watching because it's

59:21

part of the fantasying. So

59:25

what was it like? You know, I think people who aren't

59:27

actors are always curious what it's like when you meet someone. Hey,

59:29

nice to meet you, and then all of a sudden you have to just go do a fake makeout

59:31

scene with them.

59:32

I feel like that was the first day I met Judy too, and

59:34

really, yeah, I feel like that was our

59:37

first scene together and I

59:39

hadn't you know, I remember

59:41

me. I don't remember Neil at the table

59:43

read. I don't remember Judy.

59:46

I don't remember Ken at the table read. I remember

59:48

me, you, Johnny and Sarah

59:51

for some reason. And so when we

59:53

did the

59:56

makeout scene, I feel like that was my I know,

59:58

it's not the first day I met her. That's

1:00:00

my first real memory of Judy, you

1:00:02

know what I mean? And I remember she smoked cigarettes,

1:00:04

right, before the scene, and I was.

1:00:06

Like, Ah,

1:00:08

that's a power move, that's a power move.

1:00:11

That's how you do it. But I've realized

1:00:13

that's how you do it. If you're gonna

1:00:15

make out with somebody, make it so they

1:00:17

got to work and not make it so

1:00:19

it's them having a great time making

1:00:22

out. No, this is a job, dude, This is this

1:00:25

isn't this isn't you getting your

1:00:27

rocks off while we're doing this scene.

1:00:28

It's funny to think about someone smoking like, I

1:00:31

mean, I don't do you know any I mean, it's rare

1:00:33

to see anyone smoking cigarettes at all anymore.

1:00:36

Oh No, there are a lot of people

1:00:38

that still smoke cigarettes. Now vaping has turned

1:00:40

into the work.

1:00:41

So I just feel like vaping of

1:00:43

course, but just the idea that

1:00:45

Judy was I guess a smoker when we started,

1:00:48

right.

1:00:49

I was a smoker when we started. I

1:00:50

spoke started and.

1:00:52

Neil was always a smoker.

1:00:54

Yeah, when we started doing the show,

1:00:56

I think a lot of a smoke cigarette. I mean in

1:00:59

the cast maybe you, Sarah and Johnny and

1:01:01

Ken didn't, but everyone else did.

1:01:03

Yeah, I didn't remember that.

1:01:04

And then us doing the kissing stuff,

1:01:07

and then watching the episode and none

1:01:09

of that made the show. Really. All it

1:01:11

is is me, we're kind of

1:01:13

cuddled up together. We're kind

1:01:15

of cuddled up together, and

1:01:17

uh and Rob's

1:01:19

over us watching. But I remember

1:01:21

doing the scene if feeling way more

1:01:23

intimate than that, you know what I mean, way more

1:01:25

you know what I mean, and then watching it

1:01:28

being like, oh, they didn't use any other other good stuff.

1:01:31

Right, Well, it's a really quick moment. And I love that she's

1:01:33

I love that you're naked, and she's like, all right, thanks, I'm

1:01:35

out. I thought that was a cool introduction

1:01:38

of her character.

1:01:39

She was like, and I also and I also liked

1:01:41

that your imagination was me

1:01:44

scoring in reality

1:01:46

the real what really happened was I got

1:01:48

played and then got turned into you

1:01:51

know, I got you know, I stripped down

1:01:53

for someone, right.

1:01:55

And she was like she got you know, she just wanted to

1:01:57

make out with someone and be like later and she like she

1:01:59

was like she kind of like used you, whereas

1:02:01

in my imagination you were using her.

1:02:04

Right.

1:02:04

Yeah, that was clever.

1:02:05

Yeah.

1:02:06

I wanted to just quote talk about that it's going backwards,

1:02:08

but that deer in headlight thing, I still have

1:02:11

the foam antlers. I'm

1:02:14

staring at them right now from that

1:02:16

that fantasy where I imagine I'm a deer

1:02:18

at headlights. And and what we had to do

1:02:20

was we backed the mac up, the big

1:02:23

semi, right up to my face. And

1:02:25

the idea was for the that the truck

1:02:27

would floor it in reverse and

1:02:30

and then we'd play it and then we'd play

1:02:32

it backwards right so it looked like it was And then

1:02:34

of course it hit a mannequin too, but for this one shot,

1:02:37

and I remember standing there with my face against the

1:02:39

grill of a of a Mack truck and being

1:02:41

like leaning out to the driver, being like,

1:02:43

you sure it's in reverse? Right, Like

1:02:46

like there had to be some OSHA rule against that,

1:02:48

but I but I was like standing there

1:02:50

going if this dude, Like I don't want to cause any waves

1:02:52

or anything, but I just want to double check you're in reverse.

1:02:57

We have finally saving a life. Oh, we have

1:02:59

a loma. We should talk about Loma. Right, the beautiful and

1:03:01

talented Olma Right who played the nurse Roberts.

1:03:03

Nurse Roberts, who who whose

1:03:06

introduction in the show is you

1:03:09

know amazing. Can you just call

1:03:11

him so I can go home? Please?

1:03:12

Yeah? Can you just call him trying. She's

1:03:15

so good and and Loma was one of those again,

1:03:17

another example of someone who Bill just loved

1:03:19

and thought was so talented, and she you know, ended

1:03:22

up being in the whole the whole show until

1:03:24

he eventually killed her off, felt bad and brought

1:03:26

her back as her twin sister, which we'll get to that and

1:03:28

later Laverne again, podcast, Laverne.

1:03:30

Again again, I'm gonna

1:03:33

call you Laverne again.

1:03:35

So we were thinking of like trying

1:03:37

to summarize what the lesson of the episode

1:03:39

was, But I mean, I think the episode, the lesson of the of

1:03:41

the pilot was basically the

1:03:44

theme song, which is I can't do this all on my own,

1:03:46

right, I mean right.

1:03:47

It's the introduction of

1:03:50

how difficult it is to be a

1:03:53

doctor in a hospital and

1:03:55

how the medical staff at a hospital

1:03:58

really depends on each other to

1:04:01

work.

1:04:02

Yeah, And I think, I mean, I

1:04:04

don't think it's a big leap to say that a lot of people related

1:04:06

to the show because they can see

1:04:08

that in their own lives and how you turn

1:04:10

to your friends and your family. I mean, I think the show

1:04:12

can be, as we all know, can be very very heartwarming,

1:04:15

and that was what Bill did so geniusly

1:04:17

was how it'd be so funny and crazy and silly

1:04:20

and fantasies and everything, and then all of a sudden

1:04:22

you can turn a corner and you're losing a patient like I

1:04:24

did at the end, or or you

1:04:27

see that our friendship is so is so

1:04:29

pure.

1:04:29

It's still solid, also conquering

1:04:33

fear, you know what I mean. JD

1:04:36

was so afraid to do everything. As a matter of fact,

1:04:38

him and Elliott hide in a closet

1:04:41

at one point and doctor

1:04:43

Cox catches them doing it and

1:04:45

understands why they're afraid. But

1:04:48

then at the end of the show still gives j

1:04:50

D the confidence

1:04:53

to perform whatever

1:04:55

it is you did with the tube and the blood and all

1:04:57

of that stuff, something that

1:05:00

you know JD was very afraid of and

1:05:04

made him feel like he was going

1:05:06

to be okay. And he was, and

1:05:08

he had a support group around him.

1:05:11

Yeah, And I think that's it. That's

1:05:13

that's the pilot. I think we just we just did it.

1:05:15

We did our first podcast. I love you and

1:05:17

I love you so much.

1:05:19

Man.

1:05:19

Hey listen, if you're a fan and you made it to the end,

1:05:21

thank you. We want we're gonna keep doing this. We want

1:05:23

you to watch the show with us. We're gonna

1:05:25

do this every week and

1:05:28

and you can just join us, tell your friends,

1:05:30

and every week we're gonna go through

1:05:33

another episode, and we're

1:05:35

gonna take a fan question

1:05:37

if you have a fan question, Donald, we

1:05:39

have set up a Gmail account

1:05:41

the iHeart people.

1:05:42

Have, right, and that account is That.

1:05:44

Account is scrubsiheart

1:05:47

at gmail dot com. So

1:05:50

scrubs and then I

1:05:53

heart at gmail dot

1:05:55

com. And Sary said, thank

1:05:57

you. We want you to submit questions

1:06:00

and then are our beautiful producers

1:06:03

here will will work out all the logistics

1:06:06

and and we'll have you on. We're gonna take a question

1:06:08

each podcast. We're gonna have guests on.

1:06:10

We're gonna start having fellow cast members. We'rena obviously

1:06:13

gonna have our creator of the show, Bill Lawrence on. Who

1:06:15

else we're gonna have on Donald, some of the.

1:06:16

Oh my goodness, we're going after, you know,

1:06:18

even some of the people that you remember

1:06:20

but don't know, like Snoop Dogg in Turn, we're

1:06:23

gonna reach out to him. We're already head

1:06:26

did he already.

1:06:27

Snoop Dogg in Turn already slid into my DMS and

1:06:29

I.

1:06:29

Mick had already said he's down. We're gonna even

1:06:31

have that. We're gonna have the stand ins on

1:06:34

the show who did a lot of the work that you

1:06:36

see, uh before we

1:06:38

went in and did it set

1:06:40

up the shots they you know, So it's

1:06:42

gonna be a bunch of people. Writers, We're gonna have

1:06:45

uh, directors everything.

1:06:47

Hopefully we could get some big names too.

1:06:50

I'm sure Scott Foley would come on and we could

1:06:52

just say nobody cares. Sean over and nobody

1:06:54

every Sean, Nobody

1:06:56

cares. So follow

1:06:58

Donald and I on Instagram and Twitter,

1:07:02

and please tell your friends because we hope this

1:07:04

is a big success. Because for us

1:07:06

this was I don't know about you, Donald, but this was a lot of fun.

1:07:08

I kind of don't want to stop talking, but I feel like.

1:07:10

Oh, absolutely should. This was actually the you

1:07:13

know I talk about Clueless as the jump

1:07:15

off point in my life where I

1:07:17

was introduced to the industry

1:07:20

and I learned a lot of things. But Scrubs

1:07:22

was really like the you know, that was

1:07:24

the thing that took it over the top for me as an

1:07:26

actor, where I had an actual job

1:07:29

where I was able to you know, pay

1:07:31

my rent and I built a family

1:07:33

because I was able to be a part of this

1:07:36

wonderful show. So you know, I

1:07:38

owe a lot to you, Zach,

1:07:40

I owe a lot to Bill Lawrence. I owe

1:07:42

a lot to the cast and the crew

1:07:44

of this of Scrubs. So I'm really excited

1:07:47

to talk about it with fans who

1:07:49

enjoyed the experiences that we had.

1:07:52

Yeah, and as always, I agree with everything you said,

1:07:54

And as always, thank you for being our

1:07:56

fans, and thank you for supporting the show.

1:07:59

It was a joy to make it

1:08:01

for you and Donald. I hate this quarantining.

1:08:04

I just want to be with you all the time. I

1:08:06

want to be there.

1:08:07

Will be a day again, Hopefully there will

1:08:09

be a day again where you and I

1:08:12

can eagle.

1:08:13

I can't wait to ride you.

1:08:15

I can't.

1:08:16

I feel like that's

1:08:18

how we should end. Should we end with that? Now, let's end with that. Don't

1:08:20

say, don't speak, don't speak. Let's

1:08:22

just end with that. Goodbye Forboddy.

1:08:26

Here's some stories I'm

1:08:28

not sure we made about

1:08:31

a bunch of docs and nurses and

1:08:35

Said here's a story, nel,

1:08:40

so YadA, Yeather