Real Friends Classic - 107: My Super Ego with John C. McGinley

On this week's episode of Scrubs, there's a new hotshot intern at Sacred Heart. JD's place at the top of his class may be in jeopardy. Meanwhile, in the real world, John C. McGinley join Zach and Donald as they remember 9/11.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What are you drinking today that that liquor cabinet is
getting empty? What do we got today?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Listen, lemonade, I hear the liquor store is not the
place to go. I went, when'd you go?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I gloved up, I masked up, I has matted up,
and I went in and filled a freaking basket.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, you know it's crazy. They're talking about opening it
back up.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well not California.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Texas is talking about opening back up next week.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, well that's not gonna work out.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's just the dumbest thing I've ever heard of my life.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's not gonna work out for anyone. Good thing we
have Governor k News someone if I think he's doing.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And Garcetti man, thank goodness for Garcetti too. Man, both
doing well.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's give them both a shout out.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
On hod On. Hold on, let's see.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Here's some stories I'm not sure we made about a
bunch of dogs and nurses.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Here's the story.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
So YadA.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yead Donald Faison, it's a very very exciting day today
on this podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Do you know why we're getting epic today? We're going now,
we're going uber epic today.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, the creator of
the show That's fancy, America's favorite Canadian, Sarah Chalk. That's fancy,
But nothing is as fancy as someone who we love
as much as this man, who I can say I
learned a lot as an actor from and uh is
just a really fucking talented and hilarious human being. Stand

(01:36):
by Dan with the thunderous applause que Johnny c McGinley.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, yeah, boy, the legend, the legend that is John
c McGinley.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Hello, Donald, Hello, Zachie, how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm yeah, you are always, always, always.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Johnny, how's your how's the you know you? You were
saying just before we started recording that you know that
you had been homeschooling your kids, So this isn't as
odd of a switch for you. Tell everybody a little
bit about that.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
We've been homeschooling forever.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Billy is twelve, Kate's almost ten, and we've been homeschooling
for since, all the way through elementary school.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Here.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
One thing in this is the friends, obviously, and we've
been taking this thing super seriously, and we're totally locked
down because we've got Nicole, my wife's father here, who
has some pre existing challenges and pre existing conditions, and
so we've been taking this thing by the letter. And

(02:41):
so look, we're lucky enough to live in this place.
I mean, I built a baseball field during the writer's
strike on Scrubs, and so there's a baseball field right
behind me. And so we use that almost as a playground.
And you know, there's stuff. This is a kid compound,
so they can run around here. They don't get to
see their friends. They don't go to do dance and

(03:03):
aeriel and pottery and all the stuff you do when
you're not homeschooling or go down to the beach.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Friends. Do you have friends like I was just thinking
about Donald, who are homeschooling for the first time. Who
are calling you like gonny advice or anything? Because I'm
watching Donald do it and he's like hiding out in
his closet.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I've run my kids. This is how bad.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
People don't call this department for that. They call upstairs
to the Nicole department.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, then she and I need to get on the
phone because I am failing miserably. My wife is My
wife is a champion. She runs the household. But I
feel like I'm starting to slack. So much that She's like,
when this is over, I'm leaving you.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
I think if you could compartmentalize and play to your strengths, Donald,
you'd be better off.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't have many strengths.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Johnny, you do. You got sports? Johnny said, he's doing PE.
You could be in charge of PE. Dude.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a competitive spirit in me that won't allow
my kids to beat me. I have problems. Guys have problems. Well,
then here my son screams at me because I never
let him win. He meeting me at this We have
this thing called Papa Shot, and it's like you know
how you go to the carnival, of course, and you
get to shoot as many jump shots as you can

(04:14):
and you burst somebody. We have that. He destroys me,
and that so much so that I don't want to
play the game anymore. Man.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, I'm so I'm stoked for you guys doing this.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
This h this podcast I've listened to. This is either
the fourth or fifth one I've listened to everything, and
it's I listened to it while I'm working out, because
it's about an hour and a half or so. And
I put it on and I go in the garage
and it just makes me happy?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Does it get when the theme song comes on? Does
that get you pumped?

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I liked it. Well, you guys are so goddamn town.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Johnny, Johnny, we wrote that. It's our first It's our
first time as as as lyricists. Donald, I don't know
if you've been a lyricist before, but it's my first
time as a lyrics putting.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I put a lyric or two to two songs in
song form. I've done it.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, Well, it's my first time, and I you're.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Very good at it. That's not your first time, dude.
You say that. Listen, guys, you don't remember the songs
that we had. Baby, keep it real, Baby, let's chill.
I'm tired of you all up in.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
My Crewe see Donald so goddamn talent that he could
sing all these songs and remember his lines. I could
only do one thing, remember my lines.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, I want to talk about that for a second, Johnny,
because Donald did. Donald you well, as far as I
see it, in the world of scrubs, there were two extremes.
There was you knowing every fucking piece of syllable and
punctuation mark and Donald being like am I in the scene.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah, but Donald's so goddamn talented that even if it
took him three or four takes, the fourth take was perfect.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
It was heaven.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I mean in this episode, in this episode we'll talk
about in this but there's a scene where he dances
to Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson knockoff and Billy had to
be just it's like a fair catch in football. He's
just like that was manna from heaven that an actor
would bust that out.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
That's not on the page. No, that was not on
the page.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I think that's also the beginning of turk dancing and
damn near I believe a gift.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, Johnny, what was talk a little bit about how
you did those because sometimes, just for people who are listening,
Johnny would sometimes get those speeches the night before, because the.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Writers were sometimes the day before, hours before.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Absolutely speech.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, and I just I for those of you who
don't memorize for a living, it's can be very hard.
But doing what Johnny had to do on the spot
is sometimes close to impossible. So I remember you having
a bit of a system, will you will you talk
about that for people?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, I keep these composition books. Uh, you know the
composition books you have in high school, those black and
white things. Well, the first thing I do is I
write out the text in my own hand, and in
the margins I put the verbs of what I'm doing.
And so that just by virtue of writing it out
starts to get it in your skull. And then by
assigning verbs to every action that you're doing, that's the

(07:10):
second stage.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
And then if I had time, I keep a rehearsal
space here.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
I would go down and there's a whole kind of
little film studio downstairs, and I would get in front
of that. But a lot of times that was out
the window because Billy would hand it to you on
your way into the hospital.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
And I'm not being method. Hospital.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
We did, in fact, work in a defunct hospital. Sometimes
I'll say that that. Different people are like, ooh, you're
so method. I'm like, no, not fucking method.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
It was a hospital.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
So I set the fuck up, and so I got
when I got to the hospital, and they would hand
me new lines every year.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Disney would give us make it up.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
You guys, remember but fifteen hundred dollars to improve our
dressing rooms. Since our dressing rooms were hospital rooms where
people had died and where people had been saved. And
what I did with my fifteen hundred dollars is I
doubled down, and I hired an acoustic firm, and they
came in and soundproofed my dressing room so I wouldn't
have to hear you idiots in.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
The hallway and all the dogs.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
For some reason, because one or two of you brought
your dogs, the whole crew decided, well, if Zach and
Donald can do it, the guy in sound and the
guy the productions is that he.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Can do it.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
So all of a sudden there was a pack of
about son marteen dogs, and as Karma would have it,
And I like dogs. I hate most people's dogs. I
just I like dogs, but I don't like them at work.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And so I remember, I remember that. I remember all
all you would hear was get out.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
I'm trying to remember space two pages, single space.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Do you remember do you remember in the Christmas Story
how he's always fighting the dogs next door. That was
like Johnny C on our on our floor, because Johnny
C was like, oh, someone shut the dogs up. The
dogs all wanted to be with Johnny C.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
In a round absolutely and so much so that I
don't know you guys are remember I don't know what season.
But I wrote a letter to our bosses at Disney,
to the HR Department Human Resources. And then I did
what you're supposed to do with an angry letter. I
according my grandfather, I put it in the drawer for
two nights. You're supposed to take angry letters. You don't press.

(09:18):
This was not when you press send. I wrote it,
and I put it in the drawer for two nights.
And in the intervening time, someone got nipped by a
dog on our roar, and Disney found out about it,
not because of me, and they were like, what, there
are seventeen dogs kissing and shitting on the third floor.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
I took that letter and I put it right over
in the shredder because.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I thought I thought you were I thought you were
going to give us a big reveal that you had
written the HR letter. But you're saying you never said
to it.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
I kept it in the drawer, and then I was
let off the hook. Because if you're the guy who
made it so that people couldn't bring their goddamn dogs
to work, then you're that guy. I was look, the
fact of the matters that you asked, how do you
memorize those things?

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Good? Fear? Fear is a really good thing.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
And I was just afraid to disappoint Billy, and I
wanted him to write those things for me.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
And so you were so good at a way to
get him into my skull.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
You were so good at it, John, And those rants.
I was looking on YouTube just as we were gearing
up for this episode, and just like people have like
top five Doctor Cox rants, like it's like a thing.
People love to just listen back to those, and just
some of them are just so epic and hilarious.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Where they get hard is when Billy started, and I
don't know whether it was season four or five six,
it's a good problem. When he just started writing lists
that had nothing to do with the item that came
before it, and he just write two pages of lists
reasons why I don't care about you becoming a doctor
or something like that, and they're just this random list.

(10:57):
Those were hard memorizing his story, but.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
These lists to two pages, single space a list.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
On the other side, we were talking about how Donald
would show up and be like, oh shit, I got
a monologue today.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
A time in my life. That was a time in
my life. I don't know. I just I don't know
what was the matter with me. I smoked. I smoked
a lot of marijuana back then too, not that I
don't now, but I smoked a tremendous amount back then.
I don't think this was the beginning of the run
that I did this. I think as I got comfortable,
things changed, and as the show got successful, things changed

(11:38):
and I slacked, And I remember somebody asking me like, dude,
what do you do when you go home? And I
was like, I live my life. They were like, they
were like, but what about your job. I was like,
it's getting done, like I was.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
So I think you just got comfortable that you knew
that you'd get it, and you knew that it would
be cut together and be funny. So you're just like,
fugget well.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I don't know if I was, Yeah, you know, I
don't know what it was. Since then, I have, you know,
I've tried to make sure that if I ever ran
into anyone else, if I ran into people on other
jobs that worked with me on scrubs and remembered how
I was on scrubs, I wanted them to have a
completely different opinion of me after we finished working. And

(12:24):
so it's if anything, uh, all of the you know,
all of the you know, me being unprepared and stuff
like that prepared me for later on because now forget
about it. You know, I'm like you, Johnny, if I
mess up a line, I'm putting a hole through a
wall or something like that. You know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
I want you to get it done in three or
four takes. I want us to get out of here
get it.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
If I'm not done it, if I can't do it
in three takes, then forget about it.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Man.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Like then I've wasted I feel like I've wasted everybody's time.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well I feel that more, and especially now when it's
not your own show. When I'm going to do a
supporting part on something and I fuck up line, I
just I get so mad at myself.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's funny, you know, after doing the show for nine years,
we were so comfortable and that that comfortableness led to
a lot of amazing stuff because there was no wrong answer,
and we were so silly with each other and we
could riff. But now I find when I go do
roles where I'm not the lead or I'm supporting, or
I'm or I'm in any whatever I'm doing. I'm really
get mad at myself if I fuck up a line

(13:24):
like I really, I really put more effort into it
than I ever have.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I was about to say, because Zach, I remember a
night where you put the sides people out there who
don't know what sides are there, the piece of paper
where the line where they write, the where they miniaturize
the script into.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
The tiny Each day we get a tiny version of
the script. It's probably I don't know what is it,
like eight inches by four.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Inches something like that. I remember one night where you
take those sides to my forehead on off camera.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, but I would like everyone to google Marlon Brando
in The Godfather and you'll see and you can just
put in like Marlin ran Godfather line memorization and you'll
see a picture with James Khan with a huge poster
board taped to his chest. Now, I'm not saying is

(14:11):
this real. Yeah, I'll send you guys the picture. I'm
not saying I'm I'm I'm Marlon Brando, but I am
saying you're James Kahn and I uh, yeah, listen, there's
times where you go, I'm fucked. I do not know this, Donald,
would you mind taping this to your forehead?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, you didn't say, Donald, would you mind? You were like,
come here, No, No, used to I remember taking off
and be like you mother, I will know.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
What we used to do is like, whenever there was
a place to hide them out of camera, we'd tape
them to the desk, We'd tape them to whatever. Sometimes
you tape them to the front of the camera. But
I remember that one time I couldn't get it down
and was like the time was running out, and I
was like, Donald, I'm so sorry, but I need my
character needs to be looking at your face. Johnny, you

(14:54):
never did that. Donald, Donald and I would hide our
sides all over the place. I don't have any memory
you ever do it.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Johnny used to have like little notes here and there
in your hand.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, but not he wouldn't hide them and reference them
during the scene like you.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
No.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
No, No.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
I just if I was struggling with Latin, which all
medical terms are Latin based, if I was struggling with
something in Latin that I hadn't been on the phone
with real JD for an hour the night before I would.
I would fanatically put it on those clipboards that we carried,
and the last second I'd take a look. Now, I remember,
the hardest one ever was broken heart syndrome. Was took

(15:29):
a subo cardio myopathy. And that's about this long, and
I still freaking remember it took a subo cardio myopathy.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Now, legend has it that some of the best home
tests for movies or television shows have happened at your house.
Is it true that you once dug a hole in
your backyard for a part?

Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, that's not true. No, what are you talking about.
Why would he dig a hole in his backyard?

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I thought he was self taped and was digging a hole.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh oh, he's saying that you, you like, got all
into yourself tapes and would dig holes. What would that
be for platoon? Like he's gonna audition something.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
No. No, I met with Oliver five times. No, No,
but you did.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
But you did used to self tape at home a lot.
Though at some point right well.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
When that came into vogue.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
Sure, now you can do it on this thing, but
for a little while, you know, there's a camera on
a tripod down there was down in the rehearsal space
and yeah, for a little while.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
That that's what auditions came to be.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, Dony, that's a good segue into into your auditioning
for this. You Donald and I and we asked Sara
to talk a little bit about our experiences. QUI hilarious, right.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
I listened to all of it yesterday. It was genius.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
So tell us about yours, because you know, and you
heard Bill's telling of yours. But I think I think
our fans are interested and how it all came to be.
Do you remember, like your very first time reading and
all that.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, because you had already been in so many other
things before this.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I know you were coming to it from a very
different space because you'd been in such amazing movies, and
I just wondered, you know, Donald had done some work.
I had done virtually nothing, So how is it different
for you?

Speaker 5 (17:15):
I was coming from because I heard Zachie, I heard
yours with that you were a waiter at the La
Colonial Coloni. Yeah, you were a waiter over there, And
I know Donald had done Denzel's movie and done something.
But I was on a track and how to take
something off of this? So it doesn't sound arrogant, but
I was on about I was on a track of

(17:36):
doing about four films a year, and in my brain
it was that if you ever.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
I said yes to everything.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
So I did plenty of stinkers, but I just always
felt like that more film begat more film. So I
was just always around the world doing whatever you offered me.
And I wasn't going to come off the film train.
And so then they sent me scrubs and there was
as Billy told you, there was a John McGinley part

(18:06):
in parentheses. It said a John McGinley type for doctor Cox.
And I'm like, well, just make the offer.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
And as you mean lack. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
So I went into meet with Billy over at Disney
and that was great. He was, you know, he was
one of the great guys in the planet.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
And then.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
By the time, actors do this weird thing when they
get a little too comfortable as they subvert themselves, and
I felt like I did that because there were tears
of different hierarchy that you had to go through on
this thing.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
There was the casting people, which I got to skip.
There was Billy.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Then you had to audition to Disney, then you had
to audition at NBC.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
And so I tanked the one at Disney. And I
don't know why. I was either lazy or presumptuous or
but a sock.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Donny, did you feel that in the room?

Speaker 5 (19:03):
I always know, Yeah, And so I told I said, Billy,
just let me go to the next level.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'll blow the back of the room out, just don't.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
I just filed a few off at at Disney. And
when I went to NBC, as you guys have have
have sorted it out with Billy and Sarah, there's a
room not much bigger than the one I'm sitting in,
maybe sixteen by twenty, and it's the casting guys room.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
And there's people on the fennel, on the fence. There's
people everywhere.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Hiding on the city, sitting on the ground over it.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
It's like a bad Thanksgiving talent show production with your
aunts and uncles. And so I didn't recognize there were
four or five other doctor Coxes there.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
I didn't recognize any of them.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
And I was just like, it didn't really matter because
I already did.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Just for actors.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
You can get good at auditioning, and I got really
good at it because I used the rehearsal space as
a spot to get this four minute compressed little impression
you make a discipline down.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I got really good at it. The fact that I
tanked that Disney didn't matter. I was doing some other bullshit.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
But when I went into that room, I was just
going to fucking kill it.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
And I did.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
And when I shut the door, and at the time,
I had this Jersey muscle car. I had a Mustang
five point zero black convertible and I started.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Driving home in the one oh one and I was like,
I put Bruce on and it was blaring, and I'm like,
I definitely got that. And if I didn't, the show sucks.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Bill told do you hear Bill's story where he said, Johnny,
how do you feel it? You said, like cash, money
or something like that.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
I said it was money. I said money. He said,
if you want to do it again?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
And I'm like, I hate when directors say do you
want to do it again?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Because if you got it, you got it. Because all
I do when I do things again.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
When you asked me, I'm gonna start changing things, and
I hate rewriting it. If everything's I like to rewrite shit.
I don't like to rewrite anything. I like it on
the page I like to crush it and I like
to leave. And then if you ask me to keep
doing it again and again, I'm gonna get bored because
I know you haven't in the can, and I'm gonna
start changing things. And what I did with doctor Cox
over the years is so I changed his syncopation. I

(21:21):
turned into this kind of Martin Scorsese on LSD thing where.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I did these long pauses. And because I was getting.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Bored and again, like sometimes you'd walk in out and
do some like we like crazy pause.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
I was, and I would stretch these words.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I run want people love that when you go right.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
I was bored. I want to fucking some more. I
wanted more challenges.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
And so that's the actor's brains if it's really firing,
like our brains were on that thing. Remember, people don't
understand we were there sixteen hours a day, five days
a week. We spent much more time with each other
than we did any semblance of family, because there's a
finite amount of hours in a week. And for nine years,
pretty much we were together for fourteen to by the

(22:09):
end of the week, sixteen hours and in.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
An hospital, in an abandoned hospital.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
In an abandoned hospital.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
And it's almost like Donald will understand when you're practicing
free throws, if you do nothing but practice free throws,
you will get good at it.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
You just will.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
And by virtue beat just scrub saturation, people got really
good at their jobs.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah. Yeah, that was the other thing. I remember times
where we'd you'd have like long, long monologues. There were
times where you didn't get it in one take, but
then there were times where you would get it in
one take. And I remember directors being like, should we
go again, and you being like, we got it, let's go,
and like we only got one take, John, and I'm
moving on, let's go.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
There's so many Donald Let's go through some of our
favorite johnnyisms. One that just came to my mind was
moving on, you're five good ones for you. There's five
good ones for you. Was when you it would shake
your hand.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
How are you better now?

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah? Better now?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
And then he'd go when we were done with John
Michelle was the name of one of our editors, and
when when when we were done with the scene, he'd go,
I think we gave Jean Michelle some memmo.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, cut to cut through a couple of days later,
I'm down in the editing suite just micromanaging everything John
Michelle was doing all.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I know. You were always that's.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Where that was like your that was your that was
your escape from hanging out on the third.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Floor from the dogs.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
From the dogs, you just run down to editing and
be like, show me what you got.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
But I also had a post production company in New
York for when I when I lived in New York
up in the Brill Building for fifteen years, and so
post is a very comfortable place for me.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, yeah, and uh and I just remember you being
even Donald and I were always trying to sneak in
there as well, and you'd be like, I remember, I
have great memories of you being like, come in here,
you gotta see that. You guys to.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Well. People have to understand it was a very insular place.
There was no place to go. It was Scrubs University
in this five story abandoned hospital, and.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
You had to be there. You couldn't really go off campus.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
You'd get in trouble because invariably we'd skip a scene
and would say where's John and he went down to
do something?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
To say he can't go down to do anything.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's interesting to be on here. When you're on a
back lot, you can saunter around and you can talk
to other shows, and you can talk to people that
have nothing to do with your show. But there was
something I think great that happened on our show in
that we were so insular, Like Johnny said in that hospital,
that it made us extra close because we never went anywhere.

(24:49):
It wasn't like we just all were always together. And
I think.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Something Billy didn't share, which I've brought to different films
and TV shows I've produced since, is Billy introduced the
first or second day of shooting in the cafeteria, which
is the largest space that one hundred and twenty person
crew could all congregate.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
He got everybody together.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
And he told them that he was going to put
a no asshole policy in place, and everybody laughed, and
you know, sounded kind of stupid, and Billy's the least
confrontational person on the planet.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
And what he meant was that if you come to work,
you've got to bring at.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Least a modicum of respect with you, otherwise don't come.
And everybody knows just all the way back to the schoolyard,
how to be nice to each other and how to
be respectful, and a couple of people subsequently got fired
for the no asshole policy. It didn't mean you had
to come to work and walk on pins and needles,
but you had to come to work and be respectful.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
And I thought that was great, and I do it.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
On my sets now too, and if people don't like it,
they can get the fuck out.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, that's real talk, you know. Since Scrubs, I've been
a part of cast where you know, everybody's been chill
and lovely and everything like that, but there's there's that
one time where you have that one person where you're like,
oh my god, I wish I was still on Scrubs
right now so I could freaking sit in the background

(26:16):
and watch you get fired for being such a fucking
asshole right now, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
It's not that complicated, It really isn't.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's really easy to be a good person.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
We were really lucky, I think, though. I mean, there's
so many casts that when you hear about a show
that you know there's there's a finite number of shows
that go this long. And we genuinely all really liked
each other. I mean I always say that when I'm
do pressed or someone asked me about the show, and
you know, what was the secret to the magic, and
one of them is that we genuinely all liked each other.
We genuinely all rooted for each other. When we would

(26:46):
see each other at the bar after we wrapped, we
were like just as excited to see you know, Johnny
walk in the door. We and that didn't wear off.
I mean we we we genuinely all loved each other
company for nine years.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, you know that's you know, that's that's that's actually
very true. We partied so hard. After sixteen hours of
hanging out with each other a day, we would still
be like, yo, Fox and the Hound still has about
two more hours until it closes, and we'd all congregate
at Fox and the Hound after spending the whole day

(27:24):
in some of the night together, man like I would.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
I would go back to my hospital room and go
to sleep for the night because I couldn't drive out
to Malibu. And so after after having a couple of beers,
I went back to the hospital, went to sleep.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Wow, and they just woke up the next time.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Johnny tell them about how sometimes you'd come in to
be traffic at like four in the morning.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
I would I had this thing where I can't be late.
It's I just can't. I just I can't organize being late.
And so my window was I could leave in a
normal time if I had a call time at six
or at ten, But if my call time was anywhere
between six and ten, I would take a six o'clock
call time and just drive in at five, go to

(28:06):
sleep for a couple hours, memorize all the shit that
Billy was writing, and then.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Be fresh and ready to go. And Plus there was
a shower.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
There was a communal shower at the end of our hallway,
and I used that thing all the time.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I've never I think I never showered there. Donald, I
think maybe once or twice.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Oh god, I was in there every day.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Was it was it a good shower?

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Was it a it was hot water? End care.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's all right, We're going to go to a break
and we'll be right book and we're back, and we're back.
We are back, Donald Dum whenever he would seehim again, Lee,

(28:52):
whenever Donald does these ins and outs of a commercial,
he turns into Oprah, We're back.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
I heard him do that with Sarah. I was listening
to it on the deck and I was dying.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I could have given you, I could have totally given
you an Oprah introduction, John seem a.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Good night.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I was.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I was thinking about the one oh seven, which is
interesting that we would be doing one oh seven, which
when I looked in my composition book, it was actually
one o six, and it got it got shifted because
of nine to eleven. Yes, and but before we get
into the nine to eleven of it all, which has
a profound impact on this episode.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
When I was looking through.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
My composition book down in the rehearsal space last night,
when I was looking forward to talking to you guys.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
I noticed that I always in the first if you're lucky.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Enough to have to write a lot of different composition
books like we were on Scrubs, I always put a
mission statement on the first page of what I John
not I doctor Cox want to do with this thing.
And I saw that the mission statement on Scrubs was
to find a place underneath the text for with every

(30:03):
episode where you can say I love you to Max.
And I took that seriously because my son Max had
been born a year or two earlier, and when we
started in two thousand and one, and Max was born
with challenges, Max with Roman down syndrome.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
He's doing great now.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
But I decided that Cox underneath it all, so that
would never became too too drippy, just underneath it. Every
episode there had to be one spot where I got
to say I John, not doctor Cox, got to say
I love you to Max.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
And in this episode it's it's right where.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
When I'm talking to Judy and I say, just because
a guy has problems, that doesn't mean he doesn't need
and then there's this long pause and it's because I
kept getting an apple in my throat, and then he
says you and I I reminded me that I took
the thing, so god damn seriously, this mission state that
I wrote to Max, Yes, and it informs everything that

(31:03):
Cox does, because I think Zachy knows this. I always
consider the camera an X ray machine that it can
see through all the actors bullshit, and we all try
to bring a walk and a lisp or some eccentricity,
and unless that's distilled down to a real pure instinct,
the camera's just like bullshit.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's bullshit, and you can see it.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
It's night and day, and so that when an actor
actually brings a mission statement that demands that he finds
a place somewhere in the text underneath it, not just
underneath the text, to say I love you to a
kid who is just born with challenges that pops that
the camera goes, Oh, that's his truth.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
He's telling the truth, and that's what pops.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I love that you said that, Johnny, because I think
one of the magical things that you did with doctor
Cox was find a guy who's so tough and find
a way in every episode to show that his heart,
that he was doing everything he can to protect everyone
from protect his heart and from people seeing the amount
of love. He actually had super super tough cement exterior

(32:16):
because he was alpha and he was a badass doctor
and he didn't want people to know. But then you
would just it was like it was leaking out of him.
You could you couldn't help it, and you would see
these little moments where it's like, this guy has the
biggest heart, he's just keeping it all under wraps.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's perfect for this episode that we're talking about right now,
one oh seven. Carla is the only person in the
hospital who's known you long enough at this point to
be able to see through that bullshit. Okay, you're being
tough on all of these people, but you care. You're
you're in it just like you know what I mean.
You're not scared, but you care. And I think that's

(32:53):
what started you, what started Cox. Correct me if I'm
wrong to have feelings for her, like, Okay, well, if
everybody's afraid of me and there's this one person in
the hospital who's willing to stand up to me, not
even stand up, but to call me on my bullshit,
there's a there's a special place in my heart for that.
And I honestly thought that Carla was gonna choose you know,

(33:16):
when we were making the show, I thought she was
gonna choose Cox over Turk. I was kind of hoping
at that when I was younger, that she would choose
Cox over Turk so that I'd have more love interests her.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh my god, I can't wait to talk about that
with Judy when she comes on the show. You know, the.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Writers, the writers, as Donald was suggesting, out of that
writer's room came different, nuanced flirtations between Cox and Carla.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I never noticed that this one is obviously really prevalent,
and I hadn't. I hadn't seen this in twenty years,
but I was like, there's a vibe between those two.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Oh, it lashed for the next like five six episodes
and the absolutely yeah it's and then and then Cox
and Turk have it out and then Cox.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Do you remember thinking Donald, do you remember thinking like,
because we didn't know what the fuck the writers were
gonna do, do you remember thinking like, oh, shit, is Judy
is Are they gonna write her to go off with him?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah? I remember thinking that because they had history. That's
the one thing that the two of them out of
everyone in the show, and also Ken's character Kelso the
three of them all have history. But Cox and Carla
have history. Like I imagine Carla Cox was a very
young doctor when Carla came in, you know what I mean, Like,
you know what I mean, she had been there, Carla,

(34:33):
Carla had been there for a while, and so they
knew each other.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
That may they may have hooked up.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
That's what I thought. I thought there was that one time.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
When I was watching today, I was like, these two fucks,
it looks like the two characters have history. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
and that that that we're gonna take it to our
grave and never speak about this history.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Right, And I like Donald and like you Zachi.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
I unabashedly loved Judy h and so that was an
easy thing to groove into.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
You guys had great chemistry. And I was really noticing
that again we're watching all these with fresh eyes after
so many years, and I was watching this one, I
was really I don't know, I just was reminded how
good those scenes are when it was you two. You
guys had amazing chemistry together.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Absolutely, I don't think there's any acting going on.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Like I say, the camera is an X ray machine
and it can see through bullshit, and it could see that.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
I love Judy rays on a bachelorfor and I always
have that.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Well, let's get into the elephant in the room, because
I was actually really nervous to watch this episode. It's
the first one that I was like, I had a
pit in my stomach because, as Johnny touched on, this
was the episode we were shooting when nine to eleven occurred.
Nine to eleven happened on a Tuesday. Well, we had
shot a Monday and then nine to eleven occurred, And

(35:58):
what we should all tell our stories of that day.
I think I remember I woke up to Howard Stern,
you know when you're half awake and you're listening, and
Howard Stern was talking about it, and it got to
a point where I went, wait what And I leapt
up out of bed and I went and turned on
the TV. And I remember thinking, as we all did,
holy shit, this is what the fuck's happening in the world.

(36:21):
But also as a young actor who just got on
a job, I was like, what are we supposed to
do here? We do we go to work today? Like how?
And I remember I still was like, I think I'm
supposed to still go to work. So I went in
and I remember Sean Hayes, who was our guest star,
was there, and he and I sat in my dressing
room and watched it happen, and shortly that thereafter the

(36:44):
day was canceled. Do you guys want to tell what
your memory of that.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
I remember getting a phone call and it was like
five o'clock in the morning. I remember picking up the
phone and recognizing the number and cursing the person out
on the other what the fuck is your problem? I'm working,
I got work in a couple of hours. How why
are you calling me this early, you know what I mean?
And she said, and she over the phone goes, I'm sorry, shit, sorry,

(37:14):
I just wanted to tell you that a plane crashed
into the World Trade Center. And I was like, oh shit,
I'm sorry, whoa what? What? Wait? What? What? And I
ran to the television and I turned it on, and
like everybody else in America, I was stuck watching television
for and then Randall finally called him, was like, we're
not coming into work, you know, but today the day

(37:36):
is canceled. You don't have to come in. But I
remember just sitting in front of the television very much
like I am right now, you know what I mean.
I feel like I wake up every morning and my
and the minute I wake up, I turn on the
news to check to see how many people have COVID nineteen,
how many people we lost because of COVID nineteen, and
what the plan is to figure out how we're going

(37:58):
to get rid of COVID nineteen, you know what I mean?
And I, you know, very for the next week. I
remember that was all that I did was I just
watched the news to see what the heck is America
going to do next?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
How about you Johnny, were you called in that day?

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Yeah, I went back and looked it up last night.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
So the North Tower got hit at five forty five am,
and I would have left about ten minutes after that
to get there, and so I saw the first well
they didn't really show the first but it looked like
a plane went into the first building.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
And then I had to go.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
And so the South Tower got hit about twenty two
minutes later at six oh three our time, nine oh
three New York time, and so I would have been
listening to it on the news. But all of this
to me, there's something called a mental model, and it's
how you perceive things. In my mental model, it was
it was like the plane that hit the Empire State
Building before we were born. It was a prop plane

(38:53):
that went into the Empire State Building and nothing really happened,
not nothing.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
I'm sure some people died and it was horrible, but.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
It sounded like that, and so that's how I was
driving into Burbank.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
And when I got there that clearly wasn't the case.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
And then my brother worked on the sixty second floor
of the South Tower, and so I kept trying to
call them so and pretty early on it became clear
that nobody was going to get through on any lines,
on cell lines or landlines because those everything disconnected on
those towers, and so.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
I couldn't get through to my brother.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
And this is when an actor's imagination is a curse,
not a blessing.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
You only imagine horrible things.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
And it turns out in those eighteen twenty minutes, those
intervening times between the North Tower getting hit and the
South tower getting hit on March Trading Desk, they all
had been there when they shake from Newark, New Jersey,
had set off that bomb in the van in the
basement ten years earlier. So everyone in a March's Trading

(39:57):
desk got up when the the first building got hit
and they started to make their way down the stairs.
But it was such a cluster flock going down the
stairs in those eighteen minutes from the sixty second floor down,
they only made it about twenty stories. Everybody from like
seventy two up died, and so Mark got a concussion

(40:19):
going down the stairs.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
I don't know how.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
He got really disoriented, and by the time he got
out of the building, he wandered up the FDR Drive
to East Harlem, and so he was missing for about
twelve hours, and so it was.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Made all the way to Harlem.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yes, holy cow, was he just in shock, Johnny, and he.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Walked that far? Yes, wow.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
And so I sat in the hospital for all that time,
and then I tried his wife, who lived out in Short.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Hills, New Jersey at the time.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
She only had an outgoing message on her machine saying, Mark,
I know you're okay. I've gone over to the Smith's
house and we're waiting for your call there. Well, no
calls came for about twelve hours, and so I sat
in the dressing room thinking horrible things. And then obviously
the buildings came down shortly after that, and what almost

(41:14):
four thousand Americans died, and so that was a that's
the backdrop for us shooting this episode. Yeah, it's kind
of miraculous that the episode even makes any sense that
because of what some of some people were carrying into
the frame.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I think it's a weird episode, and I don't know
if I'm bringing my own anxiety of of of the
time to it as I watch it now, But I'm
also going we were all not present for these however
many days, one hundred percent right, absolutely and I felt like,
especially when you look at the first episode Chunk that
we've just watched, which you're like, holy shit, look at
this show. Look at their fire on our all cylinders.

(41:54):
This is the first one where I go, oh, we
all understandably, obviously we all look a little based out
to me.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
That's when I watched it last night. I I mean,
there's obviously a lot of funny stuff in it that
I wrote down that made me laugh, but it and again,
like you, Zachi, I can't tell if it's me imposing
my John McGinley onto what Billy Lawrence created for those
twenty one minutes. But you just said disconnected it. It

(42:24):
seemed a little disconnected to me.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
This one does. Yes, absolutely, but how could it not be? Right?

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah? Right, yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
If mcginley's brother, If mcginley's brother just got out of
the what was the South Tower and was missing for
a day, what are you, superman? Of course you're going
to carry that in front of the lens.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Now, do you guys remember we took that Tuesday off?
Did we work the next day or take that day
off as well?

Speaker 4 (42:49):
I think we took Wednesday off and we worked Thursday.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, Now I do remember this. I remember the very
first thing we came back, believe it or not, was
that fucking dog show fantasy. So I remember feeling horribly
guilty that we should a should we even be working.
But I'm under a contract and I'm an actor and
I'm not going to ruffle anybody's feathers. But it should
be we be working. But then' like, yes, everyone's back

(43:14):
to work. Here we go, and I was like, Okay,
what are we shooting. I can do this. We're gonna
do a fantasy where you're a dog at a dog
show and Johnny c is going to feel your balls.
And I was like, the first thing up, Johnny, do
you remember that? It was the first thing up? It
must have been Thursday morning, was me.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
I remember now you watch it. I remember it. God,
I remember that I wrote down.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
I wrote down that during the dog show flashback, I
had decided to make you both really uncomfortable. And I
think it was because I was really uncomfortable. So I
love actors, and I would never do anything to ever
ever hurt an actor.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Especially when it comes to physical contact.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
And I think I was just I was not appropriately
gentle with you guys.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I like took your ear, Zachie.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
And you can see, and I took your fucking mouth
and I opened it up, and I told I took
Sean's ear, and I was I was uncharacteristically for me
as an actor, not cos but I love actors so much.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
I would never ever do anything to hurt them, and
I would think I was. I was not appropriate with
you two guys on that. I was very rough.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I remember being man handled. Thank you for pantomiming the
testicle part, though, because I think that would have been
a little too rough on on me.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
You know, I'm sure at some point I put my
fist up your reck them.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
I don't think so, at least not in this episode.
That may have been in later. I think you did
wear me like a hand puppet, but it was in
episode four.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
I think during the dog show thingy I may have
engaged you.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Well.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
We were joking with Bill about how the crazy sound
effects would would would were slowly phased out. I don't know,
maybe because you were all off in this episode. But
this episode has so many ridiculous side effects, so many,
and there's that there's like a Santa Sleigh jingle bell
noise when you grab my balls that's like the choice
that was made somewhere in the in sound effects editing.

(45:07):
They were like, Okay, what's the noise for Johnny grabbing
JD's balls? Guys, how about a Santa Slave.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Jingle bell o?

Speaker 4 (45:17):
You know what? I you know what I thought was
really funny.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
Zactly when you and Kenny are up on the roof
and he goes to he does kind of a fake
attacking you up on the roof. Yeah, And whether or
not you're just a great actor or if it was
really weird, it looked really weird.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
It's a weird scene, by the way, can I just
I don't understand?

Speaker 2 (45:40):
He calls goes you know what your problem is? Yeah,
is that you're a pansy. It's just straight up.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
It's a weird scene. And I was waiting for something
to happen. I remember there was a fantasy where I
where I fell off a roof and there was a
stunt man who did a big jump, and I thought, oh,
is that this But it doesn't really go anywhere, and
Ken's just up there smoking a pipe. He calls me
a pansy and then almost throws me off the roof,
like legit, and then like that's the scene.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
That's it, And and a couple scenes before that at
Mine forty four when when he goes keep shooting you the.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
He he gumps.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Over and gives you a hug, and then Kenny wraps
his leg around.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I think that's a fantasy, Johnny, I will I. I
didn't know what the fuck was happening there either, And
then there's a white flash out of it. I think
that's JD's fantasy because.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Why why would.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
He mounted me? Well, I just want to say, I
think that's I wrote down that. I think that's the
only time in nine years that Ken Jenkins ever mounted me.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Can we talk? Can we talk about jerking off real quick?

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah? A big as a part of the show or
just in your own life?

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Just yeah, we could talk about it both. Let's talk
about both. How about that?

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Okay? Good?

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Okay. So here's here's here's the one thing I get that.
First of all, we have two callbacks to mash We
have you as a kid playing with your brother, and
this scene, the whole joke off scene is actually a
scene from Mesh the movie, if I'm correct, where they
trick somebody to go into the bathroom and drink off

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when did jerking off become a bad thing that you
got to be embarrassed about?

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Well, but you're not. You're not supposed to jerk off
at work. Donald write that down as a surgeon.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Got it? So wait, hold up, Okay, So it's so
we're clear. It's okay to masturbate, but once you do
it at work, you've crossed the line.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Yes, I think this could be a service announcement. This
could be a public service announcement for people all over
the world. Don't masturbate a work.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
It's crossing the line.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
The more you know, and Dan, you can put in
a little more, you know, sound effects there.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
I saw something.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
I saw something when Donald and I get to do
the scene that comes before this, when we're in the
cafeteria and I tell.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
You to go to go And what's the town I
tell you to go to.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Like spank Town or something like something like that.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
I forgot, but what I Palmville.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
And I have a pet peeve with actors who wait
until they swallow their food to say a line. And
if you notice in that thing, I always take the
soup to hear. It doesn't go in.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
No, it never does, don't I.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Never eat by the way, it's disgusting. Whenever there's you
will if you ever see me eating in a in
anything I've ever done, it's it's rare. I always my
character is always done because I don't want to deal
with all the continuity and eating.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Okay, people are starting to notice that actors aren't eating
on television shows or in movies now. Before before people
didn't necessarily notice. That's something that I think people are
starting to notice now. Other than Brad Pitt, no one eats.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
No, whenever I see someone legit eating, Like whenever I
see someone I watch a scene and someone's like eating,
I'm like, oh my god, they ate like that for
probably four hours. Not correct, My character's always done.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Always, But also if it gets in the way of
the actor saying the line and we have to wait
for those of us in a big family, nobody.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Waits to talk until they swallow.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
There's food in their mouth, they just segregate it over
into kind of a chipmunk cheek and then they just
fire out the words.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Otherwise you'll lose the floor at the dinner table.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Did you guys have go to meals that you know
they were always There are lots of scenes where were
supposed to have food in front of us? Did you guys
have a go to thing you would ask to be
in front of you steak soup?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Steak me soup because you never have to eat it.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yeah, I just I'm gonna steal that, Johnny, because I'm
always have a plate of I would always tell them,
can you make it look like I'm done and like
you know?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
And no, because with soup you can just the spoon.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
The prop of the spoon is it's indefatigable, it's perfect.
It can you can and plush you can quote it
at somebody, you can. It's the prop of the spoon.
You use the spoon.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
I always went for steak because I could eat steak forever.
I could eat steak like nobody's business.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
So you were eating, you were, you were an eater.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
No, but if I did have like there was that
one episode where I did have to eat uh and
because Turk gets really bad heartburn. And it's when UH
had the lockleer was on the show and John c
myself and head a lockleer at some benefit and Carl
is supposed to meet us there and she never shows
up and I wind up eating a bunch of steak

(50:36):
and uh end up in the hospital with really bad heartburn.
Uh So I always went. I always went for steak
because I could eat it. It tastes good, it's easy to season,
throw some salt on it, you know what I mean,
It's it's good to go.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
I thought there were a couple of different times in
this episode where despite everything the ensemble one where you
is where you pass the torch to Sean, and Sean
just fits right into the style of the piece, like
he just takes the torch, we pan with you out
a frame, we come back, Sean's put the torch down
and you guys just keep doing your thing.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
That was clever. I was cleverly directed. And and I
want to say, it's a rare moment where that's obviously
a fantasy and there was no flash in out of it.
I was clocking that because you know, Bill always delineated
a fantasy with a with a little white flash and
that noise. And this is one of those rare times
where the torch is a character, a prop character in

(51:36):
the piece and there's no it's both times it comes in,
it's just handed off and not really discussed.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
I mean's also What's also interesting with Sean is Sean's introduction,
which would become a classic Scrubs introduction, especially with beautiful
females with wind and slow mow entrances. As they walk
down a hall, Sean gets to come in on top
of a gurney saving someone's life and it's just glorious.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Dude, I wrote that down, Johnny. I'm glad you brought
that up because I wrote that down. I think that
might be the best entrance other than other than.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Dick van Dyke.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Dick van Dyke's entrance is pretty amazing too, but that
might be one of the best entrances for male in
Scrubs history.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, all right, Joelle, do we need to go a
break or we take to go to these lovely people?
All right, We're gonna go take another break and we
come back. We have questions from some fans that are
calling in, and they're gonna have an amazing question, I'm sure,
probably for the legendary JOHNNYE.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
McGinley.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I'll give you a hint. Her name's Ashley. As we
have a caller, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show.
Ashley Cooper, horrow it.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
And friend, do you know much money? Do you know
how much money it cost us to get Orah to
do all these introductions of our guests. It's fortune, Hi, guys,
Why did why did Joelle imply that there was something
unique and special about you? Guys? So I wrote in
earlier this week, I was looking if I could figure

(53:16):
out a way for you to to do like a
birthday shout out. This is my husband, Alexander.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Alexander he is our position and absolutely loves your show.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
What's up, man?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
How's a deal?

Speaker 4 (53:31):
Now? Now?

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Donald change? Now?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Donald showed?

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Now Donald changed? Donald? Respectful?

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Boys, let me show that respect. What is good?

Speaker 6 (53:41):
Not too load? Do this right before work? I'm about
to head out of here about an hour.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Oh man, Wow, you're the real deal.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Very much. Thank you so much, very very much for
for calling in. Uh who's going to ask the question?
He is awesome.

Speaker 7 (53:55):
This is my birthday, birthday, to your happy birthday, to
your happy birthday.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
We called it Jamie Birthday.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
He's a grown man, as you know. He works in
the hospital. Not like us. We were fake doctors on
a TV show.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Yes, bringing it Home?

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (54:28):
So wait did you not know about this? Is this
a surprise?

Speaker 6 (54:31):
I kept it a surprise for maybe for seconds, and you.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Should have kept it a surprise until you guys zoomed in.
How cool would that been? But then you never know,
you would have been like, who are these guys? Who
are these guys? Right? Who are these guys?

Speaker 1 (54:47):
All right? Go ahead, guys, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Sure.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
So I guess the biggest question is I guess what
it came down to is I watched a lot of
the different Pete medical shows, and I found that throughout
my training so far, and I was attending so far
that the show of Scrub actually portrays how hospital life
really works the most accurate of all the medical shows,
despite it being primarily a comedy. Was that something that

(55:10):
Bill purposely did? Was that something that the staff tried
to incorporate? Because I was, I mean, I listened to
the first one and tell like, Donald really good around
the hospital?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
No, I was? I was, I was, You're absolutely right.
I was so afraid to go into the hospital at
that point. Listen. Since then, I've you know, I've developed
a a listen if something's wrong or if I feel
like something's wrong, I'm going right to my primary and
we're going to talk about it. Before that, though, I
was just like every other person you know in the
African American community. We have a stigma when it comes

(55:43):
to doctors. We're very afraid of the bad news. And
you think I'm joking. But this is the honest to
goodness truth and.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Very right.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
I've done. I've done PSA after PSA about talking, you know,
talking about you know, going and getting your numbers known.
Go get your lesterol, get your your BMI, your your
blood pressure, your blood sugar.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
I love You're trying to listen them to an er doc.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I'm just trying to listen.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
He was like, he was like blue close. You're like, no, no, no,
there's four, there's uh anyway, But Johnny, Johnny, why don't
you answer because you're the special guest about about his question.

Speaker 5 (56:24):
I had spent the first three weeks of my son's
life a couple of years earlier in the neonatal intensive
care unit, and I carried most of that was that
functioned largely is all the homework I ever needed for
medical replication, trying to do medical stuff. And uh Max

(56:45):
had different challenges born with down in rome, and he
had microscopicals and hard also we had infatel seizures, We
had all sorts of different challenges. But if you spend
if you're the Akron, import is the nick you, if
you spent three or four weeks in the nick you,
you should get enough of that on you to be
able to tell the.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Truth in front of the lens.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
And so that that's largely what I was trying to
honor when we were doing that Medical scripts. I think
Bill was relationship stuff.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
I think Bill also has said, you know, we knew
we were going to be silly, and we knew we
were gonna have these crazy fantasies, and we knew in
a lot in a lot of ways, it was gonna
be a comedy. So he wanted the baseline. He wanted
to drop in for all the medicine to be as
accurate as possible.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
And and that was also something that John Dorris wanted
to the real JD wanted. He was like, listen, you
can make fun of all of the things we did
that I did in college and stuff like that, but
it has to be grounded at the end of the day.
Don't make a fool of us, you know what I mean.
Make sure that that there's truth behind everything as well.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Yeah, I think that that that's one of the reason works.
And I think the American Medical Association has said, which
we always thought was bizarre, but that they said that
this was the most medical accurate of all the medical shows.
So we always took that as a badge of honor.
And I think Bill was really, really, really proud of that.
He said, we can be as silly as we want
to be when we get into the medicine. It's all

(58:10):
gonna be gonna be real.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
And also, yeah, once you get that, once you get
that tag, where you got where someone says to you,
you guys are the most medically accurate. You don't ever
want to fall off that that vandwagon. You want to
stay You want to stay on that. You want to
make sure that every story, at least in the first
at least in the first eight seasons. I don't know
about season nine, but in the first eight seasons we
made sure to stick to the actual script to keep

(58:37):
it real. As they say, oh, is that an expression?
I hear the kids say that nowadays. Do you have
another question?

Speaker 6 (58:46):
Yeah, go ahead, So that'll be the I guess the more, hey,
are they more difficult? Question easier? One is what keepsicks?
Did you guys get so rowdy. Didn't get taken with
you guys. But what about like the TK necklaces or
anything like that.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
I'm not a I'm not a souvenir guy, so I
don't ever I should have taken stuff from a lot
of sets.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
But it's not. I always thought it was bad luck.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
You don't know any scrubs whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
I don't have any scrubs in my house.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
I think it's a I think it's a jink.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
What about what about the kicks, because Nike sent us
a bunch of kicks when we were making that show.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
That's different.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Swag swags are different than top.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Bili.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Yeah, I don't have any. I have the slate. I
have the slates from episodes I directed. You know the
thing we clap in front of the lens.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
You're directing them.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
Yeah, And then I have the I have the antlers
from when we did the pilot, when I was a
deer in headlights. Donald is showing you his his.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
My scrub sneakers, my hundredth episode sneakers.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Look how warn and ruined they are.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
I've rocked these for like a year.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
I put mine on a shelf and saved them and
they're mint and Donald's are all fucked up.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
I'm so proud of these.

Speaker 5 (59:57):
And look, that's the best rewraps on the planet for
for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
You guys. Well, one thing that's funny about this podcast
on the Zoom Call is that whenever Donald wants to
reference a piece of clothing, he doesn't have to move
from his seat. He just reaches out of frame and
pulls it in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Well, we are in my closet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
No, it's just funny, Like you've done that a few
times now. It's not even like you have to stand.
You just reach out a frame and pull out.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Well, I'm on my side. I I'm in, like I'm in,
Like I'm on my side. So like all of this
is me, this is my wife's stuff. So if I really,
I'm never I was. You know, what I was thinking
about doing was turning it all around and doing it
from a different angle. But I think I just confuse everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
No, I love this. I will forever remember this time
of doing this podcast and staring at you like it
looks like you're sitting on the ground in your closet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
You know, it's not every day that we have a
real live doctor on the show. Right, and so this
is this is this is a pretty special thing. If
you have any other questions, feel free to ask us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Well, Donald's giving you the rare third question you can have.
It's never been bestowed. It's because you're a real doctor.
It's never been bestowed upon anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
In all seven episodes of Fake Doctors, Real Friends.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
All Right, what was the most emotionally difficult episode that
you guys did?

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Yes, good, Johnny, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
I thought this one would have to be right up there,
just getting through this one and trying to hew to
the style of the piece and not fall too deep
deep end of an eleven of it all, it was
it was impossible.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
But Johnny, we have to give a nod to one
of the best episodes ever where you were just incredibly
good in that Brendan Frasier dying episode.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
Yeah, but that that we got to act, That was acting.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
This was this was real life.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Just killed four thousand people, and and it was I
thought it was almost impossible to get.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Through this episode.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
And when I watched it and it actually just made
sense that it made sense. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
Yeah, not great, it's just good.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Yeah. But I was gonna say it still has some
really genuinely funny parts, and the emotion that Sean has
at the end of the episode, and even the and
the emotion that you have with Carla at the end
of the episode. You talked about that earlier in the podcast,
about how it gave you a lump in your throat
and everything like that because you were speaking your truth
at that moment.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
But I.

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
Right, right, absolutely, I think tough like potassium and asked
and TikTok tourice. Those things caught me off guard last
night when I was watching it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
I also, I'm sorry to be I'm sorry to be
the guy who laughs at a fart joke, but I
legit laughed so hard when when Todd goes the wording
of this line is so funny, sir, I farted long pause.
That smell is from the fart that I made. You

(01:02:59):
know he heard that line, but the wording of that,
the wording of that, I think that's the funniest thing
in the whole episode, to be honest, And I'm sorry
to be so so simple that I love a fart
joke that much, but I just thought the wording of that,
that smell pause is from the fart that I made Meanwhile,

(01:03:20):
the surgeon what's his name? He's in there, like, what's
what's that smell from? What the hell happened? What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
That actor? That actor did a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Charles kind of a thankless role.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah, you know, he's been in a lot of movies.
Actually he was in he was in Dumb and Dunk.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
He's the guy dry and right down the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yeah, Charles was great, man. He he's stuck around for
damn near the whole show. You know what's interesting. I
didn't realize Johnny Castle was in the show that much.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Me neither.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
He's in like every episode, even she's Dug.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
I didn't don't. I really don't remember that Doug had
this bigger role in the show. But Doug's dunks. Doug's
got a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, thank you
guys so much for your questions, and of course, be
safe on the on the front lines out there, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
We totally appreciate you. Thank you so much, Thank you
so so much. Thank you guys, and thank you Ashley
for calling in with your husband on so we could
have the honor of having some husband your boyfriend that's
her husband.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Okay, good, I thought you might have been proposing for him,
and you just gotta.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
You get it. If you get a surgeon, man or woman,
you you marry that person.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Yeah, lock it down, Lock it down.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
You're a guy who got a female surgeon. Is that
you marry that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Yeah? Be well, take care.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Guys, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
I thought Sarah had a really nice beat when Sarah's
being overwhelmed for a moment where we're in the closet,
she's so good at turning stuff. She just she's really upset,
and then she turns it. She puts on that grave
face and it's it's a little gem and I have
no idea of nine to eleven imprinted on her in

(01:05:06):
some way for that, but she just turns it, and
it's she's so nimble. I forgot how how fastal she
is emotionally.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
One of my favorite lines in the show is when
she goes, I'd let him drool on me, and then
the way she looks at Zach after she says it
you she met that shit.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
That's funny. Donald. Do you have any memory of the
fantasy at ten forty seven, which is that post apocalyptic like, no,
you're standing by a fire.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I I remember after I saw it. I remembered us
doing that scene, but I was like, where is this going?
I didn't know where it was?

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Was the the basement?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
It was a basement. You know What's interesting, I even
though this took place during nine to eleven, there are
a lot of moments in the show where I was like, well,
I don't remember. I don't remember this. I don't I don't.
You know, There's there's certain things that I did remember.
I remembered Sean Hayes and him getting choked. I definitely
remember the last scene with UH, with Johnny and UH

(01:06:15):
and Judy where he kind of slips and professes his
love for her. I remembered all of that because that
tracked with my story. But other than that, man, you know,
I say this every week watching this show is it's
it's so much fun for me because I don't remember
any of it. It's like I'm watching it with fresh eyes.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
If you if you weren't in a scene, or let
me say this about me, if I wasn't in a scene,
I wasn't leaving my dressing room to go watch stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Right, But even when the show came on, tell right,
this is all brand new for me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
But also Johnny, you weren't smoking long hits, so you
probably have. You probably have some of your brain left.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
So Donald was like, I didn't even know the show
is about doctors.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
I was very young. I smoked a lot of marijuana
when I was a kid.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Was that?

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
So was that your first correct me if I'm wrong.
Was that your guys first scene together? That you telling
him to beat off?

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
It's it certainly seems like it in the concert.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
I don't know, but well, yeah, yeah, after that, you
and I had so many scenes. You know, all of
a sudden, I became Gandhi. I don't even know how
that came. Was that an improv from you? Did you
make up Gandhi?

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Or was?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Okay? Okay? But yeah, this is this is the beginning
of the Cox and turk Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Yeah, your very first encounter you because we were the two.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Athletes in the hospital, you know what I mean. And
so now it was like, oh okay, So it was like,
you know, Michael Jordan versus Kobe Bryant, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
And also he really didn't you know. The whole point
was he didn't like you fucking with Carla.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
In the beginning, and actually in the beginning, but as
time goes on, the beat that Cox and Turk have
is strictly it's all yo. You know, this is we
have this competitive fire, you know what I mean, and
it needs to be and it needs to be, you
know way we need to fan that bad boy so
that you know, we can live. And so I think

(01:08:18):
Cox and Turk really enjoyed trying to one up each other.

Speaker 5 (01:08:22):
I did too, but I thought it was a little manufactured,
because again, if the camera is an X ray machine
and you can see how it was a little man,
it always felt a little manufactured to me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
I didn't believe that I had that big of a
problem with.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
You, Okay. I always looked at it as he didn't
like that I was with Carla, and because I won
and got that one up, he was always trying to
get a one up on Turk. That's how I always
looked at it. But I guess I just I mean,
even in basketball, even when we played, even when we
played basketball and you hurt your back in that episode
that we do that, even that, you know what I mean?

(01:08:59):
But hey, yeah, you know, I think also the love
that we have for each other. I remember my first
time being like, Johnny, please don't intimidate me, and you're like,
shut the fuck up, nobody's intimidating you, and you're right,
You're right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
You were always so generous, though, Johnny, with us, because
you know, we we we we knew who you were.
We both loved your work, and I think both I
could think I could speak for both of us when
we were like nervous. I was nervous to work with you,
and I just want to thank you. You know, for
those of you who aren't actors, it's it's the person
who's got more of a resume, and this is the
bigger star. The onus is always on them to make

(01:09:35):
everyone else feel comfortable around them. And I thought you
always were so generous and never made us feel intimidated
at all, unless it was obviously in the scene, but
as a person.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
You never did.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
I felt like we were gonna that this truly was
even even though Jackie all respect was number one on
the call sheet. I felt like this thing was the
truest form of an ensemble and that was never lost
on me. And if that arising tide, there's the same
horizon tide floats all boats and I thought we had
to do this together or sink. Either either rise or

(01:10:06):
sink together with Billy at the helmet. There was no
confusion about that. One time, Billy Rosine, I had to
kiss his wife, who played my wife or my ex
wife on the show, Christa Miller, who is a very
dear friend of mine, And so I kissed her, and
in the middle of kissing her, she stuck her tongue
in my mouth, and I was just I was like,

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I'm not okay with this, And so I go upstairs
with the third floor where our dressing rooms are, where
Billy's office goes, and I I knocked on the door
and Billy told you saying, and he goes, yeah, come
on in and sit down. I go, I gotta, I
gotta get something off my chest here. I was just
in the scene that you wrote. I was just having

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a kiss Christa, and she she stuck her tongue in
my mouth. And he's such a ballmuster. He gives it
a pause and he goes, did you like it? They
did it to get me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
By the way, Johnny, this dovetails into something I said.
This dovetails was something I said earlier. I think Billy
has a little bit of a little bit of a
thing for that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
It was horrorfying. That's kissed by Christ was horrorfying. But
the boss's beautiful wife. It makes me nervous even tell
him the story.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
That's so funny. I think I think Billy has a
little bit of a special place in his heart for
man he likes kissing his wife.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
I have a question for you, guys, when you watch
the show now, do you feel like we foreshadowed so
much in every epith Like we foreshadowed a lot in
every episode. Like, even when watching this episode, it's pretty
clear that Sean Hayes's character, he doesn't have it all together,
even though he seems like it, Hey, he has it together,
and it's and maybe because we watched the whole episode now,

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but every time Nurse Roberts came in to address him,
he always said, no problem, no problem. And I feel
like I feel like that was foreshadowing. Obviously it was
a problem and this was going to be the issue
that broke him. I feel like, if you watch Scrubs,
what we did very well. We presented the problem to

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you early on and disguised it and disguised it or
hit it with comedy and other things. But then at
the end of the episode, we always hit you with
the drama to make you feel it, but if you
watched all the way through, we would leave crumbs and
hints that this was coming.

Speaker 5 (01:12:37):
I think, yes, yes to that, and I think and
it reminded me. I'm reminded of it in the first
flashback where Zachi is with his brother and the tag
out is we don't even talk that much, or he
doesn't talk that much to me, And then there's this long,
I don't know, we'll make it up, twenty year disconnect,

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and when Tommy Kavanaugh shows up at the hospital, all
that stuff that Zach had, that Billy had insinuated in
that scene yields dividends because they have lost contact. They're
completely disconnected, and the disconnect is profound when they're person
to person. So when Tommy comes in and Jackie and
him don't connect on any level, even the John River

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of Jackie's father, they don't connect at all. And that's
all in that first flashback.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Yeah, but not just that, even you missing Jordan. The
first time we meet Jordan. At the end of it,
you're reminiscing about the wedding and all of that stuff.
It tracks later on because you guys get back together
and you do still love her, even though in between
all of that you guys are roaring and you date
someone else, and you know what I mean, Billy, it's

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very good at his.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Job, Johnny, did you like this? Did you? Will you
come back again onto the podcast?

Speaker 5 (01:13:58):
Yeah? It seems it seems impossible to unload the number
of stories. And this was a particularly hard episode when
I was watching it. It was just a hard episode
to a lot of stuff from nine to eleven came
back to me, which I don't know if a lot
of people it's a heavy handed way of approaching something,
but people, actors are human beings.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
And I was.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
I was really impacted by nine to eleven in an
immediate family way.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
And to have gotten through this.

Speaker 5 (01:14:28):
Episode in retrospect seems impossible to me. And that is
that It's that it's a coherent, well told tale that
goes for twenty one minutes. Is good? That's good enough? Yeah,
there are there are there are levels of good, better, best,
excellent episodes, and this one just goes in under the

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category of executed.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
We executed.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Yeah, there's some funny stuff in it and that's good enough.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
I totally agree. This is the first one. You know,
I Donald and I joked when we start doing this, like,
you know, there's gonna be ones that we don't like,
and we're like, that feels this is the first one
that it's something we don't like it. It's just that
it's like we all have this Pavlovian response to watching it, going, oh,
this just feels wrong and weird, and we remember.

Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
I agree, and I'm not discounting to all the great
work that everybody did.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
I was about to say, I feel like everybody did
their job so well, though, you know what I mean
at the end of the day, regardless of what we
were going through at the time, if you didn't know
that that was the nine to eleven episode, you're not
going to be able to tell, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:15:34):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
That's probably There's so many great jokes and we just talked, yeah,
including moments.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
That smell was the fart that I made. But hey, wait,
keep her there, keep her here, have her you the five.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Six, seven, eight, Okay, baby, baby, baby Wilder, come here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
We want to thank Johnny c McGinley, the legend and Johnny,
we really want you to come back because we're just
sitting around doing this. Man, we got nothing to do.
We're sitting around watching episodes and laughing.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Yeah, please come back, he answers a thousand times.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Just and now Donald has a very special visitor who's
gonna count us into the theme song.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Donalder Wilder, my daughter Wilder's here, say a five six
seven eight Okay, she said, No, five six seven eight.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Stories that show we made about a bunch of talks
and nurses in Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
I said, here's the stories.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Next motion.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
No, so, Yander Rare you here, Yeader Rare here spe
We want stories and

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
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