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Speaker 1: well hello everybody. Welcome to a special and extra special
Speaker 1: episode of the Office Deep Dive. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Brian Baumgartner. Now today I'm gonna need you to hold
Speaker 1: onto your pants, folks. Is that a phrase? Because I
Speaker 1: have got a very special surprise for you, Actually, not one.
Speaker 1: I have two surprises. So let's start with the one
Speaker 1: that involves my good friend Steve Carrell, whom I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some of you may know as Michael Scott on the Office.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, I know you know who Steve is Um Well,
Speaker 1: yesterday was his birthday. Happy birthday to you, Steve, and
Speaker 1: we all know he is the man who deserves all
Speaker 1: of the presence in the world. Well, I gave him
Speaker 1: my gift last year, which was to surprise him with
Speaker 1: one of the biggest musicians on the planet who also
Speaker 1: happens to be one of the biggest Office fans on
Speaker 1: the planet. He got to meet Billy freaking Eilish for
Speaker 1: the first time over FaceTime, and let me tell you
Speaker 1: it was magical. Okay, that week she had just taken
Speaker 1: home five Grammy Awards, one of which I still believe
Speaker 1: rightly belongs to us. And I'll take that any time, Billy,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. But in honor of Steve's birthday,
Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you all of you listeners
Speaker 1: my gift to him. This uh a phone call with
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish. After that, I'm going to be answering some
Speaker 1: of the questions that you have been asking me on
Speaker 1: social media, filling in the gaps and getting to know
Speaker 1: all of you just a little bit better along the way.
Speaker 1: But before we get to that, before we get to you,
Speaker 1: please give a very warm welcome to well the King
Speaker 1: of the Office, Steve Correll and the Voice of a
Speaker 1: Generation Billie Eilish Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble
Speaker 1: and Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cooking at every month
Speaker 1: left over from the nabb before. Oh my good day.
Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations, Oh my god, thank you insane.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. How are you guys? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm great? I am amazing. Congratulations Steve and I were
Speaker 1: just talking actually, and you one five grammys. Um. We
Speaker 1: feel like our contribution on the album was the most significant,
Speaker 1: so you can if you can send one over, we'll
Speaker 1: split it. That'll be fine. I don't need all of them.
Speaker 1: You can have one. I just got us a Grammy.
Speaker 1: It's so nice to like, actually say hi. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've sort of sort of cross pats, but not really.
Speaker 1: I know. It's so nice. Oh my god, it's so
Speaker 1: crazy to hear your actual voice and look at your face.
Speaker 1: I don't know, this is crazy. It's crazy. Wow. This
Speaker 1: is my mom. By the way, come here, mom, Hi? Hi?
Speaker 1: How are you your You're friends with Amy Ryan? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We love Ale. She's the best. She might be my
Speaker 1: favorite character on the Office. It's pretty awesome that billy,
Speaker 1: watch your show? You know all the time the phone
Speaker 1: has the Office on next to everything she's doing day
Speaker 1: and night. Why did you decide? Like, is it your
Speaker 1: strange addiction? Is that is the Office your strange addiction?
Speaker 1: Definitely my strange addiction. That's why I had to use
Speaker 1: that song. That's why I had to use it. Come on,
Speaker 1: I had to use your voices because you know, I
Speaker 1: was telling the truth was a fact. She knows he
Speaker 1: shows so well that she can just listen to it,
Speaker 1: you know, because she knows everything that's coming up. And
Speaker 1: that's true. Sorry, I don't need to embarrass you. Really,
Speaker 1: are you embarrassing? Um? Yep, a little bit, Billy? Who
Speaker 1: who is your favorite character on the Office? That's a trap? Um, listen,
Speaker 1: just say Dwight and get it over. Why is everyone's favorite? Honestly?
Speaker 1: I think it's Michael. That's fair. Well, that's fair. The
Speaker 1: only terrible taste. He only did seven seasons. But that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's fine. This is crazy. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys understand how dope this is to me. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for talking to me. This is like, well, that's
Speaker 1: pretty it's a very, very very big deal that you
Speaker 1: get to do this. I just I'm saying, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to tell you, Billy, my I have a four
Speaker 1: year old? Have I have a four year old? Yes?
Speaker 1: I started late. It's a long story. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: it later. But she dances around and demands to hear
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish. I don't know how she ever even heard
Speaker 1: your songs, um, but she uh is such a fan,
Speaker 1: which makes me a humongous fan of yours. So thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you so cool. Yeah, when did you what is
Speaker 1: I have to ask you a couple of questions? When
Speaker 1: did you start watching The Office? So? I started watching
Speaker 1: at twelve and I've seen it fourteen times now all
Speaker 1: the way through, which is really crazy and honestly, every
Speaker 1: single like because I've been getting older obviously watching it.
Speaker 1: Every time I watch it, I understand something new because
Speaker 1: I started at twelve, and I honestly, if you ask
Speaker 1: my parents, most of the things that it makes me
Speaker 1: sound so stupid. But the most of the things that
Speaker 1: I know are because of the Office. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's funked up, it's worked up. What can I say?
Speaker 1: What can I say? We've created damn it. But like
Speaker 1: like my parents, will reference things that I only understand
Speaker 1: because of the Office. They'll sing songs that I'll sing
Speaker 1: along to because of the Office that I don't even Oh,
Speaker 1: it's really um. There are some words that there are
Speaker 1: literally words Steve that you said in the show that
Speaker 1: I thought were real words, but they were faith if
Speaker 1: they were you not saying them correctly because of the character.
Speaker 1: And it was funny that they did that. But I
Speaker 1: didn't actually know the real word. So I know, I
Speaker 1: know when you're thinking thinking flick, yeah, definitely that one. No,
Speaker 1: I thought she meant, like what what is indubitably? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Oh that's amazing. So you so you
Speaker 1: start and you watch it fourteen times through? Yeah, have
Speaker 1: you started the fifteenth time yet? I have not. I
Speaker 1: had to. I had to take a break so that
Speaker 1: it's like it's all fresh, you know what I mean? No,
Speaker 1: Because if I don't watch it for a period of time,
Speaker 1: then I do watch it, then I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a yeah, I gotta like miss it and
Speaker 1: then go back to you might want to take like
Speaker 1: ten or twelve years, so it's really fresh. Uh. I
Speaker 1: will tell you I saw you um the video that
Speaker 1: was going around that you did with rain, Um, and
Speaker 1: he was he was. He was quizzing her on on
Speaker 1: quotes and Rain I'm not joking. He says like two
Speaker 1: words and you go, Kevin, And I was like what,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what? How did she even know
Speaker 1: what that was? It was unbelievable. I have not actually
Speaker 1: seen all the episodes of the Office, so you you
Speaker 1: have to be beat like my fourteen. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: he did. He once he left, he was like, screw
Speaker 1: those guys, I'm out of here. And he did. I understand, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't. Hey wait a second, you know, I know
Speaker 1: I was making fun of you and then somehow I
Speaker 1: ended up the butt of a joke. It's just typical. Actually, Um,
Speaker 1: do your friends watch you? Yeah? My best friends always
Speaker 1: like the same level of obsessed with it as I am.
Speaker 1: What what is it that you love about it? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like it's um, it's like not stressful.
Speaker 1: I feel like so many shows you really have to
Speaker 1: pay attention very closely to understand. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because I've seen it so many times that
Speaker 1: I already like what my mom was saying about it
Speaker 1: just playing, I'll set my phone. I'll like literally set
Speaker 1: my phone down, and I was crazy. I watched it
Speaker 1: only on my phone, like my tiny little phone. I
Speaker 1: don't ever want it on a TV or anything. My
Speaker 1: little phone, and I put it on like a table
Speaker 1: and then I like clean my room or I like
Speaker 1: leave the room, or I'm like in the shower or something.
Speaker 1: You're listening to it, I think it the best way
Speaker 1: to do it is put it on and then leave
Speaker 1: the room. But no, it's not. I'm listening though. But
Speaker 1: it's because I've seen it so many times that I
Speaker 1: can come like fully envision exactly what the scene is
Speaker 1: because I know because I've seen it so many times,
Speaker 1: and my brain is like, oh yeah, I know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Like even if I'm on a plane and
Speaker 1: I see like three rows ahead of me somebody watching
Speaker 1: the office, I can tell what scene it is and
Speaker 1: what episode is from from like what they're wearing, and
Speaker 1: like the body language is it, Like does it give
Speaker 1: you comfort? Like is it comfortable to you? It totally is.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel like, I don't know, it's like
Speaker 1: a safe space. I think it takes me away from
Speaker 1: the reality of my life, which is must be pretty
Speaker 1: crazy right now is pretty crazy, I'm sure you guys know. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for talking to us. Thank you
Speaker 1: for talking to me. We really appreciate it. Steve, do
Speaker 1: you want to say anything, No, it's just so nice
Speaker 1: to actually talk to you. And uh, congratulations, Thank you guys. Hi,
Speaker 1: thanks Hi, Billy bye bye bye wow, just wow, thank
Speaker 1: you both for coming on and Steve, Happy birthday, my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still a little concerned that Billy learned most
Speaker 1: of what she knows from the office, but what can
Speaker 1: you do? Uh, thank you and happy birthday. All right.
Speaker 1: The time has come to answer some questions from you mailbag.
Speaker 1: That's right now. I'm gonna get to as many questions
Speaker 1: as I possibly can. But if I don't get to yours,
Speaker 1: never fear. We're gonna be doing more episodes like this,
Speaker 1: So subscribe and comment on Apple Podcasts or write me
Speaker 1: on Instagram and Twitter, because well we will be watching.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's dive in. And if I say somebody's
Speaker 1: name wrong today, I'm sorry. I love you just the same.
Speaker 1: Plus you know who you are? Am I right? All right?
Speaker 1: So on that note, are very first question, well maybe
Speaker 1: less of a question than an ego boost. A listener
Speaker 1: wrote in to say super excited about the podcast, Kevin
Speaker 1: was my favorite character on the Office. By the way,
Speaker 1: here's the ultimate compliment a comedian can receive. You made
Speaker 1: me laugh so hard that I actually developed a nosebleed.
Speaker 1: The ice machine scene in the wedding episode was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Thank you, well, thank you. I appreciate. I have been
Speaker 1: told by many people over the years that they cannot
Speaker 1: use public ice at a hotel slash motel because well,
Speaker 1: they're afraid my feet was in it. Loop a Pause writes,
Speaker 1: can you one of these days on the podcast talk
Speaker 1: about the opening scene of Stress Reliase? This is the
Speaker 1: episode where Dwight starts the fire drill. It is one
Speaker 1: of the funniest episodes slash openings, and I think we'd
Speaker 1: all love to hear how you guys felt filming that.
Speaker 1: So uh. Stress Relief was the episode that aired after
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. If you have found the show on Netflix,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know that. Um I would say it is
Speaker 1: not only one of my favorite openings of a show,
Speaker 1: it's one of my personal favorite episodes. I think part
Speaker 1: of that has to do with the fact that it
Speaker 1: did air right after the Super Bowl, and well I'm
Speaker 1: a big football fan. Um. There were two openings to
Speaker 1: the show that we had the most rehearsal. It was
Speaker 1: the most almost like doing theater. There was the lip
Speaker 1: dub open, which was all one take so it had
Speaker 1: to be done one take the camera moving around the office,
Speaker 1: and also the opening of stress Relief. Mean, there were
Speaker 1: so many elements that happened in shooting that we had
Speaker 1: cat wranglers. We had two different sets of broken glass
Speaker 1: even at the vending machine and Michael with the exterior window.
Speaker 1: We had copiers smashing into doors and things breaking or
Speaker 1: having the potential to break. It was so much fun
Speaker 1: filming that scene culminating with Stanley of course, UM having
Speaker 1: a heart attack. So thank you for your question, but yes,
Speaker 1: for me personally, I would say my favorite cold open
Speaker 1: on the show Roth san Islam rights, Sir. I'm a
Speaker 1: really big fan from Bangladesh, really love your podcast. Well,
Speaker 1: I am so happy that we have listeners in Bangladesh.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I'm I'm hearing we have lots of
Speaker 1: UM listeners in India and across Europe. Thank you all
Speaker 1: wherever you're listening. Thank you so much. For listening. Walter
Speaker 1: Burne rights Kevin Malone had a little black and gold
Speaker 1: helmet on his desk with an M on the side
Speaker 1: of it. What football team does that belong to? I
Speaker 1: have no idea, I really don't. I never found out
Speaker 1: it was there the whole time, and in fact, it
Speaker 1: might have been borrowed from NBC by yours truly when
Speaker 1: the office ended. And I guess that makes me really
Speaker 1: a terrible actor, like not doing character study. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what team it was from. I really don't,
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing a small college. It was not. UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sorry, Walter Burne. It's a hard
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Speaker 1: Oco mile In Machine. So in our last mail Bag episode,
Speaker 1: Dr J. Skill asked who would be the best at
Speaker 1: playing hide and Seek on the Office. I said Angela,
Speaker 1: of course, because well, because she's so tiny. Four Fry
Speaker 1: responded by saying false, Creed would win at hide and seek. Well,
Speaker 1: he has the most experience as a character hiding from
Speaker 1: people without being found. I think he hid in the
Speaker 1: office for I don't know, close to twenty years. So
Speaker 1: four Fry, maybe you're right. Maybe it is Creed Bratton
Speaker 1: move fass a nine four rights. Thanks for the thoughtful
Speaker 1: interviews and never ending nostalgia. Hearing you talk about the
Speaker 1: web series reminded me of a DVD extra Kevin's Cooking
Speaker 1: Show comedic gold I did a Kevin's Cooking Show Part
Speaker 1: two inspired by yours for my freshman speech class and
Speaker 1: accidentally spit on stage. Who spit slash sprayed the most
Speaker 1: during takes any memorable saliva stories? That is a great,
Speaker 1: yet disturbing question, I believe. By the way, the DVD
Speaker 1: extra was called Kevin Cook's Stuff in the Office, which
Speaker 1: is just slightly weirder than Kevin's Cooking Show. We've discussed before,
Speaker 1: Mindy Kaling was the one who broke the most on set.
Speaker 1: I think there's no disputing that. In terms of spit
Speaker 1: slash spraying, jeez, I don't know. I will say as
Speaker 1: an actor, and particularly in film and television, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're on stage in theater, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: more expected. You're you're working your mouth for your heart
Speaker 1: and and stuff comes out of it. It is always
Speaker 1: incredibly awkward because in film and television you're usually speaking
Speaker 1: face to face and sometimes very very close depending on
Speaker 1: where the cameras and if something happens and something leaves
Speaker 1: your mouth that should not leave your mouth onto another person,
Speaker 1: and the other person can't respond to you because they're
Speaker 1: in the middle of a scene and they don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin it. So everyone just acts as though that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Well, it's it's never fun for either for
Speaker 1: either party. But maybe it's because of his experience in
Speaker 1: theater and his excellent elocution and enunciation. I would say
Speaker 1: Rain Wilson, and I'm just going to leave it at that,
Speaker 1: and if I'm wrong, sorry, Rain JP's dad rights on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts question for future episode, you guys all worked
Speaker 1: really long hours, cast and crew alike. When someone kept
Speaker 1: breaking forcing a bunch of reshoots, did anyone ever get
Speaker 1: angry or upset about all of the extra time or
Speaker 1: money that was being wasted? You know, it's part of it,
Speaker 1: I think in a comedy, I mean, you're trying to
Speaker 1: keep it right on the edge, and I think that
Speaker 1: there's an energy that happens during scenes um where you're
Speaker 1: attempting in a way. I always said I thought Steve
Speaker 1: was trying to make everyone laugh. I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the energy that he brought, where he would improvise
Speaker 1: something or say something in a different way, or give
Speaker 1: someone a different kind of look because he was trying
Speaker 1: to keep them right on the edge of laughing. So
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of it is expected. There
Speaker 1: were times where, like the first a d would be like,
Speaker 1: you guys, get it together, Like it becomes a teacher
Speaker 1: slash student interaction. At some times. Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a certain point where it's it's just it's not fun
Speaker 1: for anybody, and it's certainly not fun for the person
Speaker 1: laughing either, and you feel really really bad. I don't
Speaker 1: remember anyone specifically getting angry except the first a d
Speaker 1: yeah or maybe a line producer who knew we were
Speaker 1: about to go into overtime and they were not happy
Speaker 1: about that. Unfortunately, there are times where there's just nothing
Speaker 1: that you can do. So sorry, Canci Bornac and Randy Cordray,
Speaker 1: sorry for the money that well some of us cost you.
Speaker 1: Diane Blue asks, Hi, Brian, that's not a question. Love
Speaker 1: your podcast. Thank you. I am such a huge fan.
Speaker 1: I thought your character was so lovable. You were one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, you and Phyllis. Speaking of Phyllis, why
Speaker 1: did she, Oscar, Angela and Creed keep their real names
Speaker 1: on the show? I always wanted to know. Thanks well, Diane.
Speaker 1: That's been talked about a little bit. In this Greg
Speaker 1: Daniels describes it as something to the effect of, you
Speaker 1: know that he ran out of creative energy on the
Speaker 1: character during casting. What happened was there were a number
Speaker 1: of characters who came. They were based on characters from
Speaker 1: the English version of the Office. So Jim and Pam
Speaker 1: and Dwight and Michael and Kevin and Stanley, those are
Speaker 1: the ones that jumped to mind, and so our names
Speaker 1: were adapted. Keith in the British became Kevin. But they
Speaker 1: always knew they meaning Greg Daniels and the producers and
Speaker 1: director on the office, that they wanted our ensemble to
Speaker 1: be larger, and so they brought in other actors to
Speaker 1: fill out the ensemble that offered different personalities and voices.
Speaker 1: And at that point Greg thought, well, let's just call
Speaker 1: them who they are. However, Creed Bratton is the only
Speaker 1: person whose first and last name is the same, and um, well,
Speaker 1: let's just say there there might be a reason for that.
Speaker 1: Ricky Chew asks via Twitter, that was wonderful, Brian, meaning
Speaker 1: the Phillis episode. To me, Phillis exemplifies one of the
Speaker 1: big themes of the show, beauty in ordinary things. You
Speaker 1: were all underdogs for getting on the show and keeping
Speaker 1: it on the air, but she was unlikeliest of unlikely underdogs.
Speaker 1: Her story just warms my heart. Ricky, I could not
Speaker 1: agree with you more. I don't. I've never heard another
Speaker 1: story like it that a casting associate gets cast onto
Speaker 1: a show and ends up being a series regular for
Speaker 1: ten years, nine seasons. I don't think that's ever happened before.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of instances of writers who get
Speaker 1: a role here and there, but Ken koppas Greg Daniels
Speaker 1: deciding that Phillis Smith the casting associate needed to be
Speaker 1: on this show is that it's a truly unique story
Speaker 1: and and part of the story she tells us about
Speaker 1: going home when we started shooting and reading books on
Speaker 1: improv because she didn't want to feel behind. As a
Speaker 1: testament to one her work and dedication and well, the
Speaker 1: show certainly would not be the same without her. Another
Speaker 1: question about the Phillis episode, Jeffrey Johnson asks, when are
Speaker 1: you going to blow everyone's minds and tell them who
Speaker 1: sings the podcasts intro song. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: I have maybe, Jeffrey, you don't listen to the credits
Speaker 1: at the end of the pie. I think you just
Speaker 1: revealed to me you don't. Creed Bratton, the one and
Speaker 1: only Creed Bratton, wrote the song Bubble and Squeak, and
Speaker 1: he graciously allowed us to use it as our podcast
Speaker 1: theme song. So once again, thank you Creed, and to
Speaker 1: you j J. Listen to the credits because there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people who put in so much work
Speaker 1: on this show and I want them all to be recognized,
Speaker 1: not not the least of which Creed Breton. Michelle Cochrane writes,
Speaker 1: who if you told me the Creed episode would be
Speaker 1: the one to make me cry? Also, Neil Graham writes,
Speaker 1: I was sledgehammering my crappy old driveway, tears pouring down
Speaker 1: my face about Creed Bratton. Let me tell you, Michelle
Speaker 1: and Neil, You're not the only ones I can't. There
Speaker 1: is just I know, I said it. There's just something
Speaker 1: about that guy. And his story is incredible as well,
Speaker 1: that he sought out Ken Koppas who he had worked
Speaker 1: with before, and put together tapes of himself to try
Speaker 1: to get on our show. And you know, is one
Speaker 1: of the most beloved characters on our show now. And
Speaker 1: I had seen him the night before that that's the
Speaker 1: crazy when he came into the studio for for me
Speaker 1: to talk to him. I had seen him at his
Speaker 1: benefit concert the night before, and I had seen him
Speaker 1: play uh the song from the finale. When he came
Speaker 1: into the studio and started on his guitar, just me
Speaker 1: and him in that room, Yeah, yeah, there were tears.
Speaker 1: There were tears, for sure. Karen Pollen asks, I adore
Speaker 1: your show. You're so relaxed and thorough well. I'm glad
Speaker 1: it feels that way. Did you ever do radio in
Speaker 1: college or your earlier days. No, not really, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I've talked about radio before. I'll tell you one of
Speaker 1: my first though audio jobs. And this is only going
Speaker 1: to resonate for people who are um, well, I guess older.
Speaker 1: Before the internets were a big thing. When you were
Speaker 1: trying to find out a movie and you didn't have
Speaker 1: a paper and you wanted to find out what movies
Speaker 1: were playing, you would call a line that that was
Speaker 1: the movie line. Was called the movie line, I think,
Speaker 1: and it would be like, hello, here are the movies
Speaker 1: listed for a mc galeria theater and then it would
Speaker 1: literally be like the quiet place to four pm, seven pm,
Speaker 1: tw pm, and nine. Someone had to read those like
Speaker 1: once a week for all of the stories. I did
Speaker 1: do that for a little while. I was I was
Speaker 1: the movie line guy for my local area. But that
Speaker 1: was it. Um But I will tell you I love it.
Speaker 1: I love talking to people. I love just having conversations
Speaker 1: with people. And the fact that on this show I'm
Speaker 1: able to do it with some old friends, well it
Speaker 1: makes it even more special. Odd Carrick asks, as a
Speaker 1: practicing therapist, I am forever grateful to the office for
Speaker 1: being there for me as a way to decompress and
Speaker 1: to deal with my own issues. It has been a
Speaker 1: beacon in times of my darkness. Thank you one, God
Speaker 1: bless you and uh and I hope you're okay. But
Speaker 1: to you know, I've heard this so much that people
Speaker 1: use the show well. As Billy Eilish talked about as
Speaker 1: a comfort in a what can be a crazy world
Speaker 1: for for all people, it has served as a comfort
Speaker 1: for her. So thank you for saying so. Thank you
Speaker 1: for watching the show, and know that I and others
Speaker 1: on the show appreciate comments like that more than you know.
Speaker 1: All Right, Jonathan Jaynes asks, we need you to do
Speaker 1: a full version of you Were Meant for Me by
Speaker 1: Jewel like you did at Phillis's wedding. No, no, you
Speaker 1: were not going to hear a fully released version of
Speaker 1: You Were Meant for Me by Jewel, Sorry, Jonathan J.
Speaker 1: J uh from the Paul Lieberstein episode. Jaffathan writes on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Toby, I love this podcast so much. I'm
Speaker 1: really enjoying the in depth and thoughtful interviews. I do
Speaker 1: need to ask, is it the case that everybody hates
Speaker 1: the character Toby? I've always felt great sympathy for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you'd have to ask other fans.
Speaker 1: I mean I would I think most of the characters
Speaker 1: on the Office hated Toby, or at least hr I
Speaker 1: think it's an HR thing. I'm sorry to all you
Speaker 1: HR reps out there, but I would say in terms
Speaker 1: of fans, or at least for me, I just love
Speaker 1: that Michael hates him so much. So there's a love
Speaker 1: for him because Michael hates him. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that makes sense, but I love I love that, I
Speaker 1: love and that Steve just came up with it. I
Speaker 1: love it. Jessica Worcestershire asks who is least like their
Speaker 1: character in real life besides Angela Kenzie. My guest is
Speaker 1: maybe Oscar Oscar No. I mean, I think it's me.
Speaker 1: To be clear, I guess I don't. I guess that's
Speaker 1: for other people to say. But if I were saying,
Speaker 1: I would say me, I am less like my my
Speaker 1: real life character, except well, maybe I like to gamble
Speaker 1: a little one, and I I can't shoot the rock.
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Speaker 1: true crime right, the mystery, the intrigue, the human frailty,
Speaker 1: totally but what a lot of us don't like is
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Speaker 1: our show gives you stories like the kidnapping of Frank
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Speaker 1: you mean ridiculous stories like the UK cat Shaver and
Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos. Yeah, stories like the dudes who
Speaker 1: stole Buzzy, the animatronic whatever he was from Disney World
Speaker 1: and the woman whose husband tried to kill her but
Speaker 1: came back from the dead and surprised him at her
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Speaker 1: this new podcast, Ridiculous Crime all over the place, the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, the Apple podcast Sir, wherever you
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Speaker 1: and patent all back rights. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: people from the office talk about their memories of Mark York,
Speaker 1: who played Billy Merchant, the disabled building manager who died
Speaker 1: this past weekend. He portrayed a memorable character. Thank you
Speaker 1: and Patton all back. Mark was great, Mark was great,
Speaker 1: and Steve slash Michael's interaction with Billy Merchant were very memorable.
Speaker 1: It was a tragedy that he died, and and I
Speaker 1: don't know if if you, I can't specifically reference where,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people came out and did express
Speaker 1: their condolences for him, for his family. Thank you for
Speaker 1: bringing it up, because Mark York should be recognized for
Speaker 1: the tremendous work that he did and it is a
Speaker 1: great loss, all right. In the episode with Jenna Fisher,
Speaker 1: it's possible that she and I may have briefly mentioned
Speaker 1: an idea that Steve had for an office reunion. So
Speaker 1: Daniel Kelly says, how do you let her drop that
Speaker 1: info about Steve's idea and bury it like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard Steve's idea, like the world knows what you
Speaker 1: speak and brushed aside like the crumbs of a cookie. Um. Look, look,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's Steve's idea. If Steve wants to
Speaker 1: talk about his idea that isn't a reality at this moment,
Speaker 1: then Steve can't. Let's just say that the idea does happen.
Speaker 1: What would you want to know wouldn't you want to
Speaker 1: be surprised? And if you don't want to be surprised,
Speaker 1: I can tell you this. NBC wants you to be surprised.
Speaker 1: So neither Jenna nor myself is going to reveal Steve's idea.
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry, but the point was there is an
Speaker 1: idea and it's really good. Sean h M talks about
Speaker 1: wanting well very specific new episode. Dude, we're loving the podcast,
Speaker 1: but you know what, we also want an episode where
Speaker 1: we talked to Brian and get to know everything about Kevin.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to hear you tell us everything about
Speaker 1: your character. You know that is an idea, Sean. It
Speaker 1: has been talked about a little, but not for a while,
Speaker 1: so who knows. But who would talk to me? Or
Speaker 1: would I have to talk to myself? And would that
Speaker 1: be a disaster? I don't know. Thank you for the input.
Speaker 1: It is just it has been discussed, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: You can take total credit if we end up doing that.
Speaker 1: Drew Papa, I'm sure that's wrong. Rights. This podcast brings
Speaker 1: so much joy to my work commute. You're the man
Speaker 1: at B B bomb Gardner. You're damn right. I am,
Speaker 1: Drew and because you said that I'm really sorry that
Speaker 1: I butchered your name, which I definitely did. Um. So,
Speaker 1: Steve and I talked about the director sandwich, which is
Speaker 1: when a director compliments an actor, then tells them what
Speaker 1: they're doing terribly wrong, and then gives them another compliment
Speaker 1: to soften the blow. So Michael George writes, I had
Speaker 1: to laugh when you were talking about the director sandwich
Speaker 1: because I'm a teacher and we do it too. Usually
Speaker 1: in emails to kids parents, we call it a shit sandwich. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to know they do it other places. Nothing
Speaker 1: made me laugh harder maybe throughout this entire podcast recording
Speaker 1: experience than Steve talking about the director sandwich, because it's
Speaker 1: so true. And now I'm gonna need to go and
Speaker 1: look back at emails from teachers about my kids and
Speaker 1: see if I can find a ship sandwich there. And
Speaker 1: if there is, well, it probably means my kid did
Speaker 1: something wrong, Reverend B. B. Which is not me to
Speaker 1: be very clear. Here's my question, because I'm curious, was
Speaker 1: it always the intent to do both podcasts or was
Speaker 1: it just, Hey, we have all of this useful stuff left,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Great question, Reverend B. B Uh. It
Speaker 1: was always my intention, Yes, from the very beginning. The
Speaker 1: first person we interviewed was Rain Wilson, and I had
Speaker 1: even brought it up before then, like I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna want I think we're gonna get more material than
Speaker 1: we want because an oral history of the office was, um,
Speaker 1: my math is bad, but let's say eight to han hours, uh,
Speaker 1: something like that. And I sat down our very first
Speaker 1: interview with Rain Wilson, and we sat down for over
Speaker 1: two hours, and immediately was like, well, we can't use
Speaker 1: all of that, and he said so many amazing things.
Speaker 1: So yes, it was always our intention to to release
Speaker 1: more of the full conversations because we knew we had
Speaker 1: way more or we were going to get way more
Speaker 1: than what we needed for an oral history of the office.
Speaker 1: But thank you for the question, Joe Bangles writes to
Speaker 1: me on Twitter. Random question, but do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite cheese? Chatter from Wisconsin? Going to eleven writes to
Speaker 1: me regarding the Steve Correll episode. I love this episode.
Speaker 1: My wife has a theory on why young people love
Speaker 1: the office. It helps them feel less intimidated about being
Speaker 1: working adults. Just because you are a professional doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you have it all figured out. They recognize personalities from
Speaker 1: school in the show. I think, I think, I think
Speaker 1: you're onto something, going to eleven. I think you're going
Speaker 1: to eleven, or you're going to a hundred or whatever
Speaker 1: the biggest number would be. That's very interesting. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had not specifically thought about being less intimidated seeing people
Speaker 1: you know, who work in an office later on, not
Speaker 1: not kind of having it all together and figured out.
Speaker 1: But that's I think that's a very very interesting theory.
Speaker 1: And yes, I do think recognizing personalities from their other
Speaker 1: classmates and the structure of a class versus the office
Speaker 1: was so similar. Like an unreasonable teacher who makes you
Speaker 1: do unreasonable things, very similar from Michael Scott making his
Speaker 1: office workers do unreasonable things. Laura be harsh Field Serbic Rights.
Speaker 1: I will say, my eleven year old son knows every
Speaker 1: episode and what season, finds, all the mistakes and little
Speaker 1: extras I have missed. I asked him why he likes it,
Speaker 1: and it's because the characters talk about real life, and
Speaker 1: he thinks it's real. He knows it's not really a documentary,
Speaker 1: but it's what he thinks being adult and working is like,
Speaker 1: which shows how great. The show was done well, Laura.
Speaker 1: All I can tell you is it is indeed what
Speaker 1: we were going for the reality, uh, this sort of
Speaker 1: ultra reality of not just making a documentary or how
Speaker 1: a documentary was shot, but in terms of the behaviors
Speaker 1: and interactions of the characters. So thank him for watching
Speaker 1: and for being so interested, and thank you for clearly
Speaker 1: raising a great son and fan of the show. Kristen
Speaker 1: sheehy right, I'm loving the podcast currently going through chemo
Speaker 1: and the office and your podcast has provided me with
Speaker 1: so much joy during this difficult process. God bless you, Kristen.
Speaker 1: I hope you all get better soon, and thank you
Speaker 1: for listening and for watching. And again, I'm I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that us crazy band of nutheads have given some
Speaker 1: relief to what you are going through. Pam Jill from
Speaker 1: the Randall iron Horn episode writes, what does a key
Speaker 1: grip slash grip do? Well? They grip it and a
Speaker 1: key grip I mean clearly grips the key. I think
Speaker 1: BC Jim Dad writes, Brian, did you just hear Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in the match? Tell Charles Barkley if you just
Speaker 1: beat Brian Baumgartner in Tahoe. He'll be happy. Yes, I
Speaker 1: did hear that, and I attempted after being sent the
Speaker 1: clip of it from Tahoe, where I was getting ready
Speaker 1: to play, where he wasn't. I did attempt to communicate
Speaker 1: because I felt like I was brought up on air
Speaker 1: I should have a chance to respond. So I attempted
Speaker 1: to contact Charles Barkley and Aaron Rodgers and well not
Speaker 1: really T and T because I didn't know how to
Speaker 1: get ahold of anybody there. But I tried to be
Speaker 1: able to respond. They ignored my phone calls. So nothing
Speaker 1: unusual about any of that. Robert McCarthy forty two writes,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know some storylines that just missed making
Speaker 1: it into the office. There must have been a bunch
Speaker 1: of great ones. PS love the podcast. Thank you, Robert
Speaker 1: um The one that springs to mind. I know we
Speaker 1: have talked about, or we're about to talk about on
Speaker 1: an episode Pet Day. Pet Day was It's actually, to
Speaker 1: my knowledge, the only written script that we never did.
Speaker 1: It was a fully written script, and I think it
Speaker 1: just kind of kept kept getting pushed and wasn't done.
Speaker 1: There may have been some animal activists that would not
Speaker 1: have been happy about that episode. I don't specifically remember
Speaker 1: the content, but pet Day was the title, and there
Speaker 1: is a written episode of the office that I read
Speaker 1: at some point very early on that has never ever
Speaker 1: been produced. Veggie the memur writes, just a question, what
Speaker 1: is your favorite scene you've ever played as Kevin Malone?
Speaker 1: By the way, you're my favorite actor person in the series. Well, Veggie,
Speaker 1: you're amazingly smart. Number one. Uh to my favorite scene ever?
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm supposed to say the chili scene.
Speaker 1: I guess that's supposed to be my answer, So I
Speaker 1: can say that, or I can answers differently. The scene
Speaker 1: with Amy Ryan at the vending machine where she is
Speaker 1: counting money into my hands. Um, that's the one that
Speaker 1: I remember being for me the most difficult to not
Speaker 1: laugh because of her sincerity and sweetness and how it
Speaker 1: was written, her performance, all of it. Um. I remember
Speaker 1: that scene. And then now that I'm thinking even more,
Speaker 1: maybe the basketball one. I mean, I made thirteen in
Speaker 1: a row on prime Time, and who's done that? Not?
Speaker 1: Not many people ever have done Network prime Time made
Speaker 1: thirteen in a row from free throw line extended, So
Speaker 1: that's a possibility as well. Nick Hamby on Apple Podcasts
Speaker 1: Rights great podcast, Love the Podcast. I've watched The Office
Speaker 1: forty four times through during my wife's pregnancy. We watched
Speaker 1: it so much that the first song that my son
Speaker 1: reacted to was the intro to the Office. Love the
Speaker 1: show and pod great work. Well, Nick, you might win.
Speaker 1: I don't know, forty four times is a lot of times.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I could count that high. I
Speaker 1: will tell you a funny story Billie Eilish, who we
Speaker 1: talked to, who told us at the time that we
Speaker 1: talked she had watched at fourteen times through it. There
Speaker 1: is some discussion she has watched it at least one
Speaker 1: more time since, but fourteen times through. And I remember
Speaker 1: writing about that on social media, and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you the number of comments that I got that was
Speaker 1: like fourteen amateur, she's not a real fan. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: fourteen times is a lot of times, like you got.
Speaker 1: You can't dismiss fourteen times as a as a number
Speaker 1: of times. So, but forty four, Nick, congratulations, you are officially,
Speaker 1: as of this moment in time, you're the highest watcher
Speaker 1: that I have heard of. So congratulations, and I say
Speaker 1: go for forty five it's a way, way better number.
Speaker 1: And there you have it, folks, another mail bag in
Speaker 1: the well in the bag. Huge thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you for real guys, for coming back week after week
Speaker 1: and and for giving us, well giving us the fuel
Speaker 1: to make this episode. I could not ask for a
Speaker 1: better group of listeners. Keep the comments coming, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see if we can fit in another episode very soon.
Speaker 1: But until then, we're gonna be back Tuesday with well,
Speaker 1: perhaps the most well dressed man in the business, the
Speaker 1: incredible director Paul Feig. And you never know, we might
Speaker 1: have a little surprise coming to you before then. What
Speaker 1: does that mean, Well, it means we may have an
Speaker 1: episode on Thursday. Have an amazing week everyone, Happy birthday, Steve,
Speaker 1: and I will see you so the Office. Deep Dive
Speaker 1: is hosted and executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside
Speaker 1: our executive producer Langley. Our senior producer is Tessa Kramer.
Speaker 1: Our producers for this episode are Liz Hayes, Emily Carr,
Speaker 1: and Diego Tapia, and our intern is Hannah Harris. My
Speaker 1: main man in the booth is Colin Tadeshi. Our theme song,
Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak performed by my great friend Creed Bratton
Speaker 1: and the episode was mixed by Old Landscape. Hello. This
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