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It's been seven years since The 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.000 Office Finale aired and we had the Scranting Rap Party here. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.080 I haven't been back since really and exploring anything about 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.520 the Office, I felt like it was important to come 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.240 back here to It's not really where it all started, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.440 but it's somehow feels like it's where it all started. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.200 My name is Michelle Dempsey and I'm a co chair 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.520 of the Office Convention in the Office Rap Party. My 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.120 name is Tim Holmes. I'm a co chair of the 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:33.720 Office Convention in the Office Rap Party. Hello everybody, and 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.680 welcome to a brand new and very close to my 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:43.720 heart episode of the Office. Deep dive. I am your host, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.120 Brian baum Gartner. Now, I thought we could do something 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.079 a little bit different today, all right, something very special. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.200 If you've been following me on Instagram, you know that 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.400 I just got back from my book tour, and let 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.200 me tell you it was freaking incredible, all right. I 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:09.040 went all the way back to Scranton, Pennsylvania, the electric City, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.200 the hometown of the office. And I'm not even making 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:18.360 this up. I left Scranton with an honorary certificate in 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:24.800 Scrantology from the University of Scranton. I'm a doctor as 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.640 far as I'm concerned. Yes, I think I am the 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.000 only person to have ever been bestowed with such an honor. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:39.080 So take that everybody else. Uh. Now, as an honorary Scrantonian, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.240 I thought I would take you back to Scranton with 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.440 me and introduce you to some of the amazing people 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.960 I have met in the town. I really have not 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.000 felt more welcome from any town or any group of 0:03:54.040 --> 0:04:00.040 people ever. Scranton has become my second home, and it 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.640 is all because of the people. I am so excited 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.600 to introduce you to. To such people, the incredible Tim 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.960 Holmes and Michelle Dempsey. These two were responsible for the 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.400 Office Convention in two thousand seven and the Rap Party 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.320 in two thousand thirteen. If you read our book or 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.920 listen to the podcast, you know how special those events were. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.760 Tim and Michelle's love for the show and for their 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.480 town Scratton is so big that they volunteered to co 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:40.120 chair all of these spectacular office events. They have done 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.880 an amazing job every single time I have come, and 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.160 they have made those experiences extra special, not just for me, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:53.720 but for everyone else who was there along with the 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.200 rest of the town. They keep the show's legacy going 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.719 and I could not be more for so. On this 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:07.040 very special edition of the podcast, please give a warm 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:12.679 Scrantonian welcome to the true keepers of the Office. Tim Holmes, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:21.520 Michelle Dempsey, and all of the people of Scranton. Bubble 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:28.760 and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeak, Bubble and 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:33.600 Squeaker cooking at every month. Left over from the night before. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.960 I was driving down the highway here and we got 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.880 off and there was the mural there. I started, no joke, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.080 I started getting emotional when I just like I just 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.600 saw the sign, honest to God, when it heard you 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.640 were coming. You felt the electricity searched through the city. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.640 Come on, I'm not kidding. Every my phone hasn't stuffer inging. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.920 I'm sure tim has been the same way it has been. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.720 And everybody and anybody who thinks they might be you 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.360 know they it has just been on fire since you're 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.240 since your tweet. Yeah, we were trying to keep it 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.680 under were like yeah, and then your tree went out. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.279 We're like, okay, it's on Well. John just kind of 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.480 he was because I talked to him yesterday and then 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.080 he was like, will you send me a photo? Will 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.960 you send me a photo? And I sent John the picture. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.240 And the true story is I like put my phone 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.200 in my pocket and then it like buzzes what seems 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.279 like fourteen seconds later, and it's I don't know if 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.600 you guys remember Steve Sucks. I think he was here 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.320 at the rap party. He was like the long time 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.080 stand in, like like he was like Steve stand In, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.880 anyone standing on the show, and and I look at 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.720 my I'm like Steve socks and he goes, hey, if 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.200 you're with Krasinski telling me it was a hundred dollars 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.960 for the fantasy football buy in this year, because he's 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.840 like the missioner and like, how does he know with 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.000 And then suddenly my phone went like you're with John, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.200 tell him this you're blah blah blah, and I was like, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.239 oh my god. He posted it like so quickly after 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.560 he got his hands on. Yeah. And now, how did 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.400 you first find out about the Office? Well? I was 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.800 a huge fan of the British version of the Office. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.960 So when I heard that the Office was coming to America, yea. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.480 And then when I heard was Scranton, I actually panicked. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.880 I was I went, I didn't know the mayor well, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.280 but I like, like march to city Hall, Like this 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.080 is not a good thing. This is not a good 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.760 because Slough. They're not kind to Slough in that show, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.040 and the mayor was trying to turn Scranton around and 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.360 we were on this upswing and and so I thought, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.720 you know, slow was really the road to nowhere in 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.000 that show. And um, and Chris Doherty, who's the mayor 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.240 the time, he's like, well, I talked to Greg Daniels 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.560 and who's the creator of the American version, and he 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.880 said he's you know, it's it'll be different, like he's 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.080 going to be good to the city. And I took 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.160 a deep breath like, Okay, that sounds good, and I 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.960 hope this Greg Daniels is everything he told you he is, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.520 and like, could I think higher of Greg Daniels, I 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.760 don't think so. Like he he meets Granton like another 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.520 quirky level character on the show. Right, he captured the 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.960 essence of who we are and that you know, to 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.560 me is important because it's forever change the perception on 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.199 the outside. It finally let people like the perception wasn't 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.160 what the reality was to us, and now they match, right, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.800 Like the perception is the reality. And the Office was 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.480 the springboard for that. Like it really had an impact 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.320 on Scranton, like huge, And I know we'll talk about 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.400 that a little bit, but there's the before the Office 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.920 and after the Office for Scranton and for when you 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.120 leave Scranton and tell people where you're from. Right, what 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.240 used to happen is like I'd say I'm from Scranton, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.720 people be like, oh, I'm sorry, right right, right, Like really, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.240 And I always I never knew what they were sorry about, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.679 because I always loved to hear and thought it was 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.560 a great place. But um, now it's I'm from scrant 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.800 It's like I love the Office and it's your instant 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.280 bond across the world with everybody, and you'll hear from 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.559 all these people the connections in the love and the 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.400 interesting moments that they've had outside of the area telling 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.000 people that they're from Scranton, right, And I think there's 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.559 a cool story about how Gregg picked Scranton too that 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.920 folds into pain. Go ahead, Um so, actually Tim tells 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.400 us better than I do. So, so this is Gregg's 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.120 words and not ours, and we're obviously paraphrasing, but it 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.640 is our understanding that he chose, you know, basically, when 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.840 he's looking where he's going to do a Philosophically speaking, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.160 it's a it's a satellite brand, so it's got to 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.040 be a kind of a smaller city. Uh. He felt 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.240 it had East Coast sensibility, so he was kind of 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.000 looking at the East coast. When he decided the home 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.160 office would be in New York City, he began to 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.000 look at cities with with our with with with our, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:06.920 which in might be a two hour driving distance. So 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:12.000 he looks at scrant Pennsylvania, Stanford, Connecticut, Utica, New York, Nashua, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.720 New Hampshire. These may all sound familiar because they all 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.520 wind up being the branches and so, and that's when 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.000 he sends out these teams to go check out, and 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.360 Johnny Kay happens to be one of them coming into Scranton. So, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.480 you know, from what we understand, there was a lot 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.720 of little happy circumstances because it wasn't only pinned paper. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.320 There was another place here called paper Magic, which is 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.000 also a place that John visited, and paper Magic is 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.480 the one that had a like Greg remembers getting a 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.400 greeting card that had paper paper Magic Scranton p A. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.240 So he kind of had that in mind, you know, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.080 and he's he he did say, you know, he might 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.120 have just been being nice to us, but he felt 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.720 Scranton was kind of the one to beat because he 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.840 felt it was a big enough name just because of 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.920 how big we were during the Industrial Revolution and a 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.679 bunch of things, you know, for a little town, we 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.640 have a big name, um, you know. And ultimately everything 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.200 fell into place and it worked out wonderfully for the show, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.839 for us, for everybody involved. Magic makes all those Valentine's 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:14.160 that used to give out in grades, paper Magic scrant 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.000 p A on the back of all of them, and 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.160 he remembered that so it was a confluence of things, right, 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.880 and that was one of them. Yes, And he also 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.600 thought the name Scranton was a funny thing to say, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.160 and it is. There's a lot of consonants all in 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.839 a row, and it works around in your mouth a 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.480 little bit. And so that's that was the one thing. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.360 And if you're from here, you don't pronounce the t 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:48.480 right right, So you so you, um, you were born here. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.480 I was born here. Yeah, So that was how I 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.200 heard about the office. And then probably a few years 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.640 into the show. I have an architecture firm, and I 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.760 was at work and I opened up my browser and 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.840 there was just an article. You know, they all populate. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.160 There was an article about President Idaho getting this little 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:10.360 economic boom from people who were fans of the cult classical, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.880 the cult movie Napoleon Dynamite going there to see all 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:18.319 the sites, like we're the fictional home of Donder Mifflin, right, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.559 Like that seems like cooler. Um, we should invite everybody 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.679 to come here and like have like invite the actors 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.520 to come here and see the city and show people 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.280 what it's like here and they'd have a great time. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.320 They'd meet with the fans, the city, you know, would 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.960 be on displayed be a win win win, which is 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.240 what we ultimately that's that's what we ultimately pitched, right 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.840 like the win win win, But that's where the idea 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.920 came from. And it literally went nowhere, and this is 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.880 where Tim comes and went nowhere. I I met with 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.280 like three groups of people until somebody was finally like, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.840 I have to introduce you to Tim Holmes. Right, I 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.520 didn't know you. I didn't know each other at all, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.920 which is crazy to think of a time I didn't 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.559 know Tim and the homest family, right, uh. And so 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.200 we were introduced, and Tim instantly saw the you know, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.400 he was got it. Yep, all right, here's what we're 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.240 gonna do. And then he went into Tim mode right 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.600 right right now? Did you know the show? Were you 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 watching the show? So I was definitely familiar with it, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.120 but I wasn't as immersed in it as Michelle was. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.439 So I certainly saw the value in it, but it 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.320 was definitely something that we were all beginning to see 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.960 license plates from Ontario and South Carolina and everything driving 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.960 through town that doesn't happen in Scranton, but it began 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.760 to happen, and we're all like, yeah, I guess what 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.800 you're saying, Michelle is making an awful lot of sense. So, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.560 and like we were doing things. And just to be clear, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.480 Tim worked for the local newspaper and I was an architect. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.120 We had no background and anything like okay, Like like 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.040 Tim did planning events locally, right, so he knew how 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.559 to put an event together. But this was going to 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.200 be bigger than anything I think you'd ever done, right, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.360 And so here I am an architect and he's a 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:51.840 marketing We come up with this big idea. We got 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.200 all these partners on board, I remember at one point. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.720 Then then we had to go through everybody's act like 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:02.520 agents and managers, right, Like everybody I'm calling, I'm like, 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.840 don't hello, Hi, I'm representing office convention, right, I'm I'm 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.880 putting together contracts. I'm like, I'm like what am I doing? 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.839 Staring at a white piece of paper and like negotiating 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.720 like this was crez. We had to do it all right. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.360 It was like Tim and I had to do all 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.280 that was completely homegrown, which is exactly why I think 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.280 Greg liked it because he could see it wasn't like 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.120 some outside group that was coming in and trying to 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.480 monetize this thing. It was not set up to be 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.800 a you know, a for profit thing, which is why 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.280 you guys gave us a breakown talent fees and you know, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.120 and they helped with travel and all this other kind 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.080 of stuff. They could see right from the get go 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.560 that it was it was a partnership. The partnership was 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.640 with the city of granted, it was with the county, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.320 it was with the visitors Bureau. We weren't selling, you know, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.840 sponsorships where you had to put a shirt on that 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.240 said somebody Sunoco. We were gonna you know, we knew 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.400 enough not to do any of that stuff. And I think, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.520 you know, we would have conversations with Vann Park and 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.960 the NBC Universal folks, and truly they were kind of 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.080 put they were put on the scant. Yeah, they didn't 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.480 open the door to the producers of the show and 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.480 to Greg and tell what they realized we really had 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.240 something that they're like, Okay, I think these guys have 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.520 their stuff together, right, so we're going to now make 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.640 this connection. Because we had to dream up the entire 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.000 like all the the office Olympic Games. The writer's blocked 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.080 like that just came out of our heads, right. That 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.400 was like it was maybe about seven or eight of 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.800 us that did it. Tucker Has, Matt Smith, you know, 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.480 Eric Dovi and all these guys were building our websites 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.520 and everything. Uh, all of that stuff was critical because 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.760 they all played a certain role in it. And then 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.680 all the partners, the University of scrant and all these 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.480 guys tapping into all that. Once we had it all 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.720 one of these conference calls. We had already had a 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.520 number of them, but I later found out that at 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.320 one of the big ones when they were deciding whether 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.120 we're in or out, kincibor Neck had told me when 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.240 he came to Scranton that he was listening in on 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.360 the one and he just looking to here, if we're 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.840 just a bunch of fan girls we're gonna lose our 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.640 minds when you guys get to town, or if we're 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.600 actually going to hold this together and keep you guys 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.480 safe and have it lined up with the University of 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.280 s Grand Police and you know in the s Grand 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.760 Police and the State police and the Marshall's office, like 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.840 Michelle's brother in laws, A he's a worked here down. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.880 We had all of that, but it's such a small town, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.040 you can do something. And our whole pitch to Greg was, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.800 you know, office fans are are unique. They need to 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.400 come together like Allah's Star Trek convention. But it can't 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.360 be done in l A. It cannot be done in 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.960 New York. It has to be done in Scranton. Because 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.280 it was such a part of the show interesting afterwards 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.120 became a more part of the show, which I thought 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.880 was interesting because Greg had the foresight to bring the 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.640 writers here too. But but I think, but not to 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.040 get ahead. I think, so here we have we've like 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.680 sort of put this this agenda together. We have this thing. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:17:02.160 The only thing we didn't have were the actors. 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You and Angela 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.040 had come in like that may to to say, hey, 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.160 we're gonna there's gonna be the office convention, like you 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.520 sort of generously because at all this could have backfired, right, 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.800 kind of put yourselves out in front. But come like 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.239 a month before still there was nobody officially signed up 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.960 to come to the day that we got our first 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.119 actual country. We were panicking. They're like We're gonna have 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.600 a party no matter what. And I remember you called me. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.080 You did, right, Brian, and you called me whe night. 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.919 You're like, how's it going, And I was like, well, 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.080 you know, it's going pretty well. I'm trying to keep 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.080 up the front, like it's come pretty well. You know, 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.480 all the plannings seems to be happening. You know, we 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:28.800 got this, that got that, and um, yeah, we just 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.040 you wouldn't have any of the actors yet. And you 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.680 said something that made my stomach drop first. He said, 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.399 I just want to start by apologizing. I'm just so sorry. 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:44.320 And I was like, I'm like, okay, it's cool. Um 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.040 trying to keep up, you know, with the front again. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.760 And You're like, I've talked to my people, and um, 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.879 I can I can only convince thirteen of them. I 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.240 think I'm pretty sure. I started crying on the phone, right, 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.119 I was like so emotional and all I don't even 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.800 know what I said. After that, I just lost it 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:05.879 and I was just like, is that was that? I 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.920 knew it was gonna happen. It was gonna be this thing, 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.320 and it was going to be unprecedented, you know. That 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.560 was everything that moment to me. With with you on 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.840 the phone. It was just too much. It was awesome. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.359 So just to put a timeline on this, so this 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.040 is two thousand six, so you're already in season three 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.720 at this point. We hosted it in October, late October, 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.280 but that was we all remember that day when you're like, 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:29.720 we got twelve now, the beauty of that. So you 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.439 may remember that none of the Fab four could make 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.840 it that year, right, So Steve, John, Jenna and uh 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.320 and Rain could not make it, you know, just conflicts 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.800 and all that other kind of stuff. What we felt 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.959