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Speaker 2: And it's a good thing that.

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Speaker 1: We're both here today because guess what, I have an

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Speaker 1: extra special episode of Off the Beat. Oh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's your host, Brian Baumgartner. Now, if you follow at

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Speaker 1: off the Beat on Instagram, like I have very politely

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Speaker 1: asked you to many many times, or even if you

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Speaker 1: on social media. I asked all of you, my wonderful listeners,

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Speaker 1: to send in your questions for a little mailbag episode

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Speaker 1: of Off the Beat. That's right, ask me almost anything episode. Boy,

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Speaker 1: you guys delivered. I got so many great questions. There's

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Speaker 1: sadly no way that I could answer all of them.

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Speaker 1: I do wish I could, truly, I'd love to get

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Speaker 1: to all of them. For example, what a day? Four

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Speaker 1: fifty asked? How are babies made? Now, this is an

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Speaker 1: important question. It's very important for you all to know.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to be the one to teach you. However,

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Speaker 1: that would make this a very very different podcast. So

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Speaker 1: I encourage you to ask your parents. Some of your

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Speaker 1: other questions I just truly cannot answer. As in it's

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Speaker 1: Sid asked how to stay sane? Sid, Listen, We're in

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Speaker 1: the midst of a one hundred day actor strike that

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Speaker 1: writer strike. I wish that I could stay saying I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have chosen to be an actor. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I would have chosen to do, but truly, if

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Speaker 1: you figure that one out, how to stay sane? Well,

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Speaker 1: you have an open invitation to come on this podcast

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Speaker 1: Luckily, many of you ask questions that I actually can answer,

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Speaker 1: so I'm excited to do just that. Let's start off

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Speaker 1: with one from z f d A l WO eight.

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Speaker 1: The question is hello, Brian Well, yes, hello, indeed one down.

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Speaker 3: Bubble and squeak. I love it, bubble and squeak, bubble

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Speaker 1: A lot of you, when submitting questions, ask me some

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Speaker 1: very thoughtful questions about me, about my career and my journey,

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Speaker 1: like Amanda Bashuk, who asked, first or worst job you

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Speaker 2: This is? This is? This is a good one.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to start asking this in my interviews

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Speaker 1: of other people. First job, ever, I was a host

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Speaker 1: I think that there are high level paralegals that really

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Speaker 1: In fact, I can say today in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Thomas Lendon three asks a very insightful question,

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Speaker 1: does your fame hold your life back?

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Speaker 1: I saw your question come across. We have a great

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Speaker 1: MAXI Byrne asks was there ever a role that you

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've talked about this specifically. There

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Speaker 1: I like the bad guys? Is that wrong? I feel

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Speaker 1: This is some top secret stuff. Okay, I'm I'm finally

438
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Speaker 1: going to get to reveal this for you today. It's

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Speaker 1: a two part question.

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00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Brandon seal Knew asked, how does one attain so much

442
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: handsomeness and life is shit at it? How do you

443
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: not age? Like, don't be shy. Drop the skincare. Let

444
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: me just say this, it's just oh natural baby, combined

445
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Speaker 1: with a lot, a lot of plastic surgery.

446
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 2: So there you go.

447
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: Those are my tips for how to stay handsome and

448
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: my skincare routine. Get surgery off.

449
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Speaker 2: And no, don't to that. Actually, maybe I should write

450
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: it in a book. There's a new book idea for you.

451
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: Well, now that I've covered my first two passions, acting

452
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: and of course skincare. There are plenty of questions submitted

453
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Speaker 1: about one of my other passions, sports raw B number seven.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been playing golf? What do you

455
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Speaker 1: normally shoot, and what's your favorite club in the bag.

456
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: I didn't start playing golf as a kid raw B

457
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Speaker 1: number seven, And actually my raw number is about seven.

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Speaker 1: My handicap is it fluctuates between a six something and

459
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Speaker 1: a forty seven. No, that's my handicap I'm referring to

460
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Speaker 1: when I say my number. You know, I want my

461
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: first number to be a seven, meaning in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: It's usually not. For a while, it felt like no

463
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Speaker 1: matter what I did, it was an eighty one. I

464
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: haven't been playing so well recently, we'll see. I love

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Speaker 1: the game, as you all know. My favorite club in

466
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: the bag sixty degree wedge. Yeah, I hit it from

467
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Speaker 1: almost anywhere around the greens, and I would say, if

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Speaker 1: I had a best shot, it would be one hundred

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Speaker 1: yards an end. Most of the time that sixty degree

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Speaker 1: wedge is in my hand. Funk twenty four asks what

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Speaker 1: are you using on a par three two oh five

472
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Speaker 1: yard center pin? If you say no, there's no wind

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Speaker 1: and there's no uphill downhill elevation change. I'd be using

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Speaker 1: my hybrid twenty four. I think that's right. That's what

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Speaker 1: I would use, and I wouldn't step on it.

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Speaker 2: As they say.

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Speaker 1: If I got to wind at my back at all

478
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: and I can play it to the front easily, then

479
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: I'll hit a six iron. But I appreciate your specificity.

480
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: Phil in m N. Phil in Minnesota says, resolve this issue.

481
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: We see you show up for Roger cheering for the Jets,

482
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: So where is your long standing loyalty to Title Town USA?

483
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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: As many of you know, guest of the program here

485
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Speaker 1: and good friend of us on off the beat is

486
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And I was there at the Jets' first

487
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Speaker 1: game against the Bills. I have talked about it on

488
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's program and maybe a little bit. Here is

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Speaker 1: the most exciting open for a sporting event that I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen in my entire life, bar none. Twelve years

491
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Speaker 1: since the playoffs, twenty two years, since nine to eleven.

492
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Speaker 1: On nine to eleven, fifty five years. I believe that

493
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: my math is right. Since their last Super Bowl victory

494
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: I won, and only super Bowl victory the anticipation was incredible,

495
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Speaker 1: and I feel very lucky that I was there, and

496
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Speaker 1: of course was completely heartbroken at what transpired in that game.

497
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: But of course I still love the Packers. And burn

498
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Speaker 1: Berner asks, what Packers game are you going to this year?

499
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Speaker 1: I was just there. I was just there in Las

500
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Speaker 1: Vegas for the Packers Raiders game before their bye week.

501
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: I really was disappointed at the end of that game.

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Speaker 1: It was a great game and by the way, the Raiders,

503
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: hats off to the Raiders. That stadium there is incredible.

504
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Speaker 1: Do you ever have an opportunity to go see a

505
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: game there at Allegiant Field? Do it because it's fun.

506
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: It's fun, it's beautiful, it's Vegas. But the Raiders fans

507
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: are loud, the visiting fans obviously Packers they're loud. It

508
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: was a really fun game. I was very, very disappointed

509
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: the Packers couldn't win, but my love is still there.

510
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: I still bleed the green and gold. Now I just

511
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: have just got some green and black in there as well.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: The Jets, by the way, they're looking good, so we'll

514
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: see what happens. It's going to be a very exciting

515
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: last back half of the season. B Geittman asks, when

516
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Speaker 1: are you coming to Lambeau for a game? I'd love

517
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: to see you there. Look, I had a lot of

518
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: questions about when I'm coming to Green Bay this year.

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Speaker 2: As I just said, I was.

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Speaker 1: Able to see my beloved Green and Gold in Vegas

521
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure when I

522
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Speaker 1: will be out. I hope to make it out there,

523
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: you know. I always love to go to Lambo when

524
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: it's cold. Most people are the opposite, and I don't

525
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: like cold weather, but man, there's just nothing like it.

526
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: The frozen tundra and you really can see and feel

527
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: that home field advantage.

528
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 2: I love that.

529
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Speaker 1: So I'm hoping to get out once the weather turns

530
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: and see a game this year. But I'm very glad

531
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: I got to see a game already. Stash Mountain asks

532
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the conference realignment and expanded

533
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: playoff in college football? Well, first off, about the extended playoff,

534
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: it's about time. There are some people that think that

535
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: it's going to destroy the regular season because every game

536
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: won't be as important. I don't think that's true because

537
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: I think there will be enough incentive to be ranked higher.

538
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: Even if you believe you're going to get into the playoff,

539
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: that you're still going to be playing. The game's hard.

540
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: The game this last weekend, Penn State and Ohio State,

541
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: I know, had huge college football playoff implications, and people

542
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: talked about how that game wouldn't be as important. But look,

543
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: I think that the higher you end up, the better

544
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: it's going to be for you. And I think it's

545
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: going to give some more teams, some different teams. And

546
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: I say this as a fan of the University of Georgia,

547
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 1: more teams an opportunity to just be in it. And

548
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: I think that's good. Do I think it's going to

549
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: alter tremendously who ends up winning the national championship. No,

550
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll have a surprise here and there and

551
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: some more people involved. So I'm excited about that conference realignment.

552
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's all crazy town to me.

553
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean that the PAC twelve is no longer exists,

554
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: that you've got sixteen, eighteen, twenty teams in these mega conferences.

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00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: You know, I am I would say a traditionalist in

556
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: a way. I mean, look, things like the playoff, things

557
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: that make sense. I'm in favor of but I do

558
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: think whereas the expanded playoff is going to give more

559
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: teams an opportunity, I think that the conference realignment and

560
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: expanding these conferences, I think there's going to end up

561
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: being another tier in college football and there's ultimately going

562
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: to be fewer schools that have a chance, and I

563
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: think that's unfortunate.

564
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that it will that there'll be something left

566
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: there for the bowl games. I don't know, in a

567
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 1: lesser tier conference or our new league that will be born,

568
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: so there will be more than just Division One.

569
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: Maybe there'll be a Division one A and one B.

570
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think that these mega conferences

571
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: are not good, certainly not good for the fans and

572
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: not good for the schools that aren't in them.

573
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: So we'll see.

574
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Speaker 1: D Hoppy twenty six says, will you tell the Clemson

575
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 1: FaceTime story?

576
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: I don't know the Clemson FaceTime story. I don't know.

577
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what story we're referring to.

578
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but I will tell you. I was

579
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: asked when Joshua Brooks, the athletic director of the University

580
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: of Georgia, was named the athletic director. Someone in the

581
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: department asked me to send a video A cameo I

582
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: believe to Joshua congratulating him. I guess he was a

583
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: big fan of the Office and I had lost touch

584
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: with the athletic department at the University of Georgia for

585
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: a long time. I've been gone from Georgia for a

586
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: long time. Man, he brought me back into the Fray

587
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: in a big way. He's been so kind, reaching out

588
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: to me and inviting me to games and inviting me

589
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: to sit with him, and was with him the SEC

590
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: Championship game last year. And actually we'll see him this

591
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: weekend in Jacksonville. So I don't know about Clemson, but

592
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:36,959
Speaker 1: I'm very glad that I got re reintroduced and realigned

593
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: with the University of Georgia athletic program, that's for sure.

594
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: Ray Mitton asks, are you still in a fantasy football

595
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: league with other cast members from the Office. How is

596
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: your team doing? Who is in first place now? And

597
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: who drafted Joe Burrow? Well, look, I am still in

598
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: the Office Fantasy football league. I believe if this is

599
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: year eighteen or nineteen.

600
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: Of the league.

601
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: I am pulling up my stats as we speak. This

602
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: is real time here on off the beat. I'm not

603
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: doing great. Let me be honest about that. I've had

604
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: some injuries. It's been a little ugly. I will be clear.

605
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: Lee Kirk a director on the Office, you had to

606
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: have worked on the Office in order to be in

607
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: the Office Fantasy Football League also, incidentally, husband to Jenni

608
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: Fisher is in first place, only one loss.

609
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: I am down.

610
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: I will report mister Krazinsky, having an uncharacteristic positive year,

611
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: is in third, so Krazinsky making a run reign there

612
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: in sixth place, I'm in tenth, tenth out of twelve.

613
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: My point total is high, but I'm down. Yeah, I'm

614
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: sorry to be honest. I don't know who has Joe Burrow.

615
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: I did not draft, even though I love him, think

616
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: he's an absolute top quarterback. I thought the calf was

617
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: going to be a problem for him. But I'm in

618
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: tenth place in the Office Fantasy Football League.

619
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 2: So what do I know?

620
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Office, Well, of course, everybody's got questions

621
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: about the Office, especially with a little blurb from one

622
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: publication that was listed online in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Stick around and come back. I will answer your office

624
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: questions and more well, here we go. Let's finish it

625
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: off with some office questions, shall we. Mister fantasy two

626
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: four seven asked, Okay, did you really make all those

627
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: shots in a row in the basketball episode or was

628
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: it a double?

629
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 2: Was it a double?

630
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: Who looks like me? Nobody? If that was you, you

631
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: got some game. Well, thank you, mister fantasy guy two

632
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: four to seven. You're damn right I do. You're damn right.

633
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: I can shoot the JAYH. No, it was me, and

634
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: it was unedited, and it was thirteen in a row.

635
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: Check the DVD extended. They had to cut baskets that

636
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: I made because they only had twenty two minutes of

637
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,439
Speaker 1: airtime on NBC at the time.

638
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: And uh and yeah, they didn't.

639
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: Have time to show them all. But thank you so much.

640
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: Fifteen feet free throw line around the arc, thirteen in

641
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: a row. How many people have done that on network TV.

642
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: I don't even think Steph has done that. He's probably

643
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: dunked a few, but thirteen in a row for yours, truly?

644
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: Gladyso asks, what is this is one thing you and

645
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: Kevin Malone have in common?

646
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: Well, our basketball skills, obviously.

647
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: I think in the beginning Kevin and I were pretty

648
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: far apart. But that was the good thing about our writers.

649
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: They wanted to try to bring some of who we

650
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: are as people into the characters that we were playing. So,

651
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: you know I had an affinity for poker and maybe

652
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,760
Speaker 1: some gambling. Well that suddenly showed up for Kevin as well.

653
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: I will say this, I know I've said it before.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a drummer, so let me be clear. Kevin

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Speaker 1: is a way.

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Speaker 2: Better drummer than Brian ever was.

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Speaker 1: I got some help, but I also had some tutoring

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Speaker 1: as we got into later seasons. I was playing it,

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Speaker 1: but it was a struggle, that's for sure. Tiny dunder

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Speaker 1: Mifflin asks, Hi, Hi, did you come up with Kevin's

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Speaker 1: voice or was that the writer's idea? Tiny dunder Mifflin,

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Speaker 1: It's hard for me to answer this question because it was.

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Speaker 1: I guess it was a combination of what the writers

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Speaker 1: were writing for. I think that through our co creation

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Speaker 1: of Kevin Malone as a character, the writers began to

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Speaker 1: lean much more into his let's just call it childlike

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Speaker 1: sensibility in terms of his sense of humor and attitude

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Speaker 1: and behavior. I think he was originally intended to be

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Speaker 1: more of a Wallflower. I think that's what you call it.

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Speaker 1: More of a Toby. I think I think he was

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Speaker 1: intended originally to be more. You know, the original character

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Speaker 1: description was the only thing remarkable about Kevin is he

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Speaker 1: is remarkably unremarkable. And I think there was plenty in

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Speaker 1: the end remarkable about Kevin. I don't know if there

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Speaker 1: was about Toby. So the writers fell in love with

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Speaker 1: his childlike sensibility and way of speaking, and I certainly

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Speaker 1: leaned into that as well. Andrew Smoky Pickles fifty two said,

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Speaker 1: if you had to recast someone as Kevin Malone other

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Speaker 1: than you and Ashton Kocher.

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Speaker 2: Who would it be.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess I would tell you the truth or

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Speaker 1: the last three people who had the opportunity to play

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Speaker 1: Kevin Malone. Alison Jones gave me a piece of paper

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Speaker 1: at one point in time. Obviously, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels,

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Speaker 1: Ken kwappas director had a short list that I was chosen,

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Speaker 1: and the other two names Jorge Garcia of Lost Fame

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Speaker 1: and Others and Eric stone Street, Emmy winning actor from

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Speaker 1: Modern Family. So look, if those were the other two

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Speaker 1: guys on Greg and Ken and Ben's and Alison's list well,

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Speaker 1: they'll be on mine as well.

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Speaker 2: Give it to Jorge or to Eric. Well, as long as.

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Speaker 1: We're in the fantasy casting question section, it seems like

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Speaker 1: a lot of you guys are really really interested in

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Speaker 1: Kevin's love life. Emily wore three in if you could

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Speaker 1: invite any actress to play Kevin's love interest in an

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Speaker 1: office reboot, who would it be? And how do you

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Speaker 1: see the storyline unfolding?

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Speaker 2: Wow? Great question.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know who I hope would do it, Hillary Swank.

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Speaker 1: That's who I hope would do it. I think that

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Speaker 1: would be good for all of us.

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Speaker 2: That's all I'll say about that.

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Speaker 1: D marsh fourteen says, if Kevin ended up dating anyone

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Speaker 1: on the show, who would it have been?

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Speaker 2: And why? You know?

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Speaker 1: I dressed this a little bit in my the previous

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Speaker 1: iteration of the podcast. Not only did I want, I

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Speaker 1: actually pitched the writers to have Aaron and Kevin end

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Speaker 1: up together because I I thought that was a genius

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Speaker 1: combination of characters. I describe Ellie Kemper's portrayal of Aaron

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Speaker 1: as like a little hummingbird that just never stopped moving,

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Speaker 1: total energy and positivity and light, and Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Was like a rooted tree with a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Of a childlike sensibility, and she had a childlike sensibility.

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Speaker 1: So I thought that two of them together was perfect.

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Speaker 1: Ellie agreed on my podcast just for the record, she

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Speaker 1: agreed the writers didn't lie. They had they sort of

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Speaker 1: had the thing with Andy kind of worked out there,

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Speaker 1: and they wanted to explore the situation with her parents.

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Speaker 1: I understood all of that. It's just that's what I wanted,

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Speaker 1: and you asked the question, so I answered it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I got defens him about that.

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Speaker 1: One more Kevin related item. I want to settle once

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Speaker 1: and for all before we move on. Haint Blue Creative,

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Speaker 1: please define the numeric.

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Speaker 2: Value of akeleven.

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Speaker 1: This is what is perfect about a coleven. It is

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Speaker 1: exactly what you wanted to be. Let's move on a

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Speaker 1: few questions about the show the Office in general, Jar

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Speaker 1: Blue twelve. What did you look forward to the most

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Speaker 1: when filming the Office episodes? Filming special episodes like holiday ones,

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Speaker 1: or something else that you enjoyed. You know, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: as a big a fan of the Halloween episodes as

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. They were traditionally difficult in terms

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Speaker 1: of hair and makeup and costume. I think the longest

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Speaker 1: costume that I was in was Michael Moore costume, which

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Speaker 1: I was very itchy, the facial hair, very very itchy

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Speaker 1: and uncomfortable. The Christmas episodes I loved. They were a

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Speaker 1: ton of work. They were longer, very long days, fourteen

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Speaker 1: sixteen hour days trying to get it finished, especially with

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Speaker 1: the big parties and stuff. When I'm told now that

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Speaker 1: people go home or there with family and what they

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Speaker 1: do over Christmas time, much like I watch I don't

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Speaker 1: know the Grinch or the Christmas Story that they watch

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Speaker 1: the Office Christmas episodes. It's very odd. That's just cool.

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Speaker 1: There's just there's no way, there's no.

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Speaker 2: Way about it. That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And so the Christmas episodes for me are some of

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Speaker 1: the most special episodes and ones that I have the

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Speaker 1: fondest memories of now, benin O two, what are your

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Speaker 1: top three favorite episodes you shot in the office? Me

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Speaker 1: and my brothers love you guys, well, I love you guys,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Top three episodes. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: Stress Relief, I'm gonna go Niagara, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go Goodbye Michael. Those are the ones I don't know

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Speaker 1: if They're my favorite episodes, all of them in the end,

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Speaker 1: but those are the ones that I treasure and guess

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Speaker 1: what I got it two from one times three. There

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Speaker 1: were all two part episodes, so that's actually six episodes.

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Speaker 1: So I cheated the system, but somehow I still won.

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Speaker 1: I work at Walmart ten twelve. What's your favorite memory

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Speaker 1: from the Office. Well, some of the episodes I just

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Speaker 1: mentioned memories came flooded back as I just as I

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Speaker 1: just said them. But mostly it's about my favorite memories

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Speaker 1: now are about the moments when we weren't shooting, going

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Speaker 1: to the Golden Globes or the Emmy Awards, or being

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Speaker 1: at someone's house early on, watching the episodes, wondering if

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Speaker 1: we were ever going to get to do them again,

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Speaker 1: believing we were done after six episodes or twelve episodes,

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Speaker 1: and then being back for two hundred whatever. Yeah, those

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Speaker 1: are those are my favorite memories now. And you know

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Speaker 1: when when my text goes off and it's from our

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Speaker 1: our group text chain, yeah, the memories are right there. Man,

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Speaker 1: feels like so long ago. And also just yesterday. Emily

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Speaker 1: Jones fifteen, who was someone you wished made a guest

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Speaker 1: appearance on the Office Wow, that's a great question. We

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Speaker 1: had so many, really, so many great guest appearances. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it just popped into my head. I was told we

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Speaker 1: made the first network television joke about Barack Obama when

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Speaker 1: he became president, when Michael said to Stanley, Barack Obama's president.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say Barack Obama. That would have been

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. We made the first joke, so we we

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Speaker 1: should have let him on and say hi, alec Olsen

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Speaker 1: five on The Office deep Dive. You always ask your

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Speaker 1: guests why they think The Office now is more popular

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Speaker 1: than ever, But I've always wondered what your answer is,

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Speaker 1: Why do you think the show still holds up? Because

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Speaker 1: it makes you feel good and it's funny. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: by the way for being a longtime listener if you

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Speaker 1: heard all those interviews. But I think that's I think

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Speaker 1: that's the answer for me. It's funny, and it holds

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Speaker 1: up and it makes you feel good. Ultimately, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: an accident that we ended in Oral History of the

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Speaker 1: Office with that quote, there's beauty and ordinary things. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that kind of the point. I think it's a celebration

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Speaker 1: of ordinary people doing ordinary things, but given value and

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Speaker 1: wait and told you may be ordinary, but you're important

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Speaker 1: and deserve to be celebrated and focused on on a

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Speaker 1: television show. You don't have to just beautiful to be

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Speaker 1: focused on. That's why I think it is because it

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Speaker 1: makes people feel good to Biac Maniac says, could you

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Speaker 1: have played Kevin for another five seasons? I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: we ended where we did because we told a complete story.

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Speaker 1: But sure I missed the guy. You know, I missed

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Speaker 1: the guy. And Gregory Seewald asks, well, I guess we've

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Speaker 1: saved the real question for last. Any comment on those

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Speaker 1: rumors of an Office reboot. Look, there was a story

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago in one publication that indicated that

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Speaker 1: an Office reboot was eminently going to be announced as

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Speaker 1: soon as the writer's strike was over. I probably would

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Speaker 1: not have answered this question. I would have told my

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Speaker 1: producers no. However, Greg Daniels just yesterday did an interview

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Speaker 1: an indicted that the announcement that there was an Office

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Speaker 1: reboot by this publication and that it was going to

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Speaker 1: be announced after the writer's strike was settled, might have

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Speaker 1: been a little premature, but he showed appreciation for there

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Speaker 1: being so much interest in it. I too appreciate how

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Speaker 1: interested people seem to be in this. I have no

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Speaker 1: idea if there will be an Office reboot. But more

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Speaker 1: than that, I don't know what an Office reboot means.

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Speaker 1: And what I really think is the people who are

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Speaker 1: writing articles about it doesn't know what that means.

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Speaker 2: Either. Is a reboot a reunion? Is it a reimagination?

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Speaker 1: Is it a continuation of the story.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they think it means.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, whatever Greg Daniels decides to do

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Speaker 1: and whatever story he wants to tell, I have full

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Speaker 1: belief in that. But as to whether there is an

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Speaker 1: imminent Office reboot coming, well, no one's called me yet,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I'll be hanging on just like the rest of you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all of your questions, everybody. I could

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Speaker 1: have kept answering your questions for another five seasons. That

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Speaker 1: was very fun. Hopefully you didn't get tired of the

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Speaker 1: sound of my voice. I need somebody else in next

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Speaker 1: week so we don't have to just listen to me.

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Speaker 1: But I got to wrap things up here. I did

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Speaker 1: want to get to one more thought provoking question from HB.

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Speaker 1: Cely One, Why ask many words when.

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Speaker 2: Few word do trick well.

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Speaker 1: I could have asked less words, but then I would

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Speaker 1: have gotten a lot less questions from you. That's a sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to make one more question here, Spooky Kangaroo

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Speaker 1: Rats thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Did you have a good day today? Spooky? I did

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Speaker 2: have a good day.

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Speaker 1: I had a fantastic day because I enjoyed doing this

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Speaker 1: with all of you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your thoughtful, your.

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Speaker 1: Fun, your interesting questions. I've said this before, these mailbag episodes.

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Speaker 1: They make me feel like I get to know many

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Speaker 1: of you a little bit better as listeners because nobody's

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Speaker 1: ever interviewing me here. Hopefully you get to know me

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Speaker 1: and at least what I'm thinking a little bit better

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Speaker 1: as well. You're the best. Thank you. I hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed this little ask me almost anything copyright. I hope

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Speaker 1: you have a good day too, and until next time,

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Speaker 1: by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Lang Lee.

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