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Speaker 1: This is Ed Helms and I played Andy Bernard on

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Speaker 1: the Office. All right, hello everybody, and welcome back. This

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Speaker 1: is the Office Deep Dive, and as always I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Brian Baumgartner. And guess what that was my mouth? Today

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Speaker 1: have another big announcement to tell you about at the

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Speaker 1: end of this episode, so make sure you stay tuned

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Speaker 1: after the interview and and find out what in the

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Speaker 1: world that could be. Trust me, it is good. And lastly,

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Speaker 1: what you all came here for, my very special guest,

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Speaker 1: that is returning for part two of our conversation the

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Speaker 1: Nord Dog himself, Ed Helms. Now, if you haven't already,

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Speaker 1: make sure you go and listen to part one, but

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Speaker 1: then come right back here, because I've been saving the

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Speaker 1: best for last. Yes, that's right, the last. I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to wrap up the interviews, which I know is very

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Speaker 1: bitter sweet. But the good news is, over the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks you're going to hear a few of my

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Speaker 1: very favorite episodes with some of my favorite guests, and

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Speaker 1: you also may hear some of yourself. But that being said,

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Speaker 1: today's interview truly is it is. It's one of my

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Speaker 1: favorites because you get to see Ed in a different way.

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Speaker 1: Right Ed is known for playing these kind of loud, bumbling,

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Speaker 1: I mean hilarious but maybe slightly obnoxious characters. Right but

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Speaker 1: Ed himself, he's just he is so not that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is hilarious and and he's a comedy nerd. We

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Speaker 1: talk about that. But today what you're going to get

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Speaker 1: to see is a very sweet, thoughtful side of Ed

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Speaker 1: because that's who he is, and I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: Things get a little emotional. So here he is the

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Speaker 1: incomparable Mr Ed helms Bubble and Squeak. I love it

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Speaker 1: Bubble and squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cookie, every moment

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Speaker 1: left over from the NAB before you said you were

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Speaker 1: a comedy nerd. What what was it about the Office

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Speaker 1: when you started initially watching it that you felt like

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Speaker 1: you were seeing something different? What? What? What? What was that? Well?

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't. I didn't even I

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Speaker 1: wasn't able to sort of understand what I liked about it.

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Speaker 1: But what I do think is kind of hilarious is

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Speaker 1: that all of the awkwardness and the tension that we

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Speaker 1: think is so funny our parents generation, especially as Southern parents,

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Speaker 1: And even on the Daily Show, especially with the field pieces,

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Speaker 1: the correspondent field pieces, it was all about finding extremely

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Speaker 1: um because that tension is funny. Uh. And that that's

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Speaker 1: can't watch Scott's Taughts like Scott's Taughts somehow puts it

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Speaker 1: why is that? And I think it's kind of what

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Speaker 1: But that's just a funny side note. What was I

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Speaker 1: don't write, oh, did you really sing Acapello at Oberlin? Um?

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Speaker 1: and I think especially in college acapella groups, there's a

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Speaker 1: Letting you get to know these actors and writers and

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Speaker 1: good time. Now. As for the name, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be called Off the Beat. And here's the story behind that.

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Speaker 1: It'll be everything you loved about the Office Deep Dive

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Speaker 1: and so much more. But before the new year, I

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your stories. How has the Office

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Speaker 1: This is your opportunity to share those stories, not just

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Speaker 1: is to use use the voice Memo app on your phone,

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Speaker 1: That is the Office deep Dive at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Make sure to include your name, where you're from, and

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Speaker 1: your number two, because yes, I am going to call

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it. I've announced just about everything there

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Speaker 1: thank you so much again for listening, and have a

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Speaker 1: great one everyone. The Office. Deep Dive is hosted and

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Speaker 1: executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer

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Speaker 1: Lang Lee. Our senior producer is Tessa Kramer. Our producers

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Speaker 1: are Liz Hayes and Diego Tapia. My main man in

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Speaker 1: performed by my great friend Cree Bratton, and the episode

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