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Speaker 1: Hello, Oh, I am so excited. Welcome to a very

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Speaker 1: special episode of the Office Deep Dive. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Brian baum Gartner. Listen. Even though we put out our

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Speaker 1: usual Tuesday episode yesterday with Mr Ben Silverman, I am

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Speaker 1: coming at you today with this bonus episode because sixteen

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Speaker 1: years ago today, on Thursday, March two thousand five, at

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Speaker 1: nine pm local time, the American Office premiered on NBC.

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Speaker 1: That's right, the Office turns sixteen today. Happy Sweet sixteen everybody. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is exciting. Now. I checked, weirdly, this is not

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Speaker 1: recognized as a national holiday. Weird. But in honor of

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Speaker 1: the special occasion, I am throwing you are fans a

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Speaker 1: sweet sixteen party. This episode is for you, the wonderful

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Speaker 1: fans who love the show and have been showing so

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Speaker 1: much love for this podcast. I'm going to answer some

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Speaker 1: of the fantastic questions that you sent in and tell

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Speaker 1: even more behind the scenes stories that we didn't get

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Speaker 1: to on the podcast. And I'm gonna respond to some

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Speaker 1: of your comments about the podcast itself. I seriously love

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Speaker 1: hearing from you guys, so I am very excited to

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Speaker 1: respond to some of your burning questions. But first, because

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Speaker 1: this is our special fan episode. I am going to

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Speaker 1: have a chat with one well lucky fan. This guy

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Speaker 1: is an office super fan. I met him wow, thirteen

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Speaker 1: years ago. Then he started like stalking me on social media.

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Speaker 1: And then one day I show up to set and

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Speaker 1: other actors. And then he ended up making an appearance

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Speaker 1: in one episode of the show, the series finale no Less.

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Speaker 1: And he also happens to be the NFL's m v

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Speaker 1: P and for sixteen years, the quarterback of the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers. That's right, Please give a warm welcome to

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Speaker 1: my friend Aaron Rodgers. Aaron, how's it going. That's a

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Speaker 1: nice intro there, buddy. I mean, if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: someone eventually the Hall of Fame, I might be available

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Speaker 1: if you're interested. You get the perfect face for radio,

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Speaker 1: my friend, Like I've always always told you, uh years

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Speaker 1: though I can't believe it's been thirteen years. I remember

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Speaker 1: when we met. I was so juiced because I was

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Speaker 1: a huge fan of the show. But um, wow, that

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Speaker 1: is it's it's crazy thirteen years and and my favorite

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Speaker 1: part about that story is I didn't know who you were.

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Speaker 1: I don't know you were either I thought you were

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Speaker 1: somebody scatty or so yes. I Um, when when did

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Speaker 1: you start watching The Office? Did you watch it from

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Speaker 1: the beginning. I didn't watch from the beginning. Um, I

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Speaker 1: knew that you you were watching it. Why why do

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Speaker 1: because every time we see Kevin, we're reminded of someone.

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Speaker 1: Every time we see Ryan the Temper, were reminded that

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Speaker 1: And I think just the meanings, the deeper meaning of

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Speaker 1: The way it's written, the character arcs for so many

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Speaker 1: of you reached out on social media with questions about

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Speaker 1: the Office. I'm going to try to answer as many

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Speaker 1: as I can here, But if yours doesn't get answered,

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Speaker 1: or if you have even more questions, don't worry. We

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Speaker 1: will definitely be doing more episodes like this, So let's

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Speaker 1: keep the lines of communication open. People subscribe and comment

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Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, the I Heart Radio app, or any

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Speaker 1: other social media because me or my team we will

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Speaker 1: be watching, so listen. I apologize in advance if I

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Speaker 1: mispronounced anyone's name today. But our first question, mailbag, we

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Speaker 1: have someone, I'm told who might be able to challenge

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Speaker 1: Aaron's title as the number one fan. Gregory Hunter McDowell says, Hi,

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Speaker 1: Brian in alone, I watched The Office twenty two times. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it was my go to show from tragedies to triumphs.

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Speaker 1: My favorite thing about your character was your side glance

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Speaker 1: to the camera. My question would be what was your

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Speaker 1: favorite game or website on your work computer you went

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Speaker 1: to to portray working. Great question. Uh, Now, when The

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Speaker 1: Office came on, we didn't have internet access the first year,

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Speaker 1: and then they were like, well, let's make this more realistic, right,

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Speaker 1: We're all about realism. So our computers started working, and

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Speaker 1: what my space was the social media do your um

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Speaker 1: at the time, and so a number of us got

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Speaker 1: on my We thought, well, if we're in an office,

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Speaker 1: what are office workers around the land right now doing?

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Speaker 1: There on my Space? So I got on my Space

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Speaker 1: as my character Kevin Malone, and I had a blog,

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Speaker 1: and I never veered from actor to character. In other words,

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Speaker 1: it was Kevin Malone, who was sitting in an office

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Speaker 1: called dunder Mifflin, was not aware that he was being

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Speaker 1: filmed or on television, who was just writing about his experience.

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Speaker 1: I need to go back and read some of those

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Speaker 1: blogs and see if they're just terrible or if it's

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Speaker 1: kind of fun. But the most fun thing I did

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Speaker 1: was people started on my Space asking me for signed pictures.

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Speaker 1: Will you send a signed picture? And I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: I can't do that because I'm just Kevin Malone, an

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Speaker 1: accountant who doesn't know he's on television. So I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you want a picture of me,

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Speaker 1: but if you send me a signed picture of you,

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Speaker 1: then I will send you back a signed picture of me.

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Speaker 1: And I got thousands of signed pictures from people to

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Speaker 1: Kevin uh and and it was it was a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. I then I sent them a headshut back.

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Speaker 1: I kind of destroyed the game at the end. I

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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, well this is what you want, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna send that. But I had a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun doing that. So I would say I

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Speaker 1: did a lot of my Space sing I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's a word. And um and I paid bills because

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Speaker 1: I thought I would get on an online you know,

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Speaker 1: bill pay thing and I would like pay bills because

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, these documents look like financial documents,

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Speaker 1: and I'm an accountant, right, so it's very realistic that

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Speaker 1: I'm shuffling around my bills and paying them on set.

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Speaker 1: It works. So there you go. That was what I

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Speaker 1: would do on my computer. Uh. Daniel Gutierrez says, Hi,

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Speaker 1: dad who chose this comment? Well, Hi, Daniel, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know you existed, but it's good to know that you do.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well in life and reach out

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Speaker 1: when you're when you're thirty five. Uh oh. We have

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Speaker 1: a one star review from gold Hohore gold Whore. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how else I could pronounce that on the

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts app with the following comment one star review.

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Speaker 1: Not what I thought. I thought it was work related.

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Speaker 1: Now wait a second. You listen to the podcast and

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Speaker 1: thought this was about a deep dive into working at

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Speaker 1: an office? Gold? Horror, my friend? And did you did

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Speaker 1: you read the description? Because I'm pretty sure in the

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Speaker 1: description it should be clear that this would not be

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Speaker 1: about working in an actual office. But I'm sorry you

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Speaker 1: were you were dissatisfied. Katie O zero zero one oh

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Speaker 1: a five star review on Apple Podcasts. Love this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I love it, But just play the whole podcast. Why

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Speaker 1: do you need to break it up? Trying to remember

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Speaker 1: past episodes will be kind of annoying. I listened to

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Speaker 1: Rogan for three plus hours. Thanks well, Katio zero zero one,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the question. We've we've gotten this question

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. Why are we breaking up and releasing

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Speaker 1: part one Part two? For some of the people we interviewed. Well,

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Speaker 1: the reason why is we've structured this podcast as a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into the office, so we have subjects or

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Speaker 1: sections themes. For example, we've started with the origin section,

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Speaker 1: which is the beginning of a show, bringing the show

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Speaker 1: from Ricky and Stephen from the UK to the US

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Speaker 1: casting the pilot, how difficult it was for the show

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Speaker 1: to stay on the air it's first couple of seasons,

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Speaker 1: and so some of the interviews that were particularly long,

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Speaker 1: we wanted you to hear from those people when we

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Speaker 1: did our deep dive into that subject. So as we

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Speaker 1: move on to other subjects, like the camera as the

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Speaker 1: character when we talk about Steve Correll leaving, some of

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Speaker 1: the parts of those interviews fit better in those sections.

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Speaker 1: So we're not trying to torture you by only releasing

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Speaker 1: a part of the interview. You will hear part two

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Speaker 1: is very very soon. But that's the reason that we

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Speaker 1: have structured it this way. We're trying to tell a story,

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Speaker 1: a narrative through all of these interviews, so you really

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Speaker 1: get a deep dive into the office. Andrew Montavan asks,

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Speaker 1: did the Office, like the physical set become a home

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Speaker 1: for you guys? I have seen so many bloopers and

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Speaker 1: so many things of you guys just enjoying yourselves and

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Speaker 1: each other. It must have been ours anyway, big fan

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Speaker 1: of the show, the podcast and anything the Office. Um,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much, Andrew, and yes, I mean what

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know, which we haven't discussed

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Speaker 1: so much in the podcast, is for that one half

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Speaker 1: hour of television you know on NBC with commercials, was

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Speaker 1: a week. I mean those that was the amount of

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Speaker 1: time that it took to get those twenty two minutes

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Speaker 1: for an episode, and we would shoot one episode in

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Speaker 1: a week. So, yes, it looked like a home because

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Speaker 1: things that made it unique about other shows because of

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Speaker 1: the way the show was shot. We were all there

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Speaker 1: so much. Usually it's like the star of the show

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Speaker 1: might be their sixty to seventy hours in a week,

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Speaker 1: and everyone else kind of comes in and does their

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Speaker 1: scenes and then they leave. We were all there. But

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that gave us

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Speaker 1: um the truly special bond that we have. Ahmed Skywalker rights, Hi,

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Speaker 1: tomorrow is my birthday. Can you say happy birthday to me? Ahmed?

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday? Uh? This next post I am told got

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Speaker 1: a number of likes who used to laugh the most

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Speaker 1: during the scenes and was it hard to control the laughter.

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Speaker 1: Samuel big Fan from Brazil. Mindy Kaling that that that

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Speaker 1: Mindy Kaling, and I think she would own up to that. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I will answer this in another way. The person

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Speaker 1: Oscar Nunius. He has the greatest dead pan and it

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Speaker 1: is really hard, very very difficult to break him, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. Maybe in the scene the Gay witch Hunt,

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Speaker 1: Steve finally got him and occasionally he would laugh. But

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Speaker 1: but Oscar Nunias was um. He laughed the least, and

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Speaker 1: I I had a difficult time myself. I'll be honest,

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Speaker 1: Cassidy Rights. I drive all day for work as a

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Speaker 1: medical career, and I've really enjoyed listening to your podcast

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Speaker 1: while working. It helps the day go by faster and

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Speaker 1: makes sitting in traffic a little less boring. Well, Cassidy,

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Speaker 1: thank you one for the work that you're doing right now,

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Speaker 1: come out of this this hot circle of garbage they

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Speaker 1: call a global pandemic, it is the appreciation that all

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Speaker 1: of us now have, or certainly should have for the

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Speaker 1: people who are working on the front lines, um, nurses, doctors,

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Speaker 1: medical couriers, those who are doing important things that keep

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Speaker 1: us safe. So thank you, Cassidy, and I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: I can make sitting in traffic a little less boring. Uh.

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Speaker 1: A lot of questions here I am told about will

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Speaker 1: of course my chili or specifically Kevin's famous chili. Uh.

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Speaker 1: A lot of likes. On the next question, hey Zeus,

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Speaker 1: Mendez says how many batches of chili were made when

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Speaker 1: Kevin brought in the chili and dropped it? And how

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Speaker 1: many times did you have to shoot that cold open. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm tremendously proud of this, hey Zeus, so I will

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Speaker 1: answer it. Um. I assume they had three batches of chili,

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Speaker 1: because I remember very specifically the set dress ng um

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Speaker 1: props people coming to me, like not wanting to tell

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Speaker 1: the bosses or the producers or whatever. They were like

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Speaker 1: coming to me kind of back channeling and saying like, okay,

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Speaker 1: the biggest issue was the carpet, right. So they had

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Speaker 1: gigantic pieces of carpet that they had laid out over

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Speaker 1: the floor and they came to me and they were like, Brian,

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Speaker 1: we have three pieces of carpet. And I mean by

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Speaker 1: giant piece of carpet, I mean from the front door

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Speaker 1: all the way past the reception desk over to like

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Speaker 1: the we called it the gem and Dwight pod of

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Speaker 1: desks there um. And they were like, we have three

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Speaker 1: pieces of carpet, so we I mean, we can't do

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Speaker 1: any more than that. I got it in one I'm

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Speaker 1: a I'm a one taker. I don't think that makes sense,

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Speaker 1: but I here's the thing. There were three pieces of carpet,

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Speaker 1: but there was only one of me, and so they

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Speaker 1: had thought about cleaning the carpet. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: anyone really understood what was going to happen to me

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Speaker 1: when I was done. I mean, my hands were kind

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Speaker 1: of stained right like they weren't they were, it was

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Speaker 1: not a natural color. And that day I might have

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Speaker 1: showered with five people. I mean there might have been

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Speaker 1: five people in there. I mean from wardrobe and makeup

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Speaker 1: and hair people. I mean I was like striping. I'm

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Speaker 1: not to get to graphic here, but like taking off close.

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Speaker 1: I was such a mess. And if we had not

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Speaker 1: gotten it in that one take, I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what we would have done. If we would

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Speaker 1: have had to just come back the next day. But thankfully, um,

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Speaker 1: thankfully we got it and well that moment, I mean truly,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe what has happened to them more. I

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Speaker 1: never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be

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Speaker 1: talking about Chili Um all of these many years later. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Jason Swimmer, sorry again, I apologize if I'm if I'm

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Speaker 1: missed pronouncing the names. My name is Jason, and I'm

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Speaker 1: a podcaster too. It would be awesome if you could

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Speaker 1: shout me out. Well, there you go, if I said

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Speaker 1: your name right, Oh, Schwimer, Schwimer, that's it. Actually he did.

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Speaker 1: He did give his own pronunciation, Jason Schwimer. Um, good

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Speaker 1: luck to you. My friend, Grant Bain says, thank you

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Speaker 1: for this podcast. What are your thoughts on the theory? Oh,

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Speaker 1: here we go that Kevin is a secret genius who

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Speaker 1: is running an embezzlement operation at the company and he

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Speaker 1: uses that money to buy the bar in the finale episode.

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite theories. Okay, So I used

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Speaker 1: to get asked this all the time when I did

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Speaker 1: Q and Ice, and I finally went down the dark,

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Speaker 1: dark rabbit hole, which is is redditum, which is fun,

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Speaker 1: but you don't want to get caught down there. And

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Speaker 1: I started reading these feeds and people how they from

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Speaker 1: small moments, how they had concocted this idea that Kevin

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Speaker 1: is a secret genius was so amazing to me. I

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Speaker 1: can only tell you that was not that was not

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Speaker 1: in our thoughts. I'm sorry to say that, and it

641
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: certainly was not in mind playing it now, maybe Greg

642
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: Daniels would answer differently, but I think I think the

643
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: idea is amazing and and in point of fact, speaking

644
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: of deleted scenes, the idea of in part behind Kevin's bar,

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Speaker 1: I will share this. Here's a here's a new thing

646
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: for you, here's a new what do we call them,

647
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, never before heard moments. So the idea

648
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: from Greg in the series finale was that Kevin became

649
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: a fan favorite once the the fictional documentary started airing.

650
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: Kevin was a fan favorite, and everywhere he went people

651
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: would buy him drinks. And there was a bar that

652
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: he would go to and people would buy him drinks.

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00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: This is it's something like this, and part of it

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00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: was based on my own experience, by the way, like

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00:37:53,800 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: in life, so he had gotten a gigantic credit tab

656
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: because he couldn't consume all the drinks he was offered

657
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: at this bar, which was partly how he obtained the bar.

658
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: I think it was something like that, but that was

659
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Speaker 1: part of the idea, was that Kevin became a huge

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Speaker 1: fan favorite once the fictional documentary aired. Um Emily Lemkey,

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00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: Emily from Kansas. I sometimes think about where the characters

662
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: would be today. Where do you think Kevin would be

663
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: still at dunder Mifflin Married. Well, let me tell you, Emily,

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Speaker 1: what I hope is that Kevin is still sitting at

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Speaker 1: that bar and he is really really happy. That's what

666
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: I imagine him where he is and what he's doing today.

667
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: And I hope, I hope, beyond hope, that that is

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Speaker 1: where he is. Angelo writes not to get too negative,

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Speaker 1: but I'm genuinely curious, what was truly the most stressful

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Speaker 1: or emotionally tasking time or moments for all of you

671
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: as a cast. Angelo from Buffalo, New York. Oh, I

672
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: don't know that that's negative. Listen. I I'm gonna answer

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Speaker 1: this in two ways. I don't know how you intended it,

674
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 1: but the first couple of years, as we have discussed

675
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: and will continue to discuss in this podcast when the

676
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: show was truly almost canceled. There's we're not exaggerating this,

677
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: like we truly thought we were out of a job

678
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: a number of times over the first two years, including

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Speaker 1: after we filmed the pilot, so before anything was on TV.

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00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: That was very stressful, um and very emotionally difficult for us.

681
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: In terms of on set activities difficult. I'm sure everyone

682
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Speaker 1: would have a different answer. Minus the fire, not the

683
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: fake fire drill, but the fire. When Ryan started the fire,

684
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: we were shooting that it was supposed to be fall

685
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: in scranted and we had on coats and in that

686
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: parking lot in in Van Nuys, California, it was about

687
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten degrees and that one was that

688
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: one was not fun. Ryan Spady says, why use big

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Speaker 1: word when small word do trick? Ryan, do you mean,

690
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: why waste time say a lot word when few word

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Speaker 1: do trick? I think that's what you mean. Benny spie Whack,

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Speaker 1: Oh writer and producer Benny spie Whack, from an Oral

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Speaker 1: History of the Office, writes Greg Daniels, said he always

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Speaker 1: looked to you for a button. What's your favorite one? Yes.

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Speaker 1: So I was tremendously proud that Greg brought this up

696
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Speaker 1: in my interview with him that oftentimes at the end

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Speaker 1: of a scene, um, nothing funny would be happening, like

698
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: there would be an important reason that we would need

699
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: to have a scene in for the story of an episode.

700
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: But you know, in comedy, you you often want to

701
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: end a scene on a button. And so Matt Sone

702
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: and Randall Ironhorn, the camera people would would at times

703
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: look to me and I would try to give them

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00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: a button. What was my favorite one? I'm not exactly sure.

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Speaker 1: I think it would relate to the episode with Kevin

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00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: saying what does a bean mean? There was something very

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Speaker 1: funny about that, and I think it was scripted once

708
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: what does a bean mean? Because Kevin got no beans

709
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: and other people had beans and this was very concerning

710
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: to him. Uh, And I think I ended up saying

711
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: that and ended the scene with that button what does

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Speaker 1: a bean mean? I'm going with that right now. Ella

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Speaker 1: Hendrickson rights, this is Ella here, Hi, Ella, who would

714
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Speaker 1: you describe as the unsung here rows of the office? Wow,

715
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: that is a great question. Um, Phil Shay, who was

716
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: our prop master, he was an unsung hero of the

717
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: Office for sure. The amount of props that were written

718
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: into the show and that just existed on the set

719
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: of The Office that were needed in particular episodes, sometimes

720
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: very obscure objects that were difficult to find. He is

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00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: a true unsung hero of the show. Um. Now they've

722
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: both gone on to great success. I've mentioned them before,

723
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: but Matt Son and Randall Einhorn, the guys who were

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Speaker 1: holding the cameras, I mean, that is tremendously difficult work

725
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: and they were generally just held on the shoulders um

726
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: and sometimes for long periods of time where we would

727
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: shoot and go back and improv and I physically demanding work.

728
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Speaker 1: But but not just that, the degree of care that

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00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: they showed for how the show was shot and really

730
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: viewed themselves as a character trying to find the right

731
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: story as a documentarian would. Um, those things are difficult

732
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: to write, they're difficult to direct. But those guys just

733
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: got it. So even though they have great success now, uh,

734
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Speaker 1: someone appreciates them, I would consider them unsung heroes of

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00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 1: the Office for sure. Julian Go Tiangko rights. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I missed that up Hi, Brian, huge fan. This is

737
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: Julian My favorite episode is the Niagara Falls episode. My

738
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Speaker 1: question is who in the writer's room came up with

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00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: the idea for Kevin to wear Kalenix tissue boxes as

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00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: shoes after his shoes were incinerated. Another fan, Rebecca Morrow, asked,

741
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: were they hard to walk in? Where they custom fit

742
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: to your feet? It's one of my favorite scenes of

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00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: all time. Well, I I will tell you I if

744
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm at a fan event or a college or something,

745
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: I am always amused with who come up and are

746
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: wearing tissue box shoes because I know that it's really

747
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: not comfortable. It's they're really they're they're not comfortable. And

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Speaker 1: I will tell you actually, when we for John Krasinski's

749
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: show during the pandemic Some Good News, we did a

750
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: wedding and he came to all of us and asked

751
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: us to appear. And I was like, well, I have

752
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: to have tissue box shoes on right, I'm attending these

753
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 1: people's weddings. Let's let's do it. I couldn't find any

754
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: big enough, so I don't actually know. I have intended

755
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: to go back and ask Phil Shay Props, like where

756
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: did you find these? Maybe they were like Costco Sam's

757
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: Club supersized clean xboxes. I don't know, but I couldn't

758
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: find any um that that fit me. Yeah there and

759
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: again not comfortable. Uh wolf calm oh a five star

760
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: review on Apple Reviews rights, I'm going down, yelling Timber,

761
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 1: and I want to swim in this amazing Ear Whole

762
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: Candy until I'm old and wrinkly. Wow. Maybe my favorite

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00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: comment or review of all time. Ere anything that mentions

764
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 1: Ear Whole Candy and I'm going down yelling Timber. Well,

765
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: that works for me. Breezy Benna on Apple Podcasts, Uh,

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00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 1: five star review again, thank you, great job. I love

767
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 1: both podcasts, The Office Ladies and this one as well.

768
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: They did such a wonderful job giving us multiple points

769
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: of views and even deeper dives into such a great show.

770
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: Now I have two podcasts to look forward to. Uh,

771
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: Breezy Benna, I couldn't agree more. And let me just say,

772
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out The Office Ladies podcast, very

773
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 1: they don't sound like me. I know, it's very weird. Uh.

774
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: They have done a fantastic job going episode by episode,

775
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: examining and telling behind the scenes stories. Uh. It's a

776
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: rewatch show and it's fantastic and so um my good

777
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: friends Jenna Fisher and Angela Kenzie gracious, even though they're

778
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: talking all the time on their podcast, they graciously agreed

779
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: to come and spend hours with me um talking about

780
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,919
Speaker 1: the Office in a different way than even they do

781
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: on their podcast. So yes, Um, please check that out

782
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for listening here. Um. Whyatt

783
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: Stevens asks prior to your casting of Kevin, where were

784
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: you in your professional career as it pertains to film

785
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: and TV? If The Office never happened, do you believe

786
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: other projects could have kept you in the game? And lastly,

787
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: if I can, what's the best advice you could give

788
00:46:52,640 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: to one entertainment Wow? Great questions, Wyatt. Um. First of all,

789
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: I was a theater actor. I had graduated from college

790
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: and was traveling around as a regional theater actor, doing

791
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: very very uh small theaters and doing some large ones

792
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: as well. And I was traveling city to city getting

793
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: work where I could, and I decided to move to

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00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I felt like it was time. I had

795
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: had a couple of experiences that that made me want

796
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: to pursue it, and I was fortunate enough. Um, just

797
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: a couple of months after coming to Los Angeles, I

798
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: met Alison Jones and Greg Daniels and was cast on

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Speaker 1: the Office. So for me, I was very new in

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00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: film and television. I had done a few guest star parts,

801
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: I had done a couple of commercials, um but when

802
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: I was first seen on the Office, I had not

803
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: done much film and television at all. And I feel

804
00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: tremendously lucky one obviously to have met them and to

805
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: have found the right show for me at the right time. Um.

806
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: My advice for anyone wanting to be an entertainment is

807
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: consume material, watch material, practice your craft. You know. I

808
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: will say it was very lucky that I met Alison

809
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: Jones and Greg at the same time. I will say

810
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: I knew the British version of the Office, and I

811
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: knew the style worked well for me. I knew they

812
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: were looking for unknown people, so I actually pursued this job.

813
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: And if I hadn't been watching other television or studying

814
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: what was being released, what the styles were that were

815
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: being released that appealed to me and my specific sensibilities

816
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: and strengths, I would not have pushed as hard for

817
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: this show. So it was timing. It was great timing

818
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: I was in Los Angeles, but also I watched things,

819
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Speaker 1: even things that I didn't like or appreciate. I watched

820
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: them because I felt like I needed to know what

821
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: was out there in order to work in the business.

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Speaker 1: So thank you. Um, Kathy Chevalier wait wait wait or

823
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: Chevalier potato potato. Do any cast members hope to do

824
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: a sort of reunion show in the future. Has anyone

825
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: pitched any ideas? Um? We have discussed it quite a lot.

826
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: I believe it is certainly possible. There are some ideas

827
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: that have been circulated amongst email and text chains, but

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Speaker 1: I am not at liberty to discuss that. I will

829
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: answer any questions about anything that's happened in the past.

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00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: As for the future, I will only say, oh, I

831
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 1: think some people would love to do that, and I've

832
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: heard rumblings of some ideas of it, So there you go. Sorry,

833
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: I know that's devil not as satisfying, but um, but yes,

834
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: it is discussed on occasion. Dr Pickens rights who in

835
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Speaker 1: the cast would be the best at hide and seek?

836
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: Quick answer would be Angela because she's the smallest. Uh

837
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: Dwight is the craftiest. Kevin would be terrible, And yeah,

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00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Angela because what, as Michael says,

839
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 1: at one point, she could hide behind a grain of rice,

840
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: so they're probably way more options for her to hide

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00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: than anyone else. So let's go with Angela. She's the

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00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 1: best at hide and seek. All right, Thank you all

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00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: for all of those questions. Those were amazing. Uh and

844
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: now I'm told, I'm told we have another very special

845
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Speaker 1: guest joining us now, a man of mystery and intrigue. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Mr Terry Carnation. Hello, Terry, you're a you're a big

847
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 1: fan of the Office. I am the Office is number

848
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: one fan. Thank you for having me on your show. Kevin. Oh,

849
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: it's Bryant Brian. But that's fine, It's easily sure, it is.

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Speaker 1: I have seen all fourteen episodes at least twenty seven times. Um, Terry.

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Speaker 1: I think there's like two four episodes of the show. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's magnificent. I love the show. I love I love offices.

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Speaker 1: I love office buildings. You know. I feel like offices

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Speaker 1: and people who work in them are disrespected and it's

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Speaker 1: the backbone of the American economy, and so I love

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Speaker 1: all the drama. Yeah, but I do have some questions

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Speaker 1: about the show for you. Great, I would us that's

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Speaker 1: what we're doing today, and thank you for having me

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Speaker 1: on behalf of all the all the big fans of

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Speaker 1: the office out there. Thank you for having me of course. Um,

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Speaker 1: of all of the characters in the accounting department, who

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Speaker 1: would you say is most likely possessed by biel zabab? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely not Angela, That's that's for sure. I know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I mean I haven't seen I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen the show, but she seems fiery, feisty in a

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Speaker 1: way that that could suit the dark Lord's purposes. You

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Speaker 1: haven't seen the show. I've seen the show so many times,

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Speaker 1: um that it feels like I've never seen the show before.

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Speaker 1: But I am, I am the biggest possible fan. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, I um, I don't know. We'll say Kevin.

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Speaker 1: We'll thank Kevin was possessed by Beelzebub, that's you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm interesting, he would be the Yeah. M hm. Which

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Speaker 1: of the salesman do you think is most likely to

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Speaker 1: have been abducted by aliens? I? Um, probably Dwight. Who

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Speaker 1: would probably be Dwight? Dwight screwed Dwight, Dwight Shrewd. Do

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Speaker 1: you know Dwight, you know the character Dwights, Yes, ridiculous looking,

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Speaker 1: bombastic gentleman. Yes, interesting? Interesting? And in which of the

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Speaker 1: which of the cast members of the office uh might

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Speaker 1: have seen Bigfoot or any cryptid lockness monster? Terry, I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't. I don't know where these

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Speaker 1: questions are coming from. This seem they seem totally not

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Speaker 1: on the point of what we're doing today. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being a fan and at the same

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Speaker 1: time feel as though you've never seen the show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to come clean. I've never seen your stupid show. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I am Terry Carnation. I am the philosopher of

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Speaker 1: the paranormal, and I have a podcast that is launches

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Speaker 1: in April one. We're all fine. Podcasts are found. If

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Speaker 1: if anyone out there has concerns about demons, alien abductions,

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Speaker 1: lizard people, Bigfoot another cryptids, um, please tune in Dark

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Speaker 1: Air with Terry Carnation as I guide you on a

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Speaker 1: journey through the unimaginable, through the unexplained, through the mysterious, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Thank you darting behind your pathetic Okay, thank you at

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Speaker 1: Workplace Comedy and join me on a fascinating journey into

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Speaker 1: the subcon Thank you, Terry dark Air with Terry Carnation

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Speaker 1: available well wherever you get your podcasts if that's your thing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. I e wasting

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Speaker 1: our time here today. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. God. That guy sounds like Rain Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Did you, guys, that guy sounds like Rain Wilson. That's unbelievable.

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00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: People are unbelievable. Anyway, Um, folks, that was it. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry it ended so weirdly. That's what That's what he

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Speaker 1: said at conclude. That's yet the end our Sweet sixteen celebration.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much through all of you except Terry. Uh,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Thank you for participating in this

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Speaker 1: week's episode. We're gonna do it again sometime, so keep

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Speaker 1: the questions and the comments a rolling. As they say,

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, we're gonna be back Tuesday, next Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: at our regularly scheduled time. The word regularly is a

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Speaker 1: difficult word to say. Another interview, this time Kevin Riley. Now, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is the person who was there from the very

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Speaker 1: beginning and is the reason that The Office was on television.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to share that with you. Until then,

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Speaker 1: have a wonderful week everyone. The Office Deep Dive is

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

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Speaker 1: executive producer Langley, our producers for this very special episode

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Speaker 1: where Emily Carr, Diego Tapia, Liz Hayes, Tessa Kramer, and

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Speaker 1: Ryan Zachary. My main man in a booth is Alec Moore.

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Speaker 1: Our theme song Bubble and Squeak performed by my great

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Speaker 1: friend Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth Olandsky. Hello,

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Speaker 1: well who's this? Oh? No, you see? Oh look it's

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Hi Andy, Oh listen you guys. Uh. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Uh Aaron apparently there. I'm told there's another super fan

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Speaker 1: who is on the line. U. Terry Carnation, is that

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Speaker 1: is that you? I'm still here. I haven't left thanks

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Speaker 1: to the double booked me too. I apologize. I I

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Speaker 1: didn't double this. This was unexpected. Uh, Terry Carnation, are

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Speaker 1: you are you there? I am, yes, I am. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me. I'm the biggest fan of of

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Speaker 1: you Kevin and and uh Brian Mr Rogers. Um, I

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Speaker 1: love I love sports, especially Key and it's great just

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Speaker 1: to meet you both. Is this is this a call

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Speaker 1: in show? Brand? This is a calling podcast now now, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not a calling. We're we're having, we're sharing with

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Speaker 1: this is within the let's bail on this