Speaker 1: Hello, Oh, I am so excited. Welcome to a very
Speaker 1: special episode of the Office Deep Dive. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Brian baum Gartner. Listen. Even though we put out our
Speaker 1: usual Tuesday episode yesterday with Mr Ben Silverman, I am
Speaker 1: coming at you today with this bonus episode because sixteen
Speaker 1: years ago today, on Thursday, March two thousand five, at
Speaker 1: nine pm local time, the American Office premiered on NBC.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Office turns sixteen today. Happy Sweet sixteen everybody. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is exciting. Now. I checked, weirdly, this is not
Speaker 1: recognized as a national holiday. Weird. But in honor of
Speaker 1: the special occasion, I am throwing you are fans a
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen party. This episode is for you, the wonderful
Speaker 1: fans who love the show and have been showing so
Speaker 1: much love for this podcast. I'm going to answer some
Speaker 1: of the fantastic questions that you sent in and tell
Speaker 1: even more behind the scenes stories that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to on the podcast. And I'm gonna respond to some
Speaker 1: of your comments about the podcast itself. I seriously love
Speaker 1: hearing from you guys, so I am very excited to
Speaker 1: respond to some of your burning questions. But first, because
Speaker 1: this is our special fan episode. I am going to
Speaker 1: have a chat with one well lucky fan. This guy
Speaker 1: is an office super fan. I met him wow, thirteen
Speaker 1: years ago. Then he started like stalking me on social media.
Speaker 1: And then one day I show up to set and
Speaker 1: this guy's on set like talking to all of the
Speaker 1: other actors. And then he ended up making an appearance
Speaker 1: in one episode of the show, the series finale no Less.
Speaker 1: And he also happens to be the NFL's m v
Speaker 1: P and for sixteen years, the quarterback of the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. That's right, Please give a warm welcome to
Speaker 1: my friend Aaron Rodgers. Aaron, how's it going. That's a
Speaker 1: nice intro there, buddy. I mean, if you're looking for
Speaker 1: someone eventually the Hall of Fame, I might be available
Speaker 1: if you're interested. You get the perfect face for radio,
Speaker 1: my friend, Like I've always always told you, uh years
Speaker 1: though I can't believe it's been thirteen years. I remember
Speaker 1: when we met. I was so juiced because I was
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the show. But um, wow, that
Speaker 1: is it's it's crazy thirteen years and and my favorite
Speaker 1: part about that story is I didn't know who you were.
Speaker 1: I don't know you were either I thought you were
Speaker 1: somebody scatty or so yes. I Um, when when did
Speaker 1: you start watching The Office? Did you watch it from
Speaker 1: the beginning. I didn't watch from the beginning. Um, I
Speaker 1: was a little bit. Uh well, i'll tell you. I
Speaker 1: was way into the British Office. I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: Ricky's your Base for a long time. I watched those
Speaker 1: two seasons. I said, I thought they were absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: And my friend Joey longtime friend, and got me into
Speaker 1: it and we had started watching his House. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, right when it came out. And I remember
Speaker 1: when when I heard the there's gonna be an adaptation
Speaker 1: in the States, I was like, and well, how can
Speaker 1: they do this show in the States, you know? And
Speaker 1: I remember, so I didn't really get into it the
Speaker 1: first season and I started watching it. I think I'm
Speaker 1: guessing there was like a DVD that came out. This
Speaker 1: was after VHS, so this is probably a DVD that
Speaker 1: came out. Remember watching it and going, oh, they did
Speaker 1: the Jello episode like in the British Office and stuff,
Speaker 1: and this is the season went on. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is really funny, like and this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna be really good because you guys started to go
Speaker 1: in your own direction and from that point forward, I
Speaker 1: was hooked. And I've seen it so many times through
Speaker 1: and I watched it, I think, uh, two and a
Speaker 1: half times through Uh, during COVID, So you watched it
Speaker 1: two and a half times. That's amazing. I knew we
Speaker 1: had talked, and I knew that you were rewatching it
Speaker 1: again because periodically you will like send me a green
Speaker 1: shot of me doing something really stupid. Uh, And I
Speaker 1: knew that you you were watching it. Why why do
Speaker 1: you keep coming back to it? I mean, I guess specifically,
Speaker 1: like what is it that you love about it? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to just pick one thing. I just
Speaker 1: think there's so many things about this show that are
Speaker 1: so beautiful and and and that should be timeless. But
Speaker 1: I think the interesting part about the show is that
Speaker 1: it would get canceled by this culture we live and
Speaker 1: I think before it even got going. And uh, for
Speaker 1: reasons that I think are so beautiful about the show
Speaker 1: is that it's it's people who aren't necessarily PC and
Speaker 1: and don't always say the right things and and I
Speaker 1: think that's the beauty and any great TV show is
Speaker 1: it's characters who are relatable who you can go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I love this about Jim. You know, he's an awkward
Speaker 1: situations and all he can do is just look around
Speaker 1: and look at the camera, you know, paying um with
Speaker 1: you know, a relationship that's you know, in and out
Speaker 1: and you just want somebody to commit to you or
Speaker 1: or Michael, you know, you just want him. He just
Speaker 1: wants to be liked so badly. That's all he cares
Speaker 1: about is like people, you know, respecting him and liking him,
Speaker 1: and you just we we start, especially in those characters,
Speaker 1: with people that we know in our own lives. So
Speaker 1: we're not only loving the characters, but we're loving it
Speaker 1: because every time we see Kevin, we're reminded of someone.
Speaker 1: Every time we see Ryan the Temper, were reminded that
Speaker 1: someone from our lives. It makes us laugh, or makes
Speaker 1: us mad, or makes us anything, any type of emotion
Speaker 1: that brings it kind of brings even deeper in the show.
Speaker 1: And I think just the meanings, the deeper meaning of
Speaker 1: the show in the way it's crafted, I think is beautiful.
Speaker 1: The way it's written, the character arcs for so many
Speaker 1: um of the people. You you start to just really
Speaker 1: love on the show yourself included. I love your character
Speaker 1: arc throughout the show. How kind of as the show
Speaker 1: goes on, you're You're the way you talk kind of
Speaker 1: gets kind of gets smarter. And I remember the first
Speaker 1: time I met you, I was like, Oh, you don't
Speaker 1: talk like that, like you're doing the show. But I
Speaker 1: love your character. I love Rains as Dwight. Um. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that Creed story and how he got
Speaker 1: his part and fill us his story she got her
Speaker 1: part on the show, and and Robert California coming in
Speaker 1: as bizarre as you could possibly imagine Spader and just
Speaker 1: killing it and actually kind of bringing you back in
Speaker 1: after you didn't know what was gonna happen when Steve
Speaker 1: left the show, and and then just how it ends,
Speaker 1: you know, and to be a part of strangely a
Speaker 1: part of the penultimately in the in the final episode, um,
Speaker 1: where there's just a couple of just amazing lines I've
Speaker 1: I've mentioned him before, and you know, when Andy speaks
Speaker 1: to camera there in the last episode, it's just so
Speaker 1: beautifully written and spoken by him talking about you. You
Speaker 1: wish somebody would tell you're in the good old days
Speaker 1: before you left him. I think that's it's it's that
Speaker 1: and that's what the show does. It's such a nostalgic
Speaker 1: part of so much of our lives where we can
Speaker 1: just remember where we were when we saw certain episodes
Speaker 1: or what phase of life we were in when the
Speaker 1: show was going crazy, and that's why we're all thankful
Speaker 1: for that's why we binge the hell out of it
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Yeah, you know, it's funny ed not too
Speaker 1: long ago, he I think it was on Twitter he
Speaker 1: sent out that quote and he had a picture of
Speaker 1: me and John and Rain and himself all in our
Speaker 1: Texas after the Golden Globes one year and I remember
Speaker 1: back to that more like he was doing it on purpose, obviously,
Speaker 1: but just him for me personally, going back to that
Speaker 1: night and going back to so many nights like that
Speaker 1: with those guys. Um. Yeah, it's that one still gets me.
Speaker 1: That that one still gets me. And because you brought
Speaker 1: it up, I was going to bring it up later.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the questions that I asked
Speaker 1: everybody was about the very last line of the show,
Speaker 1: which is i'll paraphrase, but Pam talking about why they
Speaker 1: chose dunder Mifflin as a subject for this documentary and
Speaker 1: then realizing that it was a good subject because there's
Speaker 1: Beau the in ordinary things, and isn't that kind of
Speaker 1: the point. But through all of the shenanigans, all of
Speaker 1: the you know, crazy you know, like I've said many times,
Speaker 1: we felt like we were just being idiots, you know,
Speaker 1: for a decade, But there was an underlying feeling there
Speaker 1: that people like you just said, seemed to respond to.
Speaker 1: That It celebrates that that ordinary nous um or or
Speaker 1: seemingly ordinariness in people. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of misty moments in the
Speaker 1: last episode and just that last montage of of Jim
Speaker 1: and Pam talking to camera, you know, especially when Jim's
Speaker 1: talking about dunder Mifflin and this amazing, crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: bizarre place that he lived and worked at and the
Speaker 1: people that he grew up with and Creeds, you know,
Speaker 1: playing the guitar there, you know, after the you know,
Speaker 1: Angela and and do I come up after you know
Speaker 1: the wedding is just this is some the just sweetest,
Speaker 1: most beautiful moments and in a show's ending, I think
Speaker 1: because you're bringing that nostalgia and and just a great
Speaker 1: montage and um, and you kind of you wrap things
Speaker 1: up now. I'm I love watching movies and shows and
Speaker 1: and sometimes I think, you know, for certain shows or
Speaker 1: movies you don't need it, and you don't need to
Speaker 1: wrap things up. It's almost better with the mystery. But
Speaker 1: I think with with the ride that that the Office
Speaker 1: took us on for so many years, like it was
Speaker 1: fun to to see all these different stories wrapped up,
Speaker 1: and and to have ah Steve come back the way
Speaker 1: that he did and the time that he did. That's
Speaker 1: what she said, joke was so perfectly done. And and
Speaker 1: to see Nelly come back, and to see Ryan and
Speaker 1: Kelly end up together, and um and Dwight in the
Speaker 1: dream job that he wants to and you and your
Speaker 1: character with your bar and you guys patching things up,
Speaker 1: and and Jim, you know, getting a grand gesture from
Speaker 1: Pam to to go do his dream job. I just
Speaker 1: there's so many beautiful moments put in the end. It
Speaker 1: comes down to that set, which I was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to go on thankfully when I when you when you
Speaker 1: showed me around, But just to end it there for
Speaker 1: all of us, you know, it was just a really
Speaker 1: special moment, I think, and I'm sure it was for
Speaker 1: you guys to you know, it's it's funny coming up
Speaker 1: in a in an episode not too long from now.
Speaker 1: I sit down with Creed and he I saw him
Speaker 1: the night before. We actually played in a benefit concert
Speaker 1: the night before, and I said, hey, tomorrow, you're coming in,
Speaker 1: we're gonna chat. Bring in your guitar. And he played
Speaker 1: that song for me, just sitting and right now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm having feeling just him sitting there playing that
Speaker 1: song with him. It will never not do something to
Speaker 1: me for sure. Um the series finale, you mentioned you
Speaker 1: were not scripted in the show, as you know. You know,
Speaker 1: I've never revealed who was scripted. I may have told
Speaker 1: you it was a it was a famously remember it
Speaker 1: was a famous tennis player. Let's just go with that.
Speaker 1: It was a famous tennis player. And we finished the
Speaker 1: table read and I went to Greg Daniels and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you know, if somebody
Speaker 1: knows him, if he's going to come in or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was like, but you know, I just want you
Speaker 1: to know. Aaron Rodgers a big fan of the show,
Speaker 1: and he's like Oh, do you think Aaron would do it?
Speaker 1: I think he would. And uh, and then yeah, you
Speaker 1: came on. Um, I remember us hanging out. Obviously we
Speaker 1: weren't in it together, but a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: offset how was that experience for you coming on the
Speaker 1: shows as being a big fan of the show and
Speaker 1: you've gotten to know a lot of us at that point.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and and that's the fun thing. I got
Speaker 1: to be around, said a couple of times, and and
Speaker 1: be out, you know, with you guys a few times,
Speaker 1: and met a number of people, had met Angela and
Speaker 1: Oscar and who else? Did I meet? Craig m bj
Speaker 1: Novac you're doppelganger? Yeah, yeah, guys looking at the side
Speaker 1: by side picture online? Yeah yeah, yeah, dead on. And
Speaker 1: I met I met Steve on a plane randomly one time.
Speaker 1: And I met Rain on set. So it was fun
Speaker 1: to be out there. Uh. And we got to be
Speaker 1: with Ed Helms on that shoot. So I was pumped.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember the drive down. I was so
Speaker 1: excited to to just like be on the set and
Speaker 1: and to see what was going on. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what I was, you know, really the role I was.
Speaker 1: I was walking into um and then I meet my
Speaker 1: two other guest stars. It's uh Santa Gold, who I
Speaker 1: didn't know who she was before, but she was really
Speaker 1: really sweet and just a really sweet special person. We
Speaker 1: had a fun, fun day and then Clay Aikin was
Speaker 1: it was and I had known Clay because I had
Speaker 1: been a fan of American idol um so uh to
Speaker 1: this day when people you know who that's the beauty
Speaker 1: in the show, there's so many people who just have
Speaker 1: watched it now and they're like, hey, I just saw
Speaker 1: you on the You're on the Office. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like eight years ago, you know, Like, but
Speaker 1: I love that, and that's the timeless nature of the show.
Speaker 1: But it was so fun beyond set and just watching
Speaker 1: Ed work, you know, through his his bid and you know,
Speaker 1: I just have so much respect for him and I
Speaker 1: love what he brought to the show. And it's just
Speaker 1: he's quirky nard dog that only only he could do.
Speaker 1: Umbody was so funny beyond the said my favorite memory
Speaker 1: from the show was you know, my lines, And I've
Speaker 1: gotten some guff for it over the years, but it
Speaker 1: wouldn't like I had the greatest lines, you know, and
Speaker 1: and the one line, you know, the lines that they
Speaker 1: end up using in the montage of the kind of
Speaker 1: the viral song that comes out You're just not good
Speaker 1: or whatever. Like I didn't mind those lines, but flag
Speaker 1: on the play was not my favorite line. And I
Speaker 1: just felt like, like, I get this, it's a football reference,
Speaker 1: you know, but I would never say that, and Brian,
Speaker 1: you know me, I'm like, it was just so cheesy.
Speaker 1: So so if we did twelve takes, you know, if
Speaker 1: we did twelve takes, you know, four the times I
Speaker 1: said flag on the play. The other eight I just
Speaker 1: kind of add lib. But I was like, can I
Speaker 1: just say something that I think I would use? And
Speaker 1: so the first like I think three takes, I said
Speaker 1: flag on the play, and then I just add live
Speaker 1: after that, and the sweet sweet script lady would come
Speaker 1: by and go, Mr Rogers, um, your line is flag
Speaker 1: on the play, and you know that was like that
Speaker 1: was like after like the third time I hadn't said it.
Speaker 1: So we're in like take eight now, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go something different, And you know, she
Speaker 1: was so sweet. She never lost her patience, but I
Speaker 1: could tell by about take eleven she was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: your your line still is flag on the place. Oh yeah, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I forgot you know that I said flag on the
Speaker 1: play and they got the twelfth take and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna use that. That's but it was so it
Speaker 1: was so fun being on there and then to see myself,
Speaker 1: you know when they you know, when they cut to
Speaker 1: the viral video of the baby wow, wow, you know
Speaker 1: in the last episode. Um Man, it was so fun
Speaker 1: And I do really appreciate be You're setting that up
Speaker 1: for me and give me the opportunity because although I
Speaker 1: never got seen and in another one of my all
Speaker 1: time favorite shows, I've been in the penultimate episode of
Speaker 1: now two of my all time favorite shows, the other
Speaker 1: one being a Game of Thrones, which are still people
Speaker 1: don't realize I might have been in there where with
Speaker 1: the office they can actually see my face, my slightly
Speaker 1: bloated still on my phase of eating the copious amounts
Speaker 1: of dairy products all the time, but I did ahead
Speaker 1: of last surday on set. Do you feel like that
Speaker 1: your life has changed since being on the office, I mean,
Speaker 1: do people recognize you in public? Yeah? I'd say that
Speaker 1: was probably the biggest. The biggest thing I will say
Speaker 1: though that you know, There's been some things over the
Speaker 1: years that I think I've helped my brand as much
Speaker 1: as anything. I always give State Farm credit for this
Speaker 1: bizarre discount double check that. When I read the script
Speaker 1: first time, I'm like, this is not funny, this is
Speaker 1: like they gotta change since sure enough. I mean for
Speaker 1: years it was. And you've been with me on the
Speaker 1: golf course at Taho that was, and Pebble Beach that
Speaker 1: was like the only thing people would yell at me
Speaker 1: and I would and I would just laugh. How that
Speaker 1: kind of changed my you know, my public persona. But
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about the numbers of people
Speaker 1: that have watched this show on Netflix, four times as
Speaker 1: many watched on Netflix as any other show. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Um now, it's obviously over at the Peacock, but uh,
Speaker 1: but I will say that I'm sure there were some
Speaker 1: people wondering who the hell that was, and then other
Speaker 1: people going, oh, isn't that that guy who's the insurance guy?
Speaker 1: Is he was in the office? Wow? Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it might have helped my brand a little bit. But
Speaker 1: that's funny. I appreciate it, buddy, It's fun He did
Speaker 1: a great job with the you know, with the first podcast.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing I think is beautiful is it's
Speaker 1: so many people have you either loved this show since
Speaker 1: season one or I've gotten into it more recently, but
Speaker 1: it has stood the test of town time because it's
Speaker 1: just so relatable and it has such a good message
Speaker 1: all the while. It just keeps you laughing the whole
Speaker 1: time because you just you know, some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that Michael Pools and the pranks at Gym pools on
Speaker 1: Dwight all the time, and and your character Aric and
Speaker 1: Oscars and Angelas and everybody kind of gets that's cool.
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of gets through opportunity to shine in different
Speaker 1: episodes in different ways, which is which is really cool
Speaker 1: to see as well. Yeah, one of the things we've
Speaker 1: we've talked about is you know why the show is
Speaker 1: still so big? I mean, why, quite frankly, is it
Speaker 1: bigger now than it ever was when it was on?
Speaker 1: And um, I think you've touched on a lot of
Speaker 1: those things, sort of the universality that you know, how
Speaker 1: how much people relate to the show. And I think
Speaker 1: there's something else which I've sort of come to in
Speaker 1: these conversations with so many people. Is that so many
Speaker 1: shows after a decade or or longer since we you know,
Speaker 1: and it's been sixteen years since the pilot aired, um
Speaker 1: is that they feel dated or they feel not quite right.
Speaker 1: And I think that the discovery that I've had is
Speaker 1: that a documentary can never be dated. It is about
Speaker 1: these people at this time, and it's so defining the
Speaker 1: time that it you know, the clothes or the technology
Speaker 1: that maybe isn't exactly the same, that doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: it's about that and you're following that journey on that time.
Speaker 1: And so you never do that like, oh, that's an
Speaker 1: old joke or oh that's you know, look at that
Speaker 1: flip phone or whatever. It's like, you don't if there's
Speaker 1: a documentary about the seventies, you don't go this looks
Speaker 1: this is dated. It's like, well, yeah, it's about the seventies.
Speaker 1: Dink um. Anyway, Yeah, that's that's a really fascinating point
Speaker 1: that I'm just thinking about as you're saying that. It
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because you watch old episodes
Speaker 1: of uh Seinfeld of Friends or Saved by the Bill.
Speaker 1: There's some of the shows we grew up on, you like,
Speaker 1: man like they didn't have phones and they didn't the
Speaker 1: way they communicated and some of the jokes and stuff.
Speaker 1: You look at it differently, for sure than when you
Speaker 1: look at this faux documentary style, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is just so brilliantly genius of Ricky and Stephen, you know,
Speaker 1: to to start off, like and you pick a paper
Speaker 1: company too, it's like, wait, what what do we Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why. So and you pick a place, you know, Scranton,
Speaker 1: p A. It's like, it's just this beautiful combination of
Speaker 1: like the workplace, the fact that it's shot as a
Speaker 1: documentary it's in Scranton, p A. And you have the
Speaker 1: non PC characters in a time where the era is changing,
Speaker 1: and yeah, just all it's just all so beautifully done. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think it will continue to standard test of
Speaker 1: time because there's a love affair of nostalgia of a
Speaker 1: time like that where things were maybe a little less
Speaker 1: precious than they are now. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for talking to me about this as usual, so perceptive
Speaker 1: and and so deep about um well life and the show. Um.
Speaker 1: But before we leave, I feel like it's only fair
Speaker 1: that I ask you this question that you've told me
Speaker 1: without me asking many times who's your favorite character on
Speaker 1: the office. If you're definitely in my top five, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. That's I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a quick answer for you. I mean for those we
Speaker 1: play a lot of golf together, and oftentimes it's in public.
Speaker 1: You you always say that it's Creed. That's what you all.
Speaker 1: You always say that it's Creed. But maybe you're just
Speaker 1: needling me, and I'm just needling you because you know
Speaker 1: you may have been higher on the call sheet than him,
Speaker 1: and you actor types, you are also worried about who's
Speaker 1: ranked number one and number twenty on the call sheet?
Speaker 1: Are worried about that? Just after this is what you
Speaker 1: did too? You try to turn it right back on me.
Speaker 1: We had a classic. I just show this. We had
Speaker 1: a classic. You know. We're waiting on the on this
Speaker 1: whole in South Carolina playing the BMW event, and there's
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a part five, but it's a
Speaker 1: short part five. You can get home and two. And
Speaker 1: so we're a couple of groups stacked up and we're
Speaker 1: talking to the crowd as the group is walking on
Speaker 1: the fairway and asking them who their favorite characters are
Speaker 1: and and Brian gets a little sensitive, you know, about
Speaker 1: the situations. So he starts, you know, talking about who
Speaker 1: his all time favorite quarterbacks are for the Packers, and
Speaker 1: mentioning far and part Star and Don mckowski and Lynn
Speaker 1: Dickey and all these different people. Right, it's always he's
Speaker 1: always trying to get some jebs. And look, I I've
Speaker 1: always been a fan of of Jim's character. I love
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like he's a relatable character. For sure.
Speaker 1: He's very athletic. I know you try and try and
Speaker 1: feel like you're the uh you know, you've made some
Speaker 1: sort of fifteen shots in a row at some point
Speaker 1: in the basketball episode, but Jim is definitely the most athletic.
Speaker 1: Check the tape. Check check the tape. I've uh, I
Speaker 1: miss miss Missy anybody. I miss miss our beck and
Speaker 1: voice for sure. And I appreciate you have me on here. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Aaron, Thank you. There you have it, folks,
Speaker 1: Mr Aaron Rodgers, thanks so much for stopping by my friend.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. All right, there is plenty more coming up.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe even another special guest, who knows. But first
Speaker 1: let's get to the Q and A Section mail bag.
Speaker 1: Mail bag. Yes, I am told hundreds, if not millions,
Speaker 1: of you reached out on social media with questions about
Speaker 1: the Office. I'm going to try to answer as many
Speaker 1: as I can here, But if yours doesn't get answered,
Speaker 1: or if you have even more questions, don't worry. We
Speaker 1: will definitely be doing more episodes like this, So let's
Speaker 1: keep the lines of communication open. People subscribe and comment
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, the I Heart Radio app, or any
Speaker 1: other social media because me or my team we will
Speaker 1: be watching, so listen. I apologize in advance if I
Speaker 1: mispronounced anyone's name today. But our first question, mailbag, we
Speaker 1: have someone, I'm told who might be able to challenge
Speaker 1: Aaron's title as the number one fan. Gregory Hunter McDowell says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Brian in alone, I watched The Office twenty two times. Wow,
Speaker 1: it was my go to show from tragedies to triumphs.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing about your character was your side glance
Speaker 1: to the camera. My question would be what was your
Speaker 1: favorite game or website on your work computer you went
Speaker 1: to to portray working. Great question. Uh, Now, when The
Speaker 1: Office came on, we didn't have internet access the first year,
Speaker 1: and then they were like, well, let's make this more realistic, right,
Speaker 1: We're all about realism. So our computers started working, and
Speaker 1: what my space was the social media do your um
Speaker 1: at the time, and so a number of us got
Speaker 1: on my We thought, well, if we're in an office,
Speaker 1: what are office workers around the land right now doing?
Speaker 1: There on my Space? So I got on my Space
Speaker 1: as my character Kevin Malone, and I had a blog,
Speaker 1: and I never veered from actor to character. In other words,
Speaker 1: it was Kevin Malone, who was sitting in an office
Speaker 1: called dunder Mifflin, was not aware that he was being
Speaker 1: filmed or on television, who was just writing about his experience.
Speaker 1: I need to go back and read some of those
Speaker 1: blogs and see if they're just terrible or if it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun. But the most fun thing I did
Speaker 1: was people started on my Space asking me for signed pictures.
Speaker 1: Will you send a signed picture? And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I can't do that because I'm just Kevin Malone, an
Speaker 1: accountant who doesn't know he's on television. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you want a picture of me,
Speaker 1: but if you send me a signed picture of you,
Speaker 1: then I will send you back a signed picture of me.
Speaker 1: And I got thousands of signed pictures from people to
Speaker 1: Kevin uh and and it was it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I then I sent them a headshut back.
Speaker 1: I kind of destroyed the game at the end. I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, well this is what you want, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna send that. But I had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun doing that. So I would say I
Speaker 1: did a lot of my Space sing I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a word. And um and I paid bills because
Speaker 1: I thought I would get on an online you know,
Speaker 1: bill pay thing and I would like pay bills because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, these documents look like financial documents,
Speaker 1: and I'm an accountant, right, so it's very realistic that
Speaker 1: I'm shuffling around my bills and paying them on set.
Speaker 1: It works. So there you go. That was what I
Speaker 1: would do on my computer. Uh. Daniel Gutierrez says, Hi,
Speaker 1: dad who chose this comment? Well, Hi, Daniel, I didn't
Speaker 1: know you existed, but it's good to know that you do.
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well in life and reach out
Speaker 1: when you're when you're thirty five. Uh oh. We have
Speaker 1: a one star review from gold Hohore gold Whore. I
Speaker 1: don't know how else I could pronounce that on the
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts app with the following comment one star review.
Speaker 1: Not what I thought. I thought it was work related.
Speaker 1: Now wait a second. You listen to the podcast and
Speaker 1: thought this was about a deep dive into working at
Speaker 1: an office? Gold? Horror, my friend? And did you did
Speaker 1: you read the description? Because I'm pretty sure in the
Speaker 1: description it should be clear that this would not be
Speaker 1: about working in an actual office. But I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: were you were dissatisfied. Katie O zero zero one oh
Speaker 1: a five star review on Apple Podcasts. Love this podcast.
Speaker 1: I love it, But just play the whole podcast. Why
Speaker 1: do you need to break it up? Trying to remember
Speaker 1: past episodes will be kind of annoying. I listened to
Speaker 1: Rogan for three plus hours. Thanks well, Katio zero zero one,
Speaker 1: Thank you for the question. We've we've gotten this question
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Why are we breaking up and releasing
Speaker 1: part one Part two? For some of the people we interviewed. Well,
Speaker 1: the reason why is we've structured this podcast as a
Speaker 1: deep dive into the office, so we have subjects or
Speaker 1: sections themes. For example, we've started with the origin section,
Speaker 1: which is the beginning of a show, bringing the show
Speaker 1: from Ricky and Stephen from the UK to the US
Speaker 1: casting the pilot, how difficult it was for the show
Speaker 1: to stay on the air it's first couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: and so some of the interviews that were particularly long,
Speaker 1: we wanted you to hear from those people when we
Speaker 1: did our deep dive into that subject. So as we
Speaker 1: move on to other subjects, like the camera as the
Speaker 1: character when we talk about Steve Correll leaving, some of
Speaker 1: the parts of those interviews fit better in those sections.
Speaker 1: So we're not trying to torture you by only releasing
Speaker 1: a part of the interview. You will hear part two
Speaker 1: is very very soon. But that's the reason that we
Speaker 1: have structured it this way. We're trying to tell a story,
Speaker 1: a narrative through all of these interviews, so you really
Speaker 1: get a deep dive into the office. Andrew Montavan asks,
Speaker 1: did the Office, like the physical set become a home
Speaker 1: for you guys? I have seen so many bloopers and
Speaker 1: so many things of you guys just enjoying yourselves and
Speaker 1: each other. It must have been ours anyway, big fan
Speaker 1: of the show, the podcast and anything the Office. Um,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Andrew, and yes, I mean what
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know, which we haven't discussed
Speaker 1: so much in the podcast, is for that one half
Speaker 1: hour of television you know on NBC with commercials, was
Speaker 1: really twenty two minutes that you see on TV. We
Speaker 1: generally would be at the office sixty to seventy hours
Speaker 1: a week. I mean those that was the amount of
Speaker 1: time that it took to get those twenty two minutes
Speaker 1: for an episode, and we would shoot one episode in
Speaker 1: a week. So, yes, it looked like a home because
Speaker 1: it was for a while. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that made it unique about other shows because of
Speaker 1: the way the show was shot. We were all there
Speaker 1: so much. Usually it's like the star of the show
Speaker 1: might be their sixty to seventy hours in a week,
Speaker 1: and everyone else kind of comes in and does their
Speaker 1: scenes and then they leave. We were all there. But
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that gave us
Speaker 1: um the truly special bond that we have. Ahmed Skywalker rights, Hi,
Speaker 1: tomorrow is my birthday. Can you say happy birthday to me? Ahmed?
Speaker 1: Happy birthday? Uh? This next post I am told got
Speaker 1: a number of likes who used to laugh the most
Speaker 1: during the scenes and was it hard to control the laughter.
Speaker 1: Samuel big Fan from Brazil. Mindy Kaling that that that
Speaker 1: Mindy Kaling, and I think she would own up to that. Um.
Speaker 1: But I will answer this in another way. The person
Speaker 1: who was known as the one who laughed the least,
Speaker 1: Oscar Nunius. He has the greatest dead pan and it
Speaker 1: is really hard, very very difficult to break him, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Maybe in the scene the Gay witch Hunt,
Speaker 1: Steve finally got him and occasionally he would laugh. But
Speaker 1: but Oscar Nunias was um. He laughed the least, and
Speaker 1: I I had a difficult time myself. I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: Cassidy Rights. I drive all day for work as a
Speaker 1: medical career, and I've really enjoyed listening to your podcast
Speaker 1: while working. It helps the day go by faster and
Speaker 1: makes sitting in traffic a little less boring. Well, Cassidy,
Speaker 1: thank you one for the work that you're doing right now,
Speaker 1: which is so important, uh and crucial. And you know,
Speaker 1: by the way, if there's one good thing that has
Speaker 1: come out of this this hot circle of garbage they
Speaker 1: call a global pandemic, it is the appreciation that all
Speaker 1: of us now have, or certainly should have for the
Speaker 1: people who are working on the front lines, um, nurses, doctors,
Speaker 1: medical couriers, those who are doing important things that keep
Speaker 1: us safe. So thank you, Cassidy, and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: I can make sitting in traffic a little less boring. Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions here I am told about will
Speaker 1: of course my chili or specifically Kevin's famous chili. Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of likes. On the next question, hey Zeus,
Speaker 1: Mendez says how many batches of chili were made when
Speaker 1: Kevin brought in the chili and dropped it? And how
Speaker 1: many times did you have to shoot that cold open. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm tremendously proud of this, hey Zeus, so I will
Speaker 1: answer it. Um. I assume they had three batches of chili,
Speaker 1: because I remember very specifically the set dress ng um
Speaker 1: props people coming to me, like not wanting to tell
Speaker 1: the bosses or the producers or whatever. They were like
Speaker 1: coming to me kind of back channeling and saying like, okay,
Speaker 1: the biggest issue was the carpet, right. So they had
Speaker 1: gigantic pieces of carpet that they had laid out over
Speaker 1: the floor and they came to me and they were like, Brian,
Speaker 1: we have three pieces of carpet. And I mean by
Speaker 1: giant piece of carpet, I mean from the front door
Speaker 1: all the way past the reception desk over to like
Speaker 1: the we called it the gem and Dwight pod of
Speaker 1: desks there um. And they were like, we have three
Speaker 1: pieces of carpet, so we I mean, we can't do
Speaker 1: any more than that. I got it in one I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a one taker. I don't think that makes sense,
Speaker 1: but I here's the thing. There were three pieces of carpet,
Speaker 1: but there was only one of me, and so they
Speaker 1: had thought about cleaning the carpet. I don't know that
Speaker 1: anyone really understood what was going to happen to me
Speaker 1: when I was done. I mean, my hands were kind
Speaker 1: of stained right like they weren't they were, it was
Speaker 1: not a natural color. And that day I might have
Speaker 1: showered with five people. I mean there might have been
Speaker 1: five people in there. I mean from wardrobe and makeup
Speaker 1: and hair people. I mean I was like striping. I'm
Speaker 1: not to get to graphic here, but like taking off close.
Speaker 1: I was such a mess. And if we had not
Speaker 1: gotten it in that one take, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what we would have done. If we would
Speaker 1: have had to just come back the next day. But thankfully, um,
Speaker 1: thankfully we got it and well that moment, I mean truly,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe what has happened to them more. I
Speaker 1: never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be
Speaker 1: talking about Chili Um all of these many years later. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jason Swimmer, sorry again, I apologize if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: missed pronouncing the names. My name is Jason, and I'm
Speaker 1: a podcaster too. It would be awesome if you could
Speaker 1: shout me out. Well, there you go, if I said
Speaker 1: your name right, Oh, Schwimer, Schwimer, that's it. Actually he did.
Speaker 1: He did give his own pronunciation, Jason Schwimer. Um, good
Speaker 1: luck to you. My friend, Grant Bain says, thank you
Speaker 1: for this podcast. What are your thoughts on the theory? Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go that Kevin is a secret genius who
Speaker 1: is running an embezzlement operation at the company and he
Speaker 1: uses that money to buy the bar in the finale episode.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite theories. Okay, So I used
Speaker 1: to get asked this all the time when I did
Speaker 1: Q and Ice, and I finally went down the dark,
Speaker 1: dark rabbit hole, which is is redditum, which is fun,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to get caught down there. And
Speaker 1: I started reading these feeds and people how they from
Speaker 1: small moments, how they had concocted this idea that Kevin
Speaker 1: is a secret genius was so amazing to me. I
Speaker 1: can only tell you that was not that was not
Speaker 1: in our thoughts. I'm sorry to say that, and it
Speaker 1: certainly was not in mind playing it now, maybe Greg
Speaker 1: Daniels would answer differently, but I think I think the
Speaker 1: idea is amazing and and in point of fact, speaking
Speaker 1: of deleted scenes, the idea of in part behind Kevin's bar,
Speaker 1: I will share this. Here's a here's a new thing
Speaker 1: for you, here's a new what do we call them,
Speaker 1: I don't know, never before heard moments. So the idea
Speaker 1: from Greg in the series finale was that Kevin became
Speaker 1: a fan favorite once the the fictional documentary started airing.
Speaker 1: Kevin was a fan favorite, and everywhere he went people
Speaker 1: would buy him drinks. And there was a bar that
Speaker 1: he would go to and people would buy him drinks.
Speaker 1: This is it's something like this, and part of it
Speaker 1: was based on my own experience, by the way, like
Speaker 1: in life, so he had gotten a gigantic credit tab
Speaker 1: because he couldn't consume all the drinks he was offered
Speaker 1: at this bar, which was partly how he obtained the bar.
Speaker 1: I think it was something like that, but that was
Speaker 1: part of the idea, was that Kevin became a huge
Speaker 1: fan favorite once the fictional documentary aired. Um Emily Lemkey,
Speaker 1: Emily from Kansas. I sometimes think about where the characters
Speaker 1: would be today. Where do you think Kevin would be
Speaker 1: still at dunder Mifflin Married. Well, let me tell you, Emily,
Speaker 1: what I hope is that Kevin is still sitting at
Speaker 1: that bar and he is really really happy. That's what
Speaker 1: I imagine him where he is and what he's doing today.
Speaker 1: And I hope, I hope, beyond hope, that that is
Speaker 1: where he is. Angelo writes not to get too negative,
Speaker 1: but I'm genuinely curious, what was truly the most stressful
Speaker 1: or emotionally tasking time or moments for all of you
Speaker 1: as a cast. Angelo from Buffalo, New York. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's negative. Listen. I I'm gonna answer
Speaker 1: this in two ways. I don't know how you intended it,
Speaker 1: but the first couple of years, as we have discussed
Speaker 1: and will continue to discuss in this podcast when the
Speaker 1: show was truly almost canceled. There's we're not exaggerating this,
Speaker 1: like we truly thought we were out of a job
Speaker 1: a number of times over the first two years, including
Speaker 1: after we filmed the pilot, so before anything was on TV.
Speaker 1: That was very stressful, um and very emotionally difficult for us.
Speaker 1: In terms of on set activities difficult. I'm sure everyone
Speaker 1: would have a different answer. Minus the fire, not the
Speaker 1: fake fire drill, but the fire. When Ryan started the fire,
Speaker 1: we were shooting that it was supposed to be fall
Speaker 1: in scranted and we had on coats and in that
Speaker 1: parking lot in in Van Nuys, California, it was about
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten degrees and that one was that
Speaker 1: one was not fun. Ryan Spady says, why use big
Speaker 1: word when small word do trick? Ryan, do you mean,
Speaker 1: why waste time say a lot word when few word
Speaker 1: do trick? I think that's what you mean. Benny spie Whack,
Speaker 1: Oh writer and producer Benny spie Whack, from an Oral
Speaker 1: History of the Office, writes Greg Daniels, said he always
Speaker 1: looked to you for a button. What's your favorite one? Yes.
Speaker 1: So I was tremendously proud that Greg brought this up
Speaker 1: in my interview with him that oftentimes at the end
Speaker 1: of a scene, um, nothing funny would be happening, like
Speaker 1: there would be an important reason that we would need
Speaker 1: to have a scene in for the story of an episode.
Speaker 1: But you know, in comedy, you you often want to
Speaker 1: end a scene on a button. And so Matt Sone
Speaker 1: and Randall Ironhorn, the camera people would would at times
Speaker 1: look to me and I would try to give them
Speaker 1: a button. What was my favorite one? I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1: I think it would relate to the episode with Kevin
Speaker 1: saying what does a bean mean? There was something very
Speaker 1: funny about that, and I think it was scripted once
Speaker 1: what does a bean mean? Because Kevin got no beans
Speaker 1: and other people had beans and this was very concerning
Speaker 1: to him. Uh, And I think I ended up saying
Speaker 1: that and ended the scene with that button what does
Speaker 1: a bean mean? I'm going with that right now. Ella
Speaker 1: Hendrickson rights, this is Ella here, Hi, Ella, who would
Speaker 1: you describe as the unsung here rows of the office? Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a great question. Um, Phil Shay, who was
Speaker 1: our prop master, he was an unsung hero of the
Speaker 1: Office for sure. The amount of props that were written
Speaker 1: into the show and that just existed on the set
Speaker 1: of The Office that were needed in particular episodes, sometimes
Speaker 1: very obscure objects that were difficult to find. He is
Speaker 1: a true unsung hero of the show. Um. Now they've
Speaker 1: both gone on to great success. I've mentioned them before,
Speaker 1: but Matt Son and Randall Einhorn, the guys who were
Speaker 1: holding the cameras, I mean, that is tremendously difficult work
Speaker 1: and they were generally just held on the shoulders um
Speaker 1: and sometimes for long periods of time where we would
Speaker 1: shoot and go back and improv and I physically demanding work.
Speaker 1: But but not just that, the degree of care that
Speaker 1: they showed for how the show was shot and really
Speaker 1: viewed themselves as a character trying to find the right
Speaker 1: story as a documentarian would. Um, those things are difficult
Speaker 1: to write, they're difficult to direct. But those guys just
Speaker 1: got it. So even though they have great success now, uh,
Speaker 1: someone appreciates them, I would consider them unsung heroes of
Speaker 1: the Office for sure. Julian Go Tiangko rights. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I missed that up Hi, Brian, huge fan. This is
Speaker 1: Julian My favorite episode is the Niagara Falls episode. My
Speaker 1: question is who in the writer's room came up with
Speaker 1: the idea for Kevin to wear Kalenix tissue boxes as
Speaker 1: shoes after his shoes were incinerated. Another fan, Rebecca Morrow, asked,
Speaker 1: were they hard to walk in? Where they custom fit
Speaker 1: to your feet? It's one of my favorite scenes of
Speaker 1: all time. Well, I I will tell you I if
Speaker 1: I'm at a fan event or a college or something,
Speaker 1: I am always amused with who come up and are
Speaker 1: wearing tissue box shoes because I know that it's really
Speaker 1: not comfortable. It's they're really they're they're not comfortable. And
Speaker 1: I will tell you actually, when we for John Krasinski's
Speaker 1: show during the pandemic Some Good News, we did a
Speaker 1: wedding and he came to all of us and asked
Speaker 1: us to appear. And I was like, well, I have
Speaker 1: to have tissue box shoes on right, I'm attending these
Speaker 1: people's weddings. Let's let's do it. I couldn't find any
Speaker 1: big enough, so I don't actually know. I have intended
Speaker 1: to go back and ask Phil Shay Props, like where
Speaker 1: did you find these? Maybe they were like Costco Sam's
Speaker 1: Club supersized clean xboxes. I don't know, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: find any um that that fit me. Yeah there and
Speaker 1: again not comfortable. Uh wolf calm oh a five star
Speaker 1: review on Apple Reviews rights, I'm going down, yelling Timber,
Speaker 1: and I want to swim in this amazing Ear Whole
Speaker 1: Candy until I'm old and wrinkly. Wow. Maybe my favorite
Speaker 1: comment or review of all time. Ere anything that mentions
Speaker 1: Ear Whole Candy and I'm going down yelling Timber. Well,
Speaker 1: that works for me. Breezy Benna on Apple Podcasts, Uh,
Speaker 1: five star review again, thank you, great job. I love
Speaker 1: both podcasts, The Office Ladies and this one as well.
Speaker 1: They did such a wonderful job giving us multiple points
Speaker 1: of views and even deeper dives into such a great show.
Speaker 1: Now I have two podcasts to look forward to. Uh,
Speaker 1: Breezy Benna, I couldn't agree more. And let me just say,
Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out The Office Ladies podcast, very
Speaker 1: they don't sound like me. I know, it's very weird. Uh.
Speaker 1: They have done a fantastic job going episode by episode,
Speaker 1: examining and telling behind the scenes stories. Uh. It's a
Speaker 1: rewatch show and it's fantastic and so um my good
Speaker 1: friends Jenna Fisher and Angela Kenzie gracious, even though they're
Speaker 1: talking all the time on their podcast, they graciously agreed
Speaker 1: to come and spend hours with me um talking about
Speaker 1: the Office in a different way than even they do
Speaker 1: on their podcast. So yes, Um, please check that out
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for listening here. Um. Whyatt
Speaker 1: Stevens asks prior to your casting of Kevin, where were
Speaker 1: you in your professional career as it pertains to film
Speaker 1: and TV? If The Office never happened, do you believe
Speaker 1: other projects could have kept you in the game? And lastly,
Speaker 1: if I can, what's the best advice you could give
Speaker 1: to one entertainment Wow? Great questions, Wyatt. Um. First of all,
Speaker 1: I was a theater actor. I had graduated from college
Speaker 1: and was traveling around as a regional theater actor, doing
Speaker 1: very very uh small theaters and doing some large ones
Speaker 1: as well. And I was traveling city to city getting
Speaker 1: work where I could, and I decided to move to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I felt like it was time. I had
Speaker 1: had a couple of experiences that that made me want
Speaker 1: to pursue it, and I was fortunate enough. Um, just
Speaker 1: a couple of months after coming to Los Angeles, I
Speaker 1: met Alison Jones and Greg Daniels and was cast on
Speaker 1: the Office. So for me, I was very new in
Speaker 1: film and television. I had done a few guest star parts,
Speaker 1: I had done a couple of commercials, um but when
Speaker 1: I was first seen on the Office, I had not
Speaker 1: done much film and television at all. And I feel
Speaker 1: tremendously lucky one obviously to have met them and to
Speaker 1: have found the right show for me at the right time. Um.
Speaker 1: My advice for anyone wanting to be an entertainment is
Speaker 1: consume material, watch material, practice your craft. You know. I
Speaker 1: will say it was very lucky that I met Alison
Speaker 1: Jones and Greg at the same time. I will say
Speaker 1: I knew the British version of the Office, and I
Speaker 1: knew the style worked well for me. I knew they
Speaker 1: were looking for unknown people, so I actually pursued this job.
Speaker 1: And if I hadn't been watching other television or studying
Speaker 1: what was being released, what the styles were that were
Speaker 1: being released that appealed to me and my specific sensibilities
Speaker 1: and strengths, I would not have pushed as hard for
Speaker 1: this show. So it was timing. It was great timing
Speaker 1: I was in Los Angeles, but also I watched things,
Speaker 1: even things that I didn't like or appreciate. I watched
Speaker 1: them because I felt like I needed to know what
Speaker 1: was out there in order to work in the business.
Speaker 1: So thank you. Um, Kathy Chevalier wait wait wait or
Speaker 1: Chevalier potato potato. Do any cast members hope to do
Speaker 1: a sort of reunion show in the future. Has anyone
Speaker 1: pitched any ideas? Um? We have discussed it quite a lot.
Speaker 1: I believe it is certainly possible. There are some ideas
Speaker 1: that have been circulated amongst email and text chains, but
Speaker 1: I am not at liberty to discuss that. I will
Speaker 1: answer any questions about anything that's happened in the past.
Speaker 1: As for the future, I will only say, oh, I
Speaker 1: think some people would love to do that, and I've
Speaker 1: heard rumblings of some ideas of it, So there you go. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I know that's devil not as satisfying, but um, but yes,
Speaker 1: it is discussed on occasion. Dr Pickens rights who in
Speaker 1: the cast would be the best at hide and seek?
Speaker 1: Quick answer would be Angela because she's the smallest. Uh
Speaker 1: Dwight is the craftiest. Kevin would be terrible, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Angela because what, as Michael says,
Speaker 1: at one point, she could hide behind a grain of rice,
Speaker 1: so they're probably way more options for her to hide
Speaker 1: than anyone else. So let's go with Angela. She's the
Speaker 1: best at hide and seek. All right, Thank you all
Speaker 1: for all of those questions. Those were amazing. Uh and
Speaker 1: now I'm told, I'm told we have another very special
Speaker 1: guest joining us now, a man of mystery and intrigue. Oh,
Speaker 1: Mr Terry Carnation. Hello, Terry, you're a you're a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Office. I am the Office is number
Speaker 1: one fan. Thank you for having me on your show. Kevin. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's Bryant Brian. But that's fine, It's easily sure, it is.
Speaker 1: I have seen all fourteen episodes at least twenty seven times. Um, Terry.
Speaker 1: I think there's like two four episodes of the show. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's magnificent. I love the show. I love I love offices.
Speaker 1: I love office buildings. You know. I feel like offices
Speaker 1: and people who work in them are disrespected and it's
Speaker 1: the backbone of the American economy, and so I love
Speaker 1: all the drama. Yeah, but I do have some questions
Speaker 1: about the show for you. Great, I would us that's
Speaker 1: what we're doing today, and thank you for having me
Speaker 1: on behalf of all the all the big fans of
Speaker 1: the office out there. Thank you for having me of course. Um,
Speaker 1: of all of the characters in the accounting department, who
Speaker 1: would you say is most likely possessed by biel zabab? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not Angela, That's that's for sure. I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I I mean I haven't seen I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the show, but she seems fiery, feisty in a
Speaker 1: way that that could suit the dark Lord's purposes. You
Speaker 1: haven't seen the show. I've seen the show so many times,
Speaker 1: um that it feels like I've never seen the show before.
Speaker 1: But I am, I am the biggest possible fan. Oh well,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, I um, I don't know. We'll say Kevin.
Speaker 1: We'll thank Kevin was possessed by Beelzebub, that's you. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm interesting, he would be the Yeah. M hm. Which
Speaker 1: of the salesman do you think is most likely to
Speaker 1: have been abducted by aliens? I? Um, probably Dwight. Who
Speaker 1: would probably be Dwight? Dwight screwed Dwight, Dwight Shrewd. Do
Speaker 1: you know Dwight, you know the character Dwights, Yes, ridiculous looking,
Speaker 1: bombastic gentleman. Yes, interesting? Interesting? And in which of the
Speaker 1: which of the cast members of the office uh might
Speaker 1: have seen Bigfoot or any cryptid lockness monster? Terry, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't. I don't know where these
Speaker 1: questions are coming from. This seem they seem totally not
Speaker 1: on the point of what we're doing today. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being a fan and at the same
Speaker 1: time feel as though you've never seen the show. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to come clean. I've never seen your stupid show. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: But I am Terry Carnation. I am the philosopher of
Speaker 1: the paranormal, and I have a podcast that is launches
Speaker 1: in April one. We're all fine. Podcasts are found. If
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. I e wasting
Speaker 1: our time here today. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. God. That guy sounds like Rain Wilson.
Speaker 1: Did you, guys, that guy sounds like Rain Wilson. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: People are unbelievable. Anyway, Um, folks, that was it. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it ended so weirdly. That's what That's what he
Speaker 1: said at conclude. That's yet the end our Sweet sixteen celebration.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much through all of you except Terry. Uh,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Thank you for participating in this
Speaker 1: week's episode. We're gonna do it again sometime, so keep
Speaker 1: the questions and the comments a rolling. As they say,
Speaker 1: in the meantime, we're gonna be back Tuesday, next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: at our regularly scheduled time. The word regularly is a
Speaker 1: difficult word to say. Another interview, this time Kevin Riley. Now, guys,
Speaker 1: this is the person who was there from the very
Speaker 1: beginning and is the reason that The Office was on television.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to share that with you. Until then,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful week everyone. The Office Deep Dive is
Speaker 1: hosted and executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our
Speaker 1: executive producer Langley, our producers for this very special episode
Speaker 1: where Emily Carr, Diego Tapia, Liz Hayes, Tessa Kramer, and
Speaker 1: Ryan Zachary. My main man in a booth is Alec Moore.
Speaker 1: Our theme song Bubble and Squeak performed by my great
Speaker 1: friend Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth Olandsky. Hello,
Speaker 1: well who's this? Oh? No, you see? Oh look it's
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Hi Andy, Oh listen you guys. Uh. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Uh Aaron apparently there. I'm told there's another super fan
Speaker 1: who is on the line. U. Terry Carnation, is that
Speaker 1: is that you? I'm still here. I haven't left thanks
Speaker 1: to the double booked me too. I apologize. I I
Speaker 1: didn't double this. This was unexpected. Uh, Terry Carnation, are
Speaker 1: you are you there? I am, yes, I am. Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. I'm the biggest fan of of
Speaker 1: you Kevin and and uh Brian Mr Rogers. Um, I
Speaker 1: love I love sports, especially Key and it's great just
Speaker 1: to meet you both. Is this is this a call
Speaker 1: in show? Brand? This is a calling podcast now now, no,
Speaker 1: it's not a calling. We're we're having, we're sharing with
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