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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Craig Robinson and I played Darryl Philbin on

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Speaker 1: The Office. Hello everybody, and welcome back to a brand

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Speaker 1: new episode of the Office Deep Dive, this time with

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Speaker 1: the hardest working man in show biz. Nope, not our guest, me,

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Speaker 1: your host, Brian Bumgarner. Just kidding. You'll get that after

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Speaker 1: you listen to the episode today. As you just heard,

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing on possibly the most ambitious and certainly the

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Speaker 1: most competent employee at dunder Mifflin. That's right, the voice

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Speaker 1: of reason in all of the insanity, the incredible Craig Robinson.

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Speaker 1: Like so many of the characters on the Office, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the inspiration, as you'll hear for Darryl Philbin

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Speaker 1: came from Craig's real personality. He is an incredible musician

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Speaker 1: and a hilarious comedian. Greg Daniels actually discovered him by

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Speaker 1: seeing him perform perhaps one of the greatest comedy songs

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Speaker 1: of all time, Somebody's Sucking Mi Lady. Now. Despite the name,

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Speaker 1: and despite the fact that Craig admits to singing his

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Speaker 1: way into booty calls, he insists that his act is

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Speaker 1: a great place to take a date. And I agree.

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Speaker 1: I highly recommended. Craig is amazing. In addition to his

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Speaker 1: work on the Office, He's gone on to work on

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Speaker 1: many other amazing projects, from Brooklyn nine nine to Hot

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Speaker 1: Tub Time Machine, to Cleveland Show and American Dad. I

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Speaker 1: know you've all been waiting to hear from him, and

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Speaker 1: I am so excited that today is finally the day,

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Speaker 1: even though he didn't teach me any super cool new

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Speaker 1: phrases like dink and flick of. But before we dive in,

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Speaker 1: just wanted to give you a quick reminder that the

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Speaker 1: world's best book, if I do say so myself, or

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Speaker 1: now for pre order on Amazon. It is called Welcome

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Speaker 1: to dunder Mifflin, The Ultimate Oral History of the Office.

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Speaker 1: So go check that out and get ready to be

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Speaker 1: overtaken with your love for the show. But for now,

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Speaker 1: the time has come to welcome our very own warehouse

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Speaker 1: foreman and my good friend, Craig Robinson. Bubble and Squeak.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Bubble and squeakan Bubble and Squeaker cooking

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Speaker 1: every month, left over from the night before. But what's up?

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Speaker 1: How you doing so? I mean, I'm good. It's been

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Speaker 1: so long since I saw you? How long? I mean

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. It's been a few what's new

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Speaker 1: in your life? I mean, I'm doing this right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the road a lot you. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is this thing on? Yeah, it's probably on. We start already.

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Speaker 1: We'll not really tell the truth, man, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: it's recording, but I'm just interested in up. Okay, um

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Speaker 1: check check check check? Are you checking your sound? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Are you a sound expert? Well, you're a musician, so yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't know if it's going loud or

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Speaker 1: something there. Did I ever tell you the story? This

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Speaker 1: is before I think we had done the pilot only

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Speaker 1: and I hadn't been in l a very long. Did

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Speaker 1: I ever tell you going the Mbar story? For real?

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Speaker 1: I went to the m Bar and they used to

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Speaker 1: who was like a server there, and I remember it

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Speaker 1: was David Cross was there, and Sarah Silverman some other

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Speaker 1: people and you you were so far and away. The

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Speaker 1: funniest thing that night, Well you had a guy with Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think me and Jerry did Yeah, Yeah, how many

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Speaker 1: shows you do a year? I mean how many cities?

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Speaker 1: Oh shows, shows are like you know, five sometimes seven

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Speaker 1: Are you jesus if I'm not filming myself? So you're

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Speaker 1: the hardest working manag show business? Not by um? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So rewind back like two thousand three four? What were

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Speaker 1: you doing before the office came on? H stand up?

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Speaker 1: Doing much stand up? And you know, I had some

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Speaker 1: parts here and there. Um did a show called Lucky. Yep,

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Speaker 1: You Coming. Yeah that was that was lightning in a

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Speaker 1: and then about to stand up? I'm not sure. Did

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Speaker 1: you do Second City? Yeah? Chicago? Yeah, I did the

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Speaker 1: to l Okay. Um, you incorporate music a lot into

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Speaker 1: you think the writers wrote that? Absolutely? Yeah? They they

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Speaker 1: trained or is it natural? I mean both. You have

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Speaker 1: to sit down and like there's time I was sitting, like,

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Speaker 1: play a song and breakdown note for note each churt

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Speaker 1: we wanted to play again. We want to play again

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Speaker 1: on in the song. So that's how you learned. Do

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Speaker 1: you read music? Yeah, but how you do not like

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Speaker 1: I can hear me. It takes me a while to

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Speaker 1: read some music, but I can hear pretty good. You

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Speaker 1: just saying I'm trying. I don't know, but you trained

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Speaker 1: yourself to do that. I think people think about it

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Speaker 1: as being sort of a natural gift, but no, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely a gift. But it's it's you know, it's a gift.

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Speaker 1: You have to work for it. It's like you gotta

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Speaker 1: just developed that, right. I remember later on they kept

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Speaker 1: pairing me with you and Ed Helms in musical situations.

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Speaker 1: It's the ZiT, Kevin and the Zitz. There was Kevin

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Speaker 1: would be like song, song, song, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, no, we're good, We're good, and Ed

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Speaker 1: No I got it, And I was like no, no, no, guys,

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Speaker 1: I don't have it. I don't know what the hell

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Speaker 1: I'm doing. Um there's a quote that has been attributed

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Speaker 1: Is that true? Not exactly? Okay, Um, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, it's romantic. And I hit up with it,

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Speaker 1: can I have some booty? Right? And then I was like, okay, him,

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Speaker 1: I was just think all heckless heaven. It's in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: and you get eight minutes to perform. The first three minutes,

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Speaker 1: Then the next week I came back with my keyboard.

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Speaker 1: That was all she wrote. You did the song that

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Speaker 1: ends with your buddy getting the phone. Um, somebody's sucking

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Speaker 1: that's what you saw. That's what I saw at MBAR.

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Speaker 1: That's what got me like they got me in front

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Speaker 1: When I did my audition for the Office, Great Games

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Speaker 1: the audition. No, I didn't know much about except for

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Speaker 1: I think I had gotten forty I'm sorry, knocked up?

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Speaker 1: the insanity. Yeah. Ben Silverman says that you're the smartest

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Speaker 1: person who worked at Dunner Mifflin. Well, no, not you,

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Speaker 1: Daryl was just trying to you know, be honest, make

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Speaker 1: are you what are you most thankful for? For the Office? Um?

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Speaker 1: wrenching stories about our family. We don't talk, but we

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a phenomenon. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: it's got everything that humor awkward, it's got heart, you

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Speaker 1: So yeah, alright, guys, do we need anything else from

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Speaker 1: Mr Robinson here? No predictus. Good thanks buddy, You're welcome, sir, dude.

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Speaker 1: It's been so crazy. I've seen everyone, uh, John, Johannah Rain,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this is the most born interview. I'm suck

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Speaker 1: at these things. Just good ladies and gentlemen. The man himself,

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Speaker 1: Craig Robinson Craig. It's so good to see you, and

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Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that you're anything but boring.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to stop by, and

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Speaker 1: thank you my favorite listeners for tuning in. You're in

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Speaker 1: luck because today if we've got a double whammy of

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Speaker 1: a release. So make sure you go check out round

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Speaker 1: two of my conversation with director Ken Kappas right now.

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Speaker 1: I will see you over there the Office. Deep Dive

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

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

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Speaker 1: Our producers for this episode are Liz Hayes and Diego Tapia.

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Speaker 1: My main man in the booth is Alec Moore. Our

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

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Speaker 1: Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth Olandski.

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