Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Craig Robinson and I played Darryl Philbin on
Speaker 1: The Office. Hello everybody, and welcome back to a brand
Speaker 1: new episode of the Office Deep Dive, this time with
Speaker 1: the hardest working man in show biz. Nope, not our guest, me,
Speaker 1: your host, Brian Bumgarner. Just kidding. You'll get that after
Speaker 1: you listen to the episode today. As you just heard,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing on possibly the most ambitious and certainly the
Speaker 1: most competent employee at dunder Mifflin. That's right, the voice
Speaker 1: of reason in all of the insanity, the incredible Craig Robinson.
Speaker 1: Like so many of the characters on the Office, a
Speaker 1: lot of the inspiration, as you'll hear for Darryl Philbin
Speaker 1: came from Craig's real personality. He is an incredible musician
Speaker 1: and a hilarious comedian. Greg Daniels actually discovered him by
Speaker 1: seeing him perform perhaps one of the greatest comedy songs
Speaker 1: of all time, Somebody's Sucking Mi Lady. Now. Despite the name,
Speaker 1: and despite the fact that Craig admits to singing his
Speaker 1: way into booty calls, he insists that his act is
Speaker 1: a great place to take a date. And I agree.
Speaker 1: I highly recommended. Craig is amazing. In addition to his
Speaker 1: work on the Office, He's gone on to work on
Speaker 1: many other amazing projects, from Brooklyn nine nine to Hot
Speaker 1: Tub Time Machine, to Cleveland Show and American Dad. I
Speaker 1: know you've all been waiting to hear from him, and
Speaker 1: I am so excited that today is finally the day,
Speaker 1: even though he didn't teach me any super cool new
Speaker 1: phrases like dink and flick of. But before we dive in,
Speaker 1: just wanted to give you a quick reminder that the
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Speaker 1: holiday present or late night reading, is already available right
Speaker 1: now for pre order on Amazon. It is called Welcome
Speaker 1: to dunder Mifflin, The Ultimate Oral History of the Office.
Speaker 1: So go check that out and get ready to be
Speaker 1: overtaken with your love for the show. But for now,
Speaker 1: the time has come to welcome our very own warehouse
Speaker 1: foreman and my good friend, Craig Robinson. Bubble and Squeak.
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Speaker 1: every month, left over from the night before. But what's up?
Speaker 1: How you doing so? I mean, I'm good. It's been
Speaker 1: so long since I saw you? How long? I mean
Speaker 1: a couple of years. It's been a few what's new
Speaker 1: in your life? I mean, I'm doing this right now.
Speaker 1: I'm on the road a lot you. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Is this thing on? Yeah, it's probably on. We start already.
Speaker 1: We'll not really tell the truth, man, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's recording, but I'm just interested in up. Okay, um
Speaker 1: check check check check? Are you checking your sound? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you a sound expert? Well, you're a musician, so yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know if it's going loud or
Speaker 1: something there. Did I ever tell you the story? This
Speaker 1: is before I think we had done the pilot only
Speaker 1: and I hadn't been in l a very long. Did
Speaker 1: I ever tell you going the Mbar story? For real?
Speaker 1: I went to the m Bar and they used to
Speaker 1: do like an open mic night, and somebody was like, oh,
Speaker 1: go to the m Bar. I think I knew somebody
Speaker 1: who was like a server there, and I remember it
Speaker 1: was David Cross was there, and Sarah Silverman some other
Speaker 1: people and you you were so far and away. The
Speaker 1: funniest thing that night, Well you had a guy with Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think me and Jerry did Yeah, Yeah, how many
Speaker 1: shows you do a year? I mean how many cities?
Speaker 1: Oh shows, shows are like you know, five sometimes seven
Speaker 1: a weekend, So I probably do thirty thirty plus weeks.
Speaker 1: Are you jesus if I'm not filming myself? So you're
Speaker 1: the hardest working manag show business? Not by um? Okay,
Speaker 1: So rewind back like two thousand three four? What were
Speaker 1: you doing before the office came on? H stand up?
Speaker 1: Doing much stand up? And you know, I had some
Speaker 1: parts here and there. Um did a show called Lucky. Yep,
Speaker 1: I was on FX and then a great show thank
Speaker 1: You Coming. Yeah that was that was lightning in a
Speaker 1: bottle right there. And then yeah it was two thousand one.
Speaker 1: We started four four yeah, okay, so yeah, so Lucky
Speaker 1: and then about to stand up? I'm not sure. Did
Speaker 1: you do Second City? Yeah? Chicago? Yeah, I did the
Speaker 1: training st and I didn't do the okay, I just
Speaker 1: did one through all the classes and then I moved
Speaker 1: to l Okay. Um, you incorporate music a lot into
Speaker 1: your stand up. Do you think that Darryl being a
Speaker 1: musician on the show did that come from you? Do
Speaker 1: you think the writers wrote that? Absolutely? Yeah? They they
Speaker 1: We were like a towel being rung out. They got whatever.
Speaker 1: But whatever they knew we could do, they got it
Speaker 1: out of us. Right. Absolutely, Yeah, you started pretty early.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember that Christmas episode you and I
Speaker 1: think we were djay in the corner and then gradually
Speaker 1: you star. Yeah, we had like what he called those
Speaker 1: little balls that with the lights and uh disc disco ball. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean for people who don't know, music comes very
Speaker 1: easy to you. Yes, I have seen people hum you
Speaker 1: tunes and you start playing well trained here is it
Speaker 1: trained or is it natural? I mean both. You have
Speaker 1: to sit down and like there's time I was sitting, like,
Speaker 1: play a song and breakdown note for note each churt
Speaker 1: we wanted to play again. We want to play again
Speaker 1: until I get and go through the whole song. And
Speaker 1: he Once you do that, you know sometimes you start
Speaker 1: you know, see patterns and you know, see what's going
Speaker 1: on in the song. So that's how you learned. Do
Speaker 1: you read music? Yeah, but how you do not like
Speaker 1: I can hear me. It takes me a while to
Speaker 1: read some music, but I can hear pretty good. You
Speaker 1: hear better than anyone I've ever seen. Okay, No, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I'm trying. I don't know, but you trained
Speaker 1: yourself to do that. I think people think about it
Speaker 1: as being sort of a natural gift, but no, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a gift. But it's it's you know, it's a gift.
Speaker 1: You have to work for it. It's like you gotta
Speaker 1: know you had the talent to do it and then
Speaker 1: just developed that, right. I remember later on they kept
Speaker 1: pairing me with you and Ed Helms in musical situations.
Speaker 1: It's the ZiT, Kevin and the Zitz. There was Kevin
Speaker 1: and the Zitz, and I remember we would you know,
Speaker 1: we never had time to read the episodes before we
Speaker 1: did them, and we would read the episodes and they
Speaker 1: would be like song, song, song, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you knew this. I would go to them and
Speaker 1: I would be like, okay, when is rehearsals? When is rehearsal?
Speaker 1: And then I would come to you and I'd be
Speaker 1: like all right, you guys, can we And you'd be
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, no, we're good, We're good, and Ed
Speaker 1: be the same way, like as like, no, no, that's fine,
Speaker 1: No I got it, And I was like no, no, no, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't have it. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Um there's a quote that has been attributed
Speaker 1: to you which that you basically started doing music because
Speaker 1: it's there were so many funny people in Chicago that
Speaker 1: you wanted to do something that was different in a way.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Not exactly? Okay, Um, I just you know,
Speaker 1: it's my thing. And I had a song that I
Speaker 1: did in college that transferred over to the stage. I
Speaker 1: would like play, you know, piano, the same singing to
Speaker 1: a girl on the phone, you know, singing a nice
Speaker 1: and like talking to a singing to a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, it's romantic. And I hit up with it,
Speaker 1: can I have some booty? Right? And then I was like, okay, him,
Speaker 1: listen to see if she's laughing and watched so if
Speaker 1: she's laughing, okay, we're good. But so then I did
Speaker 1: that like a I don't know, some open mic kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But it when the open mic, it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, actors in the room on a Friday night,
Speaker 1: like you know, and then you just did what you do.
Speaker 1: So they wants to start doing comedy. I went up
Speaker 1: and did this show and uh, it didn't go too well.
Speaker 1: I was just think all heckless heaven. It's in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and you get eight minutes to perform. The first three minutes,
Speaker 1: nobody gets the mess with you. From the third minute
Speaker 1: on if people wanted to hecker you. There are three
Speaker 1: people in the audience who have rubber chickens. If you've
Speaker 1: got all three rubber chickens, you had to get off stage.
Speaker 1: And then uh, three people have score cards. So I
Speaker 1: got two rubber chickens the first night, and before I
Speaker 1: get there, I'm not getting a third chicken. It's good night.
Speaker 1: Then the next week I came back with my keyboard.
Speaker 1: That was all she wrote. You did the song that
Speaker 1: ends with your buddy getting the phone. Um, somebody's sucking
Speaker 1: my lady. Somebody's sucking my lady. Yeah, somebody's Yeah. That's
Speaker 1: that's what you saw. That's what I saw at MBAR.
Speaker 1: That's what got me like they got me in front
Speaker 1: of Apple Town to get me in front of Greg Daniels. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I did my audition for the Office, Great Games
Speaker 1: was like, doesn't get any funny into that. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: now audition, Like, oh what like items like a big
Speaker 1: voted confidence right, I'm thinking like, oh man, now do
Speaker 1: you do lucky and then you're doing stand up and
Speaker 1: then how did you did you know about the Office
Speaker 1: before you came on? I saw the British pilot on
Speaker 1: an airplane and I was dying, right, and I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: I wish I could find it, you know. And one
Speaker 1: day I was like drumming past Sev and I saw
Speaker 1: a picture David Brent. Now that's that's the dude from
Speaker 1: this show, you know. And then I end up getting
Speaker 1: the audition. No, I didn't know much about except for
Speaker 1: that pilot, right. And when you got the audition was
Speaker 1: did you think it was just for one episode or
Speaker 1: were they sang like you may come around. No, it
Speaker 1: was just I mean it was it was the first season, right,
Speaker 1: so you didn't even know, you know, way I was
Speaker 1: getting what was going on. So I just came in
Speaker 1: and did the did the audition, and they called me
Speaker 1: later after y'all get well under way. I was established
Speaker 1: an episode for Yeah, And did you know Allison Jones
Speaker 1: before that? I don't know if I worked with Alison.
Speaker 1: I'm not before that. No, you know what let missing?
Speaker 1: I think I had gotten forty I'm sorry, knocked up?
Speaker 1: How did I do that? Everybody does that to me
Speaker 1: fort Your Virgin. I'm like, no, it's knocked up, knocked
Speaker 1: up and I just messed it up. I got auditioned
Speaker 1: for Fortio Virgin, but I didn't get that, but I
Speaker 1: did get knocked up. So I'm not sure exactly when
Speaker 1: want happened right right right at first? But did you
Speaker 1: know that it was had the possibility to to recur
Speaker 1: at that point or zero idea of just doing a
Speaker 1: job right? What was different for you or was there
Speaker 1: anything different for you in terms of the way that
Speaker 1: the show was shot. Yeah, that was. It was way different.
Speaker 1: Like everything else was like a movie was you know,
Speaker 1: the two cameras doing a thing, but nobody was swinging
Speaker 1: cameras around, right. I feel like Daryl, you know, even
Speaker 1: from the beginning, had kind of a gem thing with
Speaker 1: the camera, like it felt like you were on the
Speaker 1: same page, Like you would do the looks to the camera,
Speaker 1: like did you just see that idiot. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of camera looks untill later, but people do say, yeah,
Speaker 1: see me as a voice of reason and in all
Speaker 1: the insanity. Yeah. Ben Silverman says that you're the smartest
Speaker 1: person who worked at Dunner Mifflin. Well, no, not you,
Speaker 1: but Darryl, right right, right right, I can see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Daryl was just trying to you know, be honest, make
Speaker 1: an honest buck, And I couldn't believe a lot of
Speaker 1: things that I was going around him. And you know,
Speaker 1: he knew he had to keep the piece and knew
Speaker 1: he had to uh keep his job. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think he has without smart in these cats.
Speaker 1: He just was, you know, just like would you beliet
Speaker 1: these cats? You know, but it felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: they showed a lot that the warehouse maybe was run
Speaker 1: more efficiently than the regular office. Like you were you
Speaker 1: were good. Yeah. Um. Darryl's relationship with Michael in the show,
Speaker 1: it was a very like he kept coming to you
Speaker 1: for advice, particularly on black culture. It was a very
Speaker 1: very funny dynamic. What was your experience working with Steve?
Speaker 1: He's the greatest. The way he could turn it comedy
Speaker 1: button off and on like a falsett. It was just
Speaker 1: genius to me. Whenever I had seen with him moment
Speaker 1: and I was like titilation, you know, very exciting, and
Speaker 1: I learned from him, stole from him all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. That you said you said that because I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say something else, which I
Speaker 1: think is also true. Is part of his genius is
Speaker 1: how he turns so quick, even within a scene. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, But he is he is fighting
Speaker 1: down one path and something may happen and he just
Speaker 1: turns it like that and he's like, you know, ultimate scene,
Speaker 1: part of two. He listens and reacts two. You know
Speaker 1: what's going on? Like we had a scene I didn't
Speaker 1: even really notice until it aired. It was a negotiations.
Speaker 1: It might be my favorite episode just because the work
Speaker 1: I did with Steve and being able to play with
Speaker 1: him like that. It was a scene where he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to speak first, like to tlie to
Speaker 1: speak first. So we did a couple of takes and
Speaker 1: it was fine, uh, And then he did his next
Speaker 1: take and he's making these faces and if you look closely,
Speaker 1: you can see Meet started crack a smile on that.
Speaker 1: But it was just like, without even speaking, he could,
Speaker 1: you know, pull us out of you. The laughter is like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's about to get me. But also in that episode
Speaker 1: when I was saying uh, where he listens and you know,
Speaker 1: like the perfect improvisation partner. You're listening and take it
Speaker 1: to the next level. So we're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: getting raged from Jan and I said, make it happen, Captain,
Speaker 1: he said, I will, Sergeant, my god, game amazing. Do
Speaker 1: you think that your relationship with him evolved throughout the show? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think everybody's everybody evolved in that show. Everybody
Speaker 1: I went through character development. Um, that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that makes it what it is. People got to
Speaker 1: know these people, right. But yeah, I think every every
Speaker 1: situation evolved to something. I mean, you started out and
Speaker 1: your episodes were mainly about like the office versus the warehouse,
Speaker 1: whether directly in basketball or like a weird class thing
Speaker 1: where you have like the white collar and the blue collar.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the transition for you character wise
Speaker 1: or as an actor of you finally coming up and
Speaker 1: being a regular part of like the Bullpen characterise. Um,
Speaker 1: it felt like like it did in real life, like
Speaker 1: oh many making you a regular, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So definitely move on up for Craig Infidery, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was like more responsibility. And Rain used to say,
Speaker 1: I had the sweetest schedule in Hollywood. Is that I
Speaker 1: would come in for like an episode here and then
Speaker 1: four weeks later come in do the Christmas episode. But yeah,
Speaker 1: character wi it was it was like, yeah, step up
Speaker 1: and okay, let's starting to see you know, starting to
Speaker 1: feel me. And for Craig myself, it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this is awesome, like because I didn't understand,
Speaker 1: like I thought we were a year to year like
Speaker 1: every other show. You know, you don't know, you don't know,
Speaker 1: But it was something about the offered like like I
Speaker 1: remember one one year they were like many was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be dating, and it didn't happen for a year,
Speaker 1: and I kind of forgot about in the next year
Speaker 1: we were dating. I was like, Oh, that's that's interesting.
Speaker 1: How do you'll know we're gonna be picked up? You know?
Speaker 1: I guess you don't know, but you do that kind
Speaker 1: of I wasn't, you know, none of those conversations. So
Speaker 1: one of the people that I've talked to is TV critic,
Speaker 1: and she talked about The Office. One of the things
Speaker 1: that was notable about it was that it was she
Speaker 1: defined it as casually diverse. Do you feel like the
Speaker 1: Office in terms of race or your experience, do you
Speaker 1: feel like it it did something right or wrong in
Speaker 1: terms of that it presented us as people, and that's
Speaker 1: all right with me. I don't notice right or wrong.
Speaker 1: I think casually diverse is a great way to put it.
Speaker 1: But it just, you know, we would regularly it would
Speaker 1: look like a real office. We weren't like, you know,
Speaker 1: models walking around. It was so proper dialogue. This was
Speaker 1: like just Okay, these are people. Someone probably has something
Speaker 1: mentally problems that they need to take care of right there,
Speaker 1: unleashed on society and it's fine. Do you think the
Speaker 1: show did anything in terms of a positive message in
Speaker 1: terms of diversity or race? I mean, you were nominated
Speaker 1: for three and double a CP Awards, correct lost three,
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon, Ice Cube, and somebody else. But um, I
Speaker 1: mean people from all walks of life love the Office.
Speaker 1: So I wish I could speak to that specifically. Somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody would be like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: had a problem with black people, But it's just that show.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, right, I just don't know
Speaker 1: that answer. You know what's funny? This is kind of
Speaker 1: side note. Someone pointed this out that in Christmas Party,
Speaker 1: we were talking about before season two Michael tells Darryl
Speaker 1: that he can't wear a Santa hat, and eight years
Speaker 1: later Megan Kelly there was a controversy was started by
Speaker 1: Santa Clauss white kids. Yeah, like he was before anyone
Speaker 1: ever knew who Meg and Kelly was. He was making
Speaker 1: a joke out of what she would say in the future,
Speaker 1: calling America. Yeah, um, do you do that in your
Speaker 1: comedy race? Yeah, stuff, we're just about America. No, not really. No,
Speaker 1: I have a date XT my acting mostly for like lovers.
Speaker 1: It's a great date night. I mean it's for everybody,
Speaker 1: but it's a couples get I don't know, a boost
Speaker 1: out of it, a boot, like a sexual boost. Something
Speaker 1: you give a sexual boost, something deftly happens. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely about the you know, the relationship. But interesting, I
Speaker 1: wonder what my vibe is. I don't think it's that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Darrell eventually interviews to be the new manager. Did you
Speaker 1: want that? John? No? Why I just didn't. They were
Speaker 1: talking about me being it and I was, and on
Speaker 1: time I went up to Paul, I'm like, hey man,
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, just put that in your pocket
Speaker 1: game of dollar, Like you're thinking about the manager but
Speaker 1: I was no. I did not want to be managing.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting that my name got brought
Speaker 1: up and it was cool, and you know, I thought
Speaker 1: about it, but that would be like and all that.
Speaker 1: But no, it seemed like it looked like a lot
Speaker 1: of work. Way different than rain talking about your schedule
Speaker 1: coming in one episode for four. Yeah, but the path
Speaker 1: to that, Oh was amazing. Uh, it's gonna go Kathy
Speaker 1: Bates and Will fare All, Will j Aimes, James Spader.
Speaker 1: I look back at some of those episodes like, that's right,
Speaker 1: that actually happened, Spade. It was incredible, man, God damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How was it like working with you know, once Steve left?
Speaker 1: Working with those guys, I mean, these are legends coming
Speaker 1: in and you just like hanging out, no battle trailer, Oh,
Speaker 1: what's up? Catherine Tate? Katherine Tate, who I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about Melan That's that's my homie Steel to this day,
Speaker 1: she's the best Spader. How is working with Spader different
Speaker 1: than Steve Well? I mean, you know, Spader, He's how
Speaker 1: do you describe the guy? He's his own world, he's
Speaker 1: his own I don't know. It was cool, it was
Speaker 1: real cool. He was you know, chatty and you know,
Speaker 1: say what's up and he's smoothed with it, but you
Speaker 1: know he's got that weird, creepy funny and Steve was
Speaker 1: just like a falsetto whatever you needed. And in Spade
Speaker 1: of eight they wrote to him beautifully. Yeah. He It
Speaker 1: was just interesting how they just approached it in a
Speaker 1: totally opposite way from like really wanting a crafted acting
Speaker 1: performance to way more sort of improv fass Ale. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were talking before about the leading up to Darryl
Speaker 1: becoming the manager and getting to work with all of
Speaker 1: those people. I mean, that was that was a huge
Speaker 1: storyline for you. I mean, and then eventually you going
Speaker 1: off and working with Jim. Do you think today Darryl
Speaker 1: would still be working with Jim at the Athlete Athlete
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. They be at all no dope
Speaker 1: games and killing it. Heck yeah, I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would have found another way to rise about his point,
Speaker 1: but uh, may views in his own company. Who knows
Speaker 1: Daryl was ambitious? Yeah. Uh again, going back to Ben's
Speaker 1: talking about Darryl being the smartest person in the office,
Speaker 1: but he was overlooked a lot. I sort of like
Speaker 1: you know, like Kevin was overlooked. Um in the basketball
Speaker 1: episode like where I was like, oh, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: that guy can't play, and then you know you exactly, Darrel,
Speaker 1: know you really are an athletes? Really I am. I
Speaker 1: mean we on a south Fall killed bro, you killed?
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot about that stuff like Okay, don't make
Speaker 1: me run that fast. That's all hit it far enough
Speaker 1: so that hit it far enough so I don't have
Speaker 1: to run so fast. Yeah, but Daryl, But it felt
Speaker 1: like Darryl kept being overlooked, at least by Michael. I
Speaker 1: mean he was in the warehouse, he put in the
Speaker 1: you know, trying to be looked at. I guess what
Speaker 1: was your negotiation? Was that your favorite episode? Probably? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the sheer amount of work Mike and idea. And
Speaker 1: they said people only want to call him Mike. That's right.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that. Yeah, you're the only one
Speaker 1: who called him Mike. Um, what was it? What was
Speaker 1: it like for you working with Krasinski? How was he
Speaker 1: different than Steve? And he's a paint in the ass,
Speaker 1: But it was that John always struck me. I mean
Speaker 1: he just knew like he feels like he was you know,
Speaker 1: just just brilliant dude. You know. Uh, I love his
Speaker 1: directing and he's funny, you know when he wanted to be,
Speaker 1: but he was the more the leading man kind of dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know he was always cool man. It was
Speaker 1: great in the finale. Um, do you remember what happens
Speaker 1: in the finale We all go back to Scratton like
Speaker 1: a year later and we do that Q and a
Speaker 1: panel on the show. Yeah, and Ellie and her parents
Speaker 1: were there thinking about that. Yeah, Joel Q sick. Was
Speaker 1: it sad? Sad to watch on uh in that moment
Speaker 1: with Ellie and because I don't know what was going on? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was pretty you know, rinching well and Creed singing
Speaker 1: the song all the faces he sings that and then
Speaker 1: Jenna takes the painting off the wall and goes outside.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I do remember that. Jens Alotta talked about that.
Speaker 1: Greg used to talk about the show was like a
Speaker 1: giant parking lot that goes on forever, like as far
Speaker 1: as you can see, there's just asphalt everywhere, and then
Speaker 1: just line parking space, parking space, handicapped space, and that
Speaker 1: just goes on and on. He said, But then when
Speaker 1: you start to look closer. You see the little cracks
Speaker 1: in the parking lot, and every once in a while
Speaker 1: there's just a little teeny flower it comes up out
Speaker 1: of the ground. And examining that beauty in a waste
Speaker 1: land was what the show was trying to do. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it relates to people. One of the
Speaker 1: many reasons. Of course, have you ever seen Greg go
Speaker 1: into his own like what so we were doing this
Speaker 1: shows what in the office was Mr Robins? Mr Robinson?
Speaker 1: So we the pitch like the big pitch was like
Speaker 1: later on in the day, and uh and cats he
Speaker 1: was there. Tracy shout out Tracy and she had to move.
Speaker 1: She's like, great, we gotta go. And Greg went into
Speaker 1: this feverish, fierce like you saw his brain work and
Speaker 1: he started writing and banging. It was it was like
Speaker 1: watching Michaelangelo paint or something. It was it was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is happening right now in front of me, dude,
Speaker 1: is incredible. Salute Greg Nagels. Yeah. When when he was
Speaker 1: doing it, going into his writing mode and cast Key
Speaker 1: was trying to shut Greg we go, he almost like
Speaker 1: you know, like he was typing. It was. It was
Speaker 1: it was amazing brow he was just he like he
Speaker 1: had an idea and he had do I swear it
Speaker 1: was like watching Harry Potter or something. It was it
Speaker 1: was magic. It was like a world wind around him
Speaker 1: and he almost barked at her, which she trying to
Speaker 1: get it to go. Yeah. See the smartest comedy person
Speaker 1: you know. Yes, I'm to say absolutely a do love
Speaker 1: working with Greg. I mean he couldn't be a nicer guy,
Speaker 1: you know, and then smartest dude and room. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you what are you most thankful for? For the Office? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, when you meet people, it's it's this uh
Speaker 1: genuine like like it feels like you you have friends everywhere,
Speaker 1: and that's, uh, that's a big part of my life
Speaker 1: because you know, these friends come out, they support my
Speaker 1: shows and what have you. And it's a lot of
Speaker 1: like the deeper goals. You know, people had these stories
Speaker 1: of you know, my my uh mother had cancer and
Speaker 1: you know we watched The Office and you know, we
Speaker 1: got through this and it will be these incredible heart
Speaker 1: wrenching stories about our family. We don't talk, but we
Speaker 1: bond over the Office. You know. Thank you asking me
Speaker 1: You're like, why why the hell is the show still relevant?
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: People really connect through the show with family members or whoever. Right,
Speaker 1: why do you think it resonates? I mean, here was
Speaker 1: my impression anyway that people are like, oh the office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people can relate because sixty million people work in offices
Speaker 1: around the country. So of course, now like it's young
Speaker 1: people who are really into it. Soldiers for sure, man um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the young people like starting and people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on my knight, my time around watching it or
Speaker 1: we watched it, you know, three times or four times.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a phenomenon. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: put my finger on it. I think that awkwardness, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got everything that humor awkward, it's got heart, you
Speaker 1: fall in love with people, you know. It's a beautiful.
Speaker 1: So yeah, alright, guys, do we need anything else from
Speaker 1: Mr Robinson here? No predictus. Good thanks buddy, You're welcome, sir, dude.
Speaker 1: It's been so crazy. I've seen everyone, uh, John, Johannah Rain,
Speaker 1: I'm sure this is the most born interview. I'm suck
Speaker 1: at these things. Just good ladies and gentlemen. The man himself,
Speaker 1: Craig Robinson Craig. It's so good to see you, and
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that you're anything but boring.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to stop by, and
Speaker 1: thank you my favorite listeners for tuning in. You're in
Speaker 1: luck because today if we've got a double whammy of
Speaker 1: a release. So make sure you go check out round
Speaker 1: two of my conversation with director Ken Kappas right now.
Speaker 1: I will see you over there the Office. Deep Dive
Speaker 1: is hosted and executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside
Speaker 1: our executive producer Lang Lee. Our senior producer is Tessa Kramer.
Speaker 1: Our producers for this episode are Liz Hayes and Diego Tapia.
Speaker 1: My main man in the booth is Alec Moore. Our
Speaker 1: theme song Bubble and Squeak, performed by my great friend
Speaker 1: Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth Olandski.
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