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Speaker 1: Do you think that the Office jokes can kind of

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Speaker 2: I don't know. People are watching it, and that's what

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Speaker 1: How are Kevin and Brian different?

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Speaker 1: When finally Dwight gets married and then Michael shows up,

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Speaker 2: Crying without saying anything about me. I promise you this

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Speaker 2: when you were not the only one who cried.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what up? Everyone? Welcome to another episode of Cheeky's

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Speaker 1: and Chill. I'm your host Cheeky's and we have a

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Speaker 1: very exciting episode in store for you today. The person

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Speaker 1: my favorite shows ever. So let's not waste any more

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Speaker 1: time and let's jump right into it. This is Cheeky's

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Speaker 1: and Chill. Today's guest is someone I'm really looking forward

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Speaker 1: to talking to. It's none other than Brian Bombgartner. You

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Speaker 1: may know him as Kevin Malone from the Emmy Award

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Speaker 1: winning TV sitcom The Office, or you might know him

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Speaker 1: as the host of his podcast Off the Beat. Welcome

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Speaker 2: Brian, thank you, Cheeky's how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good?

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Speaker 2: How are you good? I'm glad to be here. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I cannot believe that I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: you right now. Thank you so much. I'm a huge,

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Speaker 2: I guess we get asked that question a lot now.

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Speaker 2: Why are more people watching it? Why do we have

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Speaker 2: new fit fans like you Cheeky's why are you finding

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Speaker 2: it now? Well after when we ran? And I think

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Speaker 2: I think that The Office became a show that people

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I don't spoiler alert, I don't talk.

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Speaker 2: Let's say this. The basketball episode was not edited. That

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Speaker 2: We shot a golf episode. I play a lot of golf,

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Speaker 1: Okay, nice, Are you married, Brian?

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Speaker 2: I am, yes. So that's a difference because.

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Speaker 1: I know Kevin didn't have or he had girlfriends, right

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Speaker 1: But Brian's very much married and you've been married for

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Speaker 2: No? I was aware there was a British version of

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Speaker 2: who played Aaron Hannon in the Office and Unbreakable Keimy Schmidt.

432
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 2: John Hamm was her high school drama teacher.

433
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: No way, what the heck?

434
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 2: How crazy is that? How crazy is that? Yeah?

435
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: And so we discovered this on your podcast Off the Beat.

436
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then years later I say, well, do you

437
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: keep in touch with her? Like she's a high school student,

438
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 2: like do you you know? And he said, yeah, you know,

439
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 2: Off and on I remembered her. She you know, obviously

440
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 2: she was good and talented. And then years later when

441
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: she started Unbreakable Keimy Schmidt. They called John and said,

442
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: I want to play this role in this movie. So

443
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: it's like this weird the high school drama teacher. Yeah,

444
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 2: becomes the guest star. And he was making jokes like

445
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 2: he was like talking to me about coming and playing

446
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 2: this part, and he's like, well, I don't know if

447
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 2: I have time to do it, and they're like it's

448
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: like one episode a year, and he's like, oh, you're

449
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 2: not even offering me the lead, Like I'm a teacher

450
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 2: and now I'm gonna play Like what Yeah, anyway, So

451
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 2: I'm having a blast doing that.

452
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 1: I love podcasting because I feel like you just I

453
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: don't know. It's I don't have to get like already

454
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: and stuff.

455
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 2: You know.

456
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: Eventually I want to get into like the visual part

457
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: of it, like some video, But for now, I'm really

458
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 1: enjoying it. It's a form of again, a therapy for me.

459
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the form. I mean, you know, the

460
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: thing I tell people is if you just say late

461
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: night television, right, you think, oh, well, they talked to

462
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 2: John Hamm last week. Yeah, they talked to him for

463
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 2: eight minutes with a commercial break in the middle, like

464
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: they didn't really talk about anything. They talked about whatever

465
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 2: project he has coming on right now, maybe one Madman joke,

466
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 2: and then you know, we're on to the next person.

467
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 2: I think this form allows you to have substantive conversations

468
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 2: and begin to have and find a relationship with a

469
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 2: person that you can't sort of get in that other form.

470
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: So I'm really enjoying it.

471
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: Have a Q and A. Are you down to do

472
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: that with me right now?

473
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 2: I'm down. Let's go.

474
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite character on the Office, Kevin Malone, that's right, yes.

475
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: I do think, however, in terms of just character that

476
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 2: Michael Scott is amazing. The character of Dwight Truth is

477
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: just the character, everything about him, the dichotomies within himself,

478
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 2: that he's an anime loving transam driving heavy metal, listening

479
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: like chess playing, nothing makes sense to it. But I

480
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 2: think it's Genie.

481
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: See, that's the thing I loved. I love all of

482
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: you guys. At different times, I just I can't pinpoint one.

483
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: I really, really really can't even like Todd Packer. Sometimes

484
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god, I want to

485
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: just choke him too, But then he's freaking funny, so

486
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, I can't choose one.

487
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 2: I mean, someone just came up to me the other

488
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: day on the street and was talking about their favorite

489
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 2: moment of the show, and I said, what was it?

490
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 2: And that's a crazy thing. I get so many, but

491
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 2: they were like, oh, when Todd Packer makes the cupcakes

492
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 2: and oh my gosh, LAist and you and Andy go

493
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 2: into that like trip scene. I'm like, oh, yeah, that

494
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 2: was so much fun to so much. It was so fun.

495
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are so many moments like that. I love it. Yeah,

496
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: that's one of the times I was like, oh my god,

497
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: I don't like this guy, but I love them. It's

498
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, I love and hate relationship. Okay, So who's

499
00:25:58,680 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: your favorite actor on the show.

500
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: Oh I can't answer that, but I will tell you this.

501
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 2: I've said it many times. The funniest person off screen

502
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 2: is Oscar Nunius. Really, Oscar Nunias is the funniest.

503
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my goodness, Okay, I love Oscar. I have

504
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: a question actually, Okay, So Phillis I hear that she

505
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: was was it she was a like she was trying

506
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: to find caster or what's the what's the deal with Phillis?

507
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: She was a casting director? Yeah, she was the assistant

508
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: casting director on the On the Office, and what happens

509
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: oftentimes Allison Jones, who's a genius and has cast basically

510
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: every comedy that anyone who's listening to has ever liked.

511
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: Alison Jones is the casting director and so a lot

512
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 2: of times they're like, you know, talking to the producers

513
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 2: and doing stuff when people are reading. And Phyllis was

514
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 2: the person who read with us, right, So like, imagine

515
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 2: if I'm auditioning, I have a scene with Angela or something,

516
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: so she's reading Angela's lines off camera while I'm auditioning

517
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 2: for the role, and the director Ken Kwappis told stories

518
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 2: they would have these long sessions and so forth, and

519
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: he found himself that he kept looking over at Phyllis

520
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: and he's like like, couldn't kind and he was like,

521
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 2: to the detriment of like probably some of the actors

522
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: who auditioned, he just couldn't stop watching Phyllis and eventually

523
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 2: went to Greg and was like, she has to work here,

524
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 2: And so that was how the character of Phyllis was created.

525
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Wow. Yeah, my boyfriend was telling me that.

526
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't believe you. He's like, I swear,

527
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: ask Kevin.

528
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not to like sell the podcast. But she

529
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: and I had a long conversation in which I learned

530
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: all of that is true. But more than that, when

531
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: we started filming, she felt self conscious because she wasn't

532
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 2: an improviser, she wasn't an actor, and she felt like

533
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: she was behind and was afraid she wasn't being good,

534
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: and so she would leave work and she went and

535
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: picked up books on improv and at night would read

536
00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: books on improv. As we started shooting the show, Yeah,

537
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: she told me that I had no idea, no idea.

538
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: How cute is she? And I thought she was so awesome.

539
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: I was like, I genitally thought she was an actor

540
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: and she's freaking like I wanted to always just hug

541
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: her and have her bake cookies for me, and I'm

542
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: just like, she's I didn't even know that that's that's

543
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: so great. So she was like, I want to be

544
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: great at this, and she was. So the chili scene

545
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: was a very popular scene for Kevin. What's your favorite

546
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: scene or episode?

547
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 2: I mean, it really changes the series of episodes where

548
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 2: Kevin meets Holly in terms of playing that. That was

549
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: really fun. That was really fun.

550
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a cool moment. And how she thought

551
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: you were special for something. Yeah, she would speak to me.

552
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh. The one I loved

553
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: was when you gave Michael was looking for a girlfriend

554
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: and you gave him Wendy's number and it was Wendy's

555
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: Wendy's the fast. Oh my god, hilarious.

556
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

557
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: That. And also, oh, can you please do it about

558
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: the cats when you said, no, you're not supposed to

559
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: eat cats, Kevin.

560
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: You can't eat cats. You can't eat cats, eat Kevin.

561
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: I loved it. Oh my god, I have so many. Oh.

562
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: And then the very last one when finally Dwight gets

563
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: married to Angela and then Michael shows up. I was like,

564
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: oh my god. When Jim said, you know, I can't

565
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: be your best man, and like he comes and I

566
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: was just like, oh my god, I started crying. Beautiful.

567
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I promise you this, without saying anything about me,

568
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 2: I promise you this. You were not the only one

569
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: who cried.

570
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: Oh, oh my gosh, did you cry.

571
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: I'm not answering that. I'm just letting you know for sure.

572
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: You weren't the only one.

573
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: Dude. I was bawling. I was like, this is perfect.

574
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: I just felt like it all just came together and

575
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: he didn't even talk much. He just stayed like behind

576
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: and let everyone else do their thing, and it was

577
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: just so beautiful. I was bawling. I've watched it like

578
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: three times already. I think I probably watched I mean,

579
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: I cry again. So what's something you think the audience

580
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: got wrong about Kevin?

581
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: Well? I can tell you this. There became a very

582
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 2: popular Reddit chain which was that Kevin was secretly a

583
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 2: genius and he was embezzling money from dunder Mifflin and

584
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: that's how he got the bar. And they go through

585
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: and they talk about a bunch of examples about his

586
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: gambling and how he gets the money and blah blah blah,

587
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: blah blah. I don't think that's right. Okay, So that's

588
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 2: a fan theory. With all of the evidence they have,

589
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 2: I don't think they're right about that.

590
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: Now that we're talking about that there was some type

591
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: of serial killer, right, I forgot his name and they

592
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: thought it was Creed. Yes, I thought that maybe it

593
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: was Creed or something like that. Did we never got

594
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: to the bottom of that, did we?

595
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 2: No? But I'll tell you this. Every it's and not

596
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,719
Speaker 2: only every like qu in a show where people are

597
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: allowed to ask questions, not only do people always ask

598
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: about the Scranton Strangler. That's the name.

599
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: There you go.

600
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: It's almost always one of the first questions, which is

601
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: who is the Scranton Strangler? And I think they're saying

602
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: that they're doing it now to kind of mess with me.

603
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, for those of you who

604
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: would have that same question right now, I don't care,

605
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: and nobody cares. And that's the thing is that getting

606
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: Toby on jury duty was an excuse to bring in

607
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: the character of Holly for Michael to fall in love with.

608
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really what happened. And people are so

609
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: obsessed with and they're talking about it.

610
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: Is it?

611
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: Toby is a creed to my knowledge, that was never

612
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: discussed ever in the writer's room. So I guess whatever

613
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 2: anybody else thinks is what it is, because I don't

614
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: have any better answer.

615
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, created I love his little comments here and there.

616
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: They're just they're great. So what do you miss? Do

617
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: you miss anything about being on the show?

618
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: Oh? I mean I love the show. I mean I

619
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 2: was a huge fan of the show. I love that

620
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: we ended it when we did, because we ended it

621
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 2: with a full story told, meaning we shot this documentary

622
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: and then it eventually aired and we got to see

623
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: what happened after it aired. And you know, I think

624
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: if we'd gone on any longer, we were going to

625
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: start losing more and more people and the show wouldn't

626
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: have been the same. And so I feel really fortunate

627
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 2: about that. But I think, you know, in terms of

628
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: what I miss most, it's just spending time with those people.

629
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: Do you think you'd ever do another sitcom?

630
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: Oh, if it was the right thing. It would have

631
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 2: to be the right thing with the right character.

632
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: Okay, so what's next? What's next for Brian?

633
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: Uh? You know, that's a great question. I filmed sort

634
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: of beginning or before early pandemic. I had a couple

635
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: of movies that came out fairly recently, and that was

636
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. I wrote this book, and I'm

637
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: doing the podcast and doing work here and there when

638
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: it comes up. I did a new animated show on Netflix,

639
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: Have a Voice of a bear in that trash Truck.

640
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: So I'm keeping busy and I'm really really happy.

641
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: Good. That makes me happy that you're happy, Thank you

642
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: good and I'm honestly so grateful that I was able

643
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: to talk to you. And I'm going to go watch

644
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: The Office right after this again and just thank you

645
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: so much. Brian. And yes, you guys check out his

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Speaker 1: podcast Off the Beat. I usually end all of my

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Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, I need you to motivate me Cheeky's.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I got you here, you guys go. All endings

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Speaker 1: are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

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Speaker 1: I one to think that, like, don't get sad when

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for something else to start in your life.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, you guys, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We're listening in. Please share your social media, Brian.

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Speaker 2: My social media everything is b b Bombgartner at Instagram,

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Speaker 2: at Twitter. I have one TikTok video. I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get on TikTok now, and I don't do

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Speaker 1: It's it's very time consuming. TikTok's are something else. During

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Speaker 1: like f it I I just can't. It's a a

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Speaker 1: while work yea right awesome. Well, there you guys have it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening and tuning in to

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Speaker 1: another episode of Cheeky's and Chill. This is an amazing

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