WEBVTT - The Greatest Movies About Work

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<v Speaker 1>Ferry dot com slash up. Well. I generally come in

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<v Speaker 1>at least fifteen minutes late. I used the side door

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<v Speaker 1>that way Lumberg can't see me, and uh after that,

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<v Speaker 1>I just sort of space out for about an hour.

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<v Speaker 1>Space out. Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but

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<v Speaker 1>it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably

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<v Speaker 1>another hour after launch too. I'd say in a given week,

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<v Speaker 1>I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real actual work.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing is, Bob, It's not that I'm lazy, It's

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<v Speaker 1>that I just don't care. Welcome to game Plan. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Sam Grobart, a writer at Bloomberg Business Week Magazine, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Rebecca Greenfield, a reporter at Bloomberg WHEG cover the workplace.

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<v Speaker 1>That clip you just heard, if it wasn't already familiar,

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<v Speaker 1>is from the movie Office Space, which is universally acknowledged

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<v Speaker 1>to be perhaps the greatest single piece of art ever

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<v Speaker 1>created on the subject of the workplace. In the clip

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<v Speaker 1>that we just heard, we have an incredibly candid and

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<v Speaker 1>frank conversation between an underachieving employee and the consultants who

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<v Speaker 1>have been brought in to examine just who should stay

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<v Speaker 1>and who should go this week on our show, because

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<v Speaker 1>the last week and probably the last year and a

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<v Speaker 1>half for many of you, has been exhausting, and the

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<v Speaker 1>news has been relentless, so much news, we decided that

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<v Speaker 1>going into Thanksgiving, this episode would be about something later,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're going to do our show about movies that

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<v Speaker 1>portrait working life in a way that we think is

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<v Speaker 1>very accurate. It's Becca and Sam at the movies. So

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<v Speaker 1>we've picked some clips from movies that we feel really

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<v Speaker 1>get at some universal truths about life at work, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna listen to them and then we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about them a little bit. Becca, do you want

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<v Speaker 1>to go first? Sure? So my first clip is from

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<v Speaker 1>The Devil Wears Product, which is a classic film about

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<v Speaker 1>a woman working for what is supposed to be Vogue magazine.

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<v Speaker 1>In this clip, it's Andy, the main character's first day

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<v Speaker 1>at work, and she encounters her coworker, who is also

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<v Speaker 1>an assistant for the editor in chief of this Vogue

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<v Speaker 1>like magazine, who is played by the amazing Meryl Street.

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<v Speaker 1>I picked this clip because in it you see how

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<v Speaker 1>quickly everyone settles into the hierarchies of an office, and

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<v Speaker 1>things that from an outsider would seem completely unimportant are

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<v Speaker 1>very important to somebody trying to hold onto their tiny

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of power. I hope you know that this

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<v Speaker 1>is a very difficult too, which you are totally run

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<v Speaker 1>and if you mess up, my head is on a

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<v Speaker 1>chopping blog. Okay, first of all, you and I answered

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<v Speaker 1>the phone. The phone must be answered every single time

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<v Speaker 1>it rings. Find what here, Andrea Andrew? You want chained

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<v Speaker 1>to that desk? Well? What if I need to what? No.

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<v Speaker 1>One time an assistant left the desk because she sliced

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<v Speaker 1>her hand open with a letter of and Mirandom missed

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<v Speaker 1>large Field just before he boarded a seventeen hour flight

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<v Speaker 1>to Australia. She now works at TV Guide. Remember you

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<v Speaker 1>and I have totally different jobs. I mean, you get

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<v Speaker 1>coffee when you run errands. Yet I'm in charge of

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<v Speaker 1>her schedule, her appointments, and her expenses, and most importantly

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<v Speaker 1>I get to go with her to Paris for a

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<v Speaker 1>fashion week and before Yeah, so w the whole movie

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<v Speaker 1>is really great about showing office life, and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think that's just true for media companies, since we work

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<v Speaker 1>at media company. I think that this woman is low

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<v Speaker 1>on the totem pole. And you remember when you're fresh

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<v Speaker 1>out of college and you think you know everything and

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<v Speaker 1>you come in and you do not expect to be

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<v Speaker 1>slapped in the face by this organization where people have

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<v Speaker 1>power and jobs and want to show you how much

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<v Speaker 1>power they have. I often refer to these people, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure many others as well do as tiny emperors,

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<v Speaker 1>like you know, their their kingdom is basically their desk,

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<v Speaker 1>but they do have maybe control over one infinitiesmally small thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and they will then lord it over you. And The

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<v Speaker 1>other aspect of this that I think that clip really

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<v Speaker 1>demonstrates quite well is the notion of hazing almost in

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<v Speaker 1>a new job that you're coming in as a young person.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't matter if you're smart, it doesn't matter if

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<v Speaker 1>you actually know what you're doing. They're just gonna make

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<v Speaker 1>your life kind of miserable because someone made their life miserable,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's just the tradition. Emily Blunt is really great

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<v Speaker 1>in that role, and I just love how she says

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<v Speaker 1>our jobs are different. Mine is more important than yours.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you really listen to the words she's saying,

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<v Speaker 1>she does scheduling instead of getting coffee. It's arbitrary. It's

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<v Speaker 1>completely arbitrary. And I like how throughout the movie they

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<v Speaker 1>do become closer as they work more together. Those two characters,

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<v Speaker 1>I will say, to the credit of the movie, they

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<v Speaker 1>do round out Emily Blunt's character to be an actual

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<v Speaker 1>human being and not just a caricature of this kind.

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<v Speaker 1>And they do that with all the characters in the

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<v Speaker 1>movie in facting even Meryl Streep's character. Yeah, and like

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<v Speaker 1>you said, starting a new job, when I've started new jobs,

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<v Speaker 1>or when new people come in two new jobs, you

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<v Speaker 1>immediately do have this kind of like animal kingdom reaction

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<v Speaker 1>to them. You're like sizing them up and trying to

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<v Speaker 1>see if they're going to be a threat to you.

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<v Speaker 1>And you also need to show them that you could

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<v Speaker 1>be a threat to them. That's right, that's right, which

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<v Speaker 1>is really much air and cool. Oh it's the best.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's move on to our next clip. What do you got? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So I have picked a clip from one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite favorite movies of all time A movie called Broadcast News,

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<v Speaker 1>which stars Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and the always always

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<v Speaker 1>amazing Albert Brooks, and a lot of people know this

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<v Speaker 1>movie is being sort of a love triangle set at

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<v Speaker 1>a network news operation in d C. But the clip

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<v Speaker 1>that I want you to listen to is actually the

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<v Speaker 1>undercurrent of the whole movie, which is that there are

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<v Speaker 1>all these layoffs about to happen, and then they do happen,

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<v Speaker 1>and in a movie that's supposed to be considered a

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<v Speaker 1>romantic comedy, it actually does as good a job as

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<v Speaker 1>I've ever seen as what an office looks like the

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<v Speaker 1>day that people lose their jobs. He'll just be a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate this so much. You know, I'm just old

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<v Speaker 1>enough to be flattered by the term early retirement. That's wonderful.

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<v Speaker 1>What a lovely line. Now, if there's anything I can

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<v Speaker 1>do for you, but I suddenly hope you'll die soon, Tom,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a severe cutback town. Twenty seven people in

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<v Speaker 1>this bureau alone, including technical personnel. We're going to reorganize.

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<v Speaker 1>At the same time, we're going to drop you out

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<v Speaker 1>of Washington and assign you to look I mean, obviously

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<v Speaker 1>the clip has some humor in there. There's the great

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<v Speaker 1>line I'll hope you'll die soon, which is probably something

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<v Speaker 1>we've all wished we could see more fantasy than reality,

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<v Speaker 1>it's true, but then it does have a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>actual reality in it in terms of just the dislocating

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<v Speaker 1>feeling that that day takes on, and you know, you're

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<v Speaker 1>just being surrounded by people who a terrible thing has

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<v Speaker 1>just happened to them, but other people are still there.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a weird mix. Yeah, it's this general mood that

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<v Speaker 1>is is somber, but also people saying like, oh, let's

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<v Speaker 1>get drunk, or you don't really know how to feel

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<v Speaker 1>the shock, right, it's all happening at once. Layoffs generally

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<v Speaker 1>are a surprise, and perhaps that's for the best as

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<v Speaker 1>far as morale is concerned, but when that band aid

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<v Speaker 1>is ripped off, it can be exceedingly painful, and I

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<v Speaker 1>just think this movie does a really good job of

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<v Speaker 1>showing that. I think a lot of movies treat the

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<v Speaker 1>workplace as a very background subject, like you often don't

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<v Speaker 1>even know what they do for a living, or if

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<v Speaker 1>they do. It's just sort of like I'm an architect, Fine,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, but this really actually gives you an up

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<v Speaker 1>close portrayal of that environment. Yeah, and I like how

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<v Speaker 1>it treated layoffs, like you said, in a very realistic way.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to think of other movies that have done

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<v Speaker 1>the layoff scene and everything's really chaotic and people just

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<v Speaker 1>runaway and steal things and then the buildings empty. And

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<v Speaker 1>that may have been true for kind of historic layoffs

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<v Speaker 1>on Wall Street and things like that, but this was

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like the general run of the mill or restructuring,

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<v Speaker 1>getting rid of some people, cutting costs layoff. The only

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<v Speaker 1>other thing I would say about this is that it

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<v Speaker 1>also shows how people drop the veil, if you will,

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<v Speaker 1>or the mask that they wear at work. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I think everybody has a certain way that they are

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<v Speaker 1>in the office that's different than probably how they are

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<v Speaker 1>at home or with their friends. And it might be

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<v Speaker 1>just a minor distinction. But you see people here they're crying,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and you see people here who are very upset,

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<v Speaker 1>and we normally don't see that kind of raw emotion

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<v Speaker 1>in the workplace. That's never really considered welcome, But on

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<v Speaker 1>these days those rules seem to be suspended. The next

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<v Speaker 1>clip that I picked is from the movie nine to five,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a great, great, great movie. It's from over

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<v Speaker 1>years ago and it feels really radical even today. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>so glad you picked this. It's so great. And in

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<v Speaker 1>the scene that I chose, Dolly Parton's character is having

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<v Speaker 1>a fantasy about how she would treat her boss if

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<v Speaker 1>she could, her boss, who sexually harasses her on a

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<v Speaker 1>regular basis borning. Hold it, just hold her right there?

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<v Speaker 1>Something wrong? No, no, that wasn't wrong. I just want

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<v Speaker 1>to check your bad turn around for secon. Oh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you got a nice glass, friend, but you know you

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<v Speaker 1>are to get your pants cut a little tighter. You

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<v Speaker 1>need to bring them up just a little in the crotch.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you got a nice package, you might as

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<v Speaker 1>well show it off. Mr Rhodes, come over here. I

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<v Speaker 1>want you to take a memo. Oh, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>I got a surprise for you here, Mr Rhodes, I

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<v Speaker 1>am a married man. Forget about your wife, friend. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you may be hers in the evening, but you're my

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<v Speaker 1>boy from nine to five. Here. I wanted to show

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<v Speaker 1>you what I got for you. Isn't that pretty? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>it's pretty, and it's very pretty, But you shouldn't be

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<v Speaker 1>buying gifts for me. Mrs Rhodes, Okay, let me put

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<v Speaker 1>it on here. Yeah, that wasn't so bad worthy. I

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<v Speaker 1>love your hair, it's so sexy. Why don't we go

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<v Speaker 1>from the couch and I'll go off the door Mrs Rhodes. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>let's be really frank and we need got to be

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<v Speaker 1>a little more cool if you want to keep this job.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not the kind of point. It's one little kid.

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<v Speaker 1>I love this scene because it's so absurd, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>only absurd because we're hearing it come from a woman

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<v Speaker 1>almost earlier in the movie. Her boss does these kinds

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<v Speaker 1>of things to her all the time, and we treated

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<v Speaker 1>as tragic but kind of in that oh yeah, that

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<v Speaker 1>happens way. I think almost every line she says is

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<v Speaker 1>something that he has already said to her and that

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<v Speaker 1>we have heard him say, right, And then it's the

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<v Speaker 1>inversion that we all go what yeah. So in this movie,

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<v Speaker 1>they work at a company called Consolidated Companies. It's all

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<v Speaker 1>about working in a generic office in the eighties. It's

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<v Speaker 1>so great, and it's about these three women who are

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<v Speaker 1>treated in sexist ways in very different ways, And the

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<v Speaker 1>best thing about the movie is that Towards the end,

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<v Speaker 1>they take over the office and implement all these changes

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<v Speaker 1>that even now would be considered not usual, like paid

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<v Speaker 1>family leave and daycare and equal pay. It will never happen.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the boss comes back and he says, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna get rid of all these changes. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>do that, and his higher up comes and says, actually,

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<v Speaker 1>everyone's been so productive, you should keep all these changes,

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<v Speaker 1>except for equal pay, which is the punch line, but

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<v Speaker 1>not really a punch line anymore, but still twenty five

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<v Speaker 1>years later. But it's such a great movie. It's so funny,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it's a little feminist manifesto and the

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<v Speaker 1>theme song is fantastic and very good to do at karaoke.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I'm gonna get that in there. All happens

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<v Speaker 1>when the power and potential of every employee and leader

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<v Speaker 1>in your workforce is released, and corn Ferry can get

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<v Speaker 1>you there by aligning your people to your strategy, attracting, developing, engaging,

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<v Speaker 1>and rewarding them to reach new heights. With corn Ferry,

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<v Speaker 1>dot com slash up. All right, what's your your last clip?

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<v Speaker 1>My last clip is from the classic film The Apartment

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<v Speaker 1>starring Jack Lemon and Shirley McClain, largely considered to be

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<v Speaker 1>one of the great comedies of the modern era. The

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<v Speaker 1>clip I selected deals with the jargon that comes out

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<v Speaker 1>of that very technocratic culture. And the thing I want

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<v Speaker 1>you to listen to is how the suffix wise, like

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<v Speaker 1>appointment wise or employee wise, is starting to be thrown

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<v Speaker 1>around the office. And it's this kind of jargon that

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<v Speaker 1>people like to use to feel knowledgeable and special. And

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<v Speaker 1>then what you start to see is that other people

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<v Speaker 1>who are maybe lower down on the totem pole start

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<v Speaker 1>to use it as well as a means to sort

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<v Speaker 1>of gain entry into that rarefied echelon. Wise and Billy wise,

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<v Speaker 1>we are eighteen percent ahead of last year October wise.

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<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, hi plenty seven, Please carefully, you're carrying precious cargo.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been wise seven. I realized it was public, but

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<v Speaker 1>I am in the top ten efficiency wise. And this

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the day you're beginning to sound like Mr kurkul

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<v Speaker 1>Be already again. This is a movie that is known

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<v Speaker 1>for its sort of romantic qualities, but if you look

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<v Speaker 1>not very far past it, it really gets into the

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<v Speaker 1>world of work at this very male dominated, very sort

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<v Speaker 1>of corporate culture time. And it's a shame in this

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<v Speaker 1>case that we're actually doing a podcast, I feel, because

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<v Speaker 1>visually it's just like a sea of cubicles and you

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<v Speaker 1>don't even like they don't even end, it just keeps

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<v Speaker 1>going forever. I've never seen this movie. What struck me

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<v Speaker 1>about the clip was how much people bought into the

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<v Speaker 1>jargon so quickly they're speaking it like it doesn't sound

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<v Speaker 1>completely ridiculous, which is exactly what happens with the jargon.

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<v Speaker 1>And the thing the movie shows is because our hero

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<v Speaker 1>protagonist C. C. Baxter, is a young man trying to

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<v Speaker 1>move his way up within the company, he takes on

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<v Speaker 1>the speech patterns of his bosses. So speech becomes sort

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<v Speaker 1>of a key into a hopefully a world that you

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<v Speaker 1>want to be a part of, or almost like currency

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<v Speaker 1>that you can use to show like, oh, yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>I'm with the higher ups here. I know how they speak.

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<v Speaker 1>So you mentioned that we couldn't see the movies, but

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<v Speaker 1>one thing just watching all these clips as we were

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<v Speaker 1>preparing for the show, was that how the aesthetics of

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<v Speaker 1>the office really haven't changed that much. So you have

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<v Speaker 1>a movie from the sixties, The Apartment, which is from

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<v Speaker 1>the early eighties, and then Office Space, which I think

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<v Speaker 1>was and I mean, except for the production quality, they

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<v Speaker 1>could all be the era. It's cubical after cubical after cubical, planned, cubicles,

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<v Speaker 1>office workers. A lot of these same themes come up

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<v Speaker 1>in all the movies. The only one that looks slightly

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<v Speaker 1>more modern is The Devil Wares Proud Of But that's

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<v Speaker 1>because they're out of Fashion magazine, and in fact, fashion

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<v Speaker 1>magazine offices tend to be kind of very slick and

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<v Speaker 1>cool and everything else. I do think that movies sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>really overdo it on workplaces. So they go find like

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<v Speaker 1>an amazingly cool looking place and they fill it with

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<v Speaker 1>awesome furniture, and it's like that would never happen. It

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<v Speaker 1>would be a much cheaper arrangement. They kind of slap

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<v Speaker 1>some stuff together because that just makes more sense financially. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking of that movie The Intern, which came up

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<v Speaker 1>when we were thinking of our clips. Yes, also with

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<v Speaker 1>a Hathaway, Yes, and Hathaway is just a lot of movies.

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<v Speaker 1>I watched Famous America Sweetheart. I have not seen The

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<v Speaker 1>Intern unfortunately I saw it, fell asleep during it. But

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<v Speaker 1>the office was striking to me. It's supposed to be

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<v Speaker 1>a startup office, and it kind of looks like a

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<v Speaker 1>mock up of a startup office. It's really nice, right,

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<v Speaker 1>they overdo it. It's like apartments on TV shows. Yeah, exactly,

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<v Speaker 1>like Carrie Bradshaw and Sex in the City, although there

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<v Speaker 1>was a recent article talking about how that's changed a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, Like if you look at the house and

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<v Speaker 1>Insecure it is it looks like where they would live. Okay, good,

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<v Speaker 1>good for a TV Yeah, TV's catching on. Yeah. So,

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<v Speaker 1>speaking of TV, we're going to focus on that for

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<v Speaker 1>our half Baked Takes, Happy Fake Takes. So, Becca, do

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<v Speaker 1>you have any partially formed ideas about television and its

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<v Speaker 1>portrayal of the workplace. Here's my thought about people working

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<v Speaker 1>and television shows. I remember any time I was watching

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<v Speaker 1>a television show and my dad would walk into the room,

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<v Speaker 1>he would say, what do these people do for a living?

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<v Speaker 1>I think, to somehow, I don't know, delegitimize whatever I

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<v Speaker 1>was watching. Now, because of that, I'm quite a tune

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<v Speaker 1>to what people do for a living on television shows

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<v Speaker 1>and how often that they do it during shows, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's actually more than you would think. For example, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>watching rewatching Gilmore Girls to get ready for the new

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<v Speaker 1>Netflix Gilmore Girls, and Laura, I'm one of the main characters,

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<v Speaker 1>works in an inn, right, She's often in the inn

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<v Speaker 1>taking calls, like organizing things. She works. She works. No

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<v Speaker 1>that her job makes up a considerable portion of that show,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think that was rare at the time. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's gotten more common now. Anyway, what's yours? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to make a recommendation which is semi work related.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a little bit of a reach, but what

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<v Speaker 1>the hell? Okay, So my exactly, exactly, my half baked

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<v Speaker 1>take is a television recommendation something I really enjoy doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Um it is about a workplace, just probably one that

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<v Speaker 1>none of us have ever seen the inner workings of.

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<v Speaker 1>And that show is The Crown, which is currently available

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<v Speaker 1>for streaming on Netflix, and it is a fictionalized but

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<v Speaker 1>semi historically accurate portrayal of Queen Elizabeth the Second And

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<v Speaker 1>it starts when she was just a princess and you

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<v Speaker 1>follow her all the way through, and so there's lots

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<v Speaker 1>of stories being told. There are big political things happening,

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<v Speaker 1>there are personal relationships, but you also just get a

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<v Speaker 1>sense of how Buckingham Palace like functions, and how the

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<v Speaker 1>office of the Queen functions and who are all of

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<v Speaker 1>these different people. So it's a pretty extraordinary look inside

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<v Speaker 1>something that you know, I knew nothing about. I was

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make some joke about like being a queen not

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<v Speaker 1>being a real job, but real question, the staff of

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<v Speaker 1>Buckingham Palace, that's a job, right, those are fine for that, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean and like some people who have those jobs

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<v Speaker 1>are like very high in the social stratosphere of England.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's it's not, you know, it's like it's a

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<v Speaker 1>fancy job. It's not even like you would have to

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<v Speaker 1>be have gone to university. You would have had being

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<v Speaker 1>a janitor at Buckingham Palace. You also have to have

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<v Speaker 1>gone to Oxford, is what I'm I'm hearing. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go with that. I'm gonna say that's totally true. Becca, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I should watch The Crown. You should watch The Crown.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a really great show. Clarifoy as Elizabeth is

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<v Speaker 1>a wonder. It's really quite amazing and this has been

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<v Speaker 1>half baked takes, half baked takes. Well, this has been

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<v Speaker 1>a really fun show, a departure from our usual fair.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope that you all had fun. Thanks for listening

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<v Speaker 1>to Game Plan. I'm Sam Grobart. If you want to

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