WEBVTT - Bonus: Rainn Wilson Fantasy Edition 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.720 This episode is brought to you in iHeart three D 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:19.520 audio For maximum effect and fun, headphones are recommended. If 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.840 we had a theme song for our fantasy football league, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.640 what would it be? Wow, you're putting me on the spot. Yeah, 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:33.040 don't go breaking maha. I don't know. That's the first 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.440 thing that popped into my head. Welcome to the Jungle 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.480 was mine. But I don't even know that that makes 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.560 any sense. Hi. There, it's me Rain Wilson. I played 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:45.040 Dwight K. Shrewts on the Office on NBC, but more importantly, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.000 on The Office Fantasy Football League. I am the manager 0:00:48.280 --> 0:01:04.840 of Satan's Ballerinas. Hi, guys, welcome to a very special 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:10.399 edition of The Office Deep Dive. I. Well, I'm your host, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.080 Brian Baumgardner. But I may sound a little different. You 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.800 might notice things a little different, right, Well, that's because 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.240 we're not in a studio. No, we're at one of 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:26.440 my well favorite establishments here in San Diego, California, getting 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.280 ready to cheer on the Green Bay Packers. That's right, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:36.160 football is back, baby. But before we get to hid 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.960 join the game, I hope I told you before I 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.080 was going to bring back some of the other managers 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.800 of our fantasy football league, and that's what I'm gonna 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:51.040 do today. Today's guest is none other than mister Seahawk, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.400 mister Rain Wilson himself. Now, Rain has been a part 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.080 of our league since the very beginning, like myself. Some 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:04.160 might say he's oldest time. Okay, nobody says that, but 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.840 he does have a certain reputation, if you will, in 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.920 the league for being how do I put this heat? 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:18.040 He's a trash talker. Okay, he likes to stir the pot, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.880 but hey, that's what makes us loved, right or at 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.359 least tolerated. Now, Rain and I we're gonna go deep. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.959 This is a deep dive, after all. We're going to 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.760 talk everything from the kickoff of the football season to 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.760 some of his big blue projects, his adventures, and the 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.160 meaning of the universe. So that's right, this this is 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.920 gonna be a big one. That's what she said. So 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.600 settle in, grab a cold one if you want no pressure. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.440 I definitely will, and get ready for the incredible, the 0:02:53.680 --> 0:03:06.400 unmistakable Rain Wolson. Bubble and Squeak, I love it, Bubble 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:12.200 and Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cook at every month. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:26.200 Left over from the Nattyfore I was gonna say I 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.880 have absolutely the worst fantasy football team in our league. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.160 But then I looked at yours. But I don't understand 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.800 how with the team that I have, I don't understand 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.960 how I got seventy six points. All right, So we're 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:46.800 gonna get into well discussing some of life's big questions 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:53.080 and Dwight shrewt. But we're here for some football ragin 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.400 seventeenth year of the Office Fantasy Football League. First off, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.960 let's let's talk about the draft a little bit. Now. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.360 We did the draft. We did a zoom draft, yes, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.800 and a snake draft, not an auction draft, a snake 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.040 a snake draft, not an auction draft. And we were 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.839 on zoom most of us, most almost all of us. Now, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.679 I do have to say this, I thought that the 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:27.919 zoom idea is great, but nobody talked and everyone was 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.039 looking at their sheets and the thing. So every time 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.440 I would look at the zoom, all you see are 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.000 people looking down or looking straight ahead, but not looking 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.599 at the camera. They're looking at their things. That's true, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.080 it's kind of ridiculous. I feel it's true that it 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.520 was kind of still it was not it was kind 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.640 of a letdown socially, and it wasn't. It wasn't the 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.800 rip roaring fun I thought it would be. I was 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.800 the one who pushed for a zoom, although you had 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.720 done it last year. But I couldn't do it last year, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.200 and last year was more fun. I don't know why. Yeah, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.440 people are taking take it seriously. People, Well they should, Yes, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.520 they do take it now, you, I would say, you 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.080 take it as seriously as anyone. Sure, yeah, I take 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:15.800 it very seriously. Now. You you played David Wallace, Yes, 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.880 you played David Wallace and son and and it's mostly 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.400 his son. Yeah. Then they smoked me and Tyreek Hill 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:29.680 thirty two points, Kelsey twenty three points, Jamar Chase from 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:34.720 Cincinnati nineteen points, Robbie Gould from San Francisco got fourteen. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.279 Give me a break. That's more than Austin Ekeler, my 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.200 first pick in the kicker from San Francisco. So, but 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.640 what about all the office fans listening right now, going, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.720 I don't play fantasy football. I don't understand what the 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.320 hell you're talking about. Well I don't. I mean, I'm 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.800 not that concerned about that right now, because here's the 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.840 thing we do. And so I want I want to 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.599 I want to talk about about about me for a 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.920 second and our friend John Krasinski. We had our draft 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.039 at a at a normal time in the United States. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.400 He was in Romania. The point about bringing him up 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.520 is that I played him and because he was traveling 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:23.599 in Romania, he was auto drafting, and he destroyed me. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.960 I mean that's particularly frustrating. Like he got Jalen Hurts, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.400 who scored I don't know, seventy two points. Yeah, he's 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.520 got thirty thirty five points from Jalen Hurts, who would 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.920 have thunkt Aaron Rodgers one point three two, Your good buddy, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:47.640 Aaron Rodgers, MVP Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, it was, it was. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.040 It was not the best week for the Packers and 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.440 certainly for me. It's very What's what's the name of 0:06:54.480 --> 0:07:00.320 your team? Satan's Ballerinas. That's my old school names. Times 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.960 I mix it up when I have a good pun. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.240 I have another league where I drafted as an auction league. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.159 I drafted Russell Wilson, and I call it let Russ 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:15.280 cook meth. Why is he cooking meth? I don't know, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.680 because everyone says let Russ cook. That's kind of the 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.800 Seattle chant because they want him to get unleashed so 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.880 he can just kind of do his thing, which they're 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.640 finally starting to let him do. And he threw for 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.640 four touchdowns and he's kind of unstoppable. But I like 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.240 let Russ cook meth because it makes me laugh. You 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.400 you have, well, you have Jason Myers, you have the kicker. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 You have Oh, I have you? You have no other? 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.680 Was that disappointing? I'm gonna get I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.720 trade for someone. I'm gonna get someone going here. How 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.480 do you feel about Seattle this year? I feel really 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.600 good about Seattle, But there are some other teams out 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.320 there that are really you know, the Rams are going 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.720 to be tough to beat this year. The NFC West 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.880 is going to be tough across the board. Yeah, and 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.240 Arizona as well. And I think there's gonna be a 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.280 few others that pop out there. And Tampa Bay was 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.960 looking surprisingly stout after their Super Bowl win on Game 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.160 one against a tough Dallas team. Listen to us, we 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.000 should have our own ESPN show. I mean, really shouldn't 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.640 we should? I mean we want to talk about the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.520 office at all. I feel bad for the people going, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.480 I'm want to talk about us, Well, we will, we will, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.439 we will talk about the office. But I talked to 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.679 Stephen Socks recently, our commissioner of the Fantasy Football League. Yea, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.600 he told us that you offer the worst trades to 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.880 anyone in the way. Yeah, now is this true? Now? 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.520 Is this? Do you when you're when you're proposing that trade, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.440 are you just hoping that the other person is not 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.480 paying attention? No? I When you offer a trade, it's 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.160 like it's like you go to a market in Morocco 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.240 and you're like, oh, that's a nice rug. How much 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.160 is it ninety dollars? You know what, I'll give you 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:07.160 thirty Oh you are you're crazy, Okay, sixty, I'll give 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.520 you thirty seven. Okay, and you meet and you you 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.000 buy it at fifty dollars. What I mean like, that's 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.280 how you're supposed to do the draft or a trading. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.440 That's what you do a trade too. So it's like 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.720 when I say, like, oh, I'll trade you, you know, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.559 Ryan Tannehill for Russell Wilson, that means like you we're 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.160 gonna meet in the middle, We're gonna find something like 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.360 like work with me here, work with me. That's my 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.760 idea is that you kind of work it along. But 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.360 some people are like they get insulted and like no, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.320 and then it's done. What about what if I what 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:48.760 if I offered you Ezekiel Elliott for Austin Ekeler, I 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.240 would seriously consider that. Do you want to trade? Do 0:09:52.240 --> 0:10:01.200 you want to consummate that right now? Yes? Okay, let's 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:06.600 do it. Okay, let's do it Ezekiel Elliott for Austin Ekeler. Yep, 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.079 we're done. And now we have a trade done, consummated publicly, 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.360 so we'll see what happens. So what else is going 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.240 on with you? Besides fantasy? What are you? Are there 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.240 any work projects that are happening right now? Yeah? Thanks 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:26.160 for asking, Brian. I just did a movie with Brian 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.920 Cranston and Annette Benning called Jerry and Marge Go Large, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.440 and it was a very funny and interesting film. I'm 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.760 really excited for people to see it. It's based on 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.360 a true story about this couple in Michigan that figured 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.400 out that this certain lottery game, if they played it 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.640 the right way, they could be guaranteed winners. So they 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.000 got all the people in their small town in Michigan 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.160 to over the years to be playing this lottery game 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.520 and made dozens and dozens of people, I won't say 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.320 like millionaires, but kind of saved their town a sense. Actually, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.720 wait a second, this is this is a true this 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.520 is based on true story. True story. I've heard this story. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.640 it's an amazing story. And the name of the article, 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.240 if you want to google it is Jerry and Marge 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.520 go large. And I play a supporting role of the 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.439 guy who runs the liquor store where they buy all 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.880 their thousands of lottery tickets. Okay, I kind of come 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.280 along for the ride, So that's it was. It was 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.480 a lot of fun working with Brian again and people 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.960 who know that he directed the work Bus episode of 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.800 The Office terrific director, multi talented human being, great human being. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.600 And I shot in Atlanta, your hometown, which I have 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.959 to say was the first time I've shot there. I've 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.679 been through a bunch of times. I loved it. Atlanta 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:51.840 as an amazing town, great food, culture, diversity, vibrant, traffic sucks, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.360 but it was really a phenomenal where and then I'm 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.040 gonna go, I'm gonna go do a part on this 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:05.200 new AMC Limited series called Dark Winds, which I know 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.080 sounds a lot like farts. Warm Winds would be more so, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.680 but Dark Winds, Okay, go ahead, It sounds like farts. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.920 So I'm gonna go do that for a few days. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.160 And then I got a bunch of other thing. I'm 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.439 always cooking up stuff, Brian, I got a lot of stuff. No, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.320 I know, you're always cooking up stuff. Now I'm gonna 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.440 I'm gonna for one moment, I want to go back 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.480 to your other movie I did. Hey, let's see if 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.160 I can reconstruct the plot of this. The first movie 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.720 I ever did was called Herman Usa Okay, and it 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:43.400 was about a small town that, oh gosh, I don't 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.680 want to mess this up, that had too many men 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:54.319 in it and not enough women and the town was dying, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:00.200 and so they similarly put out an ad basically like 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.880 we're looking for women to come to town, basically to 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.880 try to get the ratio up. And it worked and 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.920 that town was saved as well. Herman Usa Available. I 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:19.440 have no idea where from somewhere circa late nineties, ish, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.400 I don't know, Okay, So I did, I did. I 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.320 did a movie like that where not your address, But 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.880 where were you? What area were you staying in Atlanta? 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:33.319 I stayed at eighty four Willoughby Street. Why I just 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.680 literally said, don't give the address. Now, that's why I stayed. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.960 It's an airbnb. You can go, oh my god, you 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.760 can go rent the airbnb that I stayed in and 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.679 then think about you in that airbnb yep, and the 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.080 things that you did there. I didn't do anything to fire, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:14:13.760 as I promise you. I hear you. Also, you have 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.480 a new pet. We have a My wife is insane, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:24.320 which I love, right, she's it's very funny. There is 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.480 a picture of her that she has framed on her 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.680 desk of her feeding these geese that are on her 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.800 port or her deck, like in the seventies when she's 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.080 a child. She's a little girl in a white dress 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.520 like just just with eyes filled with wonder feeding these geese. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.520 And she loves animal I mean, she's animal gaga crazy. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:52.960 And she has horses at a nearby stables. And this 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.680 is a true story. Her horse died, which was very sad, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.280 but it was old. It was about twenty six years 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.640 old and it had some health problem. Her white horse 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.800 named Gust died and then they cleared it out. They 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.720 left the stall empty, and then moved into the stall 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.760 a week two weeks later was a white peacock. It 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.920 really was a phn a white pea hen, female peacock, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.320 and we just moved in on its own. Yeah, there's 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.880 no one knows where it came from. They'd never seen 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.400 it before, they'd never seen any p hens in the area. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.520 All of a sudden, it was just living in this stall. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.360 Why no joke, a white peacock. It couldn't stay in 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.200 that in the stables because it was flapping around and 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.000 spooking the horses. So and we learned by the way 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:46.560 that peacocks are the largest flying birds. I always thought 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.000 like a condor was bigger, but I guess a peacock's 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.520 heavier than a condor. So she trained it to go 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.760 get bird feed in a big pen and then closed 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.920 the pen, and we brought it and brought this peacock 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.760 Almah which means soul in Spanish, Almah to our house. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.560 So now we have in fact, I'm looking at Almah 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.840 right now, right outside my window. She likes to sit 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.760 in this olive tree and groom herself and look in 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.440 at me in the window. That is c and it won't. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.400 It doesn't fly away. It likes it's home. It like 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.600 because we feed it. We'd give it some bird seed 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:27.200 and berries and stuff like that. So, so you have horses, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.200 you also have my favorite of your animals. And what 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.720 I didn't know that it existed before a zonkey. We 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.640 have a zonkey. Yeah, yes, we have a zebra donkey 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.760 hybrid named Derek. But now do you have the zonkey 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.120 because you like the word zonkey, because that's why I 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.280 would have it. I do love the word zonkey. But 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.560 this is my wife again. I think this is what 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.440 happens when you marry a minor television celebrity and you 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.360 have too much time on your hands. She saw a 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.840 zonkey and she was like, oh my god, it's so beautiful. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.480 It has zebra stripes but looks like a donkey. And 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.880 then she googled zonkies and the first thing that came 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.680 up was zebra Zaras dot com. Okay, she went to 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.159 zebra Zaras dot com, which used to be located in Riverside, California. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.320 She called them, She's like, do you sell zonkies? And 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.199 they said, well, as a matter of fact, we just 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.760 had a new zonkey that was born yesterday named it 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.879 didn't have a name, And for thirty five hundred dollars, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.920 when he's six weeks old and can be weaned from 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.399 his mother, we will have him delivered to your house. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.959 And we had a horse corral behind our house, and 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.560 my wife was like, okay, here's my credit card number. 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:49.480 It was six weeks later there was a zonkey at 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.399 our house. Oh, and this is why people hate the 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.800 elites of Hollywood. You have old You have a white, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:04.480 semi albino peaca. Yes, okay, a zonkey. We also have 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.600 a donkey named chili Beans. And by the way, chili 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.960 Beans is adorable. And donkeys are the best animals in 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.480 the world. I love donkeys. They're just sweet, they're cuddly, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.919 they're loyal, they're just wonderful. Highly recommend And then in 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:26.560 our backyard we have two pigs, Snortington and Amy. Yeah. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:33.000 And then we have two pit bulls rescues, Poe and Diamond. Right. Yeah, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.160 So you're so your dogs, you rescue, You're you're more 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.320 exotic rescue to pay Chili Beans a rescue. Derek is 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:46.720 not a rescue. Derek is a genetic monstrosity. Z Yes, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:52.679 because they put the spermatozoa of the go ahead, oh, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.639 go ahead. Problem with spermatozoa, you can't say that on 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.400 your show, No go ahead. You can say spermatozoa, spermatozoa, potato, pato, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.600 go ahead. You put in, you put the spermatozoa into 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:09.439 to fertilize the female donkey, the zebra. Spermatozoa into the 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:16.200 way into the vagina right of the donkey. Okay, that's 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:21.280 how thereby creating Derek the zonky. Okay. So now this 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.320 is a perfect transition because for those of you listening, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.879 are we going to talk about The Office? For Christ's sake, Brian, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.879 this is here an abomination on the set of The Office. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.400 This is this is what I'm going at now. I've 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:39.639 talked to several people about this, right, and about certain actors' personalities, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.720 and for me, and I think for most, you are 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.760 a crazy dichotomy, right, because you are spiritual, which I 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.080 want to talk about in a minute, incredibly spiritual, thoughtful, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.800 lover of people and the world. And you are the crudest, 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.800 most inappropriate. Because now if we were on the set 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.280 of the I don't I mean you talk about people 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.679 talk about you couldn't do the office today. You couldn't 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.679 do the office today. The reason you couldn't do the 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.280 office today is because you on set and the description 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.159 and I was baiting you a little. The description that 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:18.080 you would have given publicly to everyone on set, cast 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.280 and crew about how exactly the zonkey was created would 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.679 have been way more triple X rated than what you 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.960 just did. And you happened to you you were trying 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:34.720 to use scientific terms. But yes, go ahead, go ahead now. 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.360 And this is interesting because I wouldn't say that I'm 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.200 necessarily a spiritual person. I aspire to be a spiritual person, 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:47.120 which is a person who's thoughtful and of service and 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:52.720 connected to you know, the reality of God and the 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.919 beauty and harmony of the universe. And I seek to 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.400 kind of let that joy seep through what I who 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.920 I am as a human being. But at the same time, yes, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:10.560 I am an inappropriate, raunchy, little thirteen year old at heart, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.359 and that's just part of who I am. So and 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.360 I also play these weird characters on television comedies, so 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.879 people it's kind of weird when people see me talking 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.440 about the high faith or you know, spiritual concepts or 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.000 conversations and they're like, wait, this is the guy who 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.199 played Dwighten was always taking his shirt off and was 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:35.320 telling fart jokes on the side of the office fart jokes. Well, worse, worse, yea, yeah, 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:40.760 So there's some dichotomy there, but it's all it's all 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:45.160 in good fun and it's all to uplift the spirits. Brian, 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.199 it's all to uplift the spirit. I want to go 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.600 into this with you a little bit because people ask 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.720 what you're most thankful for about, you know, working on 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.439 the office or things that I've gotten from it, And 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:03.520 I think, in truth, the tremendously powerful messages that I 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:10.320 hear from people that the show has given some comfort 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.199 in very difficult times that for me, that gift that 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.520 people give back to me or to us is the 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.600 greatest gift that we have. I mean, you know, service 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.400 members overseas or someone who's gone through, you know, having 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.080 a medical issue or a medical procedure, or watching the 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.280 show in the hospital, that it gives great comfort. And 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.440 my point is, I don't feel like that was ever 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.600 something we talked about. I felt like we were just 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.919 kind of being idiots and trying to create this funny 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.840 show and that sort of underlying comfort or nostalgia. Some 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:51.320 people have said that wasn't something that we were trying for, right, 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:55.240 you know, you said that perfectly, and I one hundred 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.199 percent agree with everything that you said. And it was 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.360 literally the most surprising thing about doing The Office for me. 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:07.440 And it started relatively soon. Where you know, people early 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:09.520 on in season two they started saying, oh, I love 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.679 the show, and then you know, season three, you know, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.679 oh I watched the show. We watch it together as 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:16.800 a family, and then all of a sudden, I started 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.120 hearing these like, you know, our parents were getting a divorce, 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.320 and the siblings we would all gather and watch The 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.119 Office and it was a time when we could just 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.600 laugh together. My sister had cancer and we would watch 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.760 it in the in the hospital, and then the stories 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:35.040 just go on and on and on of how much 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:44.160 the laughter, camaraderie, bonhomie, uplifting kind of spirit of what 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:49.200 we created. And by we, I don't just mean the actors. 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:53.320 I mean Greg Daniels being our leader, really set the 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.760 tone and the great writers room that we had and 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.439 directors and the whole crew. It carried through, you know, 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.840 the love that we had on the set, carried through 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:04.880 into the characters and into that world, and it has 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:08.680 brought a lot of joy to two people and solace 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:12.920 and especially during this pandemic. And I You're absolutely right, Brian. 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:15.119 While we were shooting it, that was not what I 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:19.119 was thinking about. None of us were there kind of going, Wow, 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.960 this the laughter that we generate will bring so much 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.959 peace to people's aching hearts in the world. We just 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.680 were like, you know, maybe Dwight could take a shirt 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.400 off in this scene. Known, what if Kevin bumped into 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:37.040 the furniture or something, you know, but what a wonderful bounty. 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:38.760 And you're right, it's it's the thing I am the 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.560 most grateful for. If I have to look in my 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:43.920 whole life, you know, if I'm going to set aside 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.000 gratitude for my wife and son and you know, wonderful 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.960 things in my family professionally, when I'm I most grateful 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:52.000 for the fact that I've got to be a part 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:57.800 of the office and that it has uplifted people's lives. Yes, well, 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.520 you actually just said something had not occurred to me 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:06.439 that I think is really interesting. We did truly care 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:11.480 about each other, and that that that there may be 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:17.840 something there that on screen people can appreciate and observe 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.600 as truth. Yeah, I think that carries through. You know, 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:27.159 I think the the warm, supportive, loving environment that we 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:31.720 created on the set kind of seeped into dunder Mifflin 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.400 as kind of like the whole idea is that it's 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.359 a it's a cold place and a weird place in 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.040 an alienated place, and where in these cubicles and we 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:44.600 have this terrible boss and whatnot, But there there was 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.199 a family that we created. I couldn't I can't believe 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:50.639 and I couldn't believe the number of teenagers who said, like, 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:52.880 I want to work at a place like dunder Mifflin. 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:57.320 No you don't. I have worked and soul sucking offices before. 0:25:57.400 --> 0:25:59.560 You do not want to do it, And they don't 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:04.600 have that same camaraderie. And yeah, but you know what's crazy. 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:09.160 I had the opportunity to talk to a television critic, actually, 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:13.480 Emily Vanderwirth, and she said something about that point right there, 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:18.760 that is fascinating working in a dying industry in as 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:24.040 drab a place as possible, that there is now a 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:31.080 nostalgia for that because now it's become way more corporate 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:34.280 and commercial. You know, it's like the difference between dunder 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:36.480