Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome back to another episode, a very
Speaker 1: special edition as we call it in the business of
Speaker 1: Off the Beat. I am your host, as always, Brian
Speaker 1: baum Gartner. Now for today's episode, we're doing something a
Speaker 1: little different. I have been seeing all of your amazing
Speaker 1: questions on my social media, so I wanted to take
Speaker 1: some time to answer your questions on today's drumroll please
Speaker 1: today's episode mail Bag episode of Off the Beat. I
Speaker 1: love doing these because it gives me an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit more. And what
Speaker 1: will what you tell me you're interested in. I hope
Speaker 1: that you feel the same. We haven't done one of
Speaker 1: these since last year, but I'm excited to get back. Periodically,
Speaker 1: I will check in with you, the fans and attempt
Speaker 1: to answer some of your questions about the office, the podcast,
Speaker 1: Off the Beat, sports, and my upcoming chili cookbook. You
Speaker 1: guys had some great questions. I'm very excited, so let's
Speaker 1: dive right in. But first I want you to know this.
Speaker 1: We have a big announcement coming soon. Yes we do.
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to talk about it today.
Speaker 1: We have to wait a little bit longer, but who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will be coming to a city near you
Speaker 1: this fall if you catch my drift, so stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that very soon. But for now, let's get to
Speaker 1: your questions. Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeak.
Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeaker cooking at every month. Left over from
Speaker 1: the night before. So, as many of you know, I
Speaker 1: recently went to dunder Khan, the first ever office fan
Speaker 1: convention in all of the land. Listen. I had a
Speaker 1: great time hanging out with well my office family for
Speaker 1: one and two, meeting so many of you face to face.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of questions from many of you
Speaker 1: who were there, and I was really excited to talk
Speaker 1: about this event. So let's get right to them. Shoosh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm saying that long asked. Did you enjoy
Speaker 1: dunder con It was so nice meeting you there, by
Speaker 1: the way, Chaos, I enjoyed meeting you two, I'm sure, Listen,
Speaker 1: I had. I had a blast, we all did. I
Speaker 1: was so shocked and amazed by how many people one
Speaker 1: were there, how many people were were dressed up and
Speaker 1: participating in all the events, all of the vendors who
Speaker 1: were there. Creed played a concert at night there that
Speaker 1: was so fun, so exciting, and of course me being
Speaker 1: able to hang out with so many fans, but also um,
Speaker 1: let's just say late at night, getting able to reconnect
Speaker 1: with many of my old friends, some of which I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen in a long long time. So yes, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, and I hope that you did too. Rock
Speaker 1: Royalty ninety one asked what was your favorite moment at
Speaker 1: dunderkn Now, this one is easy for me. There was
Speaker 1: a boy I'm gonna say nine or ten years old,
Speaker 1: and he there was a costume contest there for people
Speaker 1: who dressed up. This boy was dressed as me. He went,
Speaker 1: I mean he went for he shaved his head. Look
Speaker 1: the videos I'm sure are out there have gone viral.
Speaker 1: I've seen it myself. He's he shaves his head, He's
Speaker 1: got on a perfect suit. He just nailed it with
Speaker 1: the chili pot. It was unbelievable. And so I will
Speaker 1: tell you. I was meeting people at a part of
Speaker 1: the convention hall and I saw that they were doing
Speaker 1: the costume contest, and I looked up to this huge
Speaker 1: video board and I saw that they announced him and
Speaker 1: that he got a big applause. I guess they were
Speaker 1: doing it by applause, and I went, you know what,
Speaker 1: this guy needs my support. So I made my way
Speaker 1: through the mevention center up onto the stage and stood
Speaker 1: behind him to give him a little support and to
Speaker 1: let everyone know who I thought should win the contest.
Speaker 1: He did, in fact, when we were a little bit
Speaker 1: concerned because he did shave the top of his head
Speaker 1: that his parents had like, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: what first prize was. I don't know if it would
Speaker 1: have been worth shaving your kid's head. We were concerned.
Speaker 1: The father assured me and everyone involved that this was
Speaker 1: his idea. He wanted to do it, and he was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, and uh,
Speaker 1: and asked his father to to shave his head. So
Speaker 1: congratulations to you, my fine, very attractive young friend. I
Speaker 1: see big things for you in the future. Riley Gracer asked,
Speaker 1: will you do DUNDERCN again? There are discussions for a
Speaker 1: dunder con happen. Ine, Look, if if they build it,
Speaker 1: I will come. If you guys promised that you'll be there,
Speaker 1: and if there's an event that's anything like what happened
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, A few weeks ago, I'm in. I
Speaker 1: had just so much fun connecting, hearing stories from all
Speaker 1: of you about what the office means to you, and
Speaker 1: there was just so much joy. I think we've got
Speaker 1: a few things that have got to be worked out.
Speaker 1: I think the lines. People waited way too long in
Speaker 1: lines to talk to me. I think we've got to
Speaker 1: work that out. I know we had a panel discussion there,
Speaker 1: so many people mentioned that it was their favorite thing
Speaker 1: in the event, all of us up on stage answering questions.
Speaker 1: I think that should be longer. Uh, maybe the time
Speaker 1: just needs to be longer. We need more time to
Speaker 1: to be able to meet people and to do fun
Speaker 1: things like the panels and be able to ask questions.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, the convention was over at six o'clock and
Speaker 1: I was I was still there meeting people at eight
Speaker 1: fifteen at night, so you know, it was a long,
Speaker 1: long day. But I was not going to leave until
Speaker 1: until everyone who wanted to say hi, I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to say hi. So yes, I would do it again.
Speaker 1: I hope that we ironed some things out for the
Speaker 1: next time, but it was it really was so much fun.
Speaker 1: And again Creed's concert was well, in the words of
Speaker 1: Kevin awesome alright. A lot of you asked questions about
Speaker 1: Off the Beat, both producing, talking to new people, everything
Speaker 1: that goes on behind the scenes of the podcast. I
Speaker 1: wanted to take a few minutes and talk about what
Speaker 1: we do here on a weekly basis. The Garrett Web asked,
Speaker 1: how do you choose who you're going to interview? You know, Garrett,
Speaker 1: that is a great question. There's so many people that
Speaker 1: I have met, had the opportunity the pleasure of meeting
Speaker 1: or working with briefly in the industry, And as I
Speaker 1: told Wendy Malick on the podcast, my truly my idea
Speaker 1: of doing this was about her, because you know, I
Speaker 1: had worked with her a couple of times. I admired
Speaker 1: her work. I thought her career was so interesting. Three shows,
Speaker 1: kind of groundbreaking shows, all of which that ran six
Speaker 1: seven seasons. So that was sort of my model. Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Wendy I've worked with a few times. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to her because I find her interesting. And
Speaker 1: then there are obviously people that I've worked with a
Speaker 1: lot that I wanted to talk to get to know
Speaker 1: a little more. Rob Riggle, Eric stone Street et cetera.
Speaker 1: And then there are people whose careers they just interest me,
Speaker 1: or I hear something about a story about their story
Speaker 1: that I want to dive into a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: This podcast, for me, really is about finding those moments
Speaker 1: in a person's life that helped shape them to who
Speaker 1: they are. So it's way less about where they have
Speaker 1: been delivered, But it really, for me, is about the
Speaker 1: journey and if we can find clues or find answers
Speaker 1: to why a person's career went in a different direction,
Speaker 1: how it skyrocketed from one potentially tiny moment, those off
Speaker 1: the beat moments, That's really what I'm interested in, and
Speaker 1: so we I have friends, some people have asked to
Speaker 1: be on the podcast. I have asked, and we try
Speaker 1: to find people from a variety of different shows. If
Speaker 1: a show is coming back, or someone who you might
Speaker 1: know from something else is starting a new show, that's
Speaker 1: somebody that I want to talk to about maybe why
Speaker 1: they've made the decision to start a new show. But
Speaker 1: what I'm finding is is that everyone is interesting. I
Speaker 1: know that's like so cliche, but I mean the variety
Speaker 1: of conversations that I've been able to have with people
Speaker 1: about their career and everybody's career is so different. I'm
Speaker 1: loving doing this. I hope that you're enjoying listening just
Speaker 1: a fraction as much as I'm enjoying having these conversations.
Speaker 1: Emily Walker asked what the most surprising moments so far
Speaker 1: on Off the Beat? Well, I I have a few
Speaker 1: that I've been asked about that I always said, but
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to go to my team here
Speaker 1: and and have you hear from from them some of
Speaker 1: their favorite moments that happens, so you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I always go to Rob Wriggle, and I knew that
Speaker 1: Rob Riggle was a marine, and I knew that Rob
Speaker 1: Wriggle was a comedian and actor and entertainer, and I
Speaker 1: guess I just had always assumed he was in the
Speaker 1: marines for a few years college ish age and then
Speaker 1: he moved on. But hearing his story of continuing to
Speaker 1: be a marine for twenty three years, from working as
Speaker 1: a marine during the day and going to comedy clubs
Speaker 1: and classes at night because he wanted to pursue comedy
Speaker 1: so bad in New York City, I just I loved
Speaker 1: knowing that and Rob. I know Rob through work and
Speaker 1: through golf. I've spent more time with him than probably
Speaker 1: anybody else that I've talked to on Off the Beat,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know this story, and I think it's
Speaker 1: so inspiring, so interesting. It makes me love him even more.
Speaker 1: And the commitment and the work that he put in
Speaker 1: to be where he is today, I just I just
Speaker 1: loved it so me. That's very clearly one of my
Speaker 1: favorite moments, but many here on Off the Beat brought
Speaker 1: up many more that I endorsed wholeheartedly. Diego talked about
Speaker 1: Kevin Ram's episode and one of the moments that made
Speaker 1: him laugh the most. It was Kevin and I worked
Speaker 1: together just Moosecock. That's all you do. It's so legendary.
Speaker 1: It just needs one word, Moosecock. We worked on Moosecock together,
Speaker 1: and he had learned that I had done the pilot
Speaker 1: of the Office, and he told me how badly he
Speaker 1: felt for me that I had gotten on that show
Speaker 1: that was that was assured to go down in flames
Speaker 1: and be an absolute disaster and tarnish my name forever
Speaker 1: and ever a poor fool, he described me a so
Speaker 1: hearing that from Kevin after knowing him for so many years,
Speaker 1: that that was his first introduction to me was that
Speaker 1: was was amazing. I have to mention the story I
Speaker 1: don't think I fully told. I told Trammel Tillman this
Speaker 1: a little bit. Trammel Tillman obviously from Severance. I was
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand feet in the air when I watched
Speaker 1: the final episode that I had downloaded of Severance, and
Speaker 1: I just picked up my phone immediately when it ended
Speaker 1: and started emailing our team here saying I want these
Speaker 1: guys on the show, and specifically I want Trammel Tillman
Speaker 1: on the show because I felt like what he was doing,
Speaker 1: the work that he was doing there was so transformative
Speaker 1: and so different than anything I had seen done in
Speaker 1: television before. If you haven't watched Severance, you must know
Speaker 1: by now I'm a big fan. Check it out. Many
Speaker 1: similarities to the Office. So our executive producer Langley talked
Speaker 1: about having Trammel Tillman on the show and how much
Speaker 1: that meant to me and uh and how special that
Speaker 1: was as someone really unknown but being on a show
Speaker 1: that moved me, that made me feel so passionate, A
Speaker 1: really fun conversation with Trammel Liz. Liz talked about Trammell
Speaker 1: and his re enacting bad boys and getting hit by
Speaker 1: a car when he was a kid. This, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is not something that you should do. You should
Speaker 1: not attempt to to to act out a scene from
Speaker 1: a movie that's been very well choreographed. I will tell
Speaker 1: you this story. This is not my story to tell,
Speaker 1: and I didn't tell it originally when I was talking
Speaker 1: to Trammel, but um, this happened to Steve Carrell on
Speaker 1: forty year old Virgin. He has to have told this
Speaker 1: story before. I hope he's told this story before. There
Speaker 1: was a scene and obviously we were shooting the office
Speaker 1: when forty year old Virgin came out and there was
Speaker 1: a scene where his character and he gets motivated two
Speaker 1: ask Katherine Keener. I can't remember her character's name. And
Speaker 1: he's going across the street to the eBay store, and
Speaker 1: they have the cars choreographed so that they narrowly miss him,
Speaker 1: and he's just committed, focused and walking across the street.
Speaker 1: This would be like what Trammel would have acted out
Speaker 1: when he was a kid. And Steve told us the
Speaker 1: story that he was walking across during a take and
Speaker 1: a car got really close to him and he felt
Speaker 1: it he didn't look or flinch. He did what he
Speaker 1: was supposed to do and walked across the street and
Speaker 1: they called cut, and he went back to the monitor,
Speaker 1: you know, where everybody was hanging out to like everything
Speaker 1: was fine, and he said everyone was action. Everyone was
Speaker 1: like like didn't know what to do or say, and
Speaker 1: he's like, what's going on? What happened? And apparently a
Speaker 1: car had gotten through security, like had broken their way
Speaker 1: through where they had stopped the cars. And as he
Speaker 1: was walking across the street, the car that got the
Speaker 1: closest to him was not a car driven by a
Speaker 1: professional driver that had been choreographed, but a car that
Speaker 1: literally almost hit him because it was not supposed to
Speaker 1: be there, much like well me knocking over our camera
Speaker 1: guy in stress relief when the fake fire drill happened.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the happy accidents stay in. Apparently that cut, because
Speaker 1: it looked so real, is in the movie fourty year
Speaker 1: old version. So I hope Steve has told that story.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take his story or get anyone
Speaker 1: in trouble, but yes, Steve was almost hit while filming
Speaker 1: forty year old version. And and again traumel, don't don't
Speaker 1: try to act that out. A lot of people talked
Speaker 1: about Eric stone Street. Liz Hayes was delighted by him
Speaker 1: talking about his dreams of being in the circus. But
Speaker 1: Ryan Zachary talked about Eric's reaction to hearing how Angela
Speaker 1: and I felt when he won the Emmy. Um a
Speaker 1: really special moment for me as well, and it brought
Speaker 1: me back and I think Eric back to that moment
Speaker 1: of winning for him as an actor who did guest
Speaker 1: spots on shows, tried to get on shows here and there,
Speaker 1: you know, after so many years, having a place to
Speaker 1: go every day as an actor, having a place to
Speaker 1: show up too, and how much that meant to him.
Speaker 1: You know it it rings true for me as well,
Speaker 1: having a place to go, that dingy office of dunder Mifflin, Um,
Speaker 1: that reliability, that yeah, that home and how much just
Speaker 1: the physical space meant to him. Reminded me of how
Speaker 1: much it meant to me. And uh, finally, Hannah also
Speaker 1: can't can't not mention my conversation finally with Catherine Tate
Speaker 1: Nellie Bertram on the office and her because that she
Speaker 1: got kicked out of convent school when she was a child,
Speaker 1: multiple schools, because really what she wanted to be was
Speaker 1: an actor. Well I never got kicked out of school,
Speaker 1: but I let's just say I easily could have and
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't out of convent school. Uh. Thank
Speaker 1: you to everyone here at Off the Beat for weighing
Speaker 1: in with so many specific examples from the episodes this year.
Speaker 1: And thank you, of course to not just these guests,
Speaker 1: but all of the guests that we've had here on
Speaker 1: Off the Beat for some truly amazing and memorable moments.
Speaker 1: Boo Cow's Kid Dreams eight three rights love Off the Beat,
Speaker 1: but you missed a great opportunity to name it be
Speaker 1: bombs World. Those in before YouTube will get that reference. Anyway,
Speaker 1: love the show since I'm a fan of Dharma and Greg.
Speaker 1: This was about Jenna Elfman's episode, and even loved Elfman's
Speaker 1: late appearance in Can't Hardly Wait. You've been chatting it
Speaker 1: up with some very interesting people and some outside of
Speaker 1: your circles. Do you ever get a little nervous? Maybe
Speaker 1: put in a little extra research on the person and
Speaker 1: step up your game. Keep blessing us with those silky
Speaker 1: pipes and humor. Well, thank you, Kid Dreams eighty three. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I get nervous, but yes, Jenna Elfman,
Speaker 1: that's a great example. I did not know Jenna Elfman
Speaker 1: at all. I thought that she was an interesting story
Speaker 1: because of her long career in comedy and rom com movies,
Speaker 1: and that her becoming a part of the Walking Dead
Speaker 1: series was interesting to me, and and so I wanted
Speaker 1: to dive in a little bit more about her story
Speaker 1: and where she is today. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: get nervous, but I definitely put in extra research. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have an amazing group of people who are working
Speaker 1: with me on off the beat. Most of the time.
Speaker 1: They're doing all of the research and finding tidbits of
Speaker 1: information that now that they know me and know what
Speaker 1: interests me, that they're they're diving in to an article
Speaker 1: written in nineteen sixty two that will give some tidbit
Speaker 1: of information that that I will use. But I also
Speaker 1: go in as well before every conversation and look at
Speaker 1: all of the material that's assembled and decides sort of
Speaker 1: a central focus that I want to have a central
Speaker 1: through line, if you will, for how I want that
Speaker 1: conversation to go and what I want to talk about
Speaker 1: at least with that person. And then whoever I'm talking to.
Speaker 1: Whichever way it goes, it goes. So sometimes the best
Speaker 1: laid plans, right, I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: I'm as prepared as I can be and have the knowledge.
Speaker 1: Try to watch a few episodes if it's if it's
Speaker 1: a show I'm not familiar with, to be able to
Speaker 1: have a substantive conversation about that person's work and about what,
Speaker 1: at least the interwebs tell me interests them. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't get nervous. But I think because we do
Speaker 1: put in so much time and effort to be prepared.
Speaker 1: That's why it's been really fun for me to talk
Speaker 1: to people that I don't know, in addition to the
Speaker 1: people I do, obviously, but to talk to the people
Speaker 1: that I don't know, or the people that I know
Speaker 1: a little bit or that I know a little socially
Speaker 1: but I've never really seen them work, that's actually really
Speaker 1: really fun for me. Eric Venables asked, did you take
Speaker 1: journalism classes? You are a fantastic interviewer. First of all,
Speaker 1: you're amazing and the smartest person that I've read from today.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the compliment. I did not
Speaker 1: take journalism classes, and in fact, I will tell you
Speaker 1: that when I started this podcasting journey on an Oral
Speaker 1: History to the Office, we went to Scranton and it
Speaker 1: was the first time that I had been in Scranton
Speaker 1: in I believe seven years. It had been seven years
Speaker 1: since I went back, and it was very cold. It
Speaker 1: was January February of right before the pandemic, and we
Speaker 1: decide we're gonna get up and we're gonna before anything
Speaker 1: else happens that day, we're just gonna walk around the
Speaker 1: main square and hear from me and my feelings about
Speaker 1: being back in Scranton. I had the hardest time doing this.
Speaker 1: Had I had the most difficult time. If there was
Speaker 1: a record of number of takes of shooting a scene
Speaker 1: in a television show, I might have exceeded that this day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was like I needed to get
Speaker 1: it right. Part of my monologue was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: a journalist. I don't know why I'm here, Like I'm
Speaker 1: pretending to be a journalist. I guess, like, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to pretend. I want to tell the story anyway.
Speaker 1: It was really difficult for me, and since then, and
Speaker 1: as we just discussed now, talking to so many different
Speaker 1: people and doing the research, trying to get in two
Speaker 1: people's experience and and really want to hear from them.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm doing a little bit more journalism work
Speaker 1: now than I ever thought that I would, So I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying is it's been a journey for me,
Speaker 1: and I think initially I felt very self conscious. I
Speaker 1: felt very secure in the story that we were telling
Speaker 1: and the question that I had, which was why is
Speaker 1: the office so wildly popular? More popular now than it
Speaker 1: was when it was on? I was very secure in that,
Speaker 1: but referring to myself as a journalist, I was exceedingly
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with that. And I guess where I'm at now
Speaker 1: is I have the tremendous support of an incredible crew
Speaker 1: who makes it easy for me to ask questions that
Speaker 1: interest me. So if you asked me to interview someone
Speaker 1: about something that I didn't know anything about and wasn't
Speaker 1: that interested in, I probably wouldn't know where to start
Speaker 1: because I don't have those journalism classes or credentials. But
Speaker 1: doing this, I love this, and I very much appreciate
Speaker 1: the compliment. Paul g in the O c asks what's
Speaker 1: on your bucket list? Well, listen. Over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, I have been so lucky. I mean, my
Speaker 1: bucket list was being a New York Times bestselling author,
Speaker 1: and we we did that. So that's that was That
Speaker 1: was one on the bucket list that's crossed off. I
Speaker 1: think that you know, I'm gonna combine this with another
Speaker 1: question the Kyle twenty two asks will we see Brian
Speaker 1: in a dramatic role showing off his acting chops. I
Speaker 1: don't know about acting chops, but I would say that's
Speaker 1: my bucket list and that's what I would like to do.
Speaker 1: As many of you know, I started in the theater
Speaker 1: and really not in comedy. Comedy was not my focus.
Speaker 1: I did comedic roles, but for me, the roles that
Speaker 1: I would consistently get were very dark, very bad, very dramatic,
Speaker 1: and for me, it was about trying to find a
Speaker 1: shred of humanity in characters that on the surface had
Speaker 1: no humanity, and so trying to find the complexity what
Speaker 1: make people tick again even if their actions are very bad.
Speaker 1: That was always something that was very interesting to me.
Speaker 1: So I'd say, in terms of work, that's my bucket
Speaker 1: list right there. Finding a role where I can play
Speaker 1: something very, very different than any of you have ever
Speaker 1: seen me play before. That's my bucket list and the
Speaker 1: Kyle twenty two. I hope so because that's what I
Speaker 1: want to do. Japan Asian says, what's something you said
Speaker 1: yes to that your ten year old self wouldn't believe?
Speaker 1: M hmm. There's there's a lot that my ten year
Speaker 1: old self wouldn't believe. I think that my experience in
Speaker 1: golf now would impress and would leave my ten year
Speaker 1: old self um in disbelief. The people, the athletes, celebrities
Speaker 1: that I've had the opportunity to play golf with and
Speaker 1: now have become friends. I said yes and continue at
Speaker 1: the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe, specifically to say
Speaker 1: yes to that invitation. It's been fifteen years of me
Speaker 1: being there. It's the hardest thing that I do every year,
Speaker 1: very difficult putting myself out there in that way. But
Speaker 1: the experiences that I have had there and other places,
Speaker 1: well some of my favorite experiences, and I think would
Speaker 1: would leave my ten year old self speechless. And a
Speaker 1: few questions now about chili. Andrew Montavan rites, how often
Speaker 1: do you make chili? Is it something Brian not just
Speaker 1: Kevin is known for, Uh, yes, I make chili. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow that up with another question as well,
Speaker 1: Amanda Wade XO, did you ever think you'd write too books?
Speaker 1: I do have a new book coming out, Seriously Good
Speaker 1: Chili Cookbook. It's coming out September, just announced. I've been
Speaker 1: working on it for a long time. And yes, I
Speaker 1: do make chili. Andrew I, I didn't make chili before
Speaker 1: the office, I'll be clear about that. And and as
Speaker 1: I've been sort of reconstructing my chili journey, I think
Speaker 1: the first time I made chili was like for the
Speaker 1: Graham for the Instagram. I think I thought, oh, I'll
Speaker 1: make some chili. That'll be fun, and oh and I'll
Speaker 1: post a photo that would be fun. And I did
Speaker 1: that and people seem to respond, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: that's fun. I cook it often with my family or
Speaker 1: with other friends. I find it a communal experience. It
Speaker 1: is a way to experiment and change recipes. I love
Speaker 1: doing it. I love it, and I have my recipe
Speaker 1: has changed and evolved over the years. And now I
Speaker 1: think I make a damn good chili. I think I
Speaker 1: make a damn good chili. And that recipe is in
Speaker 1: Seriously Good Chili Cookbook, as is a hundred and seventy six.
Speaker 1: There's a hundred and seventy seven total other recipes from chefs,
Speaker 1: real chefs, celebrity chefs, fans. Some of you may have
Speaker 1: submitted recipes for the book. If they were accepted, congratulations,
Speaker 1: You're now a part of chili history and lore. And
Speaker 1: also what I'm very proud of is partnering with the
Speaker 1: i c S, the International Chili Society who puts on
Speaker 1: the World Championship Chili cook Off. It's been going over
Speaker 1: fifty years. Guys. This is a legitimate thing that I
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to go to last year and actually judge.
Speaker 1: And it's hundreds of people who are there in this
Speaker 1: State Fair Park area thing making chili like live on
Speaker 1: the spot and then giving samples for judges to taste
Speaker 1: and patrons there could taste. It is an unbelievable experience.
Speaker 1: And also again fairy community. There's such a community spirit
Speaker 1: around chili and talking about chili and tasting it, and
Speaker 1: I love it so. Seriously Good Chili Cookbook my second
Speaker 1: book coming out here septem I'm incredibly proud of it.
Speaker 1: We put a lot of work into it. Um. You
Speaker 1: can go to seriously Good Chili dot com to pre
Speaker 1: order today if you're so inclined. Along those same lines,
Speaker 1: Ali K four one six asks is the recipe for
Speaker 1: Kevin's chili in there? Yes? Yes, so there's my chili recipe, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, spoiler alert, far superior to Kevin's. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let me be honest. Okay, Brian's recipe is far
Speaker 1: superior to Kevin's, but Kevin's is in there, as is
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five see how I did that
Speaker 1: math a hundred and seventy five other recipes from world champions,
Speaker 1: celebrity chefs, chefs, fans, restaurants I've been to. It's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: So please check it out and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your support. Did my ten year old self think
Speaker 1: that I would have a chilly cookbook? Absolutely not. Grob
Speaker 1: g R O B O seven asks Brian, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite golf course in the so Cal area? From
Speaker 1: Irvine need Rex. Also I'm a nine. Congratulations on the
Speaker 1: nine single digits. That was always my goal for a long,
Speaker 1: long period of time. Recommendations in the so Cal area
Speaker 1: will look if you're not in San Diego, it's very expensive.
Speaker 1: Tory Pines is a great place to visit once. It's
Speaker 1: like forty dollars if you live in San Diego, but
Speaker 1: if not, I know it's much more expensive. But that's
Speaker 1: a great place. Also though, the public course Coronado, if
Speaker 1: you haven't checked that out. Coronado is a little island
Speaker 1: off of downtown San Diego, right on the water. Really beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful place to golf. I always highly recommend the home
Speaker 1: of my first and only hole in one, Angels National
Speaker 1: Golf Club. Very tough as a nine, very very tough,
Speaker 1: but very fair, and and the home of of my
Speaker 1: only hole in one there, that's what I would recommend.
Speaker 1: But so many great courses. If you haven't played the
Speaker 1: Griffith Park public golf courses, Wilson and Harding and all
Speaker 1: all that, those are amazing going through the canyon of
Speaker 1: Griffith Park. So much great golf in southern California. So
Speaker 1: get out there, and who knows, maybe you'll see me
Speaker 1: in the o c here sometimes as well. I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great golf courses there. And speaking
Speaker 1: of golf, boy boy, howdy, did you have a lot
Speaker 1: of sports questions for me. Luckily, as always, I have
Speaker 1: some sports takes that I have been waiting to share
Speaker 1: it with you. So here we go about sports and
Speaker 1: off the beat sports. Many more guests coming up here
Speaker 1: in the coming months. J. S. Terrelli asks how did
Speaker 1: you become a big u G A fan University of
Speaker 1: Georgia and what are you most looking forward to this season?
Speaker 1: I'm from Atlanta, so I went to s m U.
Speaker 1: Hail to the Red and the Blue, the Mustangs of
Speaker 1: s m U, so obviously a big fan, love their resurgence.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is about my childhood, like my child
Speaker 1: old childhood, like my younghood. As a six seven, ten
Speaker 1: twelve fourteen year old, would go to Athens with friends
Speaker 1: a lot of weekends and uh watch the Dogs between
Speaker 1: the hedges. So I've always been a University of Georgia
Speaker 1: football fan. Love Athens. I think it's the greatest place
Speaker 1: in the country to watch college football. I know those
Speaker 1: in Knoxville and Tuscaloosa, etcetera. It's college station will disagree
Speaker 1: with me, but I love Athens and the Bulldogs and
Speaker 1: UM have been generously offered by their athletic director to
Speaker 1: come to a game here. Hopefully this year, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it back between the hedges down there in Athens.
Speaker 1: But that's how I became a big u g A fan.
Speaker 1: And I think, well, they won last year, and everybody's
Speaker 1: putting Alabama at the top of the list. I think
Speaker 1: the Dogs are going to be very, very good, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what happens this year. By the way,
Speaker 1: not as hard as schedule as they had last year,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how it goes. Sarah No asks what
Speaker 1: team in the NFL do you not like at all?
Speaker 1: Minus the NFC North teams? Saints fan, by the way, um,
Speaker 1: who do I not like? He's referring to the NFC
Speaker 1: North because as a Packers fan, he assumes I'm going
Speaker 1: to say the Bears and the Vikings and the Lions,
Speaker 1: which is fair. Um, I don't like the Seahawks. If
Speaker 1: you know football, you can probably figure that one out.
Speaker 1: And I don't like the forty Niners. And I don't
Speaker 1: really think I need to explain it any further than that,
Speaker 1: And I'm not bitter or angry. I'm a very happy guy.
Speaker 1: The forty Niners just me and the Seahawks. Ah Now,
Speaker 1: you've got you put me in a bad mood. See
Speaker 1: Hawks in the fort Although the Seahawks will be great
Speaker 1: this year, won't they? Uh? Now I feel better. Adam
Speaker 1: Gilbertson asked, how do you think the Packers will look
Speaker 1: this coming season? Do you see a three peet for twelve,
Speaker 1: meaning a three pet of the m v P Award.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's what I think. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be damn good. And here's really why. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation about their wide receivers losing Davante Adams. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of catches that other people are gonna
Speaker 1: have to make up for. I think their defense is
Speaker 1: gonna be damn good. I think it's gonna be damn good.
Speaker 1: And look, let's be real honest. We were needing the
Speaker 1: Packers to score forty five points there for a few
Speaker 1: years to have a chance to win a game against
Speaker 1: a good team. I don't think they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do that this year. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different I foresee a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different style. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: keep people from scoring, and uh, I trust in twelve. Oh,
Speaker 1: I need to put that on a T shirt? Do
Speaker 1: you think that would sell? I trust in twelve to
Speaker 1: score enough points to beat teams with a great defense.
Speaker 1: So that's how I think seventeen and oh no, maybe
Speaker 1: not that, but they're gonna be good. Trek geek Bill
Speaker 1: says Brian. What do you think of the Patriots this season?
Speaker 1: With Mac in year two? Will they win the a
Speaker 1: f C East. Well, look not to try to publicize
Speaker 1: the podcast that I'm already doing. Julian Edelman, who we
Speaker 1: just spoke to last week on the podcast, we talked
Speaker 1: quite a bit about the Patriots. I am confused. I
Speaker 1: didn't say this quite this strongly to Julian, but I'm
Speaker 1: confused with the offensive coordinator situation there. It doesn't make
Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense to me with a second
Speaker 1: year her back. I did hear some discussion over the
Speaker 1: last week since I spoke with Julian about Belichick attempting
Speaker 1: too to make the offense simpler, that the offense had
Speaker 1: got very complicated under Brady for so after so many years,
Speaker 1: and the guys like Julian and others who were familiar
Speaker 1: with the system. It worked, but it was very difficult
Speaker 1: for new players to learn a complicated system, and so Belichick,
Speaker 1: with Mac in year two, wanted to simplify things. I
Speaker 1: still think you need an offensive coordinator that's solely focused
Speaker 1: on calling plays and scheming for a team. And Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels knew how to call plays and scheme. And I
Speaker 1: know Belichick is a genius, but you can't deny what
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels did there. And I think that loss is significant,
Speaker 1: So no, they don't win the a f C East
Speaker 1: Strato Shove says, name three NBA players that are huge
Speaker 1: office fans. Well, I'm a fan of the Lakers, so
Speaker 1: I've spent much more time around the Lakers than well
Speaker 1: then mostly anywhere else. Alex Caruso, who I just played
Speaker 1: golf with in Tahoe. He's a big fan of the office.
Speaker 1: So there's one. I think. I was very, very proud
Speaker 1: of the fact, as a huge Kobe Bryant fan, that
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant was a big fan of the office. It
Speaker 1: always made me very happy when I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go to games and to interact very briefly with him.
Speaker 1: I loved that he was a big fan of the
Speaker 1: office and the third. I mean, there's so many. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think which which direction that I go. Ray Allen,
Speaker 1: who also plays in Tahoe always great I talked to
Speaker 1: on the podcast, asked Vince Carter, who I've known a
Speaker 1: long time fans of the Office. Look, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that's so cool for me is playing golf with these
Speaker 1: celebrities that so many that I'm a fan of our
Speaker 1: fans of the Office as well, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: incredible to me. Again, ten year old self would be
Speaker 1: speechless for sure. Now before we wrap up this episode,
Speaker 1: we're gonna dive just a little deeper. That's what she said.
Speaker 1: Into some office questions you had, I gotta say you
Speaker 1: asked some great ones, some that I had never heard before.
Speaker 1: Bill Knee says, how did Kevin end up golfing in job?
Speaker 1: Fair coincidence or did the writers know your skill? The
Speaker 1: writers knew my skill and they knew that I loved
Speaker 1: to golf. In fact, that really the only person on
Speaker 1: the office who golfs. So yeah, I guess that one
Speaker 1: was in part written for me. There were the happy
Speaker 1: accidents like the basketball episode where that sort of happened
Speaker 1: while we were shooting. They were not aware that I
Speaker 1: could I could shoot the rock. They found out soon enough.
Speaker 1: But yes, job fair, they knew I was a golfer.
Speaker 1: Jah Zobi asks did you and the cast find yourself
Speaker 1: saying that's what she said a lot after slash during
Speaker 1: the show all the time, that's what she said. Why
Speaker 1: at Gordon? What is the coolest thing about the office set?
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the coolest thing or not,
Speaker 1: but yesterday I was at Access Daily with Mario Lopez
Speaker 1: and uh I did a little chili cooking coming soon
Speaker 1: to a television set near you, and they had these
Speaker 1: giant video screens with the office set on different screens,
Speaker 1: so like around the studio, they had this and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you this just happened yesterday. I was looking at
Speaker 1: myself through the monitor as the camera is shooting me.
Speaker 1: This is kind of complicated. Stay with me. The camera
Speaker 1: is shooting me on this Access Daily set, but behind
Speaker 1: me is this incredible video monitor with the set of
Speaker 1: the office on it, and through the lens me looking
Speaker 1: at the monitor that the that the camera was shooting,
Speaker 1: it looked like I was standing on the set and
Speaker 1: I could not I couldn't. I couldn't get over it.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is so good. This looks like
Speaker 1: I'm standing there back in the offices of dunder Mifflin.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know if it's really the coolest
Speaker 1: thing about the set, but just seeing myself standing there
Speaker 1: what what appeared to be on the set gave me
Speaker 1: the warm and fuzzies. It was very cool. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's not exactly what you asked, I would say the
Speaker 1: lived in factor, the fact that it was built to
Speaker 1: feel as though we had been there for years. That
Speaker 1: was the most you know, Is that the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that was the most unique thing
Speaker 1: about that set. Nothing felt new, Everything felt old and
Speaker 1: lived in and therefore comfortable. Just Nicko asks, is there
Speaker 1: a moment from the office that randomly pops into your
Speaker 1: head on a regular basis? Many moments do, and it
Speaker 1: kind of goes in cycles where I won't think about
Speaker 1: something for a while, and then I'll think I will
Speaker 1: think about it all the time. Like seeing a cat,
Speaker 1: for example, I see cats people. There are cats that
Speaker 1: are around all the time, And just recently I saw
Speaker 1: a cat and I thought, you can't eat cats, Kevin,
Speaker 1: You can't eat cats? And now like, I'm just in
Speaker 1: this little cycle right now where anytime I see a
Speaker 1: cat it just makes me I laugh because I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can't eat cats. Why would you ever eat a cat?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because they're so cute, I guess, but
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so yes, things randomly pop into my head,
Speaker 1: of course. Brittany Zapata says, what is your favorite Kevin
Speaker 1: related Office fan theory? That he's a genius? That's my favorite,
Speaker 1: that he's a genius. I'm not saying that that is
Speaker 1: true or false, but that's my favorite. That people believe
Speaker 1: that Kevin is is secretly a genius. Max Lions two
Speaker 1: two four four asks is Kevin the father of Jan's baby? God?
Speaker 1: I hope so? Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe there's a
Speaker 1: reunion idea that Jan shows up with Asterrid and Astrid
Speaker 1: looks like Kevin. She can call the boy from the
Speaker 1: Office convention and find out how he put his costume together.
Speaker 1: But if Astrid looked like Kevin genius, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea, Shu. I might call Greg Daniels
Speaker 1: about that one. Russell asked, did Kevin never want to
Speaker 1: hit on Angela? Since they sat so close all those years.
Speaker 1: Never gross you, Russell, stay in your lane, my friend you.
Speaker 1: Holly Ann a Villa asks you knew your character Kevin
Speaker 1: so well. I'm curious what would he be up to
Speaker 1: in two. I hope he's still back at that bar
Speaker 1: and just enjoying life away from Angela. I hope that's
Speaker 1: where he is. I hope they made it through the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you know, with flying Colors, and they're thriving. They're in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: G P c Wald tw o one rights. In your
Speaker 1: unbiased opinion, which office character do you think should get
Speaker 1: us spin off? There are so many. I mean, as
Speaker 1: we know now if you listen to the podcast, Dwight
Speaker 1: almost had one or had one, it didn't ever go
Speaker 1: to series. I think the accountants would be damn funny, Oscar,
Speaker 1: Angela and Kevin. Unbiased Lee, I say that, Dwight, but
Speaker 1: you know, I mean any of the characters you could have,
Speaker 1: Meredith Stanley and Florida, Michael Scott in Colorado, Jim and
Speaker 1: Pam and Austin. I mean that you really could do anything,
Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe something someday, something will happen, But
Speaker 1: I don't know, those are a few ideas. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you all can come up with way better ideas than me.
Speaker 1: Steve mct photog rights. If you could have The Office
Speaker 1: be about another type of company, what would it be
Speaker 1: and why? M hmm. Well, I think that the interesting
Speaker 1: part of it was, at least in the original Ricky
Speaker 1: Gervais was looking to try to find the most ordinary
Speaker 1: type of company in an industry that was dying, which
Speaker 1: gives some steaks, makes there be some steaks involved, some
Speaker 1: steaks being not the kind you eat, but like there's
Speaker 1: a danger that we could be shut down and that
Speaker 1: this could all stop. But I think ultimately the business
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because it's really about the people and the
Speaker 1: relationships of the people within that business. Somewhat crucially it's
Speaker 1: a smaller company that's not a mega conglomerate. I think
Speaker 1: that's crucial. But I don't think it really matters what
Speaker 1: they're selling because it's not about that. It's about the people.
Speaker 1: Snoopy Valentine, do you think anyone will try to reboot
Speaker 1: the Office in like twenty years, well, Snoopy Valentine, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'll answer the same way that I'll
Speaker 1: answer when anyone asked me this question. If Greg Daniels
Speaker 1: is involved, you can sign me up. You can sign
Speaker 1: me up Magic Morgue rights. Will there be a live
Speaker 1: office reunion? M M, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we'll get the whole gang back together. I think
Speaker 1: we will at some point for something. But will there
Speaker 1: be a live office reunion? I think, well, why don't
Speaker 1: you just stay tuned because maybe some info is coming.
Speaker 1: Thank you all so much for such amazing questions. I
Speaker 1: feel like I know you all a bit more. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you I feel like you know me more as well.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's positive and not negative. I want to see
Speaker 1: all of your faces very soon. The next under con
Speaker 1: a city near you, perhaps, who knows. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit later as it is. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for all of your support here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: If you're interested in Seriously Good Chili cookbook, go to
Speaker 1: Seriously Good Chili dot com. And yeah, I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 1: by me Brian Baumgartner alongside our executive producer Langley. Our
Speaker 1: producers are Diego Tapia, Liz Hayes and Hannah Harris. Our
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