WEBVTT - Mailbag 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.160 Hi everybody, and welcome back to another episode, a very 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:25.079 special edition as we call it in the business of 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.640 Off the Beat. I am your host, as always, Brian 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.640 baum Gartner. Now for today's episode, we're doing something a 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.760 little different. I have been seeing all of your amazing 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.040 questions on my social media, so I wanted to take 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:45.159 some time to answer your questions on today's drumroll please 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.960 today's episode mail Bag episode of Off the Beat. I 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.680 love doing these because it gives me an opportunity to 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.880 get to know you a little bit more. And what 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.880 will what you tell me you're interested in. I hope 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.120 that you feel the same. We haven't done one of 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.800 these since last year, but I'm excited to get back. Periodically, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.080 I will check in with you, the fans and attempt 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.959 to answer some of your questions about the office, the podcast, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:26.440 Off the Beat, sports, and my upcoming chili cookbook. You 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.000 guys had some great questions. I'm very excited, so let's 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.440 dive right in. But first I want you to know this. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:39.480 We have a big announcement coming soon. Yes we do. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.880 I thought we were going to talk about it today. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.760 We have to wait a little bit longer, but who knows. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.279 Maybe I will be coming to a city near you 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.680 this fall if you catch my drift, so stay tuned 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.120 for that very soon. But for now, let's get to 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:07.760 your questions. Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeak. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:13.240 Bubble and Squeaker cooking at every month. Left over from 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:25.720 the night before. So, as many of you know, I 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:31.919 recently went to dunder Khan, the first ever office fan 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.600 convention in all of the land. Listen. I had a 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.400 great time hanging out with well my office family for 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:45.440 one and two, meeting so many of you face to face. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.080 I had a lot of questions from many of you 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.639 who were there, and I was really excited to talk 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:57.240 about this event. So let's get right to them. Shoosh, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.160 I'm sure I'm saying that long asked. Did you enjoy 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.240 dunder con It was so nice meeting you there, by 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:13.440 the way, Chaos, I enjoyed meeting you two, I'm sure, Listen, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.000 I had. I had a blast, we all did. I 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.920 was so shocked and amazed by how many people one 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.680 were there, how many people were were dressed up and 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.519 participating in all the events, all of the vendors who 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.240 were there. Creed played a concert at night there that 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.000 was so fun, so exciting, and of course me being 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.040 able to hang out with so many fans, but also um, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.000 let's just say late at night, getting able to reconnect 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.400 with many of my old friends, some of which I 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.880 hadn't seen in a long long time. So yes, I 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.280 enjoyed it, and I hope that you did too. Rock 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.760 Royalty ninety one asked what was your favorite moment at 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.120 dunderkn Now, this one is easy for me. There was 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.600 a boy I'm gonna say nine or ten years old, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.240 and he there was a costume contest there for people 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.920 who dressed up. This boy was dressed as me. He went, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.520 I mean he went for he shaved his head. Look 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.719 the videos I'm sure are out there have gone viral. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.760 I've seen it myself. He's he shaves his head, He's 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:31.440 got on a perfect suit. He just nailed it with 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.920 the chili pot. It was unbelievable. And so I will 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.960 tell you. I was meeting people at a part of 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.000 the convention hall and I saw that they were doing 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.719 the costume contest, and I looked up to this huge 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.120 video board and I saw that they announced him and 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.360 that he got a big applause. I guess they were 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.840 doing it by applause, and I went, you know what, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.160 this guy needs my support. So I made my way 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.720 through the mevention center up onto the stage and stood 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.680 behind him to give him a little support and to 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.440 let everyone know who I thought should win the contest. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.120 He did, in fact, when we were a little bit 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.840 concerned because he did shave the top of his head 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.640 that his parents had like, I don't I don't know 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.640 what first prize was. I don't know if it would 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.360 have been worth shaving your kid's head. We were concerned. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.279 The father assured me and everyone involved that this was 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.000 his idea. He wanted to do it, and he was like, Dad, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.760 if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, and uh, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.280 and asked his father to to shave his head. So 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:45.800 congratulations to you, my fine, very attractive young friend. I 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:53.280 see big things for you in the future. Riley Gracer asked, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.400 will you do DUNDERCN again? There are discussions for a 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:04.720 dunder con happen. Ine, Look, if if they build it, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.040 I will come. If you guys promised that you'll be there, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.200 and if there's an event that's anything like what happened 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.640 in New Jersey, A few weeks ago, I'm in. I 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.680 had just so much fun connecting, hearing stories from all 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.240 of you about what the office means to you, and 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.320 there was just so much joy. I think we've got 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.400 a few things that have got to be worked out. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.240 I think the lines. People waited way too long in 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.800 lines to talk to me. I think we've got to 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.400 work that out. I know we had a panel discussion there, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.320 so many people mentioned that it was their favorite thing 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.880 in the event, all of us up on stage answering questions. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.080 I think that should be longer. Uh, maybe the time 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.839 just needs to be longer. We need more time to 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.400 to be able to meet people and to do fun 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.600 things like the panels and be able to ask questions. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.480 On Saturday, the convention was over at six o'clock and 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.760 I was I was still there meeting people at eight 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.360 fifteen at night, so you know, it was a long, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.760 long day. But I was not going to leave until 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.880 until everyone who wanted to say hi, I had the 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.440 opportunity to say hi. So yes, I would do it again. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.040 I hope that we ironed some things out for the 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.480 next time, but it was it really was so much fun. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.040 And again Creed's concert was well, in the words of 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:37.000 Kevin awesome alright. A lot of you asked questions about 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.200 Off the Beat, both producing, talking to new people, everything 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.040 that goes on behind the scenes of the podcast. I 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.040 wanted to take a few minutes and talk about what 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:53.160 we do here on a weekly basis. The Garrett Web asked, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.880 how do you choose who you're going to interview? You know, Garrett, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.160 that is a great question. There's so many people that 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.239 I have met, had the opportunity the pleasure of meeting 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.120 or working with briefly in the industry, And as I 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:16.200 told Wendy Malick on the podcast, my truly my idea 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.800 of doing this was about her, because you know, I 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.960 had worked with her a couple of times. I admired 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.200 her work. I thought her career was so interesting. Three shows, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.240 kind of groundbreaking shows, all of which that ran six 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.600 seven seasons. So that was sort of my model. Like, Okay, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.319 so Wendy I've worked with a few times. I want 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.960 to talk to her because I find her interesting. And 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.600 then there are obviously people that I've worked with a 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.520 lot that I wanted to talk to get to know 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.959 a little more. Rob Riggle, Eric stone Street et cetera. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.680 And then there are people whose careers they just interest me, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.640 or I hear something about a story about their story 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.840 that I want to dive into a little bit deeper. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.560 This podcast, for me, really is about finding those moments 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.360 in a person's life that helped shape them to who 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.480 they are. So it's way less about where they have 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.319 been delivered, But it really, for me, is about the 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.960 journey and if we can find clues or find answers 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.000 to why a person's career went in a different direction, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:31.120 how it skyrocketed from one potentially tiny moment, those off 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.400 the beat moments, That's really what I'm interested in, and 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.400 so we I have friends, some people have asked to 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.560 be on the podcast. I have asked, and we try 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.120 to find people from a variety of different shows. If 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.840 a show is coming back, or someone who you might 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.640 know from something else is starting a new show, that's 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.600 somebody that I want to talk to about maybe why 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.080 they've made the decision to start a new show. But 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:03.040 what I'm finding is is that everyone is interesting. I 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:08.280 know that's like so cliche, but I mean the variety 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.840 of conversations that I've been able to have with people 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.480 about their career and everybody's career is so different. I'm 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.240 loving doing this. I hope that you're enjoying listening just 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:26.560 a fraction as much as I'm enjoying having these conversations. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:32.640 Emily Walker asked what the most surprising moments so far 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.520 on Off the Beat? Well, I I have a few 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.440 that I've been asked about that I always said, but 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.120 you know, I wanted to go to my team here 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.000 and and have you hear from from them some of 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.480 their favorite moments that happens, so you know, for me, 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.560 I always go to Rob Wriggle, and I knew that 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:00.240 Rob Riggle was a marine, and I knew that Rob 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:05.040 Wriggle was a comedian and actor and entertainer, and I 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.160 guess I just had always assumed he was in the 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.800 marines for a few years college ish age and then 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:17.520 he moved on. But hearing his story of continuing to 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.600 be a marine for twenty three years, from working as 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.600 a marine during the day and going to comedy clubs 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.480 and classes at night because he wanted to pursue comedy 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.320 so bad in New York City, I just I loved 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.800 knowing that and Rob. I know Rob through work and 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.120 through golf. I've spent more time with him than probably 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.320 anybody else that I've talked to on Off the Beat, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.440 and I didn't know this story, and I think it's 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.320 so inspiring, so interesting. It makes me love him even more. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.800 And the commitment and the work that he put in 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.000 to be where he is today, I just I just 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.720 loved it so me. That's very clearly one of my 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:08.320 favorite moments, but many here on Off the Beat brought 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.480 up many more that I endorsed wholeheartedly. Diego talked about 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:18.920 Kevin Ram's episode and one of the moments that made 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.800 him laugh the most. It was Kevin and I worked 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:28.439 together just Moosecock. That's all you do. It's so legendary. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.800 It just needs one word, Moosecock. We worked on Moosecock together, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.120 and he had learned that I had done the pilot 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.560 of the Office, and he told me how badly he 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.520 felt for me that I had gotten on that show 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.640 that was that was assured to go down in flames 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.880 and be an absolute disaster and tarnish my name forever 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.680 and ever a poor fool, he described me a so 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.320 hearing that from Kevin after knowing him for so many years, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.680 that that was his first introduction to me was that 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.199 was was amazing. I have to mention the story I 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.800 don't think I fully told. I told Trammel Tillman this 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.200 a little bit. Trammel Tillman obviously from Severance. I was 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.400 thirty five thousand feet in the air when I watched 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.920 the final episode that I had downloaded of Severance, and 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.760 I just picked up my phone immediately when it ended 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:34.480 and started emailing our team here saying I want these 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:39.120 guys on the show, and specifically I want Trammel Tillman 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.920 on the show because I felt like what he was doing, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.240 the work that he was doing there was so transformative 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.320 and so different than anything I had seen done in 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.760 television before. If you haven't watched Severance, you must know 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.160 by now I'm a big fan. Check it out. Many 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:02.520 similarities to the Office. So our executive producer Langley talked 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.880 about having Trammel Tillman on the show and how much 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.800 that meant to me and uh and how special that 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.319 was as someone really unknown but being on a show 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.880 that moved me, that made me feel so passionate, A 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:27.000 really fun conversation with Trammel Liz. Liz talked about Trammell 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.080 and his re enacting bad boys and getting hit by 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.240 a car when he was a kid. This, by the way, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.560 this is not something that you should do. You should 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:42.440 not attempt to to to act out a scene from 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.080 a movie that's been very well choreographed. I will tell 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.280 you this story. This is not my story to tell, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.280 and I didn't tell it originally when I was talking 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.840 to Trammel, but um, this happened to Steve Carrell on 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.080 forty year old Virgin. He has to have told this 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:03.360 story before. I hope he's told this story before. There 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.320 was a scene and obviously we were shooting the office 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.720 when forty year old Virgin came out and there was 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:15.040 a scene where his character and he gets motivated two 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.440 ask Katherine Keener. I can't remember her character's name. And 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.280 he's going across the street to the eBay store, and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.800 they have the cars choreographed so that they narrowly miss him, 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.640 and he's just committed, focused and walking across the street. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.560 This would be like what Trammel would have acted out 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.320 when he was a kid. And Steve told us the 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.840 story that he was walking across during a take and 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.320 a car got really close to him and he felt 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.480 it he didn't look or flinch. He did what he 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.320 was supposed to do and walked across the street and 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.040 they called cut, and he went back to the monitor, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:00.280 you know, where everybody was hanging out to like everything 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.800 was fine, and he said everyone was action. Everyone was 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.720 like like didn't know what to do or say, and 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.320 he's like, what's going on? What happened? And apparently a 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:16.240 car had gotten through security, like had broken their way 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.080 through where they had stopped the cars. And as he 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.480 was walking across the street, the car that got the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.280 closest to him was not a car driven by a 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.000 professional driver that had been choreographed, but a car that 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.720 literally almost hit him because it was not supposed to 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:38.120 be there, much like well me knocking over our camera 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.680 guy in stress relief when the fake fire drill happened. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.080 Sometimes the happy accidents stay in. Apparently that cut, because 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.360 it looked so real, is in the movie fourty year 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.560 old version. So I hope Steve has told that story. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.240 I don't want to take his story or get anyone 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.200 in trouble, but yes, Steve was almost hit while filming 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:03.120 forty year old version. And and again traumel, don't don't 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.000 try to act that out. A lot of people talked 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:11.680 about Eric stone Street. Liz Hayes was delighted by him 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.720 talking about his dreams of being in the circus. But 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:21.080 Ryan Zachary talked about Eric's reaction to hearing how Angela 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:25.000 and I felt when he won the Emmy. Um a 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.159 really special moment for me as well, and it brought 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.440 me back and I think Eric back to that moment 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.480 of winning for him as an actor who did guest 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.760 spots on shows, tried to get on shows here and there, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.199 you know, after so many years, having a place to 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:46.040 go every day as an actor, having a place to 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.280 show up too, and how much that meant to him. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.800 You know it it rings true for me as well, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:18:00.240 having a place to go, that dingy office of dunder Mifflin, Um, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.919 that reliability, that yeah, that home and how much just 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.280 the physical space meant to him. Reminded me of how 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.359 much it meant to me. And uh, finally, Hannah also 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:19.879 can't can't not mention my conversation finally with Catherine Tate 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:25.960 Nellie Bertram on the office and her because that she 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.280 got kicked out of convent school when she was a child, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.639 multiple schools, because really what she wanted to be was 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.199 an actor. Well I never got kicked out of school, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.520 but I let's just say I easily could have and 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.920 I wasn't. I wasn't out of convent school. Uh. Thank 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.199 you to everyone here at Off the Beat for weighing 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:53.600 in with so many specific examples from the episodes this year. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.200 And thank you, of course to not just these guests, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.560 but all of the guests that we've had here on 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:05.320 Off the Beat for some truly amazing and memorable moments. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:12.399 Boo Cow's Kid Dreams eight three rights love Off the Beat, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.159 but you missed a great opportunity to name it be 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:21.480 bombs World. Those in before YouTube will get that reference. Anyway, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.600 love the show since I'm a fan of Dharma and Greg. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.359 This was about Jenna Elfman's episode, and even loved Elfman's 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.080 late appearance in Can't Hardly Wait. You've been chatting it 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.000 up with some very interesting people and some outside of 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.600 your circles. Do you ever get a little nervous? Maybe 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.119 put in a little extra research on the person and 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.840 step up your game. Keep blessing us with those silky 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:52.520 pipes and humor. Well, thank you, Kid Dreams eighty three. Um, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:57.160 I don't know that I get nervous, but yes, Jenna Elfman, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.720 that's a great example. I did not know Jenna Elfman 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.120 at all. I thought that she was an interesting story 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:11.560 because of her long career in comedy and rom com movies, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.840 and that her becoming a part of the Walking Dead 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.280 series was interesting to me, and and so I wanted 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.879 to dive in a little bit more about her story 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.000 and where she is today. I don't know that I 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:32.560 get nervous, but I definitely put in extra research. I mean, 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.439 I have an amazing group of people who are working 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.720 with me on off the beat. Most of the time. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:44.080 They're doing all of the research and finding tidbits of 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.919 information that now that they know me and know what 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.400 interests me, that they're they're diving in to an article 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.280 written in nineteen sixty two that will give some tidbit 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.919 of information that that I will use. But I also 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.160 go in as well before every conversation and look at 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.040 all of the material that's assembled and decides sort of 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.520 a central focus that I want to have a central 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.679 through line, if you will, for how I want that 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.159 conversation to go and what I want to talk about 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.000 at least with that person. And then whoever I'm talking to. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.960 Whichever way it goes, it goes. So sometimes the best 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.440 laid plans, right, I just want to make sure that 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.440 I'm as prepared as I can be and have the knowledge. 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:37.959 Try to watch a few episodes if it's if it's 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.560 a show I'm not familiar with, to be able to 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.560 have a substantive conversation about that person's work and about what, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:50.879 at least the interwebs tell me interests them. But no, 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.600 I don't get nervous. But I think because we do 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.400 put in so much time and effort to be prepared. 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.800 That's why it's been really fun for me to talk 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.879 to people that I don't know, in addition to the 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.160 people I do, obviously, but to talk to the people 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.160 that I don't know, or the people that I know 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.160 a little bit or that I know a little socially 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:16.600 but I've never really seen them work, that's actually really 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:39.560 really fun for me. Eric Venables asked, did you take 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:46.080 journalism classes? You are a fantastic interviewer. First of all, 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:51.800 you're amazing and the smartest person that I've read from today. 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:55.080 Thank you so much for the compliment. I did not 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:59.440 take journalism classes, and in fact, I will tell you 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.440 that when I started this podcasting journey on an Oral 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.840 History to the Office, we went to Scranton and it 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.240 was the first time that I had been in Scranton 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:14.240 in I believe seven years. It had been seven years 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:18.600 since I went back, and it was very cold. It 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.960 was January February of right before the pandemic, and we 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:27.399 decide we're gonna get up and we're gonna before anything 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:31.600 else happens that day, we're just gonna walk around the 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:36.879 main square and hear from me and my feelings about 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.560 being back in Scranton. I had the hardest time doing this. 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:46.199 Had I had the most difficult time. If there was 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:49.639 a record of number of takes of shooting a scene 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.440 in a television show, I might have exceeded that this day. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.320 I don't know. It was like I needed to get 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.720 it right. Part of my monologue was like, I'm not 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:02.000 a journalist. I don't know why I'm here, Like I'm 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.840 pretending to be a journalist. I guess, like, but I 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.280 don't want to pretend. I want to tell the story anyway. 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:11.600 It was really difficult for me, and since then, and 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.760 as we just discussed now, talking to so many different 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:19.920 people and doing the research, trying to get in two 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:25.159 people's experience and and really want to hear from them. 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.520 I guess I'm doing a little bit more journalism work 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.719 now than I ever thought that I would, So I 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:36.040 guess what I'm saying is it's been a journey for me, 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:39.280 and I think initially I felt very self conscious. I 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:44.000 felt very secure in the story that we were telling 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.320 and the question that I had, which was why is 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.600 the office so wildly popular? More popular now than it 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.960 was when it was on? I was very secure in that, 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:58.400 but referring to myself as a journalist, I was exceedingly 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:01.840 uncomfortable with that. And I guess where I'm at now 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:07.040 is I have the tremendous support of an incredible crew 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:13.440 who makes it easy for me to ask questions that 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:18.840 interest me. So if you asked me to interview someone 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.200 about something that I didn't know anything about and wasn't 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.320 that interested in, I probably wouldn't know where to start 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:29.960 because I don't have those journalism classes or credentials. But 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:34.639 doing this, I love this, and I very much appreciate 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:40.320 the compliment. Paul g in the O c asks what's 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:44.920 on your bucket list? Well, listen. Over the last couple 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:48.560 of years, I have been so lucky. I mean, my 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:52.119 bucket list was being a New York Times bestselling author, 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:56.720 and we we did that. So that's that was That 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.159 was one on the bucket list that's crossed off. I 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.960 think that you know, I'm gonna combine this with another 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:07.960 question the Kyle twenty two asks will we see Brian 0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:12.520 in a dramatic role showing off his acting chops. I 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.480 don't know about acting chops, but I would say that's 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:18.600 my bucket list and that's what I would like to do. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:22.000 As many of you know, I started in the theater 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.600 and really not in comedy. Comedy was not my focus. 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:31.359 I did comedic roles, but for me, the roles that 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:39.080 I would consistently get were very dark, very bad, very dramatic, 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.119 and for me, it was about trying to find a 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:47.440 shred of humanity in characters that on the surface had 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:51.840 no humanity, and so trying to find the complexity what 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:55.920 make people tick again even if their actions are very bad. 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:58.280 That was always something that was very interesting to me. 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:02.240 So I'd say, in terms of work, that's my bucket 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:07.240 list right there. Finding a role where I can play 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:12.720 something very, very different than any of you have ever 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:16.760 seen me play before. That's my bucket list and the 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:20.320 Kyle twenty two. I hope so because that's what I 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:25.680 want to do. Japan Asian says, what's something you said 0:27:25.880 --> 0:27:30.480 yes to that your ten year old self wouldn't believe? 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:35.960 M hmm. There's there's a lot that my ten year 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:40.199 old self wouldn't believe. I think that my experience in 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:46.920 golf now would impress and would leave my ten year 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:55.320