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Speaker 1: are you wearing it? Are you not wearing it? I
Speaker 1: don't hear they're they're in their case. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to show it. But I gotta tell you there's these
Speaker 1: like you can't see unless you're watching on YouTube. You
Speaker 1: get these plastic dots plastered on your teeth, so all
Speaker 1: day long. If I don't have my things in, I
Speaker 1: just like play with my teeth. It's like I got
Speaker 1: an issue. It's crazy. It's fine, go on, but I
Speaker 1: don't have a list. For those of you that haven't
Speaker 1: checked out our i G account, Aaron's been wearing these things,
Speaker 1: these corrective spacers, if you will, and she's been talking
Speaker 1: with a list. It's very entertaining. Did you ever have
Speaker 1: you had to have braces? You have such a good never,
Speaker 1: never ever had braces. I had headgear I had I
Speaker 1: had the that's sexy, I had the rubber bands. I
Speaker 1: had the whole thing. And my teeth has still moved.
Speaker 1: So now wonder you're having some issues there. Well, welcome
Speaker 1: to the club. O, thank you. I always wanted to
Speaker 1: be like you, guys. I always wanted braces, so I
Speaker 1: used to put like my chewing gum up over my
Speaker 1: teeth so I could kind of be like And now
Speaker 1: I hate it and I sound ridiculous. And the dry mouth,
Speaker 1: it ain't. It's the thing. It's a real thing. It's
Speaker 1: like you've had seven bottles of wine or a case
Speaker 1: of adderall yeah, that was my Saturday. But anyways, well
Speaker 1: you should put that on the disclaimer before you do
Speaker 1: these things. It's like adder. I don't know. It's a prescription. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's an Actually it's medical, it's medicinal. I am very excited, though,
Speaker 1: as I try to develop some saliva in my mouth,
Speaker 1: I'm jealous of that water. Water. It's worth you lost
Speaker 1: your mind over Jonathan Knight. I am going to lose
Speaker 1: my mind over our guest today, Brian bum Gardner. He
Speaker 1: played Kevin mallow Own in the Office for all nine seasons.
Speaker 1: He is a dream come true. And he is also
Speaker 1: the number one I believe, let's check with Steven Glandis
Speaker 1: on this grossing individual on cameo. So that's reason enough
Speaker 1: to talk to him for some tips and tricks, if
Speaker 1: you will. But everyone, you know the cult classic that
Speaker 1: is The Office. I'm so excited to have him on
Speaker 1: the show, and I know you are too. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: great and I am late to the party with the Office.
Speaker 1: I Jared and I love watching Seinfeld by crack up
Speaker 1: over that. You've been on me, jimmy Trainer from Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 1: It's been on me. Finally started watching Love everything about It,
Speaker 1: Jim and Pam Forever. It's great and uh, I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to talk to him. I've been listening to his
Speaker 1: podcast and just hearing the stories behind everything. And we
Speaker 1: were talking you and I last week about this show
Speaker 1: and about some of our first jobs, if they were
Speaker 1: in an office, if they weren't an office, in an office,
Speaker 1: go you tell me. Give me some of your faves
Speaker 1: first jobs have had, as you know, seven hundred jobs,
Speaker 1: just running through them. I've been a barista at Starbucks.
Speaker 1: I was a sales associated at Northstrom's. I wore all white,
Speaker 1: weighing way too much at cheesecake factory. Those were big
Speaker 1: girl pants. I love that white is not slimming. There's
Speaker 1: a reason that the service industry wears black. Let's just
Speaker 1: say that. Okay, uh yeah, I had too much of
Speaker 1: the brown bread. Um. But the job that I um well,
Speaker 1: aside from working in HR at Fox which I don't
Speaker 1: know if people know this, I tell the story, but like,
Speaker 1: that's how I actually started at Fox Sports was in
Speaker 1: the human resources department, which anyone that knows me, you
Speaker 1: very well knows that there's no reason I should be
Speaker 1: working in HR ever, because I'm a violation in every
Speaker 1: shape and form. But I took that job there because
Speaker 1: it was the only job available in Fox Sports. But
Speaker 1: the job that still makes me laugh for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons is I worked at a tanning salon. Did
Speaker 1: you ever go to a tanny? Were you ever in
Speaker 1: a tanning bed? Common dazzler crushed a tanning bad crushed it.
Speaker 1: I can smell my skin right now. I mean, God,
Speaker 1: there's nothing better. In some some days I would do triples. God, Chris, Well, look,
Speaker 1: I love my dermatologist now and we are the only
Speaker 1: marks on my skin now or tattoos, but that's not important.
Speaker 1: I abused the privilege of working at said tanning salon Beach.
Speaker 1: It was below a Hooters. A lot of Hooters girls
Speaker 1: came through there, a lot of girls they didn't want
Speaker 1: to wear. The nights are good. But let's just say this.
Speaker 1: I soon found out, Aaron Andrews and your virgin ears,
Speaker 1: because you're not as wild as I am or was.
Speaker 1: I found out that this tanning salon was actually a
Speaker 1: little cover up for some tax money, if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I started seeing things go out
Speaker 1: the back door that let's just say, we're illegal at
Speaker 1: the time, and so I was like, oh, that's what
Speaker 1: this tanning salon is for. So um yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: they let me tann there as much as I wanted to,
Speaker 1: because I didn't wrap them out because I you know
Speaker 1: what snitches get stitches, Aaron, I didn't write them out.
Speaker 1: Did you have the little goggles on while these transactions? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: Did you take them off? So? Yeah? So that was
Speaker 1: my shadiest job. But yeah, what about you, my dear, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I want to go back to the
Speaker 1: tanning bed. I used to think I was so dangerous
Speaker 1: since yes, I basically was a big square growing up.
Speaker 1: I used to think I was so dangerous when I
Speaker 1: wouldn't tan with the goggles on because they didn't want
Speaker 1: this side like tan thing. So I would close my
Speaker 1: eyes and then I would be like, do you think
Speaker 1: I'm going blind? Do you think I'm going blind? And
Speaker 1: I would open my eyes a little bit in the
Speaker 1: bed danger blind, I'm not going blind. How about the
Speaker 1: fact that people were like, oh, or the beds clean.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, they're totally clean. I would just like
Speaker 1: wipe it down. I was like, I know it's so ross,
Speaker 1: which I did a stand out, but don't worry. I'd
Speaker 1: give you like the Playboy sticker or the palm tree.
Speaker 1: Like Dan, you were getting so gross when you think
Speaker 1: about it. I actually went to a Chang song like
Speaker 1: a year ago, and I was in there for about
Speaker 1: four minutes, and I was like, I gotta get out.
Speaker 1: I gotta get out. This is weirding me out. Why
Speaker 1: am I back here again? Consult your dermatologists if you
Speaker 1: see anything wrong with your skin. This is not an
Speaker 1: endorsement for tanning beds and for all your tanning bed
Speaker 1: salon owners. I hope you're running your business legally out there,
Speaker 1: But where did you work? I know you've had a
Speaker 1: bazilion jobs too, while speaking of sun damage. Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, I worked at and well maybe in college.
Speaker 1: I worked at a Banana Republic growing up, just because
Speaker 1: the boy I had a crush on in high school
Speaker 1: was there, so I wanted to be there. And then, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Banana Republic. I don't think I did JA crew. It
Speaker 1: was basically old Navy Banana Republic. I missed that shirt
Speaker 1: folding situation every single day. I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: so good. I had no business styling people because I
Speaker 1: also couldn't style myself. But I will never forget. You
Speaker 1: don't want to sell just one item. You want to
Speaker 1: try to sell two or three. One is bad. It
Speaker 1: brings like your queue something down you want anyways, Sure, sure,
Speaker 1: but the end all be all sun damage job I
Speaker 1: had was we had a water park in town, and
Speaker 1: one of my sorority sisters at the University of Florida
Speaker 1: knew somebody who was doing the hiring for the lifeguard
Speaker 1: or ride technician at the water park, and I was recruited. Basically,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get into a somewhile in my
Speaker 1: red hot like bay watch suit. Um, it was awful.
Speaker 1: I never was trained properly. I couldn't. I didn't know
Speaker 1: CPR to quote unquote save anyone was the lifeguard. You
Speaker 1: didn't know CPR as a lifeguard. I mean, if someone
Speaker 1: went down, I hope to God the lifeguard next to
Speaker 1: me would know how to do it, and I my
Speaker 1: dad would just be like, I cannot believe this is happening.
Speaker 1: One of the worst experiences at this park I ever had.
Speaker 1: And Tampa Bay lightning capital of the world, and it's
Speaker 1: no joke. Those storms. You can set your clock by
Speaker 1: at four o'clock. You are having bolts of lightning hit
Speaker 1: your house. Back in the day, we lose our VCR
Speaker 1: and my mom's like unplugged, unplug it, Like we'd be
Speaker 1: running around the house. I'm plugging like the t VS
Speaker 1: and you know the VCRs. I'm on this massive, like
Speaker 1: seven story raft ride. Okay, we're like the raft would
Speaker 1: come down and then there's this pool and I'm so cute.
Speaker 1: I'm getting my son and pushing keep your arms on
Speaker 1: the handles, keep your legs crossed, and pushing you down. Well,
Speaker 1: a storm is coming and they have not told us
Speaker 1: we can come off this ride yet. And it's like black.
Speaker 1: It's like Wizard of Oz Dorothy and the house flying
Speaker 1: away and you can just see the bolts of lightning.
Speaker 1: And one of my girlfriends was in the pool up
Speaker 1: top and I was in the pool the second one,
Speaker 1: and she's like, are we supposed to go down? Is
Speaker 1: the ride close? I've been in like turbulence with an airplane.
Speaker 1: I've been in crazy situations. This is where I was like, kiss,
Speaker 1: you're ask goodbye because you're about to die in this
Speaker 1: great bathing scoot, but in a wonderful tan but in
Speaker 1: a pool of water. We got down, but I just
Speaker 1: remember like bolts of lightning and I'm like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to die here at the water park. And here I
Speaker 1: thought CPR was going to be the issue. They don't
Speaker 1: call the NHL team Tampa Bay Lightning for nothing, folks.
Speaker 1: Time those springs look fabulous. Stanley cup out of the lightning.
Speaker 1: That is a magnet right for it. Wow, I can't
Speaker 1: believe you didn't know CPR. I mean I had a
Speaker 1: drug ring going over here at Salon Beach right across
Speaker 1: from them below Hooters. You do the math, if you
Speaker 1: live in um and you didn't know CPR, we are criminals.
Speaker 1: You know, the biggest thing was like you didn't want
Speaker 1: kids making out in the lazy river, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You just gotta be like, hey, blow that whistle,
Speaker 1: blow the whistle. That's a different kind of song right there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you probably had to imagine if you
Speaker 1: that tan was probably unfortunate though, a one piece tan,
Speaker 1: the criss cross back. That's buy no for the sorority dresses.
Speaker 1: When I went back to school, you know, like I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no cover up that's helping you. No strap list
Speaker 1: for you, sweetheart, no sweetheart line. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I can't do that in the lazy river. Oh god.
Speaker 1: But for all you kids out there listening, try to
Speaker 1: avoid working in jobs where you'll get arrested. But I
Speaker 1: always encourage people to have all the jobs you possibly can,
Speaker 1: especially in the service industry, because every time I'm at
Speaker 1: a restaurant now, I was also a bartender. Every time
Speaker 1: you're at you know, at these places, you remember what
Speaker 1: it was like. Look, if you're going to the water park,
Speaker 1: arin you feel for that lifeguard. You know you're asking
Speaker 1: her off that tower when it's lightning. Man, get her
Speaker 1: off that tower. Get her down, you know, Romeo and
Speaker 1: Juliet rescue me. My biggest problem was when I would
Speaker 1: work the slides and like you'd have to give the
Speaker 1: people a push and you'd say cross your legs, cross
Speaker 1: your arms, and like the hairy backs that were you deal.
Speaker 1: I couldn't deal. I didn't like it. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of touching. That's why I didn't clean this line. A
Speaker 1: lot of sweating, a lot of sweating in the tanner.
Speaker 1: I was sweating on the tanning bed. There was like
Speaker 1: a pool. Usually I would leave it was hot in there. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a tanning so on. That's that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: That smell though, is there anything worse? Actually, here's the
Speaker 1: has anyone invented a tanning like a sunless tand that
Speaker 1: doesn't I know? And it gets in your armpits by
Speaker 1: the way, you shave your armpits, And this was my problem.
Speaker 1: When I did Dancing with the Stars, they'd code us
Speaker 1: head to toe with this like Brazilian stuff. Then we'd
Speaker 1: shave our armpits the morning of the show, because you know,
Speaker 1: you're showing your armpits and it looks like you had
Speaker 1: a hairy armpit because the tanning stuff was all in
Speaker 1: the follicles. Good. There's a lot of problems here. Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 1: let's go back to when I was a bartender four
Speaker 1: on straight. They didn't have a POS system. My friends
Speaker 1: loved coming in. The best job to have in college
Speaker 1: was a bartender. Why so you could still party and
Speaker 1: make money. Now everybody has updated their systems, but this
Speaker 1: was cash only. Let's just say it was a lot
Speaker 1: of cash from me and not a lot of cash
Speaker 1: for everyone else. You know, Oh my god, Chris, I'm working. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: it's better to ask for forgiveness, not permission. Okay, Aaron,
Speaker 1: you don't take CPR classes. So who's the real criminal?
Speaker 1: I what if if they had offered me? Stealing money
Speaker 1: is not killing people you could have killed. Listen, everybody
Speaker 1: went down my slide with arms, cross legs cross, have
Speaker 1: a good one, criss cross apple sauce. Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to a guy coming up next that has had
Speaker 1: a lot of years of experience in an office on
Speaker 1: the hit show The Office. Brian bum Gartner's coming up next.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what illegal job he had
Speaker 1: before he was on the hit show The Office, Calmed
Speaker 1: Down Podcast, Don't call the police on us jail be there.
Speaker 1: He is forget the office, teach us all the ways.
Speaker 1: On cameo, Man, my gosh, let me just are those
Speaker 1: your certificates for being the number one grossing cameo? Guys
Speaker 1: that listen? Did you guys talk to Stephen Glannis? Hell?
Speaker 1: Yeah we did. He got me on cameo. He's like,
Speaker 1: if I can't get you on cameo, we got a problem.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. Who got you on cameo? Well, I've
Speaker 1: only made a couple of hundred dollars, so I need
Speaker 1: some tips. Hi, Brian. By the way, how are you?
Speaker 1: We're good. We're so excited to have you here for
Speaker 1: a myriad of reasons. I'm so excited. Are we recording
Speaker 1: yet or no? Yeah, we're always recording. Always press record
Speaker 1: very good, very again, and I'll be quiet, very good,
Speaker 1: by the way. That's what. That's what. That's That was
Speaker 1: a little trick I learned when I started doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: always be recording well, because we interview athletes for a living,
Speaker 1: as you know. But the second you say you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you feel the same way.
Speaker 1: But the second you say all right, we're ready to
Speaker 1: go in three two, the answers are completely different. So
Speaker 1: we just go. Of course, you know it's so, do
Speaker 1: you guys know Eric anders Lang playing? Of course I
Speaker 1: do from the I T Department? Why would I know that?
Speaker 1: Because I always had issues with my computer? Brian? Who wait?
Speaker 1: What do you? Who are? This is totally a different person. No,
Speaker 1: I thought I know an Eric Lang. Who's the Eric Lang?
Speaker 1: You know Eric anders Lang? Oh there's a hyphen. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a hyphen. But he's become
Speaker 1: like the golf guy like golf. I think he does.
Speaker 1: He does like uh, he started like Adventures in Golf.
Speaker 1: He had this podcast I think scratches his now too.
Speaker 1: That may not be right, Jared. I need my husband here.
Speaker 1: He would know this. Does he have some weird thing
Speaker 1: on I G that helps you with your swing? Because
Speaker 1: that's the only thing my husband freaking watches. Who is
Speaker 1: that guy? I want to kill him? No, I'm just joking.
Speaker 1: So he's not the guy he does this. Well. Here
Speaker 1: the reason I'm bringing this up, which again because it's
Speaker 1: always about me. No, I'm kidding, but he he shot
Speaker 1: this video with me a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's done Tiger and he's done all these guys.
Speaker 1: Of course, my video with him, it's the number one
Speaker 1: watch video that he has because that's the way that
Speaker 1: I roll. Anyway, he did this podcast with me. He's
Speaker 1: all about positivity and golf inclusiveness. He started this thing.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about him that long, but
Speaker 1: he started this thing called the Random Golf Club and
Speaker 1: what it is this is kind of about his temperament.
Speaker 1: It's basically like it's a golf club that you can
Speaker 1: be a part of. Just you say that you're a
Speaker 1: part of it, and you're a part of it. And
Speaker 1: he goes out with like twenty sums and it's all.
Speaker 1: It's all like the club exists like in your own
Speaker 1: mind or whatever, but they do have gatherings. And anyway,
Speaker 1: he's all about and he is the one that taught
Speaker 1: me this trick, which was I sat down to do
Speaker 1: a podcast and we talked for like ten minutes, and
Speaker 1: I'm like my and I'm like, is this guy gonna
Speaker 1: start recalling what the hell are you doing here? And
Speaker 1: then I'm like are we going? And he's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: We're going. And so when I started sitting down with
Speaker 1: all my old office cam padres, I actually took it
Speaker 1: a step further, and I said, because I hadn't seen like,
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen Steve Corrill in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: So I said, I'm gonna hide in the studio because
Speaker 1: we were still in person. I'm gonna hide. I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna see them when they come in. Make sure
Speaker 1: that that the audio is rolling. And so like the
Speaker 1: beginning of all of my interviews, now what you hear
Speaker 1: is like our genuine, non performed reaction of like just
Speaker 1: us seeming to get like tears happened, or like you know,
Speaker 1: just or just like immediate giving ship back and forth
Speaker 1: with each other or whatever. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can say that or not, but you can say podcast Brian,
Speaker 1: you know that, So you can say whatever. F CC
Speaker 1: forget that. UM who care? Did I say it wrong? UM? Anyway, So, yes,
Speaker 1: I I appreciate that we are thrilled to have you
Speaker 1: on UM as somebody who Thank goodness. The positive from
Speaker 1: COVID for me was that I got to watch every
Speaker 1: truth be told. I had seen a lot of episodes
Speaker 1: of the Office, but I hadn't watched the entire catalog
Speaker 1: of the office, so I did that during quarantine. Aaron
Speaker 1: soon followed after, and like every one of your adoring fans,
Speaker 1: the first question is does he really talk like that?
Speaker 1: That's the number one question on your Wikipedia asking page.
Speaker 1: So you clearly don't talk like Kevin, did you. Did
Speaker 1: you not know the answer to that? No, I knew
Speaker 1: the answer to that, But there's a lot of listeners, Brian.
Speaker 1: We don't want to assume everyone's best friends like we are,
Speaker 1: you know, to say that's the one thing. I was
Speaker 1: blown away with your podcast, and I was telling my
Speaker 1: mom and dad because they're huge off his fans, and
Speaker 1: I was pumped to tell them that you were coming on.
Speaker 1: Your voice on your podcast is so smooth and so sensuous.
Speaker 1: I mean, we need tips about all these things because
Speaker 1: I sound like I'm on crack. Someone said to me, now,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna think it. You're not gonna think it,
Speaker 1: but there is some truth to it. It's about I
Speaker 1: guess my rhythm or whatever. Someone joked that I sound
Speaker 1: like Tom Hanks, well someone that I know Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: mixed with smoke and whiskey or something. So there's sensual,
Speaker 1: A little more buttery, Yes, yeah, like a Sauvignon blanc
Speaker 1: or a shardon. A what's your drink of choice? Brian? Uh,
Speaker 1: mine would be either really red or really brown. I
Speaker 1: like those rules. Yes, not a shardon but I'm not
Speaker 1: but that is my boy. It's the same voice I'm
Speaker 1: using now, right, I don't. I gotta be honest. I've
Speaker 1: listened to quite a few. I just got done with
Speaker 1: the Phillis one, and no, you are just Phyllis. Had
Speaker 1: you had any training before? I mean, no, you are
Speaker 1: very buttery? You are you lay it on. I'm less buttery.
Speaker 1: Now listen, I'll take you. However, I can get you
Speaker 1: about more tricks. Because when we just told you we
Speaker 1: were recording on the podcast, what else have you learned about,
Speaker 1: you know, doing this the podcast or the pod as
Speaker 1: they like to call them, the pods, you know? I
Speaker 1: so truth be told this this idea. Ben Silverman and
Speaker 1: Propagate approached me about basically producing this idea, and it
Speaker 1: sort of came out of some other people writing books
Speaker 1: or or so forth about the show, and it sort
Speaker 1: of started with the idea of why is someone else
Speaker 1: telling our story? Like why why is why is someone
Speaker 1: else doing it? I'm about to get to your answers
Speaker 1: gonna circular way at times. Um. And so when we
Speaker 1: started the idea of telling the story, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of conversation like, there's a great, great journalist. I
Speaker 1: bring his name up all the time. I haven't talked
Speaker 1: him like fifteen years, but Bill Carter with the New
Speaker 1: York Times. Who's he wrote like that? Uh? I think
Speaker 1: it was called late Night or something about like the
Speaker 1: David Letterman Leno thing like he's a he's a known guys.
Speaker 1: It was like, should we get Bill Carter? Should we
Speaker 1: get some journalists from Rolling Stones or something to you know,
Speaker 1: to interview everybody? And basically what what I flash we
Speaker 1: decided was, you know, I may not be a great
Speaker 1: journalist like the two of you. I may not be
Speaker 1: like an investigative. I may not know what questions to ask.
Speaker 1: But what I do know is is that the conversations
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna get are going to be conversations that
Speaker 1: nobody else can have with them. That that the shared
Speaker 1: experience that we have together, coupled with me doing a
Speaker 1: lot of thinking about it, uh, is gonna get us
Speaker 1: closer to at least where I want to be than
Speaker 1: anybody else doing it. And truly that's sort of where
Speaker 1: we started with it. And so you know, I think
Speaker 1: that we were attempting to have real conversations, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's so obvious, but I mean, like really
Speaker 1: not an interview, but but really a shared conversation that
Speaker 1: was a give and take back and forth. And as
Speaker 1: soon as we sort of found that, I think that's
Speaker 1: where we we really had something. I mean, Phyllis, I
Speaker 1: mean you said you just listened to the Phillis one.
Speaker 1: I mean that she cried three times, I know, and
Speaker 1: I mean and and I mean and she doesn't talk,
Speaker 1: she doesn't do a lot of press, she doesn't talk
Speaker 1: to a lot of people. Um. And it was really
Speaker 1: about just going back in time. And I think that
Speaker 1: the the other thing was we we looked at it
Speaker 1: as a history told by individuals who remember things differently,
Speaker 1: and so like that's such like a nerdy school ants
Speaker 1: are like they're no right or wrong answers, because sure
Speaker 1: there are there are definitely wrong answers, But in terms
Speaker 1: of the conversation, it really was about just well, what
Speaker 1: do you what do you remember? Like, what were you
Speaker 1: you know how, and stories came out from people that
Speaker 1: I had no no clue about. I'll give you what.
Speaker 1: You'll love this because you guys are journalists. Settle in.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to I know I'm talking so much. That's
Speaker 1: why you're on Are you kidding me? This is like
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to talk to you for a long time,
Speaker 1: So have at it. Okay, Well I'm talking to Her
Speaker 1: name is Laverne Caracusi Milano. I hope I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1: She was the head makeup artist by the end. And
Speaker 1: we're talking. We're having a conversation about the look of
Speaker 1: the show and people are you know, what came out
Speaker 1: of friends and this was different in a way because
Speaker 1: we weren't all sexy looking, you know. We were sort
Speaker 1: of talking about all that stuff. And then we start
Speaker 1: talking about the writer strike that happened and what happened
Speaker 1: with the crew that the writers went on strike for
Speaker 1: a hundred days in the middle of when we were
Speaker 1: shooting this, and she gets this little hitch. She starts
Speaker 1: to say something, she gets this little hitch in her
Speaker 1: voice and she goes, am, I am I allowed to
Speaker 1: talk about that? And I'm sure you like everything everything
Speaker 1: in my brain was firing, Yes, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 1: And I didn't know what I did. I had no
Speaker 1: idea what she was gonna And I was like, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean you can, I mean, whatever you the And
Speaker 1: she tells me that Greg Daniels the exact and we
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about the family that we became
Speaker 1: on the show, which was really true. She said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we were into the writers strike and it
Speaker 1: was the holidays and it was Christmas and we got
Speaker 1: something in the mail and she said, I know it
Speaker 1: was from him personally. Um, Greg Daniels wrote every member
Speaker 1: of the crew a check and said it the mail.
Speaker 1: She was like, I know it was from him because
Speaker 1: it was his personal like his personal check with his
Speaker 1: personal information on it. I had no idea that this
Speaker 1: had happened. And she goes into it and like what
Speaker 1: that meant and what that meant after that, Like I
Speaker 1: would go to battle for this guy. This is what
Speaker 1: you know he did for us. So anyways, stories like
Speaker 1: that that came out that that truly I was there,
Speaker 1: but I had no idea. That's it's so true, and
Speaker 1: I know Aaron can attest to this, and you know
Speaker 1: being with the same crew. How long have you been
Speaker 1: with Troy and Joe Aaron now going on? How many years? Six? Seven,
Speaker 1: eight eight? Family College Game Day for like eight years
Speaker 1: to Yeah. Crazy. I got off the phone earlier today
Speaker 1: talking to Terry Bradshaw and we were just kept like
Speaker 1: you know that these people become your family. And so
Speaker 1: when you spend so much time together for you guys
Speaker 1: on set, uh, you know when you were there from
Speaker 1: the beginning, which is just so incredible. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like if there's a lottery ticket to be had, right,
Speaker 1: it's that it's that Golden Willy Wonka, Charlie and the
Speaker 1: Chocolate Factory ticket that as an actor, you can only
Speaker 1: hope that not only are you on a show that
Speaker 1: is this successful, but with this many great people. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that you know now having a little distance between
Speaker 1: when you guys were last all together, at least you
Speaker 1: know in terms of filming the show, how much do
Speaker 1: you appreciate it as time goes on? What you really had? Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy it um you know my uh,
Speaker 1: in some ways, like my life is like there. It's
Speaker 1: like not like the BC and a D, but it
Speaker 1: really it's like before the office because I I when
Speaker 1: I started about that time, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was a lifetime ago. And like for me, it
Speaker 1: was it was essentially my thirties, like my entire thirties
Speaker 1: because nine years, right, yeah, yeah, you're nine years right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean ten years, nine nine seasons, So I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was that that whole decade, and you know,
Speaker 1: we The thing that I talk about is is the
Speaker 1: it we really people forget, Like Steve Correll became a megas,
Speaker 1: like the biggest comedy star in movies, but that was
Speaker 1: we've started. And when we started that he really had
Speaker 1: not done very much and and nobody really had and
Speaker 1: a lot of people had worked for a long time
Speaker 1: and had you know, some successes, most successes, and a
Speaker 1: lot of failures and and so there was we started
Speaker 1: with a place. We were all sort of at net zero,
Speaker 1: and the show struggled so much the first couple of years,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was like going to our first
Speaker 1: Emmy East to get which was like we were, I mean,
Speaker 1: we really were the Beverly Hill buildings. I mean, I
Speaker 1: told this story Oscar nowon y has reminded me. I
Speaker 1: had this little little bungalow house up in the Beverly
Speaker 1: what do they call it, Beverly Hills PO which which
Speaker 1: is the post office box that says one, but you're
Speaker 1: really not in Beverly Hills. Like I don't, it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything. And that was the I was the closest
Speaker 1: house to the Beverly Hilton for the Golden Globes. It
Speaker 1: was he was reminding me, was like, you know, we
Speaker 1: showed up at the Golden Globes the first time when
Speaker 1: Steve actually won in a Honda Civic. We should hold
Speaker 1: up to the front door. Me David Denman who played Roy,
Speaker 1: and Oscar nun Yez and maybe one more. And it
Speaker 1: was like we were like, where do we park? You
Speaker 1: ken't park? What are you talking about? There's no parking here.
Speaker 1: We were oh, like David Demmon like went in Valet,
Speaker 1: at Trader Vics or something about at the Starbucks and
Speaker 1: like yeah, off, I guess, I mean, but like we
Speaker 1: like that really was us. I can't I know. It
Speaker 1: was like I um and all of those experiences of
Speaker 1: us going to you know, being together for such a
Speaker 1: long time and starting that net and then you know,
Speaker 1: when the six Deaths started happening definitely made it that
Speaker 1: much more rewarding. The Globes is where everybody gets hammered, right,
Speaker 1: that's that. Yes, So you show up in a Honda Civic.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what do you remember? Where did you? Guys?
Speaker 1: Just say, let's go for it. This is like our
Speaker 1: night out. Well and this, this tells you even more.
Speaker 1: Was that that year and this was all sort of
Speaker 1: sort of the turning plant of the show. Actually, in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, this was um midway, so it
Speaker 1: would like January end of December, which would have been
Speaker 1: our second season. We were like struggling, struggling to stay
Speaker 1: on the air, and really we were dead like four
Speaker 1: times before that. We weren't going to go. And then
Speaker 1: four year old Virgin came out and suddenly right before
Speaker 1: that we had the first Christmas episode we did, which
Speaker 1: was the first time we went above ten million viewers
Speaker 1: on a Thursday. That's kind of a big number. And
Speaker 1: and Steve was nominated for a Golden Globe. The show
Speaker 1: wasn't nominated, and we watched this is part of it. It.
Speaker 1: We watched the ceremony. We weren't allowed inside. They wouldn't.
Speaker 1: They were like, no, you're not, you're not coming inside.
Speaker 1: The NBC had set up a there's all the parties
Speaker 1: that are going on in different areas of the gild
Speaker 1: and their party was on the roof of the parking garage.
Speaker 1: This is not a joke. On the outdoor roof for
Speaker 1: the parking garage. They had set up a tent and
Speaker 1: there was a party and we were there and we
Speaker 1: we all drank a lot, like a lot lot, brown, red, purple, blue.
Speaker 1: It was all the colors, all of the colors. And
Speaker 1: then and he wasn't supposed to win. We thought, this
Speaker 1: is our one party ever, let's go come um and
Speaker 1: then Steve One and that that night, I will truly
Speaker 1: I like that. That's just one of those nights. Like
Speaker 1: I didn't even win any none of us want anything
Speaker 1: Steve One. But he showed up afterward and we like
Speaker 1: tackled him and maybe it was it was a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy night. One of my favorite pictures of us, and
Speaker 1: you could look it up. There was and I noticed
Speaker 1: recently because I told this story to someone. I was
Speaker 1: reminding someone I think it was Jenni Fisher on on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I went and looked at the picture
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, you can't see it, but
Speaker 1: they had um like the gigantic like chocolate fondue, you know,
Speaker 1: found and I of course tried something dripped it right
Speaker 1: down the shirt just I mean just all the way
Speaker 1: right down the shirt, and and anyway, there was like
Speaker 1: I think it's a TV guy like photo boothing that
Speaker 1: they have, and Steve came up, he had he had won,
Speaker 1: and it was like I will never forget that night,
Speaker 1: and we all crammed. There was like twenty of us
Speaker 1: crammed into the little photo booth and with the chocolate
Speaker 1: on my thing. But I realized that in the photo
Speaker 1: at least I kind of turned, so yeah, I'm like
Speaker 1: a side view, so you can't actually see what an
Speaker 1: idiot I was. That's amazing. You mentioned that that was
Speaker 1: a turning point for you guys, and prior to that
Speaker 1: now hard to believe that you were struggling to even
Speaker 1: stay on air for you. Was there a moment, Brian,
Speaker 1: where all of a sudden you realize I can't go
Speaker 1: to the coffee shop to the restaurant to like, oh
Speaker 1: this thing is is big. Now I'm here in the
Speaker 1: Honda Civic is no longer I can't drink all the
Speaker 1: colors back in the Honda Civic. Of course I never
Speaker 1: would have done that. Um. I you know, it was gradual,
Speaker 1: I think for us because you know, early on, um
Speaker 1: we were struggling and truly believed that that we would
Speaker 1: be canceled. There was something that was happening even early
Speaker 1: on that kind of gave us pause. We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about it so much, but you know, this was back,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen years ago whatever, and Nielsen ratings that
Speaker 1: was the big thing, right, They're little boxes. Have you
Speaker 1: ever met anyone with a Nielsen box? This always plagues me.
Speaker 1: Who's got the box that they're that is where I yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. So people say the ratings and this many
Speaker 1: people watching, Well, it's really based on some complicated formula
Speaker 1: of Wilson boxes. And your point is exactly right that
Speaker 1: we sort of started having some anecdotal evidence like college,
Speaker 1: and we sort of went No one in college and
Speaker 1: a dorm has a deal box, like no, no one
Speaker 1: is sort of calculating that. I think in space actually
Speaker 1: it works very similarly in a way, like there's sometimes
Speaker 1: something becomes kind of uh, culty or everyone's talking about it,
Speaker 1: but it's not reflected in that way, I think that
Speaker 1: was kind of starting to happen a little bit. This
Speaker 1: is actually a True Crimes podcast. We've exposed the Nielsen
Speaker 1: box ratings. Mystery has been solved. There is no Nielsen box.
Speaker 1: That's cereal. That's right, um, But I'll tell you so
Speaker 1: it was definitely a gradual and let's be honest, um,
Speaker 1: at the very least, I have a distinctive head. Let's
Speaker 1: just put it that way. And so there were times.
Speaker 1: Actually my favorite story that I have not to hold
Speaker 1: it a really long time, but I was shooting a
Speaker 1: movie someone afterward in John Krasinski, my co star was
Speaker 1: in the movie, and Mandy Moore was in the movie,
Speaker 1: and we were we were in Canada and we were
Speaker 1: shooting at a sushi place. I mean there's a long
Speaker 1: time ago, but still they were John Krasinski and that
Speaker 1: was Mandy Moore. And we had like three people come
Speaker 1: up to the table to ask me to take a
Speaker 1: picture and they're sitting right now there, They're sitting right
Speaker 1: no and no, it's like no one sees them. So
Speaker 1: that happens um for me. But the crazy thing is,
Speaker 1: which wasn't your question? Is that now the show and
Speaker 1: and really the reason the idea about doing the podcast
Speaker 1: now it was based on and it's funny. We talked
Speaker 1: about it in like a true crime way. I said,
Speaker 1: I want to do the podcast like it's a true crime.
Speaker 1: And the question is this, why is this show now
Speaker 1: that we haven't shot in seven years? Why is it
Speaker 1: bigger now? Yeah? Why why on the air? And why
Speaker 1: is it? Why is it now? Not just bigger than that,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the most watch show in television right now,
Speaker 1: like new shows, the Stranger Things, all that, like hot
Speaker 1: new stuff. More people are consuming and watching the show now.
Speaker 1: And so it's like why and what the answer is?
Speaker 1: I don't really you know, but I think that the
Speaker 1: at least the smartest thing that I figured out is
Speaker 1: that when we were on set, this was early on,
Speaker 1: when we were struggling, struggling struggle, there was a there
Speaker 1: was some stat that kept going around and I don't
Speaker 1: remember what the number was, but it was something like
Speaker 1: two hundred million people in America work in an office.
Speaker 1: So if we can get ten of those people to watch,
Speaker 1: or five of those people to watch, like we've got them,
Speaker 1: we're good, Like we're great. And I think that what
Speaker 1: we didn't realize was at the time and through today
Speaker 1: that we were building a show. Sure that that was
Speaker 1: about that, But the parallel between an unreasonable boss who
Speaker 1: makes you do unreasonable things with a group of people
Speaker 1: that you're not choosing to be with, how well that
Speaker 1: translates to an unreasonable teacher who makes you do unreasonable
Speaker 1: assignments sitting next to people you may not choose to
Speaker 1: sit next to for year after year after year after year.
Speaker 1: And how the archetypes of the characters are so universal
Speaker 1: that that sort of shared experience of being a group
Speaker 1: of people against an unreasonable authority figure, how well that translates.
Speaker 1: And I think, really, that's that's the smartest answer for
Speaker 1: I think because now it's like twelve year olds, thirteen
Speaker 1: year olds you brought up Campa. I mean, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to twelve year olds now and it's like, why are
Speaker 1: you watching sexual harassment episode? That's definitely not when the
Speaker 1: blow up doll comes in, you should not. Where are
Speaker 1: your parents? I'm gonna tell you why I think it's
Speaker 1: so successful as a viewer and uh incredible supporter is
Speaker 1: could you guys say what we're now not allowed to
Speaker 1: say in any situation? And having I used to work
Speaker 1: in human resources, which I had zero business working in
Speaker 1: human research. I would get drunk on my lunch break.
Speaker 1: But it's this idea that you can't do those things,
Speaker 1: but you guys would do them, and so and also
Speaker 1: like breaking that still I'm in TV and I don't
Speaker 1: is it the fourth wall? I don't know what wall
Speaker 1: it is, any wall that you broke, and being able
Speaker 1: to look into the camera and have those testimonial moments
Speaker 1: and say all the things like that's just the hilarity
Speaker 1: for me is doing and saying things that we're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be saying or doing. Yeah, well, Chris, that
Speaker 1: really I mean this, this boggles to talk exactly about
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, like how crazy society and the
Speaker 1: world has become. And even then, you know there was
Speaker 1: and by the way, this is all positive. I'm not.
Speaker 1: Don't cancel me here. But we eventually had to do
Speaker 1: sexual harassment seminars, right like at NBC Universal, we were
Speaker 1: required to do sexual harassment seminars as a cast at
Speaker 1: the whole cast. Oh my god, were you guys in
Speaker 1: character as a group as a whole? No everyone to
Speaker 1: do And it was like, you know, ninety minutes two
Speaker 1: hours and it was once a year we had to
Speaker 1: do that. They sit there and sign in and all
Speaker 1: the stuff and no joke. The HR reps, which maybe
Speaker 1: it was you who came in and they showed the videos.
Speaker 1: They were showing videos from our show with the red
Speaker 1: haired girl, the red haired girl. They're showing us videos
Speaker 1: what we can't do, and it's like, what the and
Speaker 1: no one, no one would say like, Okay, this is ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I mean, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think that Steve and I had kind of a
Speaker 1: long conversation about this, and you know, there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about could this show happen today? Could
Speaker 1: it not happen today? You know, I think that at
Speaker 1: its core, what I think what made me incredibly proud
Speaker 1: of the show was that we were saying things that
Speaker 1: were inappropriate, but we were making by the looks to
Speaker 1: the camera, by we're making fun of those things by
Speaker 1: saying nothing literally saying nothing, just the look just look,
Speaker 1: how many times did you guys wet your pants looking
Speaker 1: at the camera, Because when you guys do that, I
Speaker 1: p my hants, like it is fucking hilarious. When you
Speaker 1: guys just do the the glant die for it. Well,
Speaker 1: now the problem is me not doing it on other
Speaker 1: things that I'm working on. Perfect It is like it
Speaker 1: is the stop that seeing joke like it. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we had we just we had so much fun.
Speaker 1: I mean we we we we truly had so much fun.
Speaker 1: It just dawned on me that that's while you're saying that,
Speaker 1: is that look to the the audience, the viewer at
Speaker 1: home is like, you're in on this joke, and that's
Speaker 1: what makes you feel like you're part of the jokes.
Speaker 1: You're like, I get it. I'm with you, even if
Speaker 1: no one else in this room where this office gets it.
Speaker 1: I get you. Kevin. You know I need you to
Speaker 1: say something how you would say Kevin. So let's pretend
Speaker 1: we're at HR seven class. Okay, I'm the HR representative.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you, Brian, but you can say it
Speaker 1: in Kevin's voice. Um, Brian, have you showed up to
Speaker 1: work today drinking any alcohol? What do you mean by alcohol?
Speaker 1: It was reported by someone on the staff, one of
Speaker 1: your coworkers, that your breath smelled of alcohol. Have you
Speaker 1: had anything to drink today? Brian? That was something else Okay,
Speaker 1: well you're fired. Shoot stuff. I don't know. That was
Speaker 1: an improv. We just did an improv crap. We You know,
Speaker 1: I used to go to Second City and pretend that
Speaker 1: I was a stand up comedian. Uh no, but that
Speaker 1: I just needed the voice, you know. It's funny and
Speaker 1: now that I can say whatever, you know, I go
Speaker 1: to colleges now and people say like, what, you're going
Speaker 1: to college, what are are you teaching? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: And honestly, don't tell anyone. I don't know exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Like it's partly I think, supposed to be educational,
Speaker 1: but you're but I'm sitting in a room with college
Speaker 1: kids and all they want to hear me say is like,
Speaker 1: I'm totally gonna bang hollish like that. So it's like
Speaker 1: I can talk like I'm talking to you and try
Speaker 1: to be very erudite, and I'm as I'm sitting there,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking they just want me to say that other thing. Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting though, because do you some some actors would
Speaker 1: say that, Okay, that was a character. I've moved on.
Speaker 1: I'm not like, do you is that something you take
Speaker 1: offense to or is it something that you are proud
Speaker 1: of that that character that you you created, uh, has
Speaker 1: left such an indelible mark that people make that association.
Speaker 1: That is a great question. I would never say that.
Speaker 1: Um that I have that, I take a fence to it.
Speaker 1: I will say this. You were discussing I don't know
Speaker 1: if listeners were here at that point, but you were
Speaker 1: discussing Cameo, and um, I I I feel like that
Speaker 1: even well not even television. That's a stupid thing to say.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a collaborative art form. And so
Speaker 1: oftentimes I get a request that someone wants for Kevin
Speaker 1: Malone to send someone a message, and I don't do
Speaker 1: that because I don't think that's like, am I gonna
Speaker 1: put on a suit? Am I gonna wear a tie?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna? By the way, I straight my hair
Speaker 1: was longer. I straight ironed my hair, called it the poof.
Speaker 1: So I had the poof. Shout out to the hair
Speaker 1: girl for not burning you, because I can't get underneath
Speaker 1: here without burning my neck. I that lovingly brought awkward,
Speaker 1: awkward things. Um. So the answer to that is I
Speaker 1: won't do that, like because I don't think that. I
Speaker 1: think that's weird. Like, wait, what do you mean, Like,
Speaker 1: why is Kevin why is he appearing? I'm here in
Speaker 1: my office, this is my house, like or I'm outside
Speaker 1: or I'm like, to me, that's weird. But I feel
Speaker 1: like by the same token that people want to hear
Speaker 1: a little bit from him. So I call it a flavor.
Speaker 1: And that's why would you know I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: a Q and A at a college as Kevin Malone.
Speaker 1: I don't know that what doesn't doesn't even make sense. Plus, like,
Speaker 1: I don't own that's a character. But but you know,
Speaker 1: if he happens to slip out of me a little bit,
Speaker 1: that sounds weird. Um, um, well, thank you for the
Speaker 1: flavor that you just gave us. I love it all.
Speaker 1: So that's how I that's how I view it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that makes sense or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm right either, it totally makes it is
Speaker 1: a character. Yeah, and and and by the way, also,
Speaker 1: I think that it's a little bit difficult for me,
Speaker 1: And I think partly this is why you ask, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people ask, is that. Um And I
Speaker 1: don't mean like John Krasinski, for example, is not that
Speaker 1: dissimilar to Jim Halpert, right. I mean the characters are different,
Speaker 1: their wants are different. They John Karski doesn't work in
Speaker 1: a paper company. But in terms of the characterization of
Speaker 1: the two, there's not a whole lot of change or
Speaker 1: Paul Lieberstein or Oscar Noon Yet or Jenni Fisher in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. To um, it's not very different.
Speaker 1: I just am very different. So I view it like
Speaker 1: I'm going into a character that that isn't really me,
Speaker 1: and I think there are other things that that go
Speaker 1: into that that doesn't feel right to me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think that perfect. I'm bummed out because we don't
Speaker 1: have you for much more. And I had seventy five
Speaker 1: I wrote them down as you were talking, seventy questions
Speaker 1: for you. But the one thing, So this is called
Speaker 1: Calm Down our podcast. That's what we named it, basically
Speaker 1: because our husbands are like, once we get in a
Speaker 1: rant or if we're at work, everybody's like, calm down.
Speaker 1: Is there something or someone? And we've asked Kevin Hart this,
Speaker 1: you know, is there is there a calm Down Award
Speaker 1: you would like to give to someone or somebody in
Speaker 1: society or Kevin just had kind of said to us
Speaker 1: what Chris said that people just he just wished people
Speaker 1: would take a step back and take them so serious. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: I do, I do. My dog needs to calm down. Wow,
Speaker 1: is who I was going to say. Actually, um no,
Speaker 1: I so um, I don't know if this award is
Speaker 1: from me. It might it might should be for me,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give it to air travelers. Now, you've
Speaker 1: got travel a lot, you guys travel a lot, and
Speaker 1: people who are traveling on an airplane, right, the entire
Speaker 1: experience behave in a way that they don't behave in
Speaker 1: any other place in society. The behavior just atrocious. And
Speaker 1: now again maybe I'm telling them to calm down. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it's me who has to calm down because it
Speaker 1: does make me just it makes me christy. But like
Speaker 1: I'll give you, well, here's one example. Sit in your
Speaker 1: chair until your group is called the airplane. Just sit down,
Speaker 1: Just sit down. The like crowding, the multiple bags that
Speaker 1: you're bringing. What don't if you're if you're going on
Speaker 1: a trip, check your bags, check your bags, don't crowd
Speaker 1: the thing. And then my most my most insanely crazy
Speaker 1: making thing is the the air line stops and people
Speaker 1: stand up and shove their ass in your face. I cannot.
Speaker 1: I do not understand it. Sit down, You're not getting
Speaker 1: off here any faster than if you. Everybody just calms down.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Calm down. It's so good. I
Speaker 1: get an amen. Seriously, thank you. So you know what
Speaker 1: the next show we're gonna write together collectively. You heard
Speaker 1: it here first the airplane, the office was done. The
Speaker 1: airplane is next because there's a lot of comedy that
Speaker 1: ensues in an airplane and an airport. We appreciate the time,
Speaker 1: to your wildly successful cameo account, to your incredible tenure
Speaker 1: on the Office and the podcast that has followed. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking time away from your family and everybody
Speaker 1: to spend a little time with us. Thank you. You're amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. I get
Speaker 1: what your publicists put a timer on you, because we
Speaker 1: would just be going like the energizer buddies, So we
Speaker 1: get it. She's doing her job. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And we'll see you, I don't know,
Speaker 1: down the road at a game. Yeah, who do you
Speaker 1: root for? By the way, who's your team? The Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Well, yeah, I figured that, but I knew
Speaker 1: you were from Atlanta, so I didn't know if you
Speaker 1: were worried about I know I am, Um, No, I am,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those guys. I mean, that's my
Speaker 1: that's my sports thing is that I have found it
Speaker 1: very odd as I have, through golf and other experience,
Speaker 1: has gotten to know guys personally. It feels really weird
Speaker 1: to like hold on to the hometown thing. Now that
Speaker 1: my friends from Atlanta give me shit about this all
Speaker 1: They're like, what are you doing? Like this is where
Speaker 1: you're from. I'm like yeah, but like I like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's so I'm weird the Dodgers are. I
Speaker 1: moved to l A. I'm a huge baseball fan. I
Speaker 1: moved to l A and I lived all around the
Speaker 1: country before then, and I just was like, I want
Speaker 1: to go see baseball and what I'm going to get
Speaker 1: back to it and see two games a year. So
Speaker 1: one of the first things I did, and I started
Speaker 1: way high and I started being lower, was I got
Speaker 1: Dodger season ticket. Yeah you did. Yeah. Last night my
Speaker 1: husband was piste off about that game last night. That
Speaker 1: was so aggravated. It happened. I'll see what happened. Scott
Speaker 1: Boris was there at the wrong time. You're the best game.
Speaker 1: Come to a Packers game when we're not freezing her
Speaker 1: asses off at Lambeau. I will Although I love it.
Speaker 1: I love going there when it's cold. Oh yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. And then you get to go
Speaker 1: to your heated sweet and I'm still down there freezing
Speaker 1: my ass off. It's awesome. No, I just it's Aaron
Speaker 1: Sweet is so great. Meanwhile, Aaron Andrews is freezing her
Speaker 1: ass off. Let me just say, I know, I like
Speaker 1: the like the yeah it's awesome, you're making me laugh,
Speaker 1: but the you know, the environment around it, and yeah
Speaker 1: it's the best. It's the best out there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll make your ass come beat down there for all
Speaker 1: four quarters plus warm ups too. Not go up to
Speaker 1: his booth and have like the game. I'm standing there.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's awesome. Oh I can't wait. Are you guys?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You're awesome that guy. I mean
Speaker 1: this we need a Part two, Part three, Part four,
Speaker 1: Part five, Part six. I'm going to tell you to
Speaker 1: go to our calm Down podcast. I g I'm probably
Speaker 1: going to hit it right after we're done recording this
Speaker 1: and talk about what a fan I am of his.
Speaker 1: Was always a fan when I watched the show, but
Speaker 1: now I love him even more. He better come to
Speaker 1: a Green Bay Packers game. I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: lot of ship too if he sits in a sweet
Speaker 1: the whole time. I love it. He was trying to
Speaker 1: intimate that the frozen tundra of lambeau Field as fun
Speaker 1: as long as he's not freezing. Is the situation there
Speaker 1: super fun? So good to your point, we could have
Speaker 1: went on and on and nine seasons was still not
Speaker 1: enough as him as Kevin Malone on the Office, But
Speaker 1: what a what a great guy. I can also see
Speaker 1: why cameo is uh incredible for him as a platform
Speaker 1: because he's so personalble and lovely. In fact, fun fact,
Speaker 1: I was actually watching some of his cameos as creepy
Speaker 1: as that, yeah, because I was thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: as I'm new to the space, how I could get better,
Speaker 1: how I could like give the audience what they really want.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm clearly not the actor and the personality
Speaker 1: that he is, but he's lovely all the way around.
Speaker 1: We were very lucky to talk to him, and I
Speaker 1: can definitely see why that show. Um, you know he
Speaker 1: mentioned being a family and just when you start with
Speaker 1: with being in that Honda Civic and you end up
Speaker 1: what will go down as one of the greatest shows
Speaker 1: in the history of television. To go on that ride
Speaker 1: with that crew, can you imagine how many outtakes that that,
Speaker 1: you know that would last another twenty five seasons of
Speaker 1: all the things they couldn't put on air. So he
Speaker 1: says in his podcast, what made them work is that
Speaker 1: they were just normal people having fun and and just
Speaker 1: there was nothing, you know, like he mentioned the Friends
Speaker 1: cast being so glamorous, and when he just told us, yeah,
Speaker 1: that story of the Globes and just going after it
Speaker 1: and the chocolate fond do and all the colors they drank,
Speaker 1: that's something we all can relate to and we all
Speaker 1: want to do if we ever got invited to the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes. You've been there. I haven't. What I have done, though,
Speaker 1: is be on a plane four times a week want
Speaker 1: to absolutely cuss out every single person on it for
Speaker 1: acting like animals. Um. That's a podcast for another time.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate his Calm Down Award because sit down,
Speaker 1: sit down, like just we're not like, have you lost
Speaker 1: your god, damn mine? Sit down? Also, who are the
Speaker 1: people that are crowding? If you're in zone one, you
Speaker 1: get to go first. If you're in zone four, don't
Speaker 1: crowd the zone one. So I gotta be like, are
Speaker 1: you going? Are you not going? And now we're in
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and just go when your zone is called.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Why didn't Yeah, flight attendants, if you're out
Speaker 1: there and you're listening, they're my favorite people in the world.
Speaker 1: They don't get enough credit, they don't get enough love.
Speaker 1: I always talk to them. Listen. They're not paid to
Speaker 1: be your waitress or your concierge. Shut up, shut up,
Speaker 1: and sit down and put your seatbelt on. That's who
Speaker 1: we need to have on as a flight attendant. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. We'll call it research for our show coming out.
Speaker 1: The current show that we have is Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening. We will be back next week.
Speaker 1: Have a good week. Everyone, put your seat belt on.
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