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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special and extra special episode of The

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Speaker 1: Office Deep Dive. I am your host, Brian Baumgartner. Now

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Speaker 1: today I'm gonna need you to hold onto your pants, folks.

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Speaker 1: Is that a phrase? Because I have got a very

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Speaker 1: special surprise for you. Actually, not one. I have two surprises,

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Speaker 1: So let's start with the one that involves my good

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Speaker 1: friend Steve Correll, whom I don't know. Some of you

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Speaker 1: may know as Michael Scott on The Office. Just kidding,

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Speaker 1: I know you know who Steve is. Um, Well, yesterday

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Speaker 1: is his birthday. Happy birthday to you, Steve, and we

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Speaker 1: all know he is the man who deserves all of

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Speaker 1: the presence in the world. Well, I gave him my

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Speaker 1: gift last year, which was to surprise him with one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest musicians on the planet, who also happens

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Speaker 1: to be one of the biggest Office fans on the planet.

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Speaker 1: He got to meet Billy freaking Eilish for the first

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Speaker 1: time over FaceTime, and let me tell you it was magical. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that week she had just taken home five Grammy awards,

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Speaker 1: one of which I still believe rightly belongs to us,

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Speaker 1: and I'll take that any time, Billy, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: But in honor of Steve's birthday, I'm going to share

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Speaker 1: with you all of you listeners my gift to him

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Speaker 1: this uh a phone call with Billie Eilish. After that,

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Speaker 1: a very warm welcome to well the King of the Office,

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Speaker 1: Steve Correll and the voice of a generation, Billie Eilish,

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Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeak on

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Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeaker cook at every month left over from

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Speaker 1: the nut before. Oh my good Nay. First of all, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: I go insane, this is crazy. How are you guys?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm great? I am amazing. Congratulations Steve

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Speaker 1: and I were just talking actually, and you won five Grammys. Um,

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Speaker 1: over we'll split it. It'll be fine. I don't need

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've sort of sort of cross pats,

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Speaker 1: This is my mom. By the way, come here, mom, Hi? Hi?

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Speaker 1: How are you? You're friends with Amy Ryan? Yeah? We

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Speaker 1: love Amy. She's the best. She might be my favorite

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Speaker 1: character on the Office. That's pretty awesome that Billy watches

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Speaker 1: Why did you decide, Like, is it your strange addiction?

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Speaker 1: Is that is the Office your strange addiction? Definitely addiction.

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Speaker 1: That's why I had to use that song. That's why

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Speaker 1: I had to use it. Come on, I had to

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Speaker 1: need to embarrass you really are you embarrassing? Um? Yep,

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Speaker 1: a little bit, Billy. Who who is your favorite character

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Speaker 1: guys for talking to me. This is like, well, that's

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it later. But she dances around and

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Speaker 1: So I started watching at twelve, and I've seen it

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Speaker 1: it's funked up, it's wuked up. What can I say?

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Speaker 1: It's really um. There are some words that there are

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Speaker 1: So you so you start you watch it fourteen times through? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I say somebody's name wrong today, I'm sorry. I love

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that makes sense, but I I love.

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Speaker 1: I love that I love and that Steve just came

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00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: up with it. I love it. Jessica Worcestershire asks who

427
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: is least like their character in real life besides Angela Kenzie.

428
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: My guest is maybe Oscar Oscar No. I mean, I

429
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: think it's me. To be clear, I guess I don't.

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00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: I guess that's for other people to say. But if

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Speaker 1: I were saying, I would say me, I am less

432
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: like my my real life character, except well, maybe I

433
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: like to gamble a little one and I I can't

434
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: shoot the rock. Yeah, and patent all back rights. I

435
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: would love to hear people from the office talk about

436
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: their memories of Mark York who played Billy Merchant, the

437
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: disabled building manager who died this past weekend. He portrayed

438
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: a memorable character. Thank you and Patton all back. Mark

439
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: was great. Mark was great, and Steve slash Michael's interaction

440
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: with Billy Merchant were very memorable. It was a tragedy

441
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: that he died, and and I don't know if if you,

442
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: I can't specifically reference where, but a lot of people

443
00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: came out and did express their condolences for him for

444
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: his family. Thank you for bringing it up, because Mark

445
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: York should be recognized for the tremendous work that he

446
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: did and it is a great loss, all right. In

447
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: the episode with Jenna Fisher, it's possible that she and

448
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: I may have briefly mentioned an idea that Steve had

449
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: for an office reunion. So Daniel Kelly says, how do

450
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: you let her drop that info about Steve's idea and

451
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: bury it like, oh, yeah, I've heard Steve's idea, like

452
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: the world knows what you speak and brushed aside like

453
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: the crumbs of a cookie. Um. Look, look, first of all,

454
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: it's Steve's idea. If Steve wants to talk about his

455
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: idea that isn't a reality at this moment, then Steve

456
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: can let's just say that the idea does happen. What

457
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: would you want to know? Wouldn't you want to be surprised?

458
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: And if you don't want to be surprised, I can

459
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: tell you this. NBC wants you to be surprised. So

460
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: neither Jenna nor myself is going to reveal Steve's idea.

461
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry, but the point was there is an

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00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: idea and it's really good. Sean h M talks about

463
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: wanting well very specific new episode. Dude, we're loving the podcast,

464
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: but you know what, we also want an episode where

465
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: we talked to Brian and get to know everything about Kevin.

466
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: We can't wait to hear you tell us everything about

467
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: your character. You know, that is an idea, Sean. It

468
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: has been talked about a little, but not for a while,

469
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: so who knows. But who would talk to me? Or

470
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: would I have to talk to myself and would that

471
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: be a disaster? I don't know. Thank you for the input.

472
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: It is just it has been discussed, so we'll see.

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00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: You can take total credit if we end up doing that,

474
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: Drew Papuches, I'm sure that's wrong. Rights. This podcast brings

475
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: so much joy to my work. Commute. You're the man

476
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: at B B. Bomb Gardner. You're damn right, I am,

477
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: Drew pap And because you said that, I'm really sorry

478
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: that I butchered your name, which I definitely did. Um. So,

479
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: Steve and I talked about the director sandwich, which is

480
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: when a director compliments an actor, then tells them what

481
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: they're doing terribly wrong, and then gives them another compliment

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Speaker 1: to soften the blow. So Michael George writes, I had

483
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Speaker 1: to laugh when you were talking about the director sandwich

484
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: because I'm a teacher and we do it too. Usually

485
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: in emails to kids parents, we call it a shit sandwich. Well,

486
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad to know they do it other places. Nothing

487
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: made me laugh harder maybe throughout this entire podcast recording experience,

488
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: than Steve talking about the director sandwich, because it's so true.

489
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna need to go and look back

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00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: at emails from teachers about my kids and see if

491
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: I can find a ship sandwich there. And if there is,

492
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: well it probably means my kid did something wrong. Reverend

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Speaker 1: b B, which is not me to be very clear,

494
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: here's my question, because I'm curious. Was it always the

495
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: intent to do both podcasts or was it just, Hey,

496
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: we have all of this useful stuff left, let's do it.

497
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: Great question, Reverend b b. Uh, it was always my intention. Yes,

498
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: from the very beginning. The first person we interviewed was

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Speaker 1: Rain Wilson, and I had even brought it up before then,

500
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: like I think we're gonna want I think we're gonna

501
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: get more material than we want because an oral history

502
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: of the office was, um, my man is bad, but

503
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: let's say eight to ten hours, uh, something like that.

504
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: And I sat down our very first interview with Rain

505
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 1: Wilson and we sat down for over two hours, and

506
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: immediately was like, well, we can't use all of that,

507
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: and he said so many amazing things. So yes, it

508
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: was always our intention to to release more of the

509
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: full conversations because we knew we had way more or

510
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: we were going to get way more than what we

511
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: needed for an oral history of the office. But thank

512
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: you for the question, Joe Bangles writes to me on Twitter.

513
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: Random question, but do you have a favorite cheese chatter

514
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin? Going to eleven writes to me regarding the

515
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: Steve Correll episode. I love this episode. My wife has

516
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: a theory on why young people love the office. It

517
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: helps feel less intimidated about being working adults. Just because

518
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: you are a professional doesn't mean you have it all

519
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: figured out. They recognize personalities from school in the show.

520
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think you're onto something, going

521
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: to eleven. I think you're going to eleven, or you're

522
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: going to a hundred or whatever the biggest number would be.

523
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: That's very interesting. Yeah, I had not specifically thought about

524
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: being less intimidated seeing people you know who work in

525
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: an office later on, not not kind of having it

526
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: all together and figured out. But that's I think that's

527
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: a very very interesting theory. And yes, I do think

528
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: recognizing personalities from their other classmates and the structure of

529
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: a class versus the office was so similar. Like an

530
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: unreasonable teacher who makes you do unreasonable things, very similar

531
00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: from Michael Scott making his office workers do unreasonable things.

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00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: Laura be harsh Field Serbic rights. I will say my

533
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: eleven year old son knows every episode and what season, finds,

534
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: all the mistakes and little extras I have missed. I

535
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: asked him why he likes it, and it's because the

536
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: characters talk about real life and he thinks it's real.

537
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: He knows it's not really a documentary, but it's what

538
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: he thinks being adult and working is like, which shows

539
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: how great the show was done. Well, Laura, all I

540
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,919
Speaker 1: can tell you is it is indeed what we were

541
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: going for, the reality, uh, this sort of ultra reality

542
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: of not just making a documentary or how a documentary

543
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: was shot, but in terms of the behaviors and interactions

544
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: of the characters. So thank him for watching and for

545
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: being so interested, and thank you for clearly raising a

546
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: great son and fan of the show. Kristen Sheehy writes,

547
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: I'm loving the podcast currently going through chemo and the office,

548
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: and your podcast has provided me with so much joy

549
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 1: during this difficult process. God bless you, Kristen. I hope

550
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: you all get better soon, and thank you for listening

551
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: and for watching. And again, I'm I'm so glad that

552
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: us crazy band of nutheads have given some relief to

553
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: what you are going through. Pam Jill from the Randall

554
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: Iron Horn episode writes, what does a key grip slash

555
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 1: grip do? Well? They grip it and a key grip,

556
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: I mean clearly grips the key, I think BC Jim

557
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: Dad writes, Brian, did you just hear Aaron Rodgers in

558
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: the match? Tell Charles Barkley if you just beat Brian

559
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: Baumgartner in Tahoe, he'll be happy. Yes, I did hear that,

560
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: and I attempted after being sent the clip of it

561
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: from Tahoe, where I was getting ready to play, where

562
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: he wasn't. I did attempt to communicate because I felt

563
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: like I was brought up on air I should have

564
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: a chance to respond. So I attempted to contact Charles

565
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: Barkley and Aaron Rodgers and well not really T and

566
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: T because I didn't know how to get ahold of

567
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: anybody there. But I tried to be able to respond.

568
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: They ignored my phone calls. So nothing unusual about any

569
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: of that. Robert McCarthy forty two writes, I'd love to

570
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: know some storylines that just missed making it into the office.

571
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: There must have been a bunch of great ones. PS

572
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: love the podcast. Thank you, Robert um the one that

573
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: springs to mind. I know we have talked about or

574
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: we're about to talk about on an episode pet a

575
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: Pet Day was actually, to my knowledge, the only written

576
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: script that we never did. It was a fully written script,

577
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: and I think it just kind of kept kept getting

578
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: pushed and wasn't done. There may have been some animal

579
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: activists that would not have been happy about that episode.

580
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: I don't specifically remember the content, but pet Day was

581
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: the title, and there is a written episode of the

582
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: office that I read at some point very early on

583
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: that has never ever been produced. Veggie the memur writes,

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00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: just a question, what is your favorite scene you've ever

585
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: played as Kevin Malone. By the way, you're my favorite

586
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: actor person in the series. Well, Veggie, you're amazingly smart.

587
00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: Number one. Uh to my favorite scene ever? I mean,

588
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: I guess I'm supposed to say the chili scene. I

589
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: guess that's supposed to be my answer. So I can

590
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: say that, or I can answers differently. The scene with

591
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: Amy Ryan at the vending machine where she is counting

592
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: money into my hands. Um, that's the one that I

593
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: remember being for me the most difficult to not laugh

594
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: because of her sincerity and sweetness and how it was written,

595
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: her performance, all of it. Um. I remember that scene

596
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: and then now that I'm thinking even more, maybe the

597
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: basketball one. I mean, I made thirteen in a row

598
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: on Prime Time and who's done that. Not not many

599
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: people ever have done Network prime Time made thirteen in

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00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: a row from free throw line extended, So that's a

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00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: possibility as well. Nick Hamby on Apple Podcasts Rights great podcast,

602
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: Love the Podcast. I've watched The Office forty four times

603
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: through during my wife's pregnancy. We watched it so much

604
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: that the first song that my son reacted to was

605
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: the intro to The Office. Love the show and pod

606
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: great work. Well, Nick, you might win. I don't know.

607
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: Forty four times is a lot of times. I don't

608
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: know that I could count that high. I will tell

609
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: you a funny story. Billie Eilish, who we talked to,

610
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: who told us at the time that we talked she

611
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: had watched at fourteen times through. There is some discussion

612
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: she has watched it at least one more time since,

613
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: but fourteen times through. And I remember writing about that

614
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: on social media and I can't tell you the number

615
00:42:54,280 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: of comments that I got that was like fourteen am her,

616
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: She's not a real fan. And I'm like, fourteen times

617
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: is a lot of times, Like you got, you can't

618
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: dismiss fourteen times as a as a number of times.

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Speaker 1: So but forty four, Nick, congratulations, you are officially, as

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00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: of this moment in time, you're the pious watcher that

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Speaker 1: I have heard of. So congratulations, and I say go

622
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: for forty five. It's a way, way better number. And

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Speaker 1: there you have it, folks, another mail bag in the

624
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: well in the bag. Huge thanks to all of you

625
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: for real guys, for coming back week after week and

626
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: and for giving us, well giving us the fuel to

627
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: make this episode. I could not ask for a better

628
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: group of listeners. Keep the comments coming, and we're gonna

629
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: see if we can fit in another episode very soon.

630
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: But until then, we're gonna be back to day with well,

631
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: perhaps the most well dressed man in the business, the

632
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: incredible director Paul Feig. And you never know, we might

633
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: have a little surprise coming to you before then. What

634
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: does that mean, Well, it means we may have an

635
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: episode on Thursday. Have an amazing week everyone, Happy birthday, Steve,

636
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: and I will see you so the Office. Deep Dive

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Speaker 1: is hosted and executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside

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Speaker 1: our executive producer Langley. Our senior producer is Tessa Kramer.

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Speaker 1: Our producers for this episode are Liz Hayes, Emily Carr

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Speaker 1: and Diego Tapia and our intern is Hannah Harris. My

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Speaker 1: main man in the booth is Colin Tadeshi. Our theme

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Speaker 1: song Bubble and Squeak performed by my great friend Creed Bratton,

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Speaker 1: and the episode was mixed by seth Olandscape