Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour on this Friday, Dan and the
Speaker 1: Danettes Dan Patrick Show. We'll lighten the mood a little bit.
Speaker 1: Later on he played Kevin on the Office. Brian Baumgardner
Speaker 1: will join us got a podcast, The Oral History of
Speaker 1: the Office, and we will ask the tough questions, such
Speaker 1: as did Jim wear a hairpiece during one of the
Speaker 1: seasons of the Office. At least sources close to me
Speaker 1: say that is true. Washington Redskins owner Daniel Steiner provided
Speaker 1: no statement, declined several interview requests from The Washington Post
Speaker 1: in connection with the story of fifteen former female employees
Speaker 1: who allege that they were the victims of sexual harassment
Speaker 1: while working for the team that Snyder owns. Instead, all
Speaker 1: the comments have come from head coach Ron Rivera. Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera just got there. He should not be at the
Speaker 1: forefront the voice of the Washington Redskins. He's been there
Speaker 1: less than six months. He coaches a football team, and
Speaker 1: we'll have a hard time doing just that. He doesn't
Speaker 1: run human resources here. I don't know if Daniel Snyder
Speaker 1: says anything. The owners will meet virtually today to discuss
Speaker 1: rules for training camp, and I guess there's a chance
Speaker 1: that the issue will be addressed in that session. I'd
Speaker 1: love to be able to be a fly on the
Speaker 1: wall when the commissioner brings it up. How do you
Speaker 1: bring it up? You can't bring it up to the owners.
Speaker 1: I think you have to bring that up private, privately
Speaker 1: with Daniel Snyder. And I'm going to guess that you
Speaker 1: have radio silence through the weekend with the NFL and
Speaker 1: the owner, the Washington Redskins. Yeah, McClellan. The NFL also
Speaker 1: has this big thing going on. I mean, how are
Speaker 1: they going to settle with the NFLPA in two days?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. Well, that's another
Speaker 1: thing that has been lost on a lot of people.
Speaker 1: We assume the NFL will play football. They're debating right
Speaker 1: now if there's any preseason games. The play don't want
Speaker 1: any preseason games, and they want testing every single day.
Speaker 1: We haven't even figured that out yet, and they've had
Speaker 1: months to figure this out, and they still have some
Speaker 1: time here. But the rookies are showing up on Monday,
Speaker 1: and you don't have safety precautions put in place with
Speaker 1: all of these teams, and now you have some of
Speaker 1: these star players basically saying, wait a minute, what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? All of these weeks we kept saying, hey,
Speaker 1: NFL's got time. College football they got the benefit of time.
Speaker 1: They don't have time on their side anymore. It's here.
Speaker 1: It's here for baseball, it's here for basketball, and football
Speaker 1: is just starting with their rookie camp and then college football.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get players to be able to practice together.
Speaker 1: Can you do that? I have serious doubts about it,
Speaker 1: but we've seen progress. But the question is are people
Speaker 1: going to abide by the rules? So you have those
Speaker 1: safety precautions put in place and you have people willing
Speaker 1: to abide by them. That's really the key here if
Speaker 1: you're going to have it. And I have serious doubts
Speaker 1: that college football and pro football start on time. Baseball
Speaker 1: maybe they figured it out. NBA has done the best
Speaker 1: because they have the opportunity to be able to have
Speaker 1: everybody in one place and you could monitor them, and
Speaker 1: you have far less people involved in this. You know,
Speaker 1: with college football, just do the numbers of let's say
Speaker 1: a team has ninety players on the roster. You can
Speaker 1: have walk ons and maybe have a little bit more
Speaker 1: than that. All the people involved in the football team.
Speaker 1: So let's say you have one hundred and fifty people
Speaker 1: with each school and just do the numbers of the
Speaker 1: Power five conferences. Got thousands and thousands of tests that
Speaker 1: I have to be available. And then if you test positive,
Speaker 1: they're saying you're gonna miss two weeks of action. So
Speaker 1: you can miss two weeks of the regular season. The
Speaker 1: odds are not in their favor, the math is not
Speaker 1: in their favor, and following safety protocol not in their favor.
Speaker 1: And you don't have time on your side any longer.
Speaker 1: Eight seven seven three d P show email address DP
Speaker 1: at Dan Patrick dot com. Tiger Woods back yesterday and
Speaker 1: Columbus at Jack Nicholas's tournament the Memorial. And the last
Speaker 1: time we saw him was Tiger, Phil Nicholson, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning in that challenge. And at the time
Speaker 1: when I was watching Tiger, everybody was watching Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You hit it right and left and made a mess
Speaker 1: of it. Manning was sneaky good. Phil tried to give
Speaker 1: a tutorial with every shot he was taking. Tiger just
Speaker 1: hit shots, had a little bit of commentary, but I
Speaker 1: was noticing, focused, fixated on Tiger his ability to hit
Speaker 1: the shot that he wanted to hit, and it was
Speaker 1: very repetitious. It felt like he was in a good
Speaker 1: rhythm there. But that's the last time we saw him play. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, you're out there with Bryson Deshambo, who has
Speaker 1: become the face of the tour, and he's out driving
Speaker 1: everybody just the way Tiger did a decade ago. We're
Speaker 1: two decades ago. But Tiger was winning. Deshambo is hitting
Speaker 1: the ball four hundred yards and Golf's unpredictable. We know that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Tiger or Deshambo will be
Speaker 1: there on Sunday, but just having Tiger in the tournament
Speaker 1: makes it different, special, and maybe it's a preview of
Speaker 1: the major tournaments that we hope to have the rest
Speaker 1: of this year. But Tiger yesterday one under par. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Just get out there, try to get that rhythm back.
Speaker 1: But I do want to see Tiger and Deshambo together,
Speaker 1: because you had Tiger with Brooks Kapka and Roy McElroy yesterday.
Speaker 1: But Tiger, if he could get paired with Bryson Deshambo,
Speaker 1: that would be fun. Because when they played a practice round,
Speaker 1: I'm told that de Shambo when he hit a not
Speaker 1: a great drive was fifteen yards pass Tiger. When he
Speaker 1: hit a great drive, he was fifty yards pass Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1: And it's not like Tigers, you know, hitting it on
Speaker 1: the senior tour here like he can still move it
Speaker 1: out there a little bit. But it'd be fun to see.
Speaker 1: But Bryson to Shambo, he is he's turning these golf
Speaker 1: courses upside down, but only from the standpoint of how
Speaker 1: far he hits it. I want to see if he scores,
Speaker 1: because if he does that, then you're going to really
Speaker 1: get people's attention. But if he continues to hit a
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty four hundred yards and he's you know,
Speaker 1: two hundred par okay. But if he ever figures out
Speaker 1: how to chip and how to put, then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, that's going to change the game. He'll he'll
Speaker 1: change the game. He'll change the golf ball in the
Speaker 1: game of golf because they're gonna have to get to
Speaker 1: that point something Jack Nicholas has been been saying for
Speaker 1: forty three years. You know, remember when they Tiger Proof
Speaker 1: to Gusta years ago and Charles Barkley came on the show,
Speaker 1: and you know said that you know it was wrong.
Speaker 1: You can't be doing that the Tiger And I said, Charles,
Speaker 1: do you know they did that to Jack Nicholas in
Speaker 1: the early sixties and he didn't know it because we
Speaker 1: assumed that, Hey, golf started when Tiger Woods started playing.
Speaker 1: It didn't work when they did that to Jack. They
Speaker 1: tiger proof Augusta because Jack hit it farther than everybody else.
Speaker 1: And Jack has been saying, you gotta change the golf ball.
Speaker 1: If you change the golf ball, and I truly believe,
Speaker 1: and I have no sources with the Masters, I truly
Speaker 1: believe the Masters might lead the charge that they come
Speaker 1: up with their Masters golf ball. And you have to
Speaker 1: you have to abide by our specs. If it's Nike,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be Callaway, if it's Tailor made, it's titles.
Speaker 1: These are the specs we won for that golf ball
Speaker 1: because having played Augusta, there are certain holes that can't
Speaker 1: be lengthened. And this is what we keep doing. We'll
Speaker 1: have it. I remember playing golf course, it'd be seven
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Now they'll do seventy five hundred yards. Not
Speaker 1: even think about it because the technology and the golf ball,
Speaker 1: they just make it longer. And I never understood that
Speaker 1: if I really wanted to penalize tiger Woods, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna make it longer, but I'm certainly gonna make it tighter.
Speaker 1: And any of these long hitters, that's when you really
Speaker 1: want to see. I want more golfers involved that are
Speaker 1: actually golfers, not somebody just who hits bombs. I love
Speaker 1: watching it, but this is the problem we have with baseball.
Speaker 1: Baseball is about hitting bombs. It's not about anything else.
Speaker 1: It's hitting bombs. Golf has become about hitting bombs. Tennis
Speaker 1: is about hitting bombs. And that's the problem I have
Speaker 1: with these sports. There's no other movement. They're not volleying
Speaker 1: that much in golf. Are you good around the greens?
Speaker 1: How many people can you know be involved in these
Speaker 1: tournaments be competitive when it's all about distance. Baseball it's
Speaker 1: all about hitting home run. Nobody cares to be about
Speaker 1: you know, three twenty five and you hit you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen home runs. That's pedestrian. We want you hitting two
Speaker 1: seventy five and hitting forty two home runs, strike out
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty times. Who cares you want movement
Speaker 1: in sports, Tennis doesn't have it. Golf is just get
Speaker 1: up there and swing hard, and I would still like
Speaker 1: to see the shot making come back. And baseball has
Speaker 1: no movement either. If you watch a game, it's pretty stationary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: point Bryson d Chambeau. I guess he put on about
Speaker 1: twenty pounds over the past maybe more year. He's list
Speaker 1: at six one two forty. You see a lot of
Speaker 1: muscular guys who can't hit a golf ball. Is muscularity
Speaker 1: important to distance while hitting a golf ball? Well, traditional
Speaker 1: weightlifter muscles well, look at Brooks Kepka, he's a weightlifter.
Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson's an athlete. Dustin Johnson is a pure athlete
Speaker 1: out there. De Shambo put on like thirty pounds, I guess,
Speaker 1: and he works out and so it's muscle like. There
Speaker 1: are guys who are big. John Dailey's big, but he's
Speaker 1: you know, not muscular. You know, it's weird. You can
Speaker 1: be five five foot eight in one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: pounds and hit it. Justin Thomas is not big at all.
Speaker 1: He's small. So golf is about lag, It's about you know,
Speaker 1: everything coming together at the right time and having the
Speaker 1: science down rising the shambo basically, you know, treated this
Speaker 1: like its rocket science. He he's got a driver. You know,
Speaker 1: normally your driver is like nine or nine and a
Speaker 1: half or ten. His is I think five and a half.
Speaker 1: And his clubs are all the same size. So everything
Speaker 1: about this is science. But if you're putting on forty
Speaker 1: pounds in two years and you watch the Shambo when
Speaker 1: he's he swings as hard as he can possibly like,
Speaker 1: you think his arm's gonna fall off one day or
Speaker 1: a back injury here, because that was always the concern
Speaker 1: about Tiger is he would post on his left leg
Speaker 1: and I kept thinking at some point that knee cannot
Speaker 1: take that much torque, and it proved to be true.
Speaker 1: Is back in his knee. It's just that's why when
Speaker 1: you see guys who have like Louis Ustazen has the
Speaker 1: most effortless swing, Ernie else like those guys can play
Speaker 1: golf for the rest of their lives. Although Ernie has
Speaker 1: had some health issues. You know Freddie Couples. I think
Speaker 1: the heaviest thing he lifted was a beer. And Freddie
Speaker 1: has a wonderful swing, but he has back issues as well.
Speaker 1: But I remember Tiger back in the early nineties and
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if that swing can hold up.
Speaker 1: Just you know, the physical like the laws of gravity
Speaker 1: or geometry, trigonometry, whatever it is, where all the angles
Speaker 1: there and the force the sheer force. But when you're
Speaker 1: hit ball speed is over two hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1: We can get on the simulator here and I can
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, swing as hard as you possibly can,
Speaker 1: and you won't come anywhere near two hundred miles an
Speaker 1: hour on yeah, Pulley. By the way, A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, I was watched like the PGA channel or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I saw a post match interview with Bryson d Shambo.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a second, he's American. I assumed he
Speaker 1: was French with that name Dschambau. He's just assuming you
Speaker 1: never heard the guy interview before. He drinks like, you know,
Speaker 1: six shakes protein shakes a day. It's the calorie intake
Speaker 1: is incredible. But I do think golf will have to
Speaker 1: look at this at some point as a business and
Speaker 1: say and they may say, look, we love that people
Speaker 1: are tuning in to watch Bryson Dashambo. I mean they
Speaker 1: may because I do I'm watching Bryson Dashambo to see
Speaker 1: how far he can hit it. Everybody else I'm watching
Speaker 1: to see how they play the course. I'm just watching
Speaker 1: him to see how he hits it. And as we
Speaker 1: like to say, he leaves nothing in the bag. He
Speaker 1: is going after it there, all right? So I mentioned
Speaker 1: we'll have Kevin from the office joining us, coming up.
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls in here. Let me see.
Speaker 1: How about Nate in New York? Hey, Nate, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? DP? Third time? Long time?
Speaker 1: How we doing? Good, sir? What's on your mind? I
Speaker 1: just you were talking about the NFL and how they
Speaker 1: wanted to get rid of all the preseason games, and
Speaker 1: I was wondering they were going to address the issue
Speaker 1: on the amount of injuries being so astronomical that they
Speaker 1: actually do go away from having no preseason games and
Speaker 1: all the full time players would be in full time
Speaker 1: right off the bat. Well, there are players who need
Speaker 1: it the last couple of games, the first couple of games.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the phone call, Nate. You need your free
Speaker 1: agents in your rookies to get ready. You do need
Speaker 1: a couple of preseason games, and then your regular players.
Speaker 1: Star players usually need one tune up. There is a
Speaker 1: use for preseason games. The problem is is the owners
Speaker 1: would charge you the same amount of money or if
Speaker 1: you were doing season tickets, to get season tickets, you
Speaker 1: had to sign up for the preseason as well. I
Speaker 1: didn't appreciate the price gouging there, but I do understand
Speaker 1: that you do need some preseason games or at least,
Speaker 1: you know, scrimmages with other teams. That's what I had
Speaker 1: said all along. If you have scrimmages there, can you
Speaker 1: still accomplish what you want to? And I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I've been told by numerous people. You still want them
Speaker 1: to run out in front of a crowd, in front
Speaker 1: of you know, with the lights on you and it
Speaker 1: feels like you're on stage. It's bigger because you got
Speaker 1: to get ready for that moment. But I can't see
Speaker 1: preseason games this year. Camp. We got fifty five days
Speaker 1: until Texans Chiefs Thursday night. Now that sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of time, but understand it's not. Because the players
Speaker 1: are asking do we have we thought about these things?
Speaker 1: And the rookies show up on Monday. Now the players
Speaker 1: realize they don't have time on their side. And now
Speaker 1: this is where the Players Association is kind of hitting
Speaker 1: back at the owners to say, you guys got all
Speaker 1: of this and I'm ready to go in place and
Speaker 1: they don't. James in Virginia is joining us on the program.
Speaker 1: Hi James, thanks for holding what do you have? Good
Speaker 1: morning brother, Happy Friday. Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Sure it's a lot going on today, man, it's a
Speaker 1: whole lot. I gotta say, man rogues over towels, rolls
Speaker 1: over towels, and uh, I gotta say it sounds like
Speaker 1: there's a stat off coming on between I mean, loving
Speaker 1: and eatan man got to have a stat off sports
Speaker 1: Jeopardy style, Okay. And then to the elephant in the room, Man,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm Burgundy and Gold through and through man,
Speaker 1: But it's very disheartening this morning manum waking up this
Speaker 1: morning representing the Burgundy and Gold man. I was telling
Speaker 1: your producers, Man, like, you know, maybe not on the
Speaker 1: field or with football, but mister Snyder has a very
Speaker 1: prominent voice in the resident in Washington's organization. And it's
Speaker 1: very surprising that mister Snyder YO would allow things to
Speaker 1: go on in his organizations. But his wife is such
Speaker 1: so pregnant inside the building. Man, I will say, Man,
Speaker 1: going forward, m I am happy that wrong Rivera is
Speaker 1: there and that he provides a state of stability, you know,
Speaker 1: that that strong force you know of change, you know,
Speaker 1: and I want to say, man, thank you to those
Speaker 1: that had the fortitude to step up and to speak
Speaker 1: out and the force change. Man. I mean, you've got
Speaker 1: to have people that are willing to put themself on
Speaker 1: the line. So so thank you, man, and hopefully going
Speaker 1: forward we see something better. And I'll leave you with
Speaker 1: this last week, man, I think, giving all the circumstances,
Speaker 1: the perfect name for the team going forward is the Phoenix. Man.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fire and a lot of ash, man,
Speaker 1: and it's time to rise above it and start a
Speaker 1: new man. I hope you'll have a great weeked Man,
Speaker 1: and thank you to take Thank you, James. Always good
Speaker 1: to hear from you. I always hear from James. When
Speaker 1: the topic is the Washington Redskins. Ron Rivera should not
Speaker 1: be the person who is leading the charge of being
Speaker 1: the voice of change with the Washington Redskins. This isn't
Speaker 1: an on the field violation. This isn't a a critique
Speaker 1: of the play of the team. He hasn't been there
Speaker 1: six months. He's the guy who says, hey, this isn't
Speaker 1: going to happen. We're not going to tolerate this. This
Speaker 1: is a workplace violation. And Daniel Snyder is the one
Speaker 1: who should be saying something here. And silence speaks volumes here.
Speaker 1: But when I see that Ron Rivera is speaking out,
Speaker 1: I acknowledge that I'm glad he is. But this has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Ron Rivera. As they move forward, okay,
Speaker 1: but it still comes back to an owner who hired
Speaker 1: these people. He's the one that should be saying something,
Speaker 1: not Ron Rivera. It's not fair to put him in
Speaker 1: this situation. Yeah. See, would it be weird to just
Speaker 1: have say, New York play Boston and Los Angeles play
Speaker 1: San Diego? And and you know why, why do the teams?
Speaker 1: I guess this is sort of a more abstract discussion
Speaker 1: or something off on a little bit of a side tangent.
Speaker 1: But why do we need nicknames like that or mascots
Speaker 1: or why do you need the Yankees versus the Red
Speaker 1: Sox when you could just have New York versus Boston.
Speaker 1: But then you have New York Jets, and then you
Speaker 1: have New York Giants, and then you have the LA
Speaker 1: Chargers and then the LA Rams. Yeah, how do you
Speaker 1: designate LA versus? Like Manchester United versus Manchester City, same
Speaker 1: same place, just different teams. Yeah, but one's Man United
Speaker 1: in one's Man City. You don't have Los Angeles where
Speaker 1: where where's the the stadium located by the airport. Well,
Speaker 1: they're both, Yeah, they're both playing in England again, so
Speaker 1: they're even playing in the same I think, move the
Speaker 1: Chargers back to San Diego, move the Jets to Queens,
Speaker 1: and then we could do it that way. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I people love the nickname, they love the mascot, and
Speaker 1: they love you know, it's the whole pomp and circumstance
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yes, time, that would be weird for me. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the logo of the horse with
Speaker 1: the broncos, So you know, I could definitely appreciate, you know,
Speaker 1: rallying behind your team colors in that name. Even though
Speaker 1: you know the Seaton's point, it does seem a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to call it something that could
Speaker 1: potentially offend somebody. We'll take a break here. Brian Baumgartner
Speaker 1: played Kevin in the Office will join us. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to lighten the mood a little bit here and more
Speaker 1: phone calls will try to squeeze those in. It's a
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Speaker 1: Kevin from the Office, host and executive producer of an
Speaker 1: oral History of the Office podcast, and you can find
Speaker 1: that on Spotify. I started the interview by asking Brian,
Speaker 1: how are you? Brian? I could not be prouder of myself. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's me let me be very clear about this. You know,
Speaker 1: we just finished the American Century Championships up here in
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. Yeah, I don't know if you heard. I
Speaker 1: did hear? You? In thirtieth place, the top half of
Speaker 1: the field, with elite athletes all around me. I was
Speaker 1: very proud of myself. Okay, who did you play with? UM?
Speaker 1: I played well? The first day. They liked to put
Speaker 1: let's just say the jokers together, so I had Larry
Speaker 1: the cable guy, and UM and John O'Hurley from Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: But but I I made positive numbers every day. The
Speaker 1: second day I played with Adam Feeling and Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and the third day mister Rogers and aj Hawk. How
Speaker 1: was Aaron Rodgers? He played great? I know, but chatting?
Speaker 1: Does he an office fan? Well? Yeah, we're old friends.
Speaker 1: I've we've discussed this before. I met him in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Here I am still in Lake Top, beautiful,
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. I met him at a blackjack table here
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. He was a fan of
Speaker 1: the Office, and I had no clue who he was,
Speaker 1: no one, not one clue. This was right before. He
Speaker 1: wasn't the starter. He started in fall of two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, and so we started talking. I mean once
Speaker 1: he said his name, I was like, oh, yeah, the
Speaker 1: cow guy, good luck behind fire. And we became friends
Speaker 1: then and h and yeah we've been friends ever since.
Speaker 1: So it's always fun to come up here and be
Speaker 1: able to play with him. Spotify and Brian bomb Gardner
Speaker 1: have teamed up to create a new limited series podcast
Speaker 1: and oral history of the Office. So, Brian, host, executive producer,
Speaker 1: is there a story that's off limits that pertains to
Speaker 1: the Office for the podcast? You mean that I won't
Speaker 1: tell you, or that we didn't tell in the podcast?
Speaker 1: Touchy to deal with? How about that it was very
Speaker 1: sensitive episode of the Office. Yes, so so I'll tell
Speaker 1: I'll tell you two things. One is is that I
Speaker 1: lived through this thing. And though my character on the
Speaker 1: show was not the most intelligent character on the show,
Speaker 1: I actually was paying attention throughout and I the business
Speaker 1: of television and entertainment is interesting to me, So I
Speaker 1: was paying attention. But listen, I sat down with all
Speaker 1: of the key assets for this thing. I have over
Speaker 1: a hundred hours of recorded material, like my drop the
Speaker 1: mic moment or you know, saying is basically Steve Correll
Speaker 1: didn't talk about the Office, hasn't talked about the Office
Speaker 1: for more than five minutes since you know, he was
Speaker 1: off the show nine years ago. And we sat down
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours and just talked through everything.
Speaker 1: And I learned myself because people are like, oh, the Office,
Speaker 1: everybody knows everything. I learned like big, huge, significant things
Speaker 1: as I was going through this podcast that I think
Speaker 1: people were too humble or too protective of other people
Speaker 1: to tell when it was going on. Well, I mean, Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give you all of my information, but
Speaker 1: i'll the office. In two thousand and eight, there was
Speaker 1: a writers strike, which I'm sure those of you who
Speaker 1: remember remember was one hundred days. Everything was shut down,
Speaker 1: and the Office had a very significant role in that shutdown.
Speaker 1: There are stories around what happened there and key people
Speaker 1: that were involved in the office taking care of our
Speaker 1: crew who was out of work for one hundred days.
Speaker 1: Stories around that that I had never ever heard, and
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of exploration for people who
Speaker 1: don't know early on, as Dan, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: the show was almost canceled for like two Yeah, the
Speaker 1: first two years we were dead on arrival, like it
Speaker 1: was not moving forward. And the bold choices, the brave
Speaker 1: choices that got people fired because they believed in the show,
Speaker 1: that enabled the Office to continue into seasons three through
Speaker 1: you know nine. Basically we go through in pretty intricate
Speaker 1: detail what happened there, and I think it will be
Speaker 1: interesting for people, particularly the young people now who have
Speaker 1: become such fans of the show that think the show
Speaker 1: just always existed on Netflix, right, Like people don't really
Speaker 1: like a lot of the young viewers don't realize, like
Speaker 1: what is NBC? Why? But how close do you think?
Speaker 1: Was there a day where you thought this is it,
Speaker 1: They're going to cancel? I was. I was sitting actual
Speaker 1: name drop. I was sitting in a trailer, Uh, Steve
Speaker 1: Carrell's trailer was Steve Carrell and Rain Wilson and myself,
Speaker 1: the three of us in there. We came back for this.
Speaker 1: We did six episodes in season one and we were
Speaker 1: given the network didn't even tell people we were only
Speaker 1: given six episodes in seasons like they were they were,
Speaker 1: so they were like, oh no, they're coming back. And
Speaker 1: then they were like, yeah, you can do six and
Speaker 1: then goodbye. We filmed those in the summer and then
Speaker 1: we finished before any of them started airing, and we
Speaker 1: were sitting in a trailer and Steve said, well, at
Speaker 1: least we got to do twelve. At least at least
Speaker 1: we can be proud of doing twelve. And we went away,
Speaker 1: and Angela Kenzie tells us she took her name plate
Speaker 1: off of her trailer like as a memento. She was like,
Speaker 1: we're we're never coming back. And then you know, one
Speaker 1: of the episodes of the podcast we go through like
Speaker 1: it's the episode in the podcast is called A Billion
Speaker 1: Things Have to Go Right, And every single thing in
Speaker 1: that second season went right, and at the end of
Speaker 1: the second season we won the Emmy and from there
Speaker 1: it was it was full steam head. It's an oral
Speaker 1: History of the Office podcast with your host and executive
Speaker 1: producer Kevin from the Office, Brian baum Gardner, And you
Speaker 1: can see it or I listened to it, I should say,
Speaker 1: on Spotify. But I wonder if the writing changed when
Speaker 1: you weren't even sure if you're going to be brought
Speaker 1: back like did it did it get a little bit more? Hey,
Speaker 1: who cares, let's take some risk. Did you ever feel
Speaker 1: that way? Like you guys started out of the gate
Speaker 1: with the diversity episode, which to me, like that's episode two, Brian.
Speaker 1: You usually build up to diversity where you have a
Speaker 1: little bit of how's credit to be able to do that?
Speaker 1: You could have worked with me on the podcast. Some
Speaker 1: of what you just said is the narration like what
Speaker 1: I say in the podcast, like, because there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people who say, go in retrospect, Oh, the
Speaker 1: Office started slowly and it built, and I'm like, go,
Speaker 1: go look at episode two and what was happening and
Speaker 1: that episode, Dan, I'll tell you that I remember sitting
Speaker 1: there in that conference room, which we were in like
Speaker 1: fourteen hours a day that week, and saying, like, man,
Speaker 1: if people give this show a chance, what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: we don't people don't talk about this on network television.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're looking at race in a really frank way.
Speaker 1: But one of my favorite, one of my favorite exchanges
Speaker 1: to me, which is like this is so cheap, but
Speaker 1: like quintessential Office is Michael Scott turning in Diversity Day
Speaker 1: and turning to Oscar and saying, in a real, genuine way,
Speaker 1: what is less offensive to call you than Mexican? And
Speaker 1: Oscar is saying, what, there's nothing offensive about that? Right, right?
Speaker 1: But like, what's something less offensive? And to me that
Speaker 1: that encapsulates it, right, Like he's trying to do good,
Speaker 1: he's not misintention and the response from everybody else who's
Speaker 1: in the room is like, oh, you can't, don't do that.
Speaker 1: So the message of the show is you can't do that,
Speaker 1: you can't say that. But now we're not even allowed
Speaker 1: to make that joke. That's that's how people are, Like,
Speaker 1: that's reality. And I think that one of the things
Speaker 1: that I've found through this show is, you know, we
Speaker 1: were looking at and talking to Greg Daniels who created it,
Speaker 1: and Ken Kappas, who directed some of the early episodes,
Speaker 1: they were really looking for an ultra reality, right, And
Speaker 1: one of the things this is meta and kind of
Speaker 1: deep for your listeners, Dan, I'm gonna be honest with
Speaker 1: you about that, but thank you. Yeah, that, but I'm
Speaker 1: a listener. See, that's the joke that you think we
Speaker 1: need to make this universal, right, So we need to
Speaker 1: generalize things, right, because the more general you make it
Speaker 1: the more people can understand it. But I think what
Speaker 1: the Office did, and one of the things that has
Speaker 1: made it endued to today is everything was ultra specific,
Speaker 1: like very specific, and that ultimately my theory is the
Speaker 1: more specific you get, actually, the more universal it becomes.
Speaker 1: Did John Krasinski wear a wig any of these seasons?
Speaker 1: He did? Yes. And this is a new spoiler thing
Speaker 1: that has come out recently that I always thought, Well,
Speaker 1: didn't everybody know that it looked ridiculous? He was in
Speaker 1: he wore it. He did the movie with clooney leather
Speaker 1: heads when he did leather Heads, and they had the
Speaker 1: short hair because it was a period. Don't ask me
Speaker 1: when exactly, I don't know, but you know, like it
Speaker 1: was so there had short hair and he had to
Speaker 1: like floppy doo and where they were like, oh, we
Speaker 1: can't let Jim not have his sexy floppy do so
Speaker 1: they put a wig on him. But I thought it
Speaker 1: looked ridiculous coming from a guy who looked ridiculous when
Speaker 1: you wore your hairpiece. Yeah, I thought it. I feel
Speaker 1: like I should bring it back, Dan, Oh, absolutely absolutely
Speaker 1: I should bring it. And the clean xboxes on the feet,
Speaker 1: I will tell you though. The craziest thing is, well,
Speaker 1: I mean you know this, I can't walk down the
Speaker 1: street and not have somebody yelled chili at me. Like
Speaker 1: that is just the thing, right that that one. It's like,
Speaker 1: we did two hundred and whatever episodes of that. How
Speaker 1: do you not have a chili sponsor like Hormel or something.
Speaker 1: You haven't You haven't hurt Dan. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: a little something about bushes beans. Oh yeah, check it
Speaker 1: out your MUSHes, your mister Bush's beams. No, I think
Speaker 1: they have a dog, but there was no I did.
Speaker 1: I did a campaign with them right before the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We did kind of a spoof on it, and I
Speaker 1: posted it on Twitter, and I don't know, there's now
Speaker 1: like thirty million views of this thing. I mean it
Speaker 1: just like went crazy. Hey, I saw where is Billy
Speaker 1: Eilish on this? I talked to Billie Eilish? Okay the podcast? Okay,
Speaker 1: explain how Billie Eilish ends up on the Office podcast. Well, so, um,
Speaker 1: my my time frame is a little weird. But like
Speaker 1: right before you, I think and me knew who she was.
Speaker 1: I got approached um through my management that this woman
Speaker 1: Billy Eilish wanted to use my voice in one of
Speaker 1: her songs. She was a big Office fan, and there
Speaker 1: was a number of the cast that had been approached
Speaker 1: about this, and I was like, why, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I literally said, well, if Steve says yes, then fine,
Speaker 1: like whatever, like I don't know what this is. If
Speaker 1: you get Correll to say yes, then sure I'll do it.
Speaker 1: And so sure enough, like I don't know. One week later,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the radio and I'm hearing I'm like,
Speaker 1: Billy Eilish, who's Billy Eilish. Oh yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: person who's using my voice. So she went blew up.
Speaker 1: One of her songs on her album is called My
Speaker 1: Strange Addiction, and her Strange addiction is The Office, and
Speaker 1: throughout the song she uses clips of a number of
Speaker 1: our voices in her song. She's so great, She's so smart,
Speaker 1: and yes, she loves the show. She has the show
Speaker 1: on all the time, and she talked to me about,
Speaker 1: you know, what the show means to her and why
Speaker 1: she became such a big fan of the show and
Speaker 1: why she had to ultimately write a song and use
Speaker 1: our voices. Congrats on it. I'm not surprised it's hit.
Speaker 1: The Oral History of the Office. It's on Spotify with
Speaker 1: Brian teaming up to create this limited series podcast. I
Speaker 1: wish you well with it and hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see in person. I would love that soon
Speaker 1: Dan be well, be healthy and h Yeah, we'll see
Speaker 1: you Sam. Thank you, Brian Alli. Thanks The Oral History
Speaker 1: of the Office podcast available on Spotify. Brian Baumgardner, he
Speaker 1: played Kevin on the Office. Back with your phone calls,
Speaker 1: close up shop, what we learn, what's in store next Monday,
Speaker 1: all of that coming up next year on The Dan
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Speaker 1: the contra abutions to those in front of the camera
Speaker 1: and behind, also the audience emailing, tweeting, watching those on
Speaker 1: chat row and also special thanks to Ethan who's done
Speaker 1: an unbelievable job with our stats. Ethan backing up what
Speaker 1: Seaton said in the early days of baseball teams didn't
Speaker 1: have official nicknames. Officially, they were the Philadelphia National League
Speaker 1: Baseball Club. Nicknames evolved because writers came up with unofficial
Speaker 1: nicknames to spice up their stories, like the Phillies, Dodgers,
Speaker 1: red Legs, etc. So that's according to Ethan. Ethan also
Speaker 1: pointed out that Aaron Rodgers did not take part in
Speaker 1: a single preseason snap a year ago. He was slated
Speaker 1: to play in the game in Winnipeg versus the Raiders,
Speaker 1: but the Packers saw the field conditions they kept him
Speaker 1: on the sideline. That game was shortened to an eighty
Speaker 1: yard field goal because the end zone was a mess.
Speaker 1: Once again, that's just Ethan going above and beyond the
Speaker 1: call the duty, and we thank him for his contributions here.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Aaron Rodgers and Danna Kapatrick are
Speaker 1: officially Splitsville. Paulie thinks that means Aaron Rodgers. Now that's
Speaker 1: when you're about unto b the m v P. Yes, boy,
Speaker 1: kind of sad about this one. I remember we had
Speaker 1: her in studio. She was she was backing her guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a good little thing that going. I know.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that I had heard John Legend do a
Speaker 1: version of Arcade Fire and I just heard it yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever do you have it? Seaton?
Speaker 1: Have you heard of this? But John Legend did that
Speaker 1: Arcade Fire's song. But maybe we can look and see
Speaker 1: if we can find that. Let me see Jesse in
Speaker 1: la Hey, Jess, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: Petty B Happy positivity, Friday? Great this week? Thanks sir
Speaker 1: Hey on that topic, this isn't the point of my
Speaker 1: question about have you guys heard of the David Bowie
Speaker 1: Arcade Fire performance of that song? Y not? You should
Speaker 1: look it up. It's drey. I think you'd love it.
Speaker 1: But the reason I call is I wanted to say
Speaker 1: thank you for saying this in the week. I'm some
Speaker 1: laughter with brand Bo. I'm gardnering. He's always great and
Speaker 1: it goes a long way with all that's going on.
Speaker 1: And a few weeks back you did the same with
Speaker 1: Bob Yucker and when you asked him how he was
Speaker 1: able to stick around the league for so long, I'll
Speaker 1: being so average, and you responded with the absolute gem
Speaker 1: of a quote, large, He's got to be done. Thank you, Jesse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm getting to the point where the last guest on Friday.
Speaker 1: I want that person to provide some laughs, a little
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Speaker 1: Show two gets started here this day in sports history,
Speaker 1: Paulie Dan again, it's a little quiet. Nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: Brazil won its record fourth straight not fourth World Cup,
Speaker 1: not fourth straight, defeated Italy three two on penalty kicks
Speaker 1: and peaks. Yeah, and the longest hitting streak in baseball
Speaker 1: history ended when Cleveland Indians pitcher pitchers held New York
Speaker 1: Yankee slugger Joe Dimajo hitless for the first time in
Speaker 1: fifty seven games nineteen forty one. Yeah. I think the
Speaker 1: third baseman was Kenny Keltner, and he made a couple
Speaker 1: of real nice plays Kill Keltner. Yeah, and he he
Speaker 1: and then Demagio I think went on and like he
Speaker 1: had the streak stopped. Then I think he went on
Speaker 1: after that to have an eighteen game hitting streak something
Speaker 1: crazy like that. And I think he maybe Ethan'll no,
Speaker 1: he struck out a total of thirteen times that season,
Speaker 1: and he won the MVP. Not Ted Williams, who batted
Speaker 1: four h six. If that were to happen, now somebody, well,
Speaker 1: he can't do the sixty game season. But if somebody
Speaker 1: batted four hundred, or somebody had a fifty seven game
Speaker 1: hitting streak and Demaggio had great numbers two and the
Speaker 1: Yankees won that year. But I wonder if the person
Speaker 1: who has a fifty seven game hitting streak and their
Speaker 1: team wins, that they would win the MVP over somebody
Speaker 1: batting four hundred. Yes, boy, I was like at Joe
Speaker 1: DiMaggio stats. He was an All Star every season of
Speaker 1: his thirteen year career. He also missed age twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty nine, and thirty due to military service. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a big chunk right the prime Kyle in California, Hi Kyle,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey boys? Happy Friday? I
Speaker 1: want to make a quick Laker point and then a
Speaker 1: reference to the your cowboy quarterback list. They're gonna miss
Speaker 1: playoff Rundo. I think most you know they need lebron um.
Speaker 1: They need that scoring when Lebron's off the court. And
Speaker 1: then in reference to your cowboy quarterback list yesterday I'm
Speaker 1: listening like I do all the time, long time listener,
Speaker 1: and I hear my uncle babe's name me and be mentioned.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, dB, I need a little more respect.
Speaker 1: But on the man's name. Wait, wait, I said that
Speaker 1: I remember these names. Threw him in like the last one,
Speaker 1: like he shot. This is the fact that I mentioned.
Speaker 1: I didn't mention Chad Hutchinson. Thank you, Kyle. Please tell babe,
Speaker 1: I said, Oh, Babe Lathenberg, Yeah, what's your cowboy quarterback?
Speaker 1: You just remember that. You just tick off all the
Speaker 1: those names. Who is Quincy Carter? See a alboy quarterback
Speaker 1: as well? Yes, there is a small era of cowboy
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that didn't They struggled there for I see a
Speaker 1: statement from Dan Snyder and I'm up against the clock.
Speaker 1: But Snyder has addressed this basically, I mean their words.
Speaker 1: You know that's great. But let's we'll see you if
Speaker 1: there's actions here with Daniel Snyder. But he put out
Speaker 1: a statement here. Is there anything I need to mention
Speaker 1: here to be fair to the story, Paulie, The opening
Speaker 1: line of a statement from Dan Snyder, the behavior described
Speaker 1: in the Washington Post has no place in our franchise.
Speaker 1: In society. He talks about a full investigation, will do
Speaker 1: all work to improve policies and procedures in the future.
Speaker 1: That's a summary episode. Yeah, mclovin, what helmet are they
Speaker 1: gonna wear when they arrive in ten days to camp?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Uh, Fritzie, What did you learn
Speaker 1: on today's award winning program? Our friend Chris Maddox, who
Speaker 1: hasn't been outside of tell him Sunday, says his room
Speaker 1: reminds him of his college dorm days. Unmade beds, food
Speaker 1: all over, no women anywhere. To mcclovin. Jim actually did
Speaker 1: wear awaga and sees into the office see An O'Connor,
Speaker 1: Jim Moore a wig, Yeah, POLLI bomb gunner, good golf.
Speaker 1: Our guests, Yeah, I didn't realize that. What did I
Speaker 1: learn on today's program? Billy Isla's huge fan of the
Speaker 1: office used to cast members voices in her hit song
Speaker 1: My Strange Addiction. And I should have known that since
Speaker 1: I'm a Billie Eilish fan. What we learned brought to
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