WEBVTT - Craig Robinson 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.280 From Cavalry Audio, the studio that brought you The Devil 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.760 Within and The Shadow Girls, comes a new true crime podcast, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.080 The Pink Moon Murders. The local sheriff believes there may 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.440 be more than one killery. They were afraid it is 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.279 facing out in that area. The family was targeted, most 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.040 of them targeted while they were sleeping. The Pink Moon 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.880 Murders is available on February twenty second, and you can 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.479 follow The Pink Moon Murders on the I Heart Radio app, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.200 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What Girls 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.120 in the Forest our imagination and our family bonds. The 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.200 forest is closer than you think. 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Hello everybody, and 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.080 welcome back to a brand new episode of the Office 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:43.600 Deep Dive, this time with the hardest working man in showbiz. Nope, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.480 not our guest, me your host Brian bung Werner. Just kidding. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.240 You'll get that after you listen to the episode. Uh Today, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.680 as you just heard, I'm bringing on possibly the most 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:01.160 ambitious and certainly the most competent employee at dunder Mifflin. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.280 That's right, the voice of reason in all of the insanity, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.560 the incredible Craig Robinson. Like so many of the characters 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.680 on The Office, a lot of the inspiration, as you'll 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:18.280 hear for Darryl Philbin came from Craig's real personality. He 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.960 is an incredible musician and a hilarious comedian. Greg Daniels 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.360 actually discovered him by seeing him perform perhaps one of 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:35.440 the greatest comedy songs of all time, Somebody's Working, Mi Lady. Now. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.760 Despite the name, and despite the fact that Craig admits 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.040 to singing his way into booty calls. He insists that 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.079 his act is a great place to take a date, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:51.400 and I agree, I highly recommended. Craig is amazing. In 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.680 addition to his work on the Office, he's gone on 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.639 to work on many other amazing projects, from Brooklyn nine 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.959 nine to Hot Tub Time Sheen to Cleveland Show and 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.640 American Dad. I know you've all been waiting to hear 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.880 from him, and I am so excited that today is 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.560 finally the day, even though he didn't teach me any 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.480 super cool new phrases like think and flicker. But before 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.720 we dive in, just wanted to give you a quick 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.040 reminder that the world's best book, if I do say 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.640 so myself, or holiday present or late night reading, is 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.160 already available right now for pre order on Amazon. It 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.560 is called Welcome to dunder Mifflin, The Ultimate Oral History 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.920 of the Office. So go check that out and get 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.440 ready to be overtaken with your love for the show. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.760 But for now, the time has come to welcome our 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:53.360 very own warehouse foreman and my good friend, Craig Robinson. Bubble, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:04:02.680 I love it, Bubble, Bubble and squeaker cooking every more 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:18.080 left over from the nabople What's what's up? How you 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:23.960 doing so? I mean, I'm good. It's been so long 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.160 since I saw you? How long? I mean a couple 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.679 of years. It's been a few what's new in your life? 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.560 I mean, I'm doing this right now. I'm on the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.680 road a lot you. Oh yeah, yeah, what's this thing on? Yeah, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.200 it's probably on. We start already. We'll not really tell 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.000 the truth, man, I mean it's it's recording, but I'm 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:51.880 just interested in stay. What's up? Okay? Um? Check check 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.240 check check? Are you checking your sound? Yeah? Are you 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.200 a sound expert? Well, you're a musician, so yeah. I 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.400 mean I don't know if it's going louder or something there. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.200 Did I ever tell you the story? This is before 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:14.279 I think we had done the pilot only and I 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.640 hadn't been in l a very long. Did I ever 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.080 tell you going the Mbar story? For real? I went 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.720 to the Mbar and they used to do like an 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.760 open mic night, and somebody was like, oh, go to 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.359 the m Bar. I think I knew somebody who was 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.799 like a server there, and I remember it was David 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:35.080 Cross was there, and Sarah Silverman some other people and 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.920 you you were so far in away the funniest thing 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.400 that night. Well, you had a guy with h I 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.039 think me and Jerry did. Yeah. Yeah. How many shows 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.600 you do a year? I mean how many cities? Oh shows, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.200 shows are like, you know, five sometimes seven a weekend, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.960 so I probably do third Are you thirty plus weeks? 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.640 Are you? Jesus if I'm not feeling myself? So you're 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.600 the hardest working manag show business. Not not by a 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:16.280 long show. Um, okay, So rewind back like two thousand 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.120 three four? What were you doing before the office came on? 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.120 H stand up? Doing much stand up? And you know, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.960 I had some parts here and there. Um did a 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.400 show called Lucky. I was on FX and then uh, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.440 great show, thank you Commy. Yeah that was that was 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.800 lightning in a bottle right there, man. And then yeah 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.960 it was two thousand one we started four yeah, okay, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:53.640 so yeah, so Lucky and then about to stand up. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.800 I'm not sure. Did you do Second City? Yeah? Chicago? Yeah? 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.840 I did the training sent I didn't do the Okay, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:06.320 I just did it, went through all the classes. Okay. Um, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.880 you incorporate music a lot into your stand up. Do 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.320 you think that Darryl being a musician on the show, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.040 did that come from you. Do you think the writers 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:20.680 wrote that? Yeah, they they we were like a towel 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.680 being rung up. They got whatever. But whatever they knew 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.280 we could do, they got it out of this right. Absolutely. Yeah, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.640 you started pretty early. I mean I remember that Christmas 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.000 episode you and I think we were djaying in the 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:39.720 corner and then gradually you started. Yeah, we had like, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.080 uh what do you call those little balls that with 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.800 the lights and UHC disco ball? Obviously, I mean for 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:52.800 people who don't know, music comes very easy to you. Yes, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:58.080 I have seen people hum you tunes and you start playing, well, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.480 yeah trained here Is it trained or is it natural? 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.640 I mean both. You have to sit down and like, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.240 like there's time I was sitting, like, play a song 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.520 and let's breakdown note for no, each chord, rewind it 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.400 to play again. We want to play it again until 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.520 I get and go through the whole song and it. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.240 Once you do that, you know, sometimes you start you know, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.280 see patterns and you know, see what's going on in 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.119 the song. So that's how you learned. Do you read music? Yeah, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.440 but how you do not? Like I can hear me. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.360 It takes me a while to read some music, but 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.880 I can hear pretty good. You hear better than anyone 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.560 I've ever seen. Okay, no, I'm just saying I'm trying. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.439 I don't know, but but you trained yourself to do that. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.680 I think people think about it as being sort of 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.560 a natural gift, but no, it's definitely a gift. But 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.680 it's it's you know, it's a gift. You have to 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.880 work for it. It's like you you gotta know you 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:04.000 have the talent to do it, and then just developed 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:09.280 that right. I remember later on they kept pairing me 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:15.800 with you and Ed Helms in musical situations, the z 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.600 Kevin and the Zitz. There was Kevin and the Zitz, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.079 and I remember we would you know, we never had 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.600 time to read the episodes before we did them, and 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.720 we would read the episodes and they would be like song, song, song, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:30.640 and I don't know if you knew this. I would 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.480 go to them and I would be like, okay, when 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.000 is rehearsals? When is rehearsals? And then I would come 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.280 to you and I'd be like all right, you guys, 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.200 can we and you'd be like yeah, yeah, no, we're good, 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.280 We're good, and Ed be the same way, like as like, no, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.760 that's fine, no, I got it, and I was like, no, no, no, guys, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.959 I don't have it. I don't know what the hell 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.160 I'm doing. Um there's a quote that has been attributed 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.439 to you, which that you basically started doing music because 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.880 it's there were so many funny people in Chicago that 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.800 you wanted to do something that was different. And what 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:07.480 is that true? Not exactly? Um, I just you know, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.839 it's my thing. And I had the song that I 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.760 did in college that transferred over to the stage. I 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.880 would be like, play, you know, piano the same I'm 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.040 singing to a girl on the phone, you know, singing 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.040 a nice and like talking to a singing to a 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.920 little bit. You know, it's romantic, and I hit up 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.680 with it. Can I had some booty right, and then 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.320 I was like, okay him, listen to see if she's laughing. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.480 And watched it so she's laughing. Okay, we're good. But 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.679 so then I did that, like I don't know, some 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.960 open mic kind of thing. But it wasn't the open mic. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.360 It was like, you know, actors in the room on 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.679 a Friday night, like you know, and then you just 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.200 did what you do. So they want to start doing comedy. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.080 I went up and did this show, and uh, it 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.880 didn't go too well. Let's just think I'll heckless heaven. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.760 It's in Chicago, and you get eight minutes to perform 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.640 the first three minutes, nobody gets the mess with you. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.240 From the third minute on if people wanted to hecker you. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.760 There are three people in the audience who have rubber chickens. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.559 If you've got all three rubber chickens, you had to 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.000 get off stage. And then, uh, three people have score cards. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.880 So I got two rubber chickens the first night and 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:24.839 before I get to there like I'm not getting a 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.800 third chicken, It's good night. Then the next week I 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.720 came back with my keyboard. That's all she wrote. You 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:36.559 did the song that ends with your buddy getting the phone. Um, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:42.080 somebody's sucking my lady. Somebody's sucking my lady. Yeah, somebody's Yeah. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.079 That's that's what you saw. That's what I saw at mbark. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.360 That's what got me like. They got me in front 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.719 of Apple Town to get me in front of Greg Daniels. Yeah. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.920 When I did my audition for the Office, Great Games 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.480 was like, doesn't get any funny into that. I was like, okay, now, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.640 audition like, Oh, what like it seems like a big 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:16.320 vote of confidence, right, I'm thinking like, oh man, it's 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.679 a hard time for hiring, so you need a hiring 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:24.560 partner built for hard times. That's Indeed. 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It scared me to death, Like 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.760 it scared me, I was very very intimidating to live here. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.280 Crazy to think you go to sleep one night, maybe 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.920 snuggling with your loved one, and never wake up, or 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.800 maybe you wake up in a struggle for your life, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.240 which you lose. Joint host David Radiman as he explores 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.000 one fateful night when evil descended upon small town, Ohio, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.080 killed eight members of an Ohio family in a pre 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.640 planned execution. The family was targeted, most of them targeted 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.880 while they were sleeping. The Pink Moon Murders is available 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.280 on February twenty second, and you can follow The Pink 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.360 Moon Murders on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.200 or wherever you get your podcasts. The art world it 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.440 is essentially a money laundering business. The best bakes are 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.120 still hanging on people's walls. You know, they don't even 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.040 know or suspect that their faces. I'm Alec Baldwin and 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.680 this is a podcast about deception, greed and forgery in 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:16.520 the art world. You knew the painting was fake. Um, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.840 listen to Art Fraud on the I Heart Radio app, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:42.520 Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.440 do Lucky? And then you're doing stand up? And then 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.640 how did you did you know about the office before 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:56.640 you came on? Saul the British pilot on an airplane, okay, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.800 And I was dying right, and I was like, damn, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.800 I wish I could find that, you know. And one 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.040 day I was like drumming past seven eleven and I 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.640 saw the picture David Brent. Now that's that's the dude 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.160 from this show, you know. And then I end up 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.840 getting the audition. No, I didn't know much about except 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:20.720 for that pilot. And when you got the audition was 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.680 did you think it was just for one episode or 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.840 were they saying like you may come around. No, it 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.120 was just I mean it was it was the first season, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.960 so you didn't even know, you know, what was going on. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.200 So I just came in, did the did the audition, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.640 and they called me later after y'all get well on 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:44.120 the way, I was established an episode for Yeah, And 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.560 did you know Allison Jones before that? I don't know 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.200 if I worked with Alison. I'm not before that. No, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.960 you know what let missing? I think I had gotten 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.880 forty yeo, I'm sorry, knocked up? How did I do that? 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.760 Everybody does that to me? Fort Your Virgin? Like, no, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.520 it's knocked up, knocked up and I just messed it up. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.680 I got auditioned for Fortio Virgin, but I didn't get that, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.080 but I did get knocked up, So I'm not sure 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.560 exactly what you want happen right right right? But did 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.520 you know that it was had the possibility to to 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.720 recur at that point or zero idea of just doing 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.840 a job, right, What was different for you or was 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.920 there anything different for you in terms of the way 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.600 that the show was shot. Yeah, that was that was 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.000 way different. Like everything else was like a movie was 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.000 you know, the two cameras doing a thing, but nobody 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.000 was swinging cameras around. Right. I feel like Darryl, you know, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:46.280 even from the beginning, had kind of a gem thing 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.000 with the camera, like it felt like you were on 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.359 the same page, Like you would do the looks to 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.919 the camera like did you just see that idiot. I 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.720 don't get a lot of camera looks untill later, but 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.199 people do say, yeah, see me as a voice of 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:08.080 reason and in all the insanity. Yeah, Ben Silverman says 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.359 that you're the smartest person who worked a Dunner Mifflin. Well, no, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.560 not you, but Darryl right right, right right, I can 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.719 see that. Yeah, Daryl was just trying to you know, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.320 be honest, make an honest buck, and I couldn't believe 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.720 a lot of things that I was going around him. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.399 And you know, he knew he had to keep the 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.840 peace and knew he had to uh keep his job. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.160 So I don't I don't think he has worked out 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.080 smart in these cats. He just was, you know, just 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.320 like would you believe these cats? You know, but it 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.119 felt like, you know, they showed a lot that the 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:49.159 warehouse maybe was run more efficiently than the regular office. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:55.800 Like you were well, you were good. Yeah. Um. Darryl's 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.960 relationship with Michael in the show, it was a very 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.399 like he kept coming to you for advice, particularly on 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.520 black culture. It was a very very funny dynamic. What 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:14.040 was your experience working with Steve? He's the greatest. The 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:19.160 way he could turn it comedy button off and on 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:25.040 like a falsett. It was just genius to me. Whenever 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:26.720 I had a scene with him on it, and I 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:32.360 was like, titilation was holy, you know, very exciting. And 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.680 I learned from him, stole from him all of that. Yeah, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.600 it's funny that you said you said that, because I 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:39.960 thought you were going to say something else, which I 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.959 think is also true. Is part of his genius is 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.600 how he turns so quick even within a scene, you 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.879 know what I mean, Like he is he is fighting 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.520 down one path and something may happen and he just 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.840 turns it like that and he's like, you know, ultimate 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:02.320 scene part of two. He listens and acts two. You 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.560 know what's going on? Like, we had a scene I 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:11.400 didn't even really notice until it aired. It was a negotiation. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.800 It might be my favorite episode just because of the 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.600 work I did with Steve and being able to play 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.879 with him like that. It was a scene where he's like, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.200 I'm not going to speak first, like decline to speak first. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.880 So we did a couple of takes and it was fine. Uh, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.920 And then he did his next take and he's making 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:37.880 these faces and if you look closely, you could see 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:43.600 Meet started crack a smile on that. But it was 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.280 just like, without even speaking, he could, you know, pull 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.080 us out of you. The laughter is like, oh, he's 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.680 about to get me. But also in that episode when 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.359 I was saying, uh, where he listens and you know, 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.879 like the perfect improvisation partner, You're listening and take it 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.920 to the next level. So we's talking about, you know, 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.359 getting a raise from Jane. I said, make it happen, Captain, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:20.040 he said, I will, Sergeant God game amazing. Do you 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:24.360 think that your relationship with him evolved throughout the show. Yeah, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.160 but I think everybody's everybody evolved in this show. Everybody 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.080 I went through character development. Um, you know, that's one 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.359 of the things that makes it what it is. People 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.160 got to know these people, right. But yeah, I think 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.640 every every situation evolved to something. I mean, you started 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:49.000 out and your episodes were mainly about like the office 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:54.200 versus the warehouse, whether directly in basketball or like a 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.720 weird class thing where you have like the white collar 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.680 and the blue collar. Talk to me about the transition 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.919 for you character wise or as an actor of you 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.439 finally coming up and being a regular part of like 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:13.359 the bullpen characterized. Um, it felt like like it did 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.480 in real life, like oh many and making you a 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.560 regular you know what I'm saying. So definitely a move 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.760 on up for Craig, INFI, Darryl, you know. And it 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.600 was like more responsibility. And Rain used to say I 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.600 had the sweetest schedule in Hollywood because I would come 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:33.400 in for like an episode here and then four weeks 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:38.640 later come in to the Christmas episode. But yeah, character wiz, 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:42.000 it was it was like, yeah, step up and okay, 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.359 let's starting to see you know, starting to feel me. 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:48.239 And for Craig myself, it was like, hey, this is 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:53.679 this is awesome, Like because I didn't understand like I 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.440 thought we were a year to year like every other show. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.439 You know, you don't know, you don't know, But it 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.720 was something about the offered, like like I remember one 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.440 one year and they were like many was like, yeah, 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:07.320 we're gonna be dating, and it didn't happen for a year, 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.120 and I kind of forget about. In the next year 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.560 we were dating. I was like, Oh, that's that's interesting. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.119 How don't know we're gonna be picked up? You know, 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.920 I guess you don't know what you do that kind 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:26.960 of I wasn't, you know, none of those conversations. So 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:28.760 one of the people that I've talked to is uh 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:33.199 TV critic, and she talked about The Office. One of 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:35.479 the things that was notable about it was that it 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.120 was She defined it as casually diverse. Do you feel 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.920 like the Office in terms of race or your experience? 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.600 Do you feel like it it did something right or 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:48.760 wrong in terms of that it presented us as people? 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:54.520 And now all right with me, I don't notice right 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.440 or wrong. I think casually diverse is a great way 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.080 to put it. But it just, you know, we would 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.800 regularly it would look like a real office. We weren't like, 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:09.840 you know, models walking around. It was so proper dialogue. 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:14.280 This was like, just Okay, these are people someone probably 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:17.760 have some mentally know problems that they need to take 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:22.000 care of, right there, unleashed on society and it's fine. 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.200 Do you think the show did anything in terms of 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:32.560 a positive message in terms of diversity or race? I 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:35.480 mean you were nominated for three and double A CP Awards, 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:43.720 correct lost a three though, Nick Cannon, Ice Cube and 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:47.800 somebody else. But um, I mean people from all walks 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:53.399 of life love the Office, So I I wish I 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:57.200 could speak to that specifically somebody you know, and somebody 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.680 would be like, you know what, I had a problem 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:03.439 back people, But it's just that show. You know, I 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.919 don't know, right, I just don't know that answer. You 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:09.720 know what's funny? This is kind of side note. Someone 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.480 pointed this out that in Christmas Party we were talking 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.600 about before season two, Michael tells Darryl that he can't 0:25:15.600 --> 0:25:21.520 wear a Santa hat, and eight years later Megan Kelly 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:26.160 there was a controversy was started by Santa Claus White kids. Yeah, 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.119 like he was before anyone ever knew who Meg and 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.480 Kelly was. He was making a joke out of what 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:37.600 she would say in the future calling America. Yeah, um, 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:41.760 do you do that in your comedy race? Yeah? Stuff, 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:47.760 We're just about America. No, not really, No, I have 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:52.560 a date x my acting mostly for like lovers. It's 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:55.080 a great date night. I mean it's for everybody, but 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.960 it's a couples get. I don't know, a boost out 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.120 of it, a boot, like a sexual boost, something you give, 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:06.680 a sexual boost, something that gally happens. I'm definitely about 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:10.679 the you know, the relationship. But interesting, I wonder what 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:25.639 my vibe is. I don't think it's that Hello, Hello, Hi, 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:27.440