#78 The Office
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My voice is awful. Is it gone? Sounds like. It's not the best it's ever been. It's not the best it's ever been. Been yelling? Huh? I don't know. It's been everywhere. You screaming at the fight. Screaming at the fight. Went to the UFC fight this weekend. We were in Vegas. I think it just caught up. It's been on the road nonstop doing a lot of shows. I went to bed last night. I don't ever fall. Like, I never just fall asleep.

Like, I never just like nod off. I mean, maybe. I don't know if I ever do, really. I don't know. I've just never been someone that nods off. Harper's the same way now. She doesn't ever just. Harper's never like. I remember going to the one Vandy game. The only game I saw Darius Garland when I went to see him. They played LSU. And so me and Harper went. And she was probably like five or six.

And all we did was end up, she would want to go to the top and then the bottom. So, I mean, I watched some of the game and I was telling her, I was like, this is one of the best Fandy players we've ever had, like about Darius Garland. And then she'd be like, let's go to the top. And then we'd go sit on the very top and stuff. But I remember that night she fell asleep on me. Like I carried her inside and like we were just sitting on the chair and she fell asleep. And I was like, huh? It was like, she just doesn't do that. Yeah.

And I don't either. But last night, I was like watching TV. I was pretty excited. It was like 11.30. And I mean, I just, I was like, let me just close my eyes. And then it was like 12.30. And then I just went straight to bed. And I mean, I was out. Yeah. I have been pretty tired. And age has catched up with you. Huh? Yeah. Well, it's been a run. We went to, so we went to Vegas this weekend. And we did, the shows were awesome. You know, my dad and Nick were out there.

And then we had a bunch of buddies come out there. I got a golf rich day. We always talk about it here. Fee now. And so it was just a fun, fun weekend. And then it just added up. And then here you are. UFC fight was unreal.

so fun dude was that your first one you've been to I went to one in Nashville but I've never been to a big one I mean like so the one we went in Nashville when they did it here it wasn't it was like I don't know if I really knew anybody on the card or anything like that but this was the first like big one and it was just it's just so fun UFC is it is moving it's my favorite sport I just like it so much it's

They have just such big fights, and you kind of know them, and these guys are just on another level. I mean, the women fights, Amanda Nunes, she lost. It was a big deal because she's considered the best ever. Right. And for her to lose, it's the biggest upset in UFC history, or top two, maybe.

So to be there for that, and I just love how, you know, they do really good with women's sports. You know, I think a lot of sports have trouble with women's sports. And UFC, tennis does a really good job. And then with this, women's soccer, I guess the Olympic soccer team. But then UFC, I mean, they headline events, and you're just like – I mean, it was awesome to get to go to see that fight, and now –

So the whole thing was awesome. We got a hat. It was with Nick. Nick talks to everybody. It was just me. We had to split up. We had a bunch of us come. And so Laura and her friend, they sat in four seats, and me and Nick sat in two seats. And, I mean, yeah, Nick got after it. And then he just talks to everybody. I mean, he's just talking to everybody around us.

you know, but it was fun. Everybody's yelling. It's, it's, it's an awesome, awesome experience. Uh,

and you're close. And did I see you guys ring the bell at the hockey game? Yeah. So they had me go. So I went to Vegas Wednesday and then we went to the hockey game and they ring a siren for the Vegas Knights to start the third period. And so you go up at the very top and there's a castle and you hold it and you ring it. And then, you know, and Nick, I just had Nick, I was like, can Nick come with me? And they go, yeah. And Nick was up there and he was just dancing the whole time. I'm like,

It was very cool. The whole experience was super fun. Nick and my dad hung out a lot because I was golfing the other day. Him and my dad went to the hot tub one day. They go to the hot tub. Nick gets out of the hot tub, puts his towel, throws his towel in the thing. My dad's like, that's the trash can. Yeah.

And so Nick all weekend has been throwing his towels in the trash can thinking it was the towel thing. I mean, every day, all weekend, multiple towels. Because he likes the water. Yeah. So he goes a few times a day and just gets out of the hot tub, dumps it in the trash can, and gets on his way. And they just had to. So if the wind in Vegas is wondering where some towels have gone,

It is Nick Novicki, and he is throwing them all in the trash can. But it was an awesome, awesome weekend. So now we get to chill out for a second. I don't think it starts until January. It starts back up January 12th, I think. I had some company Christmas parties in North Carolina and Kentucky. I was flying home on Delta.

And of course they have the TV screens in the back of the seats. And I'm in aisle seat. I just assumed that they edited those shows for content on a public... I thought they did too. I choose the episode The Sopranos. Yeah.

And there's a scene at the strip club, women just completely naked. And I'm in the aisle seat, so everyone behind me can just see everything. There's kids back there. There's everything. Yeah. And I'm just sitting there thinking, what do I do? Do I try to make a scene? Those screens aren't as intuitive as a phone. You can't quickly stop. The woman beside me is watching a Hallmark Christmas movie. And I decided just to write it out and not bring attention to me. The scene went on forever.

The girl walks off the stage, comes over to Tony and the guys, and he's just got his arm around her. It's a really, really long scene. And I was just shocked that they allow that on a plane. This is on the back of the headrest of the guy in front of you? Yeah. Just out in the open. Just out in the open. You should ask the Hallmark lady to switch seats. She said, do you mind if I sit in the middle because I'm watching some stuff that is inappropriate. And so I just feel like a good middle seat is for me.

I need to be. I really need the window seat. I need to be contained. I think I turned it off or fast forwarded. I was, I mean, I was sitting there debating like this thing can't be that long and it is kept going. Yeah. It kept going. It was the one where they, for the soccer coach, they got him like one of the girls or something. It just, the scene would never stop. Yeah.

You describing this thing is not stopping either. I mean, I think we all get it. You're like, no, let me get into it. Let me tell you a little bit more. You say the word naked the way I hoped you would. Naked. Yeah, I know it.

Stark naked. Stark naked. They were nude. Yeah, naked's real. Real Southern. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what you do. I mean, you try. I've seen just violence on it where you're like, you feel uncomfortable. You're like, I don't like this. There's too many people can see this. But I don't know what I, I just don't watch that. Watch a whole scene of you just trying to watch an episode. How long was the flight? I mean, it was a pretty short flight. I don't know.

It was like an hour or something. Did you get to watch the whole episode? Yeah. Oh, great. If you want to watch, then you start landing and then you're like, so there's no reason for me to even watch. I can't even enjoy the whole episode. If I had tried to stop it, I would have somehow rewound it. It would just kept playing over and over. Yeah. The same scene. You should have started stretching. Just start stretching and just like, you know, and you know, like block it.

Should have been like, hey, you see The Sopranos? See this? Yeah. One of the best shows of all time. One of the best shows. What are you watching? Hallmark? Loser. Yeah, I don't know. I fly Southwest. I don't have the luxury of a screen. Keep working hard, kid. I'll get the Delta eventually. Southwest lets you watch on your iPad, though. Yeah, you can watch on your phone. So you can do that.

I bring an iPad. I don't have an iPad. Oh, yeah? I'll get there one day. I don't watch stuff on – I think your generation is fine watching on your phone. I don't think y'all need a big screen.

I think you're right about that. I think you're just so used to watching on your phone that you don't even think about bringing a screen. You're like, I'm just watching my phone. I like to have it. But if you bring the phone close to your face, that's the same as watching it on a big TV. That's far away. That means you've got to hold it. You've got to hold it like Nick. You look like Nick. Yeah, you look like Nick trying to read and just being like.

Nick said he got a bunch of doctor advice. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Is he going to look into it at all? Yeah. I mean, I think he was going to try to reach out to some of them. But, I mean, they might be right. His guy might be right. Oh, yeah. They all said that. Yeah. Like, yeah, he's just... You can't... Glasses aren't going to do it because your cornea has changed shape. So he needs either those hard contact lenses or a cornea transplant. Him putting in contact lenses, I just don't know if I like that. It's just...

Oh, I mean, I just, I'm going to be a wreck until like just knowing he's doing that every day. I just don't know. You have to take them out. I don't understand what hard is. Is there, are they hard? Yeah. I mean, they're, uh-huh. When I was, I didn't even know they still had a card contact lenses. I thought they were just all soft now, but when I first started wearing contacts, you had the option of hard or soft lenses. You wear contacts now? Yeah. Oh yeah. Is hard, uh, yeah. Do you have glasses too? Yeah. Just in case. Mm-hmm.

A lot of people diagnosed you as well. Yes, I do have glasses. A lot of people diagnosed your...

your dehydration. Yeah. I saw one email. Are we reading any of them or no? No, there's not any on here. Type 2 diabetes. Somebody said, yeah, pre-diabetic. And I just want to say how great it would be if Nate got diabetes before me. Yeah. You'd wish it. Look how far we've come. Yeah. Not even type 1, type 2. You just jumped right to that. I get it. Type 1 is a breeze. I was born with type 1. Yeah.

I ain't got that. I didn't get that in my sleep. You moved up the type two. If I do things, I do them real. I do them big. Go big or go home. Yeah, my dad has diabetes. So I don't know if I, like, you know, I got to go get it. I mean, I've thought about it every day since then. So I think I have another physical coming up and I'm going to just be like, ah.

Do I got to tell the doctor? So some people that I don't know all say they think I look like a guy that has type 2 diabetes. So can y'all check that out if you don't mind? They're like, why would you want to do that? A lot of people. I'm going to say you don't. I don't think they realize just how little water you drink. I know. Well, you're going to be dehydrated if you never drink water. But I've been drinking more now since then. I mean, I don't get it as much, but it's like it just felt like it.

But are you still dehydrating? I still get a very dry mouth. I still, you know, and I mean, I've been pounding some water. Yeah. It could be eating. Dude had ice cream last night. A ton of it. There's water in ice cream. That's true. You know, I always have to tell myself that. There's probably a lot of water in the food I ate. You get it from like candy and stuff? Is that how you get diabetes? Oh, I thought you meant water. Yeah. No. You just suck on it. You just get it from bad eating? Yeah.

I don't know. I think it certainly contributes all the sugar. Yeah. Doesn't help. Yeah. I think that's the difference in the types, right? Yeah. One of them's a genetic and one of them's... One you earn it. Yeah. Type two's earned. Type two you put in the work. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's an honor. Yeah. Is there a type three?

Oh, man. I'll find out. You can be the first. You can get there, man. Yeah, I mean, you have to do all the shots and stuff if I do it, right? Is that what your dad does? Yeah, but I don't know what he has. I think he has one that you could get rid of if he ate better and worked out, which seems like some of them. It's not like you're – because, I mean, isn't Jay colored diabetic? I almost – I don't know if I'm throwing that on him, but let's say he is. Let's see.

I have no idea if he is, but I, so Jay Cutler is. How far can you throw a football if you're a type three diabetic? Yeah. Yeah. I, uh. Oh yeah, he has it. Type one. Type one. So that's like your, uh, we should ask him about that.

But that's like you're born with it. Yeah. That's like you have no choice. You just ambush him with a diabetes interview when he got here. That'd be hilarious. Yeah. I mean, if it's type two, it's like, yeah, it's earned. So I got to get that. All right. Another thing. Another thing. And we'll be, the road's going to be fun. I'm going to be doing nothing on the road. Like.

Just be walking out. Was it a lot of type 2 diabetes too? No. Was there anything else? It was more than one. Gout? No. No, I'm just kidding. No. Type 2 diabetes seems to definitely be. It was the leader. Yeah. Okay. Good to know. We have a lot of listeners that have type 2 diabetes. I guess maybe we'll have a meetup. They all know. Are there doctors? A lot of listeners either doctors or they haven't. Jeremy Hoffman.

He has type 3 diabetes. I don't know, Jeremy. I'm sorry. I don't know if that's not true. Jeremy Hoffman, a perfect representation of this podcast is when Nate introduced the topic of the universe.

and then mentioned he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award and followed it up with a fun fact about Aaron never peeing on a plane, and everyone treated it like those three things were equally as relevant and interesting. Also, I'm pretty sure the airplane peeing conversation lasted three times longer than the award conversation. Unbelievable. That's true. I don't think I'm getting respect that I deserve for my Critics' Choice Award. I think you were leading that conversation, right?

Yeah, I think y'all should have brought it up. I shouldn't have had to bring up my own award. I think you should have been like, hey, man, congrats on the Cricket Shorts. I didn't even know about it, but I should have assumed. You should have just assumed. Yeah. Any award. Any award. I probably got it. In the running, at least. In the running. I should be at least. Yeah, that's my bad. Be congratulated on. The Golden Globes were announced today. So I should be announced. Congratulations. Thank you.

They don't do stand-up comedy, but if they did, I'm sure we would have won it. So I will just put I probably would have won it. The same people every time. Same people. Guys won't get out of the way. Steven Searcy. I left out an audible groan when I saw this week's topic, considering the guys had their minds blown by stoppage time in soccer the week before.

Why not try to talk about everything ever created? We should. We could. We did. That was the universe. Oh, that's what the universe. That's what he's referencing last week. He's talking about like cups and stuff, which we could do that universe and how pencils were made. Yeah. How do we get from the universe to pencils? Yeah. That's what's crazy. Wow. You think about that? They talk about that in Notre Dame.

They go, well, you got the universe, and then I can write on a pen on a paper. There's a big bang, and then billions of years later, there's a pencil. Yeah, wow. All made up of the same stuff that stars are made out of. Yeah. Pretty crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. And we go, wow. Wow. And then that's it. Well, it's too much to think about. I mean, I think about that a lot. Like, it is crazy. You're like, we go from the, you know...

the universe being created to us to then, you know, I pricked my finger, like I bit my tongue and you're like, the universe was created and now I'm here biting my tongue. Just how the, you know...

That's also in the mix of every, you know. It's part of the universe. It's not the biggest problem, but it's a problem. Biting your tongue is a problem of the universe. It wouldn't be listed probably. If they said, what can we do with the universe and problems of the universe? Biting your tongue, I think, would be at the bottom. It would be listed, but then they would be like, we got other stuff, like hunger and stuff like that. Type 2 diabetes we'd like to get rid of.

Robert Vinny Lombardi. Ooh. One of my faves. Loved watching the train wreck of Nate, Aaron, Baller, and Mick struggle discussing the vastness of our universe. I lost it when Nate said he wished they would just guess when it came to the Big Bang Theory. Theory is literally the definition of a guess. Then when Mick compared Elon Musk to God, I almost spit out my coffee. Keep up the great work, gents.

Is theory literally the definition of a guess? No, I think scientifically, theory is a significant term. Like, you have to get there. So, like, a theory is basically, like, accepted fact. It's not just a guess out of nowhere. That's the back to my first joke I ever came up with. Educated guess is so educated. Why is it a guess?

First thing I ever wrote down for stand-up comedy. That got me to here. Really? To writing a pen on this table in this podcast. Wow, that was your big bang. That was my big bang. My big bang was if an educated guest is so educated, why is it a guest? And I said it as I drove a car delivering pizzas as a second job to save money to move to Chicago. And I had a voice recorder. And I put that in there. So I won't forget it.

I never forgot it. And it needs to be forgotten. Never really made it into something. That'll be my last. When you hear that joke as a closer, you know that I'm done with my stand-up career. That's how I'm going to end it out. Goodbye, folks. But I admire you for sticking to your guns because 18 years later, I feel like you still feel exactly the same about that, right? I think I've proven it. Yeah.

I think Robert Vinnie Lombardi. I mean, is that? I think if your last name's Lombardi, you have to at least name your kid Vinnie. His middle name. Vince. What if he is? You got to get, though, a Vince in there, right? I know, but what if he's related to Lombardi? I don't think it's a common name. There's a good chance. There's a great chance of that. Maybe it's him. Angie Wilkinson. She's probably related to a lot of people. The Wilkinson family.

Hey, what have they done for us? You know, I don't know. I'm sure some Wilkinsons have done quite a few things. Probably. Great episode. Bless Nate's heart. Trying to talk about the universe. Also Aaron's self-control, not always correct him, is to be commended. She was very nice though, Wilkinson. Sorry, Angie. Yeah. Good job, Aaron. Hey, thanks, man.

You didn't even know what you're talking about. I have no idea what I'm talking about. See, that's my problem is you educated people think you know. I've been thinking about that a lot. Like I don't, I'm just not educated in, I don't know. Yeah. It's like the big words thing. I said, y'all use just big words. So we can't be in the conversation, even though we should be allowed to be. And you should have to use words that are not as big. Yeah. That's what I think y'all do. We talk about, we've talked about this before that, that, uh,

the beef between, I think it was William Faulkner and Hemingway. Maybe it was Hemingway. They had this argument back and forth. And one of the, the bit, they were right articles about each other in newspapers, just trashing each other. Yeah. And Faulkner says, well, you know, he, he's never been known to use a word that would send readers to a dictionary.

Yeah. Like that was a big insult. And the other guy came back with, do you really think big emotions come from big words? Oh, wow. And I was like, hit him right there. I think about that a lot. Yeah. About that on a stage sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes the smaller word hits a little harder. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it gets to the point. Every album, when people use big words, it feels in comedy sometimes, it feels like it doesn't fit what we're doing. Like you're trying to make, uh,

You're trying to be funny. And so sometimes if someone uses a big word, it's like you're like dressing up. What is that saying? You're dressing up a cow? I don't know. Lipstick on a pig? Lipstick on a pig. But a cow would be the same thing. Putting a dress. What are you putting a dress on a cow? I don't know why that's, that should be the same. That's way better. That's way better. Lipstick on a pig. That's ridiculous. When you're getting a cow, getting a rooster, something. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, you put a bracelet on a coconut. Taylor Lavelle. Nate was totally right about the sun being eight light minutes away. Light second is the distance light goes in a second light year a year and so on. There you go. You're right. I was right. I apologize, man. Yeah. I just never heard light minute before and it caught me off guard. Because y'all don't get into the nit and gritty in Notre Dame. Y'all...

brush over it. You're like, this is just enough so when you talk to dumb people, you can get out of the conversation. You just hear some big words. That's what college is. College goes, here's some big words. Use them when you get up against a common folk. Don't give them a chance to pick it apart like you did. Yeah. Don't let them question it. You just keep saying the same thing over and over but in big words and then they walk away.

Someone compared y'all to Michael Scott and Oscar when they debated about China. Oh, yeah. And Michael, he won, right? Yeah. Yeah. He got it right. Came from a different angle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Laura Wagner. That's a good name. Mm-hmm. Guys, whenever you ask, how can they know that? The answer is almost always math. Mm-hmm.

Just because you may not understand it does not mean it's not real. It's real. It's science and not just someone's opinion. Still a huge fan, even though this part bugs me a lot. I disagree, Laura. It's science.

I learned how they calculate how many stars are in the universe. How's that? Math. They took a picture of one small section of the sky, and then they counted all the galaxies that are in that one section. Then they figure out how many sections are in the sky total, and they multiplied that by that. Then they figured out how many stars was in one galaxy, and then they multiplied that by that, and that's how they came up with it.

But I mean, but that wouldn't be assumed that everyone's the same. Yes. So if that's, if everyone's not the same, then you could be completely off. Yeah, they're making some dangerous assumptions. So they're making an estimation. Yes. Yeah. So it's still, it's someone's opinion. But it's like, he's like, I put in the work. His opinion would be, y'all didn't look it up. I at least am trying. Right. It's an educated opinion. And then so you go, all right, man, well, I should listen to his opinion because I'm not going to bother with it.

So that's true. So Laura's right. Yeah, Laura's right. I should be like, it's okay. Yeah. Unless I want to get into it. Right. So if I look at one star in my circle, put a hand, go, there's five stars in there. And then I go, so there's probably... How many circles? How many circles can I make? All around. A lot. Yeah. A lot. It'd be the same thing. And then I just would say it like that. Yeah.

Dave Josie, if time travel exists in the future, then technically it would exist now. That's true. Now, is he saying because they'd already come back? They'd come back. But if you can only go in the future, then maybe we just haven't gotten advanced enough yet, right? Well, saying it would exist now, but I mean, how do they get back? You've got to trust that they can get back. You don't want to come here and get stuck. I think you would get stuck. You would go back to a time and then be... Who, me personally? Yeah.

Well, yeah, but I wouldn't go back that far, so that'd be all right. I'd go back to the West Wilson County Fair, like you said. I'd be perfectly happy just to stay. I know, but then you got to find, oh, yeah, you'd go back to living that time. Yeah, there'd be two of me there now, I guess, but we'd just both share a room. Yeah, you definitely, I mean, you would definitely go talk to yourself. I would say look up Keeps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get ahead of this. Keeps.com.

You would definitely talk to yourself. Like, you know, they tell you not to talk to yourself, but I mean, I think you would have a hard time not. Because it would ruin, it changes everything.

Yeah. You're supposed to not change anything about the future. Yeah. But I think you would be. Oh, yeah. I'd need a friend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think anything would change. I think even if you talk to yourself, I think you would all, you'd end up buying PSLs at the Titans when they got here. You'd still be going to the games. We'd sit together. You'd sit together.

You'd maybe go, let's sit on, you had the same row of seats, but maybe just in the sun part. You'd go, yeah, I know this sounds crazy, but the sun sets. Are you in the sun part now? No.

No, I just talked about the game yesterday. It's so important to have the sun at your back. Even when it was cold yesterday, I'd rather be in the shade than the sun just glaring in your face. Oh, you'd rather be in the shade. Yeah. Oh. Because the early season games are so hot, first of all. And then even in the wintertime, the sun's just so glaring right now. I've sat on that other side and you're just squinting the whole time. Yeah. My sunglasses.

I've even sunglasses. It's just, it's hat sunglasses. Just don't even see the field. It's because you wear, you like put your hat on like this and you're like, this hat just doesn't do it. It never does it for me. That's why you don't like a hat. Back of my neck's always fine. Watch the game. Yeah.

This sun? You're like, well, just yank it down a little bit. Oh. The beach growing up, my dad put sunscreen on. He'd just slap it on, wouldn't rub it in at all, and then he'd jump right in the water and just get burned. He'd be like, this stuff never works, dude. You're not quite doing it right. You're not rubbing it in. Uh-huh. Yeah. I saw some people took some pictures with you. Yeah. Yeah. People came. They did.

Oh, they came all the way up there. Yeah. That was my section. That was my seat. Yeah. Yeah. And they would be out of breath. And as soon as they composed themselves, we did a picture. Can you imagine if you go, we're about to go see your favorite comedian. You're like, where is he? We're going to be, we'll see you. We'll see you second half. All right. Is he on the field? Yeah. We're going to have to miss a great portion of the game. He's sitting over at the Vanderbilt Stadium. And they go.

That's so funny they have to hike up there. Yeah. No, I mean, there's a lot of people up in my section. Oh, I know you. No, I'm saying it's not like I'm the only one up there. The upper deck's a huge area. No, I know, but I'm saying everybody that wants a picture with you, none of them seem to be up there. Yeah, I don't think we have... I don't think our listeners are in the upper deck. You think they're a little bit better than that? I think our co-hosts are, but I don't think our listeners...

Could you have the worst seats of everybody in the Nateland world of a game? Maybe. Maybe. I like it. Matt McCurry. McCurry. Oh, man. Will someone please explain to Nate that there's a huge difference between stating UFOs exist versus stating that aliens are flying around in space?

He's still claiming aliens are here now as if the government declared the existence of little green men. How has no one pointed this out yet? Give him the breakdown. Barnaby. Yeah, you do say that they're here now, right? I don't know.

They're saying they're here. Yeah. Which, I mean, they haven't, they've seen some things flying around. They haven't identified what they are yet or at least haven't figured it out. So it might be a jump to say they're saying aliens are here now. Yeah. They wouldn't tell us. Oh, I'm not. Oh, because I'm saying that that's what they are saying. Yeah. Oh, well, I mean, yeah, whatever. I meant, I don't get in the weeds of it. So like, who wrote this? My wife? Yeah.

Is that Matt McCurry? Is that Laura? Is that her other name? Laura's pen name. Yeah. Just that, but I think they're still flying around. I mean, then you wouldn't have a conversation. Right. Some of it's for comedic effect. Yeah. Matt, we'd have no conversation, Matt. Well, they're here. Well, they're not technically here. Then let's move on, Matt, and let's go to the next thing. This is all made up of I don't know anything. Yeah.

Bryce LK, it may be the findings of one scientist, but until a whole lot of other scientists do similar tests and experiments and find similar results, it doesn't mean anything. Now they say is kind of a wonky way to talk about most of these topics. Some people think it's probably more accurate. I try to do that when I share on here. I usually say some scientists think or some people think that blah, blah, blah. Some people think that they're aliens flying here and whatever.

I say now they say. Yeah, I don't know if they're talking about us, but I think they kind of nailed it. Now they say they're here. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think about those words at all. So when I say them, so people should know that there's no meaning behind it. Like I don't, there's nothing behind it. I'm just saying stuff I've heard in conversation just in life. Yeah.

I think that's where I get, like, there's no, when I say, you know, you say they for a lot of like, well, they are talking like I, there's nothing behind it. Yeah. I could, a, I don't care. And I'm just saying it to get to the thing I want to talk about. Uh, but if we got, yeah, I don't use words correctly. Everybody. I feel like some people are just learning that. Well, I mean, I think they, they're like, no, no, he's saying it wrong. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I don't know. I didn't go to school. He said tear sharer.

I said, yeah. I mean, I don't, yeah, it's every day. If I could get these right, I would be getting so much. Let me get to the now they say and some people think. We're not even there. We're working on regular words. Civilization. We're not even there. So Dave Bryant, I'm watching the Universe episode for the second time, and this is bugging me enough to have to write to you.

Our sun does have a name. It's Sol, S-O-L. That's why we call it a solar system. Nowadays, planetarian systems are referred to as star systems, not solar systems, because our sun is the only one called Sol. So really, we are the only solar system. And to get ahead of the next question, our moon has a name also. It's Luna, as in Luna, lunar eclipse.

All right. That's fair. Yeah, why do we call it a sun then? So sun's not a name? Sol's another word for sun. I think sol's the Latin word for it.

But I said last week, or whenever this episode comes out, the Universe Part 1 episode, I said we have a name for the Milky Way galaxy and we have a name for Earth. We don't have a name for the solar system. He's saying that is the name. Sol is a proper noun. So Sol is the name. Everything else is the star system. Yeah. We're the solar system. Yeah. Okay. You don't agree with that? I don't agree with Dave. I agree with you.

I don't know. I don't buy it. Yeah? Yeah. You want to find out where Dave went to college? Have a little argument? He and I will duke it out. Yeah. What's your beef? Solar system. I don't know. I just don't buy it, dude. He didn't sell me on it.

So he's got to sell you on what he assumes to be a fact. Yeah. I don't think you're buying something. Who calls it soul? I'm not buying what you're selling. How about that, Dave? No one calls it soul. Dave does. Soul is what you call a day on Mars, right? That's a soul. You're telling me they just named it what the sun is named? That doesn't seem very intuitive. Why is the sun not? So the sun is just what it is?

I think son is the English word for soul, right? Maybe the son doesn't want to be referred to. Yeah, soul, soulless. What if Dave, what if this is coming from the son? And he thought, well, let me make up a name, Dave Bryan. And he's like, that's great. And the son is like, I would like to be called soul now. And so we should respect the son's...

The son doesn't want to be called son. Doesn't want to be dimmed. Doesn't want to be called son. Doesn't want to be dimmed. He's got a lot of problems. This seems the only way out. So, soul, the son made a name. I think Dave Bryan is the son is what I'm saying. Sounds made up. I think Matt McCurry is my wife. Dave Bryan is the son. Elon Musk is God. Yep. Bobby. Bobby.

The reason toilet water flows in the opposite direction in Australia is because the coriolis. Coriolis? Coriolis. I just kind of went with sounds at the end of that. Coriolis effect, which is the atmosphere deflection differences of the northern and southern hemispheres due to the rotation of the earth. I mean, I quit thinking about that sentence after toilet water.

It just started. You were on board at first probably with toilet water. The reason toilet water flows, I was like in the car and then I fell off the wagon and the rest of it just, and by the time we got to the end of it, I think y'all were like, I don't know if Nate's even here. The reason toilet water flows in the opposite direction in Australia is because of the Coriolis. Is that it? Uh-huh. Effect. What does Coriolis mean? I don't know, but I think we were right. Different hemispheres.

Yeah, I think I said it was something to do with gravitational force, which I guess it's not. It's because of the Coriolis. Obviously. The atmospheric deflection difference. But y'all in college, y'all have a whole day talking about Coriolis. Do they ever go, here's what Coriolis means, or do they just use it and you're supposed to know what it means already? When do you learn Coriolis? Junior high?

Yeah, third, fourth grade. Probably? No, no. You learn that in a science class. That's not a word that's used anywhere else. And so they said Coriolis, and then you just remember it for the rest of your life. There's a glossary in the back of the book. You look it up. So you actually go look up that word. Oh, yeah. There's a glossary right in the back. So I didn't do that. You didn't do that. I don't think I've ever looked at a glossary.

I never knew you had to. I just assumed, well, that's a word I'm not supposed to know. That's what I thought. I think the books gave me, if I knew the word, I'd go, all right, I should know that word. And if I don't know it, then I'd go, they don't want me to know it. You would never read something, look it up in the dictionary right there? No. I don't think I've ever had to do it. I've never walked anywhere with a dictionary.

I didn't mean you had one on you. I never brought it in somewhere. I did it like the way I audition for stuff where they, when I audition for stuff and they're like, will you dress the part? And I go, no. If I get it, I'll dress it. If I became a scientist, I would have learned all this stuff. But if I'm not going to do it, then I don't need to know that word. Why waste your time? I have other stuff. Yeah.

We would do some of the most ridiculous auditions back in the day for you. Yeah, I'd go to Brian's house. It's so funny to think about now why we didn't just buy proper lighting or something. We would go to his house and we'd get a lamp. We'd have everything set up on like, have two tables stacked on top of each other with a lamp, take the shade off, just trying to get it. I never got one of these.

You never really tried that hard either. I mean... Some way, I could never memorize the lines. And so I would just tape up the script on the, and like above the camera, and I would just be reading it. But, you know, the reason toilet water flows in the opposite direction in Australia. And I would just read it like that. And I was like, why am I not getting these? And then I got Brian reading on the other side, and they just hear, it might be the findings of one scientist. Yeah.

What's the reason the toilet water flows? Well, the reason toilet water flows in the opposite direction. I mean, they're like, what is this, dude? Like, who is just too, we sound so stupid. And I don't think we get stuff because of our accent. That's why I don't get it.

I mean, I always like, because they don't, when you're down here in the South, you only got your buddies that you can ask to read these other lines. Well, I don't have a proper, someone that can speak like they do in Hollywood. So mine's always, I had Michael Clay, I think, read one. He's like, well, the original, and then I'm over there. Well, we better not go over there then. Like,

I mean, it's just not, they don't, yeah, I think they're distracted. That hurt us. Yeah. You know what you would do? Brent McCoy. We see the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper in the summer, then Orion's belt. Orion's. Orion's. I bet he would want Orion. Yeah, you're right. He's in space.

Orion is like how I would say it. Orion, yeah. I think he would go, I'm Orion. I mean, I'm literally my belt in space. I'm standing in outer space.

So I should be called Orion. Doesn't that sound more of a space name? Yeah, and less Irish. Yeah. Orion. Yeah. Orion Steakhouse. Then Orion's Belt. I think that's wrong. I think I'm going to say Orion. Then Orion's Belt in the winter. Australia is the opposite. They still see the Big Dipper and Orion's Belt just as that opposite times of the year because of the rotation of the Earth around the sun and the different hemispheres.

I don't think I did sun stuff in school. I just don't know. Why does this stuff not stick with me? Well, that doesn't even have anything to do with the sun. Stars. I don't know. Was the sun even? It wasn't even mentioned in that. I got hung up on Orion's belt. Last week I said, when I was in Australia, you see different stars. Like, you don't see the big different stuff. And he's saying, no. You do. You do. It's just different types of years. So we have the same space. We thought they have a different outer space. Uh-huh.

Like we wanted to go down there. So we should go down there opposite if we want to see a different outer space. Are we still see that outer space? We still see it. Just he's saying winter, summer there and summer's winter. Yeah. So, so we go out right now and look at it. We're looking at a whole, we won't see the big, maybe looking at summer stars here. Yeah. Oh, we're seeing Australia. So like, do we call them? Let them know everything's good.

How are our stars doing? How are our stars doing? Everything's good right now. How's the big and little dipper going? He's like, you're going. See him every night. Orion's belt, all good, dude. Is Orion's belt good? He goes, yeah, it's doing good. We have Orion's belt down here. I go, yeah, we have Orion's. A little more important. All right, everybody. I'm going to raise this seat up. I think I had it down for something. A Zoom.

now we're now we're cooking a whole different vibe in here now it's up there it's a power move uh so yeah we did universe two episodes universe i wonder if people you know the second one comes out this week i guess uh so it's not out people i like it because people are like man they did one and they're like well there's a second one no a lot of people are like this these people are so dumb yeah and guess what there's another one coming yeah i didn't even scratch the surface yeah

It was funny, though. Yeah, it was. That's the point. Yes, obviously. When you watch this. We're not scientists. It's just trying to make you laugh. That's all we want to do. Of course, I know nothing. And we're just trying to have a topic to talk about and try to make jokes. And even though we're listed in educational podcasts.

We are educational. You learned something. Yeah, for sure. You learned today it's Orion and not Orion. Yeah, dummy. Right. I learn a lot. It's spelled O-R-I-O-N. Why would it not be Orion?

Maybe it is, but I always heard it called Orion. Yeah, because you're a bunch of doofuses that don't know how to talk about the galaxy. Well, I learned that from somebody commented, I love it, the universe, and all your references are from movies, which is true. One of our commenters said that. Oh, man, I went too far down. I like to cross my legs underneath it, so I got to get the right amount. Did I go? This could be good. I'm probably in the same spot I was in.

Yeah, I think you are. You're right back where you started. Originally. Someone commented, very funny how all of our universe knowledge comes from sci-fi movies that we've seen, which is true. We had a lot of sci-fi. There was a lot of it, yeah. Orion's Belt in Men in Black, the first one, that was a big part of the plot, I think, was something was coming from Orion's Belt. I think that's how I know it, from Men in Black. Yeah. I just think they got it wrong. Yeah. The Orion's Belt. Yeah.

And so that's why the movie was not successful. Yeah. Five of them. Yeah. That was, yeah. I, my sister bought me men in black. They ever tell the story like on Christmas one time. And, uh, how do you know? I was so 10 years older. I was 18. She was eight or nine. Um,

And she bought – or she didn't buy it. She was giving me as my Christmas present Men in Black the movie. And then she asked me before she gave it to me, she goes –

is Men in Black your favorite movie? And then I said, I hated that movie. I don't even know why I said that yet. I like it. I don't even know why I said it because I was 18 and you're stupid and you're just dumb and you say dumb stuff. And then she started crying and then she gave it to me and then I was like, well, it's my favorite movie I've ever watched and then I changed. And so now it's my favorite movie. I like it because it's Scream and Men in Black.

Yeah, because Abigail got it to me when she was little. It was like, there's so much stuff when you're eight. Why would I ever say I hate that? I don't even care about movies that much. And you're like, why would I have this stance on men to go, well, that's a dumb movie? Like, I don't even, you know. You never say you hate something right before somebody gives you a gift. Yeah. You know? Well, I did not know. Oh, yeah. This wasn't like Christmas morning or something? It might have been.

She's holding your present. Yeah, I don't know. Well, she told me already what it was. Maybe that was her fault. Maybe Abigail shouldn't have said anything. It was, yeah, it was just, you think back about when you're 18, you're just so, you can be mean, you can be, you say, and everybody's like that. And you're just, and then the older you get, again, you just look and you go, well, who, what would I, why would I ever care in a million years about me? You just go, yeah, yeah, I like it.

I have no opinion on it. But last time I talked to her. Was this before or after you warned her about her plane going down in Mexico? Oh, yeah. I did to that. We talked about that on here. I forgot the details. I don't remember the details. I don't remember either. You know, when you have a sister that's 10 years younger, you say a lot of... Some of it is to be funny. That was funny to do that. Yeah.

So, you know, but now she works with us. So there'll be a lot more of that where that came from because now she's old enough. So now I can say, I might tell her what I really think about men in black. I might do it today. So one of our most requested topics has been the office. Yeah, we should do it one time. Yeah.

we all love the office i was gonna ask you guys were you on board out of the gate it took me a little time because i love the british version of the office i still do i think it's great ricky gervais so when i started watching the american one at first i was like i was a little snobby i was like they're ruining it right but obviously i change on that now i mean i soon loved it uh

No, I liked it from the... You know, I like the British Office. But I take that stuff always wrong. When someone says they like the British Office, I always take it like, you like the regular one too. You're just trying to say something that... Trying to sound smart. You're trying to sound smart. It's like saying you preferred the book to the movie. Yes. And I always just think like,

Maybe it goes back to when you're younger. And I take it like that, though. So if someone says it, I'm like, I don't think you really care. I think you did. Michael Scott's unreal. He does a great job. Steve Carell. He's so funny. And I could see maybe at the beginning, you're like, but I mean, I would think you would be like, hey, I'm excited to see what they're going to. And the British office wasn't like it was this major, major hit. It was over there.

I mean, how did we even see it? Yeah, I mean, I bought the DVD. It was on BBC and I don't know. I bought the DVD. It was like, I would say most people didn't know about it. I don't know if I knew about it until the American office. Yeah, most people, that was the way it was. And so then that's how they find out about it. And they're like, well, I liked the British one first. And you're like, well, at least either be honest with me and say you watched it live as it was airing.

or tell me the truth and you found out about it afterwards and you're like, but the British still is so funny. Because the British are so funny. I like the regular office over the British office. There's more episodes. A lot more. The British one was like 14 episodes or something like that. Yeah, yeah. And a 90-minute special. And the American one's over 200 episodes. Wow. Yeah. Which is my cup today.

There it is. So many people compare you to Michael Scott. And every time now I watch an episode of The Office, there's something he'll say that reminds me so much of you. The only sad part to that is this is my real life.

But he was loved. I just understand. Again, this is when everybody thinks I'm too hard on y'all. You're calling me maybe the dumbest character that's ever lived on television. And it's not like, oh, you remind me of him. It's like you're regular. When you wake up in the morning, you're just that. You're dumb. And I'm not. And I am.

I'm smart in my other ways. Right, right. Even his arguments are so... I just watched the one Women's Appreciation Day, and he's like... I can't remember exactly, but he's like, Women Appreciation Conference Room, 15 minutes. And Jim was like, how are you qualified to talk about women? He's like, oh, I don't know, James. I was born from a woman. His arguments are just so...

Just like you, just like, you know, like, all right, well, technically, I guess. I don't know if that makes sense. But the one I just watched was where they, there's the fire safety drill, and then they do the dummy where Dwight cuts the end. And they said, you just destroyed a $3,500, and he goes, $5,300 for a dummy? Yeah. And they just look at him like, what? And they move on. Yeah. Michael Scott said that? Yeah. Yeah. So he's dyslexic too.

With numbers. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think we talked about it. It's a different term. I know. I can't remember if I want to go figure out if I'm dyslexic. It's like you're kind of crushing it with it right now. You know what I mean? I know, but I don't want to say it. I just think I am, and I'm not. I don't know if I am. Yeah. I probably have to be, though. I don't. I could be just dumb. They diagnose you with it. They go, what if you're not anything? Like.

I go, do I have diabetes? They go, you might as well have all of it. That's what they're going to tell me. Just tell people, you're a little bit of everything. You got a little sprinkle here, a little sprinkle there. We can't even cure it because it's not even enough to be cured, but it's enough to affect your everyday life. But I notice you've been reading better. But it's got to slow down. If I slow down and like...

really look at what i'm saying yeah but i do though yeah but i get long all right well that's right i uh i mean is the office your well no west wing's your favorite show but sitcom my favorite show but the office i've probably watched the most it's the most rewatchable show to me i think it's more popular now than even when it went off oh has to be yeah yeah

That's just like Seinfeld. People just watch. They put it on. They just let it play. I don't know if it's more popular. Than what? When it was on. When it was aired, people were watching it. I think the Netflix resurgence was it's bigger than it ever was. I mean, it was the number one show on Netflix. I mean, I saw some stat. It accounted for like 40% of all Netflix streams was The Office. Yeah. I completely made that up. It was...

Yeah, I mean, it was just a, it's an amazing show. That's what I mean. Like, that's why I liked it. Like, that's why. And if someone still goes, no, I still like the British one. You're like, well, you're being ridiculous. Look, I don't think The Office ended gracefully. It ended badly. But you're like, come on, dude. It's unreal. It's unreal. There's not a better show. Like, it's so funny. It's so good.

Every character, they just knocked it out of the park. So in 2020, Americans watched 57 billion minutes of The Office on streaming platforms. The next highest show was Grey's Anatomy on Netflix with 39 billion. So we're talking...

yeah 20 billion more minutes than any other show i mean it's huge man it's crazy they're all still watching these shows that are older i mean that's like i don't know how these people don't figure this out in in all these networks and streamings like they they go like you know i'm in the office that the way they're shooting that show kind of changed everything uh

Which was a big deal. But it's like, I never understand how like some of these, all of these, the most, 10 most viewed, I guess it's the licensed shows, but I think they do better than, they do better on Netflix. You know, people are just, it's funny. It's like, I mean, Netflix is starting to, that's what Netflix is doing though. Netflix is starting to figure out to make these shows. Because I mean, if these networks don't figure this out, because they're still making good shows, they're still making good shows.

But then they're like chasing something wrong, I think. And Netflix is not. So Netflix just buys the shows, gets the people on there, shows the people want to watch it. And then Netflix can eventually just be like, well, we're starting to make shows that are going to be like this. And you will only come here. It'll be all our original shows. That's where Jeff Bezos...

summon Amazon or whatever to make the next Game of Thrones. Yeah. Did you see that? Yeah. I mean, that's easier said than done. Summoned? Just meaning like, I want you guys to create the next Game of Thrones. He told Amazon that. Was it Amazon? Well, it was, I know we were talking about over the last weekend is Amazon's doing a Lord of the Rings series. They're going to spend over a billion dollars on it. Yeah. Just the amount of money that's thrown into that is insane, man. Yeah. And they're trying to, yeah.

I would do it. Yeah, it could. Yeah. But it's not all about money. I mean, it's like stuff's got to be the office. It couldn't have cost that much to shoot. No. Like it's and it's it would hold up to be. I think you don't have as much fun enjoyment of watching that billion dollars of Lord of the Rings.

versus The Office, you're going to enjoy them both. Do you feel like that's part of why the show is rewatchable? Is that it's just so simple? It's easier to watch. It's in an office. It's in a familiar place. Yeah, it's about the jokes. It's like you know the characters. You're not surprised by anything. It's not like you're having to follow along. People get tired of like – I mean, you got to think it's all day every day. It's like your phone's going off. Everybody's technically the busiest –

People are busier than they would have been in the 50s and 60s because that would have been, you just went to work and then you went home and there wasn't that much to watch on TV. Your phone never rang. Maybe you talked to the neighbors, but it's very simple. And then now it's like you're talking to, I mean, you got to think like during an office hour of like an old job in the 60s, you talk to that person.

Those people, you talk to probably five times that amount of people. And that could be like a real big company. It could be like I talked to eight people today. And you're like, I've talked to 40 by noon. Like that's a lot. And I do it and it never lets up. Text, email. Text, it never lets up. Social media, like it never, you're talking to, you have a hundred conversations going on.

In a hundred different scenarios. So it's like when you go back to watch like an office or something, like Lord of the Rings is like, all right, we spent all this money. Like, I guess I got to pay attention if I want to really enjoy it. And then you're like, I don't care. I just can't. I don't want to. I can't. You know, you can be in the right mood for it. You know, if it's like your thing, but you got to be really in the right mood. I got to be in the right mood to watch a lot of stuff. Like I got to be like, if I...

I don't get out of the mood of not watching. I won't want to watch The Office. Right. And you're just kind of like, I don't know. I just feel like... Right now, I'm going to all these. I'd rather just watch an old movie than some stuff. I've started to recognize that in myself, that I'll start something and be like, I am not in the right mood, and I'm not going to enjoy this. I went to see Deadpool, the movie Deadpool, in a crowded theater, and it started, and I walked out like a minute in.

Because Ryan Reynolds made a joke and everybody, the whole theater laughed. And I go, I'm not in the mood to watch this. So I just got up and left and went to a bar and waited for my friends to leave. Oh, wow. You just go, I'm not going to, if I'm not going to enjoy this, why would I sit and watch the whole thing? A lot of people don't have that money to waste like you do. And so they just have to sit through it, you know? Yeah.

You spent money to then go leave and go spend money somewhere else. That's what's called a sunk cost, right? Because the money's already been spent. Yeah. So why do I feel like I need to stay in? Did you illegally download it when you watched it the next time? I've never seen it. You've never watched it? Never watched it again. So will you try to do it for free? Yeah, I'll find it and I'll wait if I'm in the right mood. So you feel like you get the money back. Yeah. I feel like I'll finally get my money's worth. Yeah.

So you were by yourself, took your small and more money, and went and watched it. And then you were like, just, I'm out. No, this was, I was probably, man, I was probably college when the movie came out. What'd your friends say? They were like, where did you go? I could tell I wasn't going to enjoy it. You left the whole movie, and at the end of it, they go, where'd you go? Yeah. Oh, they stayed in there? Oh, they stayed and enjoyed the movie. Oh, I thought you were by yourself. So they didn't ask any more questions? I mean, you've been gone for two hours. Yeah, I think they were like, they get it.

They got it. How do they not? How does one of them not leave and go, are you okay? Or text you. You have phones then. No one texted and said, hey, man, are you cool? I don't remember. Probably not, to be honest with you. I think that maybe I thought I'd went to the bathroom. I went to the movies with my buddies and then left at the very beginning of it and didn't show up again until I left. There's a little more than one time, man. Where'd you go?

Like, are they just, you know? I think I, look, I think the first joke that I didn't think was funny got a huge laugh. I looked over and I go, yeah, I'm out. You know, and I think they got it. Oh. And they go, we'll catch up with you after. Yeah. I think we just kind of. So there's probably a little more. I could see it in my eyes. Hey, I'm not going to, I'm going to go this. I'm just not. You just said, I'm not filming this right now. Right. I'm going to go. So you at least said that. I gave, well, yeah, I gave a little. Yeah. They got it. Okay. I just like to hear the whole story. Yeah.

Well, the T.O.P. That is a good thing to realize when you're not in the mood. So I love Narcos. Like, I always love that. And I haven't started this season yet just because I know I haven't. Like, I love it. And I tried to watch the first episode and I was excited. But then I'm like, I was just too busy and too – I wasn't going to be able to, like, focus. And I was like, well, I want to watch this. And I don't want to, like, not like it because I'm just too – Right. And I'm not in this space. Right.

So I haven't watched it yet. Don't force it. I'm not. Yeah, I'm not. But I for some reason can pay attention to these old movies. Even if you don't know them that well? Yeah, I don't know any of them. I didn't know any of Angels Fall and London is Falling. They're changing my life. I mean, I'm watching them and being like, you know, I see it.

You know? Olympia has fallen. I watched all three. Yeah. Yeah, we talked about it. And those are recent movies, right? No, I don't know. Last decade or so, right? I mean, have they really advanced so much? Were the plots so much more complex now? I just think they were just on. They were just nailing it back then. They were just... Olympia has fallen. It's about... Some of it's like the government can be bad and all this stuff. It's some stuff like that where you're like, they're just on...

You're just like, yeah, they're on a point where you're like, oh, wow, that's making good points. I don't know. Some of it is just, not saying they all do. Right. Yeah. Well, The Office got off to kind of a rocky start ratings-wise, and then they pivoted away from the British version style and started making Michael Scott more likable. Yeah. Less like Ricky Gervais' character, David Brent. Ricky Gervais is likable when he's mean.

And Steve Carell's not. And so that's just like... There's no... I don't think there's even an acting thing in that. It's like Ricky Gervais is... The character he was is kind of... You see him in Stand Up. It's like that kind of thing. Is he lovable in the same way that Michael Scott became lovable? I think he was in the... Like he was...

I think he was a loser. They're both losers. Right. But his loser-ness was like he was trying to be cool, but you were like, oh, there's a sweet guy under there. Right. He's got an earring or something. You're like, he's trying to do all this kind of stuff. And Steve Carell...

loser but he's lovable but in a different like he wears the suit every day to work and like like rick gervais could come in and try to be dressed a little cooler or something like he doesn't have a jacket on but he has his tie and his sleeves rolled up and like that kind of like you're like oh this guy is like is he's trying to be something he's not yeah and that works with rick gervais and steve carell you're like you need to have the suit on and just be just be dumb you know but

but he has heart. Yeah. Like his is, he's, you know, like again, the June, uh, the Pam episode with the, the, uh, business school, the business school with art. And he goes, that's beautiful. Like he's a simple minded, but he's very happy for the person and he sees. And so it's like, you're, you're doing the same thing. Their likableness is just coming from a different place. And one of the main ways they made it more likable, they gave him a full head of hair. Yeah. Yeah.

Between seasons one and two. Was he bald? He was balding. He was more slicked back. In real life. He was slicked back, a little balding, and he looked kind of slimy, like a used car salesman. Yeah. And they gave him a full head of hair. Yeah. He also got ripped because he was filming 40-Year-Old Virgin, right? So he was like...

Great shape, full head of hair, more lovable looking. But you couldn't tell he was in great shape. No, not because of wearing the suit. Yeah, they wore it big to not show it. Right. A little less of a chin, I guess. You can kind of tell. Yeah, because that's a big deal. If they would have showed him ripped...

Yeah, and you can see it occasionally, like the one where he comes up with the golden ticket idea and it backfires and he goes, dumps the suit in the thing. And then he's wearing like a jogger and a t-shirt and you can tell he's in really good shape. Yeah, yeah. They changed the setting. The first season was shot in a real life office in Culver City, California.

And then they transitioned to a soundstage for the second season, and they rebuilt it, perfect replica. And they made his office a little bit bigger to accommodate cameras, and they could now control the weather. And they made the lights in the office brighter.

Oh. They changed the tonal, they said the tonal shift. The British one's kind of dark. Dark and it's much more shaky cam, like a real documentary. It's shot like British. Like it feels like British. Like, you know. And yeah, it should be shot differently.

You got to mix it up and do something different. It probably is a little darker over there, isn't it? I've never been. More rain. I think of England. I think it is. I think it's a little drearier. Yep. Yeah. We lived in Slough, which just sounds like a dreary place. That's their Scranton. Oh, it was Slough? Slough. Yeah. And I think the American version, I think their address was Slough or something like that. Oh, okay. That's cool. It's a...

They just found a small town, Scranton, Slough, which is just outside England. I mean, London. Yeah, just outside England. The show didn't do great in the ratings at the start, but it took up four of the top five slots on downloaded TV shows on iTunes.

So that's how people really, they found it. It wasn't just white collar workers. It was young audiences. That's how I found the show. I remember I downloaded the Christmas episode on iTunes. I had never seen the show, but it was one of the top downloaded and I bought it for like $1.99 and loved it.

That's how I was exposed to it. So I didn't even know people were buying shows like that. It was one of the first you could do that with. I remember I was blown away. You could just buy a TV episode. Yeah. And I got that, that Christmas episode. And then did you buy all of them? No, I don't think so. Did you start watching them regular? On and off. It wasn't until the show had ended and was on the streaming platforms that I really dug into it. Yeah. But it's one of those shows, it's like South Park for me. If it's on...

Back in the day of it's on, I'd watch it. I'd be like, oh, this is great. Yeah. But for whatever reason, it took me a while to sit down and actually dive in. Yeah. Some people auditioned for the part. Adam Scott, you guys know him? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He auditioned for Jim Halpert. Seth Rogen auditioned for Dwight Schrute. Eric Stonestreet auditioned for Kevin. Oh, wow. I didn't know that.

Angela auditioned for Pam. Bob Odenkirk auditioned for Michael Scott. And he came back at a later episode. Yeah. He could have probably done it. Yeah. I mean, you could see it. Bob Odenkirk could have done it. But I mean, I don't... And like, you know, you've done it and you would just... Like, he's about the only one. Even when they did it, you know, he's just so... He was great in it. When they had him, he was in the office. He was funny. But Steve Carell was...

There's Eric Stonestreet. That's Kevin. Auditioning. Judah Friedlander, too. I think he auditioned on there. Yeah, I remember. There's a compilation video on YouTube of all the audition tapes of people that are now super famous. It's pretty fun to watch. Yeah. They were on the right track, basically, of everybody they got. It's funny to go, like, was Seth Rogen not huge at that point? I thought he was. But maybe not.

He's probably on the verge. Yeah. It's funny to think who they got. What's his face? Baumgartner? Brian Baumgartner. Yeah. And it's funny, but they do go with him. I didn't know him from other... Was he in other stuff before? I don't know. But maybe he would have... But I mean, they actually did a good job of like, you don't go after whoever. You don't go after the flashy...

You know, like, I'm not saying he's not flashy, but it's like Seth Rogen or something. But Eric, I guess, was not because this was before Modern Family. Ruth was watching Four Christmases this weekend. Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Burns in it, which I had no idea. And then I didn't see him, but she said Brian Bodgarter was in it, just as a small role. Oh, yeah. So I guess that came out before The Office. Yeah. I can't remember.

John Krasinski, when he auditioned, he was waiting in the room to go in. A man eating a salad asked him, are you nervous? And he said, no, not really. You either get these things or you don't. What I'm really nervous about is the show. I love the British show so much, and Americans have a tendency to really screw these opportunities up. I just don't know how I'll live for myself if they screw up this show and ruin it for me. And the man responded, I'm Greg Daniels, the executive producer. Yeah.

Oh, I love that. That's a story that almost doesn't seem real, like too good to be true, but I guess it is. I could see it. If you're auditioning, if he's high up in the audition process, then you're in front of... They're in the waiting room eating a salad. That's what's... I know, but like, so I'm saying, you know, it's like when you think of auditions, so when you do an audition...

Like when you do them some at the beginning, like no one, like the casting, some casting persons there, sometimes it's not even that main casting person. It's the level that you're at. And then the higher you get, which I'd imagine John Krasinski was probably getting like, you know, this dude's about to get something. And so the higher they get when they come in, it's a big deal. Like they got, some of them won't audition unless the mate, just for my pilot, I know like, uh,

Katie, Katie Azleton, who ended up playing my wife when she, I didn't read with her when she first came in. Cause I was like, I thought of it as like, I don't even know if I'm good.

So I didn't want to ruin... I was so scared that I would ruin their... I don't want the network to think that they're like, well, this girl's not good. And it's like, she's not good because I'm terrible. And then I had a little bit of fear of like, what if they look at me and they go, well, golly, this guy's bad. And I've never done any of this. So I was like, I don't want to read. Well, she was like... There's people that are... She was one of the hotter names. So...

uh, there's, there's a list of, I mean, there's, it's not a huge list, but you, you can get a list of people, but there's a smaller list of like, look, these are the ones these networks want. These networks want these people in these shows. And so Kate, uh, uh, Katie is, was, and was, she was one of the top ones. And, uh,

So she came in and I didn't read with her and I talked to her about it afterwards. And I was like, Oh, did you think that was bad? She goes, yeah. I mean, she called her agent after and was like, I thought he was reading with me. Cause it, it would mean that like, this is more real. It's like, cause I mean, she could, she was at the point of going, she's not offer only.

What's that mean? They have to offer it to you. You don't have to audition. Oh, okay. But she was... There's some people that are offer only. And if you wanted... I mean, not that we did this, but if you wanted Jennifer Aniston, you just got to offer her. You're not going to make her read. You can't make her read. Okay. So she was at the point of...

She was close, though, to be honest. But if she came in, it was like, hey, she needs to read with me. And she's high up on the, we need to tell her a real answer. It's not, when you're newer, where I was when I auditioned, you go do it, you would have to go do a bunch more. So Krasinski, I'm sure, Gray Daniels probably wasn't there. Everybody would have been in there because they're getting to the point of like, we're deciding. And so we need to all see who this is.

you know, who this person is. I auditioned once for Krasinski on something and he was in the room. It was for a Bud Light. I think it was a Bud Light commercial. Oh, really? And he was like producing it. It was like the first thing that he was like kind of producing. So it was like a commercial. It was like a funny commercial. I mean, the office has already been on and all this stuff. I was writing my show with Halstead Sullivan at the time who wrote The Office.

And then he, so I was, I go into audition for it. And I remember I had him, he was laughing so hard, but I wasn't just the fit for that. So we, I like, I remember he was dying laughing. I was like, dude, I might get it. Like he was losing it. And then, but then I ended up seeing the commercial and I was like, yeah, I just didn't fit in that commercial. And it was, I think it came out. It was a, maybe a Bud Light commercial. Maybe you can see John Krasinski, John,

produced there's look and see if there's one yeah but i just didn't i didn't like what i did didn't fit with the people they were booking uh but then after i remember so i parked and i was like oh that went good i gotta meet him i was like that's that's awesome and i actually saw him later on like somewhere else like in la and he remembered me really yeah because and i was he was like oh he's like because it was like he was really funny uh maybe it's hold my beer was it something yeah 2014 yeah

Super Bowl commercial, maybe. That's 15 minutes. Yeah. I'll find it right after that. Yeah. But anyway, so I do that audition, right? And that was the one, when you do these auditions, I think I was always a person that everybody liked, but I'm not.

Like it's either you want me or you don't. And so when I would go in, they would, it could be like, I like this guy, but you're, I'm just too different. Like I'm not, I don't fit in with everybody else. And so I just wouldn't get anything. I don't like, that's why I'd get callbacks where they,

You do one and they call you back to go, you know, which is a good sign. They call you back. Let's see you again. Cause they're like, is this guy yet? And then the second time that you're like, nah, he was not. But I remember my car got broken into that day. I was, and I was having to record my, my,

I had my set list that night. Oh, I remember this. Yeah. That night I was recording my, my, uh, my hour set for comedy central to take my hour, the, the full-time magic special. So I was having to record it so I could send it to comedy central so they could hear the hour special to make sure like, all right, we like it. Let's do it. And, uh, I left that audition from Krasinski. I was like feeling good. And I go to my car, my window smashed, my backpack's gone.

and uh i think they got my laptop you know and i and i'm gonna i don't care about stuff getting taken the only thing i uh not in uh like a i can afford i couldn't afford any of this stuff again i didn't have any money but it was i just you know it's like you figure it out yeah and then uh

But my jokes were, my note card was stolen. That was my set list of what I was doing that night. All that was in there. And now I take pictures of my set list because of that day. Because it was like I didn't have anything. So I was having to go off memory. And so then I was so scared I was going to miss just some little stuff here and there. And I was trying to go through my set. And I wrote it all down as quick as I can. So, yeah. Yeah.

I can't find a video of these, but this is a write-up about the Hold My Beer bunch of digital shorts. Okay, yeah, it was those. Adam Ray's in it, because Adam Ray got it. Oh, is that him in the back? I think that's him in the back. Yeah, yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. That could have been you with the shirt. It could have been me. I could have been one of them, and they said no.

But he laughed a lot. That's really cool. So he was, yeah, he was very nice. When Krasinski got the part, he met with different paper companies, employees, to learn about the role. And he went to Scranton just to learn about the town. And the footage you see at the beginning, in the open of the show, is shot by him. The grainy footage of Scranton and stuff. He shot that just driving around Scranton. So he went and he actually researched the role. See, that's where...

That's what I just don't... That's why I'd have to create my own show. As an actor, that's such a different mindset. And that's a thing that you have to go do. And I just would never...

I don't know. There's something like, you know, I think actors have like a different where they like playing. You do that though. And in your own way in comedy, I mean, it's your real life. You get out there, you learn about what's going on. You don't sit in your hotel room. Yeah. And it's me going through it. Yeah. So I guess I'm the, you do so many things that an actor would say, I could never do that as far as just the commitment to it. Yeah. As much as, but I have a hard time, uh,

Yeah, there's... Oh, we could hear Adam's. Oh, Adam's on the podcast. Yep. And then Adam... Yeah, because maybe he got it. Dead gumming Adam, you know? They... Yeah, no, they do that. I think I like doing it, though, because it's like, it's me. I don't know if I could do it imagining it's someone else. Like, if you're playing a character. I just don't ever... That always seems weird to me. Like, when someone plays a bad character...

And they're like, this guy's a real jerk. And you're like, well, it's you. That's what I always think when they interview the actor after. They go, yeah, well, I had to get in the mindset of just a real psycho. And you're like, yeah, but you were that person. Yeah. Even though it's not. You did it. But you got in there. Like they always like, sometimes they can be, I just take stuff. It doesn't make sense. I take it as a way like they think they're better than the character. And I'm like, but you're the...

You get like a free pass that you got to like yell all that mean stuff on TV or in a movie. This is not the office, obviously. Whatever movies, like you got to make fun of this guy and be mean about this guy. And it could be a bad person, you know. And then you're like, yeah, that wasn't me, though. I'm just a really good actor. But it was you. But it was you. But you yelled those words. I mean, that's not – that's when I would never do a Southern – when they would have to do Southern –

I'd get some thing that was like, I need to be a Southern racist in a movie. I was like, I'm not going to go do this. I don't think that you're like, it's the same thing. You're like, I don't know this guy. I don't know who you're talking about. I'm here. I don't know who's this Southern racist guy that you want me to be. Who's this character? But then it's the same thing. It's like every Southern racist character is just like, that's what you think we're doing down here.

And I always took it as that. I think you think I'm that. Yeah. I would take it very personal. And that, you know what I learned? Hurts you in acting. It hurts you and you can't take it. I think they're thinking of me. Like, you know, we wrote this part for you and it's just the most racist character of all time. And you're like, is that what you think I'm doing? They're like, no, it's just.

a character. But you think, but I'm Southern. So I think you're thinking about me. Like, even though you're not thinking of me, but like, we're all... His name's Nate. Yeah. But we can change it. But it's like, you're all, but you're talking about my family and my friends and like my, it's all of us together. I don't, you know. Yeah. Here we are. That's why I started a podcast. I'm acting like I've had a great time with y'all. So... How good would that be? So like...

And they're like, guys, we're joking. But yeah, it's still you. You're the ones that said the mean stuff to us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I say it. So you should be. That's right, I did say it. I don't mean it, though. That's what they should say. Phyllis was a casting agent for the show. And then they said, you should just be Phyllis. And of course she was. Before that, she was an NFL cheerleader and a burlesque dancer.

She was? Who's she cheerlead for? St. Louis Cardinals. Wow. Do they have pictures of that? I don't know. I'll look it up. Yeah, that's pretty crazy that she did, you know, she was just the casting, you know. I mean, I think they all probably going to think that now. I mean, that's crazy, dude.

Yeah. Yeah. She said she loved football. She could watch the games, dance, and look at the cute guys across the field. Wow. She's great on the show, man. Yeah. I mean, that's... Yeah. That's... She did... Yeah, she was awesome. I mean, that's such a... That's why, like, casting is... Casting is everything. And for you to... I think it's hard for some shows not to go after, like, the famous person. Mm-hmm. Because you're looking at them and you're like...

When you're looking, when you're auditioning and you're like, I know who these people are. They're famous. I think The Office purposely went after no names. It's hard, but it's hard to not go after no names. You have to be in the business enough to be able to be confident enough to not go after no names. If I would have ever got my show earlier, like 10 years ago or something when I tried, I don't have a show now, so I haven't got it. But if I would have gotten one of those...

I mean, I could get talked into everything because you had been like, I can't believe I'm even getting to meet this person. And so you'd be like, yeah, that's crazy. And you've got to be, I think, confident enough in your thing that you created that you go, no, I don't really need this.

I mean, sometimes you do need that person. But sometimes you're like, I don't want a famous person. I want someone that no one really knows. That would fit more with what we're trying to do. Especially since The Office, I feel like so much of it is hyper-realism and it's a mockumentary. The fact that they just look like regular people, a lot of them, and you don't recognize them as stars at all. Yeah, Steve Carell was, you can be somewhat famous. He didn't become that famous until the show had already started. To The Office.

Yeah, yeah. But before he got it, you knew him from The Daily Show. And so, but I mean, that's what I mean. You can be, but you weren't. There's a difference between having people knowing who you are and then being a celebrity. Where like, it's everywhere you go. It's a pride. Yeah, like it's like everybody just knows who you are. There's a gigantic difference.

You can see David Spade walk around. Everybody knows who David Spade is. They see him and they go, I know that. Chris Rock. Chris Rock. Everybody knows who they are. But there's a difference of that and that. Steve Carell before, we knew who he was because of the Daily Show being in comedy. He was very funny. A lot of people knew who he was. But the world didn't know who he was. And then The Office came and now everybody knows who he is. Yeah. You would do those auditions for your...

and sometimes you would talk to me and tell me who I was auditioning. It's always, for the parents, it's people from my generation. And I would always be like, oh my gosh, Patrick Duffy? Yeah. You got to get him. Yeah, yeah. Did he do it for Step by Step? Well, I know him from Dallas. Oh, okay. Oh, I bet. It's J.R. Ewing's brother, Bobby Ewing. So it was always people, I would have been the one of like, the first person I knew, that's him, we got to go with him. But he used a little...

Restrain, I guess. Yeah. Well, he was great. They're all great. You just kind of, I mean, we didn't, we got, we ended up being the. But was it because they're famous because they were the best part? They were just very, very good together. Yeah. Kurt Woodsmith and Debra Jo wrote. Yeah. And I mean, they're bringing that back on Netflix. They were just so unbelievable.

In the episode where Jim proposes to Pam, they wanted to use a real rest stop on Merritt Parkway, but it would cost $100,000. Plus, they wouldn't be able to use fake rain, which is important to the scene. So they built a replica of the parkway in a rest stop. The shot ended up costing $250,000. But Greg Daniels said, it's the most expensive and elaborate shot we've ever done, but it's also the highlight of five years of storytelling. Yeah. I would have never guessed that wasn't a real rest stop. Yeah, I thought it was a real, yeah.

It's two, so why don't you just do a real rest stop? I guess it's hard. Yeah, I mean, you said that one would cost $100,000 and they wanted rain. It seemed like they could wait for some rain. Yeah. I guess you want – you've got to get really lucky. Yeah, that is good. You've got to get really lucky.

You can see all the drinks inside to see the person. It looks super real, man. Yeah, it's like you could do it. But it's funny, if you don't dress it up or have it put like that, it could look terrible. There's a big... I've heard on some podcasts, there's a big debate over whether the listeners should be able to hear what they say in this moment, this proposal. So many of the offices...

The more intimate moments are actually filmed from afar, like the cameraman secretly filming them. You know, there's a big debate whether to just let this, you just see it happen. And I think that would have been really cool. I think you ended up hearing it. Oh, you did hear it? Yeah, you did hear him ask her to marry him. Yeah. I think you did. You can hear it. Okay. Yeah.

Well, and maybe I'm getting mixed up with when Michael leaves and Pam runs the airport and says goodbye to him. Uh-huh.

You can't hear what they say. And the producers told her, just go tell him what you would really say to him. And she did. She said she was real tears. And she just told Steve Carell that she loved him and would miss him and goodbye to him. Yeah. And they just let it roll. That's really cool. That's awesome. Yeah. There's a couple moments like that. There's also a moment where Jim gives Pam the letter that he put in the teapot. Yeah. And finally lets her read it. Yeah. And I've heard that he actually wrote a letter to Jenna Fisher, the actress. Yeah.

A personal letter to her, and that's her reading the actual letter on the episode. Oh, that's cool. It's her real reaction. I love stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Gas station's fake, though. It's all fraud, dude. In the show finale, they kept Steve Carell so secret that they kept it out of the dailies. Didn't want anybody to know at the table read they had Creed read Michael Scott's lines.

Cree Breton. In the season finale? In the series finale, when she came back for Dwight's wedding. Oh, at the very, very end. The very, very end. The last episode. He doesn't talk, though, right? He has a few lines. He has a lot. He said, it's like you watched your kids grow up and marry each other. Yeah. It's every parent's dream. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what she said and stuff like that. I mean, it's very few lines. He didn't want it to be about him. No. Mm-mm.

But that's a weird thing. Like, if you don't want it to be about you, I get it. It's their time because he's been gone. But you're like... But that's what I mean. He's like, he wanted it to be about those actors. And that's where you're like... But it's not about the actors, but the audience. And the audience is who you made the show. The audience is the reason this show is what it is. I mean, it's because of these actors. But that you do it for what the audience would want. It's not... You know what I mean? It's not like...

I understand the sweetness of it to be like he was so famous then. He doesn't want to come back to overshadow all the work that they've done. But it's the work that all of you have done. And the reason you get to be where you're at is because of your greatness and how great you are in the writing of this show. But you only get that because that audience wants to see that. And so there's a weird line there.

Right? Yeah, I agree. I think they played it nicely. Oh, I wanted a lot more. Oh, you wanted a lot more from him? Yeah, and I think I had heard the rumor that he, and maybe it was just a rumor, but it turned out to be true, that he was coming back. And then I was disappointed he didn't say more. Yeah, I think I was too. In the episode. Hmm. It was like, that's the point, is to have him come back and... I didn't mind it. By that point, you'd gone two whole seasons without him. It's just kind of a nice balance. Did he only do two seasons?

Without him? He left in the middle of season seven. Yeah. And then seasons eight and nine are off. I need to go back. I'm going to go back and start. I was going back and re-watching the whole thing, and then I kind of stopped, and I'm going to go back now. Because I got to kind of hit a point, even when he was there, where I was like, all right, it should have ended then.

Oh, I agree. On the Seinfeld episode with Mark Norman, you said how the show kind of tanked. And some people really defended it, but I totally agree with you. Oh, The Office? Yeah. Oh, they thought it... People liked it. They were like, the characters finally got to develop more after he left. I feel like they changed. I mean, who wrote that? The characters? Who was those comments? Dave Bryan and Mike McMurdy? Yeah.

Yeah, it was Jenna Fisher and Angela. You're like... I totally agree with you. I think those last seasons tanked. Even before he left, the show was getting... It's not about tanking. They just... You talk about... I'm not tanking ratings. No, I just don't think it was good. It was not good. I was...

I respected the show and loved the show so much that I wrote it out and watched every episode. But I was like, if I didn't have any love for the show, I would have stopped. Yeah. And it has nothing against them, but you're like, yeah, you're as a group. It's like a band. Like when the, if one person left, you'd be like, well, I'm kind of out now. Like it's not trashing any of the other bands.

people in it it's just being like i was buying the whole package yeah and so when the whole package is gone then it's gone it's not like you know i'm not gonna get in you know it's not then like well i hope everybody let me see the other character you know it's like it's the show it's all about the show it's not about one person it's all of you've worked together mm-hmm

Yeah, season seven, even before he left, there's some that were, to me, getting not as good. One of my favorite last ones that he did was when they go to the board meeting in New York City and all the shareholders, they're all furious at him. Yeah. And he gets up there on stage.

He's like, we're going to come back with a 45-point plan. Yeah, 45-point plan. 45 days, one point per day. And they're cheering you, you. And he runs back on stage like he's special. We will also be completely carbon neutral. Ridiculous claims. Yeah. James Spader was just supposed to make a cameo, but they liked his energy so much they felt like it brought something new to the show. So they made him a regular.

Yeah, when they were trying to fill his... Because that's when they were trying to fill his replacement. And did he end up becoming the replacement? No. Well, they kind of did a little bit of everything. Nelly was for a while. Andy was the replacement.

Ed Helms kept having to leave to film movies and stuff. So they kept having to write reasons why his character would leave. So first it was he went to anger management for a while early on. I think that's when he was filming The Hangover. And then he comes back and then he goes to the Bahamas on a yacht. He just keeps leaving. So that character kind of

I don't know. I feel like there's progress with him. Then he just kind of becomes a crazy person. Yeah, I almost didn't like it at first. And then I didn't mind him. And then when they were going to make him the boss, I was like, I don't care about this at all. I agree. But I think they... I'd rather it have been... It's like it should have been maybe Dwight and then make it just go Dwight crazy or something like that. Or maybe...

you know i've been maybe it's too much dwight but he fired a gun yeah the gun in the office yeah but he ends up the manager at the end yeah will ferrell was actually the first manager yeah d'angelo vickers yeah and he was pretty great yeah that's just yeah but that was a short-lived thing yeah it was like everybody's too it's almost go back through all the people that they could have got before at the beginning and they're like well you're just too famous now yeah but andy uh

Yeah, Andy, Ed Helms was like just too, he was just too famous. He was like too going, his career was too good. Yeah. Yeah. Taken off. Yeah. Yeah. They were supposed to do an office spinoff for Dwight called The Farm, but then they just decided to pass on it. But there's an episode, one of the last episodes when he's, I forgot, he's like looking at the will. Do you remember this? With his cousin or something like that? Yeah.

It's when the show, to me, has gotten really bad. I think, yeah, I think the pilot became an episode on the show. It's where his aunt dies, and then he comes in the office, and he's throwing dirt at people, inviting them to the funeral. Yeah. And you meet his brother and his sister. Yeah. That was going to be the pilot for this spinoff. Yeah. And it just went nowhere. Yeah.

There's a couple episodes they've now removed. One where he does the shrewd Christmas and his friend shows up in blackface. Yeah. And they've taken that scene out. That little part of it out, yeah. Yeah. Why did he show them? It was... I think that's a real thing, right? He was reenacting this... He was... I can't remember the name of it. He's this old...

German Santa Claus and he has a sidekick who's in blackface and they go you better not bring that guy in and then he calls his friend Nate and you see his friend Nate walking through the parking lot in blackface yeah they cut that part out you can't get that anywhere now that Nate was a writer or something on it right I think so yeah

Moe's, because Moe's is one of the main writers on the show. Yeah, that's what I mean. Cousin Moe's. Michael Schur, I think is his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Comedy Central, when they started airing The Office, they took out Diversity Day. Yeah. Which to me is ridiculous. Because the whole thing is making fun of people that don't get diversity. Right, right. So, anyway. Yeah.

What are you going to do, right? Jim wore fake hair. At least you moved on from it. It is great. That was a funny episode. Yeah. That might have been like the second episode that ever aired. I think it was. Yeah. It was that first season. Jim wore fake hair in season three because he was shooting the movie Leatherheads. So John Krasinski wore fake hair. Excuse me. He had to shave his head. Leatherheads? What is that? A horror movie? No, it's about a 1920s football team. Oh.

Oh, okay. Is that movie good? I never saw it. I've never heard of it. Yeah, what is his hair? Oh, his hair wasn't as long or something? I think he shaved it one time for the movie, so they... I wonder. That's some pretty big names, though. Yeah, George Clooney's in it. Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski. Yeah. He really, man, popped off. I mean, he's huge. He is. He's such a good actor. Yeah, 13 hours I'll watch. I could watch it every day.

I've never seen it. 13 hours? No, I've heard it. It looks pretty cool, though. I could watch it every day. Honestly, I stop myself from watching it every day. I want to watch it every day. Roy's in that, too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I go, that's enough. That's how much I would like to watch it. Wow. Yeah, that's great. John Grudzinski and B.J. Novak were high school classmates.

That's pretty crazy. Oh, wow. Played Little League Baseball together. Oh, wow. John Krasinski was in B.J. Novak's play that he put on. Ed Helms and Brian Baumgartner went to the same high school as well. They were a year apart in Atlanta. Wow. Where did Krasinski grow up? Massachusetts, I think.

B.J. Novak had a big... He wrote a lot of this stuff, too. Yeah, he's great, too. Yeah, he's great. His character really grew on me, too. I thought it was really funny. When he got that job and was up there and then moved back, B.J. was great. You know what's a cool, my favorite little piece of trivia of The Office is that all the writers that are also actors, which is Toby and Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak, because they needed them to have...

they had to do stuff as writers. That's why all those characters were in the back room, the annex. Oh, wow. So that, so that they could be writing when they're not, they didn't need to be in scenes in the background. Yeah. I just think that's so cool. Yeah. That is crazy. That's a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah. Just how much he had to orchestrate like that. It's pretty wild. In the episode where Jim signs Meredith's cask, he signed it John Krasinski. Oh yeah. A little tidbit there. The cast around her crotch. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

uh and the one where uh the gay witch hunt where michael kisses oscar he wasn't supposed to do that he's supposed to just hug him but he just improvised and went in for the kiss yeah and oscar said he just went with it yeah that was funny yeah it is very funny you've met him right oscar yeah yeah a long time ago yeah uh he was very nice yeah yeah great dude yeah i've only yeah i don't know if i met that's it at the office who do i met hey you met krasinski

Yeah, I've met Krasinski briefly in that thing, and then Oscar, and those are the only two. And Katie Azleton was in The Office. Oh, yeah. What was she? She was the episode where Michael gives blood, and he gets a crush on a girl around the corner. Oh, yeah. That's her. That is true. Oh, yeah. The Scrantones was the band who wrote the theme music, recorded the theme music for The Office, and they're the band that's on the Booze Cruise episode. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah.

So I wanted to just ask what, before you wrap up, what's your favorite episodes? I think mine's that, I think the business school that's got the, you know, which is written, uh, uh, by your buddy, Brent Forrester. Yeah. Brent Forrester. And so, well, cause we, and him wrote something that didn't go anywhere, but Brent's a wonderful person and a great writer. And so, uh,

He was, it was fun to, like, when I worked with him, like, he was like, oh, man, that's my favorite episode. I just think it showed the heart of, it had everything. It's very funny. It's a very funny episode. It had him giving that speech of paper dying. Like, they go in there, he rips the book and all that stuff. And then to close it with the, you know, I need to go back and, like, probably, I don't know if I've watched, like, Seinfeld, where I think of, like,

every episode, like is every storyline perfect and all this kind of stuff. But I can't remember. I think a lot of the storylines are very good in that one. And I mean, when he comes in and likes that,

I mean, that's just maybe my... I mean, it's the sweetest moment. Awesome moment. And I loved it. So I loved it. I loved that so much that that's just... You're like, this kind of guy is the best guy that could ever exist. Just pure, sweet, just...

is so and like truly excited and being like that painting is awesome and it's and being like that looks like our building like that's crazy you know just that kind of you know kind of person like i like that i i love the gym and pam like them getting together i could watch that all day long like i mean them you know that kind of back and forth yeah i mean it was just wonderful yeah so well done what was yours

Probably the deposition, which is the episode where Michael gets called to give a deposition when Jan is suing Dunder Mifflin. And it starts off, I love that it starts off very competent and then it just, he just unravels. And then one of my favorite moments of the whole show is comes right back from commercial and it's the stenographer reading back

the minutes where he just reading what Michael had just said. That's what she said. Who said that? That's what, it's just so funny. That's, that's like, well, she butchered the timing. One time he goes flying. He said line, like in a play.

I like that. Business School is one of my favorites too. I like the ones where it's sweet Michael moment. Yeah. It's the one where I don't know what it's about where Jim throws the party at his house.

doesn't want Michael there. I think Jim, Michael goes to his improv class, which is so funny. Yeah. But then he shows up anyway and he does karaoke and he sings islands in the stream and nobody wants to sing with him. And then Jim gets up there. Yeah. And I love that. Cause it's such a sweet scene. That is a, yeah. Yeah. When he does that gun scene, he goes, what did he tell you? He told me, can't show me, but he, but he does have a gun. Yeah.

The dinner party is often considered the funniest. And I do love it. I love it when he pulls that TV out. I just loved hearing how they couldn't get through it. Yeah. There's a lot of outtakes of Jim laughing. Yeah. Just being... I mean, you could tell that they truly loved each other. As a cast, I would imagine. And that stuff, that's what matters. That stuff shows in real on camera. I mean, it's...

if you, if you can't believe that these people still talk to each other, like, I think that's what Seinfeld is like. You still believe that you're like, they talk to each other. Like they're, that's what you want to believe. Yeah. I think they do though. Yeah. I don't, I mean, no, I'm saying that's what you, you want that. Yeah. You're happy when you find out. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. And so like that stuff really comes off. And I think that, I think John and Krasinski and Steve Cross seem like they're very, very close. Uh,

And so it's like, yeah, you want to believe that that's all. You know, it's just very sweet. Did you like Scott's Tots? Yeah, I remember the first time I watched it. Like, it was the funniest thing. I have a hard time watching it now. Yeah, I do too. Because I feel so bad. I do too. It's the most cringe-worthy episode. Yeah. But I mean, when it first came out, it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Like...

It's so funny to think that he promised all this and then... Yeah. I guess I didn't like it. Well, I mean, for obvious reasons. But usually he'll find a way to dig himself out. And they don't. No, they don't. There's no way out of that. You just gotta... Yeah. When the office got robbed and he offered the Huey Lewis, I mean, Bruce Springsteen tickets and he doesn't have them, that's a little bit like...

That's more than incompetent. That's just outright lying to get caught. Usually he'll find a way to... But didn't he... Someone got him? Didn't he get the tickets? No, they gave away a hug. Phyllis' hug. So it ends in a sweet way because they start bidding. Bob Van spent $5,000 on a hug. But I thought they ripped the tickets. I thought he ripped them too. That's maybe your thing about when he had tickets. He was offering them to... Holly. Holly to go to...

I forgot who it was. Counting Crows. Oh, Counting Crows. Counting Crows. Yeah. She had tickets to go on a date and the guy didn't show up and he goes, you know what? Let me buy those tickets for you. She goes, you don't have to. We can just, he goes, no, let me buy them. And so she gives it to him and he just rips them up. And she's like, I mean, we could have win. Yeah, we could have win. They were great seats. Yeah.

I just watched where they roast him, which is so funny. And then he comes back at the end and boom, roasted. And everyone starts laughing. And he's like, all right, you guys don't know a kid. Get home safe. Yeah, Scott's Tots is like such a, it's a perfect episode.

And like the idea of it is so funny and it's like, I think I remember loving it. And then it's almost like the older I've gotten, I've been like, I can't watch this. Like it's too, but I think that's why they had to have Stanley just laughing the whole time. Cause it was, you know, but it's, and he does such a good job, but it's so, cause it would be so funny in real life.

to think it's this, this guy that's done something very sweet that can't, you know, and it's like, well, do you let it pay? I mean, you can't, it's paying these kids to go to college. Yeah. Yeah. And he's just sitting there. He has so much money. He goes, I thought I would have that. Yeah. I thought I'd be a millionaire by my thirties. Yeah. But I had less money than I did in my twenties. Maybe when I'm 50, I don't know. Yeah.

I just watched the episode where Pam punches him. Yeah. And he said, I saw my life flash before my eyes and I was married and I had three kids. It's all stuff in the future that he wants. So great. He had so many great lines. Yeah. I think you've mentioned this before. He's like, man, you got great kids. I got a few of my own that I want someday. I got a few of my own I want someday. Yeah. It was...

Yeah, it's an unbelievable show. I mean, it's just so good. I don't know if we dove into it like we did Seinfeld as much, but... I mean, I got more stuff, but we're about... What was like a... Another fun fact? Yeah. Let's see here. Um...

The real places in Scranton that they reference, Alfredo's Pizza, Poor Richard's, the bar they go to, that's all real places. You've been to Scranton, some of these places, right? Yeah, yeah. This is one of the shows I did right before COVID. You did Wilkes-Barre, right? I did Wilkes-Barre. Yeah. But I went to Scranton to drive in. Wilkes-Barre is next to Scranton. We went to that mall. Steamtown Mall? Yeah. Steamtown Mall. I don't know if it was called that, but yeah. They have a sign, the Scranton sign in there, I think. Yeah.

Have you seen the video of when, after a show ends and they go on like a ball field there in the real Scranton and do a reunion and they surprise everybody with Steve Carell coming out? Oh, it's awesome. Oh, no. It gives me chills just thinking about it because people go nuts. Oh, really? Yeah. He comes running out of the dugout.

When the show ended, they did a big thank you to Scranton at the Scranton Minor League Ballpark. That brought out all the actors one by one. And then Steve Carell comes out at the end. They didn't know he was going to be there. I don't even think the actors knew it. Or at least some of them didn't. It's pretty fun to watch. Shrewd Farms is a fictional place, of course. But there's been over 1,100 reviews on TripAdvisor. But they put a warning. This is a fictional place. Please do not try to book a visit here.

Mindy Kaling, John Krasinski, Ellie Kemper all were interns for Conan. Oh, wow. The stress relief episode where Michael does CPR training and they do it to the beats of the BG staying alive. Yeah. A person who watched that episode remembered it and successfully saved someone's life. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Is that great? That's such a great thing. Yeah, yeah. That's a...

I mean, that whole thing. Yeah. He starts doing the wrong song. At first, I was afraid. I was petrified. And they all start singing it. And there's another one that's very, very natish because he's like, she's like, what does it say? 60. She gives him a number. He's like, well, how many is that per hour? And John Cruz, he's like, how's that going to help you? He's like, I'll count ahead and then I'll divide. It makes no sense.

But it's very natal. My most natal line is where Jim is trying to get out of something. He goes, I got to go give blood. And Michael goes, how many times can you give blood? He goes, is there a limit? He goes, well, your body only has so much. Does it not? How many times can you give it? Wouldn't there be a point where it's got to stop? Yeah, you got to stop, right? Not all time. Like years and years is what he meant. Yeah. I wonder what the amount is, though.

This is why I said it's an age-long. What's a month or something? I know, but how many times would it be like, well, you're out of blood? It replenishes pretty quick. Yeah, you got to wait at least eight weeks between donations of blood. About two months. Yeah, six times a year. So if you did... If you gave blood once a day for like, yeah, you'd probably run out. You'd run out. Yeah, taps dry. They flick it. They flick it in me.

That's what I mean though. No one gives an answer. That's like when someone asks, how much can you give? Then they go. Oh, you laugh, but you don't know the actual answer. But then no one, you're like, but just give me, it's a serious question. I want to go, you know. And the episode where Jim pops Dwight's fitness orb, it was a complete accident, which I don't know how that, I thought he used scissors. I thought he did too. Pop it.

When he's, Jim's consoling Dwight in the staircase and then Jim gets up and walks away and Dwight reaches over and he's gone. That was completely improvised. Oh yeah. Yeah. According to this. According to this. Steve Carell left the show after seven seasons. He was still adored by the cast so much that he'd always been number one on the call sheet. And when they left, they retired the number one and didn't appear on the call sheet ever again. Oh, that's cool. That's really cool. That's awesome.

All right. The Office. We did it. It's fun. We did it. Check it out. Go watch The Office. It's streaming right now. Where is it at? We got to plug the number one show in the world. I see it on Comedy Central now. Where is it streaming, though? It's on Peacock. Peacock. You can actually watch it now on Peacock with all the deleted scenes added in. Oh. So it's kind of like a new show, honestly, which is pretty exciting. Yeah. That's fun. Look at that. All right, everybody. Thank you.

We love you as always. Also, yeah, and just a reminder, Merry Christmas. There you go. We forgot to say Merry Christmas, so we went back to do it again. That's how much we wanted to remind you Merry Christmas is we forgot. So go watch The Office, streaming on Peacock. Also, celebrate Christmas. Don't forget, everybody, celebrate Christmas with your family in case you're just at home going,

What's going on today? Who's I supposed to see? Why is everybody over here today? Why is my driveway getting full? It's Christmas. So Merry Christmas.

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