35 Burst results for "Steve Carell"
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"steve carell" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"It's a second season of a show, it's called the old man. Oh, great for season. Yeah, with Jeff. Jeff Bridges. Yeah. And he's always been a hair of mine. Lebowski is one of my all time favorite movies. And I'm a little nervous to meet him. I'm going to be so starstruck because he's amazing. So yeah, I'm going to jump on that. For a few months, starting in March. And yeah, and like I said, I did some of the peripheral got finished with that shortly before it started airing. We did a whole bunch of a whole bunch of reshoots and additional shot additional scenes for that. Dan, have you ever gotten lost in a performance? So I'm picturing Jeff Bridges and shooting Jeff Bridges or like you've had some really high end projects. And you're clearly a movie fan because you have to be. Like, are you ever lost? I mean, I'm not talking like unprofessional or being a fanboy. I'm not saying that, but like when you're filming, are you ever like Jesus that was, that was amazing. Absolutely. I mean, I finished with Steve Carell. Every day I felt that way. Every single day and tonal gleason, unbelievable those guys, fantastic. You mentioned earlier Antony Starr. There were moments of in his performance that I didn't want to breathe. Because I didn't want to change any molecules in the atmosphere because everything was so perfect. Yeah, that's why we do it. You know, those moments where you get lost in that and you see a performer become something create something that moves you that I think is the greatest art, the greatest art of the 21st century. Yeah, for sure. And it's so great to see a person who loves movies and so good at his craft, kind of be the same person 'cause I always feel like somebody's gonna get a vibe from guess where they're great at what they do with their lukewarm on movies and shows you're clearly all in on this as a career and a pastime. Well, big time. I mean, I'll finish a 15 hour day, go home and watch an episode or two before I go to sleep. Yeah. Of something. I need to feed, I need to feed the beast, you know? I need more. Yeah. It was so great to meet you, and I hope you come back on down the road. Well, this is my pleasure. Thank you for having me. Thank
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Patrick Courrielche Shares the Biggest Red Pill Moment of His Life
"All retell prey of this story that was what maybe one of the key red pilling moments for you and your wife? Yeah, it was one of the biggest red pills of my life. It was 2000 around 2010 or so our daughter started to come old enough to go to preschools and what have you. And we wanted to put her in the best preschool possible and so we got her into this preschool in Hollywood. We didn't know it at the time because we were friends with a lot of celebrities and the Hollywood people and what have you and that's how we ended up getting into this place. We didn't realize it, but it's this kind of community, this exclusive club in Hollywood. It's one of the most exclusive clubs, perhaps in America, where it happens to be the school systems in these epicenters like New York and Hollywood. With this particular system, was a fascinating look into the belly of the beast of Hollywood. We ended up getting into this elementary school. And it was all of the big celebrities were there. Jason Bateman had a kid in our class. Melissa McCarthy ended up having a kid in our class, Adam Scott, who's a big actor from multiple movies had kids in her class. Steve Carell. I mean, I could just go through and just start naming studio heads, huge writers. And we started to look around and we're like, why is everyone so excited about being here? And we started to realize that we were in a cult. And that's really, it's not an exaggeration. These people create this kind of community where they can kind of network with one another and it's more than just a kid going to school. Well, we had this experience where we caught this guy getting in bed. You're not going to believe this. We caught this guy getting in bed with other people's kids, okay? On sleepovers, right? Sleepovers, ages from kindergarten to second grade or so. And we caught him getting in bed with people's kids and we're like, what? What? And so we start asking around, there's this moment where all of these parents kind of went away the women went away on this kind of mommy's trip. They start talking to one another and they start talking about this guy and they have each has different stories about him getting in bed with other people's kids.
Hey B*tch!
"steve carell" Discussed on Hey B*tch!
"Are surgery if you really needed to get there but right. Now i'm looking for sick andrews on crypto. I mike i would sincerely loved the friends giving me here shower here. My co host. Before he got hair should done. And it's so crazy that it ended up giving him black is oh yeah. The whole process is just random browsing his he had black. Is you have to take time off. And mike your face. Well i'll be doing it eventually. I'm definitely going to do it. I'm ashamed to say like a bunch of people did it and it looks really good. Steve carell yeah shitty. Dang nobody yeah like the whole thing about girls like leaving their hair everywhere. I actually have to contest that. Because my husband leaves way more than i do a lot of hair care good hair literally you look at our bed and you know exactly where it. Oh it's all shut air lock look healthy hair stuck with the fucking shitty limit. Because i have to sleep when i hear. Here's my here's really fine and you can't really see it so i think you notice it means your child has the best hair odds childcare. Odds are going to be fifty fifty right now fifty four. Yeah you both have really good hair. The white recessive though. So do you just pretty recessive every time. There's a mixed child most of the time. It doesn't look like a white or it doesn't really have like a lot of the white gene so like the blue eyes will probably be gone. Thin hair will probably be gone freckles. A probably nikki. Saving his bloodline aghia. Saving this online. Yeah site will be gone. Heard it all before but all of my nieces and nephews are redhead. So i'm scared guys scared it's true. What's your brother-in-law or redheads. All of it. i'll wow. it's all rented skies. Wait what do you mean and nobody your sister. She's she's strawberry blonde will. Yeah that's to reds. What do you mean recessive. Because i'm that we have to do moron. Here's the thing. There's a lot of inbreeding. My family.
The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
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The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"His family. Thank you for bringing it up. Because mark york should be recognized for the tremendous work that he did and it is a great loss. All right in the episode. With jennifer fisher. It's possible that she and i may have briefly. Mentioned an idea that steve had for an office reunion. So daniel kelly says how do you let her. Drop that. Info about steve's idea and bury it like. Oh yeah. I've heard steve's idea like the world knows what you speak and brushed aside like the crumbs of cookie Look first of all it. Steve's idea if steve wants to talk about his idea. That isn't a reality at this moment. Then steve can't. Let's just say that the idea does happen. What would you wanna know. Wouldn't you want to be surprised. And if you don't wanna be surprised. I can tell you this. Nbc wants you to be surprised so neither nor myself. He's going to reveal steve's idea i'm very sorry but the point was there is an idea. And it's really good sean. H. m. talks about wanting well very specific new episode dude. We're loving the podcast. But you know what we also want an episode where we talk to brian and get to know everything kevin. We can't wait to hear you. Tell us everything about your character. You know that is an idea sean. It has been talked about a little but not for a while. So who knows but who would talk to me or would i have to talk to myself and would that be a disaster. I don't know thank you for the input. It is dis- it has been discussed so we'll see you can take total credit if we end up doing that. Drew papu us. I'm sure that's wrong. Writes this podcast. Bring so much joy to my work commute. You're the man at bb baumgartner. You're damn right. I am drew pooches. And because you said that. I'm really sorry that i butchered your name which i definitely did So steve and i talked about the director sandwich which is when a director compliments and actor then tells them what they're doing terribly wrong and then gives them another compliment to soften the blow so michael george rights. I had to laugh when you were talking about the director sandwich. Because i'm a teacher and we do it to usually an e mails to kids parents. We call it a shit sandwich. Glad to know they do it other places. Nothing made me laugh harder. Maybe throughout this entire podcast. Recording experience than steve talking about the director sandwich. Because it's so true. And now i'm going to need to go and look back at emails from teachers about my kids and see if i can find to shit sandwich there and if there is well it probably means my kid. Did something wrong reverend. Beebe which is not me to be very clear. Here's my question because i'm curious. Was it always the intent to do both podcasts. or was it just. Hey we have all of this useful stuff left. Let's do it. Great question reverend beebe. It was always my intention. Yes from the very beginning. The first person we interviewed was rain. Wilson and i had even brought it up before then like i think. We're gonna want what we're going to get more material than we want because an oral history of the office was My math is bad. But let's say eight to ten hours Something like that. And i sat down our very first interview with rain wilson. We sat down for over. Two hours and immediately was like whoa. We can't use all of that. And he said so many amazing things so yes. It was always our intention to release more of the full conversations because we knew we had way more or we were going to get way more than what we needed for an oral history of the office. But thank you for the question. Joe bangles rights to me on twitter. Random question but do you have a favorite cheese chatter from wisconsin going to eleven rights to me regarding the steve carell episode. I love this episode. My wife has a theory on why young people love the office. It helps them feel less intimidated about being working adults. Just because you are a professional doesn't mean you have it all figured out. They recognized personalities from school in the show. I think i think. I think you're on to something going to eleven. I think you're going to eleven or you're going to a hundred or whatever the biggest number would be. That's very interesting. yeah. I not specifically thought about being less intimidated seeing people who work in an office later on not not kind of having it all together and figured out. But that's i think that's a very very interesting theory. And yes i do. Think recognizing personalities from their other classmates and the structure of class versus. The office was so similar like an unreasonable teacher. Who makes you do unreasonable. Things very similar from michael scott making his office workers do unreasonable things. Laura be harsh field sir beck rights. I will say my eleven year. Old son knows every episode and what season finds all the mistakes. and little extras. I have missed. I asked him why he likes it. And it's because the characters talk about real life and he thinks it's real. He knows it's not really a documentary. But it's what he thinks. Being adult and working is like which shows how great the show was done. Well laura all i can tell you is. It is indeed what we were going for. The reality This sort of ultra reality of Not just making a documentary or how. A documentary was shot but in terms of the behaviors and interactions of the characters. So thank him for watching and for being so interested and Thank you for clearly. Raising a great son and fan of the show. Kristen she he writes. I'm loving the podcast. Currently going through chemo. And the office and your podcast has provided me with so much joy during this difficult process. God bless you kristen. I hope you get better soon. And thank you for listening and for watching and again. i'm. I'm so glad that us crazy. Band of nut heads have given some relief to what you are going through. Pam jill from the randall. Einhorn episode rights. What does he key grip slash grip do well they grip it and a key grip. I mean clearly grips the key. I think bc. Jim dad rights brian. Did you just hear aaron rodgers in the match. Tell charles barkley if you just beat brian. Baumgartner in tahoe he'll be happy yes. I did hear that. And i attempted after being sent the clip of it from tahoe where i was getting ready to play where he wasn't. I did attempt to communicate. Because i felt like i was brought up on air. I should have a chance to respond. So i attempted to contact. Charles barkley and aaron rodgers and well not really antique. Because i didn't know how to get a hold of anybody there. But i tried to be able to respond. They ignored phone calls. So nothing unusual about any of that. Robert mccarthy forty two rights. I'd love to know some storylines that just missed making it into the office. There must have been a bunch of great ones. Ps love the podcast. Thank you robert. The one that springs to mind. I know we talked about or were about to talk about on an episode pet day. Pet day was actually to my knowledge. The only written script that we never did there was a fully written script. And i think it just kind of get kept getting pushed and wasn't done. There may have been some animal activists that would not have been happy about that episode. I don't specifically remember the content but pet day was the title and there is a written episode of the office that i read at some point very early on that has never ever been produced veggie the memer rights just a question. What is your favorite scene. You've ever played as kevin malone by the way you're my favorite actor person in the series well veggie. You're amazingly smart number one to my favorite scene ever. I mean. i guess. I'm supposed to say the chili. Seen to be my answer. So i can say that or i can answer differently. The scene with amy ryan at the vending machine where she is counting money into my hands. that's the one that i remember being for me the most difficult to not laugh because of her sincerity and sweetness and how it was written her performance. All of it I remember that scene. And then now that i'm thinking even more maybe the basketball. I mean i made thirteen in a row and primetime and who's done that. Not not many people ever have done network. Primetime made thirteen in a row from the free. Throw line extended. So that's a possibility as well. Nick hamby on apple. Podcasts writes a great podcast. Love the podcast. I've watched the office forty four times through during my wife's pregnancy. We watched it so much that the first song that my son reacted to the intro to the office loved the show and pod. Great well nick. You might win. I don't know forty four times is a lot of times. I don't know that i could count that. I will tell you a funny story. Billy irish who we talked to told us at the time That we talked she had watched it. Fourteen times through there is some discussion. She has watched it at least one more time since but fourteen times through and i remember writing about that on social media and i can't tell you the number of comments that i got that was like fourteen emitter. She's not a real fan. And i'm like fourteen. Times is a lotta times like you got. You can't dismiss fourteen times as an as a number of times so but forty four nick. Congratulations you are officially as of this moment in time. You're the highest watcher. That i have heard of so congratulations. And i say over forty five. It's a way way better number and there you have it folks. Another mailbag in the well in the back huge. Thanks to all of you guys for coming back week after week and and forgiving us well giving us the fuel to make this episode. I could not ask for a better group of listeners. Keep the comments coming out. We're going to see if we can fit in another episode very soon. But until then we're gonna be back tuesday with well perhaps the most well dressed man in the business the incredible director paul feek. And you never know. We might have a little surprise coming to you before. Then what does that mean. Well it means that persona thursday week. Everyone oppy.
The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"She knows from the office. But what can you do Thank you and happy birthday. All right the time has come to answer some questions from you. Mailbag that's right now. I'm going to get to as many questions as i possibly can. But if i don't get yours never fear we're going to be doing more episodes like this. So subscribe and comment on apple podcasts. Or write me on instagram and twitter. Because well we will be watching all right. Let's dive in. And if i say somebody's name wrong today. I'm sorry i love you just the same. Plus you know who you are. Am i right all right so on that. Note our very first question. Well maybe less of a question that an ego boost a listener wrote into say super excited about the podcast. Kevin was my favorite character on the office. By the way. Here's the ultimate compliment. A comedian can receive. You made me laugh so hard that i actually developed a nose bleed. The isolation seen in the wedding episode was hilarious. Thank you well thank you. I appreciate. I have been told by many people over the years that they cannot use public ice at a hotel slash motel because well. They're afraid my feet was ended. Lupe pause rights. Can you one of these days on the podcast. Talk about the opening scene stress relief. This is the episode where dwight starts the fire. Drill it is one of the funniest episodes slash openings. And i think we'd all love to hear how you guys felt filming that so Stress relief was the episode that aired after the super bowl. If you've found the show on netflix you wouldn't know that I would say it is not only one of my favorite openings of show. It's one of my personal favorite episodes. I think part of that has to do with the fact that it it did air right after the super bowl and well i'm a big football fan There were two openings to show that we had the most rehearsal. It was the most almost like doing theater. There was the lip dub open. Which was all one takes had to be done one. Take the camera moving around the office and also the opening of stress relief. I mean there were so many elements that happened in shooting that we had cat. Wrangler 's we had two different sets of broken glass. Kevin vending machine and michael with the exterior window. We had copiers smashing into doors and things breaking or having the potential to break. It was so much fun. Filming that scene culminating with stanley of course Having a heart attack so thank you for your question but yes for me. Personally i would say my favorite cold open on the show on islam rights sir. I'm a really big fan from bangladesh. Really love your podcast wolf. I am so happy that we have listeners in bangladesh. Thank you and i'm i'm hearing. We have lots of listeners in india and across europe. Thank you all wherever you're listening. Thank you so much for listening. Walter burn rights. Kevin malone had a little black and gold helmet on his desk with an m. on the side of it. What football team does that belong to. I have no idea. I i really don't i. I never found out. It was there the whole time and in fact it might have been borrowed from. Nbc by yours win. The office ended. And i guess that makes me really terrible actor like not doing character study. I don't don't know what team it was from. I really don't but i'm guessing a small college. It was not. I don't know i'm sorry walter. Burn ooh it's crazy. How much we have to pay for outdated impersonal healthcare and even crazier that we all just accept it. It's time to face facts. Healthcare is backwards. 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The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"Well hello everybody. Welcome to a special and extra special episode of the office deep dive. I'm your host. Brian baumgartner. now. Today i'm gonna need you to hold onto your pants. Folks is that phrase. Because i have got a very special surprise for you actually not one. I have to surprises. So let's start with the one that involves my good friend. Steve carell whom. I don't know some of you may know as michael scott on the office. Just kidding i know you know who steve as well. Yesterday was his birthday. Happy birthday to you steve. And we all know. He is the man who deserves all of the presence in the world. Well i gave him my gift last year which was to surprise him with one of the biggest musicians on the planet who also happens to be one of the biggest office fans on the planet he got to meet billy freaking eyelash for the first time over facetime and let me tell you. It was magical okay. That week. She had just taken home five grammy awards. One of which i still believe rightly belongs to us and i'll take that any time. Billy thank you very much. But in honor of steve's birthday. I'm going to share with you all of you listeners. My gift to him. This a phone call with billy bush. After that i'm going to be answering some of the questions that you have been asking me on social media filling in the gaps and getting to know all of you just a little bit better along the way but before we get to that before we get to you. Please give a very warm welcome to well. The king of the office. Steve carell and.
The Adam Carolla Show
"steve carell" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"It's a layer of cool whip and it's layer of jello in the mole. I bet you anything down. It's a double down his cream cheese and cool will. Why aren't you know your kids are white theft going for it. I will take a photo. Mike and i will send send it. Please face planted right in it. I can't wait what the mole fish is a something exciting the shape. It's just your standard rectangle. No fish no snow but cake style. It's just flat where we call that jello jello jello yellow. He's gonna die. So you think minnesota mom you think granola for people drive sports cars and stay out late. Exactly that's for people in the high fast paced world of st paul. That's not where we are. That's where people who wear lipstick on their lips and they don't they have a pleasure interior. Not the nice velvet that. I used to I get it. Yeah the the the kids in the fast lane fast lane. Yeah Cashier coleen. Thanks mike thanks. Everybody have a great weekend. Yeah mike oddly interesting is gonna. Where's this mike been. He's oddly interesting. Been around one seen this done that. And has a good recollection of everything. Knows knows where it's all at. Yeah now. I have to figure out where i did that. Whole jello ref. yeah. I'm looking must've been the But you guys heard a perfect. Mike answer with is i just said. Did i do it in the podcasts. Or i do it in the standup show. Because we do the unprepared at the end of the stand up show i mean he said it was in unprepared. Not wrong not wrong. Still add zero clarity into to my question all right. Well i'm thinking it was from the stand. I i'm thinking is from the stand up. Maybe even the late show on on saturday. We'll play it if it were all right. We'll see if we can find the jello raff I let me tell you about our friends. At scott's cheap flights dot com scott's cheap flights travel the world and never pay full price again people pay for flights prices. Go up. They go down by hundreds of dollars even in the same day so you could pay a different price than the person next to you on the exact same flight. They combine technology with a team of flight. Experts to monitor thousands of routes on major airlines all day every day when prices drop they send members and email and they sent him an alert. So they'll never miss an amazing deal like the europe.
The Adam Carolla Show
"steve carell" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"Bar. I told you bars are very very popular in that part of the country. I've never made very there. They're a little exotic for my for my constitution for my stomach. But i am so proud of you for eat now. Bar i lemon bar. I liked to make mine with my howard. Likes them with the special k so minor real simple. I just use special k and k rose syrup and you just get real liberal with that. We're not real liberal about most things but k. Rose syrup and molasses we are very very liberal on when it comes to the bars through lemon bars with special k. I'll do lemon bar in the summer when they're in season but i don't i'm not highfalutin. I don't do out-of-season fruit. I don't go to those big grocery store chains. Of course there eighty miles away. You ever hear a cereal called cascio. Lean excuse me now. Cashier lean goal. Lean go lay yolene. Please don't take my man dali parton song. It's a cereal. It's like a high fiber. No we have the special k. We have the cornflakes. And when you're feeling like you wanna be adventurous you grape. That's hold on and put them in the microwave. Warm up really sticks to your ribs when you're up here in the cold so no you don't you. Don't do granola right well. Granola is for. That's a little more of a west coast thing that's for people who are very fancy. They liked lights. They liked the the fast paced nightlife. That's not for us. We choose the cornflakes. We liked that k. Row and i gotta try a blueberry all. Make our try the blueberry bar and he'll tell me if there are any good go mike jello. Mold wait making fun of jello mold on this show or making fun of making fun of last week and i it was coming out me the but i didn't know doing it in a standup show or doing it. On the podcast came up. There's an unprepared thing. It wasn't carolina unprepared. He says no i do. I'm reading. prepare them both shows that wouldn't admitted to the podcast. Own dismissed. I'm still. I'm still asking the same question mike. Which is that. I do it in the podcast. There did i stand up. Show okay but thanks for narrowing it down shows does your does whoever does your jello mold. They put in Like walnuts or pecans so they're sorta suspended in air in the elommal with sour cream. What's the what is the raspberry jello suspended in anyone. Anyone you're asking Folks in the room with you. I bet you it's nuts and sour communist stats very. That's a little goya shepherd that's much better. I would much rather have that. Will cross lake pretzel likely crush it up. Just busted up pretzel long and then you must do instead of sour must do cool whip. It's a layer of trust me. It's a layer of pretzel. It's a layer of cool whip and it's layer of jello in the mole. I bet you anything down. It's a double down his cream cheese and cool will. Why aren't you know your kids are white theft going for it..
The Adam Carolla Show
"steve carell" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"Mike august. Yeah low from chicago. That's right scout more talent. You're on what are you doing over there might or actually out in western chicago out in the quad cities. Area took my kids back to see their grandparents. So we're seeing all the sites out here in the western farmland. Well maybe this dovetails nicely because chicago. Second city right. But we're corral and Colbert were their second city guys. That's right they were second city instructors way back in the nineties. They were long-term instructors. I mean those guys you know. Come in colbert come in and was at north western state and career okay then from the east coast and they were you know performance but they made their living as instructors at second city. Yeah we we got that article. I got that article i think. Jimmy sal or daniel sent it on that email chain vehicle. Something praiseworthy that they send out. I've never usually up spinning on its axis. The the line's always rape. Can you fucking believe mike. Whatever i mean that's also live on jimmy. They love it but there was praise for my after being praised in are we read that the peace already. We wanted to sort of go back. So how did you discover those guys. Well you know it's funny because we were you. And i were talking. We were in north carolina right a couple of weeks ago last week. Talking about david sedaris right who you weren't super familiar with but i know everybody else's from always great books so david sedaris and his sister. Amy sedaris came to new york in the early nineties. With a guy named steve. Kobe and they started putting on these crazy. Little shows in the just the lowest of the lowest of east end in new york city. They david would write these crazy. Plays like one woman shoe or stitches and would feature amy. My favorite one was amy. Sedaris is like a sitcom character like roseanne character but she had a horrible waterskiing accident or face went right into the top of the boat and her face. she didn't play. Her face is completely stitched. Up like a volleyball and then like kobe. Aarp later male nurse and it was just. I mean it was crazy funny and the people come down a ceiling. You'd go down to see these shows. Fifty people in the crowd and one of them would be madonna. You know And so we just just got baby doll to come down a couple of other people from the agency said. We've got to work with these people. I mean they're just so talented there. So goddamn funny we gotta find something to do. So we just started representing them and we. We made a deal for them at comedy. Central for show they made Called exit thirty seven at the time. and yeah they. They were the core group of exit fifty seven now maybe accidentally witness them on stage because my recollections of baby is either smoking in a parking lot during the show or sleeping in the theater derive show may king of sleeping. He may have missed the phone. Call him baby because he falls asleep. He's a king of falling asleep but he was young enough at that time that he could make it through a show. That started like nine your home so you get eight now you get coburg at this point or do you get carell or both of them. We got called bear and then corral is still in in chicago but then corrals wife got cast in a saturday night live and so he moved with his wife to jersey and so he was just hanging out right and so i met corral through colbert because they were just telling us. Oh yeah he's really funny. I really haven't seen him work but his reputation as being really super funny guy was kind of ahead of them. So i got colbert. Onto the daily show. He'd been doing bits on good morning america and they love those bits and so they just hired him and then mallon smithburg proves it got anybody else i said. You gotta take a look. Steve carell you know. He's he's really talented guy. And so they said well that's audition. Let's let's come up with something. So he came up with this audition. I said steve. You gotta play like a corresponding. You're like a tv news guy even though you go out and goof on stuff so. He goes onto a hill until bank overlooking the hudson river on in jersey right. They put the camera on him. And he's got his his lines as copies gotta read he starts rolling downhill just rolling. But he's saying the copy perfectly as if he's standing still it was most god hilarious that you've ever seen because straight interpretation a copy while guys we down thirty yards alabama hill and so they saw that that tape and they hired him immediately. And who's funnier when you think of like comedic actors of our time who's funnier than like will ferrell. And steve corral like the height of that. Steve carell doesn't even really get his do just because he's so good. I mean he's so into it that you don't really see what he's doing one hundred percent right. And he is his somehow an underrated. Great actor vedic actor a great on fox catcher spectacular. Yeah i was shocked shocked. When i saw foxcatcher i like. I didn't realize he had those kind of levels. You know. 'cause he really is an actor. Who can do comedy as opposed to kind of comedic actor. You know you really is an oscar. Worthy type of actor was super talented guy. Nicest guy on the planet kind of a stupid love. Yeah yeah and do you guys have by. When did you guys part ways baby. And i made that gigantically. Smart move to. Leave william morris and go work for michael today. Mg and at that point we lost every client. We had everybody. We worked with have management in place and none of them wanted to play ball at the new place. We went to so you know we spent a year. We spent ten years building at the best comedy business in the business. Everybody from ray. Romano john stewart to kevin james steve go bears. Steve corral david del and we go to this company within one year year. And a half. Jimmy kimmel adam corolla. We lose them. All everybody's no longer working with us because they're management doesn't wanna work with this new company whereas we literally ended the whole guy damn thing you remember that mike ovitz roast show. Wow it i was aster. It was in hollywood. I don't remember all party. mike. Ovitz the great mike. Ovitz the uber agent built c. A and then left the a and went to disney was president of disney for ten seconds until he got kind of shuffled out by by the the stockholders comes out of disney and like two thousand one and says i'm gonna create the next new great production company management company talent based starts hiring all the best people so baby don. I get hired. I mean we literally. You're pulled out of william morris. Go work for this company and nobody wanted to see over. It succeed made so many enemies. We didn't realize that so you know while we were there. We had to do a christmas party. So we bring jimmy and ataman to christmas party to judge the talent show and the talent show is just that every department has to put on their own little skit and we did where the commerce department. So we did this. Skit making fun of mike ovitz. Which was the stupidest thing we had no idea. That guy was at a tissue thin ego. He wrote this whole parody song and jimi you'll gave us some lyrics and it was just i mean. He was so offended that literally. He couldn't get rid of us quicken. Our thing just came to an end three months after christmas it was all over the was excruciatingly uncomfortable thing in the room because it was so bad it was great though right like over vents. Yeah didn't have a great sense of humor about himself. Probably hadn't had anyone say anything in about thirty five years and it was like the guy who did your softball league. Just goofed on let alone in front of an audience of his own company you know..
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"He wants people to think he's funny and charming and all of those things but the fact that he'd walk away from his big tribute his big sendoff and be able to in a very personal way. Say goodbye to each character that to me felt like it would resonate and it was almost more than i bargained for. Because that's what happened. I had scenes with everyone in the cast and it was it was it was emotional torture because imagine imagine saying goodbye for a week. It wasn't see later on you wave and you're you're out no it was like just fraught with emotion and and joy and sadness and nostalgia but it was also a really beautiful like a treasure. I'd like treasure. Just doing that episode because it did allow me to kind of have a finality with everybody and and they were all different. Like i had one with toby. That wasn't was it. Very stahl gic. All very fitting i even in that certainly not as a character to be static but to kind of have that final scene with paul. I can't show the emotion that's actually waited behind it as a human being for. Just me and paul right so it was. It was a dance you know is tricky but I remember the last week and we were shooting in the bullpen. We're shooting the main set. And i started to feel like oh i felt like i think they're more people in the vicinity because all i could see where the cast right but then i just you know you. Just get a sense of like okay. Something's happening something happening. And as soon as last hake the room just filled with people and you know it was all the writers and crew and and it was well. I mean you were there. It was it was retake. It was ridiculously emotional right Someone told me. Leading back up to the finale of the series that why would michael comeback and you said well..
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"See somebody but it's so so maybe. It's a defense mechanism that way. But i would just so proud to be part of it and it was very difficult for me to leave because i loved everybody I didn't start by asking this because it didn't occur to me and then people started talking. And i've been asking people. What was the greater loss. Was it steve or was it michael. Scott and two stories have come up a number of times one. I haven't heard. I wanna share this with you. Mike sure He said this there was a budgetary meeting and they were trying to slash budget because they were always trying to slash the budget and one of the things on the table was reducing the size of the. I can't remember who was there but there were executives in the room and steve was producer at the time. Said nope nope no no no like you said no like eight times in a row. It's not happening. That is not going to happen and it just shut it down. Shut it down forever and no one ever brought it up again. And i think that everybody felt that from you that the ensemble was so important to you and hope there's a question that's i it was. It was a really. It was a very strong thing inside of me. That group and i felt very protective of everybody. But i think everyone felt that way. You know standing up to like not. No one was gonna put any one of us down in any way. But i got that sense from not just the cast crew and the writers and all the producers it. I can't it. Sounds like such a crock. Sound like i'm accepting i. No word of you've died and it's not it's no it's not that but it's and look it's part of it is that you said like no these. Were the guys who were here. This is our show. Can you imagine. Can you imagine at that point. And i wasn't a producer until a few years in we were down the road that had to be like season four. Yeah so. I mean now. There's no way like what now it didn't make sense unless people wanted to move on unless there are for financial. That's the other thing the budgetary do you remember. The product integration. Yes stuff that we had to go through they shredder. It was the staple shredder. It was chili's chili's thing and that was a thorn in my side. Remember when one executive came in and said hey for budgetary reasons we would like to partner up with some of these companies and do some product integration. And that is. That's definitely the one time. I feel like i raised my.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"Thanks a lot for saints. I get asked about it all the time. This show could never be made now. This was not exactly what i said. Okay well that's great. Because i have always said that. I thought steve was misquoted. In this thanks not. I don't know. I don't know if it could be made now. Maybe you could. I guess my point was that. I think what i was trying to say. Was that that exact. Same show probably wouldn't be made today but with the same components the same actress the same writers. If it were to come back it would evolve into the twenty twenty version of what we did back. Then i mean. I think the writing would be a bit different in today's climate but i don't think it would be any less inciteful. I don't think it would be any less smart or any less funny. It would be different right. And that's all i. That's totally fair. And i do think it would be different and i think i mean michael scott would be much more tuned. In to what it is to be woke. He would not understand it but he would be. The comedy would be coming from his struggle to understand and fit into the world as we know it today because the world as we knew it fifteen years ago is different than it is today but you take that same character who is trying to speak the language of modern times. That can be very funny but it would just be different. It would just be a different set of rules for today right. But i don't know i Yeah i think. I think it's easy to say that you can't be funny. You can't do comedy this day and age. I think that's a bit of a cop out because every you know every time you turn around there. Is somebody coming up with something that is of the time and inventive and doesn't are shirk away from our responsibility to look in the mirror. I think it just. I think it just takes a level of intelligence to be able to do that. Yeah here's my other theory just in terms of like why. The show is so popular today and especially with younger people and me going back and watching it and it doesn't feel dated right and greg was so adamant about the realistic elements of the way people looked and it felt lived in and the way that it's shot i feel like if maybe subconsciously people are. They obviously no. It's not a documentary but that it's just about this time in this place. I think it's because of what you said before. It's about behavior about human behavior and human behaviors pretty universal and doesn't change a whole lot. You know the question has gone around so often. About why the resurgence in popularity. Why is it. Why does it seem to be more popular now than it was back.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"With so stupid so stupid. But so i recently went back and watched i went start to finish wa hadn't gone back at all since they aired and just the dynamic between the two of you. It's like when you're in grade school. And there's the cool kids right the ryan and jim and you want to be friends with them and then you've got the kind of slightly more nerdy friend of yours that wants to be in your like. Just call me after school. Play with you later. 'cause i'm trying to get in. I don't know there was just something about the dynamic between you. U2 he called you a picasso of improv elmich slut. I mean well he you know i remember auditioning with rain and we instantly were making each other laugh. Like right from the start. And i'll crack up as much as anyone but i i try not to because i feel like if i laugh is going to ruin that. Whatever they're doing is so funny right. And if i crack up it's unusable but they're they're all there are times that i'm sure you can watch the show and just see tears welling in my eyes. That was one of the hardest. Hardest things was to not. You know to not lose it. Raynham he's such an interesting just an interesting human being he's he such a kind cues such dichotomy because he is he's an incredibly loving and kind and gentle like cares truly holy care someone who cares about the universe in have far reaching way and a much much better person than i am or may but at the same time the biggest chroma jn crass oh rude crude lake unfiltered honesty and yes rag you row sexual for no reason. Let's gosh he's he's a great guy. And there's a scene toward the end. When dwight reads ba- letter of reference from michael scott. The just puts a pretty fine point on their relationship after all of the stuff that michael has put twice through at his core. He just he he loves. He loves him and appreciates him and understands how loyal he had been that entire time and for the greater part of the series had really been his only advocate and michael for sure understood that he didn't make might have resented it he white might have wanted more you know he could be very petty and immature but but at the same time in that moment certainly acknowledges how important it is to do you as an actor. Do you always search for the good and the character that you're portraying cher. I think you have to. I do too because otherwise you're just demonizing or judging the people that you're playing and if you're judging a character that you're playing you're going to play it differently You don't wanna editorialize about a character. Your plan i think hundred percent. Yup i th. I think michael's decent a decent dude with a lot of heart.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"There was a question. I've never asked you. This is my memory at least going back right. You remember things differently and we would have a seven eight page conference room scene and we would come in to rehearse and you would life kind of flip through pages and i. You weren't playing a part like the absent minded professor but my this was like right. It was just like oh wait. What are we hear how okay. I'm standing in the front of like the idea of like you had no idea what was going on and we would do it once. Maybe it'd be like okay. Do we okay good and you would go away and it was like you would finish putting on your suit and then we would start rolling and it was all there. Was that intentional for you. Were there no keep him. Nothing nothing. But i mean like were you at like. In retrospect i started thinking. Oh as an improper. He wants it to be as fresh as possible. Though at times. It also got annoying that you were attempting to bring the group to a place. Where like you were trying to make them laugh. It was an intentional. Was that some sometimes. I think we all tried to make each other a lot of interr- poised to me. There's nothing more boring than listening to myself. Talk about process. But that's i know. But i'm really curious i will tell well. Just based on the page count every day and also on how quickly lines changed. We have rewrites the morning up yes so i just didn't have time to memorize stuff the night before because they'd be home we've after twelve fourteen hours go to bed and wake up and be in the next day and sort of get into that day's work but i think it became fairly easy to remember stuff because of the the writing. I think they tuned into every character's voice and they've really wrote the dialogue within those voices and it is infinitely easier to remember lines when they make sense within your character so sometimes i would just have to look at these long chunky scenes and i put the blocks together in terms of. Okay where are where are kind of our joke beats. And where are you know where our story beats. And and what's shoe leather and and just kind of tried to process that.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"Who wasn't me. I must be doing okay. And then they give the meet today and then there's but it's really it's really working well and then it's take two director comes back again. Great job dave. All right elliot. Yes you know what i'm talking about. I've been dave before. Sure we all don't want to be but we have all been dead but it's almost worse when you're not dave but he always feels even worse than that is when you are tanking a scene and then you're seeing partner when you're trying to get it going again and try to figure out how you're going to save your lousy performance. You're seeing partner in a very gracious and lovely way says. Is there anything i can do. Do for my side no now. Now i'm really gave. Oh so true. And they're just being don't like they're trying to say it. Can i give you some more than i'm giving.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"And it was for. Michael was free reign. You know because he could always be on and when the camera was documenting things that were more vulnerable that he didn't want the camera to see You know you could show the fragility of the character as well and not wanting to be captured or kind of assuming a different character to cover the fragility that you know was intrinsic to him. So that camera as a character added. I think a depth to all of the characters. It's a reflection. I think of what you want the public to see as opposed to what is the the reality of the situation or the reality of the person the layering of of all of that as you were talking. I was thinking one of the things that so arresting. Now when you go into our show in the world digitally of a thousand shows and you just see her we feel black and white. You know we feel almost sepia and like analog again all of that and yet it has so much more of an honest and connectivity but i think what that does it frames the performance in that kind of thing. It lets the face and the performance and the pathos in the comedy. I'll play through. Because it's not the bells and whistles and everything jumping around so much of that was just the ensemble nature of a to that. It's like a it's like a great it's like an orchestra you know they're to know when to fade back and allow the brass section to go you know and it's their saul awards the violins or i'd say such a stupid analogy but allowing everyone to shine and everyone to have their moment. I didn't feel like there. Were all these separate components bouncing off each other was like this one group energy that moved through all of those years together and and it morphed into different shapes but it was all we couldn't lose any components of that because it morphed as a whole i don't know maybe that's getting too deep into it but but that's the way i felt about that on samba is that everyone was so strong and so vital to the life of the whole thing the show could shift on a dime based on one thing that one character introduces and it might be. It might be a line that was scripted. it might have been something improvised. Everyone else would shift with it.
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"steve carell" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"Oh yeah i remember i remember. We shot that. That's right i recently. We went back and watched the whole thing. Claire scanlon told me the store which i certainly did not remember but there was an episode where jim and pam are fighting and the episode came in and it was really long and someone had the idea. Well let's just make it a silent fight and it's just gonna be about looks like we're not gonna have them. We're gonna cut any exchange between the two of them and the episode is just gonna exist as a silent fight throughout the whole thing and that the very end just as they're walking out to their car they hold hands and it just like flips the whole thing but the entire story that had been written than yeah ought was just gone. That's such a great. That's a great move though and probably so much more powerful than all the dialogue. They could have said you know because that that passive aggressive that subtle silent between couples can speak volumes. Not that i would have any personal knowledge of that. Oh no no no. I'm just saying. I would use writer actor but yeah that's a great move and i think they did stuff like that all the time you know those editor. We had some great great people and so much of the story obviously told there and i felt like our job was just supply them with as much fodder for whatever. It was going to be calm. But i didn't get precious about anything because i just knew again. It's just a matter of trust. I trusted greg and dave and claire and i trusted everyone in the cast and all of those writers such a great environment to work in. When you just know. Do your job. And they're gonna take it and craft it into something that works. And i think everyone did that. Every so the level. I don't think people know necessarily is.
Larry O'Connor
Mark York, Actor on ‘The Office,’ Dies at 55
"His role in the office has died. The actor Mark York who start is Billy Merchants in the office, aside at the age of 55. York's Cause of death, was not listed, but he reportedly died after briefing Unexpected illness in Ohio May 19th York was a paraplegic since 1988. But his disability didn't stop him from his achievements. One of his most Memorable scenes in the office was when Steve Carell's Michael invited billion to speak about the difficulties of his life after Michael injures himself looking to gain some sympathy. How did you get in your wheelchair this morning? Just like every other morning just climbed on it. Hey, Hey, Hey,
Trivia With Budds
11 Trivia Questions on Chicago
"All right. Everybody here we go with some chicago trivia. Question number one. In what movie would you find. Abe frohmann the sausage king of chicago number one. In what movie would you find. Abe frohmann the sausage king of chicago number one question number two. The name chicago is loosely derived from native american word meaning wild. What number to the name chicago is loosely derived from a native american word meaning wild. What number three. Chicago's largest shopping. District is known as the magnificent blank. Fill in the blank. Chicago's largest shopping. District is known as the magnificent blank and question number four each year. The chicago river is famously died. What color number four each year. The chicago river is famously died. What color question number five. The buckingham fountain is located in the center of which chicago park number. Five g. buckingham fountain is located in the center of which chicago park and number six founded in nineteen fifty-nine what chicago-based improv. Comedy company was a starting point four famous comedians. Such steve carell and tina fey. Where was that number six number seven. What's the name of chicago aquarium. That holds five million gallons of water and is home to around thirty two thousand animals. What is the name of that aquarium. And your next question. Which of these private colleges is not based in. Chicago is at saint paul college kendall college depaul university or north park university which one of those is not based in chicago and number shock style. Hot dog does not include which famous topping number nine chicago style. Hot dog does not include. What famous topping number ten the chicago bulls won how many nba championships during the nineties. Chicago bulls won how many nba championships during the ninety s. And the bonus for two points also known as the the famous chicago. Landmark sculpted by british artist. Amish kapoor is actually titled what that would be your two point bonus question tough on at the end also known as the being the famous chicago landmark sculpted by british artist. Amish kapoor is actually titled what those are all your questions on sweet home chicago. Go watch the blues brothers and come back and check your answers in just a sound effect. We are back with the answers to chicago trivia. Thanks for sticking around and playing on today's show. If you like it make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss new episodes as they pop up on the feed. Here's what movie would you find. Abe fromm in the sausage king of chicago that is fairest. Buehler's day off one of my favorite eighties comedies. And they go in the sears. Tower now willis tower in this movie and they put their foreheads against glass and look down and you can go to the very spot where they film that and do it yourself and i imagine maybe get a little rash from your forehead right. Everyone sticking their forehead in the same spot. It's pretty gross. I've done number to the name. Chicago is loosely derived from a native american word. Meaning wild what onion wild onion which is a great flavor of bubba burger. If you like bubba burgers wild onion number. Three chicago's largest shopping district is known as the magnificent mile magnificent mile number four. Each year the chicago river is seemingly died. What color that is green for saint patrick's day green for saint patrick's day. That is the same river that the matthews band tour bus emptied their waste into. If you remember that headline they got sued or find or something. The buckingham fountain is located in the center of which park grant park. Grant park and number six founded in nineteen fifty-nine. What chicago-based improv comedy. Company was the starting point for famous comedians. Such as steve. Carell and tina fey. That would be the second city second city. Then we had. What's the name of chicago aquarium. That holds five million gallons of water. That's the shedd aquarium. The shed and which these private colleges is not based in chicago. The one was saint. Paul college that was not in chicago. Saint paul college chicago style. Hot dog does not include ketchup. No catch up on a chicago style. Hot dog said that in the show's intro. And you probably know that one right and number ten kabul's one how many championships in the nineties. That was six to three peat when they won the first three and then they had the three peat repeat oded that sell some shirts six championships with the bulls in the ninety s and number eleven also known as the bean. The famous chicago landmark sculpted by british artist Kapoor is actually titled cloud gate cloud gate three heaven
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US podcast downloads and audience per platform
"We start with an exclusive today exclusive data from contract on total downloads an audience splint by platform for US podcast downloads. He shows that apple has sixty one percent of podcast downloads and spotify only nine percent. But when you look at total audience, it's a different story with apple being used by about a third of podcast listeners. But spotify by about a quarter, apple podcasts might still be bringing in the downloads but spotify appears a significant service in terms of increasing podcasting total audience. According to Lipson today is the last day to submit your podcast into Amazon music and audible. If you want to be there for the launch, you should be using your podcast hosts distribution option or if you don't have one of those in your podcast host, a new podcast host and be, you'll find a link in our show notes newsletter today. Last month, we reported that anchor was hosting pirated podcasts. Aaron Monkey is the latest high profile podcast to publicly criticize the platform after discovering pirated copy of his new podcast American shadows on anchor same art, same description he adds. Spanish language audio on demand platform. IDEX has launched subscription platform vokes plus it'll cost you eleven dollars ninety five a month content creators will be paid based on total plays and audience wanted to replace the subscription service from podcast network. Wondering will be free for year. If you've got a US American Express card, check out your American Express essentials care package email from yesterday a third of the adult population in Ireland of listened to podcasts recently, almost half doing. So since the pandemic hit according. To new data and another exclusive transcriber, an APP that offers unlimited transcripts released. Later today people can just hit record. It transcribes in real time for how long they want, and they can share the transcription everywhere says the APPS developer you get unlimited time for three dollars nine, hundred, nine, a month, and it podcast News Oprah. Winfrey has launched a podcast with Apple Oprah's book club is in a compliment to a feature on apple books and Apple TV, plus it's not exclusive to the Apple Platform. Upon cast, an oral history of the office is nearing its end. The finale is next week. It's spotify original, but it's available everywhere. The current episode features the final episode of the office including a surprise return of Steve Carell Brazil and polke are back together. Again, Brazil might Perry the former breakfast team at UK radio station. Talksport they've been reunited by PODCAST works for podcast supported by a sportswear retailer and the Lamar show is the debut podcasts from singer. Songwriter. Lamar. In conversation with living legends, entrepreneurs, creatives, and close friends,
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Getting Ready for the 2020 Emmys
"The Television Academy has just unveiled the nominees for this year's edition of the Emmy Woods Nichols Fernando Augusta per checker and colossal rebelo went through the list and brought us the highlights. Let's have a listen. Pelada. Lovely to have you here. Let's talk about the AMI's but first of all, I mean, you have quite an experience with the amas right while I was very lucky last year while working out of our Los Angeles Bureau to attend the ceremony last for the seventy first. Edition of the Emmy Awards it is amazing. It really is a celebration of all things television not only of course, you're able to see the ceremony yourself and how it all unfolds that the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, you get to sit right next to some of your favorite stars as they celebrate you know a year worth of work you get to watch as some of them lose some of them when at last year was quite. Special because it was of course, the last year that game of thrones was nominated the end of the saga of game of thrones, which was, of course, a really big deal and one thing that I really liked about that was also how they marked the series that were coming to an end last year by bringing all the cast in the production team that was attending the ceremony on stage and kind of acknowledging any TV show that's on. Air for. A few years it is a bit sad one. You know the last time modern family was also the last. So it yeah, it is. It is quite an experience. I mean we are still a few months to go until this year's edition. Hopefully, we'll be able to have it in person by then by September the television academy still hasn't exactly unveiled the plans for that. But yeah, it just feels as much as it is A. Celebration of television it feels very different to watch it in person than on. TV. Sets and if he's going to be a special year because I mean we've been watching lots of television during lockdown effing and one of the things don't you grieve me. Colada that I like about the Emmys they are. You know what they are actually fairly diverse compared to the film awards and that just shows TV can be actually quite progressive away. Absolutely I think. The nominations this year as well. Reflects that diversity is well and yeah it does show how TV has been able to catch up with only momentum that has been happening in Hollywood about asking for change when it comes to diversity. But even if you look at the shows that are nominated or even just a shows that we're watching now they are reflection of different stories that are a reflection of different themes it's not as standard I would. Say, for example, with the Oscars and I think that's what makes it quite an interesting and exciting. Well, let's talk about some of the favorites I did like sheets Greek being nominated for comedy series of things surprise it started as a very little Canadian series but then apparently people saying that my win actually because the critics love it oh, it is a fantastic show I definitely has been one of the ones I've been watching this year and I was very happy to see it getting nominated for the outstanding Comedy Series Award another one on that category that it was really happy to see their it's the kaminsky methods. This is a Netflix show and yes, it is very lovely with Michael. Douglas starring in it and it is very funny as well and it was so nice to see you know it. They're in the category as well and I just I was very happy I. Think. As we were saying the nominations this year do justice to the TV. We've been watching I mean drama succession I know we're both big fans and you know Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong both be nominated for best actor in a drama series very well deserved extremely well deserved and it is, of course, we're talking here about a big categories. As if you go down the list, there are more awards being given to all the shows we've been mentioning. Not Awards, nominations I mean. But yes, I was very, very happy to see succession I think personally, it has been one of my favorite shows over the last few years I can't remember being dad excited about a show in succession was already nominated for Fiore's last year. I. Know that Nicholas Brutal do who composed the sound score for at won an emmy last year. For. For the score, he composed for succession that would be nice to see it how it's catching momentum and that fans quite disappointed that due to coronavirus sat filming restrictions. The third series did not come out this year as planned but this is a recognition of TV done very very well, there's been other recognitions for example, the morning show had quite a few nominations. And again, it was a show that it was not like loved the beginning by tics but I think people kind of were said, you know what actually was a good series especially the last episode of series. So another one I'm very happy also have very significant for apple as well as the morning show was you know the show that apple try to use as? To make its mark as someone that could compete with the network giants and streaming giants as well. So not only is a very good sign for the a seeing Jennifer Aniston Steve Carell nominated but also to see apple when they've been investing into the right series hiring great actors, great writers, Great Producers, and that it actually pays off and Collado. So what if Jimmy Kimmel? This time I mean, as you rightly said, we don't know how ceremony is going to be, but you know what bt awards they did try and they did like a special ceremony. Names might have to do that because it's happening on the twentieth September. That's very the as the television academy has said that the creative emmys, which you know the creative emmy is usually happen a few days before the Primetime Emmys and they've already said that those are happening on an online platform a few days before didn't haven't clarified yet for the AMI's themselves. We still don't know exactly what are the plans now? What is interesting about Jimmy, Kimmel here hosting I think it's his third time hosting is that he is nominated as well. His show Jimmy came alive is on the outstanding variety talk series, and there's always very endearing one. You know one of the host sometimes even people introducing the award end up being nominated. So yeah, I'd be curious to see exactly how that's going to pay out I don't know. was there any surprise nomination here on this list for you? Fernando as F- in the morning show was A bit of a surprise for me and also in the drama category I mean, we saw men hurriedly having quite a lot of nominations itself Jeremy Pope for his role in Hollywood for a best actor on limited series or movie because Lotte I think competition program should go again to Rupo's drag race. Oh Yeah. His love rapport figured they will he would win again just shows how you know when Ru Paul's drag race started. It was a very Niche not known at the public, and now they've been doing this for over a decade now, and there's just shows how you know there is an appetite for a show like that that it is mainstream, there's no way you can't say that anymore and is so empowering it is, of course, one of my personal favorites as well. It was really nice last year to be there when they won and to see Europol come on stage with a lot of the. Of the show as well and some of the judges when we look at that category I'm partial to and I would love to see them winning again on that category.
WGN Nightside
Challenged by Netflix Show, US Space Force Rushes to Trademark Name
"Turns out when it comes to space force Netflix with the White House to the punch the streaming service owns more trademark rights to the name space force in the U. S. government does space forces a new branch of the U. S. military salvaged by the president it's also a new Netflix show starring second city alum Steve Carell the show has already established trademark rights in several nations the US Air Force application for registration is still pending
First Light
Space Force Review: Steve Carell Charms in Netflix Comedy Series
"As the brand new streaming series space forces about to blast off that's right this star Steve Carell and it's created by Carell and Greg Daniels who is best known for doing the office the two of them of course work together and that for many many years big popular show this one is a Netflix series and like you said it's taking off this Friday it's about the creation of the space force which is a real thing and we've got that actually happening right now and it's a more of a workplace comedy from the general's point of view has been put in charge of it that being corral potus once complete space dominance to that end the president is creating a new bridge space force which mark will run what overall the story is interesting I'm curious to see where they're trying to go with it because that one hand they're trying to make a kind of this absurdity but on the other hand there really trying to make this destroyer of out this general who finally gets his chance to run something and and he's handed something that he really doesn't want to do it he's gonna find a way to make it work hi it has had some some very funny moments especially because of the acting I really want to see where they go with season two because they could this could blossom like the office but it could also please allow ten you know crashed upon landing yeah you know it's got that deadpan humor the kind of thing that Steve Carell is able to do very very dead pan humor how does that how's that gonna hold up episode after episode well I think that's the part that works that's I think what made the office work so well and and he's he's up against like John Malkovich's his foil it and and that that really was the two of them have great chemistry I was amazed scene after scene they trot out in every scene another new character actors some of television's best character actors on this so that makes it look pretty interesting all right how many how many retro rockets do we give space force I'm going to give it three and a half retro rockets but they're firing on all cylinders and that's good because I I I think this has a lot of potential which is kind of still has to fight to find its
Trivia With Budds
11 Trivia Questions on TV Bosses
"With buds dot com and it's clicked. It's clinical in the show notes so go to the show notes given a nice click and go check it out. Today's episode is a fan made episode from Luke McKay. He is a Patriot subscriber. He is a buddy of mine and he writes Great Trivia. This quiz is called. Tv bosses. So I have eleven of these four U. Eleven. Tv boss questions. I'll give you the boss's name you tell me what show they were on? And who played that boss? Who did the voice or who played in terms of acting on the show so your name the boss and the show came. It's going to be a fun one and we're going to jump into it right now eleven questions on TV bosses here. We go all right. Everybody here we go. This is round about TV bosses. And here's number one Jack Donigi number one jack. Donna gig remember. We're looking for the actor or actress who played the role. And what show was on number one Jack Donna number two Michael Scott who played that loss and what show number two Michael Scott number three C M Burns number three C M Burns whose that TV boss number three number four Leslie Nope Leslie nope number four number five Miranda Bailey number five Miranda Bailey number six Selina Meyer number six Selina Meyer number seven is Don Draper Don draper number seven number eight? Olivia Pope Number Eight. Olivia Pope Number. Nine Phil Colson number nine Phil Colson and number ten Raymond Holt Raymond halt. Your bonus. Question is the name Mallory Archer Mallory Archer name who played Mallory Archer. And what show as you did for all the other ones. That is your quick quiz on. Tv bosses we'll be right back in just a second with the answers. We are back with the answers to TV bosses. Let's see how you did on the short quiz from Luke McKay Number One Jack Donigi that was Alec Baldwin on Thirty Rock Jack down a game was played by Alec Baldwin on Thirty Rock Number. Two Michael Scott was of course Steve Carell on the office. Steve Carell on the office. I mentioned that the other day but go look up the some good news video with John Krasinski. Or He's doing a news report of good news from his house and he does a quick skype. Call with Steve Carell. It's pretty great number. Three was burn. See Montgomery Burns. And that was Harry. Shearer playing Mani Burns on the Simpsons Harry Shearer and the simpsons number four Leslie note played by Amy Poehler on parks and REC. I mentioned I'm binge in that on a recent episode. I love watching the old episodes of parks and REC number five.
Glenn Beck
13-year-old Broadway star Laurel Griggs dies of asthma attack
"Mourning the loss of a young Broadway star laurel Greg's suffered what her grandmother described as a massive asthma attack she made her Broadway debut in the musical once at the age of six was in cat on a hot tin roof along side Scarlett Johannson starred in the film cafe society with Steve Carell and Kristen Stewart and she voiced several characters in the Nickelodeon animated kids series bubble guppies a remembrance service being held for her today laurel Grieg's was
Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder
Apple TV+ Hits Friday. Its Series (Mostly) Miss
"Let's start out with the explanation of apple TV this is a relatively new thing what we need to know about apple TV yeah this the views today actually if you bought an apple device after September ten graduations you already have it absolutely free for at least a year you can get a free trial by going to the apple TV app if not you can check out apple TV plus for four ninety nine a month it is launching a bunch of big buzz he shows the top of them is the morning show it's a drama starring Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston and Steve corral and it's a dramatic show despite the stars that are in it about a morning show that separate the meat you scanned all all of the today show and throws it into turmoil there's also CD which is a game of thrones style drama about a world where everybody is blinds starring Jason Momoa from game of thrones bunch of other shows on there it's I watch all of them at this point it is very much a mixed bag the only one that I really liked and I really can't recommend to everybody this show called you can send the stars Hailee Steinfeld as young Emily Dickinson and it's kind of like euphoria beats thirty rock meets his drama beats a million different things uncategorized of all but I was fascinated I and like to at least one joke perhaps said the morning show is ridiculously entertaining but supercell Sirius spend fifteen million dollars an episode which is an insane amount of money but apple so they're putting all of their chips in the US but so far I think everybody in the office here to senator greens the shows are not great so if you have a free trial and do you want to check it out certainly I would suggest sampling the morning show sample taken standing if that all sounds interesting if you're into sci fi there's a show from Ronald D. Moore who created it Battlestar Galactica calls for all mankind was about an alternate history where America lost the space race very well made but also reporting frankly but it the other thing if you don't have a free trial I would hesitate to recommend spending even before ninety nine the account just because I've been plagued by a lot of tech issues today people have been proud of had problems logging into free trials finding the shows except for so give it some time listen to the bison that baby check it out in a couple of weeks if you're interested what are they doing on the morning show that's costing fifteen million per episode is that for the kids a great cast is is that a lot of that money goes out to them is that what it is I think a lot of money wanted to them it's also it's a gorgeous looking show it's beautifully shot by being the letter who started director jail for awhile after she corrected the action movie the peacemaker mess and she did deep impact immediately after that but you don't ton of TV since then it's at the starting the shot was very clearly spent a ton of money on this and again the ID it's kind of trashing it's like very much a trashy soap operas so I don't know why they spent that much money on it but I I don't have a lot of time I sat down to watch three solid hours this nonstop back to back yes I could not stop playing so just in terms of entertainment value I think it's worth it for that I'm trying to think of the track record of other networks when they rolled out a new schedule I remember when fox first became a network years ago it was kind of a slow rollout they just did a couple shows at the beginning and then build from there it's got to be tough to come up with a full schedule of shows and have a mall be successful and and great right that's almost impossible it's almost impossible and this is a big problem with apple TV plus right now that they're not taking the lessons but a lot of the other streaming that works done even Netflix did that very slowly enabled out house of cards then they had arrested development arch new black before they wrapped up to you thirty five new television shows every single day of the week apple TV plus is trying to be all of that media plea almost wanting more of their own each be within their own Netflix because the other thing that you should know about this for the apple TV plus price you're only getting the shows you're not getting everything that he is on TV that you would normally get from the iTunes store the TV store or anything like that yeah it's just the additional shows so I wish there were better it seems like they just gave people blank Jackson said to everyone we don't know what's going on the TV so again some of the stuff is get service desk very bad hopefully it'll get better they're certainly not giving it up anytime soon because all the shares regardless of quality have been picked up for a second season I gotta tell ya I'm surprised that that your stars like a Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell are selling out to apple like that it just seems weird to me you know they've found a big screen the alignment and that I think they said was they want to give creators the chance to really express themselves so this case it's it's produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston it's been playing very different parts I will say they're both fantastic at the show Jennifer Aniston is unlike you ever seen her before so I think that's what they're going for the chance and the same thing that other folks are jumping at is actually a new version of Oprah's book club the diffuse its first absent today and again I think it was just this blank check that apple had into them and said you do what you want you follow your muse and some people follow their views and absolutely wrong direction and hopefully of course correct a little bit and that somebody will give them a little more guidance going
All Things Considered
Is 'The Morning Show' enough to make Apple TV+ a top streaming contender?
"Apple's new series the morning show is a star studded project featuring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon it's also the highest profile show debuting Friday on the company's new streaming service apple TV plus NPR TV critic Eric deggans says it's a powerful drama which might also remind you of a certain former NBC news anchor the morning show begins with a bomb shell and it's centered on morning TV anchor Mitch Kessler played by Steve Carell Kessler's coanchor Alex Levi played by Jennifer Aniston has to explain it all to America I'm bringing you some sad and upsetting news miss kestler my co host and partner of fifteen years was fired today for sexual misconduct levy is hurt and angry especially since the show's executive producer Charlie played by mark Duplass knew the network was investigating Kessler HR has been looking into it for a few weeks I didn't want to drag you in I was trying to protect you Alice okay we knew about this and you didn't tell me my honor partner my TV husband is a sexual predator now you should not have been involved in this conversation if this all sounds familiar that's because the morning show one falls like a fictionalized version of the fall of X. today show star Matt Lauer the former NBC anchor was fired in twenty seventeen amid allegations of sexual harassment and rape the story might have thought stale a few months ago but recent reporting on the former NBC news staffer who accuse Lauer of rape and the former anchors recent the Nile to put the issue back in the headlines Kessler also echoes the denials that Lauer offered in real life he admits sleeping with subordinates but says he never forced anyone they can't just take my life away based on hearsay they have documented complaints Mexican place about what that I had affairs since when is it a crime so now we're engaged twenty years of my life is now locking me out you know what everything's changed but they forgot to send home the morning show can feel like a long string of self absorbed overly entitled characters screaming at each other but in between the outburst is a percolating drama about how the meat to move make can shift power to women marginalized by clueless middle aged male bosses Aniston's Levi gets a no nonsense local TV reporter played by Reese Witherspoon hired as our co anchor in a meeting with top executives levy makes it plain she's taking control of the show the party you guys never seem to realize is that you don't have the power anymore the news division is held up by my show are you actually trying to justify your actions listening I don't need to justify anything we are doing this my way because frankly I've let you bozos handle this long enough it's the kind of speech you hope Savannah Guthrie gave to NBC executives after all our got fired the show also explores the denial of powerful men who refused to recognize their own predatory behavior and one telling moment Carell's Cussler tries to commiserate with a film director also accused of sexual misconduct played by Martin short I don't even understand what their messages are sending out the that women are not allowed to be in possession of their sexual choice when they fix it unless they lose sight of the issues I actually feel bad for the kids because there's nothing sexy about consent well that came out wrong and and and that was creepy the morning show with stylish and fast paced the biggest project among nine original programs kicking off the new apple TV plus service it's also a close look at how what TV news organization and by extension all of us handles the new environment ushered in by the meat to movement whether that's worth four dollars and ninety nine cents a month his apples multi
Buck Sexton
A Big Budget and Star-Studded Cast Can’t Save Apple’s Rudderless and Dull Debut Drama "Morning Show"
"So apple is getting in to the streaming game apple wants take on Disney plus apple wants take on Netflix apples go once again wants to be happy have a say in this just like Amazon does they want to have their piece of the pie and one of the things they can do even better than Disney is spend money now they have aids they didn't go about buying a library of content they didn't go about trying to create some level of dominance when Disney plus rolls out next month they will have they will have marveled they will have the Star Wars they will have the full Disney library and they will have ESPN and all of that is twelve dollars and ninety nine cents a month operators are going to just fall away this is the future and they are going to crush when it comes to the money I think who is also in there it is a tremendous amount of content that they've got together apple is going the same route that Amazon is going they're going to build it Netflix of course is already been building but not but also has done some buying of people what the moment we're getting to is going back to the old contract system of studios that's what we're going to get to so apple I'm not apple Netflix has worked it out so they've got Jerry Seinfeld right and they've got some some other a programming Amazon has done a good job of building out their programming and the programming offerings in winning a couple of ME is for on my resumes on now flea bag not the worst in the world to happen to apple can now spend a mall apple can outspend and create content on every single level so I went out and created something called the morning show and the morning show has Jennifer Aniston it has Steve Carell it has Reese Witherspoon I know Marc Klaas isn't it a whole bunch of people all bunch people are in the shop they have ordered two seasons of the show and the first reviews are brutally doll meandering three where the series struggling floundering to find its focus tone and attitude towards its main characters and that's some of the nice stuff those are some of the nice things the behemoth that album really get into the crowded original TV market place to become the latest perpetrator of it eventually gets better patients testing brutal brutal brutal let me continue according to Rolling Stone the morning show which is this the show these actors and it feels like it could have aired on broadcast TV anytime last fifteen to twenty years so long as the profanity got cut drawing comparisons to the news room but it's sort can without Sorkin meaning Aaron Sorkin the guy who created the the west wing news German that the American president great great writer it's sort without Sorkin lacking the snappy dialogue the soaring rhetoric or any attempt whatsoever to argue for why anyone should care about the future of the show within a show these reviews are brutal and this cast is
The Frame
Apple TV Plus early reviews: Are the new shows any good?
"This Friday apple will launch streaming service apple TV plus with four very expensive original shows the tech giant isn't the only big name marching into the streaming battlefield next month Disney will launch its own Perform Disney plus NBC HBO Both Have Plans to follow suit Friday TV critic Caroline Fram key check out apple's new series and she gave me her down road I've seen at least one episode of four shows launching the morning show See for all mankind Dickinson all of which have producers who have come from TV they're not totally new The morning show obviously features probably the busiest stars Reese Witherspoon Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston which is probably the biggest actor coup for any of the apple show's coming synthesis Jennifer Aniston's first regular TV role since friends good morning I'm bringing you some sad had upsetting news and while I don't know the details of the allegations to throw me under the bus Mitch Kessler my co host and partner of fifteen years was fired today you know see and for all mankind are both alternate history shows that I think is actually a very interesting see is as an alternate future in which almost all humans have lost the ability to see some say site was taken from them by God to heal the air for all mankind as an alternate history of what if the Soviet Union made it to the Moon I was about being first turns out the stakes are much bigger those are interesting concepts but what they do with it isn't particularly interest thing that was really striking to me in your views in an a two way you had with one of your other variety critics is that felt that they weren't daring that given what else is out there on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu Amazon prime that they weren't willing to go the extra mile and actually take a risk yeah and I think that would obviously agree disagree with me I think the morning show particular feels like it did belong on network six years ago despite trying upbringing timely elements they obviously had to bring in some of me to Dickinson shirts trying for those who don't know Dickenson is about emily Dickinson but it's about her as a feisty teenager played by Hailee Steinfeld one purpose that is to become a great writer it definitely does a lot stylistically it has a lot of you know bass heavy rap music that comes in every so often is played by wiz Khalifa it's very cw in the vein of Riverdale but I do think looking at the four shows overall there's this weird sense I got that all these shows might have been more interesting if they came out five years ago you know they're all very shiny expensive versions of things I feel like we've seen before or that have been innovative previously but in twenty nineteen I don't know I feel like I need a little bit more from them to really stand out when there are so many shows if you were to step back and say this is clearly the market that apple is going after could you define what that audience might be I don't know that I can say that because I'm not sure apple can either think that this first of shows is a confusing one because all seem to be sort of going for a different audience Dickinson's kind of going for a CW teen thing for all mankind feels very AMC to me morning show I think I said my column feels sort of ABC CBS all access question mark and see is like a game of thrones got lost I I just don't know where what they were trying to do with the four of them combined I think feels like they were casting a wide net and it just feels like some of these shows are kind of splitting the difference in not playing it very safe they're not really taking aside and maybe that felt safer apple but it it's not very interesting TV no in one of the challenges for apple is they don't have the library that say Netflix or Disney plus has so they we are making almost a pure play on these shows and if they don't have a show that people have to watch the question is I guess would people spend five bucks a month just to watch Jennifer Aniston and that seems to be the proposition doesn't it the content library is a big part of streaming services and I feel like Apple has kind of underestimated that they to their credit are pricing it relatively low five dollars a month is definitely the lowest price by pretty wide margin for any of the streaming services right now though I believe that Disney plus will not be much more expensive and again they have all these movies all these other shows that will be available just for people to have so even if you're not interested in one of the original shows you you're probably gonNA subscribe so you can watch all the Disney stuff right and that's the issue right because even as people are cutting maybe their direct TV subscription or their cable subscription if you start doing ala carte pricing where you're getting Netflix Amazon prime you're getting Hulu Oh you're getting Disney plus a couple of bucks here pretty much your back to a hundred plus a month patch what would be the argument for subscribing to apple right now or maybe are there other shows that they're hoping will continue generating momentum and he you have to imagine it's the latter especially because they have been signing more and more overall deals with other creators or shows down the Line Affonso Koran recently assigned TV deal which I find very interesting Jason Kanaan's and Friday Night Lights signed an overall deal there and in general these overall deals for creators like Ryan Murphy if it can get people
Donna and Steve
'The Office' Beats Out 'Friends' as the Most Watched Licensed Show on Netflix
"Your money but it will take us about Netflix the most watched show on Netflix not friends okay any guesses and I mention that friends thing because Netflix Netflix paid a hundred million dollars to keep friends for twenty nineteen alone but it's not their most watched show I know what it is because I have the list it's the office door stranger things well shoot infinite you bring about it is the office people I mean and I don't know what these deals are like I don't know how much money Jennifer sure is getting from this Steve Carell John Krasinski but man are they putting together just really really I I tons of money to keep the show I now these comfort show so that he had on jump ship and go somewhere else office at number one stranger things that you mentioned didn't crack the top ten yeah because the office than friends comes in at number two yeah then grey's anatomy I really didn't number three and then show I've never seen in my life but they pay their stars tons of money and tons of people watch it NCIS tons of people watch that show yes I'm surprised it's not higher yeah you strike me as an NCIS kind of a lady you know what I mean like you'd be all up on all the CSI's now could I like the real stuff yeah I know do you like criminal minds you like I that's not real but I bet you would like it because you like crime stuff yeah criminal minds given a number five dot and then shameless is the sixth most watched show shameless is on Netflix now very funny I I watch the first few seasons but haven't stayed with it I. T. N. B. orange is the new black comes in a number seven is that that's a Netflix original or did it yes so that's one of the first right yeah but that's the first on this list right that's the first on this list men supernatural comes in a bright that's a WB show mercy W. shell then parks and rec at number nine in Ozark and ten so I can I talk to and only to Netflix original can I tell you I've never seen I none of those shows are on my radar not one of them is that right yeah I mean I've seen shameless I've seen orange is the new black but I not a regular wow I didn't stick with it Aquino get this so what most most of those numbers be for those shows because last week Netflix said season three of stranger things has been the most watched season to date with sixty four million how Hans having watched it in its first four weeks wow sixty four million households I mean that's that's a whole nother viewers I there's a lot why the stranger things not on the list I don't know that means if that number is sixty four main I wonder what the number is for the office how many people are watching that I wish they release more numbers I mean they just they cryptically release and this is a net Flix lit yeah this is actually a third party that was able to put this on information out Netflix hasn't commented on the list yet but it's I a I do I wish you could see more numbers but they get to pick and choose what they put
Pat Gray Unleashed
Ewan McGregor Set for Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Series, to Shoot in 2020
"We look over the landscape of streaming it looks to be quite a frontier coming soon and i just think netflix is going to get dinged pretty badly. You got disney plus which is coming up with a a series stories of star wars seasons. Some star wars off shoots <hes>. They've got one about a body bounty hunter. They've got one about <hes> obi-wan-kenobi. It'll be and they're trying to get you and mcgregor for that role and then there was one other i can't. I can't remember what the premise is but they've there's three star wars offshoots that they're gonna have plus all the material they already have all the content from disney and marvel now fox studios the own everything so that'll abi something riveting and also apple is jumping into this game now they're producing original content and the first thing off the assembly line is a show with jennifer aniston reese witherspoon and oh uh uh steve carell okay. Isn't it too
AP 24 Hour News
'The Morning Show': Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell and Reese Witherspoon Quarrel Off-Screen in Apple TV+ Teaser
"Kong apples giving a first look at its upcoming web television series the morning show which is centered on a behind the scenes view of early morning TV news apple's released a teaser and includes voice overs of the stars of the show Steve Carell Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston the series is set to debut this
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
'The Morning Show': Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell and Reese Witherspoon Quarrel Off-Screen in Apple TV+ Teaser
"Apple is giving a first look at its upcoming web television series that centered on a behind the scenes view of early morning TV news apple posted a teaser today of what it calls the morning show it stars Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell and it's set to debut this fall on apple TV plus apple's new original video subscription service that will feature original shows movies and documentaries without ads and it'll be available on
The Frame
The Long Road To Freedom And The Screen For 'Brian Banks'
"Then a bike accident changed his entire attitude about life and the movie business and put on. I'm a new movie opening friday. Tells the true story of brian banks. He was one of the nation's best highschool linebackers and hoped to play in the n._f._l. But in two thousand and two he was falsely accused of rape and spent almost six years behind bars banks. Thanks also was required to register as a sex offender with the help of attorneys from the california innocence project banks was exonerated in two thousand twelve the movie about him is called brian banks and it was shot in and around memphis tennessee two years ago and that's where i met with the real brian banks and he has some specific the civic truce that he wants people to take away from the film that bears his name ninety five to ninety seven percent of all criminal cases in the united states in some. I'm former of a plea bargain. Only three to five percent of cases actually go to trial so when you're sitting there at night late night watching law and order done done you know those are three to five percent the cases that go to trial everybody else's play into some kind of deal but it doesn't mean that ninety seven to ninety five to ninety. Seven percent of people are guilty. He means they're being forced into deals. Ellsberg's <unk> into deals feared into deals. Our system is built on a plea bargain the the incentives the perks and the promotions that a district attorney receives from a high conviction rate is a problem if we were to remove those rewards if we were to remove those those incentives and if we were to enforce punishment for wrongful convictions. I bet a lot of stuff with slow down. It's unimaginable to think about what you you went through but you're having to relive it because what this movie is doing is revisiting. How bad evidence was admitted how was used to put you behind ars the decision that you made at basically at the point of a gun in terms of accepting employees. What is it like to watch your life replayed. It's like i don't want to see that. I can't go there but you. You were onset watching this. No actually absolutely there. Are you know it's there are parts of this film. That wall is being filmed. I won't show my won't. I won't come into onto set that day. <hes> you know <hes> for example the arrests saying when i was arrested at home and you know my mother i remember my mom you know dropping to her knees and screaming louder she could plead in god to to not let this happen you know and so when they retrieve seems like that there's no way i'd be close to it but there's a lot of other parts that although are tough to be around around for the purpose of authenticity <hes> and you know truthfulness and what really happened. I felt like it's my duty to be there. Because at the end of the day <hes> <hes> this movie is not only just from me or to california innocence project but the many other people who have experienced wrong accusation wrongful conviction or orme experiences somewhere near future you know and then it also gives people who have never experienced or know nothing about this world to get a true and accurate p._o._v. of this is what it is to be wrongfully convicted this was to be picked up off the street for something you didn't do and by the time they figured out that they made a mistake ten ten years of your life have passed ready and and let's go to other slide other slide and action for the film's director. Tom shadrack telling the brian banks. Story is a departure from the movies that defined his career once the most sought after comedy director director in hollywood. He's known for films like ace. Ventura pet detective with jim carey and evan almighty was steve carell but after a bike accident left him with post concussion syndrome shady reevaluated his life he sold his mansion renounced materialism and left los angeles for memphis where he has family. Here's shadrack talking to the cast and crew on the set of the brian banks moving and so this is i believe where your generation can take the human species. She's in the future which is seeing our jobs our careers as service industry to help uplift each other thereby being uplifted ourselves so with that said <hes> under that mindset shadrack who's making his first feature in ten years says that he's taken up projects that stray from his mostly comedy background being a creative person who wants to stay involved in active i started teaching and i've been teaching for eleven years and that drew me to memphis and i taught here and i experienced the themes of these movies. The lives of my students i i saw kids arrested for being black. I saw the injustice that brian experienced on maybe more intense 10-scale <hes> happened my students thrown in jail for crimes they didn't commit with no evidence and no resources <hes> to get the legal help that they needed to argue their case to who prove their innocence and i could feel it in my heart when i read brian story and as much or more when i met him because brian is the right microphone and for this ideology he went through an extraordinarily difficult <hes> shadow but came out beaming like the sun and i met him and knew that it was something that <hes> i wanted to be a part of the try to bring the story to the world as emblematic of a larger issue in this country there are things that are are parallel in my mind between what you went through what brian banks went through and i'm not gonna compare them but both of you had horrific things happen to you. That were none of your own. Doings brian was unjustly accused of a crime. He didn't commit and served multiple years in jail for that crime. You had a bike accident and suffered post concussion syndrome but both of you had will call an epiphany. You had a moment where you're able to kind of step outside of your lives and look at your lives a new and different way and come out the other side side with new direction new focus new perspective. Do you think your lives even though they're not identical have some sort of mirrors in them and and what happened to brian spoke to you on a level beyond just filmmaker who sees a good story that connection beyond that yes i think there's an i am not likening what i've gone through to to the deep pain that brian's through but yes there's an absolute parallel and not just with me and brian but you and brian and everyone in brian and <hes> it is the hero's journey we face obstacles brian's was in a tense obstacle of losing five ten years of his life a chance to play professional football apple and he turned that darkness when he was unjustly accused of a crime and he's turned it into light and that's the opportunity