WEBVTT 00:00.440 --> 00:03.330 I had a rough day. Tell me about it, man. 00:05.479 --> 00:08.900 Ugh. Ooh, I gotta wake my ass up at 6:00 00:09.400 --> 00:12.860 AM every day this week. Drag up to Las Galindas. 00:13.080 --> 00:16.620 Yeah, I'm doing the drywall up there at the new McDonald's. Let me ask you 00:17.120 --> 00:20.980 something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, 00:21.480 --> 00:24.420 does anyone ever say to you, sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays? 00:26.770 --> 00:28.930 No. No, 00:29.430 --> 00:32.790 man. Shit, no, man. I believe 00:33.290 --> 00:36.230 you'd get your ass kicked saying something like that, man. 00:36.260 --> 00:39.370 Huh. We still going fishing this weekend? Uh, Lumbergh's gonna 00:39.870 --> 00:42.410 have me come in on Saturday. I just know it. Well, you can get out 00:42.910 --> 00:45.370 of that easily. Yeah? How? 00:45.870 --> 00:49.590 Well, when a boss wants you to work on Saturday, he generally 00:50.090 --> 00:53.520 asks you at the end of the day, right? Yeah? So all 00:54.020 --> 00:56.480 you gotta do is avoid 'em. That's all right, I've got it. Only last few 00:56.980 --> 01:00.580 hours on Friday. Duck out early, turn off your answering 01:01.080 --> 01:02.910 machine. You should be home free, man. 01:04.720 --> 01:08.400 That's a really good idea. Fuckin' A, 01:08.900 --> 01:12.200 man. Lawrence, what would you 01:12.700 --> 01:16.080 do if you had $1 million? I'll tell you what I'd do, 01:16.580 --> 01:20.490 man. 2 chicks at the same time, 01:20.990 --> 01:21.069 man. 01:23.949 --> 01:27.190 That's it? You had a million dollars, 01:27.289 --> 01:30.870 you'd do 2 chicks at the same time? Damn straight. Always wanted 01:31.370 --> 01:34.190 to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire, I could hook 01:34.690 --> 01:38.290 that up too, 'cause chicks dig dudes with money. Well, not all chicks. 01:38.790 --> 01:41.170 Well, the type of chicks that double up on a dude like me do. 01:41.190 --> 01:44.240 Good point. Well, what about you now? What would you do? 01:44.500 --> 01:46.479 Besides 2 chicks at the same time? Well, yeah. 01:47.660 --> 01:51.440 Nothing. Nothing, huh? I would 01:51.940 --> 01:55.060 relax. I would sit on my ass all day. 01:56.499 --> 02:00.400 I would do nothing. Well, you don't need $1 million to do 02:00.900 --> 02:04.540 nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin. He's broke, don't do shit. 02:05.560 --> 02:08.520 It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. 02:09.020 --> 02:12.260 It's the podcast where 2 middle-aged dads sit around and shoot the shit 02:12.760 --> 02:15.650 about the movies of the '80s and '90s. Here are your hosts, 02:15.800 --> 02:18.050 Steve Paulo and Nic Briana. 02:19.680 --> 02:23.399 Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of 2 Dads, 1 Movie. I'm Steve. 02:23.899 --> 02:27.059 And I'm Nic. And today we are wrapping up our march through the decades that 02:27.559 --> 02:30.860 we've been calling 2 Dads, 2 Decades, which we started 20 weeks ago 02:31.360 --> 02:34.780 with Airplane in 1980. It is now 1999. 02:35.280 --> 02:39.180 And we are— we watched Office Space from Mike Judge. And Nic, 02:39.680 --> 02:41.240 kick it off first, man. This is a movie you brought to us. So why 02:41.740 --> 02:44.210 did you bring us Office Space? What did— What's your history with it? Yeah, 02:44.710 --> 02:47.289 I think, you know, like many people of our generation, this one was very, 02:47.570 --> 02:50.970 uh, it was very important to us. 02:51.470 --> 02:54.070 Uh, it gave us a lot of terminology. Uh, and then, you know, 02:54.570 --> 02:57.769 specifically for me and, and a lot of my friends and us, we were like, 02:58.269 --> 03:01.830 we weren't in the business world yet, right, when we saw this and started to 03:02.330 --> 03:05.610 love it. So our first jobs, the second there's any mention of like a memo 03:06.110 --> 03:09.270 or fucking whatever, we're like, oh shit. Um, so it 03:09.770 --> 03:13.050 was just very quotable, uh, very rewatchable. This again was the put it on 03:13.550 --> 03:17.370 before you go out movie, right? The early parts of this are ultra familiar 03:17.870 --> 03:20.769 to me, and then there's certain parts towards the end that aren't. But, 03:21.269 --> 03:24.009 uh, just a fun movie, and I think a great way to wrap up the 03:24.509 --> 03:27.050 2 Dads 2 Decades in the true spirit of like what we're trying to go 03:27.550 --> 03:29.990 for with this show. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, and I think this is one 03:30.490 --> 03:33.690 that, um, definitely benefited from Comedy Central. I feel like this was on 03:34.190 --> 03:37.690 Comedy Central like constantly for a few years, and so it 03:38.190 --> 03:40.990 was just almost impossible, you know, if you were coming home— I remember being in 03:41.490 --> 03:43.470 college, you come home drunk from the bars or whatever, you throw on the TV 03:43.970 --> 03:44.950 before you go to bed, and if you happen to throw on Comedy Central, 03:45.450 --> 03:48.510 you had like a a 1 in 4 chance that this is the movie that 03:49.010 --> 03:52.230 was playing some random night at, you know, 1 AM or something. Also, this was 03:52.730 --> 03:56.410 a classic, you pass out and just the DVD menu screen is just 03:56.910 --> 04:00.769 looping and looping and looping as you're falling asleep. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, for myself, 04:01.269 --> 04:03.210 like very similar to you, I caught it in college, didn't see it in the 04:03.710 --> 04:06.770 theater, but would've seen it pretty soon after, you know, DVD. I was, you know, 04:07.270 --> 04:10.390 the guy kind of similar to last week's where Baseball, you know, I would've seen 04:10.890 --> 04:13.170 it originally 'cause somebody said, oh, the guys who made South Park did this. 04:13.670 --> 04:15.550 Similar with this would've been, oh, the guy who made Beavis and Butt-Head did this 04:16.050 --> 04:16.390 movie. Right. All right, well, we'll check it out. And I think that that's, 04:16.890 --> 04:19.669 you know, You know, we'll talk about the facts in a minute, but I think 04:20.169 --> 04:22.228 that's one of the reasons the movie didn't do that well in the theaters is 04:22.728 --> 04:25.648 because they tried to market it as like from the guy from with Beavis and 04:26.148 --> 04:29.109 Butt-Head kind of thing. And it was like, that's so got nothing to do with 04:29.609 --> 04:33.088 like the humor's not the same. Like Mike Judge has massive range as a creator 04:33.588 --> 04:36.809 and this just isn't in the Beavis and Butt-Head King of the Hill kind of 04:37.309 --> 04:40.729 register. This is a very different kind of vibe. But yeah, 04:41.229 --> 04:43.489 like a lot of very fun movie, one that yeah, quote all the time. 04:44.140 --> 04:47.220 So much stuff that comes out of this movie is just now like in my 04:47.720 --> 04:49.920 vernacular. PC load letter, what the fuck does that mean? Like, I mean, all this 04:50.420 --> 04:53.039 stuff. And then, you know, and then I spent, I have spent over 20 years 04:53.539 --> 04:56.959 working in software. Luckily for me, never in an office environment that was this 04:57.459 --> 05:01.040 stodgy. When I worked in offices, I've been remote for the last like 05:01.540 --> 05:04.480 7 years, but like when I worked in offices, it was always at startups. 05:05.050 --> 05:07.560 I spent a little time at Google, but even Google acts like a startup. 05:08.060 --> 05:10.020 Like nobody at Google is wearing like ties, you know what I mean? Well, 05:10.520 --> 05:13.660 the way startups operate almost seems like a reaction to this type of culture, 05:14.160 --> 05:16.640 right? In a lot of ways, the ping pong tables and the, Free coffee and 05:17.140 --> 05:19.640 like, you know, like the come as you are. You still have to come in 05:20.140 --> 05:23.820 on Saturday and Sunday, but hey, you're, you're wearing shorts. Hey, these days 996 05:24.320 --> 05:26.700 has become a real popular thing in tech, which is ridiculous. Just working 9 AM 05:27.200 --> 05:29.620 to 9 PM, 6 days a week. Luckily not any company I work at, 05:30.120 --> 05:33.640 but that has become a thing, which is gross. Anyway, let's jump into the 05:34.140 --> 05:38.040 facts on the movie Office Space. Uh, it came out on February 19th, 05:38.540 --> 05:42.020 1999, right after Valentine's Day. Would have been a fun date movie, uh, with an 05:42.520 --> 05:46.090 R rating and a running time of a brisk 89 minutes. Maybe within 05:46.590 --> 05:50.130 the 4 fastest movies I think we've watched. I think Army of Darkness was like 05:50.630 --> 05:53.750 84. Spinal Tap's real short. Army of Darkness is real short. And this one at 05:54.250 --> 05:58.230 89. You don't see a lot of sub-90-minute features. So directed 05:58.730 --> 06:02.130 and written for the screen by Mike Judge, and of course adapted from Judge's animated 06:02.630 --> 06:07.830 shorts called Milton, which is the character Stephen Root plays. Is this— 06:08.330 --> 06:11.910 if— would this be an adapted screenplay even though he wrote— it's 06:12.410 --> 06:15.570 adapted off what he wrote originally? Just like Cameron Crowe getting 06:16.070 --> 06:18.650 nominated for adapted screenplay for Fast Times at Ridgemont High. High based off of the 06:19.150 --> 06:22.530 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe. It's still written for screen, 06:23.030 --> 06:25.630 is the credit. So yeah, is what it is. It's the way the WGA rules 06:26.130 --> 06:30.029 work. Uh, the movie stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, and David Herman. Uh, 06:30.529 --> 06:33.750 Ron, of course, we saw in Swingers. Uh, Jennifer Aniston, of course, the most famous 06:34.250 --> 06:36.710 person in the cast at this point. Um, and David Herman, who plays the Michael 06:37.210 --> 06:41.050 Bolton character. Uh, scores: Rotten Tomatoes, 82%, pretty healthy, 06:41.550 --> 06:44.770 dig it. IMDb, 7.6, very highly respected. Strong. 06:44.850 --> 06:48.130 Very strong, especially for a comedy. Gene Siskel was getting sick by the 06:48.630 --> 06:50.750 time this movie came out, so he did not give a thumbs up or down 06:51.250 --> 06:54.630 on this movie. Instead, we get just one thumbs up from Roger Ebert 06:55.130 --> 06:57.790 for Office Space. It's kind of sad when it just becomes one. 06:57.909 --> 07:01.210 Yeah, it's, it's— I think anything in the second 07:01.710 --> 07:05.450 half of '98 or throughout '99, we're not going to get a Siskel rating 07:05.950 --> 07:09.350 on. So yeah, no awards to speak of. A couple of critics nominate— Critics 07:09.850 --> 07:14.720 Award nominations, nothing really interesting on a $10 million budget, which like Again, 07:15.220 --> 07:17.620 last week we watched Basketball for $25 million and what they were able to do 07:18.120 --> 07:21.090 there. This movie for $10 is like in many ways more impressive. 07:21.260 --> 07:23.250 But again, I think a big part of that is not having to build sets, 07:23.320 --> 07:26.900 right? They clearly— yeah, right location for the shoots. Um, anyway, it pulled in 07:27.400 --> 07:31.040 just $12.8 million at the box office, 1.28 times what it cost, 07:31.540 --> 07:33.480 uh, which is definitely a disappointment. There's no— there's no way to spin that that 07:33.980 --> 07:37.120 isn't disappointing. Sure. Um, but you know, I wish we had home video numbers because 07:37.620 --> 07:41.060 I know this is like gone fucking crazy with merchandising and all that. 07:41.560 --> 07:43.660 It's a movie that, that definitely benefited from DVD sales and rentals and then also 07:45.580 --> 07:48.800 So again, from just being one of those kind of like staples that 07:49.300 --> 07:52.179 basic cable would, you know, play the edited version of just on repeat, 07:52.679 --> 07:55.400 basically. So yeah, that's how it became. I mean, it has become an absolute cult 07:55.900 --> 07:58.760 classic for sure. This is one of those movies we've seen several already in our 07:59.260 --> 08:01.820 run, but this is one of those movies that like box office flop, but got 08:02.320 --> 08:05.960 such a second life in home video, which really isn't a thing anymore. 08:06.460 --> 08:09.480 Now it's like there's streaming. So if you're gonna come out in the theaters and 08:09.980 --> 08:12.200 you're gonna, but if you're gonna flop, the streamers don't even tend to wanna pick 08:12.700 --> 08:15.260 you up. So it's not like a standard thing like it used to be where 08:15.760 --> 08:19.260 even the flops got put out on DVD or VHS. Or whatever. Uh, nowadays it's 08:19.760 --> 08:22.180 a little funkier. I think you've either got to be a streaming movie or you've 08:22.680 --> 08:25.420 got to be a theatrical movie that does well enough that the streamers give a 08:25.920 --> 08:28.660 shit about, about buying the rights to you. Yeah. Um, so yeah, but, uh, 08:29.160 --> 08:32.160 but yeah, Office Space definitely benefited from that, uh, that system that used to exist 08:32.660 --> 08:34.920 for sure. All right, Nic, kick us off, man. How does Office Space start? 08:35.020 --> 08:38.220 All right, Office Space. We've got, we've got a cold open and we've got, 08:38.720 --> 08:42.240 uh, an introduction to our main characters stuck in traffic on their 08:42.740 --> 08:46.989 way to work. Great scene. So we've got Peter Gibbons, played by Ron Livingston. 08:47.489 --> 08:50.568 Yeah. And he's, you know, stuck there in stop-and-go traffic. Obviously every 08:51.068 --> 08:54.589 frustrating thing you could imagine. He's seeing how slow he's going. He looks 08:55.089 --> 08:58.269 out his window and sees an old man in a walker passing him. You know, 08:58.769 --> 09:00.909 the lane next to him, of course, is moving just fine. And then when he 09:01.409 --> 09:05.249 can finally get into the other lane, that lane stops and his previous lane goes. 09:05.749 --> 09:09.969 So, so that's happening to Peter. I will say this movie 100% continues 09:10.469 --> 09:14.110 to affect the way I drive. Yeah. Because, because of Office Space, 09:14.610 --> 09:16.650 I don't try to like, if I'm in shitty traffic, I stay in the lane 09:17.150 --> 09:19.270 I'm in. Mm-hmm. And I just, I'm like, I think to myself, it'll all work 09:19.770 --> 09:21.970 out. It'll all even out eventually. Yeah. Everybody's trying to go the same place. 09:21.989 --> 09:24.729 And it's literally— Can't chase that dragon. It's literally because of this movie that I 09:25.229 --> 09:28.670 won't cut over to the other lane. I swear to God. Yeah. So, 09:29.170 --> 09:32.650 so he's, Peter's in the car and then we've got Michael Bolton who's played by 09:33.150 --> 09:37.020 David Herman. Yep. And he's singing loudly along with this rap song, 09:37.130 --> 09:40.210 you know, just really getting down and he's coming up to like an intersection or 09:40.710 --> 09:44.000 whatever. And there's a guy outside of his window who's like selling flowers. 09:44.140 --> 09:47.339 Right, yeah. And it's like the most like benign figure you could imagine, 09:47.839 --> 09:50.300 but it's a guy who happens to be Black. Yep. So Michael Bolton like turns 09:50.800 --> 09:54.220 his music way down and locks his door and everything, is like, starts singing 09:54.720 --> 09:57.820 it, you know, quietly. And then the second that guy leaves, he bumps it 09:58.320 --> 10:01.260 back up. I got the feeling up inside me. If I can't talk to my 10:01.760 --> 10:04.980 mama, then I'll talk to my diary. And he's singing along with it. 10:05.480 --> 10:08.360 So, um, very funny. And I, I'm one of those guys. I'm not a, 10:08.860 --> 10:10.560 I'm not a lock my door and turn it down guy, but I'm a blast 10:11.060 --> 10:14.040 my ass off when I'm driving by myself. I will say, how many movies do 10:14.540 --> 10:17.940 we have before Office Space with a, let's call it a predominantly 10:18.440 --> 10:22.480 white crowd, uh, cast? No major character who's, who's Black, although we 10:22.980 --> 10:25.620 do have Sameer, who's, uh, uh, I think he's supposed to be like Pakistani or, 10:25.920 --> 10:28.040 or, you know, Saudi or something like that, right? Saudi, because they, yeah. Oh, 10:28.540 --> 10:31.060 he makes a comment at Riyadh. Yeah. So, so— He might just be a comedian 10:31.560 --> 10:34.860 in 2026. There you go. But outside of him and a very 10:35.360 --> 10:38.170 brief appearance late by Orlando Jones, like, this is an all-white cast. 10:38.500 --> 10:41.720 That has an all hip-hop soundtrack. I feel like that's 10:42.220 --> 10:44.419 got to be until— off, you know, before Office Space, I don't know that that 10:44.919 --> 10:47.960 existed anywhere. I'm not sure. Yeah, I mean, unless it was being done ironic, 10:48.460 --> 10:51.620 because the thing about the hip-hop in this movie, it's believable that this 10:52.120 --> 10:54.420 is what the characters listen to, because this is what I listen to, this is 10:54.920 --> 10:58.180 what we listen to, our friends, you know. So it's not done in a parody 10:58.680 --> 11:01.260 way. So maybe Malibu's Most Wanted or something. So I was thinking about something like 11:01.760 --> 11:04.580 that, but even that kind of shit didn't start getting made till the mid-2000s. 11:04.770 --> 11:08.070 So yeah, I think you're right, and that's a great point. Yeah, it's very interesting. 11:08.550 --> 11:12.170 So and then Samir in his car, we get Samir briefly, and he's just like 11:12.670 --> 11:16.490 furious and punching his wheel and going crazy, right? Samir Nainanaja, 11:16.990 --> 11:19.360 not that hard to say actually. Not at all. Not hard to say at all. 11:19.629 --> 11:22.830 But everybody seems to deal with it. Maybe it's written really funny. 11:23.330 --> 11:25.930 Maybe it's not written phonetically at all. But yeah, we also briefly see Milton, 11:26.430 --> 11:29.850 the Stephen Root character, the bad skin, the enormous eyeglasses. But he's not 11:30.350 --> 11:33.730 driving to work; he's sitting at a bus stop. waiting for, for his bus to 11:34.230 --> 11:37.929 come. When Peter arrives at Initech, he parks, 11:38.429 --> 11:39.870 has to walk kind of a ways to get to the office, and he comes 11:40.370 --> 11:42.970 inside and he reaches for the doorknob, and you can tell he knows this is 11:43.470 --> 11:46.250 gonna happen before it does, but he gets such a big static shock that you 11:46.750 --> 11:49.490 can see it, like it jumps like a lightning bolt off of the handle onto 11:49.990 --> 11:52.850 his hand. And I hate that. Like, the number of times, like, a carpeted office, 11:53.350 --> 11:55.730 you know, when you're wearing, you know, if it's not rubber-soled shoes, if you've got 11:56.230 --> 11:58.680 like leather-soled shoes, Yeah. You know, those like the dress shoes, you're just going to 11:59.180 --> 12:01.880 get shocked everywhere. It's the worst feeling. Have you ever been to one of those 12:02.380 --> 12:05.700 science museums where they have the thing where you can experience different levels of shock? 12:06.200 --> 12:09.640 I hate that shit so much. Why does that exist? I hate that stuff. 12:10.140 --> 12:13.459 I remember— I don't remember his name, but it was like Henze or Herman. 12:13.959 --> 12:16.960 It was our physics teacher senior year of high school. Herrich. Herrich. Thank you. 12:17.460 --> 12:20.320 I knew it was an H. He had this crank machine and you would have— 12:20.820 --> 12:24.280 you would go student to student and hold the 2 ends of the connectors 12:24.780 --> 12:27.560 or the wires. And then the student in front of you would turn the crank 12:28.060 --> 12:30.370 to feel it. And the idea was like, they're gonna do it to you next, 12:30.480 --> 12:32.959 so be gentle. Oh, man. And every once in a while, some of the guys 12:33.459 --> 12:35.640 in class would just crank that thing super hard. I mean, it was never enough 12:36.140 --> 12:38.880 to, like, hurt you. Sure. But it hurt, you know what I mean? Like, 12:39.380 --> 12:42.899 everyone's going Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, just maximizing your shock there. Oh, 12:43.399 --> 12:46.580 my God. Uh, but relatable. So, so far, like, we've established all this relatable 12:47.080 --> 12:49.480 stuff that has nothing to do with the actual job. No, no. It just has 12:49.980 --> 12:52.440 to do with fucking getting there in the first place, right? Just getting to work. 12:52.940 --> 12:56.080 Uh, so, you know, Peter's— he's shocked by the door, and he goes down, 12:56.240 --> 12:58.380 he sits at his desk, and he starts typing. You know, he's got a shitty 12:58.880 --> 13:02.600 little cubicle, you know, although, although honestly, I would kill for a cubicle in the 13:03.100 --> 13:06.320 20-teens because like back when I was in offices, then it's all open floor 13:06.820 --> 13:10.340 plan. Everybody's sneezing on everyone else. Like, yeah, cubicle walls were a luxury. 13:10.840 --> 13:13.890 Yeah. Like by the time I was working in offices and I've been lucky, 13:14.040 --> 13:17.160 like in my whole career, my first job out of college, I've been at small 13:17.660 --> 13:20.920 firms the whole time and I've had my own office. I had to share 13:21.420 --> 13:23.720 with another person for a couple of years. But other than that, I've had my 13:24.220 --> 13:28.020 own like full-ass office. So I never lived that cubicle life. Yeah. And most of 13:28.520 --> 13:31.659 the companies I've worked at, the CEO doesn't have an office. Yeah. They just 13:32.159 --> 13:35.400 sit out in the bullpen with everybody else. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, 13:35.900 --> 13:38.880 I had zero ping pong tables though. Yeah, there you go, right? I had a 13:39.380 --> 13:43.100 lot of ramen available to me. So Peter's approached by his boss, 13:43.220 --> 13:46.420 Bill Lumbergh, played by Gary Cole. The wonderful Gary Cole. So fucking funny. 13:46.920 --> 13:50.200 Love Gary Cole. When we were watching this, my wife and I were talking about 13:50.700 --> 13:54.240 Gary Cole. His performance in The Brady Bunch movie as 13:54.740 --> 13:56.800 Mike Brady is one of the funniest things ever. The degree of difficulty to be 13:57.300 --> 14:00.740 so perfect And then so funny on top of that impression. 14:01.280 --> 14:04.599 He's just so great. I wish he was listed instead of David Herman, to be 14:05.099 --> 14:07.100 honest with you. That's fair. I probably could have put Gary Cole on. Oh, 14:07.600 --> 14:11.339 it's not on you. It's whoever does the fact sheet. Yeah, right. Whoever that is. 14:11.540 --> 14:13.710 I'll have to, I'll have to flog that intern later. 14:14.240 --> 14:17.680 Um, no, have you ever seen— do you ever watch Entourage? Uh, I saw— 14:18.180 --> 14:20.320 yeah, I saw like the first season. No, see, by the end of the movie, 14:20.820 --> 14:23.340 or by the end of the series, Cole is like, uh, also an agent working 14:23.840 --> 14:26.840 with Ari, with the Jeremy Piven character, and he The two of them together are 14:27.340 --> 14:30.439 an absolute riot. Like Gary Cole as a as a fucking agent in LA is 14:30.939 --> 14:34.580 so funny, and he's like season five six or I think is that ballpark. 14:35.080 --> 14:37.959 But that guy has so much range. I love him. He's really great. So he 14:38.459 --> 14:43.940 approaches Peter, and like of course very quotable. Hey Peter, what's happening? 14:44.440 --> 14:47.980 So I heard you had a. So the issue is like Peter didn't 14:48.480 --> 14:51.460 put the proper cover page on his memo on his TPS report, 14:51.960 --> 14:54.470 right? Did you get the memo? And there's all this stuff. So he's approached by 14:54.970 --> 14:59.059 Bill Lumbergh, Gary Cole, his boss. He's approached by another guy. 14:59.110 --> 15:02.430 So everyone he encounters is mentioning, oh, I heard you're not putting cover sheets. 15:02.930 --> 15:05.150 Gets a phone call from another person to remind him, like, call me. And he's 15:05.650 --> 15:08.730 just like, yeah, sorry, I forgot. I'll do it. And they won't accept that. 15:09.230 --> 15:13.030 They're like, yeah, because we're trying to do— and it's such a grating, 15:13.530 --> 15:16.610 shitty thing. And again, I've only worked at small companies. I haven't had to deal 15:17.110 --> 15:20.770 with too much of that. But this boiled my blood, dude. And his, 15:21.270 --> 15:23.150 his, his neighbor in the neighboring cube is Milton, who we saw earlier. 15:24.520 --> 15:27.800 Who's playing the radio, which is loud enough that it would drive 15:28.300 --> 15:31.460 you insane, right? It's not a reasonable volume at all. Milton keeps saying he 15:31.960 --> 15:35.020 was told that I could play in a reasonable volume. Kind of, 15:35.520 --> 15:39.059 kind of Anchorman syndrome with this movie a bit. Like, I heard too 15:39.559 --> 15:42.680 many Milton impressions that weren't very good that tainted it a 15:43.180 --> 15:45.570 bit. Is that a fucking message? Is that a message, Nick? No, yours was perfect. 15:45.620 --> 15:49.360 I thought you were just playing a recording from the film. No, you know 15:49.860 --> 15:52.180 what I mean. You're a voice pro here. 15:53.500 --> 15:57.080 But yeah, so Milton— so we've kind of set like Peter's situation. He's just 15:57.580 --> 16:01.140 like miserable. And he can hear Mina in the cubicle over here. Corporate accounts 16:01.640 --> 16:04.740 payable, Mina speaking. Yes. Just a moment. And she repeats that over and over again, 16:05.240 --> 16:08.680 which like— here's the thing. Heidi's look is so funny. It's so perfect. So much 16:09.180 --> 16:11.860 makeup, the bright red hair. I did not have that situation, but I do remember 16:12.360 --> 16:14.340 one of the early startups I worked in. It was kind of— it had cubicle 16:14.840 --> 16:18.940 walls still because this was like 2005 maybe. So it was like early. But it 16:19.440 --> 16:22.280 was this big warehouse, converted warehouse in Emeryville. So it was like the acoustics were 16:22.780 --> 16:26.260 god-awful, right? Yeah. Reverberated off everything else. And I happened to 16:26.760 --> 16:29.400 have— I was working in customer support, so I was like on the phones with 16:29.900 --> 16:33.460 like my headset on. And I had these asshole sales guys like 2 cubicles 16:33.960 --> 16:37.360 over who would do conference calls over speaker. So they 16:37.860 --> 16:41.400 were doing speakerphone calls while I'm trying to like take like a basically a pissed-off 16:41.900 --> 16:44.640 customer like complaining about something and trying to help them out, right? It's my first 16:45.140 --> 16:48.000 job in tech. And, and yeah, it was like just absolute nightmare to have these 16:48.500 --> 16:51.120 guys just talking super loud and like 2 cubicles over. And we couldn't say anything 16:51.620 --> 16:54.070 to them because they were the sales guys. So the second you try to like 16:54.570 --> 16:56.990 change the way they do anything, yeah, all they got to go is, yeah, 16:57.490 --> 17:00.989 but I'm like, you know, bringing in like a $50,000 deal. So sorry, you know, 17:01.489 --> 17:04.350 and it's like, and the company's not gonna side with the stupid-ass customer service kid. 17:04.850 --> 17:06.870 So yeah, that was a lot of fun. Yeah, I mean, it is so tough 17:07.370 --> 17:10.590 managing. Just, you need a— everyone needs a certain environment to be able 17:11.090 --> 17:13.830 to work and to be able to focus, and it's so disrespected in these kind 17:14.330 --> 17:16.710 of places. Oh my God, it's so bad. Yeah, thank God for working from home. 17:18.139 --> 17:21.720 Samir, one of the coworkers who we saw in the car earlier, and he's 17:22.220 --> 17:25.640 standing there at the printer, which is one of our recurring characters. Yeah, 17:26.140 --> 17:27.500 basically a character in the movie. Kind of like our fax machine and swingers and 17:28.000 --> 17:31.080 different inanimate recurring characters. And we get a, why does it say 17:31.580 --> 17:34.060 paper jam when there is no paper jam? And he's hitting it and doing all 17:34.560 --> 17:37.920 this stuff, right? I love it, and we've all experienced it. And again, 17:38.420 --> 17:41.620 I'm a very tech-frustrated person, so I'm gonna flip out on 17:42.120 --> 17:45.990 a machine before I troubleshoot. Well, that's fair. I have the 17:46.490 --> 17:48.990 the the right way to troubleshoot most of these machines is the three Rs, 17:49.490 --> 17:53.109 which is retry, reboot, and reinstall. Those are your ten that tends 17:53.609 --> 17:55.970 to solve a lot of your problems. But there is the other was rage. 17:56.289 --> 17:59.289 Exactly. To say the other R potentially is rage out, and that's that's you know 17:59.789 --> 18:02.150 if that's the fourth R, then that's you know just maybe just don't make it 18:02.650 --> 18:06.270 your first stop. Maybe that's all on your troubleshooting journey. Yeah. So there's a mail 18:06.770 --> 18:10.390 being delivered by this woman, and so she can't pronounce Samir's last name. She's like 18:10.890 --> 18:14.540 "Nagana," and he says his name is Naina Naja. Which is like a mouthful, 18:15.040 --> 18:16.620 don't get me wrong, but it also doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to 18:17.120 --> 18:19.120 understand unless it's written really funny. So I don't know how they spelled his name. 18:19.620 --> 18:21.340 I should've probably tried to look that up, but I didn't. And it's funny 'cause 18:21.840 --> 18:24.960 you're assuming it's the same person handing out paychecks all the time. So they're doing 18:25.460 --> 18:27.900 this every 2 weeks to them. Right. Well, it's not even paychecks. I think they're 18:28.400 --> 18:30.600 delivering a memo 'cause I think it's the memo Tom talks about later about the 18:31.100 --> 18:35.180 consultants. But then she turns to Michael and is like, Michael Bolton? 18:35.680 --> 18:37.460 Oh, and it's like, and then people keep asking me if he's related to the 18:37.960 --> 18:41.440 guy. Like, no. Like, how many people who you're related to have your exact name? 18:41.480 --> 18:45.120 Zero. A grand total of zero. Unless you're talking about like a grandparent that 18:45.620 --> 18:49.420 you're named after. Yeah. Not somebody within a generation of your age. 18:49.920 --> 18:53.060 Like, there are no other Steve Paulos in my family. There are other Paulos. 18:53.560 --> 18:56.060 Yeah. Right? There's no other Steve Paulos. It's so stupid. Like, I don't know. 18:56.560 --> 18:59.960 Like, it's— It's a version of people being like, oh, you went to UCLA? 19:00.460 --> 19:03.980 Do you know— yeah. Do you know my cousin? It's like, yeah, I graduated 19:04.480 --> 19:06.920 in 2003. Oh, my cousin was there in 2006. Awesome. 19:07.600 --> 19:12.160 Nope. Missed him. Like, you know? Michael and Sameer share 19:12.660 --> 19:15.040 a cubicle. Yes. Right? And Michael and Sameer and Peter stops by. He's like, 19:15.540 --> 19:19.130 hey, like, I— my day is already fucking ruined. Do you want 19:19.630 --> 19:22.110 to go get some coffee next door? And they're kind of bantering back and forth, 19:22.610 --> 19:25.489 and Michael's talking about like how much he hates the Michael Bolton thing. Yeah, 19:25.989 --> 19:28.270 yeah, yeah, yeah. For any— and he introduces— this is the first time I heard 19:28.770 --> 19:32.030 the phrase, that no-talent ass clown. So good. Which is still in the 19:32.530 --> 19:35.770 vernacular everywhere. And here's the thing, we were talking in the Clerks episode, you mentioned 19:36.270 --> 19:39.470 Kevin Smith using the snowball term and explaining it. Yeah, like that definitely 19:39.970 --> 19:43.090 existed pre that. Yeah, like, like American Pie and talking about a MILF, right? 19:43.590 --> 19:45.720 Like that existed for the movie. But no talent ass clown. I think we can 19:46.220 --> 19:48.519 give that to Mike Judge. I think that is a coined phrase because I did 19:49.019 --> 19:52.020 not see that before. And it's like specific enough. Yes. That I feel like it 19:52.520 --> 19:56.159 really should be. That's a Judgeism. You know, I love those, those insults where it's 19:56.659 --> 20:00.100 just like you're stuck on what word to throw it. So you just think of 20:00.600 --> 20:03.940 something. No ass clown. Like, just think of something that, 20:04.440 --> 20:07.660 that sounds hurtful. It's like an insult ad-lib. Just Mad Lib. Put it, put in 20:08.160 --> 20:10.240 whatever you want. So this is when— so the woman who was passing out the 20:10.740 --> 20:12.990 handles was like, you know, sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays, 20:13.140 --> 20:16.600 which is not cool. But But yeah, so they go over to 20:17.100 --> 20:20.759 Tchotchkes, which is, you know, a Chili's, 20:21.259 --> 20:24.420 TGI Friday's style shit on the walls. Makes me think of, 20:24.920 --> 20:26.860 if you've seen the movie, I'm sure you have, Super Troopers. They talk about, 20:26.880 --> 20:29.920 hey, Farva, what's that restaurant you like with the mozzarella sticks and all the 20:30.420 --> 20:33.350 shit on the walls? Shenanigans? We going to Shenanigans? It's that kind of thing. 20:33.700 --> 20:36.320 So this is their, one of the couple that they make fun of. Uncle Moe's 20:36.820 --> 20:39.420 Family Feedback. Yes, exactly, the whole deal, exactly. So they go over there and they 20:39.920 --> 20:43.470 just have a couple of coffees. Uh, I think Brian is the waiter that helps 20:43.970 --> 20:47.529 them who's like too cheery and too chipper and like whatever. The menu items 20:48.029 --> 20:50.549 he offers them are, oh yeah, could I interest you in some pizza shooters, 20:50.610 --> 20:54.110 shrimp poppers, or extreme fajitas? It's just like they nailed like that 20:54.610 --> 20:57.950 type of restaurant. I mean, Mike Judge is so astute at the way he 20:58.450 --> 21:02.090 can point out these different things in society, and like he just crumbled that entire 21:02.590 --> 21:06.180 type of business model between— between this and Idiocracy. 21:06.190 --> 21:10.100 The amount of his Observational Silicon Valley. 21:10.600 --> 21:13.929 The amount of his observational understanding of the world around him is like really impressive. 21:15.020 --> 21:18.680 Judge is I think a very underrated creator and auteur. 21:19.180 --> 21:21.780 For sure. But yeah, so so this is also then when we see Joanna. 21:21.980 --> 21:25.760 This is Jennifer Aniston's character. Peter notices her from across the restaurant, and it's like, 21:26.260 --> 21:28.700 oh, there she is. And you know, Samir's like, you know, Peter, if you're so 21:29.200 --> 21:31.020 obsessed with this girl, why don't you go ask her out? You know, and he's 21:31.520 --> 21:33.900 like, dude, I'd be some asshole customer. And he's right. Like you can't just like 21:34.400 --> 21:36.860 walk up to a waitress and be like. Hi, you want to go out with 21:37.360 --> 21:39.439 me? Like you're just some jerk who's like in the restaurant. I get that. 21:39.939 --> 21:42.860 Like I definitely get that. And so then they say, oh, you should come by 21:43.360 --> 21:45.340 by playing play poker, right? Isn't they're gonna play poker? Yeah, they were gonna play 21:45.840 --> 21:48.260 poker on Friday. You should come over and play poker. Oh no, and this is 21:48.760 --> 21:52.020 Peter talking about his girlfriend. And convinced me to go to an occupational hypnotherapist, 21:52.600 --> 21:56.740 which is like I have family members who are occupational therapists. 21:57.240 --> 21:59.920 Like and that job is to prepare people coming off of like surgeries or other 22:00.420 --> 22:03.450 things to get back into their lives and be able to like do major functions. 22:03.760 --> 22:05.360 You know that you need to do. Like literally like they remind they teach people 22:05.860 --> 22:08.710 how to like tie their shoes again. Yeah, different like that. So like that. 22:08.740 --> 22:12.119 But an occupational hypnotherapist to me is hilariously funny 22:12.619 --> 22:16.240 because it's like already hypnotherapy is like kind of like silly. 22:16.740 --> 22:19.399 So then you're going to try to take the most like the version of therapy 22:19.899 --> 22:23.080 that's the most like bare bones functional, the occupational therapies, and we're going to make 22:23.580 --> 22:27.100 this like put these together. To me, it's like such a funny juxtaposition. And it's 22:27.600 --> 22:30.900 like occupational hypnotherapist, the phrase, it's like they're using it with different interpretations. 22:31.100 --> 22:34.550 So it's almost like a hypnotherapist that is about your occupation, 22:34.920 --> 22:40.130 right? They do. 22:40.630 --> 22:44.190 They talk to what's his name? They come back. Tom Smikowski. Yes. Yeah. They come 22:44.690 --> 22:47.850 back and they talk to Tom Sinkowski. Smikowski. Whatever. However you pronounce his name. 22:48.350 --> 22:50.430 But yeah, on their way back from Chotchkes, he catches them kind of in the 22:50.930 --> 22:55.030 parking lot, and he's like a paranoid coworker who's a good, good stereo or 22:55.530 --> 22:59.330 good fucking archetype here. Yes, exactly. And he's this is the actor 22:59.830 --> 23:03.390 also who played one of the the the the prison guard guys. 23:03.890 --> 23:06.510 The fugitive. Exactly. The fugitive. He's the one that survived and claimed that you know 23:07.010 --> 23:10.350 oh the guy got away or whatever. Whatever, you know. Uh, but yeah, so— or 23:10.850 --> 23:13.170 no, he— no, that's right, he said that the doctor died, right? But yeah, 23:13.670 --> 23:15.350 so he's that guy and he's just freaking out because he's like, have you seen 23:15.850 --> 23:19.250 this memo? Like, they're bringing in consultants. Like, this happened at Intertrode last year and 23:19.750 --> 23:21.789 they laid off everybody and all this stuff. And they're like, Tom, you've been, 23:22.289 --> 23:24.970 you know, saying you're gonna lose your job every day for 30 years. Like, 23:25.470 --> 23:28.050 you're still here, you know. But yeah, he's freaking out. So they're— now they're back 23:28.550 --> 23:31.510 in Samir and Michael's sort of cubicle and they're all chatting. And Tom's like, 23:32.010 --> 23:33.590 you know, there are people that don't have to worry about this. There are people 23:34.090 --> 23:36.700 that like make a million What you got to do is invent something really great 23:37.200 --> 23:40.960 like the Pet Rock. Yeah. And he, and he explains to 23:41.460 --> 23:43.839 them how he came up with a great idea like that once before. And he 23:44.339 --> 23:46.800 said it was called the Jump to Conclusions Mat. It's a mat you would lay 23:47.300 --> 23:51.370 on the floor with a bunch of conclusions on it that you would jump to. 23:51.760 --> 23:54.200 And like, and he's, and he's looking at them for like reassurance and support. 23:54.260 --> 23:57.280 Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael's like, that's the stupidest fucking idea I've ever seen or 23:57.780 --> 24:00.640 ever heard in my life. It's just a terrible idea. Yeah, 24:01.140 --> 24:03.840 this is a good conversation. Kind of all like, what would you do with $1 24:04.340 --> 24:07.710 million? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and Samir, he's like the very sensible one. 24:08.210 --> 24:11.450 Oh yeah. Well, I'd invest half in mutual funds and all this stuff. And Peter's 24:11.950 --> 24:14.790 like, I would do nothing. Like, I would do absolutely nothing. Well, you say this 24:15.290 --> 24:17.390 way, at this point he says, I never had an answer. Oh, that's because they're 24:17.890 --> 24:20.380 kind of framing it like, oh, when your guidance counselor in high school said, 24:20.470 --> 24:22.730 what would you do for $1 million? That would tell you what you should do. 24:23.230 --> 24:25.090 So if you would fix up old cars, you should be a mechanic. And Michael 24:25.590 --> 24:28.290 points out to him, that's fucking stupid because, you know, nobody would be a janitor 24:28.790 --> 24:32.090 because nobody would clean up shit if they had $1 million. They wouldn't choose to 24:32.590 --> 24:36.600 do that. But that's when the printer distracts him. And it's like, and he goes, 24:37.100 --> 24:40.969 PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean? Which is like, I love that. 24:41.399 --> 24:44.800 The PC load letter is so good. Inside their cubicle, uh, and, and also 24:45.300 --> 24:48.999 in his apartment, Michael Bolton has a Navy SEALs poster, which I feel like that's 24:49.499 --> 24:52.900 got to be a clerk. I, I— here's the thing though, not the movie. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.360 I know, I know. But it's so funny to me, it's almost like a recruitment 24:55.860 --> 24:59.220 poster for the Navy SEALs, like in his, uh, in his cubicle. 24:59.720 --> 25:03.090 And then in his apartment home, it's like a huge flag. And he seems like 25:03.590 --> 25:06.929 the least would-be-into-the-Navy-SEALs guy. Well, except that he 25:07.429 --> 25:11.510 definitely thinks he's cool, and so he'd be into generically cool stuff. And I guess 25:12.010 --> 25:15.670 the guy who loved the military in '99 would be aesthetically different than the 25:16.170 --> 25:19.090 guy who loves the military now, you know? Pre-post-9/11. Like, operator-looking, 25:19.980 --> 25:23.450 grunt-style fucking black rifle coffee shirt guy or whatever. 25:23.950 --> 25:27.230 It's definitely evolved over the last 25 years or 27 years, yeah. But you are 25:27.730 --> 25:30.150 right that he does, and he sees himself as kind of like a badass, 25:30.650 --> 25:34.990 kind of like a tough guy or whatever. For sure. Yeah, so let's 25:35.490 --> 25:37.969 see. Is Peter back home now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, and he has a neighbor 25:38.469 --> 25:42.210 Lawrence played by Diedrich Bader. Love Diedrich Bader. Underutilized. I feel like he's really funny 25:42.710 --> 25:46.050 in this, and he's not in enough stuff between this character and 25:46.550 --> 25:50.150 Rex Quandt, like the Rex character from Napoleon Dynamite. Like I adore 25:50.650 --> 25:54.030 Diedrich Bader. Those two roles alone like work for me, but he's done a 25:54.530 --> 25:57.730 bunch of other great stuff too. Yeah, no, I mean that Napoleon Dynamite thing is 25:58.230 --> 26:01.670 so funny though, and and he. I like the 26:02.170 --> 26:05.239 relationship where you can just yell through the wall to somebody. 26:05.290 --> 26:08.390 And when you see, like, everyone's apartment, there's, like, 26:08.890 --> 26:12.130 barely any decoration. It's very depressing. And when I watched 26:12.630 --> 26:15.790 this at the time, 'cause I was still, like, in college roommate situation, so I 26:16.290 --> 26:18.750 was like, oh, dude, it would be so sick to just have my own blank 26:19.250 --> 26:22.850 apartment. I could put my milk crates anywhere. And watching it 26:23.350 --> 26:26.830 now, it's like, oh, God, that fucking sucks. But very similarly, the apartments in Swingers. 26:27.330 --> 26:30.350 We see Sue's apartment and we see Mike's apartment, and they're both very sparsely decorated 26:30.850 --> 26:33.790 and sort of sparsely apportioned or appointed rather. And so, 26:34.290 --> 26:37.110 yeah, but yeah, so Lawrence yells through the thing, hey, Peter, man, check out Channel 26:37.610 --> 26:41.069 9, it's Breast Exam. So Lawrence comes over because Peter's 26:41.569 --> 26:42.970 like, dude, don't yell through the wall, just come over and hang out. So he 26:43.470 --> 26:46.610 changes to like this, you know, it's an instructional video on like women to check 26:47.110 --> 26:49.170 themselves for lumps, but he's like, oh yeah, this is hot, you know, kind of 26:49.670 --> 26:52.310 thing. So they're chatting for a while and, and Peter brings up the same question 26:52.810 --> 26:54.470 they talked about at work, which is like, if you, you know, what would you 26:54.970 --> 26:57.810 do if you had a million dollars kind of thing. And so Lawrence, deadpan, 26:58.310 --> 26:59.770 straight face, looks at him and goes, you know what I'd do if I had 27:00.270 --> 27:04.280 a million dollars, man? 2 chicks at the same time. And it's like, 27:04.729 --> 27:08.370 yeah, all right, like a fair answer. I love it. And he's like, 27:08.870 --> 27:12.209 uh, he's like, well, chicks dig dudes with money. And Peter's like, well, not all 27:12.709 --> 27:15.280 chicks. He's like, the type of chicks that double up on a dude like me. 27:15.950 --> 27:19.370 One, uh, one Lawrence thing I, I love and we would always 27:19.870 --> 27:23.210 repeat, and it's just such a throwaway line, when Peter hands him his beer and 27:23.710 --> 27:25.790 he goes to like open it for him and Lawrence is like, that's okay, 27:26.290 --> 27:29.050 I got it, pulls his own opener out, his own shirt key, is so like 27:29.940 --> 27:33.500 that's such a guy. Like, that character would never let somebody open his beer, 27:34.000 --> 27:36.060 or he'd do the shit where he like opens it with his wedding ring or 27:36.560 --> 27:40.020 like a fucking lighter. Side of the counter. Into the counter. Yeah, 27:40.520 --> 27:42.180 respect to those guys. I've never been one of those. I don't want to damage 27:42.680 --> 27:45.740 my table. This reminds me of a, of a quick story. Like, so when I 27:46.240 --> 27:48.700 was in college, I was back home for the summer, and my friend Greg, 27:49.200 --> 27:52.240 his older sister was getting, uh, married. And we, my friend Sean and I, 27:52.740 --> 27:55.470 were hanging out in Walnut Creek, and we ran into them at, uh, The old 27:55.970 --> 27:59.270 Pyramid Ale House on like Locust, I think. Yeah, yeah. And so they were 27:59.770 --> 28:02.789 there doing like they'd done the rehearsal and they were doing the like party after 28:03.289 --> 28:05.230 the rehearsal dinner. So it's like, oh yeah, come hang out with us. So we 28:05.730 --> 28:06.650 hung out with them for a while because we, you know, I grew up with 28:07.150 --> 28:09.130 these people for the most part, but they were all a few years older than 28:09.630 --> 28:12.470 us. And so we all end up going back to somebody's parents' house in Alamo, 28:12.970 --> 28:15.790 right? Like whatever these are, you know, or mid-twenties. I think I was like 20, 28:16.290 --> 28:19.390 21. And, and we're back there and they're looking around 28:19.890 --> 28:23.210 for somebody's looking around for like a church key for bottle opener and looks over 28:23.710 --> 28:24.890 to me and goes, you're still in college, right? I go, yeah. He goes, 28:25.480 --> 28:29.040 So you've got a bottle opener on your keychain, don't you? And I'm like, 28:29.540 --> 28:32.279 yeah. And I give him my keys to the bottle, because sure enough, I had 28:32.779 --> 28:34.720 a church key on my key ring. So yeah, I just thought that was funny. 28:35.220 --> 28:37.440 But yeah, so he's got his own. And then the other line that Lawrence says 28:37.940 --> 28:41.280 that I've just absolutely found ways to sneak into conversation over 28:41.780 --> 28:45.340 the years is, yeah, I gotta take my ass up to Las Colinas every day 28:45.840 --> 28:49.010 this week. Just like when you're just tired of the things you have to do. 28:49.780 --> 28:52.880 Yeah. And he talks to Lawrence a little bit 28:53.380 --> 28:55.460 about his work, because Lawrence works at construction, you know? Yeah. And Peter's like, 28:56.049 --> 28:59.580 Do people at your work say things like, you have a case of the Mondays? 28:59.750 --> 29:03.010 He's like, oh, God, no. I believe you'd get your ass kicked for 29:03.510 --> 29:07.070 saying something like that. Yeah, that's very funny. But Lawrence gives him a 29:07.570 --> 29:09.540 good idea. He's like, if your boss is gonna ask you to work the weekend, 29:09.570 --> 29:13.170 he's probably gonna ask you late on Friday. So you just avoid him, you know, 29:13.670 --> 29:16.710 duck out a little early, turn off your answering machine, and don't worry about it 29:17.210 --> 29:19.290 kind of thing. So Peter, you know, tries to do that. So the next day 29:19.790 --> 29:22.760 at work, it's like Friday now, and we get a brief introduction to Bob Slidell, 29:22.870 --> 29:26.630 played by one of our absolute favorites, It's, uh, John C. McGinley. And, 29:27.130 --> 29:30.889 uh, you know, Lumbergh is introducing him like, Bob's gonna hang out and help us 29:31.389 --> 29:33.390 out, you know, with some efficiency and like whatever. But this is clearly, yeah, 29:33.890 --> 29:37.249 the consultants that Tom was upset about or whatever, right? This is— he's here 29:37.749 --> 29:41.450 interviewing everyone for their own job. Exactly. And so then, uh, 29:41.950 --> 29:44.390 they're trying, you know, basically, uh, Peter's now near the end of the day and 29:44.890 --> 29:47.390 he wants to avoid Lumbergh so they can get out and like not get asked 29:47.890 --> 29:50.550 to come in on Saturday. So he starts shutting down his computer, but there's all 29:51.050 --> 29:53.150 these like files that have to be saved or whatever before they can close. 29:53.650 --> 29:57.030 Yes. And this thing that says rebuilding index or whatever just keeps going all the 29:57.530 --> 29:59.650 way full over and over and over again to the point that he's like freaked 30:00.150 --> 30:01.970 out. So he thinks he's in the clear and he turns and sure enough, 30:02.470 --> 30:06.150 Lumbergh's right there. Hey Peter, what's happening? And he's gotta not only 30:06.650 --> 30:08.690 ask him to come in on Saturday but on Sunday too. And he says it's 30:09.190 --> 30:11.590 because we let— we lost some people this week and we're sort of playing a 30:12.090 --> 30:14.850 little catch-up. It's like, oh, so you fired people? Yeah. And now there's too goddamn 30:15.350 --> 30:18.350 much work, right? Exactly. And he doesn't ask him, he just says, I'm gonna need 30:18.850 --> 30:22.300 you to go ahead. Oh. Yeah, on both days. And he asked him— he tells 30:22.800 --> 30:26.479 him both days. Yeah, both, both Saturday and Sunday. Oh, terrible. So now Peter is 30:26.979 --> 30:30.360 at the occupational hypnotherapist, uh, with his girlfriend Anne. And I don't know who the 30:30.860 --> 30:32.920 other people are there. It doesn't matter. There's 2 other random people there. I guess 30:33.420 --> 30:35.520 they're Anne's friends. It doesn't really make sense why they would be there for Peter's 30:36.020 --> 30:39.040 session. But yeah, this therapist, I recognize the guy. I don't know what he's— he's 30:39.540 --> 30:41.500 been in a ton of stuff. Yeah, I can't remember his name, but yeah, 30:42.000 --> 30:44.960 such a funny look. Yes, most ridiculous toupee ever, 30:45.460 --> 30:49.110 right? He's got this crazy hairpiece on. And he's asking Peter about like, 30:49.610 --> 30:53.190 you know, what's going on? And Peter's just like, well, every day 30:53.690 --> 30:56.969 you see me, that's the worst day of my life. And the therapist's like, 30:57.469 --> 31:00.110 well, what about today? Is today the worst day of your life? And Peter's like, 31:00.610 --> 31:04.390 yeah. And he's like, that's messed up. So 2 things. One, this actor, 31:04.890 --> 31:07.250 the thing I most know him from besides this, he played Friar Tuck in Robin 31:07.750 --> 31:10.910 Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman version. He's Friar Tuck in 31:11.410 --> 31:14.110 that. But no hairpiece famous. No. Yes. For not in the front for that one. 31:14.140 --> 31:17.440 But also the line about, you know, every day you see me, 31:17.940 --> 31:21.380 that's worse. Like, There's Something About Mary did almost the same thing when Chris Elliott 31:21.880 --> 31:24.700 says to Ben Stiller, every day is better than the next. So it's like, 31:25.200 --> 31:28.380 it's like a more subtle version of the same joke. But yeah, so basically he's 31:28.880 --> 31:32.260 like, okay, well, I'm gonna put you into hypnosis. You'll be totally relaxed until after 31:32.760 --> 31:35.480 I'm done snapping my— you know, I'll count from 3 down to 1 and you'll 31:35.980 --> 31:38.180 be totally relaxed and you'll remain that way until I snap my fingers, is what 31:38.680 --> 31:41.460 he says. Yep. So he does the whole countdown, but as he starts counting down, 31:41.960 --> 31:45.300 he's like, like sweating and like finding it hard to breathe and like squeezing his 31:45.800 --> 31:48.560 left fist, you know, kind of left hand. And sure enough, as he gets to 31:49.060 --> 31:52.339 1 and he says 1, which is the final thing to put Peter into the 31:52.839 --> 31:56.480 hypnosis, the doctor keels over having a heart attack and dies. And Peter is just 31:56.980 --> 32:00.780 sitting there totally blissful, unaware, doesn't care, chilling out. That's Peter 32:01.280 --> 32:04.500 is good. But what he's asking for, like before we get too far, you realize 32:05.000 --> 32:07.060 what he's asking for is basically the plot of the television show Severance. Yeah. 32:07.650 --> 32:09.930 Because he asked for, can you just like make it so I'm not aware that 32:10.430 --> 32:13.530 I'm even at work during the day? He's asking for Severance. So I don't know 32:14.030 --> 32:16.110 if like— I, I haven't seen Severance. Oh dude, you've got to see Severance. 32:16.610 --> 32:19.670 But I love the concept of it, and I fucking wish 32:20.170 --> 32:23.590 I could have this done so much. My life would be good. It would be 32:24.090 --> 32:27.410 wonderful. Watch Severance and you'll think differently. Have you, have you 32:27.910 --> 32:30.350 ever had someone try to hypnotize you? Have you ever like sat— I have not. 32:30.850 --> 32:33.570 I've never even— because I don't— here's the thing, I don't believe that it's possible, 32:34.070 --> 32:35.940 so I don't think I'm susceptible in the way I think I I would— yeah, 32:36.440 --> 32:37.260 I don't think it would work at all on me because I don't want it 32:37.760 --> 32:40.419 to, basically. I went— my daughter wanted to do it a few years ago, 32:40.919 --> 32:43.349 and they had the hypnotist at the county fair. Okay. And they have a stage, 32:43.519 --> 32:46.080 you can get up there, and they'll sit like 10 people in a row and 32:46.580 --> 32:49.120 do all this stuff. And then they start, you know, getting you to do things 32:49.620 --> 32:52.880 once you're hypnotized. But he'll dismiss people if he decides it's like not working on 32:53.380 --> 32:56.020 them, right? So my daughter really wanted to do it, and I'm like, fuck it, 32:56.520 --> 32:58.420 dude, I'll go up there with her. I'm gonna ham it up. I'm going along 32:58.920 --> 33:02.340 with everything the guy says. All right. So I go along and I'm falling asleep 33:02.840 --> 33:05.770 and I'm doing all the shit and everything. And I'm making a fool of my— 33:06.270 --> 33:08.150 like, doing stuff I would never do in front of all these strangers at the 33:08.650 --> 33:11.890 fair. And then at the end, I'm like, that didn't work. 33:12.390 --> 33:15.250 And it's like, wait, you did all this shit? Yeah, it worked exactly. 33:15.570 --> 33:18.870 Absolutely worked. That's exactly what it did. It zonked you out so you 33:19.370 --> 33:22.060 didn't feel stupid about doing this stuff, and then you did this stuff. 33:22.430 --> 33:25.290 So yeah, I'm on the fence. We'll see if the guy's back there next year. 33:25.790 --> 33:28.270 I was gonna say, I, I would do— I would do it, but I feel 33:28.770 --> 33:30.990 like it would be— I would just get dismissed. So it's sort of, you know, 33:31.490 --> 33:34.269 yeah, you gotta, you gotta commit to the bit, I guess. Uh, which then, 33:34.769 --> 33:37.589 then what's the point? Then you haven't actually been hypnotized, you've just decided to go 33:38.089 --> 33:40.870 along with it. Just to see what he says. I mean, if he was able 33:41.370 --> 33:43.850 to zonk me out so I wouldn't, uh, know I was at work, then it 33:44.350 --> 33:47.710 would have been, uh, worth it. But so Peter's, he's in like a permanent chilled-out 33:48.210 --> 33:51.410 state, right? And he's home and he's fucking sleeping. He's supposed to work on 33:51.910 --> 33:55.490 Saturday and he's sleeping in. So it shows the clock, you know, his answering machine's 33:55.990 --> 33:59.870 going off and it's Lumbergh. Yeah, hi, this is Bill Lumbergh. 33:59.890 --> 34:03.010 It's just— And when he finally does wake up, 34:03.510 --> 34:06.730 it's like 3 o'clock. He's got like 17 messages on his machine and it's almost 34:07.230 --> 34:09.929 all Lumbergh and he's skipping. But then Anne, his girlfriend, calls and it's like, 34:10.429 --> 34:12.609 Peter, what's going on? Like, why aren't you at work? Like, what happened? Like, 34:13.109 --> 34:15.160 what happened last night? All this stuff. And he goes, I didn't feel like going. 34:15.190 --> 34:17.390 What are you talking about? And she's like getting super pissed. He just hangs up 34:17.890 --> 34:20.970 on her. Yeah, she immediately calls back and is like, nobody hangs up on me, 34:21.470 --> 34:24.170 we're through. Oh, and by the way, I've been cheating on you. And when she 34:24.670 --> 34:28.260 yells cheating on you, The fucking answering machine vibrates. Physically moves. 34:28.760 --> 34:32.220 Yeah, really funny. I love that moment. Yeah, basically that's done. So Anne is no 34:32.720 --> 34:35.200 longer in the picture. And Peter had said to a couple people— he'd said it 34:35.700 --> 34:38.120 to Michael, he'd said it to Lawrence— sometimes I get the feeling that Anne's cheating 34:38.620 --> 34:39.940 on me. And in both cases they were like, yeah man, I know what you're 34:40.440 --> 34:42.940 talking about. It's like, what the fuck does that mean? Like, yeah, but turns out 34:43.440 --> 34:47.180 they were all correct. That's like a go-to name for a bad girlfriend. And shout 34:47.680 --> 34:50.380 out to all the real-life Annes out there. There are many lovely ones. But Arrested 34:50.880 --> 34:55.250 Development, you know. Oh yeah, Michael, uh, George Michael's Girlfriend. 34:55.750 --> 34:59.229 So Peter, he doesn't go into work. Nope. And he just goes 34:59.729 --> 35:02.910 into Tchotchkes, and he goes to find Joanna. That's right. Very cool. 35:03.410 --> 35:05.120 And he goes in to kind of like say, "Hey, do you want to? 35:05.810 --> 35:08.050 You want to meet me for lunch? I want to take you to lunch." Yeah, 35:08.550 --> 35:11.050 yeah, yeah. And he's like, "What am I supposed to eat here? Eat here." He's 35:11.550 --> 35:14.010 like, "I'll tell you what. I'm gonna get a table next door if you want 35:14.510 --> 35:17.490 to join me. No big deal. And if not, that's cool too." Like just so 35:17.990 --> 35:20.530 laid back. Super breezy, man. And the way that he's dressed now, you know, 35:21.030 --> 35:23.070 like unbuttoned shirt. Yeah. Jeans. Chill guy. 35:25.550 --> 35:28.449 And then as he's leaving, she's like, uh, by next door, do you mean Chili's 35:28.949 --> 35:31.229 or Flingers? Yeah, Flingers. So of course I gotta use the fictional one, that way 35:31.729 --> 35:34.250 they can make it look however they want. Um, at the same time, we're seeing 35:34.750 --> 35:38.389 some scenes from inside Initech. We see Tom talking to the 2 Bobs, Bob Parsons 35:38.889 --> 35:41.650 and Bob Slidell. Uh, and you know, they're basically asking him, so what are you 35:42.150 --> 35:44.510 doing? So it sounds like you take the specs from the customers and take them 35:45.010 --> 35:47.550 to the software people. He goes, yeah. So why can't the customers go straight to 35:48.050 --> 35:50.680 the software people? Like, oh, well, Because, you know, software engineers aren't good at talking 35:51.180 --> 35:54.440 to people. Okay, so you physically take them? Well, they're faxed, or my secretary 35:54.940 --> 35:58.640 does that. Okay, so then you physically take them to the software people? No. 35:59.140 --> 36:02.770 And Bob, the great line goes, what is it that you say you do here? 36:03.899 --> 36:06.880 You know, it's very funny. Yeah. And, and, 36:07.380 --> 36:10.740 uh, Tom just melting down during this is really good. I mean, this is 36:11.240 --> 36:14.929 a, a great collection of character actors in Like the 36:15.429 --> 36:18.310 main roles in this movie are not the best actors. Right. The main three guys. 36:18.810 --> 36:21.989 Yeah, they're fine. Ron Livingston's fine. I still wonder why 36:22.489 --> 36:24.710 Ron Livingston between this and swingers and Saving Private Ryan. Like I don't know why 36:25.210 --> 36:28.429 he wasn't a bigger star. Yeah, I don't get it either. But these other people 36:28.929 --> 36:32.390 that they plug in here are so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Bob's just fantastic. 36:32.890 --> 36:36.130 And then the Bobs are talking to Michael Bolton, right? Yes. And the way that 36:36.630 --> 36:40.470 John C. McGinley is absolutely tickled, like he can't contain himself, 36:40.970 --> 36:44.780 right? He's just like. Michael Bolton. Bolton. Any relation to the 36:45.280 --> 36:47.159 pop singer? I love the way he says that. Any relation to the pop singer? 36:47.760 --> 36:51.180 No, it's just a coincidence because I love that guy. 36:51.680 --> 36:54.420 It's so good. I don't know for my money there's anything better than what he 36:54.920 --> 36:58.840 does when a man loves a woman. Like, so, uh, what's your favorite song? 36:59.140 --> 37:04.560 And he's like, uh, I guess I sort of like them all. And then again, 37:05.060 --> 37:08.460 I celebrate his entire catalog. And that's another thing we would say. I celebrate 37:08.960 --> 37:11.810 his entire catalog. 100%. Yes, that is in the vernacular. This is the only way 37:12.310 --> 37:15.770 I've— the only place I've heard it. So, uh, now I will say, by the 37:16.270 --> 37:19.210 way, Michael Bolton, I have come around on a bit since this movie came out. 37:19.710 --> 37:21.349 When this movie came out, I was also of the mind that he was a 37:21.509 --> 37:24.630 no-talent-ass clown and like I hated whatever. I have since come around. There are a 37:25.130 --> 37:26.970 handful of Michael Bolton songs and none of them are When a Man Loves a 37:27.470 --> 37:30.370 Woman as a cover anyway. But like Time, Love and Tenderness is a banger. 37:30.390 --> 37:33.510 It is an absolute banger. If you like vocal pop music 37:34.010 --> 37:37.910 at all, that song kills. Like there is absolutely 3 or 4 Michael 37:38.410 --> 37:41.920 Bolton songs worth going back and going, oh, Like, his range is ridiculous. 37:42.420 --> 37:44.399 Like, they're good jazzy pop songs. You just gotta be in the mood for that 37:44.899 --> 37:47.860 shit. His voice is crazy unique too. Uh, his collaborations with The Lonely Island, 37:48.360 --> 37:51.160 also very funny. Oh, very funny. Yes, very funny. I think that's what turned me 37:51.660 --> 37:54.059 around on him, when I realized that he's one of those guys willing to kind 37:54.559 --> 37:56.600 of make fun of himself. And he did the movie with the Pirates of the 37:57.100 --> 37:59.660 Caribbean song with Lonely Island. It was so funny. And I was like, well, 38:00.160 --> 38:02.820 if he's got that good a sense of humor, I wonder if like he's really 38:03.320 --> 38:04.960 kind of this, you know, whatever. So I went back and listened to his earlier 38:05.460 --> 38:07.080 stuff and I was like, okay, there's a couple songs here that are like Much 38:07.580 --> 38:10.760 in the same way that like How You Remind Me is Nickelback, but it's still 38:11.260 --> 38:14.220 a great song. It's the only one Nickelback has, in my opinion, but it is 38:14.720 --> 38:17.400 still a great song. Like there are a handful of good songs. Not represent the 38:17.900 --> 38:20.360 opinions of the two dads. One movie. How You Remind Me is a good song, 38:20.860 --> 38:23.940 man. I'm sorry. I will stand by that. The only one Nickelback ever made. 38:24.440 --> 38:27.980 But yeah, anyway. So we're back at Flingers now, 38:28.480 --> 38:31.980 right? Yes, right. So so Peter and Joanna are sitting there, and he's looking. 38:32.480 --> 38:35.770 She's still in her uniform from Chosh. which is a TGI Friday's, very, 38:36.270 --> 38:39.250 you know, covered in pins and all this stuff, which the manager, you know, 38:39.750 --> 38:41.730 she explains to him, these are pieces of flair. Yes. He's like, what are all 38:42.230 --> 38:45.350 these buttons? He reads off one of her buttons, which calls back to a previous 38:45.850 --> 38:49.310 film that we had, Swingers, where he says, we're not in Kansas anymore, reading her 38:49.810 --> 38:53.510 button, which I think, once again, direct shout-out to Swingers. And she 38:54.010 --> 38:56.790 explains to him, well, you know, they make us put this on, you know, 38:57.290 --> 39:00.270 to make our uniform more fun. And they're kind of both talking about how shitty 39:00.770 --> 39:03.250 their job is. She's like, well, what do you do? Yeah, he's like, I sit 39:03.750 --> 39:06.750 in a cubicle and update bank software for the 2000 switch. And he goes through 39:07.250 --> 39:10.150 like a few sentences trying to explain it to her, and he's just like, 39:10.650 --> 39:13.830 you know what, never mind, not worth talking about this. I'm not gonna do it. 39:14.330 --> 39:15.980 I'm not gonna go anymore. Yeah, that's right. I'm not gonna— like, you're gonna quit? 39:16.050 --> 39:19.210 He's like, no, I'm just not gonna go. Yeah, 39:19.710 --> 39:22.630 job abandonment, that's a thing. Quiet quitting, I believe they said. That's right, that's right, 39:23.130 --> 39:26.040 more recently. But he closes by saying, you know what I want to do? 39:26.170 --> 39:28.960 I want to take you out to dinner. Then I want to go to my 39:29.460 --> 39:32.539 apartment and watch kung fu. Do you watch kung fu? And she's just like, 39:33.039 --> 39:36.420 I love kung fu. She's so starstruck about it. He's lucky, lucky guy that 39:36.920 --> 39:39.560 she happens to be way into kung fu. The ladies were all into karate back 39:40.060 --> 39:40.259 then. 39:43.640 --> 39:47.960 So let's see, we're back at the office now. Milton is going 39:48.460 --> 39:50.550 on about his stapler. He has a red Swingline stapler. 39:51.720 --> 39:54.960 Staple of like— staple, no pun intended— of every 39:55.460 --> 39:57.380 fucking office white elephant party of the early 2000s. The red Swingline. 39:59.700 --> 40:03.039 That, like, Office Space-related swag garbage. I think I have 40:03.539 --> 40:06.560 a fucking bobblehead of somebody in this office somewhere. It's everywhere. 40:07.060 --> 40:10.340 Hopefully of Lumbergh. So yeah, the best bobblehead. Great. Um, yeah, 40:10.840 --> 40:13.920 so Milton's red stapler is kind of a thing, and he's always talking under his 40:14.420 --> 40:17.500 breath. So Lumbergh comes and takes it from him and walks away, and Milton's like, 40:18.000 --> 40:19.850 I'm gonna set the building on fire. 40:21.300 --> 40:24.620 You took my stapler. Yeah. Uh, so Peter's in, he's gonna go 40:25.120 --> 40:26.960 meet with the Bobs now. Well, no, so Peter comes to the office to get 40:27.460 --> 40:29.000 his address book because he wants to write down Joanna's number, and Michael sees him 40:29.500 --> 40:32.600 and reminds him, dude, you're supposed to be Meeting with the consultants, with the Bobs, 40:32.900 --> 40:35.000 whatever. He goes, "Oh, all right, I'll go in." He's like, "No, no, no, 40:35.500 --> 40:37.820 dude. You gotta like postpone. Look at you. You can't go in there like that." 40:38.320 --> 40:40.360 No, no, man. I'm fine. I feel great. And he goes in and he's chatting 40:40.860 --> 40:43.660 with them. And I like that he pours himself a glass of water first before 40:44.160 --> 40:46.520 even sitting down. And they're asking him to like explain his day. And he's like, 40:47.020 --> 40:49.000 "Well, I come in at least 15 minutes late. I use the side entrance so 40:49.500 --> 40:52.120 Lumber can't see me. Then I pretty much zone out for an hour." And like, 40:52.620 --> 40:56.540 "Bye." Right away, he jumps in there. Space out. 40:57.040 --> 41:00.090 Space out. Yeah, I sort of just sit and stare at my screen. Looks like 41:00.590 --> 41:03.029 I'm working though. I do that again for another hour after lunch. I'd say in 41:03.529 --> 41:06.860 a given week, I don't do any more than 15 minutes of actual work. 41:07.070 --> 41:10.150 And there's a great moment here where John C. McGinley, Bob Slidell, goes, 41:10.650 --> 41:13.910 Peter, would you mind doing us a favor and just expanding on that a little 41:14.410 --> 41:15.850 bit? And the way he like uses— I can't do it because it's a podcast, 41:15.990 --> 41:19.130 it's an audio medium. But he's pulling taffy apart. Yeah, he's spreading his fingers. 41:19.630 --> 41:22.250 We could just elaborate a little bit. And it's just very funny. But he's basically 41:22.750 --> 41:25.300 like, let me tell you something about about TPS reports. Yeah, so he goes to 41:25.800 --> 41:28.119 them. It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. Yeah, I work 41:28.619 --> 41:32.140 my ass off in it, I don't make another dime. Exactly. Like, and he's right. 41:32.640 --> 41:34.380 And so they say, well, you know, what if you talk— there's like profit sharing? 41:34.880 --> 41:37.859 Yeah, I don't know, fine. And basically he has, he has won these guys over. 41:38.359 --> 41:41.360 Like, he has completely won them over. They are super excited. And, and, 41:41.860 --> 41:44.120 uh, and he says, that was a real pleasure. All the pleasure's all on this 41:44.620 --> 41:46.840 side of the table, believe me. I hope you guys have a great day. 41:46.880 --> 41:49.640 I hope you're— I hope your layoffs go really well. Yeah, good luck with all 41:50.140 --> 41:53.500 your firings. And then as Lumbergh is— as 41:54.000 --> 41:56.759 Peter leaves, Lumbergh tries to stop him. He's like, Peter, I guess we should talk 41:57.259 --> 42:00.430 about this weekend. Yeah, he just steps by him and walks right through. 42:01.460 --> 42:05.080 Um, Joanna is, uh, being kind of talked to by her boss. She's played 42:05.580 --> 42:08.780 by Mike Judge. That's right. Yep. Uh, Stan. Yeah, he's really funny in small bits. 42:09.280 --> 42:12.960 Yes. Uh, part like good actor. You notice how little he moves his mouth when 42:13.460 --> 42:17.300 talking as this character? His lips barely separate as he talks. It's very funny. 42:17.800 --> 42:20.640 It's like you could tell he has a specific person in mind when he's doing 42:21.140 --> 42:24.900 this character. Absolutely. Yes. This person, whoever it is. Yeah, and and 42:25.400 --> 42:28.460 it's showing that working at Chotchkes is just like working at 42:28.960 --> 42:31.240 Initech with the same kind of bullshit. And he's like, "Well, you know, let me 42:31.740 --> 42:34.000 talk to you about your flair." She's like, "Well, I have 15 pieces of flair." 42:34.500 --> 42:37.520 He's like, "Well, 15's the minimum. You know, we just maybe like." She's like, 42:38.020 --> 42:41.520 "So I should put more?" Yeah. And he's like, "Well, we want you to 42:42.020 --> 42:44.260 do what you want you to do. But look at Brian. He has 37 pieces 42:44.760 --> 42:48.620 of flair and a great smile. People can get a cheeseburger anywhere." 42:49.120 --> 42:52.270 It's bullshit where they want. Yeah, come out and tell you what they need you 42:52.770 --> 42:57.310 to do. Yep. And it's so irritating and so frustrating. So she's like, 42:57.810 --> 43:01.530 it's like you— they— if they should just make the policy minimum is 15 and 43:02.030 --> 43:04.830 we expect you to go higher than that. Yeah. And then just put— let's put 43:05.330 --> 43:07.230 it— somebody put a 16th piece on and then everybody shut up about it. 43:07.730 --> 43:10.410 Or have like a button bin when you walk in there. Yeah, fucking load up. 43:10.910 --> 43:14.390 Yeah, exactly. It's just ridiculous. So we're back with 43:14.890 --> 43:18.090 the, the Bobs now, I think, are talking to Lumbergh and the other kind of 43:18.590 --> 43:22.160 boss guy. Yeah. Right? And they're going through the people that they've talked to, 43:22.660 --> 43:26.209 right? So who's next? Tom, or I don't know if Samir was first. 43:26.280 --> 43:29.260 No, no, Tom said we definitely lose Tom Sienkowski. He's worthless. 43:29.760 --> 43:32.800 He's useless. They are useless. Gone. Gone. 43:33.300 --> 43:36.560 Milton, they say, you know, Milton Wadhams, 43:37.060 --> 43:39.880 for some reason we find out he was laid off 5 years ago, but through 43:40.380 --> 43:44.100 some glitch in the payroll system, he still receives a check. So we went ahead 43:44.600 --> 43:48.070 and Fix the glitch. So Milton has been fired then? No, no, 43:48.570 --> 43:51.690 hold on there, Professor. We fixed the glitch, so things will work each other 43:52.190 --> 43:55.690 out again. The most like pussy-ass, no accountability, like bullshit 43:56.190 --> 43:59.369 corporate consultant kind of move. And the good—the one good joke on on Samir's name 43:59.869 --> 44:02.610 here is is when Bob the non-Bob Slidel is looking at goes, "We can leave 44:03.110 --> 44:06.730 Samir." Not gonna work 44:07.230 --> 44:10.370 here anymore anyway. He was just like, "Okay, that's funny. If you're gonna mispronounce a 44:10.870 --> 44:13.570 guy's name, at least make it a good." And then Mike Bolton, you know, 44:14.070 --> 44:16.390 we'll miss him. Like, they're just super pissed about Mike. Oh, because he has to 44:16.890 --> 44:17.770 be called Mike. Because he has to be called Mike at the end. Yeah, 44:18.270 --> 44:21.050 exactly. Uh, and then they get to Peter, and they're like, oh, this is— he's 44:21.550 --> 44:25.589 a straight shooter with upper management written all over him. And Lumbergh is like, 44:26.089 --> 44:29.550 yeah, I'm not sure I disagree. And John McGinley is getting 44:30.050 --> 44:33.410 so furious. Like, I love his choice there to just get over 44:33.910 --> 44:37.190 the top. His face getting red. Like, I— he's 44:37.690 --> 44:41.100 like, what's in the box? Like, furious, man. He is just shaking. It is 44:41.600 --> 44:44.600 so fucking funny. And then the other Bob's gonna be like, he's gonna like chill 44:45.100 --> 44:47.420 him out. Yeah, like he's gonna pop out of his seat. I got this, 44:47.920 --> 44:50.760 I got this. And, uh, and they, they flip over a, a sheet for, 44:50.860 --> 44:54.160 for, uh, Lumbergh, like the same kind of, you know, evaluation sheet they have 44:54.660 --> 44:56.980 everybody else and go, so Bill, tell me, uh, how much time would you say 44:57.480 --> 45:00.340 you spend each week on these TPS reports? I was like, 45:00.840 --> 45:04.040 ooh. So then we get, uh, the Damn It Feels 45:04.540 --> 45:07.840 Good to Be a Gangster montage basically of— so Peter comes back to the 45:08.340 --> 45:11.610 office to get something, and instead of getting shocked by the handle He uses the 45:12.110 --> 45:15.170 drill to like take it off the door completely. Yeah, we see little bits of 45:15.670 --> 45:19.410 like he and Joanna watching kung fu at his place, him and Joanna and Lawrence 45:19.910 --> 45:22.950 all going fishing. Looks like in the middle of the day. Yeah, he brings the 45:23.450 --> 45:25.990 fish to the office to like clean it, guts it in his cubicle. Yeah, 45:26.490 --> 45:29.790 cubicle on top of a bunch of TPS reports. Yeah, exactly. And so it's just 45:30.290 --> 45:32.470 like kind of thing. And then, and then, you know, he and Joanna like kissing 45:32.970 --> 45:35.390 at one point. So we're seeing that their relationship's like evolving and moving on. 45:35.630 --> 45:39.730 And then Peter takes down the wall of That's right, he unscrews the cubicle. 45:40.230 --> 45:42.989 And just lets it flop on the ground. It's very, very, uh, uh, when Steve 45:43.489 --> 45:46.760 quit in Singles and his cubicle just fell apart. Oh yeah. Similar kind of thing. 45:46.870 --> 45:49.690 Um, but yeah, so then he's playing Tetris and eating Cheetos, 45:50.190 --> 45:54.350 uh, and Bill Lumbergh walks up and goes, why, Peter, what's happening? 45:54.850 --> 45:57.010 Uh, I think we need to talk about your TPS reports or whatever. And he's 45:57.510 --> 46:00.670 like, not now, Lumbergh, I'm busy. I gotta meet with the Bobs anyway. 46:01.970 --> 46:05.010 Yeah, really funny. Uh, damn, it feels good to be a gangster. 46:05.100 --> 46:08.880 Think is a probably top 3 all-time rap song for people that 46:09.380 --> 46:12.560 don't otherwise like rap. Okay, like if you find a playlist of somebody who doesn't 46:13.060 --> 46:15.760 listen to rap, they've got Damn Feels Good to Be a Gangsta, they got fucking 46:16.260 --> 46:19.600 Diddy by Paper Boi. Okay, they got some Nelly on there, you know, that kind 46:20.100 --> 46:23.940 of borderline, like nobody who's really into rap. But, but Ghetto 46:24.440 --> 46:28.020 Boys, Scarface, very good, right? So interesting choices. And I wasn't sure if 46:28.520 --> 46:31.000 Mike Judge was from Houston or if that was just like the scene that he 46:31.500 --> 46:34.990 identified with. Yeah, but yeah, it was interesting choice to have a lot of like 46:35.490 --> 46:38.830 Ghetto Boys and Scarface, and there's some Ice Cube too. Yeah. 46:39.330 --> 46:42.010 But great montage. And that song, I mean, we listened to that song a million 46:42.510 --> 46:45.430 times. I chase bitches like Tom chases Jerry. It's a great line. 46:46.589 --> 46:50.990 It spawned so many crappy social 46:51.490 --> 46:54.970 media posts. Oh, okay. Where there'd just be a person doing a very normal thing, 46:55.470 --> 46:58.250 wearing the shittiest sunglasses you've ever seen, and it just says, damn, it feels good 46:58.750 --> 47:02.450 to be a gangster. So yeah, so Peter goes in to talk to the Bobs, 47:02.550 --> 47:04.450 and the first thing they say when he walks in is, it looks like you've 47:04.950 --> 47:07.890 been missing work, missing a little bit of work lately. Peter? Well, I wouldn't say 47:08.390 --> 47:11.129 I've been missing it, Bob, which is another thing. And they love his shit. 47:11.629 --> 47:14.550 That's the funniest thing is they just— there's nothing he could say that they do 47:15.050 --> 47:17.630 not love. Yeah, exactly. So they let him know. This is where the plot kind 47:18.130 --> 47:21.430 of kicks back in, right? So we've had, we've had the, the opening scenes of 47:21.930 --> 47:23.850 like, this is Peter's world and like his job sucks, whatever. Then we get the 47:24.350 --> 47:27.770 hypnosis and this kind of like other, you know, he moves into this other part 47:28.270 --> 47:31.230 of his, of his like relationship with his job where it's just like he doesn't 47:31.730 --> 47:34.020 give a shit, whatever. And he meets Joanna. of. But now like the plot kind 47:34.520 --> 47:36.240 of has to kick back in because we got to have a challenge for him, 47:36.740 --> 47:39.439 right? Like a character isn't gonna— like, we're not just gonna watch him just hate 47:39.939 --> 47:43.099 his job for another, you know, 40 minutes. Something's got to happen. So they get— 47:43.599 --> 47:45.759 they bring him in, they let him know that Michael and Samir are being let 47:46.259 --> 47:48.680 go. I don't know why they would tell him that, but they do. And that 47:49.180 --> 47:52.360 they want to put 4 people under him in like a leadership position. So it's 47:52.860 --> 47:55.560 like a big promotion kind of thing. And he's kind of like, so you're gonna 47:56.060 --> 47:58.460 fire Samir and Michael and you're gonna give me more money? And they're like, 47:59.000 --> 48:02.320 Yeah, what do you think? And he's like, okay. So he goes to 48:02.820 --> 48:06.440 talk to Michael, and this is again, like, Michael, I think, is wrestling 48:06.940 --> 48:09.700 with the printer again and dealing with that. But he's basically just like— Is that 48:10.200 --> 48:13.900 where Michael says, do that, do exactly that? Yeah, exactly. Another one 48:14.400 --> 48:15.760 we would put on the show. But he's basically just like, hey, what are you 48:16.260 --> 48:18.520 doing tonight? Like, let's, let's go chat, you know? So they go over to Michael's 48:19.020 --> 48:21.580 apartment, and this is the, the other apartment we see is Michael Bolton's. It's got 48:22.080 --> 48:24.560 the big Navy SEALs flag over the couch and stuff, and they're getting beers. 48:25.060 --> 48:27.260 And he's basically like, hey, like, you made this virus you said you could make 48:27.760 --> 48:30.960 rip off the big company Like, how does it work? And it's basically like it's 48:31.460 --> 48:35.040 a thing that that did was in Superman three, and it's basically like yeah, 48:35.540 --> 48:39.239 the round when you have all these bank transactions that result in you know rounding 48:39.739 --> 48:42.899 decimal places past a penny, they normally like I think 48:43.399 --> 48:45.800 they normally like round them left you know up and down, and it all evens 48:46.300 --> 48:47.960 out at the end of the day or whatever it might be. So instead, 48:48.460 --> 48:50.760 they will always round them down and put those fractions of a penny into an 48:51.260 --> 48:54.560 account, right? That's the idea behind it. And he's like, well, they check for yeah, 48:55.060 --> 48:56.820 but with all this stuff we're doing with the two thousand switch, like nobody would 48:57.320 --> 48:58.520 notice. Like there's just too much shit going on in the tech right now. 48:59.020 --> 49:02.220 Nobody would notice, and the money would leave. at a slow enough pace. 'Cause they're 49:02.720 --> 49:06.239 talking about this would net us a couple hundred grand over the course of 49:06.739 --> 49:09.400 5 years, 10 years, whatever. So it's like, it's a thing where, yeah, they'd have 49:09.900 --> 49:12.000 money, but it wouldn't be something that would be easy to notice over long enough 49:12.500 --> 49:14.420 time. And so, you know, he's like, why don't you do it? He's like, 49:14.920 --> 49:16.880 well, I got a good job. I don't wanna take the risk. What if you 49:17.380 --> 49:19.980 didn't have a good job? And we get like a smash cut to a bar 49:20.480 --> 49:24.300 where now they're drinking. And the first thing Michael says is, cock gobblers. 49:24.800 --> 49:28.120 Cock gobblers. Oh man. You get to keep your job. They're giving me a promotion. 49:28.200 --> 49:32.640 What? And he's saying that he doesn't have enough like full understanding 49:33.140 --> 49:35.580 of, of how to do this. They need Samir to help as well. Exactly. 49:36.080 --> 49:39.719 Whatever credit union software. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Samir is also without a job, 49:40.219 --> 49:44.240 also getting shitcanned. Yeah. And, uh, and you know, when Peter's trying to explain, 49:44.320 --> 49:47.440 he's like, look, the worst thing that could ever happen to us is we get 49:47.940 --> 49:51.620 sent to a white-collar resort prison, you know, for a couple years. 49:52.120 --> 49:54.840 We should be so lucky. They have conjugal visits in there. I'm a— Michael, 49:55.340 --> 49:58.160 I'm a free man. I haven't had a conjugal visit in 6 months. And so 49:58.660 --> 50:01.640 they're like, you know, talking about— and Samir basically finally kind of comes around and 50:02.140 --> 50:04.840 is like, okay, I'll do it. And then because he says, in these conjugal visits, 50:05.340 --> 50:08.399 you can have sex with women? Yes, you can. Okay, I'll do it. 50:09.000 --> 50:11.740 So, and then we get the montage of them. Yes, exactly. So then they have 50:12.240 --> 50:14.839 to load the virus. They've got like the little 3.5-inch floppy disk and it gets 50:15.339 --> 50:18.080 passed between them. And then, you know, it's actually Peter that ends up actually putting 50:18.580 --> 50:21.740 it into a particular computer. It's like, I think the idea is Michael wrote the 50:22.240 --> 50:25.580 virus, Samir was able to put the right wrapper around it so the software would 50:26.080 --> 50:28.360 recognize it and use it. And then Peter actually does the delivery. And when he 50:28.860 --> 50:31.250 gets back to their cubicle, He goes, well, that wasn't hard at all. Like, 50:31.750 --> 50:34.509 that was really easy. Yeah, it was like a montage that seemed like it was 50:35.009 --> 50:38.350 gonna be super long. Exactly, and like really crazy. Or like there'd be like a 50:38.850 --> 50:41.510 risky moment, like a thriller moment. No, none of that. And then this new character 50:42.010 --> 50:44.649 we haven't seen before, Drew, walks up and basically asks them if they heard what 50:45.149 --> 50:47.710 happened to Tom. And they're like, no, what happened to Tom? Well, Tom finds out 50:48.210 --> 50:50.210 he's getting laid off, which apparently he found out from like a letter, which is 50:50.710 --> 50:53.210 interesting. But he basically decides he doesn't wanna live anymore. So he gets into his 50:53.710 --> 50:56.770 car, closes his garage door, like windows down, turn the car on, the exhaust, 50:57.270 --> 51:01.080 right? Well, his wife comes home from work early. Finds him there, 51:01.580 --> 51:04.040 opens everything up, and he, you know, when he decides— he's looking at her, 51:04.540 --> 51:06.979 looking at her, he decides he does want to live. Maybe he's okay. But as 51:07.479 --> 51:10.900 he pulls out of his driveway, he gets just absolutely T-boned by like this speeding 51:11.400 --> 51:14.660 pickup truck, like a big dually. Yeah. Uh, and he broke like both legs, 51:15.160 --> 51:18.000 his back, his neck, like all kinds of stuff. And he's been in the hospital 51:18.500 --> 51:21.080 and he's getting out this weekend, right? And he's looking at a party. He's gonna 51:21.580 --> 51:25.140 get a big settlement. Yeah, 7 figures. Yeah, exactly. Um, this guy Drew, 51:25.640 --> 51:28.900 this guy fucking sucks. He's not funny. I, I don't know what at the time 51:29.400 --> 51:32.980 I thought Thought this guy was funny because was he like a stand-up 51:33.480 --> 51:35.759 that like had a small career or something? I have seen him in so few 51:36.259 --> 51:39.420 things. There's a very small part, and I can't even think of what it was 51:39.920 --> 51:43.480 now. But he's been in so little that I haven't even. But it's just 51:43.980 --> 51:46.740 not that good. And he's doing this oh face. Oh, maybe this girl's gonna be 51:47.240 --> 51:50.280 at the party. I'll show him my oh face. Oh oh. Sorry, 51:50.780 --> 51:54.300 buddy. Doesn't hold up. It's not funny. Yeah. Um. So they're leaving the 51:54.800 --> 51:58.320 office, right? And so Samir and Michael have been fired. Peter's driving. 51:58.820 --> 52:01.590 Yeah. Yeah. And they're just like, oh, last day at the office, you know, 52:02.090 --> 52:05.190 I kind of wish we stole something. And Peter's like, oh, I stole something. 52:05.690 --> 52:08.070 And they're like, well, yeah, in a way we all did. He's like, nope, 52:08.570 --> 52:11.910 I stole something else. Yep. And that's when he brings out the printer and 52:12.410 --> 52:15.470 then into an open field and they just start bashing the hell out of it. 52:15.970 --> 52:19.670 And we get this back up in your ass with the resurrection. So this great 52:20.170 --> 52:22.290 song is they're beating the shit out of the printer. We did make a video 52:22.790 --> 52:26.190 in college of us beating up my friend, my roommate PJ's printer. 52:27.080 --> 52:30.559 printer. He had a printer and it was like, you know, classic piece 52:31.059 --> 52:32.840 of shit, but it was the only printer we had. And then we got access 52:33.340 --> 52:35.320 to a new one and we made a video and we put this song on 52:35.820 --> 52:39.419 it. The video is on VHS, so if anybody has 52:39.919 --> 52:42.720 a VHS player, I'll see if I can find it. But it does exist somewhere 52:43.220 --> 52:45.800 and it was really fun to do. But yeah, so funny to watch them just 52:46.300 --> 52:49.500 in, you know, they're giving the pesci Billy Bass beatdown to this thing. 52:49.600 --> 52:51.860 And they got a baseball bat going. And then at one point Michael actually gets 52:52.360 --> 52:55.030 down to with his fists punching the printer. I'm like, that is not— you're gonna 52:55.530 --> 52:57.869 rip yourself apart doing that. And they pull him off it, and he like rips 52:58.369 --> 53:01.950 away from them and comes back and starts beating it up more. So yeah, 53:02.450 --> 53:05.550 great, great scene and great kind of resolution of that fucking printer thing. Yeah, 53:06.050 --> 53:09.630 and so then they show them all kind of partying back at Peter's apartment 53:10.130 --> 53:12.090 for a little bit. And Samir's got moves. He's all of a sudden doing breakdancing, 53:12.590 --> 53:14.210 b-boy moves. He does, I love Samir. He should have danced more in this movie. 53:14.710 --> 53:18.190 That was crazy. While Michael and Peter are just sort of like barely bobbing side 53:18.690 --> 53:20.690 to side like the good white guys. Just doing the white guy wobble. Exactly. 53:21.190 --> 53:22.090 And so they go and they leave, and Peter's like, oh, you know, you guys 53:22.590 --> 53:25.930 gotta go, Joanna's coming over later, but don't worry about it. 53:26.430 --> 53:29.059 You're worrying. Everything's gonna be fine. Don't worry, kind of thing. So the next morning, 53:29.170 --> 53:31.889 there's all this, you know, stuff all over, the beer bottles and whatever. And so 53:32.389 --> 53:36.150 Joanna's there just wearing a t-shirt, looking good, frankly, and, uh, sipping coffee. 53:36.650 --> 53:37.970 And Peter comes out, goes, so what were you guys celebrating last night? He goes, 53:38.470 --> 53:41.130 oh, I'm not at liberty to say. She just looks at him, no, no, 53:41.630 --> 53:44.750 I, I really can't say anything. Cut to them in the car and him explaining 53:45.250 --> 53:47.290 the entire thing to her. It's a whole thing. Because like, she's not about to 53:47.790 --> 53:50.810 take that. And he's going on and on about like you know, she's like, 53:51.310 --> 53:54.069 isn't that stealing? He's like, no, it's not stealing. Like, Initech's an evil corporation, 53:54.569 --> 53:57.729 whatever. Initech's the problem. Chotchkes is the problem. You know, the Nazis 53:58.229 --> 54:00.130 had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear. 54:02.309 --> 54:04.650 And she rightly looks at him like he's insane. 54:05.670 --> 54:09.410 Uh, they, uh, they get to Tom's party, and of course Tom is like in 54:09.910 --> 54:13.590 a wheelchair, full body cast, right? With the halo and everything. Crazy. And he's 54:14.090 --> 54:16.530 got his attorney there with him, uh, who's at the party, who's You know, 54:17.030 --> 54:19.570 gonna get his settlement. And there's a scene of Michael and Samir talking to this 54:20.070 --> 54:23.510 lawyer outside, and it's just the lawyer saying, resort? I don't think 54:24.010 --> 54:27.649 so. The trick is kick somebody's ass the first day or become somebody's 54:28.149 --> 54:31.470 bitch, which again, we said that a million times. 100%. Well, that's become 54:31.970 --> 54:35.110 like— I just accept that that's actual truth about going to prison. Yeah, that's, 54:35.610 --> 54:39.370 that's literally how it works. I guess so. Yeah, yeah. So then Drew 54:39.870 --> 54:42.530 comes up to Peter, uh, Joanne is off talking to some people, and Drew is 54:43.030 --> 54:45.870 like, hey Peter, how's it going? Oh hey, like, isn't that girl from Tchotchkes? 54:46.370 --> 54:48.710 Who's she here with? And Peter Peter's like, oh, she's with me. And he goes, 54:49.340 --> 54:51.940 nice, make sure you wear a rubber, dude. He's like, 54:52.440 --> 54:55.700 uh, why? Oh dude, she gets around. He's like, what do you mean? He's like, 54:56.200 --> 54:59.700 oh, let me think, like, well, Lumbergh fucked her. And that just starts ringing in 55:00.200 --> 55:03.640 Peter's ears. Lumbergh fucked her. Lumbergh fucked 55:04.140 --> 55:08.120 her. Like the whole thing. And he's super freaking out about it. He really is. 55:08.620 --> 55:10.580 Peter feels like he's gonna go out like Willy Lump Lump. 55:11.200 --> 55:14.600 Um, yeah, and they're, uh, so on the, on the way 55:15.100 --> 55:16.940 home, yeah, they're kind of having an argument, Joanne and Peter, where she's not down 55:18.670 --> 55:21.990 With his scheme. Well, no, no, that's like it really. Yeah, there's that. But but 55:22.490 --> 55:25.769 yeah, he's he's she's also pissed that he's like. Well, she says something like uh 55:26.269 --> 55:28.810 uh you know maybe you shouldn't do this or maybe you shouldn't have done that. 55:29.310 --> 55:31.690 Well, maybe you shouldn't have fucked Lumberg and just like and she's like what are 55:32.190 --> 55:35.490 we talking about? But then she like goes oh Lumberg right. And so it's like 55:35.990 --> 55:39.790 she doesn't deny it. She's just like whatever. And he loses his shit. 55:40.290 --> 55:43.690 Like he's just like Dante. All perks like just freaks the fuck out and she's 55:44.190 --> 55:45.910 just like let me out. the car. Let me out of the fucking car. 55:46.410 --> 55:48.370 He just pulls over and lets it— and I love this because it's like, 55:48.870 --> 55:51.290 you know, he tries to yell after her like, you know, why don't you go 55:51.790 --> 55:55.030 fuck Lumbergh? But like she slams the door while he's yelling and it really cuts 55:55.530 --> 55:58.310 the audio in a very funny way where it just like takes all the air 55:58.810 --> 56:02.390 out of his like insult, you know? It's like— And Peter's having a nightmare and 56:02.890 --> 56:06.090 it's just Lumbergh with just a bare leg up on his shoulder and 56:06.590 --> 56:09.450 he has his suspenders on but no shirt and he's still holding his coffee mug 56:09.950 --> 56:12.550 like, you know, wearing the glasses, making the humping motions like, hey Peter. 56:13.720 --> 56:15.650 Like, his nightmares are really funny. 56:17.080 --> 56:20.800 Yep. Um, so Peter goes to check the bank account that 56:21.300 --> 56:24.380 they had the, the money going in. Well, first Joanna quits. Like, so Joanna's in 56:24.880 --> 56:27.340 Chotchkes and she gets confronted by her boss again about the flair and is finally 56:27.840 --> 56:31.140 like, here's me expressing myself, and she flips him off. And I love him trying 56:31.640 --> 56:35.440 to block her middle finger so no one can see it. It's such a store 56:35.940 --> 56:39.200 manager, like, weenie ass, like, oh, we gotta be careful, there are children here. 56:39.420 --> 56:43.080 So she quits, and then yes, Peter goes to like an ATM to check the 56:43.580 --> 56:46.279 balance. This is, you know, Monday morning, I think, is what we're told. So it's 56:46.779 --> 56:50.360 like 3 days after the virus was planted. So they should have like $10, 56:50.860 --> 56:52.780 right? Maybe $100 or something, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like, like if 56:53.280 --> 56:54.900 you think about like what they were talking about numbers, it's like a couple hundred 56:55.400 --> 56:58.620 bucks at the absolute most. No, no, over $300,000 56:59.120 --> 57:01.520 is in the account. So they know they fucked up because if they take $100 57:02.020 --> 57:04.960 grand a day, that's gonna get noticed. Like, there's no way. So he goes to 57:05.460 --> 57:08.000 tell— to get Samir and Michael, and they're talking about it in the car, 57:08.500 --> 57:09.200 and Michael is like, I must have put the decimal point in the wrong place. 57:09.700 --> 57:12.600 I always Missed some mundane detail. 57:12.840 --> 57:16.719 Oh, this is not a mundane detail, Michael. Like everybody's losing 57:17.219 --> 57:22.500 their shit. I love Samir saying, "This is a fuck." You see, say fuck. 57:23.000 --> 57:26.580 So back at the office now, it's Lumbergh's birthday, right? We got the cake out. 57:26.760 --> 57:30.420 We're all singing happy birthday. Just perfect lame birthday party. 57:30.920 --> 57:32.880 Pisses me off, by the way, that in this moment Bill Lumbergh is younger than 57:33.380 --> 57:35.320 I am now because I still think of him as like older, but he's like 57:35.820 --> 57:39.130 his 41st birthday. Very upsetting to me. Goddamn. Because, because later on they 57:39.630 --> 57:42.670 say, oh, the other Lumbergh, the young guy. The young guy. Yeah. 41 is young 57:43.170 --> 57:46.930 as hell. Um, and it's very funny when they're singing Happy 57:47.430 --> 57:50.890 Birthday because when they get to the Happy Birthday, dear, it's like 57:51.390 --> 57:54.670 some people just kind of say Bill, some say Mr. Lumbergh. They don't know what 57:55.170 --> 57:58.870 to say and everything. Um, so Milton is very concerned. He's like, 57:59.370 --> 58:01.470 oh, last time there was cake, I did not get a piece. And let me 58:01.970 --> 58:03.910 get a piece of cake. So he gets one. They're like, hey, Milton, come on, 58:04.410 --> 58:07.530 keep passing it around. And he obviously doesn't get his cake. Nope. He gets— he's 58:08.030 --> 58:10.530 the only one who gets no cake because, of course, because everyone Everybody hates Milton. 58:11.030 --> 58:14.090 And then I think after that, Bill comes down. 58:14.590 --> 58:17.770 Lumbergh, or Milton rather, has been moved to Storage B in the basement. But he 58:18.270 --> 58:20.129 comes down there. Something else we would refer to a lot. Yeah, exactly. Down in 58:20.629 --> 58:23.270 Storage B. He's like, you know, we've got a cockroach problem down here. So if 58:23.770 --> 58:27.150 you could just get yourself a can of Raid and, you know, just crawl in 58:27.650 --> 58:31.050 there and get those. It's not really my job. No, thank you. I just still 58:31.550 --> 58:34.970 want my stapler back. And Milton this whole time is like, I still haven't received 58:35.470 --> 58:38.630 my paycheck. not saying anything to him except, you're going to talk 58:39.130 --> 58:41.530 to HR. Yeah, go talk to payroll about it. So these fucking cowards that are 58:42.030 --> 58:44.910 running the company, right? Yeah. Um, uh, 58:45.410 --> 58:49.330 so, so Peter then finds out that the Lumbergh that Joanna slept 58:49.830 --> 58:52.370 with— Basically, Peter and Michael and, and Samir are hanging out, I think, back at 58:52.870 --> 58:55.630 Peter's house again and talking about what they can do about this. And like, 58:56.130 --> 58:58.590 well, maybe we can launder money or whatever. And then he's like, I can't believe 58:59.090 --> 59:01.810 this happened. And like, and then Peter's like, I can't believe Joanna fucked Lumbergh. 59:02.310 --> 59:05.270 And Michael Yeah, you didn't know about that? He goes, what? Yeah, yeah, like, 59:05.770 --> 59:09.130 like 2 years ago before he moved to Florida. You talking about Gary or 59:09.630 --> 59:12.130 Greg? I don't know what he says. Ron, whatever that was. The young guy, 59:12.630 --> 59:15.390 the in a trode guy? Yeah, what do you think I meant, Bill? Or children 59:15.890 --> 59:19.030 that have fucking hooves? Like, you know, so he now realizes he got freaked out 59:19.530 --> 59:23.550 about the wrong guy. Although, to be honest, 2 guys named Lumbergh unrelated to each 59:24.050 --> 59:26.750 other in the same town, like, that seems unlikely to me. But it's not a 59:27.250 --> 59:29.510 very common name. But anyway, there's that. Where are we in this movie, by the 59:30.010 --> 59:32.130 way? We're near, we're at the point where they are— I mean, like, physically, 59:33.330 --> 59:36.630 Like, geographically. Oh, so, okay, so that's interesting. So I think it's, 59:37.130 --> 59:39.589 I think it's really supposed to be like it's in Silicon Valley, like it's in 59:40.089 --> 59:43.630 like Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc. But the license plates all specifically are not state 59:44.130 --> 59:47.170 license plates. Okay, so we are in any state USA. I know, I was just 59:47.670 --> 59:51.370 curious if it was like, uh, that all the license plates— no, 59:51.870 --> 59:53.810 all the license plates on all the cars just have like a US flag with 59:54.310 --> 59:57.370 no state name on them. So they're deliberately not saying a name. But like, 59:57.870 --> 01:00:00.120 if you look at the way the office parks look, the way the freeway looks. 01:00:00.620 --> 01:00:03.380 It looks like it absolutely could be the South Bay, in my opinion. You know, 01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:07.040 some— not so much San Jose, but like Cupertino, Mountain View, you know, 01:00:07.540 --> 01:00:10.160 Palo Alto, that kind of area. Yeah. But yeah, but it's— I think he's very 01:00:10.660 --> 01:00:14.040 deliberately— Judge does not say anything about it. But yeah, so we're in 01:00:14.540 --> 01:00:17.040 Peter's apartment. What to do? They get a knock at the door, right? Well, 01:00:17.540 --> 01:00:19.180 they're trying to figure out how to launder money. Yes. And they're like, they look 01:00:19.680 --> 01:00:22.480 it up in the dictionary. It's like, to launder is to conceal by way of 01:00:22.980 --> 01:00:25.320 routing through an intermediate. It's like, I can't believe what nerds we are. We're looking 01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:27.920 up money laundering in the dictionary. But they're like, we don't know how to do 01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:30.640 this. Like, if we knew a drug dealer, maybe they would know and we could 01:00:31.140 --> 01:00:34.150 ask them for tips on how to launder money. He's like, my cousin's a cokehead. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.560 Cokehead. Yeah. So ringing the doorbell and it's this— it's the actor 01:00:38.060 --> 01:00:41.260 Orlando Jones and he's, uh, playing a guy selling magazine 01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:44.020 subscriptions door to door. And he's kind of like got this stilted speech and he's 01:00:44.520 --> 01:00:47.000 like waving my voice like, hi, my name is Steve. I come from a rough 01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:49.960 area. I used to be addicted to crack, but now I'm not. And I am 01:00:50.460 --> 01:00:53.240 selling magazine subscriptions. So They're like, oh, come on in. Come on in. Come on 01:00:53.740 --> 01:00:56.179 in. Did you say crack? Yeah. You say crack. They bring him inside and they're 01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:00.020 asking about money laundering and he's just kind of like, I don't know anything about 01:01:00.520 --> 01:01:03.319 any money laundering. And they finally get to the point and he's just like, 01:01:03.460 --> 01:01:06.860 look, man, just goes and dips into his normal voice. 01:01:06.940 --> 01:01:10.800 Right. He's like, I just do this to sell more magazines. 01:01:11.300 --> 01:01:13.800 Yeah. Like I make more money selling magazines than I used to as a software 01:01:14.300 --> 01:01:17.360 engineer. Wait, software engineer? Like where I was at Inotrode. Inotrode. You know, some of 01:01:17.860 --> 01:01:19.050 the same people we know. You're not going to say anything, are you? And he 01:01:19.550 --> 01:01:23.210 goes, well, now that depends. And then as he leaves, Peter's like, what am I 01:01:23.710 --> 01:01:24.859 going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe? 01:01:28.110 --> 01:01:31.470 Orlando Jones, also a guy I didn't see a whole lot. This whole 01:01:31.970 --> 01:01:35.610 like Mad TV generation, like hit or miss, you know? 01:01:36.110 --> 01:01:39.450 Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's sort of like, I feel like they're sort of akin 01:01:39.950 --> 01:01:42.890 to some of the Second City TV people from, you know, 15, 20 years prior 01:01:43.390 --> 01:01:45.870 where it's like many of them made out like bandits and really became stars. 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:49.430 And then several sort of just—they were in things and you'd recognize 01:01:49.930 --> 01:01:52.519 them, but they never really got the name recognition or like really the longevity. 01:01:52.769 --> 01:01:55.270 You know that that some of the the other folks in their group did, 01:01:55.770 --> 01:01:58.450 and this is very similar concept. He's living off that make seven up yours. 01:01:58.950 --> 01:02:01.050 Yeah, that's good shit, dude. That was a funny shirt. Still wish I had one 01:02:01.550 --> 01:02:05.570 of those. So the friends are this leaves, and the friends are like, "Peter fucked 01:02:06.070 --> 01:02:09.330 you. You fucked us." Yeah, so bad. We're we're in trouble. They keep referring, 01:02:09.570 --> 01:02:12.900 you know, to federal pound me in the ass prison, right? Uh, this is a 01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.879 rape joke, by the way. We're talking about rape jokes or not rape jokes. 01:02:16.379 --> 01:02:19.339 That is absolutely a rape joke, and it's throughout this movie. Yeah. Um, 01:02:19.839 --> 01:02:22.280 but yeah, so they're— and Peter's just like, you know what, like, I'll try to 01:02:22.780 --> 01:02:25.380 take the blame. But they're fucking done with it. They're super pissed. And so then 01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:28.880 they leave, and he like calls through the, the wall. He goes, Lawrence, you up? 01:02:29.200 --> 01:02:32.780 Yeah. You want to come over? Oh man, I don't want you fucking 01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:36.560 up my life too. I love Lawrence. Yeah, and he's 01:02:37.060 --> 01:02:40.790 just picking up all this from over here. Yeah, so Peter decides— 01:02:41.290 --> 01:02:43.509 he writes out a confession, you know, and he puts— he's got like, uh, 01:02:44.009 --> 01:02:46.490 like traveler's checks or cashier's checks, whatever they are, of like the amount of money, 01:02:46.990 --> 01:02:49.110 puts it all in an envelope, decides, I'm gonna go do this. He goes to 01:02:49.610 --> 01:02:53.069 see Joanna. She's working at Flinger's now, so she just went next door to the 01:02:53.569 --> 01:02:57.070 other, you know, fast casual restaurant. But basically he's like telling her, you know, 01:02:57.570 --> 01:02:59.330 hey, I'm gonna— I'm gonna go away for a while because I'm gonna admit to 01:02:59.830 --> 01:03:02.730 this, uh, and, you know, I'm really sorry. I should never have judged you. 01:03:03.230 --> 01:03:05.680 Like, I was not one of the right Lumbergh anyway. Like I'm just an idiot. 01:03:06.060 --> 01:03:09.119 So you know, I hope you you know you sort of like accept my apology 01:03:09.619 --> 01:03:12.740 and everything. But like you know this they can't be thinking in this moment that 01:03:13.240 --> 01:03:15.200 they're staying together. Like she's not gonna they haven't been together long enough that she's 01:03:15.700 --> 01:03:18.960 gonna like wait for him. Yeah, going away for years. Yeah, right. She's not gonna 01:03:19.460 --> 01:03:22.440 be his conjugal visit. But he goes they hug or whatever, and then Brian who 01:03:22.940 --> 01:03:25.300 you know the 37 pieces of flare guy comes out like flipping him off. 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:28.980 Whatever. And she's like, get a room, you two. Yeah, that guy. 01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:33.310 Yeah. Um, let's. Let's see, we've got Milton, 01:03:33.810 --> 01:03:37.070 who's now— Well, first, no, first Peter goes before anybody's 01:03:37.570 --> 01:03:40.870 at the office. He goes and he slides the envelope 01:03:41.370 --> 01:03:44.530 under Lumbergh's door to his office and then decides he wants it back. So he 01:03:45.030 --> 01:03:47.530 goes to try to get it out from underneath. Never even tries the door, 01:03:48.030 --> 01:03:51.150 if you'll notice. Never even tries the knob, just gives it up. 'Cause then, 01:03:51.650 --> 01:03:55.830 yeah, basically Milton comes back for 01:03:56.330 --> 01:03:58.590 the day or whatever, and Lumbergh's not there yet, but Milton is like still trying 01:03:59.090 --> 01:04:00.510 to figure out where his paycheck is basically and wants his stapler back. And so 01:04:01.010 --> 01:04:04.600 he's asking The the secretary in front of Lumber's office is like, 01:04:05.100 --> 01:04:08.400 Mr. Lumber, whatever. And so she tells him, "Go sit in your seat. 01:04:08.900 --> 01:04:11.790 Go whatever." And he walks in. He's well, I'm going to get my stapler. 01:04:11.940 --> 01:04:14.320 And then so he goes in, and he we see him like step on the 01:04:14.820 --> 01:04:18.040 envelope and kind of notice it. And then we cut away. And so now Peter 01:04:18.540 --> 01:04:21.960 is gonna leave his apartment and go to the office to basically be there 01:04:22.460 --> 01:04:25.980 to be arrested. I guess the idea. I love another great Lawrence. Like, "Hey, 01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:29.600 Peter, man, watch out for your cornhole, bud." Yeah, you know. 01:04:30.100 --> 01:04:33.120 Yeah, he says goodbyes to Lawrence and everything. Exactly. And then when he gets there, 01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:36.480 uh, he sees that the building is on fire. Big time on fire. Not like 01:04:36.980 --> 01:04:40.060 a little fire. Yeah, there's not a fire inside the building. Every bit of that 01:04:40.560 --> 01:04:43.219 building is on fire. There's like a big sculpture out front that's falling over because 01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.120 it's like all of its connective tissue is burning and everything. And so, you know, 01:04:47.620 --> 01:04:50.100 Peter just starts chuckling about the whole thing, and we still see Milton sort of 01:04:50.600 --> 01:04:53.960 wandering off. Um, and it's funny because I think the way— I like the way 01:04:54.460 --> 01:04:57.650 they decided to indicate to us that Milton took the envelope, took the money. 01:04:57.800 --> 01:05:00.980 Well, there's 2, but the first one We then cut ahead a few months, 01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:04.319 and Peter is part of the demolition crew tearing down what's left of him and 01:05:04.819 --> 01:05:08.260 Lawrence. He's basically joined Lawrence's crew, and he's got a shovel, or Lawrence does, 01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:12.299 and he picks up the red Swingline stapler from the ashes. So clearly Milton got 01:05:12.799 --> 01:05:16.680 distracted away from the stapler in Bill Lumbergh's office and took the envelope. 01:05:17.180 --> 01:05:19.780 We later see Milton at a resort or whatever as well. Yeah. But basically, 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:23.300 like, the idea that the coda here is that Peter has taken a job in 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:27.820 construction, being outside, working with his hands, getting exercise, Working with Lawrence. 01:05:27.860 --> 01:05:30.620 He feels good about it because Michael and Samir show up and are like, 01:05:31.120 --> 01:05:33.519 hey, man, how you doing? Like, hey, we got jobs at Intertrode. It's fine. 01:05:34.019 --> 01:05:36.320 We could probably help you get one there. He's like, nah, I'm good. Yeah. 01:05:36.820 --> 01:05:39.230 And which is great. Peter's figured out— Yeah. And Peter's like, look, I'm outside. 01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:42.900 I'm making some money. I'm getting some exercise. Like, I'm not having people 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:45.360 ask me if I have a case of the Mondays and everything. Like, this works 01:05:45.860 --> 01:05:49.500 for me. So yeah, he finds like a solution, like something that's good enough for 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.740 him to, uh, do for a living. Exactly. And that's, uh— and then we— yeah, 01:05:53.240 --> 01:05:56.270 and then we close on Milton at a resort And he asks the the guy 01:05:56.770 --> 01:05:58.770 for something. He's like, "Oh, there was salt so much salt on the rim." I 01:05:59.270 --> 01:06:01.789 asked for no salt and whatever. And the guy's like, "Pinche gringo," and like walks. 01:06:02.289 --> 01:06:06.650 And Milton's like, "I could take my traveler's checks to a competing resort." 01:06:07.150 --> 01:06:09.190 He is a funny guy. How old was Stephen Root when this was made? 01:06:09.690 --> 01:06:12.370 I gotta look into that because he's still currently in so much shit, right? 01:06:12.870 --> 01:06:15.450 I gotta say thirties, like maybe maybe late thirties. It's one of those things where 01:06:15.950 --> 01:06:19.270 you always think of him as being like mid-fifties, right? But then as you're seeing 01:06:19.770 --> 01:06:21.770 him now, you're like, "Well, he couldn't have been that old, right?" He's in his 01:06:22.270 --> 01:06:25.710 60s now. Like, you know, yeah. So that is— yeah, that's Office Space, 01:06:26.210 --> 01:06:29.190 man. So yeah, yeah. All right, well, this was my pick to close out, 01:06:29.690 --> 01:06:32.370 uh, 2 Dads 2 Decades. Yeah, there's been quite a run here all the way 01:06:32.870 --> 01:06:36.210 from Airplane to Office Space. Um, yeah, so I hadn't watched— 01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:40.270 I'd seen this probably maybe as much as I've seen anything 01:06:40.770 --> 01:06:43.890 in my life. Interesting. Okay, uh, pretty high up there because this was like, 01:06:44.390 --> 01:06:47.350 you know, for a while in college it was like 40 days in a row 01:06:47.850 --> 01:06:51.360 we put this on every single All day. Um, and I haven't seen 01:06:51.860 --> 01:06:55.320 it about 10 years or so. I think it is still funny. It's still 01:06:55.820 --> 01:06:59.359 relevant. It's a great snapshot of like that time and like working during that 01:06:59.859 --> 01:07:03.779 time. Um, most of the jokes are still pretty good. Uh, 01:07:04.279 --> 01:07:07.730 the soundtrack I think is good. Like, I like it. It's not for everyone, 01:07:07.780 --> 01:07:11.040 so there's certain people it's not going to work for, but I think it's— the 01:07:11.540 --> 01:07:14.560 choices are better than they were in like Basketball or something. Yeah, yeah, for sure. 01:07:14.860 --> 01:07:18.480 Uh, there was like a, a cohesiveness to the soundtrack and 01:07:18.980 --> 01:07:22.200 everything. As much as I love Michael and Samir, I don't 01:07:22.700 --> 01:07:26.340 think they're that great as sidekick actors. I think Ron Livingston's fine. 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.580 I think Jennifer Aniston is extremely underutilized. She is 01:07:31.080 --> 01:07:34.260 such a funny comedic actress. And I never watched Friends when 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:37.560 it was on. I never watched Friends at all until the pandemic. My wife and 01:07:38.060 --> 01:07:41.620 daughter would watch it. But even without that, like her in Wanderlust and all these 01:07:42.120 --> 01:07:45.100 different movies, she is really funny. Yeah. And I wish they gave her more to 01:07:45.310 --> 01:07:48.730 doing this, because she's more just like the chick from Leprechaun in this movie. 01:07:49.230 --> 01:07:51.369 Like, they don't give her a whole lot, right? Well, this was definitely a time 01:07:51.869 --> 01:07:54.910 when like TV actors didn't generally move over to movies. Yeah. 01:07:55.410 --> 01:07:58.330 So she really— she was the first of the, of the like Friends people to 01:07:58.830 --> 01:08:00.750 really make— well, I guess not the first to make the move, but like, 01:08:01.250 --> 01:08:04.990 because, because Courteney Cox did Scream, you know, and then Jennifer Aniston did this and 01:08:05.490 --> 01:08:08.590 a couple other things. But it's like, there would— you couldn't demand the kind of 01:08:09.090 --> 01:08:11.830 like, you know, the fact that you were a hit TV star did not get 01:08:12.330 --> 01:08:15.090 you great roles, right? Right, right, right. When you get into like a level below— 01:08:15.590 --> 01:08:18.700 yeah, you go today and And it's like, it's all interchangeable now, you know? 01:08:19.200 --> 01:08:21.779 So it's like, that was a thing where she was still considered by, by the 01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:25.320 film world in Hollywood to be, well, just a TV person. So I'm 01:08:25.820 --> 01:08:27.700 sure she just didn't get a meaty role, but she looked at it and went, 01:08:28.200 --> 01:08:30.580 I want— I got to get into this somehow. I do these. And eventually she 01:08:31.080 --> 01:08:33.620 can do stuff like, you know, whatever, like Meet the Millers or whatever. Very funny 01:08:34.120 --> 01:08:37.640 stuff. But right. So yeah. And that is a good point. I mean, like during 01:08:38.140 --> 01:08:41.260 the era that we're covering, there was such a difference and TV and film didn't 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.189 mix all that much. Yep. Um, this was an enjoyable watch. 01:08:45.689 --> 01:08:49.069 It was an hour 30. I felt like it was kind of a long hour 01:08:49.569 --> 01:08:53.208 30. Fair. A little bit. Yeah. Um, there were parts 01:08:53.708 --> 01:08:57.288 of it that weren't, like, super exciting. The overall message I think that's important 01:08:57.788 --> 01:09:01.669 to take away from this is your loyalty to your job should be exactly 01:09:02.169 --> 01:09:05.869 limited to what it's doing for you. It is fucking insane to go above 01:09:06.369 --> 01:09:08.630 and beyond for these companies that do not give a fuck about you. you. 01:09:09.130 --> 01:09:12.630 So just always keep that in mind. Like, nothing is worth your sanity. Nothing is 01:09:13.130 --> 01:09:17.650 worth your fucking freedom. So like, you know, Peter, if we have those hypnotherapists 01:09:18.150 --> 01:09:20.650 in real life, find one of those, or just find something you want to do. 01:09:21.150 --> 01:09:24.350 Because I like Peter's resolution here at the end. This was, this was still pretty 01:09:24.850 --> 01:09:28.210 fun for me. And I would definitely recommend this. I'd be surprised if there's people 01:09:28.710 --> 01:09:31.390 in our demo who haven't seen it. Yeah, I know, right? But if you haven't, 01:09:31.890 --> 01:09:34.410 check it out. Like, if you missed it for some reason, I think it's worth 01:09:34.910 --> 01:09:37.860 watching for I'm gonna give Office Space a 3.5 out of 5. All right, 01:09:38.360 --> 01:09:41.159 yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty much right in the same ballpark you're in. I think it's 01:09:41.659 --> 01:09:45.139 interesting, 1999 was an interesting year for movies in that if you think about 01:09:45.639 --> 01:09:48.820 it, this movie and then 2 of the biggest movies of the year were all 01:09:48.900 --> 01:09:52.360 somehow based around a white man dissatisfied with 01:09:52.860 --> 01:09:55.820 his office job, with his comfortable office job. Because you have this, The Matrix, 01:09:56.320 --> 01:09:59.700 and Fight Club all deal with a guy, a white guy who hates his office 01:10:00.200 --> 01:10:02.900 job. Yeah. Right? And it's like when we look back at like the stability of 01:10:03.400 --> 01:10:07.330 the late '90s economy, versus today, you know, it's like, dude, you were— 01:10:07.830 --> 01:10:10.230 we were all lucky to have those kinds of jobs in some way back then 01:10:10.730 --> 01:10:13.370 because you had time and money potentially for hobbies and shit, right? You know, 01:10:13.870 --> 01:10:17.549 you weren't struggling or worrying about survival. But in these movies, there's so much sentiment 01:10:18.049 --> 01:10:21.550 around that soul-crushing, you know, kind of thing. It's— I feel like it's 01:10:22.050 --> 01:10:24.130 very much in the same way. It's such a product of the late '90s. 01:10:24.630 --> 01:10:27.850 Just like the concept of being a sellout, like, isn't a thing anymore. Like, 01:10:28.350 --> 01:10:32.030 everybody sells out constantly. Everything's been sufficiently financialized that 01:10:32.530 --> 01:10:33.750 that's dropped from them. So that's not a thing. Like, there are no posers or 01:10:34.250 --> 01:10:38.150 sellouts anymore. anymore. Like, that was a purely '90s construct, 01:10:38.650 --> 01:10:41.080 right? And this whole thing about being— hating your office job, I feel like, 01:10:41.090 --> 01:10:45.070 is very much like, uh, like that as well, and it is very uniquely '90s. 01:10:45.369 --> 01:10:47.709 Um, yeah, I really enjoyed this movie. I had a lot of fun watching it. 01:10:48.209 --> 01:10:51.710 It's not great. It's, it's not like some spectacular comedy that holds up 01:10:52.210 --> 01:10:54.750 great. You're right, the federal pound me in the ass prison, that's shitty. I don't 01:10:55.250 --> 01:10:57.490 like it. It's just kind of not that funny to begin with. And there are 01:10:57.990 --> 01:10:59.810 other elements that just kind of fall a little bit flat, but then there's some 01:11:00.310 --> 01:11:03.990 jokes that just absolutely kill. Yeah. And it's almost all the supporting people that really 01:11:04.490 --> 01:11:08.290 are hilarious. Diedrich Bader and John C. McGinley make this movie. Their characters 01:11:08.790 --> 01:11:12.610 are hilarious. There's not a wasted line in between either of them. 01:11:13.110 --> 01:11:16.210 Very, very funny people. I'm also a 3.5 out of 5 on Office Space. 01:11:16.710 --> 01:11:19.230 So we're a 7 out of 10 altogether, which I think is right about where 01:11:19.730 --> 01:11:22.810 we should be with this. Yeah. So 7 out of 10 on Office Space. 01:11:23.310 --> 01:11:26.270 And that wraps up 2 Dads, 2 Decades. So we have— what are we going 01:11:26.770 --> 01:11:30.310 to do? Yeah, we've got no guiding light, no North Star for now 01:11:30.810 --> 01:11:34.500 until I'll let you know, folks, from now until October. Now we're doing 2 Dads 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:38.250 chaos. We'll bring back Shocktoberfest this October, but until then, 01:11:38.719 --> 01:11:41.560 it's kind of like whatever we want to watch. I like it. I like it. 01:11:42.060 --> 01:11:45.320 I don't like being so restrained. Yeah. So now we've got the whole pair of 01:11:45.820 --> 01:11:49.180 decades. The whole 20 years is before us and available to us. It's my pick. 01:11:49.500 --> 01:11:52.140 And I decided coming out of this, I really wanted to nail it with something 01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:55.750 that I feel like is one of the best movies, period, of all time. 01:11:56.700 --> 01:11:59.680 Definitely, definitely one of the best movies of the era. And for a while was 01:12:00.180 --> 01:12:03.300 in my like little top 4 movies in Letterboxd on my Letterboxd account. 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:06.040 This was one of my top 4 for a while. So we are going— the 01:12:06.540 --> 01:12:09.130 movie came out in 1993. So that's the era that we're going back to. 01:12:09.240 --> 01:12:13.850 But the movie takes place in the late 19th century in the Arizona Territory. 01:12:14.040 --> 01:12:17.240 So this is an Old West. This is a Western. It is one of the 01:12:17.740 --> 01:12:21.040 best Westerns. Best Westerns. It is one of the finest Westerns ever made. 01:12:21.340 --> 01:12:25.090 Starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, and Sam Elliott. This is the story 01:12:25.590 --> 01:12:28.920 of the shootout at the O.K. Corral and the Earp brothers. We're gonna watch Tombstone. 01:12:29.390 --> 01:12:32.810 Damn. Which is just one of the best movies, one of the best westerns of 01:12:33.310 --> 01:12:36.810 all time. I, I am super excited because this movie is definitely 01:12:37.310 --> 01:12:40.810 in my top 5 of movies people would yell at me for not having seen. 01:12:41.310 --> 01:12:43.910 Perfect. And I don't know why I haven't seen it. I have no reason. 01:12:44.410 --> 01:12:48.310 Like, I'm fucking psyched about this. This could be another The Thing. You're introducing 01:12:48.810 --> 01:12:52.640 me to a Kurt Russell movie I haven't seen. Dude, I'm, I'm really excited to 01:12:53.140 --> 01:12:56.140 watch this one. This is much more The Thing than it is like The Last 01:12:56.640 --> 01:12:59.800 Starfighter. I'll tell you that. It's definitely closer to The Thing, uh, than The Last 01:13:00.300 --> 01:13:04.000 Starfighter. So yeah, so next week we will watch Tombstone. That's a wrap. 01:13:04.500 --> 01:13:06.540 So if you like what you hear, please consider heading over to Apple or Spotify 01:13:07.040 --> 01:13:10.040 and leaving us a 5-star review. It helps new folks find the show. Be sure 01:13:10.540 --> 01:13:14.060 to check out our website at twodadsonemovie.com. That's the number 2 and the number 1. 01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:16.820 There you can explore the movies we've covered, sign up for our newsletter, newsletter, 01:13:17.320 --> 01:13:20.659 The Rewind, and even get sneak previews of upcoming episodes. Once again, this has been 01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:24.280 Office Space, another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie. I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. 01:13:24.380 --> 01:13:26.540 Thank you so much for listening, and we'll catch you next week. Thanks,