The Fake Company Retreat That Made Us Believe in Humans Again

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It is Parallel Frequencies. I'm just playing.

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This is Coco. We're outside today at Land of

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a Thousand Hills. It's nice out here. Yeah, the

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weather's great. Yeah, it's like spring has hit.

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I think it hit like a month ago. Yeah, we started

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summer early. Yeah, we did. And we're out here.

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But today we're out here because we had a couple

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of tech difficulties. This episode has been impossible

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to get us filmed. I don't think the universe

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wants us talking about this show today. It's

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too wholesome. Yeah, it seems like, you know

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what, we'll get to that. I was going to tell

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you why. But have you heard this shit? Coven.

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We mentioned it a couple weeks ago. Oh. American

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Horror Story. They're coming back. With another

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Coven season? Season 13 is going to be Coven.

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They're going to bring the witches back. They're

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going to have them probably a continuation maybe

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of, I guess that was season five or six, somewhere

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in there, whatever it was. But yeah. It came

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out on their social media that they're bringing

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back Coven. Yeah, I can't wait for that. That's

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exciting. All of the witches. All of the witches.

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That was the best American Horror Story to me.

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Oh, yeah, it was. It was the best season. We

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will have to break down some American Horror

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Story someday. Mm -hmm. I love that show. Yeah.

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And, you know, some of them do kind of fall off,

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as some TV shows do. Yeah. What's great about

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that show is you can have seasons you love. But

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there were some seasons I was like, nah, I can't.

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It's not for me. This one's too much or it's

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just or whatever. But like, that's fine. You

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can just skip it. Go to the next season. There's

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always another season that's completely different.

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They can stand alone. Yeah, they can. Their seasons

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can stand alone, which today's show to Tuesday.

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Is it Tuesday? It feels like it's at least Friday.

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I don't know. It's somewhere later in the week.

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But Tuesday, we've got a standalone show that

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I was not familiar with the original. Yeah. And

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we're talking about jury duty presents company

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retreat, I believe is what it's called. Yeah.

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And I turned this thing on by accident. OK. And

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I think it was Amazon Prime. It just started

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playing it for me. It's on Amazon. Yeah. And

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it just started playing. And I was like, what

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in the hell am I? What is this? I saw the trailer

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and in the trailer, it got my attention when.

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I don't even remember all the people's names,

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but it's the son who ends up being the new CEO.

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I recognized him. They're sitting in this, like,

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all together, and they're doing, you know, the

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talking to the cameras and all that. Documentary

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style. And it's all set up. It's like The Office.

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But instead of it being everybody knows that

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it's a TV show, there's one guy who doesn't.

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And they set this whole thing up, and it's very

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much like The Office. Same types of jokes, same

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types of humor. In the trailer, this is what

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hooked me. There's the son sitting there talking,

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and he says something about he doesn't want to

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be, basically, and I'm paraphrasing, he doesn't

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want to be a nepo baby. He doesn't want a hand

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job. And I'm saying that literally. He says,

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I don't want a handjob. Reminds me of Tobias

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from Arrested Development. You're like, can you

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record some things that you say and play them

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back? And I was like, wait, what did he just

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say? And he caught me off guard. And I was like,

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I got to watch this show. I got to see what's

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going on here. When he started describing it

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to me, I was like, oh, no, I've seen this show.

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It came out years ago. Yeah. And I was like,

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Jury Duty, right? And he's like, wait, no, it's

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a different one. Then we realized they. did it

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again they redid it so they did that one in jury

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duty in 2023 and i haven't seen it i didn't even

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know about this and i think that this is an oh

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my god such a great idea if you can pull this

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off it's an amazing idea and that's that's part

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of the magic is pulling this off and making the

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one person anthony in this in this yeah who's

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called the hero when they haven't cast the hero

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yet they call him hero which is really important

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we're gonna talk about why why it's hero but

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yeah the whole company retreat concept it's like

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corporate summer camp but instead of learning

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archery you're learning how to trust somebody

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from accounting named greg you ever notice how

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retreats always promise connection but what they

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really deliver is forced vulnerability in a conference

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room that smells like burnt coffee and ambition

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does it not and everybody at these things is

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always pretending but they're pretending to not

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be pretending yeah It's like this overly fake,

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and you see a lot of that in corporate retreat

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here. You see some of these characters really

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taking the role that they play, and they're taking

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it to the next level. Yeah. I wouldn't know.

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I've not been on a company retreat. Oh, my gosh.

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And the only thing close to that that I've been

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on is teachers going to a conference together

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in Vegas, and that was a blast. Vegas with the

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teachers? But I think what we're seeing here.

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maybe different than what you would expect from

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a company retreat typically, is they really are

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a family. I loved going to the teacher's conference

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with my fellow teachers at All Aboard Charter

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School. Shout out All Aboard Charter School.

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It's no longer up and running, but my teacher

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friends are also out there. And we were a family.

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I mean, that makes the biggest difference in

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the world. When you can work with people that

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make you feel like I'm going home every time

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I go to work. And I think they show that better

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than... They did. Yeah. I've had a couple of

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crazy company retreats. I ended up at Dr. Dre's

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house for one. So not typical company. Not typical.

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I didn't have typical. As I said yesterday, I

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told Lindsay, my wife, I was like, I said, we

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were talking about something. I said, you know,

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just kind of like us normal people. And she said,

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there ain't nothing normal about you looking

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at me. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. But

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yeah, I think I had a company retreat. We ended

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up at Dr. Dre's house. There was another one

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that I ended up in the middle of nowhere on a

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farm in California, and it ended up being a Kanye

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West release party. That was a wild company retreat,

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too. I've had some wild ones. And always am I

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saying, what am I doing here? But that's the

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same thing that happened in this show, company

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retreat. But they're saying, why am I here for

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a different reason? It's a different energy.

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This feels like somebody finally held up a mirror

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to the... whole ecosystem of corporate retreats

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and showed you the not polished linkedin version

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you know it literally shows you all the awkward

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silences and the fake laughs it's so much in

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here and you can i guarantee you if you ever

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have worked in a corporate environment you can

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watch jury duty presents company retreat and

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you can probably pick out you'd be like oh that's

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I've worked with that guy. I've worked with that.

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But they did a really good job of putting these

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people in there to play the roles. Could you

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have done this? I would love to think that maybe

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I could have if I had stayed in acting or if

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I had done it. The biggest thing, and I was finishing

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up the last few episodes last night because they

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just released, but I was like, man, why are these

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actors? Actors not winning Emmys like crazy because

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there's one thing to be in a scripted show and

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it's one thing to be in improv and to do that.

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But this is like Truman Show level commitment

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to a character. They have to play this character

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believably. Is that a word? Yeah, sure. To Anthony,

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the hero, for the entire time they're at this

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retreat. So, I mean, we're getting maybe a week.

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Yeah. I think that they're all there. That's

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the timeline, I think. it looked like to me but

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to be like even when the cameras were not rolling

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because there was a time period when the entire

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staff in the control room behind the scenes would

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go home in the evenings and they're like They

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revealed this in the last episode. They're like,

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so we had to, like, play games and do things

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together, staying in character at all times so

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that Anthony never suspected a thing. That's

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wild. And I'm just over there, like, blown away

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at the level of, yeah, of commitment. Commitment.

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And, like, knowing themselves, knowing their

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characters. Think about that. If you're in any

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of these other roles other than hero Anthony.

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you know that this whole project rests on you,

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and it's each one of you. It rests on you not

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slipping up at any point and giving this whole

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thing away. Working together. 24 -hour -a -day

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acting, even if it's improv or whatever you want

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to call it, it takes commitment, like you said.

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That's the word that popped in my head immediately.

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And we go on corporate retreats, and I said you're

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playing different roles, and each of these people

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were. But that's something that you can look

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at yourself and say, how many versions of yourself

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do you bring to work? Is there the safe version,

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the agreeable version, the don't rock the boat

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because rent's due version? This is probably

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why I was in a corporate world and wasn't there

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very long at any of them because I didn't play

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any. I was just playing. People either get that

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or they don't. And Apple got it. They loved it.

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I was there for a while and got to run with it.

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But, yeah, how many versions? You've got to find

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your people, right? Find your people where you

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can be authentic. And what I love about this

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and Jury Duty, I watched Jury Duty when that

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came out years ago, and what I love about the

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hero in both situations is that they happened,

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I mean, again, casting director had to be like,

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the best of the best to pick out they had 10

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,000 applicants for this job they thought was

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going to be a temp job for a doc that would be

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a part of a documentary but like basically you're

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you're applying for a temp job and jury duty

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was similarly but it was like hey you're going

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to be on a jury but we are going to we are going

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to film it it's a documentary about jury duty

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so they can came into it thinking, yeah, I will

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be on camera, there will be cameras and stuff,

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but everybody here is like me. We're all in this

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documentary together. We're all real people.

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And it's fantastic to me that in both cases they

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picked these guys that are so genuine. Authentic,

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just real. So authentic, so real, so honest,

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so good, that by the end you were just in love

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with them. Just in love with them. You kind of

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feel bad for them. I feel bad for Anthony in

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part seven because I'm like, oh, my God. He had

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no idea. No idea. What a situation to be put

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in, and he handles it, like you said, beautifully.

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The stress they put him through, for sure. And

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that's the sweet spot of the show. It's not the

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laughs. It's not, you know, the catered lunches

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with sandwiches and all this and sitting around

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and all talking to each other. It's the tension.

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I think that's the real sweet spot of this show

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is the tension it brings. People are pretending

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not to pretend. Yeah. It's not just the jokes,

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because those happen, but we're watching humans

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run outdated software, really, in this show.

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You know, it's smile .exe or something like that,

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and that's all it is. But the tension and the

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awkwardness, and what that does is set it up

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to show that, sure, we're there for connection,

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and you can fake and you can be... all this stuff.

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But even past all that, people still do want

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connection. And the tension brings that. It brings

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the connection together. You know, what I love,

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though, about both of these shows is that by

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the end, when all is revealed, the actors...

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And I actually discovered this show because I

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was listening to an interview James Mardsen was

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doing. He's the one that was in the first one.

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So he played himself on Jury Duty. He was like,

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I'm an actor. And the hero guy, I can't remember

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his name in the first season, but he was like,

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yeah, it's so cool to meet him. He's a famous

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actor and everything, but he kind of talks about

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being an actor a lot. He was totally playing

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it up. It was really funny. I saw an interview

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of him talking about being on the show, and he

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said, I would never be on a prank show that was

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mean. I love being on this show, even though

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it was the one guy who didn't know he was on

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a show. We were never mean to him. And we were

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never making fun of him. In fact, they basically

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put him in situations to help rise him into the

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hero role. That's why they call him the hero,

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because they're like, we're going to. test him

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and challenge him a little bit and put him into

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these awkward situations that have us as the

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audience i don't know how many times you saw

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said this watching it but what would i've done

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what would i've done in that situation if i thought

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that was real and i was being presented with

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these weird situations and awkwardness and people

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saying just trust me or keep my secrets or you

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know all these when you got the one guy drinking

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out of a sex toy Oh my God. I was thinking, what

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the fuck would I do right now in this? What would

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I? I was dying so hard. And then he pulls the

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thing out. He pulled it out. He's like, what

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is this? It's for the ice or something. This

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is what you freeze? And he's drinking out of

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his sexta. I was like, I don't know how Anthony

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kept it together. The back story of the Malibu

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realtors that were there the week before them

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at the company retreat and having all those things

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set up. And then the guy comes back. He comes

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back for his sexta. They planned all of this

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so perfectly that they got exactly what they

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wanted. unscripted real moments unfiltered maybe

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even a little uncomfortable but that's what was

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the beauty of this show to me and i don't know

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like this ceo son i don't know if i would have

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he almost played it over too much over the top

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for me to where i would have been like i would

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have probably taken into the side at some point

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i don't know if anthony did or not and said is

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this a joke like i would i would have are you

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for real about this i like to consider myself

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a smart person but you know if you put in that

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situation you don't know what you would do and

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i don't know if i would have called on or not

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to the to the filming and and thought oh my god

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this got to be a prank show but i love how james

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martin how you said he wouldn't have done anything

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cruel to somebody. That's my kind of pranks.

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I don't like the ones where you can hurt somebody

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physically, mentally, emotionally. However, I

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like this kind of stuff where it's like, sure,

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Anthony probably went through some hard times

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in the show, but now looking back, he's probably

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like, oh my God, what a life experience. You

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can't pay for that. Somebody gave him a life

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experience for free and put it in front and center.

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And made him a star. And the actors, Jim Woods,

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who played Jimmy, he says, you know, when we

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started this, and I think it was the other Anthony,

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too, the actor that plays him, they said, when

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we started this, we looked at each other and

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we said, we are never going to get an opportunity

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like this. We're never going to have an experience

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like this in our career ever again. This is a

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once in a lifetime. But that's what I was going

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to say about connection, what you said, was that...

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In both cases, both of the guys, when it was

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revealed that this was a show that they were

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on, and they're like, what? My mind is blown.

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I mean, you can just see, like, their synapses

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in their heads just exploding. What, yours, though?

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Oh, yeah, you're like, wait. Yeah. But in both

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cases, they weren't mad or felt lied to or betrayed.

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Both of them were like, wow. And in both of those...

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casts uh in both shows once was the curtain was

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dropped the fourth wall or the curtain all of

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the actors were like listen we know we were just

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playing roles for you but the connection was

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real they all said we just want you to know We

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have the highest respect for you. And we connected

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with you. And you meant a lot to us. I mean,

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the last episode of this company retreat, I was

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crying. I was tearing up when Helen, who's played

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by Stephanie Hodge, she's talking to Anthony.

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And she says, listen, I just want to tell you.

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I have to say this. I have to say thank you.

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Because you always treated me like a person.

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And women of my age. And I felt this. To the

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bottom of my heart, I felt this. She said, women

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my age are so overlooked in society. We're often

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just kind of brushed to the side. Like, you've

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gotten to a certain age. Now you don't exist.

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And she just said, you never did that to me.

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You made me feel seen. You always made me feel

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like a person and a part of everything. And I

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just want to thank you for that. And she was

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crying. And this was her real, the actress herself

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telling him that. And several others had their

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moment with him where they said, I just have

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to thank you for this. I have to thank you for

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being you because you were amazing and you changed

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my life and I will never be the same after this.

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That's a great point to make, too, because it

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wasn't just about making Anthony feel good, but

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there would be a real connection because these

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people are committed to the role. And the role

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is to fake this guy out and make him think that

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this is real. Yeah. And they all did it perfectly,

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so that's a great point out. That the people

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working on this show probably got just as much

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in return. Yeah. Oh, they did. About themselves.

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You can see that. And got to learn about themselves

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and learn what they're. Alex Bonifer played Dougie

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Jr. That's who. Yeah. He's from Kevin Can Fuck

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Himself. Yeah. Love that show. By the way, I

00:18:06.940 --> 00:18:09.759
recognized him from that. I was like, wait. So,

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I mean, these are from these are actors from

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other shows that we're used to. Blair Beckham

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played Marjorie, the owner of the retreat. Oh,

00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:19.880
yeah. Yeah. She's from Pluribus. That's right.

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That's right. The show that we've covered on

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here. Anyway, Dougie, Dougie Jr. He also, you

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know, really expressed like I have a you have

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a friend for life with me because. And someone

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else mentioned something like, you know, you

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deserve an award just for always sticking up

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for Dougie. Like, you know, because he's clearly

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kind of an idiot. Oh, yeah. Kind of like, you

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know. But Anthony was the friend to the very

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end. I mean, just, no, no, you got this, man.

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It's okay. You made a mistake. Don't worry about

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it. And he did that consistently the entire time.

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Just one person would make an embarrassing. massive

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things that he'd be like, no, no, no, take a

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breath. Take a breath. You're okay, man. He was

00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.460
good. He was great about hyping them up when

00:19:07.460 --> 00:19:10.319
they were under pressure. You got to love that.

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Yeah. That is insanely genuine heart of gold.

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And I just, every time the first one and this

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one, I end it with just loving the guy they picked

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and restoring my faith in humanity, especially

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men. Sorry, but I often think from a lot of,

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uh, statistical analysis of the world and where

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we live is that yeah you don't find guys like

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that that really are like that and here are these

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two guys in two separate situations that every

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time given the opportunity they were heart of

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gold right there with them hyping them up making

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people feel good you know being like i'll keep

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her secret no you know whatever you need and

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i just love that this show presents an opportunity

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for us to see that connection yeah real Real,

00:20:00.369 --> 00:20:04.750
real connection. And what we like to do here

00:20:04.750 --> 00:20:07.049
at Parallel Frequencies is keep it in the gray

00:20:07.049 --> 00:20:11.869
area, and this show has a lot of that. It's humor

00:20:11.869 --> 00:20:15.430
becoming a defense mechanism or awkwardness becoming

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honesty trying to break through. There's also

00:20:19.390 --> 00:20:21.450
something kind of beautiful about shared discomfort,

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and they all go through that in this show. Uh

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-huh, a lot of awkwardness. When everybody knows

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it's weird, but nobody says it until finally

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someone does, and the whole room excels. That's

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what this whole show was kind of to me, was just

00:20:38.730 --> 00:20:44.349
that idea. Yeah. And what you get from it, though,

00:20:44.450 --> 00:20:47.109
is pure connection. I felt connected to the show

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watching it. You feel like you're a part of it

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at home as a viewer, and that's what a great

00:20:51.009 --> 00:20:53.529
TV show can do. Yeah. It can make you feel like

00:20:53.529 --> 00:20:57.099
you're in on the joke with them. Yes. And they

00:20:57.099 --> 00:20:59.059
did that. Absolutely. I thought they did that.

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What's your final thoughts on this show? I don't

00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:03.819
get hyped up like, you know, people do watching

00:21:03.819 --> 00:21:05.539
sports where they feel like they're cheering

00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:07.680
at the TV and they're, like, getting up out of

00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.599
their seat. I never get that way, except I did

00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.960
in this show. Yeah. I was on my seat going, oh,

00:21:12.980 --> 00:21:16.440
my God. They're going to do it. Oh, my God. And

00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.480
just I got so into it. But my, yeah, final thoughts.

00:21:21.500 --> 00:21:24.059
because we didn't cover this, but the dynamic

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of the corporate takeover. When Doug realizes

00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.700
Dougie Jr. might not be it, he might not cut

00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:33.480
it, brings in, in the middle of this company

00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.559
retreat, in the middle of the week, this new

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company who is acting like, who's schmoozing

00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.059
them with all these things and acting like, you

00:21:41.059 --> 00:21:44.599
know, they're going to be, we're going to keep

00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.119
this a family. Everything that you've been used

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to, we're going to keep it the way the culture

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that you guys have. And it's so great. And thanks

00:21:52.940 --> 00:21:55.259
for letting us join in and all this stuff and

00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:58.619
finding out that's not the case. I think most

00:21:58.619 --> 00:22:00.880
people know that feeling. Wherever you've worked,

00:22:00.940 --> 00:22:03.279
you probably, you know, really got comfy and

00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:05.619
cozy with your coworkers. You feel like you know

00:22:05.619 --> 00:22:10.079
where you're at, where you stand. And then there's

00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.700
some buyout. You're like, they always come in

00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:15.059
and they always say. We're going to keep things

00:22:15.059 --> 00:22:18.720
the same. Don't worry. Never do. Never do. In

00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:20.519
all the experience that I've had, they were like,

00:22:20.619 --> 00:22:22.680
we're going to just try to run things like the

00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:24.700
way you've been used to. In the entertainment

00:22:24.700 --> 00:22:27.859
world, it's even faster and worse. There's been

00:22:27.859 --> 00:22:31.559
multiple times that I have. left a radio station

00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:33.720
the day before and come back the next day and

00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.779
literally been the only one standing still because

00:22:35.779 --> 00:22:38.119
everybody else got fired, a new person come in.

00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:40.319
It's horrible. Everybody cuts loose, and you're

00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.720
there, and you're like, well, now what do I do?

00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:47.599
And that's, yeah. It's awful. And these are people.

00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:50.440
And these are people that have, in most cases,

00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:52.839
in a lot of cases, if you're lucky, have created

00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:55.480
a family culture in the workplace. And you are

00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:57.500
working with your best friends, and you're working

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with people that you love, ideally. We all hope

00:23:00.329 --> 00:23:02.410
to work in an environment like that. I keep talking.

00:23:02.410 --> 00:23:06.210
I'm in a nostalgic mood. But being in a big boy's

00:23:06.210 --> 00:23:08.990
neighborhood for a morning show, you better believe

00:23:08.990 --> 00:23:14.609
Natalia, Ani, Big, Louie, all of them, Jason

00:23:14.609 --> 00:23:17.130
even. We were all family in that room. We fought,

00:23:17.490 --> 00:23:23.269
but we loved. Yeah. This job at Big Boy was a

00:23:23.269 --> 00:23:25.289
24 -hour day job. I'm not going to lie. It was.

00:23:25.309 --> 00:23:26.890
Because we wanted to stay on top of everything.

00:23:27.109 --> 00:23:28.910
We're talking to all of L .A. We're putting out

00:23:28.910 --> 00:23:30.730
a national show. We're doing all this stuff.

00:23:30.849 --> 00:23:32.329
You've got to stay on top of all the pop culture.

00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:35.329
And we were a tight -knit family. Going to Dodger

00:23:35.329 --> 00:23:37.490
games together. Going to Dr. Dre's house together.

00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:42.789
Going to Kanye West's album release out in the

00:23:42.789 --> 00:23:46.109
middle of the farm in the middle of nowhere in

00:23:46.109 --> 00:23:49.130
California. We did all that together. Yeah. You

00:23:49.130 --> 00:23:52.390
know, I feel that. And you can feel that in a

00:23:52.390 --> 00:23:55.069
corporate environment where you do connect with

00:23:55.069 --> 00:23:58.109
your actual employees, where they do become a

00:23:58.109 --> 00:24:00.630
family. Yeah. It's hard to find. It is hard to

00:24:00.630 --> 00:24:02.710
find. And you're lucky if you find it. I hope

00:24:02.710 --> 00:24:05.950
everybody gets to experience that once in their

00:24:05.950 --> 00:24:09.329
lives because it's really amazing. And it doesn't

00:24:09.329 --> 00:24:12.450
last for whatever reason, corporate takeovers

00:24:12.450 --> 00:24:16.809
or just circumstances. But I feel like that.

00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.619
Showed another element to this show of, you know,

00:24:19.619 --> 00:24:23.099
where the ethical line is there and letting Anthony

00:24:23.099 --> 00:24:25.539
have this opportunity to rise to the occasion

00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:29.819
and be the one who. And I love how to that point.

00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:34.180
You notice slowly as you watch the season that

00:24:34.180 --> 00:24:36.539
Anthony, he's hired as a temp. He knows he's

00:24:36.539 --> 00:24:39.319
a temp. He's got like maybe three days after

00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:41.500
this retreat, then he's going on to another job.

00:24:41.579 --> 00:24:44.319
He knows that. And yet at the beginning, you

00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:47.200
hear his verbiage. He's kind of being like, well,

00:24:47.259 --> 00:24:50.220
you guys and I love what you guys have here.

00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:53.180
And you got something great, you know, and he's

00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:56.779
saying you and they a lot. And then it shifts

00:24:56.779 --> 00:25:01.220
throughout the week into we and us. And that's

00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:03.500
when you start to see this shift in him where

00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:06.839
he's like, I own this now too. This is my family.

00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:11.500
I don't care how long I'm here or not. I'm staking

00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:14.140
my claim. These are my people. And I wouldn't

00:25:14.140 --> 00:25:17.339
let anybody hurt them. And to what you said,

00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:22.109
saying the things that weren't being said. It

00:25:22.109 --> 00:25:25.529
felt like everybody was careful not to say, I

00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:28.150
hate these guys. I don't want them to take over

00:25:28.150 --> 00:25:31.089
our company. This is the worst. They were all

00:25:31.089 --> 00:25:33.910
kind of trying to skirt around it and be a little

00:25:33.910 --> 00:25:37.109
positive. Well, they didn't bring money. They've

00:25:37.109 --> 00:25:39.470
got money, clearly. I mean, they bring Sia in

00:25:39.470 --> 00:25:43.390
to sing at their talent show. Oh, my God. Whatever.

00:25:44.049 --> 00:25:47.990
Which is awesome. My love, Sia. But they're like...

00:25:48.730 --> 00:25:51.029
Well, they've got money. I guess this could be

00:25:51.029 --> 00:25:52.910
good. I don't know. And they're trying to be

00:25:52.910 --> 00:25:56.369
positive. But Anthony, rather than being like

00:25:56.369 --> 00:25:58.750
a go with the flow kind of guy, he kind of steps

00:25:58.750 --> 00:26:01.690
up and he's like, well, I'll tell you one thing.

00:26:01.769 --> 00:26:03.170
If they think they're going to come in here and

00:26:03.170 --> 00:26:04.609
do whatever they want, they got another thing

00:26:04.609 --> 00:26:08.430
coming. Yeah. And everybody just goes, yep. And

00:26:08.430 --> 00:26:10.490
just agrees with him because they're like, he

00:26:10.490 --> 00:26:14.089
said it. Yay. Lots of things said in this show.

00:26:14.490 --> 00:26:17.720
I love this show. We love this show. Parallel

00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.640
Frequencies loves this show. We hope the freaks

00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:23.980
love this show. And this show really represents

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what we are. You know, we don't do polished takes.

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You might see us mess up. We roll with it because

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that's life. We're here to sit down inside, in

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between the in between, you know, the weird,

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the honest, the wait. Is it just me? Moments.

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That's what we do in here at Parallel Frequencies.

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We're trying to remind you that it's not just

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you that feels like this, that goes through these

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kinds of things. So if you've ever been in a

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room and you had a forced smile or forced a conversation

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or quietly questioned reality, you're part of

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this conversation. You're part of it. You are

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a freak. And if you've ever had to go somewhere

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and say, this is ridiculous and still show up

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anyway, because that's life right now, controlled

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by chaos. If you think I didn't go into Big Boy's

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neighborhood every day and say, this is ridiculous,

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and I still showed up anyway. I did, absolutely.

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But that's what life is. No scripts, no trust

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falls, just real human energy, connection. That's

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what this show was all about. Parallel frequencies,

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that's what we're all about. I'm just playing.

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Coco, you're the freaks, and we'll see you on

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the other side.