Brian Baumgartner
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1,181 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Brian Baumgartner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wasn't going to reveal what it was about, but let's just say.
Oh, it was conflicting. Oh, boy.
Now you're going to make enemies.
And something was said, I got really fired up. And that was what I was going to say to you when I saw you today was like, that was kind of old school Brian, like fired up texting as fast as I could.
Like, I have to go right now, but this is aggravating me.
Yeah.
In five years, Burn It to the Ground. That's right. Well, maybe you'll have me back on then. We can't wait. And then we'll burn it to the ground?
All right, perfect.
They were so great.
Well, so I don't think that I have rhapsodized with you guys, probably because it was on Zoom and not in person. I think that's a word.
Rhapsodized? So falsy. For me... when people ask, cause people ask all the time, like what's your favorite episode or you know, whatever. I think it's for me, it's about what was going on outside of it now, as much as what the actual episode was, right? So for example, for me, I don't know if it's the same, we haven't discussed, this is not pre-planned.
Like for me, if people say like, what's your favorite episode? At this point, I pretty much say stress relief. And the reason why is one, great episode times two, double parter. But for me, I was – am still a big sports fan. And that episode, as I'm sure you guys know, aired after the Super Bowl that year. And that was the first – I was invited by NBC to go to the Super Bowl.
And that was the first time I had ever been at a Super Bowl. And so I'm in the Super Bowl, which, you know, is – It's the Super Bowl.
And on the like. Jumbotron. Jumbotron. I think that's an old timey word. I don't think they call it that anymore.
That just means thinking. There was like The Office after the Super Bowl and it was like that's our show. Like that was it. So that for me has a particular – well, it's obviously fond memories of that. I think for the Christmas episode, it's the same but different. Like it's about what was happening outside and as I'm sure you guys have or will talk about, like –
That very first Christmas episode, it didn't launch the show. It wasn't the first episode of the show. But that episode really launched the success of the show. Like that episode became our largest audience since the premiere. And from there, you know, then Steve wins the Golden Globe.
globe like three or four weeks later everything starts happening we get into the yeah we turned a corner you know at that point we didn't even have a full order for the season and they started after that um it became clear we were going to be around for a while so and The other thing I always – and this was a long time ago.
I talked about like that episode being special because everybody did something. Like there was – everyone was sort of featured in some way. And then I said, you can make an argument except Meredith. However, she ends up having maybe one of the greatest moments on the show ever when she takes her top off and Michael snaps the picture of her at the very end of the episode.
So that like suddenly like at the end, she sort of explodes as well. So that made it special. They were also hard. That's what she said. They were hard. You get one. I get one? Yeah. They were hard to produce the Christmas episodes because big party group scenes, everybody involved.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that – in terms of like singular moments for me in the Christmas episodes, I mean, that one does. And part of it is like, you know, when you look back at photos from your childhood back before there was – You know, we didn't have everything wasn't videotaped every five seconds. You look back at these photos or like video home, whatever.
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