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Brian Baumgartner · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Real fun with Mario Lopez. Sobriel, Mario Lopez joined me
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  Speaker 1: right now on Zoom from the office actor my buddy
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  Speaker 1: Brian Bombgarner.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, Brian? What's up, Mario? How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: It's going well, man to nice to see you. Congrats.
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  Speaker 1: I know you joined the cast of Suits La in
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  Speaker 1: a guest star role the other night. We're you were
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  Speaker 1: playing a fictional version of yourself, right.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely a fictional version of my heightened But
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  Speaker 3: that's what's so amazing is I can play myself and
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  Speaker 3: then anything that people don't like that I say in it,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well that was just that was my fictional version,
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  Speaker 3: not actually me.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I'll La curve your enthusiasm. That's fun.
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  Speaker 1: And you were working alongside Patton Oswalt on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the first time you all worked together.
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  Speaker 2: It was the first time we'd worked together.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we were like la acquaintances, like the
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  Speaker 4: hello there.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of a deal. But we had a great time.
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  Speaker 4: I mean from right off the bat our first rehearsal
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  Speaker 4: on s I was like, this is going to be
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  Speaker 4: an amazing day. He's so funny, he's so willing to
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  Speaker 4: go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: We improped great together and I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Might we be seeing more of you on the show?
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  Speaker 4: I think, Well, Look, I am a client now of
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  Speaker 4: the law firm and suits LA, and I think there's
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  Speaker 4: a very reasonable chance that I might return.
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  Speaker 2: For some more lawyer, more lawyer advice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nice, nice. I also know the creators of the
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  Speaker 1: Office are working on a new show called The Paper,
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  Speaker 1: which is coming to Peacock, and they just announced Oscars
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  Speaker 1: joined the cast. Might we see you back as Kevin Malone?
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  Speaker 4: Look if Greg Daniels finds a way for Kevin to
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  Speaker 4: leave his bar there in Scranton, Pennsylvania and show up
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  Speaker 4: at at not a paper company, but an actual paper,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be gaming any chance I have to play around
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  Speaker 4: with Greg.
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  Speaker 2: He's a genius. I would be happy to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of which, twentieth anniversary of the show premiere is
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  Speaker 1: on March twenty fourth. I can't believe twenty years already.
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  Speaker 1: What do you remember about the audition process for that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Man?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's first off, I can't remember. I can't
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  Speaker 4: believe that it's been that long. Also, I auditioned for Stanley.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's what I auditioned for Stanley. I knew there
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  Speaker 4: was another role they were looking at called Kevin, and
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  Speaker 4: thankfully we got together during the audition process and they
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  Speaker 4: decided to take a look at me for Kevin. But
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  Speaker 4: here's an amazing thing, Mario, I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 4: heard this. The other two people in the end that
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  Speaker 4: were up for the role of Kevin Malone Eric stone
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  Speaker 4: Street from Modern Family and Jorge Garcia from Lost and
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  Speaker 4: many other things. So it ended up working out for
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  Speaker 4: all of us. I think, Wow, that to me is
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  Speaker 4: really cool.
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  Speaker 2: That is very cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's wy. I like those kind of stories. Like I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking Eric McCormick the other day and it
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  Speaker 1: was I think down to him and I think he
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  Speaker 1: said matt LeBlanc on Friends, but then obviously worked out
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  Speaker 1: for him a few years later with Will and Grace.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, look at that. Sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just meant to.
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  Speaker 2: Be right there. National Chili Day was the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Did you make anything from your book?
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  Speaker 2: I made some chili. I sure did a little chicken
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  Speaker 2: white bean chili. There you go. It was. It was
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I have to celebrate, right, It's like my Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: So I did do that, and I'm heading this weekend
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  Speaker 4: actually with Bush's Beans, who I don't know, if you
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  Speaker 4: know they make the best chili beans. Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to the SEC Championship Game or SEC Championship Basketball tournament,
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  Speaker 4: which should be amazing. I'm really excited about being there
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  Speaker 4: this weekend in Nashville to have a good time and
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  Speaker 4: watch some great basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, man, We'll have a good time out there,
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  Speaker 1: and listen, everyone be sure to catch Brian and suits La,
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  Speaker 1: which is streaming now on Peacock and Hulu.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in, man, right now on Peacock. I'll
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  Speaker 2: see you soon. Mario, all right, buddy, you will right
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez