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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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that this podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
From Mamma Mia.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodneck and today in the Hot Seed is.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Mansia Is Warren jumping out of my producer little box
to host today.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, this is a huge moment for the Spill because
you guys would know Mansha's voice and her face and
everything because she is the executive producer of the Spill,
So you make the magic happen. You're working behind the scenes.
If there's any problems, please direct them to her any
issues you have with the pod. But you're jumping into
Weekend Watch today because you have actually seen one of
(00:57):
the biggest movies of the year and I haven't, So
that's what you're here for.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I have. I'm very excited to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I think I actually declared to you that it's my
favorite new movie that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, huge call, huge call, and I was like, say
no more.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Say it for the pod. So if you're near here,
we can watch is our weekly episode where we talk
about the best new TV shows and movies that have
just come out this week, because we get to see
everything before it goes out to the world, so you
can make an educated decision of what to watch on
the weekend. So I'm going to start off with a
recommendation of a show that just came out yesterday the
first few episodes, and the stakes were very high with
(01:31):
this one because it is the spin off and a
sort of continuation reboot of one of the most iconic
comedy TV shows in the world, The Office.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I actually have a confession to make.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can I just tell you I knew this is
going to happen. I knew what okay say they need
to say.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I want to preface it by saying that there's nothing.
There's nothing I could say.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I know I've been told off throughout my life for
not having seen The Office, but I know a lot
about The Office, to the point that on my Hinge
profile I had a prompt about how I want that
forever Chris Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm sorry, I know we don't spore Chris Brown, but
that so apparently you do.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I just want to recreate that wedding moment at my wedding,
and I had that in a Hinge and the number
of Office fanatics I get on Hinge being like, the
audacity of you to have this prompt when you have
not seen this show.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They hate me and it hasn't gone well for my
love life.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So much do you want back there? First of all,
I hate you for making me say this, but the
men are correct. You're the wrong one here, and I.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hate the men are correct. The men are right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So wait, let's just let's not escape past this anytime soon.
So on your Hinge profile, you just quote something from
the Office. I said something like, but you've never seen
the Office.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's something about let's get on the same page about
dancing to forever at our wedding because I love that scene.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I'm like, I'm in the zegeist. I'm in the No,
I just haven't watched it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And now it's too Do you haven't your Hinge profile
that you're like this quotes from the Office, but I
haven't seen it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I come up in the It comes up when I
get shamed.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So you're like cat fishing these heads because they think
they found this beautiful, smart girl who loves the Office,
and they're so excited, and then they're devastating they find
out that you're literally baiting them with a TV show
that you have not seen.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This has turned into an expose.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But maybe this new show.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Is head it up. We could have skated right past this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well maybe this new show's my way in. I mean,
maybe I would go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And watch the original Office first before you did this.
But anyway, anyway, sorry to those men on Hinge. So yes,
I guess everyone else in the world knows this. So
the Office, I mean, obviously there was the UK version
of the Office that was super popular, but when they
started the American version, I think a lot of people
can agree that's I mean, it's controversial. You wouldn't know
because you haven't seen either, But that is like a
(03:44):
very beloved show. It ran from two thousand and five
to twenty thirteen, and it still gets widely watched, quoted,
talked about today, used by people to find love in
a nefarious way, like yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Used on TikTok all over right, dog feed is still rundom.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's twenty twenty five exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think when they were doing like the press for this,
they were sending out you know how like we get
all the press releases, screeners, all that sort of stuff
and to hype up the show. They were saying how
there's still millions and millions of mentions of the Office
across all social media platforms, like to this day and
this show ended in twenty thirteen, Like that is a
crazy legacy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So the good news for fans of the Office, of
which you are not one.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is that potential shaming that's about you brought it up.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You could have just said I haven't seen it. I
would have skated past that. It's the fact that you're
using it to lure men.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Which is a whole situation. The problem is me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So this new show, the Paper, which came out in
Australia on Binge today, is a follow up of the iconic.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Show and of eight sales products made out of paper,
toilet tissue, toilet seat protectors, and local newspapers.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And that is in order of quality.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
My name is Ned Samson. I am your new editor
in chief.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Have you read this paper?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How do you think it compares to any other paper?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It sucks.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
We are going to make it better. I hope it's
not too disruptive to have me come in and sort
of shake everything up.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh no, no, don't be So that's that's a gazing.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Welcome, volunteers to your first staff meeting as reporters for
the Toledo truth Teller. How many of you have actually
written for a paper before?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I run a paper in junior high.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Not quite the same thing you've tweeted.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I'm in a group text.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
This is terrific. Seven highly motivated, tenacious buck eyes are
out there hunting for news. You'd be a fool to
bet against that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I will make this unusable use that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So it's set in Ohio and the same documentary crew,
because if you've seen the Office, it's about this documentary crew.
It's filmed as a documentary. They come into this like
tiny little office and just follows the characters of the characters,
the people who work in that office in their lives
and it's meant to be like this very mundane setting,
but it's actually like wildly funny and the people in
(06:08):
that office are crazy and the pay but has a
very similar vibe. So it takes place at this very
tiny Midwestern newspaper called the Toledo truth Teller, a very
historic newspaper that's about to shut down because spoiler alert,
no one's buying newspapers anymore. And so the same mockumentary
crew from the original office comes to this little midwestern
(06:28):
newspaper to chronicle like this team trying to bring it
back because we have Ned Samson, who's the new editor
in chief of the Toledo truth Teller, played by John Olgileeson.
Do you do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
You do it?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Recognize him? Like I guess people know him from iconic
films like X Marketer. So many people would know him
from About Time, so many people would know him as
one of the Weasley brothers from Harry Potter like he's
so he plays Ned. And the other really good bit
of casting is that Sabrina Imbacatory. I never say her
name right, but you would know her because she plays
Valentina in the second season of The White Lotus.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh yes, I don't think I could trust any more.
It's a TV, it's a flower, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So she plays Valentina in season two and she was
one of the huge breakout stars from that show. So
she plays es Morelda Grand, a writer at the paper
who's kind of very set in her ways. And so
the whole show is this mockumentary crew following these people
as all these like volunteer journalists come in and try
and resurrect the Paper. And it's done by Greg Daniels,
(07:35):
who did the original Office. So it's got that same
flair and that same comedy styling and that same kind
of vibe to it. And it's a huge legacy coming
off the back of the Office, one of the most
iconic comedies of all time. But it's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, And I was gonna ask you, is it one
of those situations where you're a little bit worried to
mess with perfection? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think if they tried to recreate The Office or
even rebooted, I don't think it can be properly rebooted
this time. I think time has passed. It's time to
tell new stories. But what's more important, has just got
the essence of it. And so if you loved the
style of the Office, and you just love Greg Daniel's
storytelling in his way of like making your show, then
you'd really love the Paper. But just come into it
(08:17):
thinking like it's like the Office, but not the Office,
Like you've got to watch it as its own show.
But in saying that, there are some surprises, especially in
the first episode. Four fans of the Office. There might
be a few little nods, there might be a few
little cameos. I don't want to spoil anything, but yeah,
I feel like it's gonna be one of those ones
that die hard Office fans love or hate because some
people get really protective of their family shay. Yeah. Well again,
(08:38):
I think because they've created a whole new world with
just a similar type of storytelling, it doesn't feel like
it's ruined, Like it's not going to be the same
situation with sex and the City and just like that fans,
which you know, they're not bringing back all the same
characters and like breaking people up and killing people and
that sort of stuff to have new stories like and
you can also go into so for people like you, you
(08:59):
can also go into it not watching The Office, okay,
because there's a few little callbacks to it, but you
don't need them to enjoy the jokesmouth story. You can
go in with completely fresh eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
All right, Well, maybe i'll toss that up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Do I start first? Please watch The Office?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
First?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Watch the American Office first. I know for some people
that's blasphem me, but it's my favor.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I think that's the widely old opinion and then watch
the paper.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But everyone else who's watched The Office, which is everyone
else in the world, watch the paper. It's on binge.
I think I'm just gonna get lemons say. It's going
to be the big comedy that we're talking about for
the rest of the year. And it also is such
a beautiful, lovely kind of comfort watch that really safe,
heartwarming comedy. So you know how I love to make
my at home watching like a whole moment, So I'd
say this weekend, watch the paper, set the scene. I
(09:44):
love to like light my candles, put my phone in
another room, order some uber eats, like have some comfort
food with a comfort TV show. So I'm just saying,
the Paper on binge. Get around it, Nana, Okay, the
best movie you've seen all year?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I lie, I know I can't go around just like
saying that.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Can I now have to back it up?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But I did see The Roses on Tuesday night you'll preview.
I took my mum so I can say, how a
multi generational little here.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You dear, I do anything?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I do believe that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
How's married life?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The kids are amazing, right, don't drug would you do
a photoshop from New York magazine Nude.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I don't think so, I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
But you are still a failure.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He got fired.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Everybody seems to think we hate each other.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I suppost sometimes I do hate you, a sporadic hatred.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's infused with tarigan. It adds a bit of bitterness.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I likes to leave a little bit of herself and
everything she does.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I love this fun banter you guys do. Sometimes Ivy's
mad at me and I can't even tell. Sometimes he's
got his cocking me and I can't even tell.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are done, say what we're done?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I just want the house I built it.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
You're not having as we want everything.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And he walks out of here with his face still
attached right Bernow, wow, you're a miss me.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Make me mad?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So okay, where do I even begin? It's so great,
great script, great cinematography. It's directed by the same guy
who did Bombshell, Jay Roach.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Another nice Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I was when I went, and I was like,
I feel like I'm in for a good time, even
though obviously a very different kind of movie. So for
people who don't know anything about it, it's a satirical comedy.
I've seen it called a dark comedy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I mean, I get where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's not that dark like this dark undertones, okay, good,
but it essentially follows the life of a married couple
over the years, the ins and outs of their long
term relationship. So it's Olivia Coleman opposite Benedict cumberbat.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I mean that casting is superb, Like that's the cell
one right, amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, and not even that, the supporting cast.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We've got Shooty Gatwa, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
My god, I'm obsessed with him. I've also I haven't
seen this movie because em and I were on a
trip for work, so we missed the premiere. But I've
watched every press clip with him talking because I just
find him so funny and so hot and so charismatic.
I've watched every press clip of him interviewing for this movie,
so I feel like I know him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I mean we all fell in love with him
obviously sex education and I want to doctor who Like,
he's just such a huge star. There's also Andy Samberg,
there's Kate McKinnon.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Alison Janney.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Like, it's a great supporting cast and one of the
things that comes through in such a stark way in
this movie. Is the American style of humor versus the
British style.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, so a lot of.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The American comedians, they obviously have that very bulshy, like
it is what it is. It's just in your face
kind of comedy. And then there's the back and forth
between Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, have amazing chemistry.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I bet they do. Of course they do. It's chemistry
and all the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Ways, Laura, there's chemistry in there's like sexual chemistry, and
there's also like that tugget cheek human chemistry. And I
mean this is like a hot take for me. You
can tell me if I'm wrong. But like my generation,
I think wouldn't have viewed Benedict Cumberbatch as like a
sex symbol.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
What I think? Okay, maybe this is just what I
took away from this.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's what he's known for mostly being a sex symbol.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
To me, I just think of the guy who couldn't
pronounce penguin in the.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Jennessey Dokay, he feels bad about that. Okay, he hates
when people bring that up. Yeah, I hate to bring
the story. But if anyone who doesn't know, but in
it comes about very famously narrated a wildlife documentary. He
thought he was doing a good thing, and this is
how he said.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Penguin And the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Last thing you might expect to see here is penguins.
These are fjordland crested penguins named after this corner of
South New Zealand. So why are these woodlands so attractive
to penguins? A fresh water stream through the forest makes
(13:59):
a handy highway for a parent penguin heading home from
a fishing foot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As he has pointed out, it's the fault of the
editors and the producer or someone's throwing blame all over
the place because he said no one picked him up.
That's Hangwangengan.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But okay, I never, I guess lusted for this man
because I guess there's a bit of an age gap.
I believe he's forty nine, Like you know this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It doesn't matter, Okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, So okay, Just so, he has a whole his fans,
He has a whole, very intense network of fans who
like follow him around and emerging and stuff. And they're
called the cumber bitches.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Oh, I didn't know, but you didn't know that was
like a feeling of longing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, of course feeling. I maybe they just like love
his acting.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Anyway, in my head, I was just like a great actor,
but he is. He's got like some sex little moments
like man fity little nugget.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So I mean that was one take year.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
But I will say I think because it's hilarious the
way it's scripted there back and forth, it's so good.
But then it's also a really interesting, like I guess
as a third perspective to their relationship. Watching it, it
really takes you on this journey of like being someone
looking at a relationship you're not involved in and being like,
oh my god, why can you guys.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Not figure it out? Like you're great, but like but
they're so in it that they can't see it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And yeah, it just goes on a whole crazy journey.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think you would love it, like to the point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I can't imagine, not anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So it's based on the original movie The War of
the Roses, which is the similar thing okay that I've
seen and that I like, you know, I really want
to see this again. Work sent me away, So I
missed the premiere but I do want to see it
because everyone Yeah, exactly, but everyone in this movie, like
as you're saying, the cast is incredible, the director is incredible.
It's based on a really iconic movie. You now know
Benett is hot. That's so important for me, huge moment.
(15:48):
I can just think of all the movies I can
now go and show you that he's hottish.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Just sexy, cumber Back. You're the new persons.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I thought, I'm coming in with this fresh new take
like he's weirdly attractive in this.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Laura, You'll never believe me, And you're like, no, no, no,
I'm want of the comb of it.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah. Yeah, coming with a hot take that bettered it
come about is a hot man is interesting. It's kind
of like saying, like, did you know that Margot Robbie's beautiful?
It is not that similar, or did you know that
she's blonde?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
That's what you just said.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, not only is he hot, he acts so well
in this and there's a really interesting sort of commentary
on gender roles and like you know, like when one
person gets to pursue their dreams in one home with
the kids, where the resentment builds.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I won't spoil too much. But yeah, yeah, it's a
mussy like I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I can't think of a movie that had me laughing
that much the whole way through.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Recently good because like, wait, do we even say the plot?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Because they're like breaking up and they're like attacking each
other kind of right, So that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Kind of comes later.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There's a lot about Initially they show how they got together.
They show quite a lot of their relationship while it's good,
and then they show it when it gets to really bad,
and they sort of show that slow spiral, and they
did it in such a good way with the script
that you're like, how did we get here?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
How do we get here? You guys are so good?
How and why?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I think it's really interesting because the original was
Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Yes, yes, and I think
it's actually based on a book. But I think the
ish element that they've added to this gives it a
little spice. But yeah, it wasn't that okay.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So some points are the roses at the cinemas, Yes,
a cinema date. Yes, love that you loved it, your
mum loved it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And we just do you need to hear from exactly
me and my mom to authority and the cumber bitches.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The two people whose movies opinions I trust, and now
you have a newfound crush and this undiscovered talent be
in it come About Sorry and could take away from
a movie really well, thank you so much for bringing
that to the table today and filling in on one
of the best movies of the year.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yes, you're so welcome. I hope everyone sees it and
loves it.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Thank you so much Minisha for jumping behind the mic today,
out of the producer roof and behind the mic even
though you've said some highly inflammatory things.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well I'm here, so no one hears from me to
a welfare chet.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, I mean you're the boss, so you'll be able
to override that of this podcast. And thank you all
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From Mamma Mia.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodneck and today in the Hot Seed is.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Mansia Is Warren jumping out of my producer little box
to host today.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, this is a huge moment for the Spill because
you guys would know Mansha's voice and her face and
everything because she is the executive producer of the Spill,
So you make the magic happen. You're working behind the scenes.
If there's any problems, please direct them to her any
issues you have with the pod. But you're jumping into
Weekend Watch today because you have actually seen one of
(00:57):
the biggest movies of the year and I haven't, So
that's what you're here for.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I have. I'm very excited to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I think I actually declared to you that it's my
favorite new movie that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, huge call, huge call, and I was like, say
no more.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Say it for the pod. So if you're near here,
we can watch is our weekly episode where we talk
about the best new TV shows and movies that have
just come out this week, because we get to see
everything before it goes out to the world, so you
can make an educated decision of what to watch on
the weekend. So I'm going to start off with a
recommendation of a show that just came out yesterday the
first few episodes, and the stakes were very high with
(01:31):
this one because it is the spin off and a
sort of continuation reboot of one of the most iconic
comedy TV shows in the world, The Office.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I actually have a confession to make.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can I just tell you I knew this is
going to happen. I knew what okay say they need
to say.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I want to preface it by saying that there's nothing.
There's nothing I could say.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I know I've been told off throughout my life for
not having seen The Office, but I know a lot
about The Office, to the point that on my Hinge
profile I had a prompt about how I want that
forever Chris Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'm sorry, I know we don't spore Chris Brown, but
that so apparently you do.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I just want to recreate that wedding moment at my wedding,
and I had that in a Hinge and the number
of Office fanatics I get on Hinge being like, the
audacity of you to have this prompt when you have
not seen this show.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They hate me and it hasn't gone well for my
love life.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So much do you want back there? First of all,
I hate you for making me say this, but the
men are correct. You're the wrong one here, and I.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hate the men are correct. The men are right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So wait, let's just let's not escape past this anytime soon.
So on your Hinge profile, you just quote something from
the Office. I said something like, but you've never seen
the Office.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's something about let's get on the same page about
dancing to forever at our wedding because I love that scene.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I'm like, I'm in the zegeist. I'm in the No,
I just haven't watched it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And now it's too Do you haven't your Hinge profile
that you're like this quotes from the Office, but I
haven't seen it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I come up in the It comes up when I
get shamed.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So you're like cat fishing these heads because they think
they found this beautiful, smart girl who loves the Office,
and they're so excited, and then they're devastating they find
out that you're literally baiting them with a TV show
that you have not seen.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This has turned into an expose.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But maybe this new show.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Is head it up. We could have skated right past this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well maybe this new show's my way in. I mean,
maybe I would go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And watch the original Office first before you did this.
But anyway, anyway, sorry to those men on Hinge. So yes,
I guess everyone else in the world knows this. So
the Office, I mean, obviously there was the UK version
of the Office that was super popular, but when they
started the American version, I think a lot of people
can agree that's I mean, it's controversial. You wouldn't know
because you haven't seen either, But that is like a
(03:44):
very beloved show. It ran from two thousand and five
to twenty thirteen, and it still gets widely watched, quoted,
talked about today, used by people to find love in
a nefarious way, like yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Used on TikTok all over right, dog feed is still rundom.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's twenty twenty five exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think when they were doing like the press for this,
they were sending out you know how like we get
all the press releases, screeners, all that sort of stuff
and to hype up the show. They were saying how
there's still millions and millions of mentions of the Office
across all social media platforms, like to this day and
this show ended in twenty thirteen, Like that is a
crazy legacy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So the good news for fans of the Office, of
which you are not one.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is that potential shaming that's about you brought it up.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You could have just said I haven't seen it. I
would have skated past that. It's the fact that you're
using it to lure men.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Which is a whole situation. The problem is me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So this new show, the Paper, which came out in
Australia on Binge today, is a follow up of the iconic.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Show and of eight sales products made out of paper,
toilet tissue, toilet seat protectors, and local newspapers.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And that is in order of quality.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
My name is Ned Samson. I am your new editor
in chief.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Have you read this paper?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How do you think it compares to any other paper?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It sucks.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
We are going to make it better. I hope it's
not too disruptive to have me come in and sort
of shake everything up.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh no, no, don't be So that's that's a gazing.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Welcome, volunteers to your first staff meeting as reporters for
the Toledo truth Teller. How many of you have actually
written for a paper before?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I run a paper in junior high.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Not quite the same thing you've tweeted.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I'm in a group text.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
This is terrific. Seven highly motivated, tenacious buck eyes are
out there hunting for news. You'd be a fool to
bet against that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I will make this unusable use that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So it's set in Ohio and the same documentary crew,
because if you've seen the Office, it's about this documentary crew.
It's filmed as a documentary. They come into this like
tiny little office and just follows the characters of the characters,
the people who work in that office in their lives
and it's meant to be like this very mundane setting,
but it's actually like wildly funny and the people in
(06:08):
that office are crazy and the pay but has a
very similar vibe. So it takes place at this very
tiny Midwestern newspaper called the Toledo truth Teller, a very
historic newspaper that's about to shut down because spoiler alert,
no one's buying newspapers anymore. And so the same mockumentary
crew from the original office comes to this little midwestern
(06:28):
newspaper to chronicle like this team trying to bring it
back because we have Ned Samson, who's the new editor
in chief of the Toledo truth Teller, played by John Olgileeson.
Do you do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
You do it?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Recognize him? Like I guess people know him from iconic
films like X Marketer. So many people would know him
from About Time, so many people would know him as
one of the Weasley brothers from Harry Potter like he's
so he plays Ned. And the other really good bit
of casting is that Sabrina Imbacatory. I never say her
name right, but you would know her because she plays
Valentina in the second season of The White Lotus.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh yes, I don't think I could trust any more.
It's a TV, it's a flower, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So she plays Valentina in season two and she was
one of the huge breakout stars from that show. So
she plays es Morelda Grand, a writer at the paper
who's kind of very set in her ways. And so
the whole show is this mockumentary crew following these people
as all these like volunteer journalists come in and try
and resurrect the Paper. And it's done by Greg Daniels,
(07:35):
who did the original Office. So it's got that same
flair and that same comedy styling and that same kind
of vibe to it. And it's a huge legacy coming
off the back of the Office, one of the most
iconic comedies of all time. But it's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, And I was gonna ask you, is it one
of those situations where you're a little bit worried to
mess with perfection? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think if they tried to recreate The Office or
even rebooted, I don't think it can be properly rebooted
this time. I think time has passed. It's time to
tell new stories. But what's more important, has just got
the essence of it. And so if you loved the
style of the Office, and you just love Greg Daniel's
storytelling in his way of like making your show, then
you'd really love the Paper. But just come into it
(08:17):
thinking like it's like the Office, but not the Office,
Like you've got to watch it as its own show.
But in saying that, there are some surprises, especially in
the first episode. Four fans of the Office. There might
be a few little nods, there might be a few
little cameos. I don't want to spoil anything, but yeah,
I feel like it's gonna be one of those ones
that die hard Office fans love or hate because some
people get really protective of their family shay. Yeah. Well again,
(08:38):
I think because they've created a whole new world with
just a similar type of storytelling, it doesn't feel like
it's ruined, Like it's not going to be the same
situation with sex and the City and just like that fans,
which you know, they're not bringing back all the same
characters and like breaking people up and killing people and
that sort of stuff to have new stories like and
you can also go into so for people like you, you
(08:59):
can also go into it not watching The Office, okay,
because there's a few little callbacks to it, but you
don't need them to enjoy the jokesmouth story. You can
go in with completely fresh eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
All right, Well, maybe i'll toss that up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Do I start first? Please watch The Office?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
First?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Watch the American Office first. I know for some people
that's blasphem me, but it's my favor.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I think that's the widely old opinion and then watch
the paper.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But everyone else who's watched The Office, which is everyone
else in the world, watch the paper. It's on binge.
I think I'm just gonna get lemons say. It's going
to be the big comedy that we're talking about for
the rest of the year. And it also is such
a beautiful, lovely kind of comfort watch that really safe,
heartwarming comedy. So you know how I love to make
my at home watching like a whole moment, So I'd
say this weekend, watch the paper, set the scene. I
(09:44):
love to like light my candles, put my phone in
another room, order some uber eats, like have some comfort
food with a comfort TV show. So I'm just saying,
the Paper on binge. Get around it, Nana, Okay, the
best movie you've seen all year?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I lie, I know I can't go around just like
saying that.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Can I now have to back it up?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But I did see The Roses on Tuesday night you'll preview.
I took my mum so I can say, how a
multi generational little here.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You dear, I do anything?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I do believe that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
How's married life?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The kids are amazing, right, don't drug would you do
a photoshop from New York magazine Nude.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I don't think so, I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
But you are still a failure.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He got fired.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Everybody seems to think we hate each other.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I suppost sometimes I do hate you, a sporadic hatred.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's infused with tarigan. It adds a bit of bitterness.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I likes to leave a little bit of herself and
everything she does.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I love this fun banter you guys do. Sometimes Ivy's
mad at me and I can't even tell. Sometimes he's
got his cocking me and I can't even tell.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are done, say what we're done?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I just want the house I built it.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
You're not having as we want everything.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And he walks out of here with his face still
attached right Bernow, wow, you're a miss me.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Make me mad?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So okay, where do I even begin? It's so great,
great script, great cinematography. It's directed by the same guy
who did Bombshell, Jay Roach.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Another nice Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I was when I went, and I was like,
I feel like I'm in for a good time, even
though obviously a very different kind of movie. So for
people who don't know anything about it, it's a satirical comedy.
I've seen it called a dark comedy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I mean, I get where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's not that dark like this dark undertones, okay, good,
but it essentially follows the life of a married couple
over the years, the ins and outs of their long
term relationship. So it's Olivia Coleman opposite Benedict cumberbat.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I mean that casting is superb, Like that's the cell
one right, amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, and not even that, the supporting cast.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We've got Shooty Gatwa, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
My god, I'm obsessed with him. I've also I haven't
seen this movie because em and I were on a
trip for work, so we missed the premiere. But I've
watched every press clip with him talking because I just
find him so funny and so hot and so charismatic.
I've watched every press clip of him interviewing for this movie,
so I feel like I know him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I mean we all fell in love with him
obviously sex education and I want to doctor who Like,
he's just such a huge star. There's also Andy Samberg,
there's Kate McKinnon.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Alison Janney.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Like, it's a great supporting cast and one of the
things that comes through in such a stark way in
this movie. Is the American style of humor versus the
British style.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, so a lot of.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The American comedians, they obviously have that very bulshy, like
it is what it is. It's just in your face
kind of comedy. And then there's the back and forth
between Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, have amazing chemistry.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I bet they do. Of course they do. It's chemistry
and all the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Ways, Laura, there's chemistry in there's like sexual chemistry, and
there's also like that tugget cheek human chemistry. And I
mean this is like a hot take for me. You
can tell me if I'm wrong. But like my generation,
I think wouldn't have viewed Benedict Cumberbatch as like a
sex symbol.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
What I think? Okay, maybe this is just what I
took away from this.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's what he's known for mostly being a sex symbol.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
To me, I just think of the guy who couldn't
pronounce penguin in the.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Jennessey Dokay, he feels bad about that. Okay, he hates
when people bring that up. Yeah, I hate to bring
the story. But if anyone who doesn't know, but in
it comes about very famously narrated a wildlife documentary. He
thought he was doing a good thing, and this is
how he said.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Penguin And the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Last thing you might expect to see here is penguins.
These are fjordland crested penguins named after this corner of
South New Zealand. So why are these woodlands so attractive
to penguins? A fresh water stream through the forest makes
(13:59):
a handy highway for a parent penguin heading home from
a fishing foot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As he has pointed out, it's the fault of the
editors and the producer or someone's throwing blame all over
the place because he said no one picked him up.
That's Hangwangengan.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But okay, I never, I guess lusted for this man
because I guess there's a bit of an age gap.
I believe he's forty nine, Like you know this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It doesn't matter, Okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, So okay, Just so, he has a whole his fans,
He has a whole, very intense network of fans who
like follow him around and emerging and stuff. And they're
called the cumber bitches.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Oh, I didn't know, but you didn't know that was
like a feeling of longing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, of course feeling. I maybe they just like love
his acting.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Anyway, in my head, I was just like a great actor,
but he is. He's got like some sex little moments
like man fity little nugget.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So I mean that was one take year.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
But I will say I think because it's hilarious the
way it's scripted there back and forth, it's so good.
But then it's also a really interesting, like I guess
as a third perspective to their relationship. Watching it, it
really takes you on this journey of like being someone
looking at a relationship you're not involved in and being like,
oh my god, why can you guys.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Not figure it out? Like you're great, but like but
they're so in it that they can't see it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And yeah, it just goes on a whole crazy journey.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think you would love it, like to the point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I can't imagine, not anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So it's based on the original movie The War of
the Roses, which is the similar thing okay that I've
seen and that I like, you know, I really want
to see this again. Work sent me away, So I
missed the premiere but I do want to see it
because everyone Yeah, exactly, but everyone in this movie, like
as you're saying, the cast is incredible, the director is incredible.
It's based on a really iconic movie. You now know
Benett is hot. That's so important for me, huge moment.
(15:48):
I can just think of all the movies I can
now go and show you that he's hottish.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Just sexy, cumber Back. You're the new persons.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I thought, I'm coming in with this fresh new take
like he's weirdly attractive in this.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Laura, You'll never believe me, And you're like, no, no, no,
I'm want of the comb of it.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah. Yeah, coming with a hot take that bettered it
come about is a hot man is interesting. It's kind
of like saying, like, did you know that Margot Robbie's beautiful?
It is not that similar, or did you know that
she's blonde?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
That's what you just said.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, not only is he hot, he acts so well
in this and there's a really interesting sort of commentary
on gender roles and like you know, like when one
person gets to pursue their dreams in one home with
the kids, where the resentment builds.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I won't spoil too much. But yeah, yeah, it's a
mussy like I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I can't think of a movie that had me laughing
that much the whole way through.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Recently good because like, wait, do we even say the plot?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Because they're like breaking up and they're like attacking each
other kind of right, So that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Kind of comes later.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There's a lot about Initially they show how they got together.
They show quite a lot of their relationship while it's good,
and then they show it when it gets to really bad,
and they sort of show that slow spiral, and they
did it in such a good way with the script
that you're like, how did we get here?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
How do we get here? You guys are so good?
How and why?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I think it's really interesting because the original was
Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Yes, yes, and I think
it's actually based on a book. But I think the
ish element that they've added to this gives it a
little spice. But yeah, it wasn't that okay.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So some points are the roses at the cinemas, Yes,
a cinema date. Yes, love that you loved it, your
mum loved it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And we just do you need to hear from exactly
me and my mom to authority and the cumber bitches.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The two people whose movies opinions I trust, and now
you have a newfound crush and this undiscovered talent be
in it come About Sorry and could take away from
a movie really well, thank you so much for bringing
that to the table today and filling in on one
of the best movies of the year.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yes, you're so welcome. I hope everyone sees it and
loves it.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Thank you so much Minisha for jumping behind the mic today,
out of the producer roof and behind the mic even
though you've said some highly inflammatory things.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well I'm here, so no one hears from me to
a welfare chet.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, I mean you're the boss, so you'll be able
to override that of this podcast. And thank you all
so much for listening to The Spill today, and don't
forget to follow The Spill on TikTok and Instagram. That's
why we post all our videos and you can also
let us know what you'll and loving. And The Spill
is produced by the newest fan of the Benedict Come
About fan club manitia Is Warren, and we'll see you
back here on your podcast feed for another episode of
(18:19):
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