Ben Silverman

Off The Beat with Brian Baumgartner

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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For the second time on the podcast, Brian gets to pick the brain of the brilliant Ben Silverman, visionary executive producer behind The Office, Ugly Betty, Jane the Virgin, The Biggest Loser, and many more. He talks about his childhood being raised by theater and television in Manhattan, the disappointment of attaining his childhood dream, breaking into new fields in media, and he even gives Brian some Japanese lessons.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:07.0	The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,
0:14.0	until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
0:20.9	America, y'all better work the hell up.
0:22.9	Bad things happens to good people in small towns.
0:32.5	Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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0:46.3	I made that show for Amazon in its early days, and it was so, Jeannet was so cuckoo about the sex and was so aggressive about the kind of
1:01.8	craziness of that world and the strange behavior that he saw in the Paris of that moment. And I got seduced by it. I was like,
1:14.6	okay, yeah, maybe there's a large audience for this. The initial reaction of the Amazon Prime
1:22.4	mom who watched that show was, I mean, that show could have taken Amazon down it was that
1:30.4	bad a choice and that wrong of an environment to put that show hi my name is Ben silverman and I am a media entrepreneur and the executive producer of the office.
1:51.6	Well, well, well, if it isn't another episode of Off the Beat with yours truly, your host, Brian Baumgartner.
2:00.8	Today, yep, there you go.
2:03.0	I'm talking to the big man, the giant donkey, the creator, the guy who started it all.
2:08.7	Well, he started for me at least.
2:11.2	Ben Silverman is here on the program.
2:14.8	Now, Ben, he may not be on your television screen all that often, but he is almost
2:19.9	always behind it in some way lurking in the corner. The fact that he created the office is
2:28.1	just the tip. That's what she said. Just the tip of what he has accomplished in the entertainment industry.
2:35.2	He is the co-CEO of Propagate Content, the production company behind this very podcast and
2:41.3	many other shows.
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