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Offline with Jon Favreau

Greg Daniels on the Digital Afterlife

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Recorded live from the podcast stage at South by Southwest, Jon is joined by acclaimed television writer Greg Daniels, creator of 'The Office' and 'Parks and Rec.' The two talk about Greg's latest show 'Upload,' which just premiered its second season on Amazon Video. Jon asks Greg what inspired him to write a show about the digital afterlife, how likely that future may actually be, and what he thinks of 'The Office's' lasting impact. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0

I know you've been asked quite a few times about an office reboot or an office

0:04.0

reunion. I will go ahead and put in my request as well. One thing I've been

0:08.4

wondering is I've watched the show for the 15th time over the last year is how

0:14.3

you'd get away with a lot of those jokes, especially for Michael, like here in

0:19.8

2022. Yeah, I'm curious about that too.

0:25.6

I'm John Fabro. Welcome to Offline. Thank you all for coming to Offline and

0:31.8

thank you for listening to Offline. Getting together in person is that much more

0:36.1

in the spirit of the show, I think, than listening on our phones and tweeting

0:39.3

about it, but please also listen on your phones and tweet about it. So I'm very

0:43.9

excited to be with the guest today who can talk about how the internet and

0:47.0

technology is shaping entertainment, particularly television. He got to start

0:51.2

writing on Saturday at Live and the Simpsons before creating, producing, show

0:55.6

running and writing a few decent shows you might have heard about, including the

0:59.4

office, King of the Hill, and Parks and Recreation. He's currently running two

1:03.5

shows that are back for second seasons, Space Force on Netflix, and upload on Amazon

1:08.8

Prime. Please welcome Greg Danyne.

1:13.2

So we're at South by Southwest. Do you want to set the scene? We're in an auditorium.

1:23.5

It looks like there's about 9,000 people, I think. 9,000, 10,000? 9,000 people. Yeah,

1:29.8

it's amazing. I could barely hear on the way in. Welcome to Offline. Thank you for doing this.

1:34.4

Thank you. I'm a big fan of yours. I'm a big fan of yours. Like most people who

1:39.3

aren't monsters, I'm a huge fan of your shows. I want to start with upload

1:42.8

because, A, I believe the second season is out today. Today, yes.

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