Hello and welcome to the office space episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. This is going to be a fun one. I know it. I'm Felix Ammon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Okay, hello there, Felix.

Oh, you're creeping me out already. We have a very exciting special guest for this one. Mr. Cardiff Garcia, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Yeah, great to be here. I'm psyched about this one.

It's a good one. Cardiff, introduce yourself and plug your podcast.

I am the host of The New Bizarre, which is a weekly long forum podcast about all things wonky and economic.

I should make one concession to the format of this show and ask Cardiff where you are when you are. Do you remember the first time you saw this movie?

I don't think anyone does. I think this is one of the movies and I think this is kind of interesting that basically no one saw when it came out.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. I was a freshman in college and so I wasn't really seeing a lot of movies in the theater anyways.

But what I remember was that by the time this movie took hold as a kind of underground hit, it was in everybody's mind.

It affected everybody's language so that by the time I did start working a few years later in an office very similar to this one.

It had very similar dynamics at a bank. It was a JP Morgan. Everybody was quoting office space, which was satirizing these places.

But it had also become a part of the language of the office.

It's almost as though it's become part of like the collective unconscious of every office worker where people who have literally never seen the movie.

If you start talking to them about TPS reports, they will know what you are talking about.

Right. Yeah. Yesterday I was very tempted to talk about having a case of the Mondays because that is legend from this movie.

Did this movie any more? Did that not exist before this movie?

It's a good question.

It is a great question. Did people have a case of the Mondays prior to Mike Judges office space released in 1999?

Probably. I like the neighbor's response to hearing about it from Peter when the neighbor says,

I do believe you get your ass kicked for saying something like that. He's construction worksite.

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