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 Felixammon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Okay, hello there, Felix.

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 Bazaar, which is a

weekly long-form 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 you were do you remember the first time you saw this movie

sadly I don't because I was a freshman I don't think anyone does I think this is 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 was in every, 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 I was at

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 yeah it's 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 they're just like several

themeable legendary. Did this movie invent that?

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