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429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

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They're just oh my gosh And he's wolfing you know and
Speaker 3
then he howls
Speaker 2
That is the most dramatic over the top corporate commercial I think i've ever heard like We only could hear it sam and i are dying laughing like we don't have a visual like just like you guys listening Oh my gosh
Speaker 3
Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1
guys each one is like a few minutes long It was a whole series
Speaker 2
oh my gosh and I love like really dramatically when he's like they have no idea I just hacked yeah to their phone
Speaker 1
Well, listen. I didn't know that you could hack into a printer until I watched this video That's what he's doing in this clip. He's anything there be anything can be hacked guys I learned something and I guess they just re-up to this campaign So look for it. Well,
Speaker 2
remember years ago when we found out that you could hack someone's camera in their Computer and so then we started putting post-it notes
Speaker 1
Over our cameras over our camera. Uh-huh. I know everyone you should do that You should put a post-it note over the little camera in your computer Right or a piece of tape or what have you yes
Speaker 5
because we read that article where you can hack into it
Speaker 2
Yeah, and then people just watch
Speaker 1
you in your house. How
Speaker 2
creepy. It's creep skis super creeper
Speaker 1
All right. So back to the conference room. Mm-hmm. Gabe has shown the video people are digesting it Jim has a Sarcastic talking head about it with a great impression by john kresinski very good. Well, you know, he's good at the impressions Mm-hmm. Well now gabe is going to explain that saber primarily sells printers So he wants everybody to consider themselves printer salesmen who also sell paper Michael doesn't like this he doesn't care for it. It's about to get worse for michael though
Speaker 2
Gabe then starts going over all the new company policies at six minutes 58 seconds marideth gills talk about vacation days Such a like odd heckle from marideth This was a much longer scene where everyone shares about their vacation days and jenna It just cracked me up. I want to share a little bit with you Marideth says I saved up days from last year I want to go to jamaica and then she stands up rolls her hips and says how marideth got her groove back Okay Stanley has a talking head where he says I need those vacation days. I have two women One likes to ski and one likes the tropics. It's very difficult But I am not complaining or asking to be judged. I just need some time off Okay
Speaker 3
And then michael
Speaker 2
says what have you been saving up for days like a big trip in the future like a 40 day family safari? Oh michael gabe says i'm sorry, but maybe you could look into a two week safari for your family And michael says you can't take 12 kids on a safari in only two weeks And stanley says you can't if they're
Speaker 3
imaginary. Oh my god And then kelly
Speaker 2
explains she actually owes the company days Because she tried out for american idol and took time off. She went to atlanta boston and sineadie And she did not advance These are amazing. I know but here is my favorite part This scene would have ended with a line from kreed and I am so bummed it got cut While they're talking about their vacation time and whether it will roll over or not for saber Marideth sees the it guy right yes, and she says hey who the hell's going through our stuff And kreed says oh that's just sam he's with me What? And then gabe goes actually that's nik your new it guy and then the scene progresses as erd But I just love that kreed thought he knew this guy. He's like oh that's sam.
Speaker 5
He's with me
Speaker 1
Well, here is something that a lot of people flagged when we cut over to nik the new it guy Many people noticed that it is the same person who was giving graphic design career advice to pam At the job fair. Yeah, I asked randy about this and he said well now Job fair was not on his watch, but he did remember that a lot of the writers really really loved this actor who by the way Nelson franklin who previously appeared in job fair and they just decided we don't care We're gonna bring him back because this is now an arc.

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