The year is 1999 and I

Gonna need you to come on in here and listen a bit to a

another episode on Mike Judges Seminole Classic Office Space. Okay. All right. Hello everyone are welcome to

I am Paul Sheer joined as always by the fantastic

Amy Nicholson how are you Amy I am fantastic How are you Amy? I am fantastic. How are you? I'm good and you know what I'm

eating a little bit of crow because after he released our beetle juice episode it was

brought to my attention that Beetlejuice was not a failed

animated series. It had four seasons. It won a children's Emmy. So I apologize to all you Beetlejuice animated fans out there for incorrectly

Calling it a failed show not didn't say it wasn't good just I labeled it as being failed. So, but you know what? That, those are the slings and the arrows that you're

willing to take when you do a show like this. We're talking about great movies. We don't know everything. We know a lot and today we are going to talk a lot about Mike Judge and this seminal film office space.

But Amy, let's like kind of go back to where this all started.

Yeah, let's jump into it because the year is 1999,

and Mike Judge is about to make his first live action movie,

based on actually his first ever animated short because yeah we know Mike

Judge he's famous for Beavis and But head King of the Hill those cartoons

But he's not a trained animator. He's a guy who got a degree in physics from you San Diego, and his first job out of college was a temp gig alphabetizing purchase orders, which he called soul sucking torture.

He said there was a radio on at his office building that played Michael Bolton all the time.

He only lasted three weeks there and his next job was a cubicle gig at a military subcontractor

and that's where he met a guy in logistics, are you following this, who was always

ranting about what he'd do if his desk got moved again. And then after that,

Mike Judge worked at a tech startup in Silicon Valley where on his first day, another

guy refused to let him borrow his schematics because no one who borrowed them ever brought

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