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- Hi, it's Brian Baumgartner here.

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And I'm gonna answer some
questions from the AV Club.

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You contributed to the
AV Club's oral history

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about the Kevin's chili open last year.

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How fondly do you look back
on filming that scene today?

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If you had told me, oh so many years ago,

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that we would be talking
again, AV Club, about chili.

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I would've called you a dirty liar.

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I would've. Yes.

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I had no idea that I would
still be talking about chili,

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that I would have a chili cookbook today.

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This was not in my mind.

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I thought it was a funny scene,

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obviously excellently with
some amazing physical comedy.

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What's the best fan interaction
you've had about The Office?

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I was at a hotel on a work trip.

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I was sitting at the bar, eating by myself

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cause I was alone on a work trip.

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And I sat there, and I
had just finished my food,

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and the bartender takes my food away.

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And I'm kind of looking at
my phone and distracted.

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And he comes back, and puts
down food in front of me,

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or someone does.

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And I look up and I'm
like, oh no-no, I just ate.

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And he leans down and says,

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"This is from the woman
at the end of the bar."

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And I look down, and it's a bowl of chili.

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She sent me not a drink,
but a bowl of chili.

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I thought, very very clever.

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Yeah, I think that's my
favorite fan interaction,

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at least about chili.

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What do you think The
Office's Kevin Malone

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would be doing today?

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I hope he's still at his bar
where he ended the finale,

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and I hope he's having a great
time chatting with people,

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and that he never ever has
to do the numbers again.

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What was the process of
figuring out what 177 recipes

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would go in your chili cookbook?

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We went out to world championship,

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world champions

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from the World Championship
Chili Cook-off.

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We got a ton of recipes from them.

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We had fans submit recipes.

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Most of which were awesome.

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We did have to cut a few.

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Chefs, celebrity chefs.

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We cooked a lot of
chili, and we tasted it.

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And the ones that we
thought made the grade,

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there in the book.

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177. Even I am amazed.