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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So, you know, last week Gandhi and I went to
Broadway to see the show that the musical actually with
our friend Darren Chris. Yeah maybe happy Yeah, go ahead,
maybe happy maybe happy yeah, maybe happy ending. And I
don't want to give too much away about what it's
about because I don't want to ruin it for anyone,
(00:26):
but it has sort of has a little connection to
you know, that show Severance using Severance, right, a huge show.
A lot of people love Severance.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I haven't, but I've heard it's amazing and it's on
my list.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, there's this new study. I find this shocking. A
new study saying that over a third of real life employees,
nearly half of the gen zers polled, we prefer to
be severed like they the characters are in Severance. If
you don't know what that means, that means these people
would willingly undergo a medical procedure to seven their work
(01:00):
memories from their personal lives. Wow, which is sort of
shades a little bit of the show that we saw
with Darren Chris, right, a little.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Bit, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So according to this data, I'm looking at among eighteen
to twenty five year olds, that figure rose to a
staggering fifty percent. Half of eighteen to twenty five people
of year old people they talked to said I would
definitely want to have this procedure done. They want to
be able to walk out of the office at five
(01:32):
PM a button is pushed or a timer goes off,
and you have no recollection of what you did in
the office that day, so you can go back to
your personal life.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That makes me.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What that makes me sad to but I don't want to,
I know. But Nate immediately went, oh, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Really I don't hate you guys, but there's aspects of look,
we're friends, right, like this is I enjoyed this part.
There are parts of my job that I don't like,
and I think anybody could say.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
That, right, you don't like them enough that you would
want to erase eight hours of every day.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Maybe four hours.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You don't it, maybe take it, I mean, don't tell
you when they Okay, there's Any's and Audi's right. If
you're any I think that's where you're at work and
you're an Audi, you're at home, you know, hanging out.
I think that's how it works. Now. I haven't seen Severance.
I haven't really I know, hold on, Sam has seen it,
maybe she can tell us. I don't know if it
erases what happened in the office, it just turns that
(02:29):
off and when you go back to work the next day,
it picks up where you left off. Is that is
that how it works?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Do you remember to come to work the next day?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Though?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Because it makes sense that you'd have all your work
memories while you're at work.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, can you get Samantha? I find this fast? Okay? Anyway,
I just think that's crazy to actually want to have
no recollection of your nine to five days. Hi. You
watch Severance?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Or you're a big fan of Severance?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well one of my favorite shows of all time.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Did you hear what I just said about this study
that came out, No go on. Among eighteen to twenty
five year olds, half of them would love to live
that life where they walk out of work at the
end of the day, work day, and they don't have
any recollection of anything at work and they go home
and have just a regular life.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Wow, Well, yeah, there's eighteen to twenty five year olds
year old old do they get you know, the less
people want to do that?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So is that basically how the severance life works for
these employees and people like it?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Just it totally separates the two.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It basically makes one person two people in one body.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, okay, but the decisions they make during the course
of during the course of a work day, aren't they
sometimes driven by that inner self?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
I mean yeah, yeah, that definitely comes into play in
the show.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's kind of like how like identical.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Twins can be two different people if they're raised in
two completely different households, because there's like an inner drive,
like you're saying, Elvis, but also circumstances on the outside.
So yeah, there is a definitely a common thread. But
what causes you to make what kind of decision based
on what you've experienced and only your life?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wow? So in this poll, they also found out that
thirty percent of these employees feel like their job takes
up too much of their identity and it makes separating
their personal and professional lives a living nightmare. You know,
it's a case of you know, taking your work home
with you, you know, and the things that frustrate you
during the course of a work day bleeds over into
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your personal life. But they're saying in the world of
the severance that ain't happening because they're not even connected, right, m.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, you just basically wake up where you were just
walking into work, but you're leaving, so you could be
like a.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Lovely family person at home and then go into work
and you're some type of murderer.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So it goes out and just you know, it's very
possible ext people or does whatever. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wow, Okay, all right, this makes for a great screenplay, right.
The show's doing very well.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Yes, Gary, I feel like I would benefit from this
because so much of mind identity is my work life,
and there's like everything kind of blends in together, and
I would like the separation. I like to see if
I can have a life on my own outside of
the workplace.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But wait a minute, Scary, I'm gonna correct me if
I'm wrong. Please anyone in the room, including you, Scary.
I don't see you as a take the frustrations from
work home kind of guy. You you seem to disconnect
even while you're at work. Well, not frustrations, but you're
here right now.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I could be a totally different person.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I feel like I could explore a different part of
me if I wasn't working. I didn't know anything about
and you know, you know, as you said, five o'clock
or whenever.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We leave here, button goes off.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And now what now?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What about you, Daniell. Let's okay, let's let's rip each
other apart. Let's start with you, daniel good, Danielle. I mean,
do you take the frustrations of this job home? Are
there many frustrations with this job?
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Sometimes if I'm pissed off about something, I'll take it home.
But I think for the most part, I'm at least
at least nowadays, I'm more like whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What about you, Gandhi?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, I think I take some home for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I don't know that I would want to disconnect it
to though I think they work so well hand in.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Hand, they do. I don't agree of each other. Yeah, well,
I know I've had over the years, and this is
not a new thing over the years, even you know,
before Nate was here, and while you know, before you
were here, Gandhi, I was told by people I work
with that I'm much nicer and more fun to be
with when I'm not at work?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, still is the case today?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Damn?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Because I'll tell you why. I believe that to be true.
Partially to be true because we work with a clock.
We have a clock taking at all times. We're always
we always have to be okay, what's next? What are
we doing next? We have to stay on target with
some sort of conversation or something. My mind is always
in that from six to ten am. Do you wonder, like,
(06:58):
what happens in this room when we go okay, we'll
be right back. We go to commercials well, a lot
of the time the room will do you guys just
start talking about what's for lunch. I'm always without wanting
to be thinking okay, well, hold on guys, what are
we doing next? This is kind of what we do, right.
But when ten o'clock hits, I'm like, hey, baby, let's go,
you know right? I mean I like to go have fun.
(07:22):
I relaxed. I'm relaxed. And people are like, oh, that
means I must be a total tyrant at work, am I?
I don't think so, not at all. But the only
time I take work home is if something really big
is going on and it sucks and we've all been
through those.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Things, right, I feel like I'll take it home if
I feel like I'm not doing a service that I
should be doing or providing something that I should be providing.
That will sit with me a little bit longer than
you know, other stuff.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
See, I took it home years ago because of certain
things that I kept to myself and didn't like tell
other people. And then I think once I told other people,
it made it better.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she wasn't, wasn't she.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You know, it's funny, they'll hear you, guys.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm kidding, but I don't know. So back to the
severance thing. Producer Sam, So, I'm assuming that the conflict
in the screenplay. I haven't really watched a lot of
these episodes comes when those two, those two sides of
the people kind of bleed into each other.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Right, when one has a curiosity about the other side. So, yes,
it's it's it's really deep, it super well rounded. But yeah,
when one of them has a problem that they know,
maybe the other one is the only one with the
awareness or the answer of something something along those lines,
or maybe the two should meet. The only problem is
(08:44):
it's one person and it's impossible for the two to
meet as far as the you know how the concept
of the show is drawn up.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, so it's interesting. Nate was the only one that
said he would be sort of interested in having this
double this du alike.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Correct, correct, but only for the stuff that happens after
ten a m. Eastern. Okay, see what I'm saying. I
enjoyed six to ten.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
But then if you don't have a choice, what if
you unfortunately it's all or nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, well then in that case, if it would make
my personal life that much better, then I would forego
six to you know what I mean, because it makes
it better.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So you guys are actually talking about how you feel
about work, like it sounds like the source is because
of work you want a better outside life, whereas most
of the characters in Severance have a traumatic outside life,
so they want to avoid living in that twenty four
to seven, so they created the work is the Getaway,
And wow, it's a great.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You guys gotta watch.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'm telling you it's so good.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Which it's great. You can still if you if you
could give work Gandhi the Apple passage.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I don't used to tell home Gandhi, I don't think
that this would work with what we do. I think
I could see a ton of places where it would work.
But we bring so much of our personal lives into
what we do. Separated those two things.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh we talk about right.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
It definitely wouldn't work the other way around, like you're saying,
because if something happened to me at home, I wouldn't
be able to bring it here. That would That's what
we're all about.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Elvis would ask for dinner last night every day, So
I have no idea.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
That'd be an issue.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, ask me in three hours. But uh, interesting text here.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Keep in mind we're applying this as with lives that
we know in our careers. We know this person says,
working at child protection, you definitely want to go home
and forget about what happened during the day. So there
are people that would love to have that severance.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know, I could see that. Yeah, Okay, I get it. Yeah, Nate,
I've been watching the Pit on HBO. Oh Max, it's excellent.
And this is a factor in these these medical workers' lives.
You can't just leave what you saw at the at
the workplace and go home and live a normal life. Right.
(10:55):
Some of these things are so traumatic, people dying on
a regular basis. You can't just let that go. So
I totally get it. Some people have jobs where as
great as their job is and as rewarding as it is,
you just can't let some of that stuff go. And
it affects your personal life. I find it fascinating. There
are some that can let it go a little better
than others. You, right, And if you're a veterinarian as well,
(11:18):
you work in a you know, in a vet office,
it's the same thing. You see these things, and they
say that depression with veterinarians and people who work in
the vet offices is very high, and I'm assuming in
the healthcare is as well.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So yeah, I want to start watching the Pit. Even
though Nay says you got to watch the Pit. I
cry like a baby every time one do. I really
want to cry like a baby. So good.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And the great thing about it is a lot of
medical professionals that said it's very close to what actually happens, right,
So I'm watching it and it's it's really a window
into that world.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't know. I think Gandhi is right. I think
we really can't do what we do here without the lines,
you know, crossing with what we do when we're out
of here, because that's life experiences and that, but I
don't know. It also makes you wonder, like, oh my god,
you know how much of my identity is my career?
Well some would say almost all of it?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Yeah, yes, scary would go home and have nothing to
remember but sleeping
Speaker 6 (12:25):
As I am outside, so you know,