Angela Kinsey
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Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
And I mean, how much fun was that table read, lady? So fun. I can't wait for people to see the movie.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
Well, I am playing Wilma. And I just love that my character has that name because my mom had a sister named Wilma, who I love dearly.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
My Aunt Wilma from Mississippi. Well, this Wilma is a loud and kind of a foul-mouthed proprietor of a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the middle of Oklahoma. Y'all, I was born to play this role. I know this woman. I know her. I have met her. I'm telling you, I'm thinking about like in my hometown, there's a Legion Hall. Yeah. Where you can go have an adult beverage. I know. I know her.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
I'm like, y'all, for a month. I just felt like Wilma probably wouldn't fuss with her hair. She's busy. She's running a bar. Yeah, she is. Yeah. But I do think she gets her nails done. I haven't shared that with you yet. Oh, okay. I do. Yeah. Because in my family, the Southern gals, they never miss their nail appointment. Everything else might be falling apart, but their nails are done.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
Yes, it is Kendra Adachi, a.k.a. The Lazy Genius. It's episode 399 titled It's a New Year. Let's Name What's Working.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
Yeah. You set goals. That's right. And we both had some of the same shared goals for how we wanted our podcast workflow to go. And we were in this sort of reevaluating mindset.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
I know. Yeah. Kendra is so good at this. She offers up such an accessible way to think about what is working for you, which in turn makes you see areas that could use some attention. She has three rules, three questions, and three categories to help you ask yourself, What's working in your life?
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
And we're using it at work, but it really can apply to every aspect of your life. So to relationships or maybe just even the rooms in your house. After I listened to this episode, I walked through my house and I would look at a room and be like, what's working here? Yeah. And that simple question helped me appreciate this little caddy that I bought to hold pens and pencils and scissors.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
It was just like in that little nook in my kitchen where all the random clutter goes to pile up. Yeah. Well, guess what? It's not piled up anymore. It's in a little caddy and it's working for me. And that small thing makes me happy. I love that. But that's just such a small little thing. But when you look around and see what's working... It makes you want to do it to the other rooms of your house.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
It's like this wonderful domino effect or to your relationships or to your workflow. It's like, okay, well, this one thing is working. How can I make the rest of it work for me as well?
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
That's great. I know. It's such a simple question. And I think that's why it's so easy to act on. Yes. Well, we hope you love this episode as much as we did. It's just such a great way to start the new year.
Office Ladies
Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
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Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
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Office Ladies Announcement & Lazy Genius’ It’s a New Year… Let’s Name What’s Working
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
The takeaway is Modesto is the Mecca for bread making. Yeah. Good bread there.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Jenna used to bring in like her yeast, like in the bowl, right? Is that what it's called?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
You're going to be my replacement. All about bread. With Timothy and Jenna.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
It's bigger. It's huge. It's bigger than The Office.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yeah. Come on. Timothy's going to be in here on Tuesdays, guys.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Okay, wait. It writes itself. It does. It really does. It's right there. We were going to ask you next.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Wait, what is your favorite place to eat in Modesto? I know Archer City, Texas. I go to Mearns for a cheeseburger.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yeah. We had pasture parties when I moved back to the States. But I read that you were a swimmer.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Well, we'll share that. We'll put it in our Instagram stories with a swipe up and I'll show up with my racket.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Oh, gosh. So maybe. But still come out and hit some balls.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
So like I have to hit cross court and then the person next to me hits cross court.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And then the first person that misses there, you can only do cross court. And when you miss, you yell dingles. And then the other ball that's active becomes a free ball for the whole court. That's right. But what happens to me is the minute someone yells dingles, I like... You freeze? I freeze.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Because like imagine someone next to you yelling dingles really loud. Dang off. Wouldn't that make you? It would. Yeah. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Now let's see. Okay. Back to The Office. Had you seen the show before? Were you a fan of it? Did you know anyone on The Office?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
You're very great, like right out of the gate at like clocking the camera. Yeah. Because some people that threw them off. But we watched you look at the camera.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Two, and then you have a cameo, and Michael's- I hope that doesn't sound pretentious.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
No, no, it's fine. You're in two episodes, and then you have a little cameo for Michael's Last Dundies, where Michael sends the camera crew, because Danny Cordray wins hottest in the office. And it's in deleted scenes, and I'm pretty sure it'll end up in the super fan episodes too, but yeah. So you're- You do win the Dundee.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
You've won hottest in the- But I didn't show up for that. You didn't. And so you come on- So how am I in it?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Michael has a TV screen. Yeah. And your character says, yeah, I said I couldn't be there, but Michael sent out a camera crew to my house.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I don't know. I don't either. Also, we just love our job, so it is a fun thing. It's fun to get to do this. Really fun.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Oh, yeah. He doesn't break. He's like a statue. It's really hard to make him laugh.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yeah, it was season seven, but it was always so fun when someone new came in because that new energy that it would bring to the set.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And I loved it so much. I rewatched it. The fact that Danny Cordray thinks Pam is a dork.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
It's such a great scene. And when you finally admit it, that Pam's a little dorky, I watched it with my son, who's 16, and he turned to me and he goes, this is so cringy. Well, I'm dressed as olive oil.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And she goes, when you call her dorky, she goes, oh, okay. Excuse me. And like, it's so funny.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yes, because she starts to really hit on you. And so they're like, ah, she's going to ruin it. Send in Oscar. And then Oscar comes in and she's literally like, he's here to clean. He speaks no English. And then they send in Ryan the Temp. And she's like, that's Esteban. He does floors. So she keeps like thwarting their plans. Yes. It's really fun.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I mean, that's so wild because you have such amazing, huge, larger than life other characters.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Well, I would challenge you to fly southwest to Austin and walk through that airport because you're going to get recognized a lot. I think I can do it. I'll take that challenge.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I've gotten before a shorter version of Laura Dern, but like the short version. She's really tall. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That's all I got.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
No, no. Although I really want to tell Laura Dern that someday that like, hey, I'm your short version.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yep. Today on Office Ladies 6.0. Timothy Oliphant is in the studio with us. You might know Timothy from his many movies and television roles, including the hugely successful shows Deadwood and Justified. Of course, you know, I loved him in The Mandalorian. And you know what? I did not bring it up on purpose because I didn't want to be a total nerd in front of him. I know. I was already a geek.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
My husband loved it. And then he had me start watching it. I love it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
That is shocking to me. What about from Deadwood? Do you have your star?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
But I just like how it looks. Yeah, just change it around. I have a little story for us. Well, two things. One, I have a question from Julio in Clinton, New Jersey. Julio says, which office character would best survive the justified universe?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I always love that when I watch a show to see someone from a world that's like totally different. I think your character was that on The Office too for a lot of people. That was really cool.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
But I loved him in Mandalorian. And you know, on The Office, he played Danny Cordray, the top salesman in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area. He was the salesman that Michael Scott eventually hires to work at Dunder Mifflin.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Timothy. Can I just tell you, this is our last show of 2024.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Thank you. Thank you. Can you just do this for us? We have some ads for you later, too.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Oh, you're so funny when you read ads on Conan. I love it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
You were a guest on Conan O'Brien. Justified last episode was that night. There was going to be a party. You bring onto Conan a mason jar of whiskey from Kentucky. And You and Conan and Andy all drank whiskey during the interview.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I was the second guest that night. Yeah. And I came out and you poured me a whiskey.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I was like, surely this isn't real whiskey. And I took a big slug of it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And I was like, oh, wow, that's real whiskey. So that is the first time I've ever drank on television. And I rewatched the interview. You totally are great. First of all, you guys were sipping. And then I come out. I take my slug of whiskey. And I am so like wackadoodle in the interview.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
No, but it was really good whiskey. And I totally thought it was a bit. And I didn't think it was actual whiskey.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
We had a class like that they called Shake and Bake because it was earthquakes and natural disasters.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
We didn't do this. Like the production office did it, but it was such a fun thing on the side of the office. And it's how people, like you learned a little bit about the cast or crew. It was a lovely show. I know. Isn't that wonderful? Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
It was like a family, really. Yeah. Yeah. So you want to kick it off, lady? Sure.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Lifeguarding. All right, do you play a musical instrument?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Next question. What's a place that you've been to that you absolutely loved?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I know. I know. That's a chore. We decided to like have a chore day and we told our kids they have to load the dishwasher. What? That's a chore?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yes. Thank you. What? They're 14. But let me tell you, you have a- Wait.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
But like, why? Like, we're in Los Angeles. It's not like, listen, in Archer City, Texas, chores were like, go. I had friends that had to milk the cows.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yes. That was a chore. I rode with my dad where he baled hay.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I know. This was a really fun Jim and Pam runner. We talked more about it, but it was so fun how it kept popping up. Well, I just love that. And Jenna, in rewatching this episode, it was so funny to me how all the Dunder Mifflin employees react to meeting Dani. So we just heard Jim and Dwight. But I also thought you should hear when Michael first sees him and then the whole bullpen.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I want to tell you, it was a show. When I opened the dishwasher, I was like, what the hell happened in here? Everything was just thrown in there.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yeah. This is making my dishwasher thing look hardcore.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Well, we're going to get your dates that you can travel. So when we go on the road. Yeah. All right. Awesome. Thank you, Timothy.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
You know, after the interview, we were talking a little bit before he left. And he was like, I'm serious. If you want to play, you should come. He got my phone number. And on my drive home, he called me. And he was like, hey, I'm about to text you all the info. I was like, OK. It was the next day. And lady, I wore my Songs of Scranton t-shirt to represent the office ladies team.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I was paired up with Timothy's sister-in-law, Robin, and I played with this great group of gals, and I met a lot of his family. It was very much a family affair. Plus, there were some fantastic tennis players, like jaw-dropping, amazing tennis, and some familiar faces like Joel McHale. Oh, yes. I just want you guys all to know that Joel has a really good cross court forehand.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Although, and Joel, I have given him crap about this. He did get schooled on the court one or two times.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
But that's okay. These tennis players were really good. I was not in the like super good. I was in like the medium court.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
They had, if you want to know, they had like 4.5s and 4s and 3.5s. And I was on the 3.5 court. Okay. And 3s. But I was, yeah. So I was, 3.5 is good, lady. That was my GPA in college.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Served me well there. But it was a really fun day. And thank you, Timothy, for including me and Robin for introducing me to your tennis gals. And, you know, it was just a lot of great people coming together for a good cause. I will share in our stories. But like Timothy said in his interview, all the proceeds went to Center for Reflective Communities.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And I'll put a swipe up so you can learn more about it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Just that was a bleep. That was probably standards and practices because Kelly says, you know, the F word.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Office Ladies is mixed and mastered by Chris Basil. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Well, we always love hearing from you all, and several of you wrote in some great observations and comments about the character Danny Cordray, and we wanted to share.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Well, we also got this fun catch from Carly F. in Prospect Heights, Illinois. She said her and her husband were watching Justified, and they realized that Dave Koechner had a few episodes. She said they loved that Timothy and Dave Koechner had a few episodes together, even though they didn't have any together on The Office, but they were both traveling salesmen.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
They also found it ironic that their joint episodes in Justified both take place in Florida, which is where Todd Packer ends up at the end of The Office. Oh, my gosh. This is like a monk crossover, but it's a Justified the Office crossover.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
And, you know, we're so excited to reunite with him. And this really all came about, Jenna, because you ran into him last year.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
It really was. He's so charming, and he hung out with us for over an hour. We talked to him about his time on The Office and so many other things.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
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An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Good. Oh my gosh, how cool to see you sitting across from us and you've got a scarf on.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Answers. We started at Earwolf, which was this great little space. And then Sirius bought Earwolf and then we ended up renting this little space, which was cute. But we had a shower curtain that separated us from other people. From Sam and Cassie in the booth. It was sweet. It was cute. But now we're with the folks at Odyssey, and we got real fancy building now.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Look, we have these doohickeys too. Oh, no, the whole thing is- It says office ladies on the microphone.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
I know, right? Just two gals chatting about a show they were on.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Yeah, the Walk of Fame. We don't have one. Wait, do you have a star?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
Wait, can we just go on record that Timothy listens to Office Ladies?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Timothy Olyphant
That's a big deal though because you usually are thinking it.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
You think if a 1,700-pound thing swats you and you go flying that you're going to be like, I'm going to think right now.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Or you can listen to the podcast and then you don't have to be super scared.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Yeah. It's a really good hype line. It is. It really is. I love it, lady. I love it. Well, you guys, I have to, sorry, this is not as powerful as that, but I have to share at one hour, 15 minutes and 40 seconds, the wind is back. Yeah. The wind is so haunting to me in this movie. And guess what? It is blowing the blood-stained cloth that they have tied at the tip of the spear.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
They are going to try to lure this bear with the smell of blood. There is no dialogue for over two minutes as they wait for the bear. It's just wind and waiting. And it is so creepy. And I think you have to hear it.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Oh, the bears there. Did you hear it? Did you hear how much wind and waiting?
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
But look how long you're waiting and you're just listening to the wind and waiting for this bear. Well, the bear comes. Oh, yeah.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
They made like an old school medieval sort of like pendulum swing, a giant ball with a bunch of pointy spears that they're going to like cut the rope and it's going to swing and it's going to hit the bear. They've also spent a ton of time whittling. Oh. And they have one knife, if I'm correct here. They had to take turns. They had to whittle their hearts out. They spent all night whittling.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
It's like the bear got slapped and he's like, hey, what the hell? Then the bear's mad. Then the bear's really mad. And I kind of feel like we can't do a breakdown of this movie and not hear the bear. Oh, let's hear him. Yes. He's terrifying.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
But, lady, in their night of whittling, they planned this because they're going to dive off the embankment. They're going to roll down it as fast as they can to give them a little bit of time to go to their second staging area. Yes, with many spears. A lot more spears. You guys, they had to do this in the dark. They had to whittle. Whittle, whittle, whittle, whittle all night.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0. Hello. Hey there. I'm smiling again. I know. It's the second part of The Edge and you couldn't be more tickled.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Then they had to go down an embankment in the dark. They had to cross a river in the dark. Then they had to place their other spears. Yeah. You kind of just have to go with it because that's a little you could call bull on how much they had to do in a night. But you got to let it go. You got to let it go. You do.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
1,700 pounds collapsing on Charles. Yeah. I kind of thought he was a goner.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Yes. And according to James's review, I know you're not a fan of him. Here is his best anti-lawyer joke in a movie in 1997.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
There were a lot of movies released in 1997, you guys. This is high praise for the best anti-lawyer joke. Bob is going to say to Charles, a month ago, Old Smokey here would have reared up and you probably would have called your lawyer. And Charles says, nah, I wouldn't do that to an animal.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Cook the bear, eat the bear, skin the bear, make clothing out of the bear, make a backpack out of the bear. This sent me down the rabbit hole of how long does it take to skin a bear and all the things. It takes a really long time, especially with a knife that size. I feel like I know too much now about how to even skin a bear. Like, I know you start at the anus. What? Yes, you do. Why?
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Don't tell me. Anyway, you leave the paws and the head on. It's a whole thing. This would have taken so much time.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
It is a time cut. Yes, there could have been a passage of time because... The next big scene is them on a mountaintop. They turn around and they are in full bearskin outfits. I said, this is the one shot I'm calling this on. It looks crazy.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Yeah, he wants a do-over. He does. Want to point out at one hour and 25 minutes, wind is whistling through the mountains. Yeah. As they start their walk, you just feel the vastness. This wind placement, if I could go to the sound editor and give him a high five for really good wind placement, I would.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
A shack with a canoe. And, lady, I needed a bigger reaction at seeing this shack. I hear you, because how f***?
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
I don't watch zombie movies. I'm not going to. But I know the moment you're talking about. I just hate zombies. Here's the thing. As they're walking up to this kind of abandoned cabin, Charles sees one of those bear traps. In the ground.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Yeah. Sticking out like they've- Self-whittled. Self-whittled spiky things. And he just kind of clocks it and walks around it.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
I was so excited for him to have a hot cup of tea. Yeah. But Charles gets distracted.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
He finds the receipt for both watches and the knife. So he knows now that his wife bought all three, including Bob's watch that was engraved thanking Bob for, quote, all the nights. Yeah, love Mickey. Mm-hmm. So Charles is looking at this receipt. He's adding it all up in his brain. He knows what happened. Meanwhile, Bob is just swigging whiskey and loading the rifle with bullets.
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
He says, let's go. Marches him outside. Wants him to turn around. He's going to shoot him in the back. Yeah. Charles won't turn around. Lady, I have a question. What is it? Was Bob always going to kill Charles?
Office Ladies
The Edge, Pt 2
Because at first, I just think that he was kind of happy to have an affair with his wife and Didn't like Charles, but was just going to do this photo shoot. He's a douchebag, but he isn't going to kill him. Right. Like, when did he decide to kill him?
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So you, okay, let me see. I think I've got this. Okay. Wave your arms around. Yep. Don't make a sound.
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But it would explain why he didn't stick around after the plane crash or took off running when bears attacking Stephen. Yeah. But now he sees his opportunity. Yeah.
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This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I wrote, I didn't need this part. What part? Man against man.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, Bob has him outside now. Yeah. He has him at gunpoint. And Charles will not turn around. He doesn't think Bob's ultimately going to do it. And Bob kind of takes a step back right into the bear pit. Full of spiky things.
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A wooden spike. It's totally mangled. Here's my question. Did Charles intend to push him back into that bear pit? Yes. Yes. This is where he's the rabbit with the pipe. Correct. Yeah. He knew it. Well, now Charles jumps into the pit to help him. I mean, carefully. He doesn't jump into it, but he gets down in there. Yeah. He takes all the bullets out of the gun.
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While he's sitting there, lady, I want you to know all you can hear. Oh, boy.
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It is wind. More wind. One hour, 40 minutes. Bob finally comes to, and Charles tells him, you know what? We're going to get out of here. I want to point out, as they board the canoe, neither of them have their fancy bearskin outfits anymore. No. They've ditched the bearskin look.
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What about laying down and playing dead? No, no, no. No. They'll just flop you around.
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Yeah. They have found this little island in the middle of the river and have made a fire. To kind of warm up Bob, who's not looking great. Not looking great. I know I should not have found this humorous, but Bob repeatedly says, I'm not feeling 100%.
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What do we hear? Helicopter. A helicopter. Charles is so excited. He starts waving his coat in the air. And you kind of think the helicopter is not going to see him. And then at the last minute, it turns towards them. And you know they're saved. Yes. And he runs back to Bob and he's like, they're coming.
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He couldn't live with himself. And Charles saved him even after that. So he died of shame. Well, now the helicopter is arriving back at the lodge. Yeah. There's all these reporters. Yeah. They're kind of being held back by like police. Charles gets off the plane. He starts walking up to the lodge. I mean, and he looks like he's been through it.
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And- Charles, as he walks past Krusty Stiles, says to Stiles, why is the rabbit unafraid? To which Stiles replies, because he's smarter than the panther. And they share a knowing smile. That's pretty dark, lady. Yeah.
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Yeah. As you were saying that, I thought about – it's a verse. I'm going to paraphrase it. God is no respecter of persons, meaning God does not show favoritism or partiality towards any individual. Like you get what you get. And that's what I was thinking. And what do you do with it? What do you do with it? Yeah. Yeah. Well, at the end – A reporter asked Charles, how did his friends die?
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And he really tears up. It's very emotional. And he says, they died saving my life.
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They will. Yeah. I thought a lot about that last line of the movie. I'm always curious about first lines of movies and last lines. You know, what are the bookends? Yeah. What was the first line of this movie? The first line of this movie is actually by the character Mickey. And she turns to her husband, Charles, as she takes in the vast wilderness. And she says, Charles, isn't this great? Wow.
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Yeah. And what I think Charles is talking about when he says they died saving my life, because Stephen didn't save his life. Bob didn't really either. But in a way, all of it made him realize that he wants a do-over.
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Kept him going. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's true. You know? Well, that was The Edge, you guys. And lady, I know I watched this as a Galentine's gift to you, but maybe it was a gift to myself. Well, I hope it was. I hope it was the greatest gift ever. I mean, it was a good gift. It was a good gift. I don't know if it's the greatest gift ever, but I really did enjoy it.
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I mean, where is there a closed building or a vehicle if you're somewhere where they're around?
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It is riveting. Riveting. It's in Canada. And there's all these real people that tell their like eyewitness sort of accounts of it, including the main guy.
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So good. I will definitely share that in stories because I thought it was so well done.
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It's good, lady. It's good. It's so stressful for me, but I'm here for you.
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Yeah, it's the next morning. Bob and Charles have made it through the night. Now they're huddled together. And it is really coming down with some snow.
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It's so great because the shot is just their two faces peering over a log with such anticipation of eating the squirrel. Yeah. But then in the distance, they hear a helicopter. Yeah. But they are really far from a clearing. And they run and they run and they run. And the helicopter doesn't see them.
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Yeah. And Charles, I don't know if it's because, well, honestly, I wrote this. Charles, read the room. Yeah. He starts telling Bob, who's very distraught. He starts saying this. Do you know that you can make fire from ice? You can make fire from ice. Bob isn't listening. Charles goes, hello, I'm talking to you. Do you know how that could be done, Bob? And Bob is just so pissed off.
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And I just want to say, Charles, no one wants to hear trivia right now. Your friend just got eaten by a bear. You're starving. You just missed the opportunity to get rescued. No one wants a little piece of trivia right now. Yeah. Also, Bob is very winded, but Charles is not.
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It really makes you feel so alone and isolated. It's like they're never going to see another person ever again.
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Oh, God. I don't want to be any of them. I don't want to be out there. I don't want to go 80 miles and further into the wilderness, especially after a guy just told me that birds can take down this plane. I'm not going. You're not there. I'm Mickey. You're back in the lodge. Yeah.
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They heard the helicopter. They ran away. The squirrel is still in the cage on the log. I know. They couldn't have gone back for it? I don't know. It was a whole squirrel. I don't know. Bob was very upset. Well, I would have gone to get it.
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Charles says, I'm not going to die here. No siree. I'm going to kill the bear.
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Except Charles says, lure. Lure. And then in this moment, we have Bob snark. In this crazy, life-threatening moment, Bob goes, I'm sorry, how do we lure? And he mocks Charles. You have to hear it.
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Absolutely can confirm. Literally all it says in the shooting draft is that Katie is showing Angela some purses from a big duffel. And then Pam does go to Michael's office. Yeah. And the only dialogue that is scripted is this. Katie showing Angela some purses from a big duffel says, that one is hand embroidered. Angela says, there's a smudge on it.
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And then that's when Pam and Michael enter, Dwight tagging along behind them. So Amy Adams really improvised a lot at that front reception. And she was so good as Katie. So good. Also, lady, did you hear how she introduces herself? No. What did she say? I'm Kate. Oh, you know what is so funny?
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Yeah. And then when Michael walks up, she says, I'm Katie. And here's my fan theory. Ready? Okay. She doesn't want Michael to know her real name. She already has realized. She sussed it out. When he's like cocks in the hen house, she's like, I'm not telling him my real name.
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Not only that, there is a picture behind Dwight of Mount Rushmore. Yeah. Like with an American flag, that wasn't there.
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And then Pam says, but HR has a meeting in there. Oh, my gosh. Michael says, you know what? Give them the hallway with chairs. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Yeah. And in this moment, Michael's like, well, you know, decisiveness is one of the keys to being a successful businessman. Read that in Small Businessman.
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And then he has this really funny talking head where he says all the things that he reads, right? USA Today, American Way. He loves the in-flight magazine.
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This has become like family lore. Remember when mom won the poker tournament in Scotland at midnight? Yeah. Yeah.
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So cute. Well, now Michael is going to get Katie all set up in the conference room. And there is a moment in the scene, it makes me laugh every time I see this episode. What is it? You know, it's when Michael is telling Katie, look, I'm just right next door. I mean, there used to be a window here. There's not anymore. But I'll be right there, you know? Yeah.
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So I was like, why does he mention that window? Is there more in the shooting draft about the fact that there was a window? Yeah. This is how it reads in the shooting draft. Michael says to Katie, and this is my conference room. Make yourself at home. I'm right on the other side of the wall. Then there is this direction. Wistfully, Michael looks at the wall. There used to be a window there.
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He raps on the wall. Anyway, that's where I'll be. So I'm like, what is the backstory about this? I emailed Mindy. She did not email me back. No kidding. I was like, Mindy, I included the whole shooting draft description. I was like, please tell me there was a bigger story about this window. Poor Mindy. Poor Mindy. She's actually traveling. It's not her fault.
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We're going to see her for dinner soon. We're going to see her for dinner. And she's going to be like, Ange, I was on a plane. I couldn't watch. Sorry. Sorry. I mean, he's wistfully looking at the wall. Oh, my gosh. I think here's my theory, that there was a window there, but he would get distracted by the conference room. If there was anything happening, he would like peer in.
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And so they were like, nope. Jan was like, no more window. So Jan took it out. I think Jan took it out. Who took it out is my question.
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Did Toby take it out? Is this one of the reasons why Michael hates Toby? I think there were complaints about Michael in the window during the conference room meetings. And I think corporate took it out.
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I knew it. The bucks. You're another addict. And she's like, what? Are you talking about? He's so excited to get her this cup of coffee.
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It's all of these extra talking heads. We're going to point them out. And then there's this great scene between Kevin and Pam. We talked about this when we originally watched where Kevin is just basically saying the purse girl is prettier than Pam. And Pam's like, that's rude. Yes. We talked about how I kept breaking when we were shooting this. I can see you breaking.
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Now we are coming to something I am so excited about. You know, Jenna, how many times have we watched the show now? But when you come across something new, it is still so fun. Yeah. There is the scene. I have so many questions about the scene. Okay. Okay. Remember how Pam said there was an HR meeting in the conference room and Michael says move them to the hallway and give them chairs? Yes.
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Well, here it is. This is an added scene. I think this hallway is three feet wide. It is so narrow. It just fits the chairs, basically. And it's Kelly, Creed, Meredith, Toby, Devin, and Luann. They are smushed into this tiny space. They have cups of coffee, a plate of pastries, lots of papers, a big whiteboard that keeps falling and they're trying to hold it. It's so funny.
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And I went to the shooting draft to see what it said about this scene, and it's not in there. It's not in the shooting draft, and it's not in the candy bag alts. So I don't know if there were some last minute pages that flew in, but it's not in the shooting draft.
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Right. Okay. So the storage supply shelf where Kevin was standing. Yep. There's the door to the left.
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I know. And they're so good. They are such a labor of love of our dear friend Dave Rogers. And I'm so glad we're finally watching them.
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Yes. Are you about to share Dave Rogers' dissertation on hallways? I am. Oh, my God. It's time. I'm getting comfortable. I can't wait.
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And this super fan scene must blow that out the window. Yes. Because you see it.
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Is that a phrase, blow it out the window? Did I just make that up? Did I do one of my things? I don't think it is a phrase.
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I don't know. And why wouldn't HR go there? It's so much roomier. Yeah. I mean, why didn't they go to the break room?
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The door by Kelly's desk in the annex. Mm-hmm. As you would walk in and out of it, it went to our bathrooms. It was a back way to the bathrooms in the real world. And there was a red paintbrush. Remember? It was like a little piece of art that sat on top of the shelf. It looked like a paintbrush, but it was painting a streak of red, but it was like a little sculpture. Oh, yeah. Do you remember it?
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was the weirdest thing. I know. I don't know why I just remembered that.
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Yes, that's right. We got in a whole conversation with him about this. It's actually a pet peeve of his. When you look at the Dunder Mifflin building from the parking lot, that the windows don't match. Yes. When you're inside looking out.
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Blow it out the window, Paul. Blow it out the window. Now we have this scene between Kevin and Dwight. You know, in the original, they're just sort of like sipping. It looks like water. Maybe they're by the water cooler in the bullpen and they're watching Katie and they don't have dialogue. But in the super fan episode, the full scene is there.
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And they're looking at her and they're trying to figure out, is she local? Is she from Scranton? Or is she foreign? You know, would they have known her? And they're sort of, you know, they're ogling her. Is that the right word? Yes, I believe so. Okay. Well, I want you to know something. In the shooting draft, this scene was actually between Jim and Dwight, not Dwight and Kevin. Really? Yeah.
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You sort of see that Jim is behind them. Yeah. And he doesn't say much. Well, in the shooting draft, it actually starts with Jim and Dwight. And I want to read it to you. Dwight stares at Katie and flosses. He examines the bits of food on his floss closely. Jim says, that's more of a bathroom activity, isn't it? Dwight says, not enough natural light in the bathroom.
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And then it goes into the scene of them watching Katie. But Dwight is flossing his teeth in the bullpen. Isn't that so gross?
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I mean, so much activity. So much activity. But this is the early days. We did lots of crosses and back and forths. We now have a new scene. Dwight is going to go into the conference room and try his best to flirt with Katie. He's going to look at her purses. In the script, the scene was set up like this. Dwight walks over to Katie without his glasses on.
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He holds up a purse very close to his eyes. He looks at the purse and says, it's really well made, good stitching, excellent fabric. It was not scripted for Rain to then bat the purse back and forth around as Dwight. He improvised that. And I want you to go to eight minutes and 23 seconds because you can see Rain starting to break at himself. He's laughing at his own bit. I love that.
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I don't know. Oh, my gosh. I'm not sure. These super fan episodes are messing with my head. Well, the scene continues here. Now, Dwight is asking Katie about a specific purse. He's like, you sell a lot of these. She says, yes, it's very popular. He then says, is it waterproof? And she responds, I'm not sure. It's faux snakeskin. And then Dwight says, snakes are waterproof.
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So I'm betting that it is waterproof. But it's faux snakeskin. I know. Also, snakeskin... It's not waterproof. It's not? No. Did you look it up? I did look it up. I love that. Snakes are not waterproof, but their skin permeability can change to help them retain water. That's according to the internet, people.
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Yes. I can tell you I swam up right on a moray eel one time face to face. How was that? A little scary.
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So what's the moral here? You can look like something else but not have anything in common with it. Yeah, that's the moral.
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Oh, no. Oh, gosh. I have mascara all over me. This is what you get. This is what you get. Double record day.
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And you're going to say one's an eel and one's a snake.
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What? I don't know. It said, this is something that was not funny until we talked about your deep dive. Anyway, Katie says, you're really into reptiles, huh? And Dwight says, my belt is made of alligator. Then he pulls his shirt up. He's going to show off this belt. And that's when Michael comes in. And I would like to point something out. Michael is going to have a runner in this episode.
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I didn't share this before of some seriously snarky behavior. Oh, Michael snark. Michael snark. His snarky behavior is going to be pointing out what he thinks are people's shortcomings so that they seem inferior and so that Katie will like him. So when he walks in, he says to Dwight, where are your glasses? And then he says to Katie, he wears glasses. Snark. Yeah. There's going to be more.
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Yeah. She doesn't want to go, though. She's like, my purses. He's like, they're fine. Yeah.
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Yes. Now, Michael is giving Katie the tour. They're walking through the kitchen. I have a few background catches I missed the first time around. Same, same. Is yours the dry erase board? That says, please clean up.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. At 10 minutes and 13 seconds, why is Oscar taking a phone call by the bathroom door? He is seated in a chair next to the door to the men's bathroom. There are so many other places to take a phone call. Why would you sit there? Well, I guess so that Michael can walk by and make fun of his name. I guess so.
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He's also sitting under a sign that says, now hiring friendly people with smiles.
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Yeah. It said this. There is a shot of Ryan efficiently selling Kelly a purse. Oh. I have two things to say. Is this our very first sign that Ryan is a con man? Oh, he's so shady. He's selling purses that aren't his. I bet if she gave him money, he might pocket it. I think you're right.
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It's so early. But when you look at this moment, one of Kelly's very first interactions with Ryan in the documentary is him being dishonest with her. Yes. Yes.
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Yeah. He says, thank you, Al Gore, for the internet. And he can't believe that you couldn't send messages electronically 10 years ago. And Katie's like, you could. And he's like, fine, 20 years ago. Still pretty cool.
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Yeah. This is another Michael snarky moment. I want to point out something. In our initial breakdown of this, I share that there's a lot more in deleted scenes of Michael being snarky about Toby's divorce. And, lady, they didn't even include them all in the superfan episode. Really? Uh-huh. There's actually more in deleted scenes on the DVD. We never played it, and I think we should hear it.
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Michael. Michael Snark. Yeah. Yeah. And we do notice on Toby's desk there is a cup of soup. There's also a piggy bank that just says bread, cash money. Okay. And there is a picture of a red jeep. on the wall next to him. Is this Toby's dream car? I don't know. That's a good question. Did she get the Jeep in the divorce?
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Well, first of all, at the very top, Roy, and I did not catch this the first time, calls Jim, Jimmy. He says, hey, Jimmy, what do you think of that little purse girl, huh? Yeah. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, this made me think of another fan theory, which is Jimmy is what you call someone when you grow up with them. Did Roy and Jim know each other like in elementary school? Did they grow up together?
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Was Jim called Jimmy when he was little? And that makes it even more layered that Roy got Pam. But that would mean that Pam knew Jim growing up? I don't know.
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Well, Roy and Jimmy might have gone to elementary school together. That's crazy. It's my fan theory. Okay, what was your thing?
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It starts so early. So early. He has a sandwich and carrots. Pam had a salad and a juice box.
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And those are pretty much her two problems. Well, now Dwight and Jim are watching Katie from their desks. And Jim is really going to mess with Dwight. You know, he's saying, she'd be perfect for you. And Dwight says, well, she's been talking to Michael a lot. And then I really loved this little couplet of dialogue. Jim says, so what? You're assistant regional manager.
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And Dwight says, assistant to the regional manager. And then Jim has this great line where he says, well, you know what, Dwight? He's your work boss, OK? He is not your relationship boss.
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I remember purposely going to set before Brian and Oscar so I wouldn't get crap chair.
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The scene with Jim and Dwight is going to continue. And Jim basically says, you know what? If there's a lull in conversation between you and Katie, just buy a purse. And Dwight's like, what? I don't want a purse. Purses are for girls. And Jim says, Dwight, that is not necessarily true. Do you read GQ? Because I do. And they're like mini briefcases, all right? Lots of guys have them.
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Well, this made me curious. What does GQ say? What is the buzz about the murse, the man purse? Well, Ange... Should we take a break? And when we come back, you'll tell us? Oh, get ready. Okay. Because when we come back, I have a lot to say about men's purses.
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That sounds like a catchy phrase. I have a lot of hearing I want to do about that.
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Mm-hmm. Well, you know, it just sometimes comes down to so many things that are outside your control. And I remember when Amy came on the set, she was so seamlessly Katie. Yeah. She improvises a lot, you guys. We'll get to it. But a lot of her improvs make it in. She just knew who this woman was.
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Yeah. And Dwight says, I don't want a purse. Purses are for girls. And Jim says, Dwight, that is not necessarily true. Do you read GQ? I do. And they're like mini briefcases. Lots of guys have them. Well, lady, I was curious. What does GQ say about men's purses? What do they say? I looked it up. GQ certainly has a lot of great links to great bags. And I found several articles.
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And I'm going to share with you the evolution of the men's purse.
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So men had a type of satchel that they would strap to themselves. Okay. Then per GQ magazine, later came a structural rectangular briefcase meant for carrying papers to and from work. This was during the Industrial Revolution. Okay. Then there were these certain big moments sort of in the zeitgeist where bags were featured.
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For example, the satchel really expanded because of Harrison Ford's character, Indiana Jones. He has that crossbody satchel in the 80s movie.
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And then there were these moments in the 90s and early 2000s when purses kind of became a punchline. Like Matt LeBlanc's character in Friends famously has this leather bag and they make fun of him for it. Okay. And then in the show Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld ditches his overstuffed wallet for a shoulder bag.
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And then in the 2009 comedy The Hangover, Zach Galifianakis sports a brown crossbody bag much to the chagrin of his buddies. So they got made fun of a little bit.
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But then in 2018, Vogue Business says there was a debut of sporty crossbody bags from Gucci and Supreme. And all of a sudden, you saw these celebrities and athletes using them. And it really blew this up. And then I read on a website called Glossy in August of 2024 that searches for men's crossbody and carry-all bags has gone up. Are you ready for this? Okay. 900%. Wow. Yeah.
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I also read on several different websites where they asked men about carrying types of bags and crossbody bags, and they had one common theme. They all liked the functionality of it. A few mentioned that trying to fit all of their items into their pockets made their pants uncomfortable and bulky. That makes sense to me.
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And now with athletes carrying these bags on game days and celebrities are carrying them on red carpets, Men's bags are really taking off. But this is like 20 years later. Yes. At this time. At this time, when this episode was written, it was very much still in the zeitgeist to make fun of it, to call it a merce, a man purse. But that is not the case anymore. But men's purses are nothing new.
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Men have been carrying like these girdle pouch things for a long time. So there you go. I say go get your bag if you want a bag.
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You don't want a purse. You want bigger pockets. But for people who want more than just what can fit in your pocket, go get your bag. Yeah, I guess so.
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Peacock Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
And here's the thing. A lot of times you think, oh, do I have time to exercise? Well, they have 10, 20 or 45 minute time increments of classes. I usually do the 20.
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Because we're in the real building. Yep. Well, now Katie is showing Pam a cute purse and Michael interrupts them and he does the Michael snark thing again. He says to Pam, I'm sorry, are you on your lunch break or was that earlier? Uh-huh. Busted.
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I looked it up. It was improvised. I had a feeling. Was that scripted? It was really funny.
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He says it's not the only drug that does that. Back in the 80s, before they knew how bad cocaine was for you, Dunder Mifflin, man, they could really move some paper. I thought that was funny. Katie is going to get a text and she looks really bummed because her ride has bailed on her. Who is her ride? Why doesn't Katie have a car? I know.
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Just riffing. They just let the camera roll. I loved it. I also did catch the boom. Really? All right. Little boom shadow. Boom shadow. That was what we would sing on set. Dwight is now drinking his coffee with his brand new purse. This is a new scene that's in the Superfan episode.
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Jim tells him, you know what, you should put some stuff in your purse because if she's looking, you want to make sure it looks like you're using it, right? So Dwight looks over at Katie and then starts shoving things into his purse.
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We were very busy. We were. Kevin is now taking a look at the purses. He's going to try to flirt with Katie by telling her he's in a Steve Miller tribute band. He says, do you like Steve Miller? She says, no. But here, we have to do it for people because it's so funny. Okay, I'll be coming.
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Well, now Dwight and Michael are in Michael's office. They're looking at his computer. Lady, there's a moment here that I should have included in my Michael versus technology breakdown. It's so me. Oh, my God. I'm just Michael Scott when it comes to my desktop. I just, I need you to hear it.
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Michael, could I ask you something? He had all these icons and now he has four folders.
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Yeah. Well, Jenna, I have a little something to share at Top of Show. Please. So, you know, I went back to the DVDs for this episode to rewatch the original and compare it to the Superfan episode. And I forgot how much the DVDs themselves evolved as the show went on, just in what they included and the look of them.
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And Stanley's like, wait a second, Michael. Isn't that meant to be the prize for the top salesman? And Michael's like, it cleans easily.
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Well, I just love everyone just slowly looks up and reacts. But Dwight doesn't even turn around. He's just digging in the fridge. Yes.
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Everybody is in the kitchen or just behind the kitchen. Everybody just goes everywhere all at once. It's so true. Now Michael is going to have Pam in his office. He's asking about his mail. But what he really wants to know is how girls her age feel about futons. I couldn't get through this scene. I mean, how could you? It's so ridiculous. Every time he said futon.
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Whatever this relationship is with Katie is just so crazy. First of all, it's going to give her a $1,000 coffee maker if she took it. Yep. Give her a ride home. I don't know what happens with the futons.
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We discussed my dislike for tickling. Mm-hmm. Also, if I were to do what I call a cringe meter for this episode, this one would be a nine on the cringe meter. This scene? Yeah. Poor Jim. I know. They're literally almost leaning on him, laughing and tickling. Yeah. Cringe meter number nine. And then Pam has this talking head that says Jim's a great guy. He's like a brother to her.
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They're best friends. She really hopes he finds someone. Pam, maybe say it enough until you believe it. Yeah. Does she wish? I don't think so.
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Yes, all of our dialogue between Angela and Katie is improvised in this scene.
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Just like an improv show because that scene at the top was so good. Yeah. Purse Girls, come see us every Thursday night, 9 p.m. Oh, that's too late. Too late. Sorry. It's $35, two drink minimum. There is no parking. Starts at four.
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I was like, oh, made me sad. We are now going to have a Dwight talking head. It's a pretty famous Dwight talking head. He outlines what his idea of a perfect date is. Yes, of course. There's ninjas. There's knives. There's blood. There's poison. But he knew about it all along, guys. She was in on it all along. But he knew. Oh, right. He knew she was in on it. That's right.
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For example, in this season one disc, when you click on an episode, there is a picture and an episode summary. So for Hot Girl, on the screen, there's a picture of Dwight and Katie in the conference room. And then on what looks like to be like a lined piece of notebook paper is the following. Is this their summary? Yes. Oh.
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I don't know why they're crossing to accounting. I'm in the conference room. You're with Katie trying to buy a purse. Yeah. What are they doing at your desk?
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Blue Blast. Blue is not a flavor. No. All of it. Oh, and he wants the Arctic Blast and the passenger side cup holder. Yeah. That's ready for you, Katie. This is what you're missing. I know. You don't get the convertible. You don't get the Arctic Blast. You don't get the coffee maker.
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Fakie labels. Fakie labels. She's tracking it. She's tracking that and who's crossing where. I am. Well, now Jim is going to go into the conference room. And what a smooth operator. Okay.
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Oh, I will tell you. Per the shooting draft, this is what was scripted. Jim approaches Katie. It says he sidles up to her. He says, hi, I'm Jim. Katie says, hi. The rest is improv. What? The rest is improv until it gets to the part where he says, don't try to sell me anything. I just want to learn. Everything else is improv. This is improv. I'm Katie. Well, hi, Katie. Nice to meet you.
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You sit out there, don't you? I do. It's what I'm best known for, sitting out there. All right, let's talk about purses. But just talk to me. Seriously. That was all improvised. Wow. Mm-hmm. So good. So good.
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He's like, still. Ryan goes still. And then this is where we find out about his smell-alike cologne. Yes. Ryan's like, it's empty.
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In the straw. There's some still in the straw. How many times have you done that? I know. You like pull it out and you rub it.
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Peacock Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
I love this scene. I have talked about it. He wants Ryan's recommendations. And Ryan says, do you like hip hop, indie rock, the Strokes, the Hives, the Fleaballs? Oh, Michael's like, yes to the Fleaballs. Yeah. The Glorbs.
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No, it's not. It probably is. Stop it. Okay. Let's see. Stop that. This is what it says. Hot Girl Air Date, semicolon, 4-26-05-10. And then it says, episode summary, the blundering men of Dunder Mifflin vie for the attention of an attractive woman who appears at the office trying to sell purses. I think my summary was better, actually. Anyway, there you go. Worried for nothing. There you go.
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Well, I want you to know that there was a Ryan talking head that would have come right after this scene. It's in the shooting draft. It's not in deleted scenes. It did not make it into the super fan episode. And it read simply like this. Ryan has a smug look on his face. He looks to Cameron and says, Michael's really into indie rock. He's into bands I've never even heard of. And then he laughs.
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Yeah. It's a real thing, the person with the big car. It's true. I do remember that. I had a friend with a truck and he moved everybody. Exactly. Well, I want to point out when Pam sort of sadly walks back to reception, there is no plant. Oh. There's no plant at reception.
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Wait, I love this talking head so much, lady, because this is part of this runner of Michael's desktop being messed up by Ryan. Ryan has only tried to help him clean up his computer, but now guess what he can't find? Can't find maps. Can't find maps. And this has now been woven into the super fan version of this talking head. I think we should hear it.
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I just love it so much. First of all, I love it in any kind of show or writing that you get to like watch when there are two things happening to a person. So it's like he's trying to talk about what a great catch he is. But at the same time, he's like, where are my maps? Yeah. He's getting so irritated.
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And then Pam... It's going to apply lip gloss kind of shyly. And then the cameraman catches it and she's embarrassed. That's cringe factor 10.
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Yeah. You don't feel like your real version of yourself. Yes. You were trying to not be you. Yes. Yes. We've all done it.
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Peacock Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
That's very funny. She was so good as Katie. Well, Jim is going to open the door for his Corolla for Katie. This is more of smooth Jim. Oh, so charming. And Pam is going to sadly watch from the window of Roy's truck.
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We were still sitting there waiting to do another take. But he's good company. So if you're going to be stuck somewhere... But the super fan episode does not end there. We end now with a Michael talking head. He is still talking about his American Way magazine. He says, did you know that when Doris Roberts is in Phoenix, she likes to eat at Harder's? She loves barbecue. Who knew? Yeah.
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That is what it says about this episode on the original DVDs. Well, why don't we take a break?
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Peacock Superfan Episode: Hot Girl
He also read a profile on Corbin Bernson. And he learned that he used to play Little League. Yeah.
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I really did. I know. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I want to watch the whole series again now. I mean, I know all of you listening have watched it so many times all the way through, but I want to do it again. Well, I feel the same way. I liked going back.
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We will rewatch them. And now Office Lady 6.0 is going to start its holiday break. But don't worry, Second Drink will continue through the holidays on Mondays. So you all have a safe and happy holidays. Please know how much we appreciate you. And we'll see you in 2025.
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And you know what? If all else fails, blow it out the window. We'll see you next year. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
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You know, I also think it's so healthy for you to challenge your brain to learn something new, and learning a language is so good for that.
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And he says, do I get to decide what that $1,000 is spent on? And she's like, sure. Yeah. Mistake, Jan. Mistake. Yes.
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We have Amy Adams arriving in the office as Katie. Yes, Jenna, I thought we should hear how it was described in the shooting draft. Great. Interior office open area day. Meredith is working on a crossword. We hear the door open and Meredith is working on a crossword. Yes, what it says.
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We hear the door open and whip over to catch Katie, an attractive young woman, enters the office and approaches Pam. When we pan back, we see the heads of men in the office perk up to check her out. Katie is showing Angela some purses from a big duffel. And you guys, the supersized episode shows all the men stopping to look over. I took a screen grab.
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Literally all the dudes have made some reason to be in the bullpen in the back of the scene. Creed is standing right by the conference room door. Kevin is by the supply shelf. Ryan is next to Phyllis. Toby is by the water cooler. Stanley is really leaning up to look, you know, from his desk. Oscar is down on one knee digging through a box by Dwight's desk.
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Jim is at his desk, and Devin is on his knees at the end of Stanley and Phyllis' desks.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office Lady 6.0. Hi there. Hello. Hey, so today on Office Ladies, we have a very special interview with the person I call the architect of the office. It is our editor and director, Dave Rogers.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
So, Dave, this is fascinating to me. And as Jen and I have started watching the superfan episodes, you know, we're picking them here and there, sort of seeing which ones are the fan favorites. And I watched... The original airing, I had it on my TV with my DVD player. And then I had the super fan on Peacock and I watched them at the same time. I synced up the beginning. And then I had a notepad.
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And when... One would diverge, right? I would make a note. I'd get the time code. And then I'd go to the shooting draft. I'd see what was new, what was a deleted – I would go to the DVDs to the deleted scenes and see like, oh, that's not in deleted scenes, but it's in the shooting draft. I guess we shot it. Maybe that's new. So anyway, Jenna and I have been trading –
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crazy convoluted messages to one another. Kind of sounds like what you and Rob are doing a little bit. And I'm so curious to know what your process is about. How do you pick what goes in? Like, you must have all this extra footage that isn't in the deleted scenes.
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No, but I want this. I want the dupe detector. That's amazing.
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I noticed one that I thought was so interesting, and I wondered how you did it, Dave, but now that I know about the dupe detector. So Michael has a talking head about how charming he is.
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But then he's yelling at Ryan, what'd you do to my desktop? Where's my maps? Where are my maps? But then he goes back to the talking head, but it's overlaid over each other. And I was like, how did they do that? But this is how.
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I appreciate that. That's like the integrity of the show. So as you're making these superfan episodes, you are doing it as if you are the documentary filmmaker.
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Right. Keep the purity of the story arc as it was intended.
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In total, Dave edited 95 of the original broadcast episodes, and he directed eight of them. He knows the show better than anyone.
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I can't imagine how much amazing sort of like – reliving a chapter of our lives that you get to do because I know just for us, when I find a deleted scene or a blooper I haven't seen, it just warms my heart and just immediately makes me happy just remembering that time. Is that part of this job for you, Dave, as you open up all these old folders of our lives?
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I mean, that says a lot because you've had to watch so much of The Office, but you still enjoy it, I think is pretty great.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Okay. Do you hear the papers rustling, everyone listening? It's because Dave has this document of all the episodes. And it is like a worn document with like writing and check marks. Like it's got a lot of love on it. What is this, Dave? Is this your list?
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Oh, it's combo gear. It's combo gear. Yeah, I'm a combo platter. 2025 is let's get to it, but also let's chat a little bit. I'm really liking this. So I did share with Jenna that I found something pretty fun in my digital clutter, and I'm excited to share it with you all. So I have talked about this before on the podcast.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I'm going to take a picture of you with it because this is a loved worn document. It is. It definitely is. You printed that when the show was on the air?
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Years ago, when the show was on the air, I teamed up with the NBC Digital folks, with Joya and Scott and Carol, all those folks. They're awesome. And we did a little series for the website called Adventures with Angela.
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That's a pretty good treasure. Yeah. I can't wait now to go watch it. I want to see it in the Superfan episode.
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Yeah. One of the things we've loved is having the shooting drafts because we read them and I'm like, OK, the scene isn't deleted scenes. We both remember shooting it. It lives somewhere. It's out there somewhere. But it's it's with you, Dave.
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Was there ever a storyline in one of the episodes you edited that you didn't get to include? And so now that you're going back, do you remember those and you're like, I want one of those in?
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Like a runner. Yeah. I guess that's a better word for it. Because I know sometimes I'll look in the shooting draft and there'll be like a runner with Ryan. You know, there was a runner where he did like a treasure hunt in performance review, but it's not... It's all in the super fan cut. That's right. Yeah.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. And people wrote in. They're like, what is up with Meredith's face?
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I had so much fun doing these. They're just little behind the scenes of life on the set of The Office. Well, the one I sent Jenna was the week I went into Dave's editing bay. We found the footage. I thought it would be so fun to hear it. I'm going to share it in stories as well. And it just took us right back. Hello, NBC.com.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Oh, everyone's outfits. I remember. Everyone's outfits comes in.
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He was visiting. I remember that he was there that week. Oh, my gosh. And they just threw him in that lineup. That little cameo.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
We have a behind-the-scenes exclusive with Dave Rogers, one of our fabulous editors on the show. That's Dave. It's also Donut Cart Day.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
OK, well, this brings me to this question. So and I know you haven't done season nine yet, but do you have your favorite super fan episodes? If we're going to go and watch some of these, do you have like your top five that you think are a must watch?
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Dave Rogers worked on The Single Guy, Seinfeld. Wow. News Radio, Entourage. Do you have any entourage stories? Come on. Those guys, they're wild. They're crazy, right?
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Right. And then also in the shooting draft, it says maybe it was Andy Roddick. Right.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
So what is the true canon of the show? Is it now the super fan episodes or is it the original airing?
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, you've put so much thought into it and you've been really, you know, careful to protect the integrity of the show. So I could see that your locked super fan episode for you is now canon.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
No, not yet. Oh, should we put that on our list? We're writing it down.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
These things are not spoken. They did not happen. That's right.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
You know, Josh and I have used SimpliSafe for a while now, and we actually are adding to our system. We're adding a few extra outdoor cameras.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Dave was a first-time director this season, you guys. It was really awesome. You know the show so well. I have to say, I'm pretty, like, blown away by, I mean, because he sort of sits here and watches take after take after take. I do. One thing I'm learning right here and now is that the editor's room, a little toasty.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
That shows through though, Dave. It really does. Even – we're just entering the world of the superfan episodes and just watching them, I can see how thoughtful – And what better hands for them to be in. I want to watch them all now. I really do.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I was a little worried because I didn't know. If it was going to be someone who didn't know the world the way you know it.
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A little toasty. Can we talk about your desk for a second? Yeah.
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I wanted to ask you about this because I always felt like when we did Talking Heads and we were handed sheets of these candy bag alts, that was where you could really play around. The writers got to play around. The actors got to play around. And it didn't affect the story that much.
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So when I thought about you assembling these super fan episodes, I was like, oh, I bet there's a treasure trove of talking heads. Even in the deleted scenes, some episodes are just a list of talking heads that didn't make it in. So I love hearing that because that is just so fun to me. I'm going to look for those.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
But maybe only one. Yeah. So if there would have been one deleted talking head of like let's say Creed, you probably have 15 that he did that day.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I love that, especially as supporting cast. I feel like a lot of times our talking heads were cut for time. So I'm going to look for all of them. I just I'm delighted by that.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I would think a lot. And I would think, Dave, it's all because of you. And we wanted to have you on today because You are doing a beautiful thing for the show. And we're so appreciative as fans of The Office. We're both fans.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Applause to Dave and Rob and everyone editing the Superfans and putting them together and Claire and Dean. But Dave, before we say goodbye to you, we need to talk about something which we can't talk about. So I don't know how we're going to talk about it, except that we got to go to the set of the paper.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
You were directing. We can't say anything else, really. Okay. But how fun to see you directing. And we can't wait to have you on to talk about the paper for reals.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I wonder if you were the inspiration for that high-tech stuff here.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I took a picture of them. I took a picture of us on the wall. I was in one of them. Yeah.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
You are now on the paper preserving the look of the office because it's the documentary crew. It's the same documentary crew. So they will have shot it the same way.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
We're excited to see it. Last question for you, Dave, before you leave. You had mentioned that you still have a bottle of champagne in your fridge from Aaron Sorkin.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Greg printed it out and put it up at craft services. That wall that we had to walk past to get on the soundstage had people's wedding announcements, a baby photo of whoever had just had a baby, and then this letter from Aaron Sorkin in the middle.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Can I tell you, this looks like something that would be in Lost and that they would show for like a whole season and then say it means nothing. That picture of Dean, that's our other editor, Dean Holland.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Oh, yes. I love that. All right. Well, Dave, we love you so much. Thank you for being here today. Love you, Dave.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
And we want to say thank you to Dave and his whole team for treating our show with such love and care. You can check out all of the Superfan episodes on Peacock. And we can't wait to get Dave's must-watch list.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
And Dave, and they won an Emmy for our show, which was amazing. It was the episode, The Job. Jenna and I presented at the Eddie Awards when you guys won.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yes, and we got a big laugh because Jenna talked about, like, an editor's room being dark and sweaty. Yeah. And I said that it's the place where this noise comes from.
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
Thank you. Oh, big laughs. The editors were going crazy.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I should be on Saturday Night Live. I can do my rewind, girl. Angela, we can't write a skit for that. Really? Because it's gold.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I just went through his office and pointed out everything on his desk. Poor Dave. He's such a good sport. He did show me the closet where his dog Bryce would hang out. I loved Bryce. Bryce had a bed, a blanket, a toy. He had a water bowl, food. He was very cozy in Dave's office. And then I didn't realize that While talking to Dave, I threw shade at Entourage and Lost. I loved it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I thought it was a great interview. It's a horrible interview, but it was really fun hanging out with Dave in his editing bay. I miss those days.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I mean, I do have a really good rewind voice. I really do.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I loved our conversation with him because you can really hear how much he cares about the legacy of the Office. Yeah. Dave, along with his team of editors, are being so thoughtful about these superfan episodes. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, Dave has been working on these superfan episodes for years. He is now all the way up to season eight, and you can find them on Peacock.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I know. And we can share more about it. Our visit. All right. Well, we hope you enjoyed this as much as we did. We're going to take a quick break and be back with our interview with Dave Rogers.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
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An Interview with Dave Rogers
I'm just doing like this air hug across the table because I'm so happy to see your face.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Dave listens to the podcast, and he will email us the most lovely email saying, hey, you guys really crushed that one or great details. It really means a lot to us, Dave, because no one knows the show better than you. That's the truth.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And not have to go to Best Buy and buy a DVD player like I did.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Which, by the way, I have played my DVDs so much in the last five years. Jenna, I haven't even shared this with you. My DVD player is malfunctioning. It's starting to make it like vee, vee. And then sometimes I have to hit stop and eject and then like kind of reboot it to get it to work. Anyway, sorry. Didn't mean to go off on the DVD tangent.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Let's begin. Okay. Well, I'll kick us off with our first question, and it's one we ask all of our guests that were on The Office, and it's, how did you get your job on The Office?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
Like from the get-go. When you walked in as Joe Bennett, I would have thought you'd been Joe Bennett your whole life. Oh, really? Yes.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Kathy, I remember I was really nervous about how to interact with the camera in our pilot episode. The supporting cast, we were just the background. It was a real lesson in patience, and you just had to wait for that moment when you finally got to have a little interaction. But we spent so much time in the background, and my nose was itching so bad one day.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
And I thought, oh, I can't scratch it because I'm on camera. That's weird. And I was, oh, God, I wanted to scratch it so bad. And I went up to Ken Kwapis, our director, and he must have thought I was like so silly. I said, Ken, my nose was really itching in that last take and I scratched it and I'm so sorry. And he was like, Angela, you are living a life. Live a life.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
And the camera captures what it captures. If your nose itches, scratch it. And that was sort of an eye-opening moment for me about how to just be in the background.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Yeah. Yeah, it does. You don't feel like you're watching someone act when you watch Steve. Like I never do. I always believed him. He just is such a natural in whatever role he puts on. I don't see him acting anymore.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
She had so much, you know, she was so layered. I mean, the scenes between Michael and Joe on the private plane were just so brilliant. I loved those. I wanted to see more of her world. Like, where does she go? And the Great Danes and your outfits and your hair. Were you a part of the look of Joe Bennett?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
So when that one looks over your shoulder, its head is bigger than yours. Its presence on camera is so big.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Well, you know, we are both watching Matlock and we are loving it. I mean, everyone is loving it. Kathy, it is just taken off like wildfire and we would love to talk to you about it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
I still, yeah, me too. Like even afterwards, I was like, we just spent over an hour. Yeah. We talked for so long with Kathy Bates. Yes.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
I was going to say the idea, you know, I'm 53, but I'm still discovering things about myself. And that life is a discovery. You don't age out of discovery. And I think sometimes we dismiss that. We think that we can't discover new things about ourselves. And I've really connected to that in this show.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
I mean, you know, she's just a legend. We are so fortunate that we got to work with her, have this amazing conversation with her. She has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is currently starring in the new CBS series Matlock. It's a huge hit, and I'm sure she's going to add more awards to that shelf. Oh, for sure. I love Matlock.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Doesn't it, you, Angela? Yes, so much, especially, Kathy, when you were talking about how exciting it is to get the scripts and have an input, you know, There was such a creative collaboration. Greg Daniels set the tone for that, that we could go to the writers and we could pitch ideas to them. And that was so powerful and meaningful, even as a supporting cast member. So I love that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
And you see it in the work. You see the creative collaboration. It's why we're hooked from the minute you're on screen. The cast is so fantastic. Yeah. I really love the cast and we can't wait. You know, we'll keep talking about it.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
Me too. We both started watching it. We've been watching it. It is so good.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Well, you know, we also would love to talk to you about your advocacy work and your recent health journey. And I know Jenna had reached out to you, and I would love to start that part of this conversation.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
And see, Kathy, I did not know what lymphedema was. And when you started talking about it is when I learned about it. And Jenna had shared with me as well. So I think this is so important to talk about.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Mm hmm. And the whole pilot is sort of her sneaking her way into the law firm. And she ends up in the big conference room meeting and she blows them away. It's a very badass moment. And they decide to give her like a two weeks temporary hire to see how she's going to shake out.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Yes. My grandmother and my aunt were all breast cancer survivors. My grandmother passed away, but not from cancer. And my aunt, my mom's sister, had a really rough go. But she's doing much better now. So I go and get my mammograms and try to stay on top of it. But, you know, when Jenna got her diagnosis, all I wanted to do was be a source of support. And I wanted to just be strong for her.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
And, you know, we never really talked it out about just the scary side of it and those emotions until we sat down on our podcast to talk about it for the first time. And I think I cried for 20 minutes. Yeah. And we couldn't even use it because it was the first time I said out loud, she's cancer free. You know, it's like I and we finally talked about it. I completely fell apart.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
I held it together for a year, but then I just fell apart because just watching someone you care about go through it and not knowing what the hell you can do other than to just say, I'm thinking of you and I love you and I'm praying for you. And and that's about it. And just try to keep being there for her and being steadfast and hoping I was enough to help her when she needed it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
But it is so important that you guys are sharing about it. It's so important. We've had so many people reach out to us when Jenna shared, and Kathy, I know you're having this experience too, that the burden of feeling alone in it, the burden of feeling like you can't talk about it, that itself is just too much to bear. I think on top of everything else.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
And I'm so happy to be part of this conversation with you all and for people listening to hear it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Yes. Thank you. First of all, we are going to share everything about the Lymphatic Education and Research Network on our social media. I will put swipe up to links so people can learn more. And then we thought we would end this interview with a tradition from the office call sheets.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
On the back of our call sheets, they would do a few questions and get to know the cast and crew, and they would feature a new person each week. So Jenna and I picked our three favorite questions that were the regular questions, and we'd like to ask them to you.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
The first one is, what is a place that you have been to that you absolutely loved?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
This is one of my favorite memories of being in hair and makeup with you is that I was wanting to go on a road trip and you were telling me about your RV trips in hair and makeup. And that was a dream of my dad's. And I just loved it. I hung on your every word. I was like, I want to load up and go see America.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Wow. Okay. That is so cool. I mean, you wrote a song that's in a movie. That's just, it's amazing. That's pretty cool. Um, last question. What do you like to do on the weekends?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
You know, there's a thing about this character that reminded me of something Phyllis said to you. Yes. Years ago. Yes, me too. Yeah, she knew all the scoop happening on the set. She always knew all the best gossip. All the best gossip. But she wasn't a gossip. She was not chatty. She did not share it. And Jenna has shared this before on the podcast.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Thank you so much, Kathy. You're a light in the world and we just adore you. So thank you so much.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Take care. Okay. Oh, man. I just loved all of that. I loved just spending time with her. I really felt like we got to spend time with her. Yeah. And I just love how happy she is in this new job, in this new chapter of her life. You and I can really relate to that. Yeah. And Matlock, you guys, airs on CBS every Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern. And it's also streaming on Paramount+.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
But one time Jenna was like, Phyllis, how do you know everything? And she goes, well, when you're invisible – People say stuff around you. People say stuff around you.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Yeah, we can't wait. It's really festive. It's really fun. And we just hope you guys have a great week. Know that we're thinking of you. And we'll see you Friday. See you then. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
Office Ladies is mixed and mastered by Chris Basil. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
I do. Rainn Wilson and Melora Hardin both guest starred in the original Matlock series. And Linda Pearl, a.k.a. Helene Beasley, played Charlene Matlock in 23 episodes of the original series.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
She was very kind and thoughtful. And one of the biggest takeaways from just getting a chance to talk to her for me was how committed she is to making a difference and to helping others. And I really admired her for that.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
Anyway, I don't think I would have thought of an air fryer, but I saw it pop up on the gift guide. Well, speaking of gift guides, we also started our own Macy's gift guide where we are putting our picks for the holidays. So, Jenna, I know you added the air fryer to our list. I did because I think it's such a fun thing.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
Well, I added a few things to our gift guide as well. So my son has really been wanting a pair of nice slippers. You know, he had like his little kid slippers, you know, like the fuzzy ones and they've fallen apart. But he's older now. He's a teenager and he wanted some cozy slippers, but like also ones that you could walk out in the driveway in. Yep. So I got him these great Ugg slippers.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Kathy Bates
They are the Ugg men's classic slip-on shaggy suede slippers. I can't wait to give them to him. And I added a little something for me on our site. What did you add? Well, I mean, I love to dress festive this time of year. So I added a cute red sweater. And on the front of it in white, it says Mary, M-E-R-R-Y. That is so you. Yeah. It's by Cece and I put it on our storefront.
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
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An Interview with Kathy Bates
Already. And we're basically in our closets here. This is a closet. I'm in a closet.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
And you know, we just love how it turned out. Our teenagers love it. And so do my mom and sisters when they visit. My mom says it's her favorite room in our house. Wow.
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All About Pam Beesley
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All About Pam Beesley
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All About Pam Beesley
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Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
So, one of the things we did for All About Kevin Malone was to say our favorite Kevin moment. And I just loved that. So I thought me and Sam and Cassie could share our favorite Pam moment. Sam, you want to go first?
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
Oh my gosh, thank you. I do love that. I also love from Dinner Party when Pam goes, I don't care what they say about me, I just want to eat.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
So this is my week. This is your week and it's also Pam's week. And before we get to Pam Beasley, let's celebrate your birthday. We have gifts, okay? I see, there's a bag that says happy birthday and it's heavy. Okay, that's from me. Okay. And I'll explain. Okay. It is a giant bag of sumo citrus oranges. Yes, and it looks like a book, lady. But guess what? It's like a gift box.
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All About Pam Beesley
Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein. Oh mein Gott. Okay, ich hatte einen really hard time picking my favorite Pam moment. There are so many, but you know one that I always love? It always makes me smile. I just think it's such just a sweet moment and I thought your acting was so good in it. It's when Pam wins the Dundee for the whitest sneakers.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
You just see her travel through all these different moments in her acceptance speech, kind of like when she finds out that Michael's dating her mom. I just saw like who you wanted to thank, but then you got back on track, but then you drifted off.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
Can we hear it? Oh man, is this a sweet moment for me. I knew today was going to be a good day for you. I did not know it was going to get this good for me. Oh no.
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All About Pam Beesley
Oh! Du sahst so überrascht aus. Ich wusste, was ich tue. Ich wusste, was ich tue.
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All About Pam Beesley
And inside of it, okay, hear me out. I wanted to get you a book for your birthday, but I don't know what all you have and don't have and what's on your list. So I found this independent bookstore in Madison, Connecticut. It's called Just the Right Book. And you can fill out sort of like the taste of books you like, the subjects you like. And then you will get a book in the mail each month.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
I just, I'm so happy. I feel seen. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. Yeah. I feel like Kevin in that moment where he's like, can I finish? Can I finish? I knew it was their first kiss. It was. I concede. I can't believe you were gonna hold that back. I was gonna find it eventually, lady, and then I was gonna light you up.
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All About Pam Beesley
Well, guess who's gonna go to the shooting draft and see? You'll let us know. Launch party! I'm going to look in the candy bags. Oh my gosh. Yep. Wowzers. Okay, I don't even know where we were. Oh, my other favorite Pam moment. The whole reason I'm wearing the shirt that says Pam Sass. Because I could not do an all about Pam Beasley and not talk about her Pam Sass.
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All About Pam Beesley
It's one of my favorite things ever. It is a runner throughout the entire series. And we got a fan mail flurry about it. People really wanted us to share some PAMSAS. Und guess what? As it turns out, there are a ton of Pam Sass Video Compilations online. There are so many. One of my favorites that I watched in prepping for this episode was titled The Best of Pam's Brutal Comebacks.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
I mean, that's a great title. Here are just a few I'm going to play. I'm also going to read some. Let's start with Pam vs. Kevin.
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All About Pam Beesley
I don't have any DUIs, so I can drive myself. But thanks. But thanks. That's kind of like Pam's Bless Your Heart. But thanks. Yeah. Then there is the Halloween episode when Jim makes fun of her for believing in ghosts. And then Pam says she'll draw a picture of the ghost for Jim. And she just draws the middle finger. Oh, yes. Flips him off. That's right.
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All About Pam Beesley
You can sign up for a four month subscription or six month or 12 month. And lady, I just love supporting this independent bookstore. I love reading, Angela.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
I watched so many Pam vs. Ryan clips last night and I really would love so much to just make it an episode and bring BJ in here because it is so wonderful. That is the spin-off I want to watch.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
Und dann gibt es Pam versus das gesamte Dunder Mifflin-Office. I'm going to read this for you. It's from the Niagara episode when Pam was pregnant and she asked everyone in the office if they could kind of tone it down on the smelly stuff. Like Phyllis with her perfume soaps and Meredith and her cigars and then Dwight's super smelly lunches.
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All About Pam Beesley
She's having really horrible morning sickness and she just said, can you guys just tone this down? Mm-hmm. Well, no one wants to change their routines. So Pam has a talking head where she says, I don't think I'm asking for too much. I guess it's just the end of courtesy in the workplace. And then it cuts to this scene. Dwight is peeling a hard-boiled egg at his desk. He sniffs it and takes a bite.
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All About Pam Beesley
Pam stares at him, picks up her trash can and pukes in it. This causes a chain reaction. Andy, Phyllis, Meredith, Aaron, Oscar and Angela all proceed to throw up in various places in the office. Dwight stares shocked at Pam. Pam wipes her mouth with a satisfied look. She took down the whole office. That's some Pam sass. Und, you know, I'm really barely scratching the surface.
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All About Pam Beesley
There's so much more Pam Sass. But I want to end with one of my all-time favorites. It is Pam vs. Dwight.
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All About Pam Beesley
That's so good. My God, our writers are so good. That's such good writing. Oh my goodness. Well, that ends my Pam Sass segment of All About Pam Beasley. And now I want to move on to this fan question from Fanola K. in the UK. Which Pam moments are you proudest of?
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All About Pam Beesley
And, you know, just as an audience, just someone watching it, because now I'm watching it just as a fan of the show. That moment is so pivotal and meaningful. Yeah. And you did it perfect.
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All About Pam Beesley
And I love that it was Ken in that moment with you because he had been there since the very beginning.
Office Ladies
All About Pam Beesley
You know, I love to title things, create structure. I know. I love like our different ways of titling things. I'm like, Pam Sass, you're like area of interest. Yes.
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All About Pam Beesley
Thanks. I'm going to put a link to this bookstore. It's called Just the Right Book. And I just want to read one thing from its website. It says, in a world dominated by algorithms, think of Just the Right Book as your personal book stylist, a personalized bookseller experience based on you and delivered to you.
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All About Pam Beesley
What if your character was like a bank robber? You can't go out in the world as the bank robber.
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All About Pam Beesley
And it's just information. I just love this. This is so thorough of you. I love it. I have to say one thing, one thing really quickly, which is one time I was standing in line for a movie and this lady cut in front of like legit cut in front.
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All About Pam Beesley
So much so that the girl taking the tickets looked at me and then looked at her like the line forms here, you know? Yeah. And she looked at me and the lady goes... Ich gehe zu meinem Film. Was ist die Sache? Und ich sagte zu ihr, schau, du schneidest vor allem, aber klar, das ist wirklich wichtig für dich. Du musst zu diesem Film kommen. Und es ist nicht wichtig für mich.
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All About Pam Beesley
Because she knew she already had her first kiss and now she wants another first kiss. I'm gonna eat off that for a long time, so buckle in.
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All About Pam Beesley
Okay, so that song was on my playlist. I did an acting exercise when I was studying years ago and we did all pick a song. And then we let that song kind of take us to a place and then we delivered a monologue. So when we do all about Angela Martin, I'll share my song. That helps me kind of get to a place where I break down.
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All About Pam Beesley
I'll do that. There you go. Well, I can share with everyone I have road tripped with you and there is no music. There's no music.
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All About Pam Beesley
I love your playlist and I can't wait for us to share it. Up next is my Pam Beasley area of interest. And I'm tackling a fan theory here. The fan theory is that Pam is the one that the documentary crew was following all along. I just thought that this was such an interesting take on the whole show and I have a few things to support it, okay? Okay.
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All About Pam Beesley
So this theory says that the entire show is actually centered around Pam's perspectives and experiences and that the camera crew was interested particularly in her life and showing her life as it evolved through the series. and that the show is not a documentary about a paper company.
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All About Pam Beesley
You know, a lot of the other characters have relationships as the years go on, but Pam is the one that develops close friendships with people. She is the only character throughout the show that connects with people in one way or another. And you can see it if you watch the show. She's there for Dwight when Dwight needs her. She's there for Angela when Angela is crying about sprinkles.
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All About Pam Beesley
She's there for Michael over and over. She's like his support system. She is there for Kelly when Kelly is worried about Ryan cheating on her. She's there for Nellie. She was there for Meredith. They go and like do karaoke together. She has moments with Oscar and Toby in the Finers Things Club. And obviously... She's there for Jim.
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All About Pam Beesley
But if you watch the show with Pam as the main focus, it really opens up all of these moments. You really see how Pam was the person people went to talk to.
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All About Pam Beesley
So number one, Pam is the emotional support for everyone. She is the person people confide in. Number two, Pam's presence lives on. After the documentary is over, she is the one character that has a physical lasting mark on the Dunder Mifflin workplace. In the last season, Pam decides to create the mural in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse. She draws all of the characters from the show.
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All About Pam Beesley
And Pam is the only person in the series who, when she actually physically leaves Dunder Mifflin, leaves something behind. Her legacy, her mark. Okay. True. True. Number three is inspired by Keely C. from Mexico, who wrote in to say, I have a theory about the documentary crew, and it is that it favors Pam over everyone else in the office and that she was their favorite subject.
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All About Pam Beesley
She goes on to say she thinks that they interview Pam more than the other characters. She believes that the documentary crew was always rooting for Pam. Do you believe this theory? First of all, Keely, I found an article online that agrees with you on cbr.com. It says, Pam is the only character who really changes throughout the years.
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All About Pam Beesley
Pam starts as an insecure, timid, self-effacing young woman and ends the series as an assertive professional who establishes boundaries both in her professional and personal life. And finally, the same article said the following, and Jenna, I know that you and Brian talked about this on his podcast, The Deep Dive. But it suggests that Pam having the last line of the series proves all of this.
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All About Pam Beesley
And here's what the article said. The Office ends with a tearful sequence featuring several interviews of the characters mixed with emotional and sometimes hilarious scenes. However, Pam's interview is the last one to appear in the mockumentary, which leaves the audience with the feeling that Pam is the one saying goodbye.
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All About Pam Beesley
Pam sagt, es gibt viel Schönheit in normalen Dingen, ist das nicht der Punkt? Das beendet die Idee, die supposiert normalen und unerwarteten Leben der Leute, die in einem Büro arbeiten, zu folgen. Aber der Fakt, dass Pam die letzte Linie im Show hat und sie die Prämisse der Serie abschließt, ergibt sich an Pam als die Hauptcharakterin des Büro. Was sind Ihre Gedanken?
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Ich meine, ja, weil ich ehrlich gesagt nie gedacht habe, dass es um Michael geht. Ich dachte, weil Michael der Boss war, hat er vielleicht mehr Screen Time, weil er diese Momente einfacher produzieren kann.
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Yeah, I mean, here's my take. I agree with you. I think it was a documentary about an everyday small company and just what it's like to work in a small company. But I think what happens, and we know this to be true, especially if you sit down and talk to Dave Rogers, which is, there is one story that you film and there's another story that you find.
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So I think the documentary crew filmed all of this footage and then when they sat down to edit it, that's when the story took shape. Yeah. And they saw all this footage of Jim and Pam and they became enamored with showing their story. And that's why so much of Jim and Pam is in it. So I think the editor found Pam. And maybe that's someone I'd love to meet who edited the documentary.
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So many people wrote in questions for you about Pam. And I just love our Office Ladies listeners. They send in the best questions. They're so thoughtful and wonderful observations. We'll get to those after the break. We are back with our All About Pam Beasley episode and it is time for our fan Q&A. I'm kicking us off with Raquel C. from Michigan and Megan V. from Columbia.
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They wrote in and asked, where did the name Pam Beasley come from? And then also Joe H. from Long Island, New York says, were there ever any alternate first and last names for Pam?
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I have lots of books to read now. Yay. Und Frau, es gibt noch eine Sache, die ich Ihnen öffnen möchte. Ihr wisst, vor einiger Zeit gingen wir durch Fanmail und ich sah das und ich dachte, das wird perfekt sein, wenn wir alles über Pam Beasley machen. Dies sind handgemachte Eingriffe von einem Künstler in Ohio, Redleaf Studio.
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I don't think so either. Yeah. But I love that question. Next up is Aaron S. from Maryland. Aaron says, one of the best things the writers on the show did was not to have Jim and Pam get together right after season one. It's very subtle when you're just watching through the episodes, but it's so powerful that Pam was given the time to be on her own after ending her long engagement.
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On the initial watch, it feels like Pam is being silly or cowardly, not just telling Jim how she feels. But I actually think that was the much more difficult and much braver decision.
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Her personal growth during that period when Jim is away and then when he returns and dates Karen is so great to watch and re-watching, when the initial frustration of prolonging the Jim and Pam's union is not so strong. Can you share any thoughts you have about Pam's growth during this time and some of your favorite storylines she had without Jim?
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I watched all of our party planning committee scenes when I was researching Pam Sass. I wanted to play a bunch. But I already felt like I had a lot of PAMSATs.
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It's so fun in doing these all about episodes because I feel like when I watch the show, I watched it for the whole ensemble. But in doing these all about, I go specifically to these scenes for this one character. Yeah. And I watched a lot of the Michael Scott Paper Company episodes and just Pam and Michael on the road together.
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It's so good. It was so fun to do. Next question is from Matt V. in Delaware. Matt says, While I truly love every aspect of the office, the singular thing that consistently still blows me away is every time the way Pam looks at Jim compared to anything else. He goes on to say,
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And she made little sprinkles cat earrings for me as well. I'm going to share her shop. She is so talented. Handmade from Ohio. What's her store again? Red Leaves Studio. Thank you so much. Yeah.
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And without even thinking that anyone is watching you. It's that private, quiet time that when you're alone in your home.
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Das ist so gut. Ich schreibe ein Wort neben einem Paragraphen, wenn ich Dialog hatte, was auch immer es sein könnte, dass ich dachte, Angela fühlte sich tief in etwas zurück, weil sie oft nur so hostile und abrupt war. Aber vielleicht war sie an dem Tag fehlend oder traurig oder traurig. Also schreibe ich einfach ein Emotionswort, um mit dem, was gesagt wurde, zusammenzufassen.
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That's good acting. Well, I really saw so much emotion in Pam and just your eyes, Jenna. I thought you were just so good at conveying so much. Really good acting class. Watch Jenna as Pam, guys. Aw, thanks, lady. Allison W. from Winnipeg wrote in to say, Jenna, when did you realize your character was a part of one of television's greatest love stories? How did that feel then and now?
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And Leighton R. wrote in from Folsom, California saying, Pam's relationship with Jim is a fan favorite. How did you and John Krasinski develop the chemistry that made their bond so believable? Lady, I have to tell you, I just saw a trailer for Will Ferrell's new movie with Reese Witherspoon. And literally their daughter is at her wedding day doing her vows and she says, you're the gem to my Pam.
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What? And this movie that is just coming out. Oh my gosh. Isn't that wild? That is nuts. Yeah, that is, I mean, just one example of how ingrained, I feel like, into pop culture are Jim and Pam.
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Well, I'm not done. What? In honor of it being all about Pam Beasley. My favorite part about Pam is her Pam sass. We'll get to it. But lady, I had to bust out.
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I mean, that makes perfect sense to me. It's a very actor-y answer. It's a little actor-y, it's a little clunky. Well, I mean, I get it, though. I hear what you're saying. You're saying that as an actor, the part of you that was Pam, and as an actor, the part of him that was Jim, had a real bond. But you say it, not in real life? Not in real life. Oh, but no, people misquoted it.
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L.A. Times, the Los Angeles Times, quote, Jenna Fischer was genuinely in love with Office-Co-Star John Krasinski. I never said that! You never said that! Entertainment Weekly, Jenna Fischer reveals she and John Krasinski were genuinely in love while filming The Office. Boy, they really latched on to that genuinely in love thing.
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BuzzFeed wrote, Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski were genuinely in love while filming The Office and now our hearts are melting. Yes.
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I love the Sass. And of course there is cake and there's mixed berry yogurt. We'll have all of that on our break. And I guess muffins too. And oranges.
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Yeah. So here's the thing. When something like that happens to you and your phone's blowing up, what do you do? I know. I know. What do you do? Now it's like, it's so crazy because no matter how much you like try to be like correct it, it is out in the world. Yeah. Well, here's what I did. I called John.
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Yeah, I mean, that is weird. And it's kind of a drag because, I mean, love Jim and Pam, love them. But this part of it is a little bit of a bummer. And you know, I never had that with Rain. I don't think Dwayne Angela quite packs the punch like Jam.
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Well, you deserve to be celebrated and we love you. Well, thank you. Okay, so let's get to all about Pam Beasley. I thought I would kick off today's episode with this request from Mel E. in Richmond, Texas. Mel wrote in and said, please read the show Bible entry for Pam. And guess what, everyone? Jenna sent me the show Bible. I did.
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So weird, the things that somehow get distorted and people latch on to. This is nowhere, nowhere like what you've been through. But one time in an interview, someone asked me what my favorite food was. And I said, I love tacos. I don't know you to love tacos. I don't know. I was on the spot. It was like on a red carpet. What's your favorite food? I don't know. Tacos.
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No, but I did have a gift basket one time that had taco seasoning in it.
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Well, I'm really glad we finally talked about that. Next question is from Rachel N. in North Carolina. Rachel says, I'm asking this question on behalf of my husband Raj. Do you think Pam would have married Roy if Jim had not confessed his love and transferred to Stanford? Oh, I love this question.
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Ich meine, schau dir an, wie schnell Pam und Jim verheiratet werden, nachdem sie sich engagiert haben.
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No. I agree. Next question is from Carrie B. in Tacoma, Washington. Carrie says, Jenna, what is your favorite Pam and Dwight moment?
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Each week we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes details and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office Lady 6.0. Hey there! Hi! It is a super fun day here at Office Ladies 6.0 because this week we are celebrating Jenna's birthday and in honor of it being your birthday, it is all about Pam Beasley.
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Alright, our last question is from Laura P. in Wisconsin. Laura says, Jenna, did you ever find it annoying that you are most known slash recognized for playing Pam? Do you wish you were recognized for other work?
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We all have goals for our seasons of life. Yeah. And your goal for this season is a Tony. Well, I want to end with this wonderful letter. It's going to be our final word here on the All About Pam Beasley episode. It's from Allison C. in Florida. And Allison wrote in and said this. When I first watched The Office in middle school, Pam was one of the first characters I ever fully saw myself in.
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My dad describes me as having quiet strength. And I don't think there's a better phrase to describe Pam Beasley. Watching her blossom as the show went on gave me hope for myself.
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In the final episode, Pam quoted, it would just make my heart sore if someone out there saw this and said to herself, be strong, trust yourself, love yourself, conquer your fears, just go after what you want and act fast because life just isn't that long. Pam would be proud to know that a little girl watching latched onto those words.
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I even printed it out and tacked it on my bedroom wall, where it remained all throughout my high school years. That little girl now has her first office job post-college and loves the office more than ever. And that little girl fully believes that Pam was the main subject of the documentary. Oh, thank you, Allison. She says, that's my personal soapbox.
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From the quiet, creative girls all around the world, thank you, Jenna, for showing us that there's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Wow, oh mein Gott, das hat mich wirklich bewegt.
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It's just beautiful. Yeah. It really is. It is. Well, we just love you guys so much. Thank you so much for listening to Office Ladies and Office Ladies 6.0 and your support over the years and just these great questions. We just love doing this and thank you.
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Und, you know, Jenna, when you did Show Bibles for Kevin Malone and Michael Scott, you sort of grouped the information in different pairings. Yes, I did the same thing. But, you know, our brains work differently. So here's the way I'm going to share the Show Bible info for Pam Beasley. Pams full name is Pamela Morgan Halpert, formerly Beasley. She is Presbyterian.
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Her address is 383 Linden Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She drives a silver Subaru Outback. She is a slow driver, but she can drive a stick shift. Oh yeah, see, I forgot that. She needs glasses, but usually wears contacts. Her instant messenger name is Receptionitis 15.
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Her job titles at Dunder Mifflin were listed as receptionist, sales rep, and secret assistant to the regional manager by Dwight. We know she goes on to become the office administrator, but that is not covered in the show Bible, because it stops. Yep, it stops after season six. Yeah, I think so. Around there, yeah. But I love this little piece of trivia. She worked at Dunder Mifflin before Jim.
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See? Oh my gosh, this is always a hotly debated topic. Who worked there first? It's in Pam's show Bible. Okay. Then I did a segment called her skills and her quote needs improvement list. Oh. Her Skills. She types 90 words a minute, is able to change a tire by herself and is an accomplished volleyball player. Her Needs Improvement List.
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She has the lowest sales record in the office and the worst attitude. The worst attitude? Is that in the show Bible? It is. I did a direct copy and paste. What? About sales. I guess she has the worst attitude about sales. Oh, I don't even think that's true. Okay. Next on her needs improvement list, her attempt at a southern accent sounds like Forrest Gump. Oh, okay.
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She has won the following awards at the Dundies. Longest engagement and widest sneakers. Here are some of her likes. Asian food. Freesell, Sudoku, a house with a terrace upstairs to plant flowers on. She loves to draw, to watch HGTV. She likes dogs over cats. She loves a sprinkle of cinnamon on her coffee. Mixed berry yogurt, French onion chips, making copies. That cracks me up.
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And she likes the following movies, Fargo, Edward Scissorhands, Dazed and Confused, Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride and Legally Blonde. Ja. Hier are some of her dislikes. The Dundies. She considers it like a train wreck. Direct quote. She doesn't like frisbee-based competition. Don't get your frizz on with Pam.
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She does not like hunting, ads for Six Flags with the creepy old guy dancing, pig Latin, country music, Macanudos cigars, and she doesn't like to be called Pammy. She does not. Don't call me Pammy. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. And with Jim, she posted Dwight's resume on job sites.
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She would sometimes hum the same high-pitched note with Jim to get Dwight to make an appointment with an ear doctor. That was very funny. She has been sending Dwight letters from the CIA saying they are considering him for a secret mission. And she also posed as the Dunder Mifflin Infinity computer system with Jim to prank Dwight. Next up, relationships. Oh. She would do Oscar or Toby.
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She was engaged to Roy for three years and she considers Jim her soulmate. Yes, true. And one final thing before we go to break. People often ask us where our characters are now and what they're doing. And this is what the NBC website says about Pam. Oh! Pam merged her mural business with a local art gallery in Austin. Currently, she's on an artist retreat in New Mexico. I wonder when this was.
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Was this after the finale or something? Must be, because you're living in Austin. Yeah. Well, there you go. That is my show Bible Breakdown plus a little extra on All About Pam Beasley.
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Yeah, I had one when Isabel was a toddler. It says something like, kids say the darndest things and you're supposed to write something they say each week. And I wrote a bunch in it and I go back and it's so sweet and cute and hilarious and such a snapshot of my life with her back then. Yeah, I know.
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shy about it all but let's do it well here's the thing we're gonna have some mixed berry yogurt that's gonna make you feel good and then we're gonna talk about pam not you we're gonna talk about pam like someday you're gonna talk about angela martin i am not gonna take it personal when you all call her a bitch i won't take it personal all right well let's take a break and then we'll get to it
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So here's the thing. We have this garage that we converted into a guest room, but it was a garage. It had like a concrete floor. It was not very cozy. And you know, when my mom and sisters come out, I wanted a nice cozy place for them, you know, when they visit.
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Yes, I think just by going to IKEA, you hit on these essentials. Well, since our guest room was once a garage and we wanted it to be a cozy guest room, but also like a teen hangout space, we really focused on declutter, comfort and light. Okay. So first we had to declutter it. We had all of these board games, things like that.
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We got IKEA bookshelves to organize all the games and the movies we had out there. We put a super comfy couch out there and a twin day bed. We also have a little coffee table and a credenza that we put a small TV on. What I loved about the IKEA credenza is it's got these cubby doors on the bottom. So we had more storage. We actually put all the bedding, which we got from IKEA, in the credenza.
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And there's going to be more. There's going to be cake. Because we do birthdays here. We do them. And maybe in honor of Pam, there's also going to be mixed berry yogurt for everybody.
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So it's all ready to go. It's all out there. That's right. Smart. But we really needed to warm that space up. So I also got a comfy rug and I got an end table and I got a lamp. We basically turned it into like a little mini studio apartment. And it's really just a cozy place for our company when they visit. And it's great for our teenagers when they have sleepovers and hangouts.
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Josh put together every single piece of furniture in there by himself. I remember these messages. Yeah.
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Well, on the official Subtle Sexuality website, they have a fun little synopsis of who the group is and I thought I would read it. It says, there's nothing subtle about Subtle Sexuality. They're a girl group that features two divalicious divas, the beautiful and mysterious Kelly Kapoor and the pretty Erin Hannon.
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These independent ladies can do it all, sing, dance, be fiercealicious, and work it all at the same time. Straight out of Scranton, PA, their new single is inspired by Beyonce, Katy Perry, J-Hud, and all the Kardashians. Tear it open and you'll never be able to put it back in the box because Subtle Sexuality is more than just a pop group. It's a way of life.
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I do want to tell you all that on the website, Kelly's name is the biggest. Everyone else's is kind of small. Like the font? Yes. It's huge. And then it says at the bottom, featuring Nardog and Mr. Understood. Oh, these are their pop names.
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Right. And also why maybe they're shooting at Dunder Mifflin because no one's there except for Oscar and Kevin.
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It's one of those classic moments where you only see Kelly and Ryan. Ryan's wearing a robe and Kelly's putting on his eyeliner. And she's looking at the camera and she's like, you know when you love a guy and he's giving you mixed signals, but you know he really likes you and you're sleeping with him? And Ryan goes, more eyeliner. And then Kelly goes, I'll never tell you who the song is about.
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This is a secret that I will take to my grave. And Ryan goes, it's about me. And Kelly goes, it is, but I'll never say. And then we reveal Oscar has been sitting there the whole time just trying to eat a sandwich. And he says, do you guys need to do this here? This is a public area. And Kelly's like, it's our office too, Oscar. And then, lady, I just love this.
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She says to Ryan, I think it's too much rouge. And he goes, no, it's not going to read on camera. And she's like, how do you know what's going to read on camera? And he goes, I lived in New York for 11 months. Living in New York for 11 months tells you everything, I guess, about what reads on camera.
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Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0. Hi. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Yep. I did it. Jenna. Okay. I don't even know where to start. Okay. First of all, for Christmas, Sam gave us each a sweatshirt. Like an ugly Christmas sweatshirt. Yeah.
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Yeah. Kelly is dressed as a bride, but she also is like smoking a cigarette like she's a tough girl. This whole look reminded me very much of early Madonna, like Like a Virgin, that wedding dress look. Yep. Erin is dressed as a minister and she's also working the camera.
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The level of like stress while they're filming was cracking me up.
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Did you ever have to smoke a cigarette for any of your characters? I have not. And I am telling you right now, I would just completely botch it. I don't know that I wouldn't quite know how to hold it or light it. I've never smoked. So I wouldn't know what to do with it.
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Well, I think this is a horrible transition, but Kelly did not do any of that research. She did not. She's doing a horrible job lighting her cigarette. And then she starts coughing and choking. And then she says, excuse me, I think I have to go vomit. That's how this webisode ends.
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Yeah. Who's getting replaced? Erin has a talking head. She says, you know what? The shoot was going really well until Kelly and Ryan got in a fight. Then the poop hit the fan. Yeah.
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And Kelly clearly does not want him to step in for Ryan. So she makes him the cameraman. And he's really happy about that. He's excited. Except he has jelly on his hands. And they're like, you got to wipe that jelly off your hands before you hold the camera. So Kevin just wipes it on the file cabinet. So gross. Way to go, Kevin.
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But they're all Keanu Reeves in some situation. Yeah. Like mine says Merry Wickmas. Thank you, Sam. Jenna Warhurst today, you guys, and I wasn't prepared for it to be right across from me this whole time. It is Keanu is like maybe a patron saint.
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While this conversation is going on, Andy is singing by the vending machines. He is singing to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Vending machine, vending machine. I want to treat, I have something to eat. It's really funny. And of course, they overhear him singing and they're like, huh. This cuts to an Andy talking head and I absolutely loved it.
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He describes how he auditions for them and I think you need to hear it.
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Oh God, not very well. No. Sam, can you? I had to do it in an improv show.
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No, no. One time in an improv, like someone, you know how like people can pimp you out to do something? Uh-huh. I was like in a band and we used to mess with each other on stage like this all the time. And one of my friends who I was performing with that night was like, well, of course, you know, she's an amazing beatboxer. And then the whole crowd looks at you and you're like, damn you.
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So I think I did something like this. Pretty good. It's better than me. Yeah. I don't know. I just made it up on the spot, you guys. It's not good.
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Cassie, can you beatbox? Okay. It's a really cool thing that people can do. I actually find it really fascinating.
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Wait, wait, what? Here we go. Well, Kelly is now going over the choreography with Andy and Erin for the video. She says one and two and cross and cross, down, sexy, sexy, sexy. There is behind the scenes footage of this, of them practicing the dances and Mindy and Ellie talking about like who's good at what dance move. It's so cute. This behind the scenes footage.
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Yeah. We were like, what are you guys doing? What are you guys doing? And then Ellie said in an interview that she was like listening to it like at the gym, like on her run, like just learning the song.
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He's like, this guy? Yeah. You're replacing me with this guy? And he's like, you know what? We've met before. Yeah. And then Kelly has a line. It really cracks me up. She goes, this video is bigger than you or me. Yeah. Doesn't stop Ryan, though. He's going to grab her in an embrace. They're going to make out. And then Ryan says to her, I'll see you at five.
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And Kelly kind of wistfully watches him leave. And Andy's like, but can I still be in the video?
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A little dog. Like he's rescued a dog. But he's like a saint. He has like the halo thing. How do you feel about looking into his sweet eyes? He's looking off. He's not looking right at you. He's gazing that way. But he is right on your. Yeah. Keanu. Yeah. Here's the thing. I love this sweatshirt. You walked through the streets in this. Yeah. You got in your car. Oh, not just that. Oh, yeah.
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The song is just so catchy. Vulture interviewed Mindy and they described the video like this. They channeled the look, sound, and aesthetic of Lady Gaga's 2008 Just Dance and Kesha's 2010 song TikTok. I went back and watched both of those music videos.
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We're not going to play the full song for you guys, but you've got to hear the chorus of Mel Prima Donna. Here it is. Lady, I had this song stuck in my head for days. Days. I mean, I'm going to sing it probably today. In the behind the scenes footage, there is a part where Ellie's in front of a microphone and Mindy's watching her and she's just going...
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They're very interesting and also very random. Very random. Also in the behind the scenes video, you see them in the costume department and they're clearly trying on different looks. I had to do a costume breakdown. I expected it. Okay. Well, their first look, I'm going to start with Kelly.
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She's wearing gold spandex leggings with a sort of like a cheetah print leotard and a big black chunky belt with long dark purple gloves up to her elbows and tall black boots and
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A version of this. I thought you might wear gold leggings or something. You said, look, I have an outfit.
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Gold leggings? Honey, not only have I met you and been your friend for years, but let's just talk about what you wore to Halloween that year. Were you dressed like someone from the 1980s? I know I wore a neon track suit because I don't want anything... You know, tight. Well, you might wear some kind of gold lame. I thought. I thought you might wear something inspired. Cheetah print. Fair enough.
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Fair enough. Okay. I'm not done with Kelly's first look. No, go. She also has sort of like a blue lightning bolt. thing on her cheek. This is very Lady Gaga in her Just Dance video. Okay. Okay. Erin is wearing the same gold spandex leggings, and it looks like she has a black leotard, but then over the black leotard, they put this gold sparkly tank top blouse with also a big black chunky belt.
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She has black gloves, but they only go just a little bit past her wrist, and she also has the tall black boots. Then they have a second look, which we already talked about. It's Kelly as the bride. and Aaron as a priest, then they have a third look I guess we're calling it sexy pirate. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're calling it. Kelly has a bedazzled silver and diamond patch over one eye. She has a silver sparkly knit hat. Erin has a full stuffed parrot on her shoulder with a black beret. And then they both have these versions of like kind of a black and white outfit look. like with black and white stripes. That's their third book.
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Well, you should tell them. I've had a morning. Let me... She told me... Okay. She said, Ange, I'm going to wear kind of a fun outfit today. I'm going to surprise you. And... We haven't shared with you, you know, we're doing subtle sexuality today. Yeah. And I thought, oh, I bet she's coming in a gold leotard. Oh, no. No.
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Well, now Andy is going to come in and he's got a whole interesting look as well. Oh, yes. I did a breakdown of Andy's outfit.
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Yeah. He's like on either side of himself like bookends. And then he's got also a pose in the middle. It's pretty special.
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Oh, I do. So Ryan, first of all, you know, his character is Mr. Understood.
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He is wearing a white top hat, a white suit with a pink handkerchief in his lapel pocket with black and white checkered socks with white dress shoes, a long gold necklace with some type of gold medallion and a gold flashy watch. But in the behind-the-scenes bonus footage, BJ and Mindy talk about his costume, and here's what they said.
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Yeah. Well, I also thought we needed to hear Ryan's rap because it's so great. Yeah. So here is Mr. Understood.
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Also, BJ's face as Ryan or Mr. Understood, whatever we're calling him, when he goes piranha, he's like so into it.
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Yes, because I considered doing it. But then I didn't. I did. But I didn't have time. And then I had an old leotard and I put it on. And you know what? It hugged things in all the wrong spots.
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That's simplisafe.com slash officeladies. There's no safe like SimpliSafe. Okay, we are back. Like we said before, this webisode series was so popular, they produced two supplemental assets, if you will.
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It's the story of subtle sexuality as told by Kevin Malone. It's a very dramatic introduction. I thought we could hear it.
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Yes, there's going to be a series of talking heads, and everyone will have a title.
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Erin also has a talking head. Her title is other band member. Womp womp. And she says the best part was when they sang. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. He says he's cursed with overt sexuality. Yeah. I do want to point out during all of these interviews, the setting is hilarious. Yes. Like Mindy thought of everything. So they are sitting in this room. There are candles on these tall pedestals. And then the backdrop behind them is all this vibrant colors.
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It looks like a bunch of like fans that you flip open, you know, but the colors are like purple and maroons.
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Yeah. He's the kindest. I know I've talked about it before, but he would always let me take Isabel to his backyard, had a swing when she would come visit. He's the sweetest.
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Well, lady, I reached out to Joya about this. She has all of the original subtle sexuality artwork. And last night, guess what I did?
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All right. Everybody gets a subtle sexuality T-shirt. I printed them. We used an ironing board. Josh helped me. We made everyone shirts. And Sam, I know you love collecting pop culture stuff, so you get a shirt and a pillowcase.
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Yes, I had several images Joya gave me and I can share these in our stories. It's so cool. I have Mindy as the pirate. This is nuts. This is why I have been wearing this big bulky sweatshirt because I had to cover the t-shirt. I have been sweating my butt off over here. I was so happy to finally take it off.
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Keep my party planning committee spirit going. Yes. I had to. When I saw all of this artwork, I was like, this is so amazing. They really, really went for it. They really did. I just think they're fantastic. Yeah.
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Everywhere he went. Everywhere. My mom's house. Yeah. Male prima donna. Male prima donna.
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Well, we're going to find out that things went south pretty quickly for this group. I guess there was a performance they thought was going to be at a record label. Turned out to be a record store.
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This is going to be a surprise to him. Yeah. Ryan says, you know, he doesn't know what it is, but Andy didn't have it. So they got rid of him.
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Yeah. Well, you know, Kelly, Aaron, and Ryan kind of explain what The Girl Next Door is going to be. And you can also hear the fact that Andy is surprised that they've already been working on it. Let's hear it.
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Yes. It also had a huge marketing push from NBC. It had a Facebook page, which Joya told us she is still the admin for. She's like, I don't think NBC realizes that. Oops. She also sent me screen grabs of all of this stuff, of the Facebook pages, of comments that people left. I'm going to share it in our stories. The Girl Next Door website had pictures of Kelly, Erin, and Ryan.
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So clearly Keanu... He was looking out for you today. My patron saint, Keanu. Yeah. They saw the sweatshirt. They were like, this lady needs help.
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It also had drop-down tabs that said lyrics and credits, picks, free stuff, bye, fan club, and past projects. And it listed some thank yous, and I thought we could read them, Jenna. They're so funny. Here is who Kelly would like to thank. Myself for believing in me. Ryan Howard for the push all of the criticisms you gave me. Beyonce for being such a great role model.
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My sisters, Ruka, Nipah, and Tiffany for nothing. Oh, a little shade at the sisters. Yep. The VMA committee for selecting me as best new artist next year. And my stripper aerobics DVD for teaching me how to dance and look awesome.
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The website page also includes the following credits for the song. It says lyrics by Nate Fetterman and Jonathan Hughes, and the music was once again by Eve Nelson and also Raymond Cervenka, published by Barter Music, Inc. and Exhibition Music, Inc.
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Well, here is how the Girl Next Door video starts. Kelly is dressed in a pink zip-up hoodie with pink checkered fingernail polish. She's wearing glasses and her hair in sort of these long, low pigtails. They're in the kitchen break room at Dunder Mifflin. And she is playing checkers with Ryan, who is dressed in a letterman jacket. He's kind of got that jock look going.
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The opening credits say subtle sexuality featuring Rye Howard and then in quotations, girl next door. The video starts with a couplet of dialogue. Jenna, I think we should read it. You be Rye and I'll be Kelly. Okay.
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Oh, okay. I don't think there's a bus stop by the sports dome. I don't know how I'd get there. Why don't I just pick you up?
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Yeah. And, you know, Rye does a big double take at Aaron and he gets up and he doesn't even look over his shoulder at Kelly. He just says bye and he goes after Aaron. And then that's when the music video starts. The lyrics are so great. I think we need to hear the beginning. Let's do it.
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So catchy. Very catchy again. Yeah. In an interview with Vulture Magazine, Mindy said it's a pop country song. She said there was elements of Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. And the video is based specifically on Taylor Swift's 2009 hit, You Belong With Me, in which Swift plays, as Mindy put it, both the girl next door and the hot bitchy girl.
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She looks completely adorable. She looks so adorable. They do have a few outfit changes, but they're all in the same like genre of their character. So Mindy has a few different hoodie looks and Erin is in a few different types of cocktail dresses. And then Ryan has a few different letterman jackets.
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Let's not forget Ryan's other costume look is when he's dressed as an old man. Because guess what? He realizes he should have picked the girl next door. But it's too late. It's too late. Because guess what? She died of a broken heart. Yeah. He goes to her grave site. He leaves her a checker. From the checkerboard. From the checkerboard. He remembers playing checkers with her.
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They're not even touching. They're doing that real fakey kind of like hands moving, but their faces aren't touching.
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Well, Subtle Sexuality had a whole world tour lined up according to their website. Yeah. It started October 29th and went until November 8th. That's also when the webisodes were released. And they were mostly going to sing at karaoke bars and open mic nights. But around the world? No. No. Okay. Nope. But they were going to be the opening act at two events.
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Oh, on November 6th, you could have found them headlining at Aaron's apartment. Oh, okay. And on November 7th, they were in Ithaca, New York at Statler Hall opening for the Cayuga Waiters, which by the way, Statler Hall is on Cornell University's campus. And the Cayuga Waiters were the campus's oldest all-male acapella ensemble and
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They were dismissed as a group in 2017 as an outcome of an investigation into hazing. Oh, that took a turn I wasn't expecting. Sorry. But I think at the time this was written, they were.
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Well, I just, I, of course, when I saw that they were going to play at Statler Hall, I had to find out if it was a real place. Then I found out it was on Cornell. Then I found out the Cayuga Waiters were an actual real acapella group. Until 2017. They weren't. There was a little bit of a mom detective.
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The poor guy. Yeah. I have a feeling Andy set it up. Oh, and now he doesn't even get to go. I know, because they kicked him out of the group. Wow.
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Oh, my gosh. When I was 10, I was in Indonesia. I have no idea what the movies were.
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Well, mine wasn't as exciting as that. I was just like part of a crowd scene, you know. I've talked about this before. It was for Clay Walker's single. He's a country music artist, really nice guy. And there was a group of people that would sit around the stage, you know, as he played. But we're like out like – I feel like there were like bales of hay.
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It was supposed to look like country, like we're outside. Yeah. And it was filmed in New Mexico. And I wore those. Remember when those. It was filmed in New Mexico. Did you get the job in L.A. and they traveled you to New Mexico? I wasn't living in L.A. yet. I was living in Texas, but I had a friend who was working on it and was like, hey, we're going to do a music video. Do you want to come?
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And it's not that far of a drive. Like I have friends that I went to college with that lived in New Mexico. So anyway, I drove there and I was in this music video, but I wore my own clothes. Remember when like it was fashion for people to wear like construction boots?
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I feel like maybe it is. Yeah. And then I wore like a sweater tucked into shorts. What? That's where you lost me. Yeah. I don't know if that was ever in. And then I wore like a chunky belt. Anyway, it was a look. And you can barely see me. I'm literally a blur. I'm sitting on like where the little concert was with a group of people.
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And we're like singing along with Clay and the camera pans past us. But it's like a blur. And it was his song. If I could make a million out of loving you, I'd be a millionaire in a week or two. I love that song. I'd be doing what I love and loving what I do. Now, lady.
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Yes. This is my first entertainment gig. Wow. Clay Walker. There you have it. If you literally blink, you'll miss me.
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Oh, yeah. I agree with this bulls**t card. Same. I mean, if Toby's radon runner can make it for years, why couldn't Subtle Sexuality have a moment in the series? I agree. Yeah.
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They even have on the costumes. They have all the dance moves. It is such an achievement. We have to share it. We have to put it in our stories. I was riveted.
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It made me want to do it. It made me want to do this with a group of friends. Pick a music video you love and just go for it. Recreate it. Yes. Shot by shot. Yeah.
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Yes. And thank you to my husband, Josh, who last night helped me iron on these decals onto shirts. And you know, one last thing that Joya shared with us was that there was a Mel Prima Donna remix version. It's super fun. And I think we should hear it as we go to credits. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.
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Done. Okay. Well, I'll keep my superpowers at party planning and scrapbooking and taking pictures of plants on my walk. We need this. Wait, does Superman like to eat? Because I do have some superpowers in the kitchen and I wasn't sure where to share this, but I have a really big fun share. Yes. Oh, you have to share this, Angela. Sharing is one of your superpowers. Do it. All right.
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Well, this is an exclusive. I'm sharing with you all first. Those of you guys that have been listening to the podcast and following us for all these years know that my husband, Josh, is an amazing baker and cook. And he and I have been working on a cookbook for the last year and a half. And guess what? I can finally tell you the name of it and you can order it. Guess what the name is?
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You already know, Jenna. I'm looking at you like guests, but you're like, I already know. It's called You Can Make This. And I love this title because Josh came up with it. It's sort of a little inside joke with our family because whenever me and the kids are trying to tackle a recipe, he makes it so simple for us. And he'll look at us and say, you can make this. Yeah. And.
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These recipes are so special. Josh has really been thoughtful about picking them. They are our family favorites, and there's really something for everyone in the cookbook. There's meals, side snacks, yummy desserts, and the recipes are simple, delicious, And guess what? You can make this. You can make this.
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He loves the soup. He is a great cook. Cook. Well, I'm so proud of it. And you know, we took the photo that's on the book cover in our home. And I'll put a swipe up where you can pre-order because that's a big deal. Yes. The pre-sales are kind of what set the book apart to succeed. So if you guys go and pre-order, I would love you so much. And I promise you're going to love the cookbook.
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You know what? Let's do it. This is the year Cassie burns it to the ground. We're going to have a segment called Get Real with Cassie. And mine is Footloose.
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You're going to dance through this year, lady. I'm dancing through. Whatever comes your way, you're going to dance through it.
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Well, Speaking of dancing, we have a really fun episode this week. It is the web series Subtle Sexuality and the follow-up music video Girl Next Door.
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I wish they would have aired like regularly. Oh, I have a fan comment about that later. Okay. Well, we have a ton of great behind the scenes stuff for this webisode series. I want to give a big thank you just right out of the gate to Joya Balfour, who was at NBC Digital at the time. She gave us so much scoop. I can't wait to sprinkle it throughout this episode.
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I know. Listen to this. Joya sent us a screen grab she took when this single hit. It's the top 10 songs on iTunes in October of 2009 when the webisodes premiered. I just want to read you where it landed. I want you to hear who all was in that top 10. Ready? Yeah. The number one song was 15 by Taylor Swift. Number two, Thriller by Michael Jackson. That always resurfaces around October. Okay.
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Number three, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. Number four, Mel Prima Donna by Subtle Sexuality. Number five was Meet Me Halfway by Black Eyed Peas. Number six, One Less Lonely Girl by Justin Bieber. Number seven, Fireflies by Owl City. Number eight was Five Star by Yo Gotti. Number nine, You Belong to Me by Taylor Swift. Number 10, You Belong to Me by Taylor Swift.
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Male prima donna beat Taylor Swift. Well, Taylor Swift beat male prima donna, but then male prima donna beat Taylor Swift. But male prima donna also beat Justin Bieber. I mean, this is, can you believe it? No, that's crazy. So, you know, with the success of the accountants webisodes this time around, NBC knew that they were going to get a huge audience. So they went all out.
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When it premiered, they had a homepage takeover of NBC.com. The first thing that landed was Subtle Sexuality if you went to NBC.com.
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They also built a separate website for Subtle Sexuality. And this webisode series was featured in Entertainment Weekly. Wow. And in Us Weekly. And Joy has sent us the Entertainment Weekly photo with the little blurb. So I'll share that in stories. I'm going to be sharing a ton in stories this week. And they also had a ton of fun with merchandise.
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They had custom CD designs, lyrics and liner notes, downloadable band posters, fan giveaways, T-shirts. They went all out.
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And NBC.com. They have both. I also really liked Girl Next Door. It's really catchy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, we'll get to that later.
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There is so much fun behind the scenes stuff about the making of this series as well. BJ Novak had this to say about Mindy being the director, and I thought it perfectly sets up what we're about to talk about. BJ said, she has such a distinct vision. She very much gravitates towards things that are fun and sparkly. And this is a very fun and sparkly webisode series.
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It was great. So like, listen, if you're an improv nerd out there, these guys are the best of the best. I was working in the light booth. I was in charge of calling their lights. And I was really intimidated because the person in the light booth makes it fade to black when you feel that the show has wrapped up. So what? It's kind of on you to decide. It's on me. And here I am like,
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Yes, and I'm just like a newbie at the theater. I'm like, really, you're going to trust me? Was there no one else? And so I was calling lights, and I really felt like the show wrapped up, and it was about 30 minutes, and I pulled it to break. And they were like, what? And then afterwards, Dave and everyone was like, Ange, we had a whole nother round to go. You called the lights way too soon.
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And I was like, I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I felt so horrible. All right. So it's the next week. And Dave comes up to me and says, Ange, let us go about 45 minutes tonight. I'm like, OK, Dave, got it. Set my timer. You set a timer. I love that. That's very Jenna of you. Thank you. Yes. I didn't want to get it wrong. So anyway, I'm up in the light booth at 39 minutes.
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I thought they had their out, Jenna. Okay. I did not pull lights. You did. No. No. And then they went to 45 minutes. And then it was almost an hour. What? I didn't want to pull the lights. I didn't. I was too nervous. I don't know. I froze. They're probably just out there just flailing on stage. It was getting awkward.
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And Dave walks backstage and someone had left, I don't know, a spare tire to like a truck or a Jeep. It was enormous. So Dave gets this giant tire and he rolls it across the stage into the audience. And he's like, that's our show, you guys. And I was like, oh, crap.
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I got it. I got it, Dave. The tire. I got it. And I went backstage. I was like, you guys. And we all started cracking up, and they still talk about it. They still talk about the tire. Anyway, I just love those guys so much. And believe it or not, I did call lights for them a few more times until they got their official person. But that is how I met Dave Koechner.
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Oh, no. Greg loved supporting small improv theaters, and a lot of improvisers ended up on our show. So I know Rainn Wilson would make fun of me, but I'd be like, oh, you know, whoever actor is showing up. I did a Sunday show with him, and he'd be like, did you do improv with Angela? I'm like, yes, Rainn.
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Oh, don't we know it. In the group. Oh, don't we know it. I heard quite a bit about it. All right, before things take a turn here, maybe we should go to a break. Yeah, let's go to a break.
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No, it's true. He fought for us. And when we finally won an Emmy for Best Comedy Ensemble, we all went backstage for photos. And the guys, the cast... picked up Kevin Reilly up in the air. And that's the photo that was in the LA Times because we all knew that he put his neck on the line for us. And I mean, I'll always be grateful to Kevin for that.
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And he says, that's how I like to do business. Yeah. I have a funny story about a behind-the-scenes moment that happened on set while we were filming a big group scene in the bullpen talking about these email forwards. Was I there? You were there. Okay, remind me. Everyone was there. Everyone was there. Kelly was there, still with an up-do. When is the episode where Kelly becomes Mindy? Exactly.
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That's what we need to look for. No, so this is an episode that John Krasinski and I will never forget because he about fell out of his chair. At nine minutes, 16 seconds, you know, we're talking about the email forwards and Michael's really upset that they want him to stop doing this. And I say, I hate them.
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You send me these filthy emails and you say forward them to 10 people or you'll have bad luck. Right? That's my line. So we had been working on this scene for a while, and then we went to lunch, and we came back.
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Yes. And I think it was like around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
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Everyone's a little tired. People are a little bit more punchy. Yeah. And we're in a big group scene. So here's the thing you should know about me. I was born in Louisiana. My family's from Texas and Louisiana. I have a really, really hard time saying a vowel in front of an L. And two times in my career on The Office, they almost dropped a line because I could not say it.
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One time, they actually did. I'll save that story for later. It was between Andy Bernard and myself. I couldn't say the line. I just kept sounding like such a hillbilly that they just dropped the line. But this line, I said, I hate them. You send me these filthy emails. And John about fell out of his chair, and he went, the South has arrived. And I was like, what? What? I didn't even hear it.
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He was like, Angela. And like eight of you turned and looked at me. And at the same time, you were like, you said filthy.
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And I said, how do you say it? And you're like, filthy. And I had to like really concentrate, filthy, filthy. Because I automatically want to say filthy. Filthy. But somewhere there's footage of me saying, you send me these filthy emails. Yeah.
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I know. He felt like my big brother, even though he's younger than me. Yes. But he did. He felt like my big brother that I teased. And he loved it. When I slipped into Southern drawl, he'd be like, well, hello. Yeah. He loved it.
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I did. You know, I've been going back and rereading the shooting drafts, and lady, we never shared what the stage direction said about Todd Packer. There is a fantastic character description. I want you to hear it. Here's how it read. Interior office reception area. The door flies open. Pam turns hopefully. Nope, it's Todd Packer. Striding in like he owns it.
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Yes. Dave told me last night on the phone, he said, Todd Packer just comes in and blows up your world, and then kaboom, leaves. No consequences. Mic drop. See you later. And then he's out. I have a little tidbit about Dave. Oh, tell me. Okay, so Dave told me he actually auditioned for Michael Scott. What? Yes. He had known Greg Daniels for years.
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He had done a pilot for one of Greg's writers on King of the Hill. Yeah. So he knew Greg for a long time. And they brought him in for Michael Scott. And he said, Ange, I was obsessed with the BBC version. And all I had in my head was Ricky Gervais. I couldn't do it any other way.
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Yes. And I think a lot of people did that, that came in. But Steve had not seen it. And I think that really helped him kind of make his own person. Yeah. But he told me when they brought him in for Todd Packer, he was so excited. Because yes, it was based on Finchie, right, in the BBC version.
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Exactly. Dave said that he was so excited to come in for Todd Packer because they were just like, Dave, do whatever. And he just was like, oh, I got this. I got this. Him and Steve had just done Anchorman, as we talked about. So he knew it was just going to be playtime. I asked Dave, I was like, what is something you remember about that first day as Todd Packer? And he said...
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I remember the writing. I remember reading that script and thinking how fantastic it was. And I thought, when you have writing this good, anything is possible. I can go anywhere because what I have is so solid. And I said, did you improvise any of that? He said, honestly, I can't remember because I remember thinking the writing was so good.
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He said, if you see things that feel spontaneous, he said, the physicality of Todd Packer Is very me. Is him. Is him. Yeah. You know, like all the stuff he does with Michael, the physical stuff, that's just Dave bringing life to Todd Packer. But he really just was just blown away by how good the writing was.
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Why? Well, our show had been very quiet. Oh, right. Oh, right. He's just a burst of energy.
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Because everything is a lot. This is so, wow. Because I'm 75. I'm Jenna Fisher. What? Why are you being so loud? I asked Dave, because Michael has a line where he says that Todd Packer is his BFF, best friend forever. I saw that. Yeah. And I said, Dave, how does Michael... Like, how is he best friends with Todd Packer?
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He said something I thought was so sweet, actually, and just insightful into Michael. He said, oh, Angela, he said, Michael is so innocent and naive. He's almost childlike. He doesn't get a lot of what Todd Packer is.
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Yeah. He's like a little brother looking up to someone and And maybe somewhere down the road, he'll see how inappropriate, but he's just in this childlike enamored phase.
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Packer is taller than average, larger than life, an irresistibly colorful alpha male bully. Much more fun to watch than to suffer through. Isn't that a great description? That is a really good description. And then there's that hilarious talking head that Michael has. It's in the episode where he says that Todd Packer and I are like BFFs.
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I mean, well, that makes sense because Todd Packer is sort of like a bratty frat guy, right? Yes, yes.
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Okay, this is really off topic, but you know I'm going to have a she shed for myself. I'm making a home office. Oh, I do. It's all you talk about. I know. I know. I'm like constantly online and on Pinterest looking at little sheds that I can make into a home office, and I've started the process.
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But I posted a photo of me with a shed, and a fan wrote in, please call your shed your that's what she shed.
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Yes. Season three. And like the judges could barely hold it together.
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Yeah. I think he did like a version of like a TED Talk about success. But you can still find it because I watched it last night. I did too. William Hung.
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Also, can we just mention that Todd Packer drives a red convertible Corvette? I mean, buddy.
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This is going to seem like I'm being snarky to Pam's mom. Hear me out.
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Pam's mom says, oh, is this your area? I'm like, what, has she never been to the office? In three years, three years you've been working at Dunder Mifflin, your mom's never stopped by. It's making me sad. Okay. I'm just saying. I just had a moment. I'm like, why is she so surprised to see Pam's desk? Wow. You are angry. That's a really good point. I mean, she lives in town.
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And right after it, there was more stage direction about how Michael would act around Todd Packer. I thought it was really funny. Here's what it said. Cut to Michael. Michael is adoring, worshipful, like talking about a gorgeous woman who also saved his life and taught him to ride a bike.
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I have a bunch of time code things, too. Oh, time code us, Angela. Okay. At 5 minutes, 15 seconds, you guys, there is a fantastic shot of Michael's desk when he's talking to Toby. And I'll tell you what all you see on his desk. You see a mini billiards table. You see like the silver ball clacky thingy. Yes. Whoever wants that on their desk? I don't know. What is that for? I've always wondered.
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It's probably some kind of Zen thing. I guess. Jenna, you see his dundee. Oh! Yes. There's a great shot of his dundee. And then what looks like is a green magic eight ball. And in the scene, at the top of the scene, Michael is holding a giant pencil in his hand. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, this guy loves a Spencer's Gifts. He loves a Spencer's Gifts.
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But can you imagine Toby wants to have a serious conversation with him, and Michael is holding an oversized pencil throughout the conversation? Yes. So that, I thought, was just a great, great screen grab if you want to see all the things on Michael's desk.
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Yes, Jenna, it is. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's hear it. When Dave got the call that they wanted him to come in for Todd Packer, guess where he was? Where? He was in Canada filming Snakes on a Plane. No.
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So he could then go back to Canada and be in Snakes on a Plane.
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Maybe it's true. The other thing that was interesting to me that we'd never seen before is Toby does a talking head in front of the vending machine in the break room. Oh. And that is not where our talking heads ever are. They're always in the conference room.
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Yeah, I saw some that were pretty amazing. And I wonder out there if the webisodes are available.
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I remember that. For the accountants. Yeah. I really want some more Pop-Tart. I have it sitting next to me, but I'm afraid it's going to be really loud.
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Tell me, can you hear me eating this Pop-Tart? One second.
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Well, that's some good BJ stage direction right there. Jenna, we also got some fan mail. And apparently, I missed a really good Pam sass moment. Oh, yes. This was right when you were picking up on all the sass. All the sass. So, you know, Todd Packer's talking, and he gestures towards Ryan, and he says, don't let this little bitch drive you around town. We got lost for like half an hour.
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All right, this is totally off topic, but in preparing for this episode, I like to go back and look at some of the old photos that I have and sort of, it helps me remember things. Yeah. You know, as you know, I'm a hoarder. I have multiple bins of photos. I found pictures, Jenna, from my first red carpet. It was with you. Oh. I was your plus one. I was.
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Uh-huh. You know what it was called? Yeah. Paws for Style. Not pause button, guys. Paws. Like a dog. Like a P-A-W-S. Paws for Style.
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And I somehow just didn't do it. You skipped it. I don't think it was intentional. I think I just didn't know. I think I just went inside and got my popcorn.
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Yeah, I wanted to pick the biggest event possible for my first Red Carpet.
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I said, I mean, it's almost like my character. Do you know how many photographers there are? Two. Angela over here. Angela over here. It was like art, like life recreating art or whatever. What's that saying? Life intimidating. No. No. I'm tired. I just spit out my coffee. You said life intimidating art. I am tired, you guys. I am so tired. Art imitating life. That's what I'm trying to say.
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Not life intimidating art. Oh, good Lord. Anyway, so here we are at Paws for Style. The big name was Paula Abdul. With her two or three dogs she had. Like three little dogs in outfits.
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I can only imagine. I did my own hair and makeup. This is before I discovered a flat iron. So it's just frizzy, guys. It's just frizzy, down and straight. I bought a tank top at Target.
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And then Pam says, I don't have any DUIs, so I can drive myself, but thanks. I mean. I have to agree.
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And I bought one at The Gap. And I layered them. I layered my tank tops. They're both turquoise. Why did I layer two turquoise tank tops? I don't know. And then I bought some white jeans at Target. Yep. And this is what I wore.
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I love how delicately you're trying to put this. Jenna, it's like, you know how if you stand and you put your hands on your hip? Yeah. What if you decided to stand but do your legs spread way too far apart?
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And then instead of putting your hands on your hip and your 5'1", guys, your 5'1", you decide to put them on your mid-thigh?
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Like, and then you smiled a camera. That's what I did. That's what she did. Yeah, that's what I did. Why did I stand like that?
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Prune. Prune. Prune. They're the worst photos of me like that exist, I think. We look so... I look constipated. It was such a horrible idea.
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I look like I need to poop. That's what... I just look miserable. Oh my gosh, Angela, I think back on all of our bright ideas. Our bright ideas. I think it's fair to say these are all your ideas. Why did you go along with them? I don't know. You're very persuasive. I don't know. I just was like, okay, I'll walk up and pretend to fake laugh as I walk up to people. Okay, I'll say prune. Okay.
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I think I see John Krasinski about to break at 16 minutes, one second. So Michael cannot say that's what she said anymore.
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Yes. And he's not going to say, you know, Jim is like, not even that's what she said. And he's like, nope. I remember filming this scene. I remember filming this too. And Steve, as Michael, when he breaks and he goes, that's what she said, his laugh is so huge and giddy and contagious. Yes. And he's so happy and pleased with himself. Yes. that we literally almost started to all laugh ourselves.
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And you catch it in John for just a second. Really? Yeah. Do you want to see?
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He's so happy. But look at John's face at 16 minutes, one second. Sam, can you pull that up?
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Look at John. Look at John. Do you see how he puts his hand in front of his face? For sure. That's what he would do when he was starting to laugh. Yes, for sure. Yeah. That, I mean, and that is just Steve because he is a master. He is such a master at like any kind of like big emotional moment.
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Do you hear it? Let's play it. I didn't hear it the first time, but then I went back and I heard it. Okay, well, let's listen.
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There was one that had a more open mouth. I remember that one. That was it. We nixed that one. That one was so off-putting. Yeah. But the other thing, too, is we'd walk on set. And backstage, we would have props and things. And I remember walking past five blow-up dolls every morning. For like a week.
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Yeah. Bit of a character. The blow-up doll was going to be featured, and those conversations were warranted.
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There was clearly a time he had a crush on you. I guess so. And he finally just gave up.
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No, they talk about you have to report a relationship to HR. And she goes, all relationships, even a one-night stand? Yes. Is she talking about a previous one-night stand or a future one-night I don't know, but John's look to camera as Jim when she says that is so gold. That is classic Jim look to camera.
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They shot it for so long. And also, Paul, as Toby, was improvising as well. Yes. And I thought he had such a great line when he was like, well, you know, when you're both more comfortable. You know, he has this great line. And I wrote, who is Dwight asking the advice for? Right? Is this the beginning of Dwight and Angela?
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Well, I also think that he might actually have a woman, finally, who might be interested in doing those things with him. Perhaps. And he's realized he doesn't have the skill set for it.
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Yes. Why Kevin? Here's what I think. I think Kevin is kind of like that teenage kid who, if there's any chance he might see someone in a bra— Oh. Maybe side boob. Oh, he's in that. He's in that. He's the one that does the MILF joke about your mom. Like, he's kind of like, I feel like the kid who is like excited to maybe see anything go down. Yeah.
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They did a phenomenal job. Those guest actors were amazing. Yeah.
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All right. I found it hilarious that when Michael is in the scene with Jan and the corporate lawyer, I feel like this is the first time Michael realizes that he's upper management. Oh, and he's so proud. He's so proud.
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It's pretty delicious. And Toby has a great snarky moment in that scene because Jan's like, Michael, are you going to have to watch the video again? And he's like, I watched the video. And Toby goes, he talked through most of it. Yes. He's like, Toby, Toby, throwing him under the bus.
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Yeah, and all the gals are like perfect tins except for this one gal. And he points to Phyllis. And then Kevin says, I like Phyllis. And then Phyllis looks really sad. Oh, so sad. So hurt. So hurt. And it's awkward. First of all, do we need a joke about a nymphomaniac convention? Todd Packer, thank you very much.
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And she says, I mean, Michael, we're the same age. We went to high school together.
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And then Phyllis's face, her reaction is what made it for me. It made that whole scene.
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He does. I think it's definitely the first time he has stood up to Todd Packer. And you can tell because when you see Todd Packer's face, he's like, oh, man, they really got to you. And Michael's like, no, I got to them, like whatever that means. But I think it's the first time he stood up to him.
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And even though it's a very small way, I think it's that moment, once again, where this is our writers trying to give Michael a little bit of a growth moment. What?
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This runner of him just... He's sitting at his desk. Yeah. And it's like every... crappy thing he's thought about Toby is just coming out.
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Oh, look at you. Yes. Theater pedigree. Fancy theater people.
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Wait, I need to clarify for everyone. Jenna's Pam document wasn't given to her by Greg Daniels or any writers or producers. This was a document that Jenna made herself for her character.
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I took classes at HB Studios in New York City with Carol Rosenfeld, who was a protege of Uta Hagen. Thank you very much. All right. That's some pedigree. Thank you. All right. I got a blessing. Oh.
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And do you think that Pam— decided not to work at the appliance store and go out, branch out, and then Roy followed her to the warehouse? Oh, my gosh, Angela. I don't know, but I feel like I'm going to go back and put that in my document right now. Because here's Pam, like, okay, I'm not going to work at the family business. I need some space. I need to figure out who I am. Yes.
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And then Roy's like, hey, I got a job at that warehouse. We'll be able to see each other every day. Oh, my gosh. I find it interesting that Pam eats in the break room with Jim and not in the warehouse with Roy. Now, we see Roy sometimes eat there. Yeah, they don't eat lunch together, do they?
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Well, I just love the moment, and John played it so well, where he sees his opportunity to introduce himself to Pam's mom, and he gets up the courage and he walks over right as Roy walks in, and he just quickly takes a piece of candy and goes back to his desk. Yeah. And that kind of broke my heart for him.
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Lastly, from Dave Koechner, who plays Todd Packer, he said, Ange, please let everyone know I am nothing like Todd Packer in real life.
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Father of five. I know. And he said, he goes, I just wish you and Jenna all the best. This is such a great idea. I just love it as a fan of the show.
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Yeah, I think sometimes you get known as this character, but he's nothing like that. I'm nothing like Angela Martin. This is true. You're a little bit like Pam. I am. All right, guys, that was sexual harassment.
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He is the best dressed man in show business. For sure. Go to his Instagram. It is delightful. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.
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Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins and our audio engineer and associate producer is Daniela Silva. Odyssey's executive producers are Jenna Wise-Berman and Leah Reese Dennis.
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I love Michael hating Toby. I love it so much. So much. Well, we will see you next Monday for second drink of Office Olympics. And then next Wednesday, January 8th, we are back for our episode, Is Toby the Scranton Strangler?
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Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're The Office Ladies.
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I think it's the cinnamon brown sugar Pop-Tart. Am I right, guys in the booth? Yeah, it's the cinnamon brown sugar Pop-Tart.
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Donuts, pancakes for breakfast. This is a bad time for me to tell you I also had two muffins before the Pop-Tart. It is. It is.
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So they already had a little bit of a great back and forth.
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So Jenna and I love Quince. You know, Quince is this wonderful website that has really affordable but high quality items. Here's the thing we like about Quince. It has a range of high-quality items at prices within reach. I just got this set of towels that are really luxurious. I probably normally wouldn't have bought them, but they were such a great deal on Quince.
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There you go. In years later, we would have our own seminars that NBC would have us attend. We've talked about this. And they would use clips from this episode of what not to do at work.
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And other episodes. We're like, oh, hey, it's us again. Oh, yeah, no one should be doing that. Okay. Okay, good.
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Maybe mute us for 15 seconds. Maybe put the earmuffs on.
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I mean, there's a whole runner with a blow-up doll. Right? Pam's supposed to kiss a blow-up doll. There's, to me, many red flags here. A lot of stuff happening. But they got stuck on boner. They got stuck on boner. Sorry. Oh, boy. There's too many that's what she says in this episode. OK, parents.
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We got pulled off the air. You can watch it on Netflix right now, folks in Kentucky. That is so funny to me because the word boner, sorry to go back there, is so funny, Phyllis's reaction to the word boner.
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It wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be the same. And for me, what made that moment funny was Phyllis. Her look to Michael when he said it was hilarious. So, okay.
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Okay. So I have known Dave Koechner, oh my gosh, maybe 16 years. I've known him a really long time. We met back at ImprovOlympic. He had taken Second City in Chicago and he knew Steve from Second City and Nancy, Steve's wife, Nancy. I called Dave last night and I was like, Dave, we're going to do sexual harassment. And he was like, do you have people come in the booth? I was like, we do, Dave.
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Can you come in tomorrow? And he's like, nah, I'm working. I was like, okay. And then I said, oh, Dave, can I record our conversation? He's like, yeah, sure. Tell me when you're ready to go. Oh, this is great. Yes, it's great. So I did the swipe up on my iPhone, you know, where your flashlight is? Sure. You know, underneath, like by your flashlight. I know my phone.
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Okay, there's a little record button. Okay. So I hit the record button. Yeah. And I was like, let's do this. I'm feeling like this isn't going where we're hoping. Okay. Dave and I talked for half an hour. Yeah. I have 30 minutes. Okay. Of me filming my screen. Yeah. With no sound. Okay. Okay. It's a record button. How was I supposed to know it doesn't record sound?
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Anyway, whatever, guys. The long story short here is, Dave, thank you so much for talking to me last night for half an hour. And I wrote down everything we talked about because it didn't record. You do have a gazillion note cards today.
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I have so many note cards. I have lots of little fun tidbits from Dave, but I'll save those as we go.
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She did. Her and Dave were on Saturday Night Live together. So they had known each other for a really long time and journeyed through quite a bit. And Steve was really excited. He is actually the one who pitched Dave to Greg for Todd Packer. He was really like, you got to cast Dave Koechner. They had just done Anchorman together.
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And he just knew that they'd be off to the races and it'd be so much fun.
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Yes, I had met Dave years ago at ImprovOlympic out here in Los Angeles. It was called IO West. And he was part of a phenomenal improv show called Beer Shark Mice. These guys were amazing. They were like the best of the best. It would sell out. It would be standing room only. They were amazing. It was Mike Coleman, Pat Finn, Neil Flynn, and Pete Holney, Dave Koechner, and then also Paul Valancourt.
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Yeah, this is the most bowl I've ever seen. So, guys, you can check that out. Yeah. Fast fact number two, Tim Meadows.
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Guest stars in this episode as the Lackawanna County Representative Christian. I feel like, you know, we had this rule where we weren't going to do any stunt casting, and this is the first time we kind of broke that rule, but we had to because he was so good. Yeah.
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Well, I didn't work the day that they shot the scenes with Tim, but I was such a big SNL fan that I went up to the set just to meet him, and I had lunch. With him. I totally fangirled. And eventually we would end up doing the movie Walk Hard together. And so I actually got to work with him, talk about fangirl.
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Why don't you give us a fast fact? Fast fact number three. This episode was inspired by an idea that they had in the writer's room early on that Jim and Pam would go on a date without really being on a date. So that was the card that they put up on the wall. How can we get Jim and Pam on a date without really being on a date? But then they also wanted to do the same thing with Michael and Jan.
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They thought it would be really fun to have both of these couples. Have this romantic evening.
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They also had the end of this episode written first, and then they wrote toward that ending. So that look that you see between Jim and Michael at the very end of the episode where they both... kind of shrug together.
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The ladies in our lives. They knew that that would be the ending. And then they tracked it back. Interesting. Because another thing that they wanted was this moment where Jim and Michael relate and bond over something. So that's what they decided it would be. Those are my fast facts. Okay. Can I start my note cards? I think we have to take a break. What is with you today? What is with you?
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We are taping this like two days before the Christmas holiday week.
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You're just staring at me or nodding. And I'm like, it's an audio show. You have to give some audio cue that you've heard me. Are you done? Okay. All right. We're going to a break.
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I did it. Hey, we have a pretty special guest in this episode. We do. Coming up after the break, we're going to talk to Melora Hardin. Who plays Jan. Yeah, we had to talk to her because we were not at the Chili's.
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So we had no firsthand knowledge of the Chili's, of the kissing. That smooch. We had to go straight to the source. So when we get back from the break, we're going to talk to Melora.
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And welcome to your second drink of the client. I want my baby back, baby back, baby back. Yep. And threat level midnight. We got really fun insights from both Tim Meadows and Melora Hardin for this breakdown.
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You know, you often hear about like the red flags to look for in a relationship. But what if... What if we like changed that focus and started making a list of the green flags that we were looking for in friends and partners? You know, like more like instead of framing it, here's what I'm avoiding. Be like, here's what I want to run toward. Okay.
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This is that time of year when we set new rituals, new goals for ourselves. Maybe they're fitness goals. I mean, that's a pretty common one. Yeah.
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Nice to hear yours, too. It's been a long time. Melora, thank you so much for agreeing to do this. The fans are going to go crazy. Let's get started by asking you, how did you end up on The Office?
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Yes. And this is Pam's famous story about being left behind at a minor league hockey game. Lady, anytime I post a photo of myself at a hockey game. People just say, I hope you didn't get left behind. Some variation.
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Wow. Well, The Client is a very big episode for Michael and Jan. Oh, yeah. You know, this is where you have your smooch in the parking lot. And we have a fan who wrote in. His name is Ryan. And he asked, how far in advance did you know about Michael and Jan's relationship?
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So do you remember anything in particular that those guys improvised? Like, was the Baby Back Ribs song, was that improvised?
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You really smooched quite a bit. David R. Carroll said, BJ Novak has been quoted as saying that the kiss between Michael and Jan was rehearsed and filmed many, many, many times.
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Yeah. Do you remember any direction that Greg gave you during that scene? I don't remember.
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Well, that was really a spy shot. I know that Randall was crouched behind a car and he had this idea of shooting through the car window to you. That's right. And I remember doing some scenes like that and they always felt so real because you couldn't feel the camera moving a foot away from you, you really felt like you were out in a parking lot.
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Yeah, yeah. Melora, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us about this. Will you consider coming back for future episodes, perhaps?
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Bye, you guys. Angela, I think we should get into this episode. Let's start talking about the client.
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Well, I remember that I had to have a big wardrobe fitting of quote unquote casual clothes so that we could shoot these flashbacks to Casual Fridays. Oh, yeah. But Angela, are you just wearing your regular gray office wear?
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What's interesting to me is that this cold open implies that we have Casual Fridays at the office. But so far, we've never shown a Casual Friday or referenced a Casual Friday. And I believe we never do again, even though we very often have episodes set on a Friday. Yeah.
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Yeah, Pam chucks the jeans into the trash. Well, there is some Pam sass there.
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Well, that is life-intimidating art right there. Okay, so after the scene with the jeans, the show opens with Michael and Jan having a meeting. They're talking about how they're hoping to secure a very big account, Lackawanna County, the whole county. They will buy their paper from Dunder Mifflin.
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He's talking about Pam. Yes. Right? He clearly asked Pam out for lunch when they first started working together. And didn't know about Roy. And slowly during this lunch found out. She was dating. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I know. Aw. Poor Jim. Well, we also got some fan mail about a moment that we missed in our breakdown, and it is a good one.
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This is when Michael tells Jan he has changed the meeting from the Radisson, which he describes as too snooty, to Chili's, which he says is the new golf course where business happens.
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Well, we let go of one person, but I think the bigger deal is that they're saying an entire branch might have to close. So it's either us or Stanford. Got it. It's going to have to close completely. Okay. So this would save us. I got it. This moves us into the scene in the kitchen where everyone is telling their worst first date stories. Okay.
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Oscar tells a story about how he went on a date and he found out the woman had background checked him.
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Well, that backstory of being on a date with someone who'd done a background check on you, that was based on a real story of Paul Lieberstein's dating life. What? Yeah. He said he went on to date the woman for a while, but that on their first date, she revealed that she had done... Like a real deep dive on him to make sure that he was on the up and up. I have a fan question.
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Both Sarah Clark and Kem asked... Who came up with Pam's worst first date story? Well, Pam's story of being left at a hockey game was not based on anyone's real story, but the writers went around the room and they just pitched worst first date stories. Where is the worst place that you could leave a date? That was their assignment one afternoon.
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That's a little insight into the writer's room, what it's like. They sit in there on a bunch of couches and And they eat snacks. They eat a lot of snacks up there. They really do.
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Well, they do. But sometimes when they pitch these ideas, it's really fun to go in there. Because they'll say, okay, what is the worst place to leave a date? And then they just go around the room. You just shout it out. It's like so fun in a writer's room. Because I feel like when they do that kind of stuff, it's almost like playing a game of Pictionary or something.
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In your living room. So they said that they had a lot of alternates, but this was their favorite.
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I wish we could know what their alternates were. I know. This is the one that ended up in the script, but I think it's perfect. First of all, that he took her to a minor league hockey game on their first date. Second, that he brought his brother. And then third, that they left her there. Yeah. Yeah.
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Sometimes we've had people push that cart, I think. Yeah. I feel like Oscar has done something with that cart.
Office Ladies
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Well, then she just pushes the cart to the back of the room. Well, I never pushed the cart. But maybe anyone out there, comment us. Let us know. Yeah, who pushes the cart? At 3 minutes, 54 seconds, you can see three photos on my desk. Yes. Look, I have one of them. Oh, Janet, there's a photo of your sister and her husband taped to your desk. Yes, that's right. Yes.
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At four minutes, Michael is walking out of the office with Jan. He's on his way to his meeting. And the camera swings over to Oscar in accounting. And you can see that he's talking to someone. You don't see the person completely. It's mostly just the top of their head. But it is clearly Devin. Wait, Devin's been fired. Yes, he was fired two episodes ago in Halloween.
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And my sister's husband's name is Dwight. Isn't that crazy? Now, the writers didn't know that. That was just all like by chance. Yes. Here's a little bit of interesting trivia. My father's name is Jim. My brother-in-law's name is Dwight. And my niece's name is Cece.
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My niece Cece was born about a week before we filmed the episode where Pam and Jim have their baby. And I asked if we could name their baby Cece after my niece.
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I think we should. I see you've pared down your note cards here.
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Thank you for admitting that all I'm doing is looking at you. I know, but the expression was really funny. Now you just did it again. You just implied that there's some way I'm looking at you. This is your thing.
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Okay, we are back. Michael and Jan are getting ready to leave to go to Chili's for their big meeting. And did you notice in the parking lot, Michael says Chili's is just a couple blocks away. They should just drive together. However... The closest Chili's is actually about 30 minutes away in Wilkes-Barre at the Wyoming Valley Mall.
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I remember this. I remember when we were shooting it that we discovered that there isn't really a Chili's in Scranton. You have to go outside to get there. And it wasn't a big deal when we did the Dundies, but here Michael does say it's only a couple blocks away, but it's not.
Office Ladies
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What was it like for all the people in Scranton to see this episode and be like, wait, what? Where's the chilies?
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I also want to say, I looked it up, there still isn't a Chili's in Scranton. Chili's? Missed opportunity here? You guys want to go ahead and put a Chili's in Scranton already?
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We will cut the ribbon. Oh, we would cut the ribbon. We'll cut the ribbon. I've never done that. That'd be fun. I know. I've always wanted to do that where you hold the giant scissors. Don't chunk them, though.
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So they walk inside the Chili's to one of my all-time favorite scenes. Yes, I bet. I bet it's this. I'm holding up my note card. It is. Is Gould dead? No Gould.
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And then he has to give that look to camera?
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Oh, we have the same thing written down now. What? I just peeked at your note card. The waitress, Megan.
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That's a good catch. All right. Well, next up, I have a tidbit for the scene where Michael calls Pam on the phone and he wants her to read him some jokes from his joke book. We talked about this a little bit the first time, but I have more to share. But first, let's listen to it. Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam.
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I think this is a great detail. Now, I don't know if this was in the script. I don't know if Steve improvised that. But I love that Michael remembers the waitress by name. I absolutely believe that the character of Michael would remember every waiter or waitress by name.
Office Ladies
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It is a great, great detail. Six minutes, 19 seconds, Michael calls Pam on the phone back at the office to get him to read her a bunch of jokes from these joke books in his office. I got a lot of questions about this, people wanting to know the punchline for that joke about the lighthouse that Pam starts, and Michael's like, no, no, no, not that one. There is no punchline to the joke.
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It was not in the book. Those jokes, quote unquote, were scripted and they just wrote the beginning of the jokes.
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Well, and I had the challenge of having to memorize the line but look like I was reading from the book that I was not reading from.
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That's tricky. It was a little tricky. After this, Pam finds Threat Level Midnight, the script that Michael has written, where he is an action star, Michael Scarn. And at 7 minutes, 18 seconds, Jim finds drawings of of the Threat Level Midnight poster in the script. And we had a fan question from Becca Ramirez. She asked, who made the drawings in the script of Threat Level Midnight? Do you know?
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So he sketched them out, and then he gave them to, I guess it would be Phil Shea. Yeah. And Phil hired an artist, but this was the example. Like, Greg kind of sketched it out to say, here's my idea of what the poster, this is what the drawing should look like. And Greg said the artist came back, and the drawings were so good that he thought maybe his – kind of crappier drawing was more realistic.
Office Ladies
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Yeah, so he kept his own drawing in. I think it's just perfect.
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You need your water. You do. Oh, I have a fan question. Okay. So a lot of people asked if this was the same Chili's where we shot Dundee's. Yes. All right. I did some research. So we got a lot of conflicting information on this one when I went to research it. First of all, the internet says it was not the same Chili's. Yet they have no citation for their information. That's right.
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So I asked Phil Shea. He said he thought it was the same one, but he said it was close to our set. But the original Dundee's one was not close to our set. Then I asked Greg. He said he couldn't remember, but he knows it was an empty black Angus.
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Okay. You want me to read them? Okay, a fisherman is walking down Fifth Avenue leading an animal behind him when... Nope, nope, told it.
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I know. That makes me think it was the same.
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As I was watching it, I couldn't tell. If it was different, they did an excellent job of making it look like it was the same place.
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Eight minutes, 34 seconds. Michael's tie with the little mouth on it. Yes. That he uses to eat the awesome blossom. That was scripted. That he would do that. And the wardrobe designer actually had to make that tie. That is a custom-made tie. She made seven different mouth options that she showed to Greg, and he had to pick the mouth that would go on the tie. Oh, my gosh.
Office Ladies
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This is when I'm like, our jobs are crazy.
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I made seven different mouths, and then my boss picked one.
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I watched those deleted scenes as well. So good. So good. And Melora is right. Melora could not hold it together. I mean, can you blame her? No. They were so funny. And they really wanted to hold that three shot. They really wanted her to be the anchor of the scene. So they couldn't carve it up. They couldn't have all these singles or anything. So anytime she laughed. They had to start again.
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They did. You can also tell that those guys are having so much fun singing together. They're having a blast. The week after this scene, Steve was going to shoot to host Saturday Night Live. And so when I was there that day, I remember Tim giving him like... Some little... Yeah, all the insider info on what it would be like.
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All right. So when we broke down this episode, I said that none of the jokes had any endings, that they were just the beginning. But this joke does have an ending. This is a very famous joke about a naval ship and a lighthouse. Although as soon as you say lighthouse, you kind of ruin the joke. But here it is. I'm going to tell you the joke. The joke is it's a transcript.
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Could you imagine if you could go back in time and buy a ticket to that show?
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Well, some of the most fun we ever had, Angela, off camera on our show was when we would get to hang out with the cast of Saturday Night Live. Because remember, they're an NBC show. We're an NBC show. So we would often have to do press with them. We would go to New York. They would fly the cast of The Office to New York. And we would spend an entire day doing press conferences.
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And then in the evenings, they would throw a little party for for all of the actors on the NBC shows. And it would be the cast of The Office and the cast of Saturday Night Live. And we would just crack up. Crack up. And have dance parties. Those are some of my most fun memories. And I even remember being there and pinching myself and thinking, remember this, remember all of this.
Office Ladies
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Oh, I think the sun was coming up when we finally called it a night.
Office Ladies
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Crazy. We left and they were still there. Those are some of my favorite memories. And I'm so glad we did that stuff because we are kind of the people who don't normally stay out late.
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But we went for it. And there were two casts that we hung out with a ton in our heyday of The Office, I would say. And one of those was SNL and the other was Mad Men. Yes. Mad Men, that show was coming up at the same time that we were. And I would hang out with the cast of Mad Men a lot. Same thing.
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We would have to go to these press junkets, and the stars of all the shows would be in their various conference rooms speaking to the press, but then they'd have some big buffet lunch for all of us, and I would chit-chat with all the Mad Men people.
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The naval ship says, please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. The response is, recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. The U.S. ship responds, this is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again, divert your course. And the reply is, no, I say again, you divert your course.
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Yeah. Okay. I found out a really interesting little tidbit. I listened to the DVD commentary. Okay. That's actually Paul and Greg making the slurping sounds.
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They recorded slurping sounds in the editing room to lay on top of that scene to just make it even grosser for Melora's reaction. That is so funny.
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Thanks, Tim. So now, Angela, I think we should go back into the office and talk a little bit about Threat Level Midnight. Oh, yes. Everyone in the office goes into the conference room, they divide up the parts, and they start reading Threat Level Midnight. I think this is a great example of what a table read is like. This is what we would do every week on the office.
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Tuesdays or Wednesdays at lunch, we would all go into this conference room. They would hand out the next week's script and we would read it out loud.
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One of my favorite things in this is Dwigged, the fact that Michael's bumbling assistant clearly used to be named Dwight. So that talking head that Pam gives where she explains the typo and all of that – The first time we shot this episode, that explanation did not exist. And so that was a reshoot.
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Well, I had a big fan question here. A lot of people asked if Threat Level Midnight was a fully written script. It was written. They did write quite a bit so that we would have something to work with. But as you see in the show, it's an unfinished script. So it was not a fully written script. They also wanted to know if we read from the script or if it was improvised.
Office Ladies
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I was going to say that I thought we read from the script, but I found an interview with Brian Baumgartner where he said we improvised it and BJ backed that up. That we were sitting around for about five to ten minutes and we were just throwing out anything at all, which seems almost impossible to me. But there's two people in the cast who say that's how it was. I remember it differently.
Office Ladies
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No, no, no. So I should say some of it was scripted, but we did also improvise some.
Office Ladies
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So it was both. And that happened a lot when we were shooting. They would leave the cameras rolling and then we would throw stuff out there. And some of the improvisations stayed in.
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So the ship says, this is the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. We are a large warship of the U.S. Navy. Divert your course now. And the reply is, this is a lighthouse. Your call. That's the joke. That's a good one. But since we are talking about jokes, I thought maybe we could go around and each share one of our most favorite clean go-to jokes. Okay.
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Angela, I'm ready to take us on a date. To the roof. To the roof. Pam and Jim's roof date.
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Okay. So the ladder that you see in the episode really leads up to the roof. You really climbed that little fire escape looking ladder? John and I did not. That is how the crew got up there. Okay. John and I... For, I guess... Safety reasons? And insurance reasons. We got into a harness. Okay. And then they lifted us up to the roof. Like in a forklift kind of thing? Yeah.
Office Ladies
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In some sort of weird platformy forklift, which seemed scarier and more dangerous than if I'd just been allowed to use the ladder. And we shot on the actual roof of Dunder Mifflin, of the Dunder Mifflin building.
Office Ladies
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Same. I asked to climb the ladder, but we went up and down on the platform forklift. Okay. I have a fan question about the roof. Okay. James K. asked, was it cold on the roof? It looked cold. It wasn't. It wasn't? Oh, Angela, shooting this scene is one of my fondest memories of all time from the show. Okay.
Office Ladies
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Because the only people on the roof were me, John, Greg Daniels, Paul Lieberstein, our first AD, and our camera operator and DP, Randall Einhorn. It was warm. It was a warm summer evening. But like a beautiful summer night. Warm breeze. It was, I can't explain it, but this little group of us up on the roof, it hit me while I was up there. I'm on a TV show. I'm living my dream. This is amazing.
Office Ladies
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Right. I'm sure it felt really magical. Just like a magical moment. Completely magical. We had really gelled as a group at this point. You know, we were really in it all together. We all loved the show so much. We loved being at work so much. It was just really, really special. And the grilled cheese sandwiches tasted so good. Yeah. It was great. I have another fan question.
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Donna asked, was anyone hurt by the fireworks? That looked kind of dangerous. So I saw Brian Baumgartner recently and I asked him about the fireworks. He said, Jenna, it was insane. There was no stunt coordinator for these fireworks. He said, because they had to get the shot of us from so far away, they really left the two of them out in the middle of this parking lot field.
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Which looked very dry. Yeah. Well, you know, fireworks are illegal in L.A. Oh, my gosh. They had a hard time even getting fireworks for this scene. So we were breaking the law? I'm not sure. I know BJ said once in an article that there was a rule about how big the fireworks could be. They weren't allowed to shoot anything up in the air because L.A.
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Yes. And Brian said that they couldn't hear anything. They could barely hear action or cut. They just were out there playing in these fireworks. But at a certain point, he heard someone shout, hop over them. Kick them. It was probably Greg. It was probably Greg screaming. But Brian said they were just – it felt very real.
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And I think that was part of it about what made that night so magical was that it was really like we were watching those guys – goof around with fireworks.
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Yes. And after this, when we come down from the roof, you know, Jim and Pam, they leave the office and they're listening on the headphones.
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Well, Matt Hurt asked, what, if anything, were you and John listening to when you shot the swaying dancing scene?
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Why? He didn't have enough dough. Oh, Angela knew it.
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Okay, the song you hear in the episode is a song called Sing by Travis. But John and I were actually listening to an Interpol song. Which song? I don't remember.
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Yes. I remember that. And I think that was John's actual iPod and that he suggested that song, that we listen to the song.
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Yeah. And that was also lovely. Same warm summer evening. It was awesome. So we talked to Melora a little bit about the next scene, which is Michael and Jan in the parking lot.
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She's looking for the camera. Is this getting caught on tape? She doesn't find the camera, but she wonders.
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All right. So it's the next morning now. The Dunder Mifflin film crew enters the office. Do they have a key? Do you notice that? Dwight is sleeping on the couch.
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I know. Maybe he never locked the door that night.
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Foil blanket. Well, I'll tell you, there was a very big meeting about what underwear he would wear.
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Yes. Would it be boxers? Would it be briefs? What color? This is what they decided.
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Very baggy. Oh, you know Rain loved that. He loved every second. What about the scene where he runs to the window? Angela sees Jan.
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I love that it's Angela in the parking lot because I feel like the very last person who you want to see during your walk of shame is Angela. Exactly. All right. So Michael arrives into the office with his delicious secret. He's so giddy. I felt like Melora described that so well, how sweet and innocent and happy he is that he –
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He just, oh, man. In that talking head, I love the camera work in that. It's a very, very slow push in on Michael's face. And you can just feel the camera putting all this pressure on Michael to tell the truth. How long does he last? He lasts like 14 seconds. Seconds. He's like, all right, fine. We went back and we- To her hotel.
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Oh my gosh. That phone call with Jan where he goes under the desk, Greg directed that. Greg told Steve, why don't you take this phone call under the desk to avoid the camera crew? And he said it was great because they were able to edit together all of Steve's improvisations because you can't see his mouth. Oh, so smart.
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Yeah, because Steve was improvising a lot of that phone call and the things that he was saying back to Jan. Then we have Jim and Pam's kind of their first fight. I mean, they have that hiccup at the dojo, but this is different.
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Well, this one doesn't get resolved at the end of this episode. Jim suggests to Pam that maybe they had their first date, that you could say this was their first date. And I want to say something. I understand why Pam bristles at this.
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Well, and then I think for him to call it out so clearly out in the open, I think Pam is willing to pretend like none of that is happening and they're just friends while it's happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. uncool.
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That was her way of trying to get her boundary back and also just being defensive, knowing that she did something she shouldn't have, I think.
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And then it all ends with that final look between Michael and Jim, the little shrug. Eh, women. Ah, what are you going to do? Yeah.
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And I want to say thank you to Brian Baumgartner and Phil Shea and Greg Daniels, all of whom I reached out to for this episode. Thanks, guys, for your help.
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Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Hey, I'm proud of us for pulling it back together. We were really on the edge at the beginning of this one.
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Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
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Office Ladies is mixed and mastered by Chris Basil. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.
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Well, Ange, it's funny. I'm going to share Lee's favorite joke. Okay. Okay. A grasshopper walks into a bar, goes up to the bartender. The bartender says, oh, my gosh, we have a drink named after you. And he says, you have a drink named Bill? Thank you, Sam.
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Clearly, clearly when Steve goes into the chili, that was it. That's all they had in them. They couldn't make it through. Well, final tidbit, everyone. I'm calling this prop trick of the trade. At nine minutes and 40 seconds, Dwight has a talking head in the kitchen and there is a can of wet ones by the sink.
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They are clearly the brand wet ones, but they have whited out the T in wet and the O in ones. So it actually says weenus. Everybody, this is a prop trick of the trade. They do this on sets to obscure a label or a logo. That way they don't have to make a fake one or a blank one. Or pay for the company, like product placement. Yes.
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I noticed they also put a cozy on the hand soap to hide its label, and they put a tape over the dish soap label as well.
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It's amazing. It's so fun. I'm Jenna Fisher. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now we're doing the Ultimate Office Rewatch Podcast just for you.
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Season two, episode seven, The Client. The Client! Welcome to Office, ladies, everyone.
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This is more note cards than I've ever seen you have, ever.
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Well, I'm going to quote it at you for the rest of my life.
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This episode was written by Paul Lieberstein and directed by Greg Daniels. You have nothing to say to that? You've got a gazillion note cards, but nothing to say to that.
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Okay. Well, I guess next I usually do a summary. Yeah. But I'm not going to do it today. Why? Because I don't maybe like, I don't like that you're not responding to me today. No, I'm kidding. But I'm not going to do the summary today because I got someone else to do the summary.
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Is it your husband, Lee? It's not my husband, Lee. I'm going to let you listen. All right. Hit play, Sam.
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Now, taxes is matching with a TurboTax expert who can do your taxes as soon as today.
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Yeah. All right. I've never met her. I should start with that. Wait, what? Did you not know that? We've never met.
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Well, I'd like to say I would love to be friends with her. She has a love of movie musicals, like traditional movie musicals. She's so good herself. She's so fantastic. But I also have that love. So I have daydreams of us watching like old movie musicals together and then tap dancing a little bit and then maybe having a cocktail or some tea. Reenacting scenes from Chicago.
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Yeah, this is what I imagine my friendship with Catherine Zeta-Jones is like. But I did do a movie with Michael Douglas. I played his daughter in a movie called Solitary Man. He's so good in it. It stars him and Jesse Eisenberg. In that movie, I did my first New York City walk and talk. Oh. Do you know those movies you see that are shot in New York? They're walking down the sidewalk, yeah.
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And they're just people, they're just walking and talking. And from the time I was little, I would see this in movies, and that to me was like, you're a movie star. Doing a walk and talk. If you do a walk and talk on the streets of New York, you've made it, kid. So I'm shooting this scene with Michael Douglas. And I turned to him and I said, Michael, this is my first New York City walk and talk.
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And he turned to me. He got it. He goes, what? You got to be kidding me. This is fantastic. I'm your first New York City walk and talk? Congrats. It was everything I wanted the moment to be. Well, so flash forward to I'm on The Office and they write this joke in this episode that Michael Scarn's wife is Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Cut even more forward, their kids are now, I think, big fans of The Office. And she started posting about The Office. So I got up the courage to DM her on Insta.
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I did. And we've had a nice little DM relationship ever since. And then I became brave enough to ask her if she would please, please record our summary. And that brings us to now.
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Please go into your fast facts. Fast fact number one. Big news, everybody. Big news. At two minutes, 50 seconds. Mindy's hair is down.
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I have to admit, it is kind of yours. You started it.
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That's right. And I also claimed that I thought the first time we were going to see her hair down was Casino Night, so I stand corrected. It is two minutes, 50 seconds, the client. The client. Also in that scene, I think we're getting closer to the Kelly Kapoor we will all know and love. Oh, she was giggly.
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No more morose French twist, Kelly Kapoor.
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Speaking of hair, what is up with John's hair in this episode?
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No, the front, like the bangs that are usually kind of like floppy and real cute.
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Well, it looks like someone just took a pair of scissors and just did a real blunt horizontal cut.
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They write, the 27 seconds of silence in Booze Cruise may hold the record for the longest moment of silence in a comedy, but I was just watching the West Wing episode from season seven called Here Today, and I think that might take the cake.
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We never even saw the hotel. Literally, we were on the boat all night and we would go to the hotel and maybe sleep a few hours and then we'd go right back. I have no memory of the hotel.
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Yes, I wrote in my journal that we filmed from 2.30 p.m. and usually wrapped around 5 a.m. And I wrote, I felt the motion of that boat all week the next week. I would be in line at the grocery store and realize I was swaying. Oh, my gosh.
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Well, yeah, even I actually think it's worse when you're just docked because then it's like doing this weird like kind of thing. And when you're moving, you know, it's better. It's like a forward motion. But that kind of rocking against the dock for days on end.
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I have some fantastic photos from this episode because I brought my camera, my old school camera. I already mentioned we got a photo when I found out I was series regular, but I had it on the boat with me the whole time. So I have so many. I was looking at all my office photos, all my memorabilia, and Booze Cruise is a huge chunk of photos.
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When Tony confesses to CJ that he leaked the space shuttle story, there is a whopping 56.9 seconds of silence between when CJ says they can't talk until the counsel's office shows up and when the lawyer finally does talk. Almost a full minute.
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That's BetterHelp, H-E-L-P dot com slash officeladies.
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Our lives would be completely – I don't even know. I can't even put it into words, honestly, because now I'll get emotional. Here I go. Angela's crying already. I'm already – I can't. Sorry. It just all kind of hit me.
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I know. I'm sorry. It just all like the wave hit me of just gratitude I have for you. Just absolute gratitude in my heart.
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You had a very successful career, Greg. I mean, you had done King. I won't list your IMDb, but you were the real deal.
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You created King of the Hill. King of the Hill. And you were running that show. But you had written on Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons forever. And oh my gosh, there's that one song that you wrote on The Simpsons that is just amazing. Anyway, okay.
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Okay. So you were the real deal. Things were cooking.
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You're like, this isn't what I signed up for. Yeah.
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And it ushered in this whole new type of American television. Completely.
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Speaking of the booze cruise, when we were on the boat, I remember I was standing next to you and I had told you that I had been on a booze cruise and I had done a snorkel shot. Like when we were talking about that.
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No, no, no. We were, so I think we read, we had the table read, we read the script and I went up to you and I was like, this is great. I said, you know, I went on one of these and it is, it gets crazy. I mean, there were snorkel shots and you're like snorkel shots and you're like, okay, I want to talk to you more about snorkel shots. And then you kind of went off.
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And we were like, just like you were busy with the episode. It was a very big episode. And then we were on the boat. And I think you had mentioned it to Phil Shea. And so he had snorkels. And I just remember all of a sudden I was like talking to Brian and Oscar and I heard, Angela, Angela, get over here. And it was you. And you're like, get over here. Talk to them about snorkel shots.
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I was like, oh. Okay, you pour it at the top. And so we sort of had this quick snorkel shot tutorial, and then it made it in the episode. That's great. I forgot about that. But it was just so fun. We talk about this a lot, how you were so open to in the moment collaboration and getting people's ideas, and it made for such a fun, awesome work environment.
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A metallic blue Speedo. Yes. And lots of condoms.
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And lots of condoms. Also, we have a great Jim Pam talking head, a joint talking head, which I know was really fun for you guys to do right before that.
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He followed the memo to a T. Wait, okay, wait. Now, wait, we do have to give our background people who love the background stuff in the cold open. What all is in the vending machine?
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Which is letter H. It's a metal pencil cup. Someone did a deep dive. G is Dwight's desk nameplate. FF is a picture frame of Rain's actual family.
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Yes. Oh, that's perfect. So good. H.H. was a stapler. I was Mike, Greg, I might say this wrong, Mike Lieberthal. It was a bobblehead of a Phillies baseball coach. I don't know.
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No, he was a Phillies. He's a Phillies? I looked him up. I Googled him. Mike Lieberthal. He was a Philadelphia Phillies catcher on their baseball team. And then also the letter J is Dwight's wallet.
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And he's like, Stanley, Bo Manley, Banana Nana family, me, my Mo Manley, Stanley. Like he can't, like poor Stanley can't get anything out because Michael's interrupting him with this ridiculous like song.
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Also, I did a little bit of a deep dive. I think they have like a motor restriction law. Yeah. On Lake Wallenpaupack? Yeah. So like you can only have, like, I don't think our boat size would be permitted. Well, supposedly they do have a dinner cruise.
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Wait, can we, okay. In the conference room scene, first of all, these are some of my favorite scenes because Michael has something he so desperately is trying to say. And then we just keep interrupting him.
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Leadership. The pause. It's all about the pause. But we had a very hard time keeping a straight face in the scene, as we often did in conference room scenes. And I caught a few people breaking. Mindy? Mindy at three minutes, 41 seconds.
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So easy. Her hair is half up, half down, Kelly. Half up, half down. We're tracking when Kelly is fully Mindy.
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Her hair was in a bun. She always had – She had like a paisley top on with like a – That went all the way up to her neck. Like an ascot kind of thingy.
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Well, we are enjoying watching the slow evolution of this. It's been really fun.
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Wow. I would have loved to seen that. So now we have Brenda and she's like the corporate person. You guys, I just have to point out something about Brenda. I know we're not on the boat yet, but Brenda drinks the whole boat ride. Yeah. She's there to check in on Michael. She has a beer in her hand. You look. Look at her scenes on the boat. She has a beer the whole time.
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Pretty much. Or she walks up with a beer to check in on him. Wait, before we get out of the conference room scene, Phyllis broke so hard. Do you remember this? Oh, yes. Oh, my gosh. So Michael has said that the sales team is like the furnace of the ship.
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Right. Titanic. And at 5 minutes 20 seconds, Phyllis has to put her head down because she starts laughing because she says... She asks what the furnace does. And then at five minutes, 50 seconds, she says, everyone in the engine room drowned. Do you remember that? Yes. She could not get out the word drown. Like she couldn't. She just broke every time. And you can see her like starting to break.
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But Michael, everyone drew. Well, now let's, we have to have the moment everyone gets on the boat. We've left the conference room. Yes. We're jumping around a little. At six minutes, 20 seconds, Michael says that Pam is Mary Ann. Katie and Jim are the professor and ginger. Angela's Mrs. Howell. Kelly's the native. Stanley is one of the globetrotters. Michael is a skipper and Dwight is Gilligan.
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And this begins the war between Captain Jack and Captain Michael.
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I know Rob. We talked a little bit about it in one of our Fast Facts. But Rob wanted me to give you a message because I talked to him yesterday. And he said, thank you so much. Also, he's sorry that he couldn't say Lake Wallenpaup.
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Yeah. Allison Jones gave me my sign-in sheet day and Katherine Hahn is on it and Bob Odenkirk is on it.
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Your cheeks are like bright pink in that scene. Yes.
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But the wind was blowing and I could, I don't know, I could tell you're on a boat.
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Yeah, there was a lot of seasickness. Rain puked a lot. I did not get seasick, but do you remember coming up to Kate Flannery and I and saying, hey, you guys, I want to get some B-roll of people vomiting off the side of the boat, Greg?
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It was like three in the morning. And you said, so you had Matt Stone grab as many people as he could. And we had the choice of cream of mushroom or minestrone.
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The fake vomiting. The fake vomiting. And I did minestrone. Yeah, good choice. But you had to take a swig of it and hold it in your mouth. Until action and then puke it. And the, I don't know, five to 10 seconds you held it in your mouth was the most horrible thing. Because you were just like, like trying not to gag. So I didn't puke for real, but I did fake puke.
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Well, I just looked up the average temperature of Rainbow Harbor in the winter. It's about 57 degrees. Oh, that's about what my cold dip is set on. That's cold. That's cold. And who knows what it is at midnight. Yeah, exactly.
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I thought they were part of a Christmas song.
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The yalang-yalang? I don't know. Yalang-yalang. Yalang-yalang.
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Toby and BJ and Mindy, like they sat in the – Mindy was in the annex, things like that.
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Okay. At seven minutes, 55 seconds, Rob Riggle breaks. He totally breaks. What? We talked about it. It just, it stayed in the shot. So Rob as Captain Jack is going over the safety features of the boat. And Michael really wants to hijack this speech and give it. And he can't. So he just starts doing like the flight attendant, like pointing to the exits. Yeah. And Rob just breaks.
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He just starts laughing, but he just keeps going. And then rain is Dwight laughs. And so it just sort of like, but it stays in. Oh, that's amazing. But Rob was like, yeah, I just laughed. But I just kept talking through my laugh.
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For so long. Yeah. I remember when we rewatched it, I just wrote, oh my gosh, Michael's dance, because he danced for so long.
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Well, you know, Jenna, we also got a comment from CKFresh522 who wrote in to say there is footage of RC jumping in the water during your video blog at 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Oh my gosh, in the background. Yes, your whole video journal of our time on the Booze Cruise.
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I remember when Ken finally was like, okay, cut. Steve was on the ground doing the last worm. Yeah, that was the last one, yeah. And he got up and everyone applauded for him. And you guys came over and gave him a hug because he had really gone for it.
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And he was in the – I had a fan write in and say that he's also in Phyllis' Wedding with Kevin in Scrantonicity.
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He's so talented. I have it 11 minutes, 14 seconds. This is really crazy if you know these three people. Phyllis, Kevin, and Angela are dancing together. Oh. What? What? I'm telling you.
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Yes. Yes. Towards the end, there is. They're dancing together. But we're doing that awkward dance where I almost feel like in eighth grade, we're like a group of girls dance together. Except it's me, Phyllis, and Kevin. We're just kind of doing like a little sway like that.
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Yeah, later it's just Kevin and I in the booth. Yeah. And that's probably why. Because Oscar's off, like, talking about you. Oh, I forgot about that.
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Amy and I did a few cheers together. We were all really punchy, you guys. It was like three in the morning.
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Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're The Office Ladies.
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I thought that was like so bold with Roy sitting next to you. Like when I watched it again, I was like, wait, she's flirting with Jim, with Roy next to her, and also kind of making fun of Katie. Yeah. I was like, Pam's having a moment.
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It's so painful to watch but also feels so honest because that's how you would be. You'd want to say everything and you wouldn't be able to.
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Let's talk about that. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful.
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Do you mean when half of the cast got lost at sea? Yes.
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No, there were these little dinghies that would pull up and you would get in the little boat and it would take you to shore. Exactly. Exactly.
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Look at my card. You were on the boat too.
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And Rain. And I wrote about it in my journal.
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I wrote about it the day of. That was you. Yeah.
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So this is what I wrote the day after we filmed the scene. All right. I wrote, one of the coolest things that happened to me while we shot this episode happened the last night, or I guess I should say the morning of. Rain, Phyllis, and Brian and I were all wrapped at 530 a.m.,
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We were on the main boat, but they said they had more shooting to do so we could stay on the big boat and like sleep in a booth. Yeah. Or they said they had these little rubber boats that would pull up next to the big boat that we could get on and they would take us to shore. So we said, okay, we'll do that. They said it's about a 15-minute boat ride on the little rubber dinghy.
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So we decided to do it. It was really tricky getting on the rubber boat.
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We just had to climb out a ladder off the side of the boat.
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Yes. And I said, okay, the little rubber boat, picture the kind of like –
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rubber boat that the navy seals do the backflips off of with the little like me like outboat that's what this looked like so we're lowered down into it and it was me rain jen one of our wardrobe gals phyllis and brian it was tiny and really bouncy we took off it was dark out and the ocean looked like black glass it was very peaceful
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Sorry. About five minutes into our ride, our engine made a weird, worried sound and stopped working. And then we heard the boat driver radio and say, the engine's dead. You need to come get us. Brian started laughing and said, you've got to be kidding me. Then we just floated in the darkness, which felt like for a while. It was quiet and peaceful.
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I know. I know. And then we, another rubber boat pulled up and then we had to just straddle from one rubber boat with just two guys kind of holding it together into the other one. This was very tricky. We slowly made our way past the Queen Mary. Picture an old cruise ship that looks like the Titanic. And there was a huge plume of fire coming from a refinery behind it.
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Rain said to me, this is so surreal. And that's exactly what it was.
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All right, so we are back from break. I have a question for you, Greg. Yeah. I've been waiting to ask you this. I know we're sort of jumping around with time codes, but at 11 minutes 34 seconds, there's this beautiful shot that goes outside of the boat and goes around the boat. You pass Dwight, right, like steering, and it goes around the boat. How did we do that?
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That is so cool. I did not know that. Did you? No. When I saw it, I was like, wait, I know Randall and Matt were inside with us. Yeah. Who did that, right? Our camera guys. I was like, how did that happen? And then I was like, is that a plane? It's in the air. I mean, is it a drone? What is it?
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We were so excited. I wrote a whole MySpace blog about it. I was so happy.
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This was a coveted time slot, you guys. It's where Friends was. It was a big, big deal.
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I've seen better. Oh, man. By the way, I would wear a shirt that says, I'd save the receptionist.
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And so – She's also invested years into this relationship. I know. And I feel like – I feel for her because she's like, all right, we're going to do it. This is it. Yeah.
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Yes. Yeah. Yes, it's heartbreaking. And then he's mean to Katie.
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It was such an exciting time, Jenna, because our agents called us and said, hey, they want to make you series regulars. We were all so, so excited. It also meant that maybe we wouldn't get fired.
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First, it's not real. Also, you just rolled into it like I thought it was part of your sentence. You're like, and then Katie, Gibbity Jenkins. Yeah. I was like, is this a curse word? That's like a Missouri thing. I'll be Jibbity Jenkins.
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Also, don't break up with someone on a boat.
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Yeah. He was really upset. He was hurting. He was hurting and he just sort of lashed out. I didn't think it needed to be long. I thought it was perfect. But I also love, and this is something we've talked about a lot, Greg, is that these characters are flawed people. They're not perfect people. So they're going to have moments like Pam was petty. I think Pam has been petty. Yeah.
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And my character is certainly, we've talked about, my character is certainly, you know, not the nicest person.
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Do you remember the letter her dad wrote her? Do you remember that letter? Yeah. That said, dear Kate, stop taking your clothes off. Thanks, dad. Yes.
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In the middle. We were on the boat. I remember we were on the boat when I got the call saying that NBC would like for you to be series regulars and you're going to have like an extended contract. You're not going to be a week-to-week day player. Oh my gosh. We were all talking. We were all so excited, the supporting cast.
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That's like Kent was out there running that shot.
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Well, I loved it. So this is around 17 minutes, 34 seconds for my time code people. But I love that the Dunder Mifflin employees know immediately that there's no emergency. And even like Kevin and Angela, we're in a booth together. Oscar, I guess, is off somewhere being snarky. And we're like, no, no, guys, no, no, there's nothing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you pan across all the different Dunder Mifflin employees and they're like, oh, God, here we go. But the rest of the boat doesn't know.
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You and I, we had a break where we got to go off the boat, but we're standing right by the boat, Jenna. We're right by the boat. And I gave Oscar Nunez my camera and I said, Oscar, I want you to capture this moment. You and I had been jumping up and down, holding hands, screaming because we were so excited. And you have that photo? I have the photo and you and I look insane.
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This is so nerdy of me. This is perfectly you. Yeah.
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Well, it worked, and it also worked for me, but on a different level for Michael. It works for Jim, but for Michael, the whole episode, he just wanted someone to feel inspired by him. Yeah, that too, yeah. So when Roy announces the engagement, he was like, is this because of the talk you and I had? And he goes, no, Captain Jack. And he's like, ugh. you see Jim's appreciation in this moment.
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And I feel like Michael feels it. And I'm like, oh, Michael got one person.
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I'm sure we're so tired. We're tired and we're mid jumping up in air holding hands like two school girls. And Oscar was like, oh, you two are so silly. And he gave us a big hug.
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I can't wait to see it. I love all of this. These are like some of my favorite movies. And it's a comedy.
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Yeah. And yes, this was like we all knew now, one, our show must be doing well because now they're going to pay us all to be here all the time. Yeah. And then we knew we had a job.
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I love it. I love it. Upload on Amazon. I can't wait.
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What a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.
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Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins and our audio engineer and associate producer is Daniela Silva. Odyssey's executive producers are Jenna Wise-Berman and Leah Reese Dennis.
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This was the most job security any of us had had since the beginning of the show. Oh, yeah.
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There was a lot of buzz that she was going to be an Oscar contender. And it was just so wonderful. Knowing her the way we did at this point and knowing that she had just been a hardworking actress, some things had gone her way, some things hadn't, and to just sort of see this electricity around her. And she is just such a humble, sweet, kind person. You just can't help but root for her.
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And I remember being so happy for her and hopeful.
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This is – he's the real deal. He is the real deal, and the man has such a heart for service. You do the softball game with him. I do.
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He's one of the people for Children's Mercy Hospital, and Rob is just an inspiration to me.
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He was in Furry Vengeance. And then you won't recognize him from a pilot he and I did called The Gabriels on Fox that never saw the light of day where we played husband and wife. We had so much fun. I keep telling him, I'm like, Rob, someday we're going to get to play husband and wife again.
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Yes, we are pals. So I called him yesterday, and he's like the busiest guy ever. I was like, Rob, where are you? Are you in Los Angeles? Because the last time I talked to him, he was in Scotland, excuse me. Oh. He's like doing some really fun stuff. But I talked to him and I was like, Rob, what do you remember about Captain Jack and the whole Booze Cruise episode? And this is what he said. Okay.
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He said, well, Ange, on a personal level, it was one of the first jobs I had after leaving Saturday Night Live. I was so nervous. I was really green and I hadn't done much in front of a camera. I was scared and I wanted to do a good job because I loved the show so much. And the character was so much fun. He also said he really enjoyed that we shot on the water and that it was a night shoot.
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And he said, you know, Ange, I don't know if you remember this, but no one could retreat to their trailers. Between scenes, you had nowhere to go. So we all hung out in that boat all night. We sat in the booths and hung out and people would sort of booth hop. Between scenes, you would have people that were like, oh, let's go talk to John and Jenna and Amy Adams and David Denman.
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Oh, let's go talk to the counting. And so he said it was so fun. We would booth hop and everyone would hang out. And I really felt like I got to know some people that night. The second thing he said was he felt really bad for Steve because Steve was shooting Evan Almighty all throughout the day. And then he would come over to our set and and filmed throughout the night.
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But even though Steve was so tired, he was still kind and thoughtful and professional. And he said that Steve really became an inspiration for him for work ethic. Now, if you know Rob, you know he has an amazing work ethic, but he really saw that in Steve. Okay, so the third thing he said, and he was like, Ange, this is going to haunt me. It's haunted me for 14 years. What?
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He said, I had to say Lake Wallenpaupack. And he said, Ange, did you just hear how I said that? Lake Wallenpaupack. I said it like it just rolled off my tongue, like I grew up there. Yeah. Yeah. He said, I could not get it. He said, I don't even know if they had a usable take. He said, I must have messed it up 10 times in a row. He said, I started sweating. I was so embarrassed. Oh, no.
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He said, I could not say Wallenpaupack. And he said, when his shoot was done and he was driving home, all he did on his drive home from Long Beach, it was like an hour and a half drive. He was like, Lake Wallenpaupack, Wallenpaupack, Wallenpaupack. He said, I could say it with no problem in my car driving home. He said, but I could not say it in the take.
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Mm-hmm. Well, another thing we talked a lot about was the Jim and Pam 27 seconds of silence. Yes. We recently got a letter from Caio from Brazil. Caio, I hope I'm saying your name correctly.
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And he said, and it's haunted me for 14 years.
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I know. Rob is fantastic, and I adore him. Thanks so much, Rob.
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This was such a fun breakdown. Do you remember, Jenna, we had Greg Daniels in the studio with us for the whole thing? Yes. He was so excited, remember? He was like, I have a time code. Yes, yes. And it was his first time being on Office Ladies.
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We haven't even mentioned who's coming on the show today. I know.
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I know. I thought about it too. And I was like, wait, we didn't even say. You guys, we have an amazingly huge, awesome, the guest of all guests is on today. Greg Daniels, the creator of the show, is coming on the episode today. He's going to be here any minute. He is going to sit with us. We're a little giddy, as you can tell. We're super giddy.
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And I believe he went and saw this show, and that's how he discovered Mindy. Yeah, we'll have to ask him. We'll ask him, because he'll be here.
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I think we're just so excited. I know I'm watching the clock because he's going to be here soon. So I was like, oh, let's get Fast Facts done because then Greg's going to be here.
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And this really dates me and our show because it was all on VHS. Oh, my gosh. There was a guy actually editing. Yes. And I had brought in like a box of all of my footage and they were putting together a montage of my scenes. And Lance said, Angela, it was. so cute and charming because you turned to me and you said, hey, will you watch this? What do you think of my reel?
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And he said, Ang, it was every second you've ever been on screen. He said it was so long. And also in some of it, you didn't even have dialogue. You just walked by. That is hilarious. There was like a commercial like I did for Chrysler where I walked by and I just went... And I did thumbs up at someone. I was like, oh, my gosh, Lance, that's so embarrassing. But that's the first time we met.
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So it was after the pilot when I thought the office wasn't going to go. And I was trying to figure out how to get more work.
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I know. And then he told me, he said, Ange, did you know I tested for the role of Jim? He tested for Jim. What? So I must have done scenes with him. He said you weren't in his group on his test day.
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He had a different group, and Bob Odenkirk was in his group for Michael Scott.
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So Lance told me this great story that the day that he was screen testing, you know, he's in the lobby waiting. They were all kind of giddy that Bob Odenkirk was in their group. They were all really big fans of Bob's. And Bob walked over to Lance and was like, hey. You want to run lines with me? And Lance was like, uh, sure. And he said it was really cool.
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And they like sort of went out in this lobby and ran lines like three or four times, like the scenes all the way through. He just thought it was a really cool moment. So Lance said when he read for Jim, he was like, you know, I really felt like I just tried too hard. And he said then when he got called back when we were once the show was up and going for the fight.
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He read that it was like a martial arts guy. And he goes, oh, my gosh. Lance's background is actually martial arts. He was in the martial arts community for 15 years. He has a third degree black belt in taekwondo. He was the sixth in the nation in his weight category in 1992. He trained junior Olympic gold medalists. Did they know this about him? I mean, I think they didn't. I don't know.
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But he said when he saw who the character was, he was like, oh my gosh. He said, I am not going to try to go for the joke at all. I'm just going to go in as if I'm like working with one of my students and teaching a class. And that's what he did. He put no pizzazz on it. He went in and played it really straight and they loved it.
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He actually had a really funny thing that made me laugh. He said that when they got to the actual fight and the choreography of the fight, he said he was so surprised because... There was no choreography. There was no stunt guy. He said literally it was like, okay, guys, just two idiots try to hit each other.
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That's what I told him. For these kinds of things. I told him. I said, Lance, this does not surprise me because they put Phil Shea, our prop guy, in a box for hours. Yeah. There was no like stunt person.
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I always felt like it was a one-act play we were doing, like, in someone's garage.
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Yeah. So this won't be the last time you see Sensei Ira. He does come back in season nine in the episode Junior Salesman. He does? Yes.
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And like family members. Yes. Yes. Lance emailed me a great behind the scenes photo of him and the other people interviewing for jobs in the conference room. And he has his karate outfit on over a business suit. So his tie is like poking out. It's like so odd. But yeah, he was on season one and then on season nine. So he sort of had this great perspective of being on the bookends of the show.
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Yeah. Thank you so much, Lance, for taking time out of your schedule in Atlanta to chat me up. And we're going to call you again come Junior Salesman.
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Welcome back to Second Drink The Fight. This one was my assignment. I loved this episode and I had a lot of fun digging in for some second drink tidbits. I found some good stuff, lady.
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Also, remember that in the Dundies, he did win the Don't Go In There After Me award.
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Also, though, guys, who is lighting candles inside the stall? Like, he doesn't come out and light the candle. He exits the stall holding a candle, a lit candle.
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That's what I think. I think there's like a mop in there or something. That's my guess.
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So yeah, Dwight says he's the senpai, which is basically like the assistant to the sensei.
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Right. But also, actually, it's not him. It's like the girl, remember? Because later in the episode, Sensei Ira is like, there's my senpai. So we learn that it's actually not Dwight.
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Yeah, the girl that walks through the scene is actually the senpai.
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Also, there's nowhere to park. Nowhere to park. And people are blowing whistles at you.
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Like, move out of the way. It's like chaos. I do love that Pam calls it the perfect storm. Yes.
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Also, though, Michael isn't having even to do any work. It's not like he's having to put together a report. All he has to do is sign them. It's so basic.
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I did, and that brings me to some of the fun stuff I found in this week's second drink. So you know in the episode where we see Dwight doing the chores around the dojo? Well, in the shooting draft, it listed a bunch of little moments that could fill out a montage. There was no dialogue, just Dwight cleaning, answering phones, et cetera.
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Well, if I had to drive to the airport to mail something, I'd be ticked off for a long time.
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I spent nine years looking at Steve Carell's forehead because if I made eye contact with Steve, I used to say he would just like suck out your soul if you made eye contact with him through comedy. I could not lock eyes with him or I would start laughing. So I would. I would look at his forehead. Every conference room scene. I would have to do that or look at someone's ear. Yes. Or their eyebrows.
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Yeah, their neck. Yeah. Not in the eyes. Not in the eyes. Well, I thought that was a major Pam Sass moment. I think you have two really good Pam Sass moments in this episode. And one of them is where you just walk out while he's talking. And he's like, oh, she just left. I didn't finish talking.
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Flip phone. Outdated phone is very featured in this episode. As is my favorite thing is when Steve is Michael Scott cracks himself up.
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That's a note card I'm going to reach for. Six minutes, 11 seconds, you guys. Major Pam and Jim flirt happening. So touching someone's hand is actually like that, like how you were tracing his hand. Yeah. Is a sign of physical intimacy.
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Yeah. I know. So that was like, I was like, what is happening?
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I saw that's like your decoy, though. That's your way in. Listen, these are two people who shouldn't be flirting, but so desperately want to be flirting. So they have to find ways around it. So listen out there, if you see someone at work who's like trying to read your palm, you
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Well, they had to justify why Pam was doing it. Yeah. So here she is bored at front reception. She says, Jim, let me read your palm. Flirty flirt. Sneaky flirt. I know.
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I think that Rain and Lance got to play around a little bit because there is a very funny deleted scene on the DVDs. It is not in the shooting draft. We didn't talk about it in our first rewatch, but it's in the superfan episode. It's really funny. I think we should hear it.
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Do you like that this note card only has one word? Yeah. What's that word, Jenna? Yeah. stacy stacy six minutes 17 seconds oh my gosh brian you would crack me up every time you said stacy it's only one word but it goes through like four octaves and we used to that was like we would that was a bit we would tease him we'd be like stacy
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At six minutes, 49 seconds, there's this whole scene with Jim and Dwight where they're talking and Jim is talking to Dwight about humans versus robots.
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All right. In the background, Phyllis is at her desk. Stanley is not.
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Where is Stanley? Stanley never leaves his desk. He was never missing. Never missing. He's actually one of the characters that is probably the most featured at his desk.
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He was always at his desk. But then you see as they pull back the camera that Stanley is at the file cabinet. Yeah. But he never filed anything. To me, that was crazy. That's how I knew it was early on in the show. Because after that, I think Leslie was probably like, yeah, no, I'm not filing. I'm sitting down. I'm sitting down.
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At seven minutes, 40 seconds, Jenna, it's one of my favorite Pam Sass moments.
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Okay, so Michael has a piece of paper and he's just like practicing his signature. Oh, yeah. And Pam taps on the glass and goes, you could practice on the forms. Yeah. I mean, that is some really good Pam sass.
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Okay, at 8 minutes, 28 seconds. Oh, man, this made me laugh so hard. We learn that Toby's emergency contact is still his ex-wife, even though her new last name is now Becker. Yeah. And he says, please don't put X. Yeah, you don't need to put X. You don't need to put X. Okay, I have a screen grab I'm going to show you. I took it with my phone. Oh.
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At 9 minutes, 42 seconds, when Jim is saying, you know a ton of 14-year-old girls to Michael, there is a brown object in the top left corner. At first, I thought, oh, it's a boom. And I froze the frame. Uh-huh. I don't know if it's a boom or like an elbow. I don't know what it is. I'm going to show you a picture of it. All right. She's getting out her phone, folks. Okay. All right.
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Tell me what the heck this is. And guys, I want you to look at it because it is... What?
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Now look at it close up. What is that? And it's only in that frame.
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Michael is standing here. See his eyeline? This is here. Michael's right here.
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No, that's part of my superpower. I'll notice things. I won't give you answers. We have to talk about what happens at 9 minutes, 48 seconds. We have to. What happens? We learned that Michael and Dwight spent New Year's Eve together.
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Yes. And that they watch – oh, they rented – that even dates the show. They rented Armageddon.
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Yes, it began to snow. At precisely midnight. And it was like the perfect moment. I actually saw Armageddon with my dad because my dad's a drilling engineer. And so he was like, oh, this has drilling engineers in it. And we went and saw it. And all like throughout the movie, anytime it was anything drilling related, my dad was like, nope, that's not how you do it. Never happened.
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That's not, nope, not up to code. That never happened. I was like, okay, dad. But I went down the rabbit hole last night like I do sometimes. Like I went looking for the Joe Schmo show. I looked up Armageddon last night and I found a few different synopsis of what the movie was about. And it's too good to not read, Jenna. It's so classic. 1998, Michael Bay. Are you ready? I'm ready.
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When an asteroid the size of Texas... threatens to collide with Earth in under a month, by the way. NASA honcho Dan Truman, played by Billy Bob Thornton, determines the only way to stop it is to drill its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb inside the asteroid. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, played by Bruce Willis.
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who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission, provided he can bring along his own ragtag crew. Among them is cocksure AJ, played by Ben Affleck, who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, Liv Tyler, until the mission proves otherwise. Hmm.
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I would say the two movies my dad got really mouthy about were Armageddon and Twister. Twister, the tornado movie. Yeah, because we live in Tornado Alley. And they were driving up on this tornado. And a truck flies in the air. Like a giant semi-truck flies in the air. Cows are flying in the air. And the guy goes, I think it's Bill Paxson, goes, we've got some debris.
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And my dad goes, debris my ass. I don't know. Anyway. We have to discuss the fact that Pam wants French onion chips.
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Gross. What? I have a question for you. Was that your personal pick, or was that scripted?
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Yeah, I feel like Phil Shea would have been like, Jenna— What bag of chips would you want in case you have to open them up and eat them?
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So you said French onion chips. Yeah. This means you wouldn't have been flirting with anyone the rest of the day because your breath would be disgusting.
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Maybe you should have written it on a note card. Oh, I see. No, I'm just saying. Look how easy it is for me to see my information.
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Well, listen, if I just read you the synopsis of Armageddon, you better tell me about Hurst.
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I'm really excited about that. And then, I mean, listen, if we're talking factory tours, Jenna, I don't even know how to tell you this. You're going to be so jealous. But next week, I am going to the Tough Shed factory.
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This is my first factory tour. Tough Shed's my first one. And I'm very excited, Jenna.
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Yeah. Especially in pain. There's a scene later we'll talk about, but You know, Kevin sits on Michael's lap when he's Santa. Oh, yes. And Steve let out like a painful moan. And I didn't think John was going to be able to get back from that.
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I thought John was going to die, but we were weeping. You know when you start laughing where all you do is shake and make no noise? Yes. Because Steve would do this thing. So the waiter, he's a waiter, but food makes him nauseous. So he would walk up to a table and have to give the specials of the day. So he'd be like, so ask me, Jenna, what are the specials of the day?
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Well, we have blah, blah, blah. He would start to puke as he listed off the specials.
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Well, clearly you just want to be the gift that keeps on giving in here.
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You're stirring the pot. I am. Well, you know, I think we should have Lance on because we never got a chance to talk to him about being in Junior Salesman in season nine.
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First of all, I don't own note cards. I encourage you. I love it. Use it. I mean, Jenna, you don't own a list. I hate to break it to you. I might come in someday with a list.
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That would be fun. That would be fun. Well, to wrap up my second drinks tidbit section here, I have a little scene in the accounting nook I want to share. And then I have some really delicious candy bag alts. Okay. First of all, there was a great scene over in accounting. We did not discuss it. It's in the deleted scenes, and it's also in the superfan episode.
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I think it was improvised because it's just like John kind of playing around. Because earlier in the show, he had mentioned, oh, like a jet. And Michael, I think, thinks he's a jet.
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I could see you and John almost break. When I watched this knowing you guys, I was like, oh, they were about to lose it.
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Well, when Rain like grabs her and is like, all right, now from behind, she's like, wait, what? Amazing. I don't know how she got through that.
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Tit for tit. That's your favorite. My favorite. This is the second time he has said it.
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Well, I have one at 1325. All right, what's yours? Let's see. Well, this is at 1325, you see who actually goes to the dojo because you see everyone pile into the elevator. And it is Phyllis, Pam, Meredith, Oscar, Creed, Kevin, Jim, Michael, and Dwight. And who does not go to the dojo is... Angela, Stanley, Toby, Kelly, and Ryan.
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Yeah, I have no idea. And You know, the thinking was that Angela and Stanley would not participate in this, that this is like shenanigans. And they are literally there to do work and clock in and clock out. Yes. And so Angela and Stanley are really two of the big bah humbugs of the office.
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Toby and Kelly wouldn't go or Ryan because, as you know and I know, they were writers and they needed to be in the writer's room. And this was an opportunity for them to get some work done.
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But it's one of those moments over in accounting that really shows the dynamic between Oscar, Angela, and Kevin. I always loved doing those scenes. And in this one, Angela's a little hangry. Oh. Yeah. She's waiting for Michael to sign all of the expense reports, and she thinks that Oscar might have taken her snack. It cracked me up. Let's hear it. Do you think he signed them yet?
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At least our show wasn't a show with a bunch of close talkers. Because you watch an episode of The Sopranos, they get in each other's faces. They're like, listen here. And they're right up to each other's face. At least we didn't have that. That's true. But when I watch those scenes, because we're actors and we know, I think like, oh my God, there's no way they don't know what they had for lunch.
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Because that is some close talking. Well, when Jim lifts Pam up at the dojo... At 14 minutes, 11 seconds.
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Also, your shirt came up and you could see your belly. Now, I remember as your friend that week, you saying to me, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, people are going to see my belly. Because it said, you know, it picks up and your shirt kind of comes up and you were nervous about it.
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I know. I knew you were going to say that because, I mean, listen, we've had babies and everything changes after that. I mean, you look phenomenal today, Jenna. You look phenomenal then. But I know, I remember our bellies before babies. I remember.
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Okay, so that was their version of the rules of karate, right? There's this thread on Reddit where people go back and forth. They were like, but Dwight says karate, and then there's taekwondo this, and there's this and this. So a little bit that the martial arts didn't quite line up in that dojo.
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Right. I have to talk about the fact that at 14 minutes, 11 seconds, I think that Pam is sending Jim mixed signals. Of course she is. And I totally judged her a little bit.
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And then when Meredith noticed, it wasn't until Meredith noticed. That's right. That then she like pushed Jim away. And then the look on John's face, he does such a fantastic job of looking wounded and confused.
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And not really, he was so happy, but now he's like, now what happened? Yeah. He did such a great job because Pam is sending him mixed signals. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's saying something because he was like a statue. Him and Oscar Nunez never break. Yeah. I have a question for you. Lance, when I was speaking to him, said to his knowledge the fight was not choreographed and that he really believed that the stuff that Steve was doing to Rain as Dwight, like holding him down and trying to spit on him and all of that, that Steve improvised that.
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I don't know why I write my name on things. Chocolate vanilla swirl pudding. Yes. Oscar's sitting there and he's just eating the pudding and Angela's just glaring at him. That's my favorite pudding.
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You can tell because they're winded when they're speaking to each other.
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Because I remember. That's my memory. If it wasn't Paul's, then Paul just really didn't make a lot of effort to decorate it. Because I remember his office being pretty bare.
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For sure. At the end of the show, the people who actually sign the reports are Toby, Stanley, Angela, and Pam.
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I have one thing that is a time code that was right before the end there. At 17 minutes, 57 seconds, people are packing up for the day. Guess who's sitting across from Meredith? Who? Ryan.
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I don't know. When does Creed take over Ryan's desk? And when does Ryan move back to the annex?
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Also in this episode at the end when people are filing out, we see an appearance of Luann.
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I just thought that was so cute. I love that Oscar said, for the last time. Like, how many times has she brought it up? Exactly. Okay. Lastly, there were a series of candy bag talking heads. It's everyone reacting to having to stay late. I wanted to share three of them. First of all, Angela says, Michael forces department heads to stay until all the forms are signed.
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Who would normally sit in the annex and people always say, who is that? So Luann walks by.
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Someone out there probably already knows. They're going to write in and say, you guys, Creed sits there in episode.
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I know. It's so sweet. Although Michael's like, it's not really a real thing, but it does really matter.
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You wore a shirt. Like that you've bought online of the injury.
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For a long time. You would wear it a lot. It was like one of your favorite shirts.
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Did I wear it too often? No, it didn't. But it just made me laugh. There was a day that you showed up in your shirt with the grilled foot. And I had a shirt that was like an inside joke on our show of Creed as an action figure in Hong Kong.
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We're like, what are we doing? We're just walking around in shirts from our show.
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It's not so much a problem for me as it is for my cats. Cats are creatures of habit and they expect mommy home at 6 p.m. sharp. It just makes me laugh that they all call her mommy in her mind. Yes. Well, what do your pets call you? Not mommy. I don't know. I've never thought about it. What? Oh, my gosh. Clearly your pets have a name for you. Yeah. What? Motho. Oh, good Lord. What? Motho? Yeah.
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Oh, my gosh. That is hilarious. I've never even thought about it. Wait, Cassie, you have cats. Do they have a name for you?
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I see. I've never thought of it. I'm going to ask my kids. What do they think? Let's call me. I'll report back. All right. The next talking head is Toby. He says, when I stay past five, I start counting the holes in the ceiling. Last year, I got to 457. Sad sack, Toby. And the last one is a talking head from Stanley. Tonight is bridge night. I hate canceling bridge night.
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Well, those are my second drink tidbits for this episode. Join us this Wednesday for All About Kevin Malone with special guest Brian Baumgartner. See you then.
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For a different way, though. Like Ken Kwapis is like a cozy blanket. Paul Feig you want to hang out with all day. And drink martinis. Charles McDougal you kind of want to get drunk in a pub with and yell at people.
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When I interned on Conan O'Brien, I got free food and I was so excited.
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I mean, snack tables. I hate to break it to everyone at Earwolf, but I hit up that fruit bowl hard every morning when we come here.
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I don't know. If you were anything like me, I would eat ramen noodles because you could buy nine for a dollar.
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You can also not cook them at all and crunch them up and put them in a salad instead of a crouton. This has turned into a different show. Okay. That's like a – you can make a Chinese chicken salad and you can use ramen noodles as your crunchies. Wow. There you go.
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Well, lady, I think that was very intimate. I even looked up online about hand touching, and it is considered physical intimacy.
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Oh, my gosh. It's Sensei Ira was played by Lance Kroll, who's a friend of mine. And I have five note cards on him because he and I talked on the phone yesterday.
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I know. He even said, I think Jenna watched a lot of Joe Schmo.
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The Joe Schmo guy was a real person and everyone around him was acting like they were in a reality show.
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A lot of great comedians and improvisers that I knew were on that show.
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So I emailed him yesterday and I was like, Lance, we're going to be talking about the fight. Where are you? Can you hop on the phone? And he was like, I'm actually in Atlanta. He has moved to Atlanta and he set up his own production company because he's really talented. He's an actor, comedian, writer. Yeah. And he has a production company in Atlanta called Picture It Productions. How about that?
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You can check it out at pictureitproductions.com. All right, Lance. So we met so long ago, and I said, Lance, did we meet doing improv? I can't remember exactly how we met. And he remembered exactly, and it made me laugh so hard. What? Okay, so he was friends. We had mutual friends, and I went into an editing bay where a friend of ours worked, and they were helping me with my acting reel. Okay.
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And I said, Lance, was this before The Office? He said, no, Angela. It was like after the pilot, but you really didn't think the show was going to go? No. So you were trying to put some of your office scene with Kevin and accounting in your reel?
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And then she said, and you got to be quick. You have to be quick because what if Amy stops talking to her? Yeah, let's go.
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I think you thought if we just walked up laughing, we would look cool.
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So we did. Well, I said, I basically was like in shock. I was like, wait, what? And then I looked and Jenna was like four strides away. Like kind of like. I committed. You're like, come on. And then I sort of. half-ass committed behind you.
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Well, Actually, to clarify, it looks like you and Amy and Meryl Streep are having a great conversation. But because I lagged behind you a little, I was late getting there. And I just look like I'm walking alone laughing. I'm like a good three paces behind you laughing to no one. And you're laughing with Meryl and Amy.
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And then the lights flickered because it was the commercial, and we didn't even get to talk to them.
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Well, I'm glad you had that moment. I did not meet her. Wait, you didn't meet her?
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I didn't meet her because they were dimming the lights. And so by the time I got there, I was just like, bye. Well, she's one of my best friends now from that moment. I've never spoken to her again. You've never spoken to her again. My guess is that Meryl Streep doesn't quite remember that moment the way we do. I know. Well, we have a photo of it.
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So I love that this episode starts with the line, are you listening to me, Michael? By Jan, because he's just like futzing around with pencils and he has her on speakerphone. But I love that the first scene, you just think he's being an idiot. And then you hear this voice say, are you listening to me, Michael? And I just, I just love it. I love it.
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Let's say you have a family member that loves to tell a joke, and maybe they want to craft their own stand-up. Guess what? You can take a class with Judd Apatow.
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Oh, the knockoff purse market? Yes. Because some of them looked really nice, but also they looked a little like pleather purses.
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Yes, because so many of you have also written to us and asked us if we would break down some of the Peacock superfan episodes. So we thought, why not do a full breakdown of the superfan episode of Hot Girl?
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She is not. As your best friend, I am not going to let that slide. She is not. But in this episode, they had really zhuzhed her up. She had a push-up bra on and her hair off.
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No, I think it's a funny story. But as your best friend, I'm not going to let you say Amy Adams is a better version of you.
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Oh, God. No, stop. Stop. I was just going to say that Michael Scott has a talking head that I love so much. And these are just one of these talking heads that they're in every episode and getting to rewatch them. I'm like, oh, my God, that's brilliant. Is it the small businessman?
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I love that he said he loves American Way magazine, the in-flight magazine. And then he goes, they did a great profile on Doris Roberts and where she likes to eat when she's in Phoenix. It just made me laugh so hard because I read those. I just want you to know American Airlines, whenever I fly with you, I get the American Way out and I look to see where people eat. It made me laugh so hard.
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Oh, wait, wait. I know this is a total tangent. Guys, I'm sorry. I have to take Jen on a tangent because I love this story.
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Should I tell the story? You have to tell it. Because, first of all, it makes you sound way cooler than you are. No offense.
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A hundred percent. Okay. So I know you're going to tell that story, but I need to see that in-flight magazine article.
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I remember this because you told me you were going and I was like, well, it's not a lot of days. Yeah, we only had five days because we had a one week hiatus from work. This is what people without children can do.
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And at a little hat shop. Wait, I know. I know. I'm raising my hand because Jenna, you texted me and I remember you saying, we're so tired. We're going to try to power through. We're going to try to power through so we don't fall asleep.
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All right, I have to interject here. So my BFF, Jenna Fisher, is a flippin' fantastic poker player.
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Okay, no, you're fantastic. And I once went with her to the Celebrity Poker Showdown, story for later, but she's really good at poker. I came in second place, yes. You came in behind Keegan-Michael Key. He won. That's a big flex because you beat Michael Ian Black, who still tells me that you beat him in poker. I also just want to say all of this is before I had children.
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I know, but you are really good. Back in your day, lady. Back in the day. Back in your day before kids.
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In your youth. You were quite the poker player. I think I can win poker with like two pairs of threes. And I have all the bravado.
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Okay, so see, this is the problem. But I have no idea what I'm doing. And I think sometimes I mess up a table just because I have such confidence and I have nothing. And then people are like, ugh. Okay. Sometimes that's the best strategy. Okay, go. You're in Scotland.
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I can't wait. I also really want to talk about this extended scene between Michael and Ryan where they're talking about music. It's so funny. It's hilarious.
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You're going to play an hour of poker, and then you're going to go to bed. Go to bed. We enter the tournament. We start playing. We start winning. You're like the two Americans who came in and now you're kicking butt in this pub in Scotland.
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I want you guys to know I woke up back here in the U.S. of A. And I had a text from my best friend in Scotland. And there was a photo of her.
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I was dying. I also got so weirded out when he was like, you know, all I'm trying to do here is just break down walls. I just tried to break down walls. I was like, what is he talking about? Oh, my goodness. And she plays it so well.
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Well, I didn't either because I felt like a lot of our comedy was, it was a little bit of a free-for-all. Like everyone was going to have a moment, you know, where they were sort of the butt of the joke. But it was never malicious. It was just, it served the script. It served the story. I never took offense.
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I was going to say it was a lot of human moments for Pam just seeing how Jim was affected and how that affected her and it was fantastic I thought you did an excellent job I have on one of my note cards where is it Jenna what does it say Jenna was brilliant She was. Thank you, Angela. You were so good. I don't want to get us off your... I know you have your list, lady.
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But the moment when she's like, what are you going to do? And he's like, well, I think actually I'm going to see Katie. The look on your face as Pam, what you did with your eyes in that moment was so amazing.
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Oh, brutal. Oh, Jenna, I watched the deleted scenes this time. You did? Yes. So I still haven't gotten a DVD player. How'd you do it? I found them online. Okay. I don't know if it was a legal site that I went to. I clicked on so many things that took me there. So I don't know. I probably have some inappropriate things on my computer now. Oh, boy. No, I'm just saying I clicked away.
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But anyway, I watched the deleted scenes. And there is a longer version of that scene where Steve, I know, is just riffing on that whole idea of sad sack Toby. Yeah. And it just, it is so cringy. Oh, I want to go back and watch that. It's really good. So what you see in the episode is just like three seconds of that moment where he's like... Oh, yeah. You're divorced, right? Sleeping in your car.
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Yeah. And Paul's reaction is so perfect. In the deleted scenes, Michael goes off on him for like minutes.
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Yeah. No, but it was, oh, and Katie's like, where am I? Ooh, I have some Kinsey tidbits. All right, let's hear them. At 8 minutes, 14 seconds, you, Pam, gets up in a huff from Roy and leaves her salad on the table. Yeah. You didn't pack up your Tupperware or anything, and you had a juice box? What are you?
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That's right. I'm going to bust my plate. I'm not going to leave my salad.
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I was really excited to meet Amy Heckerling, you know, growing up. Guys, I might be a child of the 70s. No judgment, the oldie sitting here. No, and she directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless. Clueless. Clueless. So I was excited. I remember there was a bit of a buzz. Yeah, there was a little bit of a buzz. That she was coming in. Yeah. We were very excited.
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Does that make sense? It does. And it also just makes me sad. And now I take back my salad. My salad judgment.
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She can't clean up a salad in that moment, Angela. Yeah, no. In that moment, she's like, three years. Three years I've sat here and you haven't noticed me. Yes. That's what's raging inside her.
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No. No. Okay, I take back the salad packing up. Okay. Thank you very much. But do you want to explain to me why at nine minutes, 23 seconds, E.T. is back on Jim's desk? Wow. Yeah. E.T. in his blue robe, back on Jim's desk. So he was on the desk and then off. Oh, Sam's going to bring up E.T. They're looking at, so I make suggestions. Wait for it.
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I didn't know how to make small talk with her. And guess what? I failed. I failed.
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He's so creepy that he's used this coffee thing to flirt with her. He's so creepy with it.
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Not only do I love that Dwight is like, do you love her? I love that Michael's like, I don't know. Maybe.
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I can't say. I don't know yet. Oh, I don't know. The two of them are ridiculous. And then you have Roy who decides he's going to try to make up with Pam. And he decides to start tickling you while you're sitting on Jim's desk. It's so awkward. Next to Jim. I remember filming that scene. When I watched it, I felt so uncomfortable for Jim. I was like, oh, God, Jim.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Well, and some people really don't like being tickled. I don't like being scared. Oh, I know. Well, and my husband, like once a year around Halloween. You don't like being startled or scared. I don't like scary movies. You don't respond well. I don't go to scary movies. And my dad was the same way. So you know how they say some people are like fight or flight? Yeah. I am fight.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And so Josh, my husband, like around Halloween, him and the kids think it's funny to get like a fake arm or a mask and scare me. And I always say to them, one of you will get whacked. You know that.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I have no control over it. Just recently, my husband, for Halloween, they jumped out to scare me. He had this mask on. And I screamed. And then with everything I had, I hucked my phone at him. And I hit him with my phone. Clearly, like I didn't mean to. It's just this weird instinctual thing where I just go, ah!
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Chocolate. You can put chocolate on a cheese board. It's just the way you said it.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yes, Mindy Kaling's so smart, so funny, and she was one of our most prolific writers on The Office. She wrote a total of, Jenna, ready? What? 22 episodes. Wow. I know.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I kept my eyes down. And then I didn't look up until he walked out of the room. And you can see when he exits, I kind of look up and look at him leave. You know, in that moment, it was so awkward and uncomfortable. I wasn't given direction to do that, but I just felt so uncomfortable. I just kept looking down.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I didn't know. I didn't know. And just in that conference room, it's not a huge space. And him putting himself out there like that to her, I, as Angela, and even as myself, felt so uncomfortable that I just was trying somehow not to participate in the moment in any way. Like try to just... Just be invisible. Yeah. In my mind, I was like, just be invisible.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I think that Angela didn't know that Dwight was going to be her soulmate, but I think she did see him as an equal. And she respected his work ethic and probably respected who he was in the office, even though he annoyed her, right? Sure. There was a power struggle between the two of them.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
So to see him sort of humble himself like that to Katie and get humiliated, I just felt like I didn't even want him to think that I had witnessed it. Yeah. I didn't see it. It didn't happen. It's okay. That's, I think, what she was thinking. And that's why I didn't look up. I was literally trying to be invisible in the moment.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yes, I did. I knew it! Yes, I did. In the episode, Dwight is looking in at the conference room at Katie and Angela sort of talking. And we didn't have any scripted dialogue. So they said, can you just kind of banter? And I didn't even know if it would make it in, you know. And so that scene was improvised. And it starts off with Amy as Katie saying, well, you seem to like to touch things.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And then I just responded, I don't like to necessarily touch things. I'm shopping. You know, I loved that line. And then she said, well, what color do you like? And this was all improvised. And I said, gray, dark gray, charcoal. And it made it in. And that was really fun. And then that line ended up in a article in the newspaper. It was talking about what sums up the show.
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And they said, well, the character Angela's line is, Gray, dark gray charcoal really, really sets the tone. And I was so proud of that.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Or just her love for McDonald's. She loves McDonald's. But that she really does love a Filet-O-Fish. I loved in this scene, too, when Michael's like, that was over a period of time, okay? It was over a month. It was over a month. And Ryan the Temp goes, still. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Blue is not a flavor. I have a note card. Say it. Okay. This is a great, great Dwight line when he says, shrewds produce very thirsty babies. Oh, yes. That's a famous line. That's a famous line. And when I was pregnant, I was pregnant season five of The Office, and I got a gift of a t-shirt that said, shrewds produce very thirsty babies. And it was a maternity shirt. Oh, my God.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And I wore that around my big belly and people would freak out. I still have it. I still have it. Oh, do you have a picture of yourself in that? I will look. But if I don't, I'll just take a picture of myself in it. And I'll have to post that on Office Ladies Pod because I still have that shirt.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
That's because this was the original set before we moved. The first six episodes, we all filmed at an actual office building in Culver City, and that was the parking lot.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
And it was just an office building. And that was just the parking lot for it.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
It was. Basically, we filmed in one stage indoors and we filmed another stage outdoors for the most part. But that parking lot is not the Dunder Mifflin parking lot that you see from season two and beyond.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
And they were sort of the liaison back to the writer's room. I love that our show did this. Not all shows do that. And I really think you benefit from having the writer of the episode on the set with you.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
You got stuck in that truck. Jenna, do you know what? I'm seeing a theme here that you become really close friends with people that you are in a confined space with. I get stuck with. You're stuck on a bench. I'll be Angela's best friend. I'm stuck in a truck. David, let's play poker. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
And then you're going to be best friends. Friends for life. I have my final note card. Ready? Yes. All right. At around 21 minutes, 25 seconds, you see both Meredith, played by Kate Flannery, and Meredith, played by Henriette, in the same episode.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yes, this is a huge mistake. It's a huge mistake. So basically, while Michael has this talking head, they want to show all these clips of different women in the office. And they used like some footage from the pilot before Kate Flannery came on. And it was Henriette as Meredith. You have this montage that goes Kate Flannery to Henriette to Luann, who played in the Annex.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
No. I'm feeling like I need to know. We never find out who won it, and we never see it again. We never see it again. So it doesn't stay in the office.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I actually believe that. And I bet the purses were returned because we were on a tight budget and we thought we were getting canceled. Yes. And we didn't want to give NBC any reason to think we were trouble. That's right. So I think, I believe that all of that was returned and we got to recoup that money. For sure. Well, Jenna, I think that was some really fun fast facts. You did a great job. Wow.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
You're welcome. I really appreciate it, Angela. Oh, no, no, no.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Now I need to hear you sing because if that's what you sound like, I just realized we've never like done karaoke or anything together.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Okay, don't sing anymore. We have to pay for it. But now I know you're, now I have got your karaoke voice. And it's whispery. Well, I'm trying to cover up my flaws. And if you can't really sing, you whisper sing.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yeah. Yeah. And Mindy, for me, as someone with like an improv background, I loved being able to pitch to Mindy because she's so smart. So I could like say, hey, Mindy, could I, you know, try this? And then she would just instantly be like, oh, that'd be great. Or how about you do this? Like she was such a wonderful, creative collaborator.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And where you also became friends with someone because you were stuck in a car with them. Yeah. See a pattern here.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.
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Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins and our audio engineer and associate producer is Daniela Silva. Odyssey's executive producers are Jenna Weisberman and Leah Reese Dennis.
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Oh. Do you kind of remember that? I actually do because I feel like I have referred to this as Purse Girl a few times because it's in my brain.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I really wish we could have done that. And I wish we could have filmed all 40 pages of that instead of 22. 22 minutes.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Oh, I remember going to do a talking head and they handed me three pages of alts like right in the minute. I'm like, oh, right. OK, I'm going to have to have a photographic memory.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I loved it. I loved it, too. And then they used to let me play around and like sort of like put my spin on it, too, which was always fun.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Okay, you tell me when you're ready because I've got a note card ready to go.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Right. When she did this episode of The Office, no one had seen Junebug yet because Junebug came out in August of 2005. Yes. And I remember her first day on set, we were talking and I was like, how are things going? She's like, well, you know, it's good. I mean, I was on a show on CBS called Dr. Vegas, but they let me go. Oh, that's right. She was like, I kind of got fired. And I was like, no.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And she was like, yeah. And I was really down and I was bummed out. But then, you know, I did this little indie movie called Junebug and I feel so good about it. And it's going to come out later in the year. And I was like, oh, that sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. Let me build you up, Amy Adams. Amy, you're going to be just fine. And she was. And she was. But Amy is one of the nicest people.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yes. She was such a great foil, too, for Pam and Jim and all of that. I loved watching that play out. Not only was Amy Adams super nice on set and just like such a pleasure to work with, but I don't know, probably like two years later, I ran into her. I had a friend visiting from Alabama. And you guys, I don't ever go out.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
This show is sponsored by Liquid IV. I definitely feel like I'm going from one thing to the next during the holidays. Oh, yeah. Building up to it during the holidays, even the cleanup after it. And when you're busy, sometimes you forget to hydrate. Yeah, you forget to take care of yourself.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
So my friend was coming in town and I was like, oh, I'm going to take her somewhere fancy. That hotel, Chateau Marmont, that's fancy. We'll go there. Because I just had it in my head.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yeah. I mean, it's like half an hour from my house. It was such a haul. But I was like, no, I'll take my friend from Alabama there. So we went and we were having dinner and Amy Adams was at a table and she sent over two glasses of champagne to my friend and I. And I was like, they were like, oh, this is so classy. And I was like, who's this from? They were like, it's from Amy Adams.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And she waved and then she came over and we chatted. Amy Adams is just a class act.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I mean, there is a resemblance. She's perfectly cast because there is a resemblance. And you're both like beautiful ladies. Thanks. But I see a resemblance. I feel like we could play sisters. You could. All right, Hollywood. You heard it here first. I guess that's how I talk when I'm talking to Hollywood. I guess it is.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Oh, what was that? That was like drunk Scottish. What is happening? I can't do accents.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I can do Australian, but I grew up overseas and all my best friends were Aussies. So right now I'm just sitting here talking to Jenna. We're going to talk about Hot Girl. That's really good, Ange. Oh, thanks. Thanks so much.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I know. You know what? It's whenever I'm trying to be slick. I am just not programmed to be slick.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I cannot believe I didn't put that on a note card. I can't believe it either. What is wrong with me?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I got here. There were donuts. I got excited. I forgot. Okay. So one year, we got to go to the Golden Globes.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I know. Well, here's the thing. We didn't go to fancy parties, you guys. We're not fancy people. I'm intimate dinner party person. I like a small group. I think the fanciest parties I'd ever been to were just like when one of my friends would have a big wedding.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Well, we were not big time enough. No. I feel like we were barely invited.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Very far away from the stage. Our table was behind a pillar, Jenna.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
We were nowhere near them, though. They were down at the front and we were in the nosebleeds. But hey, we were in the room.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
I mean, that is a movie star. Well, you turned to me because we were like in line for the bathroom and she just sort of, it's like she glided. It's like she floated past us. And you turned to me and you go, now that's a movie star.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
I was like, I don't disagree, Jenna. So Jenna and I are not two people that are invited to a lot of fancy parties. And also, if there are going to be two dorks at a party, chances are they're us. Oh, yeah.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
And you know, if you're having some long days during this time or if you have travel, it's so important to stay hydrated.
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Second Drink: Hot Girl
We are just kind of dorks, even if it's just like at our neighbor's barbecue. I was glad I got to go to those parties with you because I knew you felt as awkward at them as I did. But you are way braver than I am. Way braver.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
We lean around the pillar, we're sitting behind, and we see Amy Adams. You should know at this point, we'd been sitting at our table for quite a while. We hadn't got up and mingled other than we went to the bathroom and saw Angelina Jolie walk by and we didn't say a word. No, I did not speak to her. So Jenna's like, there's Amy Adams. And Angela, she's talking to Meryl Streep. We know Amy Adams.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Hot Girl
Yeah. And Jenna was like, come on, Angela. Let's go. And I was like, nope. Don't want to go. Not going. Not going. And you really, like, you were like, Angela.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
No, we didn't. We didn't become series regulars until Booze Crew. So listen, we were all on the chopping block.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Oh, oh, because Michael could have said, you know what? I said it was Creed and it's Creed. You can't change my mind.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
So what's funny to me is that that was a 30-minute meeting about your hair. Meanwhile, I go to hair and makeup, and they put on full... enormous purple fake eyelashes on me. If you look at me as this cat, I have big purple eyelashes. They were so huge. I had a hard time even navigating them. When I watched the episode, I look a little sleepy. I think it's because I couldn't open my eyes.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
No meeting? No meeting. I was like, are you sure? They just put them on me. And then one of the writers walked up to me, I can't remember who, and was like, Do you have purple? It's probably Mindy. She was like, do you have purple lashes on?
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Oh, well, then if you love the Fast Facts, get ready for the note cards, Creed.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I think it's my favorite. I loved our breakdown of this episode because we had Creed in the studio for the entire episode, and he shared so many fun things.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
You know, Josh and I have used SimpliSafe for a while now, and we actually are adding to our system. We're adding a few extra outdoor cameras.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
That's simplisafe.com slash officeladies. There's no safe like SimpliSafe. All right, let's get into some note cards.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Okay, so the cold open is you say that... Jan called and he's like, oh, and Michael has to go in because he knows he has to fire someone. Right. And so he calls Jan and her assistant, Sherry, answers the phone. Yes. And Sherry has so much good sass. She's like, okay, well, who are you going to fire? And he goes, well, I'm not really sure. And she's like, we just need the name. Jan needs the name.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And then he's like, who would you fire? And she's like, just give me the name. And then he thinks he's hung up. And he's like, I'd like to fire you. And she goes, still here. Right?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
You guys, he knows everything about The Office. He didn't know. That is saying something, because he is like the walking Bible of the show.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Allison, you're like an episode of the Pelican Brief.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Wow. Well, Lisa, you were fantastic as Sherry.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
You killed it as Sherry. Oh, man. And Allison, thank you. Thank you for being our CSI The Office.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
It was well placed. It's Phyllis putting on makeup and then it goes to Devin and Creed at their desks.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Come on, guys. That was a great, that's what she said. Come on. He loves wobbling things? He loved wobbling that thing.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Creed, what did I write at three minutes, 12 seconds?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I get myself, well, Angela Martin in an argyle sweater, like with a turtleneck and a headband holding a stuffed animal cat next to some guy in a mustard shirt with a tie and his hair parted down the middle. What about you, Creed?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Yes, actually, we could do really quickly the rundown of costumes. Kelly is Dorothy. Phyllis, Pam, and Angela are cats. Dwight is a Sith Lord. Kevin is the Dunder Mifflin superhero. Creed is a vampire. Oscar is a lady. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if he's a character lady or just a lady. I think he's a lady. He's just a lady. Jim is three-hole punch Jim. Stanley, no costume. Ryan the Timp, no costume.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And, of course, Michael has the two heads. And Devin was a tramp. And Devin was a hobo.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Why do I have a fuzzy white skirt? Why? With a giant tail that was almost impossible to sit in. And the skirt didn't quite fit me, and it kept, like, heading south. I had to keep, like, grabbing it and yanking it up.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I think now there was such a big meeting about your hair that my cat costume was just like, eh, just put this on her.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I do remember this because sometimes I could feel it fall and it'd be flat on my head. And other times I couldn't. And so I would start talking and Oscar would be like, your ear came down. But I had completely forgot about that till you reminded me.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
They decided to give me less. I have to... That's a height rampage. Yeah. While we're talking about this scene in accounting, I have to point out that we don't often... Our camera guys didn't often do like a full character slow pan, you know? And they do such a hilarious one. They start at Kevin's feet.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And our wardrobe people loved, the wardrobe crew loved getting to dress us because it was just like gray turtleneck. Angela, give us a note card. All right. At five minutes, 23 seconds. Creed, this is a runner. This is a reference to a runner. But this is a really big deal. What? Kelly has braided, like, pigtails. Her hair is down. Her hair is down. Her hair is down.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Mindy had a bun for, like, the whole first season. And then about, I guess... It was like a twist.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I mean, she looked... Her character really changes her look. And then she starts having her hair down. She gets a little sassy. But this has been a big thing. We've been wondering when... Did they change her hair? This is the beginning.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Well, I don't know if I like you here, Cree. All of a sudden I have someone. Oh, well. Tobito. I'm sorry. Two gets one. Oh, fart. Well, I got pretty excited because her hair was down.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
He really loves having nice Tupperware. He bakes a lot. He is a baker and a chef. And I went to Macy's home section and they had amazing Tupperware. So I got him a set of that. And then while I was there, I also got him a new skillet. He's going to be so happy. And Josh, I know you listen to the podcast, so sorry. Now you know.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Hey! Oh, no. Did you plead? Is this how it feels? Yes. Is this how it feels? Yeah. We know.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Tone it down. And then you would tell us about your typing speed and your level of accuracy.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Rain was literally doubling over because he was like kind of leaning forward and he would just kind of collapse into himself. He was laughing so hard. There must be deleted scenes of that scene. Oh man, I would love to see those. I would love to see that.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Well, Paul Feig called in when we did Office Olympics, and he said one of the things he loved about directing episodes of our shows is that you could really find a shot that was cool, and you would have the support of Greg to just kind of go with it. And he sort of found that shot where Dwight as the Sith Lord has his hood kind of like, it looks like it's straight out of the movie. It does. Yes.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Yeah, shot from the side. And they sort of just found that and went with it. And Greg was totally supportive of it. And Paul was talking about how fun that was to have that creative freedom and find those little nuggets. And it's so cool looking.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Wait, wait, wait. I'm so sorry. You all lived together?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I actually remember us breaking. I remember laughing because I broke them.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Creed, your life is amazing. Jenna, I don't know that we would have been hip enough to hang out there. We would not. Well, I have a card right here. Tell me. Seven minutes, 44 seconds. Creed, we have some PPC rivalry. Oh, I've got it down. Pam versus Angela. Angela sass? Angela sass, but also same category. Same category. What? I get this. So my character says, what, you brought brownies?
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Like, what did you bring? And you're like, I brought brownies. And I'm like, but I brought cookies. Same category. Yeah. Same category. You should have brought something savory. You know Angela had a list.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I clearly at some party planning committee meeting said, all right, I will make sugar cookies... Why don't you bring the dip and chips, and then you show up with these freaking brownies. How dare you? Wait, Sam, can we see that? Those aren't chips and dip.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
What? I'm just trying to figure out why you're sabotaging things. I made brownies. And I made cookies. Same category.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Same category. Yeah. Same category. All right. I needed to hear that because I think, Jenna, if it was your house and you were having a party, you would be like, hey, come on. Yeah.
Office Ladies
Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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We love Squarespace. We have talked about it for years. So here's the thing. Squarespace is an all-in-one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online. I was just talking to a friend who's about to start a business. She wants a website. I was like, go to Squarespace. They have all these different templates. You can design it just for what you need. And it's easy to use.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I think I'm putting it out there. I'm not the guy to ask for that. Our fans will let us know for sure. I loved the scene. I just thought that John... crushed it as Michael Scott. And it also had the Jim and Pam air high five.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I got, I literally, when I saw it, I think I audibly said out loud to no one, aww. Yeah, super cute. Okay, so I have a question about the air high five. Say it. So I was trying to do the air high five with my daughter, Isabel. Now, granted, she's 11. I'm 48. Maybe our timing's off.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And then you go to art camp or school. Art camp? I went to a university. Thank you very much. Art camp.
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Jeez. But yes, they constantly are being pushed together and pulled apart, right?
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He just basically admitted why he stays at this job. Yes.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Soft-shelled crabs are apparently one of his favorites. Yes, exactly. Who knew? Who knew that? Well, he eats that tuna sandwich every day for lunch. We didn't know that. No. So he is a seafood fan. Yes. So he just stinks all the time.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
How did John get through it is what I want to know. When Steve as Michael is like, why are you doing this? I'm going to kill myself.
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I mean, I never had five pages with Steve Carell. Or six and a half, you said. Six and a half. Six and a half.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And I mean, I never had more than a few lines launched. with him one-on-one. So, yeah, let's hear about it.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
It was super cute. It's also the no look, the no look air high five. It's special. It's like, oh, these two are in sync. What's going to happen with these characters?
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
He's a very giving person. And when you're in scenes with him, he's so eager for you to get the laugh. Some actors, guys out there, they want to get the laugh. They want that moment. And Steve is so eager to share it and really just what makes the scene work is what he focuses on.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Okay. In that scene, though, where Devin invites everyone to Poor Richard's, there's three people he does not invite. Oh. Yeah, you're right. He lists a bunch of names. It's very personal. It's personal.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
He does not invite Michael. Of course. He does not invite Dwight. He does not invite Angela. He doesn't invite you? Why?
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I'm sure I've been, you know, bitchy to him at some point. I'm sure.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
He was so nice. Yeah. And just a sweetheart. Extremely funny. And so great as Hank. His delivery was always perfect.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Is this the first time we see Hank? At the security desk? I think so.
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You guys leave, you know, to go to the dojo. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Just so thoughtful. And this thing that I love about our show and we've talked about Creed is that Greg had the audience just start in the middle. He doesn't explain things to you. You discover it as you go. It's not spoon-fed information. Yes. Well, I don't think we can end this episode without talking about Michael's list of former costumes.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Okay. He's really, really bummed the camera crew wasn't there the Halloween before when he was Janet Jackson's boob. Very topical. He's really bummed you guys missed it when he was Monica Lewinsky's dress. Yeah, twice. And then he was Monica Lewinsky the year before. Yes. And then before that, he was OJ Simpson. Yes. Where does he pick these people? Very topical.
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Great costumes that he was really sad the camera crew missed. I know you're going to want to talk about the very end with Michael and the trick-or-treaters because it's just such a touching moment.
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Tore me up. Tore me up. And you have to think that Michael is somewhere being a great dad. Yeah, he's a great dad. And I wish we could see that. That's the one thing when we talk about a reunion, obviously, you know, we don't want to tread on hallowed ground that is the office and we don't want to mess with anything that everyone loves so much.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
But boy, I would love to see where some of these people are and I would love to see Michael as a dad.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And I think that's part of the reason, too, why it hits you that hard, Jenna, because we see our friend. Yeah. That's true. And we see the kind person he is that gets to shine through, which often as Michael Scott does not. No, he does not. This is true.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Well, I have one little final piece of trivia. All right. In the credits at the end as it rolls, over the Deedle Dee logo, which Deedle Dee is Greg's company, his daughter Haley actually drew the picture that says Deedle Dee when she was little. You hear, and it's the only time it ever happens, Dwight's voice say, quiet you. Really? Angela!
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I think they loved it. They pulled it from earlier in the episode when Dwight is the Sith Lord.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
It's the only time there's dialogue over Diddle Dee. Wow.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And then you did the whole East Coast too because I was texting with you.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And you guys, before he plays the song, I just want to encourage you, if Creed is coming to a town near you, go see his show. It is fantastic. And apparently he also makes fun of me during it.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And we are trying to figure out one of your locations where I can come on stage and give it to you right back. Where can people find the schedule?
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
We love you, Creed. All right, let's hear it.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I just started crying. The song is so beautiful, Creed, but also, and I totally am emotional, but oh my God, it might be too emotional. Well, you know what? Do you ever have just like a wave hit you where you're like, you know you're in a special moment? Yeah.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
It just felt really special and... Like something I'll always remember. And I'm facing my best friend who is now my boss lady business partner. And I'm so proud of us and this journey we've taken together. And then I just love you, Creed.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
For years, my alarm clock... is banjo music because it would make me think of you guys. And sometimes, especially when I was pregnant, if we had a little break, I might take a cat nap and I'd wake up to banjo music. And it was like so pleasing that I made my alarm clock banjo because I thought, oh, maybe I won't wake up grumpy.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Oh, yeah. You guys were great together. He's the best, you know.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins and our audio engineer and associate producer is Daniela Silva. Odyssey's executive producers are Jenna Weisberman and Leah Reese Dennis.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I feel like it's the moment just very resigned. He says, I know, Michael.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I know. Those guys, we'd be in a scene and they'd be like, okay, last take, last take. We got to go. I'm like, guys, are you doing your boxing match or are we doing the scene?
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Okay, Creed, you are our first in-house visitor, right? I mean, we've had people call in, but you're our first in-house guest.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Creed lives down the street from me. I think everybody who knows me knows this. The world knows that.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I won't. Creed's address is... His hidden key is... Yes, we are neighbors, and it's one of the joys of my life that we're neighbors. I love that you're right around the corner. I love that we have...
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
We do. You were walking, was it your daughter's dog? Your son's dog.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Your little Yorkie. And I hear, hey, pumpkin. And I turn around, it's Creed. And we've also maybe had some adult beverage in Red Solo Cups. We may have.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
And we like to do a little bit of what we call the sauce trail and walk around having a glass of wine.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Oh, yeah. Creed loves anything where like animals go crazy, like Planet Earth.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
All right. Well, we are really excited to have you here. We are discussing the Halloween episode.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Your improv was sacrificing goats or something? Yes, yes, yes.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Yeah. You were so funny as the voice of the mining ride. Yes. And Isabel was watching that episode with me and she said, mom, I know that voice. I know that voice. And I was like, wait, you're, oh my gosh. She was like, I think it's Creed.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
She is, I mean, I didn't catch it. And then I looked it up and I'm like, Isabel, we do know that voice. It's Creed.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
Yeah, they would hand you the pages and sometimes, we've talked about this, the pages would be hot.
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And Ken would not have given you his number. I feel like Ken is so discerning. Oh, my God. If he didn't mean, call me. Yeah, yeah.
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Second Drink: Halloween with Creed Bratton
I love the juxtaposition of that someone is going to get fired while wearing a ridiculous costume. Yes. And they're going to have to go home fired in that outfit.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
For nine years. And then probably would have been in the spinoff, The Farm, had it happened. True.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Paul is so brilliant, and what I love is he's kind. He's just a delightful person to be around.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Oh, he is so dapper. Which he wore every day. Every day. Every day he wore a suit.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
No, he and his wife Lori, they're like a smart-looking couple.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
They're really smart. And their house, I remember, was decorated so lovely. They had art. Yes, yes, art. But they're not stuffy people. You know what I mean? They're incredibly approachable.
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Yeah, not flashy. They're just really nice people. And Paul was one of my absolute favorite directors we ever had.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I love his Instagram. It makes me want to travel and dress nice and have a cocktail.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I wondered if you auditioned for that. That seemed like right in your wheelhouse.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
So, so funny. I remember going to that premiere because we were so excited to support Paul and to support Ellie. And the whole cast was just phenomenal. And I was so happy for him. And Paul is the type of guy, the minute he sees you, this huge smile comes across his face and he gives you a big hug. And he's just such a giving person of his self.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And I was so happy to support him and so happy that it ended up being such a huge hit.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
For the first chapter of his life. Yes, about his adolescence. Yeah, I really feel like he could write a whole bunch more.
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It's turning you into me, and you're about to make some crazy life choices. Should we go to a bar right now?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
We're going to ask him some questions. He's going to tell us about Office Olympics. I can't wait.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
There's just something so fun about seeing Michael and Dwight out of the office to me. Mm-hmm. Just the way they interact with each other when they're out in the world is hilarious.
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All right, we are back, and we are going to be talking to Paul Feig. Sam, dial him up.
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We'll hit you up for that. We actually reached out to some fans to talk to you today, and there were people who had so many questions.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, and you got mail about it. I did. And Jenna, you know what I love is when we get to the condo. Well, there's a scene we didn't talk about it much the first time. Let's hear it.
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Yeah, it still gets me. Well, we have a fan question for you. Reid wrote in and said, I know, Reid says, when filming a mockumentary, do you storyboard or do you have a shot plan?
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Oh my gosh, Paul, you have to come back. You have to come in. We will have so much fun with that.
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Oh, my gosh. I love that story. Laurie, you go, Laurie.
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Oh, my gosh. They went crazy about the yogurt lids, Paul.
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I think that is correct. And then, okay, Paul, we have to bring up, because Jenna and I love this about you so much, that you wear a suit every day with a tie, and that our crew loved it so much. On Friday, a lot of times on a set, the crew will wear Hawaiian shirts. It's Friday. But when you would work, they would all wear a tie on Friday.
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And so we were wondering, when did your origin of the daily suit start?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, and Paul, without your suit, I wouldn't have my favorite hashtag you do, which is drunk funkle on your Instagram.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I live for it, Paul. I love your Instagram so much. I want everyone to go follow Paul Feig. And also, Paul, I'm so excited about Last Christmas. I am so excited to see it. I can't wait. And, you know, I loved Game of Thrones. So, of course, Jenna doesn't watch Game of Thrones. It drives me crazy. So, Emilia Clarke's in it.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yes, exactly. And then, of course, like Emma Thompson, I cannot get enough of that woman. I just live for her. And Henry Golding and all of it. I can't wait to see it. I love, love holiday movies so much. So, everybody go see Last Christmas.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Also, though, I mean, listen, here's the thing. When you have to eat that much food, like the same food over and over, maybe 30 takes of that food, it turns on you. It does. You don't need that sausage egg biscuit turning on you. It's true. I'd spit it out.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I have two note cards about these opening shots in the bullpen. At a minute, 48 seconds. Do you know what Jim's screensaver is? What? It's a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. I think that's a little foreshadowing to the fire. Which is coming next. Coming next, that desert island. At a minute 51, John's desk, right next to his computer, there's a photo of him holding a baby.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
It's his nephew. I know. So when we had to personalize our desk, that's one of the things John brought in. He was so proud to be an uncle. I know. He's adorable.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, I have a little something from that scene. At two minutes, four seconds, boom! the boom drops in the scene.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
The boom operator. Yeah, we got a little bit of boom and they left it in because as you know, it was a mockumentary. So when that happened, they let it stay. They wouldn't let it ruin a take, but there's a boom in that scene.
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Mike is brilliant. He is brilliant and he's smart. And I mean, I feel like I would wear a t-shirt that says Mozart and Butch Cassidy.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
His magazines are Small Businessman, Maxim, American Way, Cracked, and then the Fine Arts Aficionado Monthly.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, I have a pretty big note card before we get to the Sebring, I think.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
You know what? You and your cleanse can suck it, Fisher. All right. My background people who love background stuff, at 4 minutes, 52 seconds... Jim is talking to Oscar. And Oscar's desk faces the partition that is between Angela and Kevin. Okay. And on that partition is a Post-it note. It's a drawing that Oscar drew. And after this episode, he gave it to me, and I still have it.
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Okay, so Oscar is a very good drawer. He's very good, and he would make these doodles, and I kept a lot of them. And he often would draw Kevin, Angela, and Oscar, our characters doing crazy things. I have a drawing of one where we're on a moped. Oh, I've seen that one. That's so cute. Okay, so this post-it note is a drawing he did. It's one of my personal favorites. It is Angela as a dominatrix.
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She is getting a shoulder ride from Kevin. Okay. She has a whip in her hand, like she's cracking the whip. And on all fours, being drugged behind them, is Oscar by a leash. Okay. Wow. Yes, that is what's on the post-it note on his partition. And it cracks me up, like the detail that he drew our costumes, our dominatrix costumes. He has like a spike collar on.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
He definitely would do all these drawings of the accounting department. And my character was always invoking pain in some way. But it is one of my favorite things I own is this Post-it note that he drew, and it's there on the partition at 4 minutes, 52 seconds. I about fell off my couch. I was so excited.
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No way. Oh, I have to go back and see that. I love Chris. I know. He made it in the show. Well, something I wish I'd brought up the first time was a deleted scene that we would have played at the end of the episode. It features Michael and Dwight having a conversation with one of Michael's new neighbors. And lady, it's so funny because it is Greg Daniels. I know. Let's hear it.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
He drew it clearly that day and stuck it up there, and I now have it. Oh, I love that. And then also at four minutes, 52 seconds, because we were allowed to personalize our desks, right? There is a photo that Oscar brought in of himself and his dog in a frame.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Randall is a big guy, and that is not a big back seat. No.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Okay, so I have a little story about the Sebring. I have a time code. Now, we're jumping ahead, but since you're talking about it, I'm going to bring it up, Jenna. Is that all right? I'll allow it. Oh, Lord. At 16 minutes, 39 seconds, there is proof of what the actual outside temperature was because there is a full-on camera shot of the dashboard and the Sebring.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
It says that they are going east and that it is 91 degrees.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
In the middle of summer, we had to have coats on and pretend to be cold. But there you have it. It was 91 degrees.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I have been wanting to. Okay, so at 5 minutes, 42 seconds, there is a great shot of me through the partition because obviously I hate what they're doing. So they say hate ball and they... Cut to me, and I'm frowning. You see the classic headband braid that was created by our hairdresser, Kim Ferry. She did my hair every day on the show. She actually is an amazing braider.
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She can do any kind of braid. And all of my intricate braids and hairstyles of Angela Martin were by Kim Ferry. So she called this the headband braid. And what she would have me do is she would flat iron my hair straight. OK. She would have me flip my head over.
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And then she would start at one side of my ear and do this like inverted braid over the top of my head, ending at the other side of my ear, leaving the back of my hair straight. So it would only braid like basically like a headband that went over like the top of my head. Did it hurt? It did not hurt. But I did have to sit with my head kind of contorted.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
In order to get it. But it was like one of our favorite things. Greg Daniels loved it. The first time he saw it, he was like, oh my God, yes, yes, this is Angela Martin. And it went on to be featured in a lot of episodes. We even did a behind the scenes for NBC.com because so many people asked if that was my real hair.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
It was my real hair flipped upside down, inverted braid, and it made it look like a headband.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yeah, it was just like having a part of your hair braided, but it wasn't tight or pulling at the back of my head.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yeah, the headband braid. Yes. Speaking of hair. Yes. At six minutes, 15 seconds, you go in the back of the office because they're playing dunderball. Yes. And you see that Kelly still has an updo. Still an updo with Kelly. But it's a little bit looser. There's like a little piece kind of dangling in the back. It's like a loose braid. It's starting to come down, Jenna. You know what?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
You know what that correlation is? What? A cleanse correlation.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
You know, Josh and I have used SimpliSafe for a while now, and we actually are adding to our system. We're adding a few extra outdoor cameras.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
She is hilarious and so smart. But Steve, you want to meet a man that loves you the way Steve loves Nancy. For sure. Because he's just delighted by her. I love when Michael starts to spiral out because he realizes, you know, and Dwight is not helping. Dwight's like, you know, you're going to be 75. You're basically buying a coffin. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
If I bought a coffin, I'd buy one where I couldn't hear the other dead people. But Michael, as he's spiraling, has this line that I love where he's like, I was promised hot people. Where are all the hot people? Like what, in this condo development, you were promised hot people? But Nancy's reaction to that is really what makes it.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, it's at 6 minutes, 58 seconds. It's not so much about the condo, but it's what information we find out at the condo, which is that Dwight has a 60-acre beet farm.
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Yes, and you mentioned that we see a photo of Moe's, but this is when we learned that Dwight is a landowner. He has a working beet farm.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And also, Stan, if you want to go to 6 minutes, 58 seconds, Dwight has a talking head to camera where he says, my grandparents left me. A 60-acre beet farm.
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I don't know. I need to revisit Season 9 because I know an Aunt Shirley because she slapped me and called me a kitchen witch. Yeah. But I don't know who Aunt Sally is.
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Just pick one random one and read it to us. All right. From the show Bible, the chapter is Dwight.
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That is amazing. But yes, 6 minutes, 58 seconds, huge information, which is that Dwight owns a 60-acre beet farm.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Forever. I have a little card here. At 8 minutes, 36 seconds, there are the opening ceremonies. Yes. There's a banner. There's the lighting of a candle. I wanted to share a little behind-the-scenes story for you guys. So whenever we had a lit candle... We had to, by law, have a safety meeting. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And I used to crack up because I would think about shows that had car chases and explosives and things. And on our show, you had a safety meeting about a candle being lit. And our second AD, Kelly Cantlie, would ghost. Safety meeting. We will have a lit candle.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
But on our show, it was, we will have one candle. It will be lit with a lighter.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
You drew that? I drew it. Did you color it in? Yes. You made the sign?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Now, did they want you to make that sign? I don't remember. Or did you volunteer in your method acting ways?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
There were times where they would ask me, you know, Angela, your character is going to hand this piece of paper. Do you want to write out all the things so it's in your handwriting? And we always did. We always would sort of do that kind of thing.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
She had so much fun. Phyllis loves getting to play basketball, play Flonkerton.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
She was very excited. I felt like, Jenna, I have two note cards here that I felt like we should outline a little bit of the games. Let's do it. First of all, there are the games that people played that weren't part of the Office Olympics but were the inspiration for Jim. Yeah. When he was going around to everyone's sort of desk area. So Pam, of course, threw things into Dwight's coffee cup.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
There was hate ball and accounting. Yeah. There was Dunderball and Human Resources. Stanley said he plays Work Hard so his kids can go to college. And then Angela Martin says she plays Pam Pong.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
That is some serious Angela sass. I have a question for you about Pam Pong. Okay. Is this the first time that an office coworker has called out the Jim-Pam crush? Yes. Right? That's the first time someone's like, oh, I see what's happening. You're not fooling anyone.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yeah. Yeah. And then, of course, we have Angela at 16 minutes, 20 seconds. She's keeping score. That's the only game she's playing that day. That's the only game she's playing. But then the actual games that Jim makes up, Jim and Pam, right? They make these up. Our number one, Flankerton, Phyllis being the winner of that. Yeah. Number two, how many M&Ms can you put in your mouth?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Kevin was the only- Only participant. Only participant. Okay. Three, guess the elevator. Inspired by the Real Office Olympics. And Ryan won that. And then the final game that we see is this full coffee mug relay between Oscar and Toby, and it disrupts when Michael and Dwight come in the office, and we never see the outcome of that.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I'm giving it to Oscar. You're giving it to Oscar? Okay, okay. But you have two medals hanging on your desk at 17 minutes, 32 seconds. You have a gold and a silver. Yeah. So I wonder what Pam won for. I don't know. You're saying I don't deserve my medals, Angela? No, cleanse, I'm not. I'm just merely being a fan saying I wonder what other games we didn't get to see.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And from this episode, I have the drawing Oscar did of Angela as a dominatrix. pulling Kevin and Oscar around in costume. We kept all kinds of stuff from the show. We did. We're a little bit of hoarders, guys. Someday we joke that we're going to do a book and put them all somewhere where we can share them.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Like our sort of BFF scrapbook. Yeah. Yeah. I think we should because I want to do it before I lose the stuff, okay? Yeah. Because I'm worried. I'm worried about my shed. Lastly, guys, I cannot not talk about the scene at 20 minutes, 53 seconds. It's the closing ceremonies. We talked a little bit about this with Paul, and I agree.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Steve did such an amazing performance where, as Michael, he tears up. He's made this huge life choice to buy a condo. He's feeling this love and support from his office family that he doesn't get from his family probably, right? The office family is his family. And he's absolutely emotional. And when we filmed it, we did not know that Steve was going to make that choice to get emotional.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And so we're all looking at him, and he started crying. To tear up. And I, as Angela Martin started, as myself, started to tear up. Yeah. It was so moving, just sort of his honest portrayal of this person. And Steve is just amazing.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Play it real. It was hard for me because I feel like Angela Martin did not want to participate in Office Olympics, probably thought this was a waste of time, also probably doesn't have really a lot of warm feelings towards Michael.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
But for me as Angela Kinsey, watching my friend Steve do this performance, it was so hard not to get emotional and sort of know the fine line that was me reacting and Angela Martin, how she would react.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yeah. Isabel, when she watched it with me, she said, Mommy, he's crying. I said, I know. I know. It was a big moment in his life. These are the things I love about this show. Same.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Our executive producer is Cassie Jerkins and our audio engineer and associate producer is Daniela Silva. Odyssey's executive producers are Jenna Wise-Berman and Leah Reese Dennis.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Also, I love that he said he was eating a Hot Pocket. A Hot Pocket. And the other thing, too, is if you go and watch this, we both rewatched it. When Dwight's like, I want to discuss a property line here, they are zero lot condos. Uh-huh. So there's no yard. Do you know what I mean?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
It's like your door is to the left and the other person's door is to the right. And Greg's reactions were really funny. Yeah.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And Jen and I will discuss fan theories and debate if Toby really is the Scranton Strangler. And Paul Lieberstein is going to join us to talk all about it.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're The Office Ladies.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I don't know. I don't know. Whatever. I don't want a bunch of people writing in to us being like, you guys, cleanses are good for you. But you know what? I just think they sound like a big pain in the ass.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
She looks like she's going into outer space, you guys. I'm so angry. She has a little box. I'm mad. You've got like, it looks like compressed food. Everything's freeze-dried. Compressed food in this little foil package.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, I won't tell you what I brought for lunch.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I know. I know. You're going into outer space. You're eating your packets.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I hate to break it to you. You're not doing a cleanse. You were rushing and you grabbed your NASA packets because you bought them and you feel bad that you bought them and they've been sitting there. Yes. And also what I'm learning about you, Jenna, like I already knew this about you, but boy, am I learning it now being your business partner, is that if your routine gets thrown, you love routine.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
It sends you into this like spiral where all of a sudden you're like, like if you're like, oh, I didn't get my scrambled eggs and my strawberries. Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to move to Arizona. What?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Well, let's see how it goes today. Yeah, on that note.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
That's simplisafe.com slash officeladies. There's no safe like SimpliSafe.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Actually, Jenna, it wasn't the writers that invented the Office Olympics for King of the Hill. It was Tim Croston, Greg's assistant. Oh. Tim Croston was Greg Daniels' assistant. Tim was also a longtime friend of mine. I've known him for years. And Tim and two other assistants are who set up the whole Office Olympics at King of the Hill. The writers, yes, participated, Jenna. Okay.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
They participated. But Tim was the mastermind. He was the self-appointed commissioner. Oh. Yes. He was the gym. He was the gym. And I talked to him last night. We traded text messages. And Tim, sorry if I woke you up at 11 o'clock at night in North Carolina. But thank you for responding. They had a whole opening ceremonies. They had a torch. They had shirts for different teams. What?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Yeah, they marched through the hallways. They had like a banner each team carried. They had a full opening ceremonies. And you know the doves that you see at the end for our closing ceremonies?
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
They had that. What? They had doves that went across. They had several games that they had to play. It took a day and a half, this Office Olympics.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I know. Well, Tim said that we wasted a full day and a half on this, and I won the award for wasting the most office time. So he said, so overall, I'm very proud of my time on King of the Hill. He said some of the games they had were mini golf through the office, kerplunk.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Which was like this game, I guess, where they had like sticks in like a tube and you drop marbles down and then you had to twist it. I don't know. And then it went kerplunk. Tim's favorite game that they had, though, was Guess the Elevator. And that made it into our episode. Yes. So someone went down to the lobby and then came up and you had to guess which elevator they came out.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
So he said that was his personal favorite. They also had a Twinkie eating contest. And Paul Lieberstein came in second. Yeah. Go Paul. Because Paul was working on King of the Hill at the time as well. But he said they really got into it. They went all out. And he said one of the things that blew him away was Chuck Mangione. He is a famous musician, composer, Jenna.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
He actually played a recurring character on King of the Hill as himself as the celebrity spokesperson for the Mega Lomart. Yes. Yes. And he flew himself out on his own dime to play. He plays the flugelhorn and the trumpet to play at the opening ceremonies because he, in fact, actually played at the Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I don't know that. I don't know that. I think, I mean, from what Tim texted me, they definitely went full out one year. I don't know if they could sustain this because I think they did waste a lot of time not working. And here's a random piece of trivia for you. I did a voice on King of the Hill.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I had like a one line in the mega low mart where I said, we don't sell super squarters no more on account of they're dangerous. So there's my connection there. Can you believe that? They really went all out on King of the Hill for their Office Olympics. And that was the inspiration for Office Olympics on The Office.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Tim, you really started something. Thank you for that legacy. And thank you for letting me text you till almost midnight last night, your time.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
Mose was actually based on a character in the UPN show Amish in the City. It came out in July 2004. Wow. Jenna, I went down the rabbit hole last night and I watched the pilot episode of Amish in the City because I wanted to see what the character of Moe's, there is a guy named Moe's. First of all, the premise for the show is crazy. They take five Amish teens who are on their rumspringa.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
They can go and live in the world for a year.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
And then they decide if they want to actually take the Amish way of life, right? So they take five Amish teens and they put them in a house in Los Angeles, like right off Ventura Boulevard, overlooking the city, and they put five mainstream American teenagers. Right. And now I think just taking five Amish kids to Los Angeles is enough.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
You got to throw in, there's a guy from Boston who's like, all I want to do is like get laid and party. And you're going to put him with Moe's? Moe's who like brought his wooden puzzles that he made himself. I mean, there's a whole scene where he's like, do you like puzzles? And the Boston guy's like, nah, I don't like them. And he's like, oh, that's pretty much all I brought. Oh my gosh.
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Second Drink: Office Olympics with Paul Feig
I'm very invested in Moe's. I feel like I'm gonna have to go back because I'm like, what happened to Moe's and his puzzles? How's he doing?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
This episode is gifted to you with limited commercial interruption by Macy's.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And remember the episode Dwight's Christmas when my character is like up on the credenza and I can't get down and it's in a montage and Kevin goes to help get me down. And you basically put me like when someone carries a football under their armpit. I do. Like in this weird football hold. And I was like, I almost went completely upside down. And they just kept it in.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And I saw that the other day and I started cracking up because I knew it was just you messing with me. Yeah. Which we would do all the time. That happens.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
We don't, but we're feeling festive. And today we have a very fun bonus episode for you. Guess what the theme is? Wait, I'm going to give you a hint, everyone. As if our outfits didn't clue you in. What does this get you in the mood for, everyone?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It looks so great. The illustrations are so cool, Brian. Will you talk to us a little bit about how this all came together?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
That's like part of their holiday tradition.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Our Macy's Gift Guide has curated all things holiday to help you prepare for the season ahead with gift suggestions for every person on your list.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
There's so many things too, like the details of that plant that was next to the lamp that we all ended up trying to plant in the finale. Yes. And Pam's desk, there's a little plant by her desk. Just all these things are so specific to the show.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I mean, he gives Angela pills to heal her cat's infection. Yeah.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Gabe doesn't know any better. He's one.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's going to go right over Gabe's head.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Yes. I did want to say that I love the button at the end. For a true office fan, there is someone that Michael Scott Santa did not include in Yes. I won't ruin it.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Well, I just think this is so fun. I think the Office fans are going to love it. What a great part of a holiday tradition. Now they can watch their favorite Office holiday episode. They can read.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
You have such a beautiful, rich voice, though. I would listen to you read The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Middle. By the way, you can. Is there an audio version?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Love you, B. It was so fun having Brian in the studio with us. You know, Jenna, I was sitting there thinking, gosh, it's been a while since the three of us have all been in one room together. Yeah.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Well, speaking of great gifts, it's time for our Office Ladies Gift Exchange. Thanks to Macy's. Woohoo! Sam, Cassie, get in here. Here we go. Bear with us, guys. This is so fun, the four of us being in the room together.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Well, we won't make you listen to me sing off-key much longer, but you guys, guess what this means? That's right.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I actually really love this. We got to do it more. Okay, so we have presents and one of our very favorite holiday treats. It's time to give love, give Moose Munch. Everybody, let me open it up.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Here, I'm going to put it in a big bowl so we can share. I brought it. Oh my gosh, I love mousse munch. I'm like so excited about this.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I realize I put Cassie's in the identical gift bag, so I had to let her know which is hers. Which is hers. Okay. Opening, opening.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
All right, Cassie, open yours. Clearly, I have a theme whenever I shop for you, and I'm so sorry.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
We're going to mix it up next year if we are.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I know you do. And Jenna was like, Ange, I found the perfect one for Sam. So, you know, we're leaning into what you guys like.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
All right, Angela, here's your little gift. Guess what?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Yes. And they have animals, and they have everything. Okay. Jenna, you really went heavy on the tissue here. Sorry about that.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Jenna drew Sam and I drew Cassie basically in our gift giving. Oh, it's a camera.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's got this really cool graphic design, too. It's a retrospect killer acid. Yeah, killer acid.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Oh, it looks really cute. Okay. All right.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Okay. Cassie, your turn. This is your big one. You said something the other day in studio that, that just stuck in my brain. And I thought, well, maybe she might like this.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
But you were saying you always wear the cutest jackets. And you came in the other day and I sneakily said, oh, that's so cute. What size is that jacket? Do you remember?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's so cute. It's by On 34th, created for Macy's. And I thought you could dress it up or dress it down.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I did want this. Okay, so I tend to put things on our storefront that I actually want for myself. I'm guilty of that as well.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's a little cross-body saddlebag. Yes, it's by On 34th. Yay. Okay, Jenna, here is your big gift. This is something you were saying you wanted, so I just got you exactly what you've been talking about.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Oh, his reaction. Talk about that little kid getting the best gift ever. Yes. It's like, seriously?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
A lunch pail. So Jenna brings her lunch almost every week when we record. And this is an insulated lunch bag. Oh, lady. Thank you. And look at the little handle. It is so stinking cute. Here, open it up. Look, it's pretty spacious.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
So insane. Thank you. It's a black and white stripe sort of pattern, and I just thought it looked cute. I absolutely love it.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's by Zulay Kitchen, and it's on our storefront as well.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Yeah. We actually sat side by side with our laptops and literally put the storefront together and we're like, ooh, this, ooh, that, ooh, this. I know. And you can shop our favorites this holiday season directly from our Macy's gift guide storefront by visiting the link in our Instagram bio. Yes.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Yeah, there was one on set. A big gift bag. Yeah. And you fit. I did. I crawled in it. And then you guys all took a picture of me and we'll put that in our stories.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Yeah. Well, you know, The Office has so many great Christmas episodes. And I loved our dueling Santas in season six in the Secret Santa episode. Oh, is that the one where it's Phyllis versus Michael, right? Yes. So Phyllis versus Michael, but then also Bob Vance shows up as Santa. That's right. We end up having three Santas. But Phyllis has such a great talking head about being Santa.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I love it so much. And I feel like we need to hear it. I have been wanting to be Santa for years.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Aw, I love Santa Phyllis. I know. Santa Phyllis is so sweet. Well, you know, Jenna, all this talk about Santas on the set of The Office makes me think of a story I want to share about meeting someone who became a Santa's helper. And moms and dads out there, if you're listening, you might want to listen to this part first before you share it with your family and any little ears.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
So I feel like this is the perfect time. I agree. So yeah, like Jenna said, I was working on my Hallmark Christmas movie. And to get to the set, the location was about an hour from where I was staying. So every day they would send a transportation driver that worked on the movie to drive me to the set. And one of the guys that drove me was named Dan Cresswell.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And when you have an hour drive, you get to know someone. You start chatting. And on one of our drives, I asked him, oh, are you going to go work on another movie? Because a lot of the crew was saying they already had another job, another Christmas movie lined up. And he said, no, I'm about to take my three-month yearly break. And I thought, three months off? I was so curious.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I said, well, what do you do during these three months? And he said, well, I'm a professional Santa. And from October to December, I start work as Santa.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I did. I was like, I have so many questions. And we have an hour car ride. So we're going to get into it. First of all, lady, I had to ask him, how did this start? How do you just kind of wake up one day and say, I'm going to be a Santa? Well, does he look like Santa? Does he grow out a beard and everything? He does not look like a Santa at all. And he will be very quick to tell you, by the way.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
That all the Santas you see, they are Santa's helpers. They're not the real Santa. They're all Santa's helpers for everyone listening out there. That's right. So all the kids listening out there, Dan wanted you to know that he's a Santa's helper.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Because it's a busy season and Santa needs all the help he can get. That's right. So anyways, I'm like, but Dan, seriously, when did you start doing this? He said, well, it all started about seven years ago. I was earning extra money delivering pizzas. And it was November, and my son Zachary was 11 years old at the time, and he said, Dad, you should dress up as Santa when you deliver pizza.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
I think that would be really fun, and maybe you'd get better tips. That's a smart kid. It's so cute. And Dan kind of laughed, and then he thought about it, and then... He was at Walmart and there was a Santa suit for $50, so he decided to give it a go. He said his very first pizza delivery dressed as Santa, a dad opened the door and his little girls were standing there with him.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And they lost their minds. They were so excited that Santa had come and brought them pizza. And the dad said, would it be okay if I take a picture of you with my daughters for Christmas? Dan said, sure. And he said the whole family was so thrilled. And after that, he did get a nice little tip. And he thought, hmm. Maybe there's something to this.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He said that even as he would drive around town delivering pizzas in a Santa suit, people would honk and wave. They'd want to take their picture like through the car window. And he loved it. And he told his wife, maybe I could do this as an actual business. He didn't know anything about it or how to go about it. Lady, he Googled. He was a Santa who Googled? Yes.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He said he found a Santa school in Vancouver. It was a four-day course, Friday through Monday. You get to learn how to become a professional Santa and marketing, et cetera. And after that, he got a job as a Santa for Cabela's, which is very similar to like our Bass Pro Shop. Okay. And he worked there for two years.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
Okay. Before we get in today's episode, I am really curious, you guys. I love holiday traditions. I love hearing what other people's holiday traditions are. And Jenna, Sam, Cassie, I thought it'd be really fun for us to share something we do with our friends or family every year to celebrate the holidays. Sam, you want to go first?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He kind of did some highlighting at the mall, but he really wanted to start his own Santa business. This was his dream. And his boss at the Cabela place got him a much better Santa suit. And he was like, ooh, I'm going to need all the Santa gear if I'm going to make this my own business. And I might need one or two more suits. So he asked her, where do you get your Santa suits?
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And she said, uh-uh, I'm not telling you. Why wouldn't she give up the details about where to get a good Santa suit? I guess she's the go-to for good Santa suits in Vancouver. And she didn't want to give up her source. Wow. I know. So he really had to mom detective it. He joined a bunch of online communities of working Santas. He found a site called HireSanta.com.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He said he has two suits, the Coca-Cola Santa suit and the traditional Santa suit. They run about $1,400 each. Whoa. Yeah, but they're really nice, he said, and they last a long time. But that wasn't it. Now he needed a good beard. He does not have a beard. He has short brown hair. He needed a beard. He needed the full look. The first beard he bought was in California.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It was made from real hair and cost $1,500. Wow. Yeah. But it didn't hold up as well as he liked when kids would tug on it because he said they tug on your beard. Okay. So then through this community of Santas, he found a lady that makes handmade beards in China using yak hair. Wow. Uh-huh. He said it's the best Santa beard out there. They average around $900 to $1,000 Canadian.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
This is a real investment. It really is.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He wants to look like a really good Santa. If he's going to start his own business, he wants to be the real deal is what he told me.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And he showed me pictures of his suits. They're beautiful. They're like works of art. He also needed special Santa glasses, and he got those from Spangle the Clown. It's a website. Guess what? He's a clown and a Santa. Oh. He even found a website where you can get accessories. Like he has a North Pole driver's license that he can show kids. It's so cute, lady. He texted me his picture.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's so adorable. But now he had everything he needed to start his own business, but he didn't know how to put on the beard. How do you put on this beard? How do you get it to stay? How do you do the makeup? And here he is driving on these movie sets. So he went into the hair and makeup trailer on one of the movie sets. I would hope so. They taught him how to do the whole look.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He says it takes him about 45 minutes. He puts on the beard with the spearmint gum. And it really adheres that way if kids tug at it. It's like his own hair. It's not coming off. And the hair and makeup department on the movie, they thought it was so fun. They gave him a nickname because his name is Dan, but he's a Santa. So everyone on the set calls him Danta. And now he has his own business.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
He is his own Santa. He gets booking starting as early as July. He said that October is photo time. He does photo shoots with people. November, December is the big corporate gigs and home visits. And one of his biggest goals as Santa was to be in one of these holiday movies that he works on as a transportation driver. And it finally happened. He's been trying for four years.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And this year, he's in a Hallmark Christmas movie as a Santa. As a Santa. Yeah. Santa is going to be in a movie. Yes. It's called Leah's Perfect Gift. It's on Hallmark. And he told me he only has one big dream left as Santa. What is it? He wants to someday go to the world's oldest Santa school. Where's that? In Midland, Michigan. It was established in 1937.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
It's called Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School. On their website, it has this quote. He errs who thinks Santa enters through the chimney. Santa enters through the heart. Oh, I know. And lastly, I said, Dan, why do you like being a Santa's helper? And he said he loves making people happy. He said the way the kids' eyes just light up when they see Santa. He said you see hope. You see wonder.
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The parents are so happy. He said every day is something different, but it's always joyful. And Dan's son is now 21 years old. He said he's so proud of his dad. And it's all because he told him to dress up as Santa to deliver pizzas.
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Oh, my gosh. I love that. I can just picture all of that.
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Well, thank you, lady. I just really enjoyed getting to know him. It's a whole world I knew nothing about. I didn't know there was Santa school. I know. There's a whole program. Yeah. And I'm going to share Dan's website in our Instagram. If you're in the Vancouver area and you need a Santa, you'll have all his information. Thank you, Dan.
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I love that. You know, it's so funny, Jenna, because I have such a great memory of the Macy's Day Parade when I was interning on Conan, and it couldn't be more different. But I want to tell you – So here I am. I'm in my early 20s. I'm interning on Conan O'Brien when they used to tape at 30 Rockefeller Center. And it's the day before the Macy's Day Parade.
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And they close all these streets along the route, right? And it's in the morning and I'm walking to work and the street is closed. There's like no one on it. And I see this man in a full suit, like a really nice suit with a nice coat. And he is rollerblading with a briefcase through the street, just like zooming by. And as he goes by me, I just said, oh, wow, that's so cool.
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And he goes, my favorite day of the year. I always skate to work on this day. Oh, my gosh. Isn't that funny? Yes. And it was such a, like, visual, you know, to see this one lone horse. skater in a suit in like an abandoned part of Manhattan. I'll never forget it.
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You know, it's so interesting because it's not so much just one song for me, but an album. Okay. So I love Elvis's Christmas album. Oh, yes. It's so good. You know, his Silent Night, Holy Night is really beautiful. But then he also has Santa Claus is Back in Town. And that's like a really fun one. But I just love that album.
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Who are you right now? I don't know. I like it. You guys, you know, since we're talking holiday music, I have to give a shout out to our dear friend, Kate Flannery, because she has a great Christmas album with Jane Lynch called A Swinging Little Christmas. Oh, yes. And I also have that. It's so fun. Her show, she does a show this time of year. It's a super fun holiday show.
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And I just always love to give her a shout out.
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Yes. I love it. I remember it like I was there when Brian is coming. I was like, yo, yo, yo.
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Oh, I love that. Well, that's kind of similar to mine. One of the things that Josh does is he gets up early before everyone else on Christmas morning and he goes downstairs and he makes coffee cake. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then when the kids wake up, we make them all wait at the top of the stairs. And we have pictures from every year, Jenna, when they were little.
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I love that song. It is a great song. It's a great song. It always makes me think of the end of that movie, Love. Actually, I love that song.
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Bonus Christmas Episode with Brian Baumgartner
And now they're teenagers and they still want to do it. They wait at the top of the stairs and they're like Christmas cozy pajamas until we yell, all right, come down. And then they run down the stairs to see all the gifts under the tree because we always leave one from Santa still. And the whole house smells like coffee cake, and I just love it.
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Wow. And she recorded that when she was 13.
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Well, that was our holiday bonus episode. Thanks to the nice folks at Macy's. We'll be sharing lots of fun stuff in our Insta stories from today's episode. So be sure and check them out.
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And next week, we have another great episode. We are breaking down a fan favorite episode. which is the super fan hot girl episode. Yeah.
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We hope you have a great one. See you then. Thank you for listening to Office Ladies. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
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Office Ladies is mixed and mastered by Chris Basil. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton. Macy's has an exciting collaboration with Disney. It's a collection featuring apparel, accessories, collectibles, and more featuring new and exclusive Disney artwork by Jeff Shelley, who is Disney's legendary director of character art. Oh, This collection is so cool.
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This exclusive collection is available on Macy's.com, Macy's mobile app, and select Macy's stores nationwide.
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It was so good to see him. Yes. And he's also going to talk about his new book that he co-wrote with Ben Silverman. It's already a New York Times bestseller. It's called Twas the Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin.
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Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0.
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All right. Well, here is our chat with Brian. Brian Baumgartner, welcome to Office Ladies.
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So did I. In fact, we found out we were just a few blocks apart and we didn't even know.
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Yep, that's right. You've been so wonderful and so supportive of our podcast. We have texted you the most random questions.
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My favorite thing when I can tell you're fired up is you do the one word. You'll say, not true, correct, false. You kind of become Dwight.
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I can't wait for you to be like, untrue. False.
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Jenna has on the cutest hoodie ever. You guys, it looks homemade, Jenna. It's like... It is! It's so cute. It's got little mittens and a snowman. Where'd you get it? My mom gave this to me. She got it at a craft fair in St. Louis. Oh, I love a craft fair. And Sam has on the cutest Christmas sweatshirt. Sam, describe it.
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You know what? I'm going to rhapsodize about it a little bit and then I'll get back to you.
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It lights up. And then, Cassie, you might win the prize of the day.