The Office Trailers

This week on Office Ladies 6.0, Jenna and Angela take fans behind the scenes of one of the most requested topics from their time on The Office: their trailers. From honey wagons and double bangers to life on location, the ladies share what their dressing rooms were really like, who was the noisiest trailer mate, and how the trailer village became its own little community. They also revisit the special trailer setups that helped them navigate new motherhood while filming the show, and answer a thoughtful fan question about the teachers who changed their lives. So, respect the “do not disturb” sign, listen out for a banjo in the distance… and enjoy! Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question for Around the Town, Chit Chat, and Second Drink favorite moment:https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion Follow Us on Instagram:OfficeLadiesPod https://www.instagram.com/officeladiespod/ Follow Us on YouTube https://youtube.com/@officeladiespod?si=D0oKJwFJuK9txzFM Follow Us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@officeladiespod?_t=ZT-8y1gqTrJyOs&_r=1

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• 1:04Speaker 01

  I'm Jenna Fischer. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together and we're best friends. And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you. 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.

• 1:25Speaker 01

  Hey, lady. We're not in the studio together. We're doing a virtual record. We're doing this wild thing in technology where you zoom and your face pops up in a little box. Oh, I wanted to tell you something. What? I was so excited by this and I cannot believe I did not share it with you immediately. Lady, we were in the San Francisco airport a while back. Okay. And there's a frickin' old tech hole, like, museum. I mean, I'm sure it's just an exhibit. It was all old telephones, lady. It was called "Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective." I mean, I almost was like late for the flight. Josh was like, where'd you go? I thought you were just going to the bathroom. I'm like, there's a telephone retrospective.

• 2:10Speaker 01

  Look, I can put these in stories. Can you see this?

• 2:13Speaker 02

  That's crazy. I mean, I had so many of those telephones in my own house, in my own lifetime.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  You know, hats off to the SFO Airport.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  I always love it when an airport gives me something to do while I'm waiting. I appreciate it. You know, in the St. Louis Airport, in the American Terminal, they have this whole play space for kids.

• 2:33Speaker 01

  Oh, those are great.

• 2:34Speaker 02

  And my dad helped build it.

• 2:36Speaker 01

  No!

• 2:37Speaker 02

  Yes, because it's courtesy of the Magic House in St. Louis, which is a children's museum. And he used to work there and help build exhibits. And so he also built this exhibit that they gifted to the airport. And there's a little tower and you can pretend like you're like an air traffic controller. And there's a little, you know, baggage thingy and you can get on a plane. Yeah, and it's all like a play space. And when I walked by it, I was like, God, I love that.

• 3:07Speaker 01

  And how cool is it that every time you walk past it, you can think of your dad?

• 3:10Speaker 02

  I know. I took a picture of it. I'll give it to you for stories. Old telephones and an airport play space in stories.

• 3:18Speaker 01

  Lady, I'm here for it. When an airport surprises you. Dot, dot, dot.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  Well, should we tell everybody what we're doing today? Because if you are a super fan of The Office, we think you're gonna really like today's episode.

• 3:30Speaker 01

  Oh, my goodness, you are going to love it. And it was inspired by a fan question about our life on set, specifically our trailers. So we're gonna dig into some behind the scenes of our day to day on The Office. And it made me so happy. I went back in time on this one, lady. I have a folder on my laptop called "Our Trailers." Did you know that?

• 3:49Speaker 02

  Yes, because when we were putting together pictures for our book, we have a whole chapter in our book that kind of gives you the behind the scenes of the hair and makeup trailer and sort of life off the set. But I think we're gonna dig in even deeper on today's episode.

• 4:05Speaker 01

  We are. I think one of the things I was so tickled by is that I have a folder of all of the stuff for our book. It's called "The Office BFFs," but somehow this one for the trailer just made its way out. And it's just been hanging on my desktop for years. And I've never tidied it. I've never put it back where it belongs.

• 4:23Speaker 02

  You know why? Because it wanted to inspire this episode today. It's been waiting.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  I guess so.

• 4:28Speaker 02

  Well, let's kick things off with a chit chat sent in from Harrison in Boston.

• 4:35Speaker 03

  Hi, Office ladies. My name is Harrison from Boston, Massachusetts. I love the podcast. Thank you guys so much for everything that you do. My chit chat question is about teachers. You both have talked about teachers before in the podcast. And Jenna, I know that your sister is a teacher. Could you guys share or talk about a teacher that you had who changed your life or who made a lifelong impact on you? You know, for me, it was my English teacher, Mrs. Roney, who fostered such a love of reading and writing and whose lessons still come back to me all these years later. So I was hoping that you guys could share about teachers that you have had in your lives that really, you know, left an impact on you or changed you for the better. I think teachers are so overlooked and so important. And I'd love to hear about the ones that really made you who you are. Thank you so much.

• 5:21Speaker 02

  Thanks for your question, Harrison. I love this question. Yes, my sister is currently a teacher and my mom was a teacher. She's retired.

• 5:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, Harrison, I mean, my sister Janet is a teacher. Oh, my gosh, I'm gonna get the number wrong, but she's been teaching pre-K for like 27 years. And she listens to the podcast. So if I got that wrong, she's gonna let me know about it. But we love our teachers so much. And you're so right. They forever shape your life. Having that one teacher, and we all have that one, you know, that literally made you see the world in a different way, or made you feel safe, or made you feel seen. And I knew right away, two teachers popped into my mind immediately. Jenna, what about you?

• 6:02Speaker 02

  Same. I have a teacher from high school and a teacher from college.

• 6:05Speaker 01

  Okay, you go first.

• 6:07Speaker 02

  All right. Well, I'll start in high school. My teacher, Mrs. Marge Minneas.

• 6:12Speaker 01

  What a name.

• 6:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, Mrs. Minneas. She taught religion at my high school. I went to a Catholic girls' high school in St. Louis, Missouri called Narx Hall. And during my time there, I did really grapple with my feelings about the Catholic faith. I was really troubled by certain aspects of the institution, you know, and I don't need to get into it here, but she was my religion teacher. And when I went to her... The way that she just took me so seriously and took my thoughts and concerns so seriously,

• 6:54Speaker 02

  she really counseled me. She spent a lot of time asking me questions. And then when I had to write papers in class, she let me wrestle with these topics and I got As. She gave me As and she didn't need me to just spit back what I was being taught. Do you know what I mean? Like, I didn't have to be fake. I didn't have to pretend.

• 7:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, she encouraged you to have your critical thinking and

• 7:21Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 7:22Speaker 01

  to really be able to explore all of your feelings on the subject. It didn't matter what it aligned with or not.

• 7:28Speaker 02

  Yes. And the thing that I really credit her with is that I think especially at that time in my life, it was a critical point. And to have someone take me so seriously, it meant that I didn't abandon faith completely. You know, I am not a practicing Catholic today and I still have my connection to God and to prayer. And I really credit her with that because she helped me find a way to keep that peace alive in me. I didn't have to throw everything out the door just because I didn't believe in the particular religion that I was being asked to practice.

• 8:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, that is very powerful. That is a real gift.

• 8:05Speaker 02

  And she was like that with all of us. She really cared. She didn't treat us like, you know, silly teenagers. She treated us like fully formed, interesting people. So I love her for that. What about you, Ange?

• 8:17Speaker 01

  Well, the first teacher that came to mind for me was my theater teacher in elementary school. So this was at Jakarta International School. And I had this teacher named Dr. Allen. He was an amazing theater director and we would do these fantastic musicals and plays. But in his class, it was the first time anyone ever taught me improv. And I was in maybe like fourth grade and he taught us some just very like short form improv games and it was like every single part of my body came alive.

• 8:55Speaker 01

  I was like, what is this? This is the coolest. I love it so much. I want to do this forever. It was just like electric, you know, because I had seen plays and done school plays and there was a script and you stuck to the script. But this idea of yes ending and free association and having to really listen and form a scene with someone else in a partnership was life changing for me. And he also took us seriously and was invested and didn't think we were goofballs, but really wanted us to find our own comedic voice. And I was like, wow, I look back in hindsight

• 9:38Speaker 01

  and I'm like, how amazing to have a teacher like that in elementary.

• 9:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's amazing. Well, when I was in college, I was a theater major and I never got the lead roles in anything, in the musicals, in the plays. I really had a lot of opportunities and like the student led productions. We had this lab theater where students would kind of decide and like I got to choreograph cabaret and

• 10:06Speaker 01

  Lab theater was like some of my favorite.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  It was great. Like we had one student who made a musical out of Schoolhouse Rock cartoons and I got to be in that. So I was always getting cast and being involved in the student lab productions, which honestly is really good practice for an actual professional acting career, because so much of your professional acting career is you getting together with your buddies and making stuff.

• 10:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:29Speaker 02

  But in terms of like the mainstream productions, it was harder for me. But the tech teacher, Ron Ribkowski, he was the person where we had to take classes to learn how to do lights and construction and set design. He also got to direct one play a year in the summer. So if you took the summer session, he was the director of the play. And he gave me a lead role in my last summer session.

• 10:58Speaker 01

  What was it?

• 10:59Speaker 02

  It was Crimes of the Heart. It's a play about three sisters and he cast me as the wild, chain smoking, bad girl sister. It was a totally against type. But it was so fun and it was like the confidence boost that I needed because I was going to graduate then after that summer session and I wanted to be a professional actress and move to Los Angeles and I had gone through my whole four years as a theater major, never having a lead role in a production. And he finally gave me one and it really was a boost to confidence. But beyond that, he was just always there. He was always in his back office

• 11:40Speaker 02

  if we needed anything. And I remember, this is such a long story, but when I went to jail and I needed someone to bail me out, I called him.

• 11:52Speaker 02

  It's a very long story, but I had rolled through a stop sign and I got a ticket.

• 11:57Speaker 01

  Why'd they take you to jail?

• 11:59Speaker 02

  Because I failed to appear in court for my ticket. I forgot. It was finals week. I just forgot.

• 12:06Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. I think that happens all the time.

• 12:08Speaker 02

  I know. They put a warrant out for your arrest. And so two police officers came and knocked on my apartment door and they arrested me because I had failed to appear in court for my moving violation.

• 12:22Speaker 01

  That you forgot about.

• 12:23Speaker 02

  That I forgot about. And I was like, oh, my God, thank you for reminding me. I'm so sorry. And they're like, yeah, we're not the reminder police. We're like the actual police. Have to take you in. So anyway, I was there and I was just so embarrassed and I didn't know who to call. I needed 100 bucks to get bailed out. So I called Ron. I called my teacher, Ron Rubkowski, and he came and he bailed me out of jail. And I said, I'm not going to tell my parents. And he said, I think you should. He said, it would break my heart if my daughter didn't share that with me. He said, I think you can share it with your parents. And I'm so glad he told me that because then I did. Do you know what I mean? He was just like a great man.

• 13:06Speaker 01

  He's just like a solid, solid person to have in your life. Great advice there for you.

• 13:11Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 13:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:12Speaker 02

  He also took my first headshot for free.

• 13:17Speaker 02

  So that when I went off to Los Angeles, I had a headshot. He did that for every graduating senior.

• 13:21Speaker 01

  Oh, amazing.

• 13:23Speaker 02

  So that was a little bit of a meandering story. But just to say, Harrison, a big thank you to my college professor, Ron Ribkowski.

• 13:31Speaker 01

  All right, well, my second teacher was my high school English teacher. And Harrison, I totally related to you saying that for you, it was also your English teacher, Carol Campbell. And she taught honors English. And she just made stories come to life. And I would have a lot of questions. And I loved digging into books and seeing if I could make connections or symbolism. And she was so up for the discussion. Do you know what I mean? Like, she thought the way my brain worked was really interesting. And she encouraged that writer in me. My kids right now, for their high school English class, Isabel and Jack are reading The Great Gatsby.

• 14:15Speaker 01

  And I read The Great Gatsby in Mrs. Campbell's English class.

• 14:19Speaker 02

  Oh, are you so excited for them to read it?

• 14:21Speaker 01

  I'm so excited and they're loving it. And it's been really special because I just remember all the conversations I had with Mrs. Campbell about The Great Gatsby. So, yeah, big love to our teachers who are just amazing and there for our kids in so many ways. Harrison, we loved your question.

• 14:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, thank you. Well, listen, ladies, should we take a break? And then when we come back, we're going to talk all about trailers.

• 14:46Speaker 01

  Trailers on The Office, you guys. And Steve Burgess, our amazing producer, shares some fun details with us.

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• 16:07Speaker 01

  Well, we are back and today's episode was inspired by Emily L. from San Diego, who wrote in with the following question. Hi, Office Ladies. I'd love to learn more about your office trailers over the years as it's a behind the scenes location we know little about. Did you have to pack up your trailer at the end of the season? Were you able to pick your neighbors? And were there any particularly special personal items you kept in yours over the years? Here's hoping you hitch this question to a future episode. All the best, Emily. Well, Emily, not only did we hitch this question to a future episode, we made a whole episode out of it. So here we go.

• 16:44Speaker 02

  Emily, this really got us excited. We were deep diving old photos. Angela, you found some videos that you took in our trailers. I thought we should kick things off by describing the different kinds of trailers.

• 16:58Speaker 01

  Cause there- That's so smart.

• 16:59Speaker 02

  Yes, there are categories of trailers. So the first category of trailer is called a honey wagon. And this is like a large trailer that is divided into tiny dressing rooms, like not much bigger than what you might find at the mall. If you're lucky, there's a tiny bench that you can sit on.

• 17:21Speaker 02

  Then there's like a little teeny rack to hang clothes and maybe a sink and maybe a toilet.

• 17:28Speaker 01

  Maybe, maybe, yeah.

• 17:29Speaker 02

  Maybe.

• 17:29Speaker 01

  But sometimes not. Sometimes it's just the bench and a little clothing rack.

• 17:33Speaker 02

  Yes. And this is what you are likely going to be put in for your first acting role. If you've got a couple of lines, if you're there for one day, you get the honey wagon. Or if you're doing like a very low budget project.

• 17:48Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 17:48Speaker 02

  When we did Lee's movie, that was, you know, an indie film, we were in a honey wagon. To change clothes.

• 17:57Speaker 01

  Everybody. We all had a honey wagon. There was no like, oh, so and so has a bigger space. No, we were all in a honey wagon.

• 18:03Speaker 02

  Everybody got honey wagons.

• 18:05Speaker 01

  And you know, Kate Flannery and I were in a honey wagon, season one of The Office.

• 18:10Speaker 02

  But you guys had toilets.

• 18:12Speaker 01

  Okay, here was the weirdest thing. We were in a honey wagon. And I think I've talked about this before, but the only thing that separated her bench and her toilet from my bench and my toilet was an accordion door.

• 18:24Speaker 02

  Which is so wild to me.

• 18:27Speaker 01

  And the accordion door was made out of like flimsy plastic and it had a magnet that never attached.

• 18:33Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  So we just decided on day one, okay, here are the rules. We are going to keep the accordion door open because what's the point? Like I can hear everything you're doing. And we made a vow to never use either toilet.

• 18:48Speaker 02

  I mean, these are important foundries that I think you set that were very smart.

• 18:54Speaker 01

  So we just kept the lids closed and I like put like a plant on mine.

• 18:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:59Speaker 01

  I have a picture that, you know, I cherish. It's in our book. And we have a lot of fun pictures in our book from this time on set and the behind the scenes. So, you know, little shout out for the Office BFFs. But I do have that picture of me and Kate in our honey wagon.

• 19:13Speaker 02

  Well, after you graduate from the honey wagon, then you get into what is called either a triple banger, a double banger, or a single. I don't know why that's what they're called, but they are what they sound like, which is that you can have a trailer and it's divided into three different dressing rooms, or a double banger is divided into two different dressing rooms, and then a single is just like you get the whole thing.

• 19:38Speaker 01

  Yeah. Now, I will say, even with the triple banger, it's a huge upgrade because that's what Kate and I and everyone else in the supporting cast got season two. And I mean, it was like Shangri-La. We had a bench, we had a little mini fridge, we had a little vanity and a bathroom and a tiny TV that never worked. And the microwave, one time I used it and I thought I was gonna burn everything because it started smoking. So I didn't use my appliances, but it was a lot more space.

• 20:06Speaker 02

  Yeah. Well, from the time I started on The Office until almost the end, I was in a double banger. So I was in a trailer divided into two different big dressing rooms and I had a lot of space. I had a really nice, like, sort of a couch, right?

• 20:23Speaker 01

  That's why we would eat lunch in your trailer because you had a table.

• 20:26Speaker 02

  I had a table. I also had a TV that did not work.

• 20:31Speaker 01

  And wait, you know what, lady? Before your table, we had TV trays. And then I remember we came back one season, it was like after the holidays and all of a sudden they'd put a table. And we were so excited.

• 20:40Speaker 02

  I remember that. And then you had like a bathroom that had a shower and it had a toilet.

• 20:49Speaker 02

  And you had like-

• 20:49Speaker 01

  Did you ever use the shower?

• 20:51Speaker 02

  I had to use it once and I can't remember what the episode was, but I was messy. I don't know why I needed to use it, but I did. But the thing is that it's like, you know, it's not warm.

• 21:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's like a campsite-

• 21:08Speaker 02

  Shower.

• 21:09Speaker 01

  In an RV park kind of shower.

• 21:11Speaker 02

  Exactly. If you've ever seen an RV bathroom, they were very similar.

• 21:15Speaker 01

  And like you have to flush the toilet, you have to push a pedal, you know, on the ground.

• 21:19Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 21:19Speaker 01

  And the first time I finally had a trailer that I could go to the bathroom and I could not find how to flush it, lady. I looked everywhere for a handle. No one told me to look on the floor. And I remember I had to go ask someone. I had to be like, hey, you have a toilet? How do you flush?

• 21:40Speaker 02

  Yes. Well, something people should know is that your trailer is part of your contract. So like when your agent calls you and says you got the job, they'll say like, here's your salary, here's the number of days you'll be working. Here are the dates and you're going to be in a triple banger.

• 21:58Speaker 01

  I never knew that. So basically like, fuck my agent for bringing in Honeyback in season one of The Office.

• 22:07Speaker 02

  I mean, it's a, it's a negotiating technique, you know? And they'll be like, well, we can't get you any more money, but we can get you a double banger instead.

• 22:16Speaker 01

  I did not know that.

• 22:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:19Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh, that's ridiculous.

• 22:21Speaker 02

  I know. Well, let me tell you a story. So I was used to our trailers on The Office. And listen, we didn't have the biggest budget in the early years on The Office. So even though I was in a double banger trailer, it was old. Like I said, like there was a television, but it wasn't hooked up to anything. And like, the microwave was iffy, like you said.

• 22:42Speaker 01

  Oh, no, it was dangerous.

• 22:43Speaker 02

  But while I was doing The Office, I got the job on Blades of Glory.

• 22:48Speaker 01

  Which is such a big budget movie.

• 22:50Speaker 02

  Huge budget movie. And they walked me to my trailer and I didn't know what had happened to me.

• 22:58Speaker 01

  Did you just start laughing? Like, what the hell is this?

• 23:01Speaker 02

  It was like I had gone from like a middle seat on Southwest to a private jet. Like that was the difference. I was like, holy crap. I had a full kitchen with an oven. I remember calling my family and being like, should I bake something? Like, what do I need this for? It had a huge flat screen TV hooked up to satellite television. It had a fireplace. It had a full bedroom. It was huge. I like, didn't know what to do with myself.

• 23:35Speaker 01

  Lady, that would have blown my mind. I mean, the nicest trailer I've ever had was this past year when we did AT&T. I was like, this trailer is bananas. But I sort of love that our show. Was just not like the big Hollywood hullabaloo, you know?

• 23:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:54Speaker 01

  Cause we were all really close because of it. We weren't spread apart. We spent all day on set together in one giant room, basically. And then our trailers were all right in this little nook in the parking lot. And you had neighbors. You had people right next to you.

• 24:10Speaker 02

  It was like a little community out there and I have to say, because my trailer was so nice on Blades of Glory, I spent a lot of time in it. Like I watched that TV when I wasn't needed on set. I was like, this place is amazing. This is like better than my house. I loved it. Like I loved it so much. And I think though, because our trailers were not fancy schmancy, we didn't like just hang out in them. We would come out in the parking lot and we would play basketball together. Or we would chit chat and make jokes.

• 24:45Speaker 01

  Sit on the steps and like play music.

• 24:47Speaker 02

  We were more social because we didn't have like such great digs.

• 24:51Speaker 01

  I do have a really funny story about, um, you know, when we were doing The Office, my niece and nephews, they all at different times graduated high school because we did the show for nine years, you know? And so one of the things I would do is I would fly them out and they would come to set and they would get a tour of the set and they'd have lunch with me on set. So my one nephew, he's so sweet. My nephew James, when he came out to visit, I was showing him my trailer and here's the thing. We said our trailers were older, right?

• 25:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  They were older. There was a decorating theme. There was a motif and it was Southwest. So depending on what trailer you had, there would be kind of like a fakey painting in a wooden frame. That was like, almost like Jim's clown painting in his parents' house. It was bolted to the wall. So like, there's no moving this picture. Whatever trailer you got, there would be a picture and it would be there no matter what.

• 25:47Speaker 02

  It was like a wolf like howling at the sunset.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  Seriously, or like cowboys driving home a cattle range of cows.

• 25:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:54Speaker 01

  Our, mine was a big sort of clay terracotta pot.

• 26:00Speaker 01

  With like etchings on it, like you might see in a cave, you know, of like bison or something.

• 26:06Speaker 02

  Yes, I remember.

• 26:08Speaker 01

  And my nephew saw it and was like, oh, that's cool painting. That's pretty cool. You brought that and put that.

• 26:15Speaker 02

  You're like, I did not bring, did not bring.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  I was like, oh, honey, it's just here.

• 26:20Speaker 02

  But we did decorate.

• 26:22Speaker 01

  We did decorate.

• 26:23Speaker 02

  The girls decorated, the boys didn't really decorate.

• 26:26Speaker 01

  The boys did nothing. But yeah, we decorated a ton. I mean, I had a lamp from home because I love low light. I'm not a huge fan of like overhead fluorescent lights. And I would have a plant and I would have a little desk area. Lady, I remember you had made like your own little home office nook.

• 26:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, I also would bring in a pillow and like a nice cozy throw blanket. I wanted homey touches. I wanted it to feel cozy. But in answer to your question, Emily, at the end of every season, you had to pack everything up. Like, these trailers were rented from somewhere and at the end of every season, they get returned and then we would get a new set. So, yeah.

• 27:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was like, it felt like a college dorm that we had to like load in and load out. And that's when the guys would just kind of look at us because on the last day, they would just get in their cars and leave.

• 27:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, and we would have like boxes of things.

• 27:21Speaker 01

  We'd have boxes that we were packing up and we would label things. So it would be like trailer bedding, trailer desk stuff.

• 27:29Speaker 02

  Yeah. And Angela, you mentioned that our trailers were located in our parking lot and they were kind of like in a big configuration and it was a pretty easy walk to get to the stage. But sometimes when you're on a show or a movie or on a location, your trailers are actually really far away from the set and you have to ride in like a van or a golf cart or something to get to the set. But for us, it was like you could walk to the stages.

• 27:59Speaker 01

  You could, but I do want to share something and I love this. Lady, I reached out to Steve Burgess and he sent me some great details I'm going to share in a minute. But he also sent me a ton of pictures of our trailers, just all in a row. And here's the thing I have to share. So. You know, when you're cast on a show, on the call sheet, you're numbered. And so Steve was number one.

• 28:19Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 28:20Speaker 01

  So his trailer was closest to the stage door.

• 28:23Speaker 02

  And Steve had a full-sized trailer. He was the only one of us who had

• 28:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:27Speaker 02

  a full trailer all to himself.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, but he was the closest to the door.

• 28:32Speaker 02

  Very close to the door.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  So now I was number eight, so I had a little further walk.

• 28:39Speaker 02

  You were down a row.

• 28:40Speaker 01

  I was down the row and the supporting cast would kind of like joke about that, like where we were at in the row.

• 28:46Speaker 02

  Well, that was a crazy thing about our show, which was that our trailers were outside. Like a lot of times, if you're in the fancy studios, you actually don't have trailers. You have dressing rooms and they're like attached to your stage. And so you're like indoors the whole time. But our hair and makeup, where we got ready for hair and makeup was a giant trailer out in the parking lot. So on those rainy days, I remember how frustrated hair and makeup would be, particularly hair, because they'd be like, well, I'm going to get you all ready. And now you're just going to walk in the rain to your trailer and get dressed. And then you're going to walk in the rain again to get to the stages. By the time you get there, I'm just going to have to start all over again.

• 29:22Speaker 01

  Yes, well, now I want to share with you this email I got from Steve Burgess. You know, we trade emails, Jenna and I and Steve, and he sends us pictures from his life in Tennessee and we send him pictures back. He's just the most wonderful person. And so I was emailing him about Isabel turning 18, you know? And so we had started this back and forth and I said, hey, while we're chatting, do you have any memories of our base camp and our trailers? Because we got this really fun fan question and we're going to talk about it. And I also asked him, how many trailers at any given time did we have in that parking lot? And so here's some of the stuff he wrote back. Are you ready?

• 29:59Speaker 02

  I am.

• 30:00Speaker 01

  First of all, he said about our trailers, they weren't a four-star hotel, but they were okay to survive in while not on set. By the time I joined the office, it was season six and everyone was pretty settled in their trailers. And then I asked him about what happened when we would go on location.

• 30:16Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 30:17Speaker 01

  He said, "For the most part, it was manageable, but other times, our base camp looked like a small city." "We tried to keep things small when we were just going out for a day or two with only a few cast members." "But when the whole cast was on location, we had to bring everyone's trailer." "Plus trailers for guest stars. We also had to have a cast trailer for the director, usually one for the writer as well." "And then in addition to the cast trailers, we had to have costume props, grip, electric, hair, makeup, ADs, catering, and transportation." "So here is an example. On the christening episode, we shot at a church in Pasadena with the whole entire cast." "This is what was set up at our base camp."

• 30:56Speaker 01

  "Four single trailers, three double-banger trailers, four triple-banger trailers, one honey wagon, "a camera truck, a grip truck, a lightning truck, a set dressing truck, a wardrobe trailer, a hair and makeup trailer, a catering truck, "six vans, seven stake bed trucks, two people movers, which are 30-person buses, "one drivable generator, one tractor with a generator, because the tractor pulled the wardrobe trailer, "which was a 40-foot semi when they were connected, one church bus, and Jim's car."

• 31:27Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 31:28Speaker 01

  That was for the christening episode. Isn't that unreal?

• 31:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 31:32Speaker 01

  It's amazing.

• 31:33Speaker 02

  That's amazing. That's something I didn't know if people knew, which is that, like, "The point of the trailers is that if we ever went on location, they would just hitch them up and move them." "So like, my dressing room with all its decor and everything that I liked to keep in it would be over at that church that morning."

• 31:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly. And he sent pictures from when we did the finale. "And our base camp does look like a small city, and it rained, and he sent me a picture." "It was like a mud hole that we had to like wade through to get to the food."

• 32:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. Oh, my gosh. You know, another question that I think people wonder about a lot, at least people have asked me, "Is how much time we spent in our trailers and how private they are."

• 32:14Speaker 01

  Oh, well, they're not private. If you share a wall, it's not private, just so you know.

• 32:19Speaker 02

  But even if you do have like a trailer to yourself, it's still not totally a private space. There is always someone knocking on your door, entering your trailer. They are constantly delivering new clothes, or script pages, or memos.

• 32:37Speaker 02

  If you do share a wall, the walls are thin.

• 32:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:40Speaker 02

  In the first season of The Office, I shared a wall with BJ. I had a double banger and he was my trailer mate. John and Rain were paired together and then BJ and I were paired together. And BJ would listen to music. And when we moved, I said I didn't want to share a wall with BJ anymore. I kicked him out. I was like, I don't want to listen to your music. It's so loud.

• 33:10Speaker 01

  It's so loud. Here's the other thing I remember about BJ being your neighbor was that I would come in and hang out with you. And we could hear him lift the toilet seat to go pee because he would fling it open. And it would whack the wall. And the first time I was in there, when it happened, it startled me. And I was like, what was that noise? And you said, I think it's when he goes pee. He like flings the lid open.

• 33:36Speaker 02

  Yes, he was loud. And so.

• 33:40Speaker 01

  We love you BJ, we love you.

• 33:42Speaker 02

  BJ, you were really loud over there. But you know, you spent as much time in your trailer as you needed to change your clothes. Or if you weren't in a scene, that's where you might go hang out.

• 33:55Speaker 01

  Yeah. And Emily asked us, were we able to pick our neighbors? And the answer to that is no.

• 33:59Speaker 02

  Well, I didn't get to pick who I wanted as my neighbor, but I was able to pick who I didn't want, I guess. I did.

• 34:05Speaker 01

  I guess that's true.

• 34:06Speaker 02

  Say, please, no more.

• 34:09Speaker 01

  Well, as you all know, Kate Flannery was my first neighbor. And then my second neighbor was Phyllis. And she was amazing because she's so quiet. So if you have to pick someone on the Office cast to be your neighbor, I highly recommend Phyllis. Also, the trailer next to me, so like my windows faced their windows, was Ed Helms. And he would play the banjo and I would open my window so I could hear him playing the banjo and I loved it.

• 34:36Speaker 02

  So lady, Ed's trailer was in between mine and yours.

• 34:41Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  Because he was also my kind of neighbor. You know, I didn't share a wall with him, but yes. And I could hear his banjo as well and I loved it. I loved it.

• 34:51Speaker 01

  I loved it so much that sometimes if I had a little bit more downtime and like, maybe I would take a little cat nap. I would sort of wake to Ed's banjo playing and I made it my alarm on my cellphone. It's like very nostalgic for me. Like if you're gonna wake me up, play the banjo.

• 35:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:09Speaker 01

  And then I'm, I don't wake up so grumpy.

• 35:11Speaker 02

  John's trailer was loud.

• 35:13Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh. John's trailer was so loud. I don't know what they did in there. I think they would just yell at the TV or yell at each other when like the Madden football was going nutso.

• 35:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:24Speaker 01

  And so it would shake.

• 35:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:25Speaker 01

  You would walk by John's trailer and it would be moving and it'd be because like Brian Baumgartner was like,

• 35:31Speaker 02

  Jumping up and down in there.

• 35:32Speaker 01

  Jumping up and down or something.

• 35:33Speaker 02

  Yes, they would. They would jump up and down. And sometimes we would go in there where we would just sit and hang out.

• 35:38Speaker 01

  And watch them.

• 35:39Speaker 02

  Yeah. If we were like really bored.

• 35:42Speaker 01

  If we were really bored, we'd say, let's go see what the boys are doing.

• 35:45Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 35:45Speaker 01

  And they were just yelling at each other and the TV and you could hear them walking through the parking lot like, what the hell? Come on, man.

• 35:53Speaker 02

  Yes. But lady, we have to share that when we had kids, we graduated to a very special trailer configuration. This was a time when you really led the way. They were so wonderful for you when you brought Isabel back after our hiatus.

• 36:10Speaker 01

  So I had Isabel right after Goodbye Toby, because I was super pregnant. I couldn't even hide my belly anymore. If you watch that episode when Andy proposes to Angela, you can just see my belly.

• 36:21Speaker 02

  They gave up.

• 36:22Speaker 01

  They gave up. And I had her like, what lady, like eight days later?

• 36:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  Something crazy. And so when I came back to set for season five, I had this newborn. And at first I would just have her in the trailer with me, but like you said, so many people knock throughout the day.

• 36:40Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 36:41Speaker 01

  And I would just kind of be putting her down for a nap and I'd have a break at lunch and I was gonna have that cozy time with her and someone would knock on the door.

• 36:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:48Speaker 01

  And she'd wake up. So I remember having this conversation with Randy Cordray. He was so sweet. He was our producer and he was like, Angela, is there anything you need for the baby? How's it going? You know, being back at work with her? What would be helpful? And I said, well, I said, when people knock on my door, it wakes her up. Or it distracts her if I'm trying to feed and things. Like that. And he was like, how about I get you a double banger? Normally a double banger, you know, you have a wall between the two rooms. He said, but we can have one where you have like a walkways that connects both sides, but you can shut the door like a pocket door. And that was amazing. And they did that. And it was a game changer.

• 37:30Speaker 01

  So Isabel had her side and everyone on set knew that was like the nursery side. And she had her little name on the door, Isabel's Nursery. And then on my side, they could come and go and come and go. And that was great. And I was able to put a crib there. And then I eventually had a high chair as she grew, that little space grew with her. And then, you know, we had crayons and, you know, Play-Doh and like Oscar would come and hang out with her and like read her a book. It was so precious how everyone just really helped make her feel at home there. And I think paved the way for you, Jenna, you know, because then they were like, oh, we're going to get her the double banger.

• 38:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, they gave me the same trailer. It was made to be two different trailers, but it had an interior door that was a pocket door. And so I had my getting ready side, the deliver me side, the knock on my door side. And then I had the quiet nursery side. And it was so funny because they did this for both of us. They had like these laminated signs. I think Kelly Cantley made them. They were like laminated on the nursery side, like in big letters, do not knock. Baby sleeping. So funny. And then they also put on the door, there was a little like place where you could Velcro up a sign that said, do not disturb pumping in progress.

• 38:53Speaker 02

  And I could put that on and off the door.

• 38:56Speaker 01

  That was an upgrade for you. I didn't have that one. But I was telling Kelly, this was the sweetest thing. Kelly Cantley came to me when Jenna was going to go have her baby. She was like, Angela, what worked and what didn't work about your little nursery in your trailer? From a production standpoint. And I just sort of like sat there and had a conversation with her and she made adjustments for you. And she really wanted to make sure you were taken care of, you know?

• 39:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, she was great. And that whole nursery setup was really great because it meant that I could have a very young child. I mean, I went back five weeks after my C-section. We've talked about that. And I was able to have a nanny sit in that nursery with my baby. And then every time I wasn't being used on set, I could go be with my baby. And that really meant the world to me as a working parent.

• 39:49Speaker 01

  Same. Well, one of the things I found in digging about our trailers was an Adventures with Angela, remember that digital series I would do for NBC.com? Where I gave a tour of my nursery side of my trailer. And it's pretty hilarious, lady, because I just show everything. I'm like, maybe I didn't have to show all of that stuff. Here, let's play it. Hello, NBC.com. Hello, Dunder Mifflin fans. Angela Kinsey here, getting ready for a new season, season five. And I'm on my lunch in my trailer. Don't you love my brown velour couch? Um, I'm gonna give you a little tour of my trailer, because I know you're dying to see it. Really, really, that's really what's on everyone's mind.

• 40:34Speaker 01

  It used to be really neat. Now with the baby, a little more cluttered. Isabel's picture, that's her laughing. Breast pump. Check. Breast pump attachments. Check. Breast pump tube. Check. I've been teased this season that I talk about my boobs a lot. But you know what? When you're pumping as much as I do, come on, ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Fellas, not so much. I need to get some new experiences, because I think I'm really making everyone crazy with my breast pump stories. This is Isabel's side. They made this special for me. Basically, they took two trailers and they just opened a little door so I can go straight into Isabel's side. Oh, my friend Michael gave me this. It's for my lady business, personal items. Tampons, you know, anyway, why do I have to say that? My brain is mush.

• 41:21Speaker 01

  I've lost it. Oh, lady. That's what I remember about those early weeks of having, you know, a little baby on set where you were feeding through the night and then you had an early call time and then you also... On your breaks where other people maybe take 15 minutes to lay down or get a snack, you're just pumping or feeding and you are, you're tired, man.

• 41:43Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:43Speaker 01

  And it's the best kind of tired, but yeah, you're tired.

• 41:47Speaker 02

  But I love that video, Angela. You have to post that.

• 41:50Speaker 01

  Well, we have one in your trailer too. So I guess I was filming something for an upcoming episode and you see your trailer. So I'll post those as well.

• 41:59Speaker 02

  Oh, great.

• 41:59Speaker 01

  Because you're on your little couch, you know, with your brown paneling. I'm so thankful we have those. Such a nice little, I don't know, piece of our history there.

• 42:08Speaker 02

  Well, Emily, I really appreciate you asking this question. This was really fun to think about. We hope we gave you guys some insight into this aspect of the entertainment industry. You know, when you're an actor and you get that role and you see your name on the outside of even just your honey wagon, it's a big milestone.

• 42:29Speaker 01

  It's never lost on me. Every job I've ever had, I take a picture standing next to my trailer door, pointing at my character's name and I get tickled every single time.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  I do too.

• 42:41Speaker 01

  And in fact, we both just did this on Lee's movie. We didn't even work the same week, lady. I took a picture and you took a picture in front of the honey wagons. I'll share that in stories because we were both so tickled and we're so excited for Lee's movie.

• 42:55Speaker 02

  Well, lady, speaking of trailers and Lee's movie, the trailer for his movie is out. It is out. And first of all, the name of the movie has changed. When we shot the movie, it was called New Year's Rev, but it is being released under the name Nimrods, which is perfect, you know, based on Green Day's album. And it is going to be released globally in theaters August 14th. Like globally, like lots of places.

• 43:25Speaker 01

  Globally means a lot of places.

• 43:28Speaker 02

  Yes. And I'm just so excited for people to see it. It's the story of three teenagers and a punk rock band who get pranked into believing that they're opening for Green Day. The movie is packed with Green Day music. The band is in the movie. It stars Mason Tames, Kyler Kaufman, and Ryan Faust and us, lady.

• 43:49Speaker 01

  We have fun little cameos in it.

• 43:51Speaker 02

  We do, and we both made it into the trailer.

• 43:54Speaker 01

  Did we really?

• 43:56Speaker 02

  We did, lady.

• 43:57Speaker 01

  I can't wait to see it.

• 43:59Speaker 02

  I know. I realized I don't know how many movie trailers I've ever made it into. Maybe Blades of Glory, maybe Walk Hard.

• 44:09Speaker 01

  Oh, well, this is super exciting.

• 44:12Speaker 02

  That's right. Trailers. If you get a trailer or if you're in a trailer, it's very exciting when you're an actor.

• 44:18Speaker 01

  All the trailers. Well, listen, why don't we take a break and then we'll be back with Around the Town and the Office Question of the Week.

• 44:35Speaker 02

  All right, we are back and our first Around the Town comes from Jennifer G. in China Grove, North Carolina, who says, "Last month was our annual Cheer Wine Festival. It honors a cherry flavored soda that is so delicious that was made in the town next to mine in Salisbury, North Carolina. It's a fun-filled day with live music, activities for the kids, and of course, all the Cheer Wine you can eat and drink. I guess they also make a Cheer Wine pound cake."

• 45:03Speaker 01

  I am very curious about this Cheer Wine.

• 45:07Speaker 02

  I've not ever heard of this.

• 45:08Speaker 01

  I have never heard of it. I'm gonna have to ask my family if they've ever heard of Cheer Wine.

• 45:14Speaker 02

  Can I take you on a short tangent about cherry flavored soda, though?

• 45:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, what in the world?

• 45:20Speaker 02

  Okay, I was home in St. Louis and I was talking to my mom. Her father was a pharmacist and he owned a pharmacy, but this was back in the day when a pharmacy was also like a soda shop. And she was telling me a story about how on Sundays, when the pharmacy was closed, her dad would sometimes have to go do paperwork. And so he would bring the kids to the pharmacy and he would make them a cherry Coke or a vanilla Coke at the soda counter. And my mom said that cherry flavored Coca Colas, which you had to mix yourself, were more popular than just a regular Coca-Cola. So popular, in fact, that my grandfather wrote a letter to the Coca-Cola Company.

• 46:06Speaker 02

  Telling them, I'm just one person. I'm just one pharmacist with a soda fountain. But I think that you should have a product called Cherry Coke.

• 46:16Speaker 01

  Get out.

• 46:17Speaker 02

  Yes, he said, because it is my most requested item at my soda counter. And he wrote this whole letter saying, I really think you need a product called Cherry Coke. And I don't think you should call it Cherry Coca-Cola. You should call it Cherry Coke. This was his big idea. He got a letter back. Dear sir, thank you so much. Unfortunately, we can't really review things like this, you know, because we have so many people coming up with things all the time. You know, we're always trying to come up with new products, but thank you for writing us. My mom said that like, two years later, they came out with Cherry Coke. And her dad has always believed that he was the inventor of Cherry Coke.

• 47:02Speaker 01

  I love that's part of your family lore. Your grandfather had the idea.

• 47:07Speaker 02

  Yes, that I just learned this past visit.

• 47:10Speaker 01

  That is so wonderful. Well, our next around the town comes from Kevin S. in Florence, Kentucky. But he says he's 10 minutes south of downtown Cincinnati. He wrote, it is past for this year, but the Cincinnati Reds opening day is a major holiday around here. People miss work, school, et cetera, and the parade is gigantic. He says the Findlay Market opening day parade began in 1920. And he wrote, you ladies should come next year, perhaps in a float together. There is a massive street fair near our ballpark on the banks of the mighty Ohio River.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  I mean, Cheerwine Festival, opening day parade.

• 47:53Speaker 01

  I do have a bucket list item of being on a float with you.

• 47:57Speaker 02

  Oh, lady, I think it's not going to happen.

• 48:01Speaker 01

  Because you'll get motion sick?

• 48:03Speaker 02

  I just don't think I want to be on a float. Do I want to be on a float?

• 48:08Speaker 01

  I don't know. I've never been on a float. I'm curious about it. And if I was going to do it with anyone, it'd be you.

• 48:14Speaker 02

  Well, that's for sure.

• 48:16Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 48:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:18Speaker 01

  I don't want to be on a float in the cold.

• 48:21Speaker 02

  Well, my bucket list has parameters.

• 48:26Speaker 02

  A warm, slow-moving float.

• 48:29Speaker 01

  I would also just be on a slow-moving boat with you.

• 48:33Speaker 02

  Well, where are we going on our slow boat?

• 48:35Speaker 01

  Maybe Amsterdam.

• 48:37Speaker 02

  Oh, sure. Just like in the canals. I mean, I can make the boat thing happen anytime. Come on down to Lake of the Ozarks. We can be on a boat together.

• 48:46Speaker 01

  That's it. Maybe in my bucket list dream, float and boat were interchangeable.

• 48:52Speaker 02

  But like, we went from being like part of a parade to just two ladies on a slow-moving boat.

• 48:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, like a pontoon boat. I would love to be on that with you.

• 49:03Speaker 02

  Such different things. They could be more different. One has water, one doesn't. One has crowds of people, one doesn't.

• 49:12Speaker 01

  You know, when you laugh and you get a stitch in your side, I have a stitch.

• 49:17Speaker 02

  Next, you're gonna be like, you know what? Actually, what I mean is, I just want to sit in our backyard together.

• 49:24Speaker 01

  Actually, I would just be find a float and a floaty with you.

• 49:27Speaker 02

  In a swimming pool. There we go. We found it.

• 49:30Speaker 01

  There it is. We did it.

• 49:31Speaker 02

  Next is Lexi S. from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, who says, "About once a day," I quote, "or at least think about something you once said on the podcast," and I laugh to myself.

• 49:44Speaker 01

  Oh, my goodness, Lexi.

• 49:45Speaker 02

  Thank you. Lexi goes on to say, "I am writing to share two license plates I saw around my town this week. The first day, I saw one that read 'Hot to Trot.'"

• 49:58Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 49:59Speaker 02

  And Lexi said, "Not office-related, but Angela-related."

• 50:03Speaker 01

  And for me, Lexi, that would mean whoever's driving that car is coming in quick.

• 50:07Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:08Speaker 01

  Stay out of their way.

• 50:10Speaker 02

  Lexi goes on to say, "The second day, I saw one that said 'Biz-ness,' which I can only assume was inspired by Creed. I thought you ladies would get a kick out of this."

• 50:20Speaker 01

  I love it.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  Thank you, Lexi.

• 50:22Speaker 01

  Well, now it is time for our office question of the week. It is from Leila C. in France.

• 50:29Speaker 02

  Bonjour.

• 50:30Speaker 01

  I know, bonjour, Leila. Leila says, comedy actors always talk about how difficult it is to stay serious in scenes. But is it ever difficult to act happy or crack jokes when you aren't feeling like it in your personal life? Or does it actually cheer you up? Is there ever a time when your character had to be happy when you weren't?

• 50:51Speaker 02

  This is such a good question because, you know, we spent nine years on The Office and a lot of life happens to you in nine years.

• 50:58Speaker 01

  Sure does.

• 50:59Speaker 02

  And it's true, not every day is a day that you're in a great mood or in a mood to laugh. And there are down days. I mean, I can think of a few examples when I had to go to work or I had to go on set and I had to film a comedy television show and I wasn't in a great mood. My grandmother passed away while we were shooting the show and I got that news while I was at work. And that was hard. It was hard to just go sit in laughter after that for the rest of that day.

• 51:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, I remember being very thankful in particular for our cast and how much we were there for each other. Cause we all had times, you know, like that. And I think on some sets, you might not have that kind of support in the way that we had. But in the early season of The Office, early in season two, my mom was very sick and she was in the hospital. And things were touch and go, she ended up, you know, pulling through, but it was very scary. And I just remember you and Kate just rallying around me. And you do, you have to just kind of dig deep inside yourself and do your job, you know? And those are the days where it is just kind of a job, you know?

• 52:10Speaker 01

  But also, Leila, the part of your question where you said, does sometimes, does it actually cheer you up? There had been mornings where nothing in particular bad or anything scary was happening. But maybe you just had a frazzled morning getting out the door and you're just in that kind of mood where you walk onto set and you're just like, oh, okay, now what? And then we would have a scene and Steve Carell as Michael would do that laugh that he does. When he acts, his acting laugh. And it's so damn funny, I would find myself laughing or trying not to laugh because my character could never really bust out laughing. But there were so many times when Steve pretending to laugh cheered me up.

• 52:55Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. I mean, I think overall, it was such a beneficial place to work. To go into a place where your job was being around comedy and making comedy, it did affect my mood. And I remember I would think, gosh, I often leave work in a happier mood than when I got there, just by virtue of having laughed all day. And I thought, what's it like to play a character on a drama? Where you're dealing with like intense subject matter all day, or you have to cry all day, or you have to have like an intense scene? Because that gets into the fiber of you, you know? It's like, it's pretend, but you are accessing things in order to bring it forward.

• 53:39Speaker 01

  Or exposing yourself to things if it's like subject matter that's really troubling.

• 53:43Speaker 02

  Yes, yes.

• 53:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:45Speaker 02

  It's funny, when we did our rewatch, you know that episode where Pam and Jim, they go to buy stuff to cheer up Kevin. It's Michael's birthday.

• 53:55Speaker 01

  But everyone's worried about Kevin.

• 53:57Speaker 02

  Everyone's worried about Kevin. And Pam has her little thing where she's like, Luke, I am your father. She does the whole thing. So that day that we filmed in that store, I won't share why, but I was pretty down that day. I wasn't in a good mood. And I remembered worrying that you might see it in my performance. And when we did the rewatch, I thought, no, I think if I didn't know, I wouldn't know. But for whatever reason, that was a tough one, that day to go in. And because I had to be funny, like I had to be peppy and up and flirty and funny. And I was not feeling it. But I think I covered.

• 54:38Speaker 01

  I think you did. I think you did fantastic.

• 54:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:41Speaker 01

  I think the hardest thing for me, Leila, was the reverse, which is playing a grump around a lot of really funny people.

• 54:50Speaker 01

  Because I wanted to laugh and I was laughing and I was trying to suppress laughter all the time. And you know, I will say Jenna, talk about a job where sometimes you come to work and you've just got a lot going on, but then you leave at the end of your workday happier. And that is true for me with you and our podcast.

• 55:09Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 55:11Speaker 01

  So many times when we're done recording, especially when we're in studio, the minute we're done, we walk to our cars together, we talk the whole entire way, we have a whole chat session, like standing next to one of our cars. And then we get in our cars and we drive home and we either leave each other a message or call each other on the drive home.

• 55:32Speaker 02

  I mean, it's just like being back on the set.

• 55:35Speaker 01

  I know, I know. So I love it. I love doing this podcast with you, lady.

• 55:40Speaker 02

  Thanks. Me too. Aw.

• 55:43Speaker 01

  Well, you guys, thank you so much. This was a fun trip down memory lane for us. We have lots of great behind the scenes pictures that I'll put in stories of our time on the set. Emily, thank you for that suggestion. And we'll see you guys next week. We hope you had a great one. Thanks for writing in. We appreciate you all so much.

• 56:00Speaker 02

  See you next week.

• 56:04Speaker 02

  Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.

• 56:06Speaker 01

  Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.

• 56:11Speaker 02

  Our senior producer is Matt Beagle and our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer.

• 56:15Speaker 01

  Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.

• 56:19Speaker 02

  Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.

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  Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.